hackney’s primary schools

2015 ADMISSION GUIDE FOR PARENTS Data Protection The London Borough of Hackney is the data controller for the purposes of hackney’s the data protection Act 1998. This means that the London Borough of Hackney is responsible for making decisions about how your personal data will be processed and used. Your primary schools data will be used for the purpose of school admissions, school admission appeals, sending you questionnaires, and assessing pupils’ eligibility for various pupil benefits and services. Your data may also be used for the 2015 ADMISSION GUIDE FOR PARENTS purpose of safeguarding children and the detection of fraud. The For children needing nursery places from September 2015 information you provide will be treated confidentially at all times. and for children needing reception class places for September 2015, who were born between 1 September 2010 and 31 August 2011

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Introduction SECTION TWO 33 What must i do, if i want to request admission SECTION four 07 Foreword for parents and carers primary school admissions process to the reception class outside my child’s age Religious primary schools’ group? 27 When can my child start reception class? admissions policy 08 2015 Admission to Hackney’s primary schools 34 What is defined as a home address and 55 Holy Trinity, Church of England 27 How do I apply for a place in a reception class? what happens if I move house? 10 Apply online 56 Lubavitch House (Boys Junior), Jewish 27 What documents do I need to send with my 35 If I know that someone has used a false address 11 Timetable for admission to reception class application? 58 Lubavitch Ruth Lunzer, Girls’ Jewish – September 2015 to get a school place, can I report this to anyone? 27 How do I apply if my child has a statement of 59 Our Lady and St Joseph, Catholic 35 How do I appeal? 12 Map of nursery and primary schools and special educational needs (SEN)? transport links in Hackney 62 Simon Marks, Jewish 35 Primary in-year admissions for 2015 28 Admissions criteria for community primary 14 Nursery and primary schools in Hackney schools in Hackney? 64 St Dominic’s, Catholic (general information and contact details) TABLES AND CUT OFF DISTANCE MAPS 30 How do I apply to a religious school? 67 St John and St James, Church of England 36 Places offered at primary community schools SECTION ONE 30 How do I apply to an academy or free school? located in North West Hackney (table one) 68 St John of Jerusalem, Church of England admission to a school nursery class 37 Cut off distance map, North West Hackney 69 St John the Baptist, Church of England 23 Who do I contact to get information about 30 Applying for schools in another Local Authority? childcare? 31 If my child attends a school nursery, can I 38 Places offered at primary community schools 70 St Mary’s, Church of England located in North East Hackney (table two) 23 When can my child start in a nursery class? automatically get a place at the same school? 72 St Matthias, Church of England 39 Cut off distance map, North East Hackney 23 Why should I send my child to a nursery? 31 How can I find out if I am likely to get a place 73 St Monica’s, Catholic at a particular school? 40 Places offered at primary community schools 23 How do I apply for a nursery place at a school? 75 St Paul’s with St Michael’s, Church of England 31 How will you process my application? located in South East Hackney (table three) 24 What are the admissions criteria for nursery 77 St Scholastica’s, Catholic 41 Cut off distance map, South East Hackney schools and classes in community primary 32 Can I get priority for my child’s medical or social needs? schools? 42 Places offered at primary community schools SECTION Five located in South West Hackney (table four) 24 How does my child meet the criteria for a full 32 If I have twins or triplets, is any special USEFUL INFORMATION AND SERVICES consideration given to my application? time nursery place? 43 Cut off distance map, South West Hackney 81 Pupil benefits 32 What happens if I apply late, or want to change 24 Is there a charge for attending a nursery class in 81 Universal free school meals my preferences? 44 Places offered at primary religious schools a school in Hackney? located in Hackney (table five) 81 Free school meals for year 3-6 pupils 25 What happens if my child doesn’t get a nursery 32 When will I know the outcome of my place? application? SECTION THREE 81 Help with home to school travel academies & free primary schools’ 32 What happens if I don’t get a place at any of my 82 Transport for London’s pupils 25 Admission to nursery classes at academies, free admissions policy and religious schools preferred schools? 47 Hackney New, Free school 83 Advice and support for parents of children 25 Table: Admission to nursery schools and nursery 33 How is my child placed on the application with special educational needs classes in primary schools from September 2015 waiting list? 48 Halley House, Free school 33 What do I need to do if I want to delay my 50 Mossbourne Primary, Academy Glossary child’s start to the reception class? 84 Explanation of educational terms used in this 53 The Olive, Free school, Muslim guide

4 hackney success in the making Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 5 www.learningtrust.co.uk

Dear Parent/Carer

On behalf of the Headteachers, teachers and support staff, we would like to welcome you to Hackney.

Choosing a primary school for your child is a huge decision for any family, and we’re pleased that you, like so many other local parents, are thinking about sending your child to a Hackney school. Our local schools have changed immeasurably over the last 12 years. More than 90% of our primary schools are currently rated by Ofsted as good or outstanding and, the 2014 level four results in both 1 HACKNEY LEARNING TRUST English and maths was achieved by 77% of pupils. This success isn’t limited to our primary schools. We have had 60 VIBRANT NURSERY & PRIMARY SCHOOLS another year of good results with over 61% of students achieving five admission to or more GCSEs (including English and maths) at grades A*–C. This fantastic success owes a lot to the hard work of pupils and 1,031 INSPIRATIONAL TEACHERS teachers, as well as the support of parents. As your child becomes a school nursery class part of the Hackney school’s community, we hope you’ll want to get 20,429 SMILING FACES involved in supporting their learning and maintaining high standards of work and behaviour. 77% achieve Level 4 or above at KS2 We are dedicated to working with schools to ensure they keep improving and giving all children the best possible start in life. Follow us on Twitter! This guide explains the steps you need to take to secure your child’s @hackneysuccess place at a primary school in Hackney. You will find information about Like us on Facebook! all of our primary schools, which should help you find the best school facebook.com/hackneyschools for your child and when you’ve made a decision, how to apply for a successinthemaking place. Keep up to date at Whichever school your child begins their education at, they are www.learningtrust.co.uk guaranteed excellent opportunities. We wish you and all children Watch us on YouTube! starting primary school in Hackney the very best for the future. youtube.com/hackneysuccess

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 7 HACKNEY’S PRIMARY SCHOOLS 2015 ADMISSION GUIDE FOR PARENTS

2015 ADMISSION TO HACKNEY’S PRIMARY SCHOOLS

This booklet contains information about childcare, nursery places and applying for a primary school place.

You should read sections one, two and especially Information about school the tables in section three that show how the inspections places were allocated for community and religious All schools in Hackney are inspected regularly by schools. Please be aware that it is not possible for Ofsted. You can check the latest Ofsted reports every parent to get a place at one of their preferred by asking the school for a copy or by visiting schools. Many schools are heavily oversubscribed www.ofsted.gov.uk. Headteachers will be happy to and so you will need to think carefully before talk to you about any part of the Ofsted report for deciding which schools to apply for. We’ve also their school. included other information that you may find helpful, such as how to apply for free school meals, help with travel costs and what to do if your child Performance tables for primary has an SEN statement. schools You can get information about an individual Visiting schools school’s Key Stage 2 test results from the Department for Education (DfE) website at Our Headteachers are more than happy for parents www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance to visit their schools. We recommend that you do this because it will give you an idea of what the school has to offer. All our primary schools have Contacting Hackney Learning Trust well qualified teachers who are committed to You can call our Admissions Team on 020 8820 7397 helping your child achieve their best. Schools / 7398 / 7245 / 7150 / 7247 / 7401 – Monday to encourage parents to get involved in school life. Friday between 9am and 5pm. Alternatively, you If you do not visit schools, you can always go to can email us at [email protected]. their websites for more information. Details of their We will give you advice and guidance about the website addresses are on pages 14-21. admission process for nursery classes in primary schools, reception classes and in-year transfers to Advice and support for parents primary school. You can get independent advice to help you make sense of the process and make the right decisions about your final list of schools. The Choice Adviser, Ian Hodges, is based at Hackney Learning Trust. Ian can be contacted on 020 8820 7510 or by email at [email protected]

8 hackney success in the making Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 9 Timetable for admission to apply online at reception class – September 2015 www.eadmissions.org.uk Important dates

From 1 September 2014 you will be able to apply You can start applying on-line at www.eadmissions.org.uk (see online for a reception place. The closing date for Monday 1 September 2014 previous page for details). You can list up to six state-funded primary schools anywhere in London. all applications is Thursday 15 January 2015 Closing date for applications. You will not be able to submit an Thursday 15 January 2015 application online after this date.

Latest date for Hackney Learning Trust to transfer information Tuesday 3 February 2015 relating to applications to schools outside Hackney to the Pan London Register.

Latest date for Hackney Learning Trust to transfer information What happens after my online Friday 13 February 2015 relating to late applications to schools outside Hackney to the Pan application? London Register. Once you’ve completed and submitted your online application, you’ll receive an email telling you your Latest date for academies, free schools and voluntary-aided schools 16 digit reference number* and preferences Monday 2 March 2015 to send Hackney Learning Trust a list of their applicants, ranked expressed. Please make a note of this number with according to the school’s oversubscription criteria. apply online your username and password and check that all From Monday 1 September 2014, the online details are correct. Latest date for Hackney Learning Trust to rank pupils who have system is available 24 hours 7 days a week up to Monday 9 March 2015 applied to their community schools in line with the published the closing date of Thursday 15 January 2015. You can also upload a copy of the documents required as proof of address, council tax bill and oversubscription criteria. You can login and change your preferences at any utility bills. time until midnight of the closing date, listing any During this period, information is exchanged through the Pan If you don’t receive this email, then it’s likely that six primary schools in London. London Register about the outcome of preferences for all children your application hasn’t been submitted successfully. who are starting reception classes in September 2015. You will get the result of your application by email. In this case, you’ll need to log back into the From Monday 16 March eAdmissions website and submit your application to Monday 30 March 2015 All LAs receive information about potential offers from other LAs. Before you start again by following the online instructions. Some applicants will get more than one offer of a place. LAs will then decline any offers beneath the highest ranked school offered. You will need to register your details and provide an email address. If you have no email address, twins and multiple siblings you can get a free email account with provider If you have twins or triplets you will need to If you have applied online you will receive an email from Google mail (Gmail). complete a separate application for each child. www.eadmissions.org.uk during the evening telling you the outcome Thursday 16 April 2015 of your application. If you completed a paper application form, Once registered, you will then be sent an email Email offer of a school place Hackney Learning Trust will send you a letter telling you the outcome with details on how to start your application. of your application. You will get an email and a text relating to the outcome of your application during the evening of You must confirm at www.eadmissions.org.uk the acceptance of the 16 April 2015. You must follow the instruction to Thursday 30 April 2015 school offer. If sent a letter from Hackney Learning Trust, you must *Application reference number: accept your child’s school place directly online. return the reply slip accepting the place.

Support with online applications Friday 22 May 2015 Closing date for lodging appeals If you need technical help to complete your online Username: application you can contact the London Admissions support helpdesk on 020 8255 5555 Admission appeal hearings are arranged by independent clerk who June / July 2015 (option 1 or 4) or at [email protected]. will send you a letter with your appeal date.

Password: If you are have any other problems using the system please contact the Admissions Team on 020 8820 7150, 7247 or 7401. We are here to help.

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 11 HACKNEY’S PRIMARY SCHOOLS MAP of NurSERY AND PRIMARY schools 2015 ADMISSION GUIDE FOR PARENTS and transport links in Hackney

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12 hackney success in the making Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 13

1 HACKNEY’S PRIMARY SCHOOLS nursery AND PRIMARY schools in hackney 2015 ADMISSION GUIDE FOR PARENTS

General information and contact details.

1 baden Powell 4 Bett y Layward 6 Colvestone 9 De Beauvoir 11 Gayhurst 13 Grazebrook Ferron Road, E5 8DN Clissold Road, N16 9EX Colvestone Crescent, E8 2LG Tottenham Road, N1 4BS Gayhurst Road, E8 3EN Lordship Road, N16 0QP T. 020 7249 7121 T. 020 8985 6176 T. 020 7254 1143 T. 020 7254 2517 T. 020 7254 6138 T. 020 8802 4051 E. [email protected]. E. [email protected]. E. [email protected]. E. admin@debeauvoir. hackney. E. [email protected] E. [email protected]. sch.uk sch.uk sch.uk sch.uk www.gayhurst.hackney.sch.uk sch.uk www.bettylayward.hackney.sch.uk www.baden-powell.hackney.sch.uk www.colvestone.hackney.sch.uk www.debeauvoir.hackney.sch.uk www.grazebrook.hackney.sch.uk ASSOCIATE HEADTEACHER interim Headteacher Headteacher Headteacher Head of school Liza Hooper Head of school Marion Standing Stephen Smith Caroline King Edmund Coogan Derek Hewie Executive HEADTEACHER Executive Headteacher SCHOOL INFORMATION School information School information Louise Nichols Executive Headteacher Fiona Judge Community school Community school Community school Michelle Thomas School information Reception intake: 30 SCHOOL INFORMATION Reception intake: 30 Reception intake: 60 Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Community school School information Community school Breakfast Club: Yes After School Club: Yes Reception intake: 75 Community school Reception intake: 60 After School Club: Yes Breakfast Club: Yes Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Reception intake: 60 Nursery class: P/T 7 Comet nursery After School Club: Yes Nursery classes: F/T and P/T After School Club: Yes 20 Halcomb Street, N1 5RF Breakfast Club: Yes After School Club: Yes 2 10 Bent hal T. 020 7749 9850 gainsborough Breakfast Club: Yes Benthal Road, N16 7AU Berkshire Road, E9 5ND 5 E. [email protected] Brook 12 T. 020 8985 9310 www.cometnurseryandcc.co.uk T. 020 8985 4622 Grasmere Sigdon Road, E8 1AS 14 E. [email protected]. E. admin@gainsborough. 92 Albion Road, N16 9PD hackney New T. 020 7254 4090 1-9 Downham Road, N1 5AA sch.uk Headteacher hackney.sch.uk T. 020 7254 4564 E. [email protected] www.benthal.hackney.sch.uk Lisa Clarke www.gainsborough.hackney.sch.uk E. [email protected] T. 020 3239 0490 www.brook.hackney.sch.uk www.schoolswire.org/public/ E. [email protected] Headteacher SCHOOL infoRMATION Headteacher Headteacher grasmere008.html hackneynewprimaryschool.org Sandra Chin Nursery intake: 90 Clare Pike Kazia Fulmyk Classes: F/T and P/T (Morning Headteacher HEADTEACHER SCHOOL INFORMATION Executive HEADTEACHER Executive PRINCIPAL and afternoon sessions) Mark Derrington To be appointed Community school Jenna Clarke Reception intake: 60 Peter Hughes School information Executive HEADTEACHER 8 Daubeney School information Nursery classes: P/T School information Community school Lesley Falconer After School Club: Yes Daubeney Road, E5 0EG Community school Reception intake: 30 Community school Reception intake: 90 Nursery classes: F/T and P/T School information Reception intake: 60 T. 020 8985 4380 E. [email protected]. Nursery classes: F/T and P/T After School Club: Yes Free school 3 Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Berger sch.uk Breakfast Club: Yes Breakfast Club: Yes Reception intake: 50 Anderson Road, E9 6HB After School Club: Yes www.daubeney.hackney.sch.uk Nursery classes: none for 2015 T. 020 8985 6280 After School Club: Yes E. [email protected] Head of school Breakfast Club: Yes www.berger.hackney.sch.uk Susan Douglas Breakfast and After School Clubs Headteacher Executive HEADTEACHER Some of the primary schools listed in this section provide breakfast and/or after-school clubs. These are care schemes for Steve Gleason Janice Thomas Follow us on Twitter! which a fee is charged. @hackneysuccess SCHOOL INFORMATION School information School breakfast clubs serve food to children who arrive early at Like us on Facebook! Community school Community school school, before formal lessons begin. The way in which these clubs facebook.com/hackneyschools Reception intake: 60 Reception intake: 90 operate depends on the circumstances of the school. Further successinthemaking Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Nursery classes: P/T details are available from individual schools. Keep up to date at After School Club: Yes After School Club: Yes Hackney Learning Trust’s After School Clubs are based in the www.learningtrust.co.uk primary school and take place straight after school for children Watch us on YouTube! aged 5 to 12 years. youtube.com/hackneysuccess

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15 halley House 18 hOly Trinity 21 Kingsmead 24 Lubavitch HOUSE 26 Mandeville 28 Morningside 52-58 Arcola Street, E8 2DJ 13 Richmond Road, E8 3HY Kingsmead Way, E9 5PP (BOYS JUNIOR) Oswald Street, E5 0BT Chatham Place, E9 6LL 133-135 Clapton Common, T. 0845 459 0113 T. 020 7254 1010 T. 020 8985 5779 T. 020 8986 5249 T. 020 8985 5382 E5 9AE E. [email protected] E. [email protected]. E. [email protected]. E. mdvoffice@mandeville. E. [email protected]. www.halleyhouseschool.org.uk sch.uk sch.uk T. 020 8800 1044 hackney.sch.uk sch.uk www.holytrinity.hackney.sch.uk www.kingsmead.hackney.sch.uk E. [email protected] www.mandeville.hackney.sch.uk www.morningside.hackney.sch.uk HEADTEACHER To be appointed Headteacher ASSOCIATE Headteacher Head of School Head of school HeadTEACHER Yvonne Barnett Evelyn Deeney Rabbi S. Karasik Emma Penzer Janet Taylor School information Free school Executive Principal Executive Headteacher Executive Headteacher Executive Headteacher Executive Principal Reception intake: 60 Sian Davies Louise Nichols Freida Sudak Steve Belk Sian Davies Nursery classes: contact school After School Club: Yes School information School information School information School information School information Breakfast Club: Yes Voluntary aided CE school Community school Voluntary aided jewish school Community school Community school Reception intake: 30 Reception intake: 30 Reception intake: 30 Reception intake: 60 Reception intake: 60 Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Nursery classes: F/T and P/T 16 harrington HILL After School Club: Yes After School Club: Yes Harrington Hill, E5 9EY Breakfast Club: Yes 25 Lubavitch Ruth Breakfast Club: Yes 19 Lunzer Girls’ Jewish 27 T. 020 8806 7275 hOxton garden Millfields 107-125 Stamford Hill, N16 5RP E. [email protected]. Ivy Street, N1 5JD Hilsea Street, E5 0SH 22 29 sch.uk T. 020 7739 8591 Lauriston T. 020 8800 0022 T. 020 8985 7898 Mossbourne primary Rutland Road, E9 7JS Victoria Park Road, E9 7HD www.harringtonhill.hackney.sch.uk www.hoxtongarden.hackney.sch.uk E. [email protected] E. [email protected] (under construction) T. 020 8985 6331 www.millfields.hackney.sch.uk New site at Queen Elizabeth Headteacher E. [email protected]. Head of School Olympic Park in September 2016 Nicola Massey Head of school sch.uk Esther Kessleman Headteacher T. 020 8525 5200 Stephen O’Brien www.lauriston.hackney.sch.uk Jane Betsworth E. primaryenquiries@ School information Executive Headteacher mossbourne.org Community school Executive Headteacher Headteacher Freida Sudak School information www.mossbourne.org (under Reception intake: 90 Stephen Hall Lisa Sharratt Community school construction) Nursery classes: F/T and P/T School information Reception intake: 90 Breakfast Club: Yes School information School information Voluntary aided jewish school Nursery classes: F/T and P/T HeadTEACHER Community school Community school Reception intake: 30 After School Club: Yes To be appointed Reception intake: 60 Reception intake: 60 Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Breakfast Club: Yes 17 Holmleigh Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Nursery classes: F/T and P/T School information Dunsmure Road, N16 5PU Academy Trust T. 020 8802 7420 Reception intake: 30 20 23 E. [email protected]. Jubilee lONDON Fields Nursery classes: none for 2015 sch.uk Filey Avenue, N16 6NR Westgate Street, E8 3RL www.holmleigh.hackney.sch.uk T. 020 8806 5446 T. 020 7254 4330 E. [email protected] E. [email protected] Headteacher www.jubilee.hackney.sch.uk www.londonfields.hackney.sch.uk Kevin Ward Follow us on Twitter! Headteacher Headteacher @hackneysuccess School information Norma Hewins Caroline Tyson Like us on Facebook! Community school facebook.com/hackneyschools Reception intake: 30 School information School information successinthemaking Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Community school Community school Keep up to date at Breakfast Club: Yes Reception intake: 60 Reception intake: 60 www.learningtrust.co.uk Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Watch us on YouTube! After School Club: Yes youtube.com/hackneysuccess Breakfast Club: Yes

