Application deadline 31 October 2012
Applying for a Secondary School for September 2013
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F d a o R h rt o N t a re G Alexandra Park Fortismere Gladesmore Community Greig City Academy Heartlands High Highgate Wood Hornsey Girls 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Location of Haringey secondary schools Apply online for your child’s school place
From 1 September 2012 you will be able to apply online for a secondary transfer place at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions
The benefits of applying online: It’s secure and easy You will receive email confirmation that we have received your application You can make changes to your application until the deadline You will not have to wait for the post to find out the result of your application – apply online and find out the results of your application the evening before you receive your letter
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Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 1 Foreword
Dear Parents and Carers Moving from primary to secondary school is a very important step for your child and we are here to help you decide which schools to list on your application form. We are proud of our secondary schools in Haringey and recommend that you attend the open events held at your preferred schools. Open events are a great opportunity to find out what each school has to offer. You and your child will be able to ask pupils and teachers questions, view work and listen to a talk from the Head teacher. Haringey secondary schools are very popular and we receive a large number of applications from Haringey residents and from those living in other boroughs. Each school has a set number of places and admissions criteria are used to decide who will be offered places. It is important that you understand how likely it is that your child will be offered a place at one of your preferred schools. The information given in this booklet will help you to do this. Once you have decided which schools you want to apply to we recommend that you apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Alternatively a paper application is available – contact us using the details below if you would like to be sent one. We wish your child every success at secondary school. Cllr Ann Waters Libby Blake Cabinet Member for Children’s Director of Children’s Services Services Contact details 020 8489 1000 [email protected] Haringey Admissions Service 48 Station Road, Wood Green, London N22 7TY Key dates for Secondary Transfer 2013 Date What happens 31 October 2012 Application deadline 1 March 2013 Offer day 15 March 2013 Acceptance deadline 15 April 2013 Appeal deadline
2 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Foreword Contents
The information in this booklet is set out in six sections:
Section 1 Applying for a school place for September 2013 p4 Before you make your application p4 Completing your application form p5 How we will process your application p8 The results of your application p9 How to ensure you have the best possible chance of being offered one of your preferred schools p11
Section 2 In Year admissions p12 How to apply for a school place after 1 September 2013 when the school year has already started
Section 3 Schools in Haringey p13 Types of schools in Haringey p14 Admissions criteria for Haringey community schools p14 Schools A-Z p15
Section 4 Schools in other Authorities p22
Section 5 Other information p23
Section 6 Definitions p25
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 3 ApplyingSection for a school place1 for September 2013 Before you make your application
What you need to do How Open event details for Haringey schools are given on page 13 1) Visit Schools of this booklet
2) Read Ofsted reports View at www.ofsted.gov.uk
3) Read the prospectus for each school These are available from the school
The admissions criteria for Haringey’s mixed community schools are listed on page 14. 4) Read the admissions criteria for each school For all other schools the criteria are listed under their entry in the school section of this booklet from page 15.
Look to see which criteria your child will be considered under. 5) Consider how likely it is that your child will If it is distance you can find out the home to school distance be offered a place at your preferred schools of your preferred Haringey schools by emailing between 01 September and 31 October 2012
6) Look to see how many places each school has available. This is called the published admission number. This number is set to The admission number for each school is listed under each take in to account the number of pupils school's entry in the schools section. each school site can accommodate and how many places are needed in the local area.
7) Consider how your child will travel to school
Do: Talk to your child about the decision
Don’t: let others influence your decision – the right school for your friend’s child may not be the right school for your child.
4 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Completing your Supplementary Information Forms application Some schools need extra information, which we do not If you live in Haringey you must complete the Haringey collect on our form, to apply their admissions criteria. Council application form. You may list up to 6 schools Where this is the case they will ask you to complete a which can be located in Haringey or in other boroughs. Supplementary Information Form (SIF). We have clearly If you list schools outside Haringey, the Haringey shown in the schools section of this booklet which Admissions Service will make sure that the borough Haringey schools have a SIF. These must be obtained where the school is located is given all the information from the school. about your application. You must complete either an online application or a Filling in your form paper form by 31 October 2012. Whether you apply online or on a paper form you will be asked for the same information. Apply online We reserve the right to undertake reasonable checks to We recommend that you apply online at verify any information provided on your application form. www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions If false or misleading information is provided we reserve the right to When you have completed your application and pressed the submit button you will be sent an email withdraw an offer of a school place or confirming that we have received your form. You can if an offer has not been made, process the update your application as many times as you like application with the correct information as a late before 31 October. You can view the results of your application. application on the evening of 1 March 2013. This is before you will receive your letter. If you suspect fraud please call the Haringey Fraud hotline on 0500 500 7777 or email fraudcall@haringey. We never give out any offer information over the gov.uk in confidence. Alternatively you can write to telephone so if you complete a paper form you will the Head of Admissions and School Organisation, 48 have to wait for the post to receive the result of your Station Road, Wood Green, London, N22 7TY. All application. cases will be investigated. Paper applications Copies of the paper form will be available from Haringey Your child’s details Name and date of birth - Please give your child’s primary schools. If you live in Haringey and your child name and date of birth exactly as it appears on their attends a primary school in another borough you can birth certificate. request a paper form by calling 020 8489 1000. Address - The address you provide must be your child’s permanent address. This must not be an address of another family member or another adult who looks after your child but does not have parental responsibility for your child. You must provide proof of your address with your application. If you apply online you can securely attach scanned documents to your application or alternatively you can send photocopies of your documents to the address on page 2. Please remember to put your child’s full name and date of birth on any documents you send to us. If you apply online, please also write your application reference number. We cannot return original documents.
