Applying for a Secondary School for September 2014
Application deadline 31 October 2013
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F d a o R h rt o N t a re G Alexandra Park Fortismere Gladesmore Community Greig City Academy Harris Free School Tottenham – Opening September 2014 School Tottenham Harris Free The site has not been confirmed. Please refer to page 18 for the most up date information. College – Opening September 2014 University Technical Tottenham The site has not been confirmed. Please refer to page 21 for the most up date information. 1. 2. 3. 4. Location of Haringey of Haringey Location schools secondary This booklet explains how to make an application for a secondary school place for September 2014.
We recommend you apply
From 1 September 2013 you will be able to apply online for a secondary transfer place at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions
The benefits of applying online:
It’s secure and easy You will receive email confirmation that we have received your application You can make changes to your application until the deadline You will not have to wait for the post to find out the result of your application – apply online and find out the results of your application the evening before you receive your letter
Online Registration Information
Email address
Password
After you have successfully submitted your application please take a note of your application reference number.
Application reference number
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 1 Foreword
Dear Parents and Carers We recognise that the transition from primary school to secondary school is an important sep for a child and that parents and carers will consider very carefully the options available to them before deciding on up to six preferences. The aim of this booklet is to help you to select those preferences.
We are very proud of the secondary schools we have in our borough, all of which are now judged by Ofsted to be good or outstanding. Open events are held at all secondary schools and we recommend that you attend these so that you are fully informed in selecting your preferences.
Schools in Haringey are very popular and we receive a high number of applications from Haringey residents and residents from other boroughs for the year 7 places we have available each September. Each school has a set number of places available in year 7 and admission criteria are used to decide who will be offered the places we have available.
Once you have decided which schools you want to apply to you should apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions
Alternatively you can apply using a paper application. Please contact us using the details below for a paper application form.
We wish your child every success at secondary school and beyond and we look forward to receiving your application.
Cllr Ann Waters Libby Blake Cabinet Member for Children’s Director of Children’s Services Services
Contact details Key dates for Secondary Transfer 2013
020 8489 1000 Date What happens 31 October 2013 Application deadline schooladmissions 3 March 2014 Offer day @haringey.gov.uk 17 March 2014 Acceptance deadline Haringey Admissions Service 4 April 2014 Appeal deadline 48 Station Road, Wood Green, London N22 7TY
2 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Contents
The information in this booklet is set out in six sections: Section 1 Applying for a school place for September 2014 p4
Before you make your application p4
Completing your application form p5
How we will process your application p8
The results of your application p9
How to ensure you have the best possible chance of being offered one of your preferred schools p11 Section 2 In Year admissions p12
How to apply for a school place after 1 September 2013 when the school year has already started
Section 3 Schools in Haringey p13
Types of schools in Haringey p14
Admissions criteria for Haringey community schools p15
Schools A-Z p16 Section 4 Schools in other Authorities p22 Section 5 Other information p23 Section 6 Definitions p25
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 3 Section 1 APPLYING FOR A SCHOOL PLACE
Before you make your application
What you need to do How Open event details for Haringey schools are given on page 13 of 1) Visit Schools this booklet
2) Read Ofsted reports View at www.ofsted.gov.uk
3) Read the prospectus for each school These are available from the school
The admissions criteria for Haringey’s mixed community schools are listed on page 15. 4) Read the admissions criteria for each school For all other schools the criteria are listed under their entry in the school section of this booklet from page 16.
Look to see which criteria applies to your child. 5) Consider how likely it is that your child will You can find out the home to school distance of your preferred be offered a place at your preferred schools Haringey schools by emailing between 01 September and 31 October 2013
6) Look to see how many places each school has available. This is called the published admission number. This number is set to The admission number for each school is listed under each take in to account the number of pupils school's entry in the schools section. each school site can accommodate and how many places are needed in the local area.
7) Consider how your child will travel to school
Do: Talk to your child about the decision
Don’t: let others influence your decision – the right school for your friend’s child may not be the right school for your child.
4 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Section 1: Applying for a school place
Completing your application
If you live in Haringey you must complete the Haringey Council application form. You may list up to six schools which can be located in Haringey or in other boroughs. We recommend that you apply online.
If you list schools outside Haringey, the Haringey Filling in your form Admissions Service will make sure that the borough Whether you apply online or on a paper form you will be where the school is located is given all the information asked for the same information. about your application.
We reserve the right to undertake reasonable checks You must complete either an online application or a to verify any information provided on your application paper form by 31 October 2013. form. If false or misleading information is provided we Apply online reserve the right to
We recommend that you apply online at withdraw an offer of a school place or www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions if an offer has not been made, process the When you have completed your application and pressed application with the correct information as a late the submit button you will be sent an email confirming application. that we have received your form. You can update your application as many times as you like before 31 If you suspect fraud please call the Haringey Fraud October. You can view the results of your application on hotline on 0500 500 7777 or email fraudcall@haringey. the evening of 3 March 2014. This is before you will gov.uk in confidence. Alternatively you can write to receive your letter. the Head of Admissions and School Organisation, 48 Station Road, Wood Green, London, N22 7TY. All cases We never give out any offer information over the will be investigated. telephone so if you complete a paper form you will have to wait for the post to receive the result of your Your child’s details application. Name and date of birth - Please give your child’s name Paper applications and date of birth exactly as it appears on their birth certificate. Copies of the paper form will be available upon request from Haringey primary schools. If you live in Haringey Address - The address you provide must be your and your child attends a primary school in another child’s permanent address. This must not be an borough you can request a paper form by calling 020 address of another family member or another adult 8489 1000. who looks after your child but does not have parental responsibility for your child. Supplementary Information Forms You must provide proof of your address with your Some schools need extra information, which we do not application. If you apply online you can securely attach collect on our form, to apply their admissions criteria. scanned documents to your application or alternatively Where this is the case they will ask you to complete you can send photocopies of your documents to the a Supplementary Information Form (SIF). We have address on page 2. Please remember to put your clearly shown in the schools section of this booklet child’s full name and date of birth on any documents which Haringey schools have a SIF. These must be you send to us. If you apply online, please also write obtained from the school. your application reference number on any documents you send to us. We cannot return original documents.
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 5 Section 1: Applying for a school place
Please provide Listing schools on your form
We recommend that you list six schools on your a copy of your council tax bill (dated within 1 year) application form. This will maximise the possibility of and one of the following your child being offered a school you would like them to go to. a copy of the most recent child benefit letter or
a gas or electricity bill dated within 3 months of 31 Please list the schools in the order you most prefer October 2013 or them. a copy of your rent or mortgage statement (dated within 1 year) Please do not list any fee paying schools on the form.