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30 Nightingale 33 Our Lady & St Joseph 36 Queensbridge 39 Sebright 41 Simon Marks 44 Springfield Rendlesham Road, E5 8PH Buckingham Road, N1 4DG Queensbridge Road, E8 4ET Audrey Street, E2 8QH Cazenove Road, N16 6PD Castlewood Road, N16 6DH T. 020 8985 4259 T. 020 7254 7353 T. 020 7254 1186 T. 020 7739 6531 T. 020 8806 6048 T. 020 8800 9007 E. [email protected]. E. [email protected] E. admin@queensbridge. E. [email protected] E. [email protected] E. [email protected]. sch.uk www.olsjschool.net hackney.sch.uk www.sebright.hackney.sch.uk www.simonmarks.hackney.sch.uk sch.uk www.nightingale.hackney.sch.uk www.queensbridge.hackney.sch.uk www.springfield.hackney.sch.uk Headteacher Head of School Headteacher Headteacher Sean Flood Headteacher Jacqueline Livingstone Gillian Ross Headteacher Catrina Tilbury Sarah Bailey Fiona Judge School information Executive Headteacher School information School information Voluntary aided catholic school School information Janice Thomas Voluntary aided jewish school Executive Principal Community school Reception intake: 30 Community school Reception intake: 30 Sian Davies Reception intake: 30 Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Reception intake: 60 School information Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Community school Breakfast Club: Yes School information Breakfast Club: Yes After School Club: Yes Reception intake: 60 Community school 34 Parkwood Breakfast Club: Yes Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Reception intake: 30 42 Queens Drive, N4 2HQ Breakfast Club: Yes Sir Thomas Abney Nursery classes: F/T and P/T 31 Fairholt Road, N16 5ED Northwold T. 020 8802 5366 After School Club: Yes Northwold Road, E5 8RN 37 E. [email protected]. randal Cremer T. 020 8800 1411 Ormsby Street, E2 8JG 40 T. 020 8806 6352 sch.uk Shacklewell E. admin@sirthomasabney. 45 E. [email protected] www.parkwood.hackney.sch.uk T. 020 7739 8162 Shacklewell Row, E8 2EA hackney.sch.uk St Dominic’s Ballance Road, E9 5SR www.northwoldschool.com E. [email protected]. T. 020 7254 1415 www.sirthomasabney.hackney.sch.uk Headteacher sch.uk E. [email protected]. T. 020 8985 0995 Headteacher Paul Wade www.randalcremer.hackney.sch.uk sch.uk Headteacher E. [email protected]. Alison Kriel www.shacklewell.hackney.sch.uk Geraldine Fitzmaurice sch.uk School information Headteacher www.stdominics.hackney.sch.uk School information Community school Jo Riley Head of School School information Currently undergoing conversion Reception intake: 30 Nicole Reid Community school Headteacher to academy status. Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Executive principal Reception intake: 60 Deirdre Finan Reception intake: 60 Stephen Foster Executive Headteacher Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Michelle Thomas After School Club: Yes School information 35 After School Club: Yes Princess May School information Breakfast Club: Yes Voluntary aided catholic school Breakfast Club: Yes Princess May Road, N16 8DF Community school School information Reception intake: 60 Reception intake: 60 Community school Nursery classes: F/T and P/T T. 020 7254 1589 43 E. [email protected]. Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Reception intake: 60 Southwold Breakfast Club: Yes 32 Detmold Road, E5 9NL Orchard sch.uk After School Club: Yes Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Holcroft Road, E9 7BB www.princessmay.hackney.sch.uk Breakfast Club: Yes Breakfast Club: Yes T. 020 8806 5201 T. 020 8985 7785 E. [email protected]. E. adminorchard@soschools. Headteacher sch.uk 38 hackney.sch.uk Stephen Spooner Rushmore www.southwold.hackney.sch.uk www.orchard.hackney.sch.uk Elderfield Road, E5 0LE School information T. 020 8985 3175 ASSOCIATE Headteacher Head of School Community school E. [email protected] Gulcan Metin Asdoyuran Follow us on Twitter! Rachel Davie Reception intake: 60 www.rushmore.hackney.sch.uk @hackneysuccess Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Executive Headteacher Like us on Facebook! Executive Headteacher After School Club: Yes Headteacher Stephen Hall facebook.com/hackneyschools Stephen Hall Breakfast Club: Yes Ian Mullaney successinthemaking School information Keep up to date at School information School information Community school www.learningtrust.co.uk Community school Community school Reception intake: 60 Watch us on YouTube! Reception intake: 90 Reception intake: 60 Nursery classes: F/T and P/T youtube.com/hackneysuccess Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Nursery classes: F/T and P/T After School Club: Yes

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46 St John and St James 49 St Mary’s 51 St Monica’s 54 The olive 56 Tyssen 59 wIlliam Patten Isabella Road, E9 6DX Lordship Road, N16 0JT Hoxton Square, N1 6NT 66 Cazenove Road, N16 6AA Old Hill Street, N16 6QA Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 0NX T. 020 8985 2045 T. 020 8800 2645 T. 020 7739 5824 T. 020 7683 7436 T. 020 8806 4130 E. [email protected] E. admin-office@stmarys. E. [email protected]. E. admin@oliveh. E. [email protected] T. 020 7254 4014 / 4915 www.johnjames.hackney.sch.uk hackney.sch.uk sch.uk tauheedulschools.com www.tyssen.hackney.sch.uk E. [email protected]. www.st-marys.hackney.sch.uk stmonicasprimaryhackney.co.uk www.olivehackney.com sch.uk Headteacher Headteacher www.williampatten.hackney.sch.uk Jenna Clark Headteacher Headteacher Headteacher Paul Fleming Jane O’Brien Amanda Ruthven Yasmin Choudhry interim Headteacher Executive Principal School information Karen Law Sian Davies School information School information EXECUTIVE Headteacher Community school Voluntary aided CE school Voluntary aided catholic school Julie Bradley Reception intake: 60 School information School information Reception intake: 30 Reception intake: 30 Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Community school Voluntary aided CE school Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Nursery classes: F/T and P/T School information After School Club: Yes Reception intake: 60 Reception intake: 30 Breakfast Club: Yes Breakfast Club: Yes Free school, Muslim Breakfast Club: Yes Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Reception intake: 90 After School Club: Yes Breakfast Club: Yes After School Club: Yes 50 52 57 St Matthias St Paul’s with Breakfast Club: Yes wENTworth nursery Wordsworth Road, N16 8DD St Michael’s Cassland Road, E9 5BY 60 wOODberry Down 47 57a Brougham Road, E8 4PB Woodberry Grove, N4 1SY St John of Jerusalem T. 020 7254 1148 T. 020 8985 3491 option 1 55 Kingshold Road, E9 7JF E. [email protected]. T. 020 7254 1927 Thomas Fairchild E. [email protected]. T. 020 8800 5758 Forston Street, N1 7HX T. 020 8985 0730 sch.uk E. [email protected] sch.uk E. office@woodberrydown. E. admin@st-johnjerusalem. www.st-matthias.hackney.sch.uk www.spsm.hackney.sch.uk T. 020 7253 9469 www.wentworth.hackney.sch.uk hackney.sch.uk hackney.sch.uk F. 020 7608 3008 woodberrydown.hackney.sch.uk st-johnjerusalem.hackney.sch.uk Headteacher Headteacher E. admin@thomasfairchild. interim Headteacher Orlene Badu Tom Panagiotopoulos hackney.sch.uk Janice Scammell Head of school Headteacher www.thomasfairchild.hackney.sch.uk Sarah Mather Asarena Simon Executive Principal School information SCHOOL infoRMATION Sian Davies Voluntary aided CE school Headteacher Nursery intake: 90 Executive headteacher School information Reception intake: 30 Jenny Lewis Classes: F/T and P/T (Morning Michelle Thomas Voluntary aided CE school School information Nursery classes: F/T and P/T and afternoon sessions) Reception intake: 30 Voluntary aided CE school Executive headteacher School information Nursery classes: F/T and P/T Reception intake: 45 Caroline King Community school 53 58 Nursery classes: F/T and P/T St Scholastica’s Whitmore Reception intake: 90 After School Club: Yes Kenninghall Road, E5 8BS School information Bridport Place, N1 5JN Nursery classes: F/T and P/T 48 St John the Baptist Breakfast Club: Yes T. 020 8985 3466 Community school T. 020 7739 7973 After School Club: Yes Crondall Street, N1 6JG E. officeadmin@st-scholasticas. Reception intake: 60 E. [email protected]. Breakfast Club: Yes T. 020 7739 4902 hackney.sch.uk Nursery classes: F/T and P/T sch.uk E. [email protected] www.st-scholasticas.com Breakfast Club: Yes www.whitmore.hackney.sch.uk www.st-john.hackney.sch.uk Headteacher Headteacher Headteacher Naomi Mulholland Penny Smith Alyson Tyler Follow us on Twitter! School information @hackneysuccess School information Executive Principal Voluntary aided catholic school Like us on Facebook! Community school Sian Davies Reception intake: 30 facebook.com/hackneyschools Reception intake: 60 Nursery classes: F/T and P/T successinthemaking Nursery classes: F/T and P/T School information After School Club: Yes Keep up to date at After School Club: Yes Voluntary aided CE school www.learningtrust.co.uk Breakfast Club: Yes Reception intake: 60 Watch us on YouTube! Nursery classes: F/T and P/T youtube.com/hackneysuccess Breakfast Club: Yes

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Who do I contact to get Why should I send my child to a information about childcare? nursery? If you are looking for information on childcare in Going to a nursery school or class will give your Hackney visit www.learningtrust.co.uk and click child a valuable introduction to school life. It will “Chilcare and Play”. The Hackney Family allow them to develop their skills, as part of a large Information Service can also tell you about your group of children of their own age, in a happy and childcare options and give you information about relaxed atmosphere. The day is planned so that help with paying for childcare, such as free nursery children are able to develop at their own pace. places for 2-4 year olds and tax credits. They have If your child goes to a nursery class attached to a lists of all registered childcare providers including primary school, there is no automatic transfer into nurseries, playgroups, childminders, holiday the reception class at the same school. You must playschemes, after-school and breakfast clubs. complete a separate application form for a place in a reception class. Failure to do this may result in The service also has information on other activities your child being denied a school place at your such as leisure and family support services. It also preferred school. produces the Hackney Family Directory which explains all this in more detail. There is a phone line and drop in service if you want to speak to an How do I apply for a nursery place adviser personally about any childcare issues. at a school? Please call the Hackney Family Information Service If you want to apply for a nursery place for your on 020 8820 7590. child, you should contact at least three of your preferred schools when your child is two years old, When can my child start in a nursery but not before. You will then have to fill in a nursery class? application form. The school will write to you in the term before your child is due to attend to let you Children can start nursery classes attached to a know whether you have been offered a place. primary school, or one of the nursery schools, in You must provide proof of address with your the school term after they reach their third birthday. application form. If you are offered a nursery place, The age they can start depends on how many the school will also need to see your child’s birth places are available. Most nursery places are for certificate to confirm their name and date of birth. half a day, either morning or afternoon. Take a look SECTION ONE at the table on page 25 to see the exact term when Please note that completing your application form your child would be eligible to start at a nursery early does not give you priority over other children class in a primary school. Full time places will only who might apply later. Take a look at the table on be offered to those children who meet the criteria. page 25 to see the closing date for applications admission to Further information go to page 24 or contact any and the date when you will be informed of the primary school. outcome of your application. This depends on a school nursery class when your child was born in the year.

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What are the admissions criteria How does my child meet the criteria for nursery schools and classes in for a free full-time nursery place? ADMISSION TO NURSERY SCHOOLS AND NURSERY CLASSES IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS FROM SEPTEMBER 2015 community primary schools? There will be a limited number of places made If more children apply for a nursery place at a available, and these will be allocated to the most FOR CHILDREN BORN CLOSING DATE DATE OF LETTER START DATE particular school than there are places available, vulnerable children and those in need. Assessments BETWEEN: FOR APPLICATIONS the Headteacher will allocate places according to and evidence will be used to decide the level of how many are available. Priority will be given in the need for each child and whether a full-time place 1 April 2012 and Phased entry during Friday 24 April 2015 Friday 22 May 2015 following order: should be offered. The evidence used for assessing 31 August 2012 September 2015 need can be written evidence from a number of 01. A looked after child or a child who was previously different professionals, records of a conversation 1 September 2012 and Phased entry during looked after but immediately after being Friday 25 September 2015 Friday 23 October 2015 between the school and appropriate professionals 31 December 2012 January 2016 looked after became subject to an adoption, involved with the child’s family and follow up from residence, or special guardianship order. information on application forms. 1 January 2013 and Phased entry during Friday 22 January 2016 Friday 12 February 2016 02. Children with an educational, medical or social 31 March 2013 April 2016 need for a nursery place.1 Is there a charge for attending a nursery class in a school in 1 April 2013 and Phased entry during 03. Children whose parents can take up or stay in a Hackney? Friday 22 April 2016 Friday 27 May 2016 teaching post in one of Hackney’s schools.2 31 August 2013 September 2016 If your child is entitled to a free part-time place, 04. Children with brothers and sisters already at the some schools may allow you to pay to bring your school at the time of the proposed admission hours up to the level of a full-time place. This (includes half and step brothers and sisters means that you will get the first 15 hours for free, What happens if my child doesn’t get Admission to nursery classes at living as a family unit full-time at the same but you will be charged for the additional 10 hours. a nursery place? academies, free and religious address). If you are unable to pay for a full-time place, you If you are not offered a place in your preferred primary schools can still apply for the free part-time place. The nursery class, you can ask for your child to be put 05. Children living nearest to the school as The governing body of these schools are school will be able to tell you how much you would on the application list (this operates in a similar way measured in a straight line from their home responsible for admissions to their nursery class. have to pay for the extra 10 hours. to a waiting list). Each child is ranked in line with address or their childminder’s address using a You should contact each school individually to find the admissions criteria described on page 24. map or website for calculating distances.3 out whether you have been offered a place and the NOTES Places are offered as and when they arise. This may start date. The schools’ contact details are listed on If we need a tie-breaker decision for priorities 1, 2, mean that your child is offered a place one or more pages 14-21 of this booklet. Religious schools will 1 This applies to the nearest school unless your 3 and 4, we will use distance as measured in priority terms after they have turned three. The length of also ask for additional information about your child’s need justifies a place at a particular 5 above. time your child has been on the list doesn’t give membership of a particular faith. If you want your school. Headteachers can take into account them priority over other children on the list. If you application to be considered under the faith educational or medical needs such as are not offered a place at your preferred nursery, priorities, you will have to complete a developmental, speech and language delay or you can’t appeal against this decision. Supplementary Information Form (SIP). This form physical needs. The school will need to see must be returned to the school directly. evidence of this from a doctor, hospital If you don’t have a nursery place for your child, or consultant, health visitor or education and child you have just moved into Hackney and all your professional. local school nurseries are now full, you should

2 contact the Hackney Family Information Service at If you are a Hackney school teacher, you can Hackney Learning Trust on 020 8820 7590. They apply for a nursery place for your child under will be able to give you details about local this criterion – but only for one child in each children’s centres, nurseries, childminders, class, or two places in the case of twins. You playgroups, one o’clock clubs and crèches. must apply to the primary school where you teach, or one that is within one mile of your place of work. 3 If your child is cared for by a childminder during the week (Monday to Friday). The school will ask to see proof of this arrangement. The school will decide which method to use to calculate the distances for all applicants considered under priority five above.

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When can my child start reception What documents do I need to send class? with my application? All children whose birthday falls between 1 You should upload the following documents after September 2010 and 31 August 2011 will start completing your online application. We will need primary school in September 2015. to see proof of the address which should be the address where you and your child live on a When a school place has been offered, you can permanent basis. delay your child’s entry into the reception class, or ask for your child to go part-time, until the • A copy of either birth certificate, passport or beginning of the term following their fifth birthday. medical card to showing the date of birth; You can request that your child’s admission is • a copy of either the Council Tax bill or a housing deferred until January 2016 for children born benefit entitlement letter for 2014/15; between 1 September and 31 December 2010, and April 2016 for children born between 1 April and 31 • an original utility bill received within the last two August 2011. months. This can be a gas, electricity, water rates, TV Licence or landline phone bill. How do I apply for a place in a Failure to provide the above documents may cause reception class? delays in processing your application. We will match All Hackney residents can apply for a reception the address on the application form with the one we class place from 1 September 2014. You should already have on our database. If you have changed complete Hackney Learning Trust’s Common address in the last year and the school you wish to Application Form online at www.eadmissions.org.uk. apply for is oversubscribed, you may have to fill in a You can list up to six state-funded primary schools, questionnaire to prove that you live permanently at academies or free schools in any London area in your current address. the order of preference. The reception class admissions process is co-ordinated London-wide, How do I apply if my child has a this is to ensure that children are offered only one statement of special educational place in any state-funded school or academy. The needs (SEN)? closing date is Thursday 15 January 2015. There is a separate admission process for pupils SECTION TWO who have or are likely to get a statement of special educational needs or an educational, health and care plan before September 2015. This is different from the process for other children as explained in primary school this booklet. You will get separate information and a form to complete. You should use this form to list the schools you prefer for your child. You can call admissions process 020 8820 7183 for more information.

