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Map a guide to primary schools 2020-2021 Contents

Your application How places were offered in 2019

How to apply How the application process works

Late applications Transferring from Infant to Junior school

Nursery classes Deferred or outside cohort entry

Primary schools in Harrow

Admissions arrangements

Applying for schools in other boroughs Children with Special Educational Needs

Appeals Primary schools map Your application

Your application must be received by Wednesday, 15 January 2020

If your child does not live in Harrow, but you wish to apply for a Harrow school, Home please contact your child’s local authority to make an application.

If your child lives in Harrow, and was born between 1 September 2015 and 31 August 2016, and is due to start primary school in Reception in September 2020, the full timetable for applications is: Map 1 September 2019 Website opens, and you can apply online at http://www.eadmissions.org.uk

Autumn 2019 Parents applying for a Voluntary Aided school must complete and return a supplementary information form direct to the school. These forms are available Admissions from the school or www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

Wednesday 15 January 2020 Closing date for applications. Parents applying for a Voluntary Aided school must Apply complete and return a supplementary information Now form direct to the school. Thursday 16 April 2020 Emails sent to parents with the outcome of their application. Please wait until you have received the email before logging on to the e-Admissions website. In some cases, letters will be sent through the post.

Thursday 30 April 2020 Deadline for acceptance or decline of offer.

Monday 18 May 2020 Closing date for receipt of appeals

If your child lives in Harrow, and is due to start reception in September 2020, but was not born between 1 September 2015 and 31 August 2016, please do not fill out an application form. Instead, email [email protected] How places were offered in 2019

The table on the next page shows how that because children in your area attend a places were allocated to children starting particular school that your child will also be in Reception classes at Harrow’s primary offered a place. schools in September 2019. It shows how Harrow schools do not have catchment many places were available, how many areas as part of their admission people applied for those places and how arrangements*. Schools in Harrow Home those places were then allocated on offer use distance as part of their admission day. The positions at schools in September arrangements. All schools in Harrow may be different due to late applications. measure distances from home to school in These are the statistics for last year, and while a straight line from the home address to the this year’s statistics may be similar, the level school. and pattern of demand for schools changes Information on how places were allocated at Map every year. This means that the distances faith voluntary aided schools, free schools cited in the table on the next page change and academies, can be obtained directly from year to year. Please do not assume from the school.

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School name Number of places available Number of applications received SEN Looked-after children Medical/Social needs child Medical parent Staff child Sibling Distance criterion distance in miles whereFurthest criterion applied as tie-breaker Offered as the nearest school with a vacancy offered Total Avanti House 60 250 0 0 0 0 0 27 33 2.024 N/A 60 Aylward Primary 90 130 0 1 0 0 0 26 32 N/A N/A 59 Belmont 90 237 0 0 2 0 0 38 50 1.487 N/A 90 Camrose 60 144 0 1 0 0 1 19 29 N/A 4 54 Cannon Lane 120 424 1 0 0 0 0 54 65 1.294 N/A 120 Cedars Manor 60 111 3 0 0 0 0 24 27 N/A 6 57 Home Earlsmead 60 63 0 0 0 0 0 9 11 N/A 6 26 Elmgrove 120 228 3* 0 0 0 0 47 56 N/A 14 120 Glebe 90 264 1 0 0 0 2 40 47 0.448 N/A 90 Grange Primary 90 120 0 1 0 0 0 31 33 N/A 13 78 Grimsdyke 90 292 0 0 0 0 0 26 64 1.651 N/A 90 Map Heathland 90 289 2 0 0 0 0 32 56 0.579 N/A 90 Kenmore Park 120 183 0 0 0 0 0 38 33 N/A 4 75 Longfield 120 288 0 0 0 0 2 43 61 N/A 7 113 Marlborough 90 349 0 0 0 0 0 35 55 0.48 N/A 90 Newton Farm 60 360 0 1 0 0 0 32 27 0.234 N/A 60 Norbury 90 290 0 0 0 0 0 30 60 0.474 N/A 90 Admissions Park 120 404 0 0 0 0 1 59 60 0.874 N/A 120 Pinner Wood 90 437 0 1 0 2 0 30 57 0.662 N/A 90 Priestmead 120 376 2 0 0 0 1 43 74 0.644 N/A 120 90 153 0 0 0 0 0 25 26 N/A 5 56 60 283 1 0 1 0 0 22 36 0.472 N/A 60 Apply Now Stag Lane 120 199 0 0 0 0 0 55 65 1.851 N/A 120 Stanburn 120 335 0 0 0 0 0 45 63 N/A 1 109 Vaughan 90 297 0 0 0 0 0 26 64 0.605 N/A 90 Weald Rise 120 81 0 0 0 0 0 19 16 N/A 8 43 Welldon Park 60 110 0 0 0 0 0 22 27 N/A 4 53 West Lodge 90 518 0 1 0 0 0 33 56 0.46 N/A 90 Whitchurch 120 385 3 0 0 0 0 49 68 1.454 N/A 120 Whitefriars 90 265 0 1 0 0 0 35 54 0.492 N/A 90 Krishna Avanti 60 239 1 N/A 60 Moriah 30 30 1* 2 18 St Anselm’s 60 232 0 N/A 60 St Bernadette’s 60 161 0 N/A 60 Please contact the schools St George’s 60 155 0 directly for the breakdown of how N/A 60 St Jerome CofE 60 205 0 places were allocated at these N/A 60 St John’s 60 105 0 schools 1 51 St John Fisher 90 265 0 N/A 90 St Joseph’s 60 193 0 N/A 60 St Teresa’s 60 145 0 0 60

* Child or children that currently attend school who will be remaining in Reception How to apply

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We ask everyone to apply using between 1 September 2015 and Home the online form with the following 31 August 2016, please do not exceptions: complete an application form. 1. If your child has an Educational, Please email Health and Care Plan, please do [email protected] not complete an application form. to apply. Map 2. If your child wishes to begin 3. You cannot apply for private or primary school (reception) in independent schools through September 2020 but was not born this process.

