In-Year Admissions

How to apply 

Applications made outside the normal admissions round (in-year transfer) must be made directly to the Inspiration Trust (admission authority). Parents/carers can apply for a place for their child at any time. If more applications are received than there are places available, the over-subscription criteria shall apply.  

These must be completed on our dedicated online application platform using the following link: 

Inspiration Trust In Year Admission Application

Please ensure you submit your application once you have completed it.  If you have difficulty accessing or completing the online application, please contact admissions@inspirationtrust.org for support.  

If your child has an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan you should not complete an ‘in-year transfer’ application. You should discuss a change of schools with your EHC plan co-ordinator. 

Curriculum Information for In-Year Admissions

At Hethersett Academy, students select their Key Stage 4 option subjects during Year 8.

Parents and carers considering an in-year transfer should be aware that, where a student joins the Academy after the options process has taken place, it may not be possible to accommodate all of their preferred subject choices. This may be due to existing class sizes, curriculum timetabling, the stage reached in a particular course and the availability of places within individual subjects.

Where this applies, the Academy will work with the student and their family to identify the most appropriate curriculum from the options available at the point they join the Academy. While every effort will be made to accommodate a student's preferred subjects, particular subject choices cannot be guaranteed.

The availability of individual curriculum options is separate from the consideration of an application for a school place, which will be determined in accordance with the Academy's published admission arrangements.

In-Year Transfer Appeal: 

If you have not been offered a place following an in-year application, the law entitles you to appeal to an Independent Appeal Panel. The panel is completely independent of the admission authority (Inspiration Trust), the academy and the Local Authority. In accordance with the 2022 School Admission Appeals Code, the admission authority and panels have elected for all admissions appeals to be held online.

If you wish to appeal, please use this link to complete your appeal online. Please do NOT use ANY other appeal form or send your form to the Local Authority. It is highly recommended that you download the explanatory booklet about appeals which you should read before you complete the appeal form: Booklet Link

You should include any evidence or supporting material with your appeal form (photos of your child will not be accepted). You MUST state the grounds of your appeal at the time you lodge your appeal form. Your appeal form will not be accepted unless you give the grounds of your appeal.  You may appeal for more than one school. 

If you are appealing for more than one child, a separate form must be completed for each child.

Please note that the online form will ask you to download two utility bills dated in the last THREE months.  If you do not have access to a scanner, please take two photographs using a mobile phone and upload the photographic files.

If you wish to contact the clerk, please do so via email:  clerk@educationappeals.com

The timetable for ‘in-year’ appeals:

Admissions Policy 2026

Admissions Policy 2027