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admissions criteria for community primary schools in Hackney Places will be offered to children using the admissions criteria shown below. Some places are given to children with SEN statements. The remaining places are offered in this order of priority: 01. A looked after child1 or a child who was previously looked after2 but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, residence, or special guardianship order. 02. Children who are subject to a Child Protection Plan. 03. Children whose acute medical or social need justifies the allocation of a place at the particular school.3 04. Children with a brother or sister on roll at the school in reception to year 6 at the time of the proposed admission up to a distance of 0.750 miles as measured in priority 6 below, if the family has moved since the last sibling was offered a place.4 05. Children of teachers in either or both of the

following circumstances subject to there being 1 3 5 no more than one teacher in each class: Looked after children ACUTE MEDICAL OR SOCIAL NEED DISTANCE A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the Children whose acute medical or social need Distances for Hackney’s community schools will – where the teacher has been employed at the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided justifies a place at a particular school. These cases be measured in a straight line using a school for two years at the time of the with accommodation by a local authority in the will always require supporting professional computerised measuring system from the child application for (admission) and/or exercise of their social services functions in evidence (for example, a written statement from a home address to the main entrance of the school – the teacher has been recruited to fill a vacant accordance with section 22 of the Children Act medical consultant, senior social worker or other using eastings and northings. These are post for which there is a demonstrable skills 1989 at the time an application to a school is appropriate professional) which has to geographical references as provided by The shortage. made. demonstrate a clear connection between the National Land and Property Gazetteer. Please be child’s need and why the child should be given a aware that eastings and northings are not 06. Children living nearest to the main entrance of 2 Previously looked after children place at a particular school and an explanation of necessarily located to the front door of your the school. These distances will be measured in the difficulties which would be caused if the child home address. In the case of a number of a straight line using an in-house computerised A ‘previously looked after child’ is a child who were to attend another school. It is the addresses in a block with the same eastings and 5 batch measuring system. was looked after, but ceased to be so because responsibility of the parent to produce the northings geographical reference, the children’s they were immediately adopted (or became We will need to get confirmation and/or see evidence. The local authority and/or the school ranking will be determined by lottery. If two or subject to a residence order or special will make decisions on such cases and will seek, if more applicants live exactly the same distance evidence of proof from the parent or from Children guardianship order). Under the terms of the Social Care for priorities 1 and 2 above. necessary, advice from the Health Service. from the school, the place will also be allocated Adoption Act 1976 and Children Act 2002 A parent’s medical need alone cannot justify a by lottery. For tie-breaker decision for priorities 1, 2 and 4, Section 46 (see adoption orders). Under the place at a particular school. we’ll use distance5 as measured in priority 6 above. provisions of the Children and Families Act 2014 Families living on boats defines a ‘residence order’ or ‘child In these cases the distance will be measured from 4 arrangements orders’ as an order settling the SIBLINGS an authorised mooring point. If this is not arrangements to be made as to the person with Sibling refers to a brother or sister, half-brother or possible due to living on the canal the distance whom the child is to live. See Section 14A of the sister, adopted brother or sister, step-brother or will be calculated using the point on the canal or Children Act 1989 which defines a ‘special sister, or the child of the parent or carer’s partner, nearest road where the boat is situated on 15 guardianship order’ as an order appointing one living as a family unit at the same address. A sibling January 2015 or another date. We will carry out or more individuals to be a child’s special must live permanently at the same address as the checks to determine your position on the canal. guardian (or special guardians). child for whom the application is being made.

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How do I apply to a religious How do I apply to aN ACADEMY or IF MY CHILD ATTENDS A SCHOOL NURSERY, To help you work out the distance between your school? a FREE school? CAN I AUTOMATICALLY GET A PLACE AT address and a school, you can use a website called www.education.gov.uk/cgi-bin/inyourarea/ You must list the religious school on the online For 2015 admissions at Hackney New and Halley THE SAME SCHOOL? distance.pl. This won’t give you the same application form. Please check the admissions House, parents have to apply directly to the two Children who attend the nursery class of a measurement as calculated by the LA, but it will policy for each of the religious schools you are schools. For Mossbourne and The Olive, you must community primary school will not automatically give you an idea as to whether you fall within considering to see whether you could qualify for a list these schools on the online application form. get a place at the same school. This is because schools’ cut off distances. Please also look at the school place. Information relating to the admission We have four primary academies and free schools some parents send their children to other types of maps on pages 36-45 and carefully see where you policies for Hackney religious schools are in section in Hackney: nurseries, and all parents must be treated equally, live. If your address falls within the orange circle, five of this booklet. Religious schools will also ask regardless of which nursery their child attends. this means that your child may get a place at that for extra information about your membership of a • Hackney New, Free school school using straight line distance criterion. particular faith. You will have to complete a • Halley House, Free school How can I find out if I am likely to Supplementary Information Form (SIF) and return it get a place at a particular school? Please note that you’ll be disadvantaged if you to the school concerned if you want to be given • Mossbourne, Academy name only one school and you’re not offered a priority on their faith based criteria. Most schools have more applicants applying than place there. If this occurs, you’ll be required to • The Olive, Free school, Muslim there are places available. The information in the apply for a place at schools with places available. The following religious schools in Hackney will ask table on pages 36-45 will show you how places This may result in your child travelling to a school you to complete a supplementary form: For The Olive, if you wish to be considered under were allocated for the school year 2014 including some distance from your home. the faith based criteria, you are also required to the cut-off distances. It’s not possible to offer a • Holy Trinity, Church of England complete a Supplementary Information Form (SIF). place to every parent who applies to certain • Lubavitch House (Boys Junior), Jewish schools, so it’s important that you know what your How will you process my application? APPLYING FOR SCHOOLS IN ANOTHER chances are. All LAs have their own in-house The Admissions Team will keep full details of your • Lubavitch Ruth Lunzer, Girls’ Jewish LOCAL AUTHORITY system for calculating distances. This is done by application on their pupil database. Each of your using property geographical references for your • Our Lady and St Joseph, Catholic If you want to apply for a place at any of your preferences listed on your application form will be neighbouring LAs’ primary schools, simply list them home location. These do not necessarily locate to considered at the same time. • Simon Marks, Jewish on the online application form. All London LAs your front door. If you have a preference for a religious school as work together on the reception class admissions listed on page 30, the Admissions Team will • St Dominic’s, Catholic process, and use the Pan-London Register to forward your details to that school to apply their transfer preference details to each other. This • St John and St James, Church of England admissions criteria. These schools will not know means that you will only have to complete one how you have ranked their school. If you list any • St John of Jerusalem, Church of England application form, listing all your preferred schools state funded schools outside Hackney, we will use together, regardless of which boroughs the schools the Pan-London Register to forward your child’s • St John the Baptist, Church of England are in. Below some neighbouring councils’ details to the other LAs. We will allocate you a Admissions Team contacts: • St Mary’s, Church of England place at the highest available ranked school on your application. For example, if there is an offer at • St Matthias, Church of England Haringey T. 020 8489 1000 the schools ranked second and third on your • St Monica’s, Catholic www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions application form, we will offer you a place at your second choice of school. Offers from schools • St Paul’s with St Michael’s, Church of England Islington ranked lower on your list will be declined. T. 020 7527 5515 • St Scholastica’s, Catholic www.islington.gov.uk/services/schools-learning You can get the supplementary forms from Newham Hackney Learning Trust or directly from any of the T. 020 8430 2000 above schools. www.newham.gov.uk/Pages/Category/Schools- and-colleges.aspx Tower Hamlets T. 020 7364 5006 www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgsl/1-50/17_schools.aspx Waltham Forest T. 0845 200 1551 www.walthamforest.gov.uk/School-admissions

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Can I get priority for my child’s What happens if I apply late or want HOW IS MY CHILD PLACED ON THE WHAT MUST I DO, IF I WANT TO REQUEST medical or social need? to change my preferences? APPLICATION WAITING LIST? ADMISSION TO THE RECEPTION CLASS You can ask for your child to be considered for The closing date is Thursday 15 January 2015. If you have been offered a place at a lower OUTSIDE MY CHILD’S AGE GROUP? priority at a particular school on medical or social We will only consider late applications if they are preference school, your child will automatically be If you wish to delay your child’s start into the grounds. You must tick the appropriate ‘priority’ late for exceptional reasons. This can be where a added to the waiting lists for any Hackney schools reception class from 2015 until 2016, you must box on the application form and provide a letter single parent has been ill for some time, a close you have ranked higher on your application form. complete an application form by Thursday 15 explaining why your child can only attend a relative has died, or if the family has just moved in If you have been refused a place at all Hackney January 2015 for consideration. Professional particular school. The letter can include your to the area or just returned from abroad (proof of schools listed on your application form, your child evidence of the child’s circumstances is required, medical needs which must demonstrate that these ownership or tenancy of a property will be required will automatically be added to the waiting lists for this should include information about the child’s have created a social need for your child to go to a in these cases). We can only do this up to Friday 13 all of them. Your child’s position on the lists will be academic, social and emotional development particular school. It must be supported by letters February 2015. We will consider all circumstances worked out according to the admissions criteria for which makes the case why education outside the from either a GP, hospital consultant, social worker and each case will be dealt with on its merits. In all each school and can go up or down depending on age group is necessary. Such requests will only be or any other agency or professional involved with other cases, late applications will have to wait until whether other children have been added to the agreed in very exceptionally circumstances. Each your case and these documents must explain in after 16 April 2015. lists. Admission Authority for the school must decide detail the circumstances why your child can only whether or not the individual child’s circumstances attend a particular school. The documents should If you applied on time, but decide to change your Hackney Learning Trust will continue to offer places make this appropriate. If agreed, you will be be received by Hackney Learning Trust by Friday 6 preferences after the closing date, your request will and maintain the lists until the end of August 2015. advised to re- apply in September 2015, and March 2015. Very few children are given priority be dealt with after all the late and unplaced Parents will need to confirm by 1 September 2015 provide the letter of agreement from the admission under this criterion. You will receive a letter dated applicants’ requests for school places have been if they wish their child to remain on the waiting lists. authority for each school. You will also need to be 16 April 2015 telling you the outcome of your considered. The only exception is if you have From this date, waiting lists will be maintained in aware that there can be no guarantee of a place application, but not the reasons why priority was or moved to a new address. accordance with the primary school in-year being available at your preference school/s, as this was not granted. You should contact the admissions process. All primary schools will inform is dependent on applicants applying and who best Admissions Team for the reasons of the decision. When will I know the outcome of my us when a vacancy becomes available. The next meets the admissions criteria. If your request is application? child on the waiting list will be offered a place, and refused by all Admission Authorities for your the Admissions Team will send an offer letter to the preferred schools, we will use your application to If I have twins or triplets, is any If you have applied online you will receive an email parent. special consideration given to my from eAdmissions during the evening of 16 April make an in-cohort decision using the process as application? 2015 telling you the outcome of your application. outlined in this section for which you will receive an What do I need to do if I want outcome in the same way as other parents on 16 Not all schools give special consideration to these You will need to go online to confirm your acceptance of this school place. If you applied to delay my child’s start to the April 2015, unless you tell us you intend to make children. If we can only offer one child a place at a reception class? alternative arrangements for your child’s education. community school, we will check whether a place completing a paper application you will receive a can be offered to all twins/triplets at the same letter a day or two after the 16 April 2015 telling If you get an offer of a reception class place but school. Some own admission authority schools will you the outcome. You’ll need to return the reply then decide you want to delay your child’s start, give all twins/triplets places if one child is eligible slip to confirm acceptance of the place. You must you will need to discuss this first with the nursery for a place. If this is not possible we will use a also tell us either online or use the reply slip if you that your child attends. This is important so that lottery system to decide which child is offered the no longer need the place and the reason why. You you can find out if you can keep your child’s nursery place. This will be carried out by the Admissions must do this by Thursday 30 April 2015. place as the nursery may have already allocated all Team in the presence of an independent witness. of their nursery places for the following school year. Alternatively, we will try to offer another school that What happens if I don’t get a place at If you decide to go ahead and delay your child’s is able to take all twins/triplets. any of my preferred schools? start in the reception class until the spring or We will send you a letter telling you which schools summer term 2016, you must also let the primary are still available in Hackney and if possible in school know, so that they are aware and have neighbouring boroughs. You will be asked to sufficient notice, otherwise you could lose the complete a reply form asking you to list your new reception place. preferences from the available schools. The Admissions Team will then deal with your request and write to you to let you know if a place can be offered at an alternative school. In the meantime your child’s name will be on the waiting list for the schools you have applied to.

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What is defined as a home address We will investigate all applications: Primary In-year admissions for 2015 When you complete the Hackney Learning Trust’s and what happens if I move house? To apply for a place at a Hackney maintained in-year application form, an additional form (part 2) • where there are any doubts about the is attached, which your child’s current or previous The child’s home address is the place where they school, free school or academy at any time during information provided; school will need to complete. This will ensure that are living on the date of the application. We will the school year, you will need to complete a the new school has all the information it needs to need to see proof of address as explained on page • where information has been received from a Hackney Learning Trust in-year application form. support your child’s admission. If you apply to a 27 of this booklet. member of the public to suggest a fraudulent You can list up to four schools in the order that you application has been made; prefer them. You will be expected to provide proof religious school, and wish to be considered under Where parental responsibilities are equally shared, of address, such as a gas or electricity bill, and their faith based admissions criteria, you should we will consider the home address to be the place • where the council tax account number is in a proof of your child’s date of birth if they are not also complete that school’s supplementary form. where the child sleeps, and spends most of their different name from the applicant’s. already attending a local school. Parents living in A decision should be made in 15 school days as to time, from Monday to Friday. This is the address Hackney who want to apply for places at whether a place can be offered. If your child that will be used as the basis for the school’s Any applicant who provides false information will doesn’t have a school place, and we are unable to have their offer of a school place withdrawn. They maintained schools and/or academies outside admissions criteria, such as distance from the Hackney will need to apply directly to either the offer a place at one of your preferred schools, we school or whether there is a sibling at the school. may also be subject to legal proceedings. If we find will send you a list of schools that still have places out that the home address is not in Hackney, we school or the local authority where the school is situated. You should check with the school the available. We would expect you to accept a place We can’t accept a temporary address if you still will withdraw the application altogether. The family at one of these schools. possess a property that was previously used as a will then have to apply to their own local authority arrangement in place to deal with your application. home address; nor will we accept a temporary for a school place. We would urge you to think very carefully about the For further advice or information about this address if it is used solely or mainly to obtain a impact of changing school on your child’s education. process, please contact the in-year admission school place. We reserve the right to seek additional information officers on 020 8820 7397 / 7398 / 7150 / 7197 or to carry out our investigations. We also reserve the at [email protected]. Occasionally, a child If you move before 14 February 2015, you must let right to carry out home visits to the address used may be refused a place because their behaviour is the Admissions Team know your new address. on the application form and any other address considered challenging. If your child is not on roll We will need to see proof of your new address to previously used. of another school, a referral may be made for confirm that you are living there. This could include consideration by our Fair Access Protocol Panel, proof of the exchange of contracts or a tenancy If I know someone has used a false the policy is available at www.learningtrust.co.uk. agreement. We will also need to see an original address to get a school place, utility bill, such as a gas or water bill. If you move can I report this to anyone? after 14 February 2015, we will only be able to use your new address to adjust your child’s position on You can report this to us confidentially on 020 8820 the waiting list if they have not been offered a 7402 or at [email protected]. place. You don’t need to tell us who you are. Please give us as much information as possible so that we can If a school place is offered based on fraudulent or investigate the matter fully. If we find that a school intentionally misleading information, the offer will place was obtained using a false address, we will be withdrawn and a new application will be withdraw our offer of a place and give it to the required. We may also consider withdrawing the child who was entitled to that school place. place after the child has started school, regardless of how much time has passed. We consider that How do I appeal? every school place obtained by deception is unfair, as other children are being deliberately denied If you believe there are exceptional reasons why their legitimate claim to that place. We will also ask your child can only attend a particular school, you the new school to check the child’s home address can appeal against the refusal of a place at that at the time of admission. If it is different from the school. Please note that due to infant class size address on the application form, we will check legislation the scope for a successful appeal is very whether the previous address was a temporary limited. address, used for the purposes described above. You must send your completed appeals form to We carry out random checks on a number of Hackney Learning Trust or the school by Friday 22 applications. We also investigate a sample of May 2015. You will be invited to attend the appeal applications where there has been a change of hearing. You can get independent advice about address in the last 18 months up to the end of the appeals from the Advisory Centre for Education on child’s first term in the reception class. 0300 0115 142 or at www.ace-ed.org.uk and Coram Children’s Legal Centre on 08088 020 008 or at www.childrenslegalcentre.com.

