Education

Moving to Secondary School Information for parents about children moving to secondary schools in 2018

1 The closing date for all If your child was born between applications is 1 September 2006 and 31 August 2007, 31 October 2017 they will be moving to a secondary school in September 2018. This move is not an automatic process and you will need to apply for the secondary schools you would like your child to go to. If you would like information about applying for a place at secondary school, please come to our information meeting. Speeches begin at 7pm and admission officers will be available afterwards to answer any questions you may have about the admissions process.

We look forward to seeing you at 7pm on 12 September 2017 at the Broadway Theatre in Barking.

Need help to Help sessions are available at Dagenham Library on Tuesdays. Sessions start at 9am and end at 4.30pm, from 12 September until 31 October 2017. If you try to apply online and you cannot see your exact address in the list provided, or the schools you want to apply for are not listed, you must contact the School Admissions Team by 5pm on 31 October 2017, otherwise your application will be late. Apply online for a secondary school place now: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions Apply online for a secondary school place: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions

Introduction Introduction

Moving from primary or junior To apply, you must use the Applications we receive after this school to secondary school is not common application form provided date are late, and we will an automatic process and you will by the borough you live in. If you not process them until after need to apply for a place at the are applying for a place at our 1 March 2018, once we have dealt secondary school you would like voluntary-aided school (All Saints), with the applications we received your child to go to. This information or schools outside the borough, on time. By this time you will be e-booklet explains the admissions you may need to fill in other less likely to gain a place for your process and you will need to refer forms including (supplementary child at your preferred school. If to it over the next year. information forms). See page 25 you do not fill in and return your for more details. application form, and you live in All schools use admission this borough, we will give your criteria (conditions) to decide The schools on your form are child a place at the nearest school which applications to accept and your preferences – they cannot to your home in Barking and which to turn down. We explain be your choices because we Dagenham that still has a space. the admission criteria for cannot guarantee everyone a Barking and Dagenham schools place at any of the schools they The School Admissions Team will on pages 18 to 21. have listed. If everybody named be happy to answer any questions the same school, we would not you have about the process at the It is important that you read and be able to increase the number public information meeting we are understand the information in of places there. holding for parents. Please see the this e-booklet before you apply. inside front cover for full details of If you don’t follow the process We offer as many places as the meeting. The meeting starts in this e-booklet, you risk not possible in order of the criteria and at 7pm and we hope to see you getting a place for your child whose forms are returned by the there. If you need independent at your preferred school. closing date. The full timetable is advice, you can contact the Family on page 40. You must return all Information Service Team (see applications and documents by the page 42). closing date, 31 October 2017.

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Contents

This e-booklet contains important information about how children move from primary and junior schools to secondary-stage schools. It also gives details about all the secondary schools in Barking and Dagenham. If you have any questions or need more information, please contact the School Admissions Team. Postal Address: School Admissions Team, Town Hall, Barking, Essex, IG11 7LU Phone: 020 8215 3004 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions

Introduction 3 The schools and colleges 27 - 39 Welcome 5 All Saints Catholic School 28 Barking Abbey School What you need to do 6 (a specialist sports and humanities college) 29 If you live in Barking and Dagenham Dagenham Park Church of England School 30 If you live outside Barking and Dagenham Eastbrook School 31 What you need to know – 8 - 26 Eastbury Community School 32 The admissions process Goresbrook School 33 Admission criteria 18 - 21 Greatfields School 34 Admission criteria for The Jo Richardson Community School 35 All Saints Catholic School 18 - 19 Riverside School 36 Admission criteria for Goresbrook School 20 Robert Clack School of Science 37 Admission criteria for all our other (a specialist college) secondary schools 21 The Sydney Russell School 38 Statistical information 22 The Warren School 39

Filling in your forms 23 - 25 Timetable of events 40 The common application form 23 - 24 Glossary – Supplementary information forms 25 definition of words used in this e-booklet 41

Returning your forms 26 Useful information and services 42 - 44 The common application form Map of secondary schools in the borough 45 Supplementary information forms Other local authorities’ school admissions sections 46

Options for 14- to 19-year-olds (techical and training schools) 47 - 48

Supplementary information forms (SIFs) 49 - 50 All Saints SIF

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Welcome

Dear parents and carers This guide explains the admissions process and will provide the information you need to apply for a secondary school place for your child. I am very pleased that you are considering sending your child to a Barking and Dagenham secondary school in September 2018. Moving to secondary school is one of the most important changes for a parent to support their child through and I would like to thank you for taking the time to consider this very important decision. As the Cabinet Member for Educational, Attainment and School Improvement, I am particularly proud of the high quality of education offered in our schools. The quality of education we provide has been recognised nationally and new and exciting developments in our schools have contributed to shaping national education policy. I believe that all of the borough’s schools are committed to offering your child the opportunity to achieve their full potential and prepare them for the next phase in their life, whether that is further education, higher education, university or employment. There is rapidly improving examination performance in our schools, with GCSE performance above the national average. The council is continuing to invest considerable resources into education in the borough. The number of local pupils choosing to continue their education in our sixth forms, further and higher education as well as universities is also increasing. I would like to invite you to the admission information meeting that is being held on 12 September at the Broadway Theatre in Barking. Our experienced School Admissions Team will be on hand to help guide you through the process as well as give information and advice. You will also get the chance to meet other parents whose children will be starting secondary school in 2018. Thank you for taking the time to consider this very important decision. By working together we hope to make your child’s move to secondary school as smooth as possible so that they can continue to enjoy learning, develop their talents and abilities, and be successful.

Yours sincerely ,

Councillor Evelyn Carpenter Cabinet Member for Educational Attainment and School Improvement

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What you need to do If you live in Barking and Dagenham or proof that your child is or was in the care of a local authority (pages 9 to 10). 1 Read and make sure you understand the admissions process for our borough, particularly pages 6 to 26. 7 Finally, don’t forget to fill in any extra supplementary information forms (SIF), and provide any documents 2 Go to the admission meeting listed on the inside or information for any schools or local authorities cover. The meeting will give you independent advice that ask you to do this, and send these forms and about the admissions process. You can also contact documents back to them before the closing date. the Family Information Service Team on 020 8227 We will not pass on any extra information or SIF’s to 5395 if you need more help. schools or local authorities (LA) on your behalf. 3 Collect information to help you decide your preferences, which can be any school in Barking Offers will be made on 1 March 2018. If we cannot and Dagenham or another borough. Pages 28 to 39 give your child a place at any of the schools you have in this e-booklet gives you information about Barking applied for, we will give your child a school place in and Dagenham schools. Addresses for information any part of the borough with a space. You have a about schools in other boroughs are shown on right to appeal if we turn down your application (see page 46. page 16). We will also place your child on the interest list for any other Barking and Dagenham school you 4 Visit the schools to see for yourself what they can listed as a higher preference than the school we offer. The times of open days and evenings in offered you.. Barking and Dagenham schools are shown on page 40. If you live outside Barking and Dagenham 5 Study the information on page 22, which shows statistics from last year’s applications for Barking Each local authority (LA) is responsible for educating and Dagenham schools. This information should children aged five to 16 living in their borough or give you an idea of what happened last year and the county. Each LA is also responsible for making sure chance that you would have had of getting a place at that children receive education or training from age your preferred Barking and Dagenham school. This 16 to 18. If you do not live in Barking and Dagenham, information also shows the number of parents who please make sure you have read the admissions were successful in getting one of their preferences e-booklet from your borough or county. and the popularity of each of our schools. We You will need to fill in the common application form recommend that you consider including your local (CAF) provided by your borough or county. You can school as one of your preferences. The chances of list Barking and Dagenham schools on that form. You your child being offered a place at your preferred must return the CAF to your borough or council by their school increase the closer you live to that school. closing date. Previous editions of this e-booklet and statistical information for the past five years are published on You must also fill in any other relevant forms our website. Booklets published before 2014 are (supplementary information forms) that may apply. The called ‘the right secondary school’. admission criteria for Barking and Dagenham schools are on pages 18 and 21. It is important that you read If you are applying for schools outside the borough, and understand the criteria and admissions process study the information the relevant local authority and (pages 6 to 26) before you apply. school provide. 6 Fill in and submit the common application form It is important that you rank the schools in your true online by the closing date. List six schools in order of preference. Potential offers are exchanged the order you prefer. Most schools receive more between councils until your own borough can make a applications than there are places available (they are single best offer (including any schools you may have oversubscribed). In this situation, not everybody will applied for in other boroughs). The local authority be given a place. We need information to help us that you live in will offer a place on 1 March 2018, offer you another school, and the more schools you for applications they have received by the closing list the greater the chance of this. date. You have a right to appeal if we turn down your application (see page 16). We will also place your child Carefully check the names and addresses of the on the interest list for any other Barking and Dagenham schools you have selected, as some schools have school you have listed as a higher preference than similar names. Please make sure you attach all the the school we offered you. Please make sure you other information we ask for. This may be proof that have read about how your local authority handles you are the child’s guardian, proof of your address, admissions before you fill in your application form. 6 Apply online for a secondary school place: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions

Need help to Help sessions are available at Dagenham Library on Tuesdays. Sessions start at 9am and end at 4.30pm, from 12 September until 31 October 2017. If you try to apply online and you cannot see your exact address in the list provided, or the schools you want to apply for are not listed, you must contact the School Admissions Team by 5pm on 31 October 2017, otherwise your application will be late. Apply online for a secondary school place now: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions

Receipt details Use the space below to record the username, email address and passwords you have used to make your application. Without them you will not be able to go online and see which school place we have offered your child. Your application is only valid when you press the ‘Submit application’ button at the end of the ‘Check & submit’ page. You will then be issued with an application reference number (ARN). The eAdmissions team will then send you a confirmation email. The email will include all the details of the application you have just made along with your ARN. In the case of twins, triplets and so on, make sure you have a different ARN for each child.

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What you need to know What are co-ordinated It is important that you rank Why are there six admissions? the schools in your true order preferences? I want to of preference. This is important choose one school. Every year, thousands of pupils because if we can offer your child living in London transfer to a place at two or more of the Under section 86 (1) of the secondary schools, crossing schools you have listed, we will Schools Standards and Framework borough boundaries to do so. give your child a place at the one Act 1998, we must make In the normal round of admissions, you ranked the highest out of these arrangements so that parents of all councils co-ordinate admissions schools, and release all other lower children in our area can express to their schools. Under the preferences. These places are then a preference for the schools they co-ordinated admissions system, offered to other parents who do would want their child to go to. you can only receive one offer from not have a school place for their Every year, more people apply for your borough or council. You must child. Councils will inform parents places at our schools than we have list the schools you want to apply (who applied by the closing date) places available. In that situation, for on one form, known as the on 1 March 2018 and tell them the not everybody will be given a place common application form (CAF), results of their application. at the schools they have asked for. ranking them in your true order of We need information to help us The co-ordinated process will end preference. offer you another school, and on 31 August 2018. After this date the more schools you list the You must return the common you will need to follow the greater the chance of this. application form to the council in ‘in-year’ admissions process which the area where you and your child is published on our website. The schools on your form are live. All the councils will then use a your preferences – they cannot be computerised process to: Where can I get help and your choices because we cannot • pass on details of applications advice about applying for a guarantee everyone a place at any for schools in other council school place? of the schools they have listed. areas; and If everybody named the same • co-ordinate the offer of places The local authority holds a meeting school, we would not be able to to make sure that nobody gets to offer advice to parents about increase the number of places offered more than one school how the admissions process there. place. works. Admissions officers will be available to answer any questions Simply naming one school or The admission authority for each you have and the date of the repeating the same school does school you have listed on the meeting is printed on the inside not increase your child’s chance of application will decide whether or front cover of this e-booklet. An getting a place there, and may lead not to offer your child a place. If a adviser will also be available us to giving your child a place at a school is oversubscribed (receives at each of the schools’ open school you have not listed. more applications than available evenings. places), the admissions authority The admission number of will use its published conditions You may also get advice from each school and the number (admission criteria) to decide the the Family Information Service of applications made for those order in which to offer places. We (FIS Team) and their advice places last year are shown on will not tell the schools where you is independent of the School the statistical information ranked them in order of preference Admissions Team. They will page 22. This information will on your application form or tell a explain how the admissions show you which schools are likely school about other schools you procedures affect your individual to be oversubscribed (receive have also applied to. However, if circumstances and will also help more applications than there are you appeal for a place, we will pass you fill in the necessary forms places available). this information to the admission to make sure your application is authorities (the school or the local complete. There are contact details authority) at the appeal stage. for the FIS Team on page 42.

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Who can fill in the What if my child lives In either of these cases, we will need application forms? with both parents at two to see one document from each of the three document lists below. The person or people with parental different addresses? responsibility for the child must fill List A – (proof of child’s name, in the application forms. Parental When a child lives with their date of birth and address) responsibility for the child is natural parents, legal guardian or • HM Revenue & Customs defined by the Children Act 1989 foster parent, we will consider that documents such as a letter and amended by the Adoption address to be the child’s normal, showing your entitlement to and Children Act 2002. Please permanent home. However, Child Benefit letter, Working Tax remember to provide proof that when a child has parents who Credit or Child Tax Credit you are the child’s legal guardian if are separated, the parents may • Your child’s medical registration you are not their natural parent. name only one address for the application process, but the card A child’s mother is automatically other parent can be named and • Your child’s IND card (issued given parental responsibility provided with copies of information by the Home Office with photo when a child is born and this we issue. If one parent has attached) remains in force until a court order parental responsibility, we must determines otherwise. For births receive documents to prove this List B – (proof of the parent’s or registered in England and Wales, a and that parent’s address must be carer’s address) child’s father will also have parental used. If both parents have parental • Your Council Tax bill for responsibility if: responsibility, we must receive 2017-2018 • he was married to the child’s documents to prove this. We • Your Council Tax Benefit letter or mother when the child was born will normally accept the parents’ notice for 2017-2018 (even if they later divorce or address used by the child’s separate); primary or junior school as the • A solicitor’s letter showing the • the child was born after child’s permanent home. completion details if you have 1 December 2003, and he is just bought your home (the letter named on the birth certificate; or Do I need to send proof of must be dated within the last three months) • he has a parental responsibility my address? agreement from a court or We check addresses to prevent List C – (proof of the parent’s or by agreement with the child’s fraudulent applications. To do this, carer’s address) mother. we need to check where you and • Your utility bill (gas, electricity your child are living. We already or water) from the last three What does guardianship have these details if your child is at months (we will not accept a mean? a Barking and Dagenham primary mobile-phone bill or bills for If a child is not living with their or junior school. However, we will internet connection). need proof of you and your child’s natural parents and another adult • A statement from your bank, current address if: is looking after the child, we need building society or a credit-card documentary evidence that you • your child’s address on the company from the last three are the guardian and have parental application form is different from months. responsibility for that child. the address your child’s Barking Evidence includes a will or a court and Dagenham primary or junior If your current address means order and Child Benefit payments. school has on their records (as you are residing with someone Guardianship only applies if you of 11 July 2017); or who lives in either privately rented can prove that you have full care • your child goes to a primary or council property, we need their and the normal, permanent home or junior school outside the 2017-2018 Council Tax bill or is not at their parents’ address. borough. Council Tax Benefit letter or notice Guardianship does not apply when with written confirmation from the picking up children to and from legal landlord, of all those people school, or looking after them until who are authorised to live at the their parents collect them. premises and for what period of time.

