Education
Finding a school place Issue 8 Information for parents about applying for a school place during the school year
1 Welcome
Dear parents and carers Welcome to the borough of Barking and Dagenham. We are very pleased that you are considering sending your child to one of our schools. This e-booklet is designed to help you through the ‘In-year application process’. Barking and Dagenham is a small, friendly borough with schools and other learning opportunities close to all neighbourhoods. The borough has a good reputation for its teaching and learning. We are very proud of our schools’ achievements. We have a total of four all-through schools, 42 infant, junior and primary schools, 8 secondary schools and one technical and training school. All our schools are fully comprehensive and have a clear commitment to raising the levels of achievement for all their pupils and students. We believe that attending any of the schools in Barking and Dagenham will provide the educational opportunities your child needs to prepare for future life. By law, all children aged between 5 and 18 must be receiving an education or taking part in training. There is a different process for dealing with applications for children with special needs or those aged 16 to 19. If your child has a statement of special educational need or Educational Health Care (EHC) plan you must contact the EHC Team (see page 33). If your child is aged 16 to 19 they must receive education, employment or training, and the 16 to 19 Careers Guidance and Information Service will deal with your request (see page33). If your child is aged between 5 and 16 and you would like to apply for a place at any of our schools during the school year, you will need to apply to the School Admissions Team, and not directly to the schools. This e-booklet is designed to help you through this ‘In-year’ process.
Councillor Evelyn Carpenter, Cabinet Member for Educational Attainment and School Improvement
2 Contents
Welcome to the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. This e-booklet gives you all the information you need when applying for a school place in this borough during the school year. If you have any questions, or need more information, please contact us (the School Admissions Team). Postal Address: School Admissions Team, Town Hall, Barking, Essex, IG11 7LU Phone: 020 8215 3004 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions
Welcome 2 Admission criteria for our faith schools 15-20 All Saints Catholic School 15 Introduction 4-5 Important notes for Catholic primary schools 16 In-year admission 6-8 St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School (Barking) 17 How to contact us 9 St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School (Dagenham) 17
Transferring between our schools 10 St Peter’s Catholic Primary School 17 St Teresa Catholic Primary School 18 Admission criteria for Barking and Dagenham schools 11 - 19 St Vincent’s Catholic Primary School 18 Admission criteria for places St Margaret’s Church of England Primary School 19 at primary-phase schools 11 William Ford Church of England Junior School 19 Admission criteria for Goresbrook School What you need to know 21-27 in order of priority 12 Admission criteria for places at our other Options for children aged 14 and over 28 secondary-phase schools 13 Useful information and services 29-34 Admission criteria for technical and training schools 14 Other London authorities’ school admissions sections 35 Elutec 14 Map of our schools 36
Contact details of our schools 37
Glossary 38
3 Introduction
We, the School Admissions Team, have been attending the school Our faith primary and process applications for school since reception, year 3, year 7 or junior schools places for children from reception year 9 (depending on whether it We have seven faith primary to age 16. There are four different is a primary, junior, secondary or processes. How and when you schools and one voluntary-aided a technical and training school). junior school. Of these, the Catholic apply depends on the child’s date Places only become available when of birth and your circumstances. primary schools are academies children leave and we do not know run by The Good Shepherd Trust, This e-booklet gives information when, in what year group and at about applying for a school place St Margaret’s Church of England which school this will happen. during the year and transferring Primary is an academy run by between schools. The Genesis Education Trust, and In-year admissions William Ford Junior is a voluntary- If your child is three or four years This process is for parents who aided school run by the Church of age, please see our e-booklet have just moved into the borough of England Authority. All these ‘Starting school full time’, which and need to apply for a school schools are listed on page37 of this explains the process of applying e-booklet, starting with F. Before you place for their child. Please follow for a reception school place (the apply for a place at any of our faith the in-year admissions process on first year of school). If your child is schools, you must read the school’s pages 4 to 27. Use our in-year hub 10 or 11 years of age and is in their admission criteria (pages 15 to 20) last year of primary or junior school, (online system) to apply. See page and follow the instructions on please see our booklet ‘Moving 9 for the full website address. page 8. to secondary school’, which explains the process of applying Transferring between All other Barking and for a year-7 place (the first year of our schools Dagenham infant, junior secondary school). If your child is and primary schools 13 or 14 years of age, please see If your child is already at a school The George Carey Church of our booklet ‘Technical and training and you would like them to move to England Primary School is a schools’, which explains the another, you will need to follow the voluntary-aided school. Dorothy process of applying for a place at transfer process set out on pages Barley Junior, Eastbury Primary, these types of schools. Please see 10 and 21 to 27 of this e-booklet. James Cambell Primary, Thames our website for more details. Schools available View Infants and Thames View If your child is aged 16 to 18, Juniors are academies and please see pages 28 for details There is a map with a list of our Riverside School is a free school about applying for a place in all-through, infant, junior, primary, with academy status. These education, employment or training. secondary and technical and schools are their own admissions training schools on page 37 in this If you have just moved to the authority. However, they follow borough and would like to apply e-booklet. As the council has had the same admission criteria as for a place at a Barking and to increase or reduce the number our community infant, junior Dagenham school at any other of places at some schools over the and primary schools and we will time during the school year (except years, the published admission offer places on their behalf. The when starting school for the first number (PAN) for each school has locations of these schools are listed time, moving to a secondary changed from year to year. Please on page 36. The admission criteria school for the first time or moving contact us in writing if you would for infant places (from reception to to a technical and training school), like us to give you this information. year 2) and junior school places you will need to follow the in-year (years 3 to 6) are listed on page 11. There are six infant schools in the process. This process includes borough for children aged four to moving your child from their current Important note school to another and this is called seven. Each infant school is linked the transfer process. to a junior school for children aged For a definition of words used seven to 11. There are 31 primary in this e-booklet, please see the At the time of your application, most schools for children aged four to 11. glossary on page 38. schools will be full with children who
4 Introduction
Technical and training Our voluntary-aided (faith) Schools on different sites schools secondary school Some of our schools are quite large and are located on two different We have one of these types of We have one voluntary-aided sites. When applying for a place schools called Elutec and its location (VA) secondary school - All Saints Catholic School. at schools with two or more sites, is on page 36. Before you apply for This is run by the Catholic please see the notes below. a place at this school, you must read authority and its location is listed Notes 1 to 4 relate to primary the school’s admission criteria on on page 36 of this e-booklet, schools and notes 4 and 5 is about page 14. starting with F. Before you apply secondary schools. for a place at this school, you All-through schools must read the school’s admission Note 1: If you want to apply for a criteria (page15) and follow the place at Manor, Ripple, Sydney Russell School is run by instructions on page 8. Roding or Valence the Partnership Learning Trust. schools you must give This school is its own admissions All other Barking and the name of the site you authority, but it will follow the same Dagenham secondary would like your child to go to and you can apply for a admission criteria for Barking and schools Dagenham community schools and place at both sites at each school. we will offer places on its behalf. Dagenham Park Church of England School is a voluntary- Eastbrook School and Eastbury Note 2: If you do not name the controlled school, Greatfields and Community School are governed site you prefer on your Riverside are free schools with application form, we will by the local authority and will also academy status and the Warren automatically process use the same admission criteria. School is an academy governed your request for site 1 as Goresbrook School is an academy by the Loxford School Trust. listed on page 37. governed by The United Learning All these schools are their own Note 3: We will keep an interest Trust and uses the local authority admissions authority. However, list for each site, in criteria criteria for primary places but uses they follow the same admission criteria as our community schools order. We will follow the its own criteria for secondary places. and we will offer places on their interest list process for The locations of these schools are behalf. The locations of these each site as listed on listed on page 36. Before you apply schools are listed on page 36. page 27. for a place at these schools, please Before you apply for a place at Note 4: If your application is not read the admission criteria (pages these schools, please read the successful you can only 11 to 13). admission criteria (page13). appeal for a place at the school, not a place at a specific site, as both sites are managed by the same head teacher and governing body. If you win your appeal, the school will decide which site your child will go to. Note 5: When applying for a place at our secondary schools, the school will decide which site the child will go to.
5 In-year admission – For children in reception to year 11
If you have moved to our borough and would like to apply for a place at any our schools, you will need to apply online using our in-year hub. If you want to apply for a school outside the borough, you will need to contact that borough and follow their application process. What you need to do There are three possible stages you need to go through to apply for a school place. The stage you follow depends on whether you want to apply for a place at one of our faith schools or for a place at our other schools. If one of your preferences is a faith school, you need to go through all three stages. For all other schools, please do not follow stage three.
Fill in your application online through our in-year hub (see page 9 for the website address). The ‘fair access’ information we ask for on your application is important as it could help us decide if your child can be considered under our ‘fair access protocol’ (see our website for 1 more details).
At the welcome meeting with the school we offer your child a place at, you will be asked to provide proof of your child’s identity (including their legal name and date of birth) and the address where you and your child are living, as stated on the application form. You must take one original document (no photocopies) from each of lists A, B and C (see page 7) with you 2 to the welcome meeting.
If one of your preferences on your application is a faith school, there are extra steps you must take if you apply under the school’s faith criteria. Church of England schools use an ‘In-year supplementary reference form’ (SIF) and Catholic schools use a ‘Certificate of Catholic practice form’ (CCP) with a cover note. 3 Make sure you read and follow the application process for faith schools, which is listed on page 8 and the relevant criteria on pages 15 to 20.
Stage 1 – Apply online using Need help to apply online? the in-year hub
The person with parental responsibility for the child must Help sessions are available at apply. Please remember to Dagenham Library on Tuesdays and provide proof that you are the Barking Learning Centre on Thursdays. child’s legal guardian if you are not their natural parent. Each session starts at 9am and ends at 4.30pm. You need to apply for each child and answer all questions on our Apply online for an in-year school place now at form. Please read pages 21 to 27 on ‘What you need to know’ www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions before you fill in your form.
66 Application details Use the space below to record the email addresses and passwords you have used to make your application. Your application is only valid once you have pressed the ‘Submit application’ button at the end of the ‘Check & submit’ page. We will then send you a confirmation email. The email will include your child’s name and the schools you have applied for. In the case of twins, triplets and so on, please make sure you have a confirmation email for each child.