Department for Education (DfE) numbers – This If parents are separated the application should be number is listed next to each school entry in this made by the parent the child normally lives with. booklet. Please write this on your paper form. If you Where a child spends equal time with each parent, the apply online we do not need this number as this field is exact arrangements should be made clear in a letter filled in automatically. with a copy of any custody or residency order. The application can only be processed from one address. Exceptional social / medical reasons
Moving house In very rare cases children can be given priority to a particular school where there is evidence to You must provide the address on your application demonstrate exceptional medical or social reasons why form where your child is living on 31 October 2013. If only one particular school can meet their needs. you move house after 31 October 2013, please let us know immediately. If we receive the required proof of Applications in this category cannot be considered address (listed above) by 13 December then we will be unless you provide written evidence from a doctor, social able to use your new address to measure your home to worker or other appropriate independent professional. In school distances. If we receive the information after 13 each case, the connection between your child’s need and December we will ensure that your offer letter is sent the specific school must be made and you must clearly to your new address but we will not be able to update demonstrate why this one specific school can meet your your home to school distances until after 3 March. child’s needs in a way that no other school can.
Other information about your child You will need to supply evidence by the closing date of 31 October 2013. Information provided after this date will If your child has a Statement of Educational Needs be considered after 3 March 2014. or is in care to a Local Authority or previously looked after but immediately after being looked after, If your child has a Statement of Special Educational became subject to an adoption, residence or special Needs, separate admission processes apply. Please guardianship order, you will be asked to declare this on visit www.haringey.gov.uk/senadmissions for more the form. information. Where a child is in care we will need a letter from your Pupils taught outside their chronological year child’s social worker or Local Authority to confirm this. group Where a child is previously looked after we will need a copy of the adoption, residence or special guardianship To apply for a secondary school place for September order and documents or a letter showing your child 2014 your child should have been born between 1 was previously in care. September 2002 and 31 August 2003. Occasionally parents will request that their child transfers although Your details they were born outside the standard age range. This Please provide the details of one parent or carer and will usually be because they are currently in year 6 in a your contact details. Please ensure you include a primary school. If this applies to your child, you will need daytime telephone number as we may need to contact to complete a paper form and attach a letter from your you. child’s current Headteacher explaining why your child is educated outside of their chronological year group.
6 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Section 1: Applying for a school place
Declaration and signature Changes of preference
When you have completed your transfer form, you must If you have applied online you can make changes sign it to confirm the information you have provided is up until the closing date by returning to the online correct. (There is an equivalent process if you apply application website and editing your application. online.) If you send in a paper application before 31 October Returning your completed form 2013, and then decide to make changes, you can still do this as long as we receive written requests by 31 Deadline 31 October 2013 October 2013.
If you apply online you will receive an email confirming Changes requested over the telephone will not be that we have received your application. accepted.
If you complete a paper application form, you can hand Preferences cannot be changed after 31 October 2013. it to your child’s primary school by 25 October 2013 (if they attend a Haringey primary school). The following week is half term so you will not be able to return a paper form to a school after 26 October.
Alternatively you can send your form to the Admissions Service or deliver your application by hand to arrive by 31 October 2013.
Please remember the envelopes require a postage stamp.
Haringey Council can take no responsibility for applications that are delayed by or lost in the post.
Late applications
Applications received after 31 October 2013 will be classed as late. Late applications will be considered after all the other applications that were received on time.
If there are exceptional circumstances why your application was received after the deadline, please provide independent written evidence by 13 December (from someone who is impartial) explaining why the application was late. This information will be considered by a panel and we will let you know if your application will be processed as late or ‘on time’.
Late applicants are very unlikely to be offered one of their preferred schools.
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 7 Section 1: Applying for a school place
How we will process your application Each school you list is considered at exactly the same time.
This includes schools in Haringey and schools located Summary of application process in other boroughs. Application received The published admissions criteria (also called admission rules or admission arrangements) are applied to every school you list. Criteria applied to each preference Our computer system works out who can be offered a place at Haringey community schools. It applies the criteria which are given on page 15 of this booklet. Places are offered up to the Admissions Number at each school The Governors of Academies, foundation, voluntary aided and free schools apply their criteria to all their applicants and let us know who should be offered a place. Highest possible preference offered to each child
Other boroughs let us know which Haringey Sometimes we cannot offer any school listed on a residents can be offered places at their schools. child’s form because in every case other applicants met the admissions criteria better than they did. For Each school has a set number of places that can be example, other applicants lived closer to the school. offered (Admission Number) and places are offered until the school is full or there are no more applicants for that school. If this happens we will offer a place at the nearest school with an available place. With the governors’ If a child can be offered more than one place then the agreement, it may be possible to allocate places highest possible preference will be offered. at academies, foundation, voluntary aided and free schools, if there are any available.
Does my child qualify for Preference List preferences Which school is offered this school? 1 School A 2 School B 3 School C 4 School D 5 School E 6 School F The places at school D and E would be offered to the next child on each school’s list.
8 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Section 1: Applying for a school place
The results of your application
Date What will happen? School admission appeals 3 March Offer letters posted for all applicants If your child is not offered a place at one of the schools 3 March Online applicants will receive you listed on your form you can appeal against this (early evening) offer online decision to an independent appeal panel. You will be given details of how to make an appeal in our offer Letters should be received by all 4 March letter. The deadline to appeal is 4 April 2014. applicants
We cannot guarantee that your offer letter will be Appeals are heard by an independent appeal panel of received on 4 March. Please note that we do not give three to five members of the public. You can only make any offer information out over the phone. one appeal for each school listed on your form. If you did not get a place at more than one school you listed Accepting the offer on your application, you can make a separate appeal for each school. Please accept your offer by 17 March. If you do not accept the offer you will be asked about the Please be aware that if one of these schools is a arrangements you will be making for your child in foundation school, a voluntary aided school or an September. Please remember the offer that we give Academy, you have to appeal to the school direct as you on 3 March will either be: they are responsible for organising their own appeals.
The highest preference school you listed that your When you indicate your wish to appeal for a secondary child qualified for a placeor school place you will be contacted by the Appeals The nearest school with an available place Administrator 10 days before the hearing to confirm the date. Details of the appeals timetable will be published on our website in February 2014. Accepting the offer will not affect your waiting list position or appeal outcome. You are able to submit additional evidence or Waiting lists documentation that might be relevant to your appeal, like a medical note from a doctor to support an If we could not offer you your first preference school, application on the basis of social or medical need. your child’s name will automatically be added to the Please submit any evidence as soon as possible waiting list for any schools on your form listed higher and before the hearing. This is so that all the other than the school you have been offered. participants have time to read your information.