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 5 How to apply Schools Other help Definitions Please provide your child being offered a school you would like them to go to. a copy of your council tax bill (dated within 1 year) and one of the following Please list the schools in the order you most prefer them. a copy of the most recent child benefit letter Please refer to page 8 which explains why this is so a gas or electricity bill dated within 3 months of 31 important. October 2012 Department for Education (DfE) numbers – a copy of your rent or mortgage statement (dated This number is listed next to each school entry in this within 1 year) booklet. Please write this on your paper form. If you apply online we do not need this number as this field is If parents are separated the application should be filled in automatically. made by the parent the child normally lives with. Where a child spends equal time with each parent, the exact arrangements should be made clear in a letter Exceptional social / with a copy of any custody or residency order. The application can only be processed from one address. medical reasons In very rare cases children can be given priority to a particular school where there is evidence to demonstrate Moving house exceptional medical or social reasons why only one You must provide the address on your application form particular school can meet their needs. where your child is living on 31 October 2012. If Applications in this category cannot be considered you move house after , please let 31 October 2012 unless you provide written evidence from a doctor, social us know immediately. If we receive the required proof worker or other appropriate independent professional. In of address (listed above) by 14 December then we each case, the connection between your child’s need will be able to use your new address to measure your and the specific school must be made and you must home to school distances. If we receive the information clearly demonstrate why this one specific school can after 14 December we will ensure that your offer letter meet your child’s needs in a way that no other school is sent to your new address but we will not be able can. to update your home to school distances until after 1 March. You will need to supply evidence by the closing date of 31 October 2012. Information provided after this date will be considered after 1 March 2013. Other information about If your child has a Statement of Special Educational your child Needs, separate admission processes apply. Please If your child has a Statement of Educational Needs or is visit www.haringey.gov.uk/senadmissions for more in care to a Local Authority or previously looked after but information. immediately after being looked after, became subject to an adoption, residence or special guardianship order, you will be asked to declare this on the form. Pupils taught outside Where a child is in care we will need a letter from your their chronological year child’s social worker or Local Authority to confirm this. group Where a child is previously looked after we will need a To apply for a secondary school place for September copy of the adoption, residence or special guardianship 2013 your child should have been born between 1 order. September 2001 and 31 August 2002. Occasionally parents will request that their child transfers although they were born outside the standard age range. This Your details will usually be because they are currently in year 6 in a Please provide the details of one parent or carer and primary school. If this applies to your child, you will need your contact details. Please ensure you include a to complete a paper form and attach a letter from your daytime telephone number as we may need to contact child’s current Headteacher explaining why your child is you. educated outside of their chronological year group.
Listing schools on Declaration and signature your form When you have completed your transfer form, you must We recommend that you list six schools on your sign it to confirm the information you have provided is application form. This will maximise the possibility of correct. (There is an equivalent process if you apply online.) 6 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions How to apply Schools Other help Definitions
Returning your completed form Deadline 31 October 2012 If you apply online you will receive an email confirming that we have received your application. If you complete a paper application form, you can hand it to your child’s primary school by 26 October 2012 (if they attend a Haringey primary school). The following week is half term so you will not be able to return the form to a school after 26 October. Alternatively you can send your form to the Admissions Service or deliver your application by hand to arrive by 31 October 2012. Please remember the envelopes require a postage stamp. Haringey Council can take no responsibility for applications that are delayed by or lost in the post.
Late applications Applications received after 31 October 2012 will be classed as late. Late applications will be considered after all the other applications that were received on time. If there are exceptional circumstances why your application was received after the deadline, please provide independent written evidence by 14 December (from someone who is impartial) explaining why the application was late. This information will be considered by a panel and we will let you know if your application will be processed as late or ‘on time’. Late applicants are very unlikely to be offered one of their preferred schools.
Changes of preference If you have applied online you can make changes up until the closing date by returning to the online application website and editing your application. If you send in a paper application before 31 October 2012, and then decide to make changes, you can still do this as long as we receive written requests by 31 October 2012. Changes requested over the telephone will not be accepted. Preferences cannot be changed after 31 October 2012.
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 7 How to apply Schools Other help Definitions
How we will process Summary of Application your application Application received
Each school you list is considered at exactly the same time. This includes schools in Haringey and schools located Criteria applied to each preference in other boroughs. The published admissions criteria (also called admission rules or admission arrangements) are applied to every Places are offered up to the school you list. Admissions Number at each school Our computer system works out who can be offered a place at Haringey community schools. It applies the criteria which are given on page 14 of Highest possible preference offered this booklet. to each child The Governors of Academies, foundation and voluntary aided schools apply their criteria to all their applicants and let us know who should be Sometimes we cannot offer any school listed on a offered a place. child’s form because in every case other applicants met the admissions criteria better than they did. For Other boroughs let us know which Haringey example, other applicants lived closer to the school. residents can be offered places at their schools. If this happens we will offer a place at the nearest Each school has a set number of places that can be school with an available place. With the Governors’ offered (Admission Number) and places are offered until agreement, it may be possible to allocate places at the school is full or there are no more applicants for that voluntary aided schools, if there are any available. school. If a child can be offered more than one place then the highest possible preference will be offered.
Does my child qualify for Preference List preferences Which school is offered this school? 1 School A 2 School B 3 School C 4 School D 5 School E 6 School F The places at school D and E would be offered to the next child on each school’s list.
8 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions How to apply Schools Other help Definitions
The results of your School admission appeals If your child is not offered a place at one of the schools application you listed on your form you can appeal against this Date What will happen? decision to an independent appeal panel. You will be given details of how to make an appeal in our offer 1 March Offer letters posted for all letter. The deadline to appeal is 15 April 2013. applicants Appeals are heard by an independent appeal panel of 1 March Online applicants will receive three to five members of the public. You can only make (early evening) offer online one appeal for each school listed on your form. If you 2 March Letters should be received by did not get a place at more than one school you listed all applicants on your application, you can make a separate appeal for each school. We cannot guarantee that your offer letter will be received on 2 March. Please note that we do not give Please be aware that if one of these schools is a any offer information out over the phone. foundation school, a voluntary aided school or an Academy, you have to appeal to the school direct as they are responsible for organising independent Accepting the offer appeals for places at their school. Please accept your offer by 15 March. If you do not accept the offer you will be asked about the When you indicate your wish to appeal for a secondary arrangements you will be making for your child in school place you will be contacted by the Appeals September. Please remember the offer that we give Administrator within reasonable time before the hearing you on 1 March will either be: to confirm the date. Details of the appeals timetable will be published on our website in February 2013. The highest preference school you listed that your child qualified for a place or You should submit additional evidence or documentation that might be relevant to your appeal, The nearest school with an available place like a medical note from a doctor to support an Accepting the offer will not affect your waiting list application on the basis of social or medical need, as position or appeal outcome. soon as possible and before the hearing. This is so that all the other participants have time to read your information. Waiting lists If we could not offer you your first preference school, Where possible, appeals for late applications will your child’s name will automatically be added to the be included with those being heard for the same waiting list for any schools on your form listed higher admissions round. However, if this is not feasible, than the school you have been offered. appeals for late applications must be heard within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged. Waiting lists will be kept in the same order as the admission criteria. Waiting list positions can change at any time depending on other applicants’ circumstances and it is important to note that your child’s position may go down as well as up if other applicants join the waiting list. Being on a waiting list does not guarantee a place at the school.