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The letter must contain the information, we will withdraw the A looked-after child is a child who following information. place and may take legal action. is or was: • The address of the property • in the care of a local authority; or What happens if my child • The names of all legal tenants has additional needs? • being provided with and authorised residents accommodation by a local authority under their social • A statement confirming that the All Barking and Dagenham services functions (see the people applying for a school schools, including those with definition in Section 22(1) of the place are entitled to stay as specialist services, offer an Children Act 1989). permanent residents. environment in which everyone is treated fairly and equally. Pupils For admission purposes we with special educational needs, If you are not able to provide proof consider a ‘looked-after child’ to be disabilities or any other needs are of your and your child’s address a child who is currently in care or encouraged and supported to when you make your application, a child who was in care previously make the most of the curriculum we can extend this date until 31 at any point in their life and then and all the available facilities. January 2018 to show us your became subject to an adoption, documents. However, these For children with a full statement residence, or special guardianship documents must show your family of special educational needs or an order immediately after leaving care. were living at the property as of the Educational Health and Care Plan closing date. If your child is in the care of a local (EHC), the local authority’s EHC authority, you must also include with Team would have written to you If you have not provided these the common application form a letter during the 2017 school summer documents by this date we cannot from the social worker confirming break. If you are not sure whether offer a place at an over-subscribed the legal status of the child and the your child has a final statement school.If your child lives in Barking local authority which the child is in of special educational needs and Dagenham, we will then offer the care of. The letter should also or EHC plan, fill in the common them a place at the nearest school provide the reasons for the preferred application form and tick the box to your home with a vacancy. schools you have listed. in (section 2 of the paper form) If you live outside the borough, which asks ‘Does your child have If your child is in the care of a local you will need to contact the local an EHC plan or a final statement of authority and you would like to authority of the borough you live in special educational needs?’. The discuss the secondary transfer of for a school place. admissions service will consult your child with a member of Virtual with the EHC Team and tell you School for Looked After Children, Please check that both your and if they will be processing your please phone 020 8227 2691. your child’s name and address application. matches the information you give If the child used to be in the care If your child has an EHC plan, or on your application form and on of a local authority and you want statement of special educational the documents in list A. Similarly, to apply under this priority, we will needs or is having an assessment the guardian named on the need to see evidence that the child to find out whether they need one, application must be listed on the was in the care of a local authority. and you need further help with the documents you provide from lists secondary transfer process, please B and C. What happens if my child contact the EHC Team by phoning 020 8227 2400. is from a UK Armed Forces If you change your address at any family (crown service)? time in this process, you must also give us proof of your new What happens if my Under Government rules, address by sending us the above child is or was in the care applications from families of documents.If there is a question of a local authority the UK Armed Forces can be considered at the posting address about whether the address is valid, (a looked-after child)? we will ask for other documents before the family have moved not listed in this e-booklet. If We consider applications for to the area. However, we do not we discover that we have given children who are or used to be in give automatic priority to these your child a place based on the care of a local authority before children over other children. If you false, inaccurate or misleading we consider all other applications. are moving to our borough, please

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apply online by the closing date and for all London local authorities. For Common application form (CAF) use the address of your posting. details of other local authorities Applying online is reliable and that are not listed, please see the secure. All local authorities in Please tick the relevant box to Department for Education (DfE) London have worked together show that you are either: website at www.gov.uk/dfe. to make it possible for parents to • a UK Armed Forces family with a apply online for a school place confirmed posting to the area; or If you live in this borough and in London and its surrounding you do not fill in the Barking and • a crown servant returning from counties. This service is available Dagenham common application overseas to live in the area. through the ‘eAdmissions’ website. form, you will not be considered for If you don’t already have an email Your application must also any schools, either inside or outside address, you will need to create include an official letter that the borough, even if you fill in their one before you apply online. declares a relocation date and a supplementary information forms. unit postal address or quartering Although you can use any email area address. If your posting Can I change the address, we recommend you use changes, please follow the advice information on my ‘Google Mail’ or ‘gmail’. This is in the ‘What if my circumstances application form? because other email providers change?’ section. We will process may treat the email we send you your application using your posting If your information changes, you as spam (electronic junk mail). address and in line with each must alter the relevant sections If this happens you will need to school’s admission criteria. on your online application form check your ‘spam’ or ‘junk mail’ by the closing date. If you cannot box for our email, and then follow How do I apply for a make these changes to your online the instructions to add us to your school outside Barking application, you must tell us in safe senders list. After doing this, all future emails from us will go and Dagenham? writing and include supporting documents if necessary. straight into your inbox. If you live in this borough and The new details that you give us If you need to create an email would like your child to go to a will replace those on your previous address you need to have a mobile school in another borough (not form. We will send you an email phone number and have that same private schools), you must list with a new version number every mobile phone with you when you those schools on your Barking and time you change your application. create the email address. Keep a Dagenham common application note of your new email address form. Please apply online, checking After the closing date, changes and the password to access the that the school you want to apply should be made in writing to the email you have now created. for is on the list of schools. If it is not School Admissions Team or a on the list of schools please contact paper form must be filled in. If Making an application is easy once the School Admissions Team by we receive any of your changes you have a valid email address, 5pm on 31 October 2017 on how after the closing date, we will and should take no more than to apply, otherwise we will not treat your application as ‘late’ 10 minutes. The site gives full consider your application in the first as we offer places based on instructions on its guidance pages, round of offers. all information available on the to help you make your application. closing date. However you tell us It is important that you know the about changes, your most recent admission criteria for the schools Important note application is the one that we you are asking for, and you may use to process your preferences. If you apply online and you need to fill in supplementary Please see the question ‘What if cannot see your exact address information forms and provide my application is late?’ on in the list presented, or if the further information for these page 15 for more details. schools you want to apply for schools. Please contact the are not listed, you must contact admissions authority (school or the Admissions Team before LA) of the school you have in mind How do I return the forms? 5pm on 31 October 2017, for more information. It is your otherwise your application will responsibility to give the school Supplementary information be late. Our contact details are or LA the information they need. forms (SIFs) on page 26. Page 46 lists the contact details Please see page 25.

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Step 1 – Where to begin If you don’t already have an email address, you will need to create one before you apply online. Once you have this, go to the link on the Barking and Dagenham website at www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions or you can go straight to the eAdmissions site at www.eadmissions.org.uk to make your application. If you have already registered to make an application using the eAdmissions site, please go to step 4. If you are applying for the first time select ‘Create a new account’ and follow steps 2 to 5.

Step 2 – Registration The person with parental responsibility for the child named must register to use the ‘eAdmissions’ site by setting up an account. Please give your full name, contact details and email address. To select your address, enter your postcode and press the ‘Find your address’ button. Move up or down to select your door number then press the ‘Add address to form’ button to enter your address on your online form. Only tick crown service if you are part of the service personnel (UK armed forces) or crown servants returning from oversees. See pages 10 to 11 for more details. When you have finished this page, press the ‘register’ button. You should now see a page thanking you for ‘starting your registration’ and giving you further instructions on how to finish the process by going to step 3.

Step 3 – Validating your email The eAdmissions Team will send you a ‘validation’ email to check that your email address is correct. Log in to your email account and click on the ‘validation link’ in the email you have received from the eAdmissions Team. When you click on the validation link, the eAdmissions Team will send you a second email, giving you a username and password.

Apply online for a secondary school place now: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions 12 Apply online for a secondary school place: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions Step 4 – Making your application Once you have received your username and password, go back to the homepage. Select ‘Login to your account’. Enter your username and password you have received and press ‘Login’. You should see a page asking you for your child’s details. Your application is split into three parts and only becomes valid when you press the ‘Submit application’ button on the third page called ‘Check & submit’. a) The first part of your form asks for your child’s details. b) The second asks you to list the six schools you want to apply for. c) The third part asks you to check the information given, accept the declaration and submit your application. Once you have submitted your application, you will be able to attach documents.

Step 5 – Confirmation of your application You will be issued with an application reference number (ARN) when you have submitted your form. The eAdmissions Team will then send you a third email which will include all the details of the application you have just made along with your ARN. You should make a note of your application details on page 7 of this e-booklet as you will need to refer to it when checking your results. We will send you an email with a new version number every time you change your application. If you have any techical difficulties while making your application online, the online admissions helpdesk is available from 9.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday. Please phone 020 8255 5555 and select option 1. For all other non-techical queries, please contact the School Admissions Team.

Important notes: • Please carefully read all dialogue boxes. These boxes explain information about the questions you have just been asked. Ignoring these boxes could mean you risk not getting a place for your child at your preferred school. • Help is available if you have problems at any stage of the application process. Just click on any text that is underlined and highlighted in purple, and a new page will open to give you an explanation or advice about the question you have selected. • If you have twins, triplets and so on, make sure you tick ‘yes’ to the ‘multiple birth’ question so that you can fill in a new form for each child. Each child must have a separate ARN number. • If you are not sure of any stage of the process, please get advice from the School Admissions Team. Apply online for a secondary school place now: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions 13 Information for parents about children moving to secondary schools in 2018

Is my information preference model. This is Partnership Learning Trust. Warren protected? explained below. School is an academy governed by • We consider each of your The Loxford Trust. We will deal with your personal preferences as if it were your These four schools are their own information in line with the Data only preference. Protection Act 1998. For security admissions authority, but they • For each of your preferences, will follow the same admission purposes we ask you for a the admission authority will use password. If you apply online, criteria as Barking and Dagenham the admission criteria to see if community schools and we will your application reference number they can offer your child a place. (ARN) will be your password. If offer places on behalf of the school. you apply on a paper form, we will • If we can then offer your child a place at two or more of the All Saints Catholic School and need you to give us a password Techology College is our only between 8 and 12 letters long. schools you have listed, we will give your child a place at the voluntary-aided school and, for that Without your password or ARN school, the governing body are the we cannot give out information one you ranked the highest of these schools. admissions authority that set their on your application if you visit own admission criteria. or phone us. We may pass the We do not make decisions to information you give on your offer places based on the date we Before you make your application forms to schools either received the applications. Instead, application, please make sure inside or outside the borough or to we group all the applications you read and understand these other local authorities as part of the we receive on time and process criteria and notes and check admissions procedure. We will also them together. If there are more how places were distributed pass the information to the school places available than there are at each school. See our website your child finally goes to, where it applications for those places, we for copies of previous editions will form part of the pupil database agree all the applications. However, of this booklet (those published maintained by that school. if there are more applications for before 2014 were called ‘The right a school than there are places secondary school’). The booklets How are places given? available in that school (that is, include statistics for previous years. the school is oversubscribed), The current School Admissions we will use the admission criteria What is the timetable? Code says that schools are to decide which applications are ‘required to admit children with Online applications close at midnight successful. The notes that follow statements of special educational on 31 October 2017. Do not wait the admission criteria, are there to need or EHC plans, where the until the last minute to make your explain particular points about the school concerned is named on application in case your computer criteria we use. the statement or plan’. As a result, crashes or your address or the we process these children’s In Barking and Dagenham, the schools you are applying for are not applications first. If the school local authority is the admissions available on the online system. Our has been named in the child’s authority for the five community offices close for enquiries at 5pm statement, or EHC plan, we schools and for Dagenham Park on 31 October 2017. If we receive must take places off the school Church of England Voluntary- your application after this, it will be admission number for that year Controlled School. The criteria treated as a late application. If you group. The admission authority for these schools are listed on intend to move address during the then issues the rest of the places page 21. admissions process, please apply using the admission criteria. For to the borough that you will be living example, if the admission number Goresbrook School is an academy in on the closing date and follow the for a school is 180 and three governed by The United Learning advice in the ‘What happens if my places have been given to children Trust who are the admissions circumstances change?’ section. whose statements or EHC plans authority and set their own There is a full timetable of events on name that school, we will issue the admission criteria (page 20). page 40. other 177 places in line with the Both Greatfields and Riverside are admission criteria. free schools with academy status, We then process all other and Sydney Russell is an academy. applications using the equal- All three schools are run by The

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What happens if my exceptional circumstances you When will I know the result circumstances change? want us to consider, together with of my application? any supporting evidence. We will You will need to contact the make a decision on each case If you apply online, you can find Admissions section in your individually and let you know the out the results of your application borough if your circumstances outcome within 10 working days of on 1 March 2018. We will send you change. We offer places based receiving your request. an email late that evening letting on the information available at the you know the outcome of the closing date and you may change If we receive your application application. You can also log in to your preference or the order of late, we will deal with it after we the eAdmissions website after 7pm your preferences up until that date. have dealt with the applications to see your results. If you were not that we received on time. We will able to apply online but applied If we have given your child a deal with late applications in the direct to the Admissions Team by place, we will not withdraw it if order we receive them (in line the closing date, we will send you your circumstances change (such with the admission criteria). We the results by first-class post on as your address), as long as you will deal with the first round of 1 March 2018. Please allow up can show that the information was offers and send decision letters to two days for your letter to be correct on the closing date. on 1 March 2018. We will have delivered. We cannot tell you the given most places to pupils However, if we discover that we results of your application over the whose applications we received have given a place based on phone. If you have not received by the closing date. Thereafter false, inaccurate or misleading your letter by 5 March 2018, please applications will be processed information, we will withdraw it and contact us and we will send you within 10 working days of the may take legal action. We will treat another copy. School Admissions Team receiving as late any changes to preferences your form. or their ranking, conditions, If you do not want the place we have offered, you will need to circumstances or applications we If we have not received your receive after the closing date. write and let us know what other application form by 14 March 2018 arrangements you are making for and your child lives in the borough What if my application your child’s education. If you want we will automatically give your child to change your preferences or the is late? a place at the nearest school to you order of your preferences, you will If we receive your application after which has a place available. If we need to send a new application the closing date (31 October 2017) have to offer your child a school form to your local authority’s we will treat your application as late. because we have not received an Admissions section. application form from you, we will In exceptional circumstances, have given most places to pupils The local authority you live in will senior officers may consider whose applications we received by make offers for places at all Barking whether we can process a late the closing date. We send letters to and Dagenham secondary schools application as ‘on time’ in the first tell parents who have not applied on 1 March 2018. If you applied round, if there is enough time to for a school place which school we after the closing date we will process the application. These have allocated their child by process your application after circumstances include the death 31 March 2018. 1 March 2018. of a close relative, or a family recently moving into the area If you then want to apply for (in which case we need proof). a school place after we have If you send us your application offered your child the nearest after the closing date but want us school to your home with a place to consider it in the first round of available, you will need to fill in an offers, please send a letter with application form listing the schools your application explaining the you would like for your child.