Waiting lists will be kept in the same order as the Where possible, appeals for late applications will admission criteria. be included with those being heard for the same admissions round. However, if this is not possible, Waiting list positions can change at any time depending appeals for late applications will be heard during the on other applicants’ circumstances and it is important 2014 Autumn term. to note that your child’s position may go down as well as up if other applicants join the waiting list. Being on a waiting list does not guarantee a place at the school.
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 9 Section 1: Applying for a school place
How the admissions criteria was applied last year to oversubscribed Haringey schools:
Distance of last child Exceptional Number of Number Children Looked- offered social or School applications of places with SEN after Siblings Distance (straight- medical received offered statements children line, need miles)
Alexandra Park 1431 216 11 6 0 65 134 0.8531 Fortismere * 1246 243 8 2 0 98 118 0.609 Gladesmore 766 243 11 1 0 73 158 1.0151 Heartlands High 933 216 10 2 0 40 164 1.1666 Highgate Wood 1010 243 3 4 0 86 150 0.8462 Woodside High 542 162 4 1 0 48 109 1.267 Places were offered to every applicant who applied on time to: Greig City Academy, Hornsey School for Girls, Northumberland Park School, Park View, St Thomas More Catholic School. *17 pupils were offered places at Fortismere based on musical aptitude. (Please note this criterion no longer exists)
Appeals for admission to secondary schools in 2011 – 2013
Name of School 2011 2012 2013
Lodged Heard Upheld Lodged Heard Upheld Lodged Heard Upheld Alexandra Park 40 37 3 25 21 1 29 21 1 Gladesmore 28 24 2 24 22 2 22 21 3 Heartlands High 39 34 2 31 28 2 24 18 3 Highgate Wood 19 17 3 17 14 3 21 10 0 Hornsey School 0 0 0 2 0 n/a 1 0 n/a for Girls Northumberland 1 0 n/a 1 0 n/a 1 0 n/a Park Park View 1 0 n/a 1 0 n/a 4 0 n/a Total 129 112 10 101 85 8 102 70 7 For appeals information for Fortismere, Greig City Academy, Woodside High, and St Thomas More Catholic School, please contact the schools directly.
10 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Section 1: Applying for a school place How to ensure you have the best possible chance of being offered one of your preferred schools
Reading the information in this booklet will help Incorrect information Correct Information maximise your chances of being offered a preferred If we apply the admission school. Please ensure that you have understood the arrangements and your following information: child cannot be offered a place because you live too Before you make your application (page 4) Listing one school will far away, we will not be mean that the Local able to offer a place at the Late applications (page 7) Authority will have to school. offer that school Last year, of the pupils that Listing six preferences (page 8) were allocated a school that they did not list, The admissions criteria (page 15 or against each 18% had only listed one school’s entry) preference. Although the information How places were offered last year (page 10) listed on page 10 can give If you live nearer to the you an idea of how likely it school than the last is that you will be offered Every year some parent/carers make decisions based child offered under a place at your preferred on incorrect information they have heard. Some the distance criterion school, the ‘last distance’ common reasons for not being offered a preferred last year you will be will change every year. school place listed on the form are listed below. guaranteed a place We can never guarantee any child will be offered a place at any school. Please apply by The number of pupils offered under each 31 October 2013 criterion at each school can change every year so Children in my road just because you know go to the school so my pupils living near to you child will too that go to a certain school, it does not mean that your child will be offered a place. Your child can only be Listing the same considered once for a school six times will school so if you list the improve my chances same school more than of being offered the once, we will delete any school duplications. If you apply after 31 October, we will look at your application after all It does not matter if those who have applied on my form is late time and it is very unlikely that you will be offered one of your preferred schools.
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 11 Section 2 IN YEAR ADMISSIONS
Admissions to schools at other times Requests to transfer between schools
Applications for a school place at any time other than If you have moved into the area, your child can join a Secondary transfer are called ‘In year’ admissions. school in the appropriate year group for their age. If To apply for a Haringey school, please complete an you wish to transfer your child for any other reason, you in-year application form available online, from the should talk to their present school before making an Admissions Service and from Customer Service application. The Admissions Service do not encourage Centres. Supplementary Information forms (SIFS), changes from one local school to another. This is required by some schools, will also be available from because research shows that these moves can damage the Admissions Service, online and from the school. the educational achievement and success of children These schools will use the information on the SIFS to unless there are exceptional circumstances and apply their admissions criteria. The admissions criteria transfer is in the best interests of the child. we apply for community schools is set out on page 15 of this booklet. Fair access
We have a protocol in place which ensures that If you would like to apply for a school outside Haringey, vulnerable young people who apply for a place outside please contact the borough the school is located in for the normal round of admissions, and who are not on details on how to apply. Please note, this is different the roll of a school, are offered a place quickly. Fair from the process for applying for a secondary Access admissions are shared fairly across all schools transfer place. and Academies. Further information is available on our website: www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Waiting lists
If the school you are interested in has a vacancy in your child’s year group we will be able to offer a place. If there are no places, your child ‘s name can be added to the waiting list. If a place becomes available at a school, all the children on the waiting list are considered and the place is offered in accordance with the school’s admissions criteria. Waiting lists for community schools will be held in the order of the admissions criteria set out on page 15 of this booklet.
School admission appeals
If your child is not offered a place at one of the schools you listed on your form you can appeal against this decision to an independent appeal panel. Further information on how you can appeal can be found on page 9. Please note for applications for in year admissions there is no appeal deadline. Appeals must be heard within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged.
12 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Section 3 HARINGEY SCHOOLS Summary information Full details about each school are in this section. All these schools are participants in the co-ordinated admission scheme for London.
Admission Boys/ Number for Name of School Type of School Age Range Open events Girls September 2013 Evening: 26 Sept Alexandra Park Boys and Academy 11 – 18 216 Morning: 30 Sept School Girls 1 Oct Boys and Evening: 19 Sept Fortismere School Foundation 11 – 18 243 Girls Afternoon: 26 Sept Evening: 26 Sept Morning: 2 Oct Gladesmore Boys and Community 11 – 16 243 9 Oct Community School Girls 16 Oct 23 Oct Evening: 25 Sept Boys and Greig City Academy Academy 11 – 18 200 Morning: 27 Sept Girls 11 Oct Heartlands High Boys and Evening: 3 Oct Academy 11 – 16 216 School Girls Morning: w/c 7 Oct Evening: 2 Oct Boys and Morning: 8 Oct Highgate Wood School Community 11 – 18 243 Girls 9 Oct 10 Oct Evening: 9 Oct Morning: 10 Oct Hornsey School for Community Girls 11 – 18 162 17 Oct Girls 19 Oct 24 Oct Northumberland Park Boys and Evening: 30 Sept Community 11 – 16 210 Community School Girls Morning: 2 Oct Evening: 10 Oct Boys and Park View Community 11 – 16 216 Morning: 15 Oct Girls 16 Oct St Thomas More Boys and Evening: 1 Oct Academy 11 – 18 192 Catholic School Girls Morning: 1 Oct
Boys and Woodside High School Academy 11 – 16 162 Morning: w/c 7 Oct Girls
For open event times and details please check the relevant school’s information on pages 16 – 21.
