A Guide to Help You Fill in an ICAF (In-Year Common Application Form)
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A guide to help you fill in an ICAF (In-year common application form) Introduction This leaflet is a quick guide for those who need l We automatically create a new waiting list at the to fill in an ICAF (In-year common application beginning of each term. You will need to write to ask form). The in-year admissions process is for us to put your child’s name on the new term’s waiting parents who have just moved into the borough list. Our voluntary-aided faith schools will put your child’s name on their waiting list for a school year. and need to apply for a school place for their child At the end of each school year, you will need to fill in during the school year or for parents who want a new ICAF if you still have not been offered a place to transfer their child from one school to another. from the waiting list at any of your preferred schools. Full details of this process is published in our l You have the right to appeal for the schools you listed booklet ‘Finding a school place – Issue 3’. on your ICAF that we do not offer you a place at. If you decide to appeal for a place at these schools There is a different process for dealing with applications (including our faith schools), please take your results for children with special needs or those aged 16 to 19. letter to one of our one-stop shops in Barking or If your child has a statement of special educational need Dagenham and ask for an appeal form. You must you must contact the SEN Team. If your child is aged return your filled-in appeal form to the independent 16 to 19 they must receive education, employment or appeal panel clerk, whose address is printed on the training, and the 16 to 19 Careers Advice Service will deal front of the form. with your request. By law, children aged between five and 16 must receive an education. This means that your child must continue to Contact details for neighbouring go to their current school while we (the School Admissions local authorities Team) deal with your request for a school place. All Barking and Dagenham schools take part in a Essex County Council: co-ordinated admissions scheme. This means that you County Hall, Market Road, Chelmsford CM1 1QH should list all the schools in Barking and Dagenham that Phone: 0845 603 2200 you want to apply for on one application form (ICAF), London Borough of Havering: ranking them in the order you prefer. We will only offer School support & pupil services, 9th Floor, your child one school place and, where possible, this will Mercury House, Mercury Gardens, be the highest-ranked school on your list. If you want to Romford, RM1 3SL apply for a school outside the borough, you will need Phone: 01708 434 600 to contact that borough and follow their application London Borough of Newham: process. We will process your form within 10 Newham Dockside, 1000 Dockside Road, working days of receiving it. London, E16 2QU l If there are spaces at the schools you have asked for, Phone: 020 8430 2000 we will give your child a place at the school ranked the highest on your application form. We expect your child London Borough of Redbridge: to start school within 10 school days of our offer letter. 255-259 High Road, Ilford, Essex, IG1 1NN Phone: 020 8708 3139 l If we cannot offer your child a place at your preferred school, we will automatically put their name on the waiting list for the schools listed higher on your application form than the school we have offered your child a place at. What you need to do There are four possible stages you need to go through to apply. The stage you follow depends on whether you want to apply for a place at one of our voluntary-aided faith schools or for a place at our other schools. If one of your preferences includes a faith school, you need to follow all four stages. For all other schools you need to follow stages 1, 2 and 4. Fill in part A of the ICAF. Your If one of your preferences on child’s previous or current UK your ICAF is a faith school, school should fill in and sign you may need to fill in an section B of the form. Make a extra form called the ‘In-year 1 copy of the form in case you 3 supplementary reference form’ need to refer to it in the future. (SIF). Catholic schools may also The information we ask for in need you to fill in a diocesan this section is important as it priest reference form (PRF). could help us decide if your Please see ‘Important notes’ for child can be considered under more details. Make sure you our ‘fair access protocol’ (see read and follow