Don’t be late! Applications must be submitted by 31 October 2019

South Gloucestershire Secondary Schools Admission guide For parents and carers of children born between 1 September 2008 and 31 August 2009, and due to transfer to secondary school in September 2020

www.southglos.gov.uk 1 Contents Contents Welcome 4

Key information 5

Important dates for your diary 6

Top tips 7

Transferring to secondary school 8

How do I apply for a school place? 9

Dos and don’ts of applying for a school place 11

How do I choose my preferred schools? 12

What else do I need to consider in completing my application? 13

What happens to my application? 16

How are school places allocated? 18

Receiving your offer of a school place 20

Outcome of admissions in previous years 22

Travel assistance to and from school - what you need to know 23

In-year admissions and admissions in other circumstances 25

Post 16 admission arrangements 28

Map of South Gloucestershire showing location of secondary schools 29

Secondary schools, academies, foundation trust schools, university technical colleges and studio schools in South Gloucestershire (and maps) 30

Admission to South Gloucestershire schools, academies, foundation trust schools, university technical colleges and studio schools 42

Admission to Brimsham Green School (Community School) 44

Cabot Learning Federation

Admission to Digitech Studio School 48

Admission to Hanham Woods Academy 52

Admission to John Cabot Academy 56

Admission to King’s Oak Academy 59

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Castle School Education Trust

Admission to The Castle School 63

Admission to Downend School 63

Admission to Mangotsfield School 63

Admission to Marlwood School 63

Co-operative Foundation Trust - Admission to Chipping Sodbury School 67

Greenshaw Learning Trust - Admission to Yate Academy 71

Olympus Academy Trust

Admission to Abbeywood Community School 74

Admission to Bradley Stoke Community School 74

Admission to Patchway Community School 74

Admission to Winterbourne Academy 74

University Technical College - Admission to Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy 79

Wellsway Multi Academy Trust - Admission to Sir Bernard Lovell Academy 82

Special schools 87

Special resource bases/access centres 88

School term and holiday dates 2020-2021 academic year 89

Useful contact details 90

Glossary of terms 92

3  01454 868008  [email protected] Welcome

Welcome On behalf of the Head Teachers, Governors, teachers and support staff, we welcome you to South Gloucestershire’s Secondary Schools Admission Guide for parents and carers of children starting school in September 2020.

We are determined to do all we can to We recognise that identifying the school drive the council’s top priority: To improve you would prefer your child to attend is very educational standards and attainment for all important to you. The information in this guide young people who study and grow up in South is intended to help you, by explaining how the Gloucestershire, in an inclusive way. We want admissions process works and signposting you South Gloucestershire children to have the to sources of further information and advice. best possible start in life and reach their full Please take the opportunity to read this guide, potential. Working in partnership with schools, to consider the information set out in it and to academies, children, parents and carers we are: seek any further advice you need.

❚❚ Creating more pupil places so that more We share the hopes and aspirations of our children can access good and outstanding young people and their families, which is that local education provision every child should be able to grow, learn and thrive to achieve their fullest potential. Through ❚❚ Investing in highly effective leaders and the South Gloucestershire Council Coordinated teachers across our schools through Admission Scheme, we will ensure that all excellent workforce development parents and carers receive an offer of a place opportunities on national offer day.

❚❚ Identifying the schools which excel in We wish you and your child well in moving on key areas of education and partnering through their education. those experts and leaders with other schools, to promote best practice and see improvements right across South Gloucestershire

❚❚ Developing ways to overcome barriers to learning for all children, with a focus on early help and improving access to support

❚❚ Making improvements to the fabric of our local schools. This investment means that staff can continue to educate and nurture current and future generations in high quality teaching and learning environments that provide for a full range of curriculum opportunities.

Councillor Erica Williams Cabinet Member for Schools, Skills and Employment

Chris Sivers Director for Children, Adults and Health

4 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Key information Key information

Who should apply?

Children in South Gloucestershire transfer to secondary school in the September following their eleventh birthday. If your child was born between 1 September 2008 and 31 August 2009 you must apply for them to transfer to secondary school in September 2020.

In-year admissions

If your child has already reached secondary school age and does not currently have a school place or you want to transfer them to a different school you need to make an ‘in-year’ application. Go to www.southglos.gov.uk/inyearadmissions

How to contact us

After reading this guide, if you need help with your application please call the council’s Department for Children, Adults and Health on 01454 868008 Email: [email protected]

5  01454 868008  [email protected] 6 Important dates for your diary Parents/carers mustreplytooffersmadeby16March2020. 2020 March  16 you willbenotifiedbyletter(toposted1stclasson2March2020). you appliedonline).Ifsubmittedadownloadedpaperapplicationform, South Gloucestershirewillbeon2March2020(viatheonlinesystemif Offers ofasecondaryschoolplacemadetoparents/carersresidentin 2020 March  2 offer atoneofyourpreferredschools. your applicationwillbe‘late’ andyouwillreducethelikelihood ofreceivingan The closingdateforallapplicationsis31October2019.Ifyoumissthis October 2019 31 www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions from12September2019. The onlineapplicationformwillbeavailableforyoutocompleteat  12 2019 September Important datesforyourdiary Apply on-line at: at: on-line Apply 

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Top tips Top tips

MM The admission process has clear stages and important deadlines. This guide sets out the process and gives guidance on how to submit your application.

MM When considering your preferred school(s), there are a number of ways in which you can obtain more information. Schools hold open days or evenings or offer opportunities to visit. Many schools publish a prospectus (obtainable from the school) which gives information about the school, including results. Most schools also have websites and the results of school inspections can be found on the Ofsted website.

MM Free travel assistance to and from school is given only in certain circumstances and cannot be guaranteed. This guide sets out important information on school transport to take into account when considering your preference(s). Please read the guidance carefully.

MM While most parents/carers obtain a place at their preferred schools, this cannot be guaranteed. It is important to bear this in mind when talking to your child about starting school or moving to a new school.

MM Your application will be assessed against the relevant admission/over-subscription criteria for your preferred schools. The admission criteria are set out in this guide. It is important to consider how these apply to your child and family. In particular, if you have two or more children you wish to attend the same school, you are advised to read and understand the local sibling criterion and be clear about whether or not your child meets the definition of a local sibling. Please be aware that the law on admissions is strict and the council must apply the relevant admission criteria for schools when considering applications from individual children and their families and allocating the available places.

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information in this guide. Some details may have changed since publication. All maps in this document are based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the permission of the Controller HM Stationery Officer. Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. South Gloucestershire Council Licence Number 100023410 2019. Please note that all maps are indicative and must be viewed in that way.

7  01454 868008  [email protected] Transferring to secondary school

Children in South Gloucestershire transfer ❚❚ find out whether you need to complete to secondary school in the September a supplementary information form for the following their eleventh birthday. The school. process of transferring to secondary school is summarised below. Remember, it’s important your application is on time Research the schools and understand the admissions process ❚❚ submit your application form by 31 October 2019;

❚❚ read this guide carefully and ask for help if ❚❚ you cannot apply online after the closing Transferring to secondary school Transferring you need it; date;

❚❚ know which school(s) serves your area ❚❚ if your application is late, places at the (look at the list and map of schools in this schools you prefer may already have been guide); filled – no places are held in reserve.

❚❚ visit schools, attend open days or evenings Note: Secondary school age provision in and talk to members of staff; South Gloucestershire includes community and voluntary controlled schools, academies, ❚❚ ask schools to send you a school foundation trust schools, university technical prospectus (if available), visit school colleges and studio schools. In this guide, the websites, consider their results; word ‘schools’ includes schools, academies, foundation trust schools, university technical ❚❚ talk to parents/carers who already have colleges and studio schools unless a different children at your local school(s); procedure applies.

❚❚ consider the distance/route from home to school. Will you be able to get your child to Academies/university technology school? colleges (UTCs)/studio schools with ❚❚ find out what other activities the school a first admission at year 10 offers, i.e. breakfast clubs/after school clubs/sporting activities. There is one UTC in South Gloucestershire with a first admission at Year 10. This is the Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy, Apply for a school place University Technical College.

❚❚ apply online at There is one studio school in South www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions or print Gloucestershire with a first admission at Year 10. and complete the application form available This is Digitech, a studio school specialising in to download at digital, high tech and creative sectors. www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions and return it to the address indicated on the form;

❚❚ express a preference for three schools;

❚❚ consider naming your local school as one of your preferences;

❚❚ provide accurate and complete information on your application form;

8 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions How do I apply for a school place? How do I apply for a school place?

 The closing date for all applications Online applications is 31 October 2019. Don’t be late! If your application is late it will affect your chances Note: You may change the details on your of getting a place at one of your preferred application up until the closing date, though schools. it is very important to remember to re-submit each time you view or make changes to In order that your child can be considered your application. If you do not re-submit your for entry to school for the school year 2020- application after making changes it will not be 2021 you must complete and submit the submitted on time and your application will be common application form by 31 October 2019. treated as late. Completed common application forms for residents of South Gloucestershire must be returned directly to South Gloucestershire Completing the common Council’s Admissions and Transport Team. application form Parents/carers who do not live in South Parents/carers of children resident in South Gloucestershire but who wish to apply for Gloucestershire have two options for a place at a secondary school in South completing the common application form: Gloucestershire must complete the common application form available from the local ❚❚ apply online at authority in which they live. If an application www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions; form is received from a parent/carer living in England but outside the administrative area of ❚❚ print and complete the application form South Gloucestershire, the form will be returned available to download at to the relevant home authority. www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions and return it to the address indicated on Where a common application form is sent the form. Please be aware that owing direct to a school in South Gloucestershire, to the volume of applications South the form will be forwarded by the school to Gloucestershire Council is unable to South Gloucestershire Council Admissions and provide acknowledgements for applicants Transport Team. using a paper form.

Should any parent/carer include on their application form a preference for an Applying online independent school, the independent school preference will be disregarded and the The online application form is available 24 remaining preferences for schools will be given hours a day, seven days a week up to the a higher ranking than that shown on the original submission date of 31 October 2019. Once application form. you have completed and submitted an online application form you will receive an email to All parents/carers must complete the common confirm your application has been received. application form. If you have previously registered with the Only the parent/carer with legal responsibility online system you can simply log on using your for the child may complete and submit the original email address and password. If you application form and only one application have not used the system before, you will need per child will be accepted (please refer to the to choose a password and enter this in both the Glossary of Terms for a definition of parental/ ‘password’ and ‘re-type password’ boxes (you carer responsibility). It is important that both are advised to use a password that you will be parents/carers agree with the preferred likely to remember easily). If you have changed schools named so any difficulties in reaching your email address since your previous this agreement are dealt with in advance of application, you will need to log on using your the closing date. We can process only one original email address and then enter your new application per child and South Gloucestershire email address in ‘my details’. Council cannot become involved in disputes between parents/carers.

9  01454 868008  [email protected] Completing and returning a paper Admission for children with an application form education, health and care plan Completed common application forms for (EHC Plan) residents of South Gloucestershire must be returned directly to South Gloucestershire There is a separate form for children with an Admissions and Transport Team. Applications EHC Plan which will be provided to parents/ for a place will be considered only if parents/ carers by the relevant case officer. If your carers have submitted the completed common child has an EHC Plan do not complete the application form by the closing date of 31 common application form. However, you may October 2019. Any change in preference find some of the information in this document received before the closing time and date will useful. If your child is undergoing statutory supersede all previous applications which will assessment please contact your case officer for be withdrawn. further advice before completing a form. If your child has special educational needs but does not currently have an EHC Plan you should

How do I apply for a school place? Supplementary forms complete and submit a common application form in the normal way. All parents/carers must complete the common application form. However, individual admission authorities for academies and foundation trust schools may wish to use supplementary forms to collect additional information in order to apply their over-subscription criteria. Parents/ carers will need to contact the individual schools for information.

10 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Dos and don’ts of applying for a school place Dos and don’ts of applying for a school place

Do MM Attend school open evenings, obtain copies of the school prospectus (if MM Complete a common application form available) and consider all the necessary online at information to help inform your school www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions or a preferences. paper form and submit by 31 October 2019. MM Be honest. You must ensure the information MM Express a preference for three schools. you supply is accurate and correct. We may withdraw an offer of a place where the MM Consider how you will get your child to and application was intentionally misleading or from school. fraudulent.

MM Consider naming your local school as one of your preferences. If you do not express a Don’t preference for your local school you will not be considered for a place there and may LL Miss the deadline for submitting your receive an offer of a place some distance application form. If you miss the deadline from your home address. Transport your preferences will not be considered arrangements will be your responsibility. until places have been offered to all children for whom we received an MM Sibling links: If you expect to have more application by the submission date of than one child at the same school, name 31 October 2019. the youngest sibling who is already at the school as opposed to the eldest. LL Assume that you do not need to apply for your local school. You must complete an MM Provide evidence if you feel there are application form. Even if you have spoken exceptional reasons for your preference. to your local school to inform them that you wish to be considered for a place, this does MM Tell us if your circumstances change. not constitute an application and is not part of the application process. MM Use the address where you are living as at 31 October 2019 and tell us if you know LL Assume that you do not need to apply your address is going to change before for the school where you already have 31 October 2019. other children in attendance – you must complete an application form. MM Check whether any school you are interested in requires you to complete a LL Name the same school three times: this will supplementary information form as well as be considered as one preference. the common application form. LL Assume you will be entitled to free MM Where applicable return supplementary transport. information forms to academies and foundation trust schools. The closing LL Name a school if you don’t want a place date for supplementary information forms there. may differ from the closing date for the common application form (NB everyone LL Assume that South Gloucestershire Council must complete a common application form offers automatic priority to all siblings. The regardless of the school). Please check with council offers priority tolocal siblings only. the individual academies and foundation You will need to check the definition of trust schools concerned for details. local siblings for your preferred school(s) to see whether or not you are likely to be considered under the local sibling criterion.

11  01454 868008  [email protected] How do I choose my preferred schools?

The common application form enables you to ❚❚ talk to parents/carers who already have express a preference for up to three schools children at your local schools and talk to and to list them in preference order. You are staff at your child’s primary/junior school. advised to list all three preferences. There is no advantage in naming just one preference ❚❚ consider the distance from home to school or naming one preference three times. and how you will get your child to school. Similarly, you should not write down schools if Think about the route to school and mode you really do not want a place there. of travel. (If your child is walking - remember they will need to do the journey twice Understand the admissions criteria a day). Please remember that it is your responsibility to get your child to and from Think very carefully about the schools for which school. Free transport provision is offered you express a preference and make sure you only in certain circumstances. How do I choose my preferred schools? read and understand the relevant admission criteria for the school concerned. This will help ❚❚ find out what other activities and extended you to consider whether or not you are likely provision the school offers, i.e. breakfast to be successful in gaining a place at your clubs/after school clubs/sporting activities. preferred school(s). If you are considering applying for a school Academies, foundation trust schools, university outside South Gloucestershire you should still technical colleges and studio schools have complete the common application form. South their own admission criteria and details are set Gloucestershire Council will pass the details out later in this guide. of applications received on to other local authorities for processing as appropriate. It is important to remember that it may not always be possible to offer your child a place at one of your preferred schools.

Research your preferred schools

You may like to do some research into your local schools before you complete your application. The sorts of things you might consider are as follows:

❚❚ schools hold open days or evenings or offer opportunities to visit the schools. We recommend parents/carers take the opportunity to visit the schools and talk to members of staff. Please contact individual schools/academies or visit school websites for details of open day/evening events.

❚❚ many schools publish a prospectus (obtainable from the school) which gives information about the school, including results. Most schools also have websites and the results of school inspections can be found on the Ofsted website at www. ofsted.gov.uk

12 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions What else do I need to consider in completing my application? What else do I need to consider in completing my application?

Find out which schools serve your AND area ❚❚ the older sibling is already in attendance at the preferred school and will be in Some schools serve Areas of Prime attendance in September 2020 (statutory Responsibility (APR). Where an APR exists, the school age only). area indicates to parents/carers the schools which normally serve the home address. South Please note that the offer of a place at any Gloucestershire Council gives priority to those particular school does not guarantee an offer of children who live within the APR of the school, a place for a sibling at a later date. though there is no guarantee that places will be offered to all those living within the APR. Different admission authorities may vary in Maps showing the location of each school are the priority that they give to siblings. You will provided in the “Schools, maps and APRs” need to consider the admission criteria for section along with details of the APR where individual schools set out later in this guide appropriate. If you are unsure which schools and seek further advice if you are unsure. serve your area please telephone South Gloucestershire Council on 01454 868008. You should note that your child will not be We strongly recommend that you indicate a considered under the local sibling criterion preference for a school that normally serves if you do not meet the criteria above. To be your home address (your APR school). This defined as a ‘local sibling’ a child must live in will increase your chances of getting a place the APR for the school. It is therefore important at a local school, in the event that your highest that you consider stating a preference for your ranking preference cannot be met (if, for local/nearest school, particularly if you have example, your highest ranking school is over- younger children who you would like to attend subscribed from applicants living within that the same school in later years. school’s APR or living closer than you and/or any higher priority applications). Some schools receive more  applications than there are places available. While we will try to meet parental Local sibling links – younger preferences within the admission criteria, brothers and sisters there is no guarantee that we can always offer a place at the preferred school. Many parents/carers express a preference for younger brothers and sisters to attend the same school. South Gloucestershire’s over- Use your child’s permanent home subscription criteria for allocating places to address community and voluntary controlled schools gives some priority to local siblings. You should You must apply using your child’s permanent be aware that a local sibling is not the same as home address as at 31 October 2019. The a sibling. In South Gloucestershire children are home address is considered to be where defined as local siblings if: the child lives most of the time with his or her parent(s) or carer(s). South Gloucestershire ❚❚ they live within the APR; or, Council cannot accept an address of a ❚❚ where there is no APR, local siblings will business, relative, friend, childminder, a be deemed to be those living up to a temporary address or an address of a house it maximum of two miles from school by is intended to move to. The only exceptions are straight line measurement; or, for children of UK service personnel for whom ❚❚ where the distance is over two miles but special arrangements apply. the school is still the nearest school; AND South Gloucestershire Council reserves the ❚❚ they are full or half brother or sister; or right to seek documentary evidence to support ❚❚ they are adoptive brother or sister; or a claim of residence. ❚❚ they are children of the same household;

13  01454 868008  [email protected] Children resident at more than one Tell us if your circumstances change address If your circumstances change during the Where a child spends time with parents at application process or if you know in advance more than one address, then the address given that your circumstances are going to change, should be the one that they live at (i.e. sleep for example you are planning to move house at) for the majority of term-time school nights before your child starts school, it is important (Sunday night to Thursday night). If children that you tell us. spend time equally at different addresses then the address used for admissions purposes will be the one registered for child benefit. We will Be honest – we may ask for request proof of the registered address, which documentary evidence must pre-date the application. You must ensure the information you supply is accurate and correct. We reserve the right Parental disputes to require documentary evidence in support of your application to ensure fairness to all South Gloucestershire Council can process parents/carers. Examples of evidence which only one application per child from one address may be requested include a birth certificate, for a school place. It is therefore important that a copy of a court order, a solicitor's letter parents/carers sharing responsibility for a child, confirming exchange of contracts (and and a child living at more than one address, completion date on a new property), a rental agree on the application for a school place and agreement, a letter from an employer, a letter that this is submitted by the closing date. from a bank or building society, a utility bill or evidence of child’s residency. We may also South Gloucestershire Council is unable to use data held within the council, for example resolve parental disputes and if the parents/ council tax data, for the purposes of verifying carers do not agree, or submit more than an address. Please be aware that South one application, the application(s) will not be Gloucestershire Council may withdraw an offer processed. This may mean that the allocation of a place where an application is proven to be

What else do I need to consider in completing my application? of a school place may be delayed until an intentionally misleading or fraudulent. agreement is reached and could mean that the application is considered as a late application. Note: Late applications will not normally be What if I change my mind before the considered for the initial allocation of places. If closing date? your application is late it may affect your chance of obtaining a place at one of your preferred schools. Please refer to the Glossary of Terms Any change in preference received before for the definition of parental/carer responsibility. the closing date will supersede all previous applications. Previous applications will be withdrawn. Consider how you will get your child to and from school Please remember if you submit your  application online and make changes It is your responsibility as a parent/carer to to or view your application you will need to get your child to and from school. You must ensure you re-submit your application. think very carefully about the distance from home to school and about how your child Applications or changes of preference received will travel to and from school. The majority after the closing date are ‘late applications’ and of children are not eligible for free travel will not normally be considered for the initial assistance to and from school. allocation of places.

You may wish to contact your local school and ask for details of their school travel plan. The plan identifies various measures the school has put into place to help reduce the number of car journeys made to and from school. Alternative travel options and schemes include: walking buses; road safety workshops; and cycle training.

14 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions What else do I need to consider in completing my application? What happens if my application is Please note: all admission authorities are late? required to publish details of their admission arrangements 18 months in advance of the If your application is late it will affect your school year before the arrangements are to chance of getting a place at one of the schools apply. For admission in September 2020 this you have stated as a preference for your means that parents/carers were able to read child. On time applicants will be allocated and access the arrangements from March 2019 a school place before late applicants. Only onwards. in exceptional circumstances will South Gloucestershire Council consider the reasons why the application is late before deciding whether or not to consider it along with the on time applications. The same over-subscription criteria are applied to late applications but will be considered after the initial allocation of places.

Things to consider in advance of a house move Parents/carers considering a house move in advance of submitting an admission application will very often want to research the local schools that serve their new address. In particular, parents/carers of more than one child may want to reassure themselves that their younger child will have a good chance of obtaining an offer of a school place at the same school as their elder sibling. In these circumstances, parents/carers are advised to consider the following:

❚❚ the schools closest to your new home address/which schools serve your new local area;

❚❚ the admission arrangements for your preferred school(s) for the relevant year of admission;

❚❚ the consequences of moving house on the outcome of your admission application for younger children;

❚❚ the distance from your new home to your preferred school(s) and how you will get your child to school.

Please be aware that sometimes a house move can mean that families with more than one child no longer qualify for admission to their preferred school(s) under the local sibling criterion. This can cause disappointment for families who want their children to attend the same school. While there can be no guarantee about the outcome of admission applications, parents/carers are advised to read and understand the information contained in the admission guide.

15  01454 868008  [email protected] What happens to my application?

Co-ordinated admissions If your child qualifies for a place at more than one school your highest ranked school with a All local authorities must have a co-ordinated place available will be offered. If you are not admission scheme which allows details of offered a place at your highest ranking school, applications to be shared with other admission the alternative school may be one of your other authorities, as appropriate, to ensure that preferences or the next nearest appropriate parents/carers receive an offer of a single place school with a place available. on the offer date.

Once we receive your completed application Receiving your offer (by 31 October 2019) we will consider all your preferences against the relevant admissions Online applicants will be able to view the What happens to my application? criteria and we will try to offer you a place at outcome of their application for a school place one of your preferred schools. on 2 March 2020 by logging onto the online system using their password. Online applicants Any school which operates criteria for selection will be formally notified of the offer of a school by ability or aptitude must ensure that its place by email unless otherwise specified at arrangements for assessing ability or aptitude, the time of application. Applicants who applied to enable decisions to be made on preferences using the paper application form will be notified received, conform to the timing requirements of of the offer of a school place by letter to be the admissions scheme. posted 1st class on 2 March 2020. South Gloucestershire Council is unable to inform In the case of admission to academies parents/carers of the offer by telephone. and foundation trust schools in South Gloucestershire all applications will be considered with reference to their own South Gloucestershire Council will make the over-subscription criteria including any single offer of a place for Year 7 to parents/ supplementary data where necessary. Ranked carers resident within its area. Places will be lists of potential offers will then be returned allocated against the published admission to South Gloucestershire Council including criteria without reference to the applicant’s the reason why each applicant qualified for order of preference. Where a child qualifies for a place, by 9 January 2020. The list will also a place at more than one school, the final offer include those pupils, for whom a place cannot will be the highest ranked school with a place be offered, in rank order, explaining the reasons available. for refusal against the over-subscription criteria, and in the order in which additional offers will In the case of parents/carers resident in South be made should places become available. Gloucestershire being refused a place at their preferred school(s), an alternative school place Applications for all schools will be considered at the nearest appropriate school/academy/ under an ‘equal preference’ system. This foundation trust school to the home address means that all your preferences will initially with a place available will be offered to their be considered equally against the admission child and they will be informed of the options criteria regardless of your ranking. This does available at that stage including their right of not mean that we disregard your preferences; appeal. it means that in the event that you are unsuccessful in gaining a place at your first Parents/carers must respond to the offer preference school, your second preference directly to South Gloucestershire Council will not be treated any less favourably just by 16 March 2020. Where a response has because you placed school 2 as your second not been received by 16 March 2020, South preference. Gloucestershire Council will contact parents/ carers to advise them of the need to respond within one week and point out that the place may be withdrawn if they do not. Where a place has been withdrawn this will be confirmed in writing to parents/carers.