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 9 How to apply Schools Other help Definitions How the admissions criteria was applied last year to oversubscribed Haringey schools:
Distance of last Exceptional child Number of Number Children Looked- social or offered School applications of places with SEN after Siblings Distance medical (straight- received offered statements children need line, miles)
Alexandra Park 1341 216 8 1 0 72 135 0.9208 School
Fortismere School** 1205 243 9 0 0 104 108 0.5232
Gladesmore Community 780 243 9 2 0 70 162 0.9328 School Heartlands High 962 189 10 1 0 17 161 1.124 School Highgate Wood 920 243 8 1 0 77 157 1.0157 School Woodside High 508 162 3 0 0 32 127 1.7867 School Places were offered to every applicant who applied on time to: Greig City Academy, Hornsey School for Girls, The John Loughborough School, Northumberland Park School, Park View, St Thomas More Catholic School.
**22 pupils were offered places at Fortismere based on musical aptitude. Appeals for admission to secondary schools in 2010 – 2012
School 2010 2011 2012
Lodged Heard Upheld Lodged Heard Upheld Lodged Heard Upheld Alexandra Park 37 29 3 40 37 3 25 21 1
Gladesmore 25 23 0 28 24 2 24 22 2 Community
Heartlands High 48 47 10 39 34 2 31 28 2 Highgate Wood 31 29 2 19 17 3 17 14 3 Secondary Hornsey School 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 n/a for Girls Northumberland 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 n/a Park Community Park View 3 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 n/a Woodside High 0 0 0 1 0 0 8 8 0 Total 144 131 15 129 112 10 109 93 8 For appeals information for Fortismere, Greig City Academy, John Loughborough, and St Thomas More, please contact the schools directly.
10 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions How to apply Schools Other help Definitions Every year some parent/carers make decisions based on incorrect information they have heard. Some How to ensure you common reasons for not being offered a preferred have the best possible school place listed on the form are listed below. Incorrect chance of being Correct Information information offered one of your If we apply the admission arrangements and your preferred schools child cannot be offered a place because you live too Reading the information in this booklet will help Listing one school will far away, we will not be maximise your chances of being offered a preferred mean that the Local able to offer a place at the school. Please ensure that you have understood the Authority will have to school. following information: offer that school Last year, of the pupils that Before you make your application (page 4) were allocated a school that they did not list, Late applications (page 7) 18% had only listed one preference. Listing 6 preferences (page 8) Although the information The admissions criteria (page 14) listed on page 10 can give If you live nearer to the you an idea of how likely it How places were offered last year (page 10) school than the last is that you will be offered child offered under a place at your preferred the distance criterion school, the ‘last distance’ last year you will be will change every year. We guaranteed a place can never guarantee any child will be offered a place at any school. The number of pupils offered under each criterion at each school can change every year so Children in my road go just because you know to the school so my pupils living near to you child will too that go to a certain school, it does not mean that your child will be offered a place. Your child can only be Listing the same considered once for a school 6 times will school so if you list the improve my chances same school more than of being offered the once, we will delete any school duplications. If you apply after 31 October, we will look at your application after all It does not matter if my those who have applied on form is late time and it is very unlikely that you will be offered one of your preferred schools.
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 11 InSection Year Admissions 2
Pupils applying for a Requests to transfer school place after 1 between schools The Admissions Service do not encourage changes September 2013 from one local school to another. This is because Applications for school places received after 1 research shows that these moves can damage the September in any school year are called ‘In Year’ educational achievement and success of children admissions. Haringey residents need to make an unless there are exceptional circumstances, transfer application to the Admissions Service. is in the best interest of the child, and there is a place In Year application forms for all year groups, for all available. Parents will be encouraged to discuss their maintained primary and secondary schools, are reasons for wishing to switch schools with their child’s available online, from the Admissions Service and from present school. Customer Service Centres. Supplementary Information Forms (SIFs), required by some schools, will also be available from the Admissions Service, online and from Fair access the school. These schools will use the information We have a protocol in place which ensures that on the SIFs to apply their admissions criteria. The vulnerable young people who apply for a place outside application process is similar to that described in the normal round of admissions, and who are not on section one of this booklet. the roll of a school, are offered a place quickly. Fair Access admissions are shared fairly across all schools Offer letters will be sent to Haringey residents by the and Academies. Further information is available on our Admissions Service and schools will be notified of website: www.haringey.gov.uk/ these offers at the same time. schooladmissions
Waiting lists Waiting lists for all year groups for all schools will be held centrally by the Admissions Service so that we can co-ordinate offers. Waiting lists will be held in the order of the admissions criteria.
12 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions SectionSchools in Haringey 3
Summary information Full details about each school are in this section. All these schools are participants in the co-ordinated admission scheme for London. Admission Boys/ Number for Name of School Type of School Age Range Open events Girls September 2013 Evening: 4 Oct Boys and Alexandra Park School Academy 11 – 18 216 Morning: 9 Oct Girls 10 Oct Boys and Evening: 20 Sept Fortismere School Foundation 11 – 18 243 Girls Afternoon: 27 Sept Evening: 2 Oct Gladesmore Boys and Community 11 – 16 243 Morning: 26 Sept Community School Girls 10 Oct Evening: 3 Oct Boys and Greig City Academy Academy 11 – 18 200 Morning: 5 Oct Girls 19 Oct Heartlands High Boys and Evening: 11 Oct Community 11 – 16 216 School Girls Morning: w/c 15 Oct Evening: 26 Sept Highgate Wood Boys and Morning: 2 Oct Community 11 – 18 243 School Girls 3 Oct 4 Oct Evening: 3 Oct Hornsey School for Morning: 4 Oct Community Girls 11 – 18 216 Girls 18 Oct 25 Oct The John Boys and Evening: 2 Oct Voluntary Aided 11 – 16 60 Loughborough School Girls Morning: 3 Oct Northumberland Park Boys and Evening: 1 Oct Community 11 – 16 210 Community School Girls Morning: 3 Oct Evening: 4 Oct Boys and Park View Community 11 – 16 216 Morning: 9 Oct Girls 10 Oct St Thomas More Boys and Evening: 9 Oct Voluntary Aided 11 – 18 192 Catholic School Girls Morning: 9 Oct Evening: 27 Sept Morning: 1 Oct 2 Oct Woodside High Boys and Academy 11 – 16 162 8 Oct School Girls 9 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct For open event times and details please check the relevant school’s information on pages 14 – 21. Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 13 How to apply Schools Other help Definitions
Types of schools in Admissions criteria for Haringey community schools We co-ordinate applications for all schools. Brief If we receive more applications than spaces available definitions of the types of schools in Haringey are given at Haringey community schools then we will apply the below along with information about how the admission following admissions criteria. arrangements are set and applied for each school. Children with a statement of Special Educational Needs which names the school will be admitted in accordance Community Schools with Section 324 of the Education Act 1996. Haringey Council set and apply the admission 1) Children in Care arrangements for community schools. The admissions Children who are looked after by a local authority or arrangements are set out on page 14 of this booklet. were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after, became subject to an adoption, residence, Gladesmore School or special guardianship order. Children in care means Heartlands High School children who are in care of a local authority in accordance Hornsey School for Girls with Section 22 Children Act 1989. Highgate Wood School 2) Social/Medical Northumberland Park Community School Children who the Authority accepts have an exceptional medical or social need for a place at one specific school. Park View Applications will only be considered under this category if they are supported by a written statement from a doctor, social worker or other relevant independent professional. Voluntary Aided Schools The information must confirm the exceptional medical or Voluntary-aided (VA) schools operate under foundations social need and demonstrate how the specified school (usually trusts, which are often the Church Diocesan is the only school that can meet the defined needs of the Boards). Most are designated with a religious character. child. The governors of the school set and apply the admission arrangements. The admissions arrangements are set out 3) Brother or Sister under the entry for each school. Children with a brother or sister already attending the school and who will still be attending