Secondary School 11+ Admission guide 2016 Contents
Brent Council’s secondary school 11+ admission guide 2016
Contents
Important information for parents and carers...... 3 Apply for your child’s school place online...... 4 Timetable for applying...... 8 Additional offer rounds...... 9 Brent secondary schools’ open days/evenings – 2016 intake...... 10 Your questions answered...... 12 How places were allocated...... 14 Brent secondary schools map...... 15 Alperton Community School...... 16 Ark Academy...... 19 Ark Elvin Academy...... 25 Capital City Academy...... 30 Claremont High School...... 33 Convent of Jesus and Mary RC Language College...... 36 Gladstone School...... 39 JFS...... 42 Kingsbury High School...... 45 Michaela Community School...... 48 Newman Catholic College...... 50 Preston Manor High School...... 53 Queens Park Community School...... 56 St Gregory’s Catholic Science College...... 58 The Crest Academies...... 62 Wembley High Technology College...... 64 Special Educational Needs (SEN)...... 67 Other school information...... 68
Useful contacts...... 70
2 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Important information for parents and carers
There is considerable pressure and competition for secondary school places in Brent and it is important to think about this when making your application.
You should always put down the school you want the that can help to raise attainment such as additional most as your first preference. This does not guarantee tuition, learning support assistants, art therapy, booster that you will be offered a place at the school, it depends classes, educational trips and after school clubs. They on how many other parents apply. continue to receive this funding for up to six years.
If a school has more places available than applications If you receive benefits please apply to ensure that your received, then every child who applies will be offered child’s school receives this important extra funding - even a place. However, most secondary schools in Brent are if you don’t want your child to receive a free meal. Visit heavily oversubscribed which means they get many more www.brent.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals for more information applications than they have places. If this is the case, and the application form or call 020 8937 3110 to schools will use their oversubscription criteria to decide request a form be sent to you. which applicants have priority for the available places
Children will be ranked in a list depending on how closely New for 2016/2017 – All Through they meet the criteria. Some children will have higher schools priority than others; the further down the list you are, the Ark Academy and Preston Manor School are All Through less likely you are of being offered a place at the school. schools which educate children aged between four and 18. Primary school students in Year 6 continue directly into the Oversubscription criteria can include: secondary school, with a guaranteed place in Year 7. n How far you live from the school and your Ark Academy admit 180 students of whom 60 may be catchment area students progressing from Year 6 within the school. Preston n Whether you already have other siblings at the Manor School admit 252 students of whom 60 may be school students progressing from Year 6 within the school. n If you follow a particular faith If you currently attend Year 6 at Ark Academy or Preston Manor School: n Any medical or social needs your child may have n If you want to stay at Ark Academy/Preston Manor n Whether your child has attended a nearby School for Year 7 and you’re not interested in any primary school, referred to as a ‘feeder’ school. other schools you will be offered a place automatically. Therefore it’s very important to read and consider the You do not need to apply. oversubscription criteria for the school/s you are thinking n If you wish to change school for Year 7 you must apply. of applying for to see if you stand a realistic chance of List the schools you want more than Ark Academy/ being offered a place. Last year we were able to offer Preston Manor School in the order you prefer them. The 64 per cent of parents their first choice secondary school. first preference is the school you want the most.
Everyone will be told of the outcome of their application n You will not be considered for any schools you list as a on 1 March 2016. Not all parents will accept the school lower preference than Ark Academy/Preston Manor School that is offered to them, so places will continue to be n If you are successful in your application to another school, offered to other applicants up until the end of August your place with Ark Academy/Preston Manor School will 2016. So if you don’t get the school you want in April no longer be available. If this is the case and you change there may be further chances in the following weeks. your mind after National Offer Day (1st March 2016) you will go onto the waiting list at Ark Academy/Preston Free School Meals/Pupil Premium Manor School until a place becomes available. 2015/2016 Questions or queries? If you receive benefits your child’s school is entitled to Contact Brent School Admissions on: 020 8937 3110. important additional funding called the ‘Pupil Premium’. Schools can use the extra money for a range of activities
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 3 Apply for your child’s school place online
Apply online for your child to transfer from Year 6 to How do I apply online? secondary school (Year 7) at www.eadmissions.org.uk. To begin your application visit: You can only apply online if your child was born between www.brent.gov.uk/admissions where you will 1 September 2004 and 31 August 2005. be able to get lots of information about schools in Brent. The deadline for online applications is 31 October 2015. You can then apply online to your preferred schools at However, we would encourage you to submit your www.eadmissions.org.uk. application no later than 23 October 2015, the Friday n The eAdmissions website contains basic information before half term, to allow sufficient time for processing about all schools in London, as well as those in Brent. and checking. There is also a search facility that will help you to If your child has a Statement of Special Educational Needs identify schools that are closest to where you live. (SEN) or an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), n You will need to register your details on the website please do not complete an online application form. Please first. You will then automatically be sent a user name contact Brent Special Educational Needs Assessment and password which must be used to start the process Service (SENAS) on 020 8937 3229 which will manage of applying online. your child’s admission to school. n The eAdmissions website will allow you to make changes Apply for private or independent schools directly. The local to your application until midnight on 31 October 2015 authority do not manage admissions for these schools. and to keep track of the progress of your application What are the advantages after the closing date. of applying online? n You can save your application and return to it later if you are unable to complete it in one session. Every n You do not need to complete the paper time you update it you will receive an email confirming application form. the status of your application. You can also check your n It is quick and easy to do and you will get an email status when you log onto the system. confirmation that your application has been received. n At the end of the process you must ‘submit’ your
n The system helps you by checking for errors. application in order for it to come through to us. Failure to do this will mean that your application has not been n There is no risk that your application will get lost received by us and will not be considered. If in doubt in the post. please call Brent School Admissions Service on 020 8937 n You can easily change the details on your application 3110 or email [email protected]. up until the closing date of 31 October 2015. n Remember, you can apply for up to six schools n www.eadmissions.org.uk is a secure and safe for your child. We recommend that you use all system, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week up six preferences, including your nearest schools, as until the closing date of 31 October 2015. limiting your choices will reduce your chances of being offered a school place. n You will receive an email with the outcome of your application on 1 March 2016. n To read a helpful step-by-step guide to applying online click on www.brent.gov.uk/admissions. n www.eadmissions.org.uk is a faster process – you will be able to track the progress of your application and get quicker feedback on whether it has been successful.
n It is more environmentally friendly.
n You can accept or decline your child’s offer online.
n You can attach supporting documents to your application.
4 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Submitting your application The following are examples of exceptions that will be considered: If you apply online you will be issued with a reference number once your application is submitted. If your family moved house after the closing date you will be asked to provide either: If you apply in writing your application reference number n Proof of living at the new address or will appear on the acknowledgement letter that Brent Council sends you. Please remember to sign and date the n A formal tenancy agreement from a letting/estate form if you apply in writing. If your form is returned to agent, which comes into effect on or before us without being signed we are unable to accept it as a 11 December 2015. completed application form and will delay the progress of your application. What if I don’t have a computer at Email correspondence will only be accepted from the home, can I still apply online? email address provided on your application. You can apply anywhere with access to the internet. There are lots of places where you can apply online Your completed form can also be returned to your child’s including your local library, an internet café or you could Brent primary school or by post. Make sure you use also ask a friend or relative for help. the correct postal charge. Brent Council cannot be held responsible for postal delays, lost forms or non-receipt of forms. Important information to note when applying online or in writing If you need help with your application please contact us on 020 8937 3110 or email Child’s details: Complete your child’s name as it appears [email protected]. on their birth certificate. Do not use shortened names or nicknames. When will I find out about Address my application? Check that your address is within Brent before completing Brent Council’s School Admissions team will inform the form. The address used must be the child’s home all parents of the outcome of their application on 1 address on 31 October 2015. Paper applications must March 2016. If you have applied online, you will receive be made to the borough your child lives in. If you change an email with the outcome of your application on the your address after completing the form, you must tell the evening of 1 March 2016. Please wait until you have council straight away. received the email before logging on to the eAdmissions Please do not list an address of someone who provides website. You will need your user name and password temporary care for your child, a business address, a in order to access your result. For further information, childminder’s address, a relative’s address or any other visit www.brent.gov.uk/admissions or go directly to address other than the child’s home address. If a school www.eadmissions.org.uk. place is offered on the basis of an incorrect address the place may be withdrawn. Late applications and changes Current school to your application Complete the details of the primary school your child You must submit your application to Brent Council by is attending. If your child changes primary school after you 31 October 2015. It is vital to get your application in submit your application, it is really important that on time as there is considerably less chance of getting you notify us. a place at your preferred school if your application is late. Applications received by 31 October 2015 will be Preferences processed first. Applications received after31 October You can apply to any maintained school anywhere in 2015 will not be considered until all other applications the UK. Once you have decided on the order in which to have been dealt with, unless there is supporting evidence rank your preferred schools, please include the full name, to say why the application is late. This information must Department for Education (DfE) number and postcode of be received by 11 December 2015. each school. The DfE numbers for Brent schools can be found in this guide (pages 16-66). The order in which you list your preferences is very important. The coordinated admissions process aims to ensure that you have no more than one offer of a
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 5 school place at any one time. If two schools are able to Looked after children/previously in care offer you a place you will be offered a place at the higher If you are completing your application for a looked after ranked school. child or a child previously in care, please complete the You should try to list six preferences because initially you relevant section, giving the name of the council that the will only be considered for the schools that you list on child is in the care of. Also provide a letter from the social the form. We recommend that you apply to at least one worker confirming the child is in care. school that is near your home, as distance is used by many If previously in the care of a local authority, please schools to decide which children are offered places. provide a copy of the child arrangements order, special Consider the admissions arrangements of each of the guardianship papers or proof of adoption to your child’s schools you are applying to and, using the information home authority. about how many places were offered in the past, consider Previously looked after children are children who were how successful your application might be. You will find looked after but ceased to be so because they were the statistics on page 14 showing how many places were adopted or became subject to a child arrangements or allocated at Brent schools last year. special guardianship order. Reasons for preference Parent/carer details For each preference we have provided you with some Please enter details of the person with parental space to note why you have selected a school. This section responsibility for the child. All correspondence will be sent is not compulsory. Any information you do provide will to the address details provided. be passed to the school. Please note that unless the Supplementary Information Form (SIF) information you provide relates directly to the school’s oversubscription criteria it is unlikely to affect the outcome If you are applying to a voluntary aided school e.g a faith of your application. school, Claremont High School or to Capital City Academy (sport or dance aptitude only), a boarding school or Siblings a selective school you will be required to complete a If your child has a sibling (brother or sister) attending any Supplementary Information Form (SIF) in addition to school that you are listing on the form, then include the the online or paper application (CAF) which must be details of the child who is already attending the school. submitted to Brent Council’s School Admissions team. Siblings are generally defined for the purpose of school These can be obtained directly from the school and, for admission in Brent as a full or step brother or sister, living Brent schools, are available on Brent Council’s website. at the same address, or a child living as part of the family The SIF must be completed in addition to your online by reason of a court order. Please check individual schools’ or written application. Failure to complete a SIF may oversubscription criteria if you wish to apply under this rule. result in your application to that particular school being Social/medical needs unsuccessful. Some schools give priority to children with social or Where individual schools admissions arrangements do medical needs. If you state a preference for a particular not provide explicit definitions of sibling, distance, school because of the medical, social or special additional/supplementary forms and parents/family educational needs of your child, you must demonstrate members, the following definitions will apply: how only this school meets your child’s special Sibling circumstances. Along with your application you should Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, submit independent, professional evidence which sets out adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, or the the particular reasons why the school is the most suitable child of the parent/carer’s partner. The child for whom the and the difficulties that could be caused if your child school place is sought has to be living in the same family has to attend another school. This should be submitted unit at the same address as the sibling. directly to the school and will normally be in the form of a report from a suitably qualified, independent Distance professional like a doctor. Please see individual schools’ Distance to all Brent secondary schools will be measured oversubscription criteria for further information. in a straight line from an address point in the child’s home (including flats) to the main addresspoint of the school (using the local authority’s computerised measuring system), with those living closer to the school receiving the higher priority. Please see individual schools’ oversubscription criteria for further information.
6 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Parents/family A parent is any person who has parental responsibility for, or is the legal guardian of, the child. Where admission arrangements refer to ‘parent’s attendance at church’ it is sufficient for just one parent to attend. ‘Family members’ include only parents, as defined above, and siblings.
Proof of address We do not require proof of address to be sent in with your application form. n There is a section on the form that asks you for your council tax reference number. If you know this number please complete this section. n Brent Council will check internal council databases in order to verify your address. n Where it is not possible to verify your address or you have recently moved we will write to you asking for two proofs of address.
False information Brent Council reserves the right to verify any address given as the child’s permanent address in order to ensure that it is allocating places appropriately and fairly. If you deliberately give false address information to obtain a place at a school you can expect the offer of the place to be withdrawn. n Any information and/or any supporting documentation which is false or deliberately misleading may also lead to any place offered being withdrawn. n Stringent checks will be carried out to ensure applications are not fraudulent. n Home visits will be carried out to verify addresses. University Technical Colleges University Technical Colleges (UTCs) and Studio Schools are opening in some areas to provide technically-oriented courses of study or work skill-based learning for 14-19 year olds. Brent School Admissions Service will coordinate applications for Brent residents for UTCs and Studio Schools in neighbouring local authorities. Applicants are encouraged to apply online at www.eadmissions.org.uk. Currently there are no UTCs or Studio Schools in Brent. Please see www.utcolleges.org and www.studioschoolstrust.org for further information.
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 7 Timetable for applying
September/October 2015 Finding a school B rent Council’s Secondary School 11+ Admissions Guide 2016 and the online application system opens. Parents research schools, attend open evenings and talk to staff and other parents. Parents check their circumstances against the oversubscription criteria (admissions rules) for their preferred schools to see how likely their application is to succeed.
Applying for a school P arents apply online at www.eadmissions.org.uk before 31 October 2015. Some schools require applicants to submit additional forms. Please see individual schools’ oversubscription criteria for further information. Please note, some schools set an earlier closing date than 31 October 2015 for their Supplementary Information Form (SIF).
31 October 2015 C losing date for the receipt of on-time applications. By this date you must have submitted an online application or completed a paper application form and returned it to Brent Council. Applications received after 31 October 2015 will be considered as a late and will not be processed until after the offer date, 1 March 2016.
1 March 2016 If it is not possible to offer a place at any of your preferred schools, the council will offer your child a place in the nearest Brent school to your home with a vacancy at that time. Online applicants will receive an email during the evening of 1 March 2016 with the outcome of their application. Those who applied on paper will be sent a letter, posted first class on 1 March 2016.
15 March 2016 A ll parents must reply to the offer and accept or reject the place by 15 March 2016. If a parent does not reply, the offer may be withdrawn and offered to another applicant.
Ongoing P arents can appeal for a place at any school listed on their application form that did not offer a place.
Until 1 September 2016 F urther offers for secondary school places will be made throughout the summer. Please see dates on page 9 for additional offer rounds and the closing dates for each round.
September 2016 Children start school
Brent Council has published “admission arrangements” which explain how they will manage the application process in cooperation with Brent Secondary schools and academies. The arrangements outline a more detailed timetable of the application process, how late applications will be processed and how information is shared with schools and other admitting authorities. Visit our website www.brent.gov.uk/admissions or contact Brent Council’s School Admissions team on 020 8937 3110. For further information and help. The admission arrangements are available online or call 020 8937 3110 to request a copy.
8 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Additional offer rounds
Brent Council ’s School Admissions team coordinates Applications received after the closing date will be the offers for schools in Brent until the end of August considered after 1 March 2016. