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Information for parents about children moving to secondary-phase schools in 2019 Moving to Secondary School Information for parents about children moving to secondary-phase schools in 2019
2 2 The closing date for all If your child was born between applications is 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2008, 31 October they will be moving to a secondary-phase school in 2018 September 2019. This move is not an automatic process and you will need to apply for the secondary-phase schools you would like your child to go to. If you would like information about applying for a place at secondary-phase 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 11 September 2018 at the Broadway Theatre in Barking.
Need help to apply online? Help sessions are available at Dagenham Library on Tuesdays and Barking Learning Centreon Thursdays from 11 September until 30 October 2018. Each session starts at 9am and ends at 4.30pm. Apply If you try to apply online and you cannot see your exact address in the list presented, or theschools you want to apply for are not listed, you must contact the School Admissions Team by 5pm on 31 October 2018.
The closing date for your online application and the other information we ask for is 31 October 2018 Apply online for a secondary-phase school place now: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions Apply online for a secondary-phase school place: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions
Introduction
Moving from primary or junior To apply, you must use the Applications we receive after school to secondary-phase school common application form provided this date are late, and we will not is not an automatic process and by the borough you live in. If you process them until after we have you will need to apply for a place are applying for a place at our dealt with the applications we at the secondary-phase school voluntary-aided school (All Saints), received on time. By this time, you you would like your child to go to. or schools outside the borough, will be less likely to gain a place for This information e-booklet explains you may also need to send your child at your preferred school. the admissions process and you those schools extra forms and If you do not fill in and return your will need to refer to it over the documents. See page 25 for application form, and you live in next year. more details. this borough, we will give your child a place in any school in the All schools use admission The schools on your form are borough with a space. criteria (conditions) to decide your preferences – they cannot which applications to accept and be your choices because we The School Admissions Team will which to turn down. We explain cannot guarantee everyone a be happy to answer any questions the admission criteria for place at any of the schools they you have about the process at the Barking and Dagenham schools have listed. If everybody named public information meeting we are on pages 18 to 21. the same school, we would not holding for parents. Please see the be able to increase the number inside front cover for full details of It is important that you read and of places there. the meeting. The meeting starts understand the information in at 7pm and we hope to see you this e-booklet before you apply. Instead, we offer as many places there. If you need independent If you don’t follow the process as possible in order of the criteria advice, you can contact the Family in this e-booklet, you risk not and whose forms are returned by Information Service Team (see getting a place for your child the closing date. The full timetable page 46). at your preferred school. is on page 40). You must return all applications and documents by the closing date, 31 October 2018.
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3 Information for parents about children moving to secondary-phase schools in 2019
Contents This e-booklet contains information about how children move from primary and junior schools to secondary- phase schools. It also gives details about all the secondary-phase 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 Our schools and colleges 27
Welcome 5 All Saints Catholic School 28
What you need to do 6 Barking Abbey School (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 Statistical information 7 Eastbury Community School 32 What you need to know 8-26 Goresbrook School 33 The admissons process 8-26 Greatfields School 34
Admission criteria 18-21 Jo Richardson Community School 35
Admission criteria for All Saints Catholic School 18 -19 Riverside School 36
Admission criteria for Goresbrook School 20 Robert Clack School of Science (a specialist college) 37
Admission criteria for all our other secondary-phase The Sydney Russell School 38 schools 21 The Warren School 39 Filling in your forms 22-25 The timetable of events 40 Common application form 22-24 Map of secondary-phase schools in the borough 41 Supplementary information forms 25 Other London authorities’ school admissions Returning your information 26 sections 42
Common application form 26 Glossary 43 Supplementary information forms 26 Definitions of the words used in this e-booklet
Options for 14 - to 19-year-olds 44-45 (Techical and training schools) 44
Useful information and services 46-48
All Saints Catholic School Cover Note (SIF) 49
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Welcome
Dear parents and carers
Every school in our borough is committed to providing young people with a top-quality education that makes sure they are given the opportunity to achieve their full potential. With nine out of 10 schools rated as ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted, you can feel confident that wherever your child goes, they will be in the hands of dedicated professionals.
This guide explains the admissions process and provides all the information you need to apply for a secondary-phase school place for your child. Please take the time to read it carefully. Choosing a young person’s secondary-phase school is an exciting but important decision, and one that you and your child need to be comfortable with.
It can be tough picking your preferred schools. I highly recommend taking the time to visit the schools you are interested in so you can find out as much as possible about the places you are thinking about sending your child.
To help you with your decision, I would like to invite you to the admission information meeting that is being held at 7pm on Tuesday 11 September at the Broadway Theatre in Barking.
Our experienced School Admissions Team will be on hand to help guide you through the process and to give information and advice. You will also get the chance to meet other parents whose children will be starting a secondary-phase school in 2019.
Thank you for taking the time to consider this very important decision.
By working together, we hope to make your child’s move to a secondary-phase school as smooth as possible, so they can continue to enjoy learning and developing their talents and abilities.
Yours sincerely,
Councillor Evelyn Carpenter Cabinet Member for Educational Attainment and School Improvement
5 Information for parents about children moving to secondary-phase schools in 2019 What you need to do If you live in Barking and Dagenham we ask for. This may be proof that you are the child’s guardian, proof of your address, or proof that your 1 Read and make sure you understand the admissions child is or was in the care of a local authority process for our borough, particularly pages 6 to 26. (pages 9 to 11). 2 Go to the admission meeting listed on the inside cover. 7 Finally, don’t forget to fill in any extra supplementary The meeting will give you independent advice about information forms (SIF), and provide any documents or the admissions process. You can also contact the information for any schools or local authorities that ask Family Information Service Team on 020 8227 5395 if you to do this, and send these forms and documents you need more help. back to them before the closing date. We will not pass 3 Collect information to help you decide your on any extra information or SIF’s to schools or local preferences, which can be any school in Barking and authorities (LA) on your behalf. Dagenham or another borough. Pages 28 to 39 in Offers will be sent on 1 March 2019. If we cannot this e-booklet gives you information about Barking and give your child a place at any of the schools you have Dagenham schools. Addresses for information about applied for, we will give your child a school place in schools in other boroughs are shown on page 42. any part of the borough with a space. You have a right 4 Visit the schools to see for yourself what they can offer. to appeal if we turn down your application (see page The times of open days and open evenings in Barking 16). We will also place your child on the interest list and Dagenham schools are shown on page 40. for any other Barking and Dagenham school you listed as a higher preference than the school we offered you. 5 Study the information on page 7, which shows statistics from last year’s applications for Barking If you live outside Barking and Dagenham and Dagenham schools. This information should give you an idea of what happened last year and Each local authority (LA) is responsible for educating the chance that you would have had of getting a children aged five to 16 living in their borough or county. place at your preferred Barking and Dagenham Each LA is also responsible for making sure that children school. This information also shows the number of receive education or training from age 16 to 18. If you do parents who were successful in getting one of their not live in Barking and Dagenham, please make sure you preferences and the popularity of each of our schools. have read the admissions e-booklet from your borough We recommend that you consider including your or county. local school as one of your preferences. The chances You will need to fill in the common application form (CAF) of your child being offered a place at your preferred provided by your borough or county. You can list Barking school increase the closer you live to that school. and Dagenham schools on that form. You must return the Previous editions of this e-booklet and statistical CAF to your borough or council by their closing date. information for the past five years are published on our website. Booklets published before 2014 are called You must also fill in any other relevant forms (supplementary ‘the right secondary school’. information forms or extra documents (page 25) that may If you are applying for schools outside the borough, apply. The admission criteria for Barking and Dagenham study the information the relevant local authority and schools are on pages 18 to 21. It is important that you school provide. read and understand the criteria and admissions process (pages 18 to 26) before you apply. 6 If you want your child to stay on at the all-through school they already go to, do not fill in an application It is important that you rank the schools in your true order form. If you want them to move to a different of preference. Potential offers are exchanged between secondary-phase school, you must apply for a place. councils until your own borough can make a single best To apply, fill in and submit the common application offer (including any schools you may have applied for form online by the closing date. List six schools in in other boroughs). The local authority that you live in the order you prefer. Most schools receive more will offer a place on 1 March 2019, for applications they applications than there are places available (they are have received by the closing date. You have a right to oversubscribed). In this situation, not everybody will appeal if we turn down your application (see page 16). be given a place. We need information to help us We will also place your child on the interest list for any offer you another school, and the more schools you other Barking and Dagenham school you have listed list the greater the chance of this. Carefully check as a higher preference than the school your LA offered the names and addresses of the schools you have you. Please make sure you have read about how your selected, as some schools have similar names. local authority handles admissions before you fill in your Please make sure you attach all the other information application form. 6 Apply online for a secondary-phase school place: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions
Statistical information information Statistical
The following information gives statistics about entry to Barking and Notes Dagenham secondary-phase schools in September 2018. It includes the 1 The information is based on number of people who sent us their application forms by the closing date, applications received by last year’s and the distance the child given the last place at each of our schools closing date for pupils starting lived from that school using our 2018 admission criteria. Distances are secondary-phase school in measured in kilometres in a straight line (as the crow flies). September 2018. This information The number of applications for each school and the addresses from is useful because it shows the which children are applying will be different from year to year. number of pupils given a place under each category of the 2018 Plain English Campaign’s Crystal Mark does not apply to the admission criteria. following table. 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:
• 71.44% received their first- preference school;
• 13.13% received their second- preference school;
• 5.18% received their third- preference school;
• 2.56% 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 • 1.53% received their fifth- Barking Abbey 1,377 360 3 1 356 1.893 34 2 preference school; Dagenham Park 520 270 9 1 195 N/A 2 0 • 0.75% received their sixth- Eastbrook 482 360 1 1 124 N/A 0 0 preference school; and Eastbury 756 300 3 0 293 N/A 4 1 • 5.41% were given the nearest Jo Richardson 1,203 300 6 1 293 1.51 51 2 school to their home with a Robert Clack 1,673 360 0 3 357 1.66 66 8 vacancy. Own admission authority schools 4 The statistics for late applications refer to applications received All Saints 832 240 4 2 22 1.066 26 2 between 1 November 2018 and Goresbrook 427 120 0 1 83 N/A 1 0 31 July 2018. Greatfields 301 120* 0 0 113 N/A 0 0 5 The appeals information is based Riverside 467 300 0 1 205 N/A 0 0 on the appeals heard between April and July 2018. Sydney Russell 1,557 360 3 2 355 1.324 87 10 Warren 437 240 2 0 145 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 *The school’s admission number changed from what was published in the 2018 booklet
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What you need to know The admissons process
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-phase 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 2019 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 The co-ordinated process will end We need information to help us preference. on 31 August 2019. After this date offer you another school, and 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 guarantee everyone a place at any • pass on details of applications advice about applying for of the schools they have listed. for schools in other council a school place? If everybody named the same areas; and The local authority holds a meeting school, we would not be able to • co-ordinate the offer of places to offer advice to parents about increase the number of places to make sure that nobody gets how the admissions process there. offered more than one school works. Admissions officers will be place. Simply naming one school or available to answer any questions repeating the same school does The admission authority for each you have and the date of the not increase your child’s chance of school you have listed on the meeting is printed on the inside getting a place there, and may lead application will decide whether or front cover of this e-booklet. An us to giving your child a place at a not to offer your child a place. If a adviser will also be available school you have not listed. school is oversubscribed (receives at each of the schools’ open more applications than available evenings. The admission number of each school and the number places), the admissions authority You may also get advice from will use its published conditions of applications made for those the Family Information Service places last year are shown on (admission criteria) to decide the (FIS Team) and their advice order in which to offer places. We the statistical information is independent of the School page 7. This information will will not tell the schools where you Admissions Team. They will ranked them in order of preference show you which schools are likely explain how the admissions to be oversubscribed (receive on your application form or tell a procedures affect your individual school about other schools you more applications than there are circumstances and will also help places available). have also applied to. However, if you fill in the necessary forms you appeal for a place, we will pass to make sure your application is this information to the admission complete. There are contact details authorities (the school or the local for the FIS Team on page 46. authority) at the appeal stage.