Email details used In-year hub details used
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Stage 2 – • Your child’s Immigration and If you do not own or rent your own Proof of address and Nationality Directorate (IND) card home, but are living with someone (issued by the Home Office with who owns their home or rents it identity your child’s photo attached) from the council or from another • Your child’s birth certificate landlord, you will need to prove We need to ask for proof of your that you live there. Please provide and your child’s address to make – the schools can ask to see a full birth certificate a copy of their current Council Tax sure that we do not offer places bill or Council Tax Benefit letter • Your child’s passport – the for fraudulent or misleading or notice, together with written schools can ask to see this applications, and to make sure that confirmation that you live with you meet the published criteria that List B (proof of the parent’s or them. Please ask them to provide apply if the schools listed on your carer’s address) a letter containing the following application are oversubscribed (this information. means there are more applications • Your current Council Tax bill than there are places available). • Your current Council Tax Benefit • Their name At the welcome meeting with the letter or notice • The address of the property school we have offered you a place • A solicitor’s letter showing the • The fact that you and your child at, you will be asked to provide completion details if you have live in the property, and the date proof of your child’s identity just bought your home (the letter you moved there (including their legal name and must be dated within the last • Confirmation that you and your date of birth) and of the address three months) child have permission to live in where you and your child are living, the property and how long you List C (proof of the parent’s or as stated on the application form. are allowed to live there carer’s address) You must take one original • Your utility bill (gas, electricity or If you are not able to provide the document (no photocopies) from water) from the last three months documents listed above at your each of the three lists (A, B and C) (we will not accept a mobile- child’s welcome meeting, we with you to the welcome meeting. phone bill or bills for internet will withdraw the offer of a place List A (proof of your child’s name, connection) at that school if the school is date of birth and address) oversubscribed. We will offer you a • A statement from your bank, place at the school nearest to your • HM Revenue & Customs building society or a credit-card home which has places available. documents such as a letter company from within the last If you live outside the borough, showing your entitlement to three months Child Benefit, Working Tax you will need to contact the local Credit or Child Tax Credit authority of the borough where you • Your child’s medical live for a school place for your child. registration card
7 In-year admission – For children in reception to year 11
If you have difficulties providing the a Church of England schools b You will also need to give the proof we need, please contact us – If you are applying under St following documents direct to to discuss this, or get independent Margaret’s C of E Primary and any of our faith primary or junior advice, as soon as possible. William Ford Junior schools’ faith schools that you are applying to: criteria, you and your minister Please check that your and • your child’s birth certificate; must fill in the SIF for Church of your child’s details match the England schools. You will need to • proof of your and your child’s information you give on your fill in one form for each child for address as listed on page 7; application form and on the each of these schools. You will and documents you show us. Also, the need to return the form direct to guardian named on the application • your child’s baptism the school with the documents form must be listed on the Council certificate (not necessary for listed in b in the next column. Tax bill and other bills you show applications to St Margaret’s us as proof. If you change your b Catholic schools or William Ford school). address at any time in this process, All Catholic schools use the you must give us proof of your new same cover note form, and address by sending us the above you will need to fill in one Important note documents. form for each child for each Primary and junior faith catholic school you want to If we discover that we have given schools will need to see the apply for. If you want your your child a place based on false originals of all the documents child to be recognised as a or misleading information, we will listed but you will also need Catholic or as being baptised, withdraw the place and may take to bring photocopies of these you should send the relevant legal action. documents with you for the schools a cover note as well school to keep. as a photocopy of your child’s baptism certificate (or certificate Stage 3 – of reception into the Catholic Supplementary information Extra forms (including Church). If you want to be recognised as a practising forms for schools outside supplementary Catholic, your local priest must Barking and Dagenham information forms -SIFs) also provide you with a CCP If you are applying to schools form. Please see the CCP outside Barking and Dagenham, section below before you apply. Faith schools you may need to fill in the common The CCP is available from application form provided by that All our faith schools will need Catholic schools and Catholic borough and then check whether you to fill in the supplementary churches. information form (SIF) for their the school you want to apply to needs you to fill in any extra forms. school if you are applying under Certificate of Catholic practice their faith criterion. form (CCP) If that school needs you to fill in a supplementary form but you do not These extra forms show your If you want to be considered as a fill it in and send it to the relevant commitment to your faith as shown practising Catholic you must meet school or local authority, your by your links to your local church. with your parish priest so he can application will not be considered The admission criteria for all our provide you with a CCP which you for that school. We will not pass faith schools are listed on pages 15 must then send to the Catholic on any forms and documents you to 20, on our website in alphabetical school with the extra documents attach to your online form to the order. Please read your preferred they have asked for. If your priest school or LA on your behalf. You school’s admission criteria and is not local and is unfamiliar with must be send these direct to the procedure before you apply. these requirements, please ask him school or LA. to contact the admissions officer for the relevant Catholic school.
8 How to contact us
By phone: Important notes Call 020 8215 3004. Our call centre is open • Please give your child’s name Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm. and date of birth (and your reference number if you have By email: one) on any information you send us. You can send this [email protected] information by email or you can use our self-service scanning Website machines. www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions • Please only send us the forms or documents we ask for. You can use webchat to communicate with us through our website. This may be proof of your and (Webchat is where you type a question to us in a box that appears on your child’s address (page 7), the screen and we send you a typed response.) proof that you are the child’s guardian or proof that your By post child is in the care of a local authority (pages 22 to 23). Please send us the relevant paper documents listed on pages 7, 22 and 23 in this guide. Please allow time for the documents to be • You are responsible for making delivered if you send them by post. If you do not hear from us within sure you pay the correct 15 days of posting your form, it is likely that we did not receive it. Also, postage charge. If you do not we are not responsible if your documents get lost in the post when pay the correct postage, your we return them to you, and you will need to contact the Post Office if form will not get to us. We this happens. cannot pay for any packages that do not have the correct Our postal address is: postage on them. School Admissions Team, FSP, Town Hall, Barking, Essex, IG11 7LU. • If you post your documents to us, proof of posting is not Using our self-service scanning machines proof that we have received Bring your paper documents to either Barking Learning Centre or your documents as neither you Dagenham Library, where you can scan your forms yourself using the nor we can prove what was self-service scanning machines. Both are open Monday to Friday from included in the envelope. If 9am to 5pm and Saturdays from 9am to 1pm, but there will be no your documents are lost in the customer services assistants there to give school admissions advice. post at any stage, you will need to contact the Post Office. We Dagenham Library – 1 Church Elm Lane, Dagenham, Essex, RM10 9QS accept no responsibility for Barking Learning Centre – 2 Town Square, Barking, Essex, IG11 7NB documents lost in the post. • Please allow time for documents to be delivered if you send them by post. • However you apply, please keep your receipt in a safe place as you will need to show it to us if we have any questions we need to ask you.
9 Admission criteria for Barking and Transferring between schools Dagenham schools
All studies show that pupils who 4. If there are places at the schools move schools are less likely to you have asked for, we will offer Important information achieve good grades. your child a place. We expect • Your child must continue to go your child to start school within In Barking and Dagenham, we to their current school while 10 school days of our offer. work to create a stable school we deal with your application environment for our children and 5. If your request is not successful, or if we are not able to offer to reduce, as far as possible, the we will place your child on the your child a place at any of the need to move pupils between interest list for the schools that schools you requested. schools. Ideally, your child will stay you have listed higher than the • If you are applying for a place in one primary school and then one school we have offered you (see at our faith schools, it is secondary school for the whole interest list section for more important that you read and of his or her school life. This will details). You will have the right understand the criteria and mean that the teaching style of the to appeal for those schools admissions process (page 8) school can provide a continuous (see appeals section for more before you apply, and fill in the framework to build strong details). extra forms and provide any patterns of learning and a stable 6. We automatically create a new extra documents those schools school community can give your interest list at the beginning of ask for direct to those schools. child better personal and social each term. This means you will development. • You must list the schools in need to fill in our online interest order of preference (with the However, there are times when list form or write to us each school that you most want your parents and head teachers agree new term asking to stay on the child to go to as number 1), and that a child needs to move schools, interest list. (This does not apply we will offer you the highest and the process for this is as follows. if you have asked for a place at preference if possible. a faith school, where you will 1. After you have spoken to the stay on the interest list for that head teacher of your child’s current school year.) Each new current school, apply online academic year you will need to using our ‘in-year hub’. fill in a new application and you 2. Fill in any extra forms (including will have the opportunity of a any supplementary information new appeal. forms - SIF) if you are applying for a faith school and give the schools the documents they have asked for. There are extra forms to fill in for our Catholic schools, and a different one for our Church of England schools. See page 8 for more information. 3. When we receive your application, we will process it within 10 school days and let you know the outcome.
10 Admission criteria for places at primary-phase schools
If there are more applications Important notes 5 The child’s home must be the than there are places available permanent address where they at a school, we will use the 1 Children who have a statement live with their legal guardian. following criteria, in priority order, of special educational needs or This should be the address for for deciding which applications an EHC plan are not included the parent’s or carer’s Council to accept. All our community in the above criteria as we deal Tax bill and where Child Benefit schools and the following with them under the terms of is addressed. schools will also use these the Education Act 1996. We will 6 We measure all distances admission criteria: offer children with a statement of using Synergy’s Geographical Dorothy Barley Junior School special educational needs or an EHC plan a place at the school Information System from the Eastbury Community School that is named on their statement. centre of the child’s home to (primary) the school’s main gate. Some Eastbury Primary School 2 A looked-after child is a child addresses have different entry who is or was: points and so we will use the co- George Carey Church of England ordinates provided from Local School • in the care of a local authority; or Land and Property Gazetteer Goresbrook School (primary) • being provided with (LLPG). If you live outside the James Cambell Primary accommodation by a local area, we will use the same Riverside Primary authority under their social system to work out distances. Sydney Russell School (primary) services duties (see the 7 When children have an equal Thames View Infants definition in section 22 (1) of claim to a place because their the Children Act 1989). Thames View Juniors. measurements are the same (for example, from a block of flats), For admission purposes we we will use a lottery system Admission criteria consider a ‘looked-after child’ to be a child who is currently (random allocation) to offer Priority 1 in care or who was in care places to children. Children who are or were in the but became the subject of an 8 You should remember that care of a local authority. Please see adoption, residence, or special going to a particular nursery note 2. guardianship order immediately class does not guarantee, or after leaving care. give priority for, a place at an Priority 2 3 ‘Sibling’ means: infant or primary school. Also, Children who have a sibling going to a particular primary • a full brother or sister; (brother or sister) at the school (or or junior school does not in the case of an infant school, the • a half-brother or half-sister; guarantee, or give priority for, a linked junior school) when they are • a stepbrother or stepsister; place at a particular secondary due to start school. We treat Furze and school. Infant School and Warren Junior • an adopted or long-term 9 We cannot consider other School, Village Infants School and fostered brother or sister; William Ford Church of England circumstances not listed in the Junior School as linked for this living at the same address and admission criteria. It is important purpose. Please see note 3. going to the named school (not that we are consistent in our including the school’s nursery). judgement and use only the Priority 3 Please make sure you name admission criteria that have For applications for junior school, all siblings on your application been agreed. children at the infant school linked form. If they are not listed on 10 If we discover that we have with the junior school. Please see your form, we cannot take them given your child a place at note 4. into account. a school based on false or Priority 4 4 We use priority 3 when misleading information, we will processing applications for withdraw the place and may Children who live closest to the children transferring from infant take legal action. school, measured in kilometres in to junior schools. a straight line (as the crow flies).
11 Admission criteria for Goresbrook School
Priority 1 Important notes 4 The child’s home must be the permanent address where they Children who are or were in the 1 Children with statements of live with their legal guardian. care of a local authority. special educational needs are This should be the address for dealt with under the terms of the Priority 2 the parent’s or carer’s Council Education Act 1996 and are not Tax bill and where Child Benefit Children who have a sibling (brother referred to in the criteria above. is addressed. or sister) at the school. Please see Children with a statement of 5 We (the Barking and Dagenham note 3. special educational needs or an EHC plan will go to the school School Admissions Team) Priority 3 named. measure all distances using Synergy’s Geographical Children who live closest to the 2 A looked-after child is a child Information System from the school, measured who is or was: centre of the child’s home to in kilometres in a straight line (as • in the care of a local authority; the school’s main gate. We the crow flies). or measure in kilometres in a If there are more applications • being provided with straight line (as the crow flies). than there are places available accommodation by a local Some addresses have different at a school, we will use authority under their social entry points and so we will use the above criteria, in priority services functions (see the the designated co-ordinates order, for deciding which definition in Section 22(1) of provided from Local Land and applications to accept. the Children Act 1989). Property Gazetteer (LLPG). If you live outside the area, we will For admission purposes we use the same system to measure consider a ‘looked-after child’ to distances. be a child currently in care or a child who was in care but became 6 If two or more children have an subject to an adoption, residence, equal claim to a place in any one or special guardianship order category, we will give priority to immediately after leaving care. children who live closest to the school. 3 ‘Sibling’ means: 7 When children have an equal • a full brother or sister; claim to a place because their • a half-brother or half-sister; measurements are the same (for • a stepbrother or stepsister; and example, from a block of flats), • an adopted or long-term fostered our database will automatically brother or sister; living at the use a lottery system (random same address and going to the allocation) to offer places to named school (not including children. the school’s nursery). Please 8 We cannot consider other make sure you name all siblings circumstances not listed in the on your application form. If they criteria. It is essential that we are are not listed on your form, we consistent in our judgement and cannot take them into account. use only the criteria that have been agreed. 9 If we discover that we have given your child a place at a school based on false or misleading information, we will withdraw the place and may take legal action.
