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Your application How places were offered 2016

How to apply How the application process works

School open days Late applications

Admissions arrangements Schools information

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Children with Special Educational Needs University technical colleges and studio schools

Appeals Sixth form education Schools map Your application

Your application must be received by Monday, 31 October 2016

To avoid any last-minute problems, we strongly recommend you submit your Home application by Friday, 21 October 2016. This is the Friday before the half-term holiday If your child does not live in , but you wish to apply for a , please contact your child’s local authority to make an application. If your child lives in Harrow, and was born between 1 September 2005 and 31 Map August 2006, and is due to start secondary school in September 2017, the full timetable for applications is:

1 September 2016 Website opens, and you can apply online at http://www.eadmissions.org.uk

Admissions September / October 2016 Secondary schools hold Open Days / Evenings. Parents applying for a Voluntary Aided school must complete and return a supplementary information form direct to the school. These forms are available from the school or www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

Apply now Friday 21 October 2016 Last Friday before the half-term holiday. We strongly recommend that you submit your application by this date to avoid any delay.

Monday 31 October 2016 Closing date for applications. Parents applying for a Voluntary Aided school must complete and return a supplementary information form direct to the school.

Wednesday 1 March 2017 Emails sent to parents with the outcome of their application. Please wait until you have received the email before logging on to the e-Admissions website. In some cases, letters will be sent through the post

Wednesday 15 March 2017 Deadline for acceptance or decline of offer.

Thursday 13 April 2017 Closing date for receipt of appeals.

If your child lives in Harrow, and is due to start secondary school in September 2017, but was not born between 1 September 2005 and 31 August 2006, please do not fill out an application form. Instead, contact us on 0208 901 2620 or email [email protected] How places were offered in 2016

This table shows how places were allocated to year. Please do not assume that because to children starting at Harrow’s secondary children in your area attend a particular schools in September 2016. school that your child will also be offered a It shows how many places were available, place. how many people applied for those places Harrow schools do not have catchment areas and how those places were then allocated. as part of their admission arrangements1. Home These are the statistics for last year, and while Schools in Harrow use distance as part of this year’s statistics may be similar, the level their admission arrangements. All schools and pattern of demand for schools changes in Harrow measure distances from home every year. This means that the distances to school in a straight line from the home cited in the table below change from year address to the school.

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School name Number of applications receieved Number of places available Special Educational Needs - EHC Plans Looked-after children Medical/Social needs child Medical parent Sibling Children of staff school Feeder Random allocation Distance criteria distance offered in miles* Furthest Apply now Avanti House 496 180 3 0 0 0 30 0 22 63 62 1.03 Bentley Wood 716 210 2 1 2 1 47 1 n/a 146 10 0.55 Canons High 708 210 10 1 1 0 65 1 n/a n/a 132 1.36 Harrow High 439 180 1 0 0 0 31 0 n/a n/a 67 5+ 479 240 5 0 0 0 43 1 n/a n/a 100 5+ Nower Hill 1479 300 11 3 1 0 139 0 n/a n/a 146 0.97 Park High 843 260 4 3 0 0 94 1 n/a n/a 158 1.35 High 639 180 3 0 0 0 0 0 n/a n/a 136 5+ Rooks Heath 488 210 7 0 1 0 47 0 n/a n/a 155 3.63 Salvatorian 189 150 Information for and The Sacred Heart Sacred Heart 418 150 Language College can be obtained directly from the school Whitefriars 192 60 3 0 0 1 1 0 n/a n/a 55 3.70 Whitmore 1307 270 9 2 2 0 81 n/a n/a n/a 176 0.93 * Distance is measured in a straight line from the home address to the centre point of the school 1 Catchment area for the purposes of admissions is a defined geographical area set out in the admission arrangements.

Total places available: This is the “PAN” or Published Admissions Number. SEN: These are children with a statement of Special Educational Needs or an Educational, Health and Care Plan. Random Allocation: These are places allocated by random computer selection from the applications received. All applications inside this distance were accepted. Distance is measured in a straight line from the home address to the centre point of the school site as defined by the school using a computerised mapping system based on ordnance survey data. Tables for previous years are available on our website How to apply

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Home We ask everyone to apply using secondary school in September the online form with the following 2017 but was not born between 1 exceptions: September 2005 and 31 August 2006, please do not complete an application 1. If your child has a statement form. Please contact us on 0208 901 Map of Special Educational Needs 2620 or email schooladmissions@ or Educational, Health and Care harrow.gov.uk to apply. Plan, please do not complete an 3. You cannot apply for private or application form. independent schools through this 2. If your child wishes to begin process. Admissions Frequently Asked Questions Do I need to register? Do I have to complete the form all at once? Yes, you will first need to register your Apply now details with the website and will be sent No – if you wish, you can complete part a user name and password. of the form, save your position and return later to review, complete or change it. What is the deadline? Every time you change your application you will receive a confirmation email. Your application must be complete and submitted by 31 October 2016. You can Are there any tools online to make changes to your application right help me choose schools? up to the closing date. The online application system has a What happens if I do not search facility to help you find schools submit my application in time? in the local area and offers links to more information about the schools. At the end of the process, you will be invited to “submit” the form. Failure to Can I apply for a Harrow school “submit” will mean that your application if I live outside the borough? has not been sent to us, and will not be considered. You will then have to enter If you live outside Harrow and want the late application process. to apply to a Harrow school you can list the school on the application you Computers with internet access are submit to your local authority. available to use free of charge at any Harrow library and at the Civic Centre.

Can I apply to schools in Free internet access is also available at Arqiva WiFi hotspots around the other boroughs? borough.

Yes – if you are a Harrow I don’t like using computers. resident you can use the same online form to apply to schools Can I get a paper form in Harrow and also to schools instead? Home maintained by other local authorities. You can apply for No – paper forms will only be issued six schools; however, you may under exceptional circumstances, due only apply to a maximum of to the extra administrative cost and four schools in Hertfordshire. complexity of processing them. Otherwise there is no restriction Map to the mix of schools on your I need help! Can you help? application. Yes – if you need help with your application please contact us on I don’t have the internet at 0208 901 2620 or email Admissions home. Where can I apply? [email protected]

Apply now What to do if your details lead to an offer being withdrawn. change Deciding which address to put It is vitally important that you tell us on your application straight away if any of your details change after you have submitted your The only acceptable address to put application. on your application is your child’s permanent address. If you move house and change your address; if your child changes primary Please do not list an address of school; or if any other factual details someone who provides a temporary regarding your application change, care arrangement for your child, a please contact us immediately on business address, childminder’s 0208 901 2620 or email address, a relative’s address or any [email protected]. other address other than the child’s permanent home address. Failure to let us know about changes could invalidate your application or even Where families have recently moved into an address prior to completing including a criminal prosecution. an application, we may require further Harrow Council reserves the right information to ensure that the property at any time to investigate and verify has not been obtained solely for the any address, information and/or purposes of obtaining a school place. documentation in order to ensure that it is allocating places appropriately and fairly. These investigations may extend All applications that are received to Council databases, home visits and will be verified. We would background checks. We may also ask normally expect families to be you for further proofs. living at property for some time prior to making the application. If we offer a place at a school and then Home discover that the offer was made on fraudulent or misleading information If a family moves into a property (for example, a false claim to living at temporarily to increase the chances of an address) we will withdraw the place gaining a school place, the council will offered. This has happened in previous Map use the permanent residence for the years. This will cause considerable purpose of the application. distress, particularly for the child involved. If the family own a property but are living at and apply from a different address, the council will assume that the second Where a place has been offered Admissions address is temporary and that the based on false information, we property that you own is where the can withdraw the offer even after child ordinarily lives. Where the owned your child has started at school. property is being renovated, this will still be considered the family’s permanent address. In some cases, a child may live Apply now permanently with parents with officially Evidence will otherwise be required shared responsibility at more than one that the property is disposed of. If a home address. Please note, this only family own more than one property, the applies to parents, not other carers council will request further evidence to or relatives. In these cases, the only demonstrate where the family normally acceptable address is the residence live to determine the address the council where the child spends the majority will use for the child’s application. of the school week (Monday-Friday). On the rare occasions when a child’s If a school place is offered on the basis residence during the school week is of an incorrect address, the place will be split equally between parents, then withdrawn. parents will be asked to determine which residential address should be Providing false information or fraudulent used for the purpose of admission to documentation could lead also to legal school. action being brought against you, In all such cases, we require a joint will be taken as the address of the declaration from the parents with parent who receives child benefit. In officially shared responsibility stating cases where parents are not eligible for the pattern of residence. If no joint child benefit the address will be that of declaration is received by the closing the parent where the child is registered date for applications, the home address with the doctor.

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On your application form you will be asked to list six schools, ranked in order of preference. You must name the schools that you wish to apply for, in the order you prefer them. You do not need to use all six preferences, however, we strongly advise that you do use all six preferences. There is no advantage in naming only one school. Once the closing date has passed on 31 October 2016, the admissions process will begin. Home

How the preference at any of their schools of preference, system works they will be offered a place at the closest Harrow school to their home address Map that still has vacancies once the above All the applications we receive will be admissions process is complete. considered individually against the Councils will not pass on details of criteria published in this guide. Each where the school was ranked on your school will then allocate its places to the application. No school will be told about children with highest priority under its other schools listed on your application. Admissions own admissions criteria.

Each school you name on your Extremely important advice application is considered separately. about the preference system That means that if you have entered six preferences, your child could be Apply now Harrow has many oversubscribed allocated as many as six places. schools. Every year there are children in Harrow who are not allocated a place When children are allocated a place at at any of their schools of preference. more than one school, the system refers These children will receive an offer for to the order of preference that you have a place, but it will be at a school which listed on your application form. they did not choose. These places may be at a considerable distance from It will then keep the offer at the school home. you have ranked highest, and take your child’s name off the list for their If you wish to have the best chance lower-ranked preferences. These places of avoiding this, and avoiding other will then be allocated to the children common mistakes in the applications with next-highest priority under those process, please consider the following schools’ admissions criteria. advice when making your application:

Children will only be offered one school • Use all six preferences available to you. place. Nobody is ever offered more than • Use one or more of your preferences one place, or a choice of places. on the school or schools nearest When children are not allocated a place your home. The most common admissions tie-breaker for an process. This means that your child may oversubscribed school is distance move down the waiting list if another from home to school. child, with a higher priority under the • To find out which are your local admission arrangements, is added (for Harrow schools, you can use the instance, through late application). online distance tool. • Remember to list the school you Places are offered from the waiting list like the most as first preference, throughout the year. If a place is offered the school you like the second- from the waiting list, this new offer will most as second preference and so supersede any previous offer, which will on, regardless of its popularity or then be withdrawn. Waiting lists can be historical oversubscription. Home viewed online via MyHarrow. • Remember to fill out and submit a Supplementary Information Form if you are applying to a Catholic Why do some children get school (The Sacred Heart Language places at schools they College or the Salvatorian College). haven’t applied for? Map Reasons for preference If, at the end of the application process, your child cannot be offered a place at When you complete the application, any of the schools on their application, there is a space for each preference your child will be allocated a place at Admissions where you can note why you have the closest Harrow school to their home selected a school. This information will which still has a vacancy. be passed to the school. The box is optional and will only have an effect on In nearly every case where this type of your application if it relates directly to allocation occurs, parents are happy the school’s admissions criteria. with the alternative offered. It is always a Apply now good idea to visit the school where you Waiting lists have been offered a place. This gives you a chance to see the school, rather After the admissions process is complete, than rely on what you might have heard we strongly advise that you accept the about it, and you are also able to discuss place your child has been offered. any worries that you might have with If you have not been allocated a place the school staff. However, if you are still at your first preference school, your unhappy about the school offered you child’s name will be placed on a waiting may decide to use the appeals process. list for all the schools which you ranked as a higher preference than the school where you received an offer. Your child Accepting a place will remain on these waiting lists even after you accept your offered place. Every parent who has applied online Waiting lists are not a ‘first come, first for a Secondary place for their child will served’ list and so time on the list does receive an email on 1 March to offer NOT give any priority. their child a place. You will need to log Waiting lists remain in the priority order back into the e-admissions website as determined during the admissions and accept the offered place. School open days

Harrow’s secondary schools will be holding open events in September and October to help parents and children decide on their applications. Many schools begin their sessions with a short presentation. If you cannot make these dates and times, please contact schools for alternatives – all schools welcome visitors at other times. Home Avanti House Evening: Wednesday, 21 Evening: Thursday, 15 September September 2016 6pm-8.30pm 2016 6.30pm-9pm Mornings: Monday, 26 September Mornings: Friday, 16 September Map to Thursday, 29 September 2016 2016 – 10am-12 noon; Monday, from 9.30am by appointment 19 September to Friday 23 with the school September 2016 9am-12 noon

Canons High School Admissions Evening: Wednesday, 28 Evening: Tuesday, 20 September September 2016 6pm-8.30pm 2016 6.30pm Mornings: Monday, 3 October & Morning tours from 9.15am from Tuesday, 4 October 2016 Tuesday 21 September (by 9.30am-10.30am appointment – please contact Apply now the school)

Hatch End High School Evening: Monday, 26 September 2016 5.30pm – 8.30pm Day/Evening: Tuesday, 27 Mornings: Wednesday, 28 September 2016 September, Thursday, 29 9.15am, 1.30pm and 6pm September and Information, presentations and Friday, 30 September 2016 tours for parents/carers and 9.15am-10.30am children to see the school in the normal working day commence at 9.15am and 1.30pm. The evening meeting at 6pm is only for those who cannot make a daytime visit and will only consist of a presentation and tour of the premises. Park High School Evening: Thursday, 22 September Open Day/Evening – Monday, 2016 6pm-8pm 19 September 2016 3.30pm – Mornings: Tuesday, 27 September 5.30pm & 6.30pm – 8.30pm – Thursday, 29 September 2016 from 9.30am (by appointment – please contact the school) Pinner High School Evening: Monday, 3 October 2016 5.30pm-8.30pm We will be running tours between Home Evening: Tuesday, 13 September the 10 and 21 October 2016 – 2016* 6.45pm please contact the school to *Tours on other dates can be arranged by book a place. contacting our Admissions Officer on 020 8422 4675 Sacred Heart Map Language College Salvatorian College Evenings: Wednesday, 14 Evening: Wednesday, 14 September 6.30pm-8.30pm September 2016 5.30pm Thursday, 22 September 2016 Mornings: Thursday, 15 4pm-6pm September & Friday, 16 Admissions September 2016 11am-12 noon

Whitefriars Evening: Wednesday, 5 October 2016 6.30pm-8pm Mornings: Wednesday, 12 Apply now October and Monday, 17 October 2016 9am-11am Late applications

If you do not submit your application to Harrow Council by 31 October 2016 then your child will not take part in the normal admissions process. Instead, they will need to go through a late application process.

You will still need to complete an application form online as normal. However, your preferences will not be assessed or considered until the normal admissions Home process is complete and offers are made on 1 March 2017. Late applications will then be allocated places out of the pool of places that are remaining.

There are a small number of exceptions to this rule. The following are examples of exceptions that will allow late applications to be considered for the normal Map admissions process:

1 If your family moved house after the closing date, but before 12 Late changes to your December 2016. application You will be asked to provide a letter from Admissions your solicitor confirming the completion It is vitally important that you tell date and confirming you have taken up us straight away if any of your residency. If you are renting, you will be details change after you have asked for a formal tenancy agreement submitted your application. from a letting agent or estate agent. Apply now If you move house and change 2 If your family returned home from your address; if your child abroad after the closing date, but changes primary school; or before 12 December 2016. if any other factual details You will be asked to provide a council regarding your application tax bill confirming re-occupation of your change, please contact us property and cease of any tenancy on immediately on 0208 901 2620 the property; you will also be asked for or email schooladmissions@ confirmation for your move from your harrow.gov.uk. employer. Failure to let us know about 3 If a single parent has been ill for changes could invalidate your some time, or there has been a recent application or even lead to an death of an immediate family member. offer being withdrawn. You will be asked to provide evidence of the above.

Please note if you move after the 12 December your application will be considered from the address that you were living at prior to moving. We will only be able to update the address after the 1 March 2017. Admissions arrangements

The pages that follow contain • Park High School admissions arrangements for • Rooks Heath College for Business Harrow’s secondary schools, and Enterprise including Academies, Free Schools • (Secondary and Voluntary Aided Schools. Phase) For each school, a list of criteria Home will be outlined which explain which Separate Admissions Arrangements are children have priority for admission, included for: should the school be oversubscribed. Tie-breakers are also explained, in the • Avanti House case of a tie for priority. • Bentley Wood High School Map • Pinner High School The arrangements in this guide have • The Sacred Heart Language College been abbreviated for your convenience. • Salvatorian College Complete versions of each school’s • Whitmore High School Admissions Arrangements are available to download on the Harrow Council We strongly recommend you read these Schools website. arrangements in full before applying to the schools of your choice. Many The Admissions Arrangements listed arrangements differ substantially from first apply to: each other.

• The admissions arrangements that Apply now • Harrow High School follow are binding, and no exceptions • will be made during the admissions • Nower Hill High School process. Admissions arrangements

Admissions arrangements for: Canons High School Rooks Heath College for Harrow High School Business and Enterprise Hatch End High School & Whitefriars School Nower Hill High School (Secondary Phase) Park High School

If there are fewer applicants than there Act 2002. A ‘child arrangements order’ are places available for Year 7 entry in is an order settling the arrangements to Home September 2017, everyone who applies be made as to the person with whom will be offered a place. the child is to live under Section 8 of the Children Act 1989. Section 14A Children who have an Education, of the Children Act 1989 defines a Health and Care Plan or Statement ‘special guardianship order’ as an order of Special Educational Needs which appointing one or more individuals to Map names the will be allocated be a child’s special guardian (or special a place at the Academy in accordance guardians). with their statutory entitlement. b) Children for whom it is essential to be admitted to a specific school because Oversubscription criteria of special circumstances to do with Schools significant medical needs and or If there are more applicants than there social needs. are places available after the admission of students with an EHC Plan or This criterion relates to the child’s Statement of SEN naming the academy, medical and or social needs. Except Apply now the following criteria will be considered, in wholly exceptional circumstances in order, to determine who will be such requests will only be considered offered a place: for the school closest to the home address. The application must be a) A ‘looked after child’ or a child supported by written evidence. The who was previously looked after but supporting evidence should set out immediately after being looked after the particular reasons why the school became subject to an adoption, child in question is the most suitable and arrangements or special guardianship the difficulties that would be caused if order. the child had to attend another school. The recommendation for this specific A looked after child is a child who is (a) school should demonstrate knowledge in the care of a local authority, or (b) of the school in terms of resources and being provided with accommodation organisation which deems it essential by a local authority in the exercise of that the named pupil be admitted to their social services functions (see the specific school. The Admission the definition in Section 22(1) of the authority cannot give higher priority Children Act 1989).” to children under this criterion if the An adoption order is an order under required documents have not been Section 46 of the Adoption and Children produced. Medical needs one school and this should be named in the letter from a Harrow Council Applications made on medical grounds Divisional Director for Children and must be accompanied by compelling Families or a person holding a similar medical evidence from a hospital role in another local authority. consultant at the time of application. The letter from the hospital consultant c) Medical reasons relevant to parent(s) must provide information about the child’s medical condition, the effects of Parent(s) with special medical reasons this condition and why, in view of this, for seeking a place for their child the child needs to attend the parent’s at their preferred school. Except in preferred school. wholly exceptional circumstances such Home requests will only be considered for the If the school is not the closest to home, school closest to the home address. the consultant must set out in detail the Applications will only be considered wholly exceptional circumstances for for the parent(s) with whom the child attending this school and the difficulties lives and must be accompanied by Map if the child had to attend another school. compelling medical evidence from a hospital consultant at the time of Medical claims will only be considered application. The letter from the hospital for one school and this should be consultant must provide information named by the consultant. about the parent’s medical condition, In assessing these applications, advice the effects of this condition and why, in Schools will be sought from Harrow’s Special view of this, the child needs to attend Education Needs Assessment and the parent’s preferred school. Review Service (SENARS). If the school is not the closest to home, Social needs the consultant must set out in detail the wholly exceptional circumstances for Apply now attending this school and the difficulties Applications made on social grounds if the child had to attend another school. must be accompanied by compelling evidence at the time of application. In assessing these applications, Social needs claims will be considered independent advice will be sought as where there is involvement from a social appropriate (e.g. Harrow Association worker. of Disabled People or Harrow’s Mental Health Service). The application will need to be Medical claims will only be considered supported with a letter from a Harrow for one school and this should be Council Divisional Director for Children named by the consultant. and Families or a person holding a Parent(s) making a medical claim solely similar role in another local authority. The on the grounds of the young person’s director must set out in detail the wholly need to be accompanied on the journey exceptional circumstances for attending to school will not be allowed. this school and the difficulties if the child had to attend another school. d) Sibling link (older brothers or sisters) Social claims will only be considered for Children with a brother or sister straight line. Distance is measured in attending the secondary school at the a straight line from the address point time of application. The sibling link of a home to the centre point of the does not apply to students who are school site. Centre points are computer attending the sixth form in September generated and calculated using a 2017. Where children live as brother standard equation that factor in on-site and sister in the same household they school buildings only. are treated in the same way as siblings for admissions purposes. This includes In cases where applicants live equidistant a child’s brother or sister, half brother or from the preferred school and places sister, adopted/foster brother or sister, cannot be offered to both children, the step brother or sister living in the same available place will be allocated using a Home family unit at the same address. It does random computer selection. not include cousins or other extended family members who live in the same Twins, triplets and household. multiple-birth children Map e) Children of staff of the school In the case of twins, triplets and other Children where their parent(s) has been multiple-birth children, if one child employed at the school for at least can be offered a place in a preferred two years at the date of admission (or school, other multiple-birth children will from date of application for Whitefriars automatically be allocated a place in the Schools School), or where the member of staff same school, even if this takes a school has been recruited to a vacant post over its PAN (Published Admissions where there is a demonstrable skills Number). Where twins are concerned shortage. and one twin has a Statement of Special Educational Needs or f) Distance from home to school Educational, Health and Care Plan that Apply now names a specific school, the other twin Children living nearest to the school will be treated as having a sibling link measured in a straight line from home for that academic year. to school. This must be the address where parent and child normally live In-Year admissions and they must be living there on the closing date for receipt of applications. If you wish to apply for a place at a Harrow school during the school year, Tie breaker either because you have just moved into the area, or your child wishes to If more applications are received in transfer from one school to another, any one criterion than there are places please visit our website for further available the oversubscription criteria information and an In-Year Application will be re-applied followed by the ‘tie- Form. breaker’ of distance, measured in a Admissions arrangements

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1) This document sets out the authority in the exercise of their social admission arrangements for Avanti services functions (see the definition House School, Harrow (“The School”). in Section 22(1) of the Children Act Supplementary guidance can be found 1989). on the school website. ii. Siblings 2) Avanti House School has a Published Children with a sibling attending Admission Number of 60 pupils in Year R Home either Avanti House School or Krishna and 180 students in Year 7. The School Avanti Primary School (Harrow) at will admit the admission number of the time of application. Siblings are pupils/students in the relevant age group defined in these arrangements as each year if sufficient applications are natural brothers or sisters, adopted received. If there are more applications siblings, stepbrothers or sisters and Map than available places, the oversubscription foster brothers and sisters. procedure will be applied. iii. Krishna Avanti Primary School Oversubscription criteria (Harrow) pupils Children that are on roll at Krishna Avanti Primary School (Harrow) at the Schools 3) If the school is oversubscribed, after the admission of pupils with a time of application. (This applies to Statement of Special Educational Needs children applying for a Year 7 place) (Education Health Care Plan: EHC) where the school is named in the EHC, Of the remaining available priority for admission will be given to 2 Apply now those children who meet the criteria set places out below, in order: iv. Half will be offered to children who i. Looked after children live nearest to the site of the School3 A ‘looked after child’ or a child who measured by “as the crow flies” from was previously looked after, but their normal family home to the centre immediately after being looked after point of the School using the agreed became subject to an adoption, Local Authority measure of distance a child arrangement, or special from the respective permanent guardianship order1. A looked after sites for the primary and secondary child is a child who is (a) in the care of phases. The planned-for permanent a local authority, or (b) being provided sites are at Common Road, with accommodation by a local (Primary) and at Wemborough Road

1 An adoption order is an order under Section 46 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. A ‘Child Arrangements Order’ is an order settling the arrangements to be made as to the person with whom the child is to live under Section 8 of the Children Act 1989. Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 defines a ‘special guardianship order’ as an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or special guardians). 2 In the event that the remaining places are an odd number, the distance criteria will apply to 50% to the nearest whole number rounded down; the remaining places will be ascertained by random allocation. 3 The primary school site (Common Road) for Reception year and Secondary school site (Wemborough Drive) for Year 7. Avanti House (continued)

(Whitchurch Fields), Stanmore would mean exceeding the published (Secondary). admission number. v. The remaining half will be offered by random allocation using an In-Year Admissions independently scrutinised process. This process will be equally applied to Applications for In-Year admissions all applicants who have not obtained are made directly to the Council using a place under all the above over- a common application available from subscription criteria. Harrow Council. In the event of there being insufficient If more applications are received vacancies to admit all applicants in than there are places available then Home any of the categories detailed above, applications will be ranked by the priority will be given to children whose governing body in accordance with home address is the shortest distance the oversubscription criteria. If a place from the centre point of the school cannot be offered at this time then you site. Where two or more applicants live may ask us for the reasons and you will equidistant from the school and places be informed of your right of appeal. You Map cannot be offered to all children, the will be offered the opportunity of being places will be offered using random placed on a waiting list. allocation in the presence of an This waiting list will be maintained by independent witness. the governing body in the order of the oversubscription criteria and not in Schools Twins and Multiple birth the order in which the applications are received. In cases where only one place is Names are removed from the list at available and twins (or other multiple the end of each academic year and birth children) tie for that place, both a renewed application may be made (or all) will be offered a place even if by the parents if they wish to continue Apply now this exceeds the planned admission seeking a place at the school. number. When a place becomes available the Governing Body will inform Harrow Fair Access Protocols Council that the school is making an offer.

The school is committed to taking its Applications for children fair share of children who are vulnerable outside the normal age group and/or hard to place as set out in locally agreed protocols. Parents can apply for a school place outside of the normal age group of Accordingly, outside the normal their child, for example, if the child is admissions round the governing body gifted and talented or has experienced is empowered to give absolute priority problems such as ill health. to a child where admission is requested If parents wish to apply for a place under any local protocol that has been during an in-year round in a lower or agreed by both the I-Foundation and the higher year group, they must contact governing body for the current school the local authority with the request year. The governing body has this in writing providing a reason and power even when admitting the child professional advice if available with the Avanti House (continued)

request so it can be considered. actual age group before the closing Parents of summer born children may date, if the request for later admission is choose not to send their child to school refused by an Admissions Authority. until the September following their fifth birthday and may request that they are If the Admission Authority approves admitted out of their normal age group the request, the parent will be advised – to reception rather than year 1. The to re-apply in the following year and term summer born children relates to all provide a copy of the decision. However children born from 1 April to 31 August. there can be no guarantee of a place These children reach compulsory being available at the school, as this is school age on 31 August following their dependent on the number of applicants that year. It is not possible to reserve a Home fifth birthday (or on their fifth birthday if it falls on 31 August). It is likely that most place for the following year. Parents are requests for summer born children to be therefore advised to have alternative admitted out of their normal age group arrangement in place. will come from parents of children born in the later summer months or those Parents have a statutory right to appeal Map born prematurely. against the refusal of a place at a school The Local Authority as the admission for which they have applied (see below). authority for community schools will This right does not apply if they are need to make decisions on the basis of offered a place at the school but it is not the circumstances of each case and in in their preferred age group. the best interests of the child concerned. Schools In making the decision the following will Appeals procedure be taken into account: Parents can choose to appeal against • views of the parents; the decision of the Governing Body • information about the child’s not to offer their child a place at Apply now academic, social and emotional Avanti House School. Harrow Council development; administer any admissions appeals on • where relevant, their medical behalf of the academy trust. To appeal history and the views of a against the decision not to offer their medical professional; child a place, parents must complete the • whether they have previously appeal forms that are available on the been educated out of their Harrow Council website or from the normal age group; and Harrow Council Admissions Team (020 • whether they may naturally have 8901 2620). fallen into a lower age group if it were not for being born To be considered in the first round of prematurely. appeals, the notice of appeal must be received by the Council by their Parents seeking admission to an age specified date (expected to be around group below the child’s actual age 31 March 2017). should submit their request for the September of the year before the year The appeal will be heard by an when children of the same age are due independent appeals panel constituted to start school. This enables a parent to and operated in accordance with the apply for a school place in their child’s School Admissions Appeals Code. Avanti House (continued)

Parents will receive written notification courses. We also make available up to 40 of the date and time of their appeal places as a PAN for external students. hearing, which they can attend to Applications should be made directly to explain their case. the school by the first Friday in January in the academic year preceding the year If they wish, parents may be of entry. accompanied by an adviser or friend. Following the appeal, the Clerk to the Any applications from students who are appeals panel will write to parents with not currently students at the academy the decision. will meet the same entry requirements of the school and their selected subjects and will be offered places if there are Home Post-16 Admissions spaces available in those subjects.

All Avanti House all students in year 11 If the school is oversubscribed with may continue to study in the sixth form external applicants places will be offered at Avanti House, providing they meet in line with the schools oversubscription Map the entry requirements of their selected criteria listed.

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Bentley Wood High School

The Academy will comply with the requirements of the Funding Agreement and the School Admissions Code, and recognises that its ‘relevant area’ is the Borough of Harrow.

Number of places previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became The number of year 7 places available subject to an adoption, residence, child Home for September 2017 school year will be arrangements, or special guardianship 210. Applications for September 2017 order. (See below for definitions of entry should be made via the Harrow children who are or were previously co-ordinated admissions scheme. The looked after); academy will hold an open evening in September/October where prospective 2. Medical or social needs of the child Map students and their parents are welcome Girls for whom it is essential to be to visit and find out more about the admitted to a specific school because school. of special circumstances to do with significant medical needs and or social needs. (See below for definition of Oversubscription criteria Schools medical or social needs of the child); If there are fewer applicants than there 3. Medical reasons relevant to are places available for Year 7 entry in parent(s) September 2017, everyone who applies Parent(s) where there are special will be offered a place. medical reasons for seeking a place for Apply now their child at the school. (See below for Girls who have an Education, Health definition of medical reasons relevant to and Care Plan or statement of special parent(s) and parent); educational needs which names the Academy will be allocated a place at 4. Siblings the Academy in accordance with their Girls with a sister attending the statutory entitlement. academy in years 7 to 11 at the time of application. The sibling link does not If there are more applicants than apply to girls who are attending the sixth there are places available after the form in September 2017 (see below for admission of girls with an Education, definition of sibling); Health and Care Plan or statement of special educational needs naming the 5. Children of staff of the school academy, the following criteria will be Girls where their parent(s) has been considered, in order, to determine who employed by the academy trust at the will be offered a place: academy for at least two years at the date of admission or where the member 1. Girls who are or were previously of staff has been recruited to a vacant looked after post where there is a demonstrable A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was skills shortage (see below for definition Bentley Wood (continued)

of parent); majority of the school week. Where residence is split equally between 6. Random computer selection parents, if no joint declaration is all except 60 places will be allocated on received by the closing date for the basis of random selection made by applications, the home address will be computer after girls have been allocated taken as the address of the parent who places under criteria 1 to 5 above; receives child benefit; in cases where parents are not eligible for child benefit 7. Distance from home to school the address will be that of the parent 60 places will be allocated to the girls where the girl is registered with the who live closest to the school. This must doctor. be the address where parent and girl Home normally live and they must be living Children who are or were previously there on the closing date for receipt of looked after applications (see below for definition of A looked after child is a child who is (a) distance). in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation Map Definitions by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see Distance the definition in Section 22(1) of the The home address is where a girl Children Act 1989). normally lives. The distance will be This includes children who were measured in a straight line from the adopted under the Adoption Act 1976 Schools address point for the home address (see section 12 adoption orders) and to the centre point for the school site. children who were adopted under Each centre point factors in on-site the Adoption and Children’s Act 2002 buildings only and is agreed by the (see section 46 adoption orders. Child school. Distance is calculated using a arrangements orders are defined in s.8 of the Children Act 1989, as amended Apply now computerized mapping system based on Ordinance Survey data. To find by s.12 of the Children and Families distances to schools in Harrow use the Act 2014. Child arrangements orders online distance tool. In cases where replace residence orders and any applicants live equidistant from the residence order in force prior to 22 preferred school and places cannot April 2014 is deemed to be a child be offered to both girls, the available arrangements order. place will be allocated using a random Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 computer selection. defines a ‘special guardianship order’ as an order appointing one or more Home address individuals to be a child’s special This must be the address where parent guardian (or special guardians). and girl normally live and they must be living there on the closing date for Medical or social needs of the child receipt of applications. Confirmation The application must be supported by of address will be required. Where written evidence, including indicating a girl lives with parents with shared why a single-sex education is required. responsibility, each for a part of a The supporting evidence should set week, then the address used will be out the particular reasons why the the address where the girl spends the academy is the most suitable school Bentley Wood (continued)

and the difficulties that would be caused lives and must be accompanied by if the girl had to attend another school. compelling medical evidence from The recommendation for this specific a hospital Consultant at the time of school should demonstrate knowledge application, including the reasons for of the school in terms of resources and requiring a single-sex school. The organisation which deems it essential letter from the hospital consultant must that the named girl be admitted to provide information about the parent’s the academy. The academy can only medical condition, the effects of this consider entry under this criteria if condition and why, in view of this, the the required documents have been girl needs to attend the academy. If produced. the academy is not the closest school Applications made on medical grounds to the home address, the consultant Home must be accompanied by compelling must set out in detail the wholly medical evidence from a hospital exceptional circumstances for attending Consultant at the time of application. the academy and the difficulties if The letter from the hospital consultant the girl had to attend another school. must provide information about the In assessing these applications Map girl’s medical condition, the effects of independent advice will be sought as this condition and why, in view of this, appropriate (e.g. Harrow Association the girl needs to attend the academy, of Disabled People or Harrow’s Mental including the reasons for requiring a Health Service). single-sex school. In assessing these applications advice may be sought from Medical claims relevant to parent(s) will Schools Harrow’s Special Education Needs only be considered for one school and Service. this should be named by the consultant. Applications made on social grounds Parent(s) making a medical claim solely must be accompanied by compelling on the grounds of the girl’s need to be evidence at the time of application. accompanied on the journey to school Social needs claims will only be will not be allowed. Apply now considered where there is involvement from a social worker. The application will Sibling need to be supported with a letter from Where girls live as sisters in the same a Divisional Director from Children and household they are treated in the Families or a person holding a similar same way as siblings for admissions role in another local authority. The purposes. This includes a girl’s sister, director must set out in detail the wholly half sister, adopted/foster sister, or exceptional circumstances that in their step sister living in the same family view require attendance at the academy, unit at the same address. It does not including the reasons for requiring a include cousins or other extended single-sex school, and the difficulties if family members who live in the same the child had to attend another school. household. In the case of twins, triplets Parents can only make an application and other multiple-birth children, if one under this criteria (whether for medical girl can be offered a place in the school, or social need) to one school in Harrow. other multiple-birth girls will be allocated a place in the school. Where twin girls Medical reasons relevant to parent(s) are concerned and one girl has a Applications will only be considered Statement of Special Educational Needs for the parent(s) with whom the girl that names the school the other girl will Bentley Wood (continued)

be treated as having a sibling link for academy. Harrow Council administer that academic year. any admissions appeals on behalf of the academy trust. To appeal against Parent the decision not to offer their child This means the parent who has a place, parents must complete the parental responsibility as defined in the appeal forms that are available on the Children Act 1989, or the person in the Harrow Council website or from the household who is defined as a parent Harrow Council Admissions Team (020 for the purposes of Section 576 of the 8901 2620). To be considered in the first Education Act 1996. This could include round of appeals, the notice of appeal a person who is not a biological parent must be received by the Council by their but who has responsibility for her or him specified date (expected to be around Home (such as a child’s guardians) but will not 13 April 2017). usually include other relatives such as grandparents, aunts, uncles etc unless The appeal will be heard by an they have all the rights, duties, powers independent appeals panel constituted and responsibilities and authority, which and operated in accordance with the Map by law a parent of a child has in relation School Admissions Appeals Code. to the child and their property. Parents will receive written notification of the date and time of their appeal Notification and hearing, which they can attend to explain their case. If they wish, parents acceptance of places may be accompanied by an adviser or Schools friend. Following the appeal, the Clerk In accordance with the co-ordinated to the appeals panel will write to parents admissions policy, on 1 March 2017 the with the decision. Local Authority will make the formal offer of a place to parents or carers on behalf of the Governing Body of the School. Waiting list for the Apply now The onus is on parents to contact the incoming Year 7 Local Authority by their specified date (expected to be around 15 March 2017) Parents / carers can ask for their girl’s to either accept or decline the offer of a name to be put on a waiting list for place. This will in no way affect parents’ the academy if the academy was a right to appeal for a place at another higher preference than the school school. Harrow Council will write to their child was offered a place at or if all parents who have not accepted or they submitted an on-time application declined an offer giving them a further 7 and did not name the academy. The days. If no response is received a further waiting list will be maintained by Harrow letter will be sent to advise that the place Council Admissions Team on behalf of has been withdrawn. Unaccepted places the academy trust from the offer date (1 will be allocated to other applicants. March 2017). The waiting list will give priority in Appeals procedure accordance with the admissions criteria. Any places that become available will be Parents can choose to appeal against filled in priority order from the waiting list the decision of the academy trust or late applicants. not to offer their girl a place at the Bentley Wood (continued)

In-Year applications school may accept hard-to-place pupils onto the school roll from time to time in If a parent wants to make an in-year accordance with the In-Year Fair Access application for a girl to join the academy agreement. they should complete the Common Application Form for In-Year Admissions Admission to the Harrow that is available on the Harrow Council Collegiate for Sixth Form admissions website or from the Harrow Council Admissions Team (020 8901 All students may continue to study 2620). There is no Supplementary in the sixth form of their current Information Form for the school, providing they meet the entry academy; parents only need to Home requirements of their selected courses. complete the Common Application A collegiate system operates at sixth Form. The Common Application Form form level within Harrow and some should be returned to the Harrow courses are offered through this Council Admissions Team who will then arrangement. As a result some students liaise with the schools who are listed on Map from other schools and/or colleges join the form and write to the applicants with courses at a particular sixth form and the result of their application. some students from the school may join sixth form courses in other schools and/ In-Year admissions to years 7 – 11 will or colleges. be considered in accordance with the Schools over-subscription criteria outlined above Applications should be made to the and any places that become available school by the first Friday in February in will be filled in priority order from the the academic year preceding the year existing waiting list and any current of entry. Any applications from students applications. who are not currently students at the academy will be judged according to Apply now Fair access protocol the same entry requirements of the school and their selected subjects and As part of the co-ordinated admissions will be offered places if there are spaces arrangements with Harrow Council the available in those subjects. Admissions arrangements

Pinner High School

The Academy Trust will comply with the requirements of the Funding Agreement and the School Admissions Code, and recognises that its ‘relevant area’ is the since this is the local authority area within which the school is situated.

Number of places of students with an Education, Health and Care Plan or statement of special educational needs naming the Home The number of year 7 places available for September 2017 entry (the 2017/18 academy, the following criteria will be school year) will be 180. If you are a considered, in order, to determine who parent resident in Harrow, applications will be offered a place: for September 2017 entry should be made via the Harrow co-ordinated 1. Children who are looked after or Map admissions scheme (for more details were previously looked after see the ‘school admissions’ section of A ‘looked after child’ or a child who the Harrow Council website. was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after If you are a parent resident outside became subject to an adoption, Harrow applications should be made residence, child arrangements Schools through your home local authority’s order, or special guardianship order. admissions scheme. The school will (See definitions of children who hold an open evening in September/ are looked after or were previously October where prospective students looked after) and their parents are welcome to visit Apply now and find out more about the school; 2. Medical or social needs of the child these will be advertised on the school Children for whom it is essential to website. be admitted to a specific school because of special circumstances Oversubscription Criteria to do with significant medical needs and or social needs. (See definition If there are fewer applicants than there of medical or social needs of the are places available for Year 7 entry in child) September 2017, everyone who applies will be offered a place. 3. Medical reasons relevant to parent(s) Children who have an Education, Health Parent(s) where there are special and Care Plan or statement of special medical reasons for seeking a place educational needs which names the for their child at the school. (See Academy will be allocated a place at the definition of medical reasons relevant Academy in accordance with their to parent(s) and parent) statutory entitlement. 4. Siblings If there are more applicants than there Children with a brother or sister are places available after the admission attending the school at the time of Pinner High School (continued)

application. (see below for definition triplet or other multiple birth group, both of sibling) twins (orall the siblings in the case of other multiple births) would be admitted, 5. Children of staff of the school even if this meant that the school Children where their parent(s) has would admit in excess of the admission been employed by the academy number. trust at the academy for at least two years at the date of admission Definitions or where the member of staff has been recruited to a vacant post Distance where there is a demonstrable skills The home address is where a child Home shortage (see definition of parent) normally lives. The distance will be measured in a straight light from the 6. Distance from home to school address point for the home address to Places are allocated to applicants the centre point for the school site. who live closest to the school. This Each centre point factors in on-site must be the address where parent buildings only and is agreed by the Map and child normally live and they school. Distance is calculated using a must be living there on the closing computerised mapping system based date for receipt of applications. (See on Ordinance Survey data. To find definition of distance). distances to schools in Harrow use the distance tool. In cases where Tie-breaker Schools applicants live equidistant from the If more applications are received in preferred school and places cannot be any one criterion than there are places offered to both children, the available the tiebreaker of distance from available place will be allocated using a the address point for the home address random computer selection. to the centre point for the school site, Apply now measured in a straight line, will be Home address applied. This must be the address where parent and child normally live and they must be The school centre point is computer- living there on the closing date for generated and is the centre point of a receipt of applications. Confirmation of bounded polygon of the school site that address will be required. includes elements such as buildings, playgrounds and Where a child lives with parents with car parks but excludes playing fields. In shared responsibility, each for a part of cases where applicants live equidistant a week, then the address used will be from the preferred school and places the address where the child spends the cannot be offered to all of the applicants majority of the school week. Where affected, the available place(s) will be residence is split equally between allocated using a random computer parents, if no joint declaration is selection. received by the closing date for applications, the home address will be Children of multiple births taken as the address of the parent who In cases where there is only one place receives child benefit; in cases where available at the school and the next parents are not eligible for child benefit child on the waiting list is one of a twin, the address will be that of the parent Pinner High School (continued)

where the child is registered with the that the named pupil be admitted to doctor. the academy. The academy can only consider entry under this criterion Children who are looked after or were if the required documents have been previously looked after produced. A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) Applications made on medical grounds being provided with accommodation must be accompanied by compelling by a local authority in the exercise of medical evidence from a hospital their social services functions (see consultant at the time of application. the definition in Section 22(1) of the The letter from the hospital consultant Home Children Act 1989) at the time of making must provide information about the an application to the school. Previously child’s medical condition, the effects of looked after children are children who this condition and why, in view of this, were looked after, but ceased to be so the child needs to attend the academy. because they were adopted or became If the academy is not the school closest subject to a child arrangements order or to the home of the child, the consultant Map special guardianship order. must set out in detail the wholly exceptional circumstances for attending An adoption order is an order under the academy and the difficulties if the Section 46 of the Adoption and Children child had to attend another school. In Act 2002. A ‘residence order’ or a ‘child assessing these applications advice arrangement order’ is an order settling may be sought from Harrow’s Special Schools the arrangements to be made as to Education Needs Service. the person with whom the child is to live under Section 8 of the Children Act Applications made on social grounds 1989. Section 14A of the Children Act must be accompanied by compelling 1989 defines a ‘special guardianship evidence at the time of application. Apply now order’ as an order appointing one or Social needs claims will only be more individuals to be a child’s special considered where there is involvement guardian (or special guardians). from a social worker. The application will need to be supported with a letter from Medical or social needs of the child a Divisional Director from Children and Except in wholly exceptional Families or a person holding a similar circumstances such requests will only role in another local authority. The be considered for the school closest to director must set out in detail the wholly the home address. The application must exceptional circumstances that in their be supported by written evidence. The view require attendance at the academy supporting evidence should set out the and the difficulties if the child had to particular reasons why the academy attend another school. is the most suitable school and the difficulties that would be caused if the Parent’s can only make an application child had to attend another school. under this criteria (whether for medical or social need) to one school in Harrow. The recommendation for this specific school should demonstrate knowledge Medical reasons relevant to parent(s) of the school in terms of resources and Except in wholly exceptional organisation which deems it essential circumstances such requests will only Pinner High School (continued)

be considered for the school closest to be allocated a place in the school. the home address. Applications will only be considered for the parent(s) with Where twins are concerned and whom the child lives and must be one twin has a Statement of Special accompanied by compelling medical Educational Needs or Education, Health evidence from a hospital Consultant at and Care Plan that names the school the time of application. The letter from the other twin will be treated as having a the hospital consultant must provide sibling link for that academic year. information about the parent’s medical condition, the effects of this condition Parent and why, in view of this, the child This means the parent who has Home needs to attend the academy. If the parental responsibility as defined in the academy is not the closest school to Children Act 1989, or the person in the the home address, the consultant must household who is defined as a parent set out in detail the wholly exceptional for the purposes of Section 576 of circumstances for attending the the Education Act 1996. This could academy and the difficulties if the child include a person who is not a biological Map had to attend another school. parent but who has responsibility for her or him (such as a child’s guardians) but In assessing these applications will not usually include other relatives independent advice will be sought as such as grandparents, aunts, uncles appropriate (e.g. Harrow Association etc unless they have all the rights, of Disabled People or Harrow’s Mental Schools duties, powers and responsibilities and Health Service). authority, which by law a parent of a child has in relation to the child and their Medical claims relevant to parent(s) will property. only be considered for one school and this should be named by the consultant. Notification and Apply now Parent(s) making a medical claim solely on the grounds of the young person’s acceptance of places need to be accompanied on the journey to school will not be allowed. In accordance with the co-ordinated admissions policy, on 1 March 2017 the Sibling Local Authority will make the formal offer Where children live as brother and of a place to parents or carers on behalf sister in the same household they are of the Academy Trust. treated in the same way as siblings for admissions purposes. This includes a The onus is on parents to contact the child’s brother or sister, half brother Local Authority by their specified date or sister, adopted/foster brother or sister, (expected to be around 15 March 2017) step brother or sister living in the same to either accept or decline the offer of a family unit at the same address. It does place. This will in no way affect parents’ not include cousins or other extended right to appeal for a place at another family members who live in the same school. Harrow Council will write to household. In the case of twins, triplets all parents who have not accepted or and other multiple-birth children, if declined an offer giving them a further one child can be offered a place in the seven days. If no response is received a school, other multiple-birth children will further letter will be sent to advise Pinner High School (continued)

that the place has been withdrawn. accordance with the admissions criteria. Unaccepted places will be allocated to Any places that become available will other applicants. be filled in priority order from the waiting list or late applicants. Whenever an Appeals procedure applicant is removed from or added to the waiting list, the list will be reordered Parents can choose to appeal against in accordance with the oversubscription the decision of the academy trust not to criteria. offer their child a place at the academy. Harrow Council administer any In-Year applications admissions appeals on behalf of the Home academy trust. To appeal against the If a parent wants to make an in-year decision not to offer their child a place, application for a child to join the parents must complete the appeal academy they should complete the forms that are available on the Harrow Common Application Form for In-Year Council website or from the Harrow Admissions that is available on the Council Admissions Team (020 8901 Harrow Council admissions website Map 2620). To be considered in the first or from the Harrow Council Admissions round of appeals, the notice of appeal Team (020 8901 2620). There is no must be received by the Council by their Supplementary Information Form for specified date (expected to be around the academy; parents only need to 13 April 2017). complete the Common Application Schools Form. The Common Application Form The appeal will be heard by an should be returned to the Harrow independent appeals panel constituted Council Admissions Team who will then and operated in accordance with the liaise with the schools who are listed on School Admissions Appeals Code. the form and write to the applicants with Parents will receive written notification the result of their application. Apply now of the date and time of their appeal hearing, which they can attend to In-Year admissions will be considered in explain their case. If they wish, parents accordance with the number of places may be accompanied by an adviser or available at the school in the 2017/18 friend. Following the appeal, the Clerk school year and over-subscription to the appeals panel will write to parents criteria outlined above and any places with the decision. that become available will be filled in priority order from the existing waiting Waiting list for the list and any current applications. incoming Year 7 Fair access protocol Parents/carers can ask for their child’s name to be put on a waiting list for As part of the co-ordinated admissions the academy. The waiting list will arrangements with Harrow Council the be maintained by Harrow Council school may accept hard-to-place pupils Admissions Team on behalf of the onto the school roll from time to time in academy trust from the offer date (1 accordance with the In-Year Fair Access March 2017). agreement. The waiting list will give priority in Pinner High School (continued)

Admission of a child out of of their normal age group. the normal age group If the Headteacher refuses a request to consider an application for outside of the child’s normal age range, they will In exceptional circumstances, parents set out the reasons for this refusal. or carers may wish to seek admission to a year group that is not the normal If the Headteacher agrees to the group for a child of that age. If a parent request, if the application would then or carer is considering this they must seek entry into Year 7, the application contact the school for a discussion prior would be processed as part of the to making an application. main admissions process and using Home the over-subscription criteria outlined The Headteacher will consider a request above (if the request was received after and make a decision on the basis of the the closing date for Year 7 entry then circumstances of the case and the best the application would be considered interests of the child concerned. This alongside other late applications). will include consideration of the parent’s Map or carer’s views, the academic, social While parents have a right of appeal and emotional development of the child, against a decision to refuse admission any relevant information provided by to their child, there is no right of appeal medical professionals, and whether they if they have been offered a place but not have previously been educated outside in their preferred year group. Schools

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The Sacred Heart Language College

If you wish to apply to The Sacred Criterion 4 Other “looked after” girls and Heart Language College, there is an girls who have been adopted (or made additional form to be completed in subject to child arrangements orders or addition to the online application form. special guardianship orders) immediately The Diocese of Westminster following having been looked after Supplementary Information Form may be obtained from the school or Criterion 5 Christian girls from committed Christian families whose Home the Local Authority and should be returned, together with a copy of your parents wish them to have a Catholic daughter’s Baptism certificate, to the education and whose application is Admissions Secretary, The Sacred supported by a minister of religion Heart Language College, on or before Monday, 31st October 2016. Criterion 6 Girls from other faiths whose Map parents wish them to be educated according to the religious beliefs and Admission to Year 7 philosophy of the Catholic Church.

The published admission number Criterion 7 Girls whose parents wish (PAN) for the school is 180 girls. The them to be educated according to the Schools Governing Body has sole responsibility religious beliefs and philosophy of the for admissions to this school and Catholic Church. intends to admit 180 girls to Year 7 in September 2017. Priority will always be Criterion 8 Any other girl given to Catholic applicants.

Apply now NOTES Oversubscription criteria Inside of each criterion, priority is to Where there are more applications for those with a sibling attending the school places than the total published admission at the time of admission. number (PAN) of 180 places available, Sibling means a sister to include places will be offered according to the adopted sisters, half sisters or step following order of priority: sisters. A sibling relationship does not apply when the older girl(s) will leave Criterion 1 Catholic “looked-after” before the younger one starts. girls and Catholic girls who have been adopted (or made subject to Looked after child has the same child arrangements orders or special meaning as in S.22 of the Children Act guardianship orders) immediately 1989, and means any child in the care following having been looked after of a local authority or provided with accommodation by them (e.g. children Criterion 2 Baptised Catholic girls with with foster parents at the time of making a Certificate of Catholic Practice an application to the school).

Criterion 3 Other baptised Catholic girls Adopted An adopted child is a child Sacred Heart (continued)

who is adopted under the terms of the Conference of and Wales. Adoption and Children Act 2002 s.46 Committed Christians means those (adoption orders). whose commitment is evidenced by their Minister. Child arrangements order A child arrangements order is an order under Christian for the purposes of this the terms of the Children Act 1989 s.8 policy, means a member of one of which defines it as an order settling the Churches affiliated to ‘Churches the arrangements to be made as to the Together in Britain and Ireland’. person with whom the child is to live. Parent means the adult or adults with legal responsibility for the child. Home Special Guardianship Order A special guardianship order is an order under the terms of the Children Act 1989 s.14A Distance where the offer of places to all which defines it as an order appointing applicants in any of the categories listed one or more individuals to be a child’s above would lead to over subscription, special guardian(s). places up to the published admission Map number of 180 will be offered to those Catholic means a member of a church in living nearest to the school. Each full communion with the See of Rome. This address is geo-coded and distance is includes the Eastern Catholic Churches. measured by Harrow Local Authority in a straight line from the home to the This will normally be evidenced for a girl centre point of the school. In cases Schools by a certificate of baptism in a Catholic where applicants live equidistant from church or a certificate of reception into the school and places cannot be the full communion of the Catholic offered to both girls, random allocation Church. For the purposes of this policy by lottery in the presence of an it also includes a “looked after” girl independent witness will be used. Apply now who is in the process of adoption by a Residential/Home This must be the “Catholic family”. address where the girl lives for more than 50% of the school week and they Practising Catholic families means must be living there on the closing date a Catholic child from a practising for receipt of applications. Confirmation Catholic family where this practice of address will be required. is verified by a Certificate of Catholic Practice from a Catholic priest in the standard format laid down by the Exceptional Need Diocese. The Governing Body will give top ‘Family’ includes the Catholic or priority, after the appropriate category of Catholics who have legal responsibility looked-after children, to an application for the girl. where compelling evidence is provided at the time of application, from an Certificate of Catholic Practice means appropriate professional such as a a certificate given by the family’s parish doctor, priest or social worker, of an priest (or the priest in charge of the exceptional social, medical, pastoral or church which the family attends) in other need of the child, which can only the form laid down by the Bishop’s be met at this school. Sacred Heart (continued)