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Do I need to register? Do I have to complete the form all at once? Yes, you will first need to register your Apply details with the website and will be sent Now No – if you wish, you can complete part a user name and password. of the form, save your position and return later to review, complete or change it. What is the deadline? Every time you change your application you will receive a confirmation email. Your application must be complete and submitted by 15 January 2020. You can Can I apply to schools in other make changes to your application right boroughs? up to the closing date. Yes – if you are a Harrow resident What happens if I do not you can use the same online form to submit my application in time? Are there any tools online At the end of the process, you will be to help me choose schools? invited to “submit” the form. Failure to “submit” will mean your application has To find out which are your local not been sent to us, and your application Harrow schools, you can go to will not be considered. You will then have www.harrow.gov.uk/distancetool to enter the late application process. apply to schools in Harrow and also I don’t like using computers. to schools maintained by other local Can I get a paper form instead? authorities. You can apply for six schools; however, you may No – paper forms will only be issued only apply to a maximum of four under exceptional circumstances, due schools in Hertfordshire. Otherwise to the extra administrative cost and there is no restriction to the mix of complexity of processing them. schools on your application. See Applying for Schools in Other I need help! Can you help? Boroughs section. Yes – if you need help with your Can I apply for a Harrow school Home application please email if I live outside the borough? [email protected]

If you live outside Harrow and want I don’t want my child to start to apply to a Harrow school you can school. Can we defer entry? list the school on the application you Map submit to your local authority. Sometimes schools agree to defer entry for children. Even if you wish to delay I don’t have the internet at your child’s entry to school you must home. Where can I apply? still apply for a place for your child in the normal way. Admissions Computers with internet access are available to use free of charge at any Harrow library and at the Civic Centre. More information can be Free internet access is also available found on deferred or at Arqiva WiFi hotspots around the outside cohort entry here Apply borough. Now

What to do if your details change application or even lead to an offer being withdrawn. It is vitally important that you tell us straight away if any of your details Deciding which address to put change after you have submitted your on your application application.

If you move house and change your The only acceptable address to put address; if your child changes primary on your application is your child’s school; or if any other factual details permanent address and they must regarding your application change, be living there at the closing date for please email us immediately at receipt of application. [email protected]. Please do not list an address of Failure to let us know about someone who provides a temporary changes could invalidate your care arrangement for your child, a business address, childminder’s at any time to investigate and verify address, a relative’s address or any any address, information and/or other address other than the child’s documentation in order to ensure that permanent home address. it is allocating places appropriately and fairly. These investigations may extend to Council databases, home visits and All applications that are received background checks. We may also ask will be verified. you for further proofs.

Where families have recently moved If we offer a place at a school and then into an address prior to completing an application, we may require further Home information to ensure that the property has not been obtained solely for the purposes of obtaining a school place. If a family move into a property temporarily to increase the chances of Map gaining a school place, the council will use the permanent residence for the purpose of the application.

For example, if the family own a property but are living at and apply Admissions from a different address, the council will assume that the second address is temporary and that the property that you own is where the child ordinarily lives. Apply Where the owned property is being Now renovated, this will still be considered the family’s permanent address. Evidence will otherwise be required that the property is disposed of. If a family own more than one property, the discover that the offer was made on council will request further evidence fraudulent or misleading information to demonstrate where the family (for example, a false claim to living at normally live to determine the address an address) we will withdraw the place the council will use for the child’s offered. This has happened in previous application. years. This will cause considerable distress, particularly for the child If a school place is offered on the involved. basis of an incorrect address, the In some cases, a child may live place will be withdrawn. Providing false information or fraudulent Where a place has been offered documentation could lead also to legal based on false information, we action being brought against you, can withdraw the offer even after including a criminal prosecution. your child has started at school. Harrow Council reserves the right permanently with parents with officially school. In all such cases, we require a shared responsibility at more than one joint declaration from the parents with home address. Please note, this only officially shared responsibility stating applies to parents, not other carers the pattern of residence. or relatives. In these cases, the only acceptable address is the residence If no joint declaration is received by the where the child spends the majority of closing date for applications, the home the school week (Monday-Friday). address will be taken as the address of the parent who receives child benefit. On the rare occasions when a child’s residence during the school week is In cases where parents are not eligible split equally between parents, then for child benefit the address will be Home parents will be asked to determine that of the parent where the child is which residential address should be registered with the doctor. used for the purpose of admission to

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„„ Think what kind of school your child demonstrate practice of their faith. is best suited to: You may want to think about if you want a same sex „„ Not all schools give priority to school or, a faith based school does siblings, or there may be restrictions Home the school have a specialism in the for siblings in Sixth Form arts, sports, science etc., uniform vs. non uniform school, are there „„ Distance from home to school is breakfast clubs / afterschool clubs, often used as tie breaker. Distance travel to and from school is usually measured in a straight line from your house to the centre point Map „„ Familiarise yourself with the of the school (but it can be different admissions criteria for schools in some cases)

„„ Visit the school you are interested in „„ Some schools use random applying to. Attend any open days / allocation (lottery) evenings held at the school. Look at Admissions the information on how places were „„ Some schools will have medical and allocated in previous year. social criteria but only if you meet certain conditions „„ Look at the school Ofsted report / school website – schools do change „„ Some schools will give priority to Apply over time so it is important to get staff who work for the school for a Now your information from a variety of certain number of years or in hard to sources and remember that not recruit subjects everything you hear about a school may still be true. „„ Some schools outside of Harrow may have additional criteria’s that „„ During your research, you will need are to do with streaming, testing, to read the admissions criteria for the banding, musical or sporting ability, school(s) you want to apply to. catchment or priority areas.