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My child goes to an • he was married to the child’s used. If both parents have parental ‘all-through’ school, mother when the child was born responsibility, we must receive (even if they later divorce or documents to prove this. We do I still have to apply separate); will normally accept the parents’ for a school place? address used by the child’s • the child was born after primary or junior school as the If your child goes to an ‘all-through’ 1 December 2003, and he is child’s permanent home. school and you would like them named on the birth certificate; or to stay at the same school for the • he has a parental responsibility secondary phase, you do not need Do I need to send proof of agreement from a court or to do anything else. Your child by agreement with the child’s my address? will automatically continue at their mother. We check addresses to prevent current school in September 2019. fraudulent applications. To do this, However, if you would prefer your What does guardianship we need to check where you and child to go to a different school, your child are living. We already you must apply and follow the mean? have these details if your child is at instructions in this e-booklet. If we If a child is not living with their a Barking and Dagenham primary cannot offer your child a place at natural parents and another adult or junior school. However, we will another school, they will stay on is looking after the child, we need need proof of you and your child’s at the all-through school they are documentary evidence that you current address if: currently attending. are the guardian and have parental • your child’s address on the If we can offer your child a place at responsibility for that child. That is, application form is different from a different school, we will give their you have the legal right to make the address your child’s Barking place at the all-through school to decisions on the child’s behalf. and Dagenham primary or junior another child. Evidence includes a will or a court school has on their records (as order and Child Benefit payments. of 11 July 2018); or The only LBBD school that this Guardianship only applies if you • your child goes to a primary process currently affects is Sydney can prove that you have full care or junior school outside the Russell School. and the normal, permanent home borough. is not at their parents’ address. Who can fill in the Guardianship does not apply when In either of these cases, we will need application forms? picking up children to and from to see one document from each of school, or looking after them until the three document lists below. The person or people with parental their parents collect them. List A – (proof of child’s name, responsibility for the child must fill date of birth and address) in the application forms. Parental What if my child lives responsibility for the child is • HM Revenue & Customs defined by the Children Act 1989 with both parents at two documents such as a letter and amended by the Adoption different addresses? showing your entitlement to and Children Act 2002. Please Child Benefit letter, Working Tax When a child lives with their remember to provide proof that Credit or Child Tax Credit natural parents, legal guardian or you are the child’s legal guardian if foster parent, we will consider that • Your child’s medical registration you are not their natural parent. address to be the child’s normal, card A child’s mother is automatically permanent home. However, • Your child’s IND card (issued given parental responsibility when a child has parents who by the Home Office with photo when a child is born and this are separated, the parents may attached) remains in force until a court order name only one address for the determines otherwise. For births application process, but the List B – (proof of the parent’s or registered in England and Wales, a other parent can be named and carer’s address) child’s father will also have parental provided with copies of information • Your Council Tax bill for responsibility if: we issue. If one parent has parental responsibility, we must 2018-2019. receive documents to prove this and that parent’s address must be
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• Your Council Tax Benefit letter or If you are not able to provide proof What happens if my child notice for 2018-2019. of your and your child’s address has additional needs? when you make your application, • A solicitor’s letter showing the you have until 31 January 2019 All Barking and Dagenham completion details if you have to provide documents as proof. schools, including those with just bought your home (the letter However, these documents must specialist services, offer an must be dated within the last show your family were living at the environment in which everyone is three months) property on the closing date for treated fairly and equally. Pupils List C – (proof of the parent’s or applications. with special educational needs, carer’s address) disabilities or any other needs are If you are not able to provide the encouraged and supported to • Your utility bill (gas, electricity documents by 31 January 2019, make the most of the curriculum or water) from the last three we cannot offer your child a place and all the available facilities. months (we will not accept a at an oversubscribed school. If mobile-phone bill or bills for your child lives in Barking and For children with a full statement internet connection). Dagenham, we will then offer them of special educational needs or an a place at the nearest school to Educational Health and Care Plan • A statement from your bank, your home with a vacancy. If you (EHC), the local authority’s EHC building society or a credit-card live outside the borough, you will Team would have written to you company from the last three need to contact the local education during the 2018 school summer months. authority of the borough you live in break. If you are not sure whether If you do not own or rent your own for a school place. your child has a final statement home, but are living with someone of special educational needs Please check that both your and who owns their home or rents it or EHC plan, fill in the common your child’s name and address from the council or from another application form and tick the box match the information you give on landlord, you will need to prove in (section 2 of the paper form) your application form and on the that you live there. If your current which asks ‘Does your child have documents in list A. Similarly, the address means you are living an EHC plan or a final statement of guardian named on the application with someone who lives in either special educational needs?’. The must be listed on the documents privately rented or council property, admissions service will consult you provide from lists B and C. If we need their 2018-2019 Council with the EHC Team and tell you you change your address at any Tax bill or Council Tax Benefit letter if they will be processing your time in this process, you must or notice with written confirmation application. also give us proof of your new from the legal landlord, of all those address by sending us the above If your child has an EHC plan, or people who are authorised to documents. statement of special educational live at the premises and for what needs or is having an assessment period of time. The letter must If there is a question about whether to find out whether they need one, contain the following information: the address is valid, we will ask and you need further help with the for other documents not listed • The address of the property secondary transfer process, please in this e-booklet. If we discover contact the EHC Team by phoning • The names of all legal tenants that we have given your child a 020 8227 2400. and authorised residents place based on false, inaccurate or misleading information, we will • A statement confirming that the withdraw the place and may take people applying for a school legal action. place are entitled to stay as permanent residents
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What happens if my What happens if my child How do I apply for a child is or was in the care is from a UK Armed Forces school outside Barking of a local authority family (crown service)? and Dagenham? (a looked-after child)? Under Government rules, If you live in this borough and applications from families of the UK would like your child to go to a We consider applications for Armed Forces can be considered school in another borough (not children who are or used to be in at the posting address before the private schools), you must list the care of a local authority before family have moved to the area. those schools on your Barking we consider all other applications. However, we do not give automatic and Dagenham common A looked-after child is a child who priority to these children over other application form. Please apply is or was: children. If you are moving to our online, checking that the school • in the care of a local authority; or borough, please apply online by the you want to apply for is on the list closing date and use the address of of schools. If it is not on the list of • being provided with your posting. schools please contact the School accommodation by a local Admissions Team by 5pm on authority under their social Please tick the relevant box to 31 October 2018 on how to apply, services functions (see the show that you are either: otherwise we will not consider definition in Section 22(1) of the • a UK Armed Forces family with a your application in the first round Children Act 1989). confirmed posting to the area; or of offers. For admission purposes we • a crown servant returning from It is important that you know the consider a ‘looked-after child’ overseas to live in the area. admission criteria for the schools to be a child who is currently in you are asking for, and you may care or a child who was in care Your application must also need to fill in supplementary previously at any point in their life include an official letter that information forms and provide and then became subject to an declares a relocation date and a further information for these adoption, residence, or special unit postal address or quartering schools. Please contact the guardianship order immediately area address. If your posting admissions authority (school or after leaving care. changes, please follow the advice in the ‘What if my circumstances LA) of the school you have in mind If your child is in the care of a local change?’ section. We will process for more information. It is your authority, you must also include your application using your posting responsibility to give the school with the common application form address and in line with each or LA the information they need. a letter from the social worker school’s admission criteria. Page 42 lists the contact details confirming the legal status of the for all London local authorities. child and the local authority which For details of other local authorities the child is in the care of. The letter that are not listed, please see the should also provide the reasons Department for Education (DfE) for the preferred schools you have website at www.gov.uk/dfe. listed. If you live in this borough and If your child is in the care of a local you do not fill in the Barking and authority and you would like to Dagenham common application discuss the secondary transfer of form, you will not be considered for your child with a member of Virtual any schools, either inside or outside School for Looked After Children, the borough, even if you fill in their please phone 020 8227 2691. supplementary information forms. If the child used to be in the care of a local authority and you want to apply under this priority, we will need to see evidence that the child was in the care of a local authority.
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Can I change the How do I return the forms? If you need to create an email information on my address you need to have a mobile Supplementary information phone number and have that same application form? forms (SIFs) mobile phone with you when you Please see page 25. create the email address. Keep a Important note Common application form (CAF) note of your new email address Applying online is reliable and and the password to access the If your information changes, secure. All local authorities in email you have now created. you must alter the relevant London have worked together sections on your online Making an application is easy once to make it possible for parents to application form by the closing you have a valid email address, apply online for a school place date. and should take no more than in London and its surrounding 10 minutes. The site gives full counties. instructions on its guidance pages, We will send you an email with a to help you make your application. new version number every time This service is available through you change your application. If the ‘eAdmissions’ website. If you cannot make these changes you don’t already have an email to your online application, address, you will need to create you must tell us in writing and one before you apply online. include supporting documents if Although you can use any email necessary. The new details that address, we recommend you use Important note you give us will replace those ‘Google Mail’ or ‘gmail’. This is on your previous form. The last because other email providers If you apply online and you application you make before the may treat the email we send you cannot see your exact address closing date (on paper or online) as spam (electronic junk mail). in the list presented, or if the is the one that we use to process If this happens you will need to schools you want to apply for your preferences. check your ‘spam’ or ‘junk mail’ are not listed, you must contact the Admissions Team before After the closing date, changes box for our email, and then follow 5pm on 31 October 2018, should be made in writing to the the instructions to add us to your otherwise your application will School Admissions Team or a safe senders list. After doing this, be late. Our contact details are paper form must be filled in. If all future emails from us will go on page 4. we receive any of your changes straight into your inbox. after the closing date, we will treat those changes as ‘late’ as we offer places based on all information available on the closing date. Please see the question ‘What if my application is late?’ on page 14 for more details.