the application our website for more details). If process for faith schools listed your child has never attended in our booklet ‘Finding a school a UK school, you will not need place – Issue 3’. Send your SIF to fill in section B of the ICAF. and PRF forms direct to the Instead, your child may need to relevant schools. have an assessment, which will be carried out by the school we offer your child a place at. Bring your ICAF and the documents we ask for (see stage 2) to either of our Provide proof of your child’s one-stop shops or post them ID and proof of your and your 4 to us (full addresses are on the child’s address. See ‘Important back page). notes’ for which documents we 2 need to see. Map of our schools 28 50 32 26 48a 19 41 8 48 39 24 2 7 23 (SITE 1) 4 35 21 44 27 20 38 17 (SITE 1) 49 (SITE 2) 25 23 9 42 (SITE 2) 42a 20 16 (SITE 2) 11 45 27 15 (SITE 1) 40 31 6 (SITE 2) 3 46 22 12 18 18 10 34 (SITE 1) 43 36 14 51 37 5 13 1 30 29 47a 47 33 Schools’ details Map Map number School name number School name Primary schools (ages 4 to 11) Infant schools (ages 4 to 7) and junior schools (ages 7 to 11) 1 Beam Primary, Oval Road North, Dagenham, RM10 9ED Dorothy Barley Infant, Davington Road, Dagenham, RM8 2LL 25 2 Becontree Primary, Stevens Road, Dagenham, RM8 2QR Dorothy Barley Junior, Ivinghoe Road, Dagenham, RM8 2NB 3 Eastbury Primary, Dawson Avenue, Barking IG11 9QQ 26 Furze Infant, Bennett Road, Chadwell Heath, RM6 6ES 4 Five Elms Primary, Wood Lane, Dagenham, RM9 5TB Manor School, Sandringham Road, Barking, IG11 9AG - Site 1 5 Gascoigne Primary, Gascoigne Road, Barking, IG11 7DR 27 Manor School, Longbridge Road, Dagenham, RM8 2FL - Site 2 6 Godwin Primary, Finneymore Road, Dagenham, RM9 6JH Manor Junior, Sandringham Road, Barking, IG11 9AG 7 Grafton Primary, Grafton Road, Dagenham, RM8 3EX Marks Gate Infant, Lawn Farm Grove, Chadwell Heath, RM6 5LL 28 8 Henry Green Primary, Green Lane, Dagenham, RM8 1UR Marks Gate Junior, Rose Lane, Chadwell Heath, RM6 5NJ 9 Hunters Hall Primary, Alibon Road, Dagenham, RM10 8DE Thames View Infants, Bastable Avenue, Barking, IG11 0LG 29 This school has Academy Status 10 James Cambell Primary, Langley Crescent, Dagenham, RM9 6TD 30 Thames View Junior, Bastable Avenue, Barking, IG11 0LG 11 John Perry Primary, Charles Road, Dagenham, RM10 8UR 31 Village Infant, Ford Road, Dagenham, RM10 9JS 12 Leys Primary, Leys Avenue, Dagenham, RM10 9YR 32 Warren Junior, Gordon Road, Chadwell Heath, RM6 6DA 13 Marsh Green Primary, South Close, Dagenham, RM10 9NJ 14 Monteagle Primary, Burnham Road, Dagenham, RM9 4RB Faith Schools Primary schools (ages 4 to 11) 15 Northbury Primary, North Street, Barking, IG11 8JA F33 George Carey CofE Primary, Minter Road, Barking IG11 0FJ 16 Parsloes Primary, Spurling Road, Dagenham, RM9 5RH F 34 St Joseph’s Catholic Primary – Barking The Broadway, Barking, IG11 7AR 17 Richard Alibon Primary, Alibon Road, Dagenham, RM10 8DF F 35 St Joseph’s Catholic Primary – Dagenham Connor Road, Dagenham, RM9 5UL Ripple Primary School, Suffolk Road, Barking, IG11 7QS - Site 1 18 F 36 St Margarets C of E Primary, North Street, Barking, IG11 8AS Ripple Primary School, Westbury site, Barking, IG11 7PT - Site 2 F 37 St Peter’s Catholic Primary, Goresbrook Road, Dagenham, RM9 6UU 19 Rush Green Primary, Dagenham Road, Romford, RM7 0TL F 38 St Teresa Catholic Primary, Bowes Road, Dagenham, RM8 2XJ Roding Primary, Hewett Road, Dagenham, RM8 2XS - Site 1 20 F 39 St Vincent’s Catholic Primary, Burnside Road, Dagenham, RM8 2JN Roding Primary, Cannington Road, Dagenham, RM9 4BL - Site 2 Junior schools (ages 7 to 11) 21 Southwood Primary, Keppel Road, Dagenham, RM9 5LT F40 William Ford C of E Junior, Ford Road, Dagenham, RM10 9JS 22 Thomas Arnold Primary, Rowdowns Road, Dagenham, RM9 6NH Map Valence Primary, Bonham Road, Dagenham, RM8 3AR - Site 1 number School name 23 Valence Primary, St Georges Road, Dagenham, RM8 5AH - Site 2 Secondary Schools (ages 11-19) 24 William Bellamy Primary, Frizlands Lane, Dagenham, RM10 7HX F41 All Saints Catholic School, Terling Road, Dagenham, RM8 1JT 42 Barking Abbey School, Longbridge Road, Barking, IG11 8UF - lower site Map 42a Barking Abbey School, Sandringham Road, Barking, IG11 9AG - upper site number School name Dagenham Park Church of England School, 43 All-through school (ages 4 to 19) School Road, Dagenham, RM10 9QH 44 Eastbrook Comprehensive School, Dagenham Road, Dagenham, RM10 7UR Goresbrook School, Ripple Road, Dagenham, Essex, RM9 6XW (The school will be built on the former site of the Goresbrook 45 Eastbury Comprehensive School, Hulse Avenue, Barking, IG11 9UW 51 Leisure Centre.