on the date of The John Loughborough admission. This category includes foster brothers and St Thomas More sisters, half brothers and sisters or stepbrothers and sisters. Parents should note that in all these cases, the brother or sister must be living at the same address as Foundation Schools the child for whom the application is being made. A foundation school is a state funded school. The 4) Distance governors of the school set and apply the admissions Children living closest to the preferred school. arrangements. Land and buildings are usually owned by the governing body or a charitable foundation. The Tie breaker admission arrangements are set out under the entry for The tie breaker for all criteria is: children living closest to each school. the school measured in a straight line from the post office address point for the child’s home, to the post office Fortismere School address point of the school, supplied by the Royal Mail using a computerised mapping system. The tiebreak for two or more applications that live exactly the same Academies distance from the school will be random allocation using a Academies are publicly funded independent schools. computerised system The governors of the school set and apply the admissions arrangements. The governors at Woodside High and Multiple births Alexandra Park schools have set out that they wish to If only one place is available at the school and the next follow the arrangements set for community schools (in the child who qualifies for a place is one of multiple birth next column). siblings, we will ask community schools to go over their published admission number. Alexandra Park Greig City Academy Woodside
14 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions How to apply Schools Other help Definitions
Schools FORTISMERE SCHOOL Head teacher: Helen Anthony ALEXANDRA PARK SCHOOL Tetherdown, Muswell Hill, School address: Head teacher: Michael McKenzie N10 1NE Bidwell Gardens, N11 School tel: 020 8365 4400 2AZ (Pedestrian access southwing@fortismere. Email: School address: via Albert Road recreation haringey.sch.uk ground or Rhodes www.fortismere.haringey. Website: Avenue.) sch.uk School tel: 020 8826 4880 Contact: Natalie Moore Email: [email protected] DfE number: 309 4032 www.alexandrapark. Website address Published admission haringey.sch.uk 243 number: Contact: Ms Hilary Scott Open events DfE number: 309 4036 Open evening: Thursday 20 September 2012 Published admission 216 Time: 7pm number: Open afternoon: Thursday 27 September 2012 Open events Time: 1.30pm Open evening: Thursday 4 October 2012 Time: 6pm – 9pm Over-subscription criteria Open mornings: Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 For all other applicants, where there are more applicants October 2012 than places available, priority will be given in the following Time: 9.15am – 10.45 am order: a. Children who are looked after by a local authority or were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after, became subject to an adoption, residence, or special guardianship order. Children in care means children who are in care of a local authority in accordance with Section 22 Children Act 1989. b. Young people whom the Governors and Head accept have an exceptional need for a place at Fortismere. Applications will only be considered under this category if they are supported by a written statement from a doctor, social worker or other appropriate professional. In each case, it must be shown that the child’s need can particularly well be met at Fortismere School. c. Children where, at the time of application, an older sibling is expected to be on roll (including in the Sixth Form) when a younger child starts at the school. This category includes foster brothers or sisters, half brothers or sisters, and stepbrothers or stepsisters. In all of these cases the brother or sister must be living at the same address as the child for whom the application is being made. d. Up to 10% of places (24 children in each year group) will be allocated on the basis of aptitude in Music, to be determined by prescribed tests. There will be two stages to the process. In the first stage, all applicants for places under this criterion must sit a written test
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 15 How to apply Schools Other help Definitions of musical aptitude. The test is of approximately 40 minutes’ duration and does not require any previous knowledge of music or music theory. There will be GREIG CITY ACADEMY 60 questions in total in four sections: pitch, rhythm, Head teacher: Paul Sutton OBE texture and melody. There will be one test session High Street, Hornsey N8 School address: on a specified date in September. Applicants will be 7NU notified in advance of the test venue. Those unable School tel: 020 8609 0100 to attend on this date due to compelling religious, eward@greigcityacademy. medical or other reasons will be offered one alternative Email: date. Applicants who achieve the qualifying mark in co.uk the first stage test will be invited to the second stage, www.greigcityacademy. Website: and given an individual appointment during the school co.uk day near the start of October. Here they will be given further aural/oral tests based on rhythm and melody. Contact: Mrs E Ward All candidates will be ranked according to their test DfE number: 309 6905 scores. If 24 or more reach the required standard the Published admission places will be filled by the 24 of the highest ranking. 200 If fewer than 24 reach the required standard then number: the remaining places will be offered under criterion Open events e. Where there is a tie between applicants’ scores, proximity of the home address to the School will be Open evening: Wednesday 3 October 2012 the deciding factor. Time: 6pm – 8pm Open mornings: Friday 5 and Friday 19 October Candidates applying under this criterion should 2012 complete a supplementary application form available from the school or Haringey Local Authority. This Time: 9.15am should be submitted directly to the school by 7 September 2012 for children who are transferring from Oversubscription Criteria Primary to Secondary in September 2013. Where the Academy is oversubscribed, after the e. Children living closest to the school as measured in a admission of children with statements of SEN, places straight line from the front door of the home address will be allocated to applicants in the following priority where the child normally lives, to the school address order: point, which is the Reception in South Wing. This criterion will also be used as a tie-breaker for all the 1. Young people who are looked after by a local over-subscription criteria a. to d. authority and young people who were previously looked after but, immediately after being looked after, became subject to an adoption, residence or special ______guardianship order. 2. Young people whom the Governors and Principal GLADESMORE accept have an exceptional medical, social or COMMUNITY SCHOOL educational need for a place at Greig City Academy Head teacher: Tony Hartney CBE rather than another school. Applications will be considered under this category only if they are School address: Crowland Road, N15 6EB supported by a written statement from a doctor, School tel: 020 8800 0884 social worker or other appropriate professional Email: [email protected] confirming that Greig City Academy alone can meet the child’s need and showing the difficulties Website: www.gladesmore.com that would be caused if another school had to be Contact: Ms S Naidoo attended. DfE number: 309 4033 3. All the remaining places will be shared between Foundation places and Open places equally: Published admission 243 number: Foundation Places will be allocated to those young Open events people whose parents are attached or linked to the Church of England or any other Christian denomination Open evening: Tuesday 2 October 2012 in fellowship with the Church of England. Examples Time: 5pm – 7pm of attachment would include, for example, a parent or Open afternoon: Wednesday 26 September and parents who have had their child baptized or dedicated; Wednesday 10 October 2012 parents who attend a church; parents are involved in activities and organisations sponsored by a church. Time: 9.15am – 10.30am 16 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions How to apply Schools Other help Definitions Applicants must produce a letter of support from their parish priest or Christian minister to confirm their HIGHGATE WOOD SCHOOL attachment. (See Greig Supplementary Information Form). Head teacher: Patrick Cozier School address: Montenotte Road, N8 8RN Open Places will be allocated to all other applicants School tel: 020 8342 7970 regardless of the faith background of the family, on [email protected]. the understanding that parents and child support the Email: particular ethos and values of the school. sch.uk Tie break Website: www.hws.haringey.sch.uk The tie breaker for all criteria is children living closest Contact: Ms G King to the school measured in a straight line from the DfE number: 309 4030 address point of the child’s home to the address point Published admission of the school as supplied by the Royal Mail using a 243 computerised mapping system. number: Open events Note Open evening: Wednesday 26 September 2012 All applicants for a Foundation place at Greig are asked Time: 6pm – 8pm to complete and send in a Supplementary Information Open mornings: Tuesday 2, Wednesday 3 and Form to the school. The form is used to enable Thursday 4 October 2012 Governors to allocate places in line with the admission policy. Applicants for an Open place do not need to Time: 9.15am – 10.30am complete this form. If there are not enough applicants in either the Foundation category or the Open category to fill the places, then the remaining places in that category will be offered to applicants in the other category.