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Is my information How are places given? a school than there are places protected? available in that school (that is, The current School Admissions the school is oversubscribed), We will deal with your personal Code says that schools are we will use the admission criteria information in line with the ‘required to admit children with to decide which applications are Data Protection Act 1998. For statements of special educational successful. The notes that follow security purposes we ask you for need or EHC plans, where the the admission criteria, are there to a password. If you apply online, school concerned is named on explain particular points about the your application reference number the statement or plan’. As a result, criteria we use. (ARN) will be your password. If we process these children’s In Barking and Dagenham, the you apply on a paper form, we will applications first. If the school local authority is the admissions need you to give us a password has been named in the child’s authority for the five community between 8 and 12 letters long. statement, or EHC plan, we schools and for Dagenham Park Without your password or ARN must take places off the school Church of England Voluntary- we cannot give out information admission number for that year Controlled School. The criteria on your application if you visit or group. The admission authority for these schools are listed on phone us. then issues the rest of the places using the admission criteria. For page 21. As part of the admissions example, if the admission number Goresbrook School is an academy procedure, we may share the for a school is 180 and three governed by The United Learning information you give on your places have been given to children Trust who are the admissions application forms with schools whose statements or EHC plans authority and set their own and other departments in the name that school, we will issue the admission criteria. The School council (such as the Child and other 177 places in line with the Admissions Team processes Family Service, Children’s Social admission criteria. applications for this school, and we Care Democratic Services, the will offer places on its behalf. Educational Health Care Team, We then process all other educational psychologists, the applications using the equal- Both Greatfields and Riverside Family Information Service, the preference model. This is are free schools with academy Inclusion Service, the Looked-After explained below. status, and Sydney Russell is an Children Team, the police and • We consider each of your academy. All three schools are run Youth Offending Services). preferences as if it were your by the Partnership Learning Trust. Warren School is an academy We will also share your only preference. governed by The Loxford Trust. information with other schools and • For each of your preferences, These four schools are their own departments outside the council the admission authority will use admissions authority, but they (such as the Child and Adolescent the admission criteria to see if will follow the same admission Mental Health Service (CAMHS), they can offer your child a place. criteria as Barking and Dagenham the Department for Education community schools. The School (DfE), Ofsted, and other local • If we can then offer your child Admissions Team processes authorities) and with the school a place at two or more of the applications for these schools, and your child goes to, where it will schools you have listed, we will we will offer places on their behalf. form part of the school’s pupil give your child a place at the database. one you ranked the highest of All Saints Catholic School and these schools. Technology College is our only For more information about voluntary-aided school, and for that how we will use your personal We do not make decisions to school, the governing body are the information please visit offer places based on the date we admissions authority that set their www.lbbd.gov.uk/privacy, where received the applications. Instead, own admission criteria. you can see a full copy of our we group all the applications Privacy Notice. we receive on time and process Before you make your them together. If there are more application, please make sure places available than there are you read and understand these applications for those places, we criteria and notes and check agree all the applications. However, how places were distributed if there are more applications for at each school. See our website
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for copies of previous editions However, if we discover that we offers and send decision letters of this booklet (those published have given a place based on on 1 March 2019. We will have before 2014 were called ‘The right false, inaccurate or misleading given most places to pupils whose secondary school’). The booklets information, we will withdraw it and applications we received by the include statistics for previous years. may take legal action. We will treat closing date. After this date, as late any changes to preferences applications will be processed What is the timetable? or their ranking, conditions, within 10 working days of the circumstances or applications we School Admissions Team receiving The closing date for ‘on-time’ receive after the closing date. your form. applications made online is If we have not received your midnight on 31 October 2018. What if my application application form by 14 March Do not wait until the last minute 2019 and your child lives in the to make your application in is late? borough we will automatically give case your computer crashes or If we receive your application after your child a place at the nearest your address or the schools you the closing date (31 October 2018) school to you which has a place are applying for are not available we will treat your application as available. At this stage, other on the online system. Our offices late. schools will be full with children close for enquiries at 5pm on whose applications we received by 31 October 2018. If we receive In exceptional circumstances, the closing date. We send letters to your application after this, it will senior officers may consider tell parents who have not applied be treated as a late application. If whether we can process a late for a school place which school you intend to move address during application as ‘on time’ in the first we have allocated their child by the admissions process, please round, if there is enough time to 31 March 2019. apply to the borough that you will process the application. These be living in on the closing date circumstances include the death If you then want to apply for and follow the advice in the ‘What of a close relative, or a family a school place after we have happens if my circumstances recently moving into the area offered your child the nearest change?’ section. There is a full (in which case we need proof). school to your home with a place timetable of events on page 40 . If you send us your application available, you will need to fill in an after the closing date but want us application form listing the schools to consider it in the first round of you would like for your child. What happens if my offers, please send a letter with circumstances change? your application explaining the exceptional circumstances you When will I know the result You will need to contact the want us to consider, together with of my application? Admissions section in your any supporting evidence. We will borough if your circumstances If you apply online, you can find make a decision on each case change. We offer places based out the results of your application individually and let you know the on the information available at the on 1 March 2019. We will send you outcome within 10 working days of closing date and you may change an email late that evening letting receiving your request. your preference or the order of you know the outcome of the your preferences up until that date. If we receive your application application. You can also log in to late, we will deal with it after we the eAdmissions website after 7pm If we have given your child a have dealt with the applications to see your results. If you were not place, we will not withdraw it if that we received on time. We will able to apply online but applied your circumstances change (such deal with late applications in the direct to the Admissions Team by as your address), as long as you order we receive them (in line the closing date, we will send you can show that the information was with the admission criteria). We the results by first-class post on 1 correct on the closing date. will deal with the first round of March 2019.
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Please allow up to two days Do I have to accept the What happens after my for your letter to be delivered. place you offer my child? child is given a school We cannot tell you the results of your application over the phone. Schools outside the borough place? If you have not received your Yes Please use the eAdmissions Once we have given your child a letter by 5 March 2019, please website to accept the place we school place, we tell the relevant contact us and we will send you have offered your child at an out-of- school. They will contact you later another copy. borough school. These boroughs in the summer term to tell you will withdraw the place if you do not If you do not want the place we about the admission arrangements accept their offer. have offered, you will need to and the uniform you need for your write and let us know what other To accept the place, log on to the child. Some schools will want to arrangements you are making for eAdmissions site with the username interview your child, either with your child’s education. If you want and password you received when you by appointment at the school to change your preferences or the you registered to make your given, or at your child’s current order of your preferences, you will application. If you have forgotten primary or junior school. Some need to send a new application your details, you can enter your schools will invite your child to form to your local authority’s email address and get a reminder spend a day at their offered Barking school Admissions section. sent to you. and Dagenham secondary‑phase school on 22 June 2019. The local authority you live in All-through schools None of these visits are part of will make offers for places at Yes Children cannot hold offers the application process. It is to all Barking and Dagenham at more than one school. If your make sure your child can move to secondary-phase schools on child goes to an ‘all-through’ school secondary-phase school as easily national offer day (1 March 2019). (for children aged four to 16), but as possible If you applied between you accept a place for them at a 1 November 2018 and different school, we will offer their Why have I been offered a 28 February 2019, offers will be automatic place at the all-through school that was not one of made from national offer day school to the next child on the my preferences? onwards, but you will need to interest list for that school. check how your home borough The admissions authority for each handles late applications. If we Barking and Dagenham schools of the schools you have listed will receive your application after No Because your child is of legal use their published conditions national offer day, we will process it school age, we automatically (admission criteria) to decide the within 10 working days of receiving accept the place on your behalf at order in which to offer places. If it. We send any preferences we our schools. If you turn down the we are unable to offer a place for receive for schools outside this place at one of our schools, we your child at one of the schools borough to the relevant school or will not withdraw the place unless you listed as your preferences, LA every Friday. If we can offer you provide evidence that you have this is because there were more your child a place at one of these been offered a place at another applicants for the schools you schools, we will let you know in school. requested than there are places writing. From 1 September 2019, available. If you live in Barking and local authorities no longer Dagenham and it is not possible co-ordinate applications and to offer your child a place at one of parents will have to follow the your preferred schools, we will give in-year admissions process. your child a place at the school Full information about our in-year which is nearest to your home with process is available on our website a space. within our e-booklet ‘Finding a school place’.
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Do I have the right to appeal? and fill in the paper appeal form appeal. For example, if you appeal and send it to the independent at the end of June for your Year- Barking and Dagenham schools appeal panel clerk, whose address 7 place, but your appeal cannot You have a right to appeal to an is printed on the front of the form. be heard by the time schools independent appeal panel if we For late applications the deadline close in July, you will need to fill do not offer your child a place for appealing is 21 school days in an ICAF for a Year-8 place for at the Barking and Dagenham from the date of our offer letter. the new school year beginning in schools on your application September 2020. You can make Once you send your form, the form which are listed as a higher your application for a Year-8 place independent appeal panel clerk preference than the one we have from 1 July. If we turn down that will write and tell you the date of offered you. For example you can application, you can appeal that your appeal. The appeal will be appeal for preference 1 and 2 if decision. we have offered you preference heard by an independent appeal 3. Any schools listed lower than panel, which will be made up of Schools outside the borough the school offered have not been three people. None of these people If you want to appeal against not turned down but rather have will have any connection with the being offered a place in a school been withdrawn based on how school or the School Admissions outside Barking and Dagenham, you have ranked the schools on Team. The appeal panel will accept you will need to contact the your application form. As a result comments in writing or in person at relevant admission authority (local you cannot appeal for a lower the appeal hearing. authority or school) for more details about how to appeal. preference or a school that you If you made your application on have not listed on your form. If time, we will hear your appeal Further appeals you want to apply for a school that within 40 school days of the We can only consider one you did not list on your original deadline of 27 March 2019. If your application for each child, at application form or you want to application was late, we will hear each school within the same change the ranking of the schools your appeal with the appeals for school year. If we turn down your on your original application form, applications we received on time application, you have the right you need to confirm this in writing if possible. If this is not possible, to appeal. The appeal panel’s to us by filling in a new application we will hear it within 30 school decision is final and both the LA form which you can get from your days from the deadline for making and you must accept it. local authority. If you change your appeals (as shown on your offer In normal circumstances, you preferences and do not reselect letter). schools which you are appealing cannot make a second appeal for for, your appeal will be withdrawn. At any time during the school the same school within the same year (now until mid-July 2020), school year. However, if there has All the available places for Year you have the right to appeal our been a significant change in your 7 at your preferred school will decision to refuse your application family’s circumstances which you have been distributed in line with for your child to attend the schools think changes your application’s the local authority’s published listed on your application, which priority level, for example if your admission criteria. No places we received during that school family has moved house, we may are left unfilled for any reason, year. However, if your appeal consider a second application including appeals. cannot be heard within that time as long as you can prove your If you decide to appeal for a place because you made your appeal circumstances have changed. If at any Barking and Dagenham late in the school year and there we accept your second application school, fill in our online appeal is not enough time left for your but a place is still not available at form. If you applied on time, and child to start the school before the the school for your child, you will would like your case to be heard end of that school year, you will be able to make a second appeal. in the first round of appeals, you need to fill in an in-year application must submit the appeal form by xx (ICAF) for the next school year. March 2019. Or you can download If we turn down that application, you will be able to make a new
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Can I go on an We delete the interest lists for What happens if my interest list? these schools at the end of each child starts a Barking term (December, April and July). All Saints school If places become available before and Dagenham All Saints will automatically put this date, we offer them to children secondary‑phase school your child on the school’s interest on the interest list using only the but wants to transfer to list with other children whose admission criteria. If at the end of another school in the applications were turned down but the term you have not received borough? are listed higher than the school an offer from the interest list, you your local authority offered you. will need to write to us at that time First, make an appointment to If places become available, we to place your child’s name on discuss the matter with the pupil’s then offer these using the schools’ the fresh interest list for the next current head teacher, as many admission criteria. Your child will term. If you still want to stay on the situations can be dealt with without stay on the interest list for a school interest list after July 2020, you will the disruption that a change of year (until August 2020). If you still need to fill in an in-year common school can cause. If your child still want to stay on the interest list after application form (ICAF) for the wants to transfer and you have this date, you will need to fill out a new academic (school) year and not put your child’s name on the new application form for the new you will have the opportunity for a interest list for another school, academic year and you will have new appeal. please follow the guidance in the the opportunity for a new appeal. We do not take into account the information e-booklet ‘Finding a All other Barking and Dagenham date we received your application. school place’. From 1 September schools If you want to apply for a school 2019, applications or transfers for We will automatically put your you did not list on your original year 7 school places fall under the child on an interest list for any application form or you want to in-year admissions process and other preferred Barking and change the ranking of the schools for more information about this Dagenham schools that we turned on your original application form, please see our website or phone down but are listed higher than you need to confirm this in writing 020 8215 3004. You must make the school we have offered you. to us by filling in a new application sure that your child continues For example, if we have offered form which you can get from your to regularly attend their current you preference number 3, your local authority. Forms received school while we are considering child will automatically be placed after the closing date will be your transfer request. on the interest list for preference processed as a late application. 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. the school will tell us who to offer We maintain the interest list for those places to. each of these oversubscribed schools until 23 December 2019.
