Transfer to Secondary School September 2014 Assessment for Grammar School Education

IS H Y T LL D FU EA E R R E CA S T EA E L FL P A LE 188APR13SS Assessment for Grammar School Education Results to parents Parents of children in Year 5 who wish their child to be assessed At the end of this process, we will have a complete list of the for grammar school education are asked to inform the Children children who are of grammar school standard. We will send the TRANSFER TO SECONDARY EDUCATION - SEPTEMBER 2014 and Young People’s Department by 31st May 2013 by outcome of the grammar school tests to parents by 21st October completing the form attached to this leaflet. 2013. We will write to the address provided by you on this form. Request for assessment for Calday Grange Grammar School, West Kirby Grammar If you have provided an e-mail address on the request for School, Wirral Grammar School for Boys or Wirral Grammar School for Girls only. You do not complete this form if you intend to give assessment form, we will send your child’s results by e-mail. preferences only for all ability schools and/or only for Do not complete this form if you only wish your child to be assessed for a place at the following schools: Late applications and tests Birkenhead High School Academy, St Anselm’s Catholic College or Upton Hall School. • Birkenhead High School Academy These schools conduct their own assessments. Detals are available from the school. • St Anselm’s College No arrangements will be made to assess children if request • Upton Hall School (FCJ) forms are received after 31st May 2013 unless they have moved These three schools conduct their own assessments as described to Wirral from another part of the country. in their prospectus. Children who were unable to sit a test due to illness or Last name of child absence will be tested later in the Autumn term. Parents should Forenames Arrangements for assessment still submit a preference form before the 31st October naming at least one grammar school. If their child does not meet the Date of birth Gender (Boy/Girl) The Children and Young People’s Department co-ordinates the grammar standard, any grammar preferences will be admissions arrangements for all the grammar schools in Wirral. withdrawn. Child’s Address It conducts the assessment arrangements for the following schools: • Calday Grange Grammar School • West Kirby Grammar School Completion of forms for assessment Post code • Wirral Grammar School for Boys Parents of children in Wirral primary schools should return the • Wirral Grammar School for Girls form to their child’s primary school no later than 31st May 2013. E-mail Parents of children in independent schools or schools The assessment is based on the results of two verbal reasoning outside Wirral should return the form to the FREEPOST address Tel no tests. The tests are standardised to take account of each child’s at the bottom of the form by 31st May 2013. exact age in years and months. The two test scores are then Primary school added together to provide a final score. Tests will be held on 10 and 13 September (practice tests) Applying for places and 17 and 20 September (real tests). Parents whose children This is not a preference form. I understand that by completing this form I wish my child to be assessed for a grammar school(s). will attend a test centre will be informed of the arrangements You must complete an online or paper preference form for your by the end of August. child by 31st October 2013. Residents in English counties outside Schools have a detailed knowledge of your child. If you Wirral must apply through their home authority, naming a have additional information about your child’s ability to access Wirral school if they wish to do so. Signed (parent) Date the selection tests, you must contact your child’s headteacher. Parents resident outside England can apply using the Wirral After the tests are marked, an Independent Assessment preference form. Board (IAB) will meet to consider children who did not meet the standard and have been referred by their primary school All parents must complete a preference form by headteacher. The IAB decides whether evidence clearly shows 31st October. If your child attends a Wirral primary school, return this form to your child’s present school by 31st May 2013. Forms from non Wirral applicants should be returned by 31st May 2013 directly to: that they should be considered for a grammar school place. Parents who feel that factors may have affected their child’s Further information on the arrangements for expressing Mainstream Admissions performance must write to their child’s headteacher no later preferences is contained in the information booklet “Secondary Children and Young People’s Department than 24th September 2013. The IAB only considers a child’s case Education in Wirral” which will be available online from FREEPOST NAT21523 if referred by the headteacher. September 2013 onwards. Wirral residents will receive a copy BIRKENHEAD, Wirral CH41 4ZZ Meeting the grammar standard does not necessarily mean from their child’s school. that they will go to a grammar school. If a grammar school is If you have any questions or queries we will be glad to help. oversubscribed, the governors have to use other criteria to You can e-mail [email protected], call 0151 606 2020, or decide which children should be given places. Individual school speak to your child’s headteacher. admissions policies provide this information and can be found FOR OFFICE USE ONLY on the school’s website or by contacting the school. April 2013 B

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