______HEARTLANDS HIGH SCHOOL Head teacher: Simon Garrill Station Road, Wood School address: Green, N22 7ST School tel: 020 8826 1230 [email protected]. Email: sch.uk www.heartlands.haringey. Website address sch.uk Contact: Admissions Officer DfE number: 309 4705 Published admission 216 number: Open events Open evening: Thursday 11 October 2012 Time: 6pm – 8pm Open mornings: Week beginning 15 October 2012. Please check the school website for more details.
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 17 How to apply Schools Other help Definitions relevant independent professional. The information HORNSEY SCHOOL must confirm the exceptional medical or social need and demonstrate how the specified school is the only FOR GIRLS school that can meet the defined needs of the child. Head teacher: Carol Jones 3. Siblings School address: Inderwick Road, N8 9JF Girls with a sister already attending the school and School tel: 020 8348 6191 who will still be attending in years 7-11 on the date admin@hornseyschool. of admission. This category includes foster sisters, Email: com half sisters or step sisters. Parents should note that in all these cases, the sister must be living at the same Website: www.hsg.haringey.sch.uk address as the girl for whom the application is being Ms Hall, Director of made. Learning for Year7 (cassandrahall@ 4. Girls living in the priority area hornseyschool.com) or Places will be offered to girls living in the following Contact: Ms Chapman, Senior wards: Assistant Headteacher Alexandra • Harringay • Northumberland Park • KS3 (katechapman@ Tottenham Hale • Bounds Green • Highgate • Seven hornseyschool.com) Sisters • West Green • Bruce Grove • Hornsey • St DfE number: 309 4029 Ann’s • White Hart Lane • Crouch End • Muswell Hill • Stroud Green • Woodside • Fortis Green • Noel Park • Published admission 216 Tottenham Green number: Open events Places will be offered to each ward in proportion to the Open evening: Wednesday 3 October 2012 number of applications received for the school. This means that the more applications received from a ward, Time: 6pm – 8pm the more places will be offered to girls living in that Open mornings: Thursdays 4, 18 and 25 October ward. 2012 If there are more applications from a ward than there are Time: 9.15am – 11am places available for that ward then the tiebreak will be Oversubscription criteria girls living closest to the school. This criterion will only be used until 1 March 2013 and the waiting list will be Children with a statement of Special Educational maintained in distance order. Needs which names the school, will be admitted in 5. All other applicants accordance with section 324 of the Education Act The tie breaker for all criteria is: children living closest 1996. If the number of applicants without statements to the school measured in a straight line from the post of educational needs naming the school is higher than office address point for the child’s home, to the post the number of places available, the following rules are office address point of the school, supplied by the applied, in the order of priority set out below to decide Royal Mail using a computerised mapping system. The who will be offered a place: tiebreak for two or more applications that live exactly 1. Children in Care the same distance from the school (and who are not Children who are looked after by a local authority or from multiple births) will be random allocation using a were previously looked after but immediately after being computerised system. looked after, became subject to an adoption, residence, or special guardianship order. Children in care means children who are in care of a local authority in accordance with Section 22 Children Act 1989. 2. Social medical Girls who the Authority accepts have an exceptional medical or social need for a place at one specific school. Applications will only be considered under this category if they are supported by a written statement from a doctor, social worker or other
18 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions How to apply Schools Other help Definitions 5. Children who the Authority accepts have an THE JOHN LOUGHBOROUGH exceptional medical or social need for a place. Applications will only be considered under this SCHOOL category if they are supported by a written Head teacher: Dr Edwena McFarquhar statement from a doctor, social worker or other appropriate independent professional. In each School address: Holcombe Road, N17 9AD case, the connection between the child’s need School tel: 020 8808 7837 and the John Loughborough School must be secretary@ demonstrated. Email: johnloughborough. haringey.sch.uk 6. Children from other Christian denominations (supported by a reference from their local minister/ Contact: Ms Verona Hoilet priest). DfE number: 309 5900 7. Those of non-faith groups who are willing to Published admission 60 subscribe to and support ethos (supported by number: a reference from an established member of the Open events community). Open evening: Tuesday 2 October 2012 8. Proximity of the child’s home as measured in Time: 6pm – 8pm straight line, with those living closest to the school Open morning: Wednesday 3 October 2012 being accorded the higher priority. Distance will be measured using a computerised mapping system, Time: 9.30am – 11am and measurements will be taken from the post office address point of the child’s home to the post Oversubscription criteria office address point of the school.