To give you some samples of what to „„ Make sure you submit your check for: application on time – if you miss the deadline your application won’t be „„ Church / Faith schools will give considered until after the National priority to applicants that can Offer Day. How the application process works

On your application form you will be asked to list six schools, ranked in order of preference. You must name the schools that you wish to apply for, in the order you prefer them. You do not need to use all six preferences, however, we strongly advise that you do use all six preferences. There is no advantage in naming only one school. Once the closing date has passed on 15 January 2020, the admissions process will begin. Home How the preference When children are not allocated a place system works at any of their schools of preference, they will be offered a place at the All the applications we receive will be school nearest their home that still has Map considered individually against the vacancies once the above admissions criteria published in this guide. Each process is complete. school will then allocate its places to the children with highest priority under its Councils will not pass on details of own admissions criteria. where the school was ranked on your application. No school will be told about Admissions Each school you name on your other schools listed on your application. application is considered separately. That means that if you have entered Extremely important advice six preferences, your child could about the preference system be allocated as many as six places. Apply Now Children will only be offered one school Harrow has many oversubscribed place. schools. Every year there are children in Harrow who are not allocated a place When children are allocated a place at at any of their schools of preference. more than one school, the system refers These children will receive an offer for to the order of preference that you have a place, but it will be at a school which listed on your application form. they did not choose. These places may be at a considerable distance from It will then keep the offer at the school home. you have ranked highest, and take your child’s name off the list for their If you wish to have the best chance lower-ranked preferences. These places of avoiding this, and avoiding other will then be allocated to the children common mistakes in the applications with next-highest priority under those process, please consider the following schools’ admissions criteria. advice when making your application: • Use all six preferences available to you. Children will only be offered one school • Use one or more of your preferences place. Nobody is ever offered more than on the school or schools nearest one place, or a choice of places. your home. The most common admissions tie-breaker for an admissions process. This means that oversubscribed school is distance your child may move down the waiting from home to school. list if another child, with a higher priority • To find out which are your local under the admission arrangements, Harrow schools, you can go to is added (for instance, through late www.harrow.gov.uk/distancetool application). • Remember to list the school you Places are offered from the waiting list like the most as first preference, throughout the year. If a place is offered the school you like the second- from the waiting list, this new offer will most as second preference and so supersede any previous offer, which will on, regardless of its popularity or then be withdrawn. historical oversubscription. Waiting lists can be viewed online Home • Remember to fill out and submit via MyHarrow. Children’s names will a Supplementary Information remain on the waiting lists for Harrow Form (SIF). The Harrow school list schools until the end of the 20/21 indicates which schools have a SIF. academic year.

Map Reasons for preference Why do some children get places at schools they haven’t When you complete the application, applied for? there is a space for each preference where you can note why you have If, at the end of the application process, selected a school. This information will Admissions your child cannot be offered a place at be passed to the school. The box is any of the schools on their application, optional and will only have an effect on your child will be allocated a place at your application if it relates directly to the closest school to their home which the school’s admissions criteria. still has a vacancy. Apply Waiting Lists Now After the admissions process is complete, we strongly advise that you accept the place your child has been offered. If you have not been allocated a place at your first preference school, your child’s name will be placed on a waiting list for all the schools which you ranked as a higher preference than the school where you received an offer. Your child will remain on these waiting lists even after you accept your offered place. Waiting lists are not a ‘first come, first served’ list and so time on the list does NOT give any priority. Waiting lists remain in the priority order as determined during the In nearly every case where this type of have with the school staff. However, if allocation occurs, parents are happy you are still unhappy about the school with the alternative offered. It is always offered you may decide to use the a good idea to visit the school where appeals process. you have been offered a place. This gives you a chance to see the school, Accepting a place rather than rely on what you might have Every parent who has applied online heard about it, and you are also able for a Reception place for their child will to discuss any worries that you might receive an email on 16 April to offer

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If you do not submit your application You will be asked to provide a council to Harrow Council by 15 January tax bill confirming re-occupation of your 2020 then your child will not take part property and cease of any tenancy on in the normal admissions process. the property; you will also be asked for Instead, they will need to go through confirmation for your move from your employer. Home a late application process. You will still need to complete an 3. If a single parent has been ill for some application form online as normal. time, or there has been a recent death However, your preferences will not of an immediate family member. be assessed or considered until the You will be asked to provide evidence of Map normal admissions process is complete the above. and offers are made on 16 April 2020. Late applications will then be allocated Late changes to your places out of the pool of places that are application remaining. Admissions It is vitally important that you tell us There are a small number of exceptions straight away if any of your details to this rule. The following are examples change after you have submitted your of exceptions that will allow late application. applications to be considered for the Apply normal admissions process: If you move house and change your Now address; if your child changes pre- 1. If your family moved house after the school; or if any other factual details closing date, but before 11 February regarding your application change, 2020. please email us immediately at [email protected]. You will be asked to provide a letter from Failure to let us know about changes your solicitor confirming the completion could invalidate your application or even date and you will need to submit proof lead to an offer being withdrawn. confirming you have taken up residency. If you are renting, you will be asked for a Please note, If you move after 11 formal tenancy agreement from a letting February your application will be agent or estate agent. considered from the address that you were living at prior to moving. We will 2. If your family returned home from only be able to update the address abroad after the closing date, but before after the 16 April 2020. 11 February 2020. Transferring from Infant to Junior school

Most schools in Harrow are now Primary See How to Apply section for the timetable schools, which teach children from for applications, which is the same as the Reception straight through to Year 6. timetable for application to Reception. However, Kenmore Park Infant School and Kenmore Park Junior School is Children attending an Infant school arranged in pairs: Infant schools, which have a high priority in the admissions Home teach children up to Year 2; and Junior arrangements for the linked Junior school schools which teach children from Year 3 and are extremely likely to be accepted. to Year 6. The form allows space for six preferences. Parents of children attending an Infant You can only apply for your child to join a school must apply to join a Junior school Junior school. You cannot apply for your Map when their child is in Year 2. Your Infant school will remind you of the need to apply. child to join a Primary school.