16 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions What happens to my application? Late applications Changes of preference after the closing date Applications received after the closing date are ‘late applications’ and will not normally be A change of preference received after the considered for the initial allocation of places. closing date will be considered as a ‘late However, South Gloucestershire will consider application’ unless there are considered to be, the circumstances of a late application before by South Gloucestershire Council, exceptional deciding whether or not to consider it along circumstances for the change. Details of late with the on time applications. applications, on time applicants still seeking a place at their preferred schools and of places For over-subscribed schools, if places become not accepted following the initial allocations available following the initial allocation of made, will be exchanged with other local places for a school, the same criteria will be authorities as far as possible between 17 applied to ‘late applications’, formal appeals and March 2020 and 24 April 2020 to enable a applications for children whose parents/carers second round of allocations for all schools to have indicated in writing that they still wish to commence on 5 May 2020. be considered for a place. Where a place can be offered at a preferred school for a child on The co-ordinated admissions process will the waiting list, any place previously offered at a continue to be operated, with application data lower preference school will be withdrawn. being exchanged with other local authorities as appropriate, for all applications received up to In the case of under-subscribed schools, late 31 August 2020. applications will be considered in order of date of receipt. If any under-subscribed school becomes over-subscribed owing to the number Moving house/change of address of late applications, places will be allocated using the published over-subscription criteria. Parents/carers must write to the Admissions and Transport Team as soon as possible, Details of late applications, on time applicants attaching proof of the change of address. It is still seeking a place at their preferred schools the home address of the child as at the closing and of places not accepted following the initial date of 31 October 2019 that determines the allocations will be exchanged with academies, priority given to applications for the first round foundation trust schools and other local of allocations. Parents/carers are advised authorities as far as possible by 24 April 2020 to take this into account in advance as any to enable a second round of allocations for all subsequent changes of preferences submitted schools to commence on 5 May 2020. after the closing date will be dealt with alongside the late applications. The co-ordinated admissions process will continue to be operated, with application data being exchanged with academies, foundation trust schools and other local authorities as appropriate, for all applications received up to 31 August 2020.

17  01454 868008  [email protected] How are school places allocated?

Each school has an admission number to Community schools in reflect the number of places that can be South Gloucestershire offered for new children joining the school. Sometimes schools receive more applications The over-subscription criteria for community than there are places available. Where this schools in South Gloucestershire are happens, it is important that we are fair determined by South Gloucestershire Council and consistent in the decisions we make as the admission authority. There is just one about who should be offered a place. To Community Secondary School in South make these decisions the over-subscription Gloucestershire as shown in the table below. criteria are applied to each application. The over-subscription criteria are not the same Community school Admission authority for all schools. The legal status of schools

How are school places allocated? Brimsham Green School South Gloucestershire determines who has responsibility for Council admissions. This is explained below. Parents/ carers are advised to check the relevant admission criteria for the school(s) concerned.

18 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions How are school places allocated? Academies, foundation trust schools, university technical colleges (UTC) and studio schools in South Gloucestershire

The over-subscription criteria for academies, foundation trust schools, university technical colleges and studio schools are determined by the governing body of the individual academy/ foundation trust school. A list of these schools is set out in the table below.

Academies/foundation trust schools may operate criteria for selection by ability or aptitudes. Parents/carers are advised to check the arrangements for assessing ability or aptitude with the individual academy/foundation trust school concerned.

Academies, foundation trust schools, UTCs Admission Authority – governing body and studio schools Abbeywood Community School Olympus Academy Trust Bradley Stoke Community School Olympus Academy Trust Patchway Community School Olympus Academy Trust Winterbourne Academy Olympus Academy Trust Downend School Castle School Education Trust Mangotsfield School Castle School Education Trust Marlwood School Castle School Education Trust The Castle School Castle School Education Trust Chipping Sodbury School Co-operative Trust Hanham Woods Academy Cabot Learning Federation John Cabot Academy Cabot Learning Federation King’s Oak Academy Cabot Learning Federation Digitech Studio School * Cabot Learning Federation Yate Academy Greenshaw Learning Trust Sir Bernard Lovell Academy Wellsway Multi Academy Trust Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy, University University of West of England and City of Bristol College Technical College *

* These are schools for the 14-19 age range and first admission to these schools is in Year 10.

Secondary schools outside of South Gloucestershire For schools outside the area you are advised to check with the relevant admission authority.

19  01454 868008  [email protected] Receiving your offer of a school place

Once you receive your offer of a school place Waiting lists - community and (2 March 2020) you must respond to the offer voluntary controlled schools directly to South Gloucestershire Council by 16 March 2020. Note: If you applied on-line you The waiting list comprises those children may view the outcome of your application on- refused a place whose parents/carers have line using your password. lodged a formal appeal or asked to go on a waiting list together with any late applications Where the highest preference is not met, the received. offer is accompanied with details explaining the next stage of the process. Your options are as A waiting list will be maintained for any follows: vacancies which occur until the end of Term 2 (December 2020) and then discarded. Priority

Receiving your offer of a school place Receiving ❚❚ accept the place offered; order on the waiting list will be determined by the over-subscription criteria, not by the date of ❚❚ ask South Gloucestershire Council to joining the waiting list. consider your child for a place at your preferred school(s) if one becomes Children who are the subject of a direction by available; and/or a local authority to admit or who are allocated to a school in accordance with the Fair Access ❚❚ ask about the availability of places at other Protocol must take precedence over those on a South Gloucestershire schools; and/or waiting list.

❚❚ ask to go on the waiting list (see below for Where a place becomes available and the further details); and/or local authority, after using all advised contact details is unable to contact a successful ❚❚ appeal to an independent appeal panel applicant for a place within two school weeks, against the decision to refuse a place at the available place will be offered to the next your preferred school(s). child to qualify for a place. Where an applicant decides to place their child(ren)’s name on a Where a response from you has not been waiting list, it is for the applicant to keep South received by 16 March 2020, we will contact you Gloucestershire Council informed of updated to advise you of the need to respond within contact and address details. one week and point out that the place may be withdrawn if you do not. Where a place has been withdrawn this will be confirmed in writing. Waiting lists – academies and foundation trust schools Withdrawing offers Once the offers have been sent out by South Gloucestershire Council on behalf Once the offer of a place has been made, of all admission authorities, any questions South Gloucestershire Council may withdraw concerning waiting lists up to 31 August 2020 the offer, but only in very limited circumstances, should be made to South Gloucestershire for example: Council’s Admissions and Transport Team who will also offer any additional places that ❚❚ where the application was intentionally become available. misleading or fraudulent; or If there is pupil movement after 1 September ❚❚ where a parent/carer has not responded to 2020 and academies or foundation trust the offer within a reasonable time; or schools find that they can offer additional places, they must keep South Gloucestershire ❚❚ where it is possible to offer a higher named Council informed until the end of Term 2 school preference. (December 2020). It is for each admission authority to determine whether they will maintain waiting lists after the end of Term 2.

20 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Receiving your offer of a school place Can I appeal if my child has been refused a place at my preferred school?

If a place is not offered at the parent’s/carer’s preferred school there is the right of appeal to an independent appeal panel. When offers of places are made on 2 March 2020, if it has not been possible to offer your child one of the schools of your preference, you will automatically be sent details of how to appeal. Pending your appeal, your child will be offered a school place at a lower named preference if possible or at an alternative school with a place available. If an appeal is unsuccessful there is no automatic right to a further appeal. However, if there are significant and material changes in the circumstances of the parent/carer, child or school since the time of the original appeal, these will be considered. A significant and material change in circumstances might include:

❚❚ where a change of address has occurred which means the home address is significantly closer to the preferred school or is now in the Area of Prime Responsibility for the preferred school;

❚❚ where a sibling link has been created at the preferred school which was not there at the time of the original appeal;

❚❚ where new evidence is introduced and is supported by a letter from a doctor, psychologist, social worker or health visitor which could not have been introduced at the time of the original appeal hearing.

Any requests for a further appeal should be made in writing to South Gloucestershire Council, Children, Adults and Health Department, Admissions and Transport Team, PO Box 1955, Bristol, BS37 0DE or to the relevant individual academy, foundation trust school, university technical college or studio school.

21  01454 868008  [email protected] Outcome of admissions in previous years

School September 2018 Admissions September 2019 Admissions Total On Total On Appeals Appeals Admission Total On Total On Time First Time Offers Heard Upheld Level 2019 Time First Time Offers Preferences Preferences Abbeywood Community School 177 180 19 6 180 200 180 Bradley Stoke Community School 279 180 24 5 180 254 180 Brimsham Green School 150 175 0 0 210 147 171 Bristol Technology and - * - * - * - * 132 - * - * Engineering Academy, University Technical College The Castle School 271 270 15 4 270 258 270 Chipping Sodbury School 168 150 10 4 150 103 116 Outcome of admissions in previous years Digitech Studio School - * - * - * - * 90 - * - * Downend School 277 240 10 2 240 316 240 Hanham Woods Academy 111 171 0 0 180 125 177 John Cabot Academy 170 175 12 1 175 135 175 King’s Oak Academy 112 150 0 0 150 156 150 Mangotsfield School 192 240 0 0 240 133 227 Marlwood School 69 97 0 0 210 78 102 Patchway Community School 68 126 0 0 180 77 180 Sir Bernard Lovell Academy 160 210 0 0 210 161 219 Winterbourne Academy 246 303 0 0 300 427 300 Yate Academy 74 93 0 0 150 157 150

* No data available - please contact the academy/school direct.

22 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Travel assistance to and from school – what you need know Travel assistance to and from school – what you need to know

Will I be offered free travel Arrangements for low income assistance to and from school? families The legal arrangements and policies that apply Children from families entitled to free school to school admissions and transport to and from meals or who are in receipt of the maximum school operate separately. In particular, if a pupil level of Working Tax Credit will be entitled to is offered a place in a preferred school this free travel if they are aged between 11 and 16 does not in any way guarantee that assistance and are attending one of their three nearest with travel will be available. If transport to qualifying schools, stated as a preference, and and from school is an issue for you when live between two and six miles from that school. applying for a school, you are strongly advised The two miles is measured in the same way as to telephone South Gloucestershire Council the statutory walking distance; the six miles is before stating your preference. along road routes.

It is your responsibility as a parent/carer to A low income criterion has been introduced for get your child to school. You must think very faith-based home to school travel. For children carefully about the distance from home to aged 11-16 from low income families, free travel school and about how your child will travel to must be arranged to the nearest suitable school and from school. The majority of children are preferred on the grounds of religion or belief not eligible for free travel assistance to and where they live more than two miles but not from school. more than fifteen miles from the school.

If you do not apply for your nearest How do I check if my child is  appropriate school as your highest eligible for free travel assistance to ranking preference your child may not be given free travel assistance to and from and from school? any school. You must then accept full responsibility for the cost and arrangements You will be eligible for free travel assistance to of your child's travel to and from school and from school if: for the duration of their secondary phase education. ❚❚ the child is of statutory school age, and

❚❚ the school/academy/foundation trust school Children with special educational attended is the nearest appropriate one needs with or without an education, as determined by South Gloucestershire Council, and health and care plan (EHC Plan)

❚❚ the distance between home and school is Pupils with special educational needs without more than the “statutory walking distance”. an EHC Plan have the same entitlement to free The statutory walking distance is two travel assistance under legislation or South miles for pupils aged up to eight and three Gloucestershire policies as any other South miles for those aged eight and over. See Gloucestershire pupil. Glossary of Terms for details of the statutory walking distance and how this is measured. Children with EHC Plans who may have no entitlement on distance grounds or normal Note: Assistance with travel, if agreed, is South Gloucestershire policies will be provided only at the beginning and end of the considered under South Gloucestershire normal school day and from one address (the Council’s Special Educational Needs transport home address). The mode of travel assistance policy. Free travel assistance is provided to is determined by South Gloucestershire the nearest appropriate school, as defined by Council. South Gloucestershire Council, with regard to a child's particular disabilities.

23  01454 868008  [email protected] In specific cases entitlement may include Sustainable travel access to a Guide Escort. In appropriate cases, a Guide Escort may be provided to assist a Where assistance with travel is agreed South child in walking to school, rather than provision Gloucestershire Council will determine the of transport. mode of transport. The council is committed to promoting greater use of buses for school journeys and will seek, as far as possible, Will I be offered travel assistance to to issue bus passes to students. Alongside a faith school? this, the council works actively to promote walking and cycling to school to help reduce Children entering faith-based secondary congestion on the roads, encourage greater schools will not be entitled to free home to independence and flexibility and raise school travel even if they are attending on awareness of the health benefits of sustainable denominational grounds and regardless of the travel. Where walking, cycling or public distance from home. transport are not feasible, you may wish to consider car sharing. For further information There are two exceptions to this: contact your local school and ask for details of the school travel plan. ❚❚ where the faith-based secondary school is the nearest secondary school of any status You are advised to consider which schools are under the general transport eligibility rules within walking distance of your home bearing mentioned above, or in mind that we cannot guarantee an offer of a place at your nearest school even if you state ❚❚ where a child aged between 11 and 16 it as a preference. Remember, if you choose a comes from a low income family (entitled school some distance away from your home to free school meals or the maximum address you are committing yourself to the level of Working Tax Credits) and attends journey for at least a five year period. the nearest faith school on faith grounds and the home to school journey is more than two miles and not more than 15 miles Appeals process (further details are available from South Travel assistance to and from school – what you need know Travel Gloucestershire Council on If, following your application for help with 01454 868008). transport costs, you have a complaint or wish to challenge the outcome of your assessed Parents/carers considering admission to a eligibility for travel assistance, you may appeal faith-based secondary school are advised to to the council using the transport appeals consider the journey involved and how their process. Details are provided on the council’s child will travel to school. website at www.southglos.gov.uk – search for ‘Transport to schools’. Application process for assistance with travel to school The details of home to school transport policies are available online at www.southglos.gov.uk - search for ‘Transport to schools’. These include information on policies, how to apply, how applications are considered and how to appeal if an application is refused.

Application forms for home to school transport can be downloaded from this site or are available from South Gloucestershire Council on 01454 868008.

24 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions In-year admissions and in other circumstances In-year admissions and admissions in other circumstances

Applications during the school year Offers of a school place (in-year 2020-2021 (in-year admissions) admissions) If you move into the local area during the Where a parent/carer has been offered a school year 2020-2021 or you are already place for their child in a community or voluntary resident in South Gloucestershire and wish controlled school, they will be expected to to move your child to another school, you will take up the offered place within four school need to complete the South Gloucestershire weeks otherwise the offer of a place may be in-year application form. The form can be used withdrawn. for application to any school within the South Gloucestershire Council area and is available at www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions. Fair access for children admitted Alternatively, you may contact individual outside the normal admissions schools or South Gloucestershire Council on 01454 868008. round

For in-year admissions, completed application South Gloucestershire Council has a Fair forms should be returned direct to the Access Protocol which provides for children individual school/academy/foundation trust admitted to school outside the normal school concerned. The application form should admissions round. The protocol exists to be returned to the school/academy/foundation ensure that access to education is secured trust school named as the first preference. quickly for children who do not have a school On receipt of an in-year application, schools/ place and that all schools take their fair share academies/foundation trust schools will notify of vulnerable children or those who are hard the local authority of both the application and its to place. The protocol will be used to place outcome. children during the school year and not at the beginning of the school year as part of the main Academies and foundation trust schools admission round. The majority of children will are their own admissions authorities. Own be admitted to school under normal admission admission authority schools may also require procedures. parents/carers to complete a supplementary information form to enable the school to collect The protocol applies to the following groups of additional information in order to apply their children: over-subscription criteria. ❚❚ children from the criminal justice system Please Note: Where a school is unable to offer or Pupil Referral Units who need to be a place and another school is named as a lower reintegrated into mainstream education; preference on the application form, the form will be forwarded to the lower preference school ❚❚ children who have been out of education within five school days. for two months or more;

In-year applications for South Gloucestershire ❚❚ children of Gypsies, Roma, Travellers, secondary schools can be made for any year refugees and asylum seekers; group. You may express a preference for a particular school or schools. Your application ❚❚ children who are homeless; will be considered against the admission criteria. The admission criteria for all schools are ❚❚ children with unsupportive family set out in the “How are school places allocated” backgrounds for whom a place has not section. been sought;

❚❚ children who are carers; and

25  01454 868008  [email protected] ❚❚ children with special educational needs, ❚❚ The council will need to be satisfied that disabilities or medical conditions (but applicants have a right to education in without an EHC Plan). the UK. The council will seek appropriate verification in advance of processing Whilst some children in the above categories applications for admission to school. may find it difficult to secure a place, the majority of children will be dealt with through ❚❚ Where parents/carers are unhappy with normal admission procedures. the allocated school, there is a right to an independent appeal. Where a governing body does not wish to admit a child with challenging behaviour outside the normal admissions round, even Early/late transfer of children though places are available, it must refer the case to the local authority for action under It is South Gloucestershire Council policy that the Fair Access Protocol. This will normally children should move from one year group to be appropriate only where a school has a another with their chronological age group, particularly high proportion of children with including children with special educational challenging behaviour or previously excluded needs and those with English as an additional children. language.

Admission authorities must not refuse to admit Exceptionally, a child may be educated with a a child thought to be potentially disruptive, or peer group one year younger or one year older likely to exhibit challenging behaviour, on the than their chronological age group. This needs grounds that the child is first to be assessed for careful thought. Once placed in a younger special educational needs. age group it is difficult, if not impossible, for a child to return to their chronological age group The Fair Access Protocol does not apply to successfully. Equally, once accelerated it is very children in public care, children previously in difficult for a child to return to their age group public care or a child with an EHC Plan naming without feeling demoralised. If it is agreed that In-year admissions and in other circumstances the school in question, as these children must it is in the child’s interest to be educated with a be admitted. younger or older peer group, it is important that you understand and accept the implications of Should a vulnerable child require a place at a late/early transfer. If you are seeking early/late school, they may be considered for admission admission to a South Gloucestershire school even if the school has no places. Children you should submit the request for consideration admitted under the terms of the protocol to the Admissions and Transport Manager. will also take priority over any children on the waiting list. Access to a school place via A child without an Education, Health and Care the protocol is normally by referral. Relevant Plan may be educated with a peer group professionals dealing with your child will guide one year younger if there is an identified you through the process. educational need and particular conditions are met. Further details are available from the Full details of the Fair Access Protocol are school concerned and the Department for available on the council’s website. Children, Adults and Health.

Please be aware that there is no guarantee that a place will be offered at a school of your Children of UK service personnel preference and you still have the right of appeal (UK armed forces) regardless of your child’s circumstances (except in very limited circumstances, for example South Gloucestershire Council recognises if your child has been twice excluded from the particular needs of children of UK service school). personnel (UK Armed Forces). The local authority ensures that the needs of these children are taken into account by: Admission of refugee children ❚❚ allocating a school place in advance if ❚❚ The normal admission process is applied the application is accompanied by an to admission applications received from all official government letter which declares a parents/carers, including parents/carers of relocation date and a Unit postal address or refugee children. quartering address;

26 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions In-year admissions and in other circumstances ❚❚ accepting a Unit postal address, or, if appropriate, a quartering area address (the address of the closest house in the relevant quartering area), for applications from service personnel in the absence of a new home postal address. A quartering address will be used only where the housing authorities confirm in writing that a house will be offered in the area;

❚❚ accepting a late application from UK service personnel as ‘on time’ where a notification of posting has been received after the closing date and before the date of exchange of information with other admission authorities;

❚❚ considering an application on the criterion of ‘local sibling’ where another child in the family has been offered a place at the preferred school and the Unit postal address or quartering address is within the Area of Prime Responsibility for the preferred school or, in the absence of an Area of Prime Responsibility, is within two miles of the preferred school;

❚❚ wherever possible, children of UK service personnel will be offered a place at the preferred local school but taking into account the admission number for the school and infant class size limits.

27  01454 868008  [email protected] Post 16 admission arrangements

All admission authorities must publish their Compulsory school age – how long determined arrangements which set out how must young people stay in learning? places will be allocated and this may include set academic entry criteria. Children and their parents/carers applying for sixth form Under the Education and Skills Act 2008, a places should contact the individual school(s) local authority has a duty to ensure that from concerned. September 2016 all young people continue in education or training until the end of the For sixth form admission to community and academic year in which they become 18 years voluntary controlled secondary schools for of age. September 2020-2021: This does not change the compulsory school Post 16 admission arrangements Post ❚❚ applications will be considered for age which remains 5 - 16 years as defined in admission at the age of 16+. These should the Education Act 1996. be made direct to the school; As well as the technical/legal difference, there ❚❚ where the number of applications exceeds is the practical difference that appropriate post the number of post 16 places available at 16 participation could be fulfilled in ways other individual schools, and after admission of than being in school. any students with an Education, Health and Care Plan naming the school, priority will be given in accordance with the over- subscription criteria set for admissions to the school at 11+ years;

❚❚ in the case of applicants in public care or previously in public care, the applicant must meet any set academic criteria;

❚❚ the school will publish specific minimum academic achievement requirements for admission to post 16 provision. These criteria will be the same for both internal and external transfers.

Parents/carers are advised to check the number of post 16 places and the courses available with individual community and voluntary controlled schools.

Under the School Admissions Appeal Code there will be a right of appeal to an independent appeal panel for unsuccessful applicants for a sixth form place, both internal and external.

28 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Map of South Gloucestershire showing location secondary schools Map of South Gloucestershire showing location of secondary schools

1. The Castle 10. Downend School 2. Marlwood School 11. King’s Oak Academy 3. Brimsham Green School 12. Mangotsfield School 4. Yate Academy 13. Winterbourne Academy 5. Chipping Sodbury School 14. Hanham Woods Academy 6. Bradley Stoke Community School 15. Sir Bernard Lovell Academy 7. Abbeywood Community School 16. John Cabot Academy 8. Patchway Community School 17. Digitech Studio School 9. Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy University Technical College © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023410 Survey Ordnance 2019 rights database and copyright © Crown

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29  01454 868008  [email protected] Secondary schools, academies, foundation trust schools, university technical colleges and studio schools in South Gloucestershire (and maps)

All schools are co-educational day schools

‘Area of Prime Responsibility’ and ‘First Area of Responsibility’ are explained in the glossary of terms. If you are unsure which schools serve your area please telephone the council on 01454 868008. Secondary schools, academies, foundation trust university technical colleges and studio schools (and maps)

30 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions The Castle School The Castle School Area of Prime Responsibility

The area is defined by South Gloucestershire Council’s administrative boundary to the north, running from the River Severn westwards to the Charfield Ward boundary; then southwards and westwards along the Charfield Ward boundary; then the Thornbury Ward boundary westwards; then along the Oldbury-upon-Severn Ward boundary to the River Severn. (Note the defined area diverts from the Thornbury Ward boundary in three places; at Milbury Heath the defined area deviates to the field line to include the Garden Centre complex, at The Slad, Grovesend where the boundary meets the dismantled railway line the defined area runs in a direct line westwards to the point where Abbey Lane meets Jubilee Way, at the entrance to Alveston Cemetery in Costers Close the defined area runs north along the track and then around the outer perimeter of Marlwood School grounds, Chelwood and Brook Farm to re-join the boundary line at Mumbleys Lane.) © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023410 Survey Ordnance 2019 rights database and copyright © Crown

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B4061 M48 B4058 B4461 Wickwar Alveston M5 Tytherington 0 0.5 1 2Km

1. The Castle School

The Castle School normally serves the parishes of Oldbury-on-Severn, Hill, Rockhampton, Thornbury, Falfield, Tortworth, Cromhall and Charfield.