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Admission criteria
Admission criteria for All Saints Catholic School in order of priority
Before you apply, please read the These criteria are written to give Admission criteria admission criteria on this page as priority to Catholic children and The school will offer places by well as the procedures for filling greater priority to practising applying the criteria below in in and sending in the certificate Catholic children. numerical order. of Catholic practice form, baptism The school is expanding from six certificate and the cover note on 1. Baptised Catholic children to eight classes and its published page 25 and page 49 . who are in the care of a local admission number (PAN) varies authority or children who were If you have any questions about the between the years as the school ‘looked after’ but who left local admission criteria or appeals, or if grows. In September 2019, the authority care because they you need more information, please governing body agreed a PAN of were adopted or became the contact the school. 240 children into Year 7. subject of a residence order All Saints Catholic School is In the criteria, ‘Catholic’ refers to or special guardianship order. a voluntary aided, Catholic someone who: See important note B. Comprehensive School for boys • is a baptised Catholic (a person 2. Practising Catholics who will and girls ages 11 to 18. who has been baptised or have a brother or sister in the Because the admissions system received in communion with the school in any of Years 7 to 11 on works by applicants receiving a See of Rome); and the day the child starts school in place at the school with a place September 2019. • has a Catholic ‘certificate to offer them which is the highest of baptism’ or ‘certificate of 3. Practising Catholics. on their preference list, we advise reception’ which shows that they Catholics who want a Catholic 4. Catholics who will have a are members of the Catholic education to list All Saints as one brother or sister in the school Church. You can get copies of of their top preferences on the in any of Years 7 to 11 on the these from the parish where the common application form (CAF). day the child starts school in baptism or reception took place. September 2019. We have a distinctly Catholic ethos A ‘practising’ Catholic refers to and approach to education, which 5. Catholics. someone who: is what our success is based upon. 6. Other children who are in the Families should want this Catholic • is confirmed by their parish priest care of a local authority or education if their children are to do to be practising, according to children who were ‘looked regulations set by the Catholic well in the school. The school is after’ but who left local- Church (that is, attending Mass run by the Diocese of Brentwood authority care because they every Sunday and Holy Day and draws Catholic children were adopted or became the from a wide geographical area of Obligation) and has been practising for the past five years. subject of a residence order of Catholic parishes. Although See important note C. or special guardianship order. we want to support the parishes See important note B. of our local deanery, we have no specific catchment area. Our main 7. Other baptised children who will aim and purpose is to support have a brother or sister in the the academic, spiritual and moral school in any of Years 7 to 11 on education of practising Catholic the day the child starts school in children. September 2019. 8. Other baptised 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, B. ‘Looked after child’ has the same meaning as in Section 22 of the the governors will give priority Children Act 1989 and means any child who is or was in the care to those who live closest to the of a local authority or provided with accommodation by them (for school site at Becontree Heath, example, children with foster parents). ‘Adopted’ has the same as measured in kilometres in a meaning as in section 46 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 straight line (as the crow flies). and means to take on the legal responsibilities as parent towards a All distances are measured using child who is not biologically your own. ‘Residence order’ is defined ESRI’s Geographical Information in section 8 of the Children Act 1989 as an order settling the System, from the centre of the arrangements for who the child will live with. ‘Special guardianship child’s home to the school’s order’ is defined under section 14A of the Children Act 1989 as main gate. Some addresses have an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special different entry points and so we guardians. will use the co-ordinates provided from Local Land and Property C. ‘Certificate of Catholic practice’ (CCP) means a certificate issued Gazetteer (LLPG). If the distance by the family’s parish priest (or the priest in charge of the church for two or more children is the where the family attends Mass) in the form set by the Bishops’ same (for example, from a block of Conference of England and Wales. It will be issued if the priest is flats), we will use a lottery system satisfied that at least one Catholic parent or carer (along with the (random allocation) to offer places child, if he or she is over seven years old) have (except when it was to children. London Borough of impossible to do so) attended Mass on Sundays and holy days of Barking and Dagenham will run obligation for at least five years (or, in the case of the child, since both processes and details of the the age of seven, if this is a shorter time). A certificate will also be processes are available from their issued when the practice has been continuous since the family school admissions officer. was received into the Church if that was less than five years ago. It is expected that most certificates will be issued on the basis of attendance. The priest may also issue a certificate when the family’s attendance is interrupted by exceptional circumstances which prevent them from attending on an occasion or occasions. There are more details of these circumstances 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 2019. We will then place your child on the school’s interest list with any other children whose applications were late and children whose parents applied on time and were turned down but listed our school higher than the one you were offered. 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 flies). We (the Barking and 1 Children with statements of • a full brother or sister; Dagenham School Admissions special educational needs are • a half-brother or half-sister; Team) measure all distances dealt with under the terms of the using Synergy’s Geographical Education Act 1996 and are not • a stepbrother or stepsister; Information System from the referred to in the criteria above. and centre of the child’s home to Children with a statement of • an adopted or long-term the school’s main gate. Some special educational needs or an fostered brother or sister; addresses have different entry EHC plan will go to the school living at the same address and points and so we will use named. going to the named school the designated co-ordinates 2 A looked-after child is a child (not including the school’s provided from Local Land and who is or was: nursery). Please make sure Property Gazetteer (LLPG). you name all siblings on If you live outside the area, • in the care of a local authority; your application form. If they we will use the same system or are not listed on your form, to measure distances. When • being provided with we cannot take them into children have an equal claim accommodation by a local account. to a place because their authority under their social measurements are the same (for 4 The child’s home must be the services functions (see the example, from a block of flats), permanent address where they definition in Section 22(1) of our database will automatically live with their legal guardian. the Children Act 1989). use a lottery system (random This should be the address for allocation) to offer places to For admission purposes the parent’s or carer’s Council children. we consider a ‘looked-after Tax bill and where Child Benefit child’ to be a child currently is addressed. 6 We are unable to consider other circumstances not listed in the in care or a child who was in 5 If two or more children have an care but became subject to criteria. It is essential that we are equal claim to a place in any one consistent in our judgement and an adoption, residence, or category, we will give priority to special guardianship order use only the criteria that have children who live closest to the been agreed. immediately after leaving care. school, measured in kilometres
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Admission criteria for all our other secondary-phase 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 2 A looked-after child is a child children. 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 8 If we discover that we have given distances. 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 phase schools with split sites place and may take legal action. we consider a ‘looked-after will be measured to the main child’ to be a child currently site. The main site is the in care or a child who was in entrance through the main door care but became subject to at the upper site where the an adoption, residence, or head teacher’s office is. This special guardianship order measurement affects Barking immediately after leaving care. Abbey and Robert Clack schools.
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Filling in your forms Common application form
If you want your child to stay on at Child’s details Children in care the all-through school they already go to, do not fill in an application Child’s name – This should be Please select the relevant box to form. If you want your child to your child’s legal name given on show if your child is or was ‘in move to a different secondary- their birth certificate or passport. the care’ of a local authority. If so, phase school, you must apply You are responsible for making please attach a letter from the social for a place. If you do not fill in the sure that you have used the same worker confirming the legal status common application form, we may name on all forms needed for your of the child and the local authority not be able to give your child a child’s application. If you do not, the child is in the care of. The letter place at the school you prefer. we may not be able to process should also provide the reasons for your child’s application. the preferred schools listed. • Please use all your six preferences and rank (list) Child’s date of birth – Please select If the child was in care butis no them in the order you prefer. the day, month and year. longer being cared for by a local authority, tick ‘yes’ and provide Child’s sex – Please select the • Some schools may need documents to show the child relevant box to show if your child you to fill in and send them was previously in the care of a is male or female. supplementary forms and local authority. See page 11 for other documents (see page Child’s address – This must be more details. 25 for details). the permanent address where the The information you need to put child lives with their parents or Preferences for on your form is as follows, but the legal guardians and where Child secondary‑phase order of the information is different Benefit is addressed. Please see on the online form. Please see page 9 for full description. school page 24 for details of how Child’s current school – Please School name to send us any documents we select the name of your child’s Please select the name and ask for if you cannot attach your primary or junior school from the borough (if outside the London documents online. menu. If the school is not listed, borough of Barking and Details we ask for you may type this information in Dagenham) of six different Whether you fill in an online or the space given. secondary-phase schools you paper form we need the following want to apply for. You must list the details. You need to fill in a Children with schools in the order you prefer them. Number 1 is the school you separate form for each child. In additional needs the case of twins, triplets and so most prefer and number 6 is the on, make sure you have a different • Please select the relevant box school you least prefer. You must ARN for each child when you to show if your child has a final list all state-maintained schools or apply online. To do this, make sure statement of special educational academies (not private schools) you tick ‘yes’ to the ‘multiple birth’ need or an EHC plan. you are applying for, including question so that you can fill in the any schools outside the borough extra online forms for each child. • Please select the relevant box of Barking and Dagenham. If the to show if your child has any schools you want to apply for are additional needs and give not listed, you must contact the details in the box provided. School Admissions Team before See page 11 for more details. 5pm on 31 October 2018 or your application will be late. Our contact details are on page 25. Please make sure you select the correct school as there are many schools with the same or similar names.
