Reception and Junior Admission Guide 2016 Contents

Reception and junior Admission guide 2016 Contents

Brent Council’s reception and junior admission guide 2016 Important information for parents and carers...... 3 Timetable for applying...... 8 Additional offer rounds...... 9 Primary coordination...... 10 Appeals...... 11 Your questions answered...... 12 Community primary schools in Brent– admissions arrangements...... 17 How places were allocated at Brent Community Primary Schools ...... 22 Community primary schools – contact details...... 26 Ark Academy...... 33 Ark Franklin Primary Academy...... 39 Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School...... 44 Christ Church CofE Primary School...... 46 Convent of Jesus and Mary RC Infant School...... 49 Floreat Alperton Primary School...... 53 Furness Primary School...... 56 Gladstone Park Primary School...... 59 Islamia School...... 62 John Keble CofE Primary School...... 65 Kilburn Grange School...... 68 Malorees Junior School...... 71 North West London Jewish Day School...... 73 Oakington Manor Primary School...... 76 Our Lady of Grace Catholic Infant School ...... 79 Our Lady of Grace Catholic Junior School...... 82 Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School...... 85 Preston Manor School...... 89 Princess Frederica CE VA Primary School...... 92 Sinai Jewish Primary School...... 95 St Andrew & St Francis CofE Primary School...... 99 St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Infant School...... 102 St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Junior School...... 106 St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School...... 110 St Margaret Clitherow Primary School...... 113 St Mary Magdalen’s Catholic Junior School...... 116 St Mary’s CofE Primary School...... 120 St Mary’s Catholic Primary School...... 123 St Robert Southwell RC Primary School...... 126 Sudbury Primary School...... 130 The Kilburn Park School Foundation...... 133 Wembley High Technology College...... 135 Special Educational Needs...... 137 Other school information...... 140 Useful contacts...... 142

2 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Important information for parents and carers

There is considerable pressure and competition for primary school places in Brent and it is important to think about this when making your application.

You should always put down the school you want the Priority is now given to children living within the most as your first preference. This does not guarantee catchment area over siblings as follows: Siblings living that you will be offered a place at the school, it depends within the catchment area are offered first, followed by on how many other parents apply. all others living within the catchment area, followed by siblings living outside the catchment area. If a school has more places available than applications received, then every child who applies will be offered Families who have a sibling connection at a specific school a place. However, most primary schools in Brent are but who live outside the catchment area of that school heavily oversubscribed which means they get many more will have lower priority than all other applicants living applications than they have places. If this is the case, within the catchment area. (see pages 17-19 for details) schools will use their oversubscription criteria to decide Home to School Distance which applicants have priority for the available places. The method used to measure home to school distance has Children will be ranked in a list depending on how closely changed to straight line distance (see page 20 for details) they meet the criteria. Some children will have higher Measurements from previous years will have been priority than others; the further down the list you are, the calculated using the shortest walking distance method. This less likely you are of being offered a place at the school. means that it will not be possible to use cut off distances from previous years to gauge the likelihood of being Oversubscription criteria can include: offered a place this year. n How far you live from the school and your catchment All through schools area. Ark Academy and Preston Manor School are All Through n Whether you already have other siblings at the school. schools which educate children aged between four and 18. Applications are being taken for Reception places in both n If you follow a particular faith. schools. Ark Academy and Preston Manor School will both n Any medical or social needs your child may have. admit 60 children to Reception in September 2016.

Therefore it’s very important to read and consider the Free School Meals/Pupil Premium oversubscription criteria for the school/s you are thinking of applying for to see if you stand a realistic chance of being 2015/2016 offered a place. Last year we were able to offer just over All children attending school in Reception, Year 1 and Year 80 per cent of parents their first choice primary school. 2, are entitled to receive a free school meal. However, if you receive benefits your child’s school is entitled to Everyone will be told of the outcome of their application important additional funding called the ‘Pupil Premium’. on 18 April 2016. Not all parents will accept the school that is offered to them, so places will continue to be Schools can use the extra money for a range of activities offered to other applicants up until the end of August that can help to raise attainment such as additional 2016. So if you don’t get the school you want in April tuition, learning support assistants, art therapy, booster there may be further chances in the following weeks. classes, educational trips and after school clubs. They continue to receive this funding for up to six years. New for 2016/2017 If you receive benefits please apply to ensure that your child’s school receives this important extra funding - even Significant changes have been made to the way if you don’t want your child to receive a free meal. Visit applications will be processed for children starting www.brent.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals for more information Primary/Infant or Junior schools in September 2016. and the applicaiton form or call 020 8937 3110 to request New Oversubscription Criteria for Community Schools a form be sent to you. The oversubscription criteria (or rules) used to prioritise applications for Brent Community schools have changed.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 3 Apply for your child’s school place online

You can apply online for primary school from How do I apply online? September 2015 at www.eadmissions.org.uk To begin your application visit: This online form is only for children born between 1 www.brent.gov.uk/admissions where you will September 2011 and 31 August 2012. be able to get lots of information about schools in Brent. The deadline for online applications is 15 January 2016. You can then apply online to your preferred schools at If your child has a Statement of Special Educational Needs www.eadmissions.org.uk. (SEN), please do not complete an online application n The eAdmissions website contains basic information form. Please contact Brent Special Educational Needs about all schools in London, as well as those in Brent. Assessment Service (SENAS) on 020 8937 3229 which There is also a search facility that will help you to will manage your child’s admission to school. identify schools that are closest to where you live. Apply for private or independent schools directly. The local n You will need to register your details on the website authority do not manage admissions for these schools. first. You will then automatically be sent a user name and password which must be used to start the What are the advantages process of applying online. of applying online? n The eAdmissions website will allow you to make n You do not need to complete the paper changes to your application until midnight on application form. 15 January 2016 and to keep track of the progress of your application after the closing date. n It is quick and easy to do and you will get an email n You can save your application and return to it later confirmation that your application has been received. if you are unable to complete it in one session. n The system helps you by checking for errors. Every time you update it you will receive an email n There is no risk that your application will get lost confirming the status of your application. You can in the post. also check your status when you log onto the system. n At the end of the process you must ‘submit’ your form n You can change the details on your application up until the closing date of 15 January 2016. in order for it to come through to us. Failure to do this will mean that your application has not been received n www.eadmissions.org.uk is a secure and safe by us and will not be considered. If in doubt please call system, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week Brent Council’s Customer Services on 020 8937 3110 up until the closing date of 15 January 2016. or email [email protected]. n You will receive an email with the outcome of your n Remember, you can apply for up to six schools application on 18 April 2016. for your child. We recommend that you use all n www.eadmissions.org.uk is a faster process six preferences, including your nearest schools or – you will be able to track the progress of your academies, as limiting your choices will reduce your application and get quicker feedback on whether chances of being offered a school place. it has been successful. n To read a helpful step-by-step guide to applying online click on www.brent.gov.uk/admissions. n It is more environmentally friendly.

n You can accept or decline your child’s offer online.

n You can attach supporting documents to your application.

4 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Submitting your application The following are examples of exceptions that will be considered: If you apply online you will be issued with a reference number once your application is submitted. If your family moved house after the closing date you will be asked to provide either: If you apply in writing your application reference number will appear on the acknowledgement letter that Brent n Proof of living at the new address or Council sends you. Please remember to sign and date the n A formal tenancy agreement from a letting/estate form if you apply in writing. If your form is returned to agent, which comes into effect on or before us without being signed we are unable to accept it as a 15 February 2016. completed application form and will delay the progress of your application. What if I don’t have a computer Email correspondence will only be accepted from the at home, can I still apply online? email address provided on your application. You can apply anywhere with access to the internet. Your completed form can also be returned to your child’s There are lots of places where you can apply online Brent primary school or by post. Make sure you use including your local library, an internet café or you could the correct postal charge. Brent Council cannot be held also ask a friend or relative for help. responsible for postal delays, lost forms or non-receipt of forms. Important information to note when If you need help with your application please applying online or in writing contact us on 020 8937 3110 or email Child’s details: Complete your child’s name as it [email protected]. appears on their birth certificate. Do not use shortened names or nicknames. When will I find out about Address my application? Check that your address is within Brent before Brent Council’s School Admissions Service will inform all completing the form. The address used must be the parents of the outcome of their application on 18 April 2016. child’s home address on 15 January 2016. Paper If you have applied online, you will receive an email with the applications must be made to the borough your child outcome of your application on the evening of 18 April 2016. lives in. If you change your address after completing the Please wait until you have received the email before logging on form, you must tell the council straight away. to the eAdmissions website. You will need your user name Please do not list an address of someone who provides and password in order to access your result. For further temporary care for your child, a business address, a information, visit www.brent.gov.uk/admissions or go childminder’s address, a relative’s address or any other directly to www.eadmissions.org.uk. address other than the child’s home address. If a school Late applications and changes place is offered on the basis of an incorrect address the place may be withdrawn. to your application Current school You must submit your application to Brent Council by Complete the details of the nursery or early years 15 January 2016. It is vital to get your application in provider your child is attending. If your child changes on time as there is considerably less chance of getting nursery or early years provider after you submit your a place at your preferred school if your application is application, it is really important that you notify us. late. Applications received by 15 January 2016 will be processed first. Applications received after15 January Preferences 2016 will not be considered until all other applications You can apply to any maintained school anywhere in have been dealt with, unless there is supporting evidence the UK. Once you have decided on the order in which to to say why the application is late. This information must rank your preferred schools, please include the full name, be received by 15 February 2016. Department for Education (DfE) number and postcode of each school. The DfE numbers for Brent schools can be found in this guide (pages 26-136).

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 5 The order in which you list your preferences is very important. Social/medical needs The coordinated admissions process aims to ensure that you Some schools give priority to children with social or have no more than one offer of a school place at any one medical needs. If you state a preference for a particular time. If two schools are able to offer you a place you will be school because of the medical, social or special offered a place at the higher ranked school. educational needs of your child, you must demonstrate You should try to list six preferences because initially you how only this school meets your child’s special will only be considered for the schools that you list on circumstances. Along with your application you should the form. We recommend that you apply to at least one submit independent, professional evidence which sets school that is near your home, as distance is used by out the particular reasons why the school is the most many schools to decide which children are offered places. suitable and the difficulties that could be caused if your child has to attend another school. This will normally Consider the admissions arrangements of each of the be in the form of a report from a suitably qualified, schools you are applying to and, using the information independent professional like a doctor. Please see about how many places were offered in the past, individual schools’ oversubscription criteria for further consider how successful your application might be. You information. will find the statistics on pages 22-23 showing how many places were allocated at Brent schools last year. Looked after children/previously in care If you are completing your application for a looked after Reasons for preference child or a child previously in care, please complete the For each preference we have provided you with some space relevant section, giving the name of the council that to note why you have selected a school. This section is not the child is in the care of. Also provide a letter from the compulsory. Any information you do provide will be passed social worker confirming the child is in care. to the school. Please note that unless the information you provide relates directly to the school’s oversubscription criteria If previously in the care of a local authority, please it is unlikely to affect the outcome of your application. provide a copy of the child arrangements order, special guardianship papers or proof of adoption to your child’s Siblings home authority. If your child has a sibling (brother or sister) attending any Previously looked after children are children who were school that you are listing on the form, then include the looked after but ceased to be so because they were details of the child who is already attending the school. adopted or became subject to a child arrangements Siblings are generally defined for the purpose of school order or special guardianship order. admission in Brent as a full or step brother or sister, living at the same address, or a child living as part of the family Parent/carer details by reason of a court order. Please enter details of the person with parental responsibility for the child. All correspondence will be sent Please check individual schools’ oversubscription to the address details provided. If your address is different criteria if you wish to apply under this rule. For Brent to the child’s address you will need to write to Brent community schools the definition of siblings includes Customer Services explaining why. If both parents share brothers or sisters, half brothers or sisters, adopted custody, please advise us in writing or by email and give brothers or sisters, step brothers or sisters, or the both addresses, quoting your child’s reference number. children of the parent/carer’s partner. The child for We will only discuss the application with the persons listed whom the school place is sought has to be living in the in this section. same family unit at the same address as the sibling.

6 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Supplementary Information Form (SIF) False information If you are applying to a voluntary aided school, Brent Council reserves the right to verify any address e.g. a faith school, a boarding school or a selective given as the child’s permanent address in order to ensure school, you will be required to complete an additional that it is allocating places appropriately and fairly. If you Supplementary Information Form (SIF) in addition to deliberately give false address information to obtain a the online or paper application (CAF) which must be place at a school you can expect the offer of the place to submitted to Brent Council’s School Admissions team. be withdrawn. These can be obtained directly from the school and, for Brent schools, are available on Brent Council’s website. n Any information and/or any supporting The SIF must be completed in addition to your online documentation which is false or deliberately or written application. Failure to complete a SIF may misleading may also lead to any place offered being result in your application to that particular school being withdrawn. unsuccessful. n Stringent checks will be carried out to ensure Where individual schools admissions arrangements applications are not fraudulent. do not provide explicit definitions of sibling, distance, n Home visits will be carried out to verify addresses. additional/supplementary forms and parents/family members, the following definitions will apply: Distance The method used to measure home to school distance has changed to straight line distance (see page 20 for details) Measurements from previous years will have been calculated using the shortest walking distance method. This means that it will not be possible to use cut off distances from previous years to gauge the likelihood of being offered a place this year. Distance will be measured in a straight line from an addresspoint in the child’s home (including flats) to the main addresspoint of the school (using the local authority’s computerised measuring system), with those living closer to the school receiving the higher priority. Parents/family A parent is any person who has parental responsibility for, or is the legal guardian of, the child. Where admission arrangements refer to ‘parent’s attendance at church’ it is sufficient for just one parent to attend. ‘Family members’ include only parents, as defined above, and siblings.

Proof of address We do not require proof of address to be sent in with your application form. n There is a section on the form that asks you for your council tax reference number. If you know this number please complete this section. n Brent Council will check internal council databases in order to verify your address. n Where it is not possible to verify your address or you have recently moved we will write to you asking for two proofs of address.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 7 Timetable for applying

September 2015/January 2016 Finding a school Brent Council’s Reception and Junior Admissions Guide 2016 and the online application system opens. Parents research schools, attend open evenings and talk to staff and other parents. Parents check their circumstances against the oversubscription criteria (admissions rules) for their preferred schools to see how likely their application is to succeed.

Applying for a school Parents apply online at www.eadmissions.org.uk before 15 January 2016. Some schools require applicants to submit additional forms. Please see individual schools’ oversubscription criteria for further information. Please note, some schools set an earlier closing date than 15 January 2016 for their Supplementary Information Form (SIF).

15 January 2016 Closing date for the receipt of on-time applications. By this date you must have submitted an online application or completed a paper application form and returned it to Brent Council. Applications received after 15 January 2016 will be considered as a late and will not be processed until after the offer date, 18 April 2016.

18 April 2016 Online applicants will receive an email during the evening of 18 April 2016 with the outcome of their application. Those who applied on paper will be sent a letter, posted first class on18 April 2016. If it is not possible to offer a place at any of your preferred schools, the council will offer your child a place in the nearest Brent school to your home with a vacancy at that time.

3 May 2016 All parents must reply to the offer and accept or reject the place by 3 May 2016. If a parent does not reply, the offer may be withdrawn and the place offered to another applicant.

Ongoing Parents can appeal for a place at any school listed on their application form that did not offer a place.

Until 28 August 2016 Further offers for secondary school places will be made throughout the summer. Please see dates on page 9 for additional offer rounds and the closing dates for each round.

September 2016 Children start school

Brent Council has published “admission arrangements” which explain how they will manage the application process in cooperation with Brent Primary/Infant and Junior schools and academies. The arrangements outline a more detailed timetable of the application process, how late applications will be processed and how information is shared with schools and other admitting authorities. Visit our website www.brent.gov.uk/admissions or contact Brent Council’s School Admissions team on 020 8937 3110 for further information and help.

8 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Additional offer rounds

Brent Council ’s School Admissions team coordinates Applications received after the closing date will be the offers for schools in Brent until the end of August considered after 18 April 2016. Places will be offered to 2016, so after the initial offer date of 18 April 2016, late applicants in the second and third round offers. The parents have the opportunity to make changes to their deadline for any changes or additional information to be applications, change their preferences or notify us of any included in the second and third rounds is shown in the change of address or current school. table below.

Deadline Offer Response

Main Offer Day 15 January 2016 18 April 2015 - Offers are Response to offers required released on this day by 3 May 2016

Second Round 27 May 2016 is the last date Offers will be made in the Response to offers required for any changes to be week commencing by 24 June 2016 included in the second round 13 June 2016

Third Round 24 June 2016 is the last date Offers will be made in the Response to offers required for any changes to be week commencing by 15 July 2016 included in the third round 4 July 2016

After the third round places will be offered as and when they become available.

Please note that any information received after the closing date will not be considered until the next round of offers.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 9 Primary coordination

Parents who wish to secure a place for their child at a primary school in September 2016 must apply to their local council’s school admissions service, which coordinates applications for primary schools. You must apply for a reception place or a junior school place.

There is no automatic progression from nursery to reception class, e.g. from Park Lane Nursery to Park Lane Primary School. There is no automatic progression from an infant to a junior school, e.g. from Mount Stewart Infant School to Mount Stewart Junior School. You must submit an application. Applications are made via the Common Application Form (CAF) where you can name and separately rank (first, second, third, fourth) up to six school preferences.

Please refer to the table below to ensure you apply correctly for your child’s nursery or school place for September 2016.

Nursery aged pupils Children born between 1 September 2012 and 31 August 2013.

If you are applying for a nursery place, apply to the nursery/school directly

You are entitled to a nursery place, usually part-time, in:

n A nursery school or n A nursery class in primary school or a place in a private or voluntary nursery.

Reception aged pupils Children born between 1 September 2011 and 31 August 2012. If you are applying to a Brent school for a reception place, apply using the CAF

n You are entitled to a full-time place in a reception class.

Year 2 aged pupils Children born between 1 September 2008 and 31 August 2009 (age seven to eight). attending infant schools If you are applying to a Brent school for a Year 3 place (junior school), apply using the CAF:

n You can only apply for a junior place at the following schools: – Lyon Park Junior School – Malorees Junior School – Mount Stewart Junior School – Our Lady of Grace Roman Catholic Junior School – Roe Green Junior School – St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Junior School – St Mary Magdalen’s Roman Catholic Junior School – The Kilburn Park School Foundation

10 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Appeals

If you are not offered a place at a school you applied to you have the right to appeal. If you wish to appeal for a Brent community school you must read the guidance and complete the appeal form available online at www.brent.gov.uk/schoolappeals Appeals for Brent community schools should be returned to: School Admissions, PO Box 1057, Wembley, HA9 1HJ Appeals for all other Brent schools and schools outside Brent must be made to the school or admitting authority directly.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 11 Your questions answered

Finding a school Q Does the law guarantee my child a place in the school of my choice? Q How do I find a primary school for my child? A No, the law says that parents may express a A Primary schools in Brent are for children aged preference for any school. However, if more parents between four and 11 years old. Most primary aged express a preference for a school than the number of children attend their local primary school meaning a places available, there has to be an order of priority school near to where they live. Each Brent community to decide which children to admit. The law allows primary school has a ‘catchment area’. A catchment parents to appeal to an independent panel if their area is an area or group of streets near to the school. child is refused a place at a school of their preference. To find out the catchment area for your address visit www.brent.gov.uk/admissions or contact Completing the application Brent Customer Services on 020 8937 3110 where someone will be happy to advise you over the Q What if I wish to change my list of preferences telephone. With the exception of the Avigdor Hirsch after I have submitted my application? Torah Temimah School for boys, all primary schools in A Changes to preferences and the order of preferences Brent have places for both boys and girls. will only be accepted up until the closing date of 15 January 2016. This must be done in writing. After Q When will my child be eligible for nursery this date any changes you make to your preferences or primary school? will not be added to your application without a A Children can join a nursery class following their third genuine reason for doing so, for example, if you have birthday. Free, good quality, part-time education is recently moved address. Proof will be required. After available for all three and four year olds resident in 15 February 2016 any changes to your application Brent. This is available in a maintained nursery school will be administered as a late application and will or in a private setting in Brent. Children are admitted therefore not be considered until after the offer date to reception classes in the September following their of 18 April 2016. fourth birthday. Q What if I miss the deadline for submitting my However, if you miss the September start date you application? can apply for a place at any time during the year. A The closing date for applications is 15 January 2016. The law states that your child must be in full-time Forms received after this date will only be considered education in the term following their fifth birthday. if they are late for a good reason. You should provide Q Can I visit the school? supporting information stating the reasons why A Yes, before your child starts school, you should pay the application is late. Brent Council will coordinate a visit and talk to the head teacher and the teachers applications from Brent residents up until about what the school is like. You should also ask 28 August 2016. for the school’s prospectus, which will contain more Q What if my child has a medical condition? detailed information. After your child has started, the school will invite you to visit from time to time to talk A Where a parent states a preference for a particular about his/her progress. Most schools have a special school because of the medical, social or special day or evening at least once a year when you will be educational needs of their child, they must invited to discuss how your child is getting on. If you demonstrate how this school meets the child’s special are not happy or confident speaking English, ask a circumstances. Along with your application you relative or friend to come with you to help. should submit supporting evidence which sets out the particular reasons why the school is the most suitable and the difficulties that could be caused if your child has to attend another school. This will normally be in the form of a report from a suitably qualified professional, like a doctor. Please see individual schools’ oversubscription criteria for further information on how this criterion will be applied.

12 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Q What if my child has a statement of Special Most primary schools give higher priority to children Educational Needs? who have a brother or sister at the school. Another A Parents of children with a Statement of Special important factor is the distance between the school Educational Needs (SEN) or Education, Health and the child’s home, with priority given to those and Care plan (EHCP) will be contacted by the who live nearest. Faith schools may be an exception council’s Special Educational Needs Assessment because they use alternative criteria to determine Service (SENAS), which will give advice on the how places should be offered. It is important parents process of securing a primary school place. If your consider each school’s admissions arrangements in child is undergoing an Education, Health and Care relation to their own circumstances. assessment of their SEN at the time of application we Q What happens if I am not offered a place at any would advise you to complete a Common Application of my preferred schools? Form (CAF). If at any stage the assessment process is complete you should contact Brent School Admissions A If you are a Brent resident and you are not offered Service immediately as your application will no longer a place at any of your preferred schools, Brent be valid. Council will attempt to allocate your child a place at the nearest school with a vacancy at the time. All Q What is the procedure for applying schools in Brent are considered to be suitable for to voluntary aided schools? the purposes of admissions. It is likely, therefore, A You must list the school on the Common Application that places will be offered at the nearest school Form (CAF) and you should also complete a with a vacancy, though consideration will be given Supplementary Information Form (SIF). Voluntary to any parent’s stated wishes for or against a faith aided schools require all applicants to contact school. This will include all schools within Brent with the school directly to complete a Supplementary vacancies including schools which are their own Information Form (SIF), which needs to be completed admissions authorities. and returned directly to the school. If you are not a Brent resident and you are not offered a place at any of your preferred schools, you Processing the application should contact your home local authority. Q Will my child get priority for a place in a school where they already attend the nursery? Q Will schools be told my order of preference? A No, there is no automatic transfer to the reception class A No, schools will not be told your order of preference. at the same school for children who attend the nursery. Councils will not pass on details of how the school was ranked, and no school will be told about other All parents must re-apply and be considered equally schools a parent has applied to. with all other applicants. Q How important is distance from home to school? Q How are places allocated by schools? A Distance from home to school may be used by some A Brent Council will coordinate the applications and schools as a tie-breaker. For example, for a community a place will be offered at the highest possible school place, many pupils may apply for a school in their preference. For schools which are undersubscribed all catchment area. If there are only five places left and ten applicants will be offered a place. pupils living in the catchment area, places will be offered to the five children who live closest to the school. For oversubscribed Brent community primary schools the council will consider all applications against the The method used to measure home to school schools’ published admissions arrangements. The distance has changed to straight line distance (see oversubscription criteria will be used to decide the page 20 for details) order in which applicants will be offered places. For Brent Community Schools, distance is measured For voluntary aided and foundation schools along a straight line from an addresspoint in the Brent Council will forward your details to the property to the addresspoint of the school. The school using a computerised system. Where a measuring system is an integral part of the admission school is oversubscribed, its published admissions database produced by Tribal Technology Ltd. The arrangements will be used to decide the order in system uses Ordnance Survey maps and addresspoints which applicants will be offered places. from the LLPG (Local Land and Property Gazetteer) and is accurate to 1 metre.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 13 Measurements from previous years will have been on the waiting list are considered. Those who meet calculated using the shortest walking distance the school’s oversubscription criteria the closest will method. This means that it will not be possible to use be offered a place. The length of time spent on the cut off distances from previous years to gauge the waiting list will not give priority over other applicants likelihood of being offered a place this year. – it is possible for a child to go down as well as up the list. Being on a waiting list is no guarantee of a Foundation and voluntary aided schools may use place at a school. straight line distances to measure distance from the school. Check the individual school’s admissions Q Can I appeal against the decision? arrangements for details. A If a parent does not receive an offer from a school Q What if I need to discuss my application? of their preference, they have the right of appeal.

A If you need to discuss your application you can contact n An appeal for a place at an academy, or at a a member of Brent School Admissions Service at foundation or voluntary aided school within or [email protected] or call outside Brent must be made in writing to the chair 020 8937 3110. of governors at the school.

Please note we cannot discuss individual applications n An appeal for a place in a Brent community school without verifying the caller’s identity. Please ensure should be made to Brent Council. An appeal for a you note your application reference number as you place in a community school outside Brent should will need to quote this number before we can discuss be made in writing to the local authority in which any details of your application over the telephone. the school is located. Your application reference number will be quoted on n Appeals are heard by an independent appeals all correspondence received from us. panel. Full details and guidance on the appeals Q Will I get priority for a Brent school because I process can be found online at live in the borough? www.brent.gov.uk/schoolappeals A No, the law does not allow the council to give priority It is essential that you read and understand the to its residents for places in its schools. However, appeals process before submitting a request for the council aims to ensure that all resident children, an appeal. whose parents apply, have access to a place at a primary school in the borough. Each community Q What if I don’t sign the form? school has a designated catchment area. Priority is A Your application will be returned to you, which given to residents who live within the catchment area. could delay your application. We can only process forms that have been signed by the parent or carer Confirming school offers of the child. Q When will I hear about my application? Applying online – e-admissions A Letters will be posted on 18 April 2016 giving the outcome of the application. If you have applied online Q When can I use the online system? you will receive an email with the outcome of your A The online system will be available from September application during the evening of 18 April 2016. Brent 2015 until the closing date for applications at School Admissions will not be able to tell you over midnight on 15 January 2016. If you miss the the telephone which school you are offered. deadline you will still be able to submit an application online until 21 July 2016. Q What if I am not satisfied with the Q Will my application be secure? school offered? A Return the reply slip indicating that you wish to A Yes, the system has a series of security features that decline the offer. Your child’s name will be placed on will prevent others from seeing your information. the waiting lists for the higher preference school(s). Q What details will be requested online? The place on the waiting list, and whether a place is A You will not be asked to give any more information offered if another child drops out, is determined by than if you were making a paper application. the school’s admission criteria. You will be able to Apply online at www.brent.gov.uk/admissions make additional preferences. or www.eadmissions.org.uk. If space becomes available after offer day, all children

14 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Helpful information about schools Q What is the difference between community schools and voluntary aided schools? General information A Community schools are run wholly by the local As a parent or carer of a child who is about to start council, while voluntary aided or church schools, school, you may have many questions about what though largely financed by the local council, have to expect. To help, we have tried to answer some of their own rules for admission. Voluntary aided schools the most common concerns that parents have in the in Brent include Church of England, Jewish, Muslim question and answer format below. Do not hesitate to and Roman Catholic schools. ask Head teachers, teachers, or Brent Customer Services on 020 8937 3110 for help and advice about finding a Q Are meals available at school? school place for your child. A Yes, your child may buy a dinner at school, bring a Q Do I have to pay for my child’s education? packed lunch from home, or go home for a meal. Children who bring food from home are allowed to A No. State schools are free for all children. All books, eat in school and will be supervised. See page 135 writing/drawing materials and necessary equipment for information on free school meals. are supplied by the school free of charge. However, you can buy additional equipment, such as pens and Q What about discipline? pencils etc. You may be asked to make a voluntary A Good discipline is based on an agreement between contribution to some school activities that take place the school and parents about what is expected of mainly in school hours. For example, you may be your child. The school will keep you informed about asked to pay something towards the cost of a school your child’s development and progress in schoolwork journey, materials in cookery lessons, or individual and behaviour. Parents are always encouraged to music lessons. You are under no obligation to pay work with the school to try to solve any problems. and your child will not be treated differently if you do not contribute. Your child’s school may have an By law, there is no corporal punishment in any educational activity on offer as an optional extra such borough school. Teachers are not allowed to smack as a school trip on a Saturday. In that case, you will or cane children. be asked to make a payment if you want your child Q How can I become involved in my child’s to participate. education? Q What times do schools start and finish? A Teachers will want to discuss with you what your child A The exact timing of the school day varies from school is doing at school and how you can support his/her to school and you will need to confirm the details work. Research has shown that children who regularly with them. Generally the school day starts about read at home with an adult can make more progress 8.45am and finishes between 3pm and 3.30pm. than children who only read with their teacher at Please try to get your child to school on time; it is school. Just ask at the school to find out how you can very hard on a small child to come in late and feel left get involved with your child’s education and learning. out because all the other children are busy together. Q When will my child be given homework? Generally, children have an hour, or an hour and thirty minutes for their lunch break, and a much A Homework can vary from school to school. Some shorter break during the morning and the afternoon schools give little homework until the children are sessions. Some schools operate after school and/or nearly ready for secondary school. Many schools, breakfast clubs. You should check with any school however, like parents to help with reading and send you are considering whether this is the case. You will books home. Recent government guidelines on also need to find out at what times in the morning homework suggest that four to five year olds should the playground is supervised so that you know when do 20 minutes after school rising to between 45 and it is safe to leave your child. 60 minutes for older children. If you want to help your child with work at home talk with your child’s teacher before you start, so your child will not be confused by being taught in one way at school and another at home.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 15 Q Are records kept on my child? A Yes. Your child’s school will have a record card for each child in the school, which will contain personal information such as address, names of parents/carers and your child’s unique pupil reference number. It is important that you inform your child’s school of any changes to the information they hold. There will also be an annual report of your child’s progress, a copy of which will be given to you. These record cards and reports are confidential to you and the school and the head teacher will talk with you before anyone else can look at your child’s record.

Q What do I do if my child is ill and cannot go to school? A Check if the school has a particular policy for parents to follow, the head teacher or school secretary will be happy to advise you. For general guidance, if your child is ill for only a day, you should send a note, or see the teacher, when he/she returns to school. Should your child be absent for more than a week, telephone or write to tell the school. It is very important that children attend school regularly. Schools are required to monitor attendance and if the school thinks your child is absent without good reason they must send an education welfare officer to see you to discuss the situation.

16 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Community primary schools in Brent – admissions arrangements

Planned admission numbers for Oversubscription criteria for primary schools for September 2016 community primary schools in Brent Name of school Admissions for September 2016 number Changes for 2016/2017 Anson Primary School 52 Significant changes have been made to the way Barham Primary School 120 applications will be processed for children starting Primary/Infant or Junior schools in September 2016. Braintcroft Primary School 90 Changed Oversubscription Criteria Brentfield Primary School 90 The oversubscription criteria (or rules) used to prioritise Byron Court Primary School 150 applications for Brent Community schools have changed. Carlton Vale Infant School 60 Priority is now given to children living within the Chalkhill Primary School 60 catchment area over siblings as follows: Siblings living Donnington Primary School 30 within the catchment area are offered first, followed by all others living within the catchment area, followed by Elsley Primary School 120 siblings living outside the catchment area. Fryent Primary School 120 Families who have a sibling connection at a specific Furness Primary School 60 school but who live outside the catchment area of that Harlesden Primary School 90 school will have lower priority than all other applicants Kingsbury Green Primary School 90 living within the catchment area. Leopold Primary School 120 Home to School Distance Lyon Park Infant School 120 The method used to measure home to school distance has Lyon Park Junior School 120 changed to straight line distance (see page 20 for details) Malorees Infant School 60 Measurements from previous years will have been calculated using the shortest walking distance method. Mitchell Brook Primary School 90 This means that it will not be possible to use cut off Mora Primary School 60 distances from previous years to gauge the likelihood of Mount Stewart Infant School 90 being offered a place this year. Mount Stewart Junior School 90 The following criteria only apply to Brent’s 33 community Newfield Primary School 60 primary schools. Voluntary aided or religious faith Northview Primary School 30 schools, foundation schools and academies have their own admission policies. Parents should approach the Oliver Goldsmith Primary School 60 head teacher or chair of governors of these schools Park Lane Primary School 60 directly for a copy of their admission arrangements or Preston Park Primary School 120 visit www.brent.gov.uk/admissions. Roe Green Infant School 120 There is no automatic transfer from nursery to reception. Roe Green Junior School 120 Parents wanting to apply for a place at reception must complete a Common Application Form (CAF) application Salusbury Primary School 90 which is available online at www.eadmissions.org.uk. Stonebridge Primary School 90 If you have difficulties applying online, you can submit a Uxendon Manor Primary School 120 paper application. Paper application forms are available Wembley Primary School 120 from Brent School Admissions and you can contact Wykeham Primary School 60 them on 020 8937 3110 or email [email protected]

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 17 Applications for children with a Statement of Special by the person with parental responsibility and/or the Educational Needs (SEN) or Education, Health and child’s social worker. Care plan (EHCP) are made by local authority special In order to be given highest priority for admission, a educational needs assessment teams. The placement child has to fall within the definition of ‘looked after’ of children with a Statement or EHCP is made after a in Section 22 (1) of the Children Act 1989. This act process of consultation between parents, the school applies to England and Wales, therefore a child has to and the local council. Children with a Statement or be looked after by an English or Welsh local authority EHCP receive priority over others for admission to the in order to be given highest priority. school named on their Statement or EHCP. For further information contact Brent Council’s Special Educational Paragraph 1.7 of the new code gives equal highest Needs Assessment Team on 020 8937 3229. priority to previously looked after children. Given the definition of a looked after child, a child will obviously Schools should not admit more than 30 pupils in each have to have been looked after by an English or Welsh class for reception, Year 1 and Year 2. This is to enable local authority in order to be considered previously the council to meet its statutory duty of having no more looked after. Under paragraph 1.7, a child has to have than 30 pupils in each class at Key Stage 1. Three-year- been looked after immediately (our emphasis) before old children should not be admitted to reception classes. they were adopted or became subject to a child The following criteria are clear, fair and objective. It is arrangements order or special guardianship order. illegal for schools to discriminate against a pupil on the 2 Children attending an infant school on the same basis of his/her ethnicity. site as a junior school. Whenever and wherever possible, children are offered This criterion will only affect admission to a junior a school of their parents’ preference and in practice the school that is on the same site as the infant school majority of children go to the school which their parents the child attends immediately prior to the transfer. select for them. 3 Special circumstances to do with significant Sometimes, however, there are more applications for a medical needs and or social needs school than there are places available. This is described as oversubscription. Whenever this happens, pupils are This criterion relates to the child’s medical and or offered places in the following order of priority: social needs. The application must be supported by written evidence that set out the particular reasons 1 A looked after child or a child who was why the school in question is the most suitable and previously looked after but immediately the difficulties that would be caused if the child had after being looked after became subject to attend another school. The recommendation for to an adoption, child arrangements, or special this specific school should demonstrate knowledge guardianship order. of the school in terms of resources and organisation A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care which deems it essential that the named pupil be of a local authority, or (b) being provided with admitted to the specific school. The Council will not accommodation by a local authority in the exercise give higher priority to children under this criterion if of their social services functions (see the definition in the required documents have not been submitted. Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at the time of Medical Needs making an application to a school. Applications made on medical grounds must be An adoption order is an order under Section 46 accompanied by compelling medical evidence from of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. Child a hospital Consultant at the time of application. The arrangements orders are defined in s.8 of the letter from the hospital consultant must provide Children Act 1989, as amended by s.12 of the information about the child’s medical condition, the Children and Families Act 2014. Child arrangements effects of this condition and why, in view of this, orders replace residence orders and any residence the child needs to attend the parent’s preferred order in force prior to 22 April 2014 is deemed to school. If the school is not the closest to home, be a child arrangements order. Section 14A of the the consultant must set out in detail the wholly Children Act 1989 defines a ‘special guardianship exceptional circumstances for attending this school order’ as an order appointing one or more individuals and the difficulties if the child had to attend another to be a child’s special guardian (or special guardians). school. Medical claims will only be considered for one An application for admission to school must be made school and this should be named by the consultant.

18 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 In assessing these applications, advice will be sought Admissions to community school from Brent’s Special Education Needs Service. nurseries Social Needs Applications for places in nurseries must be made directly Applications made on social grounds must be to the schools by 15 January 2016. Offers will be made accompanied by compelling evidence at the time of on 18 April 2016. If the nursery is oversubscribed, the application. Social needs claims will be considered same criteria set out above, will apply. where there is involvement from a social worker, or Please remember that there is also no automatic transfer other professional and where it can be demonstrated from nursery to reception class at Brent community that the child has exceptional social needs that cannot schools. Parents wanting to apply for a place at be met at any other school. Parents’ circumstances reception must complete a Common Application can have an impact on a child’s social needs and Form (CAF) application which is available online at evidence of this will be considered. www.eadmissions.org.uk 4 Brothers or sisters of a child who attends the If you have difficulties applying online, you can submit school, or an infant or junior school on the same a paper application. Paper application forms are available or adjoining site, living in the catchment area of from Brent Customer Services and you can contact them the school and who will continue to do so on the on 020 8937 3110 or email date of admission. [email protected]. This includes half and step brothers and sisters and foster children so long as they live at the same Late applications and changes to your address - but not cousins. Siblings attending the same application form after the closing date school should have priority over those attending a Brent Council must receive all application forms by separate school on the same site. 15 January 2016. Applications received after this 5 Children living within the school’s closing date will be considered as late applications and catchment area. will be processed after places have been allocated to The catchment area is the defined neighbourhood in applicants who applied on time. In very exceptional which the school is sited. It is generally bounded by cases applications received after the closing date may be major roads and/or railway/tube. The catchment area considered. Please contact Brent School Admissions on is defined by the local authority and was originally 020 8937 3110 for further information. intended to ensure that each address in the borough Any changes that are received to an application which fell into the catchment area of one school. However come into effect after the closing date (e.g. order of this is no longer the case because a significant school preference or change of address) will also be number of schools have converted from community treated in the same way as a late application. to academy status and changed their admission The following are examples of exceptions that may apply criteria. Information on which streets make up a provided the application is received by 15 February catchment area is available from the local authority, 2016 and there is supporting evidence. the school and the local authority’s website. 1 If your family has just moved house you will be asked 6 Brothers or sisters of a child who attends the to provide: school, or an infant or junior school on the same or adjoining site, and who will continue to do so on a A letter from your solicitor confirming the date of admission. completion date which must be on or before 15 February 2016. This includes half and step brothers and sisters and foster children so long as they live at the same b A formal tenancy agreement from a letting/estate address - but not cousins. Siblings attending the same agent, which comes into effect on or before school should have priority over those attending a 15 February 2016. separate school on the same site.

7 All other applicants.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 19 2 If your family is returning from abroad you will need school. If the residence is not split equally between both to provide either: parents then the address used will be the address where the child spends the majority of the school week. a A council tax bill confirming re-occupation of your property by 15 February 2016 if the property has Waiting lists not been occupied. If you have been offered a school place that was not b Confirmation that tenancy has ceased by your first preference, your child’s name will automatically 15 February 2016 and that you will re-occupy the be placed on the waiting list for schools that you have property if it has been rented during your absence. ranked higher than the school offered. Community school c Confirmation from your employer that you will return waiting lists will then be maintained by the council whilst to live in Brent on or before 15 February 2016 if you voluntary aided and foundation schools and academies were seconded abroad. waiting lists are maintained by the schools. 3 If a single parent has been ill for some time or there School waiting lists do not operate on a first-come, first- has been a recent death of immediate family member served basis. Your place on the waiting list, and whether evidence will be required. you will be offered a place if another child drops out, is determined by the school’s admissions criteria. The child Tie-breaker: Home to School Distance that meets the criteria the closest will be offered a place. Within each criterion priority will be given to the The length of time you have spent on the waiting list will applicant who lives closer to the school. The method not give you priority over other applicants – it is possible used to measure home to school distance has changed for your child to go down the list as well as up. to straight line distance (see page 20 for details) Please note carefully: Waiting lists will be closed on For Brent Community Schools, distance is measured the last day of term each year and will not roll over. If along a straight line from an addresspoint in the property you wish your child to remain on the waiting list into the to the addresspoint of the school. The measuring system new academic year you will need to submit a new in year is an integral part of the admission database produced application. It is your responsibility to remember to reapply. by Tribal Technology Ltd. The system uses Ordnance The local authority will not remind you to take this action. Survey maps and addresspoints from the LLPG (Local Land and Property Gazetteer) and is accurate to 1 metre. Appeals Measurements from previous years will have been If you wish to appeal against any decision not to offer calculated using the shortest walking distance method. a place at a Brent community school, you should complete This means that it will not be possible to use cut off and return an appeal form which is available from Brent distances from previous years to gauge the likelihood of Customer Services on 020 8937 3110 or from the being offered a place this year. council’s website www.brent.gov.uk/schoolappeals. All forms should be returned to Brent Customer Services, Twins, triplets and other children of Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley HA9 0FJ. multiple births Parents/carers should appeal within 20 school days from In the event that the school has one place to offer and the date of they received their letter saying their application the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets was unsuccessful. Appeals will be heard by an independent or other children of multiple births, the local authority panel within 30 school days of appeal being lodged. will offer both twins, all triplets or children of multiple There is no right of appeal against any decision not to births a place, even if this means temporarily going over offer a place at a nursery. the school’s published admissions number. Deferred entry Split residence Parents can request that the date their child is admitted Where a child lives with parents with shared to school is deferred until later in the year in which they responsibility, each for part of a week, the address where apply, or until the term in which their child reaches the child lives is determined using a joint declaration statutory school age. Statutory school age begins the from the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a first day of term after your child’s fifth birthday. child’s residence is split equally between both parents, Parents wishing to defer entry for their child must then parents will be asked to determine which residential contact the school to advise them after they have been address should be used for the purpose of admission to offered a place.

20 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Parents can also request that their child attends part-time until their child reaches statutory school age. In-year admissions If you are new to the borough and want to apply for a place for your child to begin school immediately, you should contact Brent School Admissions Service on 020 8937 3110 or visit www.brent.gov.uk/admissions for information about how to apply.

Fair access protocol Brent Council operates an in-year fair access protocol. This means that children who do not have a school place are prioritised over children waiting to transfer between schools. Children who are taken off roll purely to secure another school place will not be prioritised under this protocol. A copy is available on our website or upon request.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 21 How places were allocated at Brent Community Primary Schools on 16 April 2015 for September 2015

186 children were offered a place at the nearest school to the home address with a vacancy.