Children who have a Statement of Special Educational This criterion will also apply in the event of over Needs (SEN) which names the school will be admitted subscription in any of the above categories, to in accordance with section 324 of the Education Act decide which pupil to admit. 1996. 1. A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked ______after became subject to an adoption, residence, or special guardianship order67. A looked after child NORTHUMBERLAND PARK is a child who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a COMMUNITY SCHOOL local authority in the exercise of their social services Head teacher: Monica Duncan functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of School address: Trulock Road, N17 0PG the Children Act 1989) who are members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and who attend School tel: 020 8801 0091 Church regularly (monthly). jre@northumberlandpark. Email: haringey.sch.uk 2. Children who are from Seventh-day Adventist www.northumberlandpark. homes and whose parents or grandparents or Website: carers are practising members of the church and in haringey.sch.uk good and regular attendance (regular attendance Contact: Jermaine Rennalls means at least monthly). DfE number: 309 4031 3. Children with brothers and sisters attending the Published admission 210 school who will still be in attendance when the number: applicant is admitted. This category includes foster Open events brothers and sisters, half brothers and sisters or stepbrothers and sisters. In all these cases, the Open evening: Monday 1 October 2012 applicant brother or sister must be living at the Time: 5.30pm same address. Open mornings: Wednesday 3 October 2012 4. Children in the care of a local authority who are not Time: 9.30am – 11am members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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PARK VIEW ST THOMAS MORE Head teacher: Alex Atherton CATHOLIC SCHOOL West Green Road, School address: Head teacher: Mr Martin Tissot N15 3QR Glendale Avenue, School address: School tel: 020 8888 1722 N22 5HN [email protected]. Email: School tel: 020 8888 7122 sch.uk office@ www.parkview.haringey. Website: Email: stthomasmoreschool. sch.uk org.uk Ms G Mousika www.stthomasmoreschool. Website: Contact: gmousika@parkview. org.uk haringey.sch.uk Mrs Christalla Chambi
DfE number: 309 4037 Contact: (c.chambi@ Published admission stthomasmoreschool. 216 number: org.uk) Open events DfE number: 309 4703 Open evening: Thursday 4 October 2012 Published admission 192 Time: 6pm - 8pm number: Open morning: Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 Open events October 2012 Open evening: Tuesday 9 October 2012 Time: 9.15am – 10.30am Time: 6pm – 8.30pm Headteacher’s talk: 6.45 pm Open morning: Tuesday 9 October 2012 Time: 9.30 am – 11am Oversubscription criteria Whenever there are more applications than places available, offers of places will be made using the following criteria in order of priority: Catholic looked after or previously looked after children. Practising Catholics (a reference from a priest will be required). Baptised Catholics (certificate required). Eastern Christian churches, e.g. Greek Orthodox (a supportive reference will be required from a Priest). Catechumen (this will normally be evidenced by a certificate of reception into the order of catechumens). Looked after or previously looked after children Christians of other denominations whose parents wish them to have a Catholic education and whose application is supported by their Minister of Religion. Children of other faith communities whose parents wish them to have a Catholic education and whose application is supported by their religious leader. Any other applicant.
20 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions How to apply Schools Other help Definitions Exceptional needs ‘Catechumen’ means a member of the Catechumenate of a Catholic Church. This will normally be evidenced In addition to the above criteria, the Governing Body by a certificate of reception into the order of will give top priority to an application within a category catechumens. where evidence is provided at the time of application of a particular educational or other need of the child ‘Eastern Christian Church’ includes Orthodox Churches, which can be most appropriately met at this school. and is normally evidenced by a certificate of baptism or Appropriate evidence will be provided by a professional reception from the authorities of that Church. such as a doctor, social worker or priest. The evidence ‘looked after child’ has the same meaning as in must indicate how St Thomas More School can meet section 22 of the Children Act 1989, and means any this need. child in the care of a local authority or provided with Siblings and multiple births accommodation by them (e.g. children with foster parents). In each of the above criteria the presence of a brother or sister in the school at the time of admission will ‘home address’ means where the child resides for 50% increase priority within each criterion. The term ‘brother or more of the school week. or sister’ includes foster brothers and sisters, half brothers and sisters, step brothers and sisters and adopted brothers and sisters. It does not include other ______relations. The siblings must reside at the same address as the child applying for the place. In the case of WOODSIDE HIGH SCHOOL multiple applications from one family random allocation Head teacher: Joan McVittie will be used to decide whom a single place will be Associate Head Elma McElligott offered to, this will take place in the presence of an teacher: independent witness. School address: White Hart Lane, N22 5QJ Again further priority in each criterion will be determined, School tel: 020 8889 6761 if necessary, by proximity of the child’s home to the mail@woodsidehighschool. Email: school. Distances will be measured from the front gate co.uk of the school to the front door of the applicant’s home, www.woodsidehighschool. in the case of flats the measurement will be to the front Website: door of the flat within the building using a large-scale co.uk Ordnance Survey map. Loulla Goulas (020 8829 2549 or Waiting Lists Contact: Loulla.goulas@ woodsidehighschool. In addition to their right of appeal, unsuccessful co.uk) candidates will be offered the opportunity to be placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be maintained in DfE number: 309 4034 order of the over subscription criteria set out above and Published admission 162 not in the order in which applications are received or number: added to the list. This list will be maintained until the Open events end of the academic year when names will be removed. Open evening: Thursday 27 September 2012 Definitions Time: 5.30pm – 7.30pm ‘Catholic’ means a member of a Church in full Open mornings: Monday 1, Tuesday 2, Monday 8, communion with the See of Rome. This includes Tuesday 9, Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 October the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be 2012 evidenced by a certificate of baptism in a Catholic Time: 9am – 11am (last tour 10.45am) Church or a certificate of reception into the full communion of the Catholic Church. ‘Practising Catholic’ means a Catholic child from a practising Catholic family where this practice is verified by a reference from a Catholic priest in the standard format laid down by the Diocese.
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 21 SectionSchools in other authorities 4
If you want to apply to schools outside Haringey, contact the relevant borough or local authority for information on those schools. Please remember that if you are a Haringey resident you must submit an application to the Haringey Admissions Service.