12 Admission criteria for places at our other secondary-phase schools
If there are more applications than Important notes 4 The child’s home must be the there are places available at a permanent address where they school, we will use the following 1. Children who have a statement live with their legal guardian. This criteria, in priority order, for of special educational needs or should be the address for the deciding which applications to an EHC plan are not included parent’s or carer’s Council Tax accept. in the above criteria as we deal bill and where Child Benefit is with them under the terms of addressed. All our community schools and the Education Act 1996. We will the following schools will also offer children with a statement of 5 We (the Barking and Dagenham use these admission criteria: special educational needs or an School Admissions Team) measure all distances using Dagenham Park Church of EHC plan a place at the school Synergy’s Geographical England School that is named on their statement. Information System from the Greatfields School 2. A looked-after child is a child centre of the child’s home to the who is or was: Riverside School school’s main gate. We measure • in the care of a local authority; in kilometres in a straight line (as Sydney Russell School (secondary) or the crow flies). Some addresses Warren School • being provided with have different entry points and accommodation by a local so we will use the designated Priority 1 authority under their social co-ordinates provided from Local Children who are in the care of a services duties (see the Land and Property Gazetteer local authority. definition in section 22 (1) (LLPG). If you live outside the of the Children Act 1989). area, we will use the same Priority 2 system to measure distances. For admission purposes we Children who live closest to the consider a ‘looked-after child’ 6 If two or more children have an school, measured in kilometres in a to be a child who is currently equal claim to a place in any one straight line (as the crow flies). in care or who was in care category, we will give priority to but became the subject of an children who live closest to the adoption, residence, or special school. guardianship order immediately 7 When children have an equal after leaving care. claim to a place because their 3 For secondary schools with measurements are the same (for split sites, we will measure the example, from a block of flats), distance from the child’s home our database will automatically to the main site. The main site use a lottery system (random is the entrance through the allocation) to offer places to main door at the site where the children. head teacher’s office is. This 8 We cannot consider other measurement affects Barking circumstances not listed in the Abbey and Robert Clack schools criteria. It is essential that we are who will decide which site the consistent in our judgement and child goes to. use only the criteria that have been agreed. 9 If we discover that we have given your child a place at a school based on false or misleading information, we will withdraw the place and may take legal action.
13 Admission criteria for technical and training school
Elutec applicants who live closest to Important notes Limehouse train station. • Children with statements of • 12.5% of places will be special educational needs are If there are more applications than allocated with priority given dealt with under the terms of the there are places available at our to applicants who live closest Education Act 1996 and are not school, we will use the criteria to Dagenham Heathway train referred to in the criteria above. below, in priority order, for deciding station. Children with a statement of which applications to accept. • 12.5% of places will be special educational needs or an A. ‘Looked-after children’ or allocated with priority given to EHC plan naming Elutec will go children who were previously applicants who live closest to to our school and we will offer looked after. Romford train station. the remaining places according to the above criteria. B. The remaining places will be • 5% of places will be allocated allocated by distance as follows. with priority given to • All distances are measured in • 12.5% of places will be applicants who live closest to a straight line from each of the allocated with priority given to Ilford train station. 10 points (listed above) to the centre point of the child’s home applicants who live closest to • 6.67% of places will be Elutec. address using Freemap online allocated with priority given to distance mapping system. • 12.5% of places will be applicants who live closest to allocated with priority given to Purfleet train station. • If two or more children live exactly the same distance away applicants who live closest to • 6.67% of places will be Barking train station. from a measurement point (as allocated with priority given to listed above), we will use a lottery • 15% of places will be applicants who live closest to system (random allocation) to allocated with priority given to Grays train station. decide which child to offer a applicants who live closest to • 6.66% of places will be place at Elutec. This includes West Ham train station. allocated with priority given to situations where two children live • 10% of places will be applicants who live closest to in the same block of flats. allocated with priority given to Tilbury train station.
Map showing the measurement points Elutec will use
M25 ROMFORD WANSTEAD GANTS HILL A12 A127 A127 A12 CHADWELL ILFORD HEATH HORNCHURCH LEYTONSTONE DAGENHAM UPMINSTER HACKNEY HEATHWAY FOREST BARKING GATE STRATFORD M25 ELUTEC HACTON WEST HAM A406 BETHNAL Dagenham GREEN EAST HAM East Dagenham LIMEHOUSE Dock A13 RAINHAM A13 CANNING TOWN A13 NORTH WOOLWICH
PURFLEET M25 GRAYS WEST THURROCK
TILBURY
14 Admission criteria for our faith schools
All Saints Catholic School Important notes for as parent towards a child who All Saints School is not normally biologically your own. ‘Residence order’ • Before you apply for a place at Admission criteria is defined in section 8 of the this school, please make sure Children Act 1989 as an order The school will offer places based on you follow the instructions on settling the arrangements the criteria below in numerical order. page 8. regarding who the child will live with. ‘Special guardianship 1. Baptised Catholic children • In the criteria, ‘Catholic’ refers to someone who: order’ is defined under section who are in the care of a local 14A of the Children Act 1989 as authority or children who were • is a baptised Catholic (a person an order appointing one or more ‘looked after’ but who left local who has been baptised or individuals to be a child’s special authority care because they received in communion with the guardians. were adopted or became the See of Rome); and subject of a residence order or • If there are two or more children • has a Catholic ‘certificate special guardianship order. See in the same criterion with a of baptism’ or ‘certificate of important note for details. claim for a school place and not reception’ which shows that they enough places are available, 2. Practising Catholics who will are members of the Catholic the governors will give priority have a brother or sister in the Church. You can get copies of to those who live closest to the school in any of Years 7 to 11 on these from the parish where the school site at Becontree Heath, the day the child starts school in baptism or reception took place. as measured in kilometres in a September 2019. • A ‘practising’ Catholic refers to straight line (as the crow flies). All distances are measured 3. Practising Catholics. someone who: using Synergy’s Geographical • is confirmed by their parish 4. Catholics who will have a Information System, from the priest to be practising, according centre of the child’s home to brother or sister in the school to regulations set by the Catholic in any of Years 7 to 11 on the the school’s main gate. Some Church (that is, attending Mass addresses have different entry day the child starts school in every Sunday and Holy Day of September 2019. points and so we will use the Obligation) and to have been co-ordinates provided from Local 5. Catholics. practising for the past five years. Land and Property Gazetteer • The school has a distinctly (LLPG). If the distance for two 6. Other children who are in the Catholic ethos and approach or more children is the same care of a local authority or to education, which is what (for example, from a block children who were ‘looked after’ underpins our success. Families of flats), we will use a lottery but who left local authority care should want this Catholic system (random allocation) because they were adopted education if their children are to to offer places to children. or became the subject of a flourish in the school. London Borough of Barking residence order or special and Dagenham will run both guardianship order. See • ‘Looked after child’ has the processes and details of the important note for details. same meaning as in Section 22 processes are available from of the Children Act 1989, and their school admissions officer. 7. Other baptised children who will means any child who is or was have a brother or sister in the in the care of a local authority or • We cannot consider other school in any of Years 7 to 11 on provided with accommodation circumstances that are not listed the day the child starts school in by them (for example, children in the admission criteria. It is September 2019. with foster parents). ‘Adopted’ important that we are consistent 8. Other baptised children. has the same meaning as in in our judgement and use only section 46 of the Adoption and the admission criteria that have 9. Other children. Children Act 2002, and means to been agreed. take on the legal responsibilities
15 Admission criteria for our voluntary-aided faith schools
Important notes relating to the admission criteria for all Catholic primary schools
In the criteria below, every 5 We (the Barking and reference to Catholic means Dagenham School Admissions someone who has a certificate Team) measure all distances of baptism to prove that they are using Synergy’s Geographical a baptised Catholic. A practising Information System from the Catholic means someone who centre of the child’s home to goes to Holy Mass every Sunday the school’s main gate. We and Holy Day (a priest must fill in measure in kilometres in a the priest reference form to provide straight line (as the crow flies). the school with confirmation the Some addresses have different child is a practising Catholic). entry points and so we will use Catholic includes all the churches the designated co-ordinates in communion with the Pope, provided from Local Land and including Eastern Rite Catholics, for Property Gazetteer (LLPG). If example, Maronites. you live outside the area, we will use the same system to 1 Before you apply for a place at measure distances. this school, please make sure you follow the instructions on 6 After siblings (note3), if two or page 8. more children have an equal claim to a place in any one 2 For children in local authority category, we will give priority to care, we need a letter signed children who live closest to the by a fully qualified social worker school. employed by the local authority. 7 When children have an equal 3 Within each category the school claim to a place because will give priority to children who their measurements are the have siblings who will be at same (for example, from a the school (not their nursery) block of flats), our database on the day they start school. will automatically use a lottery Sibling means a full brother or system (random allocation) to sister, a half-brother or half- offer places to children. sister, stepbrother or stepsister, adopted or long-term fostered 8 We cannot consider other brother or sister. The sibling circumstances not listed in the must live at the same address criteria. It is essential that we as the child and must be at the are consistent in our judgement named school. and use only the criteria that have been agreed. 4 The child’s home must be the permanent address where they 9 If we discover that we have live with their legal guardian. given your child a place at This should be the address for a school based on false or the parent’s or carer’s Council misleading information, we will Tax bill and where Child Benefit withdraw the place and may is addressed. take legal action.
16 Admission criteria for our voluntary-aided schools
St Joseph’s Roman St Joseph’s Catholic St Peter’s Catholic Primary Catholic Primary School Primary School School (Barking) (Dagenham)
Admission criteria Admission criteria Admission criteria 1. Looked-after children from 1. Looked-after children from 1. Looked-after children from Catholic families. Catholic families. Catholic families. 2. Catholic children of practising 2. Catholic children of practising 2. Catholic children of practising Catholic families who live in Catholic families who live in the Catholic families who live the parish of St Mary and parish of Holy Family, Oxlow in the parish of St Peter, 52 St Ethelburga, Linton Road, Lane, Dagenham. Goresbrook Road, Dagenham, Barking, IG11 8HG. RM9 6UR. 3. Catholic children of practising 3. Catholic children of practising 3. Catholic children of practising Catholic families living outside Catholic families living outside Catholic families living outside the parish of Holy Family, Oxlow the parish of St Mary and the parish of St Peter, 52 Lane, Dagenham. St Ethelburga, Linton Road, Goresbrook Road, Dagenham, Barking, IG11 8HG. 4. Catholic children living in the RM9 6UR. 4. Catholic children living in parish of Holy Family, Oxlow 4. Catholic children living in the parish of St Mary and Lane, Dagenham. the parish of St Peter, 52 St Ethelburga, Linton Road, 5. Catholic children not living in Goresbrook Road, Dagenham, Barking IG11 8HG. the parish of Holy Family, Oxlow RM9 6UR. 5. Catholic children not living Lane, Dagenham. 5. Catholic children not living in the parish of St Mary and in the parish of St Peter, 52 6. Looked-after children in the St Ethelburga, Linton Road, Goresbrook Road, Dagenham, care of the local authority. Barking IG11 8HG. RM9 6UR. 6. Other looked-after children in 7. Baptised Orthodox children, 6. Other looked-after children in the care of the local authority. whose application is approved the care of the local authority. by their priest. 7. Baptised Orthodox children, 7. Baptised Orthodox children, whose application is approved 8. Children of other Christian whose application is approved by their priest. denominations whose parents by their priest. agree with the aims and ethos 8. Children of other Christian 8. Children of other Christian of the school and whose denominations (faiths) whose denominations whose parents application is supported by a parents agree with the aims and agree with the aims and ethos minister of religion. ethos of the school and whose of the school and whose application is supported by a 9. Children of other faiths whose application is supported by a minister of religion. parents agree with the aims and minister of religion. 9. Children of other faiths whose ethos of the school and whose 9. Children of other faiths whose parents agree with the aims and application is supported by a parents agree with the aims and ethos of the school and whose religious leader. ethos of the school and whose application is supported by a application is supported by a 10. Children of parents who want religious leader. religious leader. their child to be educated in a 10. Children of parents who want Catholic school. 10. Children of parents who want their child to be educated in a their child to be educated in a Catholic school. Catholic school.