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 13 Section 3: Haringey schools
Types of schools in Haringey
We co-ordinate applications for all schools. Brief definitions of the types of schools in Haringey are given below along with information about how the admission arrangements are set and applied for each school.
Community Schools Academies
Haringey Council set and apply the admission Academies are publicly funded independent schools. arrangements for community schools. The admissions The governors of the school set and apply the admissions arrangements are set out on page 15 of this booklet. arrangements. The governors at Woodside High, Heartlands High and Alexandra Park schools have set Gladesmore School out that they wish to follow the arrangements set for Hornsey School for Girls community schools on page 15. Highgate Wood School Alexandra Park Northumberland Park Community School Greig City Academy Park View Heartlands High School St Thomas More Woodside Foundation Schools
A foundation school is a state funded school. The governors of the school set and apply the admissions Free Schools arrangements. Land and buildings are usually owned by Free schools are non-profit making, independent, state the governing body or a charitable foundation. funded schools. The governors of the school set and apply the admission arrangements. The following school Fortismere School is a free school:
Harris Free School Tottenham
University Technical Colleges (UTCs)
University Technical Colleges (UTCs) are academies for 14-19 year olds. UTCs are sponsored by local universities and employers. It is also usual for further education colleges and other educational institutions – like established academy trusts – to work in partnership with them. The governors of the UTC set and apply the admission arrangements.
Tottenham University Technical College
14 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Section 3: Haringey schools
Admissions criteria for community schools
If we receive more applications than spaces available at Haringey community schools then we will apply the following admissions criteria.
Children with a statement of Special Educational Needs Tie breaker which names the school will be admitted in accordance with Section 324 of the Education Act 1996. The tie breaker for all criteria is: children living closest to the school measured in a straight line from the post 1) Children in Care office address point for the child’s home, to the post office address point of the school, supplied by the Royal Children who are looked after by a local authority or Mail using a computerised mapping system. The tiebreak were previously looked after but immediately after being for two or more applications that live exactly the same looked after, became subject to an adoption, residence, distance from the school (and who are not from multiple or special guardianship order. Relevant children in care births) will be random allocation using a computerised means children who are in care of a local authority in system accordance with Section 22 Children Act 1989. Multiple births 2) Social/Medical If only one place is available at the school and the next Children who the Authority accepts have an exceptional child who qualifies for a place is one of multiple birth medical or social need for a place at one specific school. siblings, we will ask community schools to go over their Applications will only be considered under this category if published admission number. they are supported by a written statement from a doctor, social worker or other relevant independent professional. The information must confirm the exceptional medical or social need and demonstrate how the specified school is the only school that can meet the defined needs of the child.
3) Brother or Sister
Children with a brother or sister already attending the school and who will still be attending in years 7 to 11 on the date of admission. This category includes foster brothers and sisters, half brothers and sisters or stepbrothers and sisters. Parents should note that in all these cases, the brother or sister must be living at the same address as the child for whom the application is being made.
4) Distance
Children living closest to the preferred school.
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FORTISMERE SCHOOL Schools A-Z Head teacher: Helen Anthony Tetherdown, Muswell Hill, School address: ALEXANDRA PARK SCHOOL N10 1NE Head teacher: Michael McKenzie School tel: 020 8365 4400 Bidwell Gardens, N11 2AZ Email: [email protected] (Pedestrian access via School address: www.fortismere.haringey. Albert Road recreation Website: sch.uk ground or Rhodes Avenue.) Contact: Dmissions Officer School tel: 020 8826 4880 Email: [email protected] DfE number: 309 4032 Published admission Website address www.apsh.org.uk 243 number: Contact: Ms Hilary Scott Open events DfE number: 309 4036 Open evening: 19 September 2013 Time: 7pm start Published admission 216 Open afternoon: 26 September 2013 number: Time: 1.15pm start Open events Open evening: 26 September 2013 Over-subscription criteria Time: 6pm – 9pm Where there are more applicants than places available, Open mornings: 30 September and 1 October 2013 priority will be given in the following order: Time: 9.15am – 10.45 am a. Children who are looked after by a local authority or were previously looked after but immediately after Oversubscription criteria being looked after, became subject to an adoption, The governors will follow the oversubscription criteria residence, or special guardianship order. Children for community schools given on page 15. in care means children who are in care of a local authority in accordance with Section 22 Children Act 1989. b. Young people whom the Governors and Head accept have an exceptional need for a place at Fortismere. Applications will only be considered under this category if they are supported by a written statement from a doctor, social worker or other appropriate professional. In each case, it must be shown that the child’s need can particularly well be met at Fortismere School. c. Children where, at the time of application, an older sibling is expected to be on roll (including in the Sixth Form) when a younger child starts at the school. This category includes foster brothers or sisters, half brothers or sisters, and stepbrothers or stepsisters. In all of these cases the brother or sister must be living at the same address as the child for whom the application is being made. d. Children living closest to the school as measured in a straight line from the front door of the home address where the child normally lives, to the school address point, which is the Reception in South Wing. This criterion will also be used as a tie-breaker for all the over-subscription criteria a. to c.