The Castle School - Castle School Education Trust Head Teacher – Mr Joe Docherty Status Academy Park Road, Thornbury Age Range 11-18 Bristol BS35 1HT Admission Number 270  01454 862100 Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 11-15 (September 2019) 1309  [email protected]  www.thecastleschool.org.uk

31  01454 868008  [email protected] Marlwood School Area of Prime Responsibility

The area is defined in the north the by the boundary line between Aust Ward and Oldbury-upon-Severn Ward, running from the River Severn eastwards. At the Thornbury Ward boundary it continues eastwards along the southern side of Thornbury Ward boundary enclosing the

Marlwood School Olveston, Alveston and Tytherington Civil Parish boundaries. At Baden Hill it then runs eastwards along the Tytherington Civil Parish boundary east and then southwards until the Mineral Railway line. Then southwards along the Mineral Railway line to the B4059, then at the layby it tracks south and westwards across the fields in semi-circular line to include Latteridge village and to re-join the Alveston Civil Parish boundary. It then runs along the Alveston Civil Parish boundary westwards, then at the Almondsbury Civil Parish boundary runs southwards to Trench Lane. At Trench Lane it runs west to the M4, then north along the M4, then west along the M5 with Almondsbury Civil Parish boundary, then south along the Almondsbury Civil Parish boundary to the South Gloucestershire Council administrative boundary, then westwards along boundary to the River Severn. (Note the defined area diverts from the Thornbury Ward boundary in three places; at Mumbleys Lane the defined area runs around the outer boundary of Brook Farm, Chelwood and Marlwood School grounds and along the track to the entrance of Alveston Cemetery in Costers Close, at the point where Jubilee Way meets Abbey Lane the defined area runs in a direct line eastwards to the dismantled railway line at The Slad, Grovesend, at Milbury Heath the defined area deviates to the field line to exclude the Garden Centre complex.) © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023410 Survey Ordnance 2019 rights database and copyright © Crown

Thornbury Whitfield

Buckover Cromhall Milbury Littleton- Heath B4461 on-Severn 2 A38

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2. Marlwood School

Marlwood School normally serves the parishes of Aust, Pilning and Severn Beach, Alveston, Tytherington and Almondsbury.

Marlwood School – Castle School Education Trust Head Teacher – Mr Del Planter Status Academy Vattingstone Lane, Alveston Age Range 11-18 Bristol BS35 3LA Admission Number 210  01454 862525 Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 11-15 (September 2019) 445  [email protected]  www.marlwood.com

32 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Yate and Chipping Sodbury Consortium Yate and Chipping Sodbury Consortium Area of Prime Responsibility

The area is defined by Yate Civil Parish boundary to the northeast and runs eastwards, then southwards along the boundary; then runs south along the Sodbury Civil Parish boundary, at the Boundary Stone south of Horton Road turns southwest and follows the stream to the River Frome. Then it runs south along the River Frome, where the river splits near Wickham Close it follows the watercourse south along the perimeter of Blanchards Farm complex and south to the Railway Line. Then it runs west along the Railway Line that is south of Shire Way and then the Dismantled Railway line to join with the Doddington Civil Parish boundary. Then it runs northwards along the Doddington Civil Parish boundary, the Yate Civil Parish boundary.

Brimsham Green School First Area

The area is defined by Rangeworthy Civil Parish boundary to the northeast starting at the Mineral Railway Line, then along the Rangeworthy Civil Parish boundary to the north, east then south. Then along the Iron Acton Civil Parish boundary south to the railway junction at Yate Station. It then follows the Mineral Railway Line westwards and then north.

Yate Academy First Area

The area is defined in the north by the Railway Line that is south of Shire Way. It runs eastwards along the Railway Line until the field line, opposite the southernmost point of Littledean. It then tacks southwards along the field line round the eastern edge of Wapley Bushes to the track that leads to Cliff Farm. At the track it runs westwards to Besom Lane, then southwards along the middle of Besom Lane to Wapley Hill. Near the entrance to Tarn House it then tacks westwards along the field line around Wychwell Farm, then west and south around Bean Wood, then west to the Westerleigh Civil Parish boundary at Sunnymead Farm. Then south along Westerleigh Civil Parish boundary to the M4. Then it runs southwest along the middle of Washpool Lane, half way between the M4 and the River Boyd it then tacks westwards along the field line to the Dyrham and Hinton / Pucklechurch Civil Parish boundary line south of Barley Close Farm. It then runs along the Pucklechurch Civil Parish boundary northwards and westwards to the track west of Park Gate Farm, then northwards along the track to Westerleigh Road.

Then along the middle of Westerleigh Road to the field line west of the Garden Centre, then it tacks along the field line northwards and the Electric Pylon line to Broad Lane track. It then runs by direct line north of Dodmor Farm House to the Dismantled Railway Line, then north along the Dismantled Railway Line to Yate Station. It then runs southwards and east along the Railway Line that is south of Shire Way.

Chipping Sodbury School First Area

The area is defined by South Gloucestershire Council’s administrative boundary to the north and west. At Tormarton Road it then runs westwards along the Tormarton Civil Parish boundary, then northwards to Junction 18 of the M4. It then runs along the Doddington Civil Parish boundary westwards then north to the edge of Sunnymead Farm. At Sunnymead Farm it tacks along the field line east, then north and east around Bean Wood, then northwards along the field line around Wychwell Farm then eastwards to Wapley Hill. It then runs northwards along the middle of Wapley Hill, then the middle of Besom Lane to the junction with the track that leads to Cliff Farm, then eastwards along the track towards Cliff Farm. Half way along the track by the outbuilding at the eastern side of Wapley Bushes the boundary tacks northwards along the field line to the Railway Line (opposite the southernmost point of Littledean). It then runs eastwards along the Railway Line until the water course east of Station Close. It then runs northwards along the watercourse around Blanchards Farm complex, then northwards along the River Frome until the river turns left and a stream joins north of Manor Way. Then it follows the stream north to the Sodbury / Little Sodbury Civil Parish boundary line at the Boundary Stone. Then it runs north along the Little Sodbury Civil Parish boundary line, then the Horton Civil Parish boundary line until it meets the Wickwar Civil Parish boundary line. Then westwards, northwards and eastwards to meet South Gloucestershire Council’s administrative boundary.

33  01454 868008  [email protected] Brimsham Green School, Chipping Sodbury School and Yate Academy normally serve the Yate and Chipping Sodbury area. a Brimsham Green School has a First Area of Responsibility for the parish of Rangeworthy and most of Iron Acton.

b Chipping Sodbury School has a First Area of Responsibility for the parishes of Wickwar, Hawkesbury, Horton, Little Sodbury, Acton Turville, Tormarton, part of Dodington parish and Old Sodbury area.

c Yate Academy has a First Area of Responsibility for parts of Westerleigh and Dodington parishes.

3. Brimsham Green School

Brimsham Green School Specialism: Humanities Head Teacher – Ms Kim Garland Status Community Broad Lane, Yate Age Range 11-18 Bristol BS37 7LB Admission Number 210  01454 868888 Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 11-15 (September 2019) 810  [email protected]

Yate and Chipping Sodbury Consortium Yate  www.brimsham.com

4. Yate Academy

Yate Academy – Greenshaw Learning Trust Specialism: Science and Health & Sport Principal – Ms Isabel Ambrose Status Academy Sundridge Park, Yate Age Range 11-19 Bristol BS37 4DX Admission Number 150  01454 333560 Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 11-15 (September 2019) 575  [email protected]  www.yateacademy.co.uk

5. Chipping Sodbury School

Chipping Sodbury School Specialism: Technology Head Teacher – Ms Katherine Turner Status Co-operative Foundation Trust Bowling Road, Chipping Sodbury Age Range 11-18 Bristol BS37 6EW Admission Number 150  01454 862900 Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 11-15 (September 2019) 721  [email protected]  www.chippingsodburyschool.com

34 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Yate and Chipping Sodbury Consortium © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023410 Survey Ordnance 2019 rights database and copyright © Crown

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35  01454 868008  [email protected] Bradley Stoke Community School, Abbeywood Community School and Patchway Community School Consortium Area of Prime Responsibility

The area is defined by the M5 motorway to the north, M4 motorway to the east, then west along B4057 until the B4427 at the Stoke Gifford Civil Parish boundary, then southwards along the Stoke Gifford Civil Parish boundary until Hambrook Lane, then east along Hambrook Lane until the M32 motorway, then southwards along the M32 motorway, at South Gloucestershire Council’s administrative boundary it then tracks westwards and northwards along South Gloucestershire Council’s administrative boundary until the railway line south of Filton Airport, then northwards along Patchway Civil Parish boundary until the M5 motorway.

Bradley Stoke Community School, Abbeywood Community School and Patchway Community School normally serve the parishes of Patchway, Filton, Stoke Gifford, Bradley Stoke and part of Winterbourne. © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023410 Survey Ordnance 2019 rights database and copyright © Crown

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36 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Bradley Stoke Community School, Abbeywood School and Patchway Community School Consortium 6. Bradley Stoke Community School

Bradley Stoke Community School - Olympus Academy Trust Head Teacher – Mr Steve Moir Status Academy Fiddlers Wood Lane, Bradley Stoke Age Range 4-19 Bristol BS32 9BS Admission Number 180  01454 868840 Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 11-15 (September 2019) 907  [email protected]  www.bradleystokecs.org.uk

7. Abbeywood Community School

Abbeywood Community School - Olympus Academy Trust Head Teacher – Mr Dave Howe Status Academy New Road, Stoke Gifford Age Range 11-18 Bristol BS32 8SF Admission Number 180  0117 307 5660 Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 11-15 (September 2019) 882  [email protected]  www.abbeywoodschool.com

8. Patchway Community School

Patchway Community School - Olympus Academy Trust Head Teacher – Mrs Karen Cornick Status Academy Hempton Lane, Almondsbury Age Range 11-18 Bristol BS32 4AJ Admission Number 180  01454 862020 Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 11-15 (September 2019) 530  [email protected]  www.patchwaycs.org.uk

9. Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy, University Technical College (not included in the Area of Prime Responsibility)

Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy, University Technical College Specialism: Engineering, Science Principal – Ms Rhian Priest Status UTC New Road, Stoke Gifford Age Range 14-19 Bristol BS34 8SF Admission Number 150 Year 10  0117 983 8080 110 Year 12  [email protected] Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 14-19 (September 2019) 111  www.bteacademy.co.uk

37  01454 868008  [email protected] Downend School, King’s Oak Academy, Mangotsfield School and Winterbourne Academy Consortium Area of Prime Responsibility

The area is defined by The River Frome to the northwest and north, then at the Mill Road T junction with Bury Hill it tracks along the middle of Bury Hill and Cuckoo Lane eastwards until Folly Brook, then along Folly Brook until Folly Bridge where it meets Emersons Green Ward boundary, then follows Emerson Green Ward boundary southwards, at the intersection of Emersons Green Ward boundary, Boyd Valley Ward boundary and Siston Ward boundary it follows the Siston Ward boundary east and southwards until the A420, then westwards along the middle of the A420 until South Gloucestershire Council’s administrative boundary, then it tracks northwards along South Gloucestershire Council’s administrative boundary until the River Frome.

Mangotsfield First Area

The area is defined in the north by the Pucklechurch Civil Parish boundary starting at the point that Folly Brook goes under the M4. It runs eastwards and southwards along the Pucklechurch Civil Parish boundary until the watercourse south of Barley Close Farm. It then tracks the watercourse east and northwards to the junction of Dyrham and Hinton / Pucklechurch Civil Parish boundary lines. Then it runs eastwards along the Dryham and Hinton Civil Parish boundary, then south and westwards along the same boundary line. Then continues westwards along the Pucklechurch Civil Parish boundary line but deviates to exclude Old Station Cottage south of Bridge Road. It then runs northwards along the Pucklechurch Civil Parish boundary to the Dramway roundabout on the A4174, it then follows Folly Brook northwards to the M4.

Winterbourne First Area

The area starts in the north eastern corner at the point where the B4059 meets the Mineral Railway line, the area is defined running east by the Mineral Railway Line. Then at Yate Station it follows the Railway Line south, at the point where it meets the Dismantled Railway, south of Westerleigh Business Park, it follows the Dismantled Railway Line southwards. At the point where the Dismantled Railway Line meets the Frampton Cotterell Ward boundary it then runs by direct line southwest, north of Dodmoor Farm, to the first Electric Pylon south of Broad Lane track. It then follows the Electric Pylon and field line southwards to meet Westerleigh Road, to the west of the Garden Centre. Then it runs westwards along the middle of Westerleigh Road until the track west of Park Gate Farm, then south along the track to meet the Westerleigh Civil Parish boundary. Then it follows the Westerleigh Civil Parish boundary south to the M4, then at Folly Brook it runs westwards then northwards along Folly Brook. At Bury Hill it runs south and west along the middle of the road until it meets the River Frome at Riverwood Lodge, then it follows the River Frome west then southwards until the River Frome meets South Gloucestershire Council’s administrative boundary. It then runs along South Gloucestershire Council’s administrative boundary until the M32, then northwards along the M32 until the Hambrook Lane motorway bridge. Then it runs westwards along the middle of Hambrook Lane until the Winterbourne Civil Parish boundary at Curtis Lane, then runs along the Winterbourne Civil Parish boundary until the M4. Then it runs northwards along the M4 until Trench Lane, then eastwards along the middle of Trench Lane until the Frampton Cotterell Civil Parish boundary. It then runs north and westwards along the Frampton Cotterell Civil Parish boundary then the Iron Acton Civil Parish boundary. West of Latteridge village it then tracks south and eastwards across the fields in semi-circular line to exclude Latteridge village to join the B4059 at the layby, then eastwards along the B4059 to meet the Mineral Railway Line. Downend School, King’s Oak Academy, Mangotsfield School and Winterbourne Academy normally serve the area north of the A420 road. Addresses on the northern side of the A420 road itself are included in this area. a Winterbourne Academy has a First Area of Responsibility for the areas (that fall within South Gloucestershire) of Winterbourne, Frampton Cotterell, Frenchay, Hambrook and parts of Westerleigh Parish. b Mangotsfield School has a First Area of Responsibility for the parishes of Dyrham and Hinton and Pucklechurch. Downend School, King’s Oak Academy, Mangotsfield School and Winterbourne Academy Consortium Mangotsfield School and Winterbourne Oak Academy, Downend School, King’s 10. Downend School

Downend School - Castle School Education Trust Head Teacher – Mrs Lisa Howell Status Academy Westerleigh Road, Downend Age Range 11-18 Bristol BS16 6XA Admission Number 210  01454 862300 Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 11-15 (September 2019) 1139  [email protected]  www.downend.com

38 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Downend School, King’s Oak Academy, Mangotsfield School and Winterbourne Academy Consortium 11. King’s Oak Academy

King’s Oak Academy - Cabot Learning Federation Principal – Mr Richard Clutterbuck Status Academy Brook Road, Kingswood Age Range 4-19 Bristol BS15 4JT Admission Number 150  0117 992 7127 Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 11-15 (September 2019) 722  [email protected]  www.kingsoakacademy.org.uk

12. Mangotsfield School

Mangotsfield School - Castle School Education Trust Head Teacher – Mr David Spence Status Academy Rodway Hill, Mangotsfield Age Range 11-18 Bristol BS16 9LH Admission Number 240  01454 862700 Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 11-15 (September 2019) 1077  [email protected]  www.mangotsfieldschool.org.uk

13. Winterbourne Academy

Winterbourne Academy – Olympus Academy Trust Head Teacher – Mr J Beardmore Status Academy High Street, Winterbourne Age Range 11-18 Bristol BS36 1JL Admission Number 300  01454 252000 Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 11-15 (September 2019) 1431  [email protected]  www.winterbourneacademy.org.uk © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023410 Survey Ordnance 2019 rights database and copyright © Crown

M5 Iron Acton B4059

M5

Patchway B4427 Frampton Chipping M4 a Cotterell A432 Bradley Yate Sodbury

Stoke 13B4058 Little Winterbourne Stoke B4057 Coalpit Heath Stoke B4057 Gifford Westerleigh Dodington A38 Winterbourne Down Filton A4174 Codrington Hambrook Northville A46 10 A4174 B4465 Frenchay M4 Downend Emersons Green Horfield Mangotsfied Hinton B4058 Northcote Rd M32 12 B4466 Pucklechurch Staple Hill b Stapleton Fishponds A4017 Sands Hill A4175B4465 Dyrham

A4174 Siston Soundwell Goose Green Rd 11 Doynton Ln Doyton A420 Holly Hill Rd Warmley A46 0 0.5 1 2Km Kingswood A420 Bridgeyate Wick A4174 A420

39  01454 868008  [email protected] Hanham Woods Academy and the Sir Bernard Lovell Academy Consortium Area of Prime Responsibility The area is defined to the north along the middle of the A420 running eastwards until the Abson and Wick Parish boundary (east of Highfield Farm), then southwards along the Abson and Wick Civil Parish Boundary. At the southwestern corner of Abson and Wick Civil Parish it continues southwards along the western perimeter of the first field then it runs westwards by direct line to Redfield Hill, where the track for Redfield Farm joins Redfield Hill. Then by direct line it runs southwest the field line east of Cullyhall Farm, then tacks southwards along the field line to the entrance to Upper Cullyhall Farm at the end of Ryedown Lane. Then it runs westwards along the middle of Ryedown Lane until Cherry Garden Road, then northwards along the middle of Cherry Garden Road until Cherry Garden Lane, then northwest along the middle of Cherry Garden Lane until the Bitton Civil Parish boundary, then southwards along the Ward boundary to South Gloucestershire Council administrative boundary, then westwards and then northwards along the South Gloucestershire Council administrative boundary to the A420.

Sir Bernard Lovell Academy First Area

The area is defined to the north east by the Marshfield Parish Boundary and southwards and then westwards along the South Gloucestershire Council administrative boundary until the southwestern corner of the Bitton Civil Parish boundary. It then runs northwards along the Bitton Civil Parish boundary until Cherry Garden Lane. At Cherry Garden Lane it runs along the middle of the lane until Cherry Garden Road, then southwards along the middle of the road until Ryedown Lane. At Ryedown Lane it runs eastwards along the middle of the Lane until the entrance to Upper Cullyhall Farm, it then tacks northwards along the perimeter of Upper Cullyhall Farm and one field line. It then runs by direct line northeast to the point where Redfield Farm track meets Redfield Hill. Then it runs by direct line eastwards to the field line that runs northwards to join the southwestern corner of Abson and Wick Civil Parish boundary. It then runs northwards, then eastwards along the Abson and Wick Civil Parish boundary, then continues east then southeast along the Doynton Civil Parish boundary. It then runs northwards along the Cold Ashton Civil Parish boundary, then the Marshfield Parish boundary to the South Gloucestershire Council administrative boundary.

Hanham Woods Academy and the Sir Bernard Lovell Academy normally serve the area south of the A420 road. Addresses on the southern side of the A420 road itself are included in this area.

a The Sir Bernard Lovell Academy has a First Area of Responsibility for the parishes of Wick and Abson, Doynton, Cold Ashton, Marshfield Hanham Woods Academy and the Sir Bernard Lovell Academy Consortium Academy and the Sir Bernard Lovell Academy Hanham Woods and part of the parish of Bitton.

14. Hanham Woods Academy

Hanham Woods Academy - Cabot Learning Federation Specialism: Performing Arts Principal – Mr Steve Kneller Status Academy Memorial Road, Hanham Age Range 11-18 Bristol BS15 3LA Admission Number 180  01454 867600 Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 11-15 (September 2019) 802  [email protected]  www.hanhamwoods.academy

15. Sir Bernard Lovell Academy

Sir Bernard Lovell Academy - Wellsway Multi Academy Trust Principal – Mr D Anderson Status Academy North Street, Oldland Common Age Range 11-18 Bristol BS30 8TS Admission Number 210  0117 456 5900 Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 11-15 (September 2019) 891  [email protected]  www.sbllearning.org.uk

40 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Hanham Woods Academy and the Sir Bernard Lovell Academy Consortium 16. John Cabot Academy (not included in the Area of Prime Responsibility)

John Cabot Academy - Cabot Learning Federation Specialism: Science and Technology Executive Principal – Mrs Sally Apps Status Academy Woodside Road, Kingswood Age Range 11-18 Bristol BS15 8BD Admission Number 160  0117 976 3000 Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 11-15 (September 2019) 816  [email protected]  www.cabot.ac.uk

17. Digitech Studio School

Digitech Studio School - Cabot Learning Federation Specialism: Creative, Digital and High Tech Principal – Ms Lis Jolley Status Studio School Tower Road North, Warmley Age Range 14-19 Bristol BS30 8XQ Admission Number 90 in Year 10  0117 992 7100 90 in Year 12  [email protected] Expected No. of Pupils on Roll 11-15 (September 2019) 138  www.digitechstudioschool.co.uk

Digitech Studio School is 14-19 in age range. It admits children in year 10 and is therefore not included in the Area of Prime Responsibility for year 7 admissions © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023410 Survey Ordnance 2019 rights database and copyright © Crown Dodington Westerleigh A46 Codrington Tormarton Hambrook M4 B4465

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41  01454 868008  [email protected] Admission to South Gloucestershire schools, academies, foundation trust schools, university technical studio schools colleges and studio schools

Academies, foundation trust schools, university As from September 2015, Bradley Stoke technical colleges and studio schools are Community School became an all-through their own admission authority and are academy providing for the 4-19 age range and responsible for setting their own admissions providing 30 reception class places. criteria. Allocations of places will be made in accordance with the criteria adopted by the As from September 2015, King’s Oak Academy academy, foundation trust school, university became an all-through academy providing for technical college and studio school. If your the 4 19 age range and providing 60 reception application for a place at an academy, class places. foundation trust school, university technical college and studio school is unsuccessful Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy, you have the right of appeal under the terms University Technical College (UTC) opened in of the School Standards and Framework Act September 2013. It specialises in engineering 1998. Information on the appeal procedure and environmental technology for the 14-19 can be obtained from individual academies, age range and first admission to this UTC is foundation trust schools, university technical in Year 10. The curriculum is highly academic colleges and studio schools. with students also benefiting from specialist and work-based skills. Details of the admission Applications to an academy, foundation trust arrangements are provided in this section. school, university technical college and studio school in South Gloucestershire from South Digitech Studio School opened in September Gloucestershire residents should be made to 2015. It specialises in the digital, high tech South Gloucestershire Council either by online and creative sectors for the 14-19 age range application form or by printing and completing and first admission to this studio school is the application form. Applicants resident in the in Year 10. The curriculum is designed to area of another local authority requesting a focus on skills for employment and provides place in an academy, foundation trust school, opportunities for a full range of qualifications, university technical college and studio school leading to opportunities for higher education, in South Gloucestershire must complete and further training and employment. Details of the return an application form available from admission arrangements are provided in this their own ‘home’ local authority. Academies, section. foundation trust schools, university technical colleges and studio schools admission criteria are listed overleaf in alphabetical order. 14-19 provision in other local authority areas

Academies, foundation trust schools, university Provision for the 14-19 age range with a 15 technical colleges and studio schools may mile radius catchment area includes Bath require applicants to complete a supplementary Studio School, North Somerset Engineering & information form in connection with their Technology College and SGS Berkeley Green admission criteria. Applicants should check with UTC. the academy, foundation trust school, university technical college and studio school concerned.

In South Gloucestershire, we have two academies providing for both primary and secondary school age pupils. Admission to South Gloucestershire schools, academies, foundation trust university technical colleges andAdmission

42 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions studio schools Admission to South Gloucestershire schools, academies, foundation trust university technical colleges and Bath Studio School

Applications for Bath Studio School should be made to Bath & North East Somerset Council and will form part of the co-ordinated admission scheme.

Mendip Studio School

Applications for Mendip Studio School should be made to Bath & North East Somerset Council and will form part of the co-ordinated admission scheme.

North Somerset Engineering & Technology College

Applications for North Somerset Engineering & Technology College should be made to North Somerset Council and will form part of the co- ordinated admission scheme.

SGS Berkeley Green UTC

Applications for SGS Berkeley Green UTC should be made to Gloucestershire County Council and will form part of the co-ordinated admission scheme.

43  01454 868008  [email protected] Admission to Brimsham Green School (Community School)

Purpose of the policy Notes:

South Gloucestershire Council is the admission 1. Children in public care* are those in the care authority for all community schools in South of a local authority or being provided with Gloucestershire. This means that the Council accommodation by a local authority within the is responsible for determining the admission meaning of Section 22 of the Children Act arrangements for Brimsham Green School, 1989. including the admission number and the over- subscription criteria by which applications for Children previously in public care* are those places will be considered. who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted1 (or became The purpose of this policy is to make the subject to a residence order2 or special admissions process to Brimsham Green School guardianship order3). clear and open. * Documentation will need to be provided to South Gloucestershire Council as Year 7 admissions proof of care status.

Brimsham Green School has an admission number 1 Under the terms of the Adoption Act 1976 of 210 places in each year group from year 7 to and the Adoption and Children Act 2002. Admission to Brimsham Green School (Community School) Admission year 11. Should Brimsham Green School be over- subscribed (i.e. if there are more applications than 2 Under the terms of the Children Act 1989 places available), initial allocations will be made and the Children and Families Act 2014. according to the following criteria. These are listed in order of priority and will be applied to all 3 Section 14A of the Children Act 1989. applications received by the published closing date for applications. 2. Local siblings: Children are defined as local siblings if: 1. Children in public care or previously in care. ❚❚ they live within the APR; or, 2. Local siblings (those living within the school’s ❚❚ where there is no APR, local siblings Area of Prime Responsibility and who have will be deemed to be those living named the school as a preference). up to a maximum of two miles from school by straight line measurement; 3a. Geographical considerations (those or, living within the school’s Area of Prime ❚❚ where the distance is over two miles Responsibility). but the school is still the nearest school; 3b. Geographical considerations (those AND living outside the school’s Area of Prime ❚❚ they are full or half brother or sister; or Responsibility). ❚❚ they are adoptive brother or sister; or ❚❚ they are children of the same 4. Tie breaker: Where it does not prove household; possible to resolve allocations to an over- AND subscribed school by the application of ❚❚ the older sibling is already in criteria 1-3, any remaining places will be attendance at the preferred allocated by drawing lots. school and will be in attendance in September 2020 (statutory school age only).

44 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Admission to Brimsham Green School (Community School) Please note that the offer of a place for one child Children of multiple births does not guarantee an offer of a place for a sibling at a later date. Brimsham Green School serves an Whenever possible, South Gloucestershire Area of Prime Responsibility. Only children who Council as the admission authority for Brimsham live within the Area of Prime Responsibility will Green School, will endeavour to place children of be afforded priority of admission under the local multiple births in the same school within the places sibling criterion. available. However, where the last child to qualify for a place is a twin or child of multiple birth, the 3a. Geographical considerations (for those living places will be offered to one child and the other within the Area of Prime Responsibility): child/children considered under the admission Priority will be given to those children who criteria. live within the Area of Prime Responsibility (APR) for the school. Brimsham Green School has an Area of First Responsibility. Children with education, health and care This means that children living in this area plans (EHCPs) (formerly statements of special will be given the highest priority followed by children living within the Consortium Area of educational needs) Prime Responsibility (see maps of schools section for details of the APR). If in any year, Children with EHCPs are placed in schools through there are more children living within the Area the arrangements set out in the SEN Code of of Prime Responsibility than the number of Practice and not through these admission criteria. places available at the school, priority will be Each governing body is required by Section 324 given to those children who live closest to of the Education Act 1996 to admit to the school a the school. Distances from home to school child with an EHCP that names the school whether are measured in a straight line between or not there are places available. Any appeal the address point of the child’s home and a concerning the EHCP or the admission is to the central point within the main school building independent First-tier Tribunal (Health, Education using South Gloucestershire Council’s and Social Care Chamber). computerised mapping system.

3b. Geographical considerations (for those Children of UK service personnel living outside a school’s Area of Prime (UK armed forces) Responsibility): After places have been allocated from within the Area of Prime South Gloucestershire Council as the admission Responsibility, any remaining places will be authority for Brimsham Green School recognises allocated to those children who live closest to the particular needs of children of UK service the school. personnel (UK Armed Forces). The council on behalf of the governing body ensures that the Distances from home to school are measured needs of these children are taken into account by: in a straight line between the address point of the child’s home and a central point ❚❚ allocating a school place in advance if within the main school building using South the application is accompanied by an Gloucestershire Council computerised official government letter which declares a mapping system. All applications will be relocation date and a Unit postal address or considered at the same time and the quartering address; published over-subscription criteria applied. ❚❚ accepting a Unit postal address, or, if 4. Tie breaker: Lots will be drawn by a senior appropriate, a quartering area address (the officer of South Gloucestershire Council who address of the closest house in the relevant is independent of the school admissions quartering area), for applications from process. service personnel in the absence of a new home postal address;

45  01454 868008  [email protected] ❚❚ accepting a late application from UK Parental disputes service personnel as ‘on time’ where a notification of posting has been received South Gloucestershire Council can process only after the closing date and before the date one application per child from one address for a of exchange of information with other school place. It is therefore important that parents/ admission authorities; carers sharing responsibility for a child, and a child living at more than one address, agree on ❚❚ considering an application on the criterion the application for a school place and that this is of ‘local sibling’ where another child in submitted by the closing date. the family has been offered a place at the preferred school and the Unit postal South Gloucestershire Council is unable to resolve address or quartering address is within parental disputes and if the parents/carers do the Area of Prime Responsibility for the not agree, or submit more than one application, preferred school; the application(s) will not be processed. This may mean that the allocation of a school place may be ❚❚ wherever possible, children of UK service delayed until an agreement is reached and could personnel will be offered a place at the mean that the application is considered as a late preferred local school but taking into application. Note: Late applications will not normally account the admission number for the be considered for the initial allocation of places. If school. your application is late it may affect your chance of obtaining a place at one of your preferred schools. Please refer to the Glossary of Terms for the definition of parental/carer responsibility. Use your child’s permanent home address

You must apply using your child’s permanent home Appeals - year 7 September intake appeals address as at 31 October 2019. The home address is considered to be where the child lives most of After the 31 October each year (closing date for Admission to Brimsham Green School (Community School) Admission the time with his or her parent(s) or carer(s). As the applications) South Gloucestershire Council will admission authority for Brimsham Green School, send Brimsham Green School a list of all their South Gloucestershire Council cannot accept an applicants. This will include first, second and third address of a business, relative, friend, childminder, preferences, but won’t state the preferences. The a temporary address or an address of a house it is council will rank the list for Brimsham Green School intended to move to. The only exceptions are for and allocate 210 students. children of UK service personnel for whom special arrangements apply. South Gloucestershire Council Parents/carers will be informed of the allocation reserves the right to seek documentary evidence of places. Included in this information will be an to support a claim of residence. appeal form and an explanatory statement from South Gloucestershire Council as the admission authority for Brimsham Green School. If parents/ Children resident at more than one address carers wish to appeal they need to complete and return the appeals form and return to the Where a child spends time with parents at more governing body of Brimsham Green School, South than one address, then the address given should Gloucestershire Council, Admissions and Transport be the one that they live at (i.e. sleep at) for the Team, PO Box 1955, Bristol, BS37 0DE. majority of term-time school nights (Sunday night to Thursday night). If children spend time equally An independent appeals panel will be convened at different addresses then the address used for by South Gloucestershire Council at which both admissions purposes will be the one registered parents/carers and South Gloucestershire Council, for child benefit. We will request proof of the as the admission authority of Brimsham Green registered address, which must pre-date the Schools, will represent their case. Decisions made application. by the panel are legally binding.

46 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Admission to Brimsham Green School (Community School) Waiting lists Post 16 admissions

The waiting list comprises those children refused a Children and their parents/carers applying for post place whose parents/carers have lodged a formal 16 (sixth form) places should contact Brimsham appeal or asked to go on a waiting list together Green School directly. For post 16 admission: with any late applications received. ❚❚ applications will be considered for A waiting list will be maintained for any vacancies admission at the age of 16+; which occur until the end of Term 2 (December 2020) and then discarded. ❚❚ where the number of applications exceeds It is for each admission authority to determine the number of places available, and whether they will maintain waiting lists after the after admission of any students with an autumn term. Education, Health and Care Plan, priority Priority order on the waiting list will be determined will be given in accordance with the over- by the over-subscription criteria, not by the date of subscription criteria set for admissions to joining the waiting list. the school at 11+ years;

Children who are the subject of a direction by a ❚❚ in the case of applicants in public care or local authority to admit or who are allocated to a previously in public care, the applicant must school in accordance with the Fair Access Protocol meet any set academic criteria; must take precedence over those on a waiting list. ❚❚ Brimsham Green School will apply the Where a place becomes available and the local same criteria for admission to the sixth form authority, after using all advised contact details for both internal and external transfer; is unable to contact a successful applicant for a place within two school weeks, the available ❚❚ under the School Admissions Appeal place will be offered to the next child to qualify Code there will be a right of appeal to an for a place. Where an applicant decides to place independent appeal panel for unsuccessful their child(ren)’s name on a waiting list, it is for the applicants, both internal and external. applicant to keep South Gloucestershire Council informed of updated contact and address details.

In-year transfer years 7 – 11

Parents/carers seeking places at Brimsham Green School during the academic year 2020-2021 should apply to the governing body for a place. If the year group is full or over-subscribed the governing body of Brimsham Green School will refuse the place and the applicant will be placed on a waiting list and given the opportunity to appeal.

47  01454 868008  [email protected] Cabot Learning Federation Admission to Digitech Studio School

1 Policy statement 2.1.3 As their own admission authority, CLF academies are not required to consult on 1.1 The purpose of this policy is to make clear their Published Admission Number (PAN) the admissions process to Digitech Studio where they propose either to increase or School. keep the same PAN; however where a PAN is increased the Academy will notify the LA and 1.2 The Cabot Learning Federation (CLF) publish details on the Academy website. adheres to the statutory requirements and the principles outlined in the School 2.1.4 When consultation is required, the CLF will Admissions Code [DfE December 2014], consult the following parties on the proposed which all academies are required to adhere admission arrangements: to via the Funding Agreement between Digitech Studio School and the Secretary of a. Parents/carers of children; State. b. South Gloucestershire LA; c. The Admission Forum for South 1.3 The CLF has agreed that the admission Gloucestershire LA (where this exists); arrangements will remain in line with d. Any other admission authorities for the agreed arrangements for South secondary schools located within the Gloucestershire maintained non- relevant area for consultation set by denominational secondary schools. South Gloucestershire LA; e. Any other governing body/Academy 1.4 More information about the CLF can be found Council for secondary schools (as far as on the website as follows: not falling within paragraph c) located www.cabotlearningfederation.net within the relevant area for consultation;

Admission to Digitech Studio School to Digitech Studio Federation - Admission Cabot Learning f. Affected admission authorities in 1.5 The policy covering admissions for Post 16 neighbouring local authority areas. students is not contained in this document. Please visit the Cabot Learning Federation 2.2 Determination Post 16 website to view the Post 16 Admissions Policy: 2.2.1 Once feedback from the consultation has www.clfpost16.org been considered, the CLF must determine the admission arrangements and must notify the Local Authority (LA) of these and publish 2 The admissions timetable them on the relevant Academy website.

2.1 Consultation 2.3 Offers and Acceptance of Offers

2.1.1. The Cabot Learning Federation (CLF) sets 2.3.1 Offers will be made on 2 March 2020 and out admission arrangements annually. need to be accepted by 16 March 2020. Where changes are proposed to admission arrangements, the federation will first publicly consult on those arrangements. If no changes 3 Process of application are made to admission arrangements, the Academy admissions policy will be consulted 3.1 Applications for places at the Academy on at least once every 7 years. will be made in accordance with South Gloucestershire Local Authority’s co- 2.1.2 For admission arrangements for entry in ordinated admission arrangements, and can September 2020 and all subsequent years, be made on-line at www.southglos.gov.uk/ consultation will be for a minimum of 6 weeks admissions or by printing and completing the and will take place between 1 October and application form available to download at 31 January of the school year before those www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions arrangements are to apply. and return it to the address indicated on the form.

48 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Cabot Learning Federation - Admission to Digitech Studio School 4 Published admissions number ❚❚ Live within the area of prime responsibility; or 4.1 Digitech Studio School has a PAN of 90 ❚❚ Where there is no area of prime places in Year 10 and 90 in Year 12 leading to responsibility, local siblings will be a total number of 360 places across Years 10 deemed to be those living up to a to 13 when at full capacity. maximum of 2 miles from school by straight line measurement; or 4.2 The policy covering admissions for Post 16 ❚❚ Where the distance is over two miles students is not contained in this document. but the school is still the nearest Please visit the Cabot Learning Federation school; Post 16 website to view the Post 16 AND Admissions Policy: ❚❚ They are full or half brother or sister; http://www.clfpost16.org/ or ❚❚ They ae adoptive brother or sister; or ❚❚ They are children of the same 5 Consideration of applications household; AND 5.1 Digitech Studio School will consider all ❚❚ The older sibling is already in application for places. Where fewer than 90 attendance at the preferred school applications are received, Digitech Studio and will be in attendance in the School through South Gloucestershire September of the younger sibling’s Council will offer places to all those who have admission year. applied. 3a) Geographical considerations – those living within the Academy’s Area of Prime 6 Students with an Education, Health and Care Responsibility – those living closest to Plan (EHC Plan) the Academy will be given priority. 6.1 Children with an EHC Plan are placed 3b) Geographical considerations – those in schools/academies through the living outside the Academy’s Area of arrangements set out in the SEND Code of Prime Responsibility – those living Practice and not through these admission closest to the Academy will be given criteria. All admission authorities are required priority [please refer to the over- by Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 to subscription notes for further details and admit to the academy a child with an EHC arrangements for measuring distance]. Plan that names the academy. Academies must admit such children whether they 4) Tie breaker – where it is not possible have places or not. Any appeal concerning to distinguish between applicants the statement of the admission is to the within a particular over-subscription independent First-Tier Tribunal (Health, criteria, places will be awarded by Education and Social Care Chamber). random allocation. This process will be Parents/carers of children with an EHC Plan supervised by an independent person to should contact their child’s lead professional the Local Authority and the academy. for any further information. 8 Late admissions 7 Over-subscription criteria 8.1 Late applications will not be considered until 7.1 Where the number of applications for offers have been made to on time applicants admissions is greater than the Published and in accordance with the dates set out in Admission Number of 90, applications will be the co-ordinated admission arrangements. considered against the criteria set out below. These are listed in priority order and will be 9 In-Year admissions applied to all applications received by the published closing date. 9.1 Applications for Academy places from 1) Looked After Children and Previously parents/carers resident in, or with a confirmed Looked After Children move to South Gloucestershire Council must be made on the Academy application form 2) Local Siblings: defined as siblings that: available at www.digitechstudioschool.co.uk. The Academy will consider each application.

49  01454 868008  [email protected] If more applications are received than 12.4 Parents/carers wishing to appeal against there are places available, the over- an admission appeal should send a subscription criteria shall apply. Parents/ completed appeal form to the address carers whose application is turned down detailed on the offer letter. Other are entitled to appeal. documents may be submitted in support of an appeal and should be lodged not less than 5 school days before the appeal 10 Waiting list hearing.

10.1 Where the Academy has been over- 12.5 Parents/carers will be given 10 school subscribed in the normal admissions days’ notice of the appeal hearing, unless round and places have been refused they agree to a shorter period of notice. to some applicants, a waiting list will be maintained for any vacancies which 12.6 The decision of the Appeal Panel will subsequently occur in the Academy. be communicated in writing as soon as possible after the hearing has been 10.2 The waiting list will be prioritised concluded and within 5 school days. In according to the admission criteria and the case of unsuccessful appeals the not by reference to the date of joining the Appeal Panel will give the parents/carers waiting list. their reasons for not upholding the appeal.

10.3 Any waiting list will be maintained until the end of Term 2 (December 2020) and then Notes/definitions to the over-subscription discarded. criteria 1) Children in public care* are those who 11 Feeder schools are in the care of a local authority or being provided with accommodation by a local 11.1 The CLF does not operate a feeder authority in the exercise of their social primary academy policy for admissions services functions (as defined in Section

Admission to Digitech Studio School to Digitech Studio Federation - Admission Cabot Learning to a secondary academy and therefore 22 of the Children Act 1989) at the time attendance at a federation primary of making an application to a school. In academy does not guarantee a place at a South Gloucestershire, these children are particular federation secondary academy. referred to as children in public care. The exception to this is King’s Oak Academy which is an all-through provision. Children previously in public care* are those who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted1 (or 12 Appeals became subject to a residence order2 or special guardianship order3). 12.1 When an offer of a place is made, the * Documentation will need to be provided reasons for the decision will be set out, to South Gloucestershire Council as proof together with details of how the parent/ of care status. carer can lodge an appeal against the 1 Under the terms of the Adoption Act decision by the deadline for doing so. The 1976 and the Adoption and Children’s Academy must establish an independent Act 2002. appeals panel to hear the appeal. The 2 Under the terms of the Children Act panel will decide whether to uphold 1989 and Children and Families Act or dismiss the appeal. Where a panel 2014. upholds the appeal the Academy is 3 Section 14A of the Children Act 1989. required to admit the child. 12.2 The arrangements for appeals will be in line with the Code of Practice on School Admission Appeals.

12.3 Parents will normally have 20 school days after notification of a place not being offered to lodge an appeal.

50 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Cabot Learning Federation - Admission to Digitech Studio School 2) Local siblings: In South Gloucestershire children are defined as local siblings if: ❚❚ they live within the APR; or, ❚❚ where there is no APR, local siblings will be deemed to be those living up to a maximum of two miles from school by straight line measurement; or, ❚❚ where the distance is over two miles but the school is still the nearest school AND ❚❚ they are full or half brother or sister; or ❚❚ they are adoptive brother or sister; or ❚❚ they are children of the same household AND ❚❚ the older sibling is already in attendance at the preferred school and will be in attendance in September 2020 (statutory school age only)

For the purposes of the local sibling criterion, a paired infant and junior school will be treated as one school.

3) Geographical considerations: Where there are more applications for children living within an Area of Prime Responsibility than places available, priority will be given to applications from within the defined area who live closest to the preferred school. After places have been allocated from within the Area of Prime Responsibility, any remaining places will be allocated to those children living closest to the school. Distances from home to school are measured in a straight line between the address point of the child’s home and a central point within the main school building using the local authority’s computerised mapping system.

4) Tie breaker: Where it does not prove possible to resolve allocations to an over- subscribed school by the application of criteria 1-3, any remaining places will be awarded by random allocation. This process will be supervised by an independent person to the Local Authority and the academy.

51  01454 868008  [email protected] Cabot Learning Federation Admission to Hanham Woods Academy 2.1.3 As their own admission authority, CLF 1 Policy statement academies are not required to consult on their Published Admission Number (PAN) 1.1 The purpose of this policy is to make clear where they propose either to increase or the admissions process to Hanham Woods keep the same PAN; however where a PAN is Academy. increased the Academy will notify the LA and publish details on the Academy website. 1.2 The Cabot Learning Federation (CLF) adheres to the statutory requirements 2.1.4 When consultation is required, the CLF will and the principles outlined in the School consult the following parties on the proposed Admissions Code [DfE December 2014], admission arrangements: which all academies are required to adhere to via the Funding Agreement between a. Parents/carers of children; Hanham Woods Academy and the Secretary b. South Gloucestershire LA; of State. c. The Admission Forum for South Gloucestershire LA (where this exists); 1.3 The CLF has agreed that the admission d. Any other admission authorities for arrangements will remain in line with secondary schools located within the the agreed arrangements for South relevant area for consultation set by Gloucestershire maintained non- South Gloucestershire LA; denominational secondary schools. e. Any other governing body/Academy Council for secondary schools (as far as 1.4 More information about the CLF can be found not falling within paragraph c) located on the website as follows: within the relevant area for consultation; www.cabotlearningfederation.net f. Affected admission authorities in neighbouring local authority areas. 1.5 The policy covering admissions for Post 16 Admission to Hanham Woods Academy to Hanham Woods Federation - Admission Cabot Learning students is not contained in this document. 2.2 Determination Please visit the Cabot Learning Federation Post 16 website to view the Post 16 2.2.1 Once feedback from the consultation has Admissions Policy: been considered, the CLF must determine www.clfpost16.org the admission arrangements and must notify the Local Authority (LA) of these and publish them on the relevant Academy website. 2 The admissions timetable 2.3 Offers and Acceptance of Offers 2.1 Consultation 2.3.1 Offers will be made on 2 March 2020 and 2.1.1. The Cabot Learning Federation (CLF) sets need to be accepted by 16 March 2020. out admission arrangements annually. Where changes are proposed to admission arrangements, the federation will first publicly 3 Process of application consult on those arrangements. If no changes are made to admission arrangements, the 3.1 Applications for places at the Academy Academy admissions policy will be consulted will be made in accordance with South on at least once every 7 years. Gloucestershire Local Authority’s co- ordinated admission arrangements, and can 2.1.2 For admission arrangements for entry in be made on-line at September 2020 and all subsequent years, www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions or by consultation will be for a minimum of 6 weeks printing and completing the application form and will take place between 1 October and available to download at 31 January of the school year before those www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions and arrangements are to apply. return it to the address indicated on the form.

52 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Cabot Learning Federation - Admission to Hanham Woods Academy 4 Published admissions number ❚❚ Live within the area of prime responsibility; or 4.1 Hanham Woods Academy has a PAN of 180 ❚❚ Where there is no area of prime places in Year 7, leading to a total number of responsibility, local siblings will be 900 places across Years 7 to 11 when at full deemed to be those living up to a capacity. maximum of 2 miles from school by straight line measurement; or 4.2 The policy covering admissions for Post 16 ❚❚ Where the distance is over two miles students is not contained in this document. but the school is still the nearest Please visit the Cabot Learning Federation school; Post 16 website to view the Post 16 AND Admissions Policy: ❚❚ They are full or half brother or sister; www.clfpost16.org or ❚❚ They ae adoptive brother or sister; or ❚❚ They are children of the same 5 Consideration of applications household; AND 5.1 Hanham Woods Academy will consider all ❚❚ The older sibling is already in application for places. Where fewer than 180 attendance at the preferred school applications are received, Hanham Woods and will be in attendance in the Academy, through South Gloucestershire September of the younger sibling’s Council, will offer places to all those who admission year. have applied. 3a) Geographical considerations – those living within the Academy’s Area of Prime 6 Students with an Education, Health and Care Responsibility – those living closest to Plan (EHC Plan) the Academy will be given priority. 6.1 Children with an EHC Plan are placed 3b) Geographical considerations – those in schools/academies through the living outside the Academy’s Area of arrangements set out in the SEND Code of Prime Responsibility – those living Practice and not through these admission closest to the Academy will be given criteria. All admission authorities are required priority [please refer to the over- by Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 to subscription notes for further details and admit to the academy a child with an EHC arrangements for measuring distance]. Plan that names the academy. Academies must admit such children whether they 4) Tie breaker – where it is not possible have places or not. Any appeal concerning to distinguish between applicants the statement of the admission is to the within a particular over-subscription independent First-Tier Tribunal (Health, criteria, places will be awarded by Education and Social Care Chamber). random allocation. This process will be Parents/carers of children with an EHC Plan supervised by an independent person to should contact their child’s lead professional the Local Authority and the Academy. for any further information. 7 Over-subscription criteria 8 Late admissions

7.1 Where the number of applications for 8.1 Late applications will not be considered until admissions is greater than the Published offers have been made to on time applicants Admission Number, applications will be and in accordance with the dates set out in considered against the criteria set out below. the co-ordinated admission arrangements. These are listed in priority order and will be applied to all applications received by the published closing date. 9 In-Year admissions

1) Looked After Children and Previously 9.1 Applications for Academy places from Looked After Children parents/carers resident in, or with a confirmed move to South Gloucestershire Council must 2) Local Siblings: defined as siblings that: be made on the Academy application form available at www.hanhamwoodsacademy.

53  01454 868008  [email protected] The Academy will consider each application. 12.4 Parents/carers wishing to appeal against an If more applications are received than there admission appeal should send a completed are places available, the over-subscription appeal form to the address detailed on criteria shall apply. Parents/carers whose the offer letter. Other documents may be application is turned down are entitled to submitted in support of an appeal and should appeal. be lodged not less than 5 school days before the appeal hearing.