22 Apply online for a secondary-phase school place: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions
Siblings (brothers and sisters) If you think there are exceptional UK Armed Forces – Please tick The only LBBD schools that offer medical or social reasons why the relevant box to show that you sibling priority are All Saints and your child should go to a particular are either: Goresbrook Schools. For these school, select the relevant box • a UK Armed Forces family with a and other schools outside the on your online form to show this confirmed posting to the area; or borough that have a sibling (or section 4 of the paper form). criterion, please select the relevant With your application, you also • a crown servant returning from box to show that your child has a need to provide proof to the relevant overseas to live in the area. brother or sister at the school you school or LA that is supported by are applying for. Give the name, a professional (such as a doctor’s Please see page 11 for more date of birth and sex of any brother report). details. or sister who is already at the Password – We need a password school you are applying for. Parent’s or carer’s details for security purposes only. When This includes a full, half, step, you apply on a paper form, we will Parental responsibility – adopted or long-term fostered need you to give us a password The adult listed on the form should brother or sister living at the same between 8 and 12 letters long. be the person or people with address. If you do not put the Without this information we cannot parental responsibility for the child brother’s or sister’s name and date give out information on your named. Please give your full name of birth in the correct section, we application if you visit or phone us. and contact details, and tick the will not see the information on If you apply online, we will need relevant box to show your title and our computer system and so will your application reference number relationship to the child named not give your child priority under for security purposes. the sibling criterion. We do not (for example, tick ‘other family consider qualifying brothers and member’ if you are a sister caring sisters who are not named in the for the child). Please remember to Declaration correct section on your CAF. provide documentary evidence of The person with parental legal guardianship if you are not the responsibility for the child named Children of staff at the school child’s natural parent. If you are applying to a school in section 1 must tick the box in the declaration to confirm that they outside this borough for your child Parental address – have read and understood the and that school gives priority to The online form automatically ticks information in this e-booklet and children of staff members, please the box to show that you and your that the information they give is include the name and job title of child share the same address. accurate. If you are filling in a paper the staff member employed by the If your address is different from the form, you must sign it in section 6. school and the number of years they child’s address (for example parents have worked at the school. Children share custody), please un-tick of staff are not considered under the the question box ‘Use your home admission criteria for Barking and address?’ and enter your and your Dagenham schools. Our criteria are child’s address details. If you fill in listed on pages page 18 to 21. a paper form, please explain why your address is different from the Reasons for your preference child’s and give both addresses on Some local authorities consider a separate sheet of paper. If we ask social and medical reasons as part for proof of address, please make of their admission criteria. We do sure you send us the information not do this for our schools. If you listed on pages 9 to 11. are applying for a school outside the borough, it is very important that you check the admission criteria of each school you are applying for to see if their admission criteria take account of exceptional medical or social reasons. These might include religious, philosophical or any other reasons.
23 Information for parents about children moving to secondary-phase schools in 2019
Getting a receipt If you want us to let you know Providing us with that we have received information extra information If you apply online and successfully you have posted to us, you must submit (make) your application, you enclose a stamped self-addressed If you are providing extra will get an email confirmation and envelope. If you do not hear from information or evidence to support be given an application reference us within 14 days of posting your an online application, you may do number. This is your receipt. Please information, it is likely that we did this online. If you choose to provide make a note of your application not receive it. In that case, we paper evidence either by scanning reference number and keep it in a strongly recommend that you and sending the documents safe place as you will need to tell it apply online and we will email you through our Dagenham Library to us if we have any questions we a receipt. or by emailing us direct, please need to ask you. remember to include your child’s name, date of birth and application If you post any information to us, reference number. This will make proof of posting is not proof that sure that we can match your extra the School Admissions Team has information to your application. received your documents as neither In most cases you will need to you nor we can prove what was send any extra information to the included in the envelope. You are relevant school or LA. Please check also responsible for making sure carefully with the relevant school or you pay the correct postage charge. LA what you need to provide and We cannot accept any responsibility who needs to receive it. for underpaid packages.
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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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) or must take. Do not attach your CCP as being baptised (under our and other documents All Saints admission criteria 7 and 8), you ask for online − you must send should send All Saints a photocopy them direct to the school. of your child’s baptism certificate (or certificate of reception into the Common application form (CAF) Catholic Church) by 31 October 2018. Important notes you must fill in the CAF and list If you want to be recognised as All Saints Catholic School as one • If you miss our deadlines, we a practising Catholic, your local of you preferences. You must will class your application as priest must also fill in a CCP form. return the form to your home local late. Please see the ‘Certificate of authority by the closing date. Catholic practice’ section below. • If you are applying through The co-ordinated admissions another borough and miss Certificate of Catholic practice system operated by all local their deadlines, we will class form (CCP) authorities in England works by your application as late. If you want to be considered as offering an applicant one place a practising Catholic (under our • We will not deal with any only, which, if available, will be at admission criteria 2 and 3), you late applications until after the highest preference school on must arrange to meet with your 1 March 2019. We will then your CAF that has a place to offer parish priest in time to request a place your child on the your child under its criteria. If you CCP which you must send with the school’s interest list along want to have a Catholic education baptism certificate straight to All with other children whose for your child, you need to put Saints Catholic School to confirm applications were late, and All Saints high up on your list of whether your child meets the if places become available preferences to avoid being offered definition of a practising Catholic. we will offer them using the a place at a higher preference If your priest is not local and is admission criteria. Your local school that is not Catholic. unfamiliar with these requirements, authority will tell you which please ask him to contact the school has offered your child All Saints’ Admissions Officer on a place. 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 so, the information they asked for. forms and documents you you must send the information attach to your online form Your application will not be each school has asked for direct to to the school or LA on your considered if you fill in a school’s the relevant school or LA. behalf. You must be send supplementary form but not these direct to the school your local authority’s common or LA. application form.
25 Information for parents about children moving to secondary-phase schools in 2019
Returning your information
Common application form Important notes If you live in this borough you can make your application by going to the • If you try to apply online link on our website at www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions or you can go straight and you cannot see your to the eAdmissions site at www.eadmissions.org.uk. You must make your exact address in the list application no later than midnight on 31 October 2017. Do not leave it until presented, or the schools the last day to apply. you want to apply for are not If you live outside Barking and Dagenham you must fill in the common listed, you must contact the application form available from the borough or county council area that you School Admissions Team by live in and return that form, to that council by their closing date. 5pm on 31 October 2018. Our contact details are on Late applications this page. If your application is late, you are not likely to get a place at an • Please make sure you oversubscribed school. If we receive your application late, we will deal attach all other forms and with it after we have dealt with the applications that we received on time. documents we ask for. At that time we will have given most places to pupils whose applications This may be proof that you we received by the closing date. are the child’s guardian, proof of address, or proof that your child is or was in Contacting us the care of a local authority (pages 9 to 10). By phone: • Make sure you read page You can call us for information on 020 8215 3004 24 of our admissions e-booklet for details of how to get a receipt and By email: how to send us additional Email us for information at [email protected] information. • It is your responsibility to fill By post: in any extra supplementary Please allow time for written information to be delivered if you send information forms (SIF) it by post. We must receive it no later than 31 October 2018. You are for any schools or local responsible for making sure you pay the correct postage charge. We authorities that ask you to do cannot accept any responsibility if you do not pay the correct postage. this and send these forms and documents back to Postal address: School Admissions Team, MSS 2019, Town Hall, them before the closing date. Barking, Essex, IG11 7LU. We will not 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.
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Our schools and colleges
Barking Abbey – a specialist Dagenham Park All Saints Catholic School sports and humanities college Church of England School
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Eastbury Eastbrook School Community School Goresbrook School
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Robert Clack School of Science – a specialist college The Sydney Russell School The Warren School
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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 10 October 2018, 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 and outstanding provision. We The exciting future work closely with our main Catholic Welcome to All Saints Catholic We are a popular school with a primary schools in an attempt to School. We are the only Catholic bright future. We set challenging, raise standards of achievement and voluntary-aided secondary school but achievable, academic targets. to make the move from primary in Barking and Dagenham and are We also offer a wide range of to secondary school easier. Our oversubscribed every year. We are after-school and outside school vision sees education as an activity proud of our reputation as a warm activities. We are ready to meet the which stretches beyond our own and safe community, committed to learning needs of all students. dignity and respect. “An inclusive boundaries and has a significant ethos is a central pillar of the contribution to help develop Should I apply? school” (Ofsted 2018). Every a more united and successful For 2018, we received 832 student is equally valued. They all wider community. “There is a real applications for the 240 places bring their own special gifts to the learning culture in the school and available. If you want a place for school. We value and encourage students want to learn” (Excellence your child at All Saints, it is vital that the strong partnership between the in Inclusion Report 2018). you follow all the steps carefully by school and parents, all of whom the deadline dates. we invite to play a full role in the life Care within our community of the community. As a Catholic The pastoral (support and school, we principally serve the guidance) system of our school is Catholic parishes of Barking and based on gospel values. “Pastoral Dagenham. We also have the care is exceptional and the support of other local deaneries community feels like a big family” and parishes. (Excellence in Inclusion Report 2018). The worth of each person Modern learning is at the heart of all our policies, As a National Teaching School, we including our anti-bullying and are at the forefront of researching equal opportunities policies. and developing strategies to raise Our in-house mentoring schemes the standards of teaching and and trained counsellors make sure learning, not only within this school, that students can be given extra but across a wider network. The emotional and academic support school has received the Inclusion when necessary. Quality Mark Award for excellence
