Policy Information
Please browse the Trust-Wide Policies listed below. If you would like more information on any of them, or cannot find what you are looking for, email us at: info@orchardmat.org.uk.
Each school within the Trust also has statutory policies that are specific to their setting. These can be viewed on their respective websites. Statutory school-based policies include:
- Behaviour
- Child Protection & Safeguarding
- Attendance
- Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
- Accessibility Plans
Please click on the school badge below to go to the associated website.
Orchard Trust-Wide Policies
Safeguarding
Admission Appeals
National Offer Day (Reception)
For Reception admissions made as part of the normal admissions round, National Offer Day is 16 April.
Key statutory deadlines
Based on a 16 April offer date, the timetable will operate as follows:
- Deadline to lodge an appeal
Parents/carers must be given at least 20 school days from the date of refusal to lodge an appeal.- Offer letter issued: 16 April
- Appeal deadline (20 school days): 15 May
- Notice of appeal hearing
Parents/carers must receive at least 10 school days’ notice of the appeal hearing date.
- Deadline to hear appeals (normal admissions round)
Appeals must be heard within 40 school days of the appeal deadline.- Appeal deadline: 15 May
- Latest date appeals must be heard: on or around early July – will will aim for the end of June
- Decision letters
Written decision letters will be sent within 5 school days of the hearing, wherever possible.
Other appeal types
The Trust will adhere to statutory deadlines for:
- Late applications
- In‑year admissions
- Any appeals submitted after the published deadline
All late appeals will still be heard in accordance with the Trust’s published timetable.