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looked after but, immediately after being looked GLADESMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL after, became subject to an adoption, residence or Head teacher: Tony Hartney CBE special guardianship order. School address: Crowland Road, N15 6EB 2. Young people whom the Governors and Principal School tel: 020 8800 0884 accept have an exceptional medical, social or Email: [email protected] educational need for a place at Greig City Academy rather than another school. Applications will be Website: www.gladesmore.com considered under this category only if they are Contact: Ms S Naidoo supported by a written statement from a doctor, social worker or other appropriate professional DfE number: 309 4033 confirming that Greig City Academy alone can Published admission meet the child’s need and showing the difficulties 243 number: that would be caused if another school had to be Open events attended. Open evening: 26 September 2013 3. All the remaining places will be shared between Time: 5pm – 7.30pm Foundation places and Open places equally: Open mornings: 2, 9, 16, and 23 October 2013 Foundation Places will be allocated to those young Time: 9.15am start people whose parents are attached or linked to the Church of England or any other Christian denomination Oversubscription criteria in fellowship with the Church of England. Examples The oversubscription criteria for this school is given on of attachment would include, for example, a parent or page 15. parents who have had their child baptized or dedicated; parents who attend a church; parents are involved in GREIG CITY ACADEMY activities and organisations sponsored by a church. Head teacher: Paul Sutton OBE Applicants must produce a letter of support from their High Street, Hornsey N8 School address: parish priest or Christian minister to confirm their 7NU attachment. (See Greig Supplementary Information School tel: 020 8609 0100 Form.) eward@greigcityacademy. Email: co.uk Open Places will be allocated to all other applicants regardless of the faith background of the family, on www.greigcityacademy. Website: the understanding that parents and child support the co.uk particular ethos and values of the school. Contact: Mrs E Ward Tie break DfE number: 309 6905 The tie breaker for all criteria is children living closest Published admission to the school measured in a straight line from the 200 number: address point of the child’s home to the address point Please contact the school for a Supplementary of the school as supplied by the Royal Mail using a Information Form (SIF). computerised mapping system. Open events Note Open evening: 25 September 2013 All applicants for a Foundation place at Greig are asked Time: 6pm – 8pm to complete and send in a Supplementary Information Form to the school. The form is used to enable Open mornings: 27 September and 11 October 2013 Governors to allocate places in line with the admission Time: 9.15am start policy. Applicants for an Open place do not need to complete this form. Oversubscription Criteria Where the Academy is oversubscribed, after the If there are not enough applicants in either the admission of children with statements of SEN, places will Foundation category or the Open category to fill the be allocated to applicants in the following priority order: places, then the remaining places in that category will 1. Young people who are looked after by a local be offered to applicants in the other category. authority and young people who were previously Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 17 Section 3: Haringey schools
Harris Free School Tottenham HEARTLANDS HIGH SCHOOL Executive Principal: Carolyn English Head teacher: Simon Garrill School address: TBC Station Road, Wood Green, School address: School tel: 020 8253 7777 N22 7ST info@harrisfreeschooltotten School tel: 020 8826 1230 Email: ham.org.uk office@heartlands. Email: www.harrisfreeschool haringey.sch.uk Website: tottenham.org.uk www.heartlands.haringey. Website address Contact: Debbie Hayden sch.uk Contact: Admissions Officer DfE number: 9903 DfE number: 309 4705 Published admission 180 number: Published admission 216 Open events number: The school is holding two open evenings for parents Open events interested in a place for their child: Open evening: 3 October 2013 Wednesday 9 October at Harris Primary Academy Time: 6pm – 8.30pm Philip Lane, Philip Lane, N15 5AB Open mornings: Week beginning 7 October 2013. Time: 5pm - 7pm Please check the school website for more details. Thursday 10 October at Harris Primary Academy Coleraine Park, Glendish Road, N17 9XT Oversubscription criteria The oversubscription criteria for this school is given on Time: 5pm - 7pm page 15. Oversubscription Criteria Please see the admissions arrangements on the HIGHGATE WOOD SCHOOL school’s website (as above). Head teacher: Patrick Cozier
More information School address: Montenotte Road, N8 8RN Harris Free School Tottenham will open in September School tel: 020 8342 7970 2014 with 180 places in Yr 7 (and 60 primary school [email protected]. places in Reception). At the time of producing this Email: sch.uk booklet it is hoped to agree the site for the Free School by the end of September 2013. Please keep checking the Website: www.hws.haringey.sch.uk school’s website (as above) for updates on the location and for more details on the admissions criteria. Contact: Ms G King Please come to the open evenings set out above to find out more. DfE number: 309 4030 Published admission 243 number: Open events Open evening: 2 October 2013 Time: 6pm – 8pm Open mornings: 8, 9,10 October 2013 Time: 9.15am – 10.30am
Oversubscription criteria The oversubscription criteria for this school is given on page 15.
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HORNSEY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 2. Social medical Girls who the Authority accepts have an exceptional Head teacher: Carol Jones medical or social need for a place at one specific School address: Inderwick Road, N8 9JF school. Applications will only be considered under School tel: 020 8348 6191 this category if they are supported by a written statement from a doctor, social worker or other admin@hornseyschool. Email: relevant independent professional. The information com must confirm the exceptional medical or social need Website: www.hsg.haringey.sch.uk and demonstrate how the specified school is the only Ms Hall, Assistant school that can meet the defined needs of the child. Headteacher KS3 and Transition 3. Siblings email: cassandrahall@ Girls with a sister already attending the school and hornseyschool.com who will still be attending in years 7-11 on the date of admission. This category includes foster sisters, half Contact: or sisters or step sisters. Parents should note that in all these cases, the sister must be living at the same Ms Chapman, address as the girl for whom the application is being Senior Assistant made. Headteacher KS3 email: katechapman@ 4. Girls living in the priority area hornseyschool.com Places will be offered to girls living in the following DfE number: 309 4029 wards: Published admission 162 Alexandra • Bounds Green • Bruce Grove • Crouch number: End • Fortis Green • Harringay • Highgate • Hornsey Open events • Muswell Hill • Noel Park • Northumberland Park • Open evening: 9 October 2013 Seven Sisters • St Ann’s • Stroud Green • White Hart Time: 6pm – 8pm Lane • Woodside • West Green • Tottenham Green • Tottenham Hale Open mornings: 10,17,24 October 2013 Time: 9am – 11am Places will be offered to each ward in proportion to Saturday open morning: 19 October 2013 the number of applications received for the school. Time: 10am – 12 noon This means that the more applications received from a ward, the more places will be offered to girls living in Oversubscription criteria that ward. Children with a statement of Special Educational Needs which names the school, will be admitted in If there are more applications from a ward than there accordance with section 324 of the Education Act 1996. are places available for that ward then the tiebreak will If the number of applicants without statements of be girls living closest to the school. This criterion will educational needs naming the school is higher than only be used until 3 March 2014 and the waiting list will the number of places available, the following rules are be maintained in distance order. applied, in the order of priority set out below to decide who will be offered a place: 5. All other applicants The tie breaker for all criteria is: children living closest 1. Children in Care to the school measured in a straight line from the Children who are looked after by a local authority or post office address point for the child’s home, to the were previously looked after but immediately after post office address point of the school, supplied by the being looked after, became subject to an adoption, Royal Mail using a computerised mapping system. The residence, or special guardianship order. Children in tiebreak for two or more applications that live exactly care means children who are in care of a local authority in accordance with Section 22 Children Act 1989.
