Starting in a Hounslow School Nursery in September 2018
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Starting in a Hounslow School Nursery in September 2018 Apply on time by 4 May 2018 Children born between 1 September 2014 and 31 August 2015 can start in a nursery class attached to a primary or infant school in September 2018. Please apply directly to the school of your choice. 2 Apply online: www.hounslow.gov.uk/admissions Content Introduction 3 School Information 11 Introduction School Map Types of Schools in Hounslow List of schools Understanding the Admissions Process Admission Criteria for Hounslow Community Infant and Primary Schools Oversubscription Admission Criteria for other schools Priority Admission Area (PAA) Late Applications Additional Information 21 Key dates Special Educational Needs Free childcare and early learning entitlement for 2 year olds. Completing your Application 7 Education and statutory school age Closing date for applications Appeals/ Complaints Proof of Address Transfer to reception class Exceptional Medical/Social Need Childhood Immunisations Additional Forms - Supplementary Information Forms Duplicate applications Waiting lists 3 Introduction Universal 15 hours early education Children attend nursery classes for five half days each entitlement week in term-time, either five mornings or five afternoons, depending on the organisation of each school. Children All three and four year olds are entitled to up to 15 hours cannot be admitted to nursery classes before the school of free early education up to 38 weeks a year. This brochure year in which they reach the age of four. provides information about accessing this entitlement in schools. You may choose to access the free entitlement 30 hours free childcare and early education through an Ofsted registered day nursery, pre-school or entitlement for some working families childminder. A full list of these providers is available on the Hounslow Family Service Directory (fsd.hounslow.gov.uk) Some working families are eligible to receive a further 15 hours of free childcare and early education for their three In our schools, children can take up a free, part-time place or four year old child. This is in addition to the universal in a nursery class from the September before their fourth 15 hours of free childcare and early education to which birthday. Children born between 1 September 2014 and 31 all three and four year olds are entitled. The additional August 2015 can be admitted to a nursery class attached to free entitlement can be accessed in some schools, at an a primary school in September 2018. Ofsted registered day nursery, pre-school, childminder or in breakfast clubs and after school clubs. All of our maintained infant and primary schools have nursery classes. Enquiries and applications should be made For more information, please visit the Hounslow Family directly to the school. Applications will be considered Service Directory (fsd.hounslow.gov.uk) according to the admission criteria, and offers will be made up to the number of places available at each school. Types of Schools in Hounslow faith school. The governing body of the school sets the All Hounslow primary schools are co-educational and admit admissions policy and criteria. boys and girls. Most of the primary schools are all-through primary schools, catering for children from age 3 to age 11. Free schools Free schools are independent of the Local Authority and are There are seven pairs of separate infant and junior schools. funded directly by the Department for Education. They can The primary schools in Hounslow are community schools, be set up by a wide range of proposers, including charities, Voluntary aided (Faith) schools, academies and free schools. universities, businesses, educational groups, teachers and groups of parents. Community schools These are maintained by the council, which sets the Academies admissions policy, including the criteria used for allocating An academy is a school that is run by an academy trust and places at schools. Each community primary school is within its governors. It is funded entirely by central government a Priority Admission Area (PAA) and applicants residing and is independent of local authority control within the PAA will have a higher priority for admission. See page 5. Voluntary Aided (Faith) schools These are maintained by the Council but administered by the school’s governing body, in agreement with the Local Authority. The schools serve their faith communities, and applicants will need support from their religious leader, on a Supplementary Information Form (SIF) supplied by each 4 Understanding the Admissions Process Before you complete an application form, it is very Late applications important that you understand how the process works. It is very important that you return your application form to the school by the closing date 4 May 2018. Submitting a late application greatly reduces your child’s chance of an Oversubscription offer of a nursery class place. Most Hounslow Schools are oversubscribed. If there are If your application is late, it will not be processed until after more applications for a school than places available, all on time applications have been allocated. the places will be allocated according to the admissions criteria for the school. Please check that your child meets the school’s admission criteria, especially if your preferred school is a faith school. Information regarding the admission criteria for community schools can be found on page 19. Information regarding the admission criteria for other schools can be found on the school’s website. Priority admission areas (PAA) All community and some academy’s admission criteria give priority to applications who live in the Priority Admission Area. All addresses in the London Borough of Hounslow are in a Priority Admission Area (PAA). A list of PAAs for each street in Hounslow are listed online at www.hounslow.gov.uk/paa Applicants applying for a school within their PAA will have a higher priority for admission to that school. You should bear in mind that if you do not apply for a school within your PAA, it is possible that you may not be offered a place in a nursery class. Although applications for PAA schools are normally successful, admission cannot be guaranteed if there are more applications for a school from within its PAA than places available. From time to time PAAs have had to be amended because of population changes in some parts of the borough. If you are not sure which PAA your address is located within, please phone the School Admissions Team on 020 8583 2721 or email [email protected] 5 Understanding the Admissions Process Key dates From 1 January 2018 Applications open – complete forms and return directly to the schools you wish to apply for. Some schools will also require you to complete their supplementary information forms which can be obtained from the schools. 4 May 2018 Closing date for applications. 24 May 2018 Offer day You will receive a letter from the Headteacher. 7 June 2018 This is the deadline to return your acceptance slip for the school place offered. 6 Completing your application You can apply for a place in any nursery class by completing You should only be applying for a nursery place if your the application form and submitting it to the school directly child’s date of birth is between 1 September 2014 and by the closing date of 4 May 2018. 31 August 2015. The Headteacher will write to you with the result of your Your child’s home address application on 24 May 2018, provided you have applied by the closing date of 4 May 2018. Our schools have enough The child’s home address provided on your application must nursery class places between them to admit most of the be the one at which your child is permanently living and children who apply, but availability of a place cannot be must be the address where your family normally lives at the guaranteed. time of application. Every year there are cases where parents give false information about their home address to get a place at Documentation a particular school. Every effort is made to ensure that this does not happen because this can prevent genuine The following documentation will need to be submitted applicants from obtaining a school place. We will carry out with your application; address verifications against Local Authority records for all applications made by residents of the London Borough of • Proof of residence of your child’s home address. This Hounslow. Where we are not satisfied as to the validity of must be a copy of your council tax bill for this year. This an address further investigations will be conducted. The must be in your full name to confirm you reside at this Local Authority reserves the right to seek verification of address. the information parents have given on the application form and withdraw any offer or application made on the • If you are unable to provide a council tax bill please basis of inadequate, inaccurate or deliberately misleading contact the school to discuss what alternative information. documentation they will accept. See page 8 for further information. Any application found to have misleading information will be invalid. If this is found after the closing date any • Copy of your child’s birth certificate. subsequent application submitted will be processed as late. Please ensure that you write your child’s name on the • We will not accept possible future addresses as a application form exactly as it is written on their birth basis for allocating school places. If you move after certificate. submitting your application you must inform the School Admissions Team within two weeks of your Any supporting information not in English language must move so that your application is considered using the be accompanied by a certified translation.