If you would like to see how places were allocated at Voluntary Aided (Faith) and Foundation schools, please visit www.brent.gov.uk/admissions

Number Special 1. Children 2. Children attending 3. Social 4. Sibling connection 5. In catchment area 6. Any other Nearest Total of places Educational in public an infant school medical (furthest distance (furthest distance applicant school with offered allocated by Needs (SEN) care on the same site as reason offered in metres) offered in metres) a vacancy the school places junior school Anson Primary School 52 0 2 N/A 0 31 (6773.93) 19 (574.09) 0 0 52 Barham Primary School 120 0 0 N/A 0 42 (2114.42) 78 (985.61) 0 0 120 Braintcroft Primary School 90 0 0 N/A 0 47 (4578.27) 44 (1082.38) 0 0 91* Brentfield Primary School 90 0 0 N/A 0 23 (5368.75) 16 (14 47.63) 10 (4304.89) 10 59 Byron Court Primary School 90 0 0 N/A 0 37 (6600.98) 29 (2149.87) 24 (2512.93) 0 90 Carlton Vale Infant School 60 0 0 N/A 0 8 (3619.62) 15 (1001.46) 14 (16292.5) 6 43 Chalkhill Primary School 60 0 1 N/A 0 19 (11601.14 ) 25 (1824.83) 15 (3297.04) 0 60 Donnington Primary School 30 2 0 N/A 0 6 (3547.26) 18 (785.55) 4 (782.31) 0 30 Elsley Primary School 120 0 0 N/A 0 18 (11000) 13 (1203.08) 13 (5037.86) 27 71 Fryent Primary School 120 1 0 N/A 0 41 (4809.73) 23 (1169.24 ) 17 (5366.89) 20 102 Harlesden Primary School 90 0 1 N/A 0 14 (4116.82) 12 (561.08) 17 (3955.02) 2 46 Kingsbury Green Primary School 90 0 0 N/A 0 25 (7738.81) 20 (1461.57) 39 (4930.84) 6 90 Leopold Primary School 120 0 0 N/A 1 46 (5403.82) 25 (788.92) 48 (1462.38) 0 120 Lyon Park Infant School 120 0 0 N/A 0 42 (7914.3) 59 (1392.52) 14 (2898.92) 5 120 Malorees Infant School 90 1 4 N/A 1 21 (3160.62) 41 (1456.59) 22 (1198.45) 0 90 Mitchell Brook Primary School 90 0 0 N/A 0 32 (4201.55) 9 (1403.35) 8 (8049.56) 38 87 Mora Primary School 60 0 0 N/A 0 24 (4218.46) 15 (792.98) 15 (4703.91) 6 60 Mount Stewart Infant School 90 0 0 N/A 0 38 (2147.56) 36 (1568.74) 16 (959.19) 0 90 Newfield Primary School 60 0 0 N/A 0 23 (6864.08) 6 (581.59) 14 (4230.42) 2 45 Northview Primary 30 2 0 N/A 0 12 (1919.45) 16 (796.37) 0 0 30 Oliver Goldsmith Primary School 60 0 0 N/A 0 22 (3273.45) 34 (1232.07) 4 (585.83) 0 60 Park Lane Primary School 60 1 0 N/A 0 22 (3998.95) 18 (1426.16) 19 (1365.54) 0 60 Preston Park Primary School 120 0 0 N/A 0 44 (7525.61) 34 (1604.24) 38 (5777.59) 4 120 Roe Green Infant School 120 0 0 N/A 0 54 (6944.34) 66 (1124.08) 0 0 120 Salusbury Primary School 90 0 0 N/A 0 35 (8800.5) 42 (1228.7) 13 (1379.91) 0 90 The Furness Primary School 60 0 0 N/A 0 16 (5436.21) 15 (774.33) 7 (2080.2) 7 45 The Stonebridge School 90 0 0 N/A 0 28 (11000) 9 (1034.32) 12 (5091.36) 7 56 Uxendon Manor Primary School 120 1 0 N/A 0 33 (6345.52) 28 (1771.93) 28 (5325.79) 8 98 Wembley Primary School 120 1 0 N/A 0 37 (8101.73) 35 (1622.16) 47 (2582.74) 0 120 Wykeham Primary School 60 0 0 N/A 0 36 (7397.88) 24 (541.81) 0 0 60

* An additional pupil has been offered as the last person offered a place is a twin.

22 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Number Special 1. Children 2. Children attending 3. Social 4. Sibling connection 5. In catchment area 6. Any other Nearest Total of places Educational in public an infant school medical (furthest distance (furthest distance applicant school with offered allocated by Needs (SEN) care on the same site as reason offered in metres) offered in metres) a vacancy the school places junior school Anson Primary School 52 0 2 N/A 0 31 (6773.93) 19 (574.09) 0 0 52 Barham Primary School 120 0 0 N/A 0 42 (2114.42) 78 (985.61) 0 0 120 Braintcroft Primary School 90 0 0 N/A 0 47 (4578.27) 44 (1082.38) 0 0 91* Brentfield Primary School 90 0 0 N/A 0 23 (5368.75) 16 (14 47.63) 10 (4304.89) 10 59 Byron Court Primary School 90 0 0 N/A 0 37 (6600.98) 29 (2149.87) 24 (2512.93) 0 90 Carlton Vale Infant School 60 0 0 N/A 0 8 (3619.62) 15 (1001.46) 14 (16292.5) 6 43 Chalkhill Primary School 60 0 1 N/A 0 19 (11601.14 ) 25 (1824.83) 15 (3297.04) 0 60 Donnington Primary School 30 2 0 N/A 0 6 (3547.26) 18 (785.55) 4 (782.31) 0 30 Elsley Primary School 120 0 0 N/A 0 18 (11000) 13 (1203.08) 13 (5037.86) 27 71 Fryent Primary School 120 1 0 N/A 0 41 (4809.73) 23 (1169.24 ) 17 (5366.89) 20 102 Harlesden Primary School 90 0 1 N/A 0 14 (4116.82) 12 (561.08) 17 (3955.02) 2 46 Kingsbury Green Primary School 90 0 0 N/A 0 25 (7738.81) 20 (1461.57) 39 (4930.84) 6 90 Leopold Primary School 120 0 0 N/A 1 46 (5403.82) 25 (788.92) 48 (1462.38) 0 120 Lyon Park Infant School 120 0 0 N/A 0 42 (7914.3) 59 (1392.52) 14 (2898.92) 5 120 Malorees Infant School 90 1 4 N/A 1 21 (3160.62) 41 (1456.59) 22 (1198.45) 0 90 Mitchell Brook Primary School 90 0 0 N/A 0 32 (4201.55) 9 (1403.35) 8 (8049.56) 38 87 Mora Primary School 60 0 0 N/A 0 24 (4218.46) 15 (792.98) 15 (4703.91) 6 60 Mount Stewart Infant School 90 0 0 N/A 0 38 (2147.56) 36 (1568.74) 16 (959.19) 0 90 Newfield Primary School 60 0 0 N/A 0 23 (6864.08) 6 (581.59) 14 (4230.42) 2 45 Northview Primary 30 2 0 N/A 0 12 (1919.45) 16 (796.37) 0 0 30 Oliver Goldsmith Primary School 60 0 0 N/A 0 22 (3273.45) 34 (1232.07) 4 (585.83) 0 60 Park Lane Primary School 60 1 0 N/A 0 22 (3998.95) 18 (1426.16) 19 (1365.54) 0 60 Preston Park Primary School 120 0 0 N/A 0 44 (7525.61) 34 (1604.24) 38 (5777.59) 4 120 Roe Green Infant School 120 0 0 N/A 0 54 (6944.34) 66 (1124.08) 0 0 120 Salusbury Primary School 90 0 0 N/A 0 35 (8800.5) 42 (1228.7) 13 (1379.91) 0 90 The Furness Primary School 60 0 0 N/A 0 16 (5436.21) 15 (774.33) 7 (2080.2) 7 45 The Stonebridge School 90 0 0 N/A 0 28 (11000) 9 (1034.32) 12 (5091.36) 7 56 Uxendon Manor Primary School 120 1 0 N/A 0 33 (6345.52) 28 (1771.93) 28 (5325.79) 8 98 Wembley Primary School 120 1 0 N/A 0 37 (8101.73) 35 (1622.16) 47 (2582.74) 0 120 Wykeham Primary School 60 0 0 N/A 0 36 (7397.88) 24 (541.81) 0 0 60

* An additional pupil has been offered as the last person offered a place is a twin.

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Voluntary Aided Primary Schools Academies A 25 E 1 Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School 11H Ark Academy 6G DGW 2 ARE Christ Church CofE Primary School 15K 26 Ark Franklin Academy 13M

RO 3 Convent of Jesus and Mary RC Infant School 12J QUEENSBURY 27 Gladstone Park Primary School 11I ST A D B A 4 Islamia Primary School 14K HON G 28 EY Kilburn Grange School 15K PO L 5

T A John Keble CofE Primary School 10L

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E 29 North West London E 6

Our Lady of Grace RC Infant & Nursery School 12G 56 D Jewish Day School 14K E 7 Our Lady of Grace RC Junior School 11G 57 30 Sudbury Primary School 1H C 8 Our Lady of Lourdes RC Primary School 8K ROE GREEN 9 Princess Frederica CofE Primary School 12M 31 Wembley High Technology College 3G PARK URY RO SB AD 10 G Sinai Jewish Primary School 6D KIN 11 St Andrew & St Francis CofE Primary School 11J 42 Community Primary KINGSBURY 53 12 60 K D St Joseph’s RC Primary School 9K INGSBURY ROA D 19 13 St Joseph’s RC Infant School 5J Schools 14 St Joseph’s RC Junior School 5J 31 KENTON Anson Primary School 13I 10 15 49 FRYENT COUNTRY St Margaret Clitherow RC Primary School 8H 32 Barham Primary School 3J F R T E Y PARK 16 50 E E St Mary’s CofE Primary School 9J 33 N R BRENT CROSS Braintcroft Primary School 10G NORTHWICK T T S W 40 17 A E N St Mary Magdalen’s Catholic Junior School 12J 34 Brentﬁeld Primary School 8J PARK Y

G M R L 18 AS St Mary’s RC Primary School 15L 35 Byron Court Primary School 2F M A

ER S E A PRESTON 19 VE St Robert Southwell RC Primary School 7D 36 Carlton Vale Infant School 15M NU NORTHWICK E ROAD PARK 37 Chalkhill Primary School 7H WEST HILL 55 38 Donnington Primary School 11K

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E S E 39 KENTON LM A D Elsley Primary School 5J

S L LM G 20 Floreat Alperton Primary School** T L

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REST B O Foundation Primary Schools U D P R R E A L 42 U 21 Kingsbury Green Primary School 7D C Furness Primary School 11M

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BR 25 C 43 Leopold Primary School 10K O 33 22 O H Malorees Junior school 13K T 6 K A WEMBLEY R N 44 V Lyon Park Infant School 5K O E E A 23 . N Oakington Manor Primary School 7I 31 PARK S

LLAN E AS E E A4 T 7 45 N 62 N 08 LA Lyon Park Junior School 5K LA 8 N E L C T 24

S A R The Kilburn Park School Foundation 15M EA 37 N E O I E C U 61 V 46 K Malorees Infant School 13K E NORTH Y R EN L A V E R A W W WEMBLEY O 47 H Mitchell Brook Primary School 9J N H A E O

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A A L D WEMBLEY N A 51 Newﬁeld Primary School 10K E N I 31 STADIUM E S D 52 A H Northview Primary School 10I BARHAM NEASDEN O OO R DOLLIS HILL H PARK G HA

I 14 T H WEMBLEY 23 53 UP Oliver Goldsmith Primary School 8D H AR D R OA OW R CENTRAL 13 R 27 WILLESDEN R H HA 54 I Park Lane Primary School 4I O L

GREEN L E W D SUDBURY D A A O A RR R 11 LIN R 55 P L O AD TOWN CHA O HIGH RO Preston Park Primary School 4F I R 47 O N A 39 D R W G P 3 J 32 A 16 O 17 KILBURN 56 L Roe Green Infant School 7C R U U R ND LANE O O RC I AD WILL A A C 34 ESD D O EN 57 D H Roe Green Junior School 7C R LA RT NE H BRONDESBURY STONEBRIDGE NO BRO 58 RC ND Salusbury Primary School 14L U E PARK SB 29 KI CH 12 U L Catchment areas are identiﬁed by 43 R B 59 Stonebridge Primary School 8K E Y U PA R 51 NU R N shaded areas and should help you 44 K HIGH 60 Uxendon Manor Primary School 4D K VE A 2 45 ROUUNDWOOD 61 identify which school is local to 38 22 46 Wembley Primary School 4H ENUE R SFORD AV C N PAR PARK 28 O BERE RAVE K BSON 8 RO A 62 your address. This map should be 60 A D Wykeham Primary School 9H ALPERTON D RO 4 EALING ROA BRONDESBURY E C used as a guide only in helping H S A PARK A NU MB E L KILBURN 5 V U you ﬁnd the school in your E A SB R S L 58 PARK D L L LE S EN A UR R U YN HA catchment. 41 T O E S Y D E E R ST W L R R 18 GH R L O KENSAL QUEENS HI O A OA HARLESDEN T A TE S S D For further advice please contact T L RISE PARK A E D TI Y

O RO N A D Brent School Admissions Service R H 9 26 O A 21 A R D R D 24 OW ROA KENSAL on 020 8937 3110 or check 36 M GREEN your catchment area school WILLESSDEN JUNCTTION HAR ROW at brent.gov.uk/admissions RO AD

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Voluntary Aided Primary Schools Academies A 25 E 1 Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School 11H Ark Academy 6G DGW 2 ARE Christ Church CofE Primary School 15K 26 Ark Franklin Academy 13M

RO 3 Convent of Jesus and Mary RC Infant School 12J QUEENSBURY 27 Gladstone Park Primary School 11I ST A D B A 4 Islamia Primary School 14K HON G 28 EY Kilburn Grange School 15K PO L 5

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G M R L 18 AS St Mary’s RC Primary School 15L 35 Byron Court Primary School 2F M A

ER S E A PRESTON 19 VE St Robert Southwell RC Primary School 7D 36 Carlton Vale Infant School 15M NU NORTHWICK E ROAD PARK 37 Chalkhill Primary School 7H WEST HILL 55 38 Donnington Primary School 11K

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BR 25 C 43 Leopold Primary School 10K O 33 22 O H Malorees Junior school 13K T 6 K A WEMBLEY R N 44 V Lyon Park Infant School 5K O E E A 23 . N Oakington Manor Primary School 7I 31 PARK S

LLAN E AS E E A4 T 7 45 N 62 N 08 LA Lyon Park Junior School 5K LA 8 N E L C T 24

S A R The Kilburn Park School Foundation 15M EA 37 N E O I E C U 61 V 46 K Malorees Infant School 13K E NORTH Y R EN L A V E R A W W WEMBLEY O 47 H Mitchell Brook Primary School 9J N H A E O

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A A L D WEMBLEY N A 51 Newﬁeld Primary School 10K E N I 31 STADIUM E S D 52 A H Northview Primary School 10I BARHAM NEASDEN O OO R DOLLIS HILL H PARK G HA

I 14 T H WEMBLEY 23 53 UP Oliver Goldsmith Primary School 8D H AR D R OA OW R CENTRAL 13 R 27 WILLESDEN R H HA 54 I Park Lane Primary School 4I O L

O RO N A D ** Note that a site has not yet been Brent School Admissions Service R H 9 26 O A 21 A R D R D 24 OW ROA KENSAL decided for Floreat Alperton Primary on 020 8937 3110 or check 36 M GREEN your catchment area school WILLESSDEN School. The school has been approved JUNCTTION HAR ROW at brent.gov.uk/admissions RO AD to open in September 2016, see page 53 for details of how to apply.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 25 Community primary schools – contact details

Anson Primary School www.ansonprimaryschool.com Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 52 DfE number: 3042000 On time applications made last year: 255 Head teacher: Ms Saadia Lansiquot Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 412 Anson Road, Cricklewood NW2 4AB Map reference: 13I Tel: 020 8452 8552 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8450 3845 Accessibility: Medium Email: [email protected]

Barham Primary School www.barhamprimary.co.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 120 DfE number: 3042049 On time applications made last year: 364 Head teacher: Ms Karen Giles Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 870 Danethorpe Road, Wembley HA0 4RQ Map reference: 3J Tel: 020 8902 3706 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): No Fax: 020 8903 5098 Accessibility: Medium Admissions Officer: Ms Mina Hirani Email: [email protected]

Braintcroft Primary School www.braintcroftprimary.co.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 90 DfE number: 3042075 On time applications made last year: 147 Head teacher: Ms Nadine Ferguson Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 767 Warren Road, Cricklewood NW2 7LL Map reference: 10G Tel: 020 8452 2413 (optional number) Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): No Fax: 020 8452 2369 Accessibility: High Admissions Officer: Mrs Marion McGee Email: [email protected]

Brentfield Primary School www.brentfield.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 90 DfE number: 3042003 On time applications made last year: 122 Head teacher: Mrs Paola Riddle Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 589 41-43 Meadow Garth, Neasden NW10 0SL Map reference: 8J Tel: 020 8965 5326 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8453 0316 Accessibility: Medium Admissions Officer: Ms Ivarine McGibbon Email: [email protected]

Byron Court Primary School www.byroncourtschool.co.uk Age Range: 4-11 years Admission places available to reception: 150 DfE number: 3042006 On time applications made last year: 229 Head teacher: Mrs Martine Clark Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 676 Spencer Road, Wembley HA0 3SF Map reference: 2F Tel: 020 8904 2785 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): ASC (private) Fax: 020 8908 2447 Accessibility: Low Admissions Officer: Mrs Margaret Brookes Email: [email protected]

26 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Carlton Vale Infant School www.carlton.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-7 years Admission places available to reception: 60 DfE number: 3042007 On time applications made last year: 85 Head teacher: Ms Helen Mooney Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 221 Malvern Place, Kilburn NW6 5PX Map reference: 15M Tel: 020 7624 0348 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): No Fax: 020 7328 6293 Accessibility: High Admissions Officer:Mrs Rosa Gammalliere Email: [email protected]

Chalkhill Primary School www.chalkhillprimaryschool.co.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 60 DfE number: 3042068 On time applications made last year: 157 Head teacher: Ms Rose Ashton Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 540 Barnhill Road, Wembley HA9 9YP Map reference: 7H Tel: 020 8904 4508 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8904 1227 Accessibility: Low Admissions Officer: Mrs Jenny Deutrom Email: [email protected]

Donnington Primary School www.donnington.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 30 DfE number: 3042056 On time applications made last year: 158 Head teacher: Mr Roger Roberts Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 235 Uffington Road, Willesden NW10 3TL Map reference: 11K Tel: 020 8451 0761 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): No Fax: 020 8459 1145 Accessibility: Medium Admissions Officer: Mrs Angela McAllister Email: [email protected]

Elsley Primary School www.elsley.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 120 DfE number: 3042055 On time applications made last year: 137 Head teacher: Mr Raphael Moss Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 464 Tokyngton Avenue, Wembley HA9 6HT Map reference: 5J Tel: 020 8902 8003 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): No Fax: 020 8902 4078 Accessibility: Medium Admissions Officer: Mrs Michelle Moore Email: [email protected]

Fryent Primary School www.fryent.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 120 DfE number: 3042074 On time applications made last year: 197 Head teacher: Ms Alison Gross Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 624 Church Lane, Kingsbury NW9 8JD Map reference: 8E Tel: 020 8205 4047 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): No Admissions Officer: Ms Kundan Soni Accessibility: Medium Email: [email protected]

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 27 Harlesden Primary School www.harlesdenschool.com Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 90 DfE number: 3042017 On time applications made last year: 111 Head teacher: Miss Linda Perrier Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 260 Acton Lane, London NW10 8UT Map reference: 9L Tel: 020 8965 7445 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8963 1828 Accessibility: Low Admissions Officer: Miss Wendy Ferguson Email: [email protected]

Kingsbury Green Primary School www.kingsburyprimaryschool.org.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 90 DfE number: 3042024 On time applications made last year: 204 Head teacher: Mrs Laura Wynne Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 677 Old Kenton Lane, Kingsbury NW9 9ND Map reference: 7D Tel: 020 8204 6423 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8905 0258 Accessibility: High Admissions Officer: Mrs Hansa Valji Email: [email protected]

Leopold Primary School www.leopoldprimary.co.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 60 DfE number: 3042028 On time applications made last year: 374 Head teacher: Mrs Audrey Kendall Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 680 Hawkeshead Road, Willesden NW10 9UR Map reference: 10K Tel: 020 8459 5654 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8459 6245 Accessibility: Medium Admissions Officer: Mrs Lynn Hayward Email: [email protected]

Lyon Park Infant School www.lpis.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-7 years Admission places available to reception: 120 DfE number: 3042031 On time applications made last year: 199 Head teacher: Mrs Nicola Yudin Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 440 Vincent Road, Wembley HA0 4HH Map reference: 5k Tel: 020 8902 5454 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): No Fax: 020 8903 9748 Accessibility: High Admissions Officer:Ms Saman Chaudhry Email: [email protected]

Lyon Park Junior School www.lpjun.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 7-11 years Admission places available to Year 3: 120 DfE number: 3042030 On time applications made last year: 157 Head teacher: Mrs Nicola Yudin Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 480 Vincent Road, Wembley HA0 4HH Map reference: 5K Tel: 020 8902 1479 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): No Fax: 020 8903 3564 Accessibility: High Admissions Officer:Mrs Samar Meshaka Email: [email protected]

28 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Malorees Infant School www.maloreesinfants.com Age Range: 3-7 years Admission places available to reception: 60 DfE number: 3042033 On time applications made last year: 290 Head teacher: Ms Sian Davies Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 220 Christchurch Avenue, London NW6 7PB Map reference: 13K Tel: 020 8459 3038 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): ASC Fax: 020 8451 9829 Accessibility: Medium Admissions Officer:Mrs Clare Wood Email: [email protected]

Mitchell Brook Primary School www.mbrook.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 90 DfE number: 3042066 On time applications made last year: 202 Head teacher: Mrs Theresa Landreth Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 528 Bridge Road, Neasden NW10 9BX Map reference: 9J Tel: 020 8459 1392 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Admissions Officer: Mrs Shalaine Gordon Accessibility: Low Email: [email protected]

Mora Primary School www.mora.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 60 DfE number: 3042073 On time applications made last year: 144 Head teacher: Ms Nicola Denton Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 409 Mora Road, Cricklewood NW2 6TD Map reference: 12H Tel: 020 8452 2634 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8452 5656 Accessibility: Low Admissions Officer: Mrs Sheila McMullan Email: [email protected]

Mount Stewart Infant School www.msi.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 4-7 years Admission places available to reception: 90 DfE number: 3042019 On time applications made last year: 266 Head teacher: Mrs Naomi Ninvalle Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 300 Carlisle Gardens, Kenton HA3 0JX Map reference: 3E Tel: 020 8907 5113 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8907 2639 Accessibility: High Admissions Officer: Ms Nila Mistri Email: [email protected]

Mount Stewart Junior School www.mstewartjnr.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 7-11 years Admission places available to Year 3: 90 DfE number: 3042018 On time applications made last year: 153 Head teacher: Mrs Bindu Rai Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 360 Mount Stewart Avenue, Kenton HA3 0JX Map reference: 3E Tel: 020 8907 1977 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Email: [email protected] Accessibility: Medium

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 29 Newfield Primary School www.newfield.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 60 DfE number: 3042064 On time applications made last year: 138 Head teacher: Ms Sarah Bolt Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 432 Londstone Avenue, London NW10 3UD Map reference: 10K Tel: 020 8961 1566 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8961 8517 Accessibility: Medium Admissions Officer:Mrs Penny Trotman Email: [email protected]

Northview Primary School www.northview.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 30 DfE number: 3042034 On time applications made last year: 120 Head teacher: Mr David Syed Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 244 Northview Crescent, Neasden NW10 1RD Map reference: 10L Tel: 020 8450 7982 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8452 0817 Accessibility: Medium Admissions Officer: Mrs Michelle O’Connor Email: [email protected]

Oliver Goldsmith Primary School www.olivergoldsmithschoolbrent.co.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 60 DfE number: 3042071 On time applications made last year: 245 Head teacher: Mr James Simmons Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 469 Coniston Gardens, Kingsbury NW9 0BD Map reference: 8D Tel: 020 8205 6038 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): ASC Fax: 020 8205 4987 Accessibility: Low Admissions Officer: Mrs Teresa O’Connell Email: [email protected]

Park Lane Primary School www.parklane.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 61 DfE number: 3042038 On time applications made last year: 285 Head teacher: Miss Enid Lewis Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 477 Park Lane, Wembley HA9 7RY Map reference: 4I Tel: 020 8902 5006 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8903 7939 Accessibility: Low Admissions Officer:Miss Sonia Penrose Email: [email protected]

Preston Park Primary School www.prestonparkschool.co.uk Age Range: 4-11 years Admission places available to reception: 120 DfE number: 3042039 On time applications made last year: 293 Head teacher: Mr John Redpath Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 854 College Road, Wembley HA9 8RJ Map reference: 4F Tel: 020 8904 3602 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8904 8745 Accessibility: High Admissions Officer:Ms Christine Harris Email: [email protected]

30 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Roe Green Infant School www.rgreeninf.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-7 years Admission places available to reception: 120 DfE number: 3042042 On time applications made last year: 310 Head teacher: Mrs Nicole Lobo Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 440 Princes Avenue, Kingsbury NW9 9JL Map reference: 7C Tel: 020 8204 3531 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): ASC 3.20-4.20pm Fax: 020 8905 0256 for Year 1 and 2 Admissions Officer: Mrs Manoja WickramasingheAccessibility: only High Email: [email protected]

Roe Green Junior School www.rgjs.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 7-11 years Admission places available to Year 3: 120 DfE number: 3042041 On time applications made last year: 155 Head teacher: Ms Melissa Loosemore Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 480 Princes Avenue, Kingsbury NW9 9ND Map reference: 7C Tel: 020 8204 5221 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): ASC Fax: 020 8905 0256 Accessibility: High Admissions Officer: Ms Pamela Stewart Email: [email protected]

Salusbury Primary School www.salusbury.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 90 DfE number: 3042070 On time applications made last year: 271 Head teacher: Mrs Linda Kiernan Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 669 Salusbury Road, London NW6 6SB Map reference: 14L Tel: 020 7624 0311/0250 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 7328 1380 Accessibility: Low Admissions Officer: Mrs Elizabeth Villegas Email: [email protected]

Stonebridge Primary School www.stonebridge.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 90 DfE number: 3042057 On time applications made last year: 95 Head teacher: Ms Sophie Allen Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 611 Shakespeare Ave, London NW10 8NG Map reference: 8k Tel: 020 8965 6965 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8838 0784 Accessibility: Low Admissions Officer:Ms Vivien Johnson Email: [email protected]

Uxendon Manor Primary School www.uxmanor.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 120 DfE number: 3042020 On time applications made last year: 177 Head teacher: Mr Jonathan Parry Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 508 Vista Way, Kenton HA3 0UX Map reference: 4D Tel: 020 8907 5019 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8907 2367 Accessibility: Medium Admissions Officers:Mrs Margaret O’Sullivan/ Mrs Varsha Chandarana Email: [email protected]

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 31 Wembley Primary School www.wembleyprimary.co.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 120 DfE number: 3043605 On time applications made last year: 475 Head teacher: Mr Rob Fenton Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 900 East Lane, Wembley HA9 7NW Map reference: 4H Tel: 020 8904 3725 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8901 9895 Accessibility: Medium Admissions Officer:Mrs Susanne Joseph/ Mrs Maureen Roye-David Email: [email protected]

Wykeham Primary School www.wykeham.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 60 DfE number: 3042053 On time applications made last year: 208 Head teacher: Mr Everton Sharpe Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 593 Aboyne Road, Neasden NW10 0EX Map reference: 9H Tel: 020 8450 8425 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8450 8425 Accessibility: Medium Admissions Officer: Mrs Harveen Sehra Email: [email protected]

32 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Ark Academy (3-10 year olds) www.arkacademy.org DfE number: 3046906

B. Ark Schools is the Academy Trust and through its Head teacher: Mr Ian Doswell board may delegate some functions to LGBs set up to Forty Avenue, Wembley HA9 9JR provide a local oversight of individual academies. Tel: 020 8385 4390 C. The Ark Schools Board is responsible for the Fax: 020 8385 4391 admissions policy of each academy. From time to Admissions officer:Mrs Clodagh Boyle time some admissions functions may be delegated to Email: [email protected] academies whilst others are carried out at Ark Schools under the direction of the board. Maximum admission 2016: 60 Number of on-time applications last year: 631 D. In the event of a query, enquiries should be made to the Admissions Team at Ark Schools, 65 Kingsway, Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 420 London, WC2B 6TD. Accessibility: Medium Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): Yes Admission arrangements approved by In Year Applications the secretary of state Apply to Ark Academy directly The normal admissions round 5. The admission arrangements for the academy for the General academic year 2016/17 and for subsequent years are 1. This document sets out the admission arrangements set out below. for Ark Academy (Wembley) (“the academy”). The i. The academy has a Published Admission Number academy is an all-through academy with a nursery, (PAN) for the following year groups: primary, secondary and sixth form school. Nursery: 30 full-time equivalent places – morning 2. The academy will comply with all relevant provisions and afternoon of the Department for Education’s School Admissions Primary (Reception): 60 Code of Practice 2014 (“the Admissions Code”), the Secondary (Year 7): 180 School Admission Appeals Code of Practice 2012 Sixth form (external Year 12): 15 (“the Appeals Code”) and the law on admissions. ii. The academy may set a higher or lower admission The academy will, through Ark Schools, consult as number than its Published Admission Number may be required and/or necessary. Reference in the (PAN) for any specific year. Before making any codes to admission authorities shall be deemed to be change to the agreed admission number or a references to the Board of Ark Schools, the powers permanent change to its PAN the academy will, and functions of which may be delegated to the Local in accordance with the provisions of the School Governing Body (LGB) of the academy. Admissions Code 2014, notify the local authority 3. All academies in the Ark Schools network including of the consent to such an arrangement by the Ark Ark Academy (Wembley) will participate in the Board and the LGB. Where it is proposed to have a coordinated admission arrangements administered lower admission number the academy will consult by the local authority in the relevant geographical as required by paragraphs 1.3 and 1.42 of the location and in respect of other arrangements School Admissions Code. specified in the Admissions Code. iii. In accordance with its funding agreement 4. Notwithstanding these arrangements, the Secretary of the academy will also seek the consent of the State may direct the academy to admit a named pupil to Secretary of State to any permanent change to its the academy on application from a local authority. Before PAN. doing so the Secretary of State will consult the academy. a) Nursery NB: i. The nursery will adopt the same admissions A. The academy is one of a number within a network of arrangements as the rest of the academy, with the academies overseen by Ark Schools. exception that no appeal will be allowed against the refusal of a place.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 33 ii. It is important to note that attendance/enrolment discretion of the academy. The process for making in the nursery will be distinct and separate and an out-of-age-group application is described in have no relevance to attendance in the primary paragraph 23. or other sections of the academy, for which a ii. Where the primary school is oversubscribed, the separate application will have to be made in criteria for admission are as set out in paragraph 12 accordance with the local authority’s coordinated below. admissions arrangements. c) Secondary iii. Oversubscription – If the nursery is oversubscribed, The academy has an agreed PAN of 180 pupils in Year 7. priority will be given to children with Statements of Special Educational Needs or Education and i. Pupils in the primary school will transfer to the Health Care Plans where the academy is named. secondary school. The remaining places will then be offered in ii. This means that the opportunity to gain admission accordance with the oversubscription criteria if a child does not already attend the primary school which applies to the academy as a whole (as will, in reality, be restricted in respect of external described in paragraph 12 below), except that applicants (those children not currently attending sibling priority will only apply where a sibling the primary school) to 120 places in Year 7. already attends the academy nursery or primary school. d) Post-16 provision i. The sixth form opened in September 2015. The PAN iv. Waiting list – The nursery will keep a waiting list for external Year 12s is 15. Those students already which will be used to fill casual vacancies occurring attending the academy and achieving the minimum as a result of an enrolled child leaving during academic entrance requirements will transfer to the the academic year or withdrawing from a place sixth form. that has been offered. The list will be compiled in accordance with the Admissions Code so that ii. The minimum academic entrance requirements children will be ranked in line with the academy’s for admission to the post-16 provision will be oversubscription criteria (see paragraph 12 below). published in the academy sixth-form prospectus which will be available on request and also b) Primary published on the academy website. These i. The primary school has an agreed PAN of 60 requirements will relate to both internal and pupils in the Reception year. After the allocation external applicants. of Reception places, the academy will admit ‘rising fives’, i.e. all children with places can be admitted iii. Young people may apply on their own. to the Reception year at school in the September iv. Students will be informed in writing whether or following their fourth birthday but before reaching not they have been allocated a place. compulsory school age. In accordance with paragraph 2.16 of the Admissions Code, a Consideration of applications parent/carer may request that their child’s taking 6. Arrangements for applications for places at the academy up of a place be deferred until later in the school will be made in accordance with the relevant local year but not beyond the point at which they authority’s coordinated admission arrangements and will reach compulsory school age, and not beyond the be made on the Common Application Form provided beginning of the final term of the school year for and administered by the relevant local authority. which the offer was made. A parent/carer may request that their child takes up the place part-time 7. The Academy Trust will use the local authority’s until compulsory school age is reached. timetable for applications to the academy each year (exact dates within the months may vary from year Note: In respect of a child born late in an academic to year). This will fit in with the timetable for the year after 1 April, the ordinary expectation is that he coordination of admission arrangements agreed or she will join Reception at the latest in the term he following consultation, within the local authority. or she turns five and then progress to Year 1 in the next academic year. If a parent/carer wants their child 8. Admission to the sixth form will be administered to join Reception in the September term after their by the academy in accordance with the published fifth birthday, that decision is strictly subject to the arrangements (see paragraph 5d) above).

34 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 9. For secondary applications: d) February – The local authority sends the academy applications to the Academy Trust. a) September – The academy will publish in its prospectus information about the arrangements e) February – Determination of the next academic for admission, including oversubscription criteria, year’s admissions policy. This will be published on for the following September (e.g. in September the academy’s website and sent to the LA by 15 2015 for admission in September 2016). This March for inclusion in the composite prospectus. will include details of open evenings and other f) March – The academy or Ark Central will advise opportunities for prospective pupils and their the LA of applicants who meet required admissions parents/carers to visit the academy. criteria where it has been necessary to verify this b) September/October – The academy will provide for them, e.g. distance measurement. opportunities for parents/carers to visit the g) March – The LA applies the agreed scheme for its academy. own schools, informing other LAs of offers to be c) October – Common Application Form to be made to their residents. completed and returned to the relevant local h) April – Offers made to parents/carers. authority to administer. 11. After the admission of pupils with statements of d) December – The local authority sends applications Special Educational Needs or Education and Health to the academy. Care Plans where the academy is named, the e) January – The academy sends list of pupils to be academy will consider all applications for places. offered places to the local authority; the academy Where fewer applications are received than places or Ark Central will advise the local authority of available, the academy will offer places to all those applicants who meet required admissions criteria who have applied, including in respect of the where it has been necessary to verify this for them, secondary school from 2015 onwards all those pupils e.g. distance measurement. attending the primary school in Year 6. f) February – The local authority applies the agreed scheme for its own schools, informing other local Procedures where the academy is authorities of offers to be made to their residents. oversubscribed g) February – Determination of the next academic Oversubscription criteria year’s admissions policy. This will be published 12. Where the academy is named on a pupil’s Statement on the academy’s website and sent to the of Special Educational Needs or Education and local authority by 15 March for inclusion in the Health Care Plan, that child will be admitted by the composite prospectus. academy. If the number of applications for admission h) March – Offers made to parents/carers by the to either the primary school or secondary school is local authority. greater than the PAN, applications will be considered against the criteria and order set out below. 10. For primary applications: Admission of siblings to the primary and secondary a) September – The academy will publish in its schools will be separate and distinct to those schools. prospectus information about the arrangements The secondary school has additional criteria in for admission, including oversubscription criteria, relation to distance zones. for the following September (e.g. in September a) Looked After Children and children who have 2015 for admission in September 2016). This been previously Looked After (pursuant to the will include details of open evenings and other Admissions Code)1. opportunities for prospective pupils and their parents/carers to visit the academy. b) September/October – The academy will provide opportunities for parents/carers to visit the academy. 1 “A ‘Looked After Child’ is a child who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local c) January – Common Application Form to be authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at the time completed and returned to the pupil’s home local of making an application to a school.” (Footnote 16 of the School authority to administer. For 2016 the national Admissions Code 2014). A previously Looked After child, “includes closing date for primary applications is 15 January. children who were adopted under the Adoption Act 1976 and children who were adopted under the Adoption and Childrens Act 2002.”

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 35 b) Children of staff at the school where there is a With regard to applications to the secondary school demonstrable skill shortage – Children of members where distance from the school is the priority (sub of staff will have priority in the oversubscription paragraph f) above) the following will apply: criteria if the staff member is filling a post for a) 25% of the remaining places will be allocated which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. Ark to children who live closest to the school using Schools is required to approve the principal’s straight-line measurement from the main entrance designation of such posts and confirm the of the academy to the main entrance to the child’s assessment that the member of staff appointed home (“Zone A”) and 75% of the remaining meets the requirements of the shortage. Priority places will be allocated to children who live closest will be limited to one place for each form of entry to Fawood Children’s Centre using straight-line in any year. measurement from the main entrance of the c) In respect of the primary school only, children who Children’s Centre to the main entrance to the at the time of the admission have a sibling who child’s home (“Zone B”). attends the primary school in Years 1 to 6.# b) If there are vacancies after applying the criteria d) In respect of the secondary school, children who at at a) above, in either of Zone A or Zone B, these the time of admission have a sibling who attends vacancies will be filled by offering places to the academy.# applicants who remain to be offered places in the other zone using the distance criteria set out in a) # For this purpose (c) and d) above) “sibling” means a above for that zone. whole, half or stepbrother or -sister or an adopted child resident at the same address. The fact that an Tie-breaker applicant has a sibling attending the nursery school will not be a factor giving rise to priority. If Ark Schools is unable to distinguish between applicants using the published criteria, including those e) Children of staff in the school – Where there is no who live in blocks of flats with the same building demonstrable skill shortage, priority may be given entrance, places will be offered via a random draw where the academy is oversubscribed to a child which will be supervised by someone independent of the of a person who will have been employed in the academy. academy for two or more years at the time the application for admission is made. Priority will be Note: In the case of multiple births or brothers and limited to one place for each form of entry in any sisters in the same year group, where there is only one year. place available, both will be considered together as one application. f) Distance measurement – A child’s home will be the address at which the child normally resides and which Post-16 oversubscription criteria has been given to the academy and other relevant agencies as being the child’s normal place of residence. 13. Where the sixth form is oversubscribed, priority will be given to those qualifying applicants following the i) In those cases where the relevant local authority oversubscription criteria as described in paragraph 12 measures distance on behalf of Ark Schools, the above. method they adopt for measurement and also selection between equal applicants and those living Right of appeal in flats will apply. 14. There will be a right of appeal to an independent ii) In those cases where Ark Schools is required to appeal panel for all applicants (with the exception of carry out the measurement itself, priority will be nursery) refused admission (see paragraph 17 below). given to those children who live closest to the school using a straight-line measurement taken Operation of waiting lists from Ordnance Survey Data from the academy 15. Subject to any provisions regarding waiting lists in building’s main reception to the main entrance of the local authority’s coordinated admission scheme, the child’s home. Where a child resides in a block the academy will operate a waiting list. Where in of flats, the distance will be measured from the any year the academy receives more applications academy building’s main reception to the main for places than there are places available, a waiting entrance of the building in which the flats are list will operate until the end of the summer term. located. Thereafter, parents/carers will be written to asking if

36 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 they wish for their child to remain on the waiting list. of appeal following an unsuccessful application, This will be maintained by the academy and it will be parents/carers will have a right of appeal to an open to any parent/carer to ask for his or her child’s independent appeal panel if they are dissatisfied name to be placed on the waiting list following an with an admission decision of the academy. unsuccessful application. Admission of children outside of their 16. A child’s position on the waiting list will be determined solely in accordance with the normal age group oversubscription criteria set out in paragraph 23. Applications for children to be admitted to a school 12 above with separate distance criteria for the year outside of their chronological age group secondary school. When places become vacant they should be submitted to the home local authority will be allocated to children on the waiting list in during normal round admissions, or to the academy accordance with the oversubscription criteria. as described in paragraph 19 regarding the in- year admissions process. Each application will be Arrangements for appeal panels considered and decided by the academy on the 17. Except in relation to an application for admission individual circumstances of each case. Applicants into the nursery school, where there will be no right should provide documentation in support of their of appeal following an unsuccessful application, application regardless of whether they are asking for parents/carers will have the right of appeal to an the student to be admitted in a lower or higher year independent appeal panel (“appeal panel”) if they group. Applicants will be notified in writing of the are dissatisfied with an admission decision of the decision. Unsuccessful applicants will be given the academy. right to appeal. 18. The appeal panel will be independent of the Procedures for determining admission academy. The arrangements for appeals will be in line with the Appeals Code. The determination of arrangements the appeal panel will be made in accordance with Consultation the code and will be binding on all parties. The 24. The academy shall consult every seven years on its academy will provide written guidance for proposed admission arrangements unless these are parents/carers about how the appeals process works the subject of change in any year. and will provide parents/carers with a named contact 25. Where consultation is required the academy will who can answer any queries parents/carers may have consult for a period of six weeks between October about the process. and the following January. All relevant bodies listed Applications for admission to in paragraph 1.44, Section 1 of the Admission Code will be consulted and the consultation will be the academy outside the normal conducted directly with the relevant local authority admissions round – in-year applications and applicable church authorities and by way of 19. In-year applications should be submitted to the publication on the academy’s website and that academy unless other arrangements are published on of Ark Schools. Determination and publication of the website. admission arrangements 20. Subject to any provisions in the local authority’s 26. Following consultation, the Academy Trust will published and agreed protocol on arrangements consider comments made by those consulted. The relating to applications submitted for years other Academy Trust will then determine its admission than the normal year of entry, the academy will arrangements by 28 February of the relevant year consider all such applications and if the year group and notify those consulted of what has been applied for has a place available, admit the child. determined. 21. If more applications are received than there are Publication of admission arrangements places available, the oversubscription criteria in paragraph 12, shall apply. 27. The Academy Trust will publish its admission arrangements each year once these have been Appeals against refusal of an in-year application determined, by sending copies to the relevant local 22. Except in relation to an application for admission authority and parties named in paragraph 25 and by into the nursery school, where there will be no right publishing on the academy website.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 37 28. The published arrangements will set out: Proposed changes to admission arrangements by the academy after arrangements have been published. a) The name and address of the academy and contact details; 34. Once the admission arrangements have been determined for a particular year and published, b) A summary of the admissions policy, including the academy will propose changes only if there is oversubscription criteria; a major change of circumstances. In such cases, c) Numbers of places and applications for those the academy must notify the bodies referred to in places in the previous year; and paragraph 25 above of the proposed variation and d) Arrangements for hearing appeals. must then apply to the Secretary of State setting out: a) the proposed changes; Representations about admission b) reasons for wishing to make such changes; arrangements c) any comments or objections from those entitled to 29. Where any bodies that were consulted, or that object. should have been consulted, make representations to the Academy Trust about its admission The need to secure the Secretary of State’s approval for arrangements, the Academy Trust will consider the changes to admission arrangements. representations before determining the admission 35. Following the consultation process outlined in this arrangements. policy, the academy will, through Ark Schools, 30. Where the Academy Trust has determined its consult as may be required and/or necessary and admission arrangements and notified all those seek the consent of the Secretary of State to any bodies whom it has consulted and any of those changes in its admission arrangements. bodies object to the admission arrangements, they 36. Records of applications and admissions shall be kept can make representations to the Schools Adjudicator. by the academy for a minimum period of ten years Objections must be referred to the adjudicator and shall be open for inspection by the Secretary of by 15 May in the admissions determination year. State. Information on how to make an objection can be obtained from the Office of the Schools Adjudicator: How places were allocated last year http://www.schoolsadjudicator.gov.uk on offer day 31. Those bodies referred to in paragraph 25 above have the right to ask the academy to increase its proposed Criteria Number Furthest PAN for any year. Where such a request is made, of places distance but agreement cannot be reached locally, they may (in metres) ask the Secretary of State to direct the academy to Looked after/ 1 859.22 increase its proposed PAN. The Secretary of State Previously looked after children will consult the academy and will then determine the PAN. Sibling 27 14240.25 32. The Secretary of State may direct changes to the Distance 32 430.87 academy’s proposed admission arrangements and, in addition to the provisions above, the Secretary of State may direct changes to the proposed PAN. The Secretary of State will consult the academy and/or the Academy Trust before making any direction. 33. Pursuant to the Admissions Code 2014 the academy may decide to admit above its PAN in year. It may also increase its stated PAN for any determination year and future years provided that the necessary approvals at board level and that of the Secretary of State are received. In these cases it is not necessary to consult but the Admissions Code provides for the local authority to be given notice to enable them to deliver their coordinated responsibilities effectively.