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What happens after my form which are listed as a higher panel, which will be made up of child is given a school preference than the one we have three people. None of these people offered you. For example you can will have any connection with the place? appeal for preference 1 and 2 if school or the School Admissions Once we have given your child a we have offered you preference Team. The appeal panel will accept school place, we tell the relevant 3. Any schools listed lower than comments in writing or in person at school. They will contact you later the school offered have not been the appeal hearing. turned down but rather have in the summer term to tell you If you made your application on about the admission arrangements been withdrawn based on how you have ranked the schools on time, we will hear your appeal within and the uniform you need for your 40 school days of the deadline of child. Some schools will want to your application form. As a result you cannot appeal for a lower 12 April 2018. If your application interview your child, either with you was late, we will hear your appeal by appointment at the school given, preference or a school that you have not listed on your form. If with the appeals for applications we or at your child’s current primary received on time if possible. If this or junior school. Some schools you want to apply for a school that you did not list on your original is not possible, we will hear it within will invite your child to spend a 30 school days from the deadline day at their offered Barking and application form or you want to change the ranking of the schools for making appeals (as shown on Dagenham secondary school on your offer letter). 29 June 2018. None of these visits on your original application form, are part of the application process. you need to confirm this in writing Schools outside the borough It is to make sure your child can to us by filling in a new application If you want to appeal against not move to secondary school as easily form which you can get from your being offered a place in a school as possible. local authority. If you change your outside Barking and Dagenham, preferences and do not reselect you will need to contact the Why have I been offered a schools which you are appealing relevant admission authority (local for, your appeal will be withdrawn. school that was not one of authority or school) for more my preferences? All the available places for Year 7 details about how to appeal. at your preferred school will have Further appeals The admissions authority for each been distributed in line with the local We can only consider one of the schools you have listed will authority’s published admission application for each child, at use their published conditions criteria. No places are left unfilled for each school within the same (admission criteria) to decide the any reason, including appeals. school year. If we turn down your order in which to offer places. If application, you have the right we are unable to offer a place for If you decide to appeal for a place to appeal. The appeal panel’s your child at one of the schools at any Barking and Dagenham decision is final and both the LA you listed as your preferences, school, fill in our online appeal and you must accept it. this is because there were more form. If you applied on time, and applicants for the schools you would like your case to be heard In normal circumstances, you requested than there are places in the first round of appeals, you cannot make a second appeal for available. If you live in Barking and must submit the appeal form by the same school within the same Dagenham and it is not possible 12 April 2018. Or you can school year. However, if there has to offer your child a place at one of download and fill in the paper been a significant change in your your preferred schools, we will give appeal form and send it to the family’s circumstances which you your child a place at the school independent appeal panel clerk, think changes your application’s which is nearest to your home with whose address is printed on priority level, for example if your a space. the front of the form. For late family has moved house, we may applications the deadline for consider a second application Do I have the right to appeal? appealing is 21 school days from as long as you can prove your the date of our offer letter. circumstances have changed. If Barking and Dagenham schools Once you send your form, the we accept your second application You have a right to appeal to an but a place is still not available at independent appeal panel if we independent appeal panel clerk will write and tell you the date of the school for your child, you will do not offer your child a place be able to make a second appeal. at the Barking and Dagenham your appeal. The appeal will be schools on your application heard by an independent appeal

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Can I go on an We delete the interest lists for these What happens if my child interest list? schools at the end of each term starts a Barking and (December, April and July). If places All Saints school become available before this date, Dagenham secondary All Saints will automatically put we offer them to children on the school but wants to your child on the school’s interest interest list using only the admission transfer to another school list with other children whose criteria. If at the end of the term you in the borough? applications were turned down but have not received an offer from the are listed higher than the school interest list, you will need to write to First, make an appointment your local authority offered you. us at that time to place your child’s to discuss the matter with the If places become available, we name on the fresh interest list for pupil’s current head teacher, as then offer these using the schools’ the next term. If you still want to stay many situations can be dealt admission criteria. Your child will on the interest list after July 2019, with without the disruption that stay on the interest list for a school you will need to fill in an in-year a change of school can cause. If year (until August 2019). If you still common application form (ICAF) your child still wants to transfer want to stay on the interest list after for the new academic (school) year and you have not put your child’s this date, you will need to fill out a and you will have the opportunity name on the interest list for new application form for the new for a new appeal. another school, please follow academic year and you will have the guidance in the information the opportunity for a new appeal. We do not take into account the date we received your application. e-booklet ‘Finding a school All other Barking and Dagenham If you want to apply for a school place’. From 1 September 2018, schools you did not list on your original applications or transfers for year 7 We will automatically put your application form or you want to school places fall under the in-year child on an interest list for any change the ranking of the schools admissions process and for more other preferred Barking and on your original application form, information about this please see Dagenham schools that we turned you need to confirm this in writing our website or phone 020 8215 down but are listed higher than to us by filling in a new application 3004. You must make sure that the school we have offered you. form which you can get from your your child continues to regularly For example, if we have offered local authority. Forms received attend their current school while you preference number 3, your after the closing date will be we are considering your transfer child will automatically be placed processed as a late application. request. on the interest list for preference 1 and 2, if these are Barking Schools outside the borough and Dagenham schools. The You will need to contact the school interest list will be updated on or the local authority concerned to a weekly basis and your child follow their procedure for offering may therefore move up or down any places that become available. the interest list according to the If places become available at criteria and other children applying those schools for our residents, for oversubscribed places. We the school will tell us who to offer maintain the interest list for each of those places to. these oversubscribed schools until 23 December 2018.

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Admission criteria

Admission criteria for All Saints Catholic School in order of priority

Before you apply, please read the and greater priority to practising Admission criteria admission criteria on this page as Catholic children. The school is well as the procedures for filling expanding from six to eight classes The school will offer places by in and sending in the certificate and its published admission applying the criteria below in of Catholic practice, baptism number (PAN) varies between numerical order. certificate and the cover note on the years as the school grows. In pages 25 and 49 to 50. 1. Baptised Catholic children September 2018, the governing who are in the care of a local If you have any questions about the body agreed a PAN of 240 children authority or children who were admission criteria or appeals, or if into Year 7. ‘looked after’ but who left local you need more information, please authority care because they In the criteria, ‘Catholic’ refers to contact All Saints’ Admissions were adopted or became the someone who: Officer on 020 8270 4247. subject of a residence order or • is a baptised Catholic (a person special guardianship order. See All Saints Catholic School is who has been baptised or important note B. a voluntary aided, Catholic received in communion with the Comprehensive School for boys 2. Practising Catholics who will See of Rome); and and girls ages 11 to 18. have a brother or sister in the school in any of Years 7 to 11 on • has a Catholic ‘certificate Because the admissions system the day the child starts school in of baptism’ or ‘certificate of works by applicants receiving a September 2018. reception’ which shows that they place at the school with a place are members of the Catholic 3. Practising Catholics. to offer them which is the highest Church. You can get copies of 4. Catholics who will have a on their preference list, we advise these from the parish where the brother or sister in the school Catholics who want a Catholic baptism or reception took place. in any of Years 7 to 11 on the education to list All Saints as one day the child starts school in of their top preferences on the A ‘practising’ Catholic refers to September 2018. common application form (CAF). someone who: 5. Catholics. We have a distinctly Catholic ethos • is confirmed by their parish 6. Other children who are in the and approach to education, which priest to be practising, according care of a local authority or is what our success is based to regulations set by the Catholic children who were ‘looked after’ upon. Families should want this Church (that is, attending Mass but who left local authority care Catholic education if their children every Sunday and Holy Day because they were adopted are to do well in the school. The of Obligation) and has been or became the subject of a school is run by the Diocese of practising for the past five years. residence order or special Brentwood and draws Catholic See important note C. guardianship order. See children from a wide geographical important note B. area of Catholic parishes. Although we want to support the parishes 7. Other baptised children who will of our local deanery, we have no have a brother or sister in the specific catchment area. Our main school in any of Years 7 to 11 on aim and purpose is to support the day the child starts school in the academic, spiritual and moral September 2018. education of practising Catholic 8. Other baptised children. children. These criteria are written to give priority to Catholic children 9. Other children.

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Tie-breaker Important notes

If there are two or more children A. We cannot consider other circumstances that are not listed in in the same criterion with a the admission criteria. It is essential that we are consistent in our claim for a school place and not judgement and only use the criteria that have already been agreed. enough places are available, the governors will give priority B. ‘Looked after child’ has the same meaning as in Section 22 of the to those who live closest to the Children Act 1989, and means any child who is or was in the care school site at Becontree Heath, of a local authority or provided with accommodation by them (for as measured in kilometres in a example, children with foster parents). ‘Adopted’ has the same straight line (as the crow flies). All meaning as in section 46 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002, distances are measured using and means to take on the legal responsibilities as parent towards a ESRI’s Geographical Information child who is not normally biologically your own. ‘Residence order’ System, from the centre of the is defined in section 8 of the Children Act 1989 as an order settling child’s home to the school’s the arrangements regarding who the child will live with. ‘Special main gate. Some addresses have guardianship order’ is defined under section 14A of the Children Act different entry points and so we 1989 as an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s will use the co-ordinates provided special guardians. from Local Land and Property C. ‘Certificate of Catholic practice’ (CCP) means a certificate issued by Gazetteer (LLPG). If the distance the family’s parish priest (or the priest in charge of the church where for two or more children is the the family attends Mass) in the form laid down by the Bishops’ same (for example, from a block of Conference of England and Wales. It will be issued if the priest flats), we will use a lottery system is satisfied that at least one Catholic parent or carer (along with (random allocation) to offer places the child, if he or she is over seven years old) have (except when to children. London Borough of it was impossible to do so) attended Mass on Sundays and holy Barking and Dagenham will run days of obligation for at least five years (or, in the case of the child, both processes and details of the since the age of seven, if shorter). It will also be issued when the processes are available from their practice has been continuous since being received into the Church school admissions officer. if that occurred less than five years ago. It is expected that most Certificates will be issued on the basis of attendance. A Certificate may also be issued by the priest when attendance is interrupted by exceptional circumstances which excuse from the obligation to attend on that occasion or occasions. Further details of these circumstances can be found in the guidance issued to priests. D. If you submit your CCP and any documents we ask for after the closing dates, we will class your application as late. E. We will not deal with any late application until after 1 March 2018. We will then place your child on the school’s interest list with any other children whose applications were late. If places become available, we will offer them by applying the admission criteria in order.

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Admission criteria for Goresbrook School in order of priority

Priority 1: Children who are or were in the care of a local authority. Priority 2: Children who have a sibling (brother or sister) at the school. Please see note 3. Priority 3: Children who live closest to the school, measured in kilometres in a straight line (as the crow flies).

If there are more applications than there are places available at a school, we will use the above criteria, in priority order, for deciding which applications to accept.

Important notes 3 ‘Sibling’ means: in a straight line (as the crow • a full brother or sister; flies). We (the Barking and 1 Children with statements of Dagenham School Admissions • a half-brother or half-sister; special educational needs are Team) measure all distances dealt with under the terms of the • a stepbrother or stepsister; using ESRI’s Geographical Education Act 1996 and are not and Information System from the referred to in the criteria above. • an adopted or long-term centre of the child’s home to Children with a statement of fostered brother or sister; the school’s main gate. Some special educational needs or an living at the same address and addresses have different entry EHC plan will go to the school going to the named school points and so we will use named. (not including the school’s the designated co-ordinates nursery). Please make sure 2 A looked-after child is a child provided from Local Land and you name all siblings on who is or was: Property Gazetteer (LLPG). If your application form. If they you live outside the area, we will • in the care of a local authority; are not listed on your form, use the same system to measure or we cannot take them into distances. When children • being provided with account. have an equal claim to a place accommodation by a local because their measurements 4 The child’s home must be the authority under their social are the same (for example, from permanent address where they services functions (see the a block of flats), our database live with their legal guardian. definition in Section 22(1) of will automatically use a lottery This should be the address for the Children Act 1989). system (random allocation) to the parent’s or carer’s Council offer places to children. For admission purposes Tax bill and where Child Benefit we consider a ‘looked-after is addressed. 6 We are unable to consider other child’ to be a child currently circumstances not listed in the in care or a child who was in 5 If two or more children have an criteria. It is essential that we are care but became subject to equal claim to a place in any one consistent in our judgement and an adoption, residence, or category, we will give priority to use only the criteria that have special guardianship order children who live closest to the been agreed. immediately after leaving care. school, measured in kilometres

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Admission criteria for all other secondary schools in Barking and Dagenham in order of priority

Priority 1: Children who are or were in the care of a local authority. Priority 2: Children who live closest to the school, measured in kilometres in a straight line (as the crow flies).

If there are more applications than there are places available at a school, we will use the above criteria, in priority order, for deciding which applications to accept. Dagenham Park, Greatfields, Riverside, Sydney Russell and Warren School will also use these admission criteria.