17 Admission criteria for our voluntary-aided schools
St Teresa Catholic St Vincent’s Catholic Primary School Primary School
Admission criteria Admission criteria 1. Looked-after children from 1. Looked-after children from Catholic families. Catholic families. 2. Catholic children of practising 2. Catholic children of practising Catholic families who live in Catholic families who live the parish of St Thomas More in the parish of St Vincent, Church, Longbridge Road, Waldegrave Road, Dagenham Barking, IG11 9BY. RM8 2QB. 3. Catholic children of practising 3. Catholic children of practising Catholic families living outside Catholic families living outside the parish of St Thomas More the parish of St Vincent, Church, Longbridge Road, Waldegrave Road, Dagenham Barking, IG11 9BY. RM8 2QB. 4. Catholic children living in the 4. Catholic children living in parish of St Thomas More the parish of St Vincent, Church, Longbridge Road, Waldegrave Road, Dagenham Barking IG11 9BY. RM8 2QB. 5. Catholic children not living in 5. Catholic children not living the parish of St Thomas More in the parish of St Vincent, Church, Longbridge Road, Waldegrave Road, Dagenham Barking, IG11 9BY. RM8 2QB. 6. Other looked-after children in 6. Other looked-after children in the care of the local authority. the care of the local authority. 7. Baptised Orthodox children, 7. Baptised Orthodox children, whose application is approved whose application is approved by their priest. by their priest. 8. Children of other Christian 8. C hildren of other Christian denominations whose parents denominations whose parents agree with the aims and ethos agree with the aims and ethos of the school and whose of the school and whose application is supported by a application is supported by a minister of religion. minister of religion. 9. Children of other faiths whose 9. Children of other faiths whose parents agree with the aims and parents agree with the aims and ethos of the school and whose ethos of the school and whose application is supported by a application is supported by a religious leader. religious leader. 10. Children of parents who want 10. Children of parents who want their child to be educated in a their child to be educated in a Catholic school. Catholic school.
18 Admission criteria for Church of England Schools
St Margaret’s Church of England Primary School William Ford Church of England Junior School Admission criteria The school uses a points system to help decide who to offer places to. The school has three classes with The table below shows how the school award points. 30 children per year group. If you are applying under category 2 10 Children and their families who regularly go to St Margaret’s, or 5 below, you should fill in the St Patrick’s, Christ Church, Thames View or St Erkenwald’s supplementary information form churches in Barking and make sure you follow the instructions on page 8. If you are 7 Children and their families who regularly go to East Ham Team applying under any of the other Ministry, St George’s and St Paul’s, East Ham, St Luke’s Ilford categories, you do not need to fill in and All Saints, Goodmayes the supplementary information form. 6 Children and their families who regularly go to other Anglican 1. ‘Looked-after children’ or churches children who were previously 5 Children and their families who regularly go to churches in looked after but who left local the parishes of the Barking Team or St Erkenwald, which authority care because they were are full members of Churches Together in England or the adopted or became the subject Evangelical Alliance of a residence order or special guardianship order. Please see 3 Children and their families who regularly go to all other note 1 for more details. Christian churches 2. Children who, with one or both 2 Children and their families who occasionally go to the Parish of parents, regularly go to the Barking churches (St Margaret’s, St Patrick’s, Christ Church) Church of St Peter and St Paul 1 Any other children Dagenham (‘Dagenham Parish Church’). Please see note 2 for Extra points the definition of regularly going 2 Children who will have one or more siblings at the school on to church. the date they start school. (Sibling means a full brother or 3. Children who will have a sibling at sister, a half-brother or half-sister, a stepbrother or stepsister, or the school at the time they would an adopted or long-term fostered brother or sister living at the start at the school. Please see same address and going to the same school.) note 3 for the definition of sibling. Important notes: 4. Children who go to Village Infants School at the time of the • Regularly going to a church means going at least twice a month, application. for a period of at least one year, to your present or previous place of worship. You must get written evidence from any previous places of 5. Children who, with one or worship to support your application. both parents, regularly go to • Children who are or were in the care of a local authority are given a Christian church, other than priority over all other children and you will need to provide a letter Dagenham Parish Church, signed by a fully qualified social worker employed by that local of a denomination which is a authority if this applies. member of Churches Together in England. Please see note 2 for • If two or more children have an equal number of points, the school will the definition of regularly going use the distance from home to school to decide who to offer places to church. to. We (Barking and Dagenham Admissions Team) will measure the distance from home to the main gate of the school in a straight line (as 6. Any other children who do not fall the crow flies), using Synergy’s Geographical Information system, and within the categories listed above. give priority to the child who lives closest to the school. When children have an equal claim to a place because their measurements are the same (for example, from a block of flats), we will use a lottery system (random allocation) to offer places to children. 19 Admission criteria for Church of England Schools
Important notes for 5. The governors will consider 9. If two or more children have William Ford School applications equally in line with an equal claim to a place the school’s admission criteria. within any criterion, we will 1. A looked-after child is a child They will not take account of give priority to children who who is in the care of a local the preference order that you live closest to the school. If authority or who is being have given the school on your the distance for two or more provided with accommodation application form. children is the same (for by a local authority under their example, because the children social services duties. For these 6. If we discover we have given live in the same block of flats), children, we will need a letter your child a place based on we will use a lottery system signed by a fully qualified social false, inaccurate or misleading (random allocation) to decide worker employed by the local information, we have the right who to offer places to. This authority concerned. to withdraw the place. If this process will be independently happens, we will not consider 2. In the admission criteria, regularly checked. If parents have their brothers and sisters under going to church means going at shared responsibility for caring the sibling criterion. However, least once every two weeks to for a child who lives with each if we withdraw a child’s place either Sunday service or other of them for part of the week, we because of false, inaccurate or midweek activities (not including will use the address closest to misleading information on their those of a purely social nature) the school for this purpose. application, but they are later for at least two years. The parish given a school place genuinely 10. We cannot consider other priest or another minister needs from the interest list, or factors not listed in the to confirm this in writing on the following a successful appeal, admission criteria as it supplementary information form. we will consider their brothers is important that we are 3. Sibling means a full brother or and sisters under the sibling consistent in our judgment and sister, a half-brother or half-sister, criterion. apply the criteria fairly. a stepbrother or stepsister, or 7. For a list of churches that 11. Please see page 26 for an adopted brother or sister are members of Churches information about appeals. living at the same address, or a Together in England, visit child who has been living in the 12. Please see page 27 for www.churches-together.net same household in a long-term information about the interest list. foster relationship for more than 8. We (Barking and Dagenham one year. Admissions Team) will measure all distances using Synergy’s 4. The current School Admissions Geographical Information Code states that ‘schools are System, from the centre of required to admit children the child’s home to the main with statements of special entrance of the school in a educational need where the straight line (as the crow flies). school concerned is named Some addresses have different on the statement’. We process entry points and so we will these applications first. If the use the co-ordinates provided school has been named in from Local Land and Property a child’s statement, we must Gazetteer (LLPG). reduce the school’s admission number for that particular year group by one place to make sure we can offer the child a place. We will offer the remaining places using the school’s admission criteria.