38 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Ark Franklin Primary Academy (3-11 year olds) www.arkfranklinprimary.org DfE number: 3042021

academies overseen by Ark Schools. Head teacher: Ms Janine Ryan B. Ark Schools is the Academy Trust and through its Harvist Road, London NW6 6HJ Board may delegate some functions to LGBs set up to Tel: 020 8969 3846 provide a local oversight of individual academies. Fax: 020 8964 5137 C. The Ark Schools Board is responsible for the Admissions officer:Mrs Lourdes De Lucia admissions policy of each academy. From time to Email: [email protected] time some admissions functions may be delegated to Maximum admission 2016: 90 academies whilst others are carried out at Ark Schools Number of on-time applications last year: 233 under the direction of the board. Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 638 D. In the event of a query, enquiries should be made to Accessibility: Low the Admissions Team at Ark Schools, 65 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6TD. Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC In Year Applications Admission arrangements approved by Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions the secretary of state The normal admissions round 5. The admission arrangements for the academy for the Admission arrangements academic year 2016/17 and for subsequent years are 1. This document sets out the admission arrangements set out below. for Ark Franklin Primary Academy (“the academy”). i. The academy has an agreed admission number The academy is a primary school with a nursery. of 90 pupils in the Reception year and 90 full- 2. The academy will comply with all relevant provisions time equivalent places will be available in the of the Department for Education’s School Admissions nursery. Places in the nursery school may be full Code of Practice 2014 (“the Admissions Code”), the time or organised on a part-time basis (mornings School Admission Appeals Code of Practice 2012 and afternoons). Details will be provided on the (“the Appeals Code”) and the law on admissions. academy website and may vary from time to time. The academy will, through Ark Schools, consult as Sufficient notice of arrangements will be given prior may be required and/or necessary. Reference in the to annual application. codes to admission authorities shall be deemed to be ii. The academy may set a higher or lower admission references to the Board of Ark Schools, the powers number than its Published Admission Number and functions of which may be delegated to the Local (PAN) for any specific year. Before making any Governing Body (LGB) of the academy. change to the agreed admission number, or a 3. All academies in the Ark Schools network including permanent change to its PAN the academy will the Ark Franklin Primary Academy will participate in in accordance with the provisions of the School the coordinated admission arrangements administered Admissions Code 2014 notify the local authority by the local authority in the relevant geographical of the consent to such an arrangement of the Ark location and in respect of other arrangements Board and the LGB. Where it is proposed to have a specified in the Admissions Code. lower admission number the academy will consult as required by paragraphs 1.3 and 1.42 of the 4. Notwithstanding these arrangements, the Secretary of School Admissions Code. State may direct the academy to admit a named pupil to the academy on application from a local authority. iii. In accordance with its funding agreement the Before doing so the Secretary of State will consult the academy will also seek the consent of the Secretary academy. of State to any permanent change to its PAN. NB: a) Nursery A. The academy is one of a number within a network of i. It is important to note that attendance/enrolment

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 39 in the nursery will be distinct and separate and criteria for admission are as set out in paragraph 9 have no relevance to attendance in the primary or below. other sections of the academy for which a separate application will have to be made in accordance Consideration of applications with the local authority’s coordinated admissions 6. Arrangements for applications for places at the academy arrangements. No appeal will be allowed against will be made in accordance with the relevant local the refusal of a place in the nursery. authority’s coordinated admission arrangements and will ii. Oversubscription – If the nursery is oversubscribed, be made on the Common Application Form provided priority will be given to children with Statements of and administered by the relevant local authority. Special Educational Needs or Education and Health 7. The Academy Trust will use the local authority’s Care Plans where the academy is named. The timetable for applications to the academy each year remaining places will then be offered in accordance (exact dates within the months may vary from year with the oversubscription criteria which applies to to year). This will fit in with the timetable for the the academy as a whole (as described in paragraph coordination of admission arrangements agreed 9 below), except that sibling priority will only following consultation, within the local authority. apply where a sibling already attends the academy nursery or primary school. a) September – The academy will publish in its prospectus information about the arrangements iii. Waiting list – The nursery will keep a waiting list for admission, including oversubscription criteria, which will be used to fill casual vacancies occurring for the following September (e.g. in September as a result of an enrolled child leaving during 2015 for admission in September 2016). This the academic year or withdrawing from a place will include details of open evenings and other that has been offered. The list will be compiled opportunities for prospective pupils and their in accordance with the Admissions Code so that parents/carers to visit the academy. children will be ranked in line with the academy’s oversubscription criteria (see paragraph 9 below). b) September/October – The academy will provide opportunities for parents/carers to visit the b) Primary academy. i. The academy has an agreed PAN of 90 pupils in the c) January – Common Application Form to be Reception year. After the allocation of Reception completed and returned to the pupil’s home local places, the academy will admit ‘rising fives’, i.e. all authority to administer. For 2016 the national children with places can be admitted to the Reception closing date for primary applications is 15 January. year at school in the September following their fourth birthday but before reaching compulsory school age. d) February – The local authority sends the academy In accordance with paragraph 2.16 of the Admissions applications to the Academy Trust. Code, a parent/carer may request that their child’s e) February – Determination of the next academic taking up of a place be deferred until later in the year’s admissions policy. This will be published school year but not beyond the point at which they on the academy’s website and sent to the reach compulsory school age, and not beyond the local authority by 15 March for inclusion in the beginning of the final term of the school year for composite prospectus. which the offer was made. A parent/carer may request that their child takes up the place part-time until f) March – The academy or Ark Central will advise compulsory school age is reached. the LA of applicants who meet required admissions criteria where it has been necessary to verify this Note: In respect of a child born late in an academic for them, e.g. distance measurement. year after 1 April, the ordinary expectation is that he or she will join Reception at the latest in the term he or g) March – The local authority applies the agreed she turns five and then progress to Year 1 in the next scheme for its own schools, informing other local academic year. If a parent/carer wants their child to authorities of offers to be made to their residents. join Reception in the September term after their fifth h) April – Offers made to parents/carers. birthday, that decision is strictly subject to the discretion 8. After the admission of pupils with statements of of the academy. The process for making an out-of-age Special Educational Needs or Education and Health group application is described in paragraph 19. Care Plans where the academy is named, the academy ii. Where the primary school is oversubscribed, the will consider all applications for places. Where fewer

40 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 applications are received than places available, the distance on behalf of Ark Schools, the method academy will offer places to all those who have they adopt for measurement and also selection applied. between equal applicants and those living in flats will apply. Procedures where the academy is ii. In those cases where Ark Schools is required oversubscribed to carry out the measurement itself, priority Oversubscription criteria will be given to those children who live 9. Where the academy is named on a pupil’s Statement closest to the school using a straight-line of Special Educational Needs or Education and Health measurement taken from Ordnance Survey Care Plan, that child will be admitted by the academy. Data from the academy building’s main If the number of applications for admission to the reception to the main entrance of the child’s nursery or primary school is greater than the PAN, home. Where a child resides in a block of applications will be considered against the criteria and flats, the distance will be measured from the order set out below: academy building’s main reception to the main entrance of the building in which the a) Looked After Children and Children who have flats are located. been previously Looked After (pursuant to the Admissions Code)1. Tie-breaker b) Children of staff at the school where there is a If Ark Schools is unable to distinguish between demonstrable skill shortage – Children of members applicants using the published criteria, including those of staff will have priority in the oversubscription who live in blocks of flats with the same building criteria if the staff member is filling a post for entrance, places will be offered via a random draw which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. Ark which will be supervised by someone independent of the Schools is required to approve the principal’s academy. designation of such posts and confirm the Note: In the case of multiple births or brothers and assessment that the member of staff appointed sisters in the same year group, where there is only one meets the requirements of the shortage. Priority place available in the academy, both will be considered will be limited to one place for each form of entry together as one application. in any year. c) Children who at the time of the admission have a Right of appeal sibling who attends the academy. For this purpose 10. There will be a right of appeal to an Independent “sibling” means a whole, half or step-brother or Appeal Panel for all applicants refused admission to -sister or an adopted child resident at the same the primary school (see paragraph 13 below). address. In respect of applications to the primary school, the fact that an applicant has a sibling Operation of waiting lists attending the nursery school will not be a factor giving rise to priority. 11. Subject to any provisions regarding waiting lists in the local authority’s coordinated admission scheme, d) Children of staff in the school – Where there is no the academy will operate a waiting list. Where in demonstrable skill shortage, priority may be given any year the academy receives more applications where the academy is oversubscribed to a child for places than there are places available, a waiting of a person who will have been employed in the list will operate until the end of the summer term. academy for two or more years at the time the Thereafter, parents/carers will be written to asking if application for admission is made. Priority will be they wish for their child to remain on the waiting list. limited to one place for each form of entry in any This will be maintained by the academy and it will be year. open to any parent/carer to ask for his or her child’s e) Distance measurement – A child’s home will be the address at which the child normally resides and 1 “A ‘Looked After child’ is a child who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority which has been notified to the academy and other in the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition relevant agencies as being the child’s normal place in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at the time of making an of residence. application to a school.” (Footnote 16 of the School Admissions Code 2014). A previously Looked After child “includes children who were i. In those cases where the relevant LA measures adopted under the Adoption Act 1976 and children who were adopted under the Adoption and Childrens Act 2002.”

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 41 name to be placed on the waiting list following an Admission of children outside of their unsuccessful application. normal age group 12. A child’s position on the waiting list will be 19. Applications for children to be admitted to a school determined solely in accordance with the year outside of their chronological age group should be oversubscription criteria set out in paragraph 9 submitted to the home local authority during normal above. When places become vacant they will be round admissions, or to the local authority as described allocated to children on the waiting list in accordance in paragraph 15 regarding the in-year admissions with the oversubscription criteria. process. Each application will be considered and decided by the academy on the individual circumstances Arrangements for appeal panels of each case. Applicants should provide documentation 13. Except in relation to an application for admission into in support of their application regardless of whether the nursery school, where there will be no right of they are asking for the student to be admitted in a appeal following an unsuccessful application, parents lower or higher year group. Applicants will be notified will have the right of appeal to an Independent in writing of the decision. Unsuccessful applicants will appeal panel (“appeal panel”) if they are dissatisfied be given the right to appeal. with an admission decision of the academy. 14. The appeal panel will be independent of the Procedures for determining admission academy. The arrangements for appeals will be in arrangements line with the Appeals Code. The determination of Consultation the appeal panel will be made in accordance with 20. The academy shall consult every seven years on its the code and will be binding on all parties. The proposed admission arrangements unless these are academy will provide written guidance for the subject of change in any year. parents/carers about how the appeals process works and will provide parents/carers with a named contact 21. Where consultation is required the academy will who can answer any queries parents/carers may have consult for a period of six weeks between October about the process. and the following January. All relevant bodies listed in paragraph 1.44, Section 1 of the Admission Applications for admission to Code will be consulted and the consultation will be the academy outside the normal conducted directly with the relevant local authority and any applicable church authorities and by way of admissions round – in-year applications publication on the academy’s website and that of 15. Applications should be submitted to Brent LA unless Ark Schools. other arrangements have been made and published on the academy website. Determination and publication of 16. Subject to any provisions in the LA’s published admission arrangements and agreed protocol on arrangements relating to 22. Following consultation, the Academy Trust will applications submitted for years other than the consider comments made by those consulted. The normal year of entry, the academy will consider all Academy Trust will then determine its admission such applications and if the year group applied for arrangements by 28 February of the relevant year and has a place available, admit the child. notify those consulted what has been determined. 17. If more applications are received than there are places available, the oversubscription criteria in Publication of admission arrangements paragraph 9, shall apply. 23. The Academy Trust will publish its admission arrangements each year once these have been Appeals against refusal of an in-year application determined, by sending copies to the relevant LA 18. Except in relation to an application for admission and bodies named in paragraph 21 and publishing into the nursery school, where there will be no right on the academy website. of appeal following an unsuccessful application, 24. The published arrangements will set out: parents/carers will have a right of appeal to an independent appeal panel if they are dissatisfied with a) The name and address of the academy and contact an admission decision of the academy. details; b) A summary of the admissions policy, including

42 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 oversubscription criteria; a major change of circumstances. In such cases, the academy must notify the bodies referred in c) Numbers of places and applications for those paragraph 21 above of the proposed variation and places in the previous year; and must then apply to the Secretary of State setting out: d) Arrangements for hearing appeals. a) the proposed changes; Representations about admission b) reasons for wishing to make such changes; arrangements c) any comments or objections from those entitled to 25. Where any bodies that were consulted, or that object. The need to secure the Secretary of State’s should have been consulted, make representations approval for changes to admission arrangements. to the Academy Trust about its admission 31. Following the consultation process outlined in this arrangements, the Academy Trust will consider the policy, the academy will, through Ark Schools, representations before determining the admission consult as may be required and/or necessary and arrangements. seek the consent of the Secretary of State to any 26. Where the Academy Trust has determined its changes in its admission arrangements. admission arrangements and notified all those 32. Records of applications and admissions shall be kept bodies whom it has consulted and any of those by the academy for a minimum period of ten years bodies object to the admission arrangements, they and shall be open for inspection by the Secretary of can make representations to the Schools Adjudicator. State. Objections must be referred to the adjudicator by 15 May in the admissions determination year. How places were allocated last year Information on how to make an objection can be on offer day obtained from the Office of the Schools Adjudicator: http://www.schoolsadjudicator.gov.uk Criteria Number Furthest 27. Those bodies referred to in paragraph 21 above have of places distance the right to ask the academy to increase its proposed (in metres) PAN for any year. Where such a request is made, Looked after/ 2 1360.04 but agreement cannot be reached locally, they may Previously looked after children ask the Secretary of State to direct the academy to increase its proposed PAN. The Secretary of State will Sibling 26 3994.28 consult the academy and will then determine the PAN. Children of staff 1 1726.79 28. The Secretary of State may direct changes to the Distance 61 1960.96 academy’s proposed admission arrangements and, in addition to the provisions above, the Secretary of State may direct changes to the proposed PAN. The Secretary of State will consult the academy and/or the Academy Trust before making any direction. 29. Pursuant to the Admissions Code 2014 the academy may decide to admit above their PAN in year. They may also increase their stated PAN for any determination year and future years provided that the necessary approvals at board level and that of the Secretary of State are received. In these cases it is not necessary to consult but the code provides for the local authority to be given notice to enable them to deliver their coordinated responsibilities effectively. Proposed changes to admission arrangements by the academy after arrangements have been published 30. Once the admission arrangements have been determined for a particular year and published, the academy will propose changes only if there is

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 43 Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School (3-11 year old boys)

DfE number: 3043603

school gives priority up to the Published Admissions Head teacher: Rabbi Yitzchak Freeman Number, to all applicants who have a commitment Parkside, Dollis Hill, London NW2 6RJ to the Faith. The commitment will be determined Tel: 020 8450 4377 by verifying that the family of the applicant and (if Fax: 020 8208 7998 different) the home in which the applicants spends most of his time abides by the Shulchan Aruch and Admissions officer:Mr Uri Kaplan its commentaries, conduct themselves in accordance Email: [email protected] with the book Oz Vehadar Levusha by Elyahu Falk Maximum admission 2016: 25 and that the applicant does not have access to the Number of on-time applications last year: 34 internet or television. A reference from the Rabbinate Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 210 confirming the foregoing may be required. Accessibility: Low 2.2 Subject to the foregoing and adopted protocols Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): No (formal and informal) in respect of hard to place children, where applications for admissions exceed In Year Applications the number of places available the following criteria Apply to Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary are applied, in the order set out below, to decide School directly. which children to admit: Admission arrangements 2.2.1 Looked After Children as defined by the Code of Practice on School Admissions (2012) edition Applications are to be made as part of the coordinated who are of the Faith. admissions scheme run by Brent Council. If the applicant does not attend the nursery at the school a 2.2.2 Children who have a sibling (including a half or Supplementary Information Form (SIF) will be required. step-brother) of the Faith residing in the same The SIF is available at the school. household as the applicant, at the school on the n The school is a single sex school and applications will date of the proposed admission. be considered for boys only. 2.2.3 In respect of children who are of the Faith, by a n Applications on behalf of children of multiple births will lottery (Lottery) to be conducted by a solicitor be considered treating each child as an independent or chartered accountant of at least ten years’ application. A separate SIF is required for each child. standing who is independent of the school and 1.1 Pupils will normally be admitted, regardless of ability appointed for this purpose by the Rabbinate. or aptitude, at the start of the school year in which The Lottery will be held in the following order: they reach the age of five. 2.2.4 For those applicants whose father or guardian 1.2 The number of intended admissions to the Reception is a full time student in a Kollel approved by the class for the year commencing September 2016 is 25. Rabbinate 1.3 Attendance at the nursery does not guarantee 2.2.5 Those applicants whose father is a Rabbi in a admission to the School. Parents wanting a place synagogue recognised by the Rabbinate in Reception will need to complete a Common 2.2.6 Those applicants whose parents or guardians Application Form, which is available from the local are active in a professional or voluntary capacity council. in a charity or communal organisation affiliated Oversubscription criteria to or recognised by the Rabbinate 2.1 The overriding consideration is commitment to the 2.2.7 Other Looked After Children as defined by the practice of Orthodox Judaism (Faith), as determined Code of Practice on School Admissions (2012) from time to time by the Rabbinate of the Union of edition Orthodox Hebrew Congregations (the Rabbinate). The 2.2.8 All other applicants.

44 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 2.3 Within each criterion, the Lottery will be used as the All applications will be considered in line with our tie-breaker. published admissions arrangements. Outcomes of applications will be sent to you by Brent Council on 3. Statement of Special Educational Need Applications for behalf of the governing body. Unsuccessful applicants students with a Statement of Special Educational Need will be placed on the waiting list. (SEN) are made by SEN teams within local authorities. The placement of students with such a Statement is 6. Appeals made after a process of consultation between parents/ carers, the school and the local authority. Students 6.1 A request for an appeal hearing against a decision of with a Statement of SEN receive priority over others for the admission authority must be lodged in writing at admission where the school is named in the Statement. the school office accompanied by a brief statement of the grounds of the appeal. The request for the appeal 4. Waiting list hearing must be lodged within ten school days of the notifications of the decisions of the admissions 4.1 The school will maintain a waiting list throughout authority. the year. A child’s position on the waiting list does not depend upon the time they have been on the 6.2 Appeals will be dealt with in accordance with the list, but will be determined by how they meet the DSCF appeals code of practice. oversubscription criteria. 7. Deferred entries 4.2 The foregoing means that a child’s position on the list can go down as well as up, depending on the child’s 7.1 Subject to 6.2, parents can defer entry for their child circumstances and those of other applicants. until he is of statutory school age. This begins the first day of term following the child’s fifth birthday. 4.3 The waiting list will be closed each year and will not roll over. Parents wishing to stay on the waiting list 7.2 Parents cannot defer entry for children born in the will be required to submit a request to Brent Council’s summer term for the whole school year. School Admissions Service with a copy to the school. 7.3 Parents can request that their child attends part-time 4.4 Lists will be maintained throughout the school year. until he reaches statutory school age. A child’s position on the waiting list does not depend 7.4 Parents wishing to defer entry must submit a written upon the time they have been on the list but will be request to the school not later than 15 January 2016. determined by how they meet the oversubscription criteria. How places were allocated last year 4.5 This means that a child’s position on the list can go on offer day down as well as up, depending upon the child’s circumstances and those of other applicants. The Criteria Number Furthest waiting list will be closed each year and will not roll of places distance over. Parents wishing to stay on the waiting list will (in metres) be required to submit a request to Brent Council’s Orthodox Jew and a sibling 13 13812.17 School Admissions Service. Orthodox Jew – 5. Late and casual applications parent/guardian active in charity 7 12660.92 5.1 Late and casual applications, accompanied by the SIF, will be considered provided no more than 25 pupils Orthodox Jew – have been accepted. father in Kollel 2 8745.04 5.2 If you wish to make an application for this school you Orthodox Jew 3 13034.05 will need to contact your local council to complete their Common Application Form (CAF). You will also need to complete the school’s Supplementary Information Form, which you can download from the council’s website, pick up from the local authority or the school. If you are a Brent resident you need to contact Brent Council’s School Admissions Service on 020 8937 3110 or visit www.brent.gov.uk/admissions.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 45 Christ Church CofE Primary School (3-11 year olds)

www.cchurch.brent.sch.uk/ DfE number: 3043301

3. Children who have a brother or sister already attending Head teacher: Ms Joy Donaldson Christ Church School (this refers to siblings in the nursery Clarence Road, Willesden Lane, Kilburn NW6 7TE and the main school who will be on roll at the time of Tel: 020 7624 4967 application and still there at the time of admission). Fax: 020 7372 2759 4. Children of families who regularly worship at St. Admissions officer:Ms Juliet Hardwicke Anne’s, Brondesbury, or at St Gabriel’s, Cricklewood. Email: [email protected] 5. Children of families of Christian denominations who Maximum admission 2016: 30 have attended regular worship at churches which Number of on-time applications last year: 65 are fully affiliated to Churches Together in Britain and Ireland or The Evangelical Alliance and who live Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 203 within the parish boundaries of Christ Church with St Accessibility: Not specified Laurence, Brondesbury. Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC 6. Children of families of other Christian denominations In Year Applications who have attended regular worship and who live Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team within the parish boundaries of Christ Church with St at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions Laurence, Brondesbury. 7. Children of families of other faiths who live within the Admissions criteria parish boundaries of Christ Church with St Laurence, Christ Church School was founded by the Church of Brondesbury. England to provide a good education for the children 8. Children of other families who live within the parish living within the parish of Christ Church with St. boundaries of Christ Church with St Laurence, Laurence, Brondesbury. Within our school a good Brondesbury. number of families are active in our local church of England parishes and other Christian communities. Some 9. Children of families of Christian denominations who families send their children to this school because, though have regularly attended worship at churches which they have no active Christian faith themselves, they are are fully affiliated to Churches Together in Britain happy for their children to be educated in a Christian and Ireland or the Evangelical Alliance and who live environment and learn the basics of the Christian outside the parish boundaries of Christ Church with St faith. This school is thoroughly and actively loyal to the Laurence, Brondesbury. principles and practice of the Church of England and, 10. Children of families of other Christian denominations whilst respecting the rights of parents under Section 21 who have regularly attended worship and who live of the Education Act of 1998, expects all children to take outside the parish boundaries of Christ Church with part in Religious Education within the Schools curriculum St Laurence, Brondesbury. and to attend the daily acts of worship in the school and regular services in our parish Church. 11. Children of families of other faiths who live outside the parish boundaries of Christ Church with St Christ Church Primary is a one form entry school, Laurence, Brondesbury. with a published admission number of 30 (being the number of pupil places per year group). Where there are 12. Other applicants. more applications than places available, the criteria for 1 A ‘Looked After Child’ is a child who is (a) in the care of a local admission to the school are as follows in order: authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local

1 authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see the 1. Looked After Children and children who were looked definition in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989). after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted2 2 Under the terms of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. See section 46 (or became subject to a residence order3 or special (adoption orders). 3 Under the terms of the Children Act 1989. See section 8 which defines a 4 guardianship order ). ‘residence order’ as an order settling the arrangements to be made as to the person with whom the child is to live. 2. Children of families who regularly worship at Christ 4 See section 14A of the Children Act 1989 which defines a ‘special Church with St Laurence, Brondesbury. guardianship order’ as an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or special guardians).

46 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Notes Where a child lives with parents with shared The parish boundaries are identified in Appendix 2. responsibility, each for part of a week, the address where the child lives is determined using a joint declaration from Priority will be given within each criterion to children the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s with exceptional medical or social needs which are fully residence is split equally between both parents, then documented and who, in the opinion of the governors, parents will be asked to determine which is the residential would benefit from a place at Christ Church School. address for the purpose of admission to school. If the Supporting evidence from a health professional (e.g. a residence is not spilt equally between both parents then doctor or social worker) is required detailing the particular the address used will be the address where the child reasons as to why this school is the most suitable and the spends the majority of the school week. difficulties that would be caused if the child had to attend a different school. A waiting list is managed in ‘criteria order’ for the duration of the academic year. The length of time on the waiting Children with Statements of Special Educational Need list is not a criterion. If a vacancy arises in the course of the which name Christ Church School will be admitted ahead year, governors will apply the above criteria. If by the end of other applicants. of the academic year no place has been offered, parents Parents are required to complete the Common will need to let the school know if they wish their child’s Application Form and return it to the local authority by name to remain on the waiting list published. the closing date publicised. Additionally parents who The admissions policy including the admission criteria is are applying under criteria 2, 3-7 and 9-11 are asked to reviewed annually by the governing body, which is the submit a Supplementary Information Form (Appendix admissions authority for this school. 1) so that the governors can consider their applications The closing date for applications to the Reception class fully, and return it to the school by the same date. Your for September 2015 is in line with the local authority parish priest/minister/religious leader should be asked to closing date. complete the form. Late applicants will be considered if the Reception class The governors define regular worship as attending a place has not reached its published limit. All late applicants will of worship at least twice per month for a minimum period be given the opportunity to be added to the waiting list. of the 12 months preceding the date of application. Where a family has moved into the area, their previous In processing applications in respect of twins, triplets or attendance at a place of worship will be counted. other multiple births, governors cannot agree to exceed the class size. If governors are only able to offer one Siblings will be deemed to include step/half brothers and place to a family in these circumstances they will ask the sisters as long as they live at the same address. parents if they are prepared for the children to be split A parent is any person who has parental responsibility and to decide which of the children they would wish to for, or is the legal guardian of, the child. Where admission accept the place for. arrangements refer to ‘parents’ attendance at church’ it is Parents can defer entry for their child, until their child sufficient for just one parent to attend. ‘Families’ includes is statutory school age. Statutory school age begins the only parents and siblings, as defined above. first day of term after your child’s fifth birthday. Parents Priority within any one criterion will be determined by cannot however defer entry for children born in the considering which applicant has the shortest walking summer term for the whole school year. Parents wishing route between their home and the school. This will be to defer entry must contact the school after advising measured by the local authority using a computerised them on this after a place has been offered. Parents can measuring system, from the front door of their home to also request that their child attends part-time until their the main entrance door of the school building using road child reaches statutory school age. networks including public rights of way as defined by the Countryside Act 1968. Where applicants live in the In year admissions same block of flats internal walkways will be treated as If a place becomes available during the school year, public rights of way when calculating distance travelled the admissions committee will consider all applications and will be measured to the front door of each individual received without delay following the vacancy arising. The dwelling. If you would like a copy of The Countryside Act above criteria for admissions will apply. If you wish to 1968 please contact Brent Council’s School Admissions apply for a place at this school for any year group, you Service on 020 8937 3110. will need to apply on a Common Application Form.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 47 Appeals A parent/carer can appeal if their child is refused a place in any class from Reception to Year 6. Appeals will be heard by an Independent appeals panel convened by the governing body. Parents wishing to submit an appeal against the decision of the governors will be asked to request an appeal form from the school, in the 20 school days following receipt of the letter refusing their child a place. When completed appeal forms should be returned to: The Clerk of the Governing Body, c/o Christ Church School Office. Appeals will be heard within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged.

How places were allocated last year on offer day

Criteria Number Furthest of places distance (in metres) Any other applicants 25 5425.55 Churches Together/Evangelical Alliance, regular worship, inside Christ Church/ St Laurence parish 2 3901.62 Other children living in the parish 5 1332.29 Churches Together/Evangelical Alliance, regular worship, outside Christ Church/ St Laurence parish 1 2381.61 Any other applicants 25 5425.55

48 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Convent of Jesus and Mary RC Infant School (3-7 year olds) www.cjminfantschool.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3043507

It is essential that the Catholic character of the schools’ Head teacher: Mrs Teresa O’Higgins education is fully supported by all families in the school. 21 Park Avenue, Willesden NW2 5AW All applicants are therefore expected to give their full, Tel: 020 8459 5890 unreserved and positive support for the aims and ethos of Fax: 020 8451 9499 the school. Admissions officer:Mrs Catherine Doig Please note there is no automatic transfer from nursery Email: [email protected] to Reception and a separate application form must be completed by parents of children in the nursery who wish Maximum admission 2016: 90 to apply for a place in the Reception class. Number of on-time applications last year: 189 Supplementary forms must be accompanied by a Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 330 Baptismal Certificate for the child and a reference form, Accessibility: Low if applicable, signed by a priest/religious leader at the Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC church in which worship takes place usually. In Year Applications Apply to Convent of Jesus and Mary RC Infant School Oversubscription criteria directly. Where there are more applications for places than the number of places available places will be offered Admission arrangements according to the following in order of priority: The Convent of Jesus and Mary Catholic Infant School 1. Catholic Looked After Children and Catholic children is a Catholic school founded by the Sisters of the who have been adopted (or subject to residence orders Congregation of Jesus and Mary to provide education or special guardianship orders) immediately following for Catholic children. The school is conducted by having been looked after. its governing body as part of the Catholic Church 2. Baptised Catholic children of ‘practising families’ who in accordance with its trust deed and instrument of are resident in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen’s, government and seeks at all times to be a witness to Willesden Green and the Parish of the Church of Jesus Christ and the example of Mary. the Transfiguration, Kensal Rise whose application is The governors consider that the greatest pastoral benefit supported by their parish priest. from theeducation in a Catholic school is obtained by 3. Baptised Catholic children of ‘practising families’ who children who come from homes where the Catholic Faith are resident in parishes bordering St Mary Magdalen’s is practiced. Children who attend Mass regularly with Willesden Green (The Transfiguration Kensal Rise, St their parents and who take part in the various activities Mary’s & St Andrews Dollis Hill, Our Lady of Willesden of the parish will derive the fullest benefit from the Harlesden, St Agnes Cricklewood, St Patrick’s, complementary influences of home, school and parish. Neasden) and whose application is supported by their The Published Admission Number (PAN) for reception parish priest. admissions to this school is 90. The board of governors 4. Baptised Catholic children of ‘practising families’ whose has sole responsibility for admissions to this school and parent is employed as a permanent member of staff at intends to admit 90 children into the Reception class the Convent of Jesus and Mary Catholic Infant School in the school year which begins in September 2016. and Nursery and whose application is supported by Pupils will be admitted on a staggered basis throughout their parish priest. the month of September as per the school’s induction arrangements. Applications are welcome from families 5. Baptised Catholic children of ‘practising families’ who whose child reaches his/her 4th birthday between 1st are resident in other parishes and whose application is September 2015 and 31st August 2016. supported by their parish priest. As a Catholic school we aim to provide a Catholic 6. Other baptised Catholic children whose application is education for all our pupils. Catholic doctrine and supported by their parish priest. practice permeates every aspect of the school’s activity. 7. Other baptised Catholic children.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 49 8. Other Looked After Children and other children who Split residence have been adopted (or subject to residence orders or A child is deemed to be resident at a particular address special guardianship orders) immediately following when he/she resides there for more than 50% of the having been looked after. school week. 9. Catechumens and members of the Eastern Orthodox Church whose application is supported by their Twins, triplet and other children of religious leader. multiple births 10. Christian children of other Christian denominations Where the final place is offered to a child who is one of whose parents/guardians wish them to have twins, triplets or other children of multiple births these a Catholic education and whose application is siblings will also be admitted. supported by their religious leader/minister/priest. 11. Applications from children of other faiths whose Statutory school age parents/guardians subscribe to the Catholic ethos and Parents can defer entry for their child until their child is who wish their child to have a Catholic education. statutory school age. Statutory school age begins the first 12. Any other children. day of term after your child’s fifth birthday. Application is made in the usual way and then the deferral is requested Exceptional need once the offer of a place has been received. The place will then be held until the first day of the spring or summer The governing body will give top priority after the term. Applicants may also request that their child attend appropriate category of’ Looked After Children’, to an part-time until statutory school age is reached. Entry may application (where compelling evidence is provided at not be deferred beyond statutory school age or beyond the time of application, from an appropriate professional the year of application. Applicants whose children have such as a doctor, priest or social worker) of an exceptional birthdays in the summer term should be aware, that, social, medical, pastoral or other need of the child, which if they wish to defer, they will need to apply for Year 1 can be only be met at this school. place for the following September and if the school is Where the offer of places to applicants in any of the oversubscribed they are very unlikely to obtain a place. categories above leads to over-subscription the following provisions will be applied. Application procedures and timetable Within each criterion applicants will be ranked in the for the school following order: In order to make an application you must complete 1. Children who have a sibling in the Convent of Jesus a Common Application Form (CAF) from your local and Mary Catholic Infant School at the time of authority and return it to them. You should also complete application. the school’s Supplementary Information Form (SIF). The information on the SIF enables the governing body to 2. Children with a sibling in St. Mary Magdalen’s Catholic assess your application fully against the school’s criteria Junior School at the time of admission. in the event of oversubscription. Please return the completed SIF the Priest’s Reference Form (green) and Previous year applications an original proof of Baptism Certificate to the school by Last year the school was heavily oversubscribed. We January 15 2016. received 189 on time applications for 90 places. If you do not complete both of the forms described Tie-break above and return them by January 15 2016 the governing body will be unable to consider your application fully Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any and it is very unlikely that your child will be offered a of the sub-categories above would still lead to over- place. Applications received after the closing date will subscription, the places up to the admission number be dealt with after the initial allocation process has been will be offered according to distance as measured on a completed. straight line on a large map. Distance will be measured You will be advised of the outcome of your application in a straight line from the front door of the child’s by April 16th 2016 initially by a letter from the local home address (including flats) to the main entrance authority on behalf of the governing body. of the school, using the local authority’s computerised measuring system, with those living closer to the school receiving the higher priority.

50 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Right of Appeal the list at the end of each academic year. When a place becomes available the governing body will decide who is If you are unsuccessful you may ask us for the reasons for at the top of the list so that an offer can be made. the refusal of a place. These reasons will be related to the oversubscription criteria listed above, and you have the Fair Access Protocols right of appeal to an independent appeal panel. The school is committed to taking its fair share of children Waiting List who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal In addition to their right of appeal, unsuccessful admissions round the governing body is empowered candidates will be offered the opportunity to be placed to give absolute priority to a child where admission is on a waiting list. This list will be maintained in order of requested under any local protocol that has been agreed the oversubscription criteria set out in the policy and not by both the diocese and the governing body for the in the order in which applications are received or added current school year. The governing body has this power to the list. Names are removed from the list after one even when admitting the child would mean exceeding year, unless applicants request to remain on the list. the published admission number. Pupils with a Statement of Special Notes (these notes form part of the over subscription Educational Needs criteria) The law provides a separate admissions procedure for n ‘Looked After child’ has the same meaning as in pupils in the above category. The home local authority section 22 of the Children Act 1989, and means any of the pupil is responsible for managing and maintaining child in the care of a local authority or provided with the statements of such pupils. Further information is accommodation by them (e.g. children with foster available in the Special Educational Needs Code of parents). Practice. n ‘Adopted’. An adopted child is a child who is adopted under the terms of the Adoption and Children Act Appeals procedure 2002 s.46 (adoption orders). If you are not offered a place and wish to appeal, you n ‘Residence Order’. A Residence Order is an order under need to appeal in writing to the chair of governors the terms of the Children Act 1989 s.8 which defines it within 20 school days of receipt of the letter. An as an order settling the arrangements to be made as to Independent panel of three members will meet to the person with whom the child is to live. hear the appeal within 40 school days of the appeal being lodged, or before the end of the summer term, n ‘Special Guardianship Order’. A Special Guardianship whichever is sooner. Order is an order under the terms of the Children Act 1989 s14A which defines it as an order appointing one In-year admissions or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian(s). Applications for in-year admissions are made directly to n ‘Practising Catholic’ means a Catholic child from a the school. If a place is available and there is no waiting practicing Catholic family where this practice is verified list, the child will be admitted. If there is a waiting list, by a reference from a Catholic priest in the standard then applications will be ranked by the governing body format laid down by the diocese. in accordance with the oversubscription criteria with n ‘Catholic’ means a member of a church in full the following modifications. Catholic children without communion with the See of Rome. This includes an offer of a school place elsewhere are given priority the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be immediately after Catholic Looked After children. evidenced by a Certificate of Baptism in a Catholic Similarly, other children without an offer of a school church or a Certificate of Reception into the full place are given priority immediately after other looked Communion of the Catholic church. For the purpose after children). If a place cannot be offered at this time of this policy, it includes a looked after child who is then you may ask us for the reasons and you will be part of a Catholic family where a priest’s reference informed of your right of appeal. You will be offered demonstrates that the child would have been baptised the opportunity of being placed on a waiting list. This or received if it were not for their status as a looked waiting list will be maintained by the governing body in after child (e.g. a looked after child in the process of the order of the oversubscription criteria (as modified adoption by a Catholic family). above) as mentioned above and not in the order in which the applications are received. Names are removed from

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 51 n ‘Catechumen’ means a member of the catechumenate Bapt Pract Catholic, of a Catholic church. This will normally be evidenced Priest Support, by a Certificate of Reception into the order of Other Parish, Sib St MM 1 3150.18 catechumens. Bapt Pract Catholic, n ‘Eastern Orthodox Churches’ can include certain other Priest Support, Other Parish 4 2299.45 churches that share the sacramental life of the Catholic Other Baptised Catholics 4 1707.09 church. A certificate of Baptism or reception from the authorities of that church will be expected. Catchumens, Eastern Christian Church, Pr Support 3 2960.55 n ‘Sibling’ refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, and in Other Christian, every case, the child should be living in the same family Affiliated C T E W Cath unit at the same address. Edu, Rel Leader Supp, Sib St MM 1 321.64 n “Parents/family members” is any person who has parental responsibility for or is the legal guardian of the child. Where admission arrangements refer to ‘parents attendance at church’ it is sufficient for just one parent to attend. ‘Family members’ include only parents, as defined above, and siblings.

n Parish maps are available at the school and the parish.

n Christian means a member of one of the churches affiliated to ‘Churches Together in Britain and Ireland’

How places were allocated last year on offer day

Criteria Number Furthest of places distance (in metres) Bapt Practising Catholic, In Parish, Priest Support Sib CJMI 13 1775.92 Bapt Practising Catholic, In Parish, Priest Support Sib St Mary Magdalenes 11 1235.12 Bapt Practising Catholic, In Parish, Priest Support Social/ Medical 1 885.27 Bapt Practising Catholic, In Parish, Priest Support 34 1980.17 Bapt Pract Catholic, Parish Neighbour, Priest Support, Sib CJMI 1 1590.22 Bapt Pract Catholic, Parish Neighbour, Priest Support, Sib St MM 3 2445.41 Bapt Pract Catholic, Parish Neighbour, Priest Support 14 2800.15

52 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Floreat Alperton Primary School (3-7 year olds) www.floreat.org.uk/alperton DfE number: TBC

applications are received, the oversubscription criteria will Head teacher: Mrs Janet Hilary be used to allocate places. Tel: 020 3488 1175 Special educational needs Admissions officer:Ms Charlotte Pearce Cornish Floreat Alperton Primary School will admit any child with (interim) a Statement of Special Educational Needs or Education, Email: [email protected] Health and Care Plan where that Statement or Plan Maximum admission 2016: 60 names Floreat Alperton Primary School as the most Number of on-time applications last year: N/A appropriate school for the child in question. This is not Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: N/A an oversubscription criterion. It applies even when the school would exceed its published admission number by Accessibility: TBC admitting the child. Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): TBC Oversubscription criteria Floreat Alperton Primary School is a new Free school The over-subscription criteria for Reception admission in approved to open in September 2016. September 2016 are: Application Process 1. A Looked After Child or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after Floreat Alperton Primary School will run its own became subject to an adoption, residence, or special admissions process for the academic year 2016/17. This guardianship order. process will be run in parallel to the local authority process, so applicants should complete both the A Looked After Child is a child who is (a) in the common application form and the Floreat admissions care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with form, which will be published on the school’s website accommodation by a local authority in the exercise (www.floreat.org.uk/alperton) on 01/09/15. of their social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at the time of The closing date for Reception class applications will be making an application to a school. 15 January 2016. Notification letters will be sent out on 18 April 2016. Applications received after the set closing An Adoption Order is an order under Section 46 of date will be accepted but will not be considered for a the Adoption and Children Act 2002. A ‘Residence place at the school until after the initial offer date. Order’ is an order settling the arrangements to be made as to the person with whom the child is to live The school can be contacted by phone at any stage under Section 8 of the Children Act 1989. Section during the admissions process on 020 3488 1175. 14A of the Children Act 1989 defines a ‘Special Admissions criteria Guardianship Order’ as an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or The admissions policy for Floreat Alperton Primary special guardians). School complies with the requirements of the Schools An application for admission to school must be made Admissions Code, the School Admissions Appeals Code by the person with parental responsibility and/or the and admissions law. Our admissions process is designed child’s social worker. to be inclusive, open, fair and transparent. In order to be given highest priority for admission, a Admissions number child has to fall within the definition of ‘Looked After’ Floreat Alperton Primary School has an admission in Section 22 (1) of the Children Act 1989. This act number of 60 for entry in Reception. The school will applies to England and Wales, therefore a child has to accordingly admit this number of pupils each year if there be looked after by an English or Welsh local authority are sufficient applications. Where fewer applicants than in order to be given highest priority. the published admission number(s) for the relevant year group are received, the Academy Trust will offer places Paragraph 1.7 of the new code gives equal highest at the school to all those who have applied. Where more priority to previously looked after children. Given the

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 53 definition of a looked after child, a child will obviously the centre of the school’s postcode. The measuring have to have been looked after by an English or Welsh system is an integral part of the admission software local authority in order to be considered previously produced by Tribal Technology Ltd. It uses Ordnance looked after. Under paragraph 1.7, a child has to have Survey maps and the LLPG (Local Land Property been looked after immediately (our emphasis) before Gazetteer) and is accurate to one metre. they were adopted or became subject to a residence order or special guardianship order. Tie-breaker 2. Children for whom it is essential to be admitted to a Within each criterion priority will be given to the specific school because of special circumstances to do applicant who lives closer to the school. This will be with significant medical needs or social needs. judged by the criteria laid out in 4) above. It is open to any parent to make an application under In the event that the distances are equal, random this criterion. The application should be supported, allocation determines which applicant should be offered where possible, with a recommendation in writing the place. from a recognised professional of senior status, for example a medical consultant, head teacher of Deferred entry for infants current school or other appropriate officer. Parents offered a place in reception for their child have The recommendation for this specific school should a right to defer the date their child is admitted, or to demonstrate knowledge of the school in terms of take the place up part-time, until the child reaches resources and organisation which deems it essential compulsory school age. Places cannot be deferred that the named pupil be admitted to the specific beyond the beginning of the final term of the school school. year for which the offer was made. This criterion relates to the child’s medical or social Children reach compulsory school age on the prescribed needs and not to the needs of any other member of day following their fifth birthday (or on their fifth the child’s family. Decisions regarding whether children birthday if it falls on a prescribed day). The prescribed fall under this criterion are made by the School/ days are 31 August, 31 December and 31 March. Governors. If you are unsure if your application meets this criterion please contact Brent School Admissions Admission of children outside their Service for further advice. It is better to send normal age group information to support your application because the Parents may request that their child is admitted outside School/Governors can only consider information it has their normal age group. When such a request is made, received. the academy trust will make a decision on the basis of The School/Governors will consider all claimed the circumstances of the case and in the best interests of exceptional medical or social circumstances in line the child concerned, taking into account the views of the with admissions criteria and inform parents of their head teacher and any supporting evidence provided by decision. the parent. The process for requesting such an admission is as follows: a letter should be sent to the Head teacher 3. Brothers or sisters of a child who attends the main at the school. This will be discussed with members of the school and who will continue to do so on the date of governing body in the admissions committee where a admission. decision will be made. This decision will be communicated The words brother and sister refer to all blood, half, back to the parents by the head teacher in writing. foster, step and adoptive brothers and sisters (not cousins) who live at the same home and in the same Waiting list family unit as the child on a permanent basis or for The school will maintain a waiting list for applicants who the majority of time in any calendar year. A sibling are unsuccessful in obtaining a place, in accordance with relationship does not apply when the older child(ren) the published oversubscription criteria. Should a child will leave before the younger one starts. join the waiting list after places have been allocated, 4. Children whose permanent home address is a shorter he or she will be placed on the waiting list in the distance from the school. order determined by the application of the published admission criteria. This means that the place of a child on The distance from home to school is measured by the waiting list may change if a child with higher priority straight-line, from a point in the property to a point by the application of the selection criteria joins the list. in the school determined by the grid references for

54 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 In-year admissions Should there be a vacancy in a year group during the academic year; places will be offered after applying the above admissions criteria to all applicants including those on waiting list.

Appeals Parents who are not offered a place for their child have the right to appeal to an independent appeal panel. Parents wishing to appeal should obtain an appeal form from the school business manager. The form should be sent to reach the clerk to the appeal panel within 20 school days of the date of the letter confirming the governors’ decision not to offer a place. The school will publish an appeals timetable annually on its website showing the relevant deadlines.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 55 Furness Primary School (3-11 year olds)

www.furness.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3042067

Where applications for admission exceed the number of Head teacher: Mrs Sylvia Lisbon places available, the following criteria will be applied, in the Furness Road, Harlesden NW10 5YT order set out below, to decide which children to admit: Tel: 020 8965 5977 1. Children in public care (sometimes referred to as Admissions officer:Mrs Morcene Thompson Looked After Children) / previously looked after Email: [email protected] children Maximum admission 2016: 60 2. Where the child has a sibling* currently attending Number of on-time applications last year: 83 the school and will continue to do so on the date of Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 541 admission. Accessibility: Low 3. Where the child attends the school’s nursery. Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC 4. Proximity of the child’s home to the school, with those In Year Applications living nearer being accorded the higher priority. (Please Apply to Furness Primary School directly see tie-breaker for details of how distance will be measured.) Admission arrangements Pupils will be admitted without reference to ability or aptitude. Furness Primary School is a two-form entry primary school with a 70 (part time) place nursery, situated in Our admissions policy endeavours to fulfil the above. We Harlesden. The school also has two bulge classes, in believe that siblings are entitled to be educated in the Years 5 and 6 in the 2016/17 academic year. We are same environment in order that a productive partnership federated with Oakington Manor School which is situated is built up with parents. We believe that continuity of in Wembley and both schools share an Executive Head education is important for children in the early years teacher, Mrs Sylvia Libson, OBE. in order that they feel safe, secure and make steady progress. We believe we have a valuable and integral role Aims and ethos to play in serving the local community and we believe Our aim at Furness Primary School is to ensure that that maintaining a stable staff, both teaching and non- all children are numerate and literate and educated teaching is vital in order that children achieve highly. to a high level, which enables them to succeed in a There is no automatic transfer from nursery to reception. technological world. We believe that through the systems Parents applying for a place in reception must complete a of assessment and support, which have been developed, Common Application Form. If you live in Brent this will be we ensure that every child reaches their full potential available from Brent Council, if you live outside of Brent regardless of racial origin, creed, gender, physical ability you will need to contact your council offices for a form. or cultural background. We aim to ensure that we communicate effectively to all our children and that Admission of children below we value them. We believe that only by doing so, will compulsory school age we help our children become adults who respect and The number of intended admissions for the year value other human beings around them. We also aim to commencing 1 September 2016, will be 35 part time in continually seek ways and means of developing close and the morning and 35 part time in the afternoon in nursery positive working relationships with our parents and the and 60 places in Reception. communities around us. Where applications for admission exceed the number Criteria for admissions of places available, the following criteria will be applied, The number of intended admissions for the year in the order set out below, to decide which children to commencing 1st September, 2016, will be 60 in each Year admit: group, with 90 in Years 5 and 6. 1. Children in Public Care (sometimes referred to as Looked After Children)/previously Looked After children

56 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 56 2. Where the child has a sibling* currently attending For admissions from Year 1 to 6, parents will need to the school and will continue to do so on the date of apply directly to the school. admission. Tie-breaker 3. Where the child attends Acorn Nursery. When there is more than one applicant that meets 4. Proximity of the child’s home to the school, with those the criterion stated above, priority will be given to the living nearer being accorded the higher priority. (Please applicant who lives closer to the school. This will be see tie-breaker for details of how distance will be judged by the shortest measured walking distance* using measured.) road networks including public rights of way as defined Parents must complete the common admission form as by the Countryside Act 1968 from home to the school’s attendance or admission to the Nursery does not lead to main gate. Where applicants live in the same block of automatic transfer into Reception or a guaranteed place flats, internal walkways will be treated as public rights in the school. of way when calculating the distance travelled. This will Parents can request that their child attends part-time until be measured using the local authority’s computerised the child reaches compulsory school age. Parents can measuring system. request that the date their child is admitted to the school For a copy of the Countryside Act 1968 please contact is deferred until later in the school year or until the child Brent School Admissions Service on 020 8937 3110. reaches compulsory school age in that school year. The parent would not however be able to defer entry beyond Special educational needs the beginning of the term after the child’s fifth birthday, Applications for children with Statement of Special Needs nor beyond the academic year for which the original are made through the special educational needs assessment application was accepted. team at the council. The placement of children with such a Our admissions policy endeavours to fulfil the above with Statement is made after a process of consultation between fairness and equity for all children and families. Pupils will parents, school and the local authority. Children with a be admitted without reference to ability or aptitude. Statement of Special Educational Needs receive a priority over others for admission to the school if Furness Primary is Application procedure named on their statement. If you wish to make an application for Furness Primary School you will need to contact the school directly. Appeals procedure The school can be contacted on 020 8965 5977 or In keeping with the DCSF Code of Practice parents* have via [email protected] All applications will the right of appeal against a decision not to admit a child. be considered in line with our published admissions Parents wishing to exercise their right of appeal against arrangements as follows: a refusal of admission should put the appeal in writing within 20 school days and mark it for the attention of the n Applicants will be informed of the outcome within 20 chair of governors. All appeals will be considered by an days of receipt of the application independent appeal panel as follows: n Successful applicants will be admitted within two weeks of the place being offered Timetabled admissions n Unsuccessful applicants will be placed on the waiting Within 40 school days of the appeal being lodged or list before the end of the summer term, whichever is sooner. n On receipt of an in-year application school will notify Appeals for late applications the local authority, in which the child resides, of both the application and its outcome within 20 days of The school will try to include the late applications with receiving the application those being heard for the same admission round. However, if this is not feasible, appeals for late applications will be Coordinated admissions procedure heard within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged. In line with Brent’s published scheme, parents seeking In-year admissions (i.e.those made outside the timetabled a place in a Reception class must apply to their local admissions process) council’s admissions service, which coordinates applications for Primary Schools. Parents must complete a Within 30 days school days of the appeal being common Application Form (CAF) and return to their local lodged. council by the closing date which is 15th January 2016. Parents are entitled to attend the appeal panel meeting

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 57 to give grounds for their appeal personally and / or to be priority. represented. Appealing for a place does not guarantee *Parents/family members entry to the school. A parent is any person who has parental responsibility for Waiting lists or is the legal guardian of the child. Unsuccessful applicants, including nursery places, will be placed on waiting lists which will be maintained throughout the school year. The waiting list will be maintained in order of how the application meets the admission criteria and not by the length of time on list. This means that the child’s position on the list may go up or down depending on the child’s circumstances and those of other applicants on the list. Applications for all year groups should be made directly to the school office.

Split residence Where a child lives with parents with shared responsibility, each for part of the week, the address where the child lives is determined using a joint declaration from the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s residence is split equally between both parents, then parents will be asked to determine which is the residential address for the purpose of admission to school. If the residence is not split equally between both parents then the address used will be the address where the child spends the majority of the school week.

Twins, triplet and other children of multiple births In the event that the school has one place to offer and the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets or other children of multiple births, the governing body will randomly select the child to offer the place to. Parents will then be informed that they may prefer the other, or another, child to have the place instead of the child randomly selected.

Glossary *Sibling Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, or the child of the parent / carer’s partner where the child for whom the school place is sought is living in the same family unit at the same address as that sibling. *Distance Distance will be measured by the shortest walking route from the front door of the child’s home address (including flats) to the main entrance to the school, with those living closer to the school receiving the higher

58 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Gladstone Park Primary School (3-11 year olds) www.gladpark.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3042022

basis of his/her ethnicity. Head teacher: Mrs Angela Anterkyi Whenever and wherever possible, children are offered Sherrick Green Road, London NW10 1LB a school of their parents’ preference and in practice the Tel: 020 8452 1350 majority of children go to the school which their parents Fax: 020 8208 3925 select for them. Admissions officer:Ms Dee Edghill Sometimes, however, there are more applications for a Email: [email protected] school than there are places available. This is described Maximum admission 2016: 90 as oversubscription. Whenever this happens, pupils are Number of on-time applications last year: 203 offered places in the following order of priority: Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 672 1 A looked after child or a child who was previously Accessibility: Medium looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, residence, or special Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC guardianship order. In Year Applications Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team A Looked After Child is a child who is (a) in the at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in Admission arrangements Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at the time of Gladstone Park Primary School, a three-form entry making an application to a school. primary school, has been an academy since June 2014. An adoption order is an order under Section 46 of There is no automatic transfer from nursery to reception. the Adoption and Children Act 2002. A Residence Parents wanting to apply for a place at reception must Order is an order settling the arrangements to be complete a Common Application Form (CAF) application made as to the person with whom the child is to live which is available online at www.eadmissions.org.uk. under Section 8 of the Children Act 1989. Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 defines a Special If you have difficulties applying online, you can submit a Guardianship Order as an order appointing one or paper application. Paper application forms are available more individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or from Brent Customer Services and you can contact them on special guardians). 020 8937 3110 or email [email protected]. An application for admission to school must be made Applications for children with a Statement of Special by the person with parental responsibility and/or the Educational Needs (SEN) are made by local authority child’s social worker. special educational needs assessment teams. The placement of children with such a Statement is made In order to be given highest priority for admission, a after a process of consultation between parents, the child has to fall within the definition of ‘Looked After’ school and the local council. Children with a Statement in Section 22 (1) of the Children Act 1989. This act of SEN receive priority over others for admission to applies to England and Wales, therefore a child has to the school named on their Statement. For further be looked after by an English or Welsh local authority information contact Brent Council’s Special Educational in order to be given highest priority. Needs Assessment Team on 020 8937 3229. Paragraph 1.7 of the new code gives equal highest Schools should not admit more than 30 pupils in each priority to previously Looked After Children. Given the class for reception, Year 1 and Year 2. This is to enable definition of a Looked After Child, a child will obviously the council to meet its statutory duty of having no more have to have been looked after by an English or Welsh than 30 pupils in each class at Key Stage 1. Three-year local authority in order to be considered previously old children should not be admitted to reception classes. looked after. Under paragraph 1.7, a child has to have been looked after immediately (our emphasis) before The following criteria are clear, fair and objective. It is they were adopted or became subject to a residence illegal for schools to discriminate against a pupil on the order or special guardianship order.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 59 2 Children attending an infant school on the same site Admissions to community school as a junior school. nurseries This criterion will only affect admission to a junior Applications for places in nurseries must be made school that is on the same site as the infant school directly to the schools by 15 January 2016. Offers will be the child attends immediately prior to the transfer. made on 18 April 2016. If the nursery is oversubscribed, 3 Children for whom it is essential to be admitted to a the same criteria set out above, will apply. specific school because of special circumstances to do Please remember that there is also no automatic transfer with significant medical needs, social needs or Special from nursery to reception class at Brent community schools. Educational Needs (SEN). Parents wanting to apply for a place at reception must It is open to any parent to make an application under complete a Common Application Form (CAF) application this criterion. The application should be supported, which is available online at www.eadmissions.org.uk where possible, with a recommendation in writing from a recognised professional of senior status, If you have difficulties applying online, you can submit a for example a medical consultant, head teacher paper application. Paper application forms are available from of current school or other appropriate officer. The Brent Customer Services and you can contact them on recommendation for this specific school should 020 8937 3110 or email [email protected]. demonstrate knowledge of the school in terms of Brent Council must receive all application forms by 15 resources and organisation which deems it essential January 2016. Applications received after this closing that the named pupil be admitted to the specific date will be considered as late applications and will school. This criterion relates to the child’s medical, be processed after places have been allocated to social and special needs and not to the needs of applicants who applied on time. In very exceptional any other member of the child’s family. Decisions cases applications received after the closing date may be regarding whether children fall under this criterion are considered. made by the local authority. If you are unsure if your Please contact Brent School Admissions on application meets this criterion please contact Brent 020 8937 3110 for further information. School Admissions Service for further advice. Any changes that are received to an application which It is better to send information to support your come into effect after the closing date (e.g. order of application because the local authority can only school preference or change of address) will also be consider information it has received. treated in the same way as a late application. 4 Brothers or sisters of a child who attends the school, or an infant or junior school on the same or adjoining Tie-breaker site, and who will continue to do so on the date of Within each criterion priority will be given to the admission. applicant who lives closer to the school. This will be This includes half and step brothers and sisters judged by the shortest measured walking distance using and foster children so long as they live at the same road networks including public rights of way* from the address - but not cousins. Siblings attending the same child’s home to the school main gate. Where a school school should have priority over those attending a has more than one gate as defined in the admission separate school on the same site. arrangements distances will be measured to the main school gate from the child’s home. Where schools have 5 Children living within the school’s catchment area. an agreed travel plan, this will also include any routes The catchment area is the defined neighbourhood that schools have determined as being ‘safe routes to in which the school is sited. It is generally bounded walk’. The travel plan used for this purpose will be the by major roads and/or railway/tube. Information on plan that is used by the school at the closing date for which streets make up a catchment area is available applications. from the local authority, the school and the local * A public right of way is one which is determined by authority’s website. The Countryside Act 1968. Where applicants live in the 6 All other applicants. same block of flats, internal walkways will be treated as public rights of way when calculating distance travelled (measurements will be taken from the door of each individual dwelling). If you would like a copy of The

60 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Countryside Act 1968 please contact the Brent School There is no right of appeal against any decision not to Admissions Service on 020 8937 3110. offer a place at a nursery..

Twins, triplets and other children of In-year admissions multiple births If you are new to the borough and want to apply for a In the event that the school has one place to offer and place for your child in Years 1 to 6 or Reception once the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets that year has already started you should contact Brent or other children of multiple births, the local authority Customer Services on 020 8937 3110 or visit www.brent. will offer both twins, all triplets or children of multiple gov.uk/admissions for information on the application births a place, even if this means temporarily going over process. the school’s published admissions number. How places were allocated last year Split residence on offer day Where a child lives with parents with shared Criteria Number Furthest responsibility, each for part of a week, the address where of places distance the child lives is determined using a joint declaration (in metres) from the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a Sibling connection 26 4975.66 child’s residence is split equally between both parents, then parents will be asked to determine which residential In catchment area 34 1375.5 address should be used for the purpose of admission to Any other applicant 30 2806.65 school. If the residence is not split equally between both parents then the address used will be the address where the child spends the majority of the school week.

Waiting lists The school that you apply to may be oversubscribed. This means that they have received more applications than they have places and your application may not be successful because other children who have applied meet the admissions criteria better than you. If you have been allocated a school place that was not your first preference, your child’s name will automatically be placed on the waiting list for schools that you have ranked higher than the offer we have made. Community school waiting lists are maintained by the council and voluntary aided and foundations school waiting lists are kept by the schools. School waiting lists do not operate on a first-come, first served basis. Your place on the waiting list, and whether you will be offered a place if another child drops out, is determined by the school’s admissions criteria. The child that meets the criteria the closest will be offered a place. The length of time you have spent on the waiting list will not give you priority over other applicants – it is possible for your child to go down the list as well as up.

Appeals Parents/carers should appeal within 20 school days from the date of they received their letter saying their application was unsuccessful. Appeals will be heard by an independent panel within 30 school days of appeal being lodged.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 61 Islamia School (4-11 year olds)

www.islamiaprimary.org DfE number: 3045949

Head teacher: Mrs Zahida Shaheem Over subscription criteria 129 Salusbury Road, Kilburn NW6 6PE 1. If the school receives fewer applications than the Published Admission Number, then all those applying Tel: 020 7372 2532 will be offered places. Fax: 020 7372 2425 2. If the school receives more applications than the Admissions officer:Mrs Rachida Zahouani Published Admission Number, after children with Email: [email protected] a Statement of Special Educational Needs or an Maximum admission 2016: 60 Education, Health and Care Plan in which the school is Number of on-time applications last year: 233 named have been admitted, admissions will be dealt Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 418 with by applying the following criteria in the order set out below: Accessibility: Medium Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC a. Looked After Muslim children and previously Looked After Muslim children who meet the In Year Applications religious practice test. Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions b. Muslim children who meet the religious practice test who live within the catchment Admissions arrangements area and have a sibling at the school or a sibling who is due to be attending the school Islamia Primary School is a voluntary aided school for at the proposed date of admission of the boys and girls between the ages of 4 and 11. The applicant. governing body of the school has responsibility for c. Other Muslim children who meet the religious admissions to the school. The Published Admission practice test who live outside the catchment Number of the school is 60 and the governing body will area and have a sibling at the school who was admit 60 pupils to Reception in the school year which on the school roll in September 2012. begins in September 2016. d. Muslim children who meet the religious In the case of the number of applications exceeding the practice test who live within the catchment number of places, places will be allocated solely on the over- area and do not have a sibling at the school subscription criteria set out below. The Published Admission or a sibling who is due to be attending the Number includes children with a Statement of Special school at the proposed date of admission of Educational Needs whose statement names the school. the applicant, Statement of ethos e. Other Muslim children who meet the religious Islamia Primary School believes that pupils should practice test who live outside the catchment derive spiritual as well as academic benefit from being area and have a sibling at the school or a at school. As an Islamic School, we aim to provide sibling who is due to be attending the school education for all pupils in an Islamic environment, where at the proposed date of admission of the the Islamic faith and practice permeates every aspect of applicant. school life. f. Other Muslim children who meet the religious More particularly, the school’s mission statement is, “to strive practice test who live outside the catchment to provide the best education in a secure Islamic environment area and do not have a sibling at the school or through the application of the Qur’an and the Sunnah”. a sibling who is due to be attending the school at the proposed date of admission of the We ask all parents applying for a place here to respect applicant. this ethos and its importance to the school community. This does not affect the right of parents who are not of g. Any other Looked After Children or previously the faith of this school to apply for and be considered for Looked After Children. a place here. h. Any other children.

62 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Important Notes parents, the parents will be asked by the school to determine which is the child’s home, for the purpose 1. A “Looked After Child” is a child who is (a) in the of admission to the school. The child’s home does not care of the local authority or (b) being provided with include the homes of grand-parents or aunts / uncles accommodation by the local authority in the exercise unless the families live together in a stable long-term of their social services functions (see the definition arrangement. Proof of residence is required before the in section 22(1) of the Children’s Act 1989). A offer of a place is confirmedi. e. a Council Tax bill or “previously Looked After Child” is a child who was such proof as will be stipulated. looked after but, immediately after being looked after, became subject to an adoption, residence / 7. If the number of applicants within any of the above child arrangement order or special guardianship order. over-subscription categories exceeds the number of An Adoption Order is an order under section 46 of places available at the school, places will be offered the Adoption and Children Act 2002, a Residence in any oversubscription category according to the Order/Child Arrangement Order is an order settling distance from the front door of the child’s home to the arrangements to be made as to the person with the main entrance of the school and those living closer whom the child is to live under section 8 of the to the school will be offered places before those living Children Act 1989 and a Special Guardianship Order further away. is defined under section 14A of the Children Act 1989 8. In the event of a tie, after all other over-subscription as an order appointing one or more individuals to be criteria have been applied; the final place will be the child’s special guardian (or special guardians). allocated using random allocation. Where random 2. An applicant who “meets the religious practice allocation is used to determine admission in these test” means an applicant who has submitted a circumstances, the use of random allocation will Supplementary Information Form confirming that be supervised by a person appointed by the school he/she practices as set out in that form (i.e. with but who is independent of the school and of its “yes” answered to all questions) which is signed by foundation trust. a parent/carer and the Imam.* Only official Imams 9. Where a single place remains available at the school employed or appointed by the mosque or religious and the application being considered is for multiple centre as an Imam are authorised to sign. birth children, the school will allocate above its 3. The school’s catchment area is the area within the published admission number to admit each child. boundaries of the London Borough of Brent and 10. All parents/carers applying for a place at Islamia South of the North Circular (A406). A map of the Primary School for their child must complete and catchment area is available to view on the Brent submit the Common Application Form of the local Council website and at the school itself. authority in whose area the child resides and to 4. Sibling includes brothers and sisters, adopted brothers whom council tax is paid by the date specified by and sisters, half brothers and sisters, step brothers and the local authority. The closing date for the Common sisters, fostered brothers and sisters living permanently Application Form for applications to the reception at the same address as the applicant. It does not class September 2016 is 15 January 2016. include cousins or any other relatives. 11. If parents / carers wish to apply under the admission 5. The distance of a child’s home from the school will be criteria for Muslim applicants for a faith place at measured on a straight line basis from the front door the school, the school’s Supplementary Information of the child’s home address to the main entrance of the Form must be completed in addition to the local school using the local authority’s computerised measuring authority’s Common Application Form. The system called Schools’ ‘Admissions Module’ (SAM). Supplementary Information Form can be obtained from the school’s office or can be downloaded from 6. Home means the place where the child lives with the school’s website. It must be completed and his / her parents or carers. If a child lives at more signed by the child’s parent/carer and the Imam of than one address because the parents have shared the family’s mosque and returned to the school no responsibility, the child’s home will be determined later than 15 January 2016. Unsigned forms will not using a joint declaration form from the parents stating be considered by the school. If the Supplementary the pattern of residence. For the purposes of this Information Form is received after 15th January 2016 policy, the child’s home will be the address where the child’s application will not be considered under the child spends most nights during the school week. the faith-based admission criteria until all on time If the child’s residence is split equally between both applications have been considered.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 63 12. Although completion of the Supplementary How places were allocated last year Information Form is not mandatory, parents/carers on offer day should be aware that if one is not completed and received by the school, the governing body will be Criteria Number Furthest unable to apply the faith-based admission criteria to of places distance the applicant and the applicant will be regarded as a (in metres) non-faith applicant. Muslim children 13. The school will take such action as is available to it if in catchment 60 4650.39 the information provided to it or the local authority is found to be fraudulent or misleading. This may include withdrawing the child’s place at the school. Parents/carers should therefore provide full and accurate information and notify the school of any change of address or circumstances. 14. Unsuccessful applicants will be placed on a waiting list and if a place becomes available at the school it will be offered to the child in the first position on the waiting list who best meets the published admission criteria of the school. Where a child is offered a place from the school’s waiting list and there is a need to invoke random allocation to do so in a tie-break situation contemplated by this note, a fresh round of random allocation will be undertaken on each such occasion. 15. Unsuccessful applicants wishing to appeal against any decision may do so by writing to the school within 20 days of receiving notice of the refusal of the child’s place at the school. 16. Please note that where an applicant is offered a place at the school, that child will normally take a full- time place at the school in the September following their fourth birthday. However, in accordance with the law, a child is not required to start school until the term following their fifth birthday. Parents can therefore defer their child’s entry to the school until later in the school year, where the child has been offered a place at the school to start before they are of compulsory school age. Where entry is deferred, the school will hold a place for that child and not offer it to another child. However, entry cannot be deferred beyond the beginning of the term after the child’s fifth birthday, nor beyond the final school term in the academic year for which the original application was accepted by the school. If they wish to, parents can also request for their child to attend the school part-time until later in the school year but not beyond the point where their child reaches compulsory school age.

64 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 John Keble CofE Primary School (3-11 year olds) www.jkeble.com DfE number: 3043302

are available from your local council in the year before Head teacher: Mrs Alison Loffler the child is to start school and the closing date for Crownhill Road, Harlesden NW10 4DR applications is 15 January 2016. Tel: 020 8965 5072 Parents who wish to secure a place for their child in Fax: 020 8838 2507 Reception must contact their local council to complete Admissions officer:Mrs Cleide Kennedy a Common Application Form (CAF) naming the school. Email: [email protected] This can be completed online. Maximum admission 2016: 60 If you are a Brent resident you need to contact Brent Number of on-time applications last year: 97 Council’s School Admissions Service on 020 8937 3110 or visit www.brent.gov.uk/admissions. Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 436 Accessibility: Low You will also need to complete the schools Supplementary Information Form (SIF). Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): No In Year Applications If you are applying under criteria 2, 3 or 4 you will also Apply to John Keble CofE Primary School directly. need to complete a Religious Reference Form (RRF) so that the governors can consider your application fully. Admission arrangements For the purpose of the Religious Reference Form (RRF) the minister should understand ‘committed’ to mean All parents wishing to enrol their children at John Keble those parents and carers who attend the church or School are warmly invited to visit the school. Open day chapel once a fortnight or more, for more than one year. dates are posted on the school website. Where a family have moved into the area their previous The admissions criteria reflect both the founding attendance at a place of worship will be counted. The principles of the school and its mission statement. We form must be signed by the minister and parent and have a strong Christian identity and daily worship in returned to the school (by the minister). Parents may the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England. have to provide a stamped addressed envelope to their This does not affect the right of parents who are not of Minister for this purpose. the faith of this school to apply for and be considered SIF and RRF can be collected from the council or the for a place here. However, parent(s)/carer(s) applying school. to this Church of England School should note that the school aims to provide an education based on Christian CAF forms must be returned before the closing date, to principles and it is expected that parents would not wish your local council who will coordinate applications for to exercise the right of withdrawal from worship and primary schools. religious education lessons. The SIF and RRF forms should be returned directly to the The governing body of the school has sole responsibility for school. the admission arrangements and applying the criteria to this Parents can defer entry for their child until their child is school. The maximum admission number for each class is 30. statutory school age. Statutory school age begins the All applicants should be supportive of the aims, attitudes first day of term after your child’s fifth birthday. Parents and values, expectations and commitment of this cannot, however, defer entry for children born in the voluntary aided Church of England school. summer term for the whole school year. Parent’s wishing to defer entry must contact the school and inform the Your attention is drawn to changes in nursery provision school of their decision only after a place has been (part time places only). offered. There is no automatic transfer from nursery to Reception. All applications will be considered in line with our Parents must complete a separate application. published admission arrangements. Outcomes of 1. Application Procedures applications will be sent to you by your council on behalf of the governing body. Unsuccessful applicants will be Common Application Forms (CAF) for Reception places placed on the waiting list.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 65 2. Nursery applications 5. Children with siblings in the school and children of staff who will be currently employed by the school The school will offer 30 part time places only. at the beginning of the school year. (Sibling refers Parents who wish to apply for a nursery place must apply to brother or sister, half brother or sister, adopted directly to the school on the nursery application Form by brother or sister, step brother or sister, or the child the closing date 15 January 2016. of the parent/carer’s partner where the child for The governing body of the school has sole responsibility whom the school place is sought is living in the same for the admission arrangements and applying the criteria family unit at the same address as that sibling but not to this school. The maximum admission number for cousins.) the session is 30. There is no automatic transfer from An application made under this category will only be nursery to Reception. Parents must complete a separate considered if the sibling will continue to attend on the application if they wish their child to attend Reception. date of admission. Please note that there is no right of appeal for nursery places. 6 Children with medical, special educational or pastoral needs that can be substantiated by the local church, 3. Casual admissions health authority or social worker. The supporting Applications for in-year admissions are made directly to evidence should set out the particular reasons why the the school on the casual admissions Form. If there is no school is the most suitable school and the difficulties waiting list then the local authority will communicate that would be caused if the child had to attend the governors’ offer of a place to the family. If more another school. applications are received than there are places available 7 Children of other faiths or none, who live within the then applications will be ranked by the governing body Anglican parish boundaries of All Souls’, St Matthew’s in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. If a or St Michael’s churches and whose parents have place cannot be offered at this time then you may ask chosen this school for the type of education that it us for the reasons and you will be informed of your provides. right of appeal. You will be offered the opportunity of being placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be 8 All other applicants. maintained by the governing body in the order of the oversubscription criteria and not in the order in which Tie-breaker the applications are received. Names are removed from When deciding between applicants who, ostensibly, have the list at the end of each academic year. equal entitlement under the above criteria, the governors will have regard to: 4. Oversubscription criteria: Distance: will be measured by the shortest walking Throughout the school where there are more route from the front door of the child’s home address applications than places, priority for admission to John (including flats), using the local authority’s computerised Keble School is given in the following categories relating measuring system, with those living closer to the school to church attendance and social priority. Places will be receiving the higher priority. allocated to those pupils in the highest categories first. 1. Looked After Children and children who have been Twins, triplets and other children of Looked After previously. multiple births 2. Children whose parents are committed members of As a rule the school will not admit more than 30 children All Soul’s Harlesden, St Matthew’s Willesden or St to a class. However, in the event that the school has one Michael’s Stonebridge. place to offer and the next child is one of twins, triplets or other children of multiple births, the governing body 3. Children whose parents are committed members in will in the first instance consider admitting all the children another Anglican Church. if the school’s resources at the time can accommodate it. 4. Children whose parents are committed members Should that not be possible, the governing body will randomly in churches and chapels of other Christian select the child to offer the place to. Parents /carers will have denominations, which are members of or affiliated the right to choose the other, or another child, have the place to Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and the instead of the child initially randomly selected. Evangelical Alliance Children who attend our nursery.

66 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Split residence How places were allocated last year Where a child lives with parents with shared on offer day responsibility, each for part of a week, the address where Criteria Number Furthest the child lives is determined using a court order where of places distance applicable or a joint declaration from the parents stating (in metres) the pattern of residence. Regular worship at If a child’s residence is split equally between both parents, A S, S M , S M 1 859.41 then parents will be asked to determine which is the residential address for the purpose of admission to school. Committed member of another Anglicanchurch 1 2169.4 If the residence is not split equally between both parents then the address used will be the address where the Committed member child spends the majority of the 5 day week during term of other christian time only. denominations within parish 7 10892.83 Nursery 8 5057.88 Waiting lists Sibling 1 148.04 Waiting lists will be maintained throughout the school year. A child’s position on the waiting list does not depend upon In Parish - other faiths 3 659.59 the time they have been on the list but will be determined Any other applicants 13 4665.64 by how they meet the oversubscription criteria. Nearest school This means that a child’s position on the list can go up or with a vacancy 1 264.32 down depending on the child’s circumstances and those of other applicants. The waiting list will be closed at the end of each academic year and will not roll over. Parents wishing to stay on the waiting list should submit a request in writing at the end of the academic year. Late applications Initial offers will be made to those children whose parents applied before the ‘closing date’ for applications. Late applications will be received but will not normally be considered for a place at the school until after the first round of initial offers have been made. If some parents decline the initial offer of a place for their child, or vacancies become available, then all applications received, whether in time or late, will be considered for these places.

Appeals Appeals against a decision not to offer a place at John Keble Church of England Primary School should be addressed to the Chair of the Governors, Admission Committee c/o the school. Parents/carers should appeal within 20 school days from the date of their notification letter that their application was unsuccessful. Appeals will be heard by an Independent appeals panel within 40 school days of the appeal being lodged. There is no right of appeal for nursery places.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 67 Kilburn Grange School (4-11 year olds)

www.kilburngrangeschool.org.uk DfE number: 3042035

4 Proximity to the school. This will be measured by Head teacher: Miss Helen Richardson the shortest walking distance by road or maintained Priory Park Road, London NW6 7UJ footpath or other public rights of way from the pupil’s Tel: 0845 459 0113 home, to the main entrance point of the school using a Email: [email protected] GIS computerised mapping system. Maximum admission 2016: 60 Notes Number of on-time applications last year: 86 1. A Looked After Child is a child in the care of a local Accessibility: High authority or provided with accommodation by that authority in accordance with Section 22 of the Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC Children Act 1989. An adopted child is defined by In Year Applications section 46 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team or section 12 of the Adoption Act 1976. A Residence at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions Order is defined by section 8 of the Children Act 1989. A child arrangement orders is defined by Admissions arrangements section 14 of the Children and Families Act 2014. A PAN and vversubscription criteria Special Guardianship Order is defined by section 14A of the Children Act 1989. The Published Admission Number is 60 places in each year of entry into Reception from September 2016. The 2. Priority to children of staff will be given in either or school will admit up to this number each year to the both of the following circumstances: Reception year and when full the school will have 420 (i) Where the member of staff has been employed pupils on roll. at the school for two or more years at the time In accordance with the law, children with statements of at which the application for admission is made. Special Educational Needs (or with an Education Health (ii) The member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant and Care Plan) will be admitted to the school where the post for which there is a demonstrable skill local authority has specifically named Kilburn Grange shortage. School as the most appropriate placement. 3. Proximity of the child’s home to the school, with those Where there are fewer applicants than places available living nearer being accorded the higher priority, will all applicants will be admitted. In the event of there also serve to differentiate between pupils in criteria being greater demand than there are place available to 2-4 if the need arises. Proximity to the school will be the school, and after the admission of children with a measured by the shortest route by road or maintained Statement of Special Educational Needs or Education footpath or other public rights of way1. Paths through Health and Care Plan that names the academy, places will car parks, cemeteries, golf courses and any other be offered using the following oversubscription criteria in enclosed spaces will not be used. Applicants will be keeping with the School Admissions Code 2014. prioritised by distance (starting with the nearest). 1 Looked After Children and Previously Looked After Proximity to school is measured on a computerised Children. This category includes children in the care of mapping system using the shortest route by road or the Local Authority as defined in the Children Act 1989 maintained footpath measurement. Routes will be or children who have previously been looked after and calculated from the home address (as determined by immediately after being looked after became subject the borough council in which the child lives) to the to adoption, residence, child arrangements order main entrance of the school (as determined by the or a special guardianship order. Applications made London Borough of Brent). under this criterion must be accompanied by details of circumstance and professionally supported evidence. 2 Children with a sibling at the school at the time of admission. 1 A public right of way is determined by The Countryside Act 1968 3 Children of staff at the school.

68 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 4. In blocks of flats, internal walkways will be treated arrangements administered by the London Borough as public rights when calculating distance travelled of Brent. Parents/carers must apply on the Common (measurements will be taken from the door of Application Form (CAF). This can be completed online or each individual dwelling.) In other instances where on a paper form available from the local council’s School applicants have identical distance measurements, Admissions Team. The closing date for reception class priority amongst them will be determined at random. applications will be 15 January 2016. Notification letters will be sent out on 16 April 2016. Applications received 5. For families living on boats, distance will be measured after the set closing date will be accepted, but will not from the authorised mooring point. If the family is normally be considered for a place at the school until itinerant, the nearest mooring point will be used on after the initial offer date. the closing date for the receipt of applications. 6. Sibling is defined in these arrangements as; a brother Waiting list or sister, a half brother or sister, an adopted brother Unsuccessful applicants (including any applications received or sister, a step-brother or sister or the child of the after the closing date) will be included on the school’s parents’ partner where the child for whom the school waiting list ranked in order of priority under the published place is sought is permanently living in the same oversubscription criteria, without regard to the date that family unit and at the same address as that sibling or a the application was received. Please note a child’s position foster child permanently living in the same family unit on the waiting list can go down as well as up. For example, whose place has been arranged by the social services if a new application is received or if a child on the list department of the local authority. Children residing moves nearer to the school, the waiting list may need to in the same household as part of an extended family, be revised. The offer of a place does not depend on the such as cousins, will not be treated as siblings. Proof length of time your child’s name has been on the waiting of the sibling relationship will be required. list. Waiting lists will be held by the school for one school 7. Where parental responsibilities are equally shared, the year after the Year of entry, unless parents specifically home or residential address will be considered to be request to have their child’s name remain on the list. with the parent/carer with whom the child spends the majority of time and nights Monday to Friday. This will Appeals normally be expected to be with the parent/carer that Parents who are not offered a place for their child have receives the Child Benefit. This address must be used the right to appeal to an independent appeal panel. for all preferences. Parents wishing to appeal should obtain an appeal 8. Children residing in the same household as part of an form from Kilburn Grange School at Priory Park Road, extended family, such as cousins, will not be treated London NW6 7UJ or from the school website at www. as siblings. Proof of the sibling relationship will be kilburngrangeschool.org.uk. The form should be sent to required. reach the Clerk to the Appeal Panel for Kilburn Grange School (c/o Kilburn Grange School Priory Park Lane, 9. In cases of multiple births where there is only one London NW6 7UJ), within 20 school days of the date of place available, and the next child on the list is a twin, the letter confirming the Governors’ decision not to offer triplet, or other example of multiple birth, we would a place. The school will publish an appeals timetable admit both twins (and all the children in the case of annually on its website showing the relevant deadlines. other multiple births) even if this meant exceeding the agreed admission number of 60 for reception 2016/17 In year admissions or the number of places in other year groups. For in year admissions, parents/carers must apply to the Tie-breaker local authority on the in year Common Application Form (CAF). Applications will be considered in accordance with In the event that two or more children live at the same above oversubscription criteria. In the event that it is not distance from the school, the tie-breaker will be random possible to offer a place the waiting list and a place is still allocation, where the supervised drawing of lots by an required the appeals procedures described above will apply. independent responsible person of good standing will be used to decide which child(ren) will be allocated the Fair access protocol remaining place(s). All schools are under a legal duty to participate in their Method of applications for reception local authority’s fair access protocol to ensure that unplaced children (in particular those most vulnerable) The school will be participating in coordinated admission are offered a place at a suitable school as quickly as

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 69 possible. Kilburn Grange School recognises that pupils not in their preferred age group. identified as coming within the protocol will have priority on waiting lists over pupils in schools seeking a transfer. How places were allocated last year on offer day Date of admission/deferred entry Criteria Number Furthest Children will normally be admitted to the reception year of places distance in the September following their fourth birthday. (in metres) In line with the Admissions Code, parents can defer their Distance 21 8943.12 child’s entry to the reception year until later in the school Nearest School year, where they have been offered a place at a school to With A Vacancy 16 2455.36 start before they are of compulsory school age. Where entry is deferred, the school will hold the place for that child and not offer it to another child. However, entry cannot be deferred beyond the beginning of the term after the child’s fifth birthday, nor beyond the beginning of the final term of the Reception Year. Parents can also request that their child attends part-time until he/she reaches compulsory school age.

Admission of children outside their normal age group Children will normally be admitted to the reception year in the September following their fourth birthday and the vast majority of pupils are educated within their normal chronological age group. Any request for admission outside of the child’s chronological year of entry will be considered in accordance with paragraphs 2.17-2.17B of the Admissions Code. Such requests would normally apply to children that are summer born and there are significant reasons that would benefit the child’s academic, social and emotional development by starting Reception in the following year as opposed to Year 1. The school’s governing body will consider requests on the circumstances of each case and in the best interests of the child concerned. This will include taking account of the parent’s views; information about the child’s academic, social and emotional development; where relevant, their medical history and the views of a medical professional; whether they have previously been educated out of their normal age group; and whether they may naturally have fallen into a lower age group if it were not for being born prematurely. The head teacher’s views will also be taken into account. Each case must be supported by a letter from a professional (e.g. GP, hospital consultant, social worker) that provides the reasons for admissions outside of the chronological year group. If the request is approved, the application will then be considered in accordance with the school’s oversubscription criteria in the event of oversubscription. Parents have a statutory right to appeal against the refusal of a place at the school but this right does not apply if they are offered a place at the school but it is

70 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Malorees Junior School (7-11 year olds) www.maloreesjuniorschool.co.uk DfE number: 3045202

with a written statement of educational needs. The Head teacher: Ms Valerie Rose recommendation for this specific school should Christchurch Avenue, Kilburn NW6 7PB demonstrate knowledge of Malorees Junior School Tel: 020 8459 5452 in terms of resources and organisation which deems Admissions officer:Mrs Nadine Tester it essential that the named pupil be admitted to the school. This criterion relates to the child’s special Email: [email protected] needs and not to any member of the child’s family. Maximum admission 2016: 60 This does not apply to children with statements of Number of on-time applications last year: 103 Special Educational Need who have the school named Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 238 on their statement. Accessibility: Medium 6. Proximity of the child’s home to the school, with Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): ASC those living nearer to the school entrance gate being In Year Applications accorded the higher priority. Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team Please note there is no automatic transfer from Malorees at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions Infant School to Malorees Junior School. Parents must complete a separate application form.

Admission arrangements Explanatory notes Our policy is to fairly and openly consider every Sibling application to Malorees Junior School regardless of A sibling is defined as a brother or sister, step or half ethnicity, gender, ability or religious belief. brother or sister, adopted brother or sister residing at the The number of admissions in any year group is up to a same address. maximum of 60 pupils. Where applications for admission exceed the number Tie-breaker of places available, the following criteria will be applied, Where there is more than one applicant who meets the in the order set out below, to decide which children to criterion above, priority will be given to the applicant admit: who lives closer to the school. This will be judged by the 1. Looked After Children/previously /Looked After shortest measured walking distance by public right of * Children An application for admission to school must way from the home to the school gate. be made by the person with parental responsibility *A public right of way is one which is determined by and/or the child’s social worker. the Countryside Act 1968. Where applicants live in the 2. Children attending Year 2 of Malorees Infant School same block of flats, internal walkways will be treated as at the time of application and who have a sibling who public rights of way when calculating distance travelled. currently attends the Junior school who will continue (Measurements will be taken from the door of each to do so on the date of admission. individual dwelling. A child living on a lower floor will take priority over another living higher up in the block). 3. Children attending Malorees Infant School at the time If you would like a copy of the Countryside Act 1968 of application who do not fulfil criterion 2. please contact Brent School Admission Service on 020 4. Other children who currently have a sibling at 8937 3110. Malorees Junior School and will continue to do so on the date of admission. Split residence 5. Children for whom it is essential to be admitted Where a child lives with parents with shared because of special circumstances to do with significant responsibility, each for part of a week, the address where medical or special educational needs. the child is determined using a joint declaration from the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s It is open to any parent to make an application under residence is split equally between both parents, then this criterion. The application should be supported parents will be asked to determine the residential address

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 71 for the purpose of admission to school. If the residence is not split equally between both parents then the address used will be the address where the child spends the major part of the school week.

Admissions procedure Application Procedure for Junior Transfer Parents who are interested in applying for a Year 3 place for their child should collect a Common Transfer Form either from their current school or their local council and ensure that this form is given in by the cut off date. Applications can be made online through the local council. If a place at Malorees Junior School is offered then parents will be invited to meet the head teacher. Other Admissions Admission to the school for other year groups must be made on a Common Application Form available from your council. Applications can be made online through the local council.

Waiting lists The council holds a waiting list for each year group when applications for admission exceed the number of places available. Waiting lists are not kept from one year to the next. Places, when they become available, will be offered following the admission criteria. When a child has been offered a place and a start date they will be introduced to their class teacher before they start at the school.

Appeals If you are not offered a place and wish to appeal, you need to appeal in writing to the chair of governors within 20 school days of receipt of the letter. An independent panel of three members will meet to hear the appeal within 30 school days of the receipt of the appeal.

How places were allocated last year on offer day

Criteria Number Furthest of places distance (in metres) Feeder/sibling 11 3544.66 Feeder school 46 4061.85 Looked after children/ previously looked after 2 2294.76

72 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 North West London Jewish Day School (3-11 year olds) www.nwljds.org.uk DfE number: 3045201

Jewish Day School on the Common Application Form Head teacher: Miss Judith Caplan (CAF), available online. They should forward this to the 180 Willesden Lane, London NW6 7PP borough in which the child is resident. Tel: 020 8459 3378 The CAF must be returned to the local authority in which Fax: 020 8459 7298 the child is resident by 15 January 2016. Parents who Admissions officer:Mrs Naomi Landy wish their children to be considered for priority admission Email: [email protected] to the school should also complete a SIF and obtain a rabbi’s reference. For the purposes of this policy “priority Maximum admission 2016: 35 children” are children of families who achieve a minimum Number of on-time applications last year: 63 of 28 points on our SIF. For a more detailed explanation Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 279 of the points basis please see our SIF. The SIF must be Accessibility: Medium returned directly to the school by 15 January 2016. Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): ASC The SIF asks for information to establish what level of In Year Applications priority the applicant is entitled to. It is not compulsory Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team but without it an applicant cannot be given priority and at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions will be disadvantaged. There is no automatic transfer from nursery to Reception. Admission arrangements All parents must complete the CAF for their children to The school seeks to admit, as a priority, children be considered for admission. whose parents are able to demonstrate commitment We will admit all children with a Statement of Special to Orthodox Jewish observances and practices (if the Educational Needs and Disabilities or an Education, school is oversubscribed). This will be assessed from the Health and Care Plan, which names the school. Supplementary Information Form (SIF) and verification, The school will participate in the local authority’s fair by way of a reference form to be completed by the rabbi access protocol and places may be given in accordance of the Orthodox synagogue at which the parents are with that protocol. regular worshippers, indicating commitment to Orthodox Jewish observances and practices. In the event of oversubscription to the Reception class, the governing body will apply the oversubscription The admission arrangements for entry into Reception and criteria listed below. Years 1-6 are entirely separate from that of Nursery.