10 Waiting list 12.5 Parents/carers will be given 10 school days’ notice of the appeal hearing, unless they 10.1 Where the Academy has been over- agree to a shorter period of notice. subscribed in the normal admissions round and places have been refused to some 12.6 The decision of the Appeal Panel will be applicants, a waiting list will be maintained for communicated in writing as soon as possible any vacancies which subsequently occur in after the hearing has been concluded the Academy. and within 5 school days. In the case of unsuccessful appeals the Appeal Panel will 10.2 The waiting list will be prioritised according to give the parents/carers their reasons for not the admission criteria and not by reference to upholding the appeal. the date of joining the waiting list.

10.3 Any waiting list will be maintained until the Notes/definitions to the over-subscription criteria end of Term 2 (December term) and then discarded. 1) Children in public care* are those who are in the care of a local authority or being provided with accommodation by a local authority in 11 Feeder schools the exercise of their social services functions (as defined in Section 22 of the Children Act 11.1 The CLF does not operate a feeder 1989) at the time of making an application primary academy policy for admissions to a school. In South Gloucestershire, these to a secondary academy and therefore children are referred to as children in public attendance at a federation primary academy care. Admission to Hanham Woods Academy to Hanham Woods Federation - Admission Cabot Learning does not guarantee a place at a particular Children previously in public care* are those federation secondary academy. The who were looked after, but ceased to be so exception to this is King’s Oak Academy because they were adopted1 (or became which is an all-through provision. subject to a residence order2 or special guardianship order3). * Documentation will need to be provided 12 Appeals to South Gloucestershire Council as proof of care status. 12.1 When an offer of a place is made, the 1 Under the terms of the Adoption Act reasons for the decision will be set out, 1976 and the Adoption and Children’s Act together with details of how the parent/carer 2002. can lodge an appeal against the decision 2 Under the terms of the Children Act 1989 by the deadline for doing so. The Academy and Children and Families Act 2014. must establish an independent appeals panel 3 Section 14A of the Children Act 1989. to hear the appeal. The panel will decide whether to uphold or dismiss the appeal. Where a panel upholds the appeal the Academy is required to admit the child.

12.2 The arrangements for appeals will be in line with the Code of Practice on School Admission Appeals.

12.3 Parents will normally have 20 school days after notification of a place not being offered to lodge an appeal.

54 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Cabot Learning Federation - Admission to Hanham Woods Academy 2) Local siblings: In South Gloucestershire children are defined as local siblings if: ❚❚ they live within the APR; or, ❚❚ where there is no APR, local siblings will be deemed to be those living up to a maximum of two miles from school by straight line measurement; or, ❚❚ where the distance is over two miles but the school is still the nearest school AND ❚❚ they are full or half brother or sister; or ❚❚ they are adoptive brother or sister; or ❚❚ they are children of the same household AND ❚❚ the older sibling is already in attendance at the preferred school and will be in attendance in September 2020 (statutory school age only) For the purposes of the local sibling criterion, a paired infant and junior school will be treated as one school.

3) Geographical considerations: Where there are more applications for children living within an Area of Prime Responsibility than places available, priority will be given to applications from within the defined area who live closest to the preferred school. After places have been allocated from within the Area of Prime Responsibility, any remaining places will be allocated to those children living closest to the school. Distances from home to school are measured in a straight line between the address point of the child’s home and a central point within the main school building using the local authority’s computerised mapping system.

4) Tie breaker: Where it does not prove possible to resolve allocations to an over- subscribed school by the application of criteria 1-3, any remaining places will be awarded by random allocation. This process will be supervised by an independent person to the Local Authority and the academy.

55  01454 868008  [email protected] Cabot Learning Federation Admission to John Cabot Academy

1 Policy statement 2.1.3 As their own admission authority, CLF academies are not required to consult on 1.1 The purpose of this policy is to make clear their Published Admission Number (PAN) the admissions process to John Cabot where they propose either to increase or Academy. keep the same PAN; however where a PAN is increased the Academy will notify the LA and 1.2 The Cabot Learning Federation (CLF) publish details on the Academy website. adheres to the statutory requirements and the principles outlined in the School 2.1.4 When consultation is required, the CLF will Admissions Code [DfE December 2014], consult the following parties on the proposed which all academies are required to adhere admission arrangements: to via the Funding Agreement between John Cabot Academy and the Secretary of State. a. Parents/carers of children; b. South Gloucestershire and Bristol LA; 1.3 The CLF has agreed that the admission c. The Admission Forum for South arrangements will remain in line with Gloucestershire LA (where this exists); the agreed arrangements for South d. Any other admission authorities for Gloucestershire maintained non- secondary schools located within the denominational secondary schools. relevant area for consultation set by South Gloucestershire LA; 1.4 More information about the CLF can be found e. Any other governing body/Academy on the website as follows: Council for secondary schools (as far as www.cabotlearningfederation.net not falling within paragraph c) located within the relevant area for consultation; Admission to John Cabot Academy Federation - Admission Cabot Learning 1.5 The policy covering admissions for Post 16 f. Affected admission authorities in students is not contained in this document. neighbouring local authority areas. Please visit the Cabot Learning Federation Post 16 website to view the Post 16 2.2 Determination Admissions Policy: www.clfpost16.org 2.2.1 Once feedback from the consultation has been considered, the CLF must determine the admission arrangements and must notify 2 The admissions timetable the Local Authority (LA) of these and publish them on the relevant Academy website. 2.1 Consultation 2.3 Offers and Acceptance of Offers 2.1.1. The Cabot Learning Federation (CLF) sets out admission arrangements annually. 2.3.1 Offers will be made on 2 March 2020 and Where changes are proposed to admission need to be accepted by 16 March 2020. arrangements, the federation will first publicly consult on those arrangements. If no changes are made to admission arrangements, the 3 Process of application Academy admissions policy will be consulted on at least once every 7 years. 3.1 Applications for places at the Academy will be made in accordance with South 2.1.2 For admission arrangements for entry in Gloucestershire Local Authority’s co- September 2020 and all subsequent years, ordinated admission arrangements, and can consultation will be for a minimum of 6 weeks be made on-line at and will take place between 1 October and www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions or by 31 January of the school year before those printing and completing the application form arrangements are to apply. available to download at www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions and return it to the address indicated on the form.

56 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Cabot Learning Federation - Admission to John Cabot Academy 4 Published admissions number 2) Siblings of students currently attending John Cabot Academy in Years 7 to 11 4.1 John Cabot Academy has a PAN of 160 and including students of Year 12 age places in Year 7. who completed their GCSEs in Year 11 at John Cabot Academy, who will continue 4.2 The policy covering admissions for Post 16 to do so on the date of admission. If students is not contained in this document. the number of applicants with a sibling Please visit the Cabot Learning Federation exceeds the number of remaining places Post 16 website to view the Post 16 available, random allocation would be Admissions Policy: www.clfpost16.org used to determine the places.

3) Remaining places will be allocated by 5 Consideration of applications random allocation.

5.1 John Cabot Academy through South 4) Wherever random allocation is used, this Gloucestershire Council will consider all will be supervised by an independent application for places. Where fewer than person to the Local Authority and the 160 applications are received, John Cabot Academy. Academy through South Gloucestershire Council, will offer places to all those who have applied. 8 Late admissions

8.1 Late applications will not be considered until 6 Students with an Education, Health and Care offers have been made to on time applicants Plan (EHC Plan) and in accordance with the dates set out in the co-ordinated admission arrangements. Late applications will be given the opportunity 6.1 Children with an EHC Plan are placed to join a waiting list and take part in the in schools/academies through the second round admissions process. Second arrangements set out in the SEND Code of round offers (from May 2021) are subject to Practice and not through these admission the over-subscription criteria detailed above. criteria. All admission authorities are required by Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 to admit to the academy a child with an EHC 9 In-Year admissions Plan that names the academy. Academies must admit such children whether they 9.1 Applications for Academy places from have places or not. Any appeal concerning parents/carers must be made on the the statement of the admission is to the Academy application form available at www. independent First-Tier Tribunal (Health, cabot.ac.uk. The Academy will consider each Education and Social Care Chamber). application. If more applications are received Parents/carers of children with an EHC Plan than there are places available, the second should contact their child’s lead professional round over-subscription criteria shall apply. for any further information. Parents/carers whose application is turned down are entitled to appeal. 7 Over-subscription criteria

7.1 Where the number of applications for admissions is greater than the Published Admission Number (PAN), applications will be considered against the criteria set out below. These are listed in priority order and will be applied to all applications received by the published closing date.

1) Looked After Children and Previously Looked After Children

57  01454 868008  [email protected] 10 Waiting list 12.5 Parents/carers will be given 10 school days’ notice of the appeal hearing, unless they 10.1 Where the Academy has been over- agree to a shorter period of notice. subscribed in the normal admissions round and places have been refused to some 12.6 The decision of the Appeal Panel will be applicants, a waiting list will be maintained for communicated in writing as soon as possible any vacancies which subsequently occur in after the hearing has been concluded the Academy. and within 5 school days. In the case of unsuccessful appeals the Appeal Panel will 10.2 The waiting list will be prioritised according to give the parents/carers their reasons for not the admission criteria and not by reference to upholding the appeal. the date of joining the waiting list.

10.3 The waiting list will be administered in Notes/definitions to the over-subscription criteria accordance with the second round over- subscription criteria and will remain open for 1) Children in public care* are those who are in the Year 7 academic year. the care of a local authority or being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions 11 Feeder schools (as defined in Section 22 of the Children Act 1989) at the time of making an application 11.1 The CLF does not operate a feeder to a school. In South Gloucestershire, these primary academy policy for admissions children are referred to as children in public to a secondary academy and therefore care. attendance at a federation primary academy does not guarantee a place at a particular Children previously in public care* are those federation secondary academy. The who were looked after, but ceased to be so exception to this is King’s Oak Academy because they were adopted1 (or became which is an all-through provision. subject to a residence order2 or special guardianship order3). Admission to John Cabot Academy Federation - Admission Cabot Learning 12 Appeals * Documentation will need to be provided to South Gloucestershire Council as 12.1 When an offer of a place is made, the proof of care status. reasons for the decision will be set out, 1 Under the terms of the Adoption Act together with details of how the parent/carer 1976 and the Adoption and Children’s Act can lodge an appeal against the decision 2002. by the deadline for doing so. The Academy 2 Under the terms of the Children Act 1989 must establish an independent appeals panel and Children and Families Act 2014. to hear the appeal. The panel will decide 3 Section 14A of the Children Act 1989. whether to uphold or dismiss the appeal. Where a panel upholds the appeal the 2) Siblings: In South Gloucestershire children Academy is required to admit the child. are defined as local siblings if: ❚❚ they are full or half brother or sister; or 12.2 The arrangements for appeals will be in ❚❚ they are adoptive brother or sister; or line with the Code of Practice on School ❚❚ they are children of the same Admission Appeals. household AND 12.3 Parents will normally have 20 school days ❚❚ the older sibling is already in after notification of a place not being offered attendance at John Cabot Academy to lodge an appeal. in Years 7 to 11 and including a student of Year 12 age attending CLF Post 16 12.4 Parents/carers wishing to appeal against an who completed their GCSEs in Year admission appeal should send a completed 11 at John Cabot Academy, who will appeal form to the address detailed on continue to attend CLF Post 16 on the the offer letter. Other documents may be date of admission. submitted in support of an appeal and should be lodged not less than 5 school days before Please note that the offer of a place does not the appeal hearing. guarantee an offer of a place to a sibling at a later date.

58 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Cabot Learning Federation - Admission to King’s Oak Academy Cabot Learning Federation Admission to King’s Oak Academy

1 Policy statement 2.1.3 As their own admission authority, CLF academies are not required to consult on 1.1 The purpose of this policy is to make clear their Published Admission Number (PAN) the admissions process to King’s Oak where they propose either to increase or Academy. keep the same PAN; however where a PAN is increased the Academy will notify the LA and 1.2 The Cabot Learning Federation (CLF) publish details on the Academy website. adheres to the statutory requirements and the principles outlined in the School 2.1.4 When consultation is required, the CLF will Admissions Code [DfE December 2014], consult the following parties on the proposed which all academies are required to adhere admission arrangements: to via the Funding Agreement between King’s Oak Academy and the Secretary of a. Parents/carers of children; State. b. South Gloucestershire LA; c. The Admission Forum for South 1.3 The CLF has agreed that the admission Gloucestershire LA (where this exists); arrangements will remain in line with d. Any other admission authorities for the agreed arrangements for South secondary schools located within the Gloucestershire maintained non- relevant area for consultation set by denominational secondary schools. South Gloucestershire LA; e. Any other governing body/Academy 1.4 More information about the CLF can be found Council for secondary schools (as far as on the website as follows: not falling within paragraph c) located www.cabotlearningfederation.net within the relevant area for consultation; f. Affected admission authorities in 1.5 The policy covering admissions for Post 16 neighbouring local authority areas. students is not contained in this document. Please visit the Cabot Learning Federation 2.2 Determination Post 16 website to view the Post 16 Admissions Policy: 2.2.1 Once feedback from the consultation has www.clfpost16.org been considered, the CLF must determine the admission arrangements and must notify the Local Authority (LA) of these and publish 2 The admissions timetable them on the relevant Academy website.

2.1 Consultation 2.3 Offers and Acceptance of Offers

2.1.1. The Cabot Learning Federation (CLF) sets 2.3.1 Offers will be made on 2 March 2020 and out admission arrangements annually. need to be accepted by 16 March 2020. Where changes are proposed to admission arrangements, the federation will first publicly consult on those arrangements. If no changes 3 Process of application are made to admission arrangements, the Academy admissions policy will be consulted 3.1 Applications for places at the Academy on at least once every 7 years. will be made in accordance with South Gloucestershire Local Authority’s co- 2.1.2 For admission arrangements for entry in ordinated admission arrangements, and can September 2020 and all subsequent years, be made on-line at consultation will be for a minimum of 6 weeks www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions or by and will take place between 1 October and printing and completing the application form 31 January of the school year before those available to download at arrangements are to apply. www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions and return it to the address indicated on the form.

59  01454 868008  [email protected] 4 Published admissions number ❚❚ Live within the area of prime responsibility; or 4.1 King’s Oak Academy is an all-through ❚❚ Where there is no area of prime academy. The academy has a PAN of 150 responsibility, local siblings will be places in Year 7, leading to a total number of deemed to be those living up to a 750 places across Years 7 to 11 when at full maximum of 2 miles from school by capacity. The all-through total is 1,170 places straight line measurement; or when at full capacity. ❚❚ Where the distance is over two miles but the school is still the nearest school; 5 Consideration of applications AND ❚❚ They are full or half brother or sister; 5.1 King’s Oak Academy will consider all or application for places. Where fewer than ❚❚ They ae adoptive brother or sister; or 150 applications are received, King’s Oak ❚❚ They are children of the same Academy through South Gloucestershire household; Council, will offer places to all those who AND have applied. ❚❚ The older sibling is already in attendance at the preferred school and will be in attendance in the 6 Students with an Education, Health and Care September of the younger sibling’s Plan (EHC Plan) admission year. 6.1 Children with an EHC Plan are placed 3a) Geographical considerations – those in schools/academies through the living within the Academy’s Area of Prime arrangements set out in the SEND Code of Responsibility – those living closest to Practice and not through these admission the Academy will be given priority. criteria. All admission authorities are required by Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 to 3b) Geographical considerations – those admit to the academy a child with an EHC living outside the Academy’s Area of Admission to King’s Oak Academy to King’s Federation - Admission Cabot Learning Plan that names the academy. Academies Prime Responsibility – those living must admit such children whether they closest to the Academy will be given have places or not. Any appeal concerning priority [please refer to the over- the statement of the admission is to the subscription notes for further details and independent First-Tier Tribunal (Health, arrangements for measuring distance]. Education and Social Care Chamber). Parents/carers of children with an EHC Plan 4) Tie breaker – where it is not possible should contact their child’s lead professional to distinguish between applicants for any further information. within a particular over-subscription criteria, places will be awarded by random allocation. This process will be 7 Over-subscription criteria supervised by an independent person to the Local Authority and the Academy. 7.1 Where the number of applications for admissions is greater than the Published Admission Number, applications will be 8 Late admissions considered against the criteria set out below. These are listed in priority order and will be 8.1 Late applications will not be considered until applied to all applications received by the offers have been made to on time applicants published closing date. and in accordance with the dates set out in the co-ordinated admission arrangements. 1) Looked After Children and Previously Looked After Children 9 In-Year admissions 2) Local Siblings: defined as siblings that: ❚❚ 9.1 Applications for Academy places from parents/carers resident in, or with a confirmed move to South Gloucestershire Council must be made on the Academy application form available at www.kingsoakacademy.org.uk.

60 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Cabot Learning Federation The Academy will consider each application. 12.4 Parents/carers wishing to appeal against an If more applications are received than there admission appeal should send a completed are places available, the over-subscription appeal form to the address detailed on criteria shall apply. Parents/carers whose the offer letter. Other documents may be application is turned down are entitled to submitted in support of an appeal and should appeal. be lodged not less than 5 school days before the appeal hearing.

10 Waiting list 12.5 Parents/carers will be given 10 school days’ notice of the appeal hearing, unless they 10.1 Where the Academy has been over- agree to a shorter period of notice. subscribed in the normal admissions round and places have been refused to some 12.6 The decision of the Appeal Panel will be applicants, a waiting list will be maintained for communicated in writing as soon as possible - Admission to King’s Oak Academy any vacancies which subsequently occur in after the hearing has been concluded the Academy. and within 5 school days. In the case of unsuccessful appeals the Appeal Panel will 10.2 The waiting list will be prioritised according to give the parents/carers their reasons for not the admission criteria and not by reference to upholding the appeal. the date of joining the waiting list.

10.3 Any waiting list will be maintained until the Notes/definitions to the over-subscription criteria end of the academic year. 1) Children in public care* are those who are in the care of a local authority or being provided 11 Feeder schools with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions 11.1 The CLF does not operate a feeder (as defined in Section 22 of the Children Act primary academy policy for admissions 1989) at the time of making an application to a secondary academy and therefore to a school. In South Gloucestershire, these attendance at a federation primary academy children are referred to as children in public does not guarantee a place at a particular care. federation secondary academy. The Children previously in public care* are those exception to this is King’s Oak Academy who were looked after, but ceased to be so which is an all-through provision. because they were adopted1 (or became subject to a residence order2 or special guardianship order3). 12 Appeals * Documentation will need to be provided to South Gloucestershire Council as 12.1 When an offer of a place is made, the proof of care status. reasons for the decision will be set out, 1 Under the terms of the Adoption Act together with details of how the parent/carer 1976 and the Adoption and Children’s Act can lodge an appeal against the decision 2002. by the deadline for doing so. The Academy 2 Under the terms of the Children Act 1989 must establish an independent appeals panel and Children and Families Act 2014. to hear the appeal. The panel will decide 3 Section 14A of the Children Act 1989. whether to uphold or dismiss the appeal. Where a panel upholds the appeal the Academy is required to admit the child.

12.2 The arrangements for appeals will be in line with the Code of Practice on School Admission Appeals.

12.3 Parents will normally have 20 school days after notification of a place not being offered to lodge an appeal.

61  01454 868008  [email protected] 2) Local siblings: In South Gloucestershire children are defined as local siblings if: ❚❚ they live within the APR; or, ❚❚ where there is no APR, local siblings will be deemed to be those living up to a maximum of two miles from school by straight line measurement; or, ❚❚ where the distance is over two miles but the school is still the nearest school AND ❚❚ they are full or half brother or sister; or ❚❚ they are adoptive brother or sister; or ❚❚ they are children of the same household AND ❚❚ the older sibling is already in attendance at the preferred school and will be in attendance in September 2020 (statutory school age only) For the purposes of the local sibling criterion, a paired infant and junior school will be treated as one school.

3) Geographical considerations: Where there are more applications for children living within an Area of Prime Responsibility than places available, priority will be given to applications Admission to King’s Oak Academy to King’s Federation - Admission Cabot Learning from within the defined area who live closest to the preferred school. After places have been allocated from within the Area of Prime Responsibility, any remaining places will be allocated to those children living closest to the school. Distances from home to school are measured in a straight line between the address point of the child’s home and a central point within the main school building using the local authority’s computerised mapping system.

4) Tie breaker: Where it does not prove possible to resolve allocations to an over- subscribed school by the application of criteria 1-3, any remaining places will be awarded by random allocation. This process will be supervised by an independent person to the Local Authority and the academy.

62 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Castle School Education Trust - Admission to The Castle School / Downend Mangotsfield Marlwood Castle School Education Trust Admission to: The Castle School Downend School Mangotsfield School Marlwood School

1. Purpose of the policy 1.6 Year 7 admissions: The Castle School has a PAN of 270 places; Mangotsfield has a PAN 1.1 The purpose of this policy is to make the of 240 places. Marlwood and Downend each admissions process to schools within Castle have a PAN of 210 places. School Education Trust (the Trust) clear and open. 1.7 Post 16 admissions: Year 11 students at The Castle School and Marlwood School who 1.2 The Directors of the Trust have agreed meet the relevant course requirements will that the admission arrangements for all its be entitled to join The Castle School Sixth schools will remain in line with the agreed Form. Year 11 students at Downend School arrangements for South Gloucestershire’s and Mangotsfield School who meet the maintained non-denominational secondary relevant course requirements will be entitled schools other than in the case of Out Of Area to join Downend School Sixth Form. Each Siblings, as defined in Note 2b below. school Sixth Form has a PAN of 25 external applicants in addition to the students who are 1.3 The Trust adheres to the statutory already attending Y11 at the relevant schools requirements and the principles expressed and moving up into Y12. in the School Admissions Code (DfE Dec 2014). This includes reference to the South 1.8 The Trust commissions the LA’s independent Gloucestershire Fair Access Protocol. The appeals panel which hears appeals from admission arrangements must be confirmed unsuccessful applicants for a place in any by 28 February each year and published on year group. the schools’ websites by 15 March.

1.4 Year 7 admissions: the Directors and 2. The admission criteria and arrangements Governors are supported by South Gloucestershire Local Authority (LA) in 2.1 Should any school be over-subscribed in allocating places and informing families. Year 7 (i.e. if there are more applications than places available), initial allocations will 1.5 Post 16 admissions: The Castle School and be made according to the criteria below. Marlwood School operate a joint Sixth Form. These are listed in order of priority and will Downend School and Mangotsfield School be applied to all applications for the school operate a joint Sixth Form. received by the published closing date for applications. Applications will be considered for admission at the age of 16+ and should be made directly a) Children in Public Care or Previously in to the Head of Sixth Form on the Sixth Form Public Care (please see Note 1 below). application form. Conditional offers based on predicted results and academic potential will b) Local Siblings - those living within the be made in the Spring term and confirmed or school’s Area of Prime Responsibility reviewed following GCSE results in August. (where there is an Area of Prime Responsibility defined) (please see Note Academic entry requirements for Level 2 below). 3 courses are based on GCSE grades with each subject having unique entry requirements.

63  01454 868008  [email protected] c) Geographical Considerations (those they were adopted or became subject living within the school’s Area of Prime to a Child Arrangement Order or Special Responsibility (where there is an Area of Guardianship Order. Prime Responsibility defined) (please see Note 3 below). 2a. Local Siblings: children are defined as local siblings if: d) Out Of Area Siblings – those living ❚❚ they are full or half brother or sister or outside the school’s Area of Prime ❚❚ they are adoptive brother or sister or Responsibility (where there is an Area of ❚❚ they are children of the same Prime Responsibility defined) (please see household; and they live within Note 2 below). the school’s defined Area of Prime Responsibility e) Geographical Considerations (those AND living outside the school’s Area of Prime ❚❚ the sibling is already in attendance Responsibility where there is an Area of at the preferred school and will be in Prime Responsibility defined) (please see attendance (statutory school age only) Note 4 below) on the date at which the applicant transfers to a school within the Trust. f) Tie Breaker: Where it does not prove possible to resolve allocations to an over- The local sibling rule does not apply across subscribed school by the application of the Trust, but is specific to each school. criteria a) to e) any remaining places will be allocated by drawing lots (please see Please note: to be defined as a ‘local Note 5 below). sibling’ a child must live in the Area of Prime Responsibility for the school. Where there is 2.2 Should either school be over-subscribed no Area of Prime Responsibility defined local in Year 12 (i.e. if there are more applicants siblings will be deemed to be those living up who meet the academic criteria than places to a maximum of two miles from the school as available), initial allocations will be made measured in a straight line. according to the criteria below. These are listed in order of priority and will be applied to 2b. Out Of Area Siblings: children are defined as all applications. out of area siblings if:

a) Children in Public Care or Previously in ❚❚ they are full or half brother or sister or Public Care (please see Note 1 below). ❚❚ they are adoptive brother or sister or ❚❚ they are children of the same b) Geographical Considerations (those household living within the school’s Area of Prime AND Responsibility) (please see Note 3 ❚❚ the sibling is already in attendance below). at the preferred school and will be in attendance (statutory school age only) c) Geographical Considerations (those on the date at which the applicant living outside the school’s Area of Prime transfers to a school academy within Responsibility) (please see Note 4 below). the Trust.

d) Tie Breaker: Where it does not prove The out of area sibling rule does not apply possible to resolve allocations to an over- across the Trust, but is specific to each subscribed school by the application of school. criteria a) to c), any remaining places will be allocated by drawing lots (please see 3. Geographical Considerations (for those Note 5 below). living within the school’s Area of Prime Responsibility):

Notes: Priority will be given to those children who live within the Area of Prime Responsibility 1. Children in Public Care are those looked after for each school. More detailed information is by a Local Authority within the meaning of available at the schools or from the LA.

Admission to The Castle School / Downend Mangotsfield Marlwood - Admission Castle School Education Trust Section 22 of the Children Act 1989. Children If in any year there are more children living Previously in Public Care are those who were within the Area of Prime Responsibility than looked after, but ceased to be so because the number of places available at the school,

64 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Castle School Education Trust - Admission to The Castle School / Downend Mangotsfield Marlwood priority will be given to those children who 2.5 Children of UK Service Personnel live closest to the school. Distances from (UK Armed Forces) home to school are measured in a direct line between the address point of the child’s The Trust and South Gloucestershire Council home and a central point within the main recognise the particular needs of children school building using the LA’s computerised of UK service personnel (UK Armed Forces). mapping system. The Trust and the LA ensures that the needs of these children are taken into account by: 4. Geographical Considerations (for those living outside the school’s Area of Prime ❚❚ allocating a school place in advance Responsibility): if the application is accompanied by an official government letter which 5. After places have been allocated from declares a relocation date and a Unit within the Area of Prime Responsibility, any postal address or quartering address. remaining places will be allocated to those children who live closest to the school. ❚❚ accepting a Unit postal address, or, if Distances from home to school are measured appropriate, a quartering area address in a direct line between the address point (the address of the closest house of the child’s home and a central point in the relevant quartering area), for within the main school building using the applications from service personnel LA’s computerised mapping system. All in the absence of a new home postal applications will be considered at the same address. A quartering address will time and the published over-subscription be used only where the housing criteria applied. authorities confirm in writing that a house will be offered in the area. 6. Tie breaker: Lots will be drawn by an employee of the Trust who is independent of ❚❚ accepting a late application from the admissions process. UK service personnel as ‘on time’ where a notification of posting has been received after the closing date 2.3 Children with Education, Health and Care and before the date of exchange Plans (EHCPs) of information with other admission authorities. Children with EHCPs are placed in schools through the arrangements set out in the ❚❚ considering an application on the SEN Code of Practice and not through these criterion of ‘local sibling’ where admission criteria. Each governing body is another child in the family has been required by Section 324 of the Education offered a place at the preferred Act 1996 to admit to the school a child with school and the Unit postal address a EHCP that names the school whether or or quartering address is within the not there are places available. Any appeal Area of Prime Responsibility for the concerning the EHCP or the admission is to preferred school. the independent First-tier Tribunal (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber). ❚❚ wherever possible, children of UK service personnel will be offered a place at the preferred local school 2.4 Children of multiple births but taking into account the admission number for the school. Whenever possible, in managing the allocation of places to schools within the Trust, South Gloucestershire Council will 2.6 Home address endeavour to place children of multiple births in the same school within the places The child’s home address is considered to available. Where the last child to qualify for be where the child lives most of the time a place is a twin or child of multiple birth, with his or her parent(s) or carer(s). The Trust numbers will be breached to enable all and South Gloucestershire Council cannot children of the same birth to attend the same accept an address of a business, relative, school. friend, childminder, a temporary address or an address of a house it is intended to move to.

65  01454 868008  [email protected] The only exceptions are for children of The waiting list will be prioritised according to UK service personnel for whom special the admission criteria and not by reference to arrangements apply. the date of joining the waiting list. The list will be maintained by the Trust. The Trust and South Gloucestershire Council reserve the right to seek documentary evidence to support a claim of residence. 2.9 In-Year transfer Years 7 to 11

Where a child spends time with each parent/ Parents who wish to obtain a place at any of carer at two different addresses, the Trust the schools other than at the bulk September and South Gloucestershire Council will intake to Year 7, should apply directly to the ask for proof of the arrangements and will school. Parents will have a decision about determine the appropriate address to be allocating a place within two weeks. used in allocating a school place. All evidence provided by parents/carers will also be If a place is available, at any of the schools considered in reaching a decision on the but taking account of the parents’ preference, home address for admissions purposes. the student will be invited for an induction Where sufficient evidence is not forthcoming, meeting and tour after which the Trust will the Trust will use the address which is furthest offer the place, unless there is a compelling from the school, measured in a direct line reason not to. between the address point of both addresses and a central point within the main school If the year group in the preferred school is full building using the LA’s computerised mapping or over-subscribed then the school will refuse system, for the purposes of determining the place but the applicant will be given the ranking for allocation of places. If an opportunity to appeal and an appeal form application or the evidence is later proved to will be supplied. The Trust will also notify the be misleading or fraudulent, the Trust reserves parents of any places available at another the right to withdraw the place up to the end suitable Trust school. If the parents choose to of term 2. appeal for a place at the preferred school an independent appeals panel will be convened by the LA at which both parents and the Trust 2.7 Appeals - September intake appeals will present their cases. Decisions made by the panel are legally binding. After the closing date for applications (31 October) the LA will send each school separate lists of all their applicants. Each list 3. Consultation process will include all those stating a preference for the school but will not state the preferences. This policy was developed through the Trust The LA will rank the lists separately and and LA’s consultation processes. allocate up to the PAN to each school. Parents will be informed of the allocation of places by the Local Authority. Included in 4. Relationship to other policies this information will be an appeal form and explanatory guidance. If parents wish to Parents and students are encouraged to visit appeal they need to complete and return the schools’ websites and attend open days/ the appeal form directly to the school’s evenings. Admissions Officer. An independent appeals panel will be convened by the LA at which both parents and the Trust will present their 5. Roles and responsibilities cases. Decisions made by the panel are legally binding. The Head Teachers will ensure that all parents/carers of students, or potential 2.8 Waiting lists students, are fully aware of the Admissions Policy and process in appropriate meetings, Where the school is over-subscribed in the publications etc. normal admissions round and places have been refused to some applicants, a waiting

Admission to The Castle School / Downend Mangotsfield Marlwood - Admission Castle School Education Trust list will be maintained for any vacancies which subsequently arise.

66 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Co-operative Foundation Trust - Admission to Chipping Sodbury School Co-operative Foundation Trust Admission to Chipping Sodbury School

Purpose of the policy Notes:

The purpose of this policy is to make the 1. Children in public care* are those in the admissions process to Chipping Sodbury care of a local authority or being provided School clear and open. with accommodation by a local authority within the meaning of Section 22 of the Children Act 1989. Year 7 admissions Children previously in public care* are those who were looked after, but ceased The governing body of Chipping Sodbury to be so because they were adopted1 (or School is supported by South Gloucestershire became subject to a residence order2 or Council in allocating places to Chipping special guardianship order3). Sodbury School and informing families. * Documentation will need to be provided to South Gloucestershire Chipping Sodbury School has an admission Council as proof of care status. number of 150 places in each year group from 1 Under the terms of the Adoption Act year 7 to year 11. Should Chipping Sodbury 1976 and the Adoption and Children School be over-subscribed (i.e. if there are Act 2002. more applications than places available), initial 2 Under the terms of the Children Act allocations will be made according to the 1989 and the Children and Families following criteria. These are listed in order of Act 2014. priority and will be applied to all applications 3 Section 14A of the Children Act 1989. received by the published closing date for applications. 2. Local siblings: Children are defined as local siblings if: 1. Children in public care or previously in public care. ❚❚ they live within the APR; or, ❚❚ where there is no APR, local 2. Local siblings (those living within a siblings will be deemed to be those school’s Area of Prime Responsibility living up to a maximum of two and who have named the school as a miles from school by straight line preference). measurement; or, ❚❚ where the distance is over two 3a. Geographical considerations (those miles but the school is still the living within a school’s Area of Prime nearest school; Responsibility). AND ❚❚ they are full or half brother or sister; 3b. Geographical considerations (those or living outside a school’s Area of Prime ❚❚ they are adoptive brother or sister; Responsibility). or ❚❚ they are children of the same 4. Tie breaker: Where it does not prove household; possible to resolve allocations to an over- AND subscribed school by the application of ❚❚ the older sibling is already in criteria 1-3, any remaining places will be attendance at the preferred allocated by drawing lots. school and will be in attendance in September 2020 (statutory school age only).

Please note that the offer of a place at any particular school does not guarantee an offer of a place for a sibling at a later date. Different authorities will vary in the priority that they give to siblings.

67  01454 868008  [email protected] You will need to consult the relevant Children of multiple births admission authority for further advice, i.e. where an admission authority serves Whenever possible, South Gloucestershire an Area of Prime Responsibility, only Council and Chipping Sodbury School will children who live within the Area of Prime endeavour to place children of multiple births Responsibility will be afforded priority of in the same school within the places available. admission under the local sibling criterion. However, where the last child to qualify for a place is a twin or child of multiple birth, the 3a. Geographical considerations (for those places will be offered to one child and the other living within a school’s Area of Prime child/children considered under the admission Responsibility): Priority will be given to criteria. those children who live within the Area of Prime Responsibility for the school. Where a school also has an area of First Children with education, health and care plans Responsibility, children living in this area (EHCPs) will be given the highest priority. If in any year there are more children living within Children with EHCPs are placed in schools the Area of Prime Responsibility than the through the arrangements set out in the number of places available at the school, SEN Code of Practice and not through these priority will be given to those children admission criteria. Each governing body is who live closest to the school. Distances required by Section 324 of the Education Act from home to school are measured in a 1996 to admit to the school a child with an EHCP straight line between the address point of that names the school whether or not there are the child’s home and a central point within places available. Any appeal concerning the the main school building using South EHCP or the admission is to the independent Gloucestershire Council’s computerised First-tier Tribunal (Health, Education and Social mapping system. Care Chamber).

3b. Geographical considerations (for those living outside a school’s Area of Prime Children of UK service personnel Responsibility): After places have been (UK armed forces) allocated from within the Area of Prime Responsibility, any remaining places will South Gloucestershire Council and Chipping be allocated to those children who live Sodbury School recognises the particular needs Admission to Chipping Sodbury School - Admission Co-operative Foundation Trust closest to the school. of children of UK service personnel (UK Armed Forces). The council on behalf of the governing Distances from home to school are body ensures that the needs of these children measured in a straight line between the are taken into account by: address point of the child’s home and a central point within the main school ❚❚ Allocating a school place in advance if building using South Gloucestershire the application is accompanied by an Council computerised mapping system. official government letter which declares All applications will be considered at a relocation date and a Unit postal the same time and the published over- address or quartering address. subscription criteria applied. ❚❚ Accepting a Unit postal address, or, if Area of Prime Responsibility: More appropriate, a quartering area address detailed information is available at the (the address of the closest house in the school or from South Gloucestershire relevant quartering area), for applications Council. from service personnel in the absence of a new home postal address. 4. Tie breaker: Lots will be drawn by a senior officer of South Gloucestershire ❚❚ Accepting a late application from UK Council who is independent of the school service personnel as ‘on time’ where a admissions process. notification of posting has been received after the closing date and before the date of exchange of information with other admission authorities.

68 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Co-operative Foundation Trust - Admission to Chipping Sodbury School ❚❚ Considering an application on the to appeal they need to complete and return the criterion of ‘local sibling’ where another appeals form to the governing body of Chipping child in the family has been offered Sodbury School. a place at the preferred school and the Unit postal address or quartering An independent appeals panel will be address is within the Area of Prime convened by South Gloucestershire Council at Responsibility for the preferred school. which both parents/carers and the governing body of Chipping Sodbury School will represent ❚❚ Wherever possible, children of UK their case. Decisions made by the panel are service personnel will be offered a place legally binding. at the preferred local school but taking into account the admission number for the school. Waiting lists

Home address Where the school is over-subscribed in the normal admissions round and places have The child’s home address is considered to be been refused to some applicants, a waiting where the child lives most of the time with his or list will be maintained for any vacancies which her parent(s) or carer(s). South Gloucestershire subsequently arise. The waiting list will be Council cannot accept an address of a prioritised according to the admission criteria business, relative, friend, childminder, a and not by reference to the date of joining the temporary address or an address of a house it waiting list. The list will be maintained by the is intended to move to. school.

The only exceptions are for children of UK service personnel for whom special In-year transfer years 7 – 11 arrangements apply. South Gloucestershire Council reserves the right to seek documentary Parents/carers should apply to the governing evidence to support a claim of residence. body of Chipping Sodbury School for a place at Chipping Sodbury School. If the year group Where a child spends time with each parent/ is full or over-subscribed the governing body of carer at two different addresses, South Chipping Sodbury School will refuse the place Gloucestershire Council will ask for proof and the applicant will be placed on a waiting list of the arrangements and will determine the and given the opportunity to appeal. If parents/ appropriate address to be used in allocating carers wish to appeal they need to complete a school place. In reaching this decision, and return the appeals form to the governing evidence may be requested to show the body of Chipping Sodbury School. An address to which any Child Benefit is paid and independent appeals panel will be convened from which the child is registered with a medical at which both parents/carers and the governing GP. Any other evidence provided by parents/ body of Chipping Sodbury School will represent carers will also be considered in reaching a their case. decision on the home address for admissions purposes. Decisions made by the panel are legally binding. If a place becomes available and there are applicants on the waiting list, the place will Appeals - year 7 September intake appeals be offered according to the criteria set out for year 7 September intake, and not by reference After the 31 October each year (closing date to the date of joining the waiting list. for applications) South Gloucestershire Council will send Chipping Sodbury School a list of all their applicants. This will include first, second Post 16 admissions and third preferences, but won’t state the preferences. The council will rank the list for Children and their parents/carers applying Chipping Sodbury School and allocate 150 for post 16 (sixth form) places should contact students. Chipping Sodbury School directly. For post 16 admission: Parents/carers will be informed of the allocation of places. Included in this information will be an ❚❚ Applications will be considered for appeal form and an explanatory statement from admission at the age of 16+. Chipping Sodbury School. If parents/carers wish

69  01454 868008  [email protected] ❚❚ Where the number of applications exceeds the number of places available, and after admission of any students with an Education, Health and Care Plan, priority will be given in accordance with the over- subscription criteria set for admissions to the school at 11+ years.

❚❚ In the case of applicants in public care or previously in public care, the applicant must meet any set academic criteria.

❚❚ Chipping Sodbury School will apply the same criteria for admission to the sixth form for both internal and external transfer.

❚❚ Under the School Admissions Appeal Code there will be a right of appeal to an independent appeal panel for unsuccessful applicants, both internal and external. Admission to Chipping Sodbury School - Admission Co-operative Foundation Trust

70 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions hGreenshaw Learning Trust - Admission to Yate Academy Greenshaw Learning Trust Admission to Yate Academy

Yate Academy is an academy in the 1.2.1. Priority one: Looked After Children Greenshaw Learning Trust and the Greenshaw Learning Trust is the admissions A Looked After Child is a child who is (a) authority for the school. in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local The admissions process is administered by the authority in the exercise of their social school in accordance with these Admissions services functions (see the definition in Arrangements, in accordance with and pursuant section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989), to the Admissions Policy of the Greenshaw and for the purposes of these admissions Learning Trust. arrangements includes a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject 1. Admissions for entry to Year 7, September to an adoption, residence or special 2020 guardianship order. Yate Academy is part of the South Gloucestershire coordinated admissions 1.2.2. Priority two: Local siblings scheme for secondary admissions. Parents must complete their Home Local Those living within the Academy’s Area of Authority (LA) Common Application Form Prime Responsibility (APR) and who have (CAF) and return it to their Home Local named the Academy as a preference. Authority by the closing date. Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, adopted brother or Yate Academy has a Published sister, step brother or sister, or the child Admissions Number of 150 students in of the parent/carer’s partner, and in every Year 7. case, who is living as part of the same family unit at the same address, Monday to Friday. Where a sibling is in Year 11 or 1.1 Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) Year 12 at the time of application, they will be deemed as being in the school at the Children with an EHCP that name the time of admission, unless the parent has school will be allocated a place before specifically expressed that they will not other applicants are considered. In this be continuing into the following academic way, the number of places offered, as set year. out below will be reduced by the number of children with an EHCP that has named the school. 1.2.3 Priority three: Children of staff

Parents of children with an EHCP should Where the member of staff has been contact their child’s casework officer for employed at Yate Academy for two or further information. more consecutive years; or the member of staff has been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable 1.2 Over-subscription skill shortage. In order of the proximity of their home address to Yate Academy, with The school has 150 places available in the closest having the highest priority. Year 7. Where the number of applications for admission is greater than the Published Admissions Number, the following criteria will be applied to determine those children that will be offered places.

71  01454 868008  [email protected] 1.2.4 Priority four: Geographical considerations 1.5 Waiting lists within the Area of Prime Responsibility Where the school is over-subscribed in the normal admissions round and places have Priority will be given to applications from been refused to some applicants, a waiting within the defined area who live closest to list will be maintained for any vacancies the preferred school. which subsequently occur in the school. All waiting lists will be prioritised according to the admission criteria and not by reference to 1.2.5 Priority five: Geographical considerations the date of joining the waiting list. Any waiting outside of the Area of Prime Responsibility list will be maintained until 31 December and then discarded. After places have been allocated from within the Area of Prime Responsibility, any remaining places will be allocated to 2. In-year applications those children living closest to the school. Distances from home to school are measured All applications made during the academic in a direct line between the address point of year (in-year applications) including the child’s home and a central point within applications outside of the normal year of the main school building using the Local entry for Years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, must be made Authority’s computerised mapping system. directly to the school.

Waiting lists will be held by the school for 1.2.6 Tie-break in-year applications in Years 8, 9, 10 or 11 or for in-year admissions for Year 7 after 31 Where two or more applicants share priority December of the first year.

Admission to Yate Academy to Yate - Admission Trust Greenshaw Learning for a place, e.g. where two children live equidistant from the school, and where there is only one place remaining, the child to be 3. Applications for students outside of the allocated will be selected by the drawing of normal age group lots.

Children are educated in school with others 1.3 Notification and acceptance of offers of their age group. However, parents may request that their child is exceptionally Notification of offers will be sent to parents/ admitted outside their age group. The school carers by the Home Local Authority on will decide whether or not the individual National Offer Day. Written acceptance of the child’s circumstances make this appropriate, offer of a place should be received by the taking into account the child’s individual Home Local Authority by the closing date as needs and abilities and considering which determined in the offer letter. year group these needs can best be met. Such requests will only be agreed in The Trust through South Gloucestershire exceptional circumstances. Council reserves the right to seek documentary evidence to support a claim Teachers are skilled at differentiating the of residence. An offer found to have been curriculum to meet a diverse range of needs. gained fraudulently will be withdrawn. Before deciding to apply to submit a request, parents should visit the school. The head teacher will be able to explain the provision 1.4 Late applications on offer to children in the year of entry, how it is tailored to meet the needs of all students Late applications including changes of and how the needs of these students will preferences are dealt with only after the continue to be met as they move up through demand for places received by the closing the school. They may also be able to allay date has been met. If places become any concerns the parent may have. available following the allocation of places for the school the same criteria will be applied to Decisions will be made on the basis of the late applications and formal appeals, where circumstances of each case and in the best the number of requests received still exceeds interests of the child concerned. This will the number of places available. include taking account of the parent’s views;

72 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Greenshaw Learning Trust - Admission to Yate Academy information about the child’s academic, The Sixth Form prospectus and application form social and emotional development; where is available to all students via our website at relevant, their medical history and the www.trfyiaorg.uk or www.yateacademy.co.uk. views of a medical professional; whether they have previously been educated out If a student is refused admission, parents/carers of their normal age group; and whether and the student have the right to appeal either they may naturally have fallen into a lower jointly or separately. If the appeal is lodged age group if it were not for being born separately, both appeals will be heard together. prematurely.

All requests should include recent professional evidence of the child’s circumstances which make education outside the age group necessary. Evidence must be of the individual child’s need, rather than general factors which relate to a wider group of children born at a similar time.

Parents requesting admission to an age group below the child’s actual age should submit an application for the child’s actual age group before the relevant closing date. The request for later admission should accompany the application. This enables the application to be processed and a school place secured in the child’s actual age group if the request is refused. Parents will be informed of the outcome of their request prior to offer day.

4. Appeals

Parents/carers have a statutory right of appeal to an Independent Appeal Panel if a place is not offered. Appeals will be heard by the Independent Appeal Panel established by the Greenshaw Learning Trust to hear the appeal. The Panel will decide whether to uphold or dismiss the appeal. Where a Panel upholds the appeal the school is required to admit the child.

Appeals for entry to Year 7 in September 2020 must be received by Friday 24 April 2020.

Appeals should be addressed to the Head of Admissions, The Greenshaw Learning Trust c/o the school.

5. Sixth Form

The Cotswold Edge is the Sixth Form collaboration of Yate Academy, Brimsham Green and Chipping Sodbury. The post-16 provision will be available across the three sites.

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Olympus Academy Trust Admission to: Abbeywood Community School Bradley Stoke Community School Patchway Community School Winterbourne Academy

1. Purpose of the policy ❚❚ Academic entry requirements for Level 3 courses are a GCSE grade 1.1 The purpose of this policy is to make the average of at least grade 4 (or admissions process to schools within the equivalent), which would normally Olympus Academy Trust (the Trust) clear and be expected to include English open. Language grade 4 (or equivalent) or above. Some subjects have additional 1.2 The Trustees have agreed that the admission unique entry requirements. The full arrangements for all its schools will remain list of entry criteria for each course is in line with the agreed arrangements for available from the relevant centre. Patchway Community School / Winterbourne Academy Patchway South Gloucestershire’s maintained non- denominational secondary schools other than ❚❚ Level 2 courses are suitable for in the case of Out Of Area Siblings, as defined applicants who have a GCSE grade in Note 2b below. average of at least grade 3 (or equivalent), and who may need to 1.3 The Trust adheres to the statutory re-take GCSE English Language and requirements and the principles expressed Maths. Applicants will need to discuss in the School Admissions Code (DfE Dec the suitability of courses to be studied 2014). This includes reference to the South with a member of the Post 16 team. Gloucestershire Fair Access Protocol. The Level 2 courses are not run in every admission arrangements must be confirmed centre and so students and/or parents by 28 February each year and published on may be advised to contact other the schools’ websites by 15 March. Olympus Post 16 Partnership centres to discuss the programme or make an 1.4 Year 7 admissions: the trustees and application. governors are supported by South Gloucestershire Local Authority (LA) in ❚❚ Students with a GCSE grade average allocating places and informing families. of grade 2 (or equivalent) or below will be advised to apply to study suitable 1.5 Post 16 admissions: Abbeywood Community courses at local further education School (ACS), Bradley Stoke Community colleges. School (BSCS), Patchway Community School (PCS) and Winterbourne Academy (WA) are Entry requirements apply to both internal and part of the Olympus Post 16 Partnership. external applicants and all offers will be designed Applications will be considered for admission to provide a suitable programme for each Admission to Abbeywood Community School / Bradley Stoke Community School / to Abbeywood Community School / Bradley Stoke - Admission Trust Olympus Academy at the age of 16+ and should be made on the applicant. Please note that entry criteria are subject Post 16 application form and directly to the to discussion with the Olympus Post 16 Partnership Director of Post 16 at the centre the student Heads, and may be subject to change. would prefer to be based at. Conditional offers based on predicted results and academic potential will be made by the end of April and confirmed or reviewed following GCSE results in August.

74 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Patchway Community School / Winterbourne Academy Olympus Academy Trust - Admission to Abbeywood Community School / Bradley Stoke Community School / 1.6 Planned Admission Numbers (PANs): b) Local Siblings - those living within the school’s Area of Prime Responsibility a) Year 7: ACS, BSCS and PCS each have (where there is an Area of Prime a PAN of 180 places, leading to a total Responsibility defined) (please see Note number of 900 places at each school 2 below). across Years 7 to 11. Up to 25 of the 900 places in Years 7 to 11 at ACS are c) Geographical Considerations (those set aside for students allocated to the living within the school’s Area of Prime Resource Base by the LA. WA has a PAN Responsibility where there is an Area of of 300, leading to a total number of 1500 Prime Responsibility defined) (please see places in Years 7 to 11. Note 3 below).

b) In September 2022 the number of d) Out Of Area Siblings - those living places available for external allocation outside the school’s Area of Prime in Y7 at BSCS will drop to 150 (with the Responsibility (where there is an Area of proviso that the Trust reserves the right Prime Responsibility defined) (please see to increase this number if there are fewer Note 2 below). than 30 students moving up from Y6 to Y7, or to reduce the number if there are e) Geographical Considerations (those more than 30 students moving up from living outside the school’s Area of Prime Y6 to Y7 in any year, so that the total Responsibility where there is an Area of number of students starting in Y7 each Prime Responsibility defined) (please see year is 180). Note 4 below).

c) Year 12: Each Post 16 Centre has a PAN of f) Tie Breaker: Where it does not prove 25 external applicants (in addition to the possible to resolve allocations to an over- students who are already attending Y11 at subscribed school by the application of the relevant school and moving up into criteria a) to e), any remaining places will Y12). be allocated by drawing lots (please see Note 5 below). 1.7 Students already on roll at BSCS at the end of Year 6 will be guaranteed continuation 2.2 Should any school be over-subscribed in into secondary phase and a place in Year 7, Year 12 (i.e. if there are more applicants should they wish to remain at BSCS (please who meet the academic criteria than places refer to section 1.6 c) above). available), initial allocations will be made according to the criteria below. These are 1.8 The Trust commissions the LA’s independent listed in order of priority and will be applied to appeals panel which hears appeals from all applications. unsuccessful applicants for a place in any year group. a) Children in Public Care or Previously in Public Care (please see Note 1 below).

2. The admission criteria and arrangements b) Geographical Considerations (those living within the school’s Area of Prime 2.1 Should any school be over-subscribed in Responsibility) (please see Note 3 Year 7 (i.e. if there are more applications below). than places available), initial allocations will be made according to the criteria below. c) Geographical Considerations (those These are listed in order of priority and will living outside the school’s Area of Prime be applied to all applications for the school Responsibility) (please see Note 4 below). received by the published closing date for applications. d) Tie Breaker: Where it does not prove possible to resolve allocations to a) Children in Public Care or Previously in an over-subscribed school by the Public Care (please see Note 1 below). application of criteria 1-4, any remaining places will be allocated by drawing lots (please see Note 5 below).

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Notes: If in any year there are more children living within the Area of Prime Responsibility than 1. Children in Public Care are those looked after the number of places available at the school, by a Local Authority within the meaning of priority will be given to those children who Section 22 of the Children Act 1989. Children live closest to the school. Distances from Previously in Public Care are those who were home to school are measured in a direct looked after, but ceased to be so because line between the address point of the child’s they were adopted or became subject to a home and a central point within the main Residence Order or Special Guardianship school building using the LA’s computerised Order. mapping system.

2a. Local Siblings: children are defined as local 4. Geographical Considerations (for those siblings if: living outside the school’s Area of Prime ❚❚ they are full or half brother or sister; or Responsibility): After places have been ❚❚ they are adoptive brother or sister; or allocated from within the Area of Prime ❚❚ they are children of the same Responsibility, any remaining places will be household; and allocated to those children who live closest ❚❚ they live within the school’s defined to the school. Distances from home to school Area of Prime Responsibility; and are measured in a direct line between the ❚❚ the sibling is already in attendance address point of the child’s home and a at the preferred school and will be in central point within the main school building attendance (statutory school age only) using the LA’s computerised mapping on the date at which the applicant system. All applications will be considered transfers to an academy within the at the same time and the published over- Patchway Community School / Winterbourne Academy Patchway Trust. The sibling rule does not apply subscription criteria applied. across the Trust, but is specific to each academy. 5. Tie breaker: Lots will be drawn by an employee of the Trust who is independent of Please note: to be defined as a ‘local the admissions process. sibling’ a child must live in the Area of Prime Responsibility for the school. Where there is no Area of Prime Responsibility defined local 2.3 Children with Education, Health and Care siblings will be deemed to be those living up Plans (EHCPs) to a maximum of two miles from the school as measured in a straight line. Children with EHCPs are placed in schools through the arrangements set out in the 2b. Out Of Area Siblings: children are defined as SEN Code of Practice and not through these Out Of Area Siblings if: admission criteria. Each governing body is ❚❚ they are full or half brother or sister; or required by Section 324 of the Education ❚❚ they are adoptive brother or sister; or Act 1996 to admit to the school a child with ❚❚ they are children of the same a EHCP that names the school whether or household; and not there are places available. Any appeal ❚❚ the sibling is already in attendance concerning the EHCP or the admission is to at the preferred school and will be in the independent First-tier Tribunal (Health, attendance (statutory school age only) Education and Social Care Chamber). on the date at which the applicant Abbeywood Community School hosts a transfers to an academy within the Resource Base for children with an EHCP Trust. The sibling rule does not apply and who need significant levels of support across the Trust, but is specific to each for their communication. Placement in the Admission to Abbeywood Community School / Bradley Stoke Community School / to Abbeywood Community School / Bradley Stoke - Admission Trust Olympus Academy academy. Resource Base is always decided centrally by South Gloucestershire’s Department for 3. Geographical Considerations (for those Children, Adults and Health. living within the school’s Area of Prime Responsibility): Priority will be given to those children who live within the Area of Prime Responsibility for each school. More detailed information is available at the schools or from the LA.

76 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Patchway Community School / Winterbourne Academy Olympus Academy Trust - Admission to Abbeywood Community School / Bradley Stoke Community School / 2.4 Children of multiple births ❚❚ wherever possible, children of UK service personnel will be offered a Whenever possible, in managing the place at the preferred local school allocation of places to schools within the but taking into account the admission Trust, South Gloucestershire Council will number for the school. endeavour to place children of multiple births in the same school within the places available. Where the last child to qualify for 2.6 Home address a place is a twin or child of multiple birth, numbers will be breached to enable all The child’s home address is considered to children of the same birth to attend the same be where the child lives most of the time school. with his or her parent(s) or carer(s). The Trust and South Gloucestershire Council cannot accept an address of a business, relative, 2.5 Children of UK Service Personnel (UK Armed friend, childminder, a temporary address Forces) or an address of a house it is intended to move to. The only exceptions are for children The Trust and South Gloucestershire Council of UK service personnel for whom special recognise the particular needs of children arrangements apply. of UK service personnel (UK Armed Forces). The Trust and the LA ensures that the needs The Trust and South Gloucestershire Council of these children are taken into account by: reserve the right to seek documentary evidence to support a claim of residence. ❚❚ allocating a school place in advance Where a child spends time with each parent/ if the application is accompanied by carer at more than one address, the Trust will an official government letter which ask for evidence of the arrangements and declares a relocation date and a Unit will determine the appropriate address to be postal address or quartering address. used in allocating the school place.

❚❚ accepting a Unit postal address, or, if All evidence provided by parents/carers will appropriate, a quartering area address be considered in reaching a decision on the (the address of the closest house home address for admissions purposes. This in the relevant quartering area), for may include, amongst other things, evidence applications from service personnel of Child Benefit payments, Council Tax bills, in the absence of a new home postal utility bills, supporting letters from healthcare address. A quartering address will professionals corroborating the child’s living be used only where the housing arrangements. authorities confirm in writing that a house will be offered in the area. If an application or the evidence is later proved to be misleading or fraudulent, the ❚❚ accepting a late application from Trust reserves the right to withdraw the place UK service personnel as ‘on time’ up to the end of term 2. where a notification of posting has been received after the closing date and before the date of exchange of information with other admission authorities.

❚❚ considering an application on the criterion of ‘local sibling’ where another child in the family has been offered a place at the preferred school and the Unit postal address or quartering address is within the Area of Prime Responsibility for the preferred school.

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2.7 Appeals – September intake appeals If the year group in the preferred school is full or over-subscribed then the school will refuse After the closing date for applications (31 the place but the applicant will be given the October) the LA will send each school opportunity to appeal and an appeals form separate lists of all their applicants. Each list will be supplied. The Trust will also notify the will include all those stating a preference for parents of any places available at another the school but will not state the preferences. suitable Trust school. If the parents choose to The LA will rank the lists separately and appeal for a place at the preferred school an allocate up to the PAN to each school. independent appeals panel will be convened Parents will be informed of the allocation of by the LA at which both parents and the Trust places by the Local Authority. Included in will present their cases. Decisions made by this information will be an appeal form and the panel are legally binding. explanatory guidance. If parents wish to appeal they need to complete and return the appeal form directly to the Trust’s Admissions 3. Consultation process Officer. An independent appeals panel will be convened by the LA at which both 3.1 This policy was developed through the Trust parents and the Trust will present their cases. and LA’s consultation processes. Decisions made by the panel are legally binding. 4. Relationship to other policies

2.8 Waiting lists 4.1 Parents and students are encouraged to read the schools’ prospectuses and Patchway Community School / Winterbourne Academy Patchway Where the school is over-subscribed in the the prospectus for the Olympus Post 16 normal admissions round and places have Partnership, visit the schools’ websites and been refused to some applicants, a waiting attend open days/evenings. list will be maintained for any vacancies which subsequently arise. The waiting list will be prioritised according to the admission criteria 5. Roles and responsibilities and not by reference to the date of joining the waiting list. The list will be maintained by 5.1 The Head Teachers will ensure that all the Trust. parents/carers of students, or potential students, are fully aware of the admissions policy and process in appropriate meetings, 2.9 In-year transfer Years 7 to 11 publications etc.

Parents who wish to obtain a place at any of the schools other than at the bulk September intake to Year 7, should apply directly to the school. Parents will have a decision about allocating a place within two weeks.

If a place is available, at any of the schools but taking account of the parents’ preference, the student will be invited for an induction meeting and tour after which the Trust will offer the place, unless there is a compelling reason not to. Admission to Abbeywood Community School / Bradley Stoke Community School / to Abbeywood Community School / Bradley Stoke - Admission Trust Olympus Academy

78 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions University Technical College - Admission to Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy University Technical College Admission to Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy

Year 12 published admission number ❚❚ Looked after children or children who were previously looked-after. From 2020, the BTE Academy will operate a sixth form for a total of 220 students. 110 places overall ❚❚ Pupils who are eligible for pupil premium. will be available in year 12 (the year 12 ‘capacity’) Parents/guardians will be required to for its own pupils progressing from year 11. The BTE provide evidence of eligibility and the Academy will admit above its published admission school may request confirmation from the number if more than 110 internal pupils wished to applicant’s home local authority. progress to the sixth form. It will not admit external applicants to its sixth form unless under-subscribed ❚❚ Children whose parent(s) are serving in the by its own pupils. In such circumstances it will apply regular UK armed forces, to the children of the same academic entry requirements as it does regular armed forces personnel who were to pupils already on roll in the Academy. serving in the past 3 years, or to children who are in receipt of a pension under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and Application process for Year 12 2020 the War Pensions Scheme because their parent(s) died on active service with the UK Applications for a place in year 12 for September armed forces. 2020 can be made directly to BTE Academy. The application form can be found online at www. bteacademy.co.uk/admissions or by requesting Year 10 published admission number a copy from: Admissions Team, BTE Academy, New Road, Stoke Gifford, BS34 8SF. They can The BTE Academy has an agreed published be returned in electronic format to admissions@ admission number of 120 pupils for Year 10. bteacademy.co.uk and hard copies can be sent to the school address. Applications will be accepted from September 2019. Application process for Year 10 2020

There are a variety of post-16 courses on offer Applications for a place in Year 10 for September each with different entry requirements . Full details 2020 can be made directly to BTE Academy. The of these will be published annually in the post-16 application form can be found online at prospectus and applicants should contact the www.bteacademy.co.uk/admissions or by academy for information. requesting a copy from: Admissions Team, BTE Academy, New Road, Stoke Gifford, BS34 8SF. To be eligible for entry into year 12 both internal They can be returned in electronic format to and external pupils will be expected to have met [email protected] and hard copies the minimum academic entry requirements for the can be sent to the school address. Applications will post-16 course and its level of qualification. be accepted from September 2019.

In addition to the post-16 minimum academic entry The closing date for applications is 31 October requirements, pupils will need to satisfy minimum 2019. Any applications received after this date will entrance requirements to the courses for which not be considered in the first round of allocations they are applying. and will be treated as a late application and will be treated on a first come, first serve basis. When year 12 is under-subscribed all applicants meeting the minimum academic entry requirements For any application enquiries, please email for the courses applied for will be admitted. [email protected] for further guidance. When there are more external applicants that satisfy any academic entry requirements than the Published Admission Number, priority will be given in the following order:

79  01454 868008  [email protected] The over-subscription criteria ❚❚ The remaining 10% of places will be Consideration of applications allocated to pupils living outside the areas listed in a – c above with those living closest to the front gates of the UTC (as the The BTE Academy will consider all applications for crow flies) being admitted. places. Where fewer than the published admission number for year 10 are received, the BTE Academy If places remain available from any of the three will offer places to all those who have applied. areas these will be distributed equally to the remaining areas using random allocation (this will Where the number of applications for admission be independently verified). is greater than the published admission number, applications will be considered against the criteria set out below. After the admission of pupils with Definitions Education Health and Care Plans where the BTE Academy is named on the Plan, the criteria will In determining which applicants live closest to be applied in the order in which they are set out the UTC, distances from home to school will be below: measured in a direct line between the address point of the child’s home and a central point within ❚❚ Looked after children and previously the main UTC building (using the BTE Academy’s looked after children; computerised mapping system).

❚❚ Pupils who are eligible for pupil premium. In the event that we are unable to distinguish Parents/guardians will be required to between applicants for the final available place, provide evidence of eligibility and the such as in the case of students who live in the school may request confirmation from the same block of flats, then the final place will be applicant’s home local authority. made through random allocation.

❚❚ Children whose parent(s) are serving in the The home address is considered to be where the regular UK armed forces, to the children of child lives most of the time with his or her parent(s) regular armed forces personnel who were or carer(s). Where the child spends time with each serving in the past 3 years, or to children parent/carer equally at two different addresses who are in receipt of a pension under the the BTE Academy Trust will ask for proof of Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and arrangements and will determine the appropriate the War Pensions Scheme because their address to be used when allocating a place. parent(s) died on active service with the UK armed forces. Previously looked after children are children who were looked after, but ceased to be so ❚❚ 30% of places allocated to applicants because they were adopted (or became subject within Area 1 (North) which will include all to a residence order or special guardianship postcodes in: order). Previously looked after children means i. BS6, BS7, BS9, BS10, BS11, BS32, BS34, such children who were adopted (or subject to

Admission to Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy to Bristol Technology College - Admission University Technical BS35, BS36, BS37; residence orders or special guardianship orders) ii. GL9, GL10, GL11, GL12, GL13 immediately following having been looked after.

❚❚ 30% of places allocated to applicants Arrangements for admitting pupils to other year within Area 2 (East) which will include all groups, including to replace any pupils who have postcodes in: left the BTE Academy. iii. BS5, , BS15, BS16, BS30, BS31; iv. BA1, BA2, BA15; With regards to the admission arrangements v. SN13, SN14. relating to applications submitted for years other than the normal year of entry, the Academy will ❚❚ 30% of places allocated to applicants consider all such applications and if the year group within Area 3 (South) which will include all applied for has a place available, admit the child. postcodes in: If more applications are received than there are vi. BS1, BS2, BS3, BS4, BS8, BS13, BS14, places available, the over-subscription criteria shall BS20, BS21, BS39, BS40, BS41, BS48, apply. Parents whose application is turned down BS49; are entitled to appeal. vii. BA3.

80 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions University Technical College Waiting list

The Academy will operate a waiting list. Where in any year the BTE Academy receives more applications for places than there are places available, a waiting list will operate until the end of the autumn term/Term 2. This will be maintained by the BTE Academy and it will open to any parent to ask for his or her child’s name to be placed on the waiting list, following an unsuccessful application.

Children’s position on the waiting list will be determined solely in accordance with the over- subscription criteria set out above. Where places become vacant they will be allocated to children - Admission to Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy on the waiting list in accordance with the over- subscription criteria.

Appeals

There will be a right of appeal to an Independent Appeals Panel for internal pupils refused transfer and external applicants refused admission. The appeals process will be run in line with statutory duties of the appeals code.

81  01454 868008  [email protected] Wellsway Multi Academy Trust Admission to Sir Bernard Lovell Academy

Purpose of the policy The over-subscription criteria:

The purpose of this policy is to make the admissions process to Sir Bernard Lovell Academy Priority A clear and open. Looked after children or previously looked after children [the latter are children who were looked The Trust is supported by South Gloucestershire after, but ceased to be so because they were Council in allocating places to Sir Bernard Lovell adopted (or became subject to a residence order Academy and informing families. or special guardianship order)].

While parents have the right to choose a preferred school, the number of places available at that Priority B school may limit that choice. Should Sir Bernard Children from within the Area of Prime Lovell Academy be over-subscribed (i.e. if there Responsibility [APR] whose older sibling will be are more applications than places available), “the attending the school on the admission date. over-subscription criteria” will be applied to all applications. Priority C Children of staff where that member of staff has Admission to Year 7 September 2020 been employed for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the The process for admissions to the school is school is made and/or where the member of staff governed by regulations made under the School is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a Standards and Framework Act 1998. All the demonstrable skill shortage. processes described below are in accordance with that Act. The arrangements set out in this policy apply to all students except those with an Priority D Education, Health and Care Plan (EHC Plan). If your Children living within the APR.

Admission to Sir Bernard Lovell Academy to Sir Bernard Lovell - Admission Trust Multi Academy Wellsway child has an EHC Plan you do not apply for a place at the school under this policy. Instead, you must contact your local authority who will advise you on Priority E the procedure to follow. Children living outside the APR whose older sibling will be attending the school on the admission date. Published admissions number Priority F The school has a Published Admission Number Children living outside of the APR. of 210 which means that it will admit 210 in each year group from Year 7 to Year 11. This includes students with an EHC Plan whose EHC Plan name Applying the school. If 210 or fewer applications (including those children with EHC Plans) are received, all Please note that applications for Sir Bernard Lovell those applying will be offered places. If the school Academy should be made through the family's receives more than 210 applications, i.e. the school home local authority. is over-subscribed, the following procedure is followed. To be considered under the above criteria parents/carers must have named the school as a preference on the Common Application Form. Under the above criteria all preferences are considered equally. If a student qualifies for more than one school they will be offered their highest preference as stated on their application form. If under the above criteria any single category resulted in over-subscription, priority would be

82 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Wellsway Multi Academy Trust - Admission to Sir Bernard Lovell Academy given to those children who live nearest to the Please note that the offer of a place at school. Distance will be measured in a straight line any particular school does not guarantee from the front door of the child’s home address an offer of a place for a sibling at a later (including flats) to the main entrance of a school. date. Different authorities will vary in the Measurements will be determined using the Local priority that they give to siblings. You will Authority’s GIS computerised mapping system need to consult the relevant admission with those living closer to the school receiving the authority for further advice, i.e. where an higher priority. admission authority serves an Area of Prime Responsibility, only children who live within In the event of the school being over-subscribed the Area of Prime Responsibility will be where the applicants for the final qualifying place(s) afforded priority of admission under the local available within the admission number are twins, sibling criterion. triplets or other multiple births the school will offer these children places. 3a. Geographical considerations (for those living within the academy’s Area of Prime Responsibility): Priority will be given to Notes: those children who live within the Area of Prime Responsibility for the academy. 1. Children in public care* are those in the care Where an academy also has an Area of First of a local authority or being provided with Responsibility, children living in this area will accommodation by a local authority within the be given the highest priority. meaning of Section 22 of the Children Act 1989. If in any year there are more children living within the Area of Prime Responsibility Children previously in public care* are those than the number of places available at the who were looked after, but ceased to be so academy, priority will be given to those because they were adopted1 (or became children who live closest to the academy. subject to a residence order2 or special Distances from home to school are measured guardianship order3). in a straight line between the address point * Documentation will need to be provided of the child’s home and a central point to South Gloucestershire Council as within the main school building using South proof of care status. Gloucestershire Council’s computerised 1 Under the terms of the Adoption Act 1976 mapping system. and the Adoption and Children Act 2002. 2 Under the terms of the Children Act 1989 3b. Geographical considerations (for those and the Children and Families Act 2014. living outside the academy’s Area of Prime 3 Section 14A of the Children Act 1989. Responsibility): After places have been allocated from within the Area of Prime 2. Local siblings: Children are defined as local Responsibility, any remaining places will be siblings if: allocated to those children who live closest to the academy. Distances from home ❚❚ they live within the APR; or, to school are measured in a straight line ❚❚ where there is no APR, local siblings between the address point of the child’s will be deemed to be those living home and a central point within the main up to a maximum of two miles school building using South Gloucestershire from the academy by straight line Council’s computerised mapping system. All measurement; or, applications will be considered at the same ❚❚ where the distance is over two miles time and the published over-subscription but the academy is still the nearest criteria applied. school; AND 4. Tie breaker: Lots will be drawn by a senior ❚❚ they are full or half brother or sister; or officer of South Gloucestershire Council who ❚❚ they are adoptive brother or sister; or is independent of the school admissions ❚❚ they are children of the same process. household; AND ❚❚ the older sibling is already in attendance at the academy and will be in attendance in September 2020 (statutory school age only).

83  01454 868008  [email protected] General information ❚❚ Wherever possible, children of UK service Waiting list personnel will be offered a place at the preferred local school but taking into Unsuccessful applicants will have the opportunity account the admission number for the to go on the waiting list. Places in Year 7 are school. offered from the waiting ist in accordance with the over-subscription criteria. The waiting list will be kept open until December. Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHC Plan) Every effort will be made to contact applicants on the waiting list using the last contact details Children with an EHC Plan are placed in schools provided by the applicant, but, where a response through the arrangements set out in the SEN to an offer has not been received within 10 school Code of Practice and not through these admission days, the offer will be withdrawn and the available criteria. All governing bodies are required by place offered to the next child on the waiting list to Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 to admit to qualify for the available place. the school a child with a an EHC Plan that names the school. Schools must admit such children whether they have places or not. Any appeal Children of UK Service Personnel concerning the admission is to the independent (UK Armed Forces) First-tier Tribunal (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber). Parents/carers of children with The Trust and South Gloucestershire Council an EHC Plan should contact their child’s lead recognise the particular needs of children of professional for any further information. UK service personnel (UK Armed Forces). The Trust and the LA ensures that the needs of these children are taken into account by: Home address

❚❚ Allocating a school place in advance if The child’s home address is considered to be the application is accompanied by an where the child lives most of the time with his official government letter which declares a or her parent(s) or carer(s). The Trust and South relocation date and a Unit postal address or Gloucestershire Council cannot accept an address quartering address. of a business, relative, friend, childminder, a temporary address or an address of a house it ❚ Admission to Sir Bernard Lovell Academy to Sir Bernard Lovell - Admission Trust Multi Academy Wellsway ❚ Accepting a Unit postal address, or, if is intended to move to. The only exceptions are appropriate, a quartering area address (the for children of UK service personnel for whom address of the closest house in the relevant special arrangements may apply. The Trust and quartering area), for applications from South Gloucestershire Council reserves the right to service personnel in the absence of a new seek documentary evidence to support a claim of home postal address. residence.

❚❚ Accepting a late application from UK Where a child spends time with each parent/carer service personnel as ‘on time’ where a at two different addresses, the Trust through South notification of posting has been received Gloucestershire Council will ask for proof of the after the closing date and before the date arrangements and will determine the appropriate of exchange of information with other address to be used in allocating a school place. In admission authorities. reaching this decision, evidence may be requested to show the address to which any Child Benefit is ❚❚ Considering an application on the criterion paid and from which the child is registered with of ‘local sibling’ where another child in a medical GP. Any other evidence provided by the family has been offered a place at parents/carers will also be considered in reaching the preferred school and the Unit postal a decision on the home address for admissions address or quartering address is within purposes. the Area of Prime Responsibility for the preferred school. A place allocated on the basis of fraudulent information may be withdrawn.

84 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Wellsway Multi Academy Trust - Admission to Sir Bernard Lovell Academy In-year admissions (i.e. all applications other than If the year group is full or over-subscribed then the for Year 7 September 2020) Trust will refuse the place and the applicant will be placed on a waiting list and given the opportunity All applications must be made directly to the to appeal. If parents/ carers wish to appeal they school. An application is made by completing an need to complete and return the appeals form to application form which must be forwarded to the the Trust. An independent appeal panel will be school. If no form is submitted the school will not convened at which both parents/carers and the be able to process the application. All applications Trust will represent their case. Decisions made by will be considered by the Admissions Authority the panel are legally binding. and places will be offered if this will not prejudice efficient education of others at the school or the If a place becomes available and there are efficient use of resources. Where there are more applicants on the waiting list, the place will be applicants at any one time than there are places offered according to the criteria set out for year 7 available, priority will be determined by applying September intake, and not by reference to the date the over-subscription criteria set out above. of joining the waiting list.

Appeals – Year 7 September intake appeals Fair Access Protocols

After the end of October (closing date for The school works in accordance with the in-year applications), South Gloucestershire Council will Fair Access Protocols held by the Local Authority; send the Trust a list of all their applicants. This will should a vulnerable child within the protocols include first, second and third preferences, but will require a place at the school, they will take not state the preferences. South Gloucestershire precedence over any child on the waiting list. Council will rank the list for Sir Bernard Lovell Academy and allocate 210 students. Tie-breaker Parents/carers will be informed of the allocation of places. Included in this information will be an If it is necessary to use a tie-breaker to distinguish appeal form and an explanatory statement from the between two or more applications, a distance Trust. If parents/carers wish to appeal they need to criterion will be used. We will give priority to the complete and return the appeals form to the Trust. applicants who live nearest to the school as measured by a straight line from the front door of the home of the applicant to the front door of the Late applications main reception of the school site that was on the original application for a place. Application forms received after the closing date will be considered alongside those applicants who applied on time wherever possible. Where it is not Definitions: practicable because places have already been allocated, or are shortly to be allocated, then late Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan applications will be considered only after those applicants who applied by the published closing Any child with an Education, Health and Care Plan date. is required to be admitted. This gives such children overall priority for admission to the named school. This is not an over-subscription criterion. In-year admissions (7-11)

The school will co-ordinate their own in year Looked after children admissions and an application made outside the normal admissions round (in-year admissions) Any child that is Looked After or Previously Looked should be made directly to the school. Parents/ After is required to be admitted to the school. This carers can apply for a place for their child at any gives such children overall priority for admission time and to any school. On receipt of an in-year to the named school. In the case of previously application, the school will notify the Local Authority looked after children, admission authorities may of both the application and its outcome, to allow request a copy of the adoption order, residence the Local Authority to keep up to date with figures order or special guardianship order and a letter on the availability of schools places within their from the local authority that last looked after the authority. child confirming that he or she was looked after immediately prior to that order being made.

85  01454 868008  [email protected] Siblings Adoption order

A sibling is defined as a child who has a brother, An adoption order is an order under Section 46 of sister, adopted brother or sister or stepbrother the Adoption and Children Act 2002. or stepsister living in the same family unit in the same family household and address who attends the school in any year group excluding the final Residence order year. Biological siblings who attend the school in any year group excluding the final year will A residence order is an order settling the also be treated as siblings irrespective of place arrangements to be made as to the person with of residence. Children residing in the same whom the child is to live under Section 8 of the household as part of an extended family, such as Children Act 1989. Section 14A of the Children Act cousins, will not be treated as siblings. 1989 defines a ‘special guardianship order’ as an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or special guardians). Brothers and sisters

Brothers and sisters include children with the same Residence/resident natural parents living at the same address - children with the same natural parents living at different Residence is defined as the normal family address addresses (e.g. due to separation of natural parents) where the child resides. The qualifications date half-brothers/sisters living at the same address step– is the closing date for applications under the brothers/sisters living at the same address - children co-ordinated admissions scheme (where families living as part of the same family unit with their change normal address after the closing date but parents/guardians at the same address. before the allocation process has finished this can be considered under the review procedure). Where parents live at separate addresses and Looked after child have joint custody, the address used will be the one where the child spends the main part of the A 'looked after child' (1) or a child who was school week (i.e. Sunday night to Thursday night previously looked after but immediately after inclusive). Childcare arrangements involving being looked after became subject to an adoption relatives’ addresses do not qualify as normal family (2) child arrangements order (3) or special addresses for this purpose unless there is a court guardianship order (4). residence order in place. Admission to Sir Bernard Lovell Academy to Sir Bernard Lovell - Admission Trust Multi Academy Wellsway (1) A 'looked after child' is a child who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at the time of making an application to a school.

(2) This includes children who were adopted under the Adoption Act 1976 (see section 12 adoption orders) and children who were adopted under the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (see section 46 adoption orders).

(3) Under the provisions of s.14 of the Children and Families Act 2014, which amend section 8 of the Children Act 1989, residence orders have now been replaced by child arrangements orders.

(4) See Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 which defines a ‘special guardianship order’ as an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or special guardians).

86 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Special schools Special schools

Contact details / Head teacher Type of provision Age range Culverhill

Kelston Close, Yate Complex learning 7 - 16 Bristol BS37 8SZ difficulties  01454 866930  [email protected]  www.culverhillschool.org.uk Head Teacher – Ms S Hewitt New Horizons Learning Centre

Mulberry Drive Campus, Mulberry Drive Behavioural, emotional and 11 - 16 Kingswood, Bristol BS15 4EA social difficulties  01454 865340  [email protected]  www.newhorizonslc.org.uk Executive Head Teacher – Mrs T Craig New Siblands

Easton Hill Road, Thornbury Severe and profound 11 - 19 Bristol BS35 2JU learning difficulties  01454 862888  [email protected]  www.newsiblands.org.uk Head Teacher – Ms C Osmond Warmley Park

Tower Road North, Warmley Severe learning 11 - 19 Bristol BS30 8XL difficulties (including  01454 867272 learning and communication  [email protected] for pupils with autism)  www.warmleyparkschool.org.uk Head Teacher – Miss L Parker SGS Pegasus (Free School)

Hempton Lane, Patchway Autistic spectrum disorder 4 - 18 Bristol BS32 4AJ (located on the Patchway Community School site)  01454 862057  [email protected]  www.sgspegasusschool.co.uk Head Teacher – Mr D Broad

Placement at special schools will always be decided centrally by the Department for Children, Adults and Health.

87  01454 868008  [email protected] Special resource bases/access centres

Contact details / Head teacher Type of provision Age range Abbeywood Community School Resource Base

New Road, Stoke Gifford Language and communication 11 - 18 Bristol BS34 8SF difficulties  0117 307 5660  [email protected]  www.abbeywoodschoool.com Head Teacher – Mr D Howe Brimsham Green School Resource Base Special resource bases/access centres Broad Lane, Yate Physical difficulties and 11 - 18 Bristol BS37 7LB complex health needs  01454 868888  [email protected]  www.brimsham.com Head Teacher – Ms K Garland Chipping Sodbury School Access Centre

Bowling Road, Chipping Sodbury Autism spectrum disorders 11 - 18 Bristol BS37 6EW  01454 862900  [email protected]  www.chippingsodburyschool.com Head Teacher – Ms K Turner Hanham Woods Academy Resource Base

Memorial Road, Hanham Language and communication 11 - 18 Bristol BS15 3LA difficulties  01454 867600  [email protected]  www.hanhamwoods.academy Principal – Mr S Kneller Yate Academy Resource Base

Sundridge Park, Yate Hearing impairment 11 - 19 Bristol BS37 4DX  01454 333560  [email protected]  www.yateacademy.co.uk Principal – Ms I Ambrose

Placement at special resource bases/access centres will always be decided centrally by the Department for Children, Adults and Health.

88 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions School term and holiday dates - 2020-2021 academic year School term and holiday dates 2020-2021 academic year

SEPTEMBER 2020 OCTOBER 2020 NOVEMBER 2020 Monday 7 14 21 28 Monday 5 12 19 26 Monday 2 9 16 23 30 Tuesday 1 8 15 22 29 Tuesday 6 13 20 27 Tuesday 3 10 17 24 Wednesday 2 9 16 23 30 Wednesday 7 14 21 28 Wednesday 4 11 18 25 Thursday 3 10 17 24 Thursday 1 8 15 22 29 Thursday 5 12 19 26 Friday 4 11 18 25 Friday 2 9 16 23 30 Friday 6 13 20 27 Saturday 5 12 19 26 Saturday 3 10 17 24 31 Saturday 7 14 21 28 Sunday 6 13 20 27 Sunday 4 11 18 25 Sunday 1 8 15 22 29

DECEMBER 2020 JANUARY 2021 FEBRUARY 2021 Monday 7 14 21 28 Monday 4 11 18 25 Monday 1 8 15 22 26 Tuesday 1 8 15 22 29 Tuesday 5 12 19 26 Tuesday 2 9 16 23 27 Wednesday 2 9 16 23 30 Wednesday 6 13 20 27 Wednesday 3 10 17 24 28 Thursday 3 10 17 24 31 Thursday 7 14 21 28 Thursday 4 11 18 25 29 Friday 4 11 18 25 Friday 1 8 15 22 29 Friday 5 12 19 26 30 Saturday 5 12 19 26 Saturday 2 9 16 23 30 Saturday 6 13 20 27 31 Sunday 6 13 20 27 Sunday 3 10 17 24 31 Sunday 7 14 21 28

MARCH 2021 APRIL 2021 MAY 2021 Monday 1 8 15 22 29 Monday 5 12 19 26 Monday 3 10 17 24 31 Tuesday 2 9 16 23 30 Tuesday 6 13 20 27 Tuesday 4 11 18 25 Wednesday 3 10 17 24 31 Wednesday 7 14 21 28 Wednesday 5 12 19 26 Thursday 4 11 18 25 Thursday 1 8 15 22 29 Thursday 6 13 20 27 Friday 5 12 19 26 Friday 2 9 16 23 30 Friday 7 14 21 28 Saturday 6 13 20 27 Saturday 3 10 17 24 Saturday 1 8 15 22 29 Sunday 7 14 21 28 Sunday 4 11 18 25 Sunday 2 9 16 23 30

JUNE 2021 JULY 2021 AUGUST 2021 Monday 7 14 21 28 Monday 5 12 19 26 Monday 2 9 16 23 30 Tuesday 1 8 15 22 29 Tuesday 6 13 20 27 Tuesday 3 10 17 24 31 Wednesday 2 9 16 23 30 Wednesday 7 14 21 28 Wednesday 4 11 18 25 Thursday 3 10 17 24 Thursday 1 8 15 22 29 Thursday 5 12 19 26 Friday 4 11 18 25 Friday 2 9 16 23 30 Friday 6 13 20 27 Saturday 5 12 19 26 Saturday 3 10 17 24 31 Saturday 7 14 21 28 Sunday 6 13 20 27 Sunday 4 11 18 25 Sunday 1 8 15 22 29

■ Bank Holidays ■ School Holidays ■ School Day

Notes: The term dates shown here apply only to community and voluntary controlled schools (within these dates schools will set aside 5 days for teacher training, also known as inset days). Voluntary aided schools and academies are responsible for setting their own dates. Parents/carers are advised to check with individual voluntary aided schools and academies.

89  01454 868008  [email protected] Useful contact details

The following services may offer support in admission to school in appropriate cases:

Access and Response

Manager: Jackie Charlton

Useful contact details Department for Children, Adults and Health South Gloucestershire Council PO Box 1955, Bristol, BS37 0DE  01454 866000  01454 864380  [email protected] Department for Children, Adults and Health

South Gloucestershire Council PO Box 1955, Bristol, BS37 0DE  01454 868008  01454 868420  [email protected]  www.southglos.gov.uk Department for Education

Piccadilly Gate, Store Street, Manchester, M1 2WD  0370 000 2288  0161 600 1332  www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service

School Support Service Lead: Nicky Rice  01454 868473  07917 243856  [email protected] Ofsted

Piccadilly Gate, Store Street, Manchester, M1 2WD  0300 123 1231 (General Enquiries) Helpline open from 8am to 6pm (Monday to Friday)  0300 123 3159  [email protected]  www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted Sensory Support Service

Head of Service: Joao Roe Elmfield House, Greystoke Avenue, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, BS10 6AY  0117 903 8441  07557 202045  0117 903 8440  [email protected]  www.sensorysupportservice.org.uk

90 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Useful contact details Special Educational Needs (0-25 Service)

South Gloucestershire Council Department for Children, Adults and Health PO Box 1955, Bristol, BS37 0DE  01454 866259  01454 863264 Supportive Parents SENDIAS Service

3rd Floor, Royal Oak House, Royal Oak Avenue, Bristol, BS1 4GB Supportive Parents provides the statutory SENDIAS service for South Gloucestershire. SENDIAS stands for Special Educational Needs & Disability Information, Advice and Support.

What We Do We provide information, advice and support about special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) to children, young people up to the age of 25 and their parents. Our service is free, confidential and impartial.

How We Help We provide an information, advice and support (IAS) phone line and email service. The information, advice and support line is staffed by legally trained advisors who will listen to your queries and concerns. We’ll provide you with information, advice and support on all kinds of SEND issues at every stage of your child’s education - from the time of your first concerns, into further education and adulthood.

Contact Us:  0117 989 7725 Monday, Wednesday and Friday - 10.00am to 2.00pm term time only.  www.supportiveparents.org.uk  [email protected]

91  01454 868008  [email protected] Glossary of terms

Academies Area of prime responsibility (APR)

Academies are independent state funded schools. This is a defined geographical area. Where an Academies are not accountable to the local APR exists, the area indicates to parents/carers the

Glossary of terms authority but are accountable to the Secretary of school(s) which normally serve the home address. State. Schools with academy status are their own When allocating places South Gloucestershire admission authority and have greater control in Council will give priority to those children who live delivering the curriculum, have greater control over within the APR of the school. their budget and hold land and buildings under a long term lease. Academies work alongside other schools in South Gloucestershire in order to raise Children in public care (see also standards and share areas of expertise. ‘Children previously in public care’)

Admission authority Children who are in the care of local authorities as defined by Section 22 of the Children Act 1989. In For every school, there is an admission authority. relation to school admission legislation children in This is the body which has the legal responsibility public care are considered as such only if the local for the admission arrangements for the school. In authority confirms he or she will be in public care the case of community and voluntary controlled when he or she is admitted to a school. schools, the admission authority is the local authority. In the case of academies, foundation trust schools, university technical colleges and studio Children previously in public care schools, the admission authority is the governing body of the school. Children previously in public care are children who were in public care, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a Admission criteria residence order/child arrangement order or special guardianship order). The list of criteria an admission authority must adopt for its school(s) setting out how priority is given in admission arrangements. These are used Closing date only when the school is over-subscribed to decide which children will be offered a place. The closing date for on time applications is 31 October 2019. Community and voluntary controlled schools Admission number South Gloucestershire Council is the admission authority for community and voluntary controlled The number of school places that the admission schools and is responsible for determining the authority for the school must offer in each relevant admission arrangements and allocating school age group of a school for which it is admission places. authority. Consortium area Appeal A Consortium Area is an Area of Prime Parents/carers have the right of appeal to an Responsibility that is served by more than two independent appeal panel concerning the decision schools. not to offer a place at the preferred school. Parents/carers are invited to attend the hearing.

92 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Glossary of terms Co-ordinated admissions/co- Foundation trust ordinated scheme Foundation trust schools are state-funded Co-ordinated schemes must be consulted upon foundation schools which receive extra support across all relevant admission authorities and (usually non-monetary) from a charitable trust made determined in the year prior to which they are up of partners working together for the benefit to apply. All local authorities are required to co of the school. Achieving trust status is one way ordinate primary and secondary admissions for all in which maintained schools can formalise their schools in their area. Although individual admission relationship with their partners. authorities rank all applicants in order of priority for admission, offers are sent out by the relevant local authority on the locally agreed date. Gazetteer

The Routes to School Gazetteer that is used by Determined admission the Department for Children, Adults and Health in arrangements determining transport entitlement comprises: The determined admission arrangements are a) Routes that are Public Highway maintained the admission arrangements which have been by South Gloucestershire Council as the formally agreed by the admission authority for the Highway Authority. school concerned. For community and voluntary controlled schools, the admission arrangements b) Man-made surfaced roads, tracks and paths are determined by the local authority. In voluntary on South Gloucestershire Council owned aided schools, trust schools and academies, land. the admission arrangements are determined by the governing body. Determined admission c) Potentially adopted highways that are arrangements include the criteria to be applied covered by adoption agreements with when there are more applications than places developers. Although these lengths available. of highway are not maintained by South Gloucestershire Council, but by the developer, the land on which the Education, health and care plan adoptable roads and footpaths have been (EHC Plan) constructed is dedicated as public highway. This dedication occurs on the issuing of An EHC Plan is for children and young people who ‘Certificate 1’ under the terms of the adoption have special educational needs and/or a disability agreement, prior to first occupation. To meet and where an assessment of education, health and the requirements of Certificate 1 the roads social care needs has been agreed by a multi- and footpaths must be surfaced to base agency group of professionals. It is available from course level and lit. Wherever possible the birth to age 25. roads and footpaths on new developments, satisfying the ‘Certificate 1’ criteria are included so as not to disadvantage First area of responsibility individuals moving onto new developments. d) Only gates/entrances to schools recognised In some cases, where a school forms part of a by the Gazetteer will be used to determine Consortium Area of Prime Responsibility, the routes to school. school concerned may also have a First Area of Responsibility for certain outlying or more rural The following routes are not included: areas. Children living in these first areas will be given priority over children living elsewhere within ❚❚ Isolated/remote Public Rights of Way – the Consortium Area of Prime Responsibility. although a highway, the surface is private and unpredictable; they are generally not lit.

❚❚ Route(s) through private land.

See also ‘Nearest available walking route’.

93  01454 868008  [email protected] Home address Nearest appropriate school (as defined by South Gloucestershire You must apply using your child’s permanent home address as at 31 October 2019. The home Council) address is considered to be where the child lives most of the time with his or her parent(s) or carer(s). This may be the nearest school, the school within South Gloucestershire Council cannot accept an the Area of Prime Responsibility serving the home address of a business, relative, friend, childminder, address, nearest school with a place available,

Glossary of terms a temporary address or an address of a house it is or nearest school able to meet a child's identified intended to move to. The only exceptions are for special educational needs. children of UK service personnel for whom special arrangements apply. Nearest available walking route South Gloucestershire Council reserves the right to (including measurement of distance) seek documentary evidence to support a claim of residence. For the assessment of transport entitlement distances from home to school are measured using the nearest available walking route. Local siblings Walking distances are determined using the South Gloucestershire Council Routes to School A local sibling is not the same as a sibling. In South Gazetteer adopted by 1 September 2019. See also Gloucestershire children are defined as local ‘Statutory walking distance’. siblings if:

❚❚ they live within the APR; or, Over-subscription ❚❚ where there is no APR, local siblings will be deemed to be those living up to a Where a school has a higher number of applicants maximum of two miles from school by than the school’s published admission number. straight line measurement; or, ❚❚ where the distance is over two miles but the school is still the nearest school; Over-subscription criteria (see also AND ‘Admission criteria’) ❚❚ they are full or half brother or sister; or ❚❚ they are adoptive brother or sister; or This refers to the published criteria that an ❚❚ they are children of the same household; admission authority applies when a school has AND more applications than places available in order to ❚❚ the older sibling is already in attendance decide which children will be allocated a place. at the preferred school and will be in attendance in September 2020 (statutory school age only). Parent (parental responsibility)

Please note that the offer of a place at any Both a child's parents will have parental particular school does not guarantee an offer responsibility for the child if they are married and of a place for a sibling at a later date. Different are the child's natural parents. If the parents of a authorities will vary in the priority that they give child are not married to each other, the mother to siblings. You will need to consult the relevant automatically has parental responsibility, but the admission authority for further advice, i.e. where father does not. He can subsequently acquire an admission authority serves an Area of Prime parental responsibility by the following means: Responsibility, only children who live within the Area of Prime Responsibility will be afforded priority ❚❚ a parental responsibility agreement; of admission under the local sibling criterion. ❚❚ becoming registered as the child’s father on the birth certificate;

❚❚ an order of the court granting him parental responsibility or a residence order.

Other persons can acquire parental responsibility for a child in the following ways:

94 Apply on-line at:    www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions Glossary of terms ❚❚ being granted a residence order; School term and holiday dates

❚❚ being appointed a guardian or special The school term and holiday dates are arranged guardian; in six terms (the three traditional terms are divided into two terms each). The school term and holiday ❚❚ adopting the child. dates for the academic year 2020-2021 are provided in this guide. A local authority can acquire parental responsibility for a child under a care order or an emergency protection order. Only the parent with legal Special resource bases/access responsibility may complete and submit the school centres place application. A special resource base/access centre is a specialist provision, operated by a mainstream Parental/carer preference school or academy. Special resource bases/access centres usually provide time-limited or long-term Parents/carers have the right to express a placements on either a part-time or full-time basis preference for the school they wish their child to and offer the opportunity for assessment and attend. This right to express a preference is set planning around the individual needs of pupils with out in the School Standards and Framework Act special educational needs and/or a disability. 1998. South Gloucestershire Council, as admission authority, must comply with parental/carer preference regarding parents/carers preference for Statutory school age school except: A child cannot currently leave school until the last ❚❚ when to do so would prejudice the Friday in June of the academic year in which they provision of efficient education or the become 16. efficient use of resources; or

❚❚ where to do so would result in exceeding Statutory walking distance the limit on infant class sizes, as imposed by Section 1(6) of the School Standards and The statutory walking distance is “measured by the Framework Act 1998; shortest route along which a child accompanied as necessary may walk with reasonable safety” ❚❚ when a child has been permanently between home and the nearest school gate. excluded from two or more schools and Distances are measured from home to the nearest the most recent exclusion has taken place school gate using the South Gloucestershire within two years; Council Routes to School Gazetteer adopted by 1 September 2019. The council is unable to consider ❚❚ when allocating places through the Fair distances calculated using other measurement Access Protocol. tools. See also ‘Straight line distance’ and ‘Nearest available walking route’. Applications for places will be considered against the published admission criteria without reference to the applicants’ order of preference. Where Straight line distance applicants meet the criteria for more than one school, the final offer will be the highest ranked In determining which applicants live closest to school with a place available. school, distances from home to school will be measured in a straight line between the address point of the child’s home and a central point within the main school building. Applications for assistance with transport will continue to be assessed using the nearest available walking route. See also ‘Nearest available walking route’.

95  01454 868008  [email protected] Studio schools

A studio school is a type of academy. See also ‘Academies’. Studio schools generally provide for students aged 14-19 of all abilities. They aim to provide an education which focuses on developing skills for employment. They offer a range of qualifications as well as providing work

Glossary of terms placements, leading to higher education and further training and employment opportunities. Studio schools are their own admission authority but work alongside other schools and academies and the local authority in order to raise standards and increase opportunities for young people.

Supplementary forms

All parents/carers who list their preferred schools on the common application form are regarded as having made a valid application. An additional form may also have to be completed for applicants at denominational schools.

Under-subscribed schools

A school is under-subscribed when the number of applications for places is fewer than the admission number of the school.

University technical colleges (UTCs) UTC stands for University Technical College, an innovative new approach to learning for 14–19 year olds that offers a specialist education alongside traditional subjects, such as English, Maths and Science. A UTC is supported by the local business community and has high profile industry partners involved in the development of the curriculum.

Voluntary controlled schools (VC)

South Gloucestershire Council is the admission authority for voluntary controlled schools and is responsible for determining the admission arrangements and allocating places.

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All maps in this document are based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the permission of the Controller HM Stationery Officer. Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. South Gloucestershire Council Licence Number 1000023410 2019.

Please note that all maps are indicative and must be viewed in that way.

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