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NORTHUMBERLAND PARK ST THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SCHOOL SCHOOL Head teacher: Monica Duncan Head teacher: Mr Martin Tissot School address: Trulock Road, N17 0PG Glendale Avenue, School address: School tel: 020 8801 0091 N22 5HN jre@northumberlandpark. School tel: 020 8888 7122 Email: haringey.sch.uk office@stthomasmoreschool. www.northumberlandpark. Email: Website: org.uk haringey.sch.uk www.stthomasmoreschool. Website: Contact: Jermaine Rennalls org.uk DfE number: 309 4031 Mrs Christalla Chambi Published admission 210 (c.chambi@ number: Contact: stthomasmoreschool. Open events org.uk) Open evening: 30 September 2013 DfE number: 309 4703 Time: 5.30 - 8pm Published admission Open morning: 2 October 2013 192 Time: 9.30am – 11am number: Please contact the school for a Supplementary Oversubscription criteria Information Form (SIF). The oversubscription criteria for this school is given on page 15. Open events PARK VIEW Open evening: Tuesday 1 October 2013 Time: 5.30 – 7.30pm Head teacher: Alex Atherton Headteacher’s talk: 6.45 pm School address: West Green Road, N15 3QR Open morning: 1 October 2013 School tel: 020 8888 1722 Time: 9.30 am – 11am [email protected]. Email: sch.uk Oversubscription criteria Whenever there are more applications than places www.parkview.haringey. Website: available, offers of places will be made using the sch.uk following criteria in order of priority: Ms G Mousika 1. Catholic looked after or previously looked after Contact: gmousika@parkview. children. haringey.sch.uk 2. Practising Catholics (a reference from a priest will DfE number: 309 4037 be required). Published admission 3. Baptised Catholics (certificate required). 216 number: 4. Eastern Christian churches, e.g. Greek Orthodox (a supportive reference will be required from Open events a Priest). Catechumen (this will normally be Open evening: 10 October 2013 evidenced by a certificate of reception into the Time: 6pm - 8pm order of catechumens). Open morning: 5. Looked after or previously looked after children Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 October 6. Christians of other denominations whose parents Time: 9:15am -10:30am wish them to have a Catholic education and whose application is supported by their Minister of Oversubscription criteria Religion. The oversubscription criteria for this school is given on 7. Children of other faith communities whose parents page 15. wish them to have a Catholic education and whose application is supported by their religious leader. 8. Any other applicant. 20 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Section 3: Haringey schools
TOTTENHAM UTC Haringey Council will use a computerised system to allocate places using random allocation. Pre-opening Principal: Mrs Diane Smith Addresses will be defined by your Local Authority. The Tottenham Hotspur computerised system will identify in which circle your Football Club, Bill School address: address is located. Where an address falls exactly on Nicholson Way, 748 High the line dividing line between circles, the address will be Road, Tottenham N17 0AP deemed to be in the nearest one to the UTC. School tel: 0870 420 5000 If more applicants apply in any circle than places are Email: [email protected] available, then places will be offered using electronic Website: www.tottenhamutc.co.uk random allocation. Contact: Admissions Officer In the event of fewer applicants in any one circle, then places will be split equally between remaining circles DfE number: TBA and made available to applicants in other circles using Published admission electronic random allocation. (Where there is only 1 105 number: place, or any odd number, the 1 place(s) or ‘extra’ place Open events to be redistributed will be allocated to the concentric circle nearest to the UTC. Open evenings will be held throughout the new academic autumn term at the Tottenham Hotspur Applications from sets of twins (or from students of a Football Club and in local venues in the area. multiple birth) are counted as individual applications. If one twin (or student from a multiple birth) is successful, Tottenham UTC is for students aged 14-19 and will then once all places are offered, the remaining twin will open in September of 2014. The UTC welcomes be automatically offered a place (over the PAN). applications for Year 10 places – please visit www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions for more information. WOODSIDE HIGH SCHOOL Head teacher: Joan McVittie Oversubscription Criteria Associate Head Where the number of applications for admission Elma McElligott is greater than the published admission number, teacher: applications will be considered against and prioritised in School address: White Hart Lane, N22 5QJ accordance with the oversubscription criteria: School tel: 020 8889 6761 1. Looked After Children (LAC) and previously Looked mail@woodsidehighschool. Email: After Children defined by the Admissions Code, co.uk 2. Priority area places (map is available to view at www.woodsidehighschool. Website: www.haringey.gov.uk/admission_arrangements) co.uk a. 40% of the remaining places will be offered Loulla Goulas to applicants living in the first circle of the (020 8829 2549 or Contact: catchment area (a one mile radius from the Loulla.goulas@ UTC front door, coloured red on the map) using woodsidehighschool.co.uk) electronic random allocation DfE number: 309 4034 b. 35% of the remaining places will be offered to applicants living in the second circle of the Published admission 162 catchment area (a one to two mile radius from number: the UTC front door, coloured green on the map) Open events using electronic random allocation Open evening: 3 July 2013 c. 25% of the remaining places will be offered Time: 5.30 – 7.30pm to applicants living in the third circle of the catchment area (a two to five mile radius from Open mornings: 7,8,9, 10,11 October 2013 the UTC front door, coloured blue on the map) Time: 9am – 11am (last tour 10.20am) using electronic random allocation 3. The remaining places: If there is under-subscription Oversubscription criteria across the whole catchment area, then the UTC The governors will follow the oversubscription criteria will accept applications from any other applicant for community schools given on page 15. (including beyond the 5 mile catchment limit) using electronic random allocation. Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 21 Section 4 SCHOOLS IN OTHER AUTHORITIES
If you want to apply to schools outside Haringey, contact the relevant borough or local authority for information on those schools. Please remember that if you are a Haringey resident you must submit an application to the Haringey Admissions Service. Barnet Hackney
The Children’s Service, The Learning Trust, School Admissions, Building 4, North London Business Park, 1 Reading Lane, Oakleigh Road South, London N11 1NP London E8 1GQ Telephone: Telephone: 020 8359 7651 020 8820 7401 / 7150 Email: Email: [email protected] [email protected] Website: Website: www.barnet.gov.uk/school-admissions www.learningtrust.co.uk/schools/admission_and_ transfers Camden Islington Crowndale Centre, 218-220 Eversholt Street, School Admissions Team, London NW1 1BD 222 Upper Street, London N1 1XR Telephone: Telephone: 020 7974 1625 020 7527 5515 Email: Email: [email protected] [email protected] Website: Website: www.camden.gov.uk/admissions www.islington.gov.uk/admissions Enfield Waltham Forest
Enfield School Admissions Service, School Admission Service, PO Box 56, Civic Centre, Silver Street, 1a Harvey Road, London E11 3DB Enfield EN1 3XQ Telephone: Telephone: 0845 200 1551 020 8379 5501 Email: Email: [email protected] [email protected] Website: Website: www.walthamforest.gov.uk www.enfield.gov.uk
22 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Section 5 OTHER INFORMATION
Department for Education
Customer Service The government department responsible for schools Centres and education. Tel: 0370 000 2288 020 8489 1000 Website: www.education.gov.uk
Wood Green Customer Service Centre Free school meals Ground Floor 48 Station Road If your child attends a Haringey school and you are in Wood Green N22 7TY receipt of one of the following benefits or NASS support, you are eligible to apply for free school meals for your Opening times: children: Monday - Friday. 8.45am – 5pm Income Support