Important notes 3 The child’s home must be the 6 We will use the distance from permanent address where they home to school for pupils who 1 Children with statements of live with their legal guardian. have equal claim for a place. special educational needs are This should be the address for Those children living nearest to dealt with under the terms of the the parent’s or carer’s Council the school will be given priority Education Act 1996 and are not Tax bill and where Child Benefit when deciding on places. When referred to in the criteria above. is addressed. measurements are the same (for Children with a statement of example from a block of flats), special educational needs or an 4 All distances are measured our database will automatically EHC plan will go to the school using ESRI’s Geographical use a lottery system (random named. Information System from the allocation) to offer places to centre of the child’s home to children. 2 A looked-after child is a child the school’s main gate. Some who is or was: addresses have different entry 7 We are unable to consider other • in the care of a local authority; points and so we will use the circumstances not listed in the or co-ordinates provided from criteria. It is essential that we are Local Land and Property consistent in our judgement and • being provided with Gazetteer (LLPG). If you live use only the criteria that have accommodation by a local outside the area, we will use been agreed. authority under their social the same system to work out services functions (see the distances. 8 If we discover that we have given definition in Section 22(1) of your child a place at a school the Children Act 1989). 5 The distance measured from based on false or misleading the child’s home to secondary information, we will withdraw the For admission purposes schools with split sites will be place and may take legal action. we consider a ‘looked-after measured to the main site. The child’ to be a child currently main site is the entrance through in care or a child who was in the main door at the upper site care but became subject to where the head teacher’s office an adoption, residence, or is. This measurement affects special guardianship order Barking Abbey and Robert immediately after leaving care. Clack schools.

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Statistical information information Statistical

The following information gives statistics about entry to Barking and Notes Dagenham secondary schools in September 2017. It includes the number of people who sent us their application forms by the closing date, and the 1 The information is based on distance the child given the last place at each of our schools lived from applications received by last year’s that school using our 2017 admission criteria. Distances are measured in closing date for pupils starting kilometres in a straight line (as the crow flies). secondary school in September 2017. This information is useful The number of applications for each school and the addresses from because it shows the number of which children are applying will be different from year to year. pupils given a place under each Plain English Campaign’s Crystal Mark does not apply to the category of the 2017 admission following table. criteria. 2 Please contact the school for more information on how the 240 places at All Saints Catholic School were given. 3 Of the offers made for applications received by the closing date: • 74% received their first- preference school; • 12.2% received their second- preference school; • 5% received their third- preference school; • 2.4% received their fourth-

School name School Number of applications naming the school as a preference Standard the school admits (admission number) number of children with full statementsNumber of children of SEN or EHC plan naming the school the LAC a place due to given Number of children criterion the distance a place due to given Number of children criterion Distance the last from the child given place lives (in kilometres) the school 5) (see note Number of appeals received 5) (see note Number of appeals allowed preference school; Community schools • 1.2% received their fifth- Barking Abbey 1,298 360 2 3 355 2.004 15 0 preference school; Dagenham Park 448 270 4 0 158 N/A 0 0 • 0.6% received their sixth- preference school; and Eastbrook 360 360 0 0 78 N/A 0 0 • 4.6% were given the nearest Eastbury 709 300 1 0 273 N/A 1 0 school to their home with a Jo Richardson 1,149 300 2 3 295 1.929 30 3 vacancy. Robert Clack 1,573 360 3 4 353 1.673 68 8 4 The statistics for late applications Own admission authority schools refer to applications received between 1 November 2016 and All Saints 804 240 2 0 38 2.068 11 0 31 July 2017. Goresbrook 416 120 1 1 92 N/A 0 0 5 The appeals information is based Greatfields 277 120 0 0 70 N/A 0 0 on the appeals heard between April and July 2017. Riverside 348 300 1 2 127 N/A 0 0 Sydney Russell 1,483 360 3 1 356 1.526 43 2 Warren 397 240 2 0 115 N/A 0 0 SEN or EHC – Special educational needs or EHC plan LAC – Looked-after children in the care of a local authority Criterion – Individual admission criteria

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How to fill in your forms The common application form

Moving from primary to secondary Child’s address – This must be Preferences for school is not an automatic process. the permanent address where the secondary school If you do not fill in the common child lives with their parents or application form, we may not be legal guardians and where Child School name able to give your child a place at Benefit is addressed. Please see the school of your preference. pages 9 to10 for full description. Please select the name and borough (if outside the London • Please use all your six Child’s current school – Please borough of Barking and preferences and rank them in select the name of your child’s Dagenham) of up to six different the order you prefer. primary or junior school from the secondary schools you want menu. If the school is not listed, to apply for. You must list the The information you need to put you may type this information in schools in the order you prefer on your form is as follows, but the the space given. them. Number 1 is the school you order of the information is different most prefer and number 6 is the on the online form. Please see Children with school you least prefer. You must page 24 for details of how to send additional needs list all state-maintained schools or us any documents we ask for if academies (not private schools) you cannot attach your documents • Please select the relevant box you are applying for, including any online. to show if your child has a final schools outside the borough of Details we ask for statement of special educational Barking and Dagenham. Please need or an EHC plan. make sure you select the correct Whether you fill in an online or school as there are many schools paper form we need the following • Please select the relevant box with the same or similar names. details. You need to fill in a to show if your child has any separate form for each child. In additional needs and give Siblings (brothers and sisters) the case of twins, triplets and so details in the box provided. See page10 for more details. If you are applying to a school for on, make sure you have a different your child and they have a brother ARN for each child when you Children in care or sister (sibling) at the school you apply online. To do this, make sure name as a preference, please give you tick ‘yes’ to the ‘multiple birth’ Please select the relevant box to the name, date of birth and sex of question so that you can fill in the show if your child is or was ‘in any brother or sister who is already extra online forms for each child. the care’ of a local authority. If so, at that school. This includes a full, please attach a letter from the social half, step, adopted or long-term Child’s details worker confirming the legal status fostered brother or sister living at Child’s name – This should be of the child and the local authority the same address and currently at your child’s legal name given on the child is in the care of. The letter the school. Please give the details their birth certificate or passport. should also provide the reasons for of the sibling that is relevant to the You are responsible for making the preferred schools listed. admission criteria for the schools sure that you have used the same you are applying for. Schools will If the child was in care but is no not consider siblings who are not name on all forms needed for your longer being cared for by a local child’s application. If you do not, named in the correct section on authority, tick ‘yes’ and provide your CAF. we may not be able to process documents to show the child was your child’s application. previously in the care of a local All Saints and Goresbrook are Child’s date of birth – Please select authority. See page10 for more the only LBBD secondary-phase the day, month and year. details. schools that gives priority to siblings. Child’s sex – Please select the relevant box to show if your child is male or female.

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Children of staff at the school Parental address – be given an application reference The online form automatically ticks number. This is your receipt. Please If you are applying to a school the box to show that you and your make a note of your application outside this borough for your child child share the same address. If reference number and keep it in a and that school gives priority to your address is different from the safe place as you will need to tell it children of staff members, please child’s address (for example parents to us if we have any questions we include the name and job title of share custody), please un-tick need to ask you. the staff member employed by the the question box ‘Use your home school and the number of years they If you post any information to us, address?’ and enter your and your have worked at the school. Children proof of posting is not proof that child’s address details. If you fill in of staff are not considered under the the School Admissions Team a paper form, please explain why admission criteria for Barking and has received your documents your address is different from the Dagenham schools. Our criteria are as neither you nor we can child’s and give both addresses on listed on pages 18 to 21. prove what was included in a separate sheet of paper. If we ask the envelope. You are also for proof of address, please make Reasons for your preference responsible for making sure sure you send us the information Some local authorities consider you pay the correct postage listed on pages 9 to 10. social and medical reasons as part charge. We cannot accept any of their admission criteria. We do UK Armed Forces – Please tick responsibility for underpaid not do this for our schools. If you the relevant box to show that you packages. are applying for a school outside are either: If you want us to let you know the borough, it is very important that • a UK Armed Forces family with a that we have received information you check the admission criteria of confirmed posting to the area; or you have posted to us, you must each school you are applying for to enclose a stamped self-addressed see if their admission criteria take • a crown servant returning from envelope. If you do not hear from account of exceptional medical or overseas to live in the area. us within 14 days of posting your social reasons. These might include Please see pages 10 to 11 for more information, it is likely that we did religious, philosophical or any other details. not receive it. In that case, we reasons. Password – We need a password strongly recommend that you apply If you think there are exceptional for security purposes only. When online and we will email you a medical or social reasons why you apply on a paper form, we will receipt. your child should go to a particular need you to give us a password school, select the relevant box on between 8 and 12 letters long. Providing us with your online form to show this (or Without this information we cannot extra information section 4 of the paper form). With give out information on your your application, you also need application if you visit or phone us. If you are providing extra to provide proof to the relevant If you apply online, we will need information or evidence to support school or LA that is supported by your application reference number an online application, you may do a professional (such as a doctor’s for security purposes. this online. If you choose to provide report). paper evidence either by scanning Declaration and sending the documents Parent’s or carer’s details through our Dagenham Library The person with parental or by emailing us direct, please Parental responsibility – responsibility for the child named remember to include your child’s The adult listed on the form should in section 1 must tick the box in name, date of birth and application be the person or people with the declaration to confirm that they reference number. This will make parental responsibility for the child have read and understood the sure that we can match your extra named. Please give your full name information in this e-booklet and information to your application. and contact details, and tick the that the information they give is In most cases you will need to relevant box to show your title and accurate. If you are filling in a paper send any extra information to the relationship to the child named form, you must sign it in section 6. relevant school or LA. Please check (for example, tick ‘other family carefully with the relevant school or member’ if you are a sister caring Getting a receipt LA what you need to provide and for the child). Please remember to If you apply online and successfully who needs to receive it. provide documentary evidence of submit (make) your application, you legal guardianship if you are not the will get an email confirmation and child’s natural parent. 24 Apply online for a secondary school place: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions

All Saints Catholic School – Extra documents

All Saints Catholic School is a Baptism documents voluntary-aided secondary school If you want your child to be and there are extra steps which recognised as a Catholic (under Catholics or baptised applicants our admission criteria 1 to 5) must take. Do not attach your CCP or as being baptised (under our and other documents All Saints admission criteria 7 and 8), you ask for online − you must send should send us a photocopy them direct to the school. of your child’s baptism certificate Important notes (or certificate of reception into Common application form (CAF) the Catholic Church) by • If you miss our deadlines, you must fill in the CAF and list 31 October 2017. If you want we will class your All Saints Catholic School as one to be recognised as a practising application as late. of you preferences. You must Catholic, your local priest must • If you are applying through return the form to your home local also fill in a CCP form. Please see another borough and miss authority by the closing date. the ‘Certificate of Catholic practice’ their deadlines, we will section below. The co-ordinated admissions class your application as system operated by all local Certificate of Catholic practice late. authorities in England works by form (CCP) • We will not deal with any offering an applicant one place If you want to be considered as late applications until after only, which, if available, will be at a practising Catholic (under our 1 March 2018. We will then the highest preference school on admission criteria 2 and 3), you place your child on the your CAF that has a place to offer must arrange to meet with your school’s interest list along your child under its criteria. If you parish priest in time to request with other children whose want to have a Catholic education a CCP which you must then applications were late, and for your child, you need to put send with the baptism certificate if places become available All Saints high up on your list of photocopy to the school by we will offer them using preferences to avoid being offered 31 October 2017. If your priest is not the admission criteria. Your a place at a higher preference local and is unfamiliar with these local authority will tell you school that is not Catholic. requirements, please ask him to which school has offered contact the All Saints’ Admissions your child a place. Officer on 020 8270 4247.

Supplementary information forms SIFs for schools outside Barking and Dagenham

If you are applying to schools If a school or LA asks for outside Barking and Dagenham, a supplementary form and you need to fill in the common documents but you do not send application form from your child’s it direct to them, your application home borough and then check will not be considered under the Important note whether the school needs you to correct criterion for that school fill in a supplementary form and because you did not give them all • We will not pass on any provide any other documents. If the information they asked for. forms and documents you so, you must send the information attach to your online form each school has asked for direct to Your application will not be to the school or LA on your the relevant school or LA. considered if you fill in a school’s behalf. You must be send supplementary form but not these direct to the school or your local authority’s common LA. application form.

25 Information for parents about children moving to secondary schools in 2018

Returning your information Important notes • If you try to apply online and you cannot see your Common application form exact address in the list If you live in this borough you can make your application by going to the presented, or the schools link on our website at www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions or you can go straight you want to apply for are to the eAdmissions site at www.eadmissions.org.uk. You must make your not listed, you must contact application no later than midnight on 31 October 2017. Do not leave it until the School Admissions the last day to apply. Team by 5pm on 31 October 2017. Our If you live outside Barking and Dagenham you must fill in the common contact details are on this application form available from the borough or county council area that you page. live in and return that form, to that council by their closing date. • Please make sure you Late applications attach all other forms and Late applicants are not likely to get a place at an oversubscribed school. documents we ask for. This If we receive your application late, we will deal with it after we have dealt may proof that you are the with the applications that we received on time. At that time we will have child’s guardian, proof of given most places to pupils whose applications we received by the address, or proof that your closing date. child is or was in the care of a local authority (pages 9 to 10). Contacting us • Make sure you read By phone: pages 24 of our admissions e-booklet for details of You can call us for information on 020 8215 3004 how to get a receipt and how to send us additional By email: information. Email us for information at [email protected] • It is your responsibility to fill in any extra forms or By post: supplementary information Please allow time for written information to be delivered if you send forms (SIF) for any schools it by post. We must receive it no later than 31 October 2017. You are or local authorities that ask responsible for making sure you pay the correct postage charge. We you to do this and send cannot accept any responsibility if you do not pay the correct postage. these forms and documents back to them before the Postal address: School Admissions Team, MSS 2018, Town Hall, closing date. We will not Barking, Essex, IG11 7LU. pass on any SIF forms and documents you attach to your online form.

Supplementary information forms Please see page 25 for details of how to return your forms.