How to apply for Junior school If you wish, you can apply for your child to join a Junior school other than the Junior school linked to your child’s Infant school. Parents of children who live in Harrow and Admissions are starting Year 2 at their Infant school in September 2019 must apply to join a Junior Most Junior schools are likely to be full school, to start Year 3 in September 2020. or have very few places available, after children from the linked Infant school have The closing date for applications is been offered places. Apply 15 January 2020. Now If your child meets the criteria for more You should apply using our online than one of the schools for which you have form, which can be found at applied, we will offer a place at your highest- www.eadmissions.org.uk ranked school. Nursery classes

The school list indicates which schools have nursery classes attached to them for children born between 1 September 2016 and 31 August 2017.

Nursery classes provide the ideal bridge from home to school. All Harrow’s nursery classes have a qualified teacher and trained assistant working together with others, often including parents. Parents are welcome to come in and spend time with their Home child to help them settle in and make the transition from home. The Early Years Foundation Stage accounts for children developing and learning in different ways and at different speeds.

How to apply for a nursery place Looked After children by a local Map authority. To apply for a nursery class place in any 2. Children referred by Harrow’s Special Harrow school*, please contact the school Educational Needs Assessment and direct for a nursery application form. The Review Service school will inform you directly if you have 3. Other children been offered a place in the nursery and when your child will start. If, under any criterion, there are more Admissions children than there are places remaining in Moving from nursery class to the nursery, then the available places will be offered to child(ren) who live closest. Reception class at school Distance will be measured in a straight line Apply You must apply separately for a place in from home to the centre point of the school a Reception class in a primary school, Now site. To find out which are your local Harrow irrespective of whether your child attends schools, you can use the distance tool. nursery class. Home to school distance will be measured Attendance at a nursery class does by Harrow’s School Admissions Service. not give any priority for a place in the school’s Reception class. You may only complete one application form for each child. If, at a later date, you There is no guarantee that if your child wish to change your nursery preference, attends the nursery you will be offered a please cancel the original application place in the school’s Reception class. You before applying to any other nursery. If will need to plan and prepare your child for more than one application is submitted, and changing school. this results in more than one placed being offered, the form with the latest date will be Admissions criteria taken as the valid application. Any earlier application which resulted in an offer being If more applications are received than made will be withdrawn. there are places in a nursery, places will be offered to children in the following order: If you change address but do not want to change your nursery preference, please 1. Looked After children or previously take proof of your new address to the school office to change the details on mean your child will be given a place in your application form. This will ensure a Reception class in that school correspondence is sent to the correct • You must make a separate application address. for Reception class • You may need to plan for, and prepare Please note that if you submit more than your child for changing school one form this may make your applications invalid. Admissions criteria for the Heathland Whitefriars Academy Nurseries are listed • It is important to understand that getting in their Admissions Arrangements Home a place in a nursery class does NOT pages.

*In addition, Hillview Nursery Centre is a maintained nursery school at 2 Grange Road, HA2 0LW. Telephone 020 8422 4692.

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Admission outside normal year make a Deferred Entry request as above. groups (“outside cohort”) This does not apply to children born in the Autumn and Spring as these children must legally be in school full-time in the term Parents may apply for their children that starts after they turn five years old. to be admitted outside of their normal year group, or “cohort”, either in a Home lower or higher year group. This may be Harrow’s Process appropriate, for example, if the child is gifted and talented or has experienced 1. Enquiry received for admission of problems such as ill health. children outside their normal age group or summer-born application to be placed out To apply for a child to be admitted out of of cohort. Parents are advised to complete Map cohort, parents should complete a school an application for the correct cohort while application as normal and additionally the request is considered. complete a ‘Deferral Entry Request’ Form for each school listed as a preference. This 2. Parents must complete a Deferral Entry should be submitted with any supporting Request Application Form for each school evidence that demonstrates why it would listed as a preference. The form will require Admissions be in the child’s best interests to be evidence to support the request by 15 admitted out of cohort. Requests to defer January 2020. entry will only be accepted in exceptional 3. The Deferred Request Application will cases. be sent by the Admissions Service to all Offers of places in a child’s correct schools named as preferences and the Apply chronological year group cannot be Early Years SENCO asking for evidence to held until the following academic year. If Now support the request. deferred entry is agreed, parents will need to apply again in the following year to gain 4. For Harrow Community Schools the a place for their child. application and supporting evidence will be collated by the Admissions Service and Summer-Born Children presented to the Delayed Admission Panel which will decide whether to agree to the Summer-born children (those born request or not. between 1st April and 31st August 2016) can legally be withheld from school until 5. If the parents are requesting a place September 2021, which is the September at schools which are outside Harrow following their fifth birthday. At this point, Borough, Voluntary Aided, Academy or they will have missed a year of school, and Free Schools, the Admissions Service will join a year group that is moving from will send the information to the relevant Reception to Year 1. Withholding summer- Admissions Authority for their decision. born children in this way is not generally recommended educationally. 6. A letter will be sent by School Admissions with the outcome of the If parents wish for their summer-born child decision for Harrow Community schools, to join the Reception class – instead of including responses for any other non- Year 1 – in September 2021, they must Harrow Community School preferences. 7. For summer-born children applications, if not for a Harrow Community School. the local authority supports the request that entry to school is deferred, the parent will In-Year Admissions need to reapply for a place for the following year and the application will be processed in If you wish to apply for a place at a accordance with the co-ordination process. Harrow school during the school year, either because you have just moved into If the pupil is not offered a place at a the area, or your child wishes to transfer preferred school, the head teacher of the from one school to another, visit our school at any alternative offer made will be school admissions website at for further advised and be given the opportunity to information and an In-Year Application consider the request if the offer of place is Form. Home