Multiple Births cannot be offered at this time then you may ask us for the reasons and you will The Governing Body does not give be informed of your right of appeal. priority under its admission criteria You will be offered the opportunity of for twins, triplets or other multiple being placed on a waiting list. This applications from one family for the waiting list will be maintained by the same year group. If there are insufficient governing body in the order of the places available and one twin/sibling oversubscription criteria and not in is offered the last place, the Governing the order in which the applications are Body will agree to exceed the published received. admission number and admit the Names are removed from the list at the Home additional girl(s). end of each academic year. When a Where a girl is admitted according place becomes available the governing to Criteria 3 to 8 parents are advised body will decide who is at the top of the that any future siblings are unlikely to list and inform parents whether or not a get a place as the school is usually place is to be offered. Map oversubscribed with applicants in criteria 1 and 2. Girls educated out of chronological age group Pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHC) Application may be made for a girl to Schools be educated out of her age group i.e. The admission of girls with an a 12 year old being admitted to Year 7, Education, Health and Care Plan (EHC) or any girl admitted in-year to the year is dealt with by a completely separate below their chronological age group. procedure. Details of this separate The applicant should write to the Chair of Governors at the time of application Apply now procedure are set out in the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice. If requesting that the girl be admitted out your child has an EHC plan you must of her chronological age group. contact your local authority SEN officer. Girls with an EHC Plan naming this Change of Details school will be admitted. If any of the details on your form change In-Year Admissions between the date of application and the receipt of the letter of offer or refusal, In-year applications are made directly you must inform the school immediately. to the school. If a place is available and If misleading information is given there is no waiting list then the Local or allowed to remain on the form, Authority will be informed and the girl governors reserve the right to withdraw will be admitted. the place, even if the girls has already started at the school. If more applications are received than there are places available then Fair Access applications will be ranked by the governing body in accordance with The School is committed to taking its the oversubscription criteria. If a place fair share of girls who are vulnerable Sacred Heart (continued)

and/or hard to place, as set out in Late applicants will then be placed at locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, the bottom of the relevant category, outside the normal admissions round according to the admissions criteria. the governing body is empowered to THIS MAY RESULT IN A LOSS OF AN give absolute priority to a girl where OFFER OF A PLACE. admission is requested under any local protocol that has been agreed by Applications for criterion 1 must be both the Diocese and the governing accompanied by written proof of body for the current school year. The the girl’s status from the appropriate governing body has this power even authority. Those wishing to be when admitting the girl would mean considered under criterion 2 or 3 should also provide the school with a copy Home exceeding the published admission number. of the girl’s baptismal certificate. If the certificate is not available, applicants should indicate in writing the reasons Applications to Year 7 for this being the case. Those applying under criterion 2 should obtain a Please note, there are two application Map Certificate of Catholic Practice from the forms: school, parish, or diocesan website, fill in the top part and ask their parish priest i. The e-admissions form (formerly to sign it. The priest will not sign the called the Common Application Form). form if he does not know the family. All completed e-application forms Schools should be submitted, together with It is essential that all relevant details a copy of proof of your daughter’s are sent in at the time of application age and proof of your address, to so that the criteria for admission may the Admissions Service of your local be applied fairly in the event of any borough, as directed, on or before change of circumstances (e.g. a change Monday 31 October 2016. of address, reception into the church, Apply now baptism etc.) the school must be ii. The School’s Supplementary notified immediately. Information Form. Applicants applying under criteria 1-7 should complete our school’s Supplementary Information If a place is offered on the basis of misleading or out of Form. This may be obtained from the date information, the governors school or the Local Authority and should reserve the right to withdraw the be returned, together with a copy of offer of the place even if the girl your daughter’s Baptism certificate has already started at the school. (if applicable), to the Admissions Secretary, The Sacred Heart Language College, on or before Monday 31 October 2016. The local authority will write to you on behalf of the governing body with All applications received after that date the outcome of your application on 1 will be classified as “LATE”. This means March 2017 and the information will that these applications will not be also be available on line. You should processed until after all administrative indicate your acceptance of the place procedures have been completed. by midday, 13 March 2017. Parents Sacred Heart (continued)

need to accept online by 15 March. Information concerning the Appeals Appeals Procedure will be sent out to those who are unsuccessful in obtaining a place. Unsuccessful applicants who The school maintains a waiting list, wish to appeal should do so, ranked according to the published stating the grounds for appeal, criteria, and places will be offered as in writing, to: and when vacancies occur. The Clerk to the Governors The waiting list will remain open until The Sacred Heart Language Wednesday 25 July 2018. If you wish College,186 High Street, Home your child’s name to stay on the waiting , Middlesex, HA3 7AY list you must apply to the school in writing before that date. Please note: The closing date for the receipt of any appeals: Friday 21 April 2017.

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Salvatorian College

The Salvatorian College is a boys’ even if this exceeds the planned Voluntary Aided Catholic Academy in admission number. the trusteeship of the Society of the Divine Saviour. Located in the London Separate application procedures apply Borough of Harrow, its prime purpose is to boys with an Educational Health & the education of Catholic boys aged 11- Care (EHC) Plan. 16 in Harrow and the surrounding area. Home As a Catholic school, we aim to provide Oversubscription criteria a Catholic education for all our pupils. Where there are more applications than At a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine the number of places available, places and practice permeate every aspect of will be offered according to the following the school’s activity. It is essential that order of priority: Map the Catholic character of the school’s education is fully supported by all 1. Catholic looked after boys and families in the school. All applicants Catholic boys who have been are therefore expected to give their full, adopted or made subject to child unreserved and positive support for the arrangements orders or special aims and ethos of the school. Schools guardianship orders, immediately after having been looked after. The published admission number (PAN) for the school is 150 children. The 2. Other Practising Catholic boys. Governing Body has sole responsibility for admissions and will admit a 3. Other baptised Catholic boys. Apply now maximum of 150 boys to Year 7 in September 2017. When there are more 4. Other looked after boys and other than 150 applications, places will be boys who have been adopted or offered according to the following order made subject to child arrangements of priority: orders or special guardianship orders, immediately after having The Governors will give top priority been looked after. within a category to any applicant whose son has an exceptional 5. Boys from Christian denominations educational, social or medical need who worship regularly as evidenced which can only be met at this school by their minister. and for which compelling professional evidence is supplied at the time of 6. Boys from other faiths who worship application. regularly as evidenced by their minister or religious leader. Applications from boys of multiple births, e.g. twins, triplets, etc. In cases 7. Any other applicants. where only one place is available and twins/triplets tie for the last available Sibling priority will be given within each place, then all will be offered a place category, where an older brother will be Salvatorian College (continued)

attending the school at the same time or paragraph on Applications). If a place is at the date of admission. available and there is no waiting list then the child will be offered a place. If more Where the offer of places to all the applications are received than there are applicants in a category would lead to places available then applications will oversubscription, places will be offered be ranked by the governing body in on the basis of proximity to the school accordance with the oversubscription as measured in a straight line from the criteria. If a place cannot be offered at address point of a home to the centre the time of application the reasons for point of the school site. Distance is refusal will be supplied and information calculated by the London Borough of will be provided about the right of Home Harrow using a computerised mapping appeal. The opportunity of being placed system based on Ordnance Survey and on a waiting list will be offered. address data. In cases where applicants live equidistant from the preferred Fair access protocols school and places cannot be offered to both children, the available place will The school is committed to taking its be allocated using a random computer Map fair share of children who are vulnerable selection. and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, Admission of children outside outside the normal admissions round their normal age group the governing body is empowered to Schools give priority to a Catholic child where Any application for a child to be admission is requested under any educated out of his age group will local protocol that has been agreed by be considered by governors on an both the Diocese and the governing individual basis and will only be body for the current school year. The granted in exceptional circumstances. governing body has this power even Apply now Parents should write to the Chair when admitting the child would mean of Governors on or before the date exceeding the published admission of application, giving reasons and number. providing compelling professional evidence. If governors give permission NOTES for the child to be educated out of his normal age group, parents must submit Catholic means baptised or received an application in the normal way. This into the Catholic Church as evidenced application will be treated in the same by a baptismal certificate or certificate way as all other applications and there of reception into the Church, a member is no guarantee that an offer will be of a Church in full communion with the made. See of Rome. This includes the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be In-year admissions evidenced by a Certificate of Baptism in a Catholic church or a Certificate of Applications for In-Year admissions Reception into the full communion of the are made directly to the school using Catholic Church. a common application form. (For information on how to apply, see the Looked after child means a child in the Salvatorian College (continued)

care of the Local Authority or provided he/she resides there for more than 50% with accommodation by them, e.g. of the school week. Catholic children with foster parents (see Section 22 of the Children’s Act Home Address A child is deemed to be 1989). resident at a particular address when he/she resides there for more than 50% Brother means full, half or step living at of the school week. the same address. Applications Practising Catholic means a Catholic child from a Practising Catholic family Please note, there are three* forms to Home where this practice is verified by a be completed: Certificate of Catholic Practice from a Catholic priest in the standard format 1. The Common Application Form. laid down by the Diocese. A practising 2. The Diocese of Westminster Catholic means a person who attends a Supplementary Information Form (SIF) mass on a weekly basis. 3. The Certificate of Catholic Practice Map (CCP) Form – *Please note, that this Adopted One who has been adopted form should only be completed by those from care and whose parents can give who wish to be considered as practising evidence of this status. Catholics.

Child Arrangements Order A Child Schools The Common Application Form Arrangements order is an order under You will need to apply via your local the terms of the Children Act 1989 s.8 authority, on or before 31st October settling the arrangements to be made as 2016 – see your local authority’s website to the person with whom the child is to for details about how applications are live. Children ‘looked after’ immediately processed. Harrow Council uses the Apply now before the order is made qualify in this eAdmissions website where you can category. register and apply online.

Special Guardianship Order A special The Diocese of Westminster guardianship order is an order under Supplementary Information Form (SIF) the terms of the Children Act 1989 s.14A This may be obtained directly from the which defines it as an order appointing school or from the school’s website one or more individuals to be a child’s www.salvatoriancollege.com as well as special guardian(s). from your local authority’s website and should be returned to the Admissions Parent Means the adult or adults with Officer, Salvatorian College, High Road, legal responsibility for the child. , Middlesex, HA3 5DY on or before October 2016. Christian For the purposes of this policy, means a member of one of Certificate of Catholic Practice Form the Churches affiliated to ‘Churches For those who wish to be considered as Together in Britain and Ireland’. a practicing Catholics, the Certificate of Catholic Practice (CCP) form is available Resident A child is deemed to be from the Diocesan website resident at a particular address when www.rcdow.org.uk/education as well as Salvatorian College (continued)

the Salvatorian College website procedure. Details of this separate www.salvatoriancollege.com . procedure are set out in the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice. If The completed forms should be your child has an EHC plan you must returned together with the Diocese of contact your local authority SEN officer. Westminster Supplementary Information Children with this school named in their Form (SIF) and any supporting EHC Plan will be admitted to the school. documents to the Admissions Officer at Salvatorian College on or before 31 October 2016. Unsuccessful applicants

Unsuccessful applicants who wish to Home All applications received after that date will be classified as “LATE”. This means appeal should do so to: that these applications will not be processed until after the offer date. The Clerk to the Governors, It is essential that all relevant details Salvatorian College, High Road, are sent in at the time of application Harrow Weald, Middlesex HA3 5DY Map so that the criteria for admission may stating the grounds for appeal, in writing be applied fairly. If not, the chance of a on the appropriate form available from place may be jeopardised. the school.

The Governors’ Admissions Committee In the case of over-subscription, a waiting list will be drawn up for parents Schools will meet in January to consider all applications. The Local Authority will who wish their son to be included on write to all applicants to let them know this. This waiting list will be maintained their decision on 1 March, 2017. by the governing body in the order of the oversubscription criteria and not in If you are offered a place, the onus the order in which the applications are Apply now is on the applicant to accept on received. E-admissions by Wednesday, 15 March, 2017 to confirm whether the Names are removed from the list at the place is accepted. Unaccepted places end of each academic year. When a will be allocated to applicants on the place becomes available the governing waiting list. body will decide who is at the top of the list and make an offer.

Pupils with an Educational Admission to the waiting list will be in Health & Care (EHC) Plan accordance with the Admissions Criteria.

The admission of pupils with an Education Health and Care (EHC) Plan Please note: Closing date for the is dealt with by a completely separate receipt of any appeals: 21 April 2017. Admissions arrangements

Whitmore High School

If there are fewer applicants than there ‘special guardianship order’ as an order are places available for Year 7 entry in appointing one or more individuals to September 2017, everyone who applies be a child’s special guardian (or special will be offered a place. guardians).

Children who have an Education, Health b) Children for whom it is essential to be and Care Plan or Statement of Special admitted to a specific school because Educational Needs which names the of special circumstances to do with Home Academy will be allocated a place at significant medical needs and or social the Academy in accordance with their needs. statutory entitlement. This criterion relates to the child’s Oversubscription criteria medical and or social needs. Except Map in wholly exceptional circumstances If there are more applicants than there such requests will only be considered are places available after the admission for the school closest to the home of students with an EHC Plan or address. The application must be Statement of SEN naming the academy, supported by written evidence. The supporting evidence should set out School the following criteria will be considered, in order, to determine who will be the particular reasons why the school offered a place: in question is the most suitable and the difficulties that would be caused if a) A ‘looked after child’ or a child the child had to attend another school. who was previously looked after but The recommendation for this specific Apply now immediately after being looked after school should demonstrate knowledge became subject to an adoption, child of the school in terms of resources and arrangements, or special guardianship organisation which deems it essential order. that the named pupil be admitted to the A looked after child is a child who is (a) specific school. The Admission authority in the care of a local authority, or (b) cannot give higher priority to children being provided with accommodation under this criterion if the required by a local authority in the exercise of documents have not been produced. their social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Medical Needs Children Act 1989).” Applications made on medical grounds An adoption order is an order under must be accompanied by compelling Section 46 of the Adoption and Children medical evidence from a hospital Act 2002. A ‘child arrangements order’ Consultant at the time of application. is an order settling the arrangements to The letter from the hospital consultant be made as to the person with whom must provide information about the the child is to live under Section 8 of child’s medical condition, the effects of the Children Act 1989. Section 14A this condition and why, in view of this, of the Children Act 1989 defines a the child needs to attend the parent’s Whitmore High School (continued)

preferred school. for the parent(s) with whom the child If the school is not the closest to home, lives and must be accompanied by the consultant must set out in detail the compelling medical evidence from wholly exceptional circumstances for a hospital consultant at the time of attending this school and the difficulties application. The letter from the hospital if the child had to attend another school. consultant must provide information Medical claims will only be considered about the parent’s medical condition, for one school and this should be the effects of this condition and why, in named by the consultant. view of this, the child needs to attend In assessing these applications, advice the parent’s preferred school. will be sought from Harrow’s Special Education Needs Assessment and Home If the school is not the closest to home, Review Service (SENARS). the consultant must set out in detail the wholly exceptional circumstances for Social Needs attending this school and the difficulties if the child had to attend another school. Applications made on social grounds In assessing these applications, Map must be accompanied by compelling independent advice will be sought as evidence at the time of application. appropriate (e.g. Harrow Association Social needs claims will be considered of Disabled People or Harrow’s Mental where there is involvement from a social Health Service). worker. The application will need to be Medical claims will only be considered for one school and this should be School supported with a letter from a Harrow Council Divisional Director for Children named by the consultant. and Families or a person holding a Parent(s) making a medical claim solely similar role in another local authority. on the grounds of the young person’s need to be accompanied on the journey The director must set out in detail the to school will not be allowed. Apply now wholly exceptional circumstances for attending this school and the difficulties d) Sibling link (older brothers or sisters) if the child had to attend another school. Children with a brother or sister attending the school at the time of Social claims will only be considered for application. The sibling link does not one school and this should be named apply to students who are attending the in the letter from a Harrow Council sixth form in September 2017. Divisional Director for Children and Families or a person holding a similar e) Distance from home to school role in another local authority. Children living nearest to the school measured in a straight line from home to c) Medical reasons relevant to parent(s) school. This must be the address where Parent(s) with special medical reasons parent and child normally live and they for seeking a place for their child must be living there on the closing date at their preferred school. Except in for receipt of applications. wholly exceptional circumstances such requests will only be considered for the Tie Breaker school closest to the home address. If more applications are received in Applications will only be considered any one criterion than there are places Whitmore High School (continued)

available the oversubscription criteria a school over its PAN (Published will be re-applied followed by the ‘tie- Admissions Number). breaker’ of distance, measured in a straight line. Where twins are concerned and one twin has a Statement of Special In cases where applicants live Educational Needs or Educational, equidistant from the preferred school Health and Care Plan that names a and places cannot be offered to both specific school, the other twin will be children, the available place will be treated as having a sibling link for that allocated using a random computer academic year. selection. Home In-Year Admissions Twins, triplets and multiple-birth children If you wish to apply for a place at a Harrow school during the school In the case of twins, triplets and other year, either because you have just multiple-birth children, if one child moved into the area, or your child Map can be offered a place in a preferred wishes to transfer from one school school, other multiple-birth children to another, please visit the School will automatically be allocated a place Admissions website for further in the same school, even if this takes information and apply online.

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High Performing Specialist Arts Avanti Houseschool status Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex Beaulieu Drive,HA3 6NR Pinner HA5 1NB & 0208 249Tel: 6830 020 8428 4330 * [email protected]: 020 8428 9286 Email: [email protected]. 8 www.avanti.org.uk/avantihouseuk Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. Principal:uk Mr Mark Bennison

places Ages GENDER TYPE Travel map DfE NO: 310 4000 180 4-18 Mixed Free school

Based, temporarily, at the former Heathfield We ensure that Avanti House is a truly School site in Pinner for the next two years, inclusive school where the values, enshrined Avanti House is a free school for boys and in our vision statement are evident not just girls aged 4 to 18, set up in response to in our policies but also in our daily practice; parental demand. that they can be witnessed in the curriculum we offer and in the relationships which we Home Avanti House is an inclusive Hindu faith- develop with one another. designated school, with an ethos rooted in the Krishna Chaitanya (Vaishnavist) tradition The Ofsted report of July 2014 cited truly of Hinduism. Whilst celebrating its Hindu outstanding behaviour rooted in excellent faith designation, the school nevertheless relationships, in a safe and deeply caring it prides itself on its multicultural and multi- community. Map ethnic student intake, who along with staff, arrive from a variety of faith and no-faith Curriculum backgrounds. Avanti House School offers a broad, balanced Avanti House will eventually be the largest and challenging curriculum centred on the free school in the country when it reaches its academic rigour of the English Baccalaureate capacity of nearly 1700 pupils in September Admissions with specialisms in mathematics and 2018. The has performing arts. Targets are set for the very set aside a large budget for a new and highest achievement across the curriculum permanent school building which should be and current students are already on target to ready to house the secondary school in 2018. exceed them. Now with full, agreed planning-permission, Open the agreed site is at Whitchurch playing fields, In Year Seven, pupils have the chance to day off Wemborough Road. Applications to attend study French and Spanish and Sanskrit. the secondary phase are based around this Yoga and meditation are taught within intended, permanent site in Stanmore. The drama lessons. The school, via its bespoke Primary phase (ages 4 to 11) has now moved philosophy, religion and ethics programme to its final location in Common Road at the (PRE), encourages students to understand former Peterborough St. Margaret’s school and appreciate the value of self, of others, Apply now site. of family and community and of the environment. Ethos The PRE programme also looks to nurture Avanti House is founded on three pillars critical thinking and reflection around – Educational Excellence, Character meaning in life, their own understanding Formation and Spiritual Insight. of and relationship with God and how they might live an ethically and morally sound life. four Houses. While taught in year groups, The curriculum as a whole is designed each student belongs to a House which to nurture highly aspirational, confident, contains pupils of mixed age groups so that independent, expert learners who both the younger can learn from the older and realise fully their academic potential whilst vice-versa. This also provides a structure also developing the attributes of social for inter-house competitions and leadership responsibility and enterprise alongside other opportunities where pupils can take on skills. This all ensures that our students additional responsibilities, regardless of will go on to thrive as young adults with all their age. The school has a well-staffed and the challenges that they will face in a fast- experienced inclusion department to cater changing 21st century global economy and for the needs of all and also a very active community. The entire curriculum is also Student Council which feeds back regularly underpinned by the development of six key to staff and actively influences school-policy values: Respect, Courage, Empathy, Integrity, Home on such matters as behaviour, homework and Self-discipline and Gratitude. Behaviour at catering. Avanti House School is outstanding; our existing students are fiercely proud of their school. Beyond the formal Curriculum The school currently operates a six period day (each of one hour) with an hour after Avanti House offers a wide variety of after- Map school most evenings for enrichment clubs. school clubs on mid-week evenings, Our early start at 8 a.m. (Breakfast Club from including: 7.30am) and vegetarian cuisine ensures we chess, choir, dance, art, drama, netball, get the best out of our pupils while still leaving , , ultimate frisbee, gifted and time at the end of the day for our varied extra- talented, magazine, and science clubs to curricular programme. name a few. Music tuition is available across a range of Admissions Staffing instruments and amongst the many extra- curricular events this year have been the Avanti House benefits from a highly following:• All You Need is Love performance dedicated and professional staff who are on the Southbank, Arts Week, museum trip, entirely committed to the academic, spiritual “Stomp” visit, “Winter’s Tale”, “Phantom”, Open and emotional needs of the children. Their Gothic Tales, mask-making, tap dancing, day approach to teaching is characterised by: Lord’s Cricket, drumming workshop, “Avanti’s Got Talent” and an in-house production of • High expectations which encourage “Oliver!”. achievement • An understanding of the individual needs In conclusion of each child be they gifted and talented Apply now or having a special educational need. Avanti House offers a well-rounded education • An appreciation of the benefits of to all its pupils, identifying strengths and collaborative learning, supported by talents and developing that potential to high quality ICT and bespoke resources, the full, with academic achievement and and of learning beyond the classroom – character development side-by-side. Young including trips and visits. people will leave Avanti House well qualified, confident, creative and characterful. Quality Assurance, Student Support and Student Voice More details are available on our website and parents are encouraged to visit the Every parent wants to know that their child is school in session to meet our very happy well-known and well-looked after at school community, sample the unique family and at Avanti House our OFSTED-endorsed atmosphere and witness for themselves systems ensure just that. Each child is the excellent teaching and strong work allocated a tutor and is placed in one of our ethic. BentleyHatch End Wood HighHigh SchoolSchool

A Mathematics,High Computing, Performing Science Specialist College Arts and National Teachingschool status School Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex HA3 6NR Bridges Road,Tel: 020 Stanmore, 8428 4330 Middlesex HA7Fax: 020 3NA 8428 9286 & 020 8954Email: 3623 [email protected]. uk 7 020 8954Website: 0427 www.hatchend.harrow.sch. 8 www.bentleywood.harrow.sch.ukuk Headteacher: Ms Janice Howkins places Ages GENDER TYPE Travel DfE NO: 310 4032 210 11-18 Girls Academy map

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Our Ethos Our Curriculum

Home “The school’s motto, ‘learning today: At Bentley Wood we provide a rich and leading tomorrow’ permeates through relevant personalised curriculum that engages, students’ attitudes and the commitment motivates and challenges girls to achieve their of staff: all are united in working best. All students in Year 7 and 8 follow an together. The school has successfully enhanced model of the National Curriculum. The full range of GCSE courses are created an inclusive atmosphere where Map offered for students to study. The vast mutual respect exists.” – Ofsted majority of our students follow the English Baccalaureate, which is enhanced by other We are very proud of Bentley Wood. It is a GCSE options. Homework is an important truly outstanding, inclusive academy girls’ part of studying and is set daily from Year 7 school which values each of the students through to Year 13. Admissions equally and recognises their individual gifts and talents. The school has an outstanding Our curriculum is underpinned by: record of academic excellence. This is • outstanding teaching and support staff; achieved through the highest expectations, • the highest expectations of students; together with inspirational teaching and • extensive use of IT in our learning and learning experiences. There is a strong teaching in school and at home; Open sense of pride with the girls and staff • a coherent approach to personal day showing great commitment to the school. development where we care about every Our teaching and support staff are of the child; highest calibre. We all share the vision • excellent provision for the most able of achieving our personal best and are students. committed to working hard. Apply now The school’s excellent GCSE examination Pastoral Curriculum and Student success has been recognised by Ofsted Support and in the Government’s Performance Tables with both sources confirming that Pastoral care commences before girls the school adds exceptional value to join Bentley Wood. Parents/carers have students’ achievement. individual meetings to establish our close family partnership. During the summer Digital, Engineering, Numeracy and all students attend an induction day. On Learning Leaders. induction day girls meet their tutors who care for them on a daily basis and stays Our Facilities with them as they progress up the school. The pastoral team ensures that each Bentley Wood is set in a unique environment student’s academic progress, attendance, in Harrow, and its facilities, indoors and punctuality and overall development are outdoors, are acknowledged as superb: monitored very closely. • A brand new state-of-the-art school Integral to our pastoral and academic building with 13 additional classrooms support is: • 27 acres of woodland, tennis courts, hockey fields and athletics track; Home • our close liaison with primary schools; • A brand new sports hall with • regular consultation with parents/family outstanding facilities members; • 8 new science laboratories • detailed assessments and reports; • New outstanding library facilities • parents’ information evenings; • 7 new IT suites plus Apple Mac facilities • support for students with additional in music, art, technology, health and Map learning needs; social care as well as iPads for students • active student voice through school • A modern Sixth Form building council and their committees and our • Purpose-built drama and dance studio student leaders. • Fully refurbished Technology suites.

Wider Interests Admissions My daughter wears a constant smile since moving “Students’ contributions to the to Bentley Wood High School. school and community are truly ‘ Her self-confidence, personality exceptional.” – Ofsted and academic abilities have improved so much. The staff Open At Bentley Wood, students extend their have very high aspirations for day learning and personal development through a wide and exciting range of extra-curricular her and are all fully committed in activities including: ensuring she succeeds in life.” – Year 9 parent. • Duke of Edinburgh programme; • visits abroad to Spain, France and Apply now Germany; • an extensive range of sporting activities Conclusion including; tennis, football, aerobics, athletics, netball, and dance; “Students’ behaviour around the • annual drama productions and school and their attitudes to learning showcases; in lessons are exemplary.” – Ofsted • concerts of music and dance; • visits to art galleries, museums and Bentley Wood is a flourishing and theatres; successful school in which staff, students, • an extensive range of lunchtime and parents and the school’s Governing Body after school clubs and activities; all work together in partnership to ensure • Breakfast Club daily from 7.40am – that every student is able to fulfil her 8.40am offering a free healthy breakfast; potential in all aspects of school life by • Student Leader groups including achieving her best. HatchCanons End HighHigh School School

At the heartHigh of Performing our community, Specialist with Arts communityschool status at our heart Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex Shaldon RoadHA3 6NR Tel: 020 8428 4330 Fax: 020 8428 9286 HA8 6AN Email: [email protected]. & 020 8951uk 5780 Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. 8 www.canons.harrow.sch.ukuk Headteacher: Mr Keven Bartle places Ages GENDER TYPE Travel DfE NO: 310 4022 210 11-18 Mixed Academy map

“Excellent relationships between as good manners and high standards of staff and students, and amongst behaviour and dress students, underpin the extremely • Use of the latest technologies throughout Home the curriculum harmonious atmosphere” • A site with its own playing fields, a – Ofsted 2013 refurbished gym and fitness suite, excellent sixth form facilities and a master Canons High School is an Outstanding plan for the development of the site to School. We are a vibrant, thriving, successful create the very best teaching spaces. Map and inclusive School that produces • Involvement of students in the running of outstanding academic results. We have been the school through student government designated by the DfE as a ‘High Performing and through a range of student Specialist School’, and have Leading Edge responsibilities status. • Very close relationships with our Our GCSE and A Level results over the past neighbouring primary schools to ensure five years have been very strong, placing continuity of progress between Years 6 Admissions us in the top 5% of schools nationally for and 7 progress, attainment is also above the national average. “All staff mirror the school’s core Our Ofsted inspections in April 2010 and values of trust and integrity” June 2013 judged Canons High to be an – Ofsted 2013 Outstanding School. We also received the Open prestigious Evening Standard Schools Award day 2011 for Outstanding Achievement’. “Teachers generate high expectations by making students feel confident The success of the school has been based that they can be successful. Lessons upon: combine hard work and enjoyment” – Ofsted 2013 • A calm, supportive yet challenging Apply now working atmosphere in which every pupil We aim to recognise the strengths and needs can achieve the best possible academic of every individual member of our school results. community and provide the teaching and • A commitment to personalised learning curriculum that will stretch them to the limit of e.g. challenging the most able their own capabilities and enable everyone to • An emphasis on traditional values such be successful. Our Curriculum the school. In addition to the timetabled curriculum, we encourage students to In Years 7 and 8, students follow an advanced benefit from a variety of opportunities model of the national curriculum plus a Personal, available out of school hours, from choir, to Social and Health Education programme. sport, to homework clubs before and after Students begin Key Stage 4 in Year 9. school. There is a programme of school There is an exciting and varied curriculum trips including trips abroad. We have very in Years 9-11 which includes the opportunity successful sporting teams and a renowned to select from a wide range of GCSE and reputation for high quality music, drama and BTec Courses to allow every pupil to achieve sporting events. excellence. Rigorous monitoring of progress towards personalised stretch targets and regular Sixth form reports to parents/carers allows us to ensure that each pupil is supported and challenged. Home “The sixth form is outstanding because students achieve exceptionally well “Many students describe and are superbly prepared for the the teaching as ‘brilliant’ or next stage of their education and their ‘motivational’.” – Ofsted 2013 future lives” – Ofsted 2013 Focus on the Individual Map Established in 2007 our sixth form is flourishing and highly successful, with the At Canons High, every child really does vast majority of our students going to Further matter. Every student is placed into a tutor or Higher Education. Canons High School is a group when they enter Canons and the tutor member of the Harrow Sixth Form Collegiate acts as an academic and personal mentor to and is working with other Harrow high support their development with us. We keep Admissions schools and colleges to deliver the very best parents fully informed of progress via regular 6th form provision possible. A wide range of reports and parent’s evenings and there is subjects are offered in dedicated sixth form a clear link to individual student targets at buildings. Our £4 million state-of-the-art sixth every stage of their learning. There is a Head form building opened in July 2009. of Year for each year group of 180 pupils, who is responsible for monitoring progress Open and rewarding all those who have achieved Conclusion day well. We have an innovative electronic reward system (Vivo) which turns attainment, effort At Canons we pride ourselves on providing and progress into actual rewards. To add to every individual student with the outstanding this support Relate have helped us establish a learning experience and support they need Peer Listening Scheme. Year 10 and 11 pupils to enjoy school and achieve their academic are trained to listen to younger pupils and help potential. We are proud of our very high Apply now them reach solutions to their problems. standards and we will continue to work hard in partnership with students and their families Performance and standards to reach even more challenging targets for each student that joins us. We believe, above all else, that our students must leave us with the best possible “Canons High School is an academic results and with enhanced skills Outstanding School” for life. We are therefore proud that Canons “Leadership and management are is now nationally recognised as a centre of outstanding” academic excellence. We have continued to “The achievement of pupils is improve our results at GCSE year on year. In outstanding” other words, we move all our pupils further forward than the majority of other schools. “The quality of teaching is outstanding” Wider Activities “The behavior and safety of pupils is outstanding” Extra-curricular activities are a strength of – Ofsted 2013 HarrowHatch End High School School Excellence for all High Performing Specialist Arts school status Gayton Road,Headstone Harrow, Lane, Harrow, Middlesex HA3 6NR Middlesex HA1Tel: 020 2JG 8428 4330 & 020 8861Fax: 7300 020 8428 9286 * [email protected]: [email protected]. uk 8 www.hhsweb.orgWebsite: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. uk Headteacher: Mr Paul Gamble

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We believe in excellence for all

Achievement Classes are energetic, vibrant and tailor- made to meet the needs of individuals Home Harrow High School is an exciting school whatever their level of ability. At Harrow which serves a unique and extremely High School we truly believe in excellence diverse community. Government progress for all. measures consistently places us as one of the top performing schools for “Students are respectful towards each other, their teachers and other adults at Map progress nationally and in 2014 Ofsted said “Progress in English, Maths and the school. The behaviour of students Science is outstanding”. Our Strong is good and attitudes to learning are academic success is a testament to the very positive.” – Ofsted 2014 dedication of our teaching staff, together with the outstanding pastoral support We are proud of our students. The school’s provided by experienced senior staff. strategy to raise achievement is reflected Admissions As a result, students from Harrow High in our continued upward trend in GCSE regularly secure places at some of the best and A level results and the excellent rates universities in the country. We have the of transition to university. Exam results are highest expectations of each other and this only one facet of school life. is reflected in the excellent behaviour and Open attitudes to learning of our young people. Our young people are able to be successful day because of the care, guidance and support Teaching and Learning our school can offer your child. Our students are encouraged to hone their skills in all areas of study. The rich and vibrant “Students are keen to learn and curriculum is taught by qualified teachers there is a good work atmosphere in who personalize lessons to ensure the very Apply now classrooms. Teaching in English and best for each child. Mathematics is outstanding.” – Ofsted 2014 In addition to academic studies, all our students are encouraged to participate in Our dedicated and skilled staff ensures extra-curricular activities from a diverse and excellent teaching and learning for all. wide range on offer to raise their aspirations and prepare them for life beyond school. option choices and students receive 3 Our aim is to ensure that every student reports a year. The student planner and the leaves Harrow High School confident and school website are also good sources of ambitious to succeed. information.

“Teaching is good with some that “There are strong and positive is outstanding. This is having a very relationships between students and positive impact on the attainment the adults who work with them” – and progress of students.” Ofsted 2014 – Ofsted 2014 Sixth Form Behaviour and Safety Home Our students are happy studying in Key We expect good behaviour in school at all Stage 5 knowing they have made the right times and students to be polite, cooperative choice, working in a familiar environment and respectful of their teachers and each with teachers who are always there to help, other. Excellent attendance, punctuality and encourage, support and teach outstanding being prepared for classes is essential. lessons. The majority of our Year 11 stay Map on to join our expanding Sixth Form, with “The teachers were always there for excellent progress rates to university, us when things got hard, offering apprenticeships or employment. support and advice. The friendly environment and people at Harrow “I studied my A-levels at Harrow High School are amazing.”(Learner) High and I got awesome results: Admissions A* in Maths, A in Physics and B in Pastoral System Chemistry. What this means is that I can go to the University of my All year groups are supported by a choice which is Nottingham and Standards and Achievement Leader, an I am going to study Mechanical Engineering”. (Sixth Form learner) Open Assistant Standards and Achievement day Leader, a member of the senior leadership team and form tutors who all ensure that “I am very happy with my results. students are well cared for and provides the They were much better than I link between home and school. On the rare expected and cannot wait to start occasion when children need extra support sixth form at HHS” they are able to speak to their form tutors Apply now or specially trained peer mentors. Students Students are clearly proud of their are recognised through the praise and school and value the great efforts staff reward system are prepared to go to in order to help them. Parents and carers echo this view “Students say they feel very safe in very strongly. Visitors comment on the the school and are extremely well warmth of our children’s welcome and cared for.” – Ofsted 2014 this is instrumental in building students’ confidence and ambition. As a parent/carer you have a vital role in supporting your child in school. Parents are We want to ensure your child is happy at invited in for regular parents’ evenings to school. Do come and visit us to find out discuss academic progress, or to discuss more about Harrow High School. Hatch End End High School School

High PerformingHigh Specialist Performing Arts Specialist school status Arts school status Headstone HeadstoneLane, Harrow, Lane, Harrow, Middlesex HA3 6NR Middlesex HA3Tel: 020 6NR 8428 4330 & 020 8428Fax: 4330 020 8428 9286 Email: [email protected]. 7 020 8428uk 9286 * [email protected]: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. 8 www.hatchend.harrow.sch.ukuk Headteacher: Ms Sue Maguire places Ages GENDER TYPE Travel DfE NO: 310 4020 240 11-18 Mixed Academy map

Outstanding Examination Results: Top 10% of all schools nationally for GCSE and A Level Progress - 2014/15 and 2015/16

Home Examination Results which provides for all abilities, challenging the most able and developing skills and talents for all groups “Students thrive in this school…” – Ofsted of students. We also believe that young people need to be encouraged to be independent and resilient in At Hatch End High School, we care about and are and outside the classroom and not be afraid of making totally committed to each and every student’s academic mistakes and taking risks. Creative and inspirational success and personal well-being. We are proud of teaching and learning is at the heart of everything we do Map being a high performing, inclusive community school as a school. which welcomes all cultures, faiths and beliefs. Our core purpose is to enable all young people to make We play a lead role in the local Teaching School exceptional progress and achieve outstanding outcomes Alliance which places us at the forefront of research and so they are able to live fulfilling and successful lives. development in education. Our core values of co-operation, ambition, respect and excellence underpin everything we do. “The curriculum meets the needs and interests Admissions of students very well. It is flexible and expertly These four values drive everything we do at the school, planned for students to personalise their including our shared code of conduct and school rules programmes so that they are prepared well for the which must be followed at all times so that we can enjoy next stage of their lives.” – Ofsted a calm, orderly and safe learning environment. After a sound foundation in Years 7 and 8, students An Outstanding Curriculum commence GCSE studies at the beginning of Year 9. Open These GCSE pathways are carefully constructed to allow “All groups of students do well…showing the choice and flexibility in a wide range of academic and day school’s strong commitment to ensuring equality applied subjects. of opportunity.” – Ofsted The majority of students will study the English Our students consistently make outstanding progress Baccalaureate comprising English, Maths, Science and a and we are in the top 10% of all schools nationally chosen humanities and Modern Foreign Language. for both GCSE and A Level performance. However, this academic excellence is paralleled by our equal In Years 12 and 13, our flexible and student-centred Apply now commitment to develop the personality, talents and curriculum enables students to choose from an abilities of all our students. We care about our young exceptionally wide range of courses, after which the people as individuals, which means always ensuring a majority of students move successfully on to university. careful balance between challenge and support. “Teachers have strong subject knowledge and Supporting the individual plan lessons well using a range of strategies and resources which make learning engaging for We offer a broad, ambitious and personalised curriculum students.” – Ofsted We recognise that everyone needs to be challenged Sport throughout their school life and we place great emphasis on monitoring individual academic progress with regular We offer an impressive range and diversity of sports, from and robust assessments. Ofsted have praised the way the more traditional, such as football, netball, gymnastics we use information to track each student’s progress and and cricket through to less common disciplines such as put in rapid and effective support where necessary. trampolining and badminton. We have an all-weather Our most able students are given numerous floodlit games area, outdoor table tennis tables, large opportunities to excel, including the opportunity to study outdoor area and two gymnasia, plus use of local venues two modern foreign languages and acquire membership including Cedars Youth & Community Centre and of the nationally renowned Brilliant Club. Bannister Outdoor Sports Centre which are both close in proximity. Our Aspirations Programme provides high quality academic enrichment activities for all students, including Enrichment strong links with Oxbridge and the Russell Group Universities. We believe that all young people should receive the highest quality cultural education both in the classroom Home When a student is identified as having a particular and beyond and offer an extensive range of subsidised, learning need, our large and very experienced Special enrichment activities which provide new experiences and Educational Needs team provides an extensive variety of broaden horizons e.g. Debate Mate, Youth Parliament interventions to support the individual and allow them to and the Production Society. All students in Years 7 and have equal access to the curriculum, enabling them to 8 have enrichment timetabled to reinforce its value and consistently make outstanding progress. importance.

The school also provides the Local Authority Hearing Students are actively encouraged to get involved in a Map Impaired Provision, which is a beacon of best practice. wide range of supplementary activities provided before and after school, at breaktime and out of school hours. “Students have very good relationships with each These will include Sport and the Arts as well as character other and with their teachers showing a positive forming programmes such as Duke of Edinburgh’s attitude to their work.” – Ofsted Award; Young Enterprise and the National Citizenship Service. Investing in the future The Arts are woven into the very “fabric of the building” Admissions Hatch End High School is proud to be able to offer our at Hatch End High School and brought alive in the main students some of the very best bespoke facilities to curriculum areas as well as our extensive enrichment support their learning and development including: offer. The Music Department offers a wide range of opportunities – from individual instrumental lessons to • The Great Hall, the largest theatre space in bands, choirs and many, many concerts. They regularly the borough. perform in the wider community and work closely with • Our beautifully designed Round House is the internationally renowned Harrow Young Musicians Open a fantastic performance studio to complement who are based at the school and offer subsidised day our Performing Arts and Drama curriculum. membership to Hatch End High School students. • Spacious and refurbished science laboratories. Year 7 are given the opportunity to take part in free musical • Specialist art classrooms including a instrument taster sessions and complete the Arts Council photography darkroom and pottery kiln. Arts Award at Bronze Level as an additional qualification. • State of the art recording and radio station. • Separate boys’ and girls’ gyms. Hatch End High School Production Society has been in existence for 30 years and stages a large, West-End- Apply now We have a spacious site set on the edge of the greenbelt. quality, annual musical production open to all students We have already received £5million of government and the community. funding to invest in the site and work is about to start on our multimillion-pound rebuild programme due to Location be completed by 2020. This will culminate in a school building which will compete with the best in London. Hatch End High School is conveniently situated in the north-west of the borough with easy access to central We place great emphasis on harnessing new Harrow as well as Hertfordshire, Brent, Hillingdon and technologies to deliver transformational teaching and Barnet. learning across all areas of the curriculum and have pioneered the use of mobile technology in classrooms. We are well serviced by the local bus routes: the H12, H14, H18 and 182 – the H12 and H14 stopping directly With over 1,200 devices including desktops, tablets outside the school. The journey to central Harrow is a plus specialist multimedia suites for video and music short 10 minutes by bus. Headstone Lane Overground editing, students have extensive access to the very train station, which services the Euston to Watford best equipment. Technology is also used to enhance Overground line, is a five-minute walk away. communication between school and home including our on line homework system (Show my Homework) and Whilst the majority of our students live in Harrow, we our Virtual Learning Environment (Fronter) that provides welcome each year, students from Hertfordshire, Brent, online access to lesson resources at home. Hillingdon and Barnet. HatchNower End Hill HighHigh School School A National Teaching School High Performing Specialist Arts school status Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex George V Avenue,HA3 6NR Pinner, Middlesex HA5Tel: 020 5RP 8428 4330 Fax: 020 8428 9286 & 020 8863Email: 0877 [email protected]. 8 www.nowerhill.harrow.sch.ukuk Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. Headteacher:uk Mr Chris Livesey

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Our Mission Mathematics, 37% of all GCSE grades were A* or A, 81% of all grades were A* to C. Students make excellent progress Nower Hill High School exists to enhance the future life at Nower Hill with 86% meeting or exceeding the national chances and opportunities of all our students, whatever expectation in English and 82% in Mathematics. Nower Hill Home their starting point, by providing a centre of educational also performs considerably above national averages in the excellence at the heart of our community in which all our 6th form. This years Value Added analysis places our AS students can fulfill their potential. We aspire to be a world performance in the top 10% of schools. Whilst A2 results class school developing world class students. show over 90% getting their university of choice.

Our Aim “Students are extremely keen to achieve. They engage quickly in lessons, maintain high levels Our aim is to realise our mission by a relentless focus on of concentration and acquire knowledge rapidly. Map the development of highly literate, articulate, numerate, This, together with teachers’ exceptional planning, resilient and confident students who are equipped with the high expectations, positive relationships and ambition, qualities and qualifications necessary to compete examination focus, contributes significantly to in the 21st century global economy. students’ outstanding academic progress over Our ethos is based on the following values:- time.” (Ofsted May 2012) LEARNING: an enjoyment of learning, knowledge, literacy, articulacy and numeracy, creativity, hard work, teamwork, a Key Stage 3 (Years 7 and 8) can do attitude to overcome adversity. Admissions SELF: self-discipline, excellent behaviour, smartness of The full range of core and foundation subjects are taught appearance, high self-esteem and self-respect, resilience, at KS3. Students study English, Mathematics, Science, personal pride, a healthy lifestyle. RS, Citizenship, ICT, PE, Art, Classical Studies, Design OTHERS: integrity, respect, impeccable manners, Technology, Drama, Geography, History, Music and a kindness, honesty, empathy, the appreciation of diversity. discrete period focusing on Oracy skills. Students will study at least two languages from French, German, and Awards Spanish. Ancient Greek and Mandarin are an additional Open option for some. day • Amongst the top 100 highest performing non- Key Stage 4 (Years 9, 10 and 11) In Year 9 students study selective state schools • Combined Science and Arts the core subjects of English, Mathematics, Science, RS, Specialisms • Specialist Schools and Academies ICT, PE, Citizenship, Work Related Learning and Enterprise Trust High Attaining School • Specialist Schools and Education and are able to choose up to 4 more subjects Academies Trust Value Added School • Healthy School which provides a personalised KS4 course in anything • Partner School with Cambridge University • Partner from 6 up to 10 GCSEs. This means that within a broad School with Middlesex University • Eco School • and balanced programme we can meet the needs of every Artsmark Gold • Ofsted Outstanding • World Class student. We offer over 25 subjects to GCSE. A number of Apply now Schools Quality Mark • The Good Schools Guide students may take up the option of an early entry in Ancient History, Ancient Greek or Astronomy GCSE. Academic Standards 6th Form Nower Hill is well known for its very high academic standards; this is a priority for us and our track record is “The Sixth Form is outstanding.” (Ofsted May 2012) one of success and improvement. In 2016, 74% of our students achieved a Grade C or higher in both English and • Nower Hill has a large and successful 6th Form of some 400 students studying 4 or 5 AS levels in Year Activities include: music, drama, a whole host of sports 12 and 3 or 4 A levels in Year 13 from a range of more teams and clubs, Duke of Edinburgh Award, a variety of than 40 subjects school journeys, educational visits and trips abroad. Our • The ALPS (A Level Performance System) identifies our Library and Learning Resource Centre and our ICT rooms overall 3 year A Level performance trend as excellent are open out of school hours; homework and study clubs • The purpose built Howard Freed 6th Form Centre are also available. offers excellent teaching accommodation, social and study facilities and has a complement of over 100 Excellent Facilities computers • 6th Form private study periods are supervised and We are both proud of our facilities and constantly striving to supported in one of two study centres improve them. They include: • The vast majority of our students progress to Universities including and Cambridge. • Suites of rooms for every subject, enabling specialist teachers to each have their own classroom within a Student Support faculty suite • Every faculty has access to a computer room or set of “Behaviour and safety are outstanding. Students tablets situated in their curriculum area; with subject Home overwhelmingly agree that the school is a safe specific software and broadband access to a filtered place to be” – (Ofsted May 2012) Internet. There are 36 PCs in the Learning Resources Centre and over 100 in the 6th Form Centre • Outstanding support is evident throughout the school. • This coming year all of year 8, 9, 10 and the whole of We have strong systems to provide appropriate the 6th Form will be provided with their own personal support in meeting the needs of individuals and to Learnpad (educational use tablet) for use in school ensure all students feel secure and at home for the entire time they are with us. The • One Deputy Headteacher, Student Support, 3 intention is to extend this to all 1900 students within Map Assistant Headteachers, Student Support, who two years. oversee each stage • Every teacher has a laptop or tablet ; digital projection • Each Year group has 2 Year Co-ordinators who lead and interactive whiteboard technology is available in and manage, in partnership, 150 students each every classroom • Form groups of 25 with continuity of Form Tutors. • 16 modern Science laboratories • Lesson by lesson electronic monitoring of attendance, • A new teaching block for the English and Science homework, equipment, behaviour and effort faculties • Systematic follow up by Year Co-ordinators to address • A very high quality Arts building housing Music, Admissions any concerns in effort, homework or behaviour Dance, Drama and Sports Hall for PE • Close liaison with parents with 3 written reports as well • Superb suite of Visual Arts studios representing as a Parent/Carers’ Consultation meeting each year. an outstanding and unique learning environment, There are 2 opportunities for parents of the new Year 7 incorporating multimedia and photography to meet with staff before Christmas • An extensive Design and Technology centre • Rewards and celebration of achievement incorporating Food, Textiles, Graphics and Design in • Many opportunities for student leadership and wood, metal and plastics responsibility • A large and extensive Library and Learning Resources Open • Attendance Officer Centre equipped with ICT facilities and a silent 6th day • School Counsellor Form study room • School Nurse • Specialist 6th Form areas and rooms • Daffon Centre • A fully resourced Careers Room • Mentoring centre including 6th Form and Year 11 Peer • A modern Dining Centre and 6th Form Refectory Mentors as well as outside mentors • State-of-the-art all-weather field • Award-Winning Careers Education • A fully equipped medical centre • Individual guidance interviews with senior staff at transitions and other points as necessary Apply now • Inclusion Centre The Nower Hill Managed Learning Environment Before and after Nower Hill We have adopted Fronter as our Managed Learning We work very closely with Primary Schools to ensure good Environment and parents may be familiar with this new and academic progression and effective pastoral care. We are innovative way of supporting students in their learning from also proud of our 6th Form destinations. Since the inception Primary Schools. of the 6th Form students have gained university places at a range of universities including Oxford and Cambridge, in a Nower Hill has recently won the award for the most range of courses including medicine and dentistry. successful and innovative implementation of the Fronter MLE across the whole of London. Students will find a wealth “They are exceptionally well prepared for the next of learning materials organised in their on-line classrooms stages of their education and over 90% of all Year across a broad range of subjects designed to organise and 13 students have progressed to Higher Education support the children in their learning and their homework. since the 6th Form opened” (Ofsted May 2012) Parents are supported in monitoring their children’s homework by Show My Homework, an online homework setting system. Extra-Curricular Activities

“The curriculum provides a rich and highly relevant range of opportunities, both in and out of the classroom. Enrichment opportunities are extensive” – (Ofsted May 2012) ParkHatch HighEnd SchoolHigh School A National Teaching School High Performing Specialist Arts school status Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex ThistlecroftHA3 Gardens, 6NR Stanmore, Middlesex HA7Tel: 020 1PL 8428 4330 Fax: 020 8428 9286 & 020 8952Email: 2803 [email protected]. 8 www.parkhighstanmore.org.ukuk Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. Headteacher:uk Mr Emlyn Lumley

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“This is an outstanding school.” – able to make the most of opportunities Ofsted, 2013 as they arise. We value responsibility, Home initiative and enterprise and build these We combine the best of traditional into our curriculum. values with a leading role in important and exciting new developments in We are a very focused school, clear education. about our purposes. We provide a Map stimulating and caring environment Our students come to school to learn so that all members of the school – and it is our job to help them. High students and staff alike - can grow in achievement is our central aim and we knowledge, skills, understanding and expect all our students to try their very character and achieve to the best of best. their ability. We have a strong sense of Admissions purpose. We encourage our students Respect and good manners are and our staff to be enthusiastic about fundamental to our community. their own learning and positive about We have high expectations about the future; to have high self-esteem behaviour, respect, politeness and the and be confident and successful in Open consideration which should be shown what they do; to have understanding day to others. In this we are both supportive and respect for others; to have the and firm. ability and desire to further their own development and contribute to the Our job is to provide the foundations for society in which we live. a successful and happy adult life. Our Apply now students must leave us, not only with Ours is a hugely diverse school good qualifications, but also with a wide population and we actively celebrate range of skills to help them in an ever- the richness that such diversity brings changing world. Learning continues to our everyday experiences. throughout our lives. We want our students to be highly skilled learners, Almost seventy different languages are spoken at home by our students School and National Support School, and, between our students and staff, in recognition of our many areas of virtually every major world religion is excellence, including: our examination represented. We insist on equality of results and the high quality of teaching opportunity and in celebrating success and learning in the school over a of all kinds. number of years; our track record in developing teachers at all stages of their We provide students with the careers, from entering the profession to knowledge and skills they need for senior leadership; and our willingness employment, training and higher to learn with and from other schools, education in today’s technological Home sometimes in more challenging society. circumstances than our own. This was the culmination of progress and We strive to enhance the educational improvement over a number of years. experiences for all of our students through the provision of the highest Park High is proud to have received Map quality teaching and learning the ‘Investor in People’ award on opportunities across the attainment seven occasions between 1996 and range, and the further development of 2013. This shows the commitment our community links. We promote an we have to the training of our staff. inclusive and stimulating educational environment for our students and In 2005 we were presented with the Admissions share our enthusiasm, expertise and ‘Healthy School’ award, which tells resources in an active partnership with parents a lot about our commitment to the community. healthy living for young people. Qualifications, of course, are vitally This was re-awarded in September, Open important and our examination results day speak for themselves. We are also 2009 and once more in 2012. We are proud of all the other ways in which our renowned nationally for our work in students achieve to a high standard, for developing young leaders and have example in the arts and sports. We are been awarded Gold Partner status with passionate about the Arts and have the the Youth Sport Trust for this work. We are also a hub school for their work in Apply now ArtsMark Gold Award for our work in promoting art, music, drama, dance and Health and Well-being. the performing arts. Our examination results are always Park High School was rated either the best, or among the best in ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted in 2009 and, the Borough. In recent years they have then again in 2013, when all areas been our best ever. of the school were recognised as “Outstanding”. We are optimistic we can build on our successes and preserve those aspects We know that that does not mean of the school we value. At the same that we are perfect and we are always time, clearly, there are many challenges striving to improve. In April 2014, we ahead. Complacency has no room at were designated as a National Teaching Park High. PinnerHatch End High SchoolHigh School

High Performing Specialist Arts school status Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex Beaulieu Drive,HA3 6NR Pinner HA5 1NB Tel: 020 8428 4330 Fax: 020 8428 9286 8 www.pinnerhighschool.org.ukEmail: [email protected]. uk Headteacher:Website: Mr www.hatchend.harrow.sch. Chris Woolf uk

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Our Background and the wider community; • continual self-evaluation and Pinner High School will be an improvement; and outstanding, inclusive school for the • preparing students to have the skills whole local community. It will provide and knowledge required to progress Home 180 Year 7 places each year, with a successfully from school. sixth form on site. It will welcome its first Year 7 cohort in September 2016, and Our Curriculum will be situated on the site of the former Heathfield School for Girls. Years 7 and 8 will see students follow a Pinner High School is being set up Map Key Stage 3 curriculum that will prepare by existing successful Harrow high them with the skills and knowledge to schools, and their expertise and succeed in their subsequent GCSE support will ensure Pinner High School studies. Approximately half of the launches successfully. timetable will be for English, Maths, Science, and Modern and Community Admissions Our Ethos Languages.

Pinner High School will be an inclusive, The broad and balanced curriculum community school that is characterised will also include humanities, art, design by: and technology, PE, drama, music, Open ICT / computing, and PRE (philosophy, day • expecting the highest standards religion and ethics). from students and staff; • a calm, friendly, and disciplined There will be structured programmes to environment with positive stretch those with particular strengths in relationships; different subjects and to support those Apply now • a curriculum that excites and who do not achieve Level 4 at Key stretches all students; Stage 2. • knowing every student and supporting their personal All students should come to Pinner development; High School ready to be challenged, • working in partnership with families and confident that the staff will enthuse and stretch them. The Key Stage 4 Our core curriculum and enrichment curriculum will have a core GCSE programme will provide opportunities curriculum in English, Maths, Science, for students to develop and display PE, and PRE, including banding skills such as leadership, resilience, to ensure appropriate stretch and teamwork, tolerance, empathy, challenge. perseverance, to celebrate success and learn from setbacks, and to take pride in Students will then select options themselves and others. depending upon their interests and abilities, which would include EBacc Our Staff options and pre-apprenticeship opportunities. Staff will support students The Governing Body have appointed Home in their choices, including consideration Chris Woolf as the Founding of implications for progression at 18 into Headteacher of Pinner High School. higher education or employment. Chris has a range of experiences as Our Enrichment a school leader through his previous Map programme roles as Vice Principal at The Bushey Academy, and Head of Senior School Happy students are busy students, in at Dulwich College Beijing. He started and out of the classroom. Students his teaching career at Mill Hill County at Pinner High will enjoy a range of High School. Chris is committed to the Admissions academic, sporting, performance and expectation that every student fulfils cultural opportunities to enrich their their potential, and will be recruiting learning and to stretch and challenge colleagues who share this commitment. themselves. Our Community Open Personal development day Pinner High School was set up in Pinner High is committed to developing response to the demand in the local our students from children of 11 into community. As such it is committed to young adults of 18 who have the engaging with parents, residents, local skills and aptitudes – as well as the businesses and groups who can offer Apply now knowledge – to succeed and be positive opportunities to students at Pinner High members of our community. School. HatchRooks End Heath HighCollege School

High Performing Specialist Arts Eastcote Lane,school South status Harrow, Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex Middlesex HA2HA3 6NR 9AH & 020 8422Tel: 4675 020 8428 4330 * [email protected]: 020 8428 9286 Email: [email protected]. 8 www.rooksheath.harrow.sch.ukuk Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. Headteacher:uk Dr John Reavley

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“Rooks Heath is an outstanding school” – Ofsted, July Outstanding Pastoral Care 2012 This is Rooks Heath’s third successive ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted 2012: ‘Rooks Heath has a highly effective Home inspection. pastoral system’ Our Vision Rooks Heath provides a caring atmosphere where children feel secure and comfortable as they settle down As a college we have three main aims; these underpin to focus on learning. We have an experienced Deputy both our philosophy and our programmes of study. Headteacher specifically in charge of Pastoral care, who 1. To develop the potential of every child works closely with the Directors of Learning for each year 2. To achieve excellence group, to support every student. Map 3. To serve the needs of the community Personal Tutors look after the day to day needs of Outstanding Curriculum students and remain with their tutor groups throughout the five years wherever possible. Students build up a Ofsted 2012: ‘The curriculum is a real strength trusting and friendly relationship with their Tutor and their and contributes significantly to the high levels of peers through activities in Registration, Assemblies and achievement seen. The curriculum is designed around Inter-form competitions. the needs of every student and it also supports their Admissions integration into the college if they are mid-term entries. Ofsted 2012: ‘Students’ spiritual, moral, cultural and One year GCSE courses enable wider choice and the social development is promoted through a well- chance for early success.’ organised and effective programme of theme-based assemblies, courses in personal development, religious Rooks Heath is an 11-18 college offering a diverse studies and ethics lessons. Students readily participate curriculum which enables students to undertake a broad in these activities and have good opportunities to reflect spectrum of learning pathways to meet their individual on, and discuss, moral and topical issues. These provide needs and abilities. We are very proud that Rooks Heath strong ethics of dignity, humility and respect in the lives Open is in the top 100 schools nationally. of all students.’ day In Years 7 and 8 students study a wide range of subjects Communication with Parents which provides the basic skills to move into Year 9 where appropriate pathways are chosen. The Upper school We recognise the importance of close, supportive links. curriculum starts in Year 9 with a common core and a ‘stage Contact between teachers and parents is encouraged. not age’ options programme where students complete Every student has a Link Book and parents can log into some courses in one year in extended lesson time. ‘My Child at School’ to monitor attendance, reporting Apply now The college also has an excellent Post 16 provision and homework online by using a secure login. where demand is very high for the comprehensive range of AS, A2 and BTEC courses on offer. Students make Ofsted 2012: ‘My child has made amazing progress.’ good progress and the College consistently performs ‘An exhilarating learning environment.’ ‘Ever-increasing within the top 20% nationally for Post 16 value added grades.’ ‘Constant challenge.’ ‘Lucky to be part of the performance, with 77% of our students achieving A* - C Rooks Heath family.’ grades in the results for summer 2015. Recent College leavers’ destinations include top universities such as We have a vibrant newsletter – ‘Voices’ which is also Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, Warwick and Surrey. available on the college website. Able, Gifted and Talented Teaching and Learning

Student progress is carefully monitored to ensure each As a comprehensive college, we are committed to one reaches their full potential. Where students show promoting equality of opportunity for all and everyone has promise in any area their learning is extended, with the chance to excel. Students’ academic achievements many students being identified as Able, Gifted and take place within a stimulating and caring environment, Talented. These students are provided with a rich and which enables them to develop their individual talents and varied programme of events aimed at developing and skills to the full. Teaching staff are encouraged to plan enhancing their education. and develop creative Schemes of Work to keep students engaged with each topic. Directors of Learning work with Special Educational Needs students to help maintain good attendance and standards of behaviour on a daily basis. Rooks Heath actively promotes and offers an inclusive education for students with a variety of different needs. Ofsted 2012: ‘Students’ achievement is outstanding’. We have excellent relationships with local primary ‘By the time the students leave at the end of Year 11 schools and we offer outstanding transition support the percentage of students gaining five or more good for students coming to us in Year 7. We have an grades at GCSE is above average’ Home experienced SENCO and a dedicated team of Teaching Assistants who work with students in a variety of Ofsted noted that teachers’ subject knowledge, focussed environments to ensure that they receive the support planning, productive relationships and consistently they need to progress. high expectations ensure that students make rapid and sustained progress. Ofsted 2012: Disabled students and those with special educational needs also make outstanding progress. This is Staff due to the systems used to make an early identification of Map needs and then to tailor support where it is most effective.’ Rooks Heath has a caring and supportive staff who are committed to the welfare and development of the English as an Additional Language students in their care.

Students arriving at Rooks Heath with little or no English Ofsted 2012: ‘The college leadership at all levels works attend daily Additional English classes whilst following hard to secure continuous improvement over a sustained a normal timetable with their peers. Their language period... Monitoring and evaluation of students’ progress skills are quickly improved and we are proud of the are carried out rigorously… Teachers plan a good range Admissions achievement that these children make at GCSE and A of activities that sustain students’ interest and develop Level, where their results are in line with, or above, the high-order skills of extended thinking, collaborative group national average. work and independent study.’

Monitoring Student Progress Behaviour: Rewards and Consequences

There are three academic monitoring periods each year ‘Expectations for all students are clear and the Open and three grade assessment sheets, of which one will be a procedures are applied consistently by all staff.’ day full written report. Student reports can also be found on-line Ofsted 2012 using ‘My Child at School’. Directors of Learning monitor the progress of each student in their year group and ensure that The College’s Behaviour for Learning Policy is used intervention takes place where students are not meeting their to effectively maintain a clear system of rewards and targets or when they are exceeding expectations. consequences. Respect for others forms the basis on which we expect students to behave. Extra-Curricular Activities Ofsted 2012: ‘The behaviour of students around the Apply now college is exemplary. They are courteous, considerate There are a variety out-of-hours learning clubs which and cooperate well when moving between lessons and take place before school, at lunchtime and after school. in their social time… Attitudes to learning are usually They include: very positive in lessons and students say that they feel • Breakfast club which is held at 7.30 am - 8.30 am very safe in the college’. daily and offers a healthy breakfast, the use of ICT and library facilities and teacher support. The policy applies a points system to reward good • Competitive team-games which are arranged behaviour, such as effort in class, homework completed between tutor groups, against other schools in to a high standard or sporting achievement. Students Harrow and nationally. respond well and work towards Bronze, Silver or Gold • Book Club Reward Certificates, receiving small prizes when they • A variety of subjects including Maths, English, have accumulated the required number of positive Science, Drama, Geography and many more! points. A special invitation to a Gold Award Celebration • Photographic Club Tea is sent to the parents and carers of all students • Debating Society who achieve a Gold Certificate by the end of each year. • Music Groups including: Stage Band, String Negative points are also accumulated for poor behaviour Ensemble and Steel Pans. and students are challenged and encouraged to adjust their behaviour through a series of consequences, Ofsted 2012: ‘External partnerships are strong. Lead teachers work in partnership with other schools to intervention and restorative justice meetings where develop their practice and share ideas… Close family necessary. liaison ensures that support can be given in the wider aspects of improving attendance, developing language Parents may enquire about student progress or any acquisition and providing additional help to those concerns they may have at: whose circumstances could make them vulnerable.’ [email protected] Hatch End TheHigh Sacred School Heart Language College High Performing Specialist Arts school status 186 High Street,Headstone Wealdstone, Lane, Harrow, Middlesex Middlesex HA3 6NR 7AY Tel: 020 8428 4330 & 020 8863Fax: 9922 020 8428 9286 7 020 8861Email: 5051 [email protected]. uk 8 www.tshlc.harrow.sch.ukWebsite: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. uk Headteacher: Miss Geraldine Higgins

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CONFIDENT IN GOD’S LOVE FOR US, WE COMMIT OURSELVES TO HIS SERVICE

The Sacred Heart Language College of Christ so that the girls live by these has a long tradition of excellence values now and in the years to come. Home in education and has been part of Wealdstone since 1907. Opportunities for a As a single-sex Catholic school, Catholic Education we provide the opportunity for girls Our faith underpins all aspects of our Map to acquire confidence, qualities of leadership and a love of learning and school life. Pupils are empowered to high expectations. The school has respond to God’s call to service. Girls are been a specialist Language College encouraged to make a real contribution since September 2003 and in 2009 to the wider community. As such charity became a Leading Edge School. In work is an important part of our school life. Admissions 2008 and 2014 the school was graded Outstanding by Ofsted and the Diocese We warmly welcome contact between of Westminster. home and school and we work in close co-operation with parents to ensure high standards of behaviour and work, Aims Open so that every girl can make full use of day her God-given talents. Our values and The aims of our College are very clear: beliefs enable us to develop as a strong to enable our pupils to come to a community where all are enabled to deeper knowledge of Christ; to discover achieve. and use their individual gifts and skills; and to be aware of the importance of Apply now integrity, honesty and justice. We Opportunities for develop their knowledge, skills and Academic Success abilities so as to provide an excellent foundation for high The Sacred Heart Language College achievements. We proclaim the Gospel offers a broad and balanced curriculum which inspires every girl to explore her in trampolining and a wide range of individual talents and skills. sporting activities.

Our last OFSTED inspection judged the ‘I’m glad I came here. I came school to be outstanding for the second on my own, but I soon made time. It praised the school, stating: ‘ friends. The minute you come in, it feels like home.’ “It is a place that engenders a – Year 8 Pupil sense of wonder and enthusiasm for learning in a safe and secure environment where all are known, The College currently works with key valued and respected.” partners to provide opportunities for Home gifted and talented pupils and to raise We are a comprehensive community the aspirations of all our girls. responding to the needs of our There are opportunities for everyone students. Teaching provides challenge to shine, to gain confidence and to and support. Every girl is also develop personal and social skills. encouraged to become a self-motivated Map independent learner. Homework is an Opportunities for the future important part of our work ethos. The Study Centre and IT Suite, with their All girls in Year 10 take part in a work excellent facilities, provide scope for related learning programme. The quality research and study. College is proud of its links with industry Admissions and consultants from business and The school has given my commerce are invited into the school. daughter confidence. We are ‘ very happy with the quality of Supported by careers advisers the teaching – because they are every pupil is helped to explore the Open expected to do well, they do.’ possibilities suitable for her interests day – Parent and aptitudes. All pupils progress on to further education or training with most progressing to our partner Sixth Form at Opportunities to Shine St. Dominic’s Sixth Form College.

Apply now Music is a real strength in The Sacred We at The Sacred Heart Language Heart Language College. With the help College look to educate the citizens of of a team of professional musicians, tomorrow and to prepare them to face girls have the opportunity to learn the challenges of their future. to play a wide range of musical instruments which cater for almost every taste. Pupils’ talents and skills are also Children are encouraged to celebrated throughout the year in dance make full use of their natural and drama productions. The school’s ‘ talents.’ high quality PE and sports see our – Parent teams regularly Borough Champions SalvatorianHatch End CollegeHigh School

High Road,High Harrow Performing Weald, Specialist Arts Middlesex HA3school 5DY status Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex & 020 8863HA3 2706 6NR (admin) 7 020 8863Tel: 3435 020 8428 4330 * Fax: 020 8428 9286 [email protected]: [email protected]. 8 www.salvatoriancollege.comuk Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. Headteacher:uk Mr Paul Kassapian

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Inspire • Achieve • Motivate Success • Ambition • Leadership • Vision • Opportunity The values and principles of Salvatorian College are well established and we have a long and proud tradition. Our new mission statement is I AM SALVO, which stands for: Inspire, Achieve, Motivate, Success, Ambition, Leadership, Vision, and Opportunity. These are are the foundations on which the school is developing. They will guide and help future generations of young men to achieve their true potential academically, morally and spiritually

A Tradition of Learning academic success. This is achieved by: Home • Highly committed and dedicated teachers who Founded in 1926, Salvatorian College is well both support and challenge pupils to achieve established as a popular and successful school for academic excellence boys aged 11-16. Strengthened by tradition, innovation • Our Learning Gateway, which allows parents and a clear identity it has the confidence to be forward to view homework, attendance and test/exam looking. Dedicated and enthusiastic teachers are results committed to and raising the achievement of every boy • Regular contact through the use of our Link Book and providing opportunities and support to develop • Regular homework set in line with school policy Map their gift and talents. Our aim is to enable every pupil • Effective monitoring of homework to achieve their potential. • Recording and celebrating individual achievements Catholic Ethos • There are numerous opportunities for the discussion of pupils’ progress through: • Parents’ evenings Gospel values are central to the teaching and • Interim reports principles of the College. In addition to the study of • Written reports Admissions National Curriculum subjects all pupils study Religious • Regular Parent Focus Group meetings Education to GCSE level. There are opportunities for a variety of liturgical experiences through: We focus on pupils’ attitudes to learning and help • Daily worship them to make positive choices. Our behaviour for • Class retreats learning policy is based around rewarding pupils and • School missions building self-confidence and esteem. We place great • Days of recollection Open significance on the quality of relationships between all • Close links with local parishes members of our school community. day Welcome to the community Encouraging responsibility

To ensure a very smooth transition from primary New pupils are warmly welcomed into the college to secondary school new pupils are given ample community on the understanding that they accept opportunity to visit Salvatorian College. In advance our Code of Conduct which encourages: of their entry in September pupils are invited to • Responsible behaviour Apply now participate in ‘Taster Days’, and ‘Induction Day’. These • Self discipline opportunities allow each boy to become a member • Good manners of our community. Our pastoral team also visit all new • Consideration and respect for others pupils in their primary schools. Boys in Year 10 are encouraged to apply to become Academic Success peer workers supporting new pupils. This helps new pupils adapt successfully to life We work with parents to encourage excellence and in secondary school. Boys in Year 11 are also encouraged to accept responsibility as school one of our pupils took 3rd place in the 300m, prefects and as mentors for younger boys. another finished 2nd in the triple jump and We have an active School Council and Junior one of our boys taking first place in the Discus Leadership Team that take responsibility in consulting competition. Well done to all the boys who with their peers on issues such as recycling and participated and contributed to Harrow winning encourage responsibility. both the Junior and the Intermediate Boys’ Our pupils are the school’s ambassadors during competition school and community events. • Overall the boys did very well, with two pupils from the Junior group and one pupil from the Boys are rewarded for: Intermediates qualifying to represent Harrow in • Exemplary attendance the Middlesex Cross Country Championships. • Positive effort One pupil finished 12th and one in 30th position • Good work in the Under15’s. In the team event the Juniors came 2nd overall A Wealth of Opportunity The Harrow School’s Swimming Gala at North There are many exciting and fulfilling opportunities London Collegiate school Home for students at Salvatorian College. We have a well- Year 9 took first place for Salvatorian College with deserved reputation in all areas of sporting excellence Year 7 finishing 3rd and Year 8 taking joint 3rd in their both locally and nationally. year group.

2014-2015 Sports achievements International Success • We have had international success with Joseph Football McGeown becoming World Champion in the Map • Year 11 Football team became the Harrow District world Championship in Irish Dancing, which took Champions place in Montreal Canada • Year 10 Football team qualified to play in the • Gaelic football - three Year 10 pupils were Semi-Finals of the Harrow Schools’ Football selected to play for the Under 18’s team for the League McCarthy Cup at the London County Ground at • Year 9 Football team qualified to play in the semi- Ruislip finals of the Middlesex Cup Football Knockout competition Students at Salvatorian College are actively involved Admissions • Year 7 Football team qualified for the finals of the in developing the life of the school through: Middlesex Football cup • The School Council • Educational Visits throughout the year • The School Buddy System • Under 14s – played at John Lyons and won 4-0, • Collaboration with local primary and secondary qualifying for the finals schools • The organisation of charity collections Rugby • Educational Visits throughout the year Open • Year 7 won 51-0 against Merchant Taylors • A successful work related learning programme day Independent School for Year 10 students • Under 15’s (Year 10) Rugby team – Won the Middlesex We focus on pupils’ attitudes to learning and help • Country Plate Final at Allianz Park them to make positive choices. Our behaviour for • Year 10 Rugby 7s squad won the Middlesex learning policy is based around rewarding pupils and Country Under 15s Plate Tournament at Staines building self-confidence and esteem. We place great RFC,– a great accomplishment for the Y10 Rugby significance on the quality of relationships between all members of our school community. Apply now squad Badminton As a result we have examination results which are well • Year 8 and 9 Badminton team made the cup Final above the national average. in the Borough Competition • Under 16’s won the Harrow School’s Plate Further Education Competition. The boys just missed out on a spot in the Cup final at the Plate Final Salvatorian College has very strong links with St Dominic’s Sixth Form College where the majority of Basketball our pupils continue their further education. We work • Year 9 won against Park HS Harrow School’s in collaboration with St Dominic’s Sixth Form College Basketball League throughout the year to introduce pupils to further • Year 10 won and qualified for the Harrow education and develop new study skills. School’s Semi Progress files are prepared for each pupil in Year 11. Final Harrow Borough Athletics Championships These provide a profile of student achievement when • Year 7’s won in their age group. Year 8/9 progressing to: (Juniors) and Year 10/11 (Intermediate) came • Employment 2nd to Harrow Independent School in the three • Vocational courses competitions • A Levels • 12 of our boys qualified to represent Harrow at • College and University Courses the Middlesex Athletics Championships where WhitefriarsHatch End High School School High Performing Specialist Arts Whitefriars schoolAvenue, status Harrow, Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex HA3 5RQ HA3 6NR & 020 8427Tel: 2080 020 8428 (admin) 4330 * [email protected]: 020 8428 9286 Email: [email protected]. 8 www.whitefriarsschool.netuk Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. Executiveuk Headteacher: Mr Chris Spruce

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* Whitefriars is an all-through school, therefore 60 places will be reserved for children attending Year 6. On 1 March, 90 places will be offered via the co-ordinated process

Introduction curriculum and highly effective teaching will enable us to achieve this vision. ‘Pupils of all abilities achieve exceptionally well’ – OFSTED Curriculum

Home Whitefriars School is a member of the ‘The visionary leadership of the Heathland Whitefriars Federation, a multi- Headteacher has established a school converter academy trust, comprising Heathland and Whitefriars schools in Harrow. culture of high expectations where In recognition of the federation’s outstanding only the best will do for pupils’ leadership (OFSTED 2014) and high – OFSTED performance, Whitefriars is in the top 100 Map nationally, the government has fully funded Our curriculum is broad and balanced. Our us to open a new secondary section to make subject specialist teaching develops mastery Whitefriars a 3 to 19 school. of essential higher level skills in English, Mathematics and Science, a language and We welcomed our first cohort of 60 year 7 humanities as well as providing exciting pupils in September 2015 and will admit 120 learning opportunities in art and design, pupils in September 2016. From September technology, sports, drama and music. We offer Admissions 2017 we will admit 150 pupils each year academic and applied pathways, including growing to be a 750 place secondary section the English Baccalaureate and ensure that our with 150 place sixth form. courses are designed to meet our students’ needs and ambitions. Ethos Throughout the year students consider a range Open of themes in order to provide the broader and ‘The behaviour of pupils is day integrated experience necessary for high levels outstanding. They take on a variety of learning and thinking so that students can of responsibilities diligently and become successful citizens of their local and enthusiastically’ – OFSTED wider communities. Issues relating to these themes are explored in lessons are expanded We are committed to ensuring that every upon via an innovative programme of trips, Apply now student aims high, excels in learning, feels visits and reading. Themes include ‘How does valued as an individual, lives by positive shared the Earth operate?’, ‘What ideas have shaped values, makes a genuine contribution and our world?’ and ‘How can we live morally?’ leaves us ready for higher education and the modern world of work. We provide every student their own iPad to manage their learning, timetable, home learning Our leading edge facilities, innovative and feedback from teachers. Facilities Beyond the curriculum

‘Effective and innovative use of ‘The school values each and every ICT greatly enhances pupil’s pupil’ – OFSTED communication skills and supports learning’ – OFSTED We offer a whole variety of extra-curricular clubs for students to take part in and this programme Whitefriars secondary section has its home in has been designed to provide first class our large new buildings, able to offer a wide enrichment so that students can discover new range of extensive facilities including: interests and opportunities and enhance their • Class leading ICT and library facilities in a skills. dedicated study centre • Dance and drama studios We offer musical opportunities through our large Home • Modern, well equipped science labs orchestra, choirs and ensembles including steel • Specialist facilities for catering, horticulture pans, dohl and guitar clubs. and media production • Large music centre with suite of practice Our sports clubs, including football, netball, rooms cricket, korfball, gymnastics, athletics and • Digital media studios with radio and TV dance enter many competitions every year stations and are greatly enhanced by the excellent new Map • Specialist art and design studios • A large, well equipped sports hall sports hall and outdoor facilities. • A spacious theatre • Attractive sixth form study and common Outdoor pursuits, such as sailing and adventure room areas activities, are a popular feature of our provision • All weather sports pitches and assist with team building and developing • An attractive dining area with all day café confidence. We run a whole range of trips to Admissions • Extensive grounds and green spaces places in the UK and overseas.

Every young person in our schools gets involved Values in drama productions every year. The federation runs its own radio and TV stations. We are Royal ‘The school promotes a strong Horticultural Society Partner Schools, offering a Open values-based education that binds very popular outdoor learning, horticulture and day the community remarkably well’ environmental Science dimension. – OFSTED

Our ethos and curriculum is underpinned by a Conclusion set of positive, shared values which help us to work and learn with one another co-operatively We look forward to working closely with each Apply now and with respect. We learn the importance of and every one of you to find friendship, fun and friendship and unity, and how to approach life success as we build a bright future together. with positivity and hope. With our new state of the art building, experienced and well-qualified staff and groups The whole staff team and all pupils are involved of students and families, we know that we in promoting values and recognising their can give you the best possible start to your positive effects around the school. secondary education. WhitmoreHatch End HighHigh School School and

ScienceHigh Performing Specialist College Arts school status Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex Porlock Avenue,HA3 6NR Harrow, Middlesex HA2Tel: 020 0AD 8428 4330 Fax: 020 8428 9286 & 020 8864Email: 7688 [email protected]. 8 www.whitmore.harrow.sch.ukuk Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. Headteacher:uk Ms Susan Hammond

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Student Success Literature, Double Science, Mathematics and RE). Optional GCSE subject choices include Art (Painting “Students make excellent progress from their & Drawing, Ceramics, Sculpture); Business Studies; Home starting points. The achievement of pupils is Computer Science; Design & Technology (Food, outstanding.” Ofsted 2015 Graphic Products, Resistant Materials, Textiles); Drama; French; German; Spanish; Geography; At Whitmore High School we believe passionately that History; ICT; Media Studies; Music; PE; Sociology every child has unique gifts and talents and deserves the and Triple Science. All students complete a Work best possible education. We have an excellent record of Experience placement in Year 10. academic achievement and regularly obtain the highest Homework is a vital part of education which helps Map rating from the government for our examination results. develop independent learning and is set throughout We value all our students and expect them to reach the the school. A homework timetable is issued to highest standards of work and behaviour in our positive, students and parents and our library runs a daily friendly but disciplined atmosphere. homework club, available for all students.

Curriculum Science College

“The quality of teaching is outstanding. The “Teachers have excellent subject knowledge and Admissions school provides a wide range of subjects which high expectations of what students can achieve.” match the needs and interests of all students – Ofsted 2015 extremely well.” – Ofsted 2015 The school is a Specialist Science College. At Whitmore, every child follows a rich, broad and Resources coming into the school have led to exciting balanced curriculum. High quality teaching inspires developments in Science and Mathematics, including and supports students to develop the confidence, innovative courses at GCSE and A Level, well- Open motivation and self-discipline to succeed. equipped laboratories for inspiring practical lessons, day Teachers provide well resourced lessons with extensive use of computer technology, competitions challenge for the most able and additional support for and special events for our partner schools and the students with specific learning and language needs. wider community. In Year 7 and 8 students follow an enhanced programme of study, which includes the national Pastoral Care curriculum and much more. Our curriculum includes dual languages (French and German), Music, Drama, “Students say they feel happy and safe in the Apply now Ceramics, Sculpture and Computing. A large number school. They value the support that they receive of students also take advantage of the extra music from all staff.” – Ofsted 2015 tuition available. Students in Years 9, 10 and 11 study a range of “There are excellent arrangements to support GCSE subjects that follow the English Baccalaureate. students new to the school. The year team and Excellent exam results are a priority and the majority a range of mentors and support staff liaise with of our students work towards ten GCSEs. All students local primary schools prior to transfer ensuring a study six core GCSEs (English Language and smooth transition and successful start.” – Ofsted We pride ourselves on the quality of our pastoral care, recording facilities which commences before students join Whitmore High • A large study area, common room and seminar School. We have an experienced team, which works rooms for our Sixth Form very closely with primary schools to ease the transfer. • A large, well-equipped sports hall with spectator Our induction programme includes visits to primary seating and superb fitness suite schools, individual interviews for tutors to meet each • An all-weather sports pitch and courts for tennis student and their parents and a day of special activities and netball, all floodlit that takes place at Whitmore High School. • A spacious and attractive dining area Pastoral care is organised through form tutors and • A courtyard where students can relax at break and Heads of Year, who move up the school with the lunchtimes students and get to know them very well as individuals. Academic progress, attendance and punctuality are all Extra-Curricular Activities monitored closely. Parents are welcomed regularly for consultations and Year 8 students have an individual “Students have many opportunities to take part interview to discuss their choice of upper school in a wide range of clubs, extra lessons and courses. In Year 11 they have a guidance interview to educational visits.” Ofsted 2015 Home discuss the range of Sixth Form courses available. Our rewards system recognises hard work and positive A key strength of the school is the extensive variety contributions to school life and certificates and prizes and range of enrichment opportunities, which entice for these achievements are presented in assemblies a high proportion of students to participate. These and at our annual Achievement Evening. A clear Code are very strong in the areas of the creative arts, of Conduct ensures all students are fully aware of our sports, Duke of Edinburgh awards and study support. high standards of behaviour. Emphasis is placed on Flourishing music groups includes brass, wind and students developing self-discipline which results from string ensembles; a samba band, jazz band, steel pans Map the desire to learn and a respect and awareness of the and choir. They perform regularly in concerts both rights and needs of others. within the school, nationally and internationally. Progress is assessed regularly in all subjects and Our Drama productions and showcases are extremely parents receive three reports a year and attend a popular and play to capacity audiences, including at Parents’ Evening. the prestigious Lyric Theatre, London. Each spring We regard the partnership with parents as vital to each there is an Art and Design Exhibition, which is open to student’s development and progress and parents are the public. Our Debating and Maths Challenge Teams encouraged to contact the school with any concerns. continue to achieve success at local and national level. Admissions They are also welcome to raise any issues with the A wide range of sporting activities is open to all and Headteacher at her surgery each Monday after school. includes competitive teams - particular successes in The school’s newsletter and website keeps parents up recent years include football, trampolining, netball, to date with school successes and events. athletics, tennis, swimming, cricket, basketball, badminton and the Panathlon. Sixth Form Departments organise many curriculum trips and visits. Recent journeys include adventure activities in the Isle Open “The Sixth Form provision is outstanding. Students of Wight and Devon; Geography trips to Barcelona day achieve very well… and are very positive about the and Dorset; Language trips to France and Germany; education and care they receive.” Ofsted 2015 a Media Studies trip to Paris; Music tours to Spain and Italy and Art trips to various exhibitions. Whitmore has a very popular and successful Sixth Form. We regularly welcome politicians, civil servants and the We offer a full range of A Levels and our Sixth Form media interested in our curriculum developments and programme includes trips and visits, extra-curricular the achievements of our students. Each year students activities, volunteering and leadership opportunities also actively raise tens of thousands of pounds for Apply now and advice on careers and progression to university, national and local charities. apprenticeships and employment. Standards are high and the majority of our students progress to highly Awards regarded university courses. A separate Sixth Form prospectus is available from the school office. The school’s many awards include: • Ofsted Outstanding 2015 Facilities • High Performing Specialist Science College • Good Schools Guide Awards: Whitmore provides state-of-the-art facilities for all our -- 2016: Best performance in English Language students. Our landmark building provides extensive GCSE in an English Comprehensive School specialist accommodation and equipment which includes: -- 2016: Best performance in Maths GCSE in an • Modern ICT suites and class sets of laptop English Comprehensive School computers -- 2015: Best performance in Science GCSE in • A well resourced modern library and computer an English Comprehensive School centre which is also open out of school hours for homework • National Training and Leadership Development • 13 well equipped laboratories with prep rooms School to support teaching and learning of Chemistry, • Specialist Schools and Academies Trust – High Biology and Physics Attaining School • An impressive drama and dance studio used for • Specialist Schools and Academies Trust – rehearsals and performances Outstanding Student Progress • Separate studios for Ceramics, Sculpture and • National Healthy Schools status Painting & Drawing • UNICEF Rights Respecting School Award • Impressive Media and Music studios with Applying for schools in other boroughs

Parents of children who live in Harrow form, and that should be the form from may apply to schools in neighbouring the borough where you live. So if your boroughs. Similarly, parents of children child is a Harrow resident, fill out a Harrow who live outside Harrow may apply to form – even if you are not applying to any schools inside Harrow. It may be true that Harrow schools. You can only apply to a the nearest school or schools to your maximum of four schools in Hertfordshire. Home home are located in other boroughs. Please find contact details below for You can apply to schools in other admissions departments in neighbouring boroughs by simply naming them on Councils where you can get advice your application form in the usual way. on school open days, admissions Map You should only fill out one application arrangements and other details.

Barnet Brent Pupil Admissions and Travel Pupil and Parent Services Building 4 PO Box 1057 Admissions North London Business Park Wembley Oakleigh Road South Middlesex HA9 1HJ London N11 1NP & 020 8937 3110 & 020 8359 7651 * [email protected] * [email protected] 8 www.brent.gov.uk 8 www.barnet.gov.uk 8 www.brent.gov.uk/admissions

Apply now Ealing Hertfordshire School Admissions Children, Schools & Families Perceval House CHR 102 14 – 16 Uxbridge Road, London W5 2HL Pegs Lane & 0208 825 5511 (Primary school Hertford admissions) SG13 8DQ & 0208 825 5522 (High school admissions) & 0300 123 4043 * [email protected] * [email protected] 8 www.ealing.gov.uk/admissions 8 www.hertsdirect.org

Hillingdon London Borough of Hillingdon School Placement and Admissions Team 4E/09 Civic Centre www.education.gov.uk High Street, Uxbridge For other Local Authority UB8 1UW address details & 01895 556644 * [email protected] 8 www.hillingdon.gov.uk/schools Children with Special Educational Needs

Harrow aims to allow children with Special a review of your child’s EHC Plan or Educational Needs (SEN) to attend their Statement of SEN, where parents, school local secondary school wherever possible, staff and other professionals will discuss the and the vast majority of children with SEN arrangements for secondary school transfer. do so. Only a small number of children, SENARS will receive a report of that review, who have the most complex needs, and will write to parents at the beginning Home receive places at a special school or at a of September, asking for confirmation mainstream school with special provision. of their school preference. SENARS will To talk about the most appropriate then consult with the secondary school of placement for your child, parents should preference (if appropriate) and, if required, contact the Special Educational Needs contact parents again to discuss other Assessment and Review Service (SENARS) options. Map on 020 8966 6483. SENARS will write to parents in the third week in January to offer their child a place at There are two separate admissions a secondary school and to propose support arrangements for SEN children, arrangements. An amended Final EHC depending on whether they have an Plan or Statement of SEN which names a Educational, Health and Care Plan or a secondary school will then be issued by 15 Statement of Special Educational Needs. February on the year of transfer. Admissions Children WITHOUT an EHC Right to appeal Plan or a Statement of SEN Parents who are dissatisfied with the These children go through the normal school that is being offered should contact Apply now admission procedure. Parents should fill out SENARS. If concerns cannot be resolved, an application form in the usual way and parents have the right of appeal to the First- children will be offered a place based on the Tier Tribunal of the Health, Education and school’s published admissions criteria. All Social Care Chamber (HESC). schools in Harrow receive additional funding to provide extra help for children with SEN. The Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice January 2015 Children WITH an EHC Plan or states that a school may only object to the admission of a child with an EHC Plan or a Statement of SEN Statement of SEN on the following grounds: These children do not go through the That the placement of the child would be normal admission procedure. SENARS will incompatible with the efficient education consult schools for places on their behalf. of the pupils with whom they would be We encourage parents to complete school educated and that there are no reasonable application forms but this is optional. steps that can be taken to enable the Parents are welcome to visit schools and inclusion of the child. attend open days. If you believe this process applies to you or your child please contact SENARS on Before the end of year 5, there will be 020 8966 6483. University technical colleges and studio schools

University Technical Colleges and Studio boroughs should fill out an application form Schools accept 14-19 year olds for courses at www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions. of study that are technically oriented or Currently there are no University Technical based around work skills. Colleges or Studio Schools in Harrow. Students born between 1 September 2002 For information on University Technical and 31 August 2003 who live in Harrow Colleges visit www.utcolleges.org. Home and wish to apply to University Technical For information on Studio Schools visit Colleges and Studio Schools in other www.studioschoolstrust.org.

The full timetable for applications is:

Map 1 September 2016 Website opens, and you can apply online at http://www.eadmissions.org.uk

Friday 21 October 2016 Last Friday before the half-term holiday. We strongly recommend that you submit your application by this date to avoid any delay.

Admissions Monday 31 October 2016 Closing date for applications

Wednesday 1 March 2017 Emails sent to parents with the outcome of their application. Please wait until you have received the email before logging on to the e-Admissions website. In some cases, letters will be sent through the post Apply now Wednesday 15 March 2017 Deadline for acceptance or decline of offer.

Information on the appeals process for University Technical Colleges and Studio Schools is available direct from the schools. Appeals

You can appeal any decision made about the school place you have been offered. Bear in mind that appeals will be heard on the basis of the admissions criteria listed in this guide. Please be sure you have strong grounds before you make an appeal. Last year only 4 per cent of secondary school transfer appeals were successful.

Name of school Number of appeals Number of successful Home in 2016 appeals in 2016 Avanti House 6 0 Bentley Wood High School 18 1 Canons High School 8 2 Nower Hill High School 11 0 Map Park High School 2 0 Whitefriars School 1 0 Whitmore High School 13 0

Appealing to Salvatorian, form must be received by Thursday 13 April Admissions Sacred Heart & Avanti House 2017. Subsequently, appeals hearings are held periodically through the academic year. Appeals about decisions at the above schools are dealt with by the schools How the appeals process works directly. Please contact the school and ask for their appeal form to be sent to you. Appeals are organised by Harrow Apply now Democratic Services, independently of the Appealing to all other Harrow Admissions Service. Democratic Services will notify you of the date of your appeal Secondary Schools hearing and you will be requested to attend. At the appeal, the Admissions Service will Appeal forms are available on our website explain the reasons why your child could at www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions. not be offered a place. You will have the For guidance and information, please chance to ask questions and members of contact us on 020 8901 2620. the appeal panel will ask you questions. The An appeal has to be made in writing, setting appeal panel will then make its decision and out the grounds on which it is made, in full. you will be notified of the result in writing. You must include a full description of your Any child admitted to a school as a result of case. Additional information and evidence an appeal will take precedence over others supporting your appeal and its grounds on the waiting list. should be submitted as soon as possible and before the appeal hearing. Please note that any evidence or information submitted Appealing to a school on the date of the appeal may not be outside Harrow considered. Appeals will be heard early in the summer Please contact the Local Authority where term 2017. To be considered in this first the school is located for information of how round of grouped appeals, your appeal to appeal. Sixth form education

If you wish to apply for a sixth form place in The Harrow Sixth Form Collegiate is a Harrow, do not fill out partnership of the following: a secondary school application form. Bentley Wood Sixth Form Applications for sixth Home Canons Sixth Form form places are made Harrow Sixth Form directly to the school or Sixth Form Centre* college. Hatch End Sixth Form All of Harrow’s secondary Nower Hill Sixth Form schools and colleges Park Sixth Form Map work together in a Rooks Heath Sixth Form partnership called the Stanmore Sixth Form College* Harrow Sixth Form Whitmore Sixth Form Collegiate. Other sixth form provision St Dominic’s Sixth Form College* Admissions

How to apply The offer of a place is conditional on you achieving the appropriate entrance You should apply to your first choice of qualifications. Details of these are school or college. indicated in prospectuses or information Forms are available directly from high leaflets from each school or college. You schools and colleges. The form contains will be given further details during your full details of how to fill in the application guidance interview. and where to send it. An appropriate programme will be negotiated. You will be offered a guidance interview. Where a school or college does not offer The school or college will consider your a place, your application will be passed predicted grades and reference when to your second choice. deciding whether to offer a place. The offer of a place will be confirmed. If you do not meet the entrance What happens next conditions of your original offer, every effort will be made to place you on a Your application will be acknowledged. different course in September.

* Harrow College Sixth Form Centre, Brookshill, Harrow Weald HA3 6RR & Lowlands Road, Harrow, HA1 3AQ. Tel 020 8909 6000. Email [email protected]. Visit www.harrow.ac.uk St Dominic’s Sixth Form College, Mount Park Avenue, , HA1 3HX. Tel 0208 422 8084. Email [email protected]. Visit www.stdoms.ac.ukStanmore Sixth Form College, FEC, Elm Park, Stanmore, HA7 4BQ. Tel 0208 420 7700. Email [email protected] Visit www.stanmore.ac.uk Secondary 1 Hover over the location to see school details Schools 1 Click to see travel maps Map

Secondary schools 1. Avanti House 2. Bentley Wood High School 3. Canons High School 4. Harrow High School 5. Hatch End High School 6. Nower Hill High School 7. Park High School 8. Pinner High School 9. Rooks Heath College 10. Salvatorian College 11. The Sacred Heart Language College 12. Whitefriars School 13. Whitmore High School