26 Apply online for a secondary school place: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions

The schools

Barking Abbey – a specialist Dagenham Park All Saints Catholic School sports and humanities college Church of England School

Page 28 Page 29 Page 30

Eastbury Eastbrook School Community School Goresbrook School

Page 31 Page 32 Page 33

Jo Richardson Page 33 CommunityPage 33 School

Page 34 Page 35 Page 36

Robert Clack School of Science – a specialist college The Sydney Russell School The Warren School

Page 37 Page 38 Page 39

Your child’s secondary education Each school has a page in this Each of the schools will be able is very important. We believe booklet to provide information for to give you: that the successful education of you. This information along with • the school prospectus; children greatly depends on a the open mornings and evenings good working partnership between listed on page 40 should help • the most recent Office for schools and families. We support you list your preferences (for up Standards in Education (Ofsted) and encourage this partnership to six schools) on your common inspection report for the school and want you to become well application form. Visit as many (www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports); informed about our schools. We schools as you can to help you • the school’s examination and all the schools are committed decide your preferences. results (www.gov.uk/school- to promoting equal opportunities performance-tables); and and opposing all forms of • the governing body’s annual discrimination and prejudice. report.

27 All Saints Catholic School

Head teacher: Clare Cantle Open evening: Address: Terling Road, Dagenham, RM8 1JT Wednesday 11 October 2017, 5.30pm to 8.30pm Phone: 020 8270 4242 Travel information Fax: 020 8595 4024 Buses: 5, 87, 103, 128, 129, 173 and 175 E-mail: [email protected] Underground: Dagenham East and Dagenham Web: www.allsaintsschool.co.uk Heathway Admission number: 240 DfE number: 301-4703 Rail: Chadwell Heath

This is All Saints We work closely with our main The exciting future Catholic primary schools in an Welcome to All Saints Catholic We are a popular school with a attempt to raise standards of School. We are the only Catholic bright future. We set challenging, achievement and to make the move voluntary-aided secondary school but achievable, academic targets. from primary to secondary school in Barking and Dagenham. We are We also offer a wide range of easier. Our vision sees education proud of our reputation as a warm after-school and outside school as an activity which stretches and safe community, committed activities. We are ready to meet the beyond our own boundaries and to dignity and respect. Every learning needs of all students. student is equally valued. They all has a significant contribution to bring their own special gifts to the help develop a more united and Should I apply? school. We value and encourage successful wider community. For 2017, we received 808 the strong partnership between the applications for the 240 places school and parents, all of whom Care within our community available. If you want a place for we invite to play a full role in the life The pastoral (support and your child at All Saints, it is vital that of the community. As a Catholic guidance) system of our school is you follow all the steps carefully by school, we principally serve the based on gospel values. The worth the deadline dates. Catholic parishes of Barking and of each person is at the heart of all Dagenham. We also have the our policies, including our anti- support of other local deaneries bullying and equal opportunities and parishes. policies. Our in-house mentoring schemes Modern learning and trained counsellors make sure As a National Teaching School, we that students can be given extra are at the forefront of researching emotional and academic support and developing strategies to raise when necessary. the standards of teaching and learning, not only within this school, but across a wider network.

28 InformationBarking for Abbey parents about– a specialist children moving sports to secondary and schoolshumanities in 2016 college

Acting head teacher: Jo Tupman Open morning and evening: Address: Sandringham Road, Barking, Wednesday 4 October 2017, 5pm to 7pm IG11 9AG (Sandringham Road) and Friday 6 October 2017, Phone: 020 8270 4100 8.45am to 10.15am (Longbridge Road) Fax: 020 8270 4090 Travel information E-mail: [email protected] Buses: 5, 62, 145 and 387 Website: www.barkingabbeyschool.co.uk Underground: Upney and Barking Stations Admission number: 360 DfE number: 301-4021 Rail: Barking Station

Every sixth former has a personal Our school motto academic mentor. ‘Ours is a school where everyone Our head boy, head girl and sixth- gives and expects form student leadership system the best and where encourage students to develop a everyone can say sense of responsibility. I belong’. We have an outstanding record of success in the number of students Tradition of success Barking Abbey was inspected by going on to higher education. A heavily subscribed school with Ofsted in March 2017 and retained nine forms at the point of entry, we its ‘Good with Outstanding Our beliefs are a mixed comprehensive for 11- to features’ judgement. Our vision is to provide a happy, 18-year-olds. We have 1950 students Some of the highlights of the caring and stimulating environment and a long history of academic, inspection report included: where all students will recognise, and cultural and sporting success. “Pupils are keen to do well and seize be given opportunities to achieve, their potential – academically, An exciting future the opportunities given by teachers to work hard.” spiritually and socially – and make The school is about to start an “Subject leaders and teachers sure that they are well equipped to exciting expansion programme which endeavour to ensure that all pupils, meet the challenges of education, will result in us expanding to 12 forms regardless of their starting points, are work and life. at the point of entry. Our school will helped to achieve their potential.” have significantly improved facilities Barking Abbey aims to: and buildings. “The Sixth Form is a strength of the • develop confident, articulate, school.” assertive young people; Success in the classroom Success with students • develop well-rounded, The school’s current Progress We have a support and guidance empowered, resilient, independent 8 score (a measure designed young people; to encourage schools to offer a structure that sees every student as broad and balanced curriculum at an individual in their own right. • nurture young people who will go KS4) of +0.41 places it 33rd out of Our active school council gives out and change the world for the 233 schools in the eastern region students a ‘voice’. better; (including grammar schools), and We provide a disciplined • increase opportunities through nearly half a grade higher per subject environment where students feel creating an inspirational learning than the national average. comfortable, safe and valued. environment where all students We are in the top 20% of non- want to achieve their potential and We are committed to getting rid of all making sure that no student is left selective schools in the country for forms of bullying. attainment and value-added progress behind; (March 2015). Success in the sixth form • raise students’ aims – giving them GCSE results are well above the We have a large and successful sixth the tools they need to explore and national average (in 2016, 63% of form with 650 students. be who they want to be; students achieved five or more A* Our unique Sports Academy • encourage individuals to be to C grades, including maths and Programme leads to many students adaptable, ambitious and unafraid English). gaining prestigious scholarships in to question and evaluate; and Key Stage 3 is taught over two years the USA. • bring about a sense of belonging and Key Stage 4 is taught over three We have a highly successful High and a sense of pride in the school, years, to increase opportunities for Performance Programme for those themselves and their wider success for students aged 14 and aiming for Oxbridge and Russell community. over. Group universities.

29 Dagenham Park Church of England School

Head teacher: Simon Weaver Open evening: Address: School Road, Dagenham, RM10 9QH Tuesday 26 September 2017, 4.30pm to 7.30pm Phone: 020 8270 4400 Open morning: Thursday 28 September 2017, 9.30am to 12.30am Fax: 020 8270 4409 Travel information E-mail: [email protected] Buses: 129, 145, 173, 174, 175, 287, 364, 687 and 721 Website: www.dagenhampark.org.uk Underground: Dagenham Heathway and Admission number: 270 DfE number: 301-4704 Dagenham East Stations

As a school that has a reputation We actively encourage after-school Ofsted 2016 “The school for outstanding pastoral care and activities such as English, maths, building is immaculate. Pupils excellent academic achievement science, languages, humanities, are proud of their school and we are delighted that this sport and music clubs, and pupils look after it well.” summer’s GCSE results show the are proud to take part in the Duke outstanding progress our pupils of Edinburgh Award. The library is Head Teacher Simon Weaver are making. Achievement levels open until 5.00pm every day. said “At Dagenham Park Church are high. Our progress 8 score (a of England School we aim to measure designed to encourage We offer a broad and varied produce confident and well- schools to offer a broad and curriculum to meet the needs rounded individuals. This is balanced curriculum at KS4) of of all our pupils and are part of achieved through high quality 0.35 placed us in the top 15% of the Southern Consortium which teaching which provides the very schools in the country. As well as means we can provide a wide best learning environment and our outstanding English results, selection of courses to pupils who enables all pupils to achieve their humanities subjects were in the are older than 16. We follow the full potential.” top 15% and languages in the top traditional value of strong discipline 7% of schools for progress. We and expect pupils to take pride are committed to delivering the in belonging to their school by English Baccalaureate and 34% of wearing correct school uniform. students achieved this measure in The school develops the spiritual, 2016 (significantly above national moral, social and cultural education averages). of pupils exceptionally well In 2017-2018, 75% of students in through the curriculum, a range of Years 9 and 10 will be following the assemblies and other enrichment English Baccalaureate curriculum. activities. For example, pupils and All pupils are banded (placed staff of all faiths and backgrounds into sets for certain subjects, take part in a wide range of depending on their ability) when Christian worship each day. Pupils they join the school to increase are well prepared for life in modern their academic achievement. Britain by their tutorial lessons, which help them to understand democracy, religious tolerance and the importance of the rule of law.

30 InformationEastbrook for parents School about – children ‘Together moving We to secondary Learn’ schools in 2016

Headteacher: Valerie Dennis MA Ed Open evening: Address: Dagenham Road, Dagenham, Thursday 21 September 2017, 5.30pm to 7pm RM10 7UR Open morning: For an individual visit at a time to suit you, ring Phone: 020 8270 4567 or 020 8270 4568 020 8270 4568 Fax: 020 8270 4545 Travel information E-mail: [email protected] Buses: 103, 129 and 174 Admission number: 360 DfE number: 301-4023 Underground: Dagenham East Station

We provide an excellent education in school. Our results continue ‘The curriculum is broad and for all our students. to improve, with many students balanced, and supported achieving the very top grades at by a wide range of extra- Our teachers have outstanding GCSE and A level and progress curricular activities. These subject knowledge and help measures above the national students to really enjoy learning. average. We encourage our range from subject learning students to be ambitious and go to sports clubs and wider You want your child to be happy on to university, college, sporting learning opportunities, at school, to have a broad range excellence, apprenticeships, a wide including a debating club and of interests and to develop their range of work and careers with challenging outdoor learning talents and achieve their best. At training and overseas opportunities. Eastbrook School your child will be programmes. Pupils visit able to follow high-quality learning Your child is unique. Their needs places of interest, such as pathways, both academic and and personality are individual. museums and theatres, and vocational. They will be supported Schools have different personalities recreate a high standard of and challenged. too, and suit different types of performance when they are learners and young people. At learning in school. Teachers Your child may need additional Eastbrook School our students learn evaluate the curriculum support. Our inclusive approach to express their own opinion with to education, our excellent Special regularly and adjust it during respect for others, and they have a the year, thus helping to Educational Needs team and our voice that is heard and valued. outstanding support for speakers maintain pupils’ interest and of English as a second language We work with our students, and motivation.’ make sure that all students excel their families, to make sure that they as valued members of the school achieve excellent results and that ‘Pupils say that they are community. In-class support, small they enter the adult world confident, proud and happy here. They group or individual programmes considerate and able to cope with appreciate how the teachers and a high priority placed upon life’s challenges. help them learn and to enjoy promoting regular reading makes school. The pastoral care is sure that every student achieves There has never been a better time their full potential. to join Eastbrook School, where of high quality.’ you choose excellence, safety Our students have positive attitudes and a commitment to working in OFSTED January 2016 towards learning, and feel safe partnership with families.

31 Eastbury Community School

Eastbury CommunityExecutive School Head teacher: Open evening: Mr David Dickson BSC (Hons), MA, NPQH Wednesday, 28th September 2016, 5pm to 8pm Eastbury Community Eastbury School Community School Executive Mr David DicksonAddress: BSC (Hons),Hulse Avenue, MA, Barking, OpenIG11 9UW evening: Travel information Head teacher: NPQH Wednesday 27 September 2017, 5pm to 8pm Executive Head teacher:Executive Head teacher: Phone:Open evening:020 8507 4500 Open evening:Buses: 5, 62 and EL3 Mr David Dickson BSCAddress: (Hons), MA, NPQHHulse Avenue,Fax: Barking, Wednesday, 020IG11 28th 8507 9UWSeptember 4501 2016,Travel 5pm informationto 8pm Underground: Barking and Upney Stations Mr David Dickson BSC (Hons), MA, NPQH Wednesday, 28th September 2016, 5pm to 8pm Address: HulsePhone: Avenue, Barking,020 IG11 8507 9UW 4500E-mail:Travel [email protected] Rail: Barking Station Address: Hulse Avenue,Website: Barking, www.eastburyschool.co.ukIG11 9UW Buses:Travel 5, information 62 and EL3 Phone: 020Fax: 8507 4500 020 8507 4501Buses: 5, 62 and EL3 Admission number: 300 DfE number: 301Underground:-4024 Barking and Upney Stations Fax: 020E-mail: Phone:8507 4501 [email protected] 8507 4500Underground: Barking and Upney StationsBuses: 5, 62 and EL3 E-mail: [email protected]: 020 8507 4501Rail: Barking Station Rail:Underground: Barking Station Barking and Upney Stations Website: www.eastbury.bardaglea.org.uk‘Eastbury is a good school Website: www.eastburyschool.co.uk AdmissionE-mail: number:[email protected] 300 DfE number: 301-4024 with outstandingRail: Barking Station Admission number: 300 DfE number: 301-4024 features.’ Ofsted 2013 Website: www.eastburyschool.co.uk

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32 InformationGoresbrook for parents School about children − the movingbest into secondaryeveryone schools in 2016

Principal: David Ellison Open evening: Address: Ripple Road, Dagenham, RM9 6XW Wednesday 20 September 2017, 5.30pm to 7.30pm Phone: 020 3597 6666 Open morning: Wednesday 11 October 2017, 9am to 10.30am Email: [email protected] Please ring us for an individual appointment. Website: www.goresbrookschool.org.uk Travel information Buses: 62, 145, 173 and 287 Admission number: 120 DfE number: 301-4003 Underground: Becontree Station

A unique journey The Goresbrook Guarantee State-of-the-art building Goresbrook School opened in The Goresbrook Guarantee is In 2016 we moved into our response to significant demand our commitment to help children exceptional new school building. from the local community for more develop with a range of different Our secondary wing has state-of- high-quality school places for activities and real-life experiences. the-art techology, science labs, children aged 3 to 18. We are the Our secondary students should sports facilities and a library. It is first all-through school in Barking expect, as a minimum, to: bright and welcoming with plenty and Dagenham and aim to provide of space for whole-school events. • read for pleasure daily; seamless education from the Come and see for yourself at one of moment children join us until they • play a musical instrument; our open events. head off to university. Our first Year 7s have made an exceptional start • attend clubs and try out new Dedicated care and attention to school life in September 2016 ones; As a new school, we have been and we look forward to welcoming • meet inspirational people; able to hand-pick a team of our second intake in 2017. outstanding staff to teach and To university and beyond • go on cultural and activity trips in support our students. So, as well as London and beyond; enjoying our brand new building, Our curriculum is broad and deep, our students will have a superb offering a full range of aspirational, • visit universities; opportunity to receive truly focused academic courses. From music • take on leadership and care and attention that is not often to computer science, French and volunteering roles; available elsewhere. Our priority maths, we aim to develop students’ is making sure that our students knowledge of subjects that • gain work experience; and make a happy, successful start to universities and employers are really secondary school. looking for. When they leave us, our • give presentations to real students will have the knowledge, audiences in real-life situations. skills and attributes they need to earn places at the top universities and be successful in rewarding careers.

33 Greatfields School

Head teacher: Richard Paul BA (Hons), MA Open evening: Executive head teacher: Roger Leighton BA Monday 18 September 2017, 7pm (on Gascoigne School Annexe site) Address: Greatfields School, c/o Gascoigne Primary School Annexe, Open mornings: Shaftesburys, Barking, IG11 7JP Wednesday 20 September 2017, 9am Thursday 21 September 2017, 9am E-mail: [email protected] Travel information Website: greatfieldsschool.com Buses: 62, 287, 368 and 387 Admission number: 120 DfE number: 301-4006 Underground: Barking Station

Greatfields School is a brand-new Behaviour Extra curriculum school which, in 2017, will have Behaviour at Greatfields is We have a rich extra-curriculum 120 students in each of Years 7 exceptional. There is a calm and programme which runs every and 8. We will eventually grow to purposeful atmosphere both in the day after school. Students have accept 300 pupils each year until classroom and in the corridors. the opportunity to take part in the we reach our full capacity of 1,800 Students feel safe and happy following clubs: boys’ and girls’ students, including a sixth form of in school and understand the football, netball, dance, choir, Latin, 300 students. We are located at the importance of following the clear STEM, newspaper club, Model UN, heart of the Gascoigne community, routines which are in place. There plus many others. a community which we are proud to is a high level of mutual respect serve. between staff and students which helps to create an atmosphere Our permanent site will be located of positive behaviour around the at the heart of the new development building and in the classrooms. on the estate, just off King Edward’s Road, and we will be moving to the first phase of our permanent Ambitions building in January 2018. We have the highest of ambitions for our students and we want Teaching and learning our students to have equally high ambitions for themselves. We work Teaching and learning is at the heart closely with universities and local of everything we do at Greatfields. groups to raise our students’ goals. We don’t have mixed-ability classes This year groups of students have as we believe students work best visited Cambridge University, the when they work with students of University of Sussex and Birkbeck similar ability to themselves. This University, and we are working allows high-ability students to move closely with students from the ahead quickly and allows those University of East London. Also, the who need extra support to get the students have visited the West End help they need. We regularly review and the Tate Modern Gallery to gain students’ progress to make sure that access to the rich cultural treasures they are in the correct group. which are on their doorstep.

34 Jo Richardson Community School

Head teacher: Ges Smith BA (Hons) Open evening: Address: Castle Green, Gale Street, Thursday 14 September 2017, 6pm to 9pm Dagenham, RM9 4UN Travel information Phone: 020 8270 6222 Fax: 020 8270 6223 Buses: 62, 145, 173 and 287 E-mail: [email protected] Underground: Becontree Station Website: www.jorichardson.org.uk Admission number: 300 DfE number: 301-4029

‘The school offers an exceptionally caring and challenging education to enable all its students to ACHIEVE.’ Ofsted

Why Jo Richardson Community We expect our students to set All students consider that School? themselves the highest standards bullying is extremely rare and At JRCS we are committed to in every aspect of their school lives. believe the school deals with it reaching the highest standards in We also expect our students to quickly and successfully when everything we do. We want all our pass those high standards onto our any incidents occur’; and local community. students to achieve the best possible • ‘the support and care offered to examination results as well as have The school places great emphasis students by all the staff are a real the opportunity to take part in a wide on the pastoral care and social strength of the school’. range of extra-curricular activities. education of the students. This is We strongly believe this can only based on traditional values that All these comments support our happen in a well-ordered and encourage responsibility, self-respect commitment to making sure that respectful environment where only and a commitment to hard work. every student achieves their full the highest standards of behaviour potential while attending our school. are acceptable, and where teachers We have developed a modern are fully committed to making sure uniform that promotes the positive Our systems are set up to regularly these goals become a reality. image and reputation of the JRCS, monitor students’ achievements while reflecting the practical needs to make sure everyone is reaching Our £30 million building on Castle of the students. the expected academic standards. Green offers outstanding facilities, We offer an extensive range of and we would encourage all In May 2013, Ofsted judged that extra-curricular activities, including students and parents to come and JRCS was a good school with many foreign trips, to build on our see the site. With the excellent outstanding leadership and students’ educational and social reputation we have created, and governance. experience at school. the facilities available, there could not be a more exciting time to be Ofsted also commented that: Our sixth form is part of the highly joining the school. successful Southern Consortium • ‘the head teacher is relentless in which offers our students access his drive for high standards and ‘Success for All’ to an extensive range of academic provides strong leadership’; Central to our work is the motto and vocational courses. ‘Success for All’, supported by our • ‘relationships between staff and ‘ACHIEVE’ agenda, a commitment students are very positive and Jo Richardson was Barking’s MP to student progress that is supportive’; for 20 years and gave great service highlighted by positive, effective to the borough. We are determined support systems and productive • ‘students feel very safe and that this school will continue to partnerships between all members secure. The school has a strong provide a lasting reminder of her of the school community. approach to anti-bullying. contribution to the area.

35 InformationRiverside for parents School about children moving to secondary schools in 2016

Head teacher: Andrew Roberts BSc (Hons) Open evening: Address: Renwick Road Wednesday 13 September 2017, 7pm Barking IG11 0FU Phone: 020 8270 6981 Travel information: E-mail: [email protected] Bus: EL1 and EL3 Website: www.riversidecampus.com Admission number: 300 DfE number: 301-4001

Excellence for all they need, so all students make Riverside School opened in 2013 exceptional progress. We regularly and will have 120 students in each review each student’s progress to of Years 9, 10 and 11, 240 in Year make sure they are in the correct 8 and an intake of 300 Year 7 band or set. students in 2017. As a member Traditional values of the Southern Consortium Sixth Form, the school will have We follow the traditional values of 100 students in Year 12. We will strong discipline, a school uniform eventually grow to a full capacity and a demanding classroom environment. Our first priority is to Clubs, activities, sports, of 1800 students, including a arts and music large sixth form. Riverside is an develop every child’s academic academy and has a range of potential to the maximum. We set At Riverside, a vast choice of freedoms over the way it organises high standards and receive full after-school clubs offers students learning, but the school will use backing from parents. an opportunity to further develop the same admission criteria as ‘Students’ behaviour around wider essential skills. As well as the community schools (as listed on school and in lessons is highest academic qualifications, page 21). Riverside School has a exemplary. They are eager to these wider skills get students strong partnership with Sydney learn and contribute very well to ready for success when applying to Russell School, with both schools lessons.’ Ofsted 2015 highly selective universities. These belonging to Partnership Learning clubs include STEM, computer Multi-Academy Trust. Best classrooms and computer programming, drama, dance, facilities in the country debating, football, netball, athletics, Learning at its core basketball, handball, various other We believe students learn best Riverside’s brand-new building sports, choir and the school band. when they work with other students on Renwick Road is a newly We strongly encourage all students who have a similar academic ability built campus which will boast to take individual music tuition, to them. We place students in one exceptional facilities. Every general by providing one-to-one weekly of three bands and all lessons classroom will be 50% bigger instrument lessons as well as take place within these bands. than the norm, with 32 computers employing our own piano tutor. From Year 8 onwards, we also put in every one, so that all students students into sets, depending on have computer access at all ‘We were impressed with your their ability, for English, maths and times. All subjects will benefit from ambitions for Riverside School science. Excellent teaching means the outstanding new buildings, and its pupils, particularly your interest in improving not just all learners are always challenged, including music studios, science their academic outcomes but with the most able students labs, sports facilities and a library. their wider skills.’ progressing rapidly and those who Sir Peter Lampl, Executive need extra support getting the help Chairman – The Sutton Trust.

36 Robert Clack School of Science – a specialist college

Head teacher: Russell Taylor Open evening: Address: Gosfield Road, Dagenham, RM8 1JU Thursday 28 September 2017, 6pm to 8.30pm (on Green Lane site) Phone: 020 8270 4200 Travel information Fax: 020 8270 4210 Buses: 5, 87, 103, 128, 129, 173, 175 and 499 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.robertclack.co.uk Underground: Heathway Station Admission number: 360 DfE number: 301-4027 Rail: Chadwell Heath Station

Robert Clack School is a mixed Continued success Continued investment comprehensive school for 11 to ‘The head teacher, leaders and In 2018, the school will continue to 19 year olds with around 2000 staff set very high expectations for benefit from significant investment students, including a thriving and students’ learning and behaviour. in new buildings on both school successful sixth form of over 400. Outstanding behaviour and sites. As a result of its huge attitudes to learning help students popularity, a third site will open in The school is on two sites, which enjoy their learning and achieve September 2019. This new site will allows us to offer Year 7 pupils a well.’ Ofsted 2013 be known as the Lymington Site warm and welcoming environment and will provide education for 11- on the Green Lane site (this site ‘Students of different ethicities, to 18-year-olds as a result of a local serves pupils in Years 7 to 9), faiths and with different authority and Government school as well as sixth formers. Parents educational and social needs expansion programme. always comment favourably on the get on really well together. The educational advantages that this school is an extremely inclusive arrangement offers by allowing community. A positive ethos children to move to a site where permeates all aspects of the children are aged between 11 school’s work.’ Ofsted 2013. and 14. The Gosfield Road site is where the older students are The school has a national reputation based, including the sixth form. for sport, extra-curricular activities such as debating, and educational Our motto of ‘Forti Difficile Nihil’ visits at home and abroad. (‘for the brave, nothing is difficult’) supports our commitment to work with all members of the school community to make sure that all The prestigious Good students achieve only the very Schools Guide comments best. The school prides itself on that ‘Robert Clack is one its calm and ordered learning of the smartest and well environment built on the traditional values of respect, hard work and ordered schools we have discipline. ever visited’.

37 InformationThe Sydney for parents Russell about children School moving to secondary schools in 2016

Principal: Janis Davies BA Open evening: Address: Parsloes Avenue, Dagenham, Monday 25 September 2017, 7pm RM9 5QT Open mornings: Phone: 020 8270 4333 Wednesday 27 September 2017, 9am Thursday 28 September 2017, 9am Fax: 020 8270 4377 Travel information E-mail: [email protected] Buses: 5, 62, 87, 145, 364, 129, 173, 175 and 499 Website: www.sydneyrussellschool.com Underground: Admission number: 360 DfE number: 301-4028 Becontree and Dagenham Heathway Station

Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ 2013 Traditional values • “Teaching at the school is We follow the traditional values of outstanding” strong discipline, school uniform and a demanding classroom • “Students make outstanding environment. Our first priority is to progress” develop every child’s academic • “Students’ GCSE attainment potential to the maximum. We set is high because the school high standards and we expect full encourages all students to be backing from parents. aspirational” Best classrooms and computer • “Students take their learning facilities in the country very seriously” • “Relationships between staff Sydney Russell has been entirely and students are positive and rebuilt or refurbished at a cost respectful” of £25 million. Every general classroom is 50% bigger than Grouping by ability normal with 32 computers in every single one, so that all students We have no mixed-ability classes have access to a computer at all – we believe students learn best times. All subjects benefit from when they work with students of superb facilities. similar ability to themselves. We place students in one of three ability Clubs, activities, sports, bands and all lessons take place arts and music within these bands. As a result, teachers are able to develop every A wide range of clubs and activities child at the right pace, with high- is on offer, including chess, ability students moving ahead very science, humanities, mathematics, quickly and those who need extra computers, languages, art, football, support getting the help they need. cricket, netball, rugby, basketball, We regularly review each student’s volleyball, athletics, choir and progress to make sure they are orchestra. We strongly encourage in the correct band. Students of individual music tuition, and we exceptional ability are placed in one have one of the highest take-ups in of our ‘High Achievers’ tutor groups. the borough.

38 The Warren School

Head teacher: Richard Micek, BSc (Hons) Arch, Open evening: PGCE, MA, NPQH Thursday 5 October 2017, 5pm to 7pm Address: Whalebone Lane North, Chadwell Open morning: Heath, RM6 6SB Monday 9 October 2017, 9am to 10:30am Phone: 020 8270 4500 Travel information Fax: 020 8270 4484 E-mail: [email protected] Buses: 62, 66, 86, 173, 251, 362 and 551 Website: www.thewarrenschool.net Rail: Chadwell Heath Station Admission number: 240 DfE number: 301-4004

Values Pastoral support Group. We also took students to a At The Warren School we prepare Our pastoral systems are supportive range of events and places such as our students for the changing and rigorous and our mentoring New York, The Royal Festival Hall, demands of the future. We value system makes sure that any student Hyde Park, Tate Modern and the character alongside academic who needs extra support to reach Natural History Museum, and to the success and foster both of these their potential receives this. We take O2 to take part in a national school to mould our students for the behaviour for learning very seriously choir event. Students also took park opportunities they will face. Each and expect students to take part in the Duke of Edinburgh scheme. student develops as an individual, a in all lessons wholeheartedly. We More than 300 students have been partner, a member of a team and as take pride in our school and our trained in first aid and CPR this a citizen. We are committed to the students show this by wearing our year. success of all our students. new uniform correctly. Sixth form Curriculum Student leadership Our sixth form is growing both in We offer a broad and balanced Student leadership is at the heart size and in its academic profile. curriculum that will prepare our of our school. Each year group has We have a stand-alone sixth form students for any career. Alongside its own elected council that meets that caters for all of our students the compulsory core subjects regularly and makes decisions on our campus, so our students do of English, maths and science, and takes actions to put them into not need to travel to other schools students can choose a range practice. This leadership feeds into to access A Level teaching. All our of options to interest them and a whole-school council led by the students who applied for university prepare them for success in the elected head girl and head boy and places were successful, and last workplace. As well as our focus the Junior Leadership Team. We year students were awarded places on exam success and student take the opinions of our students in Russell Group universities such progress, we focus on developing seriously and mould students to be as Kings College, London. Our character and resilience that will leaders of the future. sixth form is in the top 12% for stand our students in good stead, progress in the country. Students whatever their career path. Enrichment are mentored on their pathways to We have an extensive enrichment university and take part in many Attainment and progress programme that develops our programmes, for example the Our students make good progress students beyond the classroom. Futures Programme, where they in English, maths, and science. This year students have worked in shadow students at Cambridge Year-on-year the school has made school with Drum Works drumming University and are allocated an improvements in attainment at both group, Barbican Satellite project for Oxbridge graduate as a personal GCSE and A level. high-ability musicians, New YVC mentor. Choir of Excellence, Little Voices Theatre Company and ARC Theatre

39 Information for parents about children moving to secondary schools in 2018

The timetable of events Date What happens 12 September 2017, 7pm Information meeting for parents to explain how the admissions process Broadway Theatre, Barking works. Speeches will begin at 7pm. The meeting is open to all parents, and admission officers will be available to answer your questions.

13 September 2017, 7pm Riverside School open evening

14 September 2017, 6pm to 9pm Jo Richardson School, open evening

18 September 2017, 7pm Greatfields School, open days and open evening 20 and 21 September 2017, 9am (on Gascoigne School Annexe site) 20 September 2017, 5.30pm to 7.30pm Goresbrook School, open evening and open day 11 October 2017, 9am to 10.30am 21 September 2017, 5.30pm to 7pm Eastbrook Comprehensive School, open evening

25 September 2017, 7pm Sydney Russell School, open days and evening 27 and 28 September 2017, 9am

26 September 2017, 4.30pm to 7.30pm Dagenham Park School, open day and evening 28 September 2017, 9.30am to 12.30pm 27 September 2017, 5pm to 8pm Eastbury School, open evening

28 September 2017, 6pm to 8.30pm Robert Clack School, open evening 5 October 2017, 5pm to 7pm Warren School, open day and open evening 9 October 2017, 9am to 10.30am questions, see the school and meet the staff. the and meet school see the questions, 4 October 2017, 5pm to 7pm Barking Abbey School, open day and evening. Please note 6 October 2017, 8:45am to 10:15am the open evening on 4 October will be on the Sandringham Road site and the open day on 6 October an opportunity you give ask and evenings to The open days will be on the Longbridge Road site 11 October 2017, 5.30pm to 8.30pm All Saints School, open evening. 31 October 2017, 5pm Deadline for the extra documents and certificate of Catholic practice to arrive at All Saints Catholic School, Terling Road, Dagenham, Essex, RM8 1DS. 31 October 2017, 5pm Deadline for written documents to arrive at the School Admissions Team, Town Hall, Barking, Essex, IG11 7LU. If we receive your paper application or any documents after this date and time, we treat them as late. 31 October 2017, 12 midnight Deadline for on-time applications submitted online. If we receive your application or any documents after this date and time, we treat them as late. 1 March 2018 We send results to parents to tell them our decisions on applications. We cannot tell you decisions over the phone. If you have applied online, you can see the results of your application after 7pm on 1 March 2018, otherwise you must wait up to two days for your letter to be delivered if you filled in paper form.

15 March 2018 Deadline for accepting the offer of a school place at All Saints Catholic School. 31 March 2018 We send letters to parents who have not applied for a school place to tell them what school has been allocated to their child. 12 April 2018 Deadline for receiving completed appeal forms for all Barking and Dagenham schools (including All Saints School) for the first round of appeal hearings. April to July 2018 Appeals will be heard for all schools. Parents are invited to these appeals.

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Glossary – definitions of the words used in this e-booklet

Term Definition Academy and Free Schools that receive funding directly from central government, but have independence from Schools day-to-day local authority (LA) and government control. They may receive extra support from personal or corporate sponsors, either financial or other types of support. The school is its own admission authority and governors are responsible for setting the admission criteria and arranging appeals. Admission Entry to a school. Admission authority The organisation that draws up the admission arrangements and sets out the admission criteria for the schools that it maintains. The LA is the admission authority for community schools, and each voluntary aided school is its own admission authority. All admission authorities within an LA must link together to co-ordinate their admission arrangements. Admission criteria Conditions set by the admission authority which are used to decide whether or not a place can be offered to a child. Admission number The maximum number of children that may go to the school within a school year. Appeals procedure The process for questioning a decision not to offer your child a place at the school you have applied for. Certificate of Catholic The form that the priest signs to confirm your commitment to your faith as shown by your links practice (CCP) with your local church. It is used by voluntary-aided schools to apply their admission criteria. This form is only valid if you also fill in the CAF, and give that school all the information they need. Common application The name of the LA form used by anyone applying for a school place. form (CAF) Community schools Schools within an LA which are maintained by the LA. The LA is responsible for admitting children to these schools. Department for The central government department responsible for making appropriate laws and developing Education (DfE) guidance to help the education of children and young people in England and Wales.

English baccalaureate Certificate for students who achieve grades A*- C in English, mathematics, two sciences, a foreign language and history or geography. Governing bodies Responsible for making sure that the school is managed in line with laws and follows policies in line with the conditions set by the DfE. Infant, junior or ‘Infant schools’ provide education for children aged four to seven, ‘junior schools’ for children primary schools aged seven to 11 and ‘primary schools’ for children aged four to 11. Interest list A list containing the names of every applicant who has been declined a school place but who is still interested in a place at that school. Some LA’s will call these waiting lists. Local authority (LA) The council is responsible for many services and this includes providing education across schools within the council’s boundaries. Office for Standards The central government department responsible for inspecting the quality of education and in Education (Ofsted) welfare provided by schools and organisations that provide childcare. Preference The list of schools you would like your child to go to. You write these schools on your CAF. Prospectus A booklet or document which contains information describing a school, its day-to-day life and its way of teaching and learning. Sibling Either a full, half, step or long-term fostered brother or sister living at the same address.

Statement of special The statement prepared for children who have special educational needs. The statement is educational needs prepared in line with the Education Act of 1996 and gives details of the child’s special needs and (SEN) and EHC plan what should be done to meet these needs. This process is now called the EHC plan (Educational Health Care). Voluntary aided (VA) LA schools run in partnership with ‘voluntary bodies’ (usually religious organisations). schools The voluntary sector (the Catholic or Church of England Diocese) are responsible for maintaining the buildings, and the governors of the schools are responsible for setting the admission criteria and arranging appeals (the schools’ admission authorities). Voluntary controlled Can be called a religious or faith school, but the LA is responsible for running the school. schools The LA is responsible for setting the admissions criteria and arranging appeals.

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Useful information and services

The Advisory Centre for Choice advice from the Council Tax Section Education (ACE) Family Information Service (FIS) If you live in the borough of Barking ACE is an independent registered Moving from primary and and Dagenham and you need a charity which offers advice for secondary school can be one of copy of your recent Council Tax parents, and gives information the most difficult times for families bill, please apply in plenty of time about state education in England and children. The choice adviser before the closing date to get the and Wales for children aged five is independent of the Admission documents you need. to 16. They offer free advice over Team and will be able to: Address: Roycraft House, the phone on many subjects such • offer you help, advice and 15 Linton Road, as exclusion from school, bullying, support in understanding the Barking, special educational needs and admissions process when you Essex, IG11 8HE school admission appeals. make an application for your Phone: 020 8227 2926 child’s secondary school; and General advice line: E-mail: [email protected] • access information on your Phone: 0300 0115 142 Website: www.lbbd.gov.uk behalf and explain how the (Open Monday to Wednesday procedures affect your individual 10am to 1pm, term time only). circumstances. Department for Education (DfE) Website: www.ace-ed.org.uk This should make sure you have You can get useful information, enough information to help you such as performance tables and information on the curriculum, on Child Benefit Agency make a realistic decision about your preferences. their website. If you need to contact this agency Phone: 0370 000 2288 for a copy of your Child Benefit The Family Information Service also Website: www.education.gov.uk allowance, please give yourself provides information and advice plenty of time before the closing to help people make informed date to get the documents you choices about finding and paying need. for childcare, after-school and Address: Child Benefit Office, holiday activities for children and PO Box 1, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, young people, and a range of other NE88 1AA extended services in and through schools. It offers professional, Phone: 0300 200 3100 impartial information and advice Website: on services for children and young www.gov.uk/contact-child-benefit- people aged 0 to 19. office Address: The Maples, 80a Gascoigne Road, Barking, Essex, IG11 7LQ Phone: 020 8227 5395 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.lbbd.gov.uk/fis

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Education and training EHC Team Housing Benefit Service opportunities from age 14 (previously known as Special The service provides free school Educational Needs Assessment There have been changes in the meals and clothing grants for and Review Team (SENART) law which mean that Year 7 pupils children who live in Barking and Dagenham. starting school in September 2017 The team works closely with must stay in education or training parents, schools, the Community until they are 18. Free school meals – If you are Educational Psychology Service receiving Income Support, income- Year 9-pupils may apply for a place (CEPS) and the Education Inclusion based Jobseeker’s Allowance, the at a university techical college or Team. Requests for Special guaranteed part of Pension Credit studio school. Please see page 47 Educational Needs Assessments or Child Tax Credit, you can apply or our website about how to apply and placements in mainstream for free school meals. for places. schools or specialist schools (if For information, applications and needed) are carried out by the EHC Email: [email protected] appeals about further education in Team. They also provide advice Phone: 020 8227 2970 our schools’ sixth forms or colleges, to parents, school staff and other apprenticeships, or employment professionals within the assessment with training, please contact our and review process. You can 14 -19 Careers Guidance & contact the team as follows: Information Service. Email: [email protected] If the child is refused a place in further education, you have the right Phone: 020 8227 2400, to appeal. We can accept appeal Address: EHC Team, forms separately from parents and Town Hall, students above 16 years old. Barking, Careers Guidance & Essex IG11 7LU Information Service Barking Learning Centre – 2 Town Square Barking IG11 7NB Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm Phone: 020 8724 8870

Dagenham Library – 1 Church Elm Lane Dagenham Need help to RM10 9QS Help sessions are available at Dagenham Monday to Friday Library on Tuesdays. Sessions start at 9am 9am to 5pm and end at 4.30pm, from 12 September until 31 October 2017. Phone: 020 8724 8877 If you try to apply online and you cannot see your exact address in the list provided, or the schools you want to apply for are not listed, you must contact the School Admissions Team by 5pm on 31 October 2017, otherwise your application will be late. Apply online for a secondary school place now: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions

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Library services Office for Standards in up part-time employment. Other Education (Ofsted) responsibilities include protecting It costs nothing to join the public the rights of children in care and library service in Barking and Ofsted is a government department certain responsibilities related to Dagenham. The library service is set up under the Education children who have been reported for all ages and young children are (Schools) Act 1992. It is responsible missing to the police. welcome. Children do not have to for inspecting all schools in Address: Town Hall, Barking, know how to read to benefit from England, whether they are funded Essex, IG11 7LU joining the library. Public libraries by the Government or independent. offer all sorts of books for children To see the most recent report of Phone: 020 8227 2711 from board books and picture a school’s inspection, please visit E-mail: books to books for advanced Ofsted’s website. [email protected] readers. Toy libraries will be based Website: www.ofsted.gov.uk. in the Central Library and several Virtual School other libraries in the borough. A toy library is a toy equipment and Parents in Partnership Service The local authorities’ Virtual School is for Looked After Children and is loan service where parents, carers If your child has special educational committed to working with others and children can play together needs, you may contact the Parents to: and borrow toys. There are also in Partnership Service (PIPS). cassettes, CDs, DVDs, videos and • overcome disadvantage; PIPS is part of ‘Carers of Barking free access to the internet. Most and Dagenham’, which offers • provide equal access to libraries have collections of books information and support to carers. learning, and better educational for parents and carers. They also The service is independent from us. opportunities; provide learning activities during • raise levels of achievement; and school holidays. The School Library Address: 334 Heathway, Service provides schools with loans Dagenham, RM10 8NJ • promote the health, wellbeing of books and audio-visual material. Phone: 020 8593 4422 and life chances for all children in care. The addresses for each of our If you require any information or libraries are listed below. School Attendance Service assistance please contact the virtual The opening and closing times school for looked after children. are different for each branch. Attendance Service Team This team provides advice, Contact details below. Phone 020 8724 8735 for details. Address: Town Hall, Barking, Barking Library – guidance and support to schools, parents, carers and children on Essex IG11 7LU. Barking Learning Centre, 2 Town Phone: 020 8227 2691 Square, Barking, Essex, IG11 7NB how to improve school attendance. Good school attendance is linked to Dagenham Library – 1 Church Elm Lane, Dagenham, good educational achievement. The service enforces the laws relating to Youth Support and Essex, RM10 9QS Development Service Marks Gate Library – school attendance. Marks Gate Community Centre, Education Statutory Service This service provides a range Rose Lane, Marks Gate, Chadwell Team of educational and personal Heath, RM6 5NJ This team is responsible for development programmes for Robert Jeyes Library – working with families who have young people between the ages of High Road, Chadwell Heath, decided to educate their child (or 11 and 19. RM6 6AS children) at home (also known as Address: The VIBE, 195-211 Thames View Library – elective home education or EHE). Becontree Avenue, Dagenham, Sue Bramley Community Centre, It is also responsible for locating Essex, RM8 2UT Bastable Avenue, Barking, children who are missing from Phone: 020 8227 5891 IG11 0LG education (those not enrolled at Valence Library – a school and not EHE). The team Becontree Avenue, Dagenham, issues entertainment licences for RM8 3HT children involved in all forms of entertainment, and work permits for children (between the ages of 13 and 16 only) who are taking

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Map of secondary schools in the borough

Key 1 All Saints Catholic School 2 Barking Abbey School – a specialist sports college (lower site) 2a Barking Abbey School – a specialist sports college (upper site) 3 Dagenham Park Church of England School 4 Eastbrook School 5 Eastbury Community School 6 Goresbrook School 7 Greatfields School 8 Jo Richardson Community School 9 Riverside School 10 Robert Clack School of Science 12 – a specialist college (lower site) 10a Robert Clack School of Science – a specialist college (upper site) 11 The Sydney Russell School 12 The Warren School

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Other London authorities’ school admissions sections

London Borough of London Borough of Hammersmith London Borough of Newham Barking and Dagenham Admissions and Fulham Education Department Admissions Roycraft House, 15 Linton Road, Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street, Newham dockside, 1000 Dockside Barking, Essex, IG11 8HE London, W8 7NX Road, London, E16 2QU Phone: 020 8215 3004 Phone: 020 7745 6434 Phone: 020 8430 2000 London Borough of Haringey Education Authority London Borough of Redbridge Barnet Admissions River Park House, 225 High Road, Admissions Building 2, North London Business London, N22 8HQ 255-259 High Road, lIford, Park, Oakleigh Road South, N11 1NP Phone: 020 8489 1000 Essex, IG1 1NN Phone: 020 8359 7651 Phone: 020 8708 3562 Harrow Council Admissions Bexley Council Admissions PO Box 22, Civic Centre, Harrow, London Borough of Richmond upon Civic Offices, 2 Watling Street, Middlesex, HA1 2UW Thames Admissions Bexleyheath, Kent, DA6 7AT Phone: 020 8901 2620 44 York Street, Twickenham, TW1 3BZ Phone: 020 8303 7777 Phone: 020 8891 7514 London Borough of Havering Brent Education Authority Education Service London Borough of Southwark Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Town Hall, Main Road, PO Box 64529, London, SE19 5LX Wembley, HA9 0FJ Romford, RM1 3BD Phone: 020 7525 5337 Phone: 020 8937 3110 Phone: 01708 434 600 London Borough of Sutton London Borough of London Borough of Hillingdon Admissions Bromley School Admissions Admissions Civic offices, St Nicholas way, Civic Centre, Stockwell Close, Civic Centre, High Street, London, SM1 1EA Bromley, Kent, BR1 3UH Uxbridge, UB8 1UW Phone: 020 8770 5000 Phone: 020 8313 4044 Phone: 01895 556 644 Tower Hamlets Education Authority Camden Education Authority London Borough of Hounslow Pupil services, Mulberry Place, Clove 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG Admissions Crescent, London, E14 2BG Phone: 020 7974 1625 Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow, Phone: 020 7364 5006 TW3 4DN City of London Education Service London Borough of Waltham Forest Phone: 020 8583 2721 PO Box 270, Guildhall, School Admissions Service, Town Hall London, EC2P 2EJ London Borough of Islington School Complex, Forest Road, London, E17 4JF Phone: 020 7332 1002 Admissions Section Phone: 020 8496 3000 222 Upper Street, London, N1 1XR Croydon Council Wandsworth Council Admissions Phone: 020 7527 5515 Education Department Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street, Bernard Weatherill House, 8 Mint Walk, Royal Borough of Kensington and London, SW18 2PU Croydon, CR0 1EA Chelsea Phone: 020 8871 7316 Phone: 020 8726 6400 Kensington Town Hall, Horton Street, London, W8 7NX Westminster Education Authority Ealing Council Admissions Phone: 020 7745 6432 / 6432 / 6434 Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street, Perceval House, 14-16 Uxbridge Road, London W8 7NX London, W5 2HL Royal Borough of Kingston upon Phone: 020 7745 6432 Phone: 020 8825 5511 Thames Admissions 42 York Street, Twickenham, TW1 3BW London Borough of Phone: 020 8547 4610 Enfield Admissions Neighbouring authorities’ PO Box 56 Civic Centre, Silver Street, London Borough of Lambeth school admissions Enfield, EN1 3XQ Admissions Phone: 020 8379 5501 10th Floor, International House, sections Canterbury Crescent, SW9 7QE London Borough of Phone: 020 7926 9503 Essex County Council Greenwich Admissions PO Box 4261, Chelmsford, CM1 1GS Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London Borough of Lewisham Phone: 0345 603 2200 London, SE18 6HQ Admissions Phone: 020 8921 8043 3rd Floor, Laurence House, 1 Catford Thurrock Council Road, SE6 4RU PO Box 118, Civic Offices, Grays, Essex, Hackney Education Authority Phone: 020 8314 8282 (9am-12pm) RM17 6GF The Learning Trust (Hackney), Phone: 01375 652 883 1 Reading Lane, London, E8 1GQ London Borough of Merton Phone: 020 8820 7000 Civic Centre, 100 London Road, Morden, SM4 5DX Phone: 020 8274 4906

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Options for 14- to 19-year-olds (techical and training schools)

Children do not need to spend Studio schools are for 14 to 19 year How to apply for a place for the whole of their school life at olds. Backed by local businesses September 2018 secondary schools. When your and employers, they are small child reaches Year 9, there are schools which are open all year First contact the techical and other types of schools available round and have a 9 to 5 working training schools that you would that your child can move to, called day, so they feel more like a like your child to go and ask techical and training schools. workplace than a school. Working how to apply for a place at their These schools fall within the closely with local employers, school. Some schools accept category of either university studio schools will offer a range of applications direct but others only techical colleges (UTCs) or studio academic and vocational (work- accept applications from the local schools. They are open in some based) qualifications including authority you live in. If the school areas to provide 14 to 19 year olds GCSEs in English, maths and or college you are interested in with techically based courses of science, as well as paid work only accepts applications from the study or learning that is based on placements linked directly to local authority you live in, please the skills they will need for work. employment opportunities in the follow the process set out in our local area. Students will gain a wide information e-booklet ‘Techical and UTCs have university and employer range of life skills to improve their training schools’. (This process is sponsors who offer techically chances of employment through summarised below.) based courses to combine national the ‘CREATE skills framework’. curriculum requirements with From 1 September 2017, Pupils will have the option to go on techical and vocational elements. fill in our Common Application to university or further training, and UTCs must specialise in subjects Form (CAF) and list up to three into employment. that require techical and modern different schools. The closing equipment (such as engineering We have a UTC school in our date is 31 October 2017. See and construction), that will be borough. It is called Elutec and pages 12 to13 for how to apply taught alongside business and ICT is on Rainham Road South, online. The instructions are (information communication and Dagenham RM10 7XS. It is holding the same as you would use for techology) skills. UTCs should offer an open day for you to visit on applying for a secondary school clear routes into higher education place for your child. Saturday 14 October 2017, from or further learning in work. 11am to 2pm. We will pass on your request to the relevant school or local authority There is a list of other UTCs or and exchange all possible offers. If studio schools in the south-east a place is available, you will receive area on the next page of this an offer from the local authority at e-booklet. the school you ranked highest on your application form. If you make your application on time, all local authorities will send the results on National Offer Day, which is 1 March 2018.

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Techical and training schools in the south-east area

Bromley UTC Global Academy UTC School will open in September 2018 Specialism: Creative, Techical, Broadcast and Specialism: Health and Wellbeing Sciences Digital Media Location: Rookery Lane, Bromley, BR2 8HE Location: The Old Vinyl Factory, Blyth Road, Phone: 020 8295 7041 Hayes, Middlesex, UB3 1HA Email: [email protected] Phone: 020 7766 6000 New Campus Basildon Studio Email: [email protected] Specialism: Business Studies, Sport, Health and Social Care, Website: www.globalacademy.com and Art and Design Sir Simon Milton Westminster UTC Location: Church Walk House, Basildon, Specialism: Transport Engineering and Construction Essex, SS14 1GJ Location: Westminster Phone: 01268 240 300 Phone: 020 3506 9277 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.ncbstudioschool.org.uk Heathrow Aviation Engineering UTC De Salis Studio College Specialism: Aviation Engineering School will open in September 2018 Location: Potter Street, Northwood, Specialism: Business and Finance Middlesex, HA6 1QG Location: Hewens Road, Hayes End, Phone: 01923 602 130 Middlesex, UB4 8JP Email: [email protected] Phone: 020 8573 2097 Website: www.heathrow-utc.org Email: [email protected] South Bank Engineering UTC Website: www.desalisstudiocollege.co.uk Specialism: Engineering for Building and Ockendon Academy and Studio School Health Sectors Specialism: none Location: Brixton Location: Erriff Drive, South Ockendon, Phone: 020 7815 8181 Essex, RM15 5AY Email: [email protected] Phone: 01708 851661 Website: www.southbank-utc.co.uk Email: [email protected] Logic Studio School Website: www.ockendonstudioschool.com Specialism: Computing Elutec Location: Browells Lane, Feltham, Specialism: Product Design and Engineering Middlesex, TW13 7EF Location: Yew Tree Avenue, Rainham Road South, Phone: 020 8831 3000 Dagenham East, RM10 7XS Email: [email protected] Phone: 020 3773 4670 Website: www.logicstudioschool.org Email: [email protected] Space Studio West London Website: www.elutec.co.uk Specialism: Space, Aerospace, Science and Maths Parkside Studio College Location: Crendon Court, Feltham, Specialism: Creative Media, Construction, Health and Social Middlesex, TW13 5DD Care, Hospitality and Catering, Hairdressing and Beauty Therapy, Phone: 020 8751 9888 Sport and Leisure Email: [email protected] Location: Wood End Green Road, Hayes, Website: www.spacestudiowestlondon.org Middlesex, UB3 2SE London Design and Engineering UTC Phone: 020 8573 2097 Specialism: Design and Engineering Email: [email protected] Location: Docklands Campus, University Way, London, E16 2RD Website: www.parksidestudiocollege.co.uk Phone: 07714 255 193 Fulham Enterprise Studio Email: [email protected] Specialism: Construction and Performing Arts Production Website: www.ldeutc.co.uk Location: Kingwood Road, London, SW6 6SN Tottenham UTC Phone: 020 7381 3606 Specialism: Techology, Science for Sport, Email: [email protected] Health and Engineering Website: www.fulhamenterprise.net Location: Lilywhite House, 780 High Road, Royal Greenwich UTC Tottenham, N17 0BX Specialism: Construction and Engineering Phone: 020 8352 6020 Location: 765 Woolwich Road, London, SE7 8LJ Email: [email protected] Phone: 020 8331 7500 Website: www.tottenhamutc.co.uk Email: [email protected] Mulberry UTC Website: www.greenwichutc.com Specialism: Digital Techology, Healthcare and Medical Services Location: Parnell Road, Bow, London, E3 Phone: 020 7790 6327 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mulberryutc.co.uk

48 Cover note for extra documents All Saints Catholic School September 2018 entry

Why you should fill in this form If you want to apply for a place at All Saints under the faith criterion, please return this form along with any documents you send us. We set out the admission criteria for our school (see pages 18 to 19 and page 25) in the ‘Moving to secondary school in 2018’ admission e-booklet. If we do not receive this filled- in form with the relevant documents, we will consider your child under criterion 9. If we discover that we have offered your child a place based on false information, we will withdraw the place. What you need to do • The common application form (CAF) – If you want to apply for a place at this school you need to fill in, by 31 October 2017, the CAF provided by the borough you live in. • Baptism documents – If you want your child to be recognised as a Catholic (under our admission School office stamp criteria 1 to 5) or as being baptised (under our admission criteria 7 and 8), you should send us a Date received photocopy of your child’s baptism certificate (or certificate of reception into the Catholic Church) by 31 October 2017. • Certificate of Catholic practice (CCP) form – If you want to be considered as a practising Catholic (under our admission criteria 2 and 3), you must arrange to meet with your parish priest in time to request a CCP which you must then send, with the baptism certificate photocopy, to the school by Staff initials 31 October 2017. If your priest is not local and is unfamiliar with these requirements, please ask him to contact the All Saints’ Admissions Officer on 020 8270 4247.

(To be filled in by the parent or carer) (child’s details given on your CAF)

Child’s first names:

Child’s last name:

Date of birth: Day Month Year

Home address and postcode: (The child’s home is the permanent address where they live with their legal guardian.)

Borough you live in:

Does the child have any siblings (brothers or sisters) at All Saints School? Yes No If yes, you must give the relevant sibling’s name on the CAF provided by your home borough.

Parent’s or carer’s full names:

Home phone number: Daytime phone number:

Email address:

You will need to use one cover note for each child. When you have filled in this page, please return it to our school’s admissions officer, with relevant documents below, by 31 October 2017. Please tick which document you have included with this form. The child’s baptism certificate. The child’s certificate of reception into the Catholic Church. The certificate of Catholic practice from your parish priest. 19395 (Only needed if you are applying under our admission criteria 2 and 3.)

Our address: Admissions Officer, All Saints Catholic School, Terling Road, Dagenham RM8 1JT Information for parents about children moving to secondary schools in 2018

Notes

50 Apply online for a secondary school place: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissionsThe closing date for all forms and information Checklist we ask for is 31 October Please read the checklist below before you return your form. 2017 Read the admission process on pages 6 to 26 in this e-booklet.

Fill in and submit your common application form (CAF) online. If you try to apply online and you cannot see your exact address in the list presented, or the schools you want to apply for are not listed, you must contact the School Admissions Team by 5pm on 31 October 2017 or your application will be late. Late applicants are not likely to get a place at an oversubscribed school.

Your online application is only valid when you press the ‘Submit’ button at the end of the ‘Submit your application’ page. You will then be issued with an application reference number (ARN). The eAdmissions Team will then send you a confirmation email which will include all the details of the application you have just made along with your ARN. In the case of twins, triplets and so on, make sure you have a different ARN for each child.

Please make sure you attach all other forms and documents we ask for. This may be proof that you are the child’s guardian, proof of address, or proof that your child is or was in the care of a local authority.

Enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope with your written documents if you want a receipt.

Fill in and return the supplementary information forms if you are applying for schools in or outside the borough, if those schools have asked for them.

Give all relevant documents that have been asked for directly to the school or LA concerned. We will not pass on documents on your behalf.

Please make sure you tell us if any of your or your child’s details change.

Need help to Help sessions are available at Dagenham Library on Tuesdays. Sessions start at 9am and end at 4.30pm, from 12 September until 31 October 2017. If you try to apply online and you cannot see your exact address in the list provided, or the schools you want to apply for are not listed, you must contact the School Admissions Team by 5pm on 31 October 2017, otherwise your application will be late. Apply online for a secondary school place now: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions

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London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Phone. 020 8215 3000

Out of hours emergencies only Phone. 020 8215 3024 Fax. 020 8227 3470 E-mail. [email protected] Website. www.lbbd.gov.uk

We have tried to make sure that this information is correct at the time of going to print. However, information may change from time to time.

You must not copy this document without our permission. © 2017 London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

Date: August 2017

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