28 InformationBarking for Abbey parents aboutSchool children (a movingspecialist to secondary sports schools and in humanities 2016 college)
Head teacher: Jo Tupman Open morning and evening: Address: Sandringham Road, Barking, Wednesday 3 October 2018, 5pm to 7pm IG11 9AG (Longbridge Road) and Friday 5 October 2018, 8.45am Phone: 020 8270 4100 to 10.45am (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
success in the number of students Our school motto going on to higher education. ‘Ours is a school where everyone Our beliefs gives and expects Our vision is to provide a happy, the best and where everyone can say caring and stimulating environment I belong’. where all students will recognise, and be given opportunities to achieve, Tradition of success to work hard.” their potential – academically, spiritually and socially – and make A heavily subscribed school with “Subject leaders and teachers sure that they are well equipped to nine forms at the point of entry, we endeavour to ensure that all pupils, meet the challenges of education, are a mixed comprehensive for 11- to regardless of their starting points, are work and life. 18-year-olds. We have 1950 students helped to achieve their potential.” and a long history of academic, “The Sixth Form is a strength of the Barking Abbey aims to: cultural and sporting success. school.” • develop confident, articulate, An exciting future Success with students assertive young people; The school is about to start an We have a support and guidance • develop well-rounded, exciting expansion programme structure that sees every student as empowered, resilient, independent which has resulted in us expanding an individual in their own right. young people; to 12 forms at the point of entry. Our active school council gives • nurture young people who will go Our school will have significantly students a ‘voice’. out and change the world for the improved facilities and buildings. better; We provide a disciplined Success in the classroom environment where students feel • increase opportunities through comfortable, safe and valued. creating an inspirational learning The school’s current Progress environment where all students 8 score (a measure designed to We are committed to getting rid of all want to achieve their potential and encourage schools to offer a broad forms of bullying. making sure that no student is left and balanced curriculum at KS4) behind; of +0.29. Success in the sixth form • raise students’ aims – giving them GCSE results are well above the We have a large and successful sixth form with 650 students. the tools they need to explore and national average (in 2017, 74% of be who they want to be; students achieved 9 to 4 grades, Our unique Sports Academy including maths and English). Programme leads to many students • encourage individuals to be gaining prestigious scholarships in adaptable, ambitious and unafraid Key Stage 3 is taught over two years to question and evaluate; and and Key Stage 4 is taught over three the USA. years, to increase opportunities We have a highly successful High • bring about a sense of belonging for success for students aged 14 Performance Programme for those and a sense of pride in the school, and over. aiming for Oxbridge and Russell themselves and their wider community. Barking Abbey was inspected by Group universities. Ofsted in March 2017 and retained Every sixth former has a personal its ‘Good with Outstanding academic mentor. features’ judgement. Our head boy, head girl and sixth- Some of the highlights of the form student leadership system inspection report included: encourage students to develop a “Pupils are keen to do well and seize sense of responsibility. the opportunities given by teachers We have an outstanding record of
29 Dagenham Park Church of England School
Head of School: Chris Ash Open evening: Address: School Road, Dagenham, RM10 9QH Tuesday 25 September 2018, 4.30pm to 7.30pm Phone: 020 8270 4400 Open morning: Thursday 27 September 2018, 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 Team of the Year at the 2017 TES which help them to understand for outstanding pastoral care and Awards and has been shortlisted democracy, religious tolerance and excellent academic achievement, for Creative School of the Year at the importance of the rule of law. we are delighted that examination the 2018 awards. results show the outstanding Ofsted 2016 “The school progress our students are making. The school delivers a broad and building is immaculate. Pupils Our Progress 8 scores over the balanced curriculum, making sure are proud of their school and last three years have been 0.17, that the English Baccalaureate look after it well.” 0.35 and 0.18. This shows that is delivered to 75% of students. Creative subjects are given an Head of School, Chris Ash, said: students at Dagenham Park are “This is an exciting time to be a making better progress than similar equally high profile, with uptake increasing year-on-year. student at Dagenham Park. Exam students nationally. results are outstanding, the school Exam results in key areas are Pupils at our sixth form are part of is being recognised nationally improving. English progress results the Southern Consortium, which and I am confident the school will have seen Dagenham Park placed means we can provide a wide develop further over the next few in the top 1% of schools nationally selection of courses to pupils who years. All prospective parents are for progress. Results for languages are older than 16. We follow the welcome to contact the school for have been in the top 20% of traditional value of strong discipline a meeting and tour.” schools for the past three years. and expect pupils to take pride in belonging to their school by The school has recently undergone wearing correct school uniform. a change in leadership – Ges Smith, the head of Jo Richardson The school develops the spiritual, School, is now the Executive moral, social and cultural education Head of Dagenham Park and of pupils exceptionally well Jo Richardson, and he is ably through the curriculum, a range of supported by Chris Ash as Head of assemblies and other enrichment School. activities. For example, pupils and staff of all faiths and backgrounds Dagenham Park has been take part in a wide range of recognised nationally for the Christian worship each day. Pupils outstanding work that is taking are well prepared for life in modern place. The school won English Britain by their tutorial lessons,
30 InformationEastbrook for parents School about – children ‘Together moving Weto secondary Learn’ schools in 2016
Executive head teacher: Jonathan Gillard Open evening: Address: Dagenham Road, Dagenham, Thursday 20 September 2018, 5.30pm to 7pm RM10 7UR Open morning: Ring us for an individual visit at a time to suit you. Phone: 020 3780 3609 Travel information Website: www.eastbrookshow.co.uk Buses: 103, 129 and 174 E-mail: [email protected] Underground: Dagenham East Station Admission number: 360 DfE number: 301-4023
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
Executive Head teacher: Open evening: Mr David Dickson BSC (Hons), MA, NPQH Wednesday, 28th September 2016, 5pm to 8pm Address: Hulse Avenue, Barking, IG11 9UW Travel information Phone: 020 8507 4500 Buses: 5, 62 and EL3 Fax: 020 8507 4501 Underground: Barking and Upney Stations E-mail: [email protected] Rail: Barking Station Website: www.eastburyschool.co.ukEastbury Community School Admission number: 300Executive DfE number: Head teacher: 301 Eastbury-4024 Mr David Community Dickson BSC School Open evening: Eastbury Community School (Hons), MA, NPQH Wednesday 26 September 2018, 5pm to 8pm Executive Head teacher: Open evening: Executive Head teacher: Open evening: Address: HulseMr Avenue, David Dickson Barking, BSC (Hons), IG11 MA,9UW NPQH Travel informationWednesday, 28th September 2016, 5pm to 8pm Phone: 020 Mr8507 David 4500 Dickson BSC (Hons), MA, NPQH Wednesday, 28th September 2016, 5pm to 8pm ‘Eastbury is aAddress: good schoolHulse Avenue, Barking, IG11 9UWBuses: 5, Travel62 EL2 information and EL3 Address: Hulse Avenue, Barking, IG11 9UW Travel information Fax: with 020 outstanding 8507Phone: 4501 020 8507 4500 Buses: 5, 62 and EL3 Underground: Barking and Upney Stations E-mail: [email protected]:Fax: 020020 8507 8507 4500 4501 Buses:Underground: 5, 62 and Barking EL3 and Upney Stations features.’ Fax:Ofsted 2013020 8507 4501 Underground: Barking and Upney Stations Website: www.eastbury.bardaglea.org.ukE-mail: [email protected]: BarkingRail: StationBarking Station E-mail: [email protected] Rail: Barking Station Admission number: Website:300 DfE number:www.eastburyschool.co.uk 301-4024 Making the right decision DevelopingWebsite:Admission number: success,www.eastburyschool.co.uk 300 DfEvalues number: and 301 - 4024 Admission number: 300 DfE number: 301-4024 We share your high expectations and responsibility ‘Eastbury is a good school ambitions for your child. 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32 InformationGoresbrook for parents School about children– the moving best toin secondary everyone schools in 2016
Principal: David Ellison Open evening: Address: Ripple Road, Dagenham, RM9 6XW Tuesday 18 September 2018, 5.30pm to 7.30pm Phone: 020 3597 6666 Open morning: Tuesday 10 October 2018, 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 develop with a range of different Our secondary wing has state-of- more high-quality school places activities and real-life experiences. the-art techology, science labs, for children aged three to 18. We Our secondary students should sports facilities and a library. It is are the first all-through school in expect, as a minimum, to: bright and welcoming with plenty Barking and Dagenham and aim of space for whole-school events. • read for pleasure daily; to provide a seamless education Come and see for yourself at one of from the moment children join us • play a musical instrument; our open events. until they head off to university. Our first Year-7 and Year-8 classes • attend clubs and try out new Dedicated care and attention have made an exceptional start to ones; As a new school, we have been school life, and we look forward • meet inspirational people; able to hand-pick a team of to welcoming our third intake in outstanding staff to teach and September 2018. • go on cultural and activity trips in support our students. So, as well as To university and beyond London and beyond; enjoying our brand new building, our students will have a superb Our curriculum is broad and deep, • visit universities; opportunity to receive truly focused offering a full range of aspirational, • take on leadership and care and attention that is not often academic courses. From music volunteering roles; available elsewhere. Our priority to computer science, French and is making sure that our students maths, we aim to develop students’ • gain work experience; and make a happy, successful start to knowledge of subjects that secondary-phase school. universities and employers are really • give presentations to real looking for. When they leave us, our audiences in real-life situations. students will have the knowledge, 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: Address: St Marys, Barking, IG11 7TD Monday 17 September 2018, 7pm E-mail: [email protected] Open mornings: Wednesday 19 September 2018, 9am Website: greatfieldsschool.com Thursday 20 September 2018, 9am Admission number: 120 DfE number: 301-4006 Travel information Buses: 62, 287, 368 and 387 Underground: Barking Station
Greatfields School first opened in Behaviour Extra curriculum 2016 and will eventually grow to Behaviour at Greatfields is We have a rich extra-curriculum accept 300 pupils each year until exceptional. There is a calm and programme which runs every we reach our full capacity of 1,800 purposeful atmosphere both in the day after school. Students have students, including a sixth form of classroom and in the corridors. the opportunity to take part in the 300 students. We are located at the Students feel safe and happy following clubs: boys’ and girls’ heart of the Gascoigne community, in school and understand the football, netball, dance, choir, Latin, a community which we are proud importance of following the clear STEM, newspaper club, Model UN, to serve. routines which are in place. There plus many others. is a high level of mutual respect Our permanent site is located at the between staff and students which heart of the new development on helps to create an atmosphere the estate, just off King Edward’s of positive behaviour around the Road, and we moved to our building and in the classrooms. permanent building in January 2018. Ambitions Teaching and learning We have the highest of ambitions for our students and we want Teaching and learning is at the heart our students to have equally high of everything we do at Greatfields. ambitions for themselves. We work We don’t have mixed-ability classes closely with universities and local as we believe students work best groups to raise our students’ goals. when they work with students of This year groups of students have similar ability to themselves. This visited Cambridge University, the allows high-ability students to move University of Sussex and Birkbeck ahead quickly and allows those University, and we are working who need extra support to get the closely with students from the help they need. We regularly review University of East London. Also, the students’ progress to make sure that students have visited the West End they are in the correct group. and the Tate Modern Gallery to gain access to the rich cultural treasures which are on their doorstep.
34 Jo Richardson Community School
Head teacher: Ges Smith BA (Hons) Open evening: Address: Castle Green, Gale Street, Thursday 13 September 2018 , 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 • ‘students feel very safe and School? themselves the highest standards secure. The school has a strong At JRCS we are committed to in every aspect of their school lives. approach to anti-bullying. All reaching the highest standards in We also expect our students to students consider that bullying everything we do. We want all our pass those high standards onto our is extremely rare and believe the students to achieve the best possible local community. school deals with it quickly and examination results as well as have successfully when any incidents The school places great emphasis the opportunity to take part in a wide occur’. on the pastoral care and social range of extra-curricular activities. education of the students. This is All these judgements support our We strongly believe this can only based on traditional values that commitment to making sure that happen in a well-ordered and encourage responsibility, self-respect every student achieves their full respectful environment where only and a commitment to hard work. potential while attending our school. the highest standards of behaviour are acceptable, and where teachers We have developed a modern Our systems are set up to regularly are fully committed to making sure uniform that promotes the positive monitor students’ achievements these goals become a reality. image and reputation of the JRCS, to make sure everyone is reaching while reflecting the practical needs the expected academic standards. Our £30 million building on Castle of the students. We offer an extensive range of Green offers outstanding facilities, extra-curricular activities, including and we would encourage all In May 2013, Ofsted judged that many foreign trips, to build on our students and parents to come and JRCS was a good school with students’ educational and social see the site. With the excellent outstanding leadership and experience at school. reputation we have created, and governance. This judgement was the facilities available, there could reinforced by a further Ofsted Our sixth form is part of a highly not be a more exciting time to be inspection (section 8 inspection) in successful partnership operating joining the school. November 2017. with four other local schools offering our students access to an ‘Success for All’ Ofsted also commented that: extensive range of academic and Central to our work is the motto • ‘the head teacher is relentless in vocational courses. ‘Success for All’, supported by our his drive for high standards and ‘ACHIEVE’ agenda, a commitment provides strong leadership’; Jo Richardson was Barking’s MP for 20 years and gave great service to student progress that is • ‘relationships between staff and to the borough. We are determined highlighted by positive, effective students are very positive and that this school will continue to support systems and productive supportive’; partnerships between all members provide a lasting reminder of her • ‘the support and care offered to contribution to the area. of the school community. students by all the staff are a real strength of the school’; and
35 InformationRiverside for parents School about children moving to secondary schools in 2016
Head teacher: Andrew Roberts BSc (Hons) Open evening: Address: Renwick Road, Barking IG11 0FU Wednesday 12 September 2018, 7pm Phone: 020 3946 5888 E-mail: [email protected] Travel information: Website: www.riversidecampus.com Bus: EL1 and EL3 Twitter: @RiversideCampus Admission number: 300 DfE number: 301-4001
Excellence for all ‘High aspiration is an expectation Riverside School opened in 2013. for everybody at Riverside By 2019 it will have over 1000 School.’ Ofsted 2015 students, including 120 sixth- form students in Years 12 and 13. Traditional values Riverside will eventually grow to We follow the traditional values of its full capacity of 1800 students, strong discipline, a school uniform including a large sixth form, by and a demanding classroom 2022. Riverside students achieved environment. Our first priority is to their first set of examination results develop every child’s academic potential to the maximum. All Clubs, activities, sports, in 2017, with an outstanding arts and music Progress 8 score of +0.67, placing students follow a broad and Riverside in the top 6% of schools balanced academic curriculum At Riverside, a vast choice in England. 52% of students from Year 7 to Year 11. We set very of after-school clubs offers achieved the strong English high standards and receive full students an opportunity to further Baccalaureate (Ebacc), a group of backing from parents. develop wider essential skills. As qualifications which must include well as the highest academic ‘Students’ behaviour around qualifications, these wider skills a grade 5 or better in both English school and in lessons is get students ready for success and maths as well as grades 9 to exemplary. They are eager to when applying to highly selective 4 in four other academic subjects learn and contribute very well to universities. These clubs include from the sciences, geography, lessons.’ Ofsted 2015 history and Spanish or another STEM, computer programming, language. Best classrooms and exceptional drama, dance, debating, football, sports and music facilities netball, athletics, basketball, Learning at its core handball, various other sports, Riverside students love learning. Riverside’s newly built £45 million choir and the school band. We We place students in one of three campus on Barking Riverside strongly encourage all students bands and all lessons take place has exceptional facilities. Every to take individual music tuition, within these bands. From Year 8 general classroom is 50% bigger by providing one-to-one weekly onwards, we also put students into than average. All subjects benefit instrument lessons provided by our sets, for core subjects (English, from this outstanding new building, own music tutors. maths and science). Excellent which includes state-of-the-art teaching means all learners are music studios, science labs, a ‘We were impressed with your always challenged, so all students four-court sports hall, a fitness suite, ambitions for Riverside School make exceptional progress a dance studio and a library. The and its pupils, particularly your interest in improving not just compared with national standards. outdoor sports facilities include a their academic outcomes but We regularly review each student’s full-size 4G Astroturf pitch and four multi-use games areas. their wider skills.’ progress to make sure they are in Sir Peter Lampl, Executive the correct band or set. 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 27 September 2018, 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 • compassion for others; ‘Pupils move around the large comprehensive school for 11 to • discipline; school site in an orderly way and 19 year olds with around 2000 wear their uniform with pride.’ • high expectations and ambitions; students, including a thriving and Ofsted, October 2016 and successful sixth form of over 400. • hard work. The school has a national The school is on two sites, with a reputation for sport, extra-curricular The teaching and support staff separate bespoke Year-7 building. activities such as debating, and who work at our school are This allows us to offer Year-7 educational visits (both in the UK completely committed to delivering pupils a warm and welcoming and abroad). an outstanding education to our environment on the Green Lane pupils so that they become the site (this site serves pupils in Continued investment best people they can be. We Years 7 to 9), as well as sixth believe in our pupils, and we are The school continues to benefit formers. Parents always comment determined to make sure that from significant investment in new favourably on the educational they believe in themselves by buildings on both school sites. As advantages that this arrangement embracing the original school a result of its huge popularity, a offers by allowing children to move motto: ‘forti difficile nihil’ - ‘for the third site will open in September to a site where children are aged brave, nothing is difficult’. 2020. This new site will be known between 11 and 14. The Gosfield as Robert Clack Lymington Fields Road site is where the older Continued success and will provide education for 11- to students are based, including the 16-year-olds as a result of a local ‘…senior leaders and governors are sixth form. authority and government school- ambitious for the young people in expansion programme. At Robert Clack School, we strive [their] care and passionate about for excellence in all that we do the quality of education that [the to give our pupils the knowledge, school] provides.’ The prestigious Good skills and attributes they need to Ofsted, October 2016 Schools Guide comments fulfil their potential and make a that ‘Robert Clack is one ‘Pupils across the school valuable contribution to society. of the smartest and well We are proud of our calm and demonstrate respect and tolerance ordered learning environment, towards each other, staff and ordered schools we have which is built on the traditional visitors. They are proud of their ever visited’. values of: school, their sporting and cultural accolades and their achievements.’ • mutual respect; Ofsted, October 2016
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, RM9 5QT Monday 24 September 2018, 7pm Phone: 020 8270 4333 Open mornings: Wednesday 26 September 2018, 9am Fax: 020 8270 4377 Thursday 27 September 2018, 9am E-mail: [email protected] Travel information Website: www.sydneyrussellschool.com Buses: 5, 62, 87, 145, 364, 129, 173, 175 and 499 Admission number: 270 external pupils Underground: 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 4 October 2018, 5pm to 7pm Address: Whalebone Lane North, Chadwell Travel information Heath, RM6 6SB Phone: 020 8270 4500 Buses: 62, 66, 86, 173, 251, 362 and 551 Fax: 020 8270 4484 Rail: Chadwell Heath Station E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.thewarrenschool.net Admission number: 240 DfE number: 301-4004
Values system makes sure that any student Museum, The Royal Opera House, At The Warren School we prepare who needs extra support to reach British Film Institute, Warwick our students for the changing their potential receives this. We take University, ongoing workshops with demands of the future. We value behaviour for learning very seriously the Metropolitan Police, Safe Drive character alongside academic and expect students to take part Stay Alive and to The O2. We also success and foster both of these in all lessons wholeheartedly. We have a series of pledges throughout to mould our students for the take pride in our school and our Years 7 to 13 that help our opportunities they will face. Each students show this by wearing our pupils develop into well-rounded student develops as an individual, a uniform correctly. individuals who take part and partner, a member of a team and as contribute to their wider community. a citizen. We are committed to the Student leadership This includes pledging to visit success of all our students. Student leadership is at the heart places of worship, raising funds for of our school. Each year group has charity and performing in front of an Curriculum its own elected council that meets audience. More than 300 students We offer a broad and balanced regularly and makes decisions have been trained in first aid and curriculum that will prepare our and takes actions to put them into CPR this year. students for any career. Alongside practice. This leadership feeds into Sixth form the compulsory core subjects a whole-school council led by the of English, maths and science, elected head girl and head boy and Our sixth form is growing both in students can choose a range the school parliament group. We size and in its academic profile. of options to interest them and take the opinions of our students We have a stand-alone sixth form prepare them for success in the seriously and mould students to be that caters for all of our students workplace. As well as our focus leaders of the future. who do not need to travel to other on exam success and student schools for lessons. All of our progress, we focus on developing Enrichment students who applied for university character and resilience that will We have an extensive enrichment places were successful, and some stand our students in good stead, programme that develops our were awarded places in Russell whatever their career path. students beyond the classroom. Group universities such as Imperial Students have worked in school College, London. Students are Attainment and progress with Drum Works drumming group, mentored on their pathways to Year-on-year, the school has made Barbican Satellite project for high- university and take part in many improvements in attainment at both ability musicians, New YVC Choir programmes, for example the GCSE and A level. of Excellence, and ARC Theatre Futures Programme where they Group. We also took students on a shadow students at Cambridge Pastoral support range of trips, including New York, University and are allocated an Our pastoral systems are supportive The Royal Festival Hall, Hyde Park, Oxbridge graduate as a personal and rigorous and our mentoring Tate Modern, the Natural History mentor.
39 Information for parents about children moving to secondary-phase schools in 2019
The timetable of events
Date What happens Information meeting for parents to explain how the admissions process 11 September 2018, 7pm works. Speeches will begin at 7pm. The meeting is open to all parents, Broadway Theatre, Barking and admission officers will be available to answer your questions. 12 September 2018, 7pm Riverside School open evening 13 September 2018, 6pm to 9pm Jo Richardson School, open evening 17 September 2018, 7pm Greatfields School, open days and open evening 19 and 20 September 2018, 9am (on Gascoigne School Annexe site) 18 September 2018, 5.30pm to 7.30pm Goresbrook School, open evening and open day 10 October 2018, 9am to 10.30am
20 September 2018, 5.30pm to 7pm Eastbrook Comprehensive School, open evening
24 September 2018, 7pm Sydney Russell School, open days and evening 26 and 27 September 2018, 9am 25 September 2018, 4.30pm to 7.30pm Dagenham Park School, open day and evening 27 September 2018, 9.30am to 12.30pm 26 September 2018, 5pm to 8pm Eastbury School, open evening 27 September 2018, 6pm to 8.30pm Robert Clack School, open evening 4 October 2018, 5pm to 7pm Warren School, open day and open evening
Barking Abbey School, open day and evening. Please note staff. the and meet school see the questions, 3 October 2018, 5pm to 7pm the open evening on 3 October will be on the Sandringham 5 October 2018, 8:45am to 10:45am Road site and the open day on 5 October will be on the
Longbridge Road site an opportunity you give ask and evenings to The open days 11 October 2018, 5.30pm to 8.30pm All Saints School, open evening. Deadline for extra documents and the certificate of Catholic 31 October 2018, 5pm practice (CCP) to arrive at All Saints Catholic School, Terling Road, Dagenham, Essex, RM8 1DS. Deadline for written documents to arrive at the School Admissions Team, Town Hall, Barking, Essex, IG11 7LU. 31 October 2018, 5pm If we receive your application or any documents after this date and time, we treat them as a late. Deadline for ontime applications submitted online. 31 October 2018, 12 midnight If we receive your application or any documents after this date and time, we treat them as a late. 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, 1 March 2019 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. Deadline for accepting the offer of a school place at All Saints Catholic 15 March 2019 School and schools outside the borough. We send letters to parents who have not applied for a school place to tell 31 March 2019 them what school has been allocated to their child. Deadline for receiving completed appeal forms for all Barking and 12 April 2019 Dagenham schools (including All Saints School) for the first round of appeal hearings.
