Transfer to Secondary School/ Meeting 2018

Key Dates 2017

• Open days September-October • Monday 4th Sept Online application facility opens • Saturday 16th Sept Entrance test • By Thursday 12th October Grammar Results available • Tuesday 31st October Closing date for applications

Key Dates 2018

• Thursday 1st March Allocation Day • Thursday 8th March Closing date to return reply form accepting place or requesting to be placed on waiting lists • After Friday 30th March Receive outcome of waiting list requests • Friday 6th April Closing date for return of reply forms • May – July Appeals

Choosing a Secondary School

• County information booklets/ Mapping Tool /County Website

• School information/website/prospectus/OFSTED etc

• Open Evenings/Day Visits

• Listen to viewpoints of others

• Consider transport, childcare implications, etc.

• Make an objective/realistic decision The Process • The Local Authority (LA) coordinates and administers the process. • The address County will use for allocation is the one on your letter. County use your address as at 31st October • It is recommended that you complete and submit the application form online • You list up to 5 preferences on your form. Submit the form to LA by 31st October 2017. Late applications will not be considered until places have been offered to children whose application was received by the closing date. • You can change your preferences on-line up to 31st October (remember to submit each time)

The LA then

• After the closing date, the LA put your child’s name on the list for each of the schools you have listed. Their position on the list will depend on how well your child fits the school’s admission criteria – for example, they may be higher up a school’s list if you live very near to it.

• The Equal Preference system means that at this stage, the order in which you ranked the schools will not be taken into account. Your child will be put on the list for every school you have applied to.

• Each school has a Published Admission Number (PAN): the number of places it has to offer. The LA mark up the names at the top of each school’s list, up to its PAN. This is known as the School List. Those children whose names fall outside the PAN will not be offered a place at this school. You will have the opportunity to place your child’s name on a waiting list as part of the Reconsideration process.

• If your child’s name appears on only one School List, your child will be offered a place at that school, regardless of where it ranked in your preferences.

• If your child is on more than one School List, the LA then take into account the order in which you ranked the schools on your Common Application Form. Your child will be offered a place at the school that you ranked highest.

• If your child isn’t allocated a place at any of your preferred schools, the LA will allocate a place at the nearest school with a space.

• If you have been offered a school that wasn’t your first choice, you will then have the opportunity to request for your child to be placed on the waiting list for your higher preferences; so your child may be reconsidered for a place at any of these schools in subsequent allocation rounds. Comprehensive Secondary Schools/Academies Cheltenham area

• Balcarras 11-18 194 places • Cheltenham Bournside 11-18 300 places • Chosen Hill 11-18 228 places • All Saints’ Academy 11-18 180 places • 11-16 175 places • All secondary schools have priority catchment areas Admission Criteria (summary –please check detail for catchment areas, sibling and staff rules) Balcarras 28th September 7.00-9-00pm SEN Statement or Education Health & Care Plan 1. Looked-after children 2. Children living in the school’s priority catchment area who have a sibling attending the school 3. Children of members of staff 4. Children living in the priority catchment area with the strongest geographical claim 5. Children who live outside the priority catchment area who have a sibling attending the school 6. Other children with the strongest geographical claim Admission Criteria (summary – please check details for catchment areas and sibling rules) Cheltenham Bournside 5th Oct 6.00-8.30pm (also open mornings) SEN Statement or Education Health & Care Plan 1. Looked-after children 2. Children of members of staff 3. Children living in the school’s priority catchment area who have a sibling attending the school 4. Children living in the priority catchment area with the strongest geographical claim 5. Children who live outside the priority catchment area who have a sibling attending the school 6. Other children with the strongest geographical claim Admission criteria (summary) 28th Sept 6pm and 7pm (also open mornings)

SEN Statement or Education Health & Care Plan 1. Looked-after children 2. Children living in the catchment area served by the School 3. Children who will have siblings (including those in the 6th Form) attending the school at the time of their admission 4. Children of a current member of staff 5. Other children with the strongest geographical claim

Admission Criteria Pittville School 3rd Oct 6.00-8.00pm (also open mornings) SEN Statement or Education Health & Care Plan 1. Looked-after children/children in public care 2. Children who have a sibling attending the school and who will continue to do so when the younger child is admitted 3. Children living in the priority catchment area 4. Other children with the strongest geographical claim Admission Criteria (summary) All Saints’ Academy 2nd Oct 6.00pm • Church of England 35% • Catholic 35% • Community 30% C of E 1.Students who are baptised members of C of E 2. Students with at least one parent/carer on the electoral roll of a C of E Church. 3. Students with at least one parent/carer who is a baptised member of the C of E 4. Students who attend any of the C of E Primary schools in Cheltenham Catholic 1. Students who are baptised Roman Catholics 2. Students with at least one parent/carer who is baptised Roman Catholic 3. Students who attend St Gregory the Great or St Thomas More Catholic Primary Community 1. Siblings 2. Distance

Admission to Grammar Schools

• Children registered for test last term • Sit test at nominated school – (Test School) • Test on Saturday 16th September 2017 • Indication of results by Thursday 12th October 2017– one email or letter from each school • Send Common Application Form to LA by 31st October 2017 • Parents notified of Secondary allocation on 1st March 2018. • Parents accept allocation or may ask for reconsideration by 8th March 2018. Grammar Schools – numbers and open days

• Pate's Grammar School (150) • 3rd October

• High School for Girls (150) • 16th October 5.15 – 8.00pm

• Sir Thomas Rich's School (150) • 26th September 6.30 – 9.00pm

• (150) • 11th October

• (120)