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1 Avanti House Primary School Key to symbols Common Road, , Middlesex, HA7 3JB Type of school 020 8249 6831 C Community Headteacher: Mrs Shriti Bellare VA Voluntary Aided Places Available: 60 www.avanti.org.uk/avantihouse A Academy DfE No. 310 2006 F Free school Home F 4-11 v Supplementary Information Form 2 2

Aylward Primary School Age Range 4-11 Pangbourne Drive, Stanmore, HA7 4RE Nursery class N Map 020 8958 9202 Breakfast club Headteacher: Mr Clive Westall Places Available: 90 After-school club www.aylwardschool.org.uk DfE No. 310 2001 Map reference u A 4-11 N v Travel map link v Admissions

3 4 Belmont School Camrose Primary School Apply Hibbert Road, , HA3 7JT and Nursery Now 020 8427 0903 St David’s Drive, Edgware, HA8 6JH Headteacher: Ms Lindsey Shaw 020 8952 3272 Places Available: 90 Headteacher: Mrs Sharon Crick www.belmont.harrow.sch.uk Places Available: 60 DfE No. 310 2055 www.camrose.harrow.sch.uk C 4-11 N v DfE No. 310 2053 C 4-11 N v

5 6 Cannon Lane Primary School Cedars Manor School Cannonbury Avenue, Pinner, HA5 1TS Whittlesea Road, Harrow, HA3 6LS 020 8866 3536 020 8428 5845 Headteacher: Mr Alastair Phillips Headteacher: Ms Rebecca Hastings Places Available: 120 Places Available: 60 www.cannonlaneprimary.org www.cedarsmanorschool.co.uk DfE No. 310 2073 DfE No. 310 3514 C 4-11 v C 4-11 N v 7 8 Earlsmead Primary School Elmgrove Primary School Arundel Drive, S. Harrow, HA2 8PW and Nursery 020 8864 5546 Kenmore Avenue, Kenton, HA3 8LU Headteacher: Ms Norma Marshall 020 8909 2992 Places Available: 60 Headteacher: Miss Sarah Neary www.earlsmeadprimaryschool.co.uk Places Available: 120 DfE No. 310 2005 www.elmgrove.harrow.sch.uk A 4-11 DfE No. 310 2082 v C 4-11 N v Home 9 10 Glebe Primary School Grange Primary School Glebe Avenue, Kenton, HA3 9LF Welbeck Road, Harrow, HA2 0RY 020 8204 6564 020 8422 5070 Headteacher: Mrs Donna Barratt Headteacher: Mr Daniel Kerbel Map Places Available: 90 Places Available: 90 www.glebe.harrow.sch.uk www.grange.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 2098 DfE No. 310 2071 C 4-11 N v C 4-11 N v

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11 12 Grimsdyke School Heathland School Sylvia Avenue, , HA5 4QE Eastcote Lane, S. Harrow, HA2 9AG Apply 020 8428 1324 020 8422 4503 Now Headteacher: Mr Iain Sutherland Executive Headteacher: Ms Lucy Caswell Places Available: 90 Places Available: 90 www.grimsdyke.harrow.sch.uk www.heathlandschool.net DfE No. 310 2052 DfE No. 310 2072 C 4-11 v A 4-11 N v

13 14 Kenmore Park Infant and Kenmore Park Nursery School Junior School Moorhouse Road, Kenton, HA3 9JA Moorhouse Road, Kenton, HA3 9JA 020 8204 8759 020 8204 6294 Headteacher: Mrs Rutinderjit Mahil-Pooni Headteacher: Mr Michael Baumring Places Available: 120 Places Available: 120 www.kpins-harrow.org.uk http://www.kpjs.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 2083 DfE No. 310 2059 C 4-7 N v C 7-11 v 15 16 Krishna Avanti Primary School Longfield Primary School Camrose Avenue, Edgware, Dukes Avenue, N. Harrow, HA8 6ES HA2 7NZ 020 8381 3344 020 8866 7331 Headteacher: Ms Bindu Rai Headteacher: Mrs Pam Virdee Places Available: 60 Places Available: 120 www.avanti.org.uk/kapsharrow www.longfieldprimaryschool.co.uk DfE No. 310 3513 DfE No. 310 2066 A 4-11 2N v C 4-11 N v

Home 17 18 Marlborough Primary School Moriah Jewish Day School Marlborough Hill, Harrow, HA1 1UJ Cannon Lane, Pinner, HA5 1JF 020 8427 3087 020 8868 2001 Map Headteacher: Mrs Daphne Byron Headteacher: Mrs Sarah Simmons and Places Available: 90 Mrs Hayley Gross www.marlborough.harrow.sch.uk Places Available: 30 DfE No. 310 2051 http://www.moriahschool.co.uk C 4-11 N v DfE No. 310 3509 A 4-11 2N v Admissions

19 20 Newton Farm Nursery, Infant Norbury School and Junior School Welldon Crescent, Harrow, HA1 1QQ Apply Ravenswood Crescent, S. Harrow, HA2 9JU 020 8863 8769 Now 0208 864 8081 Headteacher: Ms Louise Browning Headteacher: Mr Matthew Bradley Places Available: 90 Places Available: 60 www.norbury.harrow.sch.uk www.newtonfarm.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 2096 DfE No. 310 2045 C 4-11 N v C 4-11 N v