April to July 2019 Appeals will be heard for all schools. Parents are invited to these appeals. 40 Apply online for a secondary-phase school place: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions
Map of secondary-phase 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 Admissions Section Phone: 020 7332 1002 Phone: 020 8496 3000 222 Upper Street, London, N1 1XR Croydon Council Phone: 020 7527 5515 Education Department Wandsworth Council Admissions Bernard Weatherill House, 8 Mint Walk, Royal Borough of Kensington and Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street, Croydon, CR0 1EA Chelsea London, SW18 2PU Phone: 020 8726 6400 Kensington Town Hall, Horton Street, Phone: 020 8871 7316 London, W8 7NX Ealing Council Admissions Phone: 020 7745 6432 / 6432 / 6434 Westminster Education Authority Perceval House, 14-16 Uxbridge Road, Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street, London, W5 2HL Royal Borough of Kingston upon London W8 7NX Phone: 020 8825 5511 Thames Admissions 42 York Street, Twickenham, TW1 3BW Phone: 020 7745 6432 London Borough of Phone: 020 8547 4610 Enfield Admissions PO Box 56 Civic Centre, Silver Street, London Borough of Lambeth Neighbouring authorities’ Enfield, EN1 3XQ Admissions school admissions Phone: 020 8379 5501 10th Floor, International House, sections Canterbury Crescent, SW9 7QE London Borough of Phone: 020 7926 9503 Greenwich Admissions Essex County Council Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London Borough of Lewisham PO Box 4261, Chelmsford, CM1 1GS London, SE18 6HQ Admissions Phone: 0345 603 2200 Phone: 020 8921 8043 3rd Floor, Laurence House, 1 Catford Email: [email protected] Road, SE6 4RU Hackney Education Authority Phone: 020 8314 8282 (9am-12pm) Thurrock Council The Learning Trust (Hackney), PO Box 118, Civic Offices, Grays, Essex, 1 Reading Lane, London, E8 1GQ London Borough of Merton RM17 6GF Phone: 020 8820 7000 Civic Centre, 100 London Road, Phone: 01375 652 883 Morden, SM4 5DX Email: [email protected] Phone: 020 8274 4906
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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. 43 Information for parents about children moving to secondary-phase schools in 2019
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 olds. Backed by local businesses September 2019 at secondary-phase schools. and employers, they are small When your child reaches Year 9, schools which are open all year First contact the techical and there are other types of schools round and have a 9 to 5 working training schools that you would available that your child can move day, so they feel more like a like your child to go and ask to, called technical and training workplace than a school. Working how to apply for a place at their schools. These schools fall within closely with local employers, school. Some schools accept the category of either university studio schools will offer a range of applications direct but others only technical 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 technically 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 2018, fill in Pupils will have the option to go on techical and vocational elements. our Common Application Form to university or further training, and UTCs must specialise in subjects (CAF) and list up to three different into employment. that require techical and modern schools. The closing date is equipment (such as engineering We have a UTC school in our 31 October 2018. See page and construction), that will be borough. It is called ELUTEC 12 for how to apply online. taught alongside business and ICT and is on Rainham Road South, The instructions are the same as (information communication and Dagenham RM10 7XS. Please see you would use for applying for a techology) skills. UTCs should offer their website in August for the date secondary-phase school place for clear routes into higher education and time of their open day event. your child. or further learning in work. There is a list of other UTCs or We will pass on your request to the studio schools in the south-east relevant school or local authority area on the next page of this and exchange all possible offers. e-booklet. If a place is available, you will receive an offer from the local authority at 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 2019.
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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
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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 to secondary- and Dagenham and you need a charity which offers advice for phase school can be one of the copy of your recent Council Tax parents, and gives information 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 as exclusion from school, bullying, 15 Linton Road, support in understanding the special educational needs and Barking, admissions process when you school admission appeals. Essex, IG11 8HE make an application for your General advice line: child’s secondary-phase school; Phone: 020 8227 2926 and Phone: 0300 0115 142 E-mail: [email protected] • access information on your (Open Monday to Wednesday Website: behalf and explain how the 10am to 1pm, term time only). www.lbbd.gov.uk/council-tax procedures affect your individual Website: www.ace-ed.org.uk circumstances. Department for Education (DfE) This should make sure you have Child Benefit Agency enough information to help you You can get useful information, such as performance tables and If you need to contact this agency make a realistic decision about information on the curriculum, on for a copy of your Child Benefit your preferences. their website. allowance, please give yourself The Family Information Service also plenty of time before the closing provides information and advice Phone: 0370 000 2288 date to get the documents you to help people make informed Website: www.education.gov.uk need. choices about finding and paying Address: Child Benefit Office, for childcare, after-school and PO Box 1, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, holiday activities for children and NE88 1AA young people, and a range of other extended services in and through Phone: 0300 200 3100 schools. It offers professional, Website: impartial information and advice www.gov.uk/contact-child-benefit- on services for children and young office people aged 0 to 19. 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 All pupils must stay in education or Educational Needs Assessment meals and clothing grants for training until they are 18. and Review Team (SENART) children who live in Barking and Dagenham. Year 9-pupils may apply for a place The team works closely with at a university techical college or parents, schools, the Community Free school meals – If you are studio school. Please see page 47 Educational Psychology Service receiving Income Support, income- or our website about how to apply (CEPS) and the Education based Jobseeker’s Allowance, the for places. Inclusion Team. Requests for guaranteed part of Pension Credit Special Educational Needs or Child Tax Credit, you can apply For information, applications and for free school meals. appeals about further education Assessments and placements in in our schools’ sixth forms or mainstream schools or specialist Email: [email protected] colleges, apprenticeships, or schools (if needed) are carried Phone: 020 8227 2970 employment with training, please out by the EHC Team. They also contact our 14 -19 Careers provide advice to parents, school Guidance & Information Service. staff and other professionals within the assessment and review If the child is refused a place in process. You can contact the team further education, you have the as follows: right to appeal. We can accept appeal forms separately from Email: [email protected] parents and students above 16 Phone: 020 8227 2400, Apply years old. Address: EHC Team, EHC Team, Town Hall, Careers Guidance & Barking, Essex, Information Service IG11 7LU Barking Learning Centre – 2 Town Square Barking IG11 7NB Monday to Friday Need help to apply online? 9am to 5pm Help sessions are available at Dagenham Library on Phone: 020 8724 8870 Tuesdays and Barking Learning Centreon Thursdays from 11 September until 30 October 2018. Dagenham Library – Each session starts at 9am and ends at 4.30pm. 1 Church Elm Lane Dagenham If you try to apply online and you cannot see your exact address in the list RM10 9QS presented, or theschools you want to apply for are not listed, you must Monday to Friday contact the School Admissions Team by 5pm on 31 October 2018. 9am to 5pm Phone: 020 8724 8877 The closing date for your online application
and the other information we ask for is 31 October 2018
Apply online for a secondary-phase school place now: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions
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Library services Office for Standards in for children (between the ages of It costs nothing to join the public Education (Ofsted) 13 and 16 only) who are taking library service in Barking and Ofsted is a government department up part-time employment. Other Dagenham. The library service is set up under the Education responsibilities include protecting for all ages and young children are (Schools) Act 1992. It is responsible the rights of children in care and welcome. Children do not have to for inspecting all schools in certain responsibilities related to know how to read to benefit from England, whether they are funded children who have been reported joining the library. Public libraries by the Government or independent. missing to the police. offer all sorts of books for children To see the most recent report of Address: Town Hall, Barking, from board books and picture a school’s inspection, please visit Essex, IG11 7LU. books to books for advanced Ofsted’s website. readers. Toy libraries will be based Phone: 020 8227 2151 Website: www.ofsted.gov.uk. in the Central Library and several E-mail: other libraries in the borough. A [email protected] toy library is a toy equipment and Parents in Partnership Service loan service where parents, carers and children can play together If your child has special educational Virtual School and borrow toys. There are also needs, you may contact the Parents The local authorities’ Virtual School cassettes, CDs, DVDs, videos and in Partnership Service (PIPS). is for Looked After Children and is free access to the internet. Most PIPS is part of ‘Carers of Barking committed to working with others libraries have collections of books and Dagenham’, which offers to: for parents and carers. They also information and support to carers. • overcome disadvantage; provide learning activities during The service is independent from us. school holidays. The School Library • provide equal access to Service provides schools with loans Address: 334 Heathway, learning, and better educational of books and audio-visual material. Dagenham, RM10 8NJ opportunities; Phone: 020 8593 4422 The addresses for each of our • raise levels of achievement; and libraries are listed below. • promote the health, wellbeing The opening and closing times School Attendance Service and life chances for all children are different for each branch. Attendance Service Team in care. Phone 020 8724 8735 for details. This team provides advice, If you require any information or Barking Library – guidance and support to schools, assistance please contact the Barking Learning Centre, 2 Town parents, carers and children on virtual school for looked after Square, Barking, Essex, IG11 7NB how to improve school attendance. children. Contact details below. Dagenham Library – Good school attendance is linked to Address: Town Hall, Barking, 1 Church Elm Lane, Dagenham, good educational achievement. The Essex, IG11 7LU. Essex, RM10 9QS service enforces the laws relating to school attendance. Phone: 020 8227 2691 Marks Gate Library – Marks Gate Community Centre, Education Statutory Service Rose Lane, Marks Gate, Chadwell Team Youth Support and Development Service Heath, RM6 5NJ This team is responsible for Robert Jeyes Library – working with families who have This service provides a range High Road, Chadwell Heath, decided to educate their child (or of educational and personal RM6 6AS children) at home (also known as development programmes for elective home education or EHE). young people between the ages of Thames View Library – It is also responsible for locating 11 and 19. Sue Bramley Community Centre, children who are missing from Address: The VIBE, 195-211 Bastable Avenue, Barking, education (those not enrolled at IG11 0LG Becontree Avenue, Dagenham, a school and not EHE). The team Essex, RM8 2UT Valence Library – issues entertainment licences for Becontree Avenue, Dagenham, children involved in all forms of Phone: 020 8227 5891 RM8 3HT entertainment, and work permits
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Cover note for extra documents All Saints Catholic School – September 2019 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 2019’ 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 2018, the CAF provided by the borough you live in. School office stamp Date received • Baptism documents – If you want your child to be recognised as a Catholic (under our admission criteria 1 to 5) or as being baptised (under our admission criteria 7 and 8), you should send us a photocopy of your child’s baptism certificate (or certificate of reception into the Catholic Church) by 31 October 2018. • Certificate of Catholic practice (CCP) form – If you want to be considered as a practising Catholic Staff initials (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 31 October 2018. 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 2018. 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 49 Information for parents about children moving to secondary-phase schools in 2019
Notes
50 Apply online for a secondary-phase 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. 2018 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 2018 or your application will be late. If your application is late, you 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 apply online? Help sessions are available at Dagenham Library on Tuesdays and Barking Learning Centreon Thursdays from 11 September until 30 October 2018. Each session starts at 9am and ends at 4.30pm. Apply If you try to apply online and you cannot see your exact address in the list presented, or theschools you want to apply for are not listed, you must contact the School Admissions Team by 5pm on 31 October 2018.
The closing date for your online application and the other information we ask for is 31 October 2018 Apply online for a secondary-phase 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
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Date: August 2018
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