Barnet Hackney The Children’s Service, The Learning Trust, School Admissions, Building 4, North London Business Park, 1 Reading Lane, London E8 1GQ Oakleigh Road South, London N11 1NP Telephone: Telephone: 020 8820 7501/7245/7247 020 8359 7651 Email: Email: [email protected] [email protected] Website: Website: www.learningtrust.co.uk www.barnet.gov.uk/school-admissions Islington Camden School Admissions Team, Crowndale Centre, 222 Upper Street, London N1 1XR 218-220 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1BD Telephone: 020 7527 5515 Telephone: 020 7974 1625 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.islington.gov.uk/admissions Website: www.camden.gov.uk/admissions Waltham Forest School Admission Service, Enfield Silver Burch House, Uplands Business Park, Enfield School Admissions Service, Blackhorse Lane, London E17 5SD PO Box 56, Civic Centre, Silver Street, Enfield EN1 3XQ Telephone: 0845 200 1557 Telephone: 020 8379 5501 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.walthamforest.gov.uk Website: www.enfield.gov.uk
22 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions SectionOther information 5
Customer Service Centres Department for Education 020 8489 1000 The government department responsible for schools Wood Green Customer Service Centre and education. Ground Floor Tel: 0703 000 2288 48 Station Road Website: www.education.gov.uk Wood Green N22 7TY Opening times: Monday - Friday. 8.45am – 5pm Free school meals If your child attends a Haringey school and you are in South Tottenham Customer Service Centre receipt of one of the following benefits or NASS support, you are eligible to apply for free school meals for your Apex House children: 820 Seven Sisters Road Tottenham N15 5PQ Income Support Opening times: Income Based Job Seekers Allowance Monday – Friday. 8.45am – 5pm Income Related Employment and Support Allowances ESA(IR) Child Tax Credit providing you are not entitled to Advisory Centre for Working Tax Credit and your annual income as assessed by Revenues and Customs is below Education (ACE) £16,190 A voluntary organisation which offers support with education issues. Guaranteed Element of State Pension Credit Tel: 0808 800 5793 (10am - 5pm, Mon - Fri) Or if you are supported by NASS and supported under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act Website: www.ace-ed.org.uk 1999. You must provide your NASS reference number. Charges for school We will also need to see the child benefit letter or the children’s long birth certificate. You must renew the activities entitlement every 12 months. Haringey Council’s policy on charging for educational activities and the remission of charges is available – Please contact your child’s school or ring customer please telephone 020 8489 1000. services on 020 8489 1000 to get an application form. www.haringey.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals Children’s Centres Haringey’s Children’s Centres offer access to the following services: early education integrated with childcare; family support and outreach to parents and child and family health services. Information about these is available on the Haringey website – www.haringey.gov.uk/childrenscentres
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 23 How to apply Schools Other help Definitions However, where such work has failed to improve school Independent (private free attendance, the school based EWO will refer cases to the central EWS service which may use its full range of paying) schools statutory powers, including legal action where there is Now called the Independent Schools Council no good reason for absence from school. Information and Advice Service (ISCias) 0845 724 6657 Special Educational [email protected] Needs www.isc.co.uk Tel: 020 8489 1913 Email: [email protected] Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) Youth Space The Local Government Ombudsman looks at Youthspace.gov.uk is the website for all young people complaints about councils and some other authorities, in Haringey – with information on events, jobs and including education admissions appeal panels. It is a apprenticeships. free service. Their job is to investigate complaints in a You can also follow Youth Space on twitter and fair and independent way - they do not take sides. If facebook to keep up to date with the latest news. you have a problem with a council service, you should first complain to the council, but if you are still not www.youthspace.haringey.gov.uk satisfied, they may be able to help. www.facebook.com/youthspace The LGO Advice Team: 0300 061 0614 www.twitter.com/haringeyyouth www.lgo.org.uk
Ofsted Ofsted inspect and report on standards of schools and childminders. Reports can be viewed online at www.ofsted.gov.uk Email: [email protected]
Education welfare service Tel: 020 8489 1000 The Education Welfare Service works with schools, pupils and families to encourage good school attendance and high standards of pupil welfare. There is a very clear link between good school attendance and good academic achievement. There are also clear links between poor school attendance and risk of being involved in antisocial behaviour, crime and poor life outcomes generally. The Education Welfare Officer (EWO) will work with young people who find regular school attendance problematic. This may mean directly working with young people themselves or referral to other agencies (with parental agreement). They will ensure that parents / carers are fully aware of their responsibilities to ensure regular school attendance. They can give advice on a range of issues such as matters relating to child protection and bullying.
24 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions SectionDefinitions 6
Academies Children from Abroad City Academies are state funded schools that operate In most circumstances you should only apply for a outside local authority control. school place once your child is resident in the UK. Your child is expected to attend a school as soon as a place Admission Appeal is offered and on the date that the school has agreed with you for them to start. If your child is not able to Parents have a legal right to have the refusal of a school place at their preferred school re-considered. This is attend at that time, please tell us - we may withdraw done by an independent panel of people who, if they the place and offer it to another child. Once you have judge it to be right, can decide that your child should agreed a start date your child will be placed on the be admitted to a school in excess of the published school roll, and if your child then fails to attend and you admission number. Please see page 9 for further have not notified us that you no longer want the place details. or that there is a valid reason why they cannot attend on that date, you may face legal action in relation to non- Admissions Arrangements school attendance. This is a technical term for the rules that govern the Places cannot be reserved until your child arrives in the admission procedures and decisions for a particular area. You will have to supply proof of residency and school or group of schools in a specific year. proof of your child’s date of birth such as an original endorsed passport or entry visa with the application, Admissions Code and bring your child to Wood Green Customer Service This document sets out the legal requirements for Centre. school admissions, admission appeals and exclusions If your child previously attended school in Haringey and from school. The revised School Admissions Code and subsequently went abroad, it is likely that unless the School Admissions Appeals Code came into force on school has specifically agreed to keep the place open 1 February 2012. The School Admissions Code takes for you, your child will have been removed from roll after full effect on admissions arrangements being locally four weeks. When they return, you must apply again determined in respect of the pupil intake for the 2013/14 for a school place. Please note that a place may not academic year and thereafter. be available in your child’s previous school and another The codes and supporting regulations are available to place may have to be offered. download from the government website. Children In Care (CiC) Catchment Areas (Looked After Children) There are no longer ‘catchment areas’ in Haringey A child is being ‘looked after’ by the local authority where, in the past, each school was allocated a specific when the local authority arranges for the child to live geographical area to serve. Now, the area that a school somewhere other than at home. There are two ways in serves is determined by the admission criteria and where which a child can be looked after by the local authority. the children who are admitted come from. The area that One is called ‘being accommodated’; the other is where children come from changes from year to year depending the child is the subject of a court order. on the applications received. This is why in one year a child living in a certain road may be admitted to a school Children Being Accommodated but another, living in the same road in the next year, may find themselves living too far away to be offered a place. When a child is being accommodated by the local authority, this is a voluntary arrangement between the local authority and the family. This means that you keep all your rights and