21 22 Pinner Park Primary School Pinner Wood School Melbourne Avenue, Pinner, HA5 5TL Latimer Gardens, Pinner, 020 8863 2191 HA5 3RA Headteacher: Mr Nick Waldron 020 8868 2468 Places Available: 120 Headteacher: Miss Sarah Marriott www.pinnerpark.harrow.sch.uk Places Available: 90 DfE No. 310 2076 www.pinnerwood.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 3512 C 4-11 N v C 4-11 N v 23 24 Priestmead Primary School Roxbourne Primary School and Nursery Torbay Road, Harrow, Hartford Avenue, Kenton, HA3 8SZ HA2 9QF 020 8907 5434 020 8422 9207 Headteacher: Mr Sash Hamidi Headteacher: Mr Rashid Benserghin Places Available: 120 Places Available: 90 www.priestmead.harrow.sch.uk www.roxbourneprimaryschool.co.uk DfE No. 310 2061 DfE No. 310 2084 v A 4-11 N v C 4-11 N Home 25 26 Roxeth Primary School St Anselm’s Catholic Brickfields, Byron Hill Road, Primary School Harrow, HA2 0JA Roxborough Park, Harrow-on-the-Hill HA1 3BE 020 8422 1344 Map 020 8422 1600 Headteacher: Mr Steven Deanus Headteacher: Mrs Anne Monahan Places Available: 60 Places Available: 60 www.roxethschoolharrow.org www.st-anselms.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 2050 DfE No. 310 3501 C 4-11 v VA 4-11 2 v Admissions

27 28 St Bernadette’s Catholic St George’s Primary Nursery & Primary School Catholic School Apply Clifton Road, Kenton, HA3 9NS , Harrow, HA1 3SB Now 020 8204 8902 020 8422 1272 Headteacher: Mr David O’Farrell Headteacher: Deirdre Monaghan Places Available: 60 Places Available: 60 www.st-bernadettes.co.uk www.stgeorgesprimary.org DfE No. 310 3500 DfE No. 310 3508 A 4-11 2N v A 4-11 2 v

29 30 St Jérôme Church of St John Fisher Catholic Bilingual School Primary School 120-138 Station Road, Harrow, HA1 2DJ Melrose Road, Pinner, HA5 5RA 020 3019 6363 020 8868 2961 Executive Headteacher: Daniel Norris Headteacher: Mrs Maria Conlon Places Available: 60 Places Available: 90 www.stjeromebilingual.org www.stjohnfisherschool.co.uk DfE No: 310 2002 DfE No. 310 3505 F 4-11 v A 4-11 2 v 31 32 St John’s C of E School St Joseph’s Catholic 127 Stanmore Hill, Stanmore, Middlesex, Primary School HA7 3FD Dobbin Close, Harrow, HA3 7LP 020 8954 3978 020 8863 8531 Headteacher: Mrs Jo Hester Headteacher: Mr Christopher Briggs Places Available: 60 Places Available: 60 www.stjohns.harrow.sch.uk www.stjosephs.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 3511 DfE No. 310 3507 VA 4-11 2 v A 4-11 2 v Home 33 34 St Teresa’s Catholic Stag Lane Infant and Primary & Nursery School Nursery School Long Elmes, Harrow Weald, HA3 6LE Collier Drive, Edgware, HA8 5RU Map 020 8428 8640 020 8952 1475 Headteacher: Mrs L Thornton Executive Headteacher: Mrs Nina Will Places Available: 60 Places Available: 120 www.st-teresas.harrow.sch.uk www.staglaneinfant.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 3504 DfE No. 310 2079 VA 4-11 2N v C 4-7 N v Admissions

35 36 Stag Lane Junior School Stanburn Primary School Collier Drive, Edgware, HA8 5RU Abercorn Road, Stanmore, HA7 2PJ Apply 020 8952 2731 020 8954 1423 Now Executive Headteacher: Mrs Nina Will Headteacher: Mrs Caroline Lansdown Places Available: 120 Places Available: 120 www.staglanejunior.harrow.sch.uk www.stanburn.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 2063 DfE No. 310 2085 C 7-11 v C 4-11 v

37 38 Vaughan Primary School Weald Rise Primary School The Gardens, W. Harrow, HA1 4EL Robin Hood Drive, Harrow Weald, 020 8427 7222 HA3 7DH Headteacher: Mrs Karen Jones 020 8954 4531 Places Available: 90 Headteacher: Mrs Folake Agbaniyaka www.vaughan.harrow.sch.uk Places Available: 60 DfE No. 310 2097 www.wealdrise.harrow.sch.uk C 4-11 N v DfE No. 310 2086 C 4-11 N v 39 40 The Welldon Park Academy West Lodge Primary School Kingsley Road, S. Harrow, HA2 8LT West End Lane, Pinner, HA5 1AF 020 8864 9378 020 8866 9836 Executive Headteacher: Mr Sash Hamidi Headteacher: Mr Jim Dees Associate Headteacher: Mr Jamie Rogers Places Available: 90 Places Available: 60 www.westlodge.harrow.sch.uk www.welldonparkprimary.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 2087 DfE No. 310 2007 C 4-11 v C 4-11 N v

Home 41 42 Whitchurch Primary School Wemborough Rd, Stanmore, HA7 2EQ Whitefriars Avenue, , 020 8951 5380 HA3 5RQ Headteacher: Joanne Daswani 020 8427 2080 Map Places Available: 120 Executive Headteacher: Mrs Lucy Caswell www.whitchurchprimary.harrow.sch.uk Places Available: 90 DfE No. 310 2101 www.whitefriarsschool.net C 4-11 N v DfE No. 310 2049 A 4-18 N v Admissions

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Apply Hujjat Primary School to Hujjat Primary School is in addition Now Brookshill to applications made on the Common Harrow Weald Application Form. HA3 6RR All applicants should complete the Hujjat School application. Any applicant Age range: 4-11 wishing to apply for a place under their Places planned: 60 faith criteria should also complete a website: www.hujjatprimary.org Supplementary Information Form (SIF). Both forms are available on the school contact: [email protected] website www.hujjatschool.org and the Harrow council website. Applications How to apply should be sent to the school by email Hujjat Primary School is not part of and not by post. Please read the their the co-ordinated admissions process admissions arrangements which will in 2020 because it is a new school. tell you how places will be offered if the This means that parents should apply school is oversubscribed, receiving more direct to the school and an application applications than places. Primary schools admissions arrangements

The pages that follow contain admissions for priority. We strongly recommend you arrangements for Harrow’s primary read these arrangements in full before schools, including Academy schools, applying to the schools of your choice. Free Schools and Voluntary Aided Many arrangements differ substantially Schools. from each other. Home For each school, a list of criteria will be outlined which explain which children The admissions arrangements that have priority for admission, should the follow are binding, and no exceptions school be oversubscribed. Tie-breakers will be made during the admissions are also explained, in the case of a tie process.

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Oversubscription criteria must be supported by written evidence. The supporting evidence should set out the The oversubscription criteria are applied particular reasons why the school in question is when more applications have been received the most suitable and the difficulties that would than there are places available at a school. be caused if the child had to attend another Applications are considered in the following school. The recommendation for this specific order: school should demonstrate knowledge of the school in terms of resources and organisation a) A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was which deems it essential that the named Home previously looked after but immediately pupil be admitted to the specific school. The after being looked after became subject to admission authority cannot give higher priority an adoption, child arrangements, or special to children under this criterion if the required guardianship order. documents have not been produced.

A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the Medical Needs care of a local authority, or (b) being provided Map with accommodation by a local authority in the Applications made on medical grounds must exercise of their social services functions (see be accompanied by compelling medical the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act evidence from a hospital consultant at the time 1989).This includes children who were adopted of application. The letter from the hospital under the Adoption Act 1976 (see section consultant must provide information about the 12 adoption orders) and children who were child’s medical condition, the effects of this Schools adopted under the Adoption and Children’s condition and why, in view of this, the child Act 2002 (see section 46 adoption orders. needs to attend the parent’s preferred school. Child arrangements orders are defined in s.8 of the Children Act 1989, as amended by s.12 of the Children and Families Act 2014. Child arrangements orders replace residence orders Apply and any residence order in force prior to 22 April 2014 is deemed to be a child arrangements Now order. Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 defines a ‘special guardianship order’ as an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or special guardians).

b) Children attending the linked infant school. This criterion only applies to infant to junior school applications. All children currently attending Year 2 in a separate infant school have a linked priority to the junior school, even if this number is greater than the junior school’s If the school is not the closest to home, the Published Admissions Number. consultant must set out in detail the wholly exceptional circumstances for attending this c) Children for whom it is essential to be school and the difficulties if the child had to admitted to a specific school because of attend another school. special circumstances to do with significant medical needs and or social needs. Medical claims will only be considered for This criterion relates to the child’s medical and one school and this should be named by the or social needs. Except in wholly exceptional consultant.

circumstances such requests will only be Next considered for the school closest to the home In assessing these applications, advice will be address where this criterion is used in Harrow sought from Harrow’s Special Education Needs by the admission authority. The application Service. Admissions arrangements

Social Needs provide information about the parent’s medical condition, the effects of this condition and why, Applications made on social grounds must in view of this, the child needs to attend the be accompanied by compelling evidence at parent’s preferred school. the time of application. Social needs claims will be considered where there is involvement If the school is not the closest to home, the from a social worker. The application will need consultant must set out in detail the wholly to be supported with a letter from a Divisional exceptional circumstances for attending this Director of Children & Young People Services or school and the difficulties if the child had to a person holding a similar role in another local attend another school. authority. The director must set out in detail the Medical claims will only be considered for wholly exceptional circumstances for attending one school and this should be named by the this school and the difficulties if the child had to consultant. attend another school. In assessing these applications, guidance will be Home sought as appropriate (e.g. Harrow Association Social claims will only be considered for one of Disabled people). school and this should be named in the letter from a Divisional Director of Children & Young e) Sibling link (i.e. older brothers/sisters) People Services or a person holding a similar Children with a brother or sister attending the role in another local authority. primary, infant school or linked junior school at the time of admission. Map f) Children of staff of the school Children where their parent(s) has been employed by the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made or where the member of Schools staff has been recruited to a vacant post where there is a demonstrable skills shortage.

g) Distance Children living nearest to the school measured in a straight line from home to school. This Apply must be the address where the parent and child Now d) Medical reasons relevant to parent(s) normally live and they must be living there on the closing date for receipt of applications. Parent(s) with special medical reasons for seeking a place for their child at their Tie Breaker preferred school. Except in wholly exceptional circumstances such requests will only be If more applications are received in any one considered for the school closest to the home criterion than there are places available the address where this criterion is used in Harrow oversubscription criteria will be re-applied by the admission authority. Applications will followed by the ‘tie-breaker’ of distance, only be considered for the parent(s) with whom measured in a straight line. In cases where the child lives and must be accompanied by applicants live equidistant from the preferred compelling medical evidence from a hospital school and places cannot be offered to both Consultant at the time of application. The children, the available place will be allocated letter from the hospital consultant must using a random computer selection. Admissions arrangements

Admissions arrangements for the following schools can be found on the schools’ websites:

Avanti House Primary School

Aylward Primary

Earlsmead Primary School

Home Heathland Whitefriars Federation Hujjat Primary School

Krishna Avanti School Map Moriah Jewish Day School

Priestmead Primary School and Nursery

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St Bernadette’s Catholic Nursery and Primary School

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St John Fisher Catholic Primary School

St John’s Church of England School

St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School

St Teresa’s Catholic Primary & Nursery School

The Welldon Park Academy Applying for schools in other boroughs

Parents of children who live in Harrow be the form from the borough where you may apply to schools in neighbouring live. So if your child is a Harrow resident, boroughs. Similarly, parents of children fill out a Harrow form – even if you are not who live outside Harrow may apply to applying to any Harrow schools. You can schools inside Harrow. It may be true that only apply to a maximum of four schools in the nearest school or schools to your Hertfordshire. Home home are located in other boroughs. Please find contact details below for You can apply to schools in other boroughs admissions departments in neighbouring by simply naming them on your application Councils where you can get advice form in the usual way. You should only fill on school open days, admissions out one application form, and that should arrangements and other details. Map

Barnet Brent Pupil Admissions and Travel Pupil and Parent Services Building 4 PO Box 1057 Admissions North Business Park Wembley Oakleigh Road South Middlesex HA9 1HJ London N11 1NP & 020 8937 3110 & 020 8359 7651 * [email protected] * [email protected] 8 www.brent.gov.uk 8 www.barnet.gov.uk 8 www.brent.gov.uk/admissions Apply Now Ealing Hertfordshire School Admissions Children, Schools & Families Perceval House CHR 102 14 – 16 Uxbridge Road, London W5 2HL Pegs Lane & 0208 825 5511 (Primary school Hertford admissions) SG13 8DQ & 0208 825 5522 (High school admissions) & 0300 123 4043 * [email protected] * [email protected] 8 www.hertsdirect.org

Hillingdon London Borough of Hillingdon School Placement and Admissions Team 4E/09 Civic Centre www.education.gov.uk High Street, Uxbridge For other Local Authority UB8 1UW address details & 01895 556644 * [email protected] 8 www.hillingdon.gov.uk/schools Children with Special Educational Needs

Harrow aims to enable children with and consult the school for a place on their Special Educational Needs (SEN) to behalf, as appropriate. attend their local primary school wherever If necessary, SENARS will contact parents possible, and the vast majority of children again to discuss other options. We with SEN do so. Only a small number encourage parents to complete school of children, who have the most complex application forms, but this is optional. Home needs, receive places at a special school or at a mainstream school with SENARS will write to parents in the third special provision. To talk about the most week of January to offer their child a appropriate placement for their child, place at a primary or junior school and parents should contact the to propose support arrangements. An Special Educational Needs Assessment amended Final EHC Plan, which names a Map and Review Service (SENARS) on school, will then be issued by 15 February 020 8051 8383. on the year of transfer.

There are two separate admissions Right to appeal arrangements for children with SEN, depending on whether they have an Parents who are dissatisfied with the Admissions Educational, Health and Care Plan. school that is being offered should contact SENARS. If concerns cannot be resolved, Children WITHOUT an EHC parents have the right of appeal to the Plan First-Tier Tribunal of the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber (HESC). The Special Educational Needs and Apply These children go through the normal Disability Code of Practice January 2015 Now admission procedure. Parents should fill states that a school may only object to the out an application form in the usual way admission of a child with an EHC Plan on and children will be offered the following grounds: a place based on the school’s published That the placement of the child would be admissions criteria. All schools in Harrow incompatible with the efficient education receive additional funding to provide extra of the pupils with whom they would be help for children with SEN. educated and that there are no reasonable steps that can be taken to enable the Children WITH an EHC Plan inclusion of the child.

These children do not go through the If you believe this process applies normal admission procedure. SENARS to you or your child please contact will establish parents’ school preference SENARS on 020 8051 8383. Appeals

You can appeal any decision made about listed in this guide. Please be sure you the school place you have been offered. have strong grounds before you make an Bear in mind that appeals will be heard appeal. Last year only two primary school on the basis of the admissions criteria admissions appeals were successful.

Name of school Number of appeals in 2019* Home Avanti House Primary School 3 Glebe Primary School 1 Krishna Avanti Primary School 4 Marlborough Primary School 2 Newton Farm Nursery, Infant and Junior School 1 Map Pinner Wood Primary School 1 Priestmead Primary School and Nursery 2 Vaughan Primary School 1 West Lodge Primary School 1 Admissions Whitefriars School 1 * None of the above appeals heard were successful

How to appeal case. Additional information and evidence supporting your appeal and its grounds Apply Appeal forms are available on our website should be submitted as soon as possible Now at www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions. and before the appeal hearing. Please note If you wish to appeal about a place at a that any evidence or information submitted community school, and for guidance and on the date of the appeal may not be information, please email considered. [email protected]. If you wish to appeal to a voluntary aided Appeals will be heard early in the summer school or free school, please contact the term 2020. To be considered in this first school directly. round of grouped appeals, your appeal An appeal has to be made in writing, setting form must be received by Monday 18 May out the grounds on which it is made, in full. 2020. Subsequently, appeals hearings are You must include a full description of your held periodically through the academic year. How the appeals process date of your appeal hearing and you will be works requested to attend. At the appeal, the Admissions Authority will As the table above shows, it is rare that an explain the reasons why your child could appeal is able to change the outcome of the not be offered a place. You will have the admissions process. chance to ask questions and members of For any appeal to succeed, it must be the appeal panel will ask you questions. proven that the Admissions Authority both The appeal panel will then make its decision failed to apply its own rules as set out in this and you will be notified of the result in writing. booklet and in the mandatory requirements Any child admitted to a school as a result of of the School Admissions Code and Part 3 an appeal will take precedence over others Home of the School Standards and Framework Act on the waiting list. 1998 and did not behave in a reasonable and impartial manner when making decisions. Appealing to a school outside Harrow Appeals for community schools are Map organised by Harrow Democratic Services, Please contact the Local Authority where independently of the Admissions Authority. the school is located for information of how Democratic Services will notify you of the to appeal.

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