Bristol primary school offers split up siblings

Last week, Laura Evans won an appeal that got her eight-year-old son Mitchell in to Waycroft Primary in Stockwood.

The independent panel granted him a place after hearing that his little sister Cally was already a pupil in Waycroft's nursery class.

Two days later, Mrs Evans, 30, of Sturminster Road, Bedminster, heard from the council that there was no room for Cally to move up to the reception class at Waycroft.

This means she faces having to start her formal education at Stockwood Green Primary – the school her brother is about to leave.

Mrs Evans said: "I campaigned for Stockwood Green to stay open, and originally put it n as my first preference for Cally. But after the decision was made to shut it, I changed my first choice to Waycroft. All her friends from nursery are staying on there – but she will have to go back to Stockwood Green for a year until it closes."