South Tottenham Customer Service Centre Income Based Job Seekers Allowance Apex House Income Related Employment and Support 820 Seven Sisters Road Allowances ESA(IR) Tottenham N15 5PQ Child Tax Credit providing you are not entitled to Working Tax Credit and your annual income Opening times: as assessed by Revenues and Customs is below Monday – Friday. 8.45am – 5pm £16,190 ACE Advice and Information Service Guaranteed Element of State Pension Credit A voluntary organisation which offers advice and Or if you are supported by NASS and supported information on education issues. under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Tel: 0300 0115 142 (Mon-Wed 10am-1pm term time only) Act 1999. You must provide your NASS reference number. Website: www.ace-ed-org.uk We will also need to see the child benefit letter or the Charges for school activities children’s long birth certificate. You must renew the Haringey Council’s policy on charging for educational entitlement every 12 months. activities and the remission of charges is available – please telephone 020 8489 1000. Please contact your child’s school or ring customer services on 020 8489 1000 to get an application form. Children’s Centres www.haringey.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals Haringey’s Children’s Centres offer access to the following services: early education integrated with childcare; family support and outreach to parents and child and family health services. Information about these is available on the Haringey website – www.haringey.gov.uk/childrenscentres
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Independent (private fee paying) schools However, where such work has failed to improve school attendance, the school based EWO will refer cases to The Independent Schools Council Information and the central EWS service which may use its full range of Advice Service (ISCias) provides information and statutory powers, including legal action where there is advice for parents interested in an independent school no good reason for absence from school. education for their children. Special Educational Needs 0845 724 6657 Haringey provides a range of specialist facilities and [email protected] support services for children who special educational www.isc.co.uk needs. The special educational needs of most children are met in mainstream schools where additional help is Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) available. In certain cases a special school or unit may be appropriate. Information about provision for children The Local Government Ombudsman looks at with Special Educational Needs is available from the complaints about councils and some other authorities, SEN team. including education admissions appeal panels. It is a free service. Their job is to investigate complaints in a Tel: 020 8489 1913 fair and independent way - they do not take sides. If you Email: [email protected] have a problem with a council service, you should first complain to the council, but if you are still not satisfied, they may be able to help. Youth Space Youthspace.gov.uk is the website for all young people The LGO Advice Team: 0300 061 0614 in Haringey – with information on events, jobs and www.lgo.org.uk apprenticeships.
Ofsted You can also follow Youth Space on twitter and facebook Ofsted inspect and report on standards of schools and to keep up to date with the latest news. childminders. Reports can be viewed online at www.ofsted.gov.uk www.youthspace.haringey.gov.uk www.facebook.com/youthspace Email: [email protected] www.twitter.com/haringeyyouth
Education welfare service
Tel: 020 8489 1000
The Education Welfare Service works with schools, pupils and families to encourage good school attendance and high standards of pupil welfare. There is a very clear link between good school attendance and good academic achievement. There are also clear links between poor school attendance and risk of being involved in antisocial behaviour, crime and poor life outcomes generally.
The Education Welfare Officer (EWO) will work with young people who find regular school attendance problematic. This may mean directly working with young people themselves or referral to other agencies (with parental agreement). They will ensure that parents / carers are fully aware of their responsibilities to ensure regular school attendance. They can give advice on a range of issues such as matters relating to child protection and bullying.
24 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Section 5 DEFINITIONS
Academies Children from Abroad
City Academies are state funded schools that operate In most circumstances you should only apply for a outside local authority control. school place once your child is resident in the UK. Your child is expected to attend a school as soon as a place Admission Appeal is offered and on the date that the school has agreed with you for them to start. If your child is not able to Parents can appeal to an independent appeal panel if attend at that time, please tell us - we may withdraw they are refused a place at a school they applied for. the place and offer it to another child. Once you have Further information on how you can appeal can be agreed a start date your child will be placed on the found on page 10. school roll, and if your child then fails to attend and you have not notified us that you no longer want the place Admissions Arrangements or that there is a valid reason why they cannot attend This is a technical term for the rules that govern the on that date, you may face legal action in relation to admission procedures and decisions for a particular non-school attendance. school or group of schools in a specific year. Places cannot be reserved until your child arrives in Admissions Code the area. You will have to supply proof of residency and proof of your child’s date of birth such as an original This document sets out the legal requirements for endorsed passport or entry visa with the application, school admissions, admission appeals and exclusions and bring your child to Wood Green Customer Service from school. The revised School Admissions Code and Centre. School Admissions Appeals Code came into force on 1 February 2012. The School Admissions Code takes If your child previously attended school in Haringey full effect on admissions arrangements being locally and subsequently went abroad, it is likely that unless determined in respect of the pupil intake for the 2013/14 the school has specifically agreed to keep the place academic year and thereafter. open for you, your child will have been removed from roll after four weeks. When they return, you must apply The codes and supporting regulations are available to again for a school place. Please note that a place may download from the government website. not be available in your child’s previous school and another place may have to be offered. Catchment Areas
There are no longer ‘catchment areas’ in Haringey Children In Care (CiC) where, in the past, each school was allocated a specific (Looked After Children) geographical area to serve. Now, the area that a school A child is being ‘looked after’ by the local authority serves is determined by the admission criteria and where when the local authority arranges for the child to live the children who are admitted come from. The area that children come from changes from year to year depending somewhere other than at home. There are two ways in on the applications received. This is why in one year a which a child can be looked after by the local authority. child living in a certain road may be admitted to a school One is called ‘being accommodated’; the other is where but another, living in the same road in the next year, may the child is the subject of a court order. find themselves living too far away to be offered a place.
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Children Being Accommodated Home Address
When a child is being accommodated by the local authority, The address provided should be the child’s current this is a voluntary arrangement between the local authority permanent address at the time of application. The and the family. This means that you keep all your rights application can only be processed using one address. and responsibilities as parents for the child and the If the child lives at a different address from the local authority does not take on any of those rights or parent/carer from Monday to Friday, the Parental responsibilities. If you are a parent, you can remove your Responsibility Order or Residence Order must be child from the accommodation at any time. provided for assessment. If there are reasons why the child is not living at the same address as the parent, If the local authority provides accommodation for a both parent/carers must declare this is a letter sent child it must draw up a plan with the family setting out with the application. the arrangements that will be made for the child. This must be in writing. The child might live in a foster home If the child regularly lives at more than one address or children’s home. The foster home could be the home Monday to Friday, the address provided should be of relatives or friends of the family. The local authority where the child spends the majority of their time. Both must ensure that a child who is being accommodated parent/carers must declare this individually in a letter continues to have contact with family and friends. sent with the application.