20 What you need to know
What is the co-ordinated school which is nearest to your possible. You can answer these admissions system? home with a space. You will need questions on your application or to contact your home borough or give us permission to contact your Under the co-ordinated admissions council if you live outside Barking child’s previous school for these system, all parents will list the and Dagenham and we cannot details. schools they want to apply for on offer your child a school place. See one form (the ‘In-year common page 25 for more information. The information about your child’s application form’ or ICAF), ranking experience at their previous school them in order of preference. This Why are there three means that we may consider your is important as we will offer only application under the ‘fair access preferences? I want to protocol’ process. Under this one school place for each child. If choose one school. possible, we will offer your child a process we can ask a school to go over their admission number to place at the highest-ranked school Under section 86 (1) of the Schools make sure that children we deal on your application form which has Standards and Framework Act with under this category are shared places available. 1998, we must make arrangements evenly between our schools. For so that parents of children in our The admission authority for each more information about the ‘fair area can express a preference for school you have listed on your access protocol’, please visit our the schools they would want their ICAF decide whether or not to website or write to us. Our contact child to go to. offer your child a place. If a school details are on page 9. is oversubscribed (receives more Every year, more people apply If your child has never attended applications than there are places for places at our schools than we a UK school, they may need to available), the admission authority have places available. This means have an assessment, which will be will use the published conditions that we cannot offer everybody carried out by the school we offer (admission criteria) to decide who a place at the schools they have your child a place at. we offer places to. We will not tell asked for. The schools on your the schools where you ranked form are your preferences – they It is not compulsory to provide them in order of preference on your cannot be your choices because details within the relevant sections application form or tell a school we cannot guarantee you a place of your application (paper or about other schools you have at any of the schools you list. online), but the more information also applied to. However, if you If everybody named the same you share with us, the better we appeal for a place, we will pass school, we would not be able to can meet your child’s needs. this information to the admission increase the number of places in Similarly, we may have to withdraw authorities (the school or the local the school to take everyone. our offer if it later comes to light authority) at the appeal stage. that you did not give us information, Most classes will be full with children but your child’s application should It is important that you rank the who have been at the school from have been processed under other schools in your true order of the beginning of reception, year 7 admissions policies such as our preference. This is important for secondary schools or year 10 for ‘Fair access policy’. because if we can offer your child technical and training schools. Places a place at two or more of the only become available when children In some circumstances we cannot schools you have listed, we will leave, and we do not know when and offer your child a place at a school give your child a place at the one at which schools that will happen. even if there are places available you ranked the highest out of these (for example, if your application schools, and release all other lower Why do you need indicates your child has behaviour preferences. These places are then information about my child’s or attendance issues that will affect offered to other parents who do time at their previous or a school, or if Ofsted rates a school not have a school place for their as ‘Requires improvement’). child. If you live in Barking and current school? Dagenham and it is not possible to offer your child a place at one We ask that you give information of your preferred schools, we about your child’s previous school will give your child a place at the to make sure that the process of changing schools is as smooth as
21 What you need to know
Who can fill in the prove guardianship, we will refer a member of the team, please phone application forms? the application to social services 020 8227 2400. while we process your form. The person or people with parental What happens if my child responsibility for the child must fill What if my child lives has any additional needs? in the application forms. Parental with both parents at two Most children with additional responsibility for the child as different addresses? defined by the Children Act 1989 needs, for example, children with learning difficulties, disabilities or and amended by the Adoption If a child lives with their natural medical conditions (but without a and Children Act 2002. Please parents, legal guardian or foster statement of special educational remember to provide proof that you parent, we will consider that needs or EHC plans) have their are the child’s legal guardian if you address to be the child’s normal, needs met in local mainstream are not their natural parent. permanent home. However, if a schools. If your child has additional child’s parents are separated, A child’s mother is automatically needs, please list their needs in the parents may name only one given parental responsibility the relevant section. This may address on the application form. when a child is born and this include physical disabilities or The other parent can be named remains in force until a court order sight, hearing, speech or learning on the form and we can give determines otherwise. For births difficulties. This information will them copies of information we registered in England and Wales, help us make preparations with the issue. If one parent has parental a child’s father will also have school your child will be going to. responsibility, we must receive parental responsibility if: documents to prove this and you What happens if my child • he was married to the child’s must use that parent’s address. mother when the child was born If both parents have parental is in the care of a local (even if they later divorce or responsibility, we must receive authority? separate); documents to prove this and you Children in the care of a local • the child was born after 1 must decide which address to give authority have priority for a school December 2003, and he is on the form. named on the birth certificate; place. or Do I have to prove A looked-after child is a child who • he has a parental responsibility where I live? is or was: agreement from a court or We work hard to avoid fraudulent • in the care of a local authority; by agreement with the child’s or mother. applications. To do this we need to check where you and your child • being provided with What does guardianship live. Please see page 7 to see what accommodation by a local documents we need to see. authority under their social mean? services functions (see the If a child is not living with their What happens if my definition in Section 22(1) of natural parents and you are looking child has a statement of the Children Act 1989). after the child, we need evidence special educational needs that you are the legal guardian For admission purposes we and have parental responsibility or EHC plan? consider a ‘looked-after child’ to be for that child. Evidence includes a child who is currently in care or The Educational Health and a child who was in care previously a will, a court order or a statutory Care (EHC) plan Team deal with declaration. Guardianship only at any point in their life and then applications for children with full became subject to an adoption, applies if you can prove that you statements or EHC plans and these have full care of the child and their residence, or special guardianship are considered separately from other order immediately after leaving care. normal, permanent home is with applications. If your child has a full you. Guardianship does not apply if statement of special educational If your child is in the care of a local you just take the child to and from needs or EHC plan, we will send authority, you must also include with school or look after them until their your application to the EHC Team for the common application form a letter parents collect them. If you cannot processing. If you would like to talk to from the social worker confirming 22 What you need to know
the legal status of the child and the whether to accept the place for Can I change the local authority which the child is in one child and let your children go information I have given on the care of. The letter should also to different schools until a place provide the reasons for the preferred becomes available for them all, or my application form? schools you have listed. you can wait until places become We consider one application per available for all your children to If your child is in the care of a local child per school year. However, if start the school together (but this your circumstances change, you authority and you would like to rarely happens). discuss their school application can change your application. If this happens, fill in the ‘Change with a member of Virtual School How do I apply for a place for Looked After Children, please my in-year application form’, phone 020 8227 2691. at a faith school? which is available on our website. The new details you give us will If the child used to be in the care If you are applying for a place at a replace those on your previous of a local authority and you want faith school, you may need to fill form. We will reply to you within 10 to apply under this priority, we will in extra forms for these schools. school days of receiving this new need to see evidence that the child Make sure you read the admission information. was in the care of a local authority. criteria for that school and follow the process listed on page 8. How do I return the forms? Will all my children be How do I apply for a school Supplementary information forms offered a place at the same outside the borough? (SIFs) Please see page 8. school? If you live in this borough and In-year common application form There is no sibling (brothers and would like your child to go to a (ICAF) sisters) link at secondary schools, school in another borough, you except for Goresbrook School. Applying online is reliable and must apply direct to the relevant However, we do have a sibling link secure. This service is available on school or local authority. We at primary-phase schools. Even our website through the in-year hub. suggest you fill in our forms as well with this link, it is rare that we are If you don’t already have an email as the forms for our neighbouring able to place siblings together address, you will need to create one local authorities as school places in the same school because it is before you apply online. are in short supply. unusual to have a free space in Although you can use any email each of the year groups you need. It is important that you know the address, we recommend you use At the time of your application, admission criteria for the schools ‘Google Mail’ or ‘gmail’. This is many schools will be full with you are asking for, as you may because other email providers may children who have been attending need to fill in extra forms called treat the email we send you as the school since the beginning. supplementary information forms spam (electronic junk mail). If this Places only become available (SIFs). You may also need to happens you will need to check when children leave and we do provide further information for your ‘spam’ or ‘junk mail’ box for not know when, in what year these schools. Please contact our email, and then follow the group and at which school this will the admissions authority of the instructions to add us to your safe happen. If we can’t give places at school you have in mind. (This will senders list. After doing this, all the same school for your children, either be the school or the local future emails from us will go straight please contact us to discuss authority.) On page 35 we list the into your inbox. whether we can offer another contact details for all the local school (which you have not asked authorities in London. For details of If you need to create an email for) that can keep all your children other local authorities that are not address you need to have a mobile together. listed, please see the Department phone number and have that same for Education (DfE) website at mobile phone with you when you We will put your children’s details www.gov.uk/dfe create the email address. Keep a on the interest list for your preferred note of your new email address and school in case a place becomes the password to access the email available. If this happens we will you have now created. contact you. You can then decide 23 What you need to know
Making an application is easy once for Education (DfE), Ofsted, and When will I know the result you have a valid email address, other local authorities) and with the of my application? and should take no more than 15 school your child goes to, where it minutes for your first child, plus a will form part of the school’s pupil We will send you a reply within further 5 minutes for each other database. 10 school days of receiving your child. application and the documents we For more information about how we ask for. If you do not hear from us If you need help to apply online, will use your personal information after this time, please phone us. please come to the help sessions please visit our website, where you at Dagenham Library on Tuesdays can see a full copy of our Privacy Applications for Elutec may take up or Barking Learning Centre on Notice www.lbbd.gov.uk/privacy to 20 schools days to process. Thursdays. Each session starts at 9am and ends at 4.30pm. How are places What happens if my distributed? circumstances change? Address details are on page 9. Every week we process all You will need to contact us if your Is my information applications we receive using circumstances change. We offer protected? the admission criteria. If there are places based on the information places available at a particular available at the time we process We will deal with your personal school, we can accept all your form. If we have given your information in line with the General applications for that school. If there child a place, we will not withdraw Data Protection Regulation 2018 are more applications for a school it if your circumstances change (GDPR). For security purposes we than there are places available, we (such as your address) as long as ask you for a password. If you apply use the admission criteria to decide you can show that the information online, your application reference which applications to accept and was correct on the application number (ARN) will be your which to turn down. date. However, if we discover password. If you apply on a paper that we have given your child a form, we will need you to give us a Please see the relevant admission place based on false, inaccurate password between 8 and 12 letters criteria that apply to your or misleading information, we will long. Without your password or application. withdraw the place and may take ARN we cannot give out information • For the admission criteria for legal action. on your application if you visit or primary-phase places in our phone us. community schools, Dorothy What happens after you Barley Juniors, Eastbury give my child a school As part of the admissions Primary, George Carey, procedure, we may share the Goresbrook, James Cambell, place? information you give on your Riverside Primary Thames application forms with schools Once we have given your child a View Infants and Thames View school place, we will tell the relevant and other departments in the Juniors – see page 11. council (such as the Child and school. You must then contact the • For the admission criteria for Family Service, Children’s Social school. The school will tell you the our secondary phase schools, Care Democratic Services, the arrangements for your child starting (including Dagenham Park, Educational Health Care Team, school, and any uniform your child Riverside School, Goresbrook, educational psychologists, the will need. At the welcome meeting, Sydney Russell and Warren Family Information Service, the you must provide original proof School) – see pages 12 to 13. Inclusion Service, the Looked-After of your child’s identify (including Children Team, the police and Youth • For the admission criteria for our their legal name and date of birth) Offending Services). technical and training school and of the address where you and (Elutec) – see page 14. your child are living, as stated on We will also share your information • For the admission criteria for our your application form. You must with other schools and departments faith schools – see pages 15 to take one original document (no outside the council (such as the 20 (Catholic schools are listed photocopies) from each of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health first, then Church of England lists A, B and C on page 7. Some Service (CAMHS), the Department schools). schools will want to interview your
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child, but this is not part of the Children transferring between Is it possible for my child application process. It is up to you our schools to be taught outside their to make sure your child can start school as easily as possible. Your If you have applied to transfer your usual year group? child from one of our schools to child should be available to start at Our policy is for children to the school within 10 school days of another and we are not able to offer your child a place, your child be educated in school with receiving our letter offering them a other pupils of the same age place. must continue to go to their current place of education until we can find group. However, you can ask them a place in a different school. for your child to be placed in a What happens if you do class outside their age group, not offer my child a place Reception-age children with younger or older children. at one of the schools I have We will only agree to this in listed? You can only turn down the offer exceptional circumstances based if your child is not of legal school on educational grounds. If you have moved to Barking and age. Therefore, if you apply for a Dagenham and it is not possible reception place and you reject or Please contact us if you would like to offer your child a place at one of we withdraw our offer, we will not to ask for your child to be taught your preferred schools, we will offer offer your child another school outside their usual age group, your child a place at the nearest place unless a place becomes and we will send you the relevant school to your home which has a available from the interest list of forms. We will make our decision place available if your child is not your preferred schools or during after consulting the Head of the currently receiving education. Your the term after your child’s fifth School Improvement Team and the child will be expected to start at birthday (this is when they must relevant school’s head teacher. that school within 10 days of our start school by law). When your email or letter. child is due to start school, the place we give you may be further If your child is receiving education from your home than the one we currently but you would prefer to originally gave you. accept a place at any school rather than keep your child in their current If we have offered your child a place of education, please let us reception place but you do not know by ticking the relevant box want them to start immediately, (section 6 of your paper ICAF) or you can either ask that your child emailing us your request. goes to the school part-time, or ask to delay your child’s starting date until later in the school year. Please contact us for more details. We cannot delay the school place past the school year in which we received your application form. Your child must be in school from the term after their fifth birthday. If you do not live in Barking and Dagenham, you should contact your local authority as they are responsible for offering your child a school place.
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Do I have the right to If you decide to appeal for a place in September. You can make your appeal? at one of our schools (including application for a Year-3 place all our own admission authority from 1 July. If we turn down that Elutec school schools – for example Thames application, you can appeal that View Infants), please fill in our decision. Yes You should make your appeal online appeal form or download in writing to the school principal, and fill in our paper appeal form. within 14 days of your decision You must return your filled-in paper letter, giving reasons for the appeal. appeal form to the independent Important note for schools Elutec will write to tell you the appeal panel clerk at the address with more than two sites date of your appeal. The appeal printed on the front of the form. If you apply for a place at a will be heard by an independent specific site at Barking Abbey, appeal panel, which will be made Once you send your form and Manor, Ripple, Robert Clack, up of three people. None of these supporting documents, the Roding or Valence School but people will have any connection to independent appeal panel clerk are not successful, you can the school. The school’s contact will write to you to tell you the date only appeal for a place at the details are on page 37. of your appeal. The appeal will be school, not a place at a specific heard by an independent appeal site, as both sites are managed All other schools in Barking and panel, which will be made up of by the same head teacher and Dagenham three people. None of these people governing body. If you win your Yes You have a right to appeal to an will have any connection with us or appeal, the school will decide independent appeal panel for any of the school. The appeal panel will which site your child will go to. our schools that are listed as a higher accept comments in writing or in preference on your application form person at the appeal hearing. The
than the one we have offered you. appeal panel’s decision is final and Further appeals For example, if we offer your child both you and we must accept it. a place at the school you listed as At any time during the school We can only consider one preference 3, you can appeal for year (1 September until mid-July), application for each child, at each preference 1 and 2. You cannot you have the right to appeal our school within the same school year. appeal for a school you listed as a decision to refuse your in-year If we turn down your application, lower preference than the one we application for your child to you have the right to appeal. The have offered your child a place at or attend the schools listed on your appeal panel’s decision is final a school that you did not list on your application, which we received and both you and we must accept form. If you want to make changes to during that school year. However, it. In normal circumstances, you your original form (such as changing if your appeal cannot be heard cannot make a second appeal for your address, applying for a school within that time because you made the same school within the same that you did not list on your original your appeal late in the school year school year. However, if there has application form or changing the and there is not enough time left been a significant change in your ranking of the schools), you need for your child to start the school family’s circumstances which you to fill in the ‘Change my in-year before the end of that school year, think changes your application’s application form’, which is available you will need to fill in a new online priority level, for example if your on our website. If you change your application (ICAF) for the next family has moved house, we may preferences and do not list the school year. If we turn down that consider a second application schools you are appealing for, we will application, you will be able to as long as you can prove your withdraw your appeal. make a new appeal. For example, circumstances have changed. If if you appeal at the end of June we accept your second application We give out all the available places for a Year-2 place, but your appeal but a place is still not available at in line with our published admission cannot be heard by the time the school for your child, you will process. If we do not offer your child schools close in July, you will need be able to make a second appeal. a place at one of the schools you list to fill in an ICAF for a Year-3 place on your application form, you can for the new school year beginning appeal against this decision.
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Schools outside the We delete the interest lists for these What happens if my child borough schools at the end of each term starts a school but wants (December, April and July). If places If you want to appeal for a place become available before this date, to transfer to another in a school outside Barking and we offer them to children on the school? Dagenham, you will need to contact interest list using only the admission First, make an appointment to the relevant admissions authority criteria. We do not take account discuss the matter with your child’s (local authority or school) for more of the date we received your current head teacher as many details about how to appeal. application. If, at the end of the term, situations can be dealt with without you have not received an offer from the disruption that a change of Can I go on an interest list? the interest list, you will need to fill in school can cause. If your child our online interest form to put your still wants to change schools, you Elutec and faith schools child’s name on the new interest list can find details about transferring Elutec and all faith schools for the next term. If you still want between schools on page 10 of this (except George Carey) that are your child to stay on the interest list information e-booklet. You should listed as a higher preference after July each year, you will need to then fill in the online ICAF for us to on your application form than fill in a new ICAF online for the new process. the school we offer your child academic year and you will have the a place at will automatically put opportunity for a new appeal. You must make sure that your your child’s name on their interest child continues to regularly go to If you want to apply for a place list with other children whose their current school while we are at a school you did not list on applications were turned down. considering your request for a your original application form or If places become available, the transfer. Please phone 020 8215 you want to change the order schools then rank the children 3004 if you need more information. on the interest list using their of the schools you have listed admission criteria and offer places as preferences on your original accordingly. Your child will stay on application form, you need to the interest list for a school year confirm this in writing by listing (until July each year). If you want your preferred schools, in order your child to stay on the interest of preference, on our ‘Change my list after this date, you will need in-year application form’, which is to fill in a new ICAF for the new available on our website. academic year and you will have the opportunity for a new appeal. All other schools Need help to apply online? We will automatically put your child’s name on an interest list for all other Barking and Dagenham Help sessions are available at schools (including George Dagenham Library on Tuesdays and Carey) that are listed as a higher preference on your application Barking Learning Centre on Thursdays. form than the school we have Each session starts at 9am and ends at 4.30pm. offered your child a place at. For example, if we have offered your child a place at the school you Apply online for an in-year school place now at listed as preference number 2, we www.lbbd.gov.uk/admissions will automatically place your child on the interest list for preference 1.
27 Options for children aged 14 and over
Options for children aged If there is not enough time for your We recommend that you discuss 14 and 15 child to complete the course they your application and chosen may need to repeat the year to courses with the relevant senior Technical and training schools complete all the work needed. manager at your preferred school These schools fall into two before deciding to appeal the categories − university technical Options for children aged school’s decision. Please bear in colleges (UTCs) or studio schools. 16 and over mind that an appeal for a sixth- form place is an appeal against the They provide 14- to 19-year-olds If you would like to apply for a decision not to admit your child to with technically-based courses of place in education for your child a school, not against the decision study or learning that is based on who is 16 years old or over, please not to allow your child to take part the skills they will need for work. contact our secondary schools in a particular course. If your sixth- Please see www.utcolleges.org direct for a place in one of their form appeal is successful, your and www.studioschoolstrust.org sixth forms. Their addresses are child will be offered a place at the for further information about these listed on page 37 and they will be school on a course that still has types of schools. able to provide you with details spaces. For Year 10 entry in September such as their admission number, each year, please see our current admission criteria and application As well as the establishments on e-booklet ‘Technical and training procedures. For other education pages 29 to 31, if you would like schools’ as you will need to apply establishments offering education more information about the full when your child is in year 9. and training to children aged 16 range of education and training For entry at all other times, apply and over, please see the list below. options available to your child, now using our in-year hub. This information is also available please see details for the Careers on our website. Your child will Guidance and Information Service We have one UTC school in this need to meet the individual course on page 33. borough – Elutec (East London requirements before they are University Technical College). If you do not have a computer allowed to enrol on their course. at home, you can use the Elutec is an exciting new school You have the right to appeal to library and computer facilities which opened in this borough in an independent appeal panel if in the Barking Learning Centre September 2015. It is for students your child has been turned down (BLC) or Dagenham library to from year 10 to year 13 who are for a place at any school sixth get information on courses. interested in engineering, design form. Please see pages 26 to 27 The opening and closing times are and manufacturing. It focuses on for information about the appeals different for each branch, so see delivering high-quality technical process. our website for details. education alongside more traditional academic subjects. The school’s motto is ‘Engineering, Education and Employment’. Its aim is to inspire young people in East London and Essex to become the next generation of talented engineers and designers. The school achieves this through a really positive education experience which equips its pupils with the skills, knowledge and personal qualities they need to have for a successful career in industry. The school’s contact details are on page 30.
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Technical and training schools in the south-east area BMAT STEM Academy Logic Studio School Specialism: Computing, Science, Engineering Specialism: Computing Location: Velizy Avenue, Harlow, Location: Browells Lane, Feltham, Essex, CM20 3EZ Middlesex, TW13 7EF Phone: 01279 307254 Phone: 020 8831 3000 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.btmatstem.org.uk Website: www.logicstudioschool.org De Salis Studio College London Design and Engineering UTC Specialism: Business and Finance Specialism: Design and Engineering Location: Hewens Road, Hayes End, Location: Docklands Campus, University Way, Middlesex, UB4 8JP London, E16 2RD Phone: 020 8573 2097 Phone: 07714 255 193 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.desalisstudiocollege.co.uk Website: www.ldeutc.co.uk Mulberry UTC Elstree UTC Specialism: Digital Techology, Healthcare and Specialism: Multimedia, Production Arts, Medical Services Digital technology and communication for Location: Parnell Road, Bow, London, E3 entertainment industries Phone: 020 7790 6327 Location: Studio Way, Borehamwood, Email: [email protected] Hertfordshire, WD6 5NN Website: www.mulberryutc.co.uk Phone: 020 8386 6220 Email: [email protected] Parkside Studio College Website: www.elstreeutc.co.uk Specialism: Creative Media, Construction, Health and Social Care, Hospitality and Catering, Hairdressing and Elutec Beauty Therapy, Sport and Leisure Specialism: Product Design and Engineering Location: Wood End Green Road, Hayes, Location: Yew Tree Avenue, Rainham Road South, Middlesex, UB3 2SE Dagenham East, RM10 7XS Phone: 020 8573 2097 Phone: 020 3773 4670 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.parksidestudiocollege.co.uk Website: www.elutec.co.uk Sir Simon Milton Westminster UTC Global Academy UTC Specialism: Transport Engineering and Construction Specialism: Creative, Techical, Broadcast and Location: Westminster Digital Media Phone: 020 3506 9277 Location: The Old Vinyl Factory, Blyth Road, Email: [email protected] Hayes, Middlesex, UB3 1HA South Bank Engineering UTC Phone: 020 7766 6000 Specialism: Engineering for Building and Health Sectors Email: [email protected] Location: Brixton Website: www.globalacademy.com Phone: 020 7815 8181 Heathrow Aviation Engineering UTC Email: [email protected] Specialism: Aviation Engineering Website: www.southbank-utc.co.uk Location: Potter Street, Northwood, Space Studio West London Middlesex, HA6 1QG Specialism: Space, Aerospace, Science and Maths Phone: 01923 602 130 Location: Letchworth Avenue, Feltham, Email: [email protected] Middlesex, TW14 9RY Website: www.heathrow-utc.org Phone: 020 3696 8140 Leigh UTC Email: [email protected] Specialism: Computer science and Engineering Website: www.spacestudiowestlondon.org Location: Brunel Way, The Bridge Development, Watford UTC Dartford, Kent, DA1 5TF Specialism: Computer science, Travel and tourism, Phone: 01322 626 600 Hospitality, and Event management Email: [email protected] Location: Colonial Way, Watford, Website: www.theleighutc.org.uk Hertfordshire, WD24 4PT Phone: 01923 905 240 Email: [email protected] Website: www.watfordutc.org 29 Useful information and services
Sixth forms and colleges
Barking and Dagenham The Adult College Barking College Ripple Road site, Barking, RM9 5QA Dagenham Road, Dagenham, RM10 7UR Phone: 020 8270 4722 Phone: 01708 770000 Email: [email protected] Website: www.barkingdagenhamcollege.ac.uk Website: www.lbbd.gov.uk/adultcollege Southern Sixth Form Consortium Elutec - East London University Technical College This is for the Southern Consortium of Yew Tree Avenue, Rainham Road South, Dagenham Park, Eastbury, Jo Richardson Dagenham East, London RM10 7XS and Sydney Russell Schools Phone: 020 8596 7040 Website: www.southernconsortium.org.uk Email: [email protected] Northeast Sixth Form Consortium Website: www.elutec.co.uk This is for the Northern Consortium of All Saints, Eastbrook, Robert Clack and Warren Schools Website: www.northeastconsortium.org.uk Havering Campion School Sacred Heart Girls School Wingletye Lane, Hornchurch, RM11 3BX St Mary’s Lane, Upminster, RM14 2QR Phone: 01708 452332 Phone: 01708 222660 Website: www.campion.havering.sch.uk Website: www.mary.havering.sch.uk The Coopers Company and Coborn School St Edwards C E School St Mary’s Lane, Upminster, RM14 3HS London Road, Romford, RM7 9NX Phone: 01708 250500 Phone: 01708 730462 Website: www.cooperscoborn.org.uk Website: www.steds.havering.sch.uk Frances Bardsley School Havering College of Further Education Brentwood Road, Romford, RM1 2RR Ardleigh Green Road, Hornchurch, RM11 2LL Phone: 01708 447368 Phone: 01708 455011 Website: Website: www.havering-college.ac.uk www.lgfl.net/lgfl/leas/havering/schools/fbs Havering Sixth Form College Wingletye Lane, Hornchurch, RM11 3TB Phone: 01708 514400 Website: www.havering-sfc.ac.uk
Newham Newham College of Further Education Stratford Campus East Ham Campus, High Street South Welfare Road London E6 6ER Stratford, London, E15 4HT Phone: 020 8257 400 Phone: 020 8257 4000 Website: www.newham.ac.uk Website: www.newham.ac.uk Newham Sixth Form College St Angela’s and St Bonaventure’s Prince Regent Lane, London, E13 8SG St Georges Road, Forest Gate Phone: 020 8257 4000 London, E7 8HU Website: www.newvic.ac.uk/ Phone: 020 8472 6022 Website: www.stangelas-ursuline.co.uk 30 Useful information and services
Sixth forms and colleges
Redbridge Loxford School of Science and Technology Loxford Lane, Ilford, IG1 2UT Beal High School Phone: 020 8514 4666 Woodford Bridge Road, Ilford, IG4 5LP Website: loxford.net Phone: 020 8551 4954 Website: bealhighschool.org.uk Mayfield College Mayfield Road, Dagenham, RM8 1XS Caterham High School Phone: 020 8590 5211 Caterham Avenue, Ilford, IG5 0QW Website: www.redbridge.gov.uk Phone: 020 8551 4321 Website: www.caterham.redbridge.sch.uk Palmer Catholic Academy Aldborough Road South, Ilford, IG3 8EU Chadwell Heath Academy Phone: 020 8590 3808 Christie Gardens, Chadwell Heath Website: www.canonpalmer.redbridge.sch.uk Romford, RM6 4RS Phone: 020 8252 5151 Seven Kings School Website: www.chfs.org.uk Ley Street, Ilford, IG2 7BT Phone: 020 8554 8935 Forest Academy Website: www.skhs.net Harbourer Road, Hainault, Ilford, IG6 3TN Phone: 020 8500 4266 Trinity R C High School Website: www.hainaultforest.redbridge.sch.uk Mornington Road, Woodford Green, IG8 0TP Phone: 020 8504 3419 Ilford County High School Website: www.trinity.redbridge.sch.uk Fremantle Road, Barkingside, Ilford, IG6 2JB Phone: 020 8551 6496 Ursuline Academy Ilford Website: www.ichs.org.uk Morland Road, Ilford, IG1 4QS Kantor King Solomon High School Phone: 020 8554 1995 Forest Road, Barkingside, Ilford, IG6 3HB Website: www.uai.org.uk Phone: 020 8554 1995 Website: www.redbridge.gov.uk
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The Advisory Centre for Education (ACE) The Family Information Service also provides information and advice to help people make informed ACE is an independent registered charity which offers choices about finding and paying for childcare, after- advice for parents, and gives information about state school and holiday activities for children and young education in England and Wales for children aged people, and a range of other extended services in five to 16. They offer free advice over the phone on and through schools. It offers professional, impartial many subjects such as exclusion from school, bullying, information and advice on services for children and special educational needs and school admission young people aged 0 to 19. appeals. Address: The Maples, 80a Gascoigne Road, General advice line: Barking, Essex, IG11 7LQ Phone: 0300 0115 142 Phone: 020 8227 5395 (Open Monday to Wednesday 10am to 1pm, E-mail: fi[email protected] term time only). Website: www.lbbd.gov.uk/fis Website: www.ace-ed.org.uk Council Tax Section Child Benefit Agency If you live in the borough of Barking and Dagenham If you need to contact this agency for a copy of your and you need a copy of your recent Council Tax bill, Child Benefit allowance, please give yourself plenty of please apply in plenty of time before the closing date time before the closing date to get the documents you to get the documents you need. need. Address: Roycraft House, 15 Linton Road, Address: Child Benefit Office, Barking, Essex, IG11 8HEE PO Box 1, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE88 1AA Phone: 020 8227 2926 Phone: 0300 200 3100 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.gov.uk/contact-child-benefit-office Website: www.lbbd.gov.uk Choice advice from the Department for Education (DfE) Family Information Service (FIS) You can get useful information, such as performance Moving from primary and secondary school can be tables and information on the curriculum, on their one of the most difficult times for families and children. website. The choice adviser is independent of the Admission Phone: 0370 000 2288 Team and will be able to: Website: www.education.gov.uk • offer you help, advice and support in understanding the admissions process when you make an Education and training opportunities application for your child’s secondary school; and from age 14 • access information on your behalf and explain how the procedures affect your individual circumstances. There have been changes in the law which mean that children must stay in education or training until This should make sure you have enough information they are 18. to help you make a realistic decision about your Year 9-pupils may apply for a place at a university preferences. techical college or studio school. Please see page 28 or our website about how to apply for places. For information, applications and appeals about further education in our schools’ sixth forms or colleges, apprenticeships, or employment with training, please contact our 14 -19 Careers Guidance & Information Service. If the child is refused a place in further education, you have the right to appeal. We can accept appeal forms separately from parents and students above 16 years old.
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Careers Guidance & Library services Information Service It costs nothing to join the public library service in Barking Learning Centre – Barking and Dagenham. The library service is for all 2 Town Square Barking IG11 7NB ages and young children are welcome. Children do Monday to Friday not have to know how to read to benefit from joining 9am to 5pm the library. Public libraries offer all sorts of books for children from board books and picture books to books Phone: 020 8724 8870 for advanced readers. Toy libraries will be based in Dagenham Library – the Central Library and several other libraries in the 1 Church Elm Lane Dagenham RM10 9QS borough. A toy library is a toy equipment and loan Monday to Friday service where parents, carers and children can play 9am to 5pm together and borrow toys. There are also cassettes, CDs, DVDs, videos and free access to the internet. Phone: 020 8724 8877 Most libraries have collections of books for parents and carers. They also provide learning activities during EHC Team school holidays. The School Library Service provides (previously known as Special Educational schools with loans of books and audio-visual material. Needs Assessment and Review Team (SENART) The addresses for each of our libraries are listed below. The opening and closing times The team works closely with parents, schools, the are different for each branch. Community Educational Psychology Service (CEPS) Phone 020 8724 8735 for details. and the Education Inclusion Team. Requests for Special Educational Needs Assessments and placements in Barking Library – mainstream schools or specialist schools (if needed) are Barking Learning Centre, 2 Town Square, Barking, carried out by the EHC Team. They also provide advice Essex, IG11 7NB to parents, school staff and other professionals within the assessment and review process. You can contact Dagenham Library – the team as follows: 1 Church Elm Lane, Dagenham, Essex, RM10 9QS Email: [email protected] Marks Gate Library – Phone: 020 8227 2400, Marks Gate Community Centre, Rose Lane, Marks Gate, Chadwell Heath, RM6 5NJ Address: Town Hall, Barking, Essex, IG11 7LU Robert Jeyes Library – Housing Benefit Service Chadwell Heath community Centre, High Road, Chadwell Heath, The service provides free school meals and clothing RM6 6AS grants for children who live in Barking and Dagenham. Thames View Library – Free school meals – If you are receiving Income Sue Bramley Community Centre, Bastable Avenue, Support, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, the Barking, guaranteed part of Pension Credit or Child Tax Credit, IG11 0LG you can apply for free school meals. Valence Library – Email: benefi[email protected] Becontree Avenue, Dagenham, RM8 3HT Phone: 020 8227 2970
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Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) Virtual School Ofsted is a government department set up under the The local authorities’ Virtual School is for Looked After Education (Schools) Act 1992. It is responsible for Children and is committed to working with others to: inspecting all schools in England, whether they are • overcome disadvantage; funded by the Government or independent. To see the • provide equal access to learning, and better most recent report of a school’s inspection, please visit educational opportunities; Ofsted’s website. Website: www.ofsted.gov.uk. • raise levels of achievement; and • promote the health, wellbeing and life chances for all children in care. Parents in Partnership Service If you require any information or assistance please If your child has special educational needs, you may contact the virtual school for looked after children. contact the Parents in Partnership Service (PIPS). Contact details below. PIPS is part of ‘Carers of Barking and Dagenham’, Address: Town Hall, Barking, which offers information and support to carers. The Essex IG11 7LU. service is independent from us. Phone: 020 8227 2691 Address: 334 Heathway, Dagenham, RM10 8NJ Phone: 020 8593 4422 Youth Support and Development Service School Attendance Service This service provides a range of educational and personal development programmes for young people Attendance Service Team between the ages of 11 and 19. This team provides advice, guidance and support to Address: The VIBE, 195-211 Becontree Avenue, schools, parents, carers and children on how to improve Dagenham, Essex, RM8 2UT school attendance. Good school attendance is linked to good educational achievement. The service enforces Phone: 020 8227 5891 the laws relating to school attendance. Education Statutory Service Team This team is responsible for working with families who have decided to educate their child (or children) at home (also known as elective home education or EHE). It is also responsible for locating children who are missing from education (those not enrolled at a school and not EHE). The team issues entertainment licences for children involved in all forms of entertainment, and work permits for children (between the ages of 13 and 16 only) who are taking up part-time employment. Other responsibilities include protecting the rights of children in care and certain responsibilities related to children who have been reported missing to the police. Address: Town Hall, Barking, Essex, IG11 7LU Phone: 020 8227 2711 E-mail: [email protected]
34 Other London authorities’ school admissions sections
London Borough of London Borough of Hammersmith London Borough of Newham Barking and Dagenham Admissions and Fulham Education Department Admissions Roycraft House, 15 Linton Road, Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street, Newham dockside, 1000 Dockside Barking, Essex, IG11 8HE London, W8 7NX Road, London, E16 2QU Phone: 020 8215 3004 Phone: 020 7745 6434 Phone: 020 8430 2000 London Borough of Haringey Education Authority London Borough of Redbridge Barnet Admissions River Park House, 225 High Road, Admissions Building 2, North London Business London, N22 8HQ 255-259 High Road, lIford, Park, Oakleigh Road South, N11 1NP Phone: 020 8489 1000 Essex, IG1 1NN Phone: 020 8359 7651 Phone: 020 8708 3562 Harrow Council Admissions Bexley Council Admissions PO Box 22, Civic Centre, Harrow, London Borough of Richmond upon Civic Offices, 2 Watling Street, Middlesex, HA1 2UW Thames Admissions Bexleyheath, Kent, DA6 7AT Phone: 020 8901 2620 44 York Street, Twickenham, TW1 3BZ Phone: 020 8303 7777 Phone: 020 8891 7514 London Borough of Havering Brent Education Authority Education Service London Borough of Southwark Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Town Hall, Main Road, PO Box 64529, London, SE19 5LX Wembley, HA9 0FJ Romford, RM1 3BD Phone: 020 7525 5337 Phone: 020 8937 3110 Phone: 01708 434 600 London Borough of Sutton London Borough of London Borough of Hillingdon Admissions Bromley School Admissions Admissions Civic offices, St Nicholas way, Civic Centre, Stockwell Close, Civic Centre, High Street, London, SM1 1EA Bromley, Kent, BR1 3UH Uxbridge, UB8 1UW Phone: 020 8770 5000 Phone: 020 8313 4044 Phone: 01895 556 644 Tower Hamlets Education Authority Camden Education Authority London Borough of Hounslow Pupil services, Mulberry Place, Clove 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG Admissions Crescent, London, E14 2BG Phone: 020 7974 1625 Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow, Phone: 020 7364 5006 TW3 4DN City of London Education Service London Borough of Waltham Forest Phone: 020 8583 2721 PO Box 270, Guildhall, School Admissions Service, Town Hall London, EC2P 2EJ London Borough of Islington School Complex, Forest Road, London, E17 4JF Phone: 020 7332 1002 Admissions Section Phone: 020 8496 3000 222 Upper Street, London, N1 1XR Croydon Council Wandsworth Council Admissions Phone: 020 7527 5515 Education Department Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street, Bernard Weatherill House, 8 Mint Walk, Royal Borough of Kensington and London, SW18 2PU Croydon, CR0 1EA Chelsea Phone: 020 8871 7316 Phone: 020 8726 6400 Kensington Town Hall, Horton Street, London, W8 7NX Westminster Education Authority Ealing Council Admissions Phone: 020 7745 6432 / 6432 / 6434 Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street, Perceval House, 14-16 Uxbridge Road, London W8 7NX London, W5 2HL Royal Borough of Kingston upon Phone: 020 7745 6432 Phone: 020 8825 5511 Thames Admissions 42 York Street, Twickenham, TW1 3BW London Borough of Neighbouring authorities’ Phone: 020 8547 4610 Enfield Admissions school admissions PO Box 56 Civic Centre, Silver Street, London Borough of Lambeth Enfield, EN1 3XQ Admissions sections Phone: 020 8379 5501 10th Floor, International House, Canterbury Crescent, SW9 7QE Essex County Council London Borough of Phone: 020 7926 9503 PO Box 4261, Chelmsford, CM1 1GS Greenwich Admissions Phone: 0345 603 2200 Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London Borough of Lewisham Email: [email protected] London, SE18 6HQ Admissions Phone: 020 8921 8043 3rd Floor, Laurence House, 1 Catford Thurrock Council Road, SE6 4RU PO Box 118, Civic Offices, Grays, Essex, Hackney Education Authority Phone: 020 8314 8282 (9am-12pm) RM17 6GF The Learning Trust (Hackney), Phone: 01375 652 883 1 Reading Lane, London, E8 1GQ London Borough of Merton Email: [email protected] Phone: 020 8820 7000 Civic Centre, 100 London Road, Morden, SM4 5DX Phone: 020 8274 4906
35 Map of our schools
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36 Contact details of our schools
Map Map number School name number School name Primary schools (ages 4 to 11) Faith Primary schools (ages 4 to 11) 1 Beam Primary, Oval Road North, Dagenham, RM10 9ED F35 George Carey CofE Primary, Minter Road, Barking IG11 0FJ
2 Becontree Primary, Stevens Road, Dagenham, RM8 2QR F36 St Joseph’s Catholic Primary, The Broadway, Barking, IG11 7AR
3 Eastbury Primary, Dawson Avenue, Barking IG11 9QQ F37 St Joseph’s Catholic Primary, Connor Road, Dagenham, RM9 5UL
4 Five Elms Primary, Wood Lane, Dagenham, RM9 5TB F38 St Margarets C of E Primary, North Street, Barking, IG11 8AS 5 Gascoigne Primary, Gascoigne Road, Barking, IG11 7DR F39 St Peter’s Catholic Primary, Goresbrook Road, Dagenham, RM9 6UU 6 Godwin Primary, Finneymore Road, Dagenham, RM9 6JH F40 St Teresa Catholic Primary, Bowes Road, Dagenham, RM8 2XJ 7 Grafton Primary, Grafton Road, Dagenham, RM8 3EX F41 St Vincent’s Catholic Primary, Burnside Road, Dagenham, RM8 2JN 8 Henry Green Primary, Green Lane, Dagenham, RM8 1UR
9 Hunters Hall Primary, Alibon Road, Dagenham, RM10 8DE Map number School name 10 James Cambell Primary, Langley Crescent, Dagenham, RM9 6TD Faith Junior schools (ages 7 to 11) 11 John Perry Primary, Charles Road, Dagenham, RM10 8UR F42 William Ford C of E Junior, Ford Road, Dagenham, RM10 9JS 12 Leys Primary, Leys Avenue, Dagenham, RM10 9YR
13 Marsh Green Primary, South Close, Dagenham, RM10 9NJ Map number School name 14 Monteagle Primary, Burnham Road, Dagenham, RM9 4RB Secondary schools (ages 11 to 19) 15 Northbury Primary, North Street, Barking, IG11 8JA F43 All Saints Catholic School, Terling Road, Dagenham, RM8 1JT 16 Parsloes Primary, Spurling Road, Dagenham, RM9 5RH 44 Barking Abbey School, Longbridge Road, Barking, IG11 8UF - Lower site 17 Richard Alibon Primary, Alibon Road, Dagenham, RM10 8DF 44a Barking Abbey School, Sandringham Road, Barking, IG11 9AG - Upper site Ripple Primary School, Suffolk Road, Barking, IG11 7QS - Site 1 Dagenham Park Church of England School, 18 45 Ripple Primary School, Westbury site, Barking, IG11 7PT - Site 2 School Road, Dagenham, RM10 9QH
19 Riverside Primary School, 40 Thames Road, Barking, IG11 0HZ 46 Greatfields School, St Mary’s, Barking, IG11 7TD
Roding Primary, Hewett Road, Dagenham, RM8 2XS - Site 1 Jo Richardson Community School, Castle Green, 47 20 Gale Street, Dagenham, RM9 4UN Roding Primary, Cannington Road, Dagenham, RM9 4BL - Site 2 48 Riverside School, Renwick Road, Barking, IG11 0FU 21 Rose Lane Primary, Rose Lane, Chadwell Heath, RM6 5NJ 49 Robert Clack School, Green Lane, Dagenham, RM8 1AL - Lower site 22 Rush Green Primary, Dagenham Road, Romford, RM7 0TL 49a Robert Clack School, Gosfield Road, Dagenham, RM8 1JU - Upper site 23 Southwood Primary, Keppel Road, Dagenham, RM9 5LT 50 The Warren School, Whalebone Lane North, Chadwell Heath, RM6 6SB 24 Thomas Arnold Primary, Rowdowns Road, Dagenham, RM9 6NH Valence Primary, Bonham Road, Dagenham, RM8 3AR - Site 1 Map School name 25 number Valence Primary, St Georges Road, Dagenham, RM8 5AH - Site 2 All-through schools (ages 4 to 19) 26 William Bellamy Primary, Frizlands Lane, Dagenham, RM10 7HX These schools are not open for all year groups yet. Please ask our staff for more details.
Map 51 Eastbrook School, Dagenham Road, Dagenham, RM10 7UR number School name 52 Eastbury Community School, Hulse Avenue, Barking, IG11 9UW Infant schools (ages 4 to 7) and junior schools (ages 7 to 11) 53 Goresbrook school, Ripple Road, Dagenham, RM9 6XW Sydney Russell School, Parsloes Avenue, 27 Dorothy Barley Infant, Davington Road, Dagenham, RM8 2LL 54 Dagenham, RM9 5QT (Secondary) 28 Dorothy Barley Junior, Ivinghoe Road, Dagenham, RM8 2NB Sydney Russell School, Fanshawe Avenue, 54a 29 Furze Infant, Bennett Road, Chadwell Heath, RM6 6ES Dagenham, RM9 5QA (Primary)
Manor School, Sandringham Road, Barking, IG11 9AG - Site 1 Map School name 30 Manor School, Longbridge Road, Dagenham, RM8 2FL - Site 2 number Manor Junior, Sandringham Road, Barking, IG11 9AG Technical and training schools (ages 14 to 19) 31 Thames View Infants, Bastable Avenue, Barking, IG11 0LG Elutec - East London University Technical College, 55 Rainham Road South, Dagenham, RM10 7XS 32 Thames View Junior, Bastable Avenue, Barking, IG11 0LG
33 Village Infant, Ford Road, Dagenham, RM10 9JS
34 Warren Junior, Gordon Road, Chadwell Heath, RM6 6DA
37 Glossary – definitions of the words used in this e-booklet
Term Definition Academy and free Schools that receive funding directly from the Government, but have independence from schools day-to-day local authority (LA) and government control. They may receive extra support (either financial or other types of support) from personal or corporate sponsors. The school is its own admissions authority and the governors are responsible for setting the admission criteria and arranging appeals. Admission Entry to a school. Admissions authority The organisation that draws up the admission arrangements and sets out the admission criteria for the schools that it maintains. We (the local authority) are the admissions authority for community schools. All other schools are their own admissions authority. All admissions authorities within this local authority area link together to co-ordinate their admission arrangements. Admission criteria Conditions set by the admissions authority which are used to decide whether or not to offer a child a school place. Admission number The maximum number of children that can go to the school within a school year. Appeals procedure The process for questioning a decision not to offer your child a place at the school you have applied for. In-year common The form that anyone applying for a school place during the school year must fill in. application form (ICAF) Certificate of Catholic The form that the priest signs to confirm your commitment to your faith as shown by your links practice form with your local church. Catholic schools use this form to apply their admission criteria. This form is only valid if you also fill in the ICAF and give the school all the information they need. Community schools Schools within a local authority area which the local authority maintains. We are responsible for offering children places at the community schools in Barking and Dagenham. Department for The central government department responsible for making appropriate laws and developing Education (DfE) guidance to help the education of children and young people in England and Wales. English baccalaureate Certificate for students who achieve grades A*to C in English, mathematics, two sciences, a foreign language and history or geography. Governing bodies These are responsible for making sure that a school is managed in line with the law and follows policies in line with the conditions set by the DfE. Infant, junior or primary ‘Infant schools’ provide education for children aged four to seven, ‘junior schools’ for children schools aged seven to 11 and ‘primary schools’ for children aged four to 11. Interest list A list containing the names of every child who has been refused a school place but who is still interested in a place at that school. Some LAs will call these waiting lists. Local authority (LA) As the local authority (council), we are responsible for many services and this includes providing education across schools within the council’s boundaries. Office for Standards in The central government department responsible for inspecting the quality of education and Education (Ofsted) welfare provided by schools and organisations that provide childcare. Preferences The list of schools you would like your child to go to. You write these schools on your ICAF. Prospectus A booklet or document which contains information describing a school, its day-to-day life and its way of teaching and learning. Sibling A full brother or sister, a half-brother or half-sister, a stepbrother or stepsister or an adopted or long-term fostered brother or sister living at the same address. Statement of special The statement prepared for children who have special educational needs. The statement is educational needs prepared in line with the Education Act of 1996 and gives details of the child’s special needs (SEN) and EHC plan and what needs to be done to meet these needs. This process is now called the EHC plan (Educational Health Care plan). Voluntary-aided (VA) Local authority schools run in partnership with ‘voluntary bodies’ (usually religious schools organisations). The voluntary sector (the Catholic or Church of England Diocese) is responsible for maintaining the buildings, and the governors of the schools (the schools’ admissions authorities) are responsible for setting the admission criteria and arranging appeals. Voluntary-controlled These are sometimes called religious or faith schools. We are responsible for running these schools schools and for setting the admission criteria and arranging appeals. 38 Checklist Please read the checklist below before you return your form.
Read the admissions process on pages 4 to 27 in this e-booklet..
Use our in-year hub, fill in and submit all sections of your ‘In-year common application form’ (ICAF) online.
Show your offered school the documents below (see page 7): • proof of the child’s ID; • proof of your child’s address; and • proof of your address.
Send us all other forms and documents we ask for. This may be proof that your child is or was in the care of a local authority, or proof that you are the child’s guardian (pages 22 to 23). Fill in any extra forms including supplementary information forms (SIF) or certificate of Catholic practice (CCP) or both if you are applying for a faith school and give the school the documents they have asked for (page 8). There are different forms for our Catholic and Church of England schools.
Please make sure you tell us if any of you or your child’s details change.
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