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 25 responsibilities as parents for the child and the local authority not living at the same address as the parent, both does not take on any of those rights or responsibilities. parent/carers must declare this is a letter sent with the If you are a parent, you can remove your child from the application. accommodation at any time. If the child regularly lives at more than one address If the local authority provides accommodation for a child Monday to Friday, the address provided should be it must draw up a plan with the family setting out the where the child spends the majority of their time. Both arrangements that will be made for the child. This must parent/carers must declare this individually in a letter be in writing. The child might live in a foster home or sent with the application. children’s home. The foster home could be the home of relatives or friends of the family. The local authority If an address is disputed, the address where child must ensure that a child who is being accommodated benefit/child tax credit is paid will be used. continues to have contact with family and friends. In Year Admissions Children who are the subject of a School placements made during a school year and not Care Order part of the co-ordination arrangements for reception When a court has made an order in relation to the child, and secondary transfer pupils. known as a care order, this means that the local authority will take on responsibility for the child together with you Key Stages as parents. The local authority will make arrangements for A child’s educational career goes through five main where the child should live, in discussion with you. However, curriculum stages according to their age: you will not be able to remove the child if you do not agree with the local authority’s proposals. The Foundation Stage curriculum is for 3-5 year olds (occasionally 2 year olds are eligible) starting DDA with Nursery and then going into Reception classes. The Disability and Discrimination Act, 1995. The Key Stage One curriculum is for 6-7 year olds Distance Measurements and they go in to Year 1 and then Year 2 classes. Haringey measures distance in miles as a straight line The Key Stage Two curriculum is for 8-11 year from the child’s home to the school. It uses the address olds. They move through Year 3, 4, 5 and Year 6 point for the child’s home to the address point of the classes. school supplied by the Royal Mail using a computerised The Key Stage Three curriculum is for 12-14 year mapping system. olds at secondary school. They move through Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9 classes. Equal Preference System The Key Stage Four curriculum is for students aged This means that each of your school preferences (up 15-16 who pass through Year 10 and Year 11 to six) is treated as a separate application. Your child classes. is considered under the over-subscription criteria for each school at the same time without reference to your Late Admission ranked preferences. Where a pupil is eligible for more Means any application for a school place that is than one school s/he is offered a place at whichever of received in the normal admission round but later than these schools was indicated as the higher preference on your application form. the deadline given. Foundation School Parental Responsibility This is a school where the Governing Body employs the Since 2003 the parents named on a child’s birth certificate staff and sets the admissions criteria for the school. both have automatic parental responsibility and rights. Other adults are also able to acquire parental rights through legal Home Address process. For school admission applications, parents must provide proof that they have legal responsibility for the child, The address provided should be the child’s current such as a child benefit letter or a copy of legal documents permanent address at the time of application. The which demonstrate that this is the case. application can only be processed using one address. If the child lives at a different address from the parent/ When parents are separated they should discuss the carer from Monday to Friday, the Parental Responsibility application for a school place before the application Order or Residence Order must be provided for is submitted. The parent with whom the child mostly assessment. If there are reasons why the child is resides should do the application. Where appropriate,
26 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions details of the other parent with parental responsibility a “Statement”. The 1981 Education Act opened up and their address should also be given so that the this range of entitlements and ways of working. Since Admissions Service can communicate with both then, its provisions have been supported by the 1995 parents. If there are legal reasons why the Admissions Disability and Discrimination Act (DDA) and the 2002 Service cannot do this, a copy of the relevant court Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination order must be provided with the application form. Act (SENDDA) Passports Special Schools Occasionally, the Admissions Service will ask a parent/ These schools are exclusively for children who have carer to bring the child and the child’s passport to the Statements of Special Educational Needs that name Wood Green Customer Service Centre for checking. the particular school. They cater for children whose This does not affect any of the child’s rights or influence needs are so complex that they cannot be educated in what school they can go to. These requests are mostly a mainstream school. made for children moving in to Haringey from abroad during the school year (‘In Year’ admission). This is a Supplementary Information Forms safeguarding measure. We try to be sure that each (SIFs) child is actually in the country, is safe and is looked after by an appropriate adult. We try to make sure that When a school is responsible for its own admissions it the child is the age stated on the application form and can have special admission criteria. For example, a faith that they are admitted into the correct year group. We school will give priority to children who are of the same do not require and do not ask to see the passport of faith. In order to assess a child’s eligibility an additional form has to be completed for these schools and the any parent/carer. children are put into priority order by the Governors of School Admission Forms the school. Each school will collect detailed personal information about your child and your family. This is for the purpose of keeping in contact with you and knowing important things about your child’s health and safety so that correct responses can be made by school staff. You may be asked to share information about any child protection issues, adults with parental responsibility, adults living in your house as well as other professionals who may work with your family. It is important to co-operate with these requests because it is about protecting your child from harm. The information is subject to data protection legislation and will not be used for any purpose that we do not tell you about beforehand. If you are concerned about this you can discuss it with a member of the Education Welfare Service (contact details are given on page 24 of this booklet). Siblings This category includes brothers and sisters, foster brothers and sisters, half-brothers and sisters or step brothers and sisters. However, parents should note that in all these cases, the brother or sister must be living at the same address as the child for whom the application is being made. To verify this we may ask you for evidence of where child benefit is being paid. Special Educational Needs (SEN) Special Educational Needs is a specific term with an associated set of definitions that indicate where specific pupils should receive additional help and resources. These are defined in an authorised document called
Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions 27 How to apply Schools Other help Definitions Voluntary Aided (VA) School Data Protection This is a religious or ‘Faith’ school where the Governing Haringey Council will handle the information you Body employs the staff and sets the admissions criteria have provided in line with the provisions of the Data for the school. Protection Act. Any personal information will be held in confidence with only the necessary people able to see Voluntary Controlled (VC) School or use it. Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to make a formal request in writing for access to This is a religious or ’Faith’ school that is administered personal data held about you or your child. by the local authority who is the ‘employer’ of the staff and sets the admissions criteria. Haringey has a duty under the Children’s Act 2004 to work with partners to provide and improve services Waiting Lists to children and young people in the area. Therefore Haringey may also use this information for other When parents are seeking a place at a school that is legitimate purposes and may share this information already full they can put their child’s name on a waiting where necessary with other bodies responsible for list. This list puts children in priority order according administering services to children and young people. to the admissions criteria. When a place becomes Haringey also has a duty to protect the public funds it available the child on the top of the list is offered the administers, and to this end it may use the information next place. This means that the waiting list is not about you have provided on this form for the prevention and the length of time a child has been on it. Waiting lists detection of fraud. change frequently in Haringey because there is much mobility here and children can move up and down the list.
28 Apply online at www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Immunisation Has your child had all their FREE injections? Protect your child from: Diphtheria Measles Tetanus Mumps Polio Rubella Meningococcal disease
For more details visit www.nhs.uk/vaccinations Starting secondary school is another opportunity to check your child has had all their vaccines. If you are unsure about what they have had, please contact your General Practitioner (GP) or practice nurse to arrange an appointment. Alternatively If you would like to discuss anything about vaccinations you can do this through your GP or practice nurse or by contacting the school nurse. Remember it is never too late to vaccinate and protect your child.
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