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Priority 1 – Looked after children or previously looked after by a local authority. D RD HERTFORD G R OND RD A R RICHM S R BU ENGLEFIELD RD DR CELANDINE C O H X LONDON O T Y E CASSLAND RD N Priority 2 – Children subject to a Child Protection Plan. S DALSTON FIELDS ST THOMAS’S E S RD E ST MARE 0 Schools with distance cut off0 Schools without distance Distance cut offMAPLEDENE area RD L Priority 3 – Children whose acute medical or social need justifies an allocation of place at the particular school. A WELL STREET NORTHCHURCH RD N E S COMMON D cut-off and those with a D R A O AINSWORTH RD S KINGSLAND RD LONDON K Priority 4 – Children with a brother or sister on roll at the school after the proposed admission. MIDDLETON RD W R T FIELDS N T ESSEX cut-off distance that exceds MIDDLETON RD LAMB L S A C E LN WEL P R DE BEAUVOIR RD SOUTH

D ROAD FIELDS O Priority 5 – Children living nearest to the main entrance of the school (in miles) in straight line. H ESTATE R IA QUEENSBRIDGE RD I S 0.500 mile. A V R G E S SOUTHGATE RD HAGGERSTON HACKNEY O G ALBION DRIVE T R CLAREMONT RD E C O DOWNHAM RD R I S TUDOR RD V U T D T SHRUBLAND RD T O R S SOUTHBOROUGH RD E SKIPWORTH RD D N B L R LEE ST R L R O E D D GH W R E U E K ARD’S R X DE BEAUVOIR BROWNLOW U G R ING EDW E S E H T H A G A T S M T ATE ST E S ORO R K W VICTORIA PARK 36 Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 37 M B hackney success in the making D E TOWN L M R D Y RD RUTLAND RD A E R A ST JOSEPH’S K R T W N

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U Q D R H E O D T E U R E D T R T N O MYDDLETON AVE E E S ’ M E S E E ANT HILL N LORDSHIP PARK N T PLEAS D N A N UN D MO LEA BRIDGE RD R E H L Y R B WILBERFORCE RDI L LORDSHIP RD A F V L STOKE K A I L I E Z L B T D N T A A A S S A N B GELDESTON RD C B N S O U K U D ET S R R O Y D E H F D T NEWINGTON H R O P O ’S LD A O S W WO FINSBURY C R W G TH K S L I N D U K K ORT R SO NORTH MILLFIELDS PARK R N HWOLD A R D W KINGS CRES H L C RECREATION D O D BR ESTATE CHURCH ST O R GROUNDS ON N N N T R O G B T IN O E U H RD R G YS W T I C LE CLISSOLD E BENTHAL RD Y E EVERING RD E N R LEV T CLAPTONCLAPTON G C KE JENNER RD PARK STO O N BROOKE RD D I R R C SOUTH MILLFIELDS O Y E H W A RECREATION L G E T D KYNASTON RD R CLISSOLD RD D GROUNDS BROO I S F KE RD D R W N I

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Y I A R WICK E KINGSLAND N D R W 14 H NAVARINO RD A DALSTON L D T 6 G S 0 0 0 2 14 30 135 ST PAUL’S R IN HOMERTON Colvestone (30) D N RD A C HASSETT HIGHBURY & JUNCTION HACKNEY R BERSHIRE RD 0.241 O E M H ISLINGTON BALLS PON CENTRAL A D RD DALSTON LANE T 9 BEACHWOOD RD G RA H P HAM ROAD TRELAWNEY A A E R AC ESTATE M PL WICK RD K REAT W H WAY RET I C TON B C WIL P K GREENWOOD RD O RD L R H A K A 9 L N R 1 1 0 1 19 27 49 103 M A D C De Beauvoir* (60) AGO E D P R E N S BUCKINGHAM RD E PA M T T A HACKNEY D HACKNEY WICK R R O O ARDLEIGH RD N N D DARNLEY R C D K CASSLANDCHRISTIE RD RD R FOREST RD FOREST RD ELSDALE ST R HARROWGATE RD D MOND RD D KINGSLAND RICH BRENTHOUSE 42 FRAMPTON PARK RD 11 1 2 0 0 30 75 246 RICHMOND RD Y RD

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D ROAD FIELDS O H ESTATE R IA QUEENSBRIDGE RD I S 34 A V R 23 G E S 0 0 0 0 26 60 287 SOUTHGATE RD HAGGERSTON 36 HACKNEY O London Fields (60) G ALBION DRIVE T R CLAREMONT RD 0.525 E C O DOWNHAM RD R I S TUDOR RD V U T D T SHRUBLAND RD T O R S SOUTHBOROUGH RD E SKIPWORTH RD D N B L R LEE ST R L R O E D D GH W R E U E K ARD’S R X DE BEAUVOIR BROWNLOW U G R ING EDW E S 25 E H T H 36 A G A T 3 1 0 1 30 60 304 S M T A ST E ORO 23TE Queensbridge (60) S R K W VICTORIA PARK B M 0.221 D M E TOWN L R D Y RD RUTLAND RD R A A ST JOSEPH’S K R T W NE

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S H G 2014 admission Criteria for community primary schools in hackney T L T E A D S R H N

L N C H O LUKE ST S T © Crown copyright. All rights reserved (licence number 100019635)T 2014 E I B SEN – Children with a statement of Special Educational Needs (SEN) where the school is named. PAUL ST T STEPNEY D BETHNAL GREEN E GREEN Priority 1 – Looked after children or previously looked after by a local authority. R C O SHOREDITCH I DEVONS T H Y ROAD Priority 2 – Children subject to a Child Protection Plan. S SHOREDITCH

R WORSHIP ST 0 D 0 Schools with distance cut off Schools Cwithout distance Distance cut off area Priority 3 – Children whose acute medical or social need justifies an allocation of place at the particular school. O M T cut-off and those with a S M Priority 4 – Children with a brother or sister on roll at the school after the proposed admission. O E WILSON ST L

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Places offered in religious primary schools located in Hackney.

NUMBER OF PLACES OFFERED USING THE CRITERIA LISTED IN THE 2014 ADMISSION TO NUMBER OF PLACES OFFERED USING THE CRITERIA LISTED IN THE 2014 ADMISSION TO HACKNEY’S PRIMARY SCHOOLS’ BROCHURE, SECTION THREE, PAGES 47-79 HACKNEY’S PRIMARY SCHOOLS’ BROCHURE, SECTION THREE, PAGES 47-79

CHURCH OF ENGLAND PR CATHOLIC PRIORITY PRIORITY (F) TOTAL SCHOOLS PRIORITY TOTAL SCHOOLS (O)

S NAME OF RI RI S NAME OF SCHOOL RI E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 PA AR E 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 PA AR N SCHOOL (F) (O) N

Our Lady & St 30 0 0 19 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - 30 113 Holy Trinity 25 5 0 0 - - - 0 13 2 0 0 7 8 30 76 Joseph

St John the St Dominic’s 60 0 0 55 2003------60 152 23 22 0 0 0 1 10 0 0 0 - - - 23 34 74 Baptist

St Monica's 30 0 0 23 4300000---- 30 95 CHURCH OF ENGLAND PR SCHOOLS PRIORITY (F) PRIORITY (O) TOTAL St Scholastica's 30 0 0 3 1 5 14 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 92 NAME OF RI RI S E 1 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 PA AR SCHOOL (F) (O) N JEWISH SCHOOLS PRIORITY TOTAL St John & St James 25 5 1 1 11 --- 14 3 0 0 0 30 163

NAME OF S RI E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 PA AR St Mary's 15 15 1 - 0 7 5 2 0 8 0 7 0 30 88 SCHOOL N

Lubavitch House 30 0 0 3 1 15 0 0 0 - - - - - 19 19 (Boys Junior) CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS PRIORITY TOTAL Lubavitch Ruth 30 0 0 12 0 12 0 0 0 - - - - - 24 24 Lunzer Girls' NAME OF RI SEN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 PA AR SCHOOL Simon Marks 30 0 0 0 0 15 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 23 23

St John of Jerusalem 30 0 1 4 13 11 0 1 0 0 - 30 93

MUSLIM PRIORITY (F) PRIORITY (O) TOTAL SCHOOLS St Matthias 45 0 1 11 0 1 4 19 --- 36 66

NAME OF RI RI S E 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 PA AR St Paul's with St Michael's 30 0 0 0 0 11 16 3 0 0 0 30 66 SCHOOL (F) (O) N

The Olive 45 45 0 0 23 0 0 45 0 0 0 0 22 90 185

RI: Reception Intake AR: Applications Received (F): Foundation RI: Reception Intake AR: Applications Received (F): Foundation PA: Places Allocated SEN: Special Educational Needs (O): Open PA: Places Allocated SEN: Special Educational Needs (O): Open

44 hackney success in the making Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 45 HACKNEY’S PRIMARY SCHOOLS 2015 ADMISSION GUIDE FOR PARENTS

Oversubscription criteria HACKNEY NEW - FREE SCHOOL Admissions Policy 2015/16 In the event that Hackney New Primary is Following the successful opening of its new oversubscribed, after the admission of children secondary school at Downham Road, the Hackney with a statement of Special Educational Need (or New School Academy Trust have gained approval with an Education Health and Care Plan) naming from the Department for Education to open a new the school, priority for admission will be given to free primary school in September 2015. those children who meet the criteria set out below, in priority order: Hackney New Primary will provide students with access to the widest range of opportunities in life 01. A look after child or a child who was previously by fostering academic excellence and instilling looked after but immediately after being self-belief, intellectual curiosity and responsibility looked after became subject to an adoption, towards others in society. residence, or special guardianship order. The published admission number is 50 and the 02. Children subject to a Child Protection Plan school will admit up to that number to the 03. Children of the founding members of the reception class each year from September 2015. Hackney New School Trust

How to apply 04. Children with a social or medical need. In order to be considered under this criterion applicants The school will not be participating in the must produce a supporting report from either a coordinated admission arrangements administered senior social worker or medical practitioner by Hackney Learning Trust. You must apply directly setting out why Hackney New Primary is the to the school at www.hackneynewprimaryschool.org. only appropriate school for this student. You can also apply on a paper form, please call the school on 020 3239 0490 to request a form. 05. Pupils living nearest to the gates of Hackney New School on Downham Road as measured in Please note that an application to Hackney New a straight line using a computerised batch Primary will need to be made in addition to your distance measuring system. application made on your home local authority application form as part of the Pan-London process Waiting list and In-Year applications SECTION THREE for 2015 admissions. The first round of admissions will close on Thursday 15 January 2015. Any unsuccessful applicants will be offered the opportunity to be placed on a waiting list. The As your application will not be part of the LA waiting list will be maintained for one year (thus co-ordinated admissions arrangements, you could including in-year applicants) in order of the over- potentially be offered two places, one from academies & free primary subscription criteria set out above and not in the Hackney New Primary and one from the local order in which applications are received or added authority. In this instance you need to inform the to the list. schools’ admissions policy local authority which place you wish to accept by 30 April 2015. Right of appeals Parents will have the right to appeal to an independent appeals panel if they believe there are grounds to challenge an admissions decision by Hackney New Primary. The independent appeals panel will consist of three members, including a chairman.

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The closing date for reception class applications Proximity of the child’s home to the school Children with statements of Special Educational HALLEY HOUSE - FREE SCHOOL will be Thursday 15 January 2015. Notification Children living nearer to the school will be Needs (SEN) Admissions Policy 2015/16 letters will be sent out on 16 April 2015 and for accorded the higher priority. The proximity to the In accordance with the law, children with Halley House is a new free school which has been those parents/carers who have applied online an school will also serve to differentiate between statements of Special Educational Need (or with an approved by the Department for Education to email notification will also be made. Applications pupils in criteria 2-5 if there are more applicants Education Health and Care Plan) will be admitted enter the ‘pre-opening’ phase. Initially opening received after the set closing date will be accepted, than available places under each criterion. to the school where the Local Authority has with two reception classes, the school will grow but will not normally be considered for a place at Proximity to the school will be measured in a specifically named Halley House as the most organically to its full capacity of 420 pupils. the school until after the initial offer date. straight-line measurement. Applicants will be appropriate placement. prioritised by distance (starting with the nearest). The school is named after Edmond Halley, the As your application will not be part of the LA astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, For the purpose of calculating distances, the home Waiting list co-ordinated admissions arrangements, you could address is identified by using the property meteorologist and physicist who was born in potentially be offered two places, one from Halley Unsuccessful applicants (including any applications Hackney in 1656. geographical references as determined by the House and one from the local authority. In this borough Council in which the child lives to the received after the closing date) will be included on Operated by Bellevue Place Education Trust, the instance you need to advise the local authority main entrance of the school in Arcola Street. the school’s waiting list ranked in order of priority school will offer a broad and balanced curriculum which place you wish to accept by 30 April 2015. under the oversubscription criteria above, without with specific focus on literacy and numeracy, Blocks of flats are treated as one address. In blocks regard to the date that the application was received. focusing on high academic attainment. The school Oversubscription criteria of flats, where applicants have identical distance Please note a child’s position on the waiting list can will employ innovative pedagogical approaches measurements, priority amongst them will be go down as well as up. For example, if a new In the event of there being greater demand than delivered by the finest teaching staff. determined at random. application is received or if a child on the list moves there are place available to the school, places will nearer to the school, the waiting list may need to Halley House will welcome children from all be offered using the following oversubscription For families living on boats, distance will be be revised. The offer of a place does not depend backgrounds. The published admission number is criteria in keeping with the Admissions Code 2012: measured from the authorised mooring point. If the on the length of time your child’s name has been 60 places in each year of entry into reception from family is itinerant, the nearest mooring point will be 01. A looked after child or a child who was previously on the waiting list. Waiting lists will be held for one September 2015. The school will admit up to this used on the closing date for the receipt of looked after but immediately after being looked school year after the year of entry, unless parents number each year to the Reception year and when applications. after became subject to an adoption, residence specifically request to have their child’s name full the school will have 420 pupils on roll. or special guardianship order. Where parental responsibilities are equally shared, remain on the list. the home or residential address will be considered How to apply 02. A child subject to a Child Protection Plan for to be with the parent/carer with whom the child Right of appeal whom Halley House is their nearest school. spends the majority of time and nights Monday to The school will not be participating in the Parents who are not offered a place for their child Friday. This will normally be expected to be with coordinated admission arrangements administered 03. Children with a sibling at the school at the time have the right to appeal to an independent appeal the parent/carer that receives the Child Benefit. by Hackney Learning Trust. You must apply directly of admission. Proof of the sibling relationship panel. Parents wishing to appeal should obtain an This address must be used for all preferences. to the school at www.halleyhouseschool.org.uk. will be required. appeal form from Rutherford House School at 217 You can also apply on a paper form, please call the Tie-breaker Balham High Road, Balham, London SW17 7BS or school on 0845 459 0113 to request a form or visit 04. Children of staff at the school. Priority to from www.halleyhouseschool.org.uk. The form children of staff will be given in either or both of In the event that two or more children live at the the school’s website above to download one. same distance from the school, the tie-breaker will should be sent to reach the Clerk to the Appeal the following circumstances: Panel for Halley House School (c/o Rutherford Acknowledgement of your application will be sent be random allocation, where the supervised – where the member of staff has been House School 217 Balham High Road, Balham, within five working days of the application being drawing of lots by a member of the Hackney employed at the school for two or more years London SW17 7BS), within 20 school days of the received. Should you not receive an Learning Trust Admissions Team (in the presence of at the time at which the application for date of the letter confirming the Governors’ acknowledgement by this date please email an independent responsible person of good admission is made; and/or decision not to offer a place. The school will publish [email protected] or write to standing) will be used to decide which child(ren) will be allocated the remaining place(s). an appeals timetable annually on its website the school c/o Rutherford House School 217 – the member of staff is recruited to fill a showing the relevant deadlines. Balham High Road, Balham, London SW17 7BS vacant post for which there is a demonstrable Twins and children of multiple births with details of your application. skill shortage. In cases of multiple births where there is only one In-Year admissions An application to Halley Housse will need to be 05. Proximity to the school. This will be measured place available, and the next child on the list is a For In-Year admissions, parents/carers must apply made in addition to your application made on your in a straight line from the address point of the twin, triplet, or other example of multiple birth, we to Hackney Learning Trust on the in-year home local authority application form as part of the child’s home to the main entrance point of the would admit both twins (and all the children in the application form for primary. Applications will be Pan-London process for 2015 admissions. school site using a computerised batch case of other multiple births) even if this meant considered in accordance with above distance measuring system. exceeding the agreed admission number of 60 for reception 2015/16 or the number of places in other oversubscription criteria. In the event that it is not year groups. possible to offer a place the waiting list and appeals procedures described above will apply.

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04. Children of staff who work at Mossbourne Mossbourne Primary - Academy Primary where the academy reasonably Admissions Policy for 2015/16* considers a member of staff has been recruited Mossbourne Primary is a new primary school to be for a position for which there is a demonstrable built in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park located skill shortage. in Hackney’s new neighbourhood, East Wick. 05. Children living nearest to Latitude 51.547042, The primary school will open in September 2015 Longitude 0.017364235 (on the River Lea east of housed temporarily in Mossbourne Victoria Park Waterden Road). Academy (Victoria Park, E9 7HD) until the new school building in East Wick is completed by In the event of there being insufficient vacancies to September 2016. admit all applicants in any of the categories detailed above, priority will be given to children living Mossbourne Primary’s admission arrangements will nearest to the proposed academy’s front gate in form part of Hackney Learning Trust’s coordinated Hackney Wick. Distance will be measured in a admissions scheme. straight line using a computerised distance The academy’s published admission number for calculation system. reception in 2015 is 30. The academy will consider Where parental responsibilities are equally shared, all applications for places. Where fewer than 30 the home or residential address will be considered applications are received, the academy will offer to be with the parent/carer with whom the child places to all those who have applied. spends the majority of time and nights Monday to In future years this admissions number will increase Friday. This will normally be expected to be with to 90. Siblings will also be considered as priority the parent/carer that receives Child Benefit. This three from 2016/17 onwards. address must be used for all preferences. Tie-breaker How to apply Random computerised allocations, which will be Applications for admission to the reception class independently verified, will be used in any tie‐break should be completed at www.eadmissions.org.uk situations. using the online application form. See page 10 for Twins and children of multiple births further information. In the case of twins or multiple births if one child is given a place the academy will ensure that their Oversubscription criteria sibling(s) are also allocated a place. Children with statements of special educational need for whom the academy is named on the In-Year admissions statement are admitted ahead of other applicants. The academy will participate in the arrangements Places shall then be allocated according to the published by Hackney Learning Trust, which following oversubscription criteria: provide for the allocation of places in line with the 01. A looked after child or a child who was previously academy’s admissions policy and the maintenance looked after but immediately after being looked of a waiting list of pupils applying to the academy, after became subject to an adoption, residence should no vacancies be available at the time of or special guardianship order. application. Pupils will be admitted according to vacancies arising within each year and will be 02. Children with a child protection plan for whom prioritised in accordance with the oversubscription the academy is their nearest school. criteria for In-Year admissions. 03. Children whose acute medical or social need justifies a place at the academy. It is the responsibility of the parent/carer of the child to provide supporting professional evidence (for example a GP’s or social worker’s letter) which demonstrates why the child should be given a place at the academy rather than any other school. *Subject to approval by the Secretary of State.

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Oversubscription criteria Community priority group Twins and children of multiple births THE OLIVE - FREE SCHOOL, MUSLIM If undersubscribed, the school will admit all A maximum of 50 per cent of the remaining places Where there are twins or more wanting admission Admission Policy 2015/16 will be allocated to community applicants in the and there is only a single place left within the The Olive School, Hackney is a Muslim faith free applicants. If oversubscribed, the school will admit children under the two priority groups below once following order: admission number, then the governing body will primary school, established in response to exercise as much flexibility as possible within the community demand for high-quality education that all children with a statement of Special Educational 01. A looked after child or a child who was Needs naming the school have been admitted. requirements of infant class sizes. In exceptional meets the aspirations of local families. Although previously looked after but immediately after circumstances cases we are now able to offer places designated as a Muslim faith school, The Olive Faith priority group being looked after became subject to an for both twins and all triplets, even when this means School, Hackney promotes traditional British values A maximum of 50 per cent of the remaining places adoption, residence, or special guardianship breaching infant class size limits. This may also and welcome applications from all faiths and none. will be allocated to children who are members of order. apply to siblings who are in the same year group. the Muslim faith in the following order: The Olive School, Hackney is part of the successful 02. Children with a sibling who is a pupil already Allocation of places if either groups are Tauheedul Free Schools Trust (TFST) family of 01. A looked after Muslim child or a Muslim child attending The Olive School, Hackney, at the undersubscribed schools. TFST’s vision is to develop a national who was previously looked after but time of admission. If after the admission of children with a statement model for progressive, mainstream and positive immediately after being looked after became for special educational needs, there are fewer than Muslim free schools that provide young learners 03. Children of staff employed at the school for at subject to an adoption, residence, or special 50 per cent of the remaining children qualify for with outstanding academic foundations to help least two years or who have been recruited to guardianship order. admission under the faith priority group, additional them become exemplary members of their fill a post where there is a skills shortage on the date that they are due to start. places will be offered using the criteria listed under community. The Olive School, Hackney strives to 02. Muslim children with a sibling who is a pupil the community priority group until the admission the same excellent standards and is fully reflective already attending The Olive School, Hackney, at 04. Children for whom the Governing Body accepts number of 90 is met. of the true Tauheedul vision. the time of admission. that they have proven exceptionally strong special medical or social circumstances, which If after the admission of children with a statement The admission number for the reception intake in 03. Muslim children of staff employed at The Olive for special educational needs, there are fewer than 2015 will be 90. School, Hackney for at least two years or who are directly relevant to attendance at The Olive School, Hackney. 50 per cent of the remaining children qualify for have been recruited to fill a post where there is admission under the community priority group, How to apply a skills shortage on the date that they are due 05. Children who live nearest to the school. additional places will be offered to applicants who to start. The admissions process is part of the Hackney were not allocated a place under the faith priority Exceptional special medical and social needs group. These applicants will be considered without Local Authority’s primary co-ordinated scheme for 04. Muslim children for whom the Governing Body For criterion four of the above two groups, reference to faith in line with the oversubscription reception admissions. All applications will be accepts that they have proven exceptionally professional supporting evidence should be criteria in the community priority group until the considered equally. strong special medical or social circumstances, provided from e.g. a consultant, doctor, admission number of 90 is met. which are directly relevant to attendance at The Applications for admission to the reception class psychologist, social worker or others as requested Olive School, Hackney. by the school. It is essential that this evidence should be completed at www.eadmissions.org.uk Waiting list using the online application form. See page 10 for 05. Muslim children who live nearest to The Olive should set out the reasons why The Olive School, further information. School, Hackney. Hackney, is the most suitable school for this child Children who are not admitted will have their and the difficulties that would be caused if the names placed on a waiting list. The names on this Parents wishing to be considered under the faith child had to attend another school. waiting list will be in the order resulting from the priority group are also required to complete a application of the admissions criteria. Supplementary Information Form (SIF). This needs Tie-breaker If any categories are oversubscribed, then the to be returned separately to the school by the Right of appeal closing date of 15 January 2015. The SIF form is geographical proximity (as set out in criterion 5 of available from the school and Hackney Learning both groups), will be used as a tie-breaker. Where the Governing Body is unable to offer a Trust. place, parents have the right to appeal to an The distance will be measured in a straight line Independent Appeal Panel, set up under the Letters informing parents of whether or not their using geographical information provided by the School Standards and Framework Act, 1998, as child has been allocated a place will be sent out by local council. If a number of addresses have the amended by the Education Act, 2002. their home LA’s Admissions team on 16 April 2015. same geographical property reference (such as a block of flats), or if there are a number of applicants living the same distance away from the school, In-Year admissions random allocation by The Olive School will then be Applications for in-year admissions are made in the used to decide which of the children can be offered same way as those during the normal admission a place. round. The only difference is that Hackney Learning Trust’s in-year form is used for all applicants.

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04. Children of parents who are practicing Holy Trinity - CHURCH OF ENGLAND members of a Christian denomination2 and live Admissions Policy 2015/16 outside the parish for whom this is the nearest Holy Trinity is a Church of England Primary School Church of England school. Attendance must be with a nursery. The Governors welcome applications confirmed by the vicar of the Parish. for admissions from families who support the Christian ethos of the school. The school has an 05. Children whose acute medical or social needs admission limit of 30. justify the allocation of a place at the school. 06. Children who live in the parishes of Holy Trinity How to apply with St Phillip, Dalston and All Saints Applications for admission to the reception class Haggerston and wish for their child to attend should be completed at www.eadmissions.org.uk because of its Christian ethos. using the online application form. See page 10 for further information. 07. Children who live outside the parishes of Holy Trinity and St Phillip, Dalston and All Saints Applicants wishing to be considered under Haggerston and wish for their child to attend Foundation priorities 1, 4, 6 and 7 and under Open the school because of its Christian ethos. priority 1 should also complete a Supplementary Information Form (SIF). This form is available from Open places the school and Hackney Learning Trust. 01. Children whose parents belong to another world faith in the community3 and wish to attend because if its religious traditions and Oversubscription criteria who are in sympathy with this tradition who live In the case of there being more applications than within the parishes of Holy Trinity with St Phillip, places available the governors will give 30 Dalston and All Saints Haggerston. foundation places and 30 open places, or in the same ratio after places have been given to children In all categories, children who have a brother or ‘Looked After’ by the Local Authority. The following sister at the school at the time of their proposed criteria are in order: entry will be given priority. 01. A looked after child or a child who was previously When deciding between applicants who appear to have equal entitlement to admission under any SECTION FOUR looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, criteria, the governors will offer the place to the residence, or special guardianship order. applicant who lives nearest to the main entrance to the school in Beechwood Road measured by a Foundation places straight line. religiousadmission primary to schools’ 01. Children of parents who are practising Anglicans1 and who live in the parishes of Holy Trinity with St Phillip, Dalston and All Saints admissionsa school nursery policy class Haggerston. Attendance must be confirmed by the vicar of the Parish. Explanation of terms used in the 02. Children who have a sibling attending the Oversubscription Criteria school at the time they would attend. 1 Practising Anglicans means a family who worship at least twice a month and has done so 03. Children of staff in either or both of the for a minimum period of six months. following circumstances: 2 – where the member of staff has been Christian denomination as defined by employed at the school for two or more years Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and at the time at which the application for the Evangelical Alliance. admission to the school is made, and/or 3 Another world faith community – A letter – the member of staff is recruited to fill a confirming affiliation and attendance to that vacant post for which there is a demonstrable faith must be signed by an accredited skill shortage. representative of that community.

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Information about which streets and residences are Oversubscription criteria Waiting list Lubavitch House (BOYS JUNIOR) - included in the Parishes of Holy Trinity with St If there are more applications than places available The school maintains a waiting list. Children are Philip, Dalston and All Saints Haggerston can be JEWISH Admissions Policy 2015/16 the Governing Body will admit pupils in accordance ranked on the waiting list in accordance with the found from the Church Finder section of the with the oversubscription criteria in priority order: oversubscription criteria set out above. The list will Diocesan website www.london.anglican.org/ The school’s educational philosophy is based on the teaching of the Lubavitcher Rebbi, Rabbi MM be maintained until the end of the Autumn term. ChurchFinder 01. A looked after Orthodox Jewish boy or an Schneerson OBM, who has developed the principles Orthodox Jewish boy who was previously of the Lubavitch Foundation. The school provides a It should be understood by parents that a place in looked after but immediately after being Deferred entry the nursery does not give a child automatic entry to broad and balanced education based on these looked after became subject to an adoption, Parents can request that the date their child is the reception class. principles combined with the National Curriculum. residence, or special guardianship order. admitted to the school is deferred until later in the Priority in admission will be given to children who academic year or until the term in which the child Twins and children of multiple births are Jewish according to Halochah (Jewish Practice). 02. Orthodox Jewish boys with a brother living at reaches compulsory school age. Parents can also If only one place is available for more than one the same address who is currently on roll at the In the event of any dispute as to whether a child is request that their child takes up a part-time place child, who are twins or of a multiple birth within the school and who will continue to be on the roll Jewish, the decision of the Court of the Chief Rabbi until the child reaches compulsory school age. same family, the Governing Body will establish if after the proposed admission. the school is able to admit above numbers. If this is of the United Kingdom is final. not possible, the allocation of the place will be 03. Orthodox Jewish boys with a sister living at The school is a one form entry school and will admit Right of appeal determined by lottery which will be carried out by the same address who is currently on the roll at 30 children to the reception class each year in Applicants refused a place in the reception or any the Admissions Committee in the presence of an Lubavitch Ruth Lunzer or Lubavitch House accordance with Hackney Learning Trust’s scheme other class have the right to appeal against the independent witness. School (Senior Girls) and who will continue to for the co-ordination of admission to reception decision to an independent appeal panel. An be on roll after the proposed admission. class. The school provides education for children of appeal form is obtainable from the school or Waiting list nursery age. Attendance in the nursery does not 04. Other Orthodox Jewish boys. Hackney Learning Trust. The appeal form should The school maintains a waiting list. Children are guarantee admission to the reception class. be completed and returned to the school within 20 ranked on the waiting list in accordance with the 05. Other looked after boys or boys who were school days following the receipt of the letter Children for whom the school has been named in a school oversubscription criteria set out above and previously looked after but immediately after confirming that the application was unsuccessful. statement of special educational needs will be not in the order that the applications were received. being looked after became subject to an admitted to the school and will count against the adoption, residence or special guardianship In-Year admissions Applications outside the normal admissions round planned admission number. order. will be considered in accordance with the school’s Applications for In-Year Admissions should be made 06. Other Jewish boys. In-Year admissions criteria. How to apply on Hackney Learning Trust’s in-year application form. Applicants wishing to be considered under 07. Other boys. Applications for admission to the reception class priorities 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 should also complete a Right of appeals should be completed at www.eadmissions.org.uk In the event of there being insufficient vacancies to Supplementary Information Form. This form is using the online application form. See page 10 for If a place cannot be offered at this time then you admit all applicants in any of the categories detailed available from the school and Hackney Learning further information. may ask the school for the reason(s) and you will be above, priority will be given to pupils living nearest Trust. If a place is available and there is no waiting informed of your right of appeal. You will be Applicants wishing to be considered under to the school’s main entrance measured in a straight list then the Governing Body will inform the parent offered the opportunity of being placed on a priorities 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 should also complete a line. For the purpose of calculating distances, the that a place can be offered. If more applications waiting list. Supplementary Information Form (SIF). This form is home address is identified by using the property are received than there are places available then available from the school and Hackney Learning geographical references as determined by the applicants will be ranked by the Governing Body in In-Year admissions Trust. borough Council in which the child lives. In the case accordance with the oversubscription criteria set of a number of addresses in a block with the same out above. Unsuccessful applicants will be offered Applications for In-Year admissions are made in the the opportunity of being placed on the waiting list. same way as those made during the normal geographical references or two children living exactly the same distance, the children’s ranking The waiting list will be maintained by the admissions round. If a place is available and there Governing Body in the order of the over- is no waiting list then the Hackney Learning Trust will be determined by lottery, which will be carried out in the presence of an independent witness. subscription criteria. Names are removed from the will communicate that a place is offered to the list at the end of each school year. When a place family. If more applications are received than there Twins and children of multiple births becomes available, the Governing Body will offer are places available then application will be ranked If only one place is available for more than one the place to the parents of the child first on the list. by the Governing Body in accordance with the child, who are twins or of a multiple birth within the oversubscription criteria with children without an same family, the Governing Body will establish if Fair access protocol offer of a school place as confirmed by Hackney the school is able to admit above numbers. If this is Learning Trust given priority immediately after not possible, the allocation of the place will be The school is committed to taking its share of other ‘looked-after’ children. determined by lottery which will be carried out in vulnerable pupils in accordance the Hackney the presence of an independent witness. Learning Trust’s Fair Access Protocol.

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Oversubscription criteria Oversubscription criteria LUBAVITCH RUTH LUNZER - GIRLS’ JEWISH OUR LADY AND ST JOSEPH - CATHOLIC Admissions Policy 2015/16 If there are more applications than places available Admissions Policy 2015/16* Each year there are many more applications than The school’s educational philosophy is based on the Governing Body will admit pupils in accordance As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic places available and pupils will be admitted to the the teaching of the Lubavitcher Rebbi, Rabbi MM with specified oversubscription criteria in priority education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, school according to the following order of priority: Schneerson OBM, who has developed the principles order: Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every 01. A Catholic looked after child or a Catholic of the Lubavitch Foundation. The school provides a aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the 01. A looked after Orthodox Jewish girl or an child who was previously looked after but broad and balanced education based on these Catholic character of the school’s education is fully Orthodox Jewish girl who was previously immediately after being looked after became principles combined with the National Curriculum. supported by all families in the school. All applicants looked after but immediately after being subject to an adoption, residence, or special Priority in admission will be given to children who are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved looked after became subject to an adoption, guardianship order. are Jewish according to Halochah (Jewish Practice). and positive support for the aims and ethos of the residence, or special guardianship order. school. 02. Baptised children of practising Catholic In the event of any dispute as to whether a child is 02. Orthodox Jewish girls with a sister living at the families who will have a brother or sister Jewish, the decision of the Court of the Chief Rabbi The school serves the Hackney Catholic Deanery same address who is currently on roll at the attending a reception, infant or junior class in of the United Kingdom is final. Parish of Our Lady and St Joseph, Kingsland. A map school and who will continue to be on roll after Our Lady and St Joseph school at the of the parish is available in the school office and the proposed admission. proposed date of admission. The school is a one form entry school and will from Hackney Learning Trust. admit 30 children to the reception class each year 03. Orthodox Jewish girls with a sister on roll at 03. Baptised children from practising Catholic in accordance with Hackney Learning Trust’s The Governing Body will ensure that the number of the nursery attached to the school after the families whose parents/legal guardians are scheme for the co-ordination of admission to pupils admitted to each year group will be such as proposed admission. resident in the Hackney Catholic Deanery Parish reception class. The school also provides education to conform to statutory legislation. The Governing of Our Lady and St Joseph, Kingsland. for children of nursery age. Attendance in the 04. Other Orthodox Jewish girls. Body proposes to admit 30 pupils to the reception nursery does not guarantee admission to the class, this being the Published Admissions Number. 04. Other baptised children from practising reception class. 05. Other looked after girls or girls who were Catholic families. previously looked after but immediately after Applicants should be aware that nursery education Children for whom the school has been named in a being looked after became subject to an is a non-statutory service and that accordingly a 05. Other baptised Catholic children. statement of special educational needs will be adoption, residence or special guardianship child’s attendance in the school’s nursery class does admitted to the school and will count against the order. not guarantee a future place in the reception, 06. Other looked after children or children who planned admission number. infant or junior classes. were previously looked after but immediately 06. Other Jewish girls. after being looked after became subject to an adoption, residence or special guardianship How to apply 07. Other girls. How to apply order. Applications for admission to the reception class In the event of there being insufficient vacancies to Applications for admission to the reception class should be completed at www.eadmissions.org.uk should be completed at www.eadmissions.org.uk 07. Children of families who are Catechumens or admit all applicants in any of the categories detailed members of an Eastern Christian Church. using the online application form. See page 10 for above, priority will be given to pupils living nearest using the online application form. See page 10 for further information. to the school’s main entrance measured in a straight further information. 08. Children from families of other Christian Applicants wishing to be considered under line. For the purpose of calculating distances, Parents applying under priorities 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and denominations whose application is supported priorities 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 should also complete a addresses will be identified by using the 8 will also need to complete a Supplementary by a minister of religion. geographical references as provided by the Supplementary Information Form (SIF). This form is Information Form (SIF) and return it directly to the 09. Any other applicant. available from the school and Hackney Learning borough Council in which the child lives. In the school by the stipulated closing date. They will also Trust. case of a number of addresses in a block with the need to provide the original or a certified copy of Exceptional social, medical or pastoral need same geographical references or two children the child’s baptismal certificate. If no certificate The governing body will give top priority to an living exactly the same distance, the children’s exists applicants should indicate in writing the application where compelling evidence is provided ranking will be determined by lottery, which will be reasons for this being the case. Those applying as at the time of application of an exceptional social, carried out in the presence of an independent practising Catholics should ask the priest at the medical or pastoral need of the child which can witness. church where they worship to complete the Priest’s only be met at this school. The Governing Body will Reference Form and return it to the school by the require written evidence from an appropriate stipulated closing date. The Supplementary professional such as priest, doctor or social worker Information Form (SIF) is available from the school as to why the school is the most suitable and the office and Hackney Learning Trust. difficulties that would be caused if the child had to attend another. Applications received after the closing date will be dealt with after the initial allocation process has been completed. * This policy does not apply to the nursery class.

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Tie-breaker Waiting list In-Year admissions Where the offer of places to all the applicants in Applicants not offered a place in the reception Applications for In-Year admissions are made via any of the criteria listed above would lead to class will be placed on a waiting list ranked in Hackney Learning Trust. If a place is available and oversubscription, places up to the admission accordance with the above oversubscription criteria there is no waiting list then the Hackney Learning number will be offered to those children whose and remain there for one year. Names are normally Trust will be informed and the child will be admitted. parents/carers’ residential address is the shortest removed from the list at the end of each academic If more applications are received than there are distance from the base of the clock tower of Our year unless parents/carers submit a written request places available then applications will be ranked by Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School to the asking for their application to remain on the the governing body in accordance with the child’s home as measured in a straight line using a waiting list. oversubscription criteria above with the following computerised distance measuring mapping system. modification: In the case of flats the measurement will be to the Deferred entry • Catholic children without an offer of a school front door of the flat within the building. For the Applicants may defer entry to school up until place elsewhere are given priority immediately purpose of calculating distances the address is statutory school age i.e. the first day of term after Catholic ‘looked-after’ children. identified by using the geographical eferencer as following the child’s fifth birthday. Application is provided by the borough council in which the child made in the usual way and then the deferment is If a place cannot be offered at this time you may lives. requested. The place will then be held until the first ask for the reasons and you will be informed of your right of appeal. You will be offered the Twins and children of multiple births day of the spring or summer term. Applicants may also request that their child attend part-time until opportunity of being placed on a waiting list. This In the case of twins or other multiple application waiting list will be maintained by the Governing forms from one family for a single remaining place statutory school age is reached. Entry may not be deferred beyond statutory school age or beyond Body in the order of the oversubscription criteria, this will be dealt with by random allocation in front as modified above, and not in the order in which of an independent witness. the year of application. Applicants whose children have birthdays in the summer term should be the applications are received. Names are removed Children with statements of Special Educational aware that, if they wish to defer, they will need to from the list at the end of each academic year. Needs (SEN) apply for a Year 1 place for the following September When a place becomes available the Governing Body will decide who is at the top of the list so that The admission of children with statements of and if the school is oversubscribed they are unlikely Explanation of terms used in the an offer can be made. Special Educational Needs is dealt with by a to gain a place. Oversubscription Criteria completely separate procedure. The procedure is integral to the making of statements by the pupil’s Catholic – A member of a Church in full Right of appeal Fair access protocol home Local Authority. Details of this separate communion with the See of Rome. This includes The school is committed to taking its fair share of procedure are included in the DfE Special Applicants refused a place in the reception or any the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally children who are vulnerable/and or hard to place, Educational Needs Code of Practice. other class have the right to appeal against the be evidenced for a child by a certificate of decision to an independent appeal panel. Parents as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, baptism in a Catholic Church or a certificate of wishing to appeal should obtain a form from the outside the normal admissions round the reception into the full Communion of the school. This should be completed and returned to governing body is empowered to give absolute Catholic Church. the school, marked for the attention of Clerk to the priority to a child where admission is requested Practising Catholics – A Catholic child from a Admission Appeal Panel, within 21 days of receipt under any local protocol that has been agreed by practising Catholic family where this practice of the letter confirming that the application has both the Diocese and the governing body in the has been verified by a reference from a Catholic been unsuccessful. current school year. The governing body has the power even when admitting the child would mean priest in the standard format laid down by the If an appeal is unsuccessful no further appeal may exceeding the published admission number. Diocese. be made within the same school year unless there Christian – A member of one of the Churches have been significant and material changes in the that is a member of “Churches Together in applicant’s circumstances. Great Britain and Ireland” Catechumen – 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 – This includes Orthodox Churches, and is normally evidenced by a certificate of baptism or reception from the authorities of that Church.

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Oversubscription criteria Children with a statement of special educational In-Year admissions Simon Marks - Jewish If there are more applications than places available needs (SEN) which names the school will be Parents should make a formal application to the Admissions Policy 2015/16 admitted. The school will admit 30 children to the reception for the reception class or any other year group, the local authority by completing the relevant class, including children for whom the school has governors will admit pupils in the following order In the event that there are more applicants in any Common Application Form (CAP). The been named in a statement of special educational of priority: category than places available, priority will be given Supplementary Information Form (SIF) and needs. Certificate of Religious Practice (CRP) should be 01. A looked after child with a CRP or a child who to children living nearest the school. Distance is measured from the address point for the home returned to the school. Applications will be In the case of oversubscription, the school will give was previously looked after but immediately considered in conformity with the over-subscription after being looked after became subject to an address to the address point of the school site priority to those who meet a religious practice test using the local authority’s computerised mapping criteria and without delay. If a waiting list exists for based on guidelines from the Chief Rabbi. Those adoption, residence or special guardianship the age appropriate class, a CRP will be required order. system based on ordnance survey data. In cases applicants wishing to be considered as priority where applicants live equidistant from the school and the applicant will be added to the list. If there applicants for available places will need to obtain a 02. Children with a CRP subject to a Child and places cannot be offered to both children, the is a vacancy, a CRP might not be required. Certificate of Religious Practice (CRP) based on Protection Plan. available place will be allocated using a random criteria such as the family’s synagogue attendance, computer selection. Fair Access protocol prior commitment to Jewish education and 03. Children with a CRP for whom there is a voluntary work within the community. demonstrable need on the grounds of their Attendance in the nursery does not guarantee The school is committed to taking its fair share of acute medical or social need. admission to the school for education. children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, How to apply 04. Children of a member of staff, employed at outside the normal admissions round the Parents are invited to visit the school prior to Simon Marks for at least two years or who have Waiting List governing body is empowered to give absolute applying. Please phone the school on 020 8806 6048 been recruited to fill a post where there is a skill All unsuccessful applicants will be placed on a priority to a child where admission is requested to book a place. shortage on the date they are due to start, with waiting list and children will be ranked on the list in under a local protocol that has been agreed for the a CRP. strictly accordance with the oversubscription current school year. The governing body has this Applications for admission to the reception class criteria above. The waiting list will be maintained power even when admitting the child would mean should be completed at www.eadmissions.org.uk 05. Children with a CRP with a sibling on the roll throughout the school year. Priority will not be exceeding the published admission number. using the online application form. See page 10 for of the school at the time of the proposed given to children based on the date of their further information. admission. application. Supplementary Information Forms (SIF) and 06. Children with a CRP on the roll of the Simon Certificates of Religious Practice (CRP) should be Marks nursery. Deferred entry completed and sent with full supporting 07. Other Children with a CRP. If a place in a reception class is offered before a documentation to the school office by 15 January child is of compulsory school age, parents can 2015. Applications arriving after this date will be 08. Other looked after child or a child who was request that their child’s entry be deferred until treated as late applications and will be considered previously looked after but immediately after later in the same school year. This means that the after those received on time. being looked after became subject to an place is held for the child and is not available to be The local authority will post a letter informing adoption, residence, or special guardianship offered to another child. Parents would not, parents whether or not their application has been order. however, be able to defer entry beyond the beginning of the term after the child’s fifth birthday, successful on 16 April 2015. Parents are requested 09. Other children subject to a child protection plan. to indicate in writing their intention or otherwise to nor beyond the academic year for which the take up a place by 30 April 2015. 10. Other children for whom there is a original application was accepted. demonstrable need on the grounds of their acute medical or social need. Right of appeal 11. Children of a member of staff, employed at Applicants refused a place in Reception, or higher Simon Marks for at least two years or who have classes, have the right to appeal. If parents decide been recruited to fill a post where there is a skill to appeal, they should write to the Clerk to the shortage on the date they are due to start. Governors at the school within 14 days of receiving the letter of refusal. There is no right of appeal for 12. Other children with a sibling on the roll of the the nursery. school at the time of the proposed admission. 13. Other children currently on the roll of the Simon Marks nursery. 14. All other applicants.

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How to apply Oversubscription criteria Tie-breaker ST DOMINIC’S - CATHOLIC Where the offer of places to all the applicants in Admissions Policy 2015/16* Applications for admission to the reception class If there are more applications than places available, should be completed at www.eadmissions.org.uk places will be awarded in accordance with the any of the criteria listed above would lead to As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic oversubscription, places up to the admission education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, using the online application form. See page 10 for oversubscription criteria in the following order of further information. priority: number will be offered to those children whose Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every parents’/carers’ residential address is the shortest aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the The school will expect each applicant to complete 01. A Catholic looked after child or a Catholic distance measured in a straight line from the main Catholic character of the school’s education be fully a school Supplementary Information Form (SIF) and child who was previously looked after but entrance door of Homerton Library, Homerton High supported by all families in the school. All applicants returned to the school by the date specified on the immediately after being looked after became Street, London, E9 6AS to the front door of the are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved form. If the SIF form is not completed and returned subject to an adoption, residence, or special parents’/carers residential address. This is because and positive support for the aims and ethos of the to the school, it is unlikely that the application will guardianship order. the school serves the Parishes of St Dominic’s and school. The Governing Body is the legal be successful as, without the SIF form, it will be St Jude’s and the school is situated in the Parish of Admissions Authority for the school. given a lower priority. The Supplementary 02. Catholic children whose parents/legal St Dominic’s. Distance will be measured using the guardians are resident in the Hackney Catholic The school serves the Hackney Catholic Parishes of Information Form (SIF) is obtainable from the school Local Authority’s geographical computerised Deanery Parishes of Immaculate Heart of Mary the Immaculate Heart of Mary & St. Dominic or Hackney Learning Trust. mapping system, with those living closer to and St Dominic’s (Homerton) and St Jude’s (Homerton) and St Jude’s (Clapton Park). Maps are Homerton Library receiving the higher priority. Applicants must provide the school with a certified (Clapton Park). available from Hackney Learning Trust, the Parish copy of the original baptismal certificate or the Twins and children of multiple births offices and from the school. Large-scale parish original baptismal certificate. If neither one nor both 03. Other Catholic Children. If only one place is available for more than one maps are also on display at the school. child, who are twins or of a multiple birth within the of these certificates exist applicants should indicate 04. Other looked after child or a child who was same family, all the children will be admitted. The Governing Body will ensure that the number of in writing the reasons for this being the case. previously looked after but immediately after pupils admitted to each year group will be such as Applicants must provide the school with proof of being looked after became subject to an Children with statements of Special Educational to conform to statutory legislation. The Governing the child’s residential address. Independent adoption, residence, or special guardianship Needs (SEN) Body proposes to admit 60 pupils, being the verification may be sought of the child’s residential order. The admission of children with statements of Published Admissions Number (PAN), to Reception. Special Educational Needs is dealt with by a address. 05.Children of other Christian denominations Applicants should be aware that nursery education completely separate procedure. The procedure is If the application for a reception place for whose parents wish them to have a Catholic is a non-statutory service and that accordingly a integral to the making of statements by the pupil’s September 2015 is successful parents/carers will be education and whose application a Priest, child’s attendance in the school’s nursery class does home Local Authority. Details of this separate sent a formal offer on 16 April 2015. Minister or Church Leader supports. not guarantee a future place in the Reception, procedure are included in the DfE Special Infant or Junior classes. 06. Any other applicants. Educational Needs Code of Practice. In prioritising applications within the oversubscription criteria first priority will be given to children who will Waiting list have a brother or sister attending a reception, infant The waiting list will be maintained in order of the or junior class at St Dominic’s Catholic Primary School above oversubscription criteria and not in the order at the proposed date of admission. A second priority in which applications are received or added to the will be given to children of members of staff, where list. Names are removed from the list at the end of the member of staff has been employed at the each academic year. school for at least two years at the proposed date of admission. Exceptional social, medical or pastoral need The Governing Body will increase to top priority an Explanation of terms used in the application within a criterion where compelling Oversubscription Criteria evidence is provided at the time of application of an Catholic – A member of a Church in full exceptional social, medical or pastoral need of the communion with the See of Rome. This includes child which can only be met at St Dominic’s Catholic the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will be Primary School. The Governing Body will require normally evidenced by a certificate of baptism written evidence from an appropriate professional in a Catholic Church or a certificate of reception such as priest, doctor or social worker. into the full Communion of the Catholic Church. Christian – A member of one of the Churches that is a member of “Churches Together in * This policy does not apply to the nursery class. Great Britain and Ireland.”

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Deferred entry In-Year admissions 03. Children whose acute medical or social needs St John and St James’ - CHURCH OF justify the allocation of a place at the school. Applicants may defer entry to school up until Applications for In-Year admissions are made in the ENGLAND statutory school age, i.e. the first day of term same way as those made during the normal Supporting evidence from a doctor or social Admissions Policy 2015/16 worker must be provided at time of application following the child’s fifth birthday. Application is admissions round. If a place is available and there As a Church of England school, we have Christian made in the usual way and then deferral is is no waiting list then Hackney Learning Trust will setting out the particular reasons why this teaching built into our curriculum and assemblies, school is the most suitable and the difficulties requested. The place will then be held until the first be informed and the place will be offered. If more and parents are asked to accept this when they day of the Spring or Summer term if applicable. applications are received than there are places that would be caused if the child had to attend send their children to St John and St James’ another school. Applicants may also request that their child attend available then applications will be ranked by the Primary School. part-time until statutory school age is reached. Governing Body in accordance with the over- 04. Children of staff in either or both of the Entry may not be deferred beyond statutory school subscription criteria with the following modifications: The school will admit 30 children to the reception following circumstances: age or beyond the year of application. Applicants class each year. Priority will be given to children in whose children have birthdays in the Summer term • Catholic children without an offer of a school public care. The governors have decided that 20 – where the member of staff has been should be aware that, if they wish to defer, they will place elsewhere are given priority immediately places will be foundation places and 10 places will employed at the school for two or more years need to apply for a Year 1 place for the following after Catholic ‘looked-after’ children; be open places or the same ratio following at the time at which the application for admission of children in public care. admission to the school is made, and/or September and if the school is oversubscribed they • similarly, other children without an offer of a are very unlikely to obtain a place. school place are given priority immediately after – the member of staff is recruited to fill a other ‘looked-after’ children. How to apply vacant post for which there is a demonstrable Right of appeal skill shortage. If a place cannot be offered at this time you may Applications for admission to the reception class Unsuccessful applicants have the right to appeal to ask for the reasons and you will be informed of should be completed at www.eadmissions.org.uk 05. Children who live outside the parishes of an independent panel. Parents wishing to appeal your right of appeal. Applicants will be offered the using the online application form. See page 10 for St John’s Hackney, St James’ Clapton, the should obtain an appeal form from the school. This opportunity of being placed on a waiting list. This further information. Hackney Marsh Team and St Luke’s Homerton. should be completed and returned to the school, waiting list will be maintained by the Governing Applicants wishing to be considered under When deciding between applicants who appear to marked for the attention of Clerk to the Admission Body in the order of the oversubscription criteria, Foundation priority 1 should also complete a have equal entitlement to admission under the Appeal Panel, within the recommended closing as modified above, and not in the order in which Supplementary Information Form (SIF). The SIF criteria, the governors will offer the place to the date, which is 25 school days following receipt of the applications are received. Names are removed form is available from the school and Hackney applicant who lives nearest to the main entrance to the letter confirming that the application has been from the list at the end of each academic year. Learning Trust. the school in Isabella Road measured by a straight unsuccessful. If an appeal is unsuccessful, the When a place becomes available the Governing line. If two applicants live exactly the same distance, Governing Body will not consider a further Body will decide who is at the top of the list so that the allocation of the place will be determined by application within the same school year unless the local authority can inform the parent that the Oversubscription criteria lottery by the Admissions Committee in the there have been significant and material changes in school is making an offer. The following criteria will be used by the presence of a witness. the applicant’s circumstances. governors, in order of priority if a year group is Fair Access Protocol oversubscribed: Allocation of places if either groups are undersubscribed 01. A looked after child or a child who was previously The school is committed to taking its fair share of If there is a vacancy in the Foundation place looked after but immediately after being looked vulnerable children who are hard to place, in category which cannot be filled by pupils who meet after became subject to an adoption, residence accordance with the locally agreed ‘In-Year Fair the criteria for Foundation places, governors will or special guardianship order. Access Protocol’. Accordingly, outside the normal consider children for these places using the criteria round of admissions, the Governing Body is for Open places. If there is a vacancy in the Open empowered to give absolute priority to a child Foundation places 01. Children whose parents attend at least twice a place category which cannot be filled by pupils where admission is requested under any local who meet the criteria for Open places, governors protocol which carries the agreement both of the month for 12 months at either the church of St John at Hackney or St James’ Clapton and will consider children for these places using the Governing Body and the Diocese for the current criteria for Foundation places. admission year. The Governing Body has this who live within the parishes of St John’s power even when admitting such a child would Hackney, St James’ Clapton, the Hackney exceed the normal admission number. Marsh Team and St Luke’s Homerton. Waiting list Open places Late applicants will be added to the waiting list, 01. Children who have a sibling attending the if the year group they are applying for is over school at the time they would attend. subscribed. In the event of a place becoming available, all eligible applicants currently on the 02. Children who live within the parishes of St waiting list are considered in the light of the school’s John’s Hackney, St James’ Clapton, the admission criteria and a place offered accordingly. Hackney Marsh Team and St Luke’s Homerton.

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04. Children who are already in the Nursery at St Foundation places St John of Jerusalem - CHURCH OF John of Jerusalem CE Primary School. St John the Baptist - CHURCH OF 01. Children of parents who are practising1 ENGLAND ENGLAND Anglicans and attend St John the Baptist Admissions Policy 2015/16 05. Children whose Parent/s or Carer/s are regular Admissions Policy 2015/16 Church, Hoxton and St Leonard’s Church, St John of Jerusalem CE Primary School, in the worshippers (at least once every three weeks, St John the Baptist is a one and half form entry Shoreditch. parish of South Hackney (Diocese of London) will for one year) at a nearby Anglican church, and Church of England primary school with a nursery. admit a total of 30 children in the Reception Class. for whom this is their nearest church school. The governors welcome applications for admissions 02. Children whose parents are practising1 from all parents knowing that this is a Church of Anglicans and attend Holy Trinity Church All children who attend the nursery will be required 06. Children whose Parent/s or Carer/s are regular England school, and hoping that they will support Hoxton; St Anne’s Church, Hoxton; St Chad’s to complete an application form as there is no worshippers (at least once every three weeks, the Christian ethos of the school. Church, Haggerston; and St Peter’s Church, automatic transfer from nursery to reception. for one year) at a nearby Christian church, and De Beauvoir. for whom this is their nearest church school. The school has an admission limit of 60 places. 1 How to apply In the case of there being more applications than 03. Children whose parents are practising 07. Children whose Parent/s or Carer/s are regular places available the governors will apply the members and attend other Christian Applications for admission to the reception class worshippers (at least once every three weeks, oversubscription criteria as set out below. denominations.2 should be completed at www.eadmissions.org.uk for one year) of other faiths/beliefs, and for using the online application form. See page 10 for whom this is their nearest church school. Open places further information. How to apply 01. Children whose parents belong to another 08. Children who live nearest to the main entrance Applications for admission to the reception class world faith or no faith and wish to attend St Any child who attends a place of worship will only of the school. should be completed at www.eadmissions.org.uk John the Baptist School because of its Christian be considered if the minister of religion has In the event of oversubscription in all above using the online application form. See page 10 for tradition and education based on Christian confirmed regular worship on Supplementary further information. values. Information Form (SIF). Should this form not be criteria, the distance from the child’s home address received, this will reduce the possibility of the to the school will determine the child’s admission. Applicants wishing to be considered under When deciding between applicants who appear to child’s admission being accepted. The distance will be measured in a straight line from Foundation priorities should also complete a have equal entitlement to admission under any the child’s home address (including flats) to the main Supplementary Information Form (SIF). This form is criteria, the Governors will offer the place to the If you are making your admissions application in entrance of the school, using the Local Authority’s available from the school and Hackney Learning applicant who lives nearest to the main entrance of relation to criteria points 2, 5, 6, or 7, please ensure computerised measuring system. Those living Trust. the school on Crondall Street measured by a you provide the Supplementary Information Form closer to the school will receive the higher priority. straight line. It should be understood by parents (SIF) as confirmation of Church/other faith If two applicants live exactly the same distance the Oversubscription criteria that a place in the nursery does not give a child membership duly signed by your Vicar, Pastor or allocation will be determined by lottery which will automatic entry to a reception class. Religious Leader. The Supplementary Information be carried out by the Admissions Committee in the In accordance with the oversubscription criteria, Form (SIF) is obtainable from the school or Hackney presence of an independent witness. the governors will give 30 Foundation places and Twins and children of multiple births Learning Trust. 30 Open places or in the same ratio after places If only one place is available for more than one Twins and children of multiple births have been given in order to: child, who are twins or of a multiple birth within the If only one place is available for more than one Oversubscription criteria same family, the Governing Body will establish if child, who are twins or of a multiple birth within the 01. A looked after child or a child who was previously the school is able to admit above numbers. If this is In the event that the school is oversubscribed in same family, the Governing Body will establish if looked after but immediately after being looked not possible the allocation of the place will be any one year group, the Governor’s Admissions the school is able to admit above numbers. If this is after became subject to an adoption, residence determined by lottery which will be carried out by Committee will apply the following criteria in order not possible the allocation of the place will be or special guardianship order. the Admissions Committee in the presence of an of priority: determined by lottery which will be carried out by independent witness. the Admissions Committee in the presence of an 02. Children who have a Child Protection plan. 01. A looked after child or a child who was previously independent witness. Supporting evidence from a doctor or social looked after but immediately after being looked worker must be provided at time of application after became subject to an adoption, residence setting out the particular reasons why this Explanation of terms used in the or special guardianship order. Waiting list school is the most suitable and the difficulties Oversubscription Criteria The school maintains a waiting list and children are that would be caused if the child had to attend 1 Practising means a parent who attends a 02. Children whose Parent/s or Carer/s, are regular ranked on the list in accordance with the school’s another school. Sunday worship service on at least 26 occasions worshippers (at least once every three weeks, oversubscription criteria. The list is maintained by within the 12 month period prior to the for one year) at St John of Jerusalem Church. the Local Authority for one term after which it will 03. Children whose acute medical or social needs application deadline (equivalent to fortnightly justify the allocation of a place at the school. 03. Children who have siblings attending St John be maintained by the school. We will contact you attendance). It is sufficient for just one parent to of Jerusalem CE Primary School, and will on a regular basis to enquire whether you want 04. Children who have a sibling at the school at attend. your child to remain on the waiting list. continue to do so at the time of attendance. the time of their proposed entry. 2 Christian denominations – Churches who are members of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) or the Evangelical Alliance (EA).

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Waiting list Oversubscription criteria Twins and children of multiple births St Mary’s - CHURCH OF ENGLAND The school maintains a waiting list. Children are When there are more applicants than there are In the case of twins or multiple birth if a place is Admissions Policy 2015/16 offered to one of the children priority will be given ranked on the waiting list in accordance with the The governors, who are responsible for admissions places, the governors will allocate places to school oversubscription criteria as set out above. children in the following order of priority: to all of the other siblings and the Governing Body to this Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary will establish if the school is able to admit more School, have agreed with the Local Education 01. A looked after child or a child who was previously than 30. If this is not possible the allocation of the Authority to admit 30 pupils for each year group Late applications looked after but immediately after being looked place will be determined by lottery, which will be and this applies to the current school year. These Late applications made after the applications after became subject to an adoption, residence carried out by the Admissions Committee in the arrangements and the admissions criteria below deadline will be considered in accordance with the or special guardianship order. presence of an independent witness. are reviewed annually. school’s oversubscription criteria. Late applicants Children with statements of Special Educational will be added to the waiting list if the year group is 02. Children subject to a Child Protection Plan for Needs (SEN) oversubscribed. In the event of a place becoming How to apply whom this is the nearest school. Children with a statement of Special Educational available all applicants on the waiting list are Application for admission must be made by 03. Children whose parents are regular worshippers Needs (SEN) that specifies this school as the considered in line with the schools admission registering and naming the school online at at St Mary’s Church, Stoke Newington. Regular placement school will be allocated a place through criteria and the place is offered accordingly. www.eadmissions.org.uk and completing the worship is attendance at least once a month at a separate procedure in accordance with the school’s supplementary form when requesting a services for a period of at least one year prior to Special Educational Needs Practice. In-Year admissions place under criteria 3 and 4 available from and the application. A supporting letter is required returned to the school office. from the relevant parish priest. Applications for In-Year admissions are made in the Waiting list same way as those made during the normal The Headteacher will explain the admissions 04. Children whose parents are regular worshippers Unsuccessful applicants will be placed on a waiting admissions round. If a place is available and there procedure at an open day. Details of which are (as detailed above) at other Christian churches list in order of the above priorities. is no waiting list then the local authority will given on request. and who reside within the parish boundary of communicate the governors’ offer of a place to the St Mary’s Church, Stoke Newington. family. If more applications are received than there It is the responsibility of the parents to inform the A supporting letter is required from the relevant Right of appeal are places available then applications will be Headteacher of any change of circumstances, Christian minister. Children who have access to Parents who are not offered a place for their child ranked by the governing body in accordance with which take place after the completion of the a local denominational school of their own faith are entitled to appeal to an independent the oversubscription criteria, with the following application form. Thirty children will be admitted to will not be considered under this category. committee under the provisions of the Education modifications: the reception class in the autumn term of the Act 1980. Parents wishing to appeal should academic year in which they will be 5 years old. 05. Children who have a sibling at the school at the complete an appeal form, which is available from • children without an offer of a school place are time of attendance. given priority immediately after other ‘looked- Parents will be informed whether or not their child the school. after’ children. has been offered a place following the local 06. Children who have attended St Mary’s nursery authority dates. for the academic year prior to start date in In-Year admissions If a place cannot be offered at this time then you reception. may ask us for the reasons and you will be informed Vacancies for places in all year groups will be of your right of appeal. You will be offered the 07. Children of members of staff who have worked offered to those on the waiting list according to the opportunity of being placed on a waiting list. This at the school for at least two years prior to the admissions criteria above. waiting list will be maintained by the governing academic year for which they are applying. body in the order of the oversubscription criteria (as modified above) and not in the order in which 08. Of the remaining applicants, those who live the applications are received. Names are removed closest to the school based on distance formula from the list at the end of each academic year. below. When a place becomes available the governing Should the number of applicants eligible in a body will decide who is at the top of the list so that particular criterion exceed the number of places Hackney Learning Trust can inform the parent that available, preference will be given based on the school is making an offer. distance measured in a straight line from the child’s home address to the centre of the school, using the Local Authority’s computerised measuring mapping system. In the event of two children living exactly the same distance, the allocation will be determined by lottery, which will be carried out by the Admissions Committee in the presence of an independent witness.

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Oversubscription criteria Oversubscription criteria St Matthias - CHURCH OF ENGLAND St. Monica’s - Catholic Admissions Policy 2015/16 When there are more applicants than there are Admissions Policy 2015/16 Children will be admitted to the school in the St Matthias’ school will admit 45 pupils to each year places, the governors will allocate places to We aim to provide a Catholic education for all our following order of priority: group. In the event that the school receives more children in the following order of priority: pupils. Catholic doctrine and practice permeates 01. A Catholic looked after child or a Catholic applications than places available, the priorities every aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential 01. A looked after child or a child who was previously child who was previously looked after but listed below will be applied. that the Catholic character of the school’s looked after but immediately after being looked immediately after being looked after became education is fully supported by all families in the after became subject to an adoption, residence subject to an adoption, residence, or special It should be understood by parents that a place in school. All applicants are therefore expected to or special guardianship order. guardianship order. the nursery does not give the child an automatic give their full, unreserved and positive support for entry into the reception class. 02. Children who have brothers and sisters on the the aims and ethos of the school. 02. Catholic children whose parents or legal current roll at the time of attendance. guardians are resident in the parish of St. Children who have the school named in their The school serves the Catholic Parish of St Monica’s Statement of Special Educational Needs are Monica’s. 03. Children whose parent(s) regularly worship1 in Hoxton and its adjoining parishes, St John the required to be admitted to the school and will be at St Matthias Church. Baptist and Our Lady and St Joseph in the Hackney 03. Catholic children whose parents or legal counted against the admission number. Deanery. A map of the parishes is available from guardians are resident in neighbouring 04. Children whose parent(s) are committed the school or Hackney Learning Trust. parishes of St John the Baptist (Hackney) and How to apply members of, and regularly worship in local Our Lady and St Joseph (Kingsland). churches2 and chapels of other Christian The Governing Body will ensure that the number of Applications for admission to the reception class denominations. pupils admitted to each year group will conform to 04. Other Catholic children not covered by criteria should be completed at www.eadmissions.org.uk statutory legislation. It will admit 30 pupils to each 1 to 3. using the online application form. See page 10 for 05. Children living within the Parish of St. Matthias. year group. If there are more applications than further information. A map of the parish boundary is available from places available, places will be awarded in 05. Other looked after children or children who the school or Hackney Learning Trust. accordance with the over subscription criteria. were previously looked after but immediately Applicants wishing to be considered under priorities after being looked after became subject to an 3 and 4 should also complete a Supplementary 06. Children living outside the Parish of St Matthias. Applicants should be aware that a child’s adoption, residence or special guardianship Information Form (SIF). This form is available from attendance in the school’s nursery does not When deciding between applicants who have order. the school and Hackney Learning Trust. guarantee a future place in the reception, infant equal entitlement to admission under the criteria, and junior classes. 06. Catechumens and members of the Eastern the Governors will offer the place to applicants who Christian Churches. live nearest to the main entrance of the school, Explanation of terms used in the measured in a straight line, using Hackney Learning How to apply 07. Children from other Christian denominations Oversubscription Criteria Trust’s computerised measuring mapping system. Applications for admission to the reception class whose parents wish them to have a Catholic 1 Regularly worship – twice in a calendar month should be completed at www.eadmissions.org.uk education and whose application is supported for at least one year. Your priest/minister will be Waiting List using the online application form. See page 10 for by a Priest, Minister or Church Leader. required to complete a church attendance form further information. You should also complete the All unsuccessful applicants will be placed on a 08. Children of other faiths whose application is in support of your application. school’s Supplementary Information Form (SIF). waiting list and children will be ranked on the list in supported by a religious leader. The information on the SIF enables the Governing 2 Local Church – A Church within two miles of accordance with the above admission policy. Body to assess your application fully against the the school and which is a member of Churches 09. Any other applicant. school’s criteria in the event of oversubscription. Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) or the Information about which streets and residences are Please return the SIF form (in person or by post) to The Governing Body will give top priority to an evangelical alliance. included in the Parish of St Matthias can be found from the Church Finder section of the Diocesan the school together with all other relevant application within a category where compelling website: www.london.anglican.org/ChurchFinder paperwork required for your application. If you do evidence is provided at the time of application of not complete this form and return it by 15 January an exceptional social, medical or pastoral need of 2015, the Governing Body will be unable to the child which can only be met at this school. The In Year admissions consider your application fully and it is very unlikely Governing Body will require written evidence from Applications for In-Year admissions are made on that your child will be offered a place. The SIF form an appropriate professional such as priest, doctor Hackney Learning Trust’s in-year application form. is obtainable from the school office or Hackney or social worker as to why the school is the most If a place is available and there is no waiting list Learning Trust. suitable and the difficulties that would be caused if then the local authority will communicate the the child had to attend another. governors’ offer of a place to the family. If more Applications received after the closing date will be The attendance of a brother or sister at the school applications are received than there are places dealt with after the initial allocation process has at the time of enrolment will increase the priority of available then the applications will be ranked by been completed. The local authority will write to an applicant within each category. the governing body in accordance with the you on behalf of the Governing Body with the oversubscription criteria. outcome of your application on or about 16 April 2015. This is now primary national offer day.

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Tie-breaker Waiting list In-Year admissions Where the offer of places to all the applicants in St Paul’s with St Michael’s - CHURCH Applicants not offered a place in the reception Applications for in-year admissions are made to the OF ENGLAND any of the criteria listed above would lead to class will be placed on a waiting list ranked in Hackney Learning Trust. If a place is available and oversubscription, places up to the admission Admission Policy 2015/16 accordance with the oversubscription criteria. there is no waiting list then the governors will offer The Governors, who are responsible for the number will be offered to those children whose Names are normally removed from the list at the of a place to the family. If more applications are parents’/carers’ residential address is the shortest admissions to this Church of England Voluntary end of the academic year unless parents/carers received than there are places available then Aided School, have agreed with the Local distance from the main door of St. Monica’s submit a written request asking for their application applications will be ranked by the governing body Catholic Primary School to the front door of the Education Authority to admit 30 pupils for each to remain on the waiting list. in accordance with the oversubscription criteria, year group (plus up to 25 full-time or part-time parents/carer’s residential address when measured with the following modifications: in a straight line on a map. For the purpose of places in the nursery). This number has been agreed between the Governors and Hackney calculating distances the address is identified by Deferred entry • Catholic children without an offer of a school Learning Trust and applies to the school year. using the geographical reference as determined by Applicants may defer entry to school up until place elsewhere are given priority immediately Hackney Learning Trust. statutory school age i.e. the first day of term after Catholic ‘looked-after’ children; The school does not have any specific units or following the child’s fifth birthday. Application is Twins and children of multiple births facilities for pupils with particular special needs made in the usual way and then the deferment is • similarly, other children without an offer of a Where the final place is offered to a child who has a and there are no specific facilities for pupils with requested. The place will then be held until the first school place are given priority immediately after twin/triplets etc. applying for a place in the same physical disabilities. There are three buildings. day of the spring or summer term. Applicants may other ‘looked-after’ children. school year, these siblings will also be admitted. The nursery and infant building are on a level site also request that their child attend part-time until If a place cannot be offered at this time then you and on one floor but the junior building is on two Children with statements of Special Educational statutory school age is reached. Entry may not be may ask us for the reasons and you will be informed floors with a basement area. As far as possible the Needs (SEN) deferred beyond statutory school age or beyond of your right of appeal. You will be offered the school will ensure that pupils with disabilities have The admission of children with statements of the year of application. Applicants whose children opportunity of being placed on a waiting list. This access to the same opportunities as other pupils. Special Educational Needs is dealt with by a have birthdays in the summer term should be waiting list will be maintained by the governing These arrangements and the admissions criteria completely separate procedure. The procedure is aware that, if they wish to defer, they will need to body in the order of the oversubscription criteria below are reviewed annually. Each application integral to making and maintaining statements by apply for a Year 1 place for the following (as modified above) and not in the order in which should be supported by the relevant documentary the pupil’s home local education authority. Details September and if the school is oversubscribed they the applications are received. Names are removed evidence. of this separate procedure are set out in the DfE are unlikely to gain a place. from the list at the end of each academic year. Special Educational Needs Code of Practice. When a place becomes available the governing Right of appeal body will decide who is at the top of the list so that How to apply the Hackney Learning Trust can inform the parent Unsuccessful applicants have the right to appeal to Applications for admission to the reception class that the school is making an offer. an independent panel. Parents wishing to appeal should be completed at www.eadmissions.org.uk should obtain a form from the school. This should using the online application form. See page 10 for be completed and returned to the school, marked Fair access protocol further information. for the attention of Clerk to the Admission Appeal The school is committed to taking its fair share of Applicants wishing to be considered under priorities Explanation of terms used in the Panel, within 21 days of receipt of the letter vulnerable children who are hard to place, in 3, 6 and 8 should also complete a Supplementary Oversubscription Criteria confirming that the application has been accordance with locally agreed protocols. Information Form (SIF). This form is available from unsuccessful. If an appeal is unsuccessful no further Catholic – A member of a Church in full Accordingly, outside the normal round of the school and Hackney Learning Trust. communion with the See of Rome. This includes appeal may be made within the same school year admissions, the Governing Body is empowered the Eastern Catholic Churches. unless there have been significant and material to give absolute priority to a child where admission changes in the applicant’s circumstances. is requested under any local protocol which carries Christian – A member of one of the Churches the agreement both of the Governing Body that is a member of “Churches Together in and the Diocese for the current admission year. Great Britain and Ireland” and of Christian The Governing Body has this power even when Evangelical and Pentecostal churches. admitting such a child would exceed the normal Catechumen – Acceptance into the admission number. catechumenate is demonstrated by a certified copy of the entry in the Register of Catechumens. Eastern Christian Church – Membership of an Eastern Christian Church is shown by a certificate of baptism or a certificate of reception from the authorities of that Church.

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Oversubscription criteria 08. Children of parents who are practising How to apply 2 1 St Scholastica’s - Catholic When there are more applications than there are members of a Christian denomination , who Applications for admission to the reception class live outside the Parish of St Michael and All Admission Policy 2015/16 places available the Governors will admit pupils St Scholastica’s Catholic Primary School was founded should be completed at www.eadmissions.org.uk according to the following criteria, which are listed Angels London Fields, for whom this is the using the online application form. See page 10 for nearest Church of England school. by the Catholic Church to provide education for in order of priority. These criteria will be applied in children of Catholic families. As a Catholic school, further information. accordance with the school’s duties under the we aim to provide a Catholic education for all our 09. Any other applicant. You should also complete the School’s Disability Discrimination Act. pupils. At a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and Supplementary Information Form (SIF). The In the case of over-subscription in criteria 5 or 7, a practice permeate every aspect of the school’s 01. A looked after child or a child who was previously information on the SIF enables the Governing Body tie break of straight line distance from the school activity. It is essential that the Catholic character of looked after but immediately after being looked to assess your application fully against the school’s will be applied, using Hackney Learning Trust’s the school’s education is fully supported by all after became subject to an adoption, residence criteria in the event of oversubscription. Please computerised measuring mapping system. If two families in the school. All applicants are therefore or special guardianship order. return the SIF (in person or by post) to the school applicants live exactly the same distance the expected to give their full, unreserved and positive together with all other relevant paperwork required 02. Children subject to a child protection plan. allocation of the place will be determined by support for the aims and ethos of the school. lottery which will be carried out by the Admissions for your application. If you do not complete this 03. Children of parents who are on the church Committee in the presence of an independent The Published Admissions Number (PAN) for the form and return it by 15 January 2015, the electoral roll of St. Michael and All Angels, witness reception class at St Scholastica’s is 30. The Governing Body will be unable to consider your London Fields, or the children of parents who Governing Body has sole responsibility for application fully and it is very unlikely that your Information about which streets and residences are admissions to the school and intends to admit child will be offered a place. are prohibited from membership of the church included in the Parish of St Michael and All Angels 30 children in the school year which begins in electoral roll (because of their role in the Parents will also need to provide the original or a London Fields can be found from the Diocesan September 2015. Church of England, i.e. clergy), who can certified copy of the child’s baptismal certificate. If demonstrate that they are regular worshippers website at www.london.anglican.org/ChurchFinder. Applicants should be aware that nursery education no certificate exists applications should indicate in at St. Michael and All Angels London Fields. The decision on admissions rests with the is a non-statutory service and accordingly a child’s writing the reasons for this being the case. Those 04. Children who are attending St Paul’s with Governors of St Paul’s with St Michael’s Church of attendance in the school’s nursery does not applying as ‘practising’ Catholics or under category St Michael’s nursery. This criterion is applicable England Primary School. guarantee a future place in the reception, infant 10, 11 or 12 should ask the priest at the church on admission to the Reception class and above. and junior classes. where they worship to complete the Priest’s Twins and children of multiple births Reference Form (PRF) and return it to the school by 05. Children who have a brother or sister at the If only one place is available for more than one the stipulated closing date. school at the time of their proposed entry. i.e. child, who are twins or of a multiple birth within the on the day the child is entering the school, not same family, the Governing Body will establish if If any of the details on either of your forms changes when applying for entry. the school is able to admit above numbers. If this is between the date of application and the receipt of not possible the allocation of the place will be the letter of offer or refusal, you must inform the 06. Children of parents who are practising determined by lottery which will be carried out by school and the local authority immediately. members2 of a Christian denomination1, who the Admissions Committee in the presence of an If misleading information is given or allowed to live in the Parish of St. Michael and All Angels, independent witness. remain on either of your forms, the Governing London Fields. Body reserves the right to withdraw the place, even if the child has already started at the school. 07. Children of parents who live in the Parish of Right of appeal St Michael and All Angels, London Fields, but Parents who are unsuccessful in gaining admission Applications received after the closing date will be who are not practising members of a Christian have the right of appeal, with the exception of the dealt with after the initial allocation process has denomination, with priority given to those who nursery, which is non-statutory. Appeals should be been completed. live nearest to the school, as measured by a addressed to the Clerk of the Governors at the straight line. school office.

In-Year admissions Explanation of terms used in the Applications for In-Year admissions are made in the Oversubscription Criteria same way as those made during the normal admissions round. If a place is available and there 1 Christian denomination as defined by the is no waiting list then the governing body will admit ‘Churches together in Britain and Ireland’ and the child. If more applications are received than the ‘Evangelical Alliance’. there are places available then applications will be 2 Practising Christian – A member attending ranked by the governing body in accordance with Church at least once a month for a year or more. the oversubscription criteria.

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Oversubscription Criteria 04. Other baptised Catholic children who have a Tie-Breaker Right of appeal Where there are more applications than the sibling at the school at the proposed date of Where the offer of places to all the applicants in If you are unsuccessful you may ask us for the number of places available, places will be offered admission. any of the sub-categories listed above would still reasons for the refusal of a place. These reasons lead to oversubscription, those living closer to the according to the following order of priority: 05. Baptised Catholic children from practising will be related to the oversubscription criteria listed school will be given priority. For the purpose of in the policy and you will have the right of appeal 01. A Catholic looked after child or a Catholic Catholic families who are resident in the Parish calculating distances, the home address is identified of St Scholastica’s. to an independent panel. Should you wish to child who was previously looked after but by using the property geographical reference as appeal please contact Hackney Learning Trust as immediately after being looked after became 06. Baptised Catholic children from practising determined by Hackney Learning Trust. In the case soon as possible for an appeal form on which you subject to an adoption, residence, or special Catholic families whose parents/legal guardians of a number of addresses in a block with the same must list your reasons for making an appeal. guardianship order. are resident in the Parish of St Jude, Clapton geographical references, the children’s ranking will Park or Our Lady of Good Counsel. be determined by the Governing Body, who will 02. Baptised Catholic children who have a sibling at draw lots in the presence of an independent witness. In-Year admissions the school and whose parents reside in the 07. Other baptised Catholic children from In-Year applications are made to Hackney Learning Twins and children of multiple births Parish of St Scholastica’s at the proposed date practising Catholic families. Trust. If a place is available and there is no waiting No special consideration is given to these cases. of admission. list the child will be admitted. If there is a waiting If we can only offer one child a place at our school, 08. Other Baptised Catholic children. list, then applications will be ranked by the 03. Baptised Catholic children who have a sibling at we will use a lottery system to decide who is offered Governing Body in accordance with the over- the school and whose parents reside in the 09. Other looked after children or children who the place. This will be carried out by the Admissions subscription criteria with the following modifications: Parish of St Jude, Clapton Park or Our Lady of were previously looked after but immediately Team in the presence of an independent witness. Good Counsel, Stoke Newington at the after being looked after became subject to an • Catholic children without an offer of a school Children with statements of Special Educational proposed date of admission. adoption, residence or special guardianship place else where are given priority immediately Needs (SEN) order. after Catholic ‘looked-after’ children; The admission of children with a statement of 10. Children of families who are Catechumens or Special Educational Needs is dealt with by a • similarly, other children without an offer of a members of an Eastern Christian Church. completely separate procedure. If your child has a school place are given priority immediately after 11. Christian of other denominations whose statement of SEN you must contact your local other ‘looked-after’ children. Explanation of terms used in the application is supported by their Minister of authority SEN officer. Oversubscription Criteria If a place cannot be offered at this time then you Religion. may ask us for the reasons and you will be informed Catholic – A member of a Church in full Waiting List of your right of appeal. You will be offered the communion with the See of Rome. This includes 12. Children of other faiths whose application is Unsuccessful candidates will be offered the opportunity of being placed on a waiting list. This the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally supported by their Religious Leader. opportunity to be placed on a waiting list. This list waiting list will be maintained by the Governing be evidenced by a certificate of baptism in a 13. Any other applicant. will be maintained in order of the oversubscription Body in the order of the oversubscription criteria as Catholic Church or a certificate of reception into criteria above and not in the order in which modified above and not in the order in which the the full communion of the Catholic Church. Parish boundaries are shown on specific maps applications are received or added to the list. Names applications are received. Names are removed available from the school. Practising Catholic – A Catholic child from a are removed from the list after one year, unless from the list at the end of each academic year. practising Catholic family where this practice is Exceptional social, medical or pastoral need applicants request to remain on the list. When a place becomes available the Governing verified by a reference from a Catholic priest in The Governing Body will give top priority, after the Body will decide who is at the top of the list so that the standard format laid down by the Diocese. appropriate category of looked-after children, to Deferred entry an offer can be made. Family includes the Catholic or Catholics who an application where compelling written evidence Applicants may defer entry to school up until have legal responsibility for the child. is provided at the time of application, from an statutory school age i.e. the first day of term Fair access protocols appropriate professional such as a doctor, priest or following the child’s fifth birthday. Application is The school is committed to taking its fair share of Christian – A member of one of the Churches social worker, of an exceptional social, medical, made in the usual way and then the deferral is children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, that is a member of “Churches Together in pastoral or other need of the child, which can only requested. The place will then be held until the first as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, Great Britain and Ireland” be met at this school. day of the spring or summer term as applicable. outside the normal admissions round, the Catechumen – A member of the catechumenate Applicants may also request that their child attend Governing Body is empowered to give absolute of a Catholic Church. This will normally be part-time until statutory school age is reached. priority to a child where admission is requested evidenced by a certificate of reception into the Entry may not be deferred beyond statutory school under any local protocol that has been agreed by order of catechumens. age or beyond the year of application. Applicants both the local authority and the Diocese for the whose children have birthdays in the summer term current school year. The Governing Body has this Eastern Christian Church – This includes should be aware that, if they wish to defer, they will power even when admitting the child would mean Orthodox Churches, and is normally evidenced need to apply for a Year 1 place for the following exceeding the published admission number. by a certificate of baptism or reception from the September and if the school is oversubscribed they authorities of that Church. are very unlikely to obtain a place.

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Pupil Benefits Help with home to school travel Children whose parents receive certain Department fares for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits and Inland Hackney Learning Trust can help with tube and/or Revenue Tax Credits may qualify for Pupil Benefits train fares for pupils living in Hackney. Pupils will be from Hackney Council. Parents can get free school entitled to free transport if there is no suitable, meals when their child starts nursery class (full-time) alternative, nearer school place on offer, and they or school and help with home to school travel cannot reasonably be expected to travel by bus. fares. Bus fares are currently free for primary aged children (see “Transport for London’s pupils” on To apply for any of the above pupil benefits you will page 82). need to complete specific application forms available from our office in Reading Lane and Children who are entitled to free transport will be online from our website. given a travel card or warrant each term. This will allow them to travel to and from a state-funded For more information please contact Pupil Benefits school. We will pay for the cheapest form of on 020 8820 7248, or at www.learningtrust.co.uk. suitable transport from home to school. You can apply at any time, but you must live in the borough universal free school meals of Hackney. If you have been assessed on your All reception class, year 1 and year 2 pupils income, you will have to re-apply every year to attending a state-funded school, including check that you are still entitled to this help. You academies and free schools will automatically get have the right to appeal if you are refused help free school meals from September 2014. with travel costs. Children can qualify to free transport if any of the free school meals for year 3-6 pupils below circumstances apply. Your child can have free school meals if you get: Non-income assessed parents 01. Children with special educational needs, • Income Support; disability or mobility problems without suitable, • Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance; alternative, nearer school place on offer. Also, children who cannot be expected to walk to • Child Tax Credit, and your annual income is no SECTION FIVE school, even though it is within the normal more than £16,190, and you don’t get Working walking distance of two miles from school (if Tax Credit; aged 5 -7) or three miles (if aged 8 or over). Evidence of the child’s disability or mobility • the guarantee element of Pension Credit; difficulties will need to be provided. useful information • support under part Vl of the Immigration and 02. Children that cannot reasonable be expected Asylum Act 1999; or to walk a particular route because of the nature and services • Income-related Employment and Support of the route – even though the school is within Allowance. the normal walking distance of two miles from school (if aged 5 -7) or three miles (if aged 8 or If you are not entitled to pupil benefits, school meals over). Routes through parks, cemeteries and are available for a standard charge. Schools can along towpaths would normally be considered also arrange meals for children who have special unreasonable. diets for religious or health reasons. You can ask the Headteacher about this. 03. Children attending a school outside the distance (two miles if aged 5 to 7 and three miles if aged 8 or over), where there are no suitable arrangements for boarding at or near school and who do not have a suitable alternative nearer school place available to them.

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04. Children attending a school outside the Transport for London’s pupils Advice and support for parents of Hackney Parent Partnership Service distances (two miles if aged 5 to 7 and three Hackney has a great network of buses, London children with special educational Hackney Parent Partnership offers free confidential, miles if aged 8 or over) on grounds of religion overground and rail links making it easy to get to needs (SEN) impartial and independent information, advice and or belief who do not have a suitable alternative guidance to parents and carers of children and any of our local schools. Hackney maintained schools have delegated nearer school available to them. Parents will young people with Special Educational Needs or resources to support children with special need to prove that they have applied and been Disabilities (SEND). 5-10 Zip Oyster photocard scheme educational needs through a graduated approach. refused a place at other equivalent nearer Transport for London (TfL) issues 5-10 Zip Oyster There is a range of services which helps schools schools. photocards for under-11s to get free travel on tube, If your child is having difficulties at school and you meet pupils’ special educational needs. These have concerns regarding SEND provision provided DLR, London overground and some national rail services include the Educational Psychology Income assessed parents services. by the school and/or the local authority, Hackney The below criteria applies only to children who are Service, the Inclusion Team and the Children’s Parent Partnership can help and support you. either eligible for Free School Meals or have To apply for a 5-15 Zip Oyster photocard, you will Integrated Speech and Language Therapy Service. The service works closely with local schools to parents in receipt of their maximum level of ensure they have good professional relationships need to complete an application either online or a Education, Health and Care Plans Working Tax Credit. with parents and carers, thus helping to resolve printed form available from any post-office. You will The Children and Families Act 2014 introduces need to provide proof of identity and a passport- issues when they first arise. 01. Children aged 8 but under 11, where there are reforms in the administration of support for children type photo of your child. A £10 administration fee with special educational needs. Statements of not three or more suitable nearer school places, is payable for first time applicants. Hackney Parent Partnership is based at the Children and where the school place is more than two special educational needs will be replaced by Development Centre, Hackney Ark, Downs Park miles but not more than six miles from home. Your child doesn’t need a 5-10 Zip Oyster photocard Education, Health and Care Plans. For further Road (corner of Cecilia Road), Hackney, E8 2FP. information about the reforms please call You can contact the service on 020 7014 7123 or at Disabled parents • To travel free on buses and trams. 020 8820 7183. [email protected]. (Non-income assessed and income assessed) Hackney Learning Trust may provide free travel to • To buy child-rate cash singles, returns and Day Educational Psychology Service (EPS) Inclusion Team support children to attend a school or other Travelcards. Educational psychologists are specialists in how Specialist teachers and early years support officers education provision within the normal or even children learn and behave. If your child is having from the Inclusion Team work in schools and early • If travelling with an adult who has a valid ticket, within the statutory walking distance if the parent difficulties at school, you should first talk to their years settings in Hackney. They support children Freedom Pass or Veterans photocard or who is has a disability that may prevent them from teacher or Headteacher. If you feel that despite and young people with special educational needs, using pay as you go (up to four children per accompanying their children to school. However if extra support, your child is not making progress, including sensory impairments. They offer training adult). the parent is in receipt of transport assistance as they may recommend involving an educational in all aspects of SEN to support your child’s part of their disability living allowance they will not Under 5s psychologist. An educational psychologist will inclusion in their new school. For more information, receive this support. Parents would be expected to Children under five travel free at any time on buses, never see your child without your permission – your call 020 8820 7326. meet the above eligibility criteria. tube, trams, DLR, London overground, national rail involvement is crucial when considering how best Speech and Language Therapy Service and the Emirates Air Line (cable car). to help your child. Hackney Learning Trust will consider the safety of Speech and Language Therapists work with all the route when measuring statutory walking They must be with an adult who has a valid ticket, If you are worried about your child’s behaviour, types of speech, language and communication distance. Freedom Pass or Veterans photocard or who is development or learning at school or at home, needs. If you have any of these concerns about using pay as you go (up to four children per adult). you can book a free, confidential 30 minute your child talk to your child’s teacher or SENCO. consultation with an educational psychologist any An assessment will involve you but will usually take For more information please contact Transport for Wednesday during term time. Sessions take place Please note that Hackney Learning Trust has the place in school. If you are concerned or seek further London on 0343 222 1234 (8am-8pm seven days a between 2pm and 4pm at Hackney Learning Trust. right to make changes to the existing grants information you can also call 020 7683 4262. week) or visit www.tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-payments/ To book an appointment, call 020 8820 7519. and travel policies at any time. students-and-children.

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Explanation of educational terms used in this guide.

Academies DfE Ofsted SATS Academies are state-funded schools independent Department for Education Office for Standards in Education Statutory Assessment Tests. from the local authority and responsible for their (www.education.gov.uk). (www.ofsted.gov.uk) own admission arrangements. SEN Distance Oversubscribed Special Educational Needs. Acute medical or social needs Distances for Hackney’s schools will be measured in The school has more applications than places Children whose acute medical or social need a straight line using a computerised distance available. SENCO justifies a place at a particular school. These cases measuring system from the child home address to Special Educational Needs Coordinator. PAN (Published Admission Number) will always require supporting professional evidence the main entrance of the school. Those living closer Sibling (for example, a written statement from a medical to the school will receive higher priority. For the The number of school places that the admission authority must offer in each relevant age group. Sibling refers to a brother or sister, half-brother or consultant, senior social worker or other appropriate purpose of calculating distances, the home address sister, adopted brother or sister, step-brother or professional) which has to demonstrate a clear is identified by using the property geographical Pan-London Register sister, or the child of the parent or carer’s partner, connection between the child’s need and why the references as provided by the borough Council in London-wide computerised database, used to living as a family unit at the same address. A sibling child should be given a place at a particular school which the child lives. In the case of a number of exchange applicant details and preference must live permanently at the same address as the and an explanation of the difficulties which would addresses in a block with the same geographical outcomes. child for whom the application is being made. be caused if the child were to attend another reference, the children’s ranking will be determined school. It is the responsibility of the parent to by lottery. Parents and family members SIF (Supplementary Information Form) produce the evidence. The local authority and/or A parent or family member is any person who has This is an additional form that may also have to be the school will make decisions on such cases and Fair Access Protocol parental responsibility or care of the child. completed for applicants considered under the will seek, if necessary, advice from the Health A process for admitting pupils to school outside criteria of faith schools. The completed SIF form Service. A parent’s medical need, alone cannot the normal admissions process. Preferences must be signed by a religious leader and submitted Choice of preferred schools. justify a place at a particular school. Free schools directly to the faith school by the published closing Free schools are all-ability state-funded schools Previously looked after children date. SIF forms are available from faith schools and Allocated / Allocation Hackney Learning Trust. The offer, or the process of offering, a school place. independent from the local authority and A ‘previously looked after child’ is a child who was responsible for their own admission arrangements. looked after, but ceased to be so because they Statement of Special Educational Need (SEN) Applicant were immediately adopted (or became subject to a Home local authority This is a legal document issued by the local It’s the person (parent, carer or family member) who residence order or special guardianship order). authority under section 324 of the Education Act has parental responsibility or care of the child. A child’s home local authority (local council) is the Under the terms of the Adoption Act 1976 and local authority where they live ie the council you 1996 detailing the particular needs, resources and Children Act 2002 Section 46 (see adoption orders). provision required to support the child, and can Application lists pay your council tax to. Under the provisions of the Children and Families These lists are created in order to offer places to include a named school that is suitable for Home or residential address Act 2014 defines a ‘residence order’ or ‘child providing education for that child. To be replaced children when there is a vacancy. They are similar to arrangements orders’ as an order settling the a waiting list. Where parental responsibilities are equally shared, by an Education, Health and Care Plan by 2018 (see the home or residential address will be considered arrangements to be made as to the person with page 83). CAF (Common application form) to be with the parent/carer with whom the child whom the child is to live. See Section 14A of the It’s the local authority admission form to secondary spends the majority of time and nights Monday to Children Act 1989 which defines a ‘special Voluntary-aided schools schools applications. The CAF must be submitted Friday. This will normally be expected to be with guardianship order’ as an order appointing one or Voluntary-aided schools are often religious schools to the local authority of the area in which you live the parent/carer that receives the Child Benefit. more individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or funded by the local authority. The governing by the published closing date. This address must be used for all preferences. special guardians). bodies of Hackney’s religious schools set and apply their own admission criteria. Community schools Key Stage Pupil database State-funded schools whose admission A period of study relating to a particular age A computerised system for holding pupils’ details, arrangements are set by the local authority. group. Key Stage 1 (KS1) covers reception, school preferences and outcomes. years 1 to 2 (ages 5 to 7), and Key Stage 2 (KS2) Random computerised allocation system Computerised distance measuring system covers school years 3 to 6 (ages 8 to 11). A way of calculating distances from a child’s home A computerised process of allocating school places address to the main entrance of the school. Looked after children by lottery usually developed by a software A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care company independent of the schools and overseen Contextual value added of a local authority, or (b) being provided with and verified by a second independent expert. A method for including certain factors when accommodation by a local authority in the exercise Religious or faith schools measuring the effectiveness of a school or the of their social services functions in accordance with progress made by individual pupils. These schools practise a particular faith and the section 22 of the Children Act 1989(a) at the time governing body is responsible for their own Cut-off distance an application to a school is made. admission arrangements. The last pupil admitted under the distance criterion.

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