Statutory schooling Oversubscription criteria In the event of the number of applications for admission Policy and number exceeding the number of places available, the following Children will be admitted at the beginning of the academic criteria will be applied in the order set out below, to year following their fourth birthday. We will admit 35 decide which children to admit: children to the Reception class in September 2016. 1. Looked after and previously Looked After priority Timing children. A Looked After Child is one who is in the The admissions process is managed by the London care of the local authority in the exercise of its social Borough of Brent as part of a coordination process services functions. A Previously Looked After Child is specified by law. Although the Admissions Committee of one who was Looked After but no longer fulfils that the Governing Body considers all applicants and decides definition because he/she has been adopted or is now on the order in which offers are to be made, the child’s subject to a Residence Order, a Special Guardianship home borough advises parents of the outcome of their Order or a Child Arrangement Order. application and the school is not allowed to do so. 2 Priority children with siblings (not cousins) at the Parents who wish their children to be considered for School. Sibling connection will only be considered if admission to the school must name North West London the sibling will be attending the school at the time of application.1 Siblings include step or half brothers or

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 73 sisters residing at the same address as the applicant, Proximity of the child’s home to the school’s main or adopted children of parents who have a natural or gate, as measured in a straight line, with those living adopted child attending the school. nearer the school being accorded the higher priority. Measurements will be taken from the front door of 3 Priority children with a sibling who has previously the child’s home address (including flats) to the main attended the school for a minimum period of five entrance of the school, using the local authority’s years. computerised measuring system. 4 Priority children of members of staff who have been Where a child regularly lives with one parent for part of a employed at the school for a minimum of two years week and with the other parent for the rest of the week, at the time of application or who have been recruited the child’s home address will be the address at which the to fill a post for which there is a demonstrable skills child lives for the greater part of the school week, i.e. shortage. Monday to Friday. Where the distance tie-break does not 5 Other priority children, whose parents or guardians can produce a clear outcome (i.e. two children live precisely demonstrate that admission to the school is essential the same distance from the school), the place will be to the medical or compassionate needs of their determined by random allocation supervised by a person children. These special factors must be made known at independent of the school. This tie-break will apply in the time of the application if they are to be considered the case of non-priority applicants as well. and must be supported by an appropriate professional Parents can defer entry for their child until their child practitioner’s letter or certificate. is of compulsory school age. Compulsory school age The supporting evidence should set out the particular begins on the prescribed day after your child’s fifth reasons why the school is the most suitable school and birthday. The prescribed days are 31 December, 31 the difficulties that would be caused if the child had to March and 31 August. For children born between 1 attend another school. April and 31 August, parents cannot defer admission 6 Priority children of regular worshippers at Orthodox beyond the beginning of the final term of the school Synagogues within a three mile radius of the school’s year for which the offer was made. Parents wishing to main gate who have scored a minimum of 34 defer entry after a place has been offered must contact points on the SIF. This must be verified by way of a the school within fourteen days of the date of the offer. reference form to be completed by the rabbi of an Parents can also request that their child attends part-time Orthodox synagogue at which the parents are regular until their child reaches compulsory school age. worshippers, indicating commitment to Orthodox Parents of a summer born child may choose not to send Jewish observances and practices. their child to school until the September following their 7 Priority children of regular worshippers at Orthodox fifth birthday and may request that they are admitted Synagogues. The governors define regular worship as out of their normal age group – to reception rather attending an Orthodox Jewish place of worship at least than year 1. If they wish to do so they should make an four times per month for a minimum period of the 12 application for their child’s normal age group at the months preceding the date of application. usual time and at the same time submit a request to the School for admission out of the normal age group. 8 Other priority children. The school will consider the request and make a decision 9 Other Looked After and Previously Looked After on the basis of the circumstances of each case and in the children. best interests of the child concerned. This will include 10. All other children. taking account of the parent’s views; information about the child’s academic, social and emotional development; Priority applicants will be ranked according to the points where relevant, their medical history and the views of a achieved on the SIF. medical professional; whether they have previously been In the event of applicants receiving identical scoring an educated out of their normal age group; and whether additional tie-breaker will be applied as follows: they may naturally have fallen into a lower age group if it were not for being born prematurely. The school will ensure the parent receives a response to their request prior to the primary national offer day and 1 In the event that the School has one place to offer and the next child on the school will clearly set out the reasons for its decision. the waiting list is one of twins, triplets or other children of multiple births, the Admissions Committee will exceed the planned admission number when one of the siblings is the 35th child.

74 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Waiting list They must achieve a minimum of 28 points on the SIF verified by the rabbinic reference. Those applicants who have been refused a place will be placed on a waiting list ranked in accordance with the How places were allocated last year oversubscription criteria. on offer day The waiting list will remain in operation from the day the original places are awarded and will be used to allocate Criteria Number Furthest places which become available before the start of the of places distance school year. A separate waiting list will be maintained for (in metres) each year group. Nursery 34 6183.19 Parents will be notified of where their child has been Special Educational Needs 1 – placed on a waiting list but will not be given an indication of the likelihood of being offered a place as their position on the waiting list may change if families having a higher priority, who apply for places for their children, move into the neighbourhood of the school.

Casual or in-year admissions The Admissions Committee will consider all applications received and will apply the above criteria if a vacancy arises. If you wish to apply for a place at this school for any year group, you will need to apply on a Common Application Form. This can be obtained directly from the school.

Appeal procedures Parents wishing to appeal against the refusal to admit a child to the school may do so by writing to the chairman of the governors at the school, within 20 school days of receipt by the parents of a letter from the home borough informing them that a place is not available. An independent appeal panel will be convened to consider the appeal.

Further information If you require further information about the admissions process, please contact Naomi Landy at North West London Jewish Day School. Definition section i SIF – Supplementary Information Form. ii OCR – Office of the Chief Rabbi. iii CAF – Common Application Form. iv A Looked After Child is a) in the care of the local authority, or b) provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions. v A priority child is one whose parents are able to demonstrate commitment to Orthodox Jewish observances and practices (if the school is oversubscribed).

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 75 Oakington Manor Primary School (3-11 year olds)

www.oakmanor.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3045200

places available, the following criteria will be applied, in the Head teacher: Mrs Sylvia Lisbon order set out below, to decide which children to admit: Oakington Manor Drive, Wembley HA9 6NF 1. Children in public care (sometimes referred to as Tel: 020 8902 2871 Looked After Children)/Previously Looked After Fax: 020 8795 7511 Children. Admissions officer:Ms Karen Tomlin 2. Where the child has a sibling* currently attending Email: [email protected] the school and will continue to do so on the date Maximum admission 2016: 90 of admission. Number of on-time applications last year: 310 3. Where the child attends the school’s nursery. Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 749 4. Proximity of the child’s home to the school, with Accessibility: Medium those living nearer being accorded the higher Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): ASC priority. Please see tie-breaker for details of how In Year Applications distance will be measured. Apply to Oakington Manor Primary School directly. Pupils will be admitted without reference to ability or aptitude. Our admissions policy endeavours to fulfil the above. We Admission arrangements believe that siblings are entitled to be educated in the same Oakington Manor School is a large three-form entry environment in order that a productive partnership is built primary school with a 72 (part time) place nursery, situated up with parents. We believe that continuity of education is in the Monks Park area of Wembley. The school also has important for children in the early years in order that they an additionally resourced provision (ARP) which meets the feel safe, secure and make steady progress. We believe needs of 35 children with a statement of educational need we have a valuable and integral role to play in serving the for Speech and Language disorder or ASD wherein speech local community and we believe that maintaining a stable and communication has been identified as a primary need. staff, both teaching and non-teaching is vital in order that children achieve highly. Aims and ethos There is no automatic transfer from nursery to reception. Our aim at Oakington Manor School is to ensure that all Parents applying for a place in reception must complete a children are numerate and literate and educated to a high Common Application Form. If you live in Brent this will be level, which enables them to succeed in a technological available from Brent Council, if you live outside of Brent world. We believe that through the systems of assessment you will need to contact your council offices for a form. and support, which have been developed, we ensure that every child reaches their full potential regardless of racial Admission of children below origin, creed, gender, physical ability or cultural background. compulsory school age We aim to ensure that we communicate effectively to all The number of intended admissions for the year our children and that we value them. We believe that only commencing 1st September, 2016, will be 36 part time in by doing so, will we help our children become adults who the morning and 36 part time in the afternoon in nursery respect and value other human beings around them. We and 90 places in Reception. also aim to continually seek ways and means of developing close and positive working relationships with our parents Where applications for admission exceed the number of and the communities around us. places available, the following criteria will be applied, in the order set out below, to decide which children to admit: Criteria for admissions 1. Children in public care (sometimes referred to as Looked The number of intended admissions for the year After Children)/Previously Looked After Children. commencing 1st September, 2016, will be 90 in each 2. Where the child has a sibling* currently attending year group. the school and will continue to do so on the date of Where applications for admission exceed the number of admission.

76 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 3. Where the child attends Acorn Nursery. the criterion stated above, priority will be given to the applicant who lives closer to the school. Where 4. Proximity of the child’s home to the school, with those applicants live in the same block of flats, internal living nearer being accorded the higher priority. Please walkways will be treated as public rights of way when see tie-breaker for details of how distance will be calculating the distance travelled. This will be measured measured. using the Department of Education’s postcodes distance Parents must complete the common admission form as measuring system available on http://www.education. attendance or admission to the nursery does not lead to gov.uk/cgi-bin/inyourarea/distance.pl?postcode1=HA9+ automatic transfer into Reception or a guaranteed place 6NF&postcode2=NW10+8QS. in the school. Special educational needs Parents can request that their child attends part-time until Applications for children with a Statement of Special the child reaches compulsory school age. Parents can Educational Needs are made through the special request that the date their child is admitted to the school educational needs team at the council. The placement of is deferred until later in the school year or until the child children with such a statement is made after a process reaches compulsory school age in that school year. The of consultation between parents, school and the local parent would not however be able to defer entry beyond authority. Children with a Statement of Special Educational the beginning of the term after the child’s fifth birthday, Needs receive a priority over others for admission to the nor beyond the academic year for which the original school if Oakington Manor is named on their statement. application was accepted. Our admissions policy endeavours to fulfil the above with Appeals procedure fairness and equity for all children and families. Pupils will In keeping with the DCSF Code of Practice parents* be admitted without reference to ability or aptitude. have the right of appeal against a decision not to admit a child. Parents wishing to exercise their right of appeal Application procedure against a refusal of admission should put the appeal If you wish to make an application for Oakington Manor in writing within 20 school days and mark it for the you will need to contact the school directly. The school can attention of the chair of governors. All appeals will be be contacted on 020 8902 2871 or via admin@oakmanor. considered by an independent appeal panel as follows: brent.sch.uk All applications will be considered in line with our published admissions arrangements as follows: Timetabled admissions n Applicants will be informed of the outcome within 20 Within 40 school days of the appeal being lodged or days of receipt of the application before the end of the summer term, whichever is sooner. n Successful applicants will be admitted within two weeks Appeals for late applications of the place being offered The school will try to include the late applications n Unsuccessful applicants will be placed on the waiting list with those being heard for the same admission n On receipt of an in-year application school will notify the round. However, if this is not feasible, appeals for late local authority, in which the child resides, of both the applications will be heard within 30 school days of the application and its outcome within 20 days of receiving appeal being lodged. the application. In-year admissions (i.e. those made outside the Coordinated admissions procedure timetabled admissions process) In line with Brent’s published scheme parents seeking Within 30 days school days of the appeal being lodged. a place in a Reception class must apply to their local Parents are entitled to attend the appeal panel meeting council’s admissions service, coordinates applications to give grounds for their appeal personally and / or to be for primary schools. Parents must complete a common represented. Appealing for a place does not guarantee Application Form (CAF) and return to their local council entry to the school. by the closing date which is 15th January 2017. For admissions from Year 1 to 6, parents will need to Waiting lists apply directly to the school. Unsuccessful applicants, including nursery places, will be placed on waiting lists which will be maintained Tie-breaker throughout the school year. The waiting list will be When there is more than one applicant that meets maintained in order of how the application meets the

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 77 admission criteria and not by the length of time on list. How places were allocated last year This means that the child’s position on the list may go on offer day up or down depending on the child’s circumstances and those of other applicants on the list. Criteria Number Furthest Applications for all Year groups (year 1 to 6) should be of places distance made directly to the school office. (in metres) Distance 10 1049.62 Split residence Nursery 40 9358.5 Where a child lives with parents with shared responsibility, each for part of the week, the address Sibling 40 9227.32 where the child lives is determined using a joint declaration from the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s residence is split equally between both parents, then parents will be asked to determine which is the residential address for the purpose of admission to school. If the residence is not split equally between both parents then the address used will be the address where the child spends the majority of the school week. Twins, triplet and other children of multiple births In the event that the school has one place to offer and the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets or other children of multiple births, the governing body will randomly select the child to offer the place to. Parents will then be informed that they may prefer the other, or another, child to have the place instead of the child randomly selected.

78 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Our Lady of Grace Catholic Infant School (3-7 year olds) www.ologinfants.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3043510

from the nursery to the Reception class. All parents with Head teacher: Mrs Philomena Bourne a child in nursery, who wish to, will have to apply for a Dollis Hill Avenue, London NW2 6EU place in Reception at the appropriate time. Tel: 020 8450 6757 Similarly, there is no automatic transfer from the Infant Fax: 020 8452 1501 School to Our Lady of Grace Catholic Junior School. A Admissions officer:Mrs Irene Cunniffe new application must be made. Email: [email protected] Applications for Reception and the junior school will Maximum admission 2016: 60 be processed through the local authority coordinated Number of on-time applications last year: 188 scheme, the timetable for which is outlined below. Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 225 Oversubscription criteria Accessibility: Low Where there are more applications than places Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC available the governors will always give priority to In Year Applications Catholic applicants and will make offers of places in Apply to Our Lady of Grace Catholic Infant School directly. accordance with the following criteria in order of priority. Applications in respect of: Admission arrangements 1. Catholic Looked After Children and previously Looked The governors consider that the greatest pastoral After Children who have now been adopted* or who benefit from going to a Catholic school is obtained by are now subject to a Child Arrangements Order* or children who come from homes where the Catholic Special Guardianship* Order. Faith is practised. Children who attend Mass regularly 2. Baptised Catholic children of practising* Catholic staff, with their parents, and who participate in the activities where the member of staff has been an employee of the parish, will derive the fullest benefit from the of the school for at least two years at the time of complementary influences of home, school and parish. application. Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every aspect 3. Baptised Catholic children from practising Catholic of the school’s activity, therefore it is essential that the families* who have siblings* at the infant or junior Catholic character of the school’s education is fully school at the time of application. supported by all families in the school. All families are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved and 4. Baptised practising* Catholic children who are positive support for the aims and ethos of the school. resident in the parish of St Mary and St Andrew, Dollis Hill (see attached map). Applications are invited for September 2016 from families whose child will be four years of age between 5. Baptised practising* Catholic children attending Our 1 September 2015 and 31 August 2016. The Published Lady of Grace Nursery who are not included in criteria Admissions Number (PAN) for the School is 60 and 1-4 the governors intend to admit 60 children into our 6. Baptised practising* Catholic children, resident in other Reception class in the year 2016-17. Children will parishes. normally be admitted throughout September according 7. Other Catholic children. to the school’s current induction procedures, unless an alternative arrangement is agreed with the head teacher. 8. Other Looked After Children and previously Looked Preference will be given to baptised Catholic children and After Children who have now been adopted or who a Baptismal Certificate and proof of date of birth will be are now subject to a Child Arrangements Order or required. Practising Catholic families will be required to Special Guardianship Order. have their practice verified on a reference form signed by 9. Catechumens* and members of the Eastern Orthodox a priest at the church where the family usually worships. Churches*. Verification of address will be required*. 10. Children from other Christian churches.* Parents are advised that there is no automatic transfer 11. Any other children.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 79 * Please refer to notes overleaf 18 April 2016. This information will also be available online. Parents/carers should accept this place as soon as Distance will be measured (by the shortest walking possible. Applications received after the closing date will route) from the front door of the child’s home address not be dealt with until April, after the initial allocation (including flats) to the main entrance of the school process has been completed. located on Dollis Hill Ave (using the local authority’s computerised measuring system), with those living closer Appeals: Parents of children who cannot be offered to the school receiving the higher priority. a place have a right to appeal and should contact the school as soon as possible for further information and an A public right of way is one which is determined by appeals form which should be returned to the school by The Countryside Act 1968. Where applicants live in the 22nd May 2016. same block of flats, internal walkways will be treated as public rights of way when calculating distance travelled Waiting list: Children’s names will be placed on a (measurements will be taken from the door of each waiting list along with those who apply during the individual dwelling). If you would like a copy of The year or after the annual allocation of places has been Countryside Act 1968 please contact the Brent School made. This list will be maintained in the order of the Admissions Service on 020 8937 3110. over-subscription criteria set out above, and not in the order in which applications are received or added to the Parents are advised that should the cut-off point for list. The waiting list will be closed at the end of each admission divide twins or multiple siblings*, applying for academic year and will not roll over. Parents wishing a place in the same school year, these siblings will also to stay on the waiting list will be required to submit a be admitted. request in writing to the school. The governing body will give top priority, after the In year admissions arrangements and applications appropriate category of Looked After Children, to an for Years 1 and 2. : Applications must be made directly application where compelling evidence is provided at to the school using the school’s own application form. the time of application, from an appropriate professional such as a doctor, priest or social worker, of an If more applications are received than there are places exceptional social, medical, pastoral or other need of the available then applications will be ranked by the child, which can only be met at this school. governing body in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. If a place cannot be offered at this time then you Pupils with a Statement of Special Educational Needs may ask us for the reasons and you will be informed of (SEN) or an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHC): The your right of appeal. You will be offered the opportunity admission of pupils with a Statement of SEN or an EHC of being placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be Plan is dealt with by a completely separate procedure. maintained by the governing body in the order of the This procedure is integral to the making and maintaining oversubscription criteria and not in the order in which of Statements or EHC Plans by the pupil’s home local the applications are received. Names are removed from education authority. Details of this separate procedure is the list at the end of each academic year. When a place set out in the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice. becomes available the governing body will decide who is Application Procedure 2016-17: In order to make an at the top of the list and will offer the place accordingly. application, you must complete a Common Application Form (CAF) from your local authority and return 2014 School admissions policy 3 it to them. You should also complete the School’s Reception Year deferred entry: Applicants may defer Supplementary Information Form (SIF). The information entry to school up until statutory school age i.e. the on the SIF enables the governing body to assess your first day of term following the child’s fifth birthday. application fully against the school’s criteria in the event An application is made in the usual way and then the of oversubscription. Please return the SIF (in person or deferment is requested. The place will then be held until by post) to the School Office, Dollis Hill Avenue, London the first day of the spring or summer term. Applicants NW2 6EU, together with all other relevant paperwork may also request that their child attend part-time until required for your application. If you do not complete statutory school age is reached. Entry may not be both of the forms described above and return them by deferred beyond statutory school age or beyond the year 15th January 2016, the governing body will be unable of application. Applicants whose children have birthdays to consider your application fully and it is very unlikely in the summer term should be aware that, if they wish to that your child will be offered a place. The local authority defer, they will need to apply for a Year 1 place for the will write to you on behalf of the governing body with following September and if the school is oversubscribed the outcome of your application on, or about, Monday, they are very unlikely to get a place.

80 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Summer born children: Any application for a child to be whose siblings attend the infant school over those with educated out of his/her age group will be considered by siblings at Our Lady of Grace Junior School at the time governors on an individual basis and will only be granted of application. in exceptional circumstances. n *Looked After Child means any child in the care of a Fair access protocols local authority or provided with accommodation by them (e.g. children with foster parents) within the The school is committed to taking its fair share of meaning of Section 22 of the Children Act 1989. children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as n *Adopted. An adopted child is any child who has been set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside formally adopted and whose parent/ guardian can give the normal admissions round, the governing body is proof of adoption empowered to give absolute priority to a child where admission is requested under any local protocol that n *Child Arrangements Order. A Child Arrangements has been agreed by both the diocese and the governing order is an order under the terms of the Children Act body for the current school year. The governing body has 1989 s.8 settling the arrangements to be made as to this power even when admitting the child would mean the person with whom the child is to live. Children exceeding the published admission number. ‘looked after’ immediately before the order is made qualify in this category. Notes (these notes form part of the over subscription criteria) n **Special Guardianship Order. A Special Guardianship Order is an order under the terms of the Children Act n *‘Catholic’ means a member of a church in full 1989 s.14A appointing one or more individuals to be communion with the See of Rome. This includes a child’s special guardian(s). Children ‘looked after’ the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be immediately before the order is made qualify in this evidenced by a Certificate of Baptism in a Catholic category. Church or a Certificate of Reception into the full communion of the Catholic Church. How places were allocated last year n *‘Practising Catholic families’ means a Catholic child on offer day from a practising Catholic family where this weekly practice is verified by a reference from a Catholic priest Criteria Number Furthest in the standard format laid down by the Diocese. distance “Family” includes the Catholic or Catholics who have of places (in metres) legal responsibility for the child. Baptised practising Catholic n *‘Catechumen’ means a member of the at nursery 8 3012.96 catechumenate of a Catholic Church. This will normally Baptised practising Catholic be evidenced by a Certificate of Reception into the in parish 23 3454.89 Order of Catechumens. Catechumens will be given priority over members of Eastern Orthodox Churches. Baptised practising Catholic outside parish 10 2674.42 n *‘Eastern Orthodox Churches’ can include certain other Churches that share the sacramental life of the Baptised practising Catholic, Catholic Church. A certificate of Baptism or reception sibling 19 6289.13 from the authorities of that Church will be expected. n *“Christian” means a member of a church which belongs to Churches Together in Britain and Ireland as evidenced by a minister of the church or a Baptismal Certificate. n *“Parent” means the person or persons who have legal responsibility for the child. n *“Home address” means where the child lives for 50% or more of the school week. n *Siblings include half and step brothers and sisters and those who have been adopted who are living at the same address. Priority will be given to children

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 81 Our Lady of Grace Catholic Junior School (7-11 year olds)

www.ourladyofgracejuniors.co.uk DfE number: 3043500

Head teacher: Mr Steve McGrath Over-subscription criteria Dollis Hill Lane, London NW2 6HS Where there are more applications than places available the Governors will make offers of places in accordance with the Tel: 020 8450 6002 following criteria in order of priority. Admissions officer:Mrs Eileen O’Carroll 1. Applications from Catholic Looked After* Children and Email: [email protected] children who have been adopted or made subject to Child Maximum admission 2016: 60 Arrangements Order or Special Guardianship Orders. Number of on-time applications last year: 98 2. Applications from baptised, Catholic children in Year 2 of Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 239 Our Lady of Grace Infant School. Accessibility: Not specified 3. Baptised Catholic children of practising* Catholic staff, Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC where the member of staff has been a permanent In Year Applications employee of the school for at least two years at the Apply to Our Lady of Grace Catholic Junior School directly. time of application. 4. Applications from baptised practising Catholic children Admission arrangements who are resident in the Parish of St. Mary and St. Andrew (see attached map). The governors consider that the greatest pastoral benefit from going to a Catholic school is obtained by children who 5. Applications from baptised practising Catholic children come from homes where the Catholic Faith is practised. who are not resident in the Parish of St. Mary and St. Children who attend Mass regularly with their parents, and Andrew and whose application is supported by the who participate in the activities of the parish, will derive the Parish Priest at the church where they worship. fullest benefit from the complementary influences of home, 6. Applications from other baptised Catholic children. school and parish. 7. Applications from other Looked After Children and Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every aspect of the children who have been adopted or made subject to school’s activity; therefore it is essential that the Catholic Child Arrangements Order or Special Guardianship Orders. character of the school’s education is fully supported by all families in the school. All families are therefore expected to 8. Applications from catechumens* and members of the give their full, unreserved and positive support for the aims Eastern Orthodox Churches*. and ethos of the school. 9. Applications from other Christian children who are in The Published Admissions number (PAN) for the school Year 2 at Our Lady of Grace Infants School. is 60* and the governors intend to admit 60 children 10. Applications from children in other Christian churches. into Year 3 in the year 2016/2017. Preference will be 11. Applications from any other children. given to baptised Catholic children and proof of baptism will be required. A reference form, signed by a priest or * Please refer to notes overleaf minister at the church where the family usually worships, The governors will give top priority, within each criterion, will be required from practising Catholic children. The to an application for a child who has demonstrated, at Supplementary Information form (SIF) and the Diocesan the time of application, an exceptional medical, social or Priest’s Reference Form are available from the school and pastoral need. The applicant must provide compelling the SIF is also available from the local authority offices and evidence of the nature of the need and why it can only be from the local authority website. You can collect the forms met at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Junior School. Copies of from the school or contact us and ask for them to be sent written evidence from a medical specialist or other properly to you. Parents should note that there is no automatic right qualified professional person must be provided with the of transfer from Our Lady of Grace infant school into Our application. In cases of purely pastoral need, compelling Lady of Grace Junior School and that parents with children written evidence from a priest is acceptable. in the Infant School, who wish to, will be required to apply for a place in the junior school at the appropriate time. If there are more applicants meeting a particular criterion than there are places available, places will be offered to

82 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 applicants in the following order: a Year 3 class in September 2016 must obtain a Common Application Form (CAF) from the borough in which they i. Children who have a sibling* in Our Lady of Grace live. Furthermore, parents are advised that they should also Junior School and who will continue to be on roll at submit our school’s own Supplementary Information Form the date of admission. (SIF) which will be available from September 2015. The ii. Children who have a sibling in Our Lady of Grace closing date for these forms will be January 15 2016. Failure Infants School and who will continue to be on roll to complete and return both the CAF and the SIF by the at the date of admission. closing date may mean that the governors are unable to Where there is more than one applicant that meets a consider your application fully. Offers will be made on, or criterion above, priority will be given to the applicant that around, 16th April 2016. lives closer to the school. This will be judged by the shortest Appeals: Parents of children who cannot be offered a place measured walking distance by road networks and public may ask for the reasons for the refusal of a place. These right of way from the front door of the applicant’s home* reasons will be related to the oversubscription criteria listed (including flats) to the front door of the school (using in the policy and you will have the right to appeal to an the local authorities computerised measuring system). If independent panel. Should you wish to appeal please contact two or more applicants’ homes are equal distance to the the school as soon as possible for an appeal form on which school, the place will be chosen by random allocation in the you must list your reasons for making an appeal. Parents have presence of an independent witness. until 27 May 2016 in which to lodge an appeal. A public right of way is one which is determined by Waiting List: Children’s names will be placed on a waiting list, the Countryside Act 1968. Where applicants live in the if parents request, along with those who apply during the year same block of flats, internal walkways will be treated as or after the annual allocation of places has been made. This list public rights of way when calculating distance travelled will be maintained in the order of the over-subscription criteria (measurements will be taken form the door of each set out above, and not in the order in which applications are individual dwelling). If you would like a copy of The received or added to the list. The waiting list will be closed at Countryside Act 1968 please contact the Brent School the end of each academic year and will not roll over. Parents Admissions Service on 020 8937 3110. wishing to stay on the Waiting List will be required to submit a Twins or multiple births: Parents are advised that should request in writing to the school. the cut off point for Year 3 divide twins or multiple siblings* If significant time has elapsed since the initial application, a these siblings will be admitted. current priest’s reference may be required. Pupils with a Statement of Special Educational Needs or In-year admissions: In year applications must be made Education, Health and Care Plan: The admission of pupils directly to the school using the school’s own application with a statement of Special Educational Needs/Education, form. If more applications are received than there are places Health and Care Plan is dealt with by a completely separate available then applications will be ranked by the governing procedure. This procedure is integral to the making and body in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. If a maintaining of Statements/Education, Health and Care Plan place cannot be offered at this time then you may ask us by the pupil’s home local authority. Details of this procedure for the reasons and you will be informed of your right of are set out in the Special Educational Needs Code of appeal. You will be offered the opportunity of being placed Practice. on a waiting list. This waiting list will be maintained by the Children educated outside their chronological age group: governing body in the order of the oversubscription criteria Parents may request that their child be educated out of (as modified above) and not in the order in which the his/her chronological age group. Such requests must be made applications are received. Names are removed from the list in writing to the chair of governors during the autumn term at the end of each academic year. When a place becomes in the year of application i.e. September – December 2015 available the governing body will decide who is at the top for children born between 1 September 2011 and 31 August of the list and will offer the place accordingly. 2012 Governors will consider each request on its own merits Fair access protocols: The school is committed to taking and permission will only be given in exceptional circumstances. its fair share of vulnerable children who are hard to place, When the application is made, it will be ranked with all the in accordance with locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, other applications and no further exceptions will be given. A outside the normal round of admissions, the governing statutory right of appeal will be given upon refusal if no place body are empowered to give absolute priority to a child has been offered in any school year. where admission is requested under any local protocol Timetable: Parents wishing their child to be admitted to which carries the agreement of both the governing

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 83 body and the diocese for the current admission year. The more than 50 per cent of the school week. governing body has this power even when admitting such n *Siblings are brother and sisters, step brothers and step a child would exceed the normal admission number. sisters, half brothers and half sisters or adopted brothers Notes (these notes form part of the oversubscription and sisters who are living at the same address. criteria) n * The Published Admission Number for the school is 60. n *Looked after Child means any child in the care of a local However, a child who has been admitted as an ‘excepted authority or provided with accommodation by them (e.g. child’ to an infant class in Our Lady of Grace Catholic children with foster parents) within the meaning of the Infant School, will continue to be considered as an Children Act 1989. ‘excepted child’ (for the purposes of admission to Year 3) until a child leaves and the class numbers revert to 30. At n Adopted. An adopted child is any child who has been this point no further children will be admitted. formally adopted and whose parent/ guardian can give proof of adoption. How places were allocated last year n Child Arrangement Order. A Child Arrangement Order on offer day is an order under the terms of the Children’s Act 1989 s. 8 setting outthe arrangements to be made as to the Criteria Number Furthest person with whom the child is to live. Children ‘looked distance after’ immediately before the order is made qualify in this of places (in metres) category. Special Educational Needs 2 n Special Guardianship Order. A Special Guardianship Order is an order under the terms of the Children Act 1989 Baptised Catholics s.14A which defines it as an order appointing one or Attending Ologi 56 9855.03 more individuals to be a child’s special guardian(s). This Baptised Catholics criterion applies to children who were looked-after up Resident In Parish 1 326.09 until this order was made. Catholic - L A C/ Adopted 1 784.52 n *Catholic means a member of a church in full communion with the See of Rome. This includes the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be evidenced by a Certificate of Baptism in a Catholic Church or a Certificate of Reception into the full communion of the Catholic Church.

n *Practising Catholic is a Catholic child from a practising Catholic family where this practice is verified by a reference from a Catholic priest in the standard format laid down by the diocese. Family includes the Catholic or Catholics who have legal responsibility for the child.

n *Catechumen means a member of the catechumenate of a Catholic Church. This will normally be evidenced by a Certificate of Reception into the Order of Catechumens. Catechumens will be given preference over members of other Christian churches.

n *Eastern Orthodox Churches can include certain other churches that share the sacramental life of the Catholic Church. A Certificate of Baptism or Reception from the authorities of that church will be expected.

n *Christian is defined as a member of a church which belongs to ‘Churches Together in Britain and Ireland’.

n * Parent means the person or persons who have legal responsibility for the child.

n *Applicant’s home is defined as where the child lives for

84 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School (3-11 year olds) www.lourdes.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3043508

with after the initial allocation process has been completed. Head teacher: Mrs Mary Bickerstaff Wesley Road, Hillside, London NW10 8PP Oversubscription criteria Tel: 020 8961 5037 Where there are more applications for places than Fax: 020 8963 1163 the number of places available, places will be offered Admissions officer:Mrs Marion Fogarty according to the following order of priority. Email: [email protected] 1. Catholic Looked After children and Catholic children Maximum admission 2016: 30 who have been adopted or made subject to Child Arrangements Orders or Special Guardianship Orders, Number of on-time applications last year: 80 immediately after having been looked after. Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 227 2. Practising Catholic children who are resident in the Accessibility: Low Parishes of The Five Precious Wounds and St. Patrick’s, Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC whose application is supported by a written reference In Year Applications from a Catholic priest. The attached maps will be used for Apply to Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School the purposes of identifying a family’s parish of residence. directly. 3. Practising Catholic children in all other parishes whose application is supported by a written reference from a Admission arrangements Catholic priest. Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School was founded 4. Baptised Catholic children. by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic families. The school is conducted by its governing 5. Other Looked After Children and children who have body as part of the Catholic Church in accordance with its been adopted or made subject to Child Arrangements trust deed and Instrument of government and seeks at all Orders or Special Guardianship Orders, immediately times to be a witness to Jesus Christ. after having been looked after. Whenever there are more applications than places 6. Catechumens and members of an Eastern Christian available, priority will always be given to Catholic Church whose application is supported by a written candidates in accordance with the oversubscription criteria reference from a priest. listed below. In this policy “applicant” refers to you, the 7. Christians of other denominations whose parents parent applying for a place and “candidate” refers to the wish them to have a Catholic education and whose child for whom an application is being made. application is supported by written evidence from their As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic minister of religion. education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, 8. Children of other faiths whose parents wish them to Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every aspect of have a Catholic education and whose application is the school’s life. It is essential that the Catholic character supported by written evidence from their religious leader. of the school’s education is fully supported by all families in the school. All applicants are therefore expected to 9. Any other applicant. give their full, unreserved and positive support for the For the school year 2014-2015 we were heavily ethos and aims of the school. oversubscribed. We received 107 applications for 30 places. The governing body has sole responsibility for admissions Places were offered to applicants in categories 2 and to this school and the Published Admission Number category 3. The governing body was unable to offer places (PAN) is 30 pupils. Applications are invited for September to any applicants beyond Category 3. As the school is usually 2016 from families whose child will be four years of age oversubscribed by Catholic candidates, it is very unlikely that between 1 September 2015 and 31 August 2016. applicants who are not Catholics will obtain a place. The closing date for applications is 15 January 2016 The governing body will increase the priority of an and places will be offered on or about 16 April 2016. application to the highest within that category where Applications received after the closing date will be dealt evidence is provided at the time of application of an

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 85 exceptional social, medical or pastoral need of the child Looked After Children. If a place cannot be offered at where there is a compelling reason why this need can this time then you may ask us for the reasons and you only be met at this school. will be informed of your right of appeal. You will be offered the opportunity of being placed on a waiting Where the offer of places to all the candidates in list. This waiting list will be maintained by the school any of the categories listed above would lead to and ranked by the governing body in the order of the oversubscription the following provision will be applied. oversubscription criteria (as modified above) and not in The attendance of a sibling at the school at the time the order in which the applications are received. Names of enrolment will increase the priority of an application are removed from the list at the end of each academic within each category. Where the final place is offered to year. When a place becomes available the governors will a child who has other siblings applying for a place in the inform parents whether or not a place is to be offered same school year, these siblings will also be admitted. according to their ranked waiting list.

Tie-break Reception year deferred entry Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any Applicants may defer entry to school up until statutory of the sub-categories listed above would still lead to school age i.e. the first day of term following the child’s fifth oversubscription, the places up to the admissions number birthday. An application is made in the usual way and then will be offered to those living nearest to the school. the deferral is requested. The place will then be held until Distance will be measured in a straight line or by the the first day of the spring or summer term as applicable. shortest walking route from the front door of the child’s Applicants may also request that their child attend part- home address (including flats) to the main entrance of time until statutory school age is reached. Entry may not be the school, (using the local authority’s computerised deferred beyond statutory school age or beyond the year measuring system) with those living closer to the school of application. Applicants whose children have birthdays in receiving the higher priority. the summer term should be aware that, if they wish to defer Children are admitted to the school in the academic year until the following September, they will need to apply again during which they have their fifth birthday (1st September and that there may no longer be spaces in Year 1. to 31st August). Statutory school age begins on the first day of the term following the child’s 5th birthday and an Summer born children application may be deferred until this date. Any application for a child to be educated out of his/her age group will be considered by governors on an Fair access individual basis and will only be granted in exceptional The school is committed to taking its fair share of circumstances. Parents should write to the chair of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as governors during the autumn term in the (academic) year set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside of application, giving reasons and providing compelling the normal admissions round, the governing body is professional evidence. empowered to give absolute priority to a child where admission is requested under any local protocol that Application procedures for entry into has been agreed by both the diocese and the governing reception body for the current school year. The governing body has In order to make an application, you must complete the this power even when admitting the child would mean following forms: exceeding the published admission number. 1. Your local suthority’s Common Application Form (CAF). In year admissions This form can be completed online at www.eadmissions.org.uk or you can submit a paper In-year applications are made directly to the school. application by contacting the children’s team at your Where there is no waiting list the child will be admitted. local authority. The CAF should be submitted or returned If more applications are received than there are places directly to your local authority’s school admissions team. available then applications will be ranked by the governing body in accordance with the oversubscription 2. Our Lady of Lourdes Supplementary Information criteria, with the following modifications: Catholic Form (SIF). This form is available from the school, the children without an offer of a school place elsewhere are school’s website www.lourdes.brent.sch.uk, Brent given priority immediately after Catholic Looked After Council and from www.brent.gov.uk/admissions. You Children. Similarly, other children without an offer of a can also collect the forms from the school or contact school place are given priority immediately after other the school and ask for them to be sent to you.

86 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Applicants applying under criteria 2 and 3 must submit Special Guardianship Order. A Special Guardianship a priests’ reference form by the closing date. This form is Order is an order under the terms of the Children Act available from the school or from the diocesan website 1989 s.14A which defines it as an order appointing one at: http://rcdow.org.uk/att/files/education/admissions/ or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian(s). priests+reference+-+parent+guidance+10+13.pdf This criterion applies to a child who has been looked- after up until this order was made. Notification letters will be sent out by the local authority on behalf of the governors on 18 April 2016. This Practising Catholic means a Catholic child from a information will also be available online. Parents/carers practising Catholic family where this practice is verified should accept the place as soon as possible. by a reference from a Catholic priest in the standard format laid down by the diocese. Education, health and care plans Catholic means a member of a Church in full communion The admission of pupils with a Statement of Special with the See of Rome. This includes the Eastern Catholic Educational Needs or Education, Health and Care Plan Churches. This will be evidenced by a Certificate of (EHC) is dealt with by a completely separate procedure. Baptism in a Catholic church or a Certificate of Reception Details are set out in the Special Educational Needs Code into the Full Communion of the Catholic Church. For of Practice. If your child has a Statement or EHC Plan you the purposes of this policy, it includes a Looked After must contact your local authority’s special educational Child who is part of a Catholic family where a priest’s needs team. reference demonstrates that the child would have been baptised or received if it were not for their status as Right of appeal a Looked After Child (e.g. a Looked After Child in the If you are unsuccessful parents/carers may follow process of adoption by a Catholic family). the appeals procedure. Parents/carers wishing to Catechumen means a member of the catechumenate of appeal should write in the first instance to the chair of a Catholic Church. This will be evidenced by a Certificate governors. Appeals should be made by 27 May 2016 – of Reception into the Order of Catechumens. 20 school days from the date of notification that your application has not been successful. Eastern Christian Church includes Orthodox Churches and is evidenced by a Certificate of Baptism or Reception Waiting list from the authorities of that Church. In addition to their right of appeal, unsuccessful Christian for the purposes of this policy, means a candidates will be offered the opportunity to be placed member of one of the Churches affiliated to ‘Churches on a waiting list. The waiting list will be maintained in Together in Britain and Ireland’. order of the oversubscription criteria set out above and Sibling refers to all blood or adoptive brothers and not in the order in which applications are received or sisters, or half brothers and sisters, who live at the same added to the list. The waiting list will be maintained until home as the child. the end of the academic year. Parent means the adult or adults with legal responsibility Notes (these notes form part of the oversubscription for the child. criteria) Resident. A child is deemed to be resident at a particular Looked After Child has the same meaning as in address when he/she resides there for more than 50 per Section 22 of the Children’s Act 1989 and means any cent of the school week. child in the care of a Local Authority or provided with accommodation by them (e.g. children with foster To demonstrate an exceptional social, medical or pastoral parents). need of the child which can only be met at this school, the governing body will require compelling written Adopted. An adopted child is a child who is adopted evidence from an appropriate professional, such as a under the terms of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 social worker, doctor or priest. s.46 (Adoption Orders). Child Arrangements’ Order. A Child Arrangements’ Order is an order under the terms of the Children Act 1989 s.8 which defines it as an order setting out the arrangements to be made as to the person with whom the child is to live. This criterion applies to a child who has been looked-after up until this order was made.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 87 Admissions to the nursery department There is no automatic transfer from nursery to reception class The governors intend to admit 30 part time pupils in to the nursery class in the school year beginning September 2016. Application forms are available from the school and should be returned by 15 January 2016. All applications are subject to the criteria above. There is no right of appeal against refusal to grant a nursery place, as nursery education is not statutory. There is no charge or cost related to the admission of a pupil to this school.

How places were allocated last year on offer day

Criteria Number Furthest of places distance (in metres) Catholic - L A C/ Adopted 1 490.8 Baptised Catholics Resident In Parish With Sibling 7 2803.87 Baptised Catholics Resident In Parish 4 987.9 Baptised Catholics Resident Not In Parish (priest Ref) With Siblings 2 3518.85 Baptised Catholic 3 3323.19 Catechumens & Eastern Christian Church 3 524.72 Other Christian Denominations With Sibling 1 263.25 Other Christian Denominations 1 344.99 Any Other Applicants 8 5129

88 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Preston Manor School (4-11 year olds) www.prestonmanorlowerschool.co.uk DfE number: 3045410

right of appeal to an independent appeal panel. Head teacher: Mr Richard Holmes Appeals under the coordinated admission scheme Princess Avenue, Carlton Avenue East, Wembley HA9 8LZ Admissions appeals for on-time applications (i.e. those Tel: 020 8385 4040 ext 411 relating to decisions sent on national offer date) will be Fax: 020 8385 4565 heard by 6 July 2016 or earlier. Admissions officer:Mrs Lucy Allman Appeals must be lodged within 20 school days from Email: [email protected] the date of notification that the application was Maximum admission 2016: 60 unsuccessful. Please contact the school for a Preston Number of on-time applications last year: 226 Manor School appeal form (which should be returned to Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 360 the school’s admission secretary). Accessibility: High Late applications under the Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC coordinated admission scheme In Year Applications The school will comply with the Local Authority Apply to Preston Manor School directly regarding Late Applications as detailed in the Local Authority’s Secondary School Guide. Admission arrangements The school’s admission number for Reception places in Waiting lists September 2016 is 60. Applications are made through Lists will be maintained by the school throughout the the local authority’s online facility www.eadmissions.org. school year. A child’s position on the waiting list does not uk. This website can be used for primary applications depend upon the time they have been on the list but will be from 1 September 2015 until the deadline. determined by how they meet the oversubscription criteria. This means that a child’s position on the list can go down Admission to Year 7 under local authority as well as up, depending upon the child’s circumstances secondary transfer arrangements and those of other applicants. The waiting list will be The school’s admission number for Year 6 transfer closed each year and will not roll over. Parents wishing to into Year 7 in September 2016 is 252. Applications are stay on the waiting list will be required to apply directly to made through the local authority’s online facility; www. the school at the beginning of each academic year. eadmissons.org.uk. This website can be used for secondary applications from 1 September 2015 until the deadline. Hard to place and excluded students from other schools In year admissions The school will work closely with the local authority, in From Reception to Year 11 you must contact the school. accordance with local protocols, regarding students who Unsuccessful applicants will be placed on the waiting list. fall into these categories. Children who are the subject of a direction by a local authority to admit or who are allocated Children with a Statement of Special to a school in accordance with an In-Year Fair Access Educational Needs Protocol, must take precedence over those on a waiting list. If your child has a statement of Special Educational Needs This policy is reviewed by the admissions committee on the local authority will process your application for a behalf of the governing body on an annual basis. school place as it is their responsibility to arrange special educational needs provision and consider the suitability of Oversubscription criteria individual schools. Where applications exceed the number of places available, offers of places will be made using the Right of appeal following criteria in order of priority: If the school is unable to offer a place there is a statutory i. Children in Public Care (Looked After Children).

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 89 An application for admission to the school must from the front door of the child’s permanent address to be made by the person with parental responsibility the school reception) being accorded the highest priority. and/or the child’s social worker. Notes ii. Children who have a brother or sister (including Distance does not take into account access by public blood, half, step, adoptive or foster who live at transport or any private vehicle. the same home address) attending the school in Where a child lives with parents with shared the year in which the application is made and will responsibility, each for part of a week, the address where continue to be on roll at the date of admission. the child lives is determined using a joint declaration Twins, triplet and other children of from the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s residence is split equally between both parents, multiple births then parents will be asked to determine which is the In the event that the school has one place to offer and residential address for the purpose of admission to the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets or school. If the residence is not split equally between both other children of multiple births, the policy of the school is parents then the address used will be the address where not to separate them even if this means that the school will the child spends the majority of the school week. temporarily go over the Published Admissions Number. (Note: brother or sister connections will only be Admission to the sixth form considered if the brother or sister is currently attending Places in Year 12 will be awarded in the following order the school including the sixth form and will continue to of priority: be on roll on the date of admission.) 1. Children in public care (looked after children) who iii. Children for whom it is essential to be admitted meet the entry requirements and subject specific to Preston Manor School because of special criteria (see Notes below). circumstances to do with significant medical needs, 2. Students who were on the roll at Preston Manor social needs or special educational needs. The School at the end of the academic year immediately recommendation must be received in writing from preceding the proposed date of entry into the Sixth a consultant at a NHS hospital or equivalent. This Form. To receive priority Preston Manor Students criterion relates to the child’s medical, social and must apply before the first Monday in March. Any special needs and does not include any other member applications received after this date will be counted as of the child’s family. The supporting evidence should external applications. set out the particular reasons Preston Manor School is the most suitable school and difficulties that would be 3. External students must apply by the set deadline in caused if the child had to attend another school. the prospectus. Any applications received after this date will be added to the waiting list and applications iv. Children who have attended Preston Manor Lower received after the first Monday in July will not normally School and completed Year 6. receive an acknowledgement until September. v. Children of Preston Manor School staff, teaching and non-teaching, who have been employed Waiting lists for two or more years, or who will meet a skills In the event that students apply for subjects that are shortage. oversubscribed, they are added to a waiting list on a vi. Proximity to the school (for children who do not first come first served basis. If two or more students fall within criteria i – v) distance will be measured have equal priority under criteria i - iv, the criterion in a straight line from the front door of the child’s of proximity to the school will apply with those living permanent address (including flats) to the school nearest to the school (in a straight line from the front reception, using the local authority’s computerised door of the child’s permanent address to the school measuring system], with those living nearest to reception) being accorded the highest priority the school being accorded the highest priority. Notes Tie-breaker All applicants must be aged 16 on 31 August in the year of application. In exceptional circumstances students If two or more students have equal priority under criteria aged 17 may be accepted. i - v, the criterion of proximity to the school will apply Students must meet the entry requirements for their with those living nearest to the school (in a straight line chosen programme of study as published in the Sixth

90 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Form Prospectus. Students must meet the individual subject specific criteria as published in the Sixth Form Prospectus. Late applicants may be invited for discussion if places are available on their chosen courses or for a place on the waiting list. If other places become available, applicants on the waiting list will be informed. No admissions will take place after the first Monday in October. Entry Requirements for Progression from Year 12 to Year 13 n A Levels – 3 AS Levels with Grade D+ in chosen subject n A Level Double Award – AS Double Award with Grade D+D+

How places were allocated last year on offer day

Criteria Number Furthest of places distance (in metres) Distance 31 1218.63 Sibling 27 10011.01 Children of Staff 2 4193.62

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 91 Princess Frederica CE VA Primary School (3-11 year olds)

www.princessfrederica.com DfE number: 3043303

All applicants will also need to complete the schools Head teacher: Ms Beatrix Simpson Supplementary Information Form (SIF) so that the College Road, London NW10 5TP governors can consider your application in full. If you are Tel: 020 8969 7756 applying under criteria D1, D2, E1, E2, F1 and F2 you will Email: [email protected] also need to complete a Religious Reference Form (RRF) in addition to the school’s Supplementary Information Maximum admission 2016: 60 Form (SIF). The SIF and RRF can be downloaded from Number of on-time applications last year: 181 the school’s website at www.princessfrederica.com or Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 449 collected from the council or the school. Accessibility: Medium Application forms will be available from September 2015 Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC and the closing date for applications will be Friday 15 In Year Applications January 2016. Offer letters will be sent out on Monday Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team 18 April 2016. at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions Returning forms Admission arrangements CAF forms should be returned to your local authority or an application made online. SIF forms are to be returned Princess Frederica is a Church of England voluntary aided to the school office by 4.30pm by the school’s clock on primary school. The responsibility for the admission of Friday 15 January 2016. pupils rests with the governing body. The school’s current maximum admission number is 60 with 30 children in The Religious Reference Form should be signed and each class. We ask all parents/carers applying for a place stamped by your religious leader and returned to here to respect the aims, attitudes, values, expectations the school office by 4.30pm by the school’s clock on and commitment of this voluntary aided Church of Friday 15 January 2016. Places for applications made England school to the Christian faith and its importance under a religious criterion will be awarded on a point to the school community. This does not affect the right system. Applicants scoring four points or above will be of parents/carers who are not of the faith of this school considered for places under criteria D1, D2, E1, E2, F1 to apply for and be considered for a place here. Parent(s)/ and F2. Applicants scoring three points or below will not carer(s) applying to this Church of England School should be considered under a religious criteria and will be put in note that the school aims to provide an education based the next ‘best fit’ category. on Christian principles and it is expected that parents would not wish to exercise the right of withdrawal from Points table worship and religious education lessons. Length of attendance at your place of worship Application procedures 37 months or more 3 points 25 to 36 months 2 points Common Application Forms (CAF) for reception places will be available from your local council in the year 12 to 24 months 1 point before the child is to start school and the closing date 11 months or less 0 points for applications is usually in January of the year they are Frequency/regularity of attendance at your place to start school. Parents who wish to secure a place for of worship over the last three years: their child in reception must contact their local council to complete a CAF naming the school. There is no Weekly 3 points automatic transfer from nursery to reception. Parents Fortnightly 2 points of nursery children must contact their local council to Monthly 1 point apply for a reception place like all other applicants. If you Occasionally 0 points are a Brent resident you need to contact Brent Council’s School Admissions Service on 020 8937 3110 or visit www.brent.gov.uk/admissions. The governors define months as full months, for example

92 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 19 April to 31 May is counted as one month. If you join our reception class as we have one nursery class have changed your place of worship within a period of and two reception classes. three years prior to the application, or worship at more D. Children who already have siblings in the school than one church, please forward with the application a (‘sibling’ refers to brother or sister, half brother or religious reference form from the parish priest/minister/ sister, adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, religious leader at your former or other place of worship, or the child of the parent/carer’s partner where the or from each of the places of worship you attend. child for whom the school place is sought is living Applicants must supply all reference information, as the in the same family unit at the same address as that governors or school will not make calls to gain written sibling but not cousins). or verbal references. Please note that an application received without a religious reference form cannot be D1. Siblings with religious reference forms from St considered for a religious place. All applications will Marks or St Martins. be considered in line with our published admission D2. Siblings with religious reference forms from other arrangements. Outcomes of applications will be sent to Anglican and Christian denominations and other you by Brent Council on behalf of the governing body. world faiths. Unsuccessful applicants will be laced on the waiting list if D3. All other siblings. they express that wish. An application made under this category will only be In year admissions applications for in year admissions are considered if the older sibling will continue to attend on made in the same way as those made during the normal the date of admission. Where the number of applicants admissions round. If a place is available and there is no exceeds vacancies in this category, priority will first be waiting list then the local authority will communicate given to applicants with siblings on roll the longest in the the governors’ offer of a place to the family. If more school, then by distance where there is a tie, and if the applications are received than there are places available distance calculated for different applicants is the same, then applications will be ranked by the governing body priority will be given to the older sibling with the highest in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. If a attendance record in the previous academic year. place cannot be offered at this time then you may ask us or the reasons and you will be informed of your E. Children who live in the parish boundary of St Marks right of appeal. You will be offered the opportunity of (Bathurst Gardens) and St Martin’s (Mortimer Road). being placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be A map of the parish boundary is available on our maintained by the governing body in the order of the website or the school office. oversubscription criteria and not in the order in which E1. Children with religious reference forms from St the applications are received. Names are removed Marks or St Martins. from the list at the end of each academic year. When a place becomes available the governing body will decide E2. Children with religious reference forms from other who is at the top of the list so that the local authority Anglican, Christian denominations and other can inform the parent that the school is making an world faiths. offer. All parents wishing to admit their children to E3. Children whose parents/careers have chosen this Princess Frederica are warmly invited to visit the school. church school for the type of education that it Information about open days can be found on the provides and accept the Christian aims and values school’s website. The following admission criteria will be of Princess Frederica. used for reception places in the annual admission cycle should the number of applications exceed vacancies. F. Children who do not live in the parish boundary of St Marks (Bathurst Gardens) and St Martin’s (Mortimer Admissions criteria - listed in order of priority Road). A map of the parish boundary is available on A. Looked After Children/Previously Looked After Children. our website or the school office. B. Children of staff members with a permanent contract F1. Children with religious reference forms from St and in post in the year that their child is to start Marks or St Martins. school. F2. Children with religious reference forms from other C. Children enrolled in our nursery class will be offered Anglican, Christian denominations and other a place in our reception class should they apply for it world faiths. like all other applicants. New CAF and SIF application F3. Children whose parents/careers have chosen forms must be submitted. The above does not this church school for the type of education that disadvantage new parents wishing their children to

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 93 it provides and accept the Christian values of year. A child’s position on the waiting list does not depend Princess Frederica. upon the time they have been on the list but will be determined by how they meet the oversubscription criteria. G. All other applicants. This means that a child’s position on the list can go up or Your attention is drawn to the following. down depending on the child’s circumstances and those Parents/carers applying to Princess Frederica by their of other applicants. The waiting list will be closed at the application confirm that they accept the Christian aims and end of each academic year and will not roll over. Parents values of our school. All questions on the Supplementary wishing to stay on the waiting list should submit a request Information Form (SIF) should be answered. in writing at the end of the academic year.

Tie-breaker Late applications Children’s applications for criteria D1, D2, E1, E2, F1 and Initial offers will be made to those children whose F2 will be ranked according to number of points awarded parents applied before the closing date for applications. on the religious reference form, starting with the highest Late applications will be received but will not normally number of points. When deciding between applicants be considered for a place at the school until after the who, ostensibly, have equal entitlement under the above first round of initial offers have been made. If some criteria, the governors will have regard to: Distance: will parents decline the initial offer of a place for their child, be measured by the shortest walking route from the front or vacancies become available, then all applications door of the child’s home address (including flats) to the received, whether in time or late, will be considered for main entrance of the school, using the local authority’s these places. computerised measuring system with those living closer to the school receiving the higher priority. Appeals Appeal against a decision not to offer a place at Princess Twins, triplets and other children of Frederica should be addressed to the chair of the governors, multiple births admission committee, c/o the school. Parents/carers should appeal within 20 school days from the date of their As a rule the school will not admit more than 30 children notification letter that their application was unsuccessful. to a class. However, in the event that the school has Appeals will be heard by an independent appeals panel one place to offer and the next child is one of twins, within 40 school days of the appeal being lodged. triplets or other children of multiple births, the governing body will in the first instance consider admitting all How places were allocated last year the children if the school’s resources at the time can accommodate it. Should that not be possible, the on offer day governing body will randomly select the child to offer Criteria Number Furthest the place to. Parents/carers will have the right to choose of places distance the other, or another child, have the place instead of the (in metres) child initially randomly selected. Children Of Staff 1 11000 Split residence Nursery 28 1526.11 Where a child lives with parents with shared Siblings D1 6 727.71 responsibility, each for part of a week, the address Siblings D2 3 1024.68 where the child lives is determined using a court order where applicable or a joint declaration from the parents Siblings D3 3 1825.99 stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s residence is Children With Religious split equally between both parents, then parents will be Reference Forms E1 6 1037.44 asked to determine which is the residential address for Children With Religious the purpose of admission to school. If the residence is Reference Forms E2 6 847.42 not spilt equally between both parents then the address used will be the address where the child spends the Chosen School For majority of the five day week during term time only. Education And Accepts C A V Of P F E3 7 563.1 Waiting lists Waiting lists will be maintained throughout the school

94 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Sinai Jewish Primary School (3-11 year olds) www.sinaischool.com DfE number: 3043601

There are 60 places in the nursery5 for children aged Head teacher: Mr Robert Leach from three to four (see separate admissions policy). Shakespeare Drive, Kenton, Harrow HA3 9UD The school will admit children at any time to all year Tel: 020 8204 1550 ext 232 groups, provided a place is available. Admissions officer:Mrs Emma Angel Open mornings and evenings for prospective parents Email: [email protected] are held in the autumn, and individual visits are also Maximum admission 2016: 90 welcome by prior arrangement. Please contact the Number of on-time applications last year: 202 school for details. Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 675 The school is not permitted by law to interview parents, Accessibility: Medium or children, with a view to selection. Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC All children whose Statement of Special Educational In Year Applications Needs and Disabilities (SEND)8 or Education, Health and Apply to Sinai Jewish Primary School directly. Care Plan (EHCP)8 names the school, will be admitted9.

Admission arrangements Oversubscription Sinai Jewish Primary School’s foundation body is the If theschool is oversubscribed, after the admission of 8 8 United Synagogue and its religious authority is the children with a Statement of SEND or EHC Plan which Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of names the School, priority will be given to those children the Commonwealth. The school’s ethos1 demonstrates who meet the criteria as set out in the order of 1 to 7 Orthodox Jewish belief and practice, embodied in listed below. the principles of Torah and Halacha, in a modern setting. These include creating a sense of belonging, Oversubscription Criteria encouraging and preparing for lifelong Jewish learning, 1 Children who are looked after10 by a local authority, spiritual growth and practice, mutual responsibility or a child who was previously looked after11, with a within the Jewish community and the wider world, and completed and valid CRP2. the importance of Israel in Jewish life. Jewish belief and 2 Children currently attending Sinai’s nursery who are in practice permeate every aspect of the school’s activities receipt of early years’ pupil premium, with a completed and are intrinsically linked to its secular curriculum. and valid CRP2. The school welcomes families from any synagogue 12 denomination or none. 3 Siblings of pupils attending the school on the date of admission, with a completed and valid CRP2. Sinai Jewish Primary School will give priority, within 12 the over-subscription criteria, to applicants who meet a 4 Siblings of former pupils of the school, with a 2 religious practice test based on guidelines from the Chief completed and valid CRP . Rabbi such as the family’s synagogue service attendance, 5 Other children who have a completed and valid CRP2. commitment to Jewish education and voluntary work 6 Other children who are looked after10 by a local within the community. Those applicants wishing to be authority, or other children who were previously considered for such places must complete a Certificate of looked after11 by a local authority. Religious Practice (CRP)2 as evidence of their fulfilment of the religious practice test. 7 Any other children.

The school admits children aged 4 to 11 and all children Tie-breaker must attend full-time schooling by the beginning of the term after they reach their fifth birthday (compulsory In the event of there being more applicants than school age3). There are 30 places available in three classes places available within criteria 1-7 above, priority will in every school year; therefore, 90 is the School’s Published be given to children living nearest the school. Distance Admission Number (PAN). Additional children may be will be measured from the main entrance of the home admitted under limited exceptional circumstances4. address7 to the main gate of the school site using Brent

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 95 Council’s computerised mapping system. In cases where Following the application procedure for Reception6 more than one applicant lives an equal distance from places, and once initial offers have been made, the the school, and places cannot be offered to all these waiting list will be adjusted to include late applications. children, the available place will be determined by In year applications and applications outside the normal random allocation supervised by a person independent admissions round application for Reception6 that are of the school. received after the start of the academic year of normal 6 Application procedures entry, or for a place in years other than Reception should be made directly to the school. Application is by Reception – for September entry completion of the school’s in-year application form. In 1 When to apply order to be eligible for a priority place within the school’s 2 Children will be admitted to Reception6 in the September oversubscription criteria, the CRP must also be completed. following their fourth birthday. Applications should be Both forms are available from the school office or website made by 15 January in the calendar year of entry. All (www.sinaischool.com), and must be returned to the 14 applications received on time will be processed together. School without delay, together with proof of address . By law, priority must not be given to children based on the date their application is received or their name is Waiting List added to the list. For those applicants who do not receive an offer of a place, the child’s name will be included on the waiting 2 How to Apply list. The school’s waiting lists for all years will be kept a) Application is by completion of a Common open indefinitely and the school may check with parents, Application Form (CAF). The CAF is available from, from time to time, to establish whether they wish their and should be returned to, the local authority child to remain on the waiting list. A child’s position where the child lives7 by 15 January in the calendar on the waiting list will not depend upon when the year of entry. application was made, but will be determined by how b) In addition, the School’s Supplementary the oversubscription criteria are met. This means that a Information Form (SIF) should be completed. In child’s position on the list can go down as well as up, order to be eligible for a priority place within the depending on the circumstances of all applicants. For school’s over-subscription criteria, the CRP2 must applications where a child moves to a new permanent also be completed. Both forms are available from home, proof of address14 will be required and the theschool office or website (www.sinaischool.com) distance will be recalculated and the child’s position and must be returned to the school by 15 January on the waiting list may be adjusted. In the event of a in the calendar year of entry. vacancy occurring, the place will be offered to a child on the waiting list starting with the one at the top, at the c) Application for a child whose Statement of Educational time, and working downwards until the vacancy is filled. Needs and Disabilities (SEND)8 or Education, Health and Care Plan (EHC)8 Plan names the school is made by Parents are asked to inform the School if they no longer a separate local authority process. wish their child’s name to remain on the waiting list.

3 Offer Date Right of appeal An email or letter to parents offering, or refusing, a place will be sent by the local authority where the child lives on the Parents who receive a letter to say that their application national offer date of 16 April or the next working day13. has not been successful have the right to appeal. 4 Response by Parents Parents wishing to appeal must write to the clerk to the governors at the school address, within 20 days of A parent who does not respond to the offer of a place receiving the letter of refusal. The procedure will be may have the offer withdrawn if the deadline quoted in explained in a response by the school and the timetable the email or letter is not met. for the process will be published on the school’s website 5 Late applications (www.sinaischool.com) by 28 February each year. All applications for Reception6 received between 16 January and 31 August, for entry in the September of the same Children from overseas year, will be considered ‘late’ and will be processed after Applications for children coming from overseas must be those that have been received on time. The application treated in accordance with European Union law or Home procedure is the same as paragraphs 2(a)-(c) above and all Office rules for non-European Economic Area nationals. forms should be returned without delay. Non–statutory guidance on this is available on the

96 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 website of the Department for Education (www.gov.uk/ provision required for that child. An Education, Health schools-admisions-applications-fromoverseas- children). and Care Plan is made by the local authority (see Section 37 of the Children and Families Act 2014) specifying the Fair access protocol special education provision for that child. Sinai Jewish Primary School is committed to taking its 9 Subject to the school’s right of appeal on the grounds reasonable share of children who are vulnerable and/or that it is unsuitable for the child’s age, ability, aptitude hard to place, as set out in the locally agreed fair access or special educational needs, or the placement protocol. Accordingly, outside the normal admissions would be incompatible with the efficient education round, the governing body is empowered to give absolute of the other children with whom the child would be priority to a child where admission is requested under a educated, or with the efficient use of resources. local fair access protocol that has been agreed for that 10 A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care school year. The governingbody has this power even when of a local authority, or (b) being provided with admitting the child would mean exceeding the PAN. accommodation by a local authority (see section 22(1) Notes of the Children Act 1989). Applications for Looked 1 Whilst priority will be given to those children whose After Children must be made by the person with families demonstrate an on-going commitment to the parental responsibility and/or the child’s social worker. school’s ethos, all families will be expected to respect 11 A previously Looked After Child is a child who has the ethos. ceased to be so because they have been adopted (see 2 The requirements of the religious practice test may section 46 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002), change from year to year. In order to be eligible for or became subject to a residence order (see section priority within the oversubscription criteria, the child, 8 of the Children Act 1989), or Special Guardianship or the parent on behalf of the child, will be required Order (see section 14A of the Children Act 1989). to obtain four points as evidence of completion of the 12 Siblings of pupils attending the school at the time religious practice test. of admission and siblings of former pupils include 3 A child reaches compulsory school age on the prescribed brothers, sisters, half-siblings, foster siblings, step- day following the fifth birthday (or on the fifth birthday siblings, adopted siblings and other children living if it falls on a prescribed day). The prescribed days are 31 permanently in the same home. December, 31 March and 31 August. If a child is offered a 13 ‘Working day’ is defined as any day other than a place in Reception and would start school before he/she Saturday, Sunday, or a day which is a bank holiday is of compulsory school age, parents can defer until the within the meaning of the Banking and Financial term in which the child reaches compulsory school age Dealings Act 1971. Parents are advised to make any (but no later than the beginning of the summer term), necessary arrangements if the National Offer Day falls or take up the place part-time until the child reaches during Pesach. compulsory school age. 14 Proof of address must not include: Evidence of 4 Twins and children from multiple births will be personal details about parents and families, such admitted when one of the siblings is the 90th child as maiden names, criminal convictions, marital or and, as a result, the school’s PAN will be increased. financial status (including marriage certificates), the 5 There is no automatic transfer from the school’s first language of parents or the child, details about nursery to Reception6. Parents must apply via the local parents’ or a child’s disabilities, special educational authority where the child lives7. needs or medical conditions. 6 Reception is the entry class to primary schools (see section False information 142 of the School Standards Framework Act 1998). Places can be withdrawn after an offer has been made if 7 The child’s home address shall be determined as at it is found that the offer was made on the basis of false the deadline for application. Where parents reside or fraudulent information. at separate addresses, but with shared responsibility For further information please contact the school office for the child, it will be the address at which the child on: 020 8204 1550. spends most of the week. 8 A Statement of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities is made by the local authority (see section 324 of the Education Act 1996) specifying the special educational

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Criteria Number Furthest of places distance (in metres) Attending the nursery with a completed and valid CRP2 56 9962.77 Other children with a completed and valid CRP2 27 9288.41 Sibling with a completed and valid CRP2 7 8782.67

98 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 St Andrew & St Francis CofE Primary School (3-11 year olds) www.standrewandstfrancis.org DfE number: 3042029

3. *Children whose families are known by the family’s Head teacher: Mr T Sharpe parish priest, to be members of the worshipping Belton Road, Willesden NW2 5PE community of the Church of England, as evidenced by Tel: 020 8459 1636 the child’s Baptism Certificate or letter from the priest Fax: 020 8933 7365 at the family place of worship. Admissions officer:Miss Fiona Maclean 4. *Children whose families are known, by the family’s Email: [email protected] parish priest, to be members of the worshipping community of other Christian denominations**, as Maximum admission 2016: 60 evidenced by the child’s Baptism Certificate or letter Number of on-time applications last year: 89 from the priest at the family place of worship. Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 454 5. Children who live within the parish (the website Find Accessibility: Medium your Parish used to confirm this criterion) Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC (i) Children who already have brothers or sisters in In Year Applications the school on the date of admission. Apply to St Andrew & St Francis CofE Primary School (ii) *Children whose families are members of other directly. world faiths (supported by a letter from the faith leader at the family place of worship)*** Admission arrangements (iii) Other children living within the parish. St. Andrew & St. Francis School is a Church of England School, founded on Christian beliefs and is inclusive in its 6. Children who do not live within the parish. welcome to all in the parish. (i) Children who already have brothers or sisters in By working together in a secure, enjoyable and the school on the date of admission. supportive environment, we encourage positive (ii) *Children whose families are members of other behaviour; celebrate success and achievement; inspire a world Faiths (supported by a letter from the faith love of life-long learning; and enable all members of the leader at the family place of worship)*** school to reach their full potential. (iii) Other children living outside the parish. The admissions criteria reflect the founding principles of the school and its mission statement. St. Andrew and St. Governors will give priority within a criterion to children Francis School has 60 full time places in all year groups with documented medical or social needs for whom from Reception to Year 6. this is the most appropriate school. Before deciding whether to admit such a child the governors are required Criteria for school admissions: September 2016 to consider the balance between admission of the child Oversubscription criteria and appeals are posted on the and any possible prejudice to the provision of effective school website. education and the use of resources. The family must also Where there are more applications than places available demonstrate that the child would suffer detriment going the governors will use the following criteria when making to another school. Such applications should have a letter a decision. These are the stated in order of priority of support from an appropriate professional e.g. doctor, consultant or social worker. 1. Looked After Children. This includes children who were previously looked after, but cease to be so When deciding between applications of equal merit because they have been adopted or become subject distance from the school will be taken into consideration. to a Residence Order or Special Guardianship Order. Distance will be measured from the pupil’s home front door, or communal front door of a block of flats, to the 2. *Children whose families are known, by the parish main school gate in Belton Road. This will be judged priest to be members of the worshipping community by the shortest measured walking distance using road of the Churches of St. Andrew and St. Francis networks including public rights of way, using the local (applications supported by the parish priest) authority’s computerised measuring system. If applicants

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 99 are still of equal merit, when distance from the school Note 6 is considered, then the place will be allocated randomly. When a vacancy occurs during the school year this place An independent observer will be present at the time of will be offered to applicants on the waiting list according ranking the applications. A public right of way is one to the admission criteria. which is determined by The Countryside Act 1968. If you would like a copy of The Countryside Act 1968 please Note 7 contact Brent School Admissions Service on 020 8937 Parents can defer entry for their child until their child is 3110. statutory school age. Statutory school age begins the Families are defined as the parent or legal guardian of first day of the term after a child’s fifth birthday. Parents the child for whom the application is being made. cannot, however, defer entry for children born in the summer term for the whole school year. Parents wishing Note 1 to defer entry must contact the school advising them of * Families applying under any criteria marked * should their decision after a place has been offered. Parents can complete the school’s Supplementary Information Form also request that their child attends part-time until their (SIF) which includes a letter from the leader of their child reaches statutory school age. place of worship confirming membership, for this to be a Applications should be submitted to the local authority consideration. by 15 January 2016 in line with the coordinated Note 2 admissions scheme. Offers of places for September 2016 will be sent out on 18 April 2016 in line with the ** Note on other Christian denominations: by this local authority common admission policy. For criteria the governors mean membership of a Christian body 2, 3, 4, 5(ii) and 6(ii) applicants should complete a which holds the doctrine of the Trinity and practises supplementary form regarding the child’s religious baptism and the Eucharist (Lord’s Supper) This includes background, in keeping with the school’s admissions the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Church, the main policy. Supplementary Information Forms should be Free Churches and many independent and Pentecostal returned to the school by 31 March 2016. If you are groups. A baptism or membership certificate will be not offered a place you may appeal to the clerk of required from your priest or minister. governors, c/o school. If the school is oversubscribed, *** Note on World Faiths, a membership certificate or children will be offered places in accordance with the equivalent will be required from your local faith leader stated criteria, those fulfilling criteria lower down the list, Note 3 will be placed on a waiting list. Where a child lives with parents with shared If you wish to make an application for this school you responsibility, each for part of a week, the address where will need to contact your local council to complete their the child lives is determined using a joint declaration Common Application Form (CAF). You will also need from the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a to complete the school’s Supplementary Information child’s residence is split equally between both parents, Form (SIF) which you can obtain from the council or then parents will be asked to determine which the the school. If you are a Brent resident you will need to residential address is for the purposes of admission to contact Brent Council’s School Admission Service on school. If the residence is not split equally between both 0208 937 3110 or visit www.brent.gov.uk/admissions. All parents then the address used will be the address where applicants will be considered in line with our published the child spends the majority of the school week. admissions arrangements. Outcomes of applications will be sent to you by Brent Council on behalf of the Note 4 governing body. Unsuccessful applicants will be placed Brothers and sisters include half/step brothers and half/ on the waiting list. step sisters living at the same address. Children attending the school nursery do not have Note 5 priority for places in reception and should complete the Common Application Form in accordance with this In the event that the school has one place to offer and policy. the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets or other children of multiple births, the school will, in the Where there is oversubscription, a waiting list will be first instance, randomly select the child to offer the place maintained throughout the school year. A child’s position to. The school will also inform the parents that they may on the waiting list does not depend upon the time they prefer the other, or another child, have the place instead have been on the list but will be determined by how of the child initially randomly selected. they meet the oversubscription criteria. This means that

100 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 a child’s position on the list can go down as well as up, depending upon the child’s circumstances and those of other applicants. The waiting list will be closed each year and will not roll over. Parents wishing to stay on the waiting list will be required to submit a request to Brent Council’s School Admissions Service. Appeals for places will be considered by the governors Admissions committee. Parents/carers should appeal within 20 school days from the date of their notification letter that their application was unsuccessful. Appeals will be heard by an independent appeals panel within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged. There is no right of appeal against any decision not to offer a place in a nursery. Admission of Students with a Statement of Special Educational Need Applications for students with a Statement of Special Educational Need (SEN) are made by SEN teams within local authorities. The placement of students with such a Statement is made after a process of consultation between parents/carers, the school and the local authority. Students with a Statement of SEN receive priority over others for admission where the school is named in the Statement. These admission criteria are subject to annual review by the governing body.

How places were allocated last year on offer day

Criteria Number Furthest of places distance (in metres) Baptised Other Christian Denominations 6 9295.97 In Parish-Sibling 7 1302.99 In Parish-Other Faiths 3 800.11 In Parish-Other Children 13 543.18 Outside Parish-Siblings 6 2745.12 Outside Parish- Other Children 7 7200.37 Nearest School With A Vacancy 18 1527.41

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 101 St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Infant School (3-7 year olds)

www.sjinf.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3043509

places available, places will be offered according to the Head teacher: Mrs Amanda Whelan following order of priority: Waverley Avenue, Wembley HA9 6TA 1. Catholic Looked After Children and Catholic children Tel: 020 8903 6032 who have been adopted (or made subject to Email: [email protected] Residence Orders or Special Guardianship Orders) Maximum admission 2016: 70 immediately following having been looked after. Number of on-time applications last year: 212 2. Baptised Catholic children from practising Catholic Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 210 families who are resident in the parishes of St. Accessibility: Medium Joseph’s Wembley and St. Erconwald’s Wembley whose application is supported by a priest’s reference Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC and the child’s Baptismal Certificate. In Year Applications 3. Other baptised Catholic children from practising Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team families, whose application is supported by a priest’s at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions reference and the child’s Baptismal Certificate. Admission arrangements 4. Baptised Catholic children (supported by their Baptismal Certificate) resident in the parishes of St St. Joseph’s Catholic Infant School was founded by Joseph’s Wembley and St Erconwald’s Wembley. the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic families. As a Catholic school, we aim to 5. Other Catholic children (supported by their Baptismal provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Certificate). Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate 6. Other looked after children and children who have every aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that been adopted (or made subject to residence orders the Catholic character of the school’s education is fully or special guardianship orders) immediately following supported by all families in the school. All applicants having been looked after. are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved and 7. Catechumens (resident in the parishes of St Joseph’s positive support for the aims and ethos of the school. Wembley and St Erconwald’s who have evidence The Published Admissions Number (PAN) for the Reception of attendance at mass and active participation in a classes at St Joseph’s Infant School is 70. The governing baptismal course supported by a parish priest) and body has sole responsibility for admissions to this school practising members of an Eastern Christian church and intends to admit 70 children in the school year which whose application is supported by their religious begins in September 2015. Applications are welcome from leader and a baptismal certificate. families whose child reaches his/her 4th birthday between 8. Applications from children from other Christian 1 September 2015 and 31 August 2016. churches, whose parents wish them to have a Catholic Whenever there are more applications than places education and whose application is supported by a available, priority will always be given to Catholic minister of religion. applicants in accordance with the criteria listed below. 9. Applications from children from other Christian In this policy applicant refers to the person making an churches whose parents wish them to have a Catholic application on behalf of a child; candidate refers to the education. child on whose behalf the application is being made. 10. Any other children. Please note that attendance at the nursery does not The trend over the past four years has seen an increase give any priority for entry to Reception. All parents must in the number of places allocated to Catholic children. apply for a place in Reception whether or not their child As the school is usually oversubscribed by Catholic attends the nursery. candidates, it is very unlikely that applicants who are not Oversubscription criteria Catholics will obtain a place. In the past four years, the governing body has been unable to offer a place to any Where there are more applications than the number of

102 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 applicant who is not a Catholic. waiting list the child will be admitted. If there is a waiting list, then applications will be ranked by the governing Last year St Joseph’s Infant School was heavily body in accordance with the oversubscription criteria, oversubscribed and we received 129 Supplementary If a place cannot be offered at this time then you may Information Forms for Reception classes and 203 ask us for the reasons and you will be informed of your Common Application Forms from Brent. right of appeal. You will be offered the opportunity of Where the offer of places to all the applicants in being placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be any of the categories listed above would lead to maintained by the governing body in the order of the oversubscription, the following provisions will be applied oversubscription criteria and not in the order in which in the order identified below: the applications are received. Names are removed from A. The attendance of a brother or sister, including step the list at the end of each academic year. When a place children, adopted children, half siblings or those living becomes available the governing body will decide who is permanently in the household, at the school at the at the top of the list so that an offer can be made. time of admission. Reception year deferred entry B. The attendance of a brother or sister, including step children, adopted children half siblings or those living Applicants may defer entry to school up until statutory permanently in the household, at St Joseph’s Catholic school age i.e. the first day of term following the child’s Junior School at the time of admission. fifth birthday. Application is made in the usual way and then the deferral is requested. The place will then be C. Governors will admit seven places (10%) for practising held until the first day of the spring or summer term as Catholic applicants from Saint Erconwald’s Parish, applicable. Applicants may also request that their child who do not have a sibling at either school. These will attend part-time until statutory school age is reached. be allocated using distance measurement outlined in Entry may not be deferred beyond statutory school age the tie-break below. or beyond the year of application. Applicants whose Tie break children have birthdays in the summer term should be Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any aware that, if they wish to defer until the following of the sub-categories listed above would still lead to September, they will need to apply again and that there oversubscription, the places up to the admission number may no longer be spaces in Year 1. will be offered to those living nearest to the school as measured by the local authority. Summer born children Parents may request that their child be educated out of Multiple applications his/her chronological age group. Such requests must Where the final place is offered to a child who has other be made in writing to the chair of governors during the siblings applying for a place in the same school year, autumn term in the year of application ie September – these siblings will also be admitted. December 2015 for children born between 1 September 2011 and 31 August 2012. Governors will consider each Fair access request on its own merits and permission will only be given in exceptional circumstances. When the application The school is committed to taking its fair share of is made, it will be ranked with all the other applications children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as and no further exceptions will be given. A statutory right set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside of appeal will be given upon refusal if no place has been the normal admissions round, the governing body is offered in any school year.’ empowered to give absolute priority to a child where admission is requested under any local protocol that has Application procedure 2016 - 2017 been agreed by both the local authority and the diocese for the current school year. The governing body has In order to make an application, you must complete this power even when admitting the child would mean a Common Application Form (CAF) from your local exceeding the published admission number. authority and return it to them. You should also complete the School’s Supplementary Information Form In-year admissions (SIF), available on the local authority website, or directly from the school. The information on the SIF enables the Applications for in year admissions are made are made governing body to assess your application fully against in the same way as those made during the normal the school’s criteria in the event of oversubscription. admissions round. If a place is available and there is no Please return the SIF (in person or by post) together

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 103 with all other relevant paperwork required for your Special Educational Needs Code of Practice. If your child application to: has a Statement of SEN or an EHC Plan you must contact your local authority’s SEN officer. St. Joseph’s Infant School, Waverley Avenue, Change of details Wembley, Middlesex HA9 6TA If any of the details on either of your forms changes If you do not complete both of the forms described between the date of application and the receipt of the above and return them by 15 January 2016 the letter of offer or refusal, you must inform the school and governing body will be unable to consider your the local authority immediately. If misleading information application fully and it is very unlikely that your child will is given or allowed to remain on either of your forms, the be offered a place. Applications received after the closing governing body reserves the right to withdraw the place, date will be dealt with after the initial allocation process even if the child has already started at the School. has been completed. Notes (these notes form part of the oversubscription Applicants applying under criteria 2 and 3 must submit a criteria) Priest’s Reference Form (PRF) by the closing date. This form is available from the school or from the diocesan website at Looked After Child has the same meaning as in S.22 of www.rcdow.org.uk/schools/governors/admissions the Children Act 1989, and means any child in the care of a local authority or provided with accommodation The local authority will write to you on behalf of the by them (e.g. children with foster parents at the time of governing body with the outcome of your application making an application to the school). on, or about, Monday 18 April 2016. This information will also be available on line. Parents/carers should accept Adopted’. An adopted child is any child who has been the place as soon as possible. formally adopted, having previously been in care and whose parent/ guardian can give proof of this. Nursery children ‘Child Arrangements Order’. A Child Arrangements Attendance at the nursery does not guarantee a place in Order is an order under the terms of the Children Act reception. 1989 s.8 settling the arrangements to be made as to the person with whom the child is to live. Children ‘looked Parents of children attending St. Joseph’s Nursery must after’ immediately before the order is made qualify in make a fresh application for Reception. this category. Right of appeal Special Guardianship Order. A Special Guardianship If you are unsuccessful you may ask us for the reasons Order is an order under the terms of the Children Act for the refusal of a place. These reasons will be related to 1989 s.14A appointing one or more individuals to be the oversubscription criteria listed in the Policy and you a child’s special guardian(s). Children ‘looked after’ will have the right of appeal to an independent panel. immediately before the order is made qualify in this category. Waiting list Parent means the adult or adults with legal responsibility In addition to their right of appeal, unsuccessful for the child. candidates will be offered the opportunity to be placed Sibling means brother or sister, to include adopted on a waiting list. This list will be maintained in order of brothers and sisters, half brothers and sisters or step the oversubscription criteria set out in the policy and not brothers and sisters. A sibling relationship does not apply in the order in which applications are received or added when the older child(ren) will leave before the younger to the list. Names are removed from the list after one one starts. year, unless applicants request to remain on the list. Catholic means a member of a Church in full Pupils with a statement of special Communion with the See of Rome. This includes educational needs/education, health the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be evidenced by a Certificate of Baptism in a Catholic and care plan (EHCP). church or a Certificate of Reception into the full The admission of pupils with a statement of Special communion of the Catholic Church. Educational Needs or Education Health and Care Plan Practising Catholic means a Catholic child from a (EHCP) is dealt with by a completely separate procedure. practising Catholic family where this practice is verified Details of this separate procedure are set out in the by a reference from a Catholic priest in the standard

104 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 format laid down by the diocese. Family includes the Catholic or Catholics who have legal responsibility for the child. Catechumen means a child who is a member of the catechumenate of a Catholic Church. This will normally be evidenced by a Certificate of Reception into the Order of Catechumens. Eastern Christian Church includes Orthodox Churches, and is normally evidenced by a Certificate of Baptism or Reception from the authorities of that church. Christian for the purposes of this policy, means a member of one of the Churches affiliated to ‘Churches Together in Britain and Ireland’. Resident – A child is deemed to be resident at a particular address when he/she resides there for more than 50 per cent of the school week. Parish boundaries – for the purposes of this policy, parish boundaries are shown on the attached map. Distance from school means distance as measured by a straight line, from the front door of the child’s residential address (including flats) to a point at the school. The school will use the measurements provided by Brent Council’s School Admissions Service. If distances are identical, the governing body will draw lots in the presence of an independent witness.