Children who are the subject of a Care Order If an address is disputed, the address where child benefit/child tax credit is paid will be used. When a court has made an order in relation to the child, known as a care order, this means that the local authority In Year Admissions will take on responsibility for the child together with you as parents. The local authority will make arrangements School placements made during a school year and not for where the child should live, in discussion with you. part of the co-ordination arrangements for reception However, you will not be able to remove the child if you do and secondary transfer pupils. not agree with the local authority’s proposals. Key Stages DDA A child’s educational career goes through five main The Disability and Discrimination Act, 1995. curriculum stages according to their age:
Distance Measurements The Foundation Stage curriculum is for 3-5 year olds (occasionally 2 year olds are eligible) starting Haringey measures distance in miles as a straight line with Nursery and then going into Reception from the child’s home to the school. It uses the address classes. point for the child’s home to the address point of the school supplied by the Royal Mail using a computerised The Key Stage One curriculum is for 6-7 year olds mapping system. and they go in to Year 1 and then Year 2 classes. The Key Stage Two curriculum is for 8-11 year Equal Preference System olds. They move through Year 3, 4, 5 and Year 6 classes. This means that each of your school preferences (up to six) is treated as a separate application. Your child The Key Stage Three curriculum is for 12-14 year is considered under the over-subscription criteria for olds at secondary school. They move through Year each school at the same time without reference to your 7, Year 8 and Year 9 classes. ranked preferences. Where a pupil is eligible for more The Key Stage Four curriculum is for students than one school s/he is offered a place at whichever of aged 15-16 who pass through Year 10 and Year 11 these schools was indicated as the higher preference classes. on your application form.
Foundation School
This is a school where the Governing Body employs the staff and sets the admissions criteria for the school.
26 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Section 6: Definitions
Late Admission Siblings
Any application for a school place that is received in the This category includes brothers and sisters, foster normal admission round but later than the deadline brothers and sisters, half-brothers and sisters or step given. brothers and sisters. However, parents should note that in all these cases, the brother or sister must be Parental Responsibility living at the same address as the child for whom the application is being made. To verify this we may ask Since 2003 the parents named on a child’s birth certificate you for evidence of where child benefit is being paid. both have automatic parental responsibility and rights. Other adults are also able to acquire parental rights Special Educational Needs (SEN) through legal process. For school admission applications, parents must provide proof that they have legal Special Educational Needs is a specific term with responsibility for the child, such as a child benefit letter or an associated set of definitions that indicate where a copy of legal documents which demonstrate that this is specific pupils should receive additional help and the case. resources. These are defined in an authorised document called a “Statement”. The 1981 Education When parents are separated they should discuss the Act opened up this range of entitlements and ways application for a school place before the application of working. Since then, its provisions have been is submitted. The parent with whom the child mostly supported by the 1995 Disability and Discrimination resides should do the application. Where appropriate, Act (DDA) and the 2002 Special Educational Needs and details of the other parent with parental responsibility Disability Discrimination Act (SENDDA) and their address should also be given so that the Admissions Service can communicate with both Special Schools parents. If there are legal reasons why the Admissions These schools are exclusively for children who have Service cannot do this, a copy of the relevant court Statements of Special Educational Needs that name order must be provided with the application form. the particular school. They cater for children whose needs are so complex that they cannot be educated in School Admission Forms a mainstream school. Each school will collect detailed personal information about your child and your family. This is for the Supplementary Information Forms (SIFs) purpose of keeping in contact with you and knowing When a school is responsible for its own admissions important things about your child’s health and safety it can have special admission criteria. For example, a so that correct responses can be made by school faith school will give priority to children who are of the staff. You may be asked to share information about same faith. In order to assess a child’s eligibility an any child protection issues, adults with parental additional form has to be completed for these schools responsibility, adults living in your house as well as and the children are put into priority order by the other professionals who may work with your family. It is Governors of the school. important to co-operate with these requests because it is about protecting your child from harm. The information is subject to data protection legislation and will not be used for any purpose that we do not tell you about beforehand. If you are concerned about this you can discuss it with a member of the Education Welfare Service (contact details are given on page 24 of this booklet).
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 27 Voluntary Aided (VA) School Data Protection
This is a religious or ‘Faith’ school where the Governing Haringey Council will handle the information you Body employs the staff and sets the admissions criteria have provided in line with the provisions of the Data for the school. Protection Act. Any personal information will be held in confidence with only the necessary people able to see Voluntary Controlled (VC) School or use it. Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to make a formal request in writing for access to This is a religious or ’Faith’ school that is administered personal data held about you or your child. by the local authority who is the ‘employer’ of the staff and sets the admissions criteria. Haringey has a duty under the Children’s Act 2004 to work with partners to provide and improve services Waiting Lists to children and young people in the area. Therefore When parents are seeking a place at a school that is Haringey may also use this information for other already full they can put their child’s name on a waiting legitimate purposes and may share this information list. This list puts children in priority order according where necessary with other bodies responsible for to the admissions criteria. When a place becomes administering services to children and young people. available the child on the top of the list is offered the Haringey also has a duty to protect the public funds it next place. This means that the waiting list is not about administers, and to this end it may use the information the length of time a child has been on it. Waiting lists you have provided on this form for the prevention and change frequently in Haringey because there is much detection of fraud. mobility here and children can move up and down the list.
We aim to ensure that the information in this booklet is correct at the date of publication. If there are any changes or updates to the information in the booklet we will publish this on our website at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions
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28 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Immunisation Has your child had all their FREE injections?
Protect your child from: Diphtheria Measles Tetanus Mumps Polio Rubella Meningococcal disease
For more details visit www.nhs.uk/vaccinations Starting secondary school is another opportunity to check your child has had all their vaccines. If you are unsure about what they have had, please contact your General Practitioner (GP) or practice nurse to arrange an appointment. Alternatively If you would like to discuss anything about vaccinations you can do this through your GP or practice nurse or by contacting the school nurse. Remember it is never too late to vaccinate and protect your child. Harris Free School Tottenham – Opening September 2014 School Tottenham Harris Free The site has not been confirmed. Please refer to page 18 for the most up date information. College – Opening September 2014 University Technical Tottenham The site has not been confirmed. Please refer to page 21 for the most up date information. Albanian Kurdish
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