How places were allocated last year on offer day Criteria Number Furthest of places distance (in metres) Bapt Pract Catholic, In Parish ,sib In Sch, Priest Ref 5 1564.31 Bapt Pract Catholic, In Parish ,sib In Feeder Sch, Priest Ref 16 2274.02 Bapt Pract Catholic, In Parish ,no Sib In Sch - Gov Will Admit 7 Places 4 2568.56 Bapt Pract Catholic, In Parish, Priest Ref 45 1188.38

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 105 St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Junior School (7-11 year olds)

www.sjjnr.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3043501

1. Catholic Looked After Children and Catholic children Head teacher: Mrs Amanda Whelan who have been adopted (or made subject to Chatsworth Avenue, Wembley HA9 6BE Residence Orders or Special Guardianship Orders) Tel: 020 8902 3438 immediately following having been looked after. Admissions officer:Mrs J Fitzpatrick 2. Baptised Catholic children from practising Catholic Email: [email protected] families who are resident in the parishes of St. Maximum admission 2016: 70 Joseph’s Wembley and St. Erconwald’s Wembley who are currently in Year 2 in St Joseph’s Catholic Infant Number of on-time applications last year: 113 School whose application is supported by a priest’s Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 280 reference. Accessibility: Medium 3. Baptised Catholic Children from practising families Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC who are resident in the parishes of St. Joseph’s In Year Applications Wembley and St. Erconwald’s Wembley and whose Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team application is supported by a priest’s reference and at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions baptised Catholic children from practising families who are not resident in the parishes of St Joseph’s Admission arrangements Wembley and St Erconwald’s whose application is supported by a priest’s reference, who attend Year 2 St. Joseph’s Catholic Junior School was founded by in St Joseph’s Catholic Infant School. the Catholic Church to provide education for children 4. Other baptised Catholic children from practising of Catholic families. As a Catholic school, we aim to families supported by a priest’s reference. provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate 5. Baptised Catholic children resident in the parishes of every aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that St. Joseph’s Wembley and St. Erconwald’s Wembley. the Catholic character of the school’s education is fully 6. Other baptised Catholic children. supported by all families in the school. All applicants are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved and 7. Other Looked After Children and children who have positive support for the aims and ethos of the school. been adopted (or made subject to Residence Orders or Special Guardianship Orders) immediately following The Published Admissions Number (PAN) for the Year 3 having been looked after. class at St Joseph’s Junior School is 70. The Governing Body has sole responsibility for admissions to this school 8. Catechumens (resident in the parishes of St Joseph’s and intends to admit 70 children in the school year which Wembley and St Erconwald’s who have evidence begins in September 2016. Applications are welcome of attendance at Mass and active participation in a from families whose child reaches his/her 7th birthday baptismal course supported by a parish priest) and between 1 September 2015 and 31 August 2016. practising members of an Eastern Christian church whose application is supported by their religious Whenever there are more applications than places leader and a Baptismal Certificate. available, priority will always be given to Catholic applicants in accordance with the criteria listed below. 9. Christian children of other denominations who attend Year 2 in St. Joseph’s Catholic Infant School whose In this Policy applicant refers to the person making an parents wish them to have a catholic education application on behalf of a child; candidate refers to the and whose application is supported by a minister of child on whose behalf the application is being made. religion. Oversubscription criteria 10. Applications from children from other Christian churches, whose parents wish them to have a Where there are more applications than the number of Catholic education and whose application is places available, places will be offered according to the supported by a minister of religion. following order of priority: - 11. Children from other faiths who are currently in Year

106 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 2 in St Joseph’s Catholic Infant School, Waverley admission is requested under any local protocol that has Avenue, Wembley. been agreed by both the local authority and the diocese for the current school year. The governing body has 12. Any other children. this power even when admitting the child would mean The trend over the past four years has seen an increase exceeding the published admission number. in the number of places allocated to Catholic children. As the school is usually oversubscribed by Catholic In-year admissions candidates, it is very unlikely that applicants who are not Applications for in year admissions are made are made Catholics will obtain a place. In the past two years, the in the same way as those made during the normal governing body has been unable to offer a place to any admissions round. If a place is available and there is no applicant who is not a Catholic. waiting list the child will be admitted. If there is a waiting Last year St Joseph’s Junior School was oversubscribed list, then applications will be ranked by the governing and we received 85 Supplementary Information Forms body in accordance with the oversubscription criteria, for the Year 3 classes and 121 Common Application If a place cannot be offered at this time then you may Forms from Brent Council. ask us for the reasons and you will be informed of your Where the offer of places to all the applicants in right of appeal. You will be offered the opportunity of any of the categories listed above would lead to being placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be oversubscription, the following provisions will be applied maintained by the governing body in the order of the in the order identified below: oversubscription criteria and not in the order in which the applications are received. Names are removed from A. The attendance of a brother or sister, including step the list at the end of each academic year. When a place children, adopted children, half siblings or those living becomes available the governing body will decide who is permanently in the household, at the school at the at the top of the list so that an offer can be made. time of admission. B. The attendance of a brother or sister, including step Application procedure 2016 - 2017 children, adopted children half siblings or those living In order to make an application, you must complete permanently in the household, at St Joseph’s Catholic a Common Application Form (CAF) from your local Junior School at the time of admission. authority and return it to them.. You should also C. Governors will admit seven places (10%) for practising complete the School’s Supplementary Information Form Catholic applicants from Saint Erconwald’s Parish, (SIF), available on the local authority website, or directly who do not have a sibling at either school. These will from the school. The information on the SIF enables the be allocated using distance measurement outlined in governing body to assess your application fully against the tie-break below. the school’s criteria in the event of oversubscription. Please return the SIF (in person or by post) together Tie break with all other relevant paperwork required for your application to: Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any of the sub-categories listed above would still lead to St. Joseph’s Junior School, oversubscription, the places up to the admission number Chatsworth Avenue, will be offered to those living nearest to the school as Wembley, Middlesex HA9 6BE measured by the local authority. If you do not complete both of the forms described above and return them by 15 January 2016 the Multiple applications governing body will be unable to consider your Where the final place is offered to a child who has other application fully and it is very unlikely that your child will siblings applying for a place in the same school year, be offered a place. Applications received after the closing these siblings will also be admitted. date will be dealt with after the initial allocation process has been completed. Fair access Applicants applying under criteria 2 and 3 must submit a The school is committed to taking its fair share of Priest’s Reference Form(PRF) by the closing date. This form children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as is available from the school or from the diocesan website set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside at www.rcdow.org.uk/schools/governors/admissions the normal admissions round, the governing body is The local authority will write to you on behalf of the empowered to give absolute priority to a child where

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 107 governing body with the outcome of your application Child Arrangements Order. A Child Arrangements Order on, or about, Monday 18 April 2016. This information is an order under the terms of the Children Act 1989 s.8 will also be available on line. Parents/carers should accept settling the arrangements to be made as to the person the place as soon as possible. with whom the child is to live. Children ‘looked after’ immediately before the order is made qualify in this Right of appeal category. If you are unsuccessful you may ask us for the reasons Special Guardianship Order. A Special Guardianship for the refusal of a place. These reasons will be related to Order is an order under the terms of the Children Act the oversubscription criteria listed in the policy and you 1989 s.14A appointing one or more individuals to be will have the right of appeal to an independent panel. a child’s special guardian(s). Children ‘looked after’ immediately before the order is made qualify in this Waiting list category. In addition to their right of appeal, unsuccessful Parent means the adult or adults with legal responsibility candidates will be offered the opportunity to be placed for the child. on a waiting list. This list will be maintained in order of the oversubscription criteria set out in the Policy and not Sibling means brother or sister, to include adopted in the order in which applications are received or added brothers and sisters, half brothers and sisters or step to the list. Names are removed from the list after one brothers and sisters. A sibling relationship does not apply year, unless applicants request to remain on the list. when the older child(ren) will leave before the younger one starts. Pupils with a statement of special Catholic means a member of a Church in full communion educational needs/education, health with the See of Rome. This includes the Eastern Catholic and care plan Churches. This will normally be evidenced by a Certificate of Baptism in a Catholic church or a Certificate of The admission of pupils with a statement of Special Reception into the full communion of the Catholic Educational Needs or Education Health and Care Plan is Church. dealt with by a completely separate procedure. Details of this separate procedure are set out in the Special Practising Catholic means a Catholic child from a Educational Needs Code of Practice. If your child has a practising Catholic family where this practice is verified Statement of SEN or EHC Plan you must contact your by a reference from a Catholic priest in the standard local authority SEN officer. format laid down by the diocese. ‘Family’ includes the Catholic or Catholics who have legal responsibility for Change of details the child. If any of the details on either of your forms changes Catechumen means a child who is a member of the between the date of application and the receipt of the catechumenate of a Catholic Church. This will normally letter of offer or refusal, you must inform the school and be evidenced by a Certificate of Reception into the Order the local authority immediately. If misleading information of Catechumens. is given or allowed to remain on either of your forms, the Eastern Christian Church includes Orthodox Churches, governing body reserves the right to withdraw the place, and is normally evidenced by a Certificate of Baptism or even if the child has already started at the school. Reception from the authorities of that Church. Notes (these notes form part of the oversubscription Christian for the purposes of this policy, means a criteria) member of one of the Churches affiliated to ‘Churches Looked After Child has the same meaning as in Together in Britain and Ireland’. Section 22 of the Children Act 1989, and means any Resident – A child is deemed to be resident at a child in the care of a local authority or provided with particular address when he/she resides there for more accommodation by them (e.g. children with foster than 50 per cent of the school week. parents at the time of making an application to the school). Parish Boundaries – for the purposes of this Policy, parish boundaries are shown on the attached map. Adopted. An adopted child is any child who has been formally adopted, having previously been in care and Distance from school means distance as measured by a whose parent/ guardian can give proof of this. straight line, from the front door of the child’s residential address (including flats) to a point at the school. The

108 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 school will use the measurements provided by Brent Council’s School Admissions Service. If distances are identical, the governing body will draw lots in the presence of an independent witness.

How places were allocated last year on offer day

Criteria Number Furthest of places distance (in metres) Bapt Pract Catholic, In Parish ,no Sib In Infants Year 2 Distance 28 1430.31 Bapt Pract Catholic, In Parish, Pr, Att Infants Y2, Sibling In Feeder, Dist 9 1521.93 Bapt Pract Catholic, In Parish, Pr, Att Infants Y2, Sibling, Distance 12 1135.48 Baptpractcath, in Par,pr,dist/bapt Prac Cath Not In Parish In Yr 2 Pr Dist 16 2848.74 Baptpractcath,inpar, pr,baptpractcath,not In Parish, att Infyear2 Pr,sib,dis 5 2556.54

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 109 St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School (3-11 year olds)

www.stjosephsrc.co.uk DfE number: 3045203

1. Catholic ‘looked after’ children and Catholic children Head teacher: Mrs Dawn Titus who have been adopted or made subject to Child Goodson Road, London, NW10 9LS Arrangements Orders or Special Guardianship Orders, Tel: 020 8965 5651 immediately following having being looked after. Fax: 020 8961 9022 2. Baptised Catholic children from practising Catholic Admissions officer:Mrs Patricia Lynch families, whose practice is supported by a priest’s Email: [email protected] reference. Maximum admission 2016: 87 3. Children who have been baptised as Catholics or Number of on-time applications last year: 198 received into the Catholic Church. Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 502 4. Other Looked After Children and other children who Accessibility: Medium have been adopted (or subject to Residence Orders or Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC Special Guardianship Orders) immediately following having been looked after. In Year Applications Apply to St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School directly. 5. Catechumens or members of an Eastern Christian Church. Admission arrangements 6. Members of other Christian churches whose practice is supported by their priest or minister. St Joseph’s is a Catholic voluntary aided school in the trusteeship of the Diocese of Westminster. As a Catholic 7. Members of other Christian churches. school, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all 8. Any other children. our pupils. At a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every aspect of the school’s activity. Note 1: The governing body will give top priority after It is essential that the Catholic character of the school’s the appropriate category of Looked After Children, to education is fully supported by all families in the school. an application where compelling evidence is provided at All applicants are therefore expected to give their full, the time of application, from an appropriate professional unreserved and positive support for the aims and ethos such as a doctor, priest or social worker, of an of the school. exceptional social, medical, pastoral or other need of the child, which can only be met at this school. Preference will be given to baptised practising Catholic children whose application is accompanied by a Note 2: In each of the above categories, the presence of Baptismal Certificate, proof of date of birth and a Priest’s a brother or sister, half brother or sister or step brother reference from the Parish Priest at the Church where the or sister in the school at the time of admission will family usually worships. Verification of address may also increase priority within that category. be required. Note 3: Where the admission twins or all siblings from Applications are welcome from families whose child a multiple birth would cause the school to rise above its reaches his/her 4th birthday between 1st September PAN, both twins or all of the siblings will be admitted. 2015 and 31st August 2016. The Published Admission Where the admission of the additional child or children Number (PAN) for the school is 60. from multiple births to an infant class would result in the PAN rising above 30 children per teacher, the additional The governing body is the admission authority and as child/children would be exceptions to the infant class such is fully responsible for all admissions to the school. size legislation throughout the infant phase or until the number in the year group reduced to the PAN. Oversubscription criteria Note 4: Address used will be the address where the If there are more applications than our published child spends 50 per cent or more of the school week. admissions number of 60 places, the Governors will offer places in accordance with the following criteria, listed in Tie-breaker order of priority: Where all else is equal, higher priority will be accorded

110 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 to the child living nearest to the school, the distance unlikely that your child will get a place at the school. being measured by a straight line from the front door Notification and notification letters will be sent out of child’s house to the main entrance of school. Where by the Local Authority on behalf of the governors on there are applicants living in flats at the same address, 18 April 2016. This information is available on Brent’s the distance will include the distance from the front door website www.brent.gov.uk. St Joseph’s abides by this of the flat within the buildingi. e. the flat nearest to the timetable. main door to the building will have priority. This distance is measured by the local authority. 1a. If the application for a place in school is unsuccessful you have the right of appeal to an independent Pupils with a statement of special educational appeal panel. needs 1b. If you wish to appeal against non-admission please The admission of pupils with a Statement of Special do so in writing to the chair of the governing body Educational Needs or an Education Health and Care Plan care of the school. (EHC) Plan is dealt with by a completely separate procedure. Details of this separate procedure are set out in the Special 2. Appeals must be lodged by 24 May 2016. Appellants Educational Needs Code of Practice. If your child has a will receive at least ten school days’ notice of their Statement of SEN or EHC Plan you must contact your local appeal hearing date. authority SEN officer. A child with this school named in a 3. In addition to the right of appeal, unsuccessful Statement of SEN or an EHC Plan will be admitted. candidates will be offered the opportunity to be Fair access placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be maintained in order of the oversubscription criteria set The school is committed to taking its fair share of out above and not in the order in which applications children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as are received or added to the list. The waiting list will set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside be held open for one school year. the normal admissions round, the governing body is empowered to give absolute priority to a child where In year admissions admission is requested under any local protocol that Applications for in year admissions are made directly has been agreed by both the governing body and the to the school. Where there is no waiting list the local Diocese for the current school year. The governing body authority will be notified and the child will be admitted. has the power to do this even when admitting the child If more applications are received than there are places would mean exceeding the published admission number available then applications will be ranked by the Admissions for Reception governing body in accordance with the oversubscription criteria, with the following modifications: Catholic All applicants must complete a local authority Common children without an offer of a school place elsewhere are Application Form (CAF) which must be returned to given priority immediately after Catholic Looked After your council by the annually published closing date. In Children. Similarly, other children without an offer of a addition to the Local Authority Form (CAF) you should school place are given priority immediately after other also complete St Joseph’s forms as follows: Looked After Children. If a place cannot be offered at n St Joseph’s Supplementary Information Form (SIF); this time then you may ask us for the reasons and you will be informed of your right of appeal. You will be n Priest’s Reference Form (if applicable). offered the opportunity of being placed on a waiting The Supplementary Information Form (SIF) is obtainable list. This waiting list will be maintained by the governing from the school and online at www.brent.gov.uk. You body in the order of the oversubscription criteria (as can collect the form from the school or contact the modified above) and not in the order in which the school and ask for it to be sent to you. applications are received. Names are removed from the list at the end of each academic year. When a place The completed St Joseph’s form should be returned becomes available the governing body will decide who is along with a copy of the child’s Baptismal Certificate and at the top of the list so that an offer can be made. proof of date of birth to St Joseph’s School by the closing date for applications which is 15 January 2016. Notes (these notes form part of the oversubscription criteria) If you do not complete both the CAF and SIF and return them by the closing date, the governing body may be Looked After Child has the same meaning as in section unable to consider fully your application and it is very 22 of the Children Act 1989, and means any child in the

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 111 care of a local authority or provided with accommodation cannot however defer entry for children born in the by them (e.g. children with foster parents). summer term for the whole school year. Summer born children (born 1st April – 31st August) must start on 1st Catholic means a member of a Church in full Communion April 2016 at the latest. Parents wishing to defer entry with the See of Rome. This includes members of Eastern must contact the school advising them on this after a Catholic Churches. This will normally be evidenced by a place has been offered. Parent can also request that their Certificate of Baptism in a Catholic Church or a certificate child attends part-time until their child reaches statutory of reception into the full Communion of the Catholic school age. Church. For the purposes of this policy, it includes a looked after child who is part of a Catholic family where a Children educated outside their priest’s reference demonstrates that the child would have been baptised or received if it were not for their status chronological age group as a Looked After Child (e.g. a looked after child in the Any application for a child to be educated out of process of adoption by a Catholic family). his/her age group will be considered by governors on an Practising Catholic means a Catholic child from a individual basis and will only be granted in exceptional practising Catholic family with weekly family attendance circumstances. Parents should write to the chair of at Sunday Mass and this practice is verified by a governors during the Autumn term in the (academic) reference from a Catholic priest in the standard format year of application, giving reasons and providing laid down by the diocese. compelling professional evidence. Adopted - An adopted child is a child who is adopted There is no automatic transfer from nursery to reception. under the terms of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 s.46 (adoption orders). How places were allocated last year on offer day Child Arrangements Order – A Child Arrangements Order is an order under the terms of the Children Act Criteria Number Furthest 1989 s.8 settling the arrangements to be made as to the of places distance person with whom the child is to live. Children Looked (in metres) After immediately before the order is made, qualify in Baptised Catholic this category. With Priest Ref With Sib 20 2123.77 Special Guardianship Order – A Special Guardianship Baptised Catholic Order is an order under the terms of the Children Act With Priest Ref 30 1775.65 1989 s. 14A which defines it as an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian(s). Baptised Catholic With Sibling Christian for the purposes of this policy, means a (not Supported By Priest) 1 1114.95 member of one of the Churches affiliated to ‘Churches Together in Britain and Ireland’. Baptised Catholic (not Supported By Priest) 2 1070.29 Parent is the person or persons who have legal responsibility for the child. Catechumens & Eastern Christian Church With Sibling 2 865.07 Family means Catholic or Catholics who have a legal responsibility for the child. Catechumens & Eastern Christian Church 2 1928.05 Catechumen means a member of the catechumenate of a Catholic Church. This will normally be evidenced by a Baptised Christian certificate of reception from the authorities of that Church. With Priest Reference 5 2252.27 Eastern Christian Church includes Orthodox Churches, Baptised Christians 1 1058.3 and is normally evidenced by a Certificate of Baptism or Any Other Applicants reception from the authorities of that church. With Sibling In Sch 2 1063 Deferred entry Any Other Applicants 22 3249.52 Parents can defer entry for their child until their child is statutory school age. Statutory school age begins the first day of term after your child’s fifth birthday. Parents

112 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 St Margaret Clitherow Primary School (3-11 year olds) www.clitherow.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3043511

Parents will be required to re-apply for a Reception place. Head teacher: Mrs Ewa McSperrin Quainton Street, London, NW10 0BG Oversubscription Criteria Tel: 020 8450 3631 Where there are more applications for places than Fax: 020 8450 3729 the number of places available, places will be offered Admissions officer:Mrs Mary Haneef according to the following order of priority. Email: [email protected] 1. Catholic Looked After Children and Catholic children Maximum admission 2016: 30 who have been adopted or made subject to Child Number of on-time applications last year: 111 Arrangements Orders or Special Guardianship Orders, immediately after having been looked after. Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 235 Accessibility: High 2. Practising Catholic* children with a sibling in the school on the date of admission. Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC 3. Practising Catholic children who are resident in the In Year Applications parish of English Martyrs. Apply to St Margaret Clitherow Primary School directly. 4. Other practising* Catholic children. Admissions arrangements 5. Other Baptised Catholic children. St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School was 6. Other Looked After Children and other Looked After founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for Children who have been adopted or made subject to the children of Catholic Families. The school is conducted Child Arrangements Orders or Special Guardianship by its governing body as part of the Catholic Church Orders, immediately after having been looked after. in accordance with its trust deed and instrument of 7. Catechumens* and members of an Eastern Christian government, and seeks at all times to be a witness to Church. Jesus Christ. 8. Any other applicant. As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all of our pupils. At a Catholic school, *Please refer to the notes overleaf. Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every aspect Where the offer of places to all the applicants in of the school’s activity. It is essential that the Catholic any of the categories listed above would lead to character of the school’s education is fully supported oversubscription the following provisions will be applied. by all families in the school. All applicants are therefore In categories 1 and 6 this provision only applies to expected to give their full, unreserved and positive those who were looked after immediately before being support for the aims and ethos of the school. adopted/subject to Residence or Special Guardianship The governing body has sole responsibility for admission Orders. to this school and the number of places in Reception In categories 5-8, the presence of a sibling, including a (30) is the school’s Published Admissions Number (PAN). step- or half- brother or sister in the school living at the Applicants should be aware that for the past three years same address, at the time of admission, will increase no children were admitted from categories 5, 6, 7 and 8. priority within that category. The governing body will use the oversubscription criteria below if they receive more applications than places. Where the final place is offered to a child who has other siblings applying for a place in the same school year, Applications are invited for September 2016 from these siblings will also be admitted. families whose child will be four years of age between 1 September 2015 and 31 August 2016. Within each criterion priority will be given to the applicant who lives closer to the school. This will be Parents should be aware that securing a nursery judged by the shortest measured walking distance using place does not guarantee a place in Reception for the road networks including public rights of way* from the following year. front door of the home to the main school gate. *A

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 113 public right of way is one which is determined by The Appeals Countryside Act 1968. If you would like a copy of the Parents have the right of appeal against a decision not Countryside Act 1968 please contact Brent Admissions to admit a child. Parents wishing to exercise their right Service on 020 8937 3110. of appeal against a refusal of admission should forward Where there are applicants living in flats at the same their appeal to the Chair of Governors at the school, address, the distance will include the distance from the for consideration of the appeals committee within 20 front door of the flat within the building,i. e. the flat days (by 16 May 2016) of receipt of a letter informing nearest to the main door to the building will have priority. them that a place is not available. Parents are entitled There is no automatic transfer from nursery to reception to attend the appeal panel meeting to give grounds for class in the school. their appeal personally and/or to be represented. Pupils with a statement of special education Application Procedure needs/education, health and care plan (EHC) The Common Application Form (CAF) must be returned The admission of pupils with a statement of Special to the borough council where you live. In addition Educational Needs or Education Health and Care Plan parents should complete a Supplementary Information (EHC) Plan is dealt with by a completely separate Form (SIF), which is available from the school reception procedure. Details of this separate procedure are set office, Local Authority and schools website. This form out in the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice. If must be returned to the school. Parents are advised your child has a Statement of SEN or EHC plan you must to complete the SIF in order for Governors to apply contact your local authority SEN officer. their admissions criteria accurately. The final date for applications is Thursday 15th January 2016. Notification In year admissions letter will be sent out by the LA on behalf of the The governing body has sole responsibility for in year governors on Monday 18th April 2016. admissions. Applications are made in the same way as those made during the normal admissions round. If more Deferred Entry applications are received than there are places available Parents can defer entry for their child until their child is then applications will be ranked by the governing body in statutory school age. Statutory school age begins the accordance with the admission criteria. If a place cannot first day of term after your child’s fifth birthday. Parents be offered at this time then you may ask us for the cannot, however, defer entry for children born in the reasons and you will be informed of your right of appeal. summer term for the whole school year. Parent’s wishing You will be offered the opportunity of being placed to defer entry must contact the school after advising on a waiting list. This waiting list will be maintained them on this after a place has been offered. Parent can by the governing body in the order of the admissions also request that their child attends part-time until their criteria and not in the order in which the applications are child reaches statutory school age. received. When a place becomes available the governing body will decide who is at the top of the list and an offer Late Applications will be made. Late applications (i.e. those received after 15 January 2016) will not be dealt with until all the first round offers have Children educated outside their been made. chronological age group Any application for a child to be educated out of his/ Waiting lists her group will be considered by governors on an In addition to their right to appeal, unsuccessful individual basis and will only be granted in exceptional candidates will be offered the opportunity to be placed on circumstances. Parents should write to the chair of a waiting list. This waiting list will be maintained in order governors during the autumn term in the (academic) year of the oversubscription criteria set our above and NOT of application, giving reasons and providing compelling in the order in which applications are received or added professional evidence. to the list. Waiting lists will be kept open for 1 academic year. After this time the applicants will be contacted to see Fair access if they wish to remain on the list for a further year. The school is committed to taking its fair share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside

114 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 the normal admissions round, the governing body is and is normally evidenced by a Certificate of Baptism or empowered to give absolute priority to a child where reception from the authorities of that church. admission is requested under any local protocol that Residential address: Where the child resides for more has been agreed by both the governing body and the than 50 per cent of the school week, with parents with Diocese for the current school year. The governing body shared responsibility. has this power even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number. The governing body will give top priority in any of the oversubscription criteria to an application where Child arrangements order compelling professional evidence is provided of an A Child Arrangements Order is an order under the terms exceptional medical, social or pastoral need which can of the Children Act 1989 s.8 settling the arrangements only be met at this school. to be made as to the person with whom the child is to For the purposes of this policy, parish boundaries are live. Children ‘looked after’ immediately before the order as shown on the attached map. Distances will be is made qualify in this category. measured from the main entrance of the school by the Notes (these notes form part of the oversubscription shortest measured walking distance using road networks criteria) including public rights of way* from home to school. All ‘Parent’ is defined as the person or persons who have distance measures are provided by Brent Council. legal responsibility for the child. *A public right of way is one which is determined by ‘Sibling’ means brother or sister, to include adopted The Countryside Act 1968. If you would like a copy of brothers and sisters, half brother and sisters or step The Countryside Act 1968 please contact Brent School brothers and sisters. A sibling relationship does not apply Admissions Service on 020 8937 3110. when the older child(ren) will leave before the younger How places were allocated last year one starts. on offer day Looked After Child has the same meaning as in section 22 of the Children Act 1989, and means any Criteria Number Furthest child in the care of a local authority or provided with of places distance accommodation by them (eg children with fosters (in metres) parents). Baptised Practising Catholic, ‘Special Guardianship Order’ is an order under the terms Sibling 11 2715.74 of the Children Act 1989 s.14A which defines it as an Baptised Catholics order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s Resident In Parish 12 1877.45 special guardian(s). Other Practising ‘Catholic’ is taken to denote a baptised person who is in Catholic Children 6 17618.92 fullcommunion with the Catholic Church, that is to say, a Other Baptised member of any church that is in full communion with the Catholics With Sibling 1 155.9 See of Rome. This includes the eastern Catholic churches. This will normally be evidenced by a Certificate of baptism in a Catholic church or a Certificate of Reception into full Communion of the Catholic Church. (Please refer to points A12 and A13 in Diocesan Joint Guidance on Admissions 2003). Practising Catholic mean Catholic children from practising Catholic families who attend Mass every week. The governing body will expect this practise to be verified by a reference from a Catholic priest in the standard format laid down by the diocese. Catechumen means a member of the catechumenate of a Catholic Church. This will normally be evidenced by a Certificate of Reception into the Order of Catechumens. Eastern Christian Churches includes Orthodox Churches,

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 115 St Mary Magdalen’s Catholic Junior School (7-11 year olds)

www.marymag.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3043505

Head teacher: Miss Maria Nowicka Previous years Linacre Road, Willesden Green NW2 5BB In 2015/2016 the school was oversubscribed. We received 115 on time applications for 90 places. All Tel: 020 8459 3159 applicants in categories 1-9 were offered a place along Fax: 020 8459 0108 with 7 in category 10 in accordance with the distance Admissions officer:Miss Maria Quinn criteria set out in our tie-breaker. Email: [email protected] Maximum admission 2016: 90 Applications Procedure for Year 3 Number of on-time applications last year: 119 Admission Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 357 From September 2016 if you wish to make an application for a year 3 place at this school, the procedure will be as follows: Accessibility: High Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC 1. Contact your local council or, if you are a Brent resident, contact Brent Council’s Admissions Service In Year Applications on 020 8937 3110 or visit www.brent.gov.uk/ Apply to St Mary Magdalen’s Catholic Junior School admissions or www.eadmissions.org.uk to complete directly. the Common Application Form. Admission arrangements 2. You will also need to complete the school’s Supplementary Information Form which you can download from our St Mary Magdalen’s Catholic Junior School was founded website or pick up from the school office. by the Catholic Church to provide education for 3. The Priest’s Reference Form should also be completed children of Catholic families. The school is conducted (download from our website or the diocesan website by its governing body as part of the Catholic Church or pick up from the school office) for applicants in accordance with its trust deed and Instrument of wishing to be considered under the faith criteria. government, and seeks at all times to be a witness to Jesus Christ. Catholic doctrine and practice permeate 4. Your on-line admission should be submitted or your every aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that completed Common Application Form should be the Catholic character of the school’s education is fully returned to your local authority by 15 January 2016. supported by all the families in the school. All applicants 5. Completed Supplementary Forms and Priest’s are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved and Reference Forms should be returned to the school by positive support for the aims and ethos of the school. 3pm on 15 January 2016. The published admissions number (PAN) for Year 3 at 6. All parent/guardians will be informed of the result of St Mary Magdalen’s is 90. The governing body has sole their application on or about the 16 April 2016. responsibility for admissions to this school and intends to admit 90 children in the school year which begins in 7. In the case of oversubscription a waiting list will September 2016. Applications are invited from families be maintained. Priority will be given as in the whose child will reach their 8th birthday between 1st oversubscription criteria below. If necessary ‘tie break’ September 2016 and 31st August 2017. procedures will be followed. Please see below. Whenever there are more applications than places All applications will be considered in line with our published available, priority will always be given to Catholic admission arrangements. Late applications (arriving after applicants in accordance with the oversubscription 15th January 2016) will be dealt with after all the initial offers criteria listed below. Where the final place is offered to have been made. Outcomes of applications will be sent to a child who has other siblings applying for a place in the you by your local council on behalf of the governing body. same year, these siblings will also be admitted. Unsuccessful applicants will be placed on the waiting list. In this policy, ‘applicant’ refers to you, the parent applying for a place, and ‘candidate’ refers to a child for whom application is made.

116 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Applications procedure for in year Multiple births admissions When the last offer is made to a child of a multiple birth Applications for in year admissions are made directly to i.e. twin, triplet etc, the remaining child(ren) will also be the school. If a place is available and there is no waiting offered a place, even though it will mean exceeding the list, the child will be admitted. If there is a waiting list, published admission number. then applications will be ranked by the Governing Body in accordance with the oversubscription criteria with the Right of Appeal following modifications: If your application is unsuccessful you may ask us for the reasons for the refusal of a place. These reasons will be If a place cannot be offered at this time then you may related to the oversubscription criteria listed in the policy ask us for the reasons and you will be informed of your and you will have the right of appeal to an independent right of appeal. You will be offered the opportunity of panel. Parent/guardians must be informed of the appeals being placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be timetable in the letter of refusal. maintained by the governing body in the order of the oversubscription criteria and not in the order in which Parent/guardians wishing to appeal should write in the the applications are received. first instance to the chair of governors. Parents/carers have a minimum of 20 school days in which to appeal. Names are removed from the list at the end of each The deadline for appeals is 20th May 2016. Appeals will academic year. When a place becomes available the be heard by an independent panel within 40 school days governing body will decide who is at the top of the list of the appeal being lodged – a minimum of 10 days so that an offer can be made. notice of this hearing to be given to parent/guardians. Exceptional need Note: Appeals received after 20th May 2016 potentially The governing body will give top priority after the may not be heard until the autumn term as appeals do appropriate category of Looked After Children, to an not take place during school holidays. application where compelling evidence is provided at the time of application, from an appropriate professional Waiting lists such as a doctor, priest or social worker, of an In addition to their right of appeal, unsuccessful exceptional social, medical, pastoral or other need of the candidates will be offered the opportunity to be placed child, which can only be met at this school. on a waiting list. This list will be maintained in order of the oversubscription criteria set out in this policy and not Pupils with a statement of special in the order in which applications are received or added educational needs/education, health to the list. Names are removed from the list after one and care plan year, unless applicants request to remain on the list. The admission of pupils with a statement of Special Oversubscription criteria Educational Needs or Education Health and Care Plan 1. Applications from Catholic Looked After Children and (EHC) Plan is dealt with by a completely separate Catholic children who have been adopted (or made procedure. Details of this separate procedure are set subject to Residence Orders or Special Guardianship out in the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice. If Orders) immediately following being looked-after. your child has a Statement of SEN or EHC plan you must contact your local authority SEN officer. 2. Applications from baptised Catholic children from practising Catholic families resident in the Parish Fair access protocols of St Mary Magdalen’s, Willesden Green and the The school is committed to taking its fair share of Church of the Transfiguration, Kensal Rise, whose children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set application is supported by their parish priest. *Please out in the locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside refer to the maps which are attached to the School’s the normal admissions round the governing body is Supplementary Information Form. empowered to give absolute priority to a child where 3. Applications from baptised Catholic children from admission is requested under any local protocol that practising Catholic families resident in these parishes - has been agreed by both the diocese and the governing St Agnes, Cricklewood; St Mary and St Andrew, Dollis body for the current school year. The governing body has Hill; Shrine of Our Lady, Willesden; Our Lady of Mercy this power even when admitting the child would mean Chapel, Walm Lane, Sacred Heart Church, Quex Road- exceeding the published admission number. whose boundaries meet those of the Parish of St Mary

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 117 Magdalen’s, Willesden Green, and whose application straight-line, from a point in the property to a point in is supported by their parish priest. the school determined by the grid references for the centre of the school’s postcode. The measuring system is 4. Applications from other baptised practising an integral part of the admission 8 software produced by Catholics,whose application is supported by their Tribal Technology Ltd. It uses Ordnance Survey maps and parish priest. the LLPG (Local Land Property Gazetteer) and is accurate 5. Applications from other baptised Catholic children. to one metre. Where there are applicants living in flats at 6. Applications from other Looked After Children and the same address, the distance will include the distance children who have been adopted (or made subject from the front door of the home to the main entrance to Residence Orders or Special Guardianship Orders) of the building, i.e. the flat nearest the main entrance to immediately following being looked-after. the building will have priority. If distances are identical, the governing body will draw lots in the presence of an Applications from Catechumens and members of 7. independent witness. an Eastern Christian Church whose application is supported by their religious leader. Notes (these form part of the oversubscription criteria) 8. Christians of other denominations whose Adopted An adopted child is any child who has been parent/guardians wish them to have a Catholic formally adopted, having previously been in care and education and whose application is supported by whose parent/ guardian can give proof of this. their religious leader. Catechumen means a member of the catechumenate of 9. Children of other faiths, whose parent/guardians wish a Catholic church. This will normally be evidenced by a them to have a Catholic education, whose application certificate of reception into the Order of Catechumens. is supported their Religious Leader. Catholic means a member of a Church in full 10. Applications from any other applicants. Communion with the See of Rome. This includes the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be Where the offer of places to all the applicants in evidenced by a Certificate of Baptism in a Catholic any of the categories listed above would lead to church or a Certificate of Reception into the full oversubscription the following provisions will be applied. communion of the Catholic Church. For the purposes of Within each oversubscription criterion applicants will be this policy, it includes a Looked After Child who is part of ranked in the following order: a Catholic family where a priest’s reference demonstrates that the child would have been baptised or received if n First priority will be given to siblings who will continue it were not for their status as a Looked After Child (e.g. to be on roll on the date of admission. In the case of a Looked After Child in the process of adoption by a half or step-siblings priority will be given providing they Catholic family). reside at the same address. Christian for the purposes of this policy, means a n Second priority will be given to children transferring member of one of the Churches affiliated to “Churches from the Convent of Jesus and Mary Infants School. Together in Britain and Ireland”. n Third priority will be given to children of permanent Eastern Christian Church includes Orthodox Churches, staff of St Mary Magdalen’s Catholic Junior School, and is evidenced by a certificate of baptism or reception who have been employed at the school for at least from the authorities of that Church. two years at the time of application. Looked After Child has the same meaning as in Tie break section 22 of the Children Act 1989, and means any In the case of a tie break where the offer of places to all child in the care of a local authority or provided with the applicants in any of the sub-categories listed above accommodation by them (e.g. children with foster would still lead to oversubscription, the places up to the parents). admission number will be offered to those living nearest Parents means the adult or adults with legal the School. responsibility for the child. Distance Parish boundaries for the purposes of this policy, Parish boundaries are shown on the attached map. For the purposes of this policy, the school will adopt Brent Council’s method of measuring distance. The Practising Catholic means a Catholic child from a distance from home to school will be measured by practising Catholic family, where weekly practice is verified by a reference from a Catholic priest in the

118 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 standard format laid down by the diocese. Family How places were allocated last year includes the Catholic or Catholics who have legal on offer day responsibility for the child. Child Arrangements Order. A Child Arrangements Order Criteria Number Furthest is an order under the terms of the Children Act 1989 s.8 of places distance settling the arrangements to be made as to the person (in metres) with whom the child is to live. Children Looked After Special Educational Needs 1 immediately before the order is made qualify in this All Other Applicants 6 6367.94 category. All Other Applicants, Sibling 1 875.01 Resident means a child is deemed to be resident at a particular address when he/she resides there for more Baptised Catholic, than 50% of the school week. Surrounding Parish, Priest Support 1 1461.6 Sibling means brother or sister, to include adopted brothers and sisters, half brothers and sisters or step Baptised Catholic, brothers and sisters. A sibling relationship does not apply Surrounding Parish, when the older child(ren) will leave before the younger Priest Support And one starts. Attends Infants 17 2438.53 Special Guardianship Order is an order under the terms Baptised Catholic, of the Children Act 1989 s.14A appointing one or more Surrounding Parish, individuals to be a child’s special guardian(s). Children Priest Support With Siblings 3 2160.97 ‘looked after’ immediately before the order is made Baptised Catholics qualify in this category. Resident In Parish 1 673.28 Education out of chronological age group. Any Baptised Catholics application for a child to be educated out of his/ Resident In Parish her age group will be considered by governors on an And Attend Infants 22 1731.17 individual basis and will only be granted in exceptional circumstances. Parents should write to the chair of Baptised Catholics governors during the autumn term in the (academic) year Resident In Parish of application, giving reasons and providing compelling With Sibling 8 974.49 professional evidence. Catechumens & Eastern Christian Church, Attends Infants 1 218.04 Other Baptised Catholics 1 5072.89 Other Baptised Catholics With Sibling 2 4119.52 Other Baptised Catholics, Attends Infants 10 2279.44 Other Practising Catholic Children Attends Infants 9 6379.58 Other Practising Catholic Children With Siblings 7 7135.7

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 119 St Mary’s CofE Primary School (3-11 year olds)

www.stmarysce.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3043308

governors will apply the oversubscription criteria in order Head teacher: Mrs Susan Lawrence of priority. Garnet Road, Willesden NW10 9JA Children attending the school nursery do not have priority Tel: 020 8451 0363 for places in Reception and parents wanting a place in Fax: 020 8451 5630 Reception must complete the Common Application Form Admissions officer:Mrs Kelly-Ann Witter (CAF) and the school’s Supplementary Information Form Email: [email protected] (SIF) in accordance with this policy at the appropriate time. Maximum admission 2015: 45 Admissions to reception Number of on-time applications last year: 108 Children will be admitted at the beginning of the Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 313 academic year following their fourth birthday. Accessibility: Medium The process of admissions to Reception classes in primary Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC schools is coordinated across all the London boroughs. In Year Applications If you wish to make an application for this school you Apply to St Mary’s CofE Primary School directly. will need to contact your local council to complete their Common Application Form. Admission arrangements If you are a Brent resident you need to contact Brent St Mary’s is a Church of England Primary School. The Council’s School Admissions Service on 8937 3110 or school was founded to provide education for the Parish visit www.brent.gov.uk/admissions. You will also need to of St. Mary’s Church. complete the school’s Supplementary Information Form which you can download from our website, or pick up Within our school a good number of families are from the council or the school. The school will also need active in our local church of England parishes and proof of address and date of birth of the child/children. other Christian communities. Some families send their children to this school because, although they have no The Common Application Form must be returned to the active Christian faith themselves, they are happy for school admissions team for the local authority where you their children to be educated in a Christian environment live. The school’s Supplementary Information Form must and learn the basics of the Christian faith. This school be returned to the school. The closing date for receiving is thoroughly and actively loyal to the principles and applications is Friday 15 January 2016. practice of the Church of England and, whilst respecting All applications will be considered in line with our the rights of parents under Section 21 of the Education published admission arrangements. The outcome of your Act of 1998, expects all children to take part in religious application will be sent to you by your local authority. education within the school’s curriculum and to attend Unsuccessful applicants will be placed on the waiting list. the daily acts of worship in the school and regular services in our parish church. Parents can defer entry for their child until their child is of statutory school age. Parents wishing to do this are advised The responsibility for the admission of pupils rests with to discuss the arrangements with the head teacher. the governing body The governors intend to admit a maximum of 45 children Oversubscription criteria into each year group from Reception to Year 6. Where there are more applications than places available Admissions to the nursery the governors will make offers of places in accordance with the following criteria in order of priority. Nursery application forms can be collected from the school office. 1. Looked After Children (who are defined as children under the care of the local authority), includes Applicants must be three years old by the date that previously looked after children who have been school begins. adopted, or made subject to a residence order, or In the event of the nursery being over subscribed, the special guardianship order immediately following

120 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 having been looked after, will be given priority. Parish boundaries 2. Children of families who regularly worship at St. A map of the Parish boundaries is attached to the Mary’s Parish Church (Willesden). school’s Supplementary Information Form. 3. Children who will continue to have a sibling at the school at the time of admission. Sibling refers to Parents/family members brother or sister, half brother or sister, adopted A parent is any person who has parental responsibility brother or sister, step brother or sister, or the child of for or is the legal guardian of the child. Where admission the parent/carer’s partner where the child for whom arrangements refer to family attendance at church, it is the school place is sought is living in the same family sufficient for just one parent to attend. Family members unit at the same address as that sibling. include only parents and siblings. 4. Children whose families are faithful and regular Split residence worshippers of Christian denomination recognised by Churches Together in Britain and Ireland or the Where a child lives with parents with shared Evangelical Alliance. responsibility, each for part of a week, the address where the child lives is determined using a joint declaration 5. Children whose families are faithful and regular from the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a worshippers of other Christian denominations and child’s residence is split equally between both parents, who live within the parish boundaries. then parents will be asked to determine which residential 6. Children whose families are faithful and regular address will be used for the purpose of admission to worshippers of Christian denomination recognised by school. If the residence is not spilt equally between both Churches Together in Britain and Ireland or the Evangelical parents then the address used will be the address where Alliance), and who live outside the Parish boundaries. the child spends the majority of the school week.

7. Children whose families are faithful and regular Twins, triplets and other children of worshippers of other Christian denominations and who live outside the parish boundaries. multiple births 8. Children who live within the parish boundaries and In the event that the school has one place to offer and whose parents have chosen this church school for the the next child is one of twins, triplets or other children type of education it offers. of multiple births, the governing body will in the first instance consider admitting all the children if the school’s 9. All other applicants. resources at the time can accommodate it. Should that When deciding between applicants who, have equal not be possible, the governing body will randomly select entitlement under the above criteria, the governors will the child to offer the place to. Parents/carers will have have regard to the proximity of the applicant’s home the right to chose which child has the place instead of to the school, using the shortest measured walking the child initially randomly selected. distance using road networks including by public right of way from the main school gate to the front door of Late applications the home. For this purpose communal access to flats Late applications will be accepted if Reception classes are not classed as front doors. A public right of way is have not reached their full capacity. In the event of the one which is determined by The Countryside Act 1968. Reception classes being oversubscribed, the application Where applicants live in the same block of flats, internal will be placed on the waiting list in order of priority walkways will be treated as public rights of way when according to the oversubscription criteria. calculating distance travelled. Notes: In-year admissions Applications for in year admissions (those made outside Church Attendance the normal admissions period) are made directly to the The Governor’s define regular worshippers as those who school. If a place is available and there is no waiting list attend Church at least once a fortnight over a period then the local authority will communicate the governors’ of at least the past year. This refers to criteria 2, 4, 5, 6 offer of a place to the family. If more applications are and 7. When applying under these criteria a minister’s received than there are places available, then applications reference form must be completed and signed and will be ranked by the governing body in accordance with handed in with your application. the oversubscription criteria, with the modifications that children without an offer of a school place are given

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 121 priority immediately after other Looked After Children. If How places were allocated last year a place cannot be offered at this time then you may ask on offer day us for the reasons and you will be informed of your right of appeal. You will be offered the opportunity of being Criteria Number Furthest placed on a waiting list. of places distance (in metres) Admission of students with a Regular Worship statement of special educational need At St Mary’s Parish Church 6 2815.27 The admission of children with a Statement of Special Sibling 21 6983.67 Educational Need (SEN) follows a separate process involving consultation between parents/carers, Regular Worshippers professional advisers, the school and the local authority. Christian Denomination Applications for such children should not be made Recognised By C T 1 3026.24 through the normal admissions process. Regular Worshippers Other Christian Denomination Waiting list Outside Parish 3 1681.41 Waiting lists will be maintained throughout the school Within Parish year by the governing body. A child’s position on the Chosen Church School waiting list does not depend upon the time they have For Education 2 974.09 been on the list but will be determined by how they meet the oversubscription criteria. This means that a Any Other Applicants 12 2006.35 child’s position on the list can go down as well as up, depending upon the child’s circumstances and those of other applicants. The waiting list will be closed each year and will not roll over. Parents wishing to stay on the waiting list will be required to submit a request in writing at the end of the academic year. When a place becomes available the governing body will decide who is at the top of the list and advise the local authority. The child’s home local authority will then inform the parent that the school is making an offer.

Appeals Any parent whose child is not offered a place at St. Mary’s may request that an appeal be heard by an independent panel by writing to The Clerk to the Governors c/o St Mary’s C.E. Primary School within 20 school days of the decision not to offer a place. Appeals will be heard within 40 school days of the appeal being lodged, or before the end of the summer term, whichever is sooner. Appeals made outside this time may not be able to be heard in time for the start of the following school year. There is no right of appeal against any decision not to offer a place in the nursery. This policy is subject to annual review by the governing body of St. Mary’s C.E. Primary School

122 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 St Mary’s Catholic Primary School (3-11 year olds) www.stmaryscps.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3043602

Arrangements Orders or Special Guardianship Orders, Head teacher: Mrs D Titus immediately following having being looked after. Canterbury Road, Kilburn NW6 5ST 2. Baptised Catholic children from practising Catholic Tel: 020 7624 1830 families, whose practice is supported by a priest’s Fax: 020 7372 4932 reference. Email: admin@[email protected] 3. Children who have been baptised as Catholics or Maximum admission 2016: 60 received into the Catholic Church. Number of on-time applications last year: 73 4. Other looked after children and other children who Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 400 have been adopted (or subject to residence orders or Accessibility: Medium special guardianship orders) immediately following Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC having been looked after. In Year Applications 5. Catechumens or members of an Eastern Christian Apply to St Mary’s Catholic Primary School directly. Church. 6. Members of other Christian Churches whose practice Admission arrangements is supported by their priest or minister. St Mary’s is a Catholic voluntary aided school in the 7. Members of other Christian Churches. trusteeship of the Diocese of Westminster. As a Catholic 8. Any other children. school, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and Note 1: The Governing Body will give top priority after practice permeate every aspect of the school’s activity. the appropriate category of looked-after children, to an It is essential that the Catholic character of the school’s application where compelling evidence is provided at education is fully supported by all families in the school. the time of application, from an appropriate professional All applicants are therefore expected to give their full, such as a doctor, priest or social worker, of an unreserved and positive support for the aims and ethos exceptional social, medical, pastoral or other need of the of the school. child, which can only be met at this school. Preference will be given to baptised practising Catholic Note 2: In each of the above categories, the presence of children whose application is accompanied by a a brother or sister, half brother or sister or step brother Baptismal Certificate, proof of date of birth and a Priest’s or sister in the school at the time of admission will reference from the Parish Priest at the Church where the increase priority within that category. family usually worships. Verification of address may also Note 3: Where the admission twins or all siblings from be required. a multiple birth would cause the school to rise above Applications are welcome from families whose child its PAN (Planned Admission Number), both twins or all reaches his/her 4th birthday between 1 September 2015 of the siblings will be admitted. Where the admission and 31 August 2016. The Published Admission Number of the additional child or children from multiple births (PAN) for the school is 60. to an infant class would result in the PAN rising above 30 children per teacher, the additional child/children The governing body is the admission authority and as would be exceptions to the Infant Class Size legislation such is fully responsible for all admissions to the school. throughout the infant phase or until the number in the year group reduced to the PAN. Oversubscription criteria Note 4: Address used will be the address where the If there are more applications than our published child spends 50 per cent or more of the school week. admissions number of 60 places, the governors will offer places in accordance with the following criteria, listed in Tie-breaker order of priority: Where all else is equal, higher priority will be accorded 1. Catholic Looked After Children and Catholic children to the child living nearest to the school, the distance who have been adopted or made subject to Child

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 123 being measured by a straight line from the front door unlikely that your child will get a place at the school. of child’s house to the main entrance of school. Where The closing date for applications is 15 January 2016 and there are applicants living in flats at the same address, notification letters will be sent out by the local authority the distance will include the distance from the front door on behalf of the governors on 18 April 2016. This of the flat within the building i.e. the flat nearest to the information is available from the Brent website www. main door to the building will have priority. This distance brent.gov.uk. St Mary’s abides by this timetable. is measured by the local authority. 1a. If the application for a place in school is unsuccessful Pupils with a statement of special you have the right of appeal to an independent educational needs appeal panel. The admission of pupils with a statement of Special 1b. If you wish to appeal against non-admission please Educational Needs or Education Health and Care Plan do so in writing to the chair of governing body, care (EHC) Plan is dealt with by a completely separate of the school. procedure. Details of this separate procedure are set 2. Appeals must be lodged by 24 May 2016. Appellants out in the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice. If will receive at least 10 school days’ notice of their your child has a Statement of SEN or EHC Plan you must appeal hearing date. contact your local authority SEN officer. A child with this 3. In addition to the right of appeal, unsuccessful school named in a Statement of SEN or EHC Plan will be candidates will be offered the opportunity to be admitted. placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be Fair Access maintained in order of the oversubscription criteria set out above and not in the order in which applications The school is committed to taking its fair share of are received or added to the list. The waiting list will children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as be held open for one school year. set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admissions round, the governing body is In year admissions empowered to give absolute priority to a child where Applications for in year admissions are made directly admission is requested under any local protocol that to the school. Where there is no waiting list the local has been agreed by both the governing body and the authority will be notified and the child will be admitted. diocese for the current school year. The governing body If more applications are received than there are places has the power even when admitting the child would available then applications will be ranked by the mean exceeding the published admission number governing body in accordance with the oversubscription Admissions for reception criteria, with the following modifications: Catholic children without an offer of a school place elsewhere are All applicants must complete a local authority Common given priority immediately after Catholic Looked After Application Form (CAF) which must be returned to your Children. Similarly, other children without an offer of a council by the annually published closing date. In addition school place are given priority immediately after other you should also complete St Mary’s forms as follows: Looked After Children. If a place cannot be offered at n St Mary’s Supplementary Information Form (SIF); this time then you may ask us for the reasons and you will be informed of your right of appeal. You will be n Priest’s Reference Form (if applicable). offered the opportunity of being placed on a waiting The Supplementary Information Form (SIF) is available list. This waiting list will be maintained by the governing from the school, the council’s offices and its website body in the order of the oversubscription criteria (as (www.brent.gov.uk). You can collect the form from the modified above) and not in the order in which the school or contact the school and ask for it to be sent to applications are received. Names are removed from the you. list at the end of each academic year. When a place The completed St Mary’s form should be returned along becomes available the governing body will decide who is with a copy of the child’s baptismal certificate and proof at the top of the list so that an offer can be made. of date of birth to St Mary’s School by the closing date Notes (these notes form part of the oversubscription criteria) which is 15 January 2016. Looked After Children has the same meaning as in section If you do not complete both the CAF and SIF and return 22 of the Children Act 1989, and means any child in the them by the closing date, the governing body may be care of a local authority or provided with accommodation unable to consider fully your application and it is very by them (e.g. children with foster parents).

124 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Catholic means a member of a church in full Communion summer term for the whole school year. Summer born with the See of Rome. This includes members of Eastern children (born 1 April – 31 August) must start on 1 April Catholic Churches. This will normally be evidenced 2016 at the latest. Parents wishing to defer entry must by a Certificate of Baptism in a Catholic Church or a contact the school advising them on this after a place Certificate of Reception into the full communion of has been offered. Parent can also request that their the Catholic Church. For the purposes of this policy, child attends part-time until their child reaches statutory it includes a Looked After Children who is part of a school age. Catholic family where a priest’s reference demonstrates Children educated outside their chronological age group that the child would have been baptised or received if it were not for their status as a looked after child (e.g. Any application for a child to be educated out of his/ a Looked After Childrenin the process of adoption by a her age group will be considered by governors on an Catholic family). individual basis and will only be granted in exceptional circumstances. Parents should write to the Chair of Practising Catholic means a Catholic child from a governors during the autumn term in the (academic) year practising Catholic family with weekly family attendance of application, giving reasons and providing compelling at Sunday Mass and this practice is verified by a professional evidence. reference from a Catholic priest in the standard format laid down by the diocese. There is no automatic transfer from nursery to Reception Adopted - An adopted child is a child who is adopted How places were allocated last year under the terms of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 s.46 (adoption orders). on offer day Criteria Number Furthest Child Arrangements Order – A Child Arrangements of places distance Order is an order under the terms of the Children Act (in metres) 1989 s.8 settling the arrangements to be made as to the person with whom the child is to live. Children ‘looked Catholic With Sibling 6 1229.06 after’ immediately before the order is made, qualify in Baptised Catholics Resident this category. In Parish With Catholic Priest Ref 7 4006.08 Special Guardianship Order – A Special Guardianship Catechumens & Eastern Order is an order under the terms of the Children Act Christian Church 4 2220.95 1989 s.14A which defines it as an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian(s). Faith Sibling 2 645.96 Christian for the purposes of this policy, means a Other Faiths 1 378.4 member of one of the churches affiliated to Churches Any Other Applicants 10 4847.51 Together in Britain and Ireland. Nearest School With A Vacancy 1 291.23 ‘Parent’ the person or persons who have legal responsibility for the child. ‘Family’ means Catholic or Catholics who have a legal responsibility for the child. ‘Catechumen’ means a member of the catechumenate of a Catholic church. This will normally be evidenced by a Certificate of Reception from the authorities of that church. ‘Eastern Christian Church’ includes Orthodox Churches, and is normally evidenced by a certificate of baptism or reception from the authorities of that Church.

Deferred entry Parents can defer entry for their child until their child is statutory school age. Statutory school age begins the first day of term after your child’s fifth birthday. Parents cannot, however, defer entry for children born in the

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 125 St Robert Southwell RC Primary School (4-11 year olds)

www.robsouth.org DfE number: 3043506

(LA) offices for the area in which you live. This must Head teacher: Miss Honor Beck be completed and returned to the local authority. Slough Lane, Kingsbury NW9 8YD All applicants must also complete a Supplementary Tel: 020 8204 6148 Information Form (SIF) and return this to the school Fax: 020 8905 0287 if they want to be considered as a Catholic applicant. Preference will be given to baptised Catholic children, Admissions officer:Mrs Diane Pettitt and proof of baptism and date of birth will be required. Email: [email protected] To be considered as a practising Catholic applicant the Maximum admission 2016: 60 Diocesan Priest Reference Form should be completed. Number of on-time applications last year: 126 The SIF and the diocesan Priest Reference Form are Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 451 available from the school and the SIF is also available from the local authority offices and their website. Accessibility: Medium Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC, ASC If you do not complete the forms and return them by 15 January 2016, the governing body may be unable to In Year Applications consider your application fully and it is very unlikely that your Apply to St Robert Southwell RC Primary School directly. child will get a place at the school. Late applications will not be considered until all offers have already been made. Admission arrangements St Robert Southwell Catholic Primary School is St. Robert Southwell Catholic Primary School was committed to taking its fair share of vulnerable children founded by the Catholic Church to provide education who are hard to place in accordance with locally agreed for children of Catholic families. The school is conducted protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal round of by its governing body as part of the Catholic Church admissions, governors are empowered to give absolute in accordance with its trust deed and instrument of priority to a child where admission is requested under government and seeks at all times to be a witness to any local protocol, if this carries the agreement of both Jesus Christ. the governing body and the diocese for the current As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic admission year. The governing body has this power even education for all our pupils. Catholic doctrine and when admitting such a child would exceed the normal practice permeate every aspect of the school’s activity; admission number. therefore it is essential that the Catholic character of the school’s education be fully supported by all families in Application procedures and timetable the school. All families applying are therefore expected The completed CAF must be submitted to the local to give their full, unreserved and positive support for the authority by the publicised closing date, 15 January 2016, aims and ethos of the school. and the SIF and Priest Reference Form returned to the school by that same date. Notification letters will be sent Applications and allocation of places out by the local authority on behalf of the governors on The school governing body has sole responsibility April 16 2015. for admissions to this school. It intends to admit 60 pupils, the Published Admissions Number (PAN), to Criteria in the event of the Reception classes in the school year that begins over-subscription in September 2016, from the applications received. Where there are more applicants for places than the Applications are invited for September 2016 from number available, places will be offered according to the families whose child are four years of age between 1 following order of priority: September 2015 and 31 August 2016. Offers of places will be sent to parents by the local authority on behalf of 1. Catholic Looked After Children and Catholic children the governors on or about 18 April 2016. who have been adopted or made subject to Child Arrangements Orders or Special Guardianship Orders. All applicants must complete a Common Application Form (CAF) available online or from the local authority 2. Baptised Catholic children of practising Catholic staff,

126 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 where the member of staff has been a permanent circumstances at the time of application. Parents should employee of the school for at least two years at the write to the Chair of Governors during the autumn term time of application. in the (academic) year of application, giving reasons and providing compelling professional evidence. 3. Baptised Catholic children from practising Catholic families who have siblings at the school at the time Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any the child would be admitted onto the school roll. of the categories listed above would lead to oversubscription, the following provisions will be applied: 4. Baptised Catholic children from practising families who are resident in the parish of St Sebastian and St n The attendance of a sibling at the school at the time Pancras. the child would be admitted onto the school roll, will give the applicant priority within each category. 5. Baptised Catholic children from practising families, resident in other parishes. Tie break 6. Other Baptised Catholic children. Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any of 7. Other Looked After Children and children who have the sub-categories listed above would still lead to over- been adopted or made subject to Child Arrangements subscription, the places, up to the admissions number, Orders. will be offered to those living nearest to the school. 8. Other children who will have a sibling at the school at The school will adopt the local authrity’s method of the time the child would be admitted onto the school measuring distance between the school gate and the roll. front door of the home address, using a computer to 9. Catechumens and children from other Christian calculate the distance in a straight line. Where there churches whose application is supported by a minister are applicants living in flats at the same address, the of their religion. distance will include the distance from the front door of the flat within the building,i. e., the flat nearest the 10. Any other children. main door of the building will have priority.

Multiple applications from the same Nursery admissions family There is a separate admissions process for entry to the Where the final place is offered to a child who has a Nursery. twin/triplets etc. applying for a place in the same school year, these siblings will also be admitted, as an exception In-year admissions to the infant class size limit. In year applications are made directly to the school in the same way as those made during the normal Exceptional need admissions round. If a place is available and there is no The Governing Body will give top priority, within each waiting list, the local authority will be informed, the category, to a child who has exceptional social, medical, Common Application Form (CAF) and the Supplementary pastoral or other needs that can only be met at this Information Form (SIF) will be completed and the child school. You must state this at the time of application on will be admitted. If more applications are received than the SIF. Along with your application you should submit there are places available, then applications will be supporting evidence which sets out the particular reason ranked by the governing body in accordance with the why St Robert Southwell is the most suitable school and oversubscription criteria, with the following modifications: the difficulties that could be caused if your child has to Catholic children without an offer of a school place attend another school. Supporting evidence must be in elsewhere are given priority immediately after Catholic the form of a report from an appropriate professional, ‘looked after’ children. If a place cannot be offered at this like a doctor, social worker or priest and be submitted time then you may ask us for the reasons and you will together with your application forms. be informed of your right to appeal. You will be offered the opportunity of being placed on a waiting list. This The admission of summer born waiting list will be maintained by the governing body, in children the order of the over-subscription criteria and not in the order in which the applications are received. The waiting Any application for a child to be educated out of his/ list will be held open for at least one school year. When a her age group will be considered by governors on an place becomes available, the governing body will decide individual basis and will only be granted in exceptional who is at the top of the list and make an offer.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 127 Appeals Details of this separate procedure are set out in the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice. Please see your health Unsuccessful applicants will be given, on request, visitor and the head teacher for more information. reasons relating to the over-subscription criteria listed above and advised of their right to appeal to an Notes (these notes form part of the over- independent appeal panel. There is no right of appeal for subscription criteria) nursery applications. Parent the person or persons who have legal Appeals must be lodged within a minimum of 20 school responsibility for the child. days of the notification of the decision not to allocate a Looked after has the same meaning as in section 22 of place and must be set out on an appeal form available the Children Act. 1989 and means any child in the care from the school. The closing date for appeals is 27 May of a local authority or provided with accommodation by 2016. Other documents may be sent in support of an them (e.g. children with foster parents). appeal but must be received no later than seven days Adopted an adopted child is a child who is adopted before the hearing. Parents will be given ten school days under the terms of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 notice of the appeal hearing and be sent the school’s s.46 (adoption orders). reason for not allocating a place at least seven days before the hearing. Appeal hearings held to consider Child Arrangements Order is an order under the terms of cases arising from on time applications for a place at the Children Act 1989 s.8 settling the arrangements to secondary transfer will be heard within 40 school days be made as to the person with whom the child is to live. of the deadline for appeal. The appeal panel will give its Children ‘looked after’ immediately before the order is decision in writing, together with the reasons, to parents made qualify in this category. within ten school days of the hearing. Special Guardianship Order is an order under the terms of the Children Act 1989 s. 14A which defines it as an Reception year deferred entry order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s Applicants may defer entry to school up until statutory special guardian(s). school age, i.e, the first day of term following the child’s Catholic means a member of a church in full communion fifth birthday. Application is made in the usual way and with the See Of Rome. This includes the Eastern Catholic then the deferment is requested. The place will then be Churches. This will normally be evidenced by a Certificate held until the first day of the spring or summer term. of Baptism in a Catholic Church or a Certificate of Applicants may also request that their child attend part- Reception into the full communion of the Catholic Church. time until statutory school age is reached. Practising Catholic means a Catholic child from a Waiting list practising Catholic family, where this practice is verified by a reference from a Catholic priest in the standard In addition to the right of appeal for school places, format laid down by the diocese. unsuccessful candidates will be offered the opportunity to be placed on a waiting list. The waiting list will be Catechumen means a member of the catechumenate of maintained in order of the over-subscription criteria set a Catholic church. This will normally be evidenced by a out above and not in the order in which applications Certificate of Reception into the Order of Catechumens. are received or added to the list. This waiting list will be Christian for the purposes of this policy, means a held open for at least one school year. Applications held member of one of the Churches affiliated to ‘Churches on the waiting list after one school year will be ranked Together in Britain and Ireland’. according to the oversubscription criteria which is current at the time the waiting list is ranked. Resident in the parish. To be considered a resident in the parish, the applicant’s address must be within the parish Pupils with a statement of special boundary line which is denoted on the Westminster educational needs/education, health Diocese parish boundary map – April 2003. This is the Parish of St Sebastian and St Pancras, Kingsbury Green, and care plan Hay Lane, Brent Deanery. A copy of this map is posted in The admission of pupils with a statement of Special the lobby of St Sebastian and St Pancras Parish Church. Educational Needs or Education Health and Care A copy is also available from the school and it can be Plan (EHC) Plan is dealt with by a completely separate viewed online: www.rcdow.org.uk/fileupload/sitebuilder procedure. This procedure is integral in making and boundaries/Kingsburygreen maintaining Statements by the pupil’s home local authority. Sibling includes step/half brothers or sisters living at the

128 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 same address. Residential Address is where the child lives for 50% or more of the school week. Distance from school means distance as measured by a straight line, from the front door of the child’s residential address (including flats) to a point at the school. If distances are identical, the governing body will draw lots in the presence of an independent witness.

How places were allocated last year on offer day Criteria Number Furthest distance of places (in metres) SEN 2 Baptised Catholic With Sibling 25 3576.83 Baptised Catholics Resident In Parish 17 1473.46 Bapt Pract Catholic, Priest Support, Att Nursery 8 1985.68 Bapt Pract Catholic, Resident In Other Parish 4 3054.02 Other Children With Sibling 1 864.45 Catechumens & Eastern Christian Church 3 1532.76

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 129 Sudbury Primary School (3-11 year olds)

www.sudbury.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3042076

Head teacher: Ms Uma Pandya 4. Late applications Watford Road, Wembley HA0 3EY Initial offers will be made to those children whose parents applied before the designated closing date for Tel: 020 8385 4444 applications. Late applications will be received by the local Fax: 020 8385 4441 authority but will not be considered by the governing Admissions officer:Mrs Stella Bowes body for admission until after those submitted on time Email: [email protected] have been determined. This means that late applications Maximum admission 2016: 120 may jeopardize the chance of gaining a school place. Number of on-time applications last year: 355 5. Repeat applications Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 930 It will be the policy of governors not to consider repeat Accessibility: High applications in the same academic year unless there is a Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): ASC material change of circumstances. In Year Applications Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team 6. Criteria for admission at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions Where there are more requests for admission than places available governors will use the following criteria (or Admission arrangements admission rules) to determine which children are offered places. These criteria are applied in priority order: Sudbury Primary School has been an academy since September 2012 and this means that the governing body i. Looked After Children (Children in Public is the admission authority for the school. Governors Care) and children who were looked after or therefore agree the policy, consult on it and make the final ceased to be so because they were adopted (or determination of arrangements. They will consider the became subject to a Residence Order or Special applications and determine which children can be offered Guardianship Order) places, in accordance with their published admission An application for admission to school must provide criteria as set down in this document. Governors will also evidence of being in public care or previously in care be responsible for ensuring that parents who are refused prior to adoption. Usually this will be evidenced by the places have an opportunity to appeal. child’s social worker. Governors have reviewed their admission policy for ii. Children for whom it is essential to be 2016/17 and have undertaken the statutory consultation. admitted to Sudbury School because of special circumstances to do with significant medical 2. Admission number needs, social needs or special educational needs. The published admission number for Reception year group Anyone can make an application under this criterion. entry will be 120. There are 90 part time nursery places. However, the application must be supported with a recommendation in writing from a recognised 3. Making application professional of senior status, medical consultant, Copies of the school prospectus are available directly head teacher of another school or other appropriate from Sudbury primary school. Parents wishing to officer. The recommendation for Sudbury school should make application will however need to do so using demonstrate knowledge of the school in terms of the Common Application Form (CAF). These forms resources and organisation which deems it essential that are available on line from the local authority from 1 the child be admitted here. This criterion must relate to September 2015 and the closing date for application the child’s medical, social or special needs and not those is 15 January 2016. Children will start school at the of another member of the family. beginning of the academic year in which their fifth iii. Brothers or sisters of a child who already birthday falls. The offer letters will be sent out on 16th attends Sudbury Primary School and who will April 2016. continue to do so on the date of admission.

130 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, a new admission number and the school will revert to its adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, or the published admission number as children leave. child of the parent/carer’s partner where the child for whom the school place is sought is living in the same 9. Residence family unit at the same address as that sibling. By completing the common application form supplied by iv. Children of staff Brent, parents seeking admission for their children are To qualify for this criterion the member of staff confirming that the address they are giving is their child’s concerned must have been in post at the school for two permanent residence. If parents change address after years at the date of application. The only exception to completing the Common Application Form they MUST this rule will be where the school can demonstrate a notify the school and Brent Council immediately. It is recruitment issue for that post. important to give the correct address because if a place is offered on the basis of an incorrect address, the place v. Children living in the school’s catchment area will be withdrawn. Each school is allocated a catchment area which has Where a child lives with parents with shared been established by the local authority. A map showing responsibility, each for part of the week, the address the roads in the Sudbury catchment area is available on where the child lives is determined using a joint request from the Local Authority and the school. declaration from the parents stating the pattern of vi. Children living outside the school’s catchment area residence. If a child’s residence is split equally between Children who do not fall into any of the previous categories both parents, then parents will be asked to determine can apply. which is the residential address for the purpose of admission to school. If the residence is not split equally Tie-breaker: between both parents then the address used will be where the child spends the majority of the school week. In the event of over subscription in any of the criteria (or sub criteria), places will be allocated according to the proximity 10. Waiting lists of the pupil’s home to the school measured by the shortest distance. The distance from home to school will be Unsuccessful applicants will be placed on the school’s measured by straight-line, from a point in the property to waiting list which will be maintained for the remainder a point in the school determined by the grid references for of the school year for which admission is sought. The the centre of the school’s post code. The measuring system waiting list will be maintained in order of how the is an integral part of the admission software produced by application meets the admission criteria and not by Tribal Technology Ltd. It uses Ordnance Survey maps and length of time on the list. This means that a child’s the LLPG (Local Land Property Gazetteer). position on the list can go up and as well as down depending on the child’s circumstances and those of 7. Children with a statement of special other children on the list. educational needs The waiting list will be closed at the end of each The law requires Governors to admit pupils with a academic year and parents who wish their children’s statement of special educational need where the Local name to remain on the list will need to write to the authority has specifically named Sudbury Primary School school to advise them. as the most appropriate placement. These applications will usually be agreed in advance of the main allocation 11. Applications in previous years process. Where they are a late application to the school or In 2015 the number of applications for the Reception applications to year groups another than the normal point year group admission received on time was 355. of entry, Governors can be required by the Local Authority to admit even if the admission number has been reached. 12. Applications for entry to other year groups 8. Twins, triplets and other children of Applications received for entry into other year groups will multiple births be considered on the basis of any available vacancies and In the event that the school has one place to offer and the criterion into which they fall. Parents will however the next child on the list is one of twins, triplets or other need to be aware that at the time of drafting this policy children of multiple births, the Governing Body will offer all year groups are full. Application for these year groups places to them all recognising that this will not constitute will be made via the local authority.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 131 13. Right of appeal Where a child has been refused a place at the school, parents will be advised of their right to appeal against the decision of the governing body to an independent appeal panel. This will be convened by the governing body and clerked by an independent clerk. Parents will be asked to contact the school within 20 school days of the date the place has been refused to advise of their intention to submit an appeal. They will then be given an appeal form to complete and lodge back with the school within a further ten school days which will be the closing date for receipt of appeals. Hearings will be arranged within 40 school days of the closing date for receipt of appeal forms.

13. Equal opportunities In dealing with applications for admission governors will have full regard to equal opportunities legislation.

14. Named contact Parents seeking more information about these admissions arrangements should contact the school office and ask to speak to Mrs S Bowes.

15. Admission to nursery The governing body will follow the same criteria for admission to nursery. There will no be no differentiation in any of the criteria between residents of Brent or other authorities.

How places were allocated last year on offer day

Criteria Number Furthest of places distance (in metres) Sibling 38 1749.14 Catchment Area 78 1419.61

132 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 The Kilburn Park School Foundation (7-11 year olds) www.kilburnpark.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3045204

Head teacher: Mr Laurence Keel Criteria Malvern Road, London NW6 5RG If we are oversubscribed the following criteria will be applied, in the order set out, to decide which children to admit: Tel: 020 7624 7603 Fax: 020 7328 9310 1. Looked After Children or previously Looked After Children. Admissions officer:Mrs Geraldine Breen A Looked After Child is a child who is (a) in the Email: [email protected] care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise Maximum admission 2016: 60 of their social services functions (see the definition in Number of on-time applications last year: 51 Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at the time of Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 209 making an application to a school. Previously Looked Accessibility: Not specified After Children are children who were looked after, but Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): BC ceased to be so because they were adopted. In Year Applications 2. Siblings (brothers or sisters) of children currently Apply to The Kilburn Park School Foundation directly. attending the school; and will continue to do so on the date of admission. Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, Admission arrangements step brother or sister, or the child of the parent/carer’s Our policy is to fairly and openly consider every partner where the child for whom the school place application to The Kilburn Park School Foundation is sought is living in the same family unit at the same regardless of ethnicity, gender, ability or religious belief. address as that sibling. If you wish to make an application for this school you 3. The children who transfer from Carlton Vale Infant will need to contact your local council. If you are a Brent School, which is on an adjacent site. resident you need to contact Brent Council’s School 4. Children for whom it is essential to be admitted to a Admissions Service on 020 8937 3110 or visit www. specific school because of special circumstances to do brent.gov.uk/admissions. with significant medical needs, social needs or special All applications will be considered in line with our educational needs. published admission arrangements. Outcomes of It is open to any parent to make an application under applications will be sent to you by Brent Council on this criterion. The application should be supported, behalf of the governing body. Unsuccessful applicants where possible, with a recommendation in writing will be placed on the waiting list. from a recognised professional of senior status; medical Please note that there is no automatic transfer from consultant, head teacher of current school or other Carlton Vale Infant School to Kilburn Park Junior School. appropriate officer. Waiting lists will be maintained throughout the school year. The recommendation for this specific school should A child’s position on the waiting list does not depend upon demonstrate knowledge of the school in terms of the time they have been on the list but will be determined resources and organisation which deems it essential that by how they meet the oversubscription criteria. This means the named pupil be admitted to the specific school. that a child’s position on the list can go down as well as This criterion relates to the child’s medical, social and up, depending upon the child’s circumstances and those special needs. Not any member of the child’s family. of other applicants. The waiting list will be closed each Decisions regarding whether children fall under this year and will not roll over. Parents wishing to stay on the criterion are made by the governing body. waiting list will be required to submit a request to Brent Council’s School Admission Service. 5. The children whose homes are in closest walking distance to the school; In each criterion priority will be given to those living nearest to the school measured using the shortest

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 133 walking distance using road networks including public rights of way. A public right of way is one which is determined by The Countryside Act 1968. If you would like a copy of The Countryside Act 1968 please contact the Brent School Admissions Service on 020 8937 3110. Distance will be measured in a straight line from the front door of the child’s home address (including flats) to the main entrance of the school, using the local authority’s computerised measuring system, with those living closer to the school receiving higher priority. *Home residence is considered as the address where the pupil spends the majority of time during term time. Where a child lives with parents with shared responsibility, each for part of a week, the address where the child lives is determined using a joint declaration from the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s residence is split equally between both parents, then parents will be asked to determine which is the residential address for the purpose of admission to school. If the residence is not spilt equally between both parents then the address used will be the address where the child spends the majority of the school week. Please note: In the event that the school has one place to offer and the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets or other children of multiple births, the policy of the school is not to separate them even if this means that the school will temporarily go over the published Admissions Number.

Appeals If you are not offered a place and wish to appeal, you need to appeal in writing to the chair of governors within 20 school days of receipt of the letter. An Independent panel of three members will meet to hear the appeal within 30 school days of the receipt of the appeal.

Casual admissions Casual admissions will be coordinated through the school.

How places were allocated last year on offer day

Criteria Number Furthest distance of places (in metres) Distance 4 Feeder School 26 Sibling 11 Social/ Medical 1

134 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Wembley High Technology College (4-19 year olds) www.whtc.co.uk DfE number: 3044006

This criterion relates to the child’s medical, social Head teacher: Mrs Gill Bal OBE and special needs and does not include any other East Lane, North Wembley HA0 3NT member of the child’s family. The supporting evidence Tel: 020 8385 4800 should set out the particular reasons Wembley High Fax: 020 8385 4899 Technology College is the most suitable school and difficulties that would be caused if the child had to Admissions officer: Ms Davinder Guron attend another school. Email: [email protected] iv Children of Wembley High Technology College staff, Maximum admission 2016: 90 teaching and non-teaching, who have been employed Number of on-time applications last year: 171 for two or more years and who meet a subject Number of pupils on the roll at January 2014: 30 shortage requirement or college need. Accessibility: High v Proximity to the school (for children who do not Breakfast Club (BC) or After School Club (ASC): No fall within criteria i – iv) distance will be measured In Year Applications in a straight line from the front door of the child’s Apply to Wembley High Technology College directly. permanent address (including flats) to the school reception, (using the local authority’s computerised measuring system), with those living nearest to the Admission arrangements school being accorded the highest priority. Where applications exceed the number of places available, offers of places will be made using the Tie-breaker following criteria in order of priority: If two or more students have equal priority under criteria i Children in Public Care (Looked After Children) to i-iii, the criterion of proximity to the school will apply include previously Looked After Children. with those living nearest to the school (in a straight line from the front door of the child’s permanent address to An application for admission to the school must be made the school reception) being accorded the highest priority. by the person with parental responsibility and/or the child’s social worker. Admission to reception under local ii Children who have a brother or sister attending the authority arrangements school in the year in which the application is made and will continue to be on roll at the date of admission. The school’s admission number for Reception places in September 2016 is 90. Applications are made on Twins, triplet and other children of application forms available from the local authority of multiple births the borough in which your child lives. Completed forms should be returned to that local authority for processing In the event that the school has one place to offer in accordance with the coordinated admissions scheme. and the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets or other children of multiple births, the policy Admission to Year 7 under local of the school is not to separate them even if this means authority secondary transfer that the school will temporarily go over the Published Admissions Number. arrangements The school’s admission number for Year 6 transfer (Note: brother or sister connections will only be considered into Year 7 in September 2016 is 210. Children from if the brother or sister is currently attending the school.) Wembley High Technology College Primary School iii Children for whom it is essential to be admitted in Year 6 will transfer to Wembley High Technology to Wembley High Technology College because of College in Year 7. Applications are made on application special circumstances to do with significant medical forms available from the local authority of the borough needs, social needs or special educational needs. in which your child lives. Completed forms should The recommendation must be received in writing be returned to that local authority for processing in from a consultant at a NHS hospital or equivalent. accordance with the coordinated admissions scheme.

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 135 In year admissions The Finance Committee on behalf of the governing body reviews this policy on an annual basis. In year applications are managed by Wembley High Technology College. How places were allocated last year Children with a statement of special on offer day educational needs Criteria Number Furthest If your child has a statement of Special Educational Needs of places distance the local authority will process your application for a (in metres) school place as it is their responsibility to arrange SEN Sibling 3 2417.94 provision and consider the suitability of individual schools. Distance 48 5102.75 Right of Appeal Nearest School With A Vacancy 12 2732.52 If the school is unable to offer a place there is a statutory right of appeal to an independent appeal panel.

Appeals under the Coordinated Admission Scheme Admissions appeals for on-time applications (i.e. those relating to decisions sent on national offer date) will be heard by 30 June 2016. Appeals must be lodged within 20 school days from the date of notification that the application was unsuccessful. Please contact the school for a Wembley High Technology College appeal form (which should be returned to the school’s admission secretary).

Late applications under the coordinated admission scheme The school will comply with the Local Authority regarding Late Applications as detailed in its school guide. Waiting lists Lists will be maintained by the school from September 2016. A child’s position on the waiting list does not depend upon the time they have been on the list but will be determined by how they meet the oversubscription criteria. This means that a child’s position on the list can go down as well as up, depending upon the child’s circumstances and those of other applicants. The waiting list will be closed each year and will not roll over.

Hard To Place and excluded students from other schools The school will work closely with the local authority, in accordance with local protocols, regarding students who fall into these categories. Children who are the subject of a direction by a local authority to admit or who are allocated to a school in accordance with the agreed in year fair access protocol must take precedence over those on a waiting list.

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Special Educational Needs Assessment Service (SENAS) Transfer arrangements for children Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley HA9 0FJ. with Statements Email: [email protected] The main admission criteria and application processes do not apply to children who have a Statement of Special Policy of Brent Council Educational Needs. The local authority will apply for Brent Council’s policy is that children with Special places on behalf of all such children. Educational Needs (SEN) should attend their local Parents are welcome to visit schools. You should contact primary school wherever possible. A small number of schools directly to arrange this. Where parents want children who have the most complex needs attend a to express a preference for a maintained mainstream special school or have special provision attached to a school, the council must in accordance with Schedule 27 mainstream school. Despite this, the vast majority of of the Education Act 1996, name the parent’s preferred children with SEN do attend their local primary school. choice of school unless: Brent Council’s Special Educational Needs Assessment a The school is unsuitable to the child’s age, ability, Service (SENAS) will discuss this with parents and provide aptitude or special educational needs or; information regarding the most appropriate placements for individual children. b The child’s attendance at the school would be incompatible with the efficient education of other Transfer arrangements for children pupils or the efficient use of resources. without Statements If parents are not happy with the school the council Children who have SEN but do not have a Statement will proposes to name in Part 4 of the Statement they transfer to primary school through the normal admission should discuss this, in the first instance, with the Special procedures. Educational Needs Assessment Service (SENAS). The Code of Practice on School Admissions states: Children with SEN, with or without Statements, are entitled to the services of Brent Parent Partnership. “Children with Special Educational Needs, but without For further information you can contact the Brent Statements must be treated as fairly as other applicants. Parent Partnership Service on 020 8937 3434. Parents Admissions authorities may not refuse to admit a pupil may also use the free services available from Kids, because they consider themselves unable to cater for his London SEN Mediation Service, which can be contacted or her special needs.” on 020 7229 0845. Admission authorities must consider applications from children who have Special Educational Needs but no Statement, on the basis of the school’s published admissions criteria. Transfer arrangements for children who are undergoing statutory assessment It is vital that you apply for a place in the usual way through completing the normal Common Application Form (CAF).

BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 137 Special schools and specialist units/ Phoenix Arch School centres in Brent with primary Head teacher: Judith Ann Towell provision Address: Drury Way, Neasden, London, NW10 0NQ Tel: 020 8451 6961 Special schools in Brent cater for the small number of Fax: 020 8830 1352 children who have complex needs that cannot be met Email: [email protected] at their local primary school. All applications to special Number of places at school: 30 schools must be made in conjunction with the Special Age range: 5–11 Educational Needs Assessment Service (SENAS). You A special school for pupils with social, emotional and cannot apply directly to these schools. The information behavioural difficulties (SEBD) and additional provision provided below is designed to inform parents of the for pupils with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The provision available in Brent. Phoenix Arch seeks to provide a caring, safeguarded The Village School and learning environment which encourages children to Head teacher: Ms K Johnson discover and develop their talents and skills so that they Address: Grove Park, London NW9 0JY can realise their potential as fulfilled and effective citizens Tel: 020 8204 3293 of the future. Fax: 020 8206 1103 We aim to achieve this by: Email: [email protected] n Ensuring access to a broad, balanced and stimulating Number of places at school – 235 curriculum which fulfils statutory requirements meets Age range: 2–19 the identified needs of each pupil and reflects the Special school for nursery, primary, secondary aged pupils cultural diversity of our society. and post 16, with complex physical, medical needs and a n Developing close links with parents/carers and the range of communication, learning and sensory needs. home environment to celebrate achievement, share Woodfield School concerns and forge effective strategies to support each child’s progress. Head teacher: Ms Desi Lodge-Patch Address: Glenwood Avenue, London NW9 7LY n Ensuring a whole school commitment to a Tel: 020 8205 1977 comprehensive and effective positive behaviour Fax: 020 8205 5877 policy with the emphasis on celebrating success and Email: [email protected] achievement in all aspects of the children’s lives. Number of places at school: 110 n Demonstrating our commitment to equal Age range: 11-16 opportunities for all with respect to social For pupils aged from 11 to 16 with moderate learning background, gender, age, ethnicity, faith and disability difficulties, social and communication disorders and (physical and mental) through all our practices, autism. Ten of the above 100 places are for pupils policies and protocols. diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) who The Phoenix Arch has provision for 30 children with are taught by specialist teachers in the autistic base. Statements or draft Statements, for SEBD. Attainment Manor Special School on entry is usually, but not always, lower than average Head teacher: Mrs Jayne Jardine as most children have had gaps in their education Chamberlayne Road, Kensal Rise, London, NW10 3NT Tel: as a result of their SEBD and sometimes because of 020 8968 3160 additional learning difficulties. This is addressed through Fax: 020 8968 3075 a programme of personalised learning targeted at the Email: [email protected] level of the pupil in order for them to progress. Age range: 4–12 Increasingly children have additional needs identified in their Statements, which may be manifested in one or more of the following areas:

n Social and communication difficulties

n Medical needs including mental health needs

n Physical difficulties.

138 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Applications to The Phoenix Arch are made through the Specialist outreach services Special Educational Needs Assessment Service (SENAS). Where children do not attend a specialist provision, When a place has been offered, the child and family Brent outreach teams offer a continuum of specialist will be invited to visit the school to discuss admission support to pupils and schools which is flexible in nature protocols and procedures. and tailored to meet individual needs. Pupils who access Classes are small with a high adult child ratio to facilitate these services have a medical diagnosis of significant access to a personalised curriculum and to support hearing impairment, visual impairment or autistic positive behaviour throughout the school day. The school spectrum disorder and usually a Statement of SEN. aims to provide a range of therapeutic interventions and Brent Deaf and Hearing Impairment Service it is expected that parent/carers and children will engage (BDHIS) positively with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) when advised. Head of Service: Ms Emma Dudley Team Leader: Mrs E Clery Kingsbury Green Primary School Tel: 020 8937 3254 Hearing Impaired Unit Brent Visual Impairment Service (BUIS) Head teacher: Ms Laura Wynne Team Leader: Mrs E Clery Teacher in Charge: Anita Tahmasebbi Tel: 020 8937 3254 Old Kenton Lane, London NW9 9ND Tel: 020 8204 9529 Brent Outreach Autism Team (BOAT) Number of places at school: 16 Based at Brent Civic Centre Age range: 3–11 Service Co-ordinator: Ms C Henshaw Tel: 020 837 4659 This is an additionally resourced provision for children with hearing impairment.

Oakington Manor Language Unit Head teacher: Mrs S Libson Teacher in Charge: Mrs S Nuttall Oakington Manor Drive, Wembley, Middlesex HA9 6NF Tel: 020 8902 2871 F ax: 020 8903 6139 Number of places at the school: 35 Age range: 4–11 This is an additionally resourced provision for children with speech and language impairment and children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

Fawood Children’s Centre Head teacher: Mark Cole Teacher in Charge: Joan Blake 35 Fawood Avenue, Harlesden, London, NW10 8DX Tel: 020 8965 9334 Number of places at the school: 20 Part Time Age range: 3–5 This is an additionally resourced provision for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

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Free school meals free school meals or who are in receipt of their maximum level of Working Tax Credit. This will remove the lack of To be eligible for free school meals you must be in affordable transport as a barrier to choice for these families. receipt of one of the following benefits: The position is different for primary and secondary schools: n Income Support (IS) or Income Based Job Seekers Allowance (IBJSA). n For children of primary age, transport will only be provided to the nearest suitable school, but for those n An income-related employment and support allowance. in low income families aged 8–11, local authorities n Support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum must ensure that free transport is provided for Act 1999. children living more than two miles from the school.

n Guaranteed element of State Pension Credit. n For children of secondary age, local authorities must n Child Tax Credit, (provided you are not also entitled to ensure that those from low income families have free Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income transport to any one of the three nearest suitable of no more than£ £16,190.00). schools, where the distance travelled is between two and six miles. Local authorities must also ensure that n Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for four weeks after transport is provided to the nearest school preferred you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit. on the grounds of religion or belief where this is n Universal Credit. between two and 15 miles away. Children who receive a qualifying benefit in their own In London, travel is free on buses for children up to right are also allowed to receive free school meals. 18 years of age. Where it is possible to travel free of charge the council would expect that option to be taken. Children under the compulsory school age who are in However, where a journey is considered too long (more full-time education may also be entitled to receive free than an hour by bus) or too complicated (more than school meals. two changes) to be undertaken by bus the council will You must provide us with your NI or NASS number and provide assistance with tube or train fares. The council DOB in order for us to check your eligibility with the will consider all applications submitted. Application forms Department of Education, Eligibility Check Service. are available from the Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, If you are already in receipt of free school meals and Wembley HA9 0FJ or telephone 020 8937 3110. nothing has changed then you do not need to reapply. We will check with the Benefits Agency if you get any of these Disability Discrimination Act benefits. We may have to contact you again if we require – information for parents evidence or information from you. You can make an In September 2002 the Disability Discrimination Act application at any time during the year, for example, if you (DDA) was extended, and it became illegal for any school are made redundant or start receiving income support. to discriminate against disabled pupils (either current Applications must be made to the local council where or prospective), and parents can now seek redress via the school is situated. For children attending a Brent the new SEN and Disability Tribunal, and through the school all applications must be made to Brent Council. admissions and exclusions appeal panels. Under the DDA it is illegal for anyone providing goods, facilities or services Application forms can be obtained from to unjustifiably discriminate against a disabled person, and Brent Customer Service, Brent Civic Centre, Engineers this applies to schools and the provision of education. Way, Wembley HA9 0FJ . A person is considered to have a disability if he or You can apply online at www.brent.gov.uk/ she has a physical or mental impairment which has a or telephone . freeschoolmeals 020 8937 3110 substantial and long term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. Home to school travel Since September 2002, councils and school governing The Education and Inspections Act 2006 extends rights bodies have been required to treat disabled pupils to free home to school transport to maintained schools equally, and to make reasonable adjustments to and academies for children from low income families. ensure disabled pupils are not put at a substantial This is defined as those whose children are entitled to disadvantage compared to non-disabled pupils. The new

140 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 responsibilities cover: n Admissions n Exclusions n Education and associated services. This covers: n All teaching provided in the school, both by teachers and other school staff. n Procedures and activities undertaken at lunch and during other breaks. n Activities such as after-school clubs, school trips, and school orchestras. n It does not include adult education provided in schools and services to parents. The following are examples of situations where a school must not treat disabled children in a discriminatory manner: n In the way they decide who will get a place in a school (this includes any rules when schools are oversubscribed i.e. more people apply than there are places available, and how they use the rules). n In the terms in which they offer pupils a place at the school. n By refusing to accept, or deliberately not accepting, an application form from a disabled pupil for admission. It is also illegal for councils and school governing bodies to discriminate unfairly against disabled people when providing non-educational services on the school premises. Non-educational activities might include leisure activities for children and adults that are not related to educational development, school fundraising events or any community use of school facilities. How to complain about Brent Council We always try to provide excellent services. But sometimes things go wrong and when they do, we want to know so that we can put things right and learn from our mistakes. Ways to complain: n Online at www.brent.gov.uk/complaints. n Telephone Brent Customer Services on 020 8937 1234.

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Brent School Admissions Service For information/enquiries about admissions to Brent reception and junior schools you can visit Brent Customer Service based at Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley HA9 0FJ. Tel: 020 8937 3110 Email [email protected] www.brent.gov.uk/admissions

Brent Children’s and Families Information Service For information/enquiries about childcare in Brent including out-of-school clubs. Based at Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley HA9 0FJ. Tel: 020 8937 3001 Email [email protected]

Neighbouring local authorities Barnet Tel: 020 8359 7651 Email: [email protected] www.barnet.gov.uk

Camden Tel: 020 7974 1625 Email: [email protected] www.camden.gov.uk

Ealing Tel: Primary: 020 8825 5511 Tel: Secondary: 020 8825 5522 Email: [email protected] www.ealing.gov.uk

Harrow Tel: 020 8901 2620 Email: [email protected] www.harrow.gov.uk

Hillingdon Tel: 01895 556 644 Email: [email protected] www.hillingdon.gov.uk

For other local authority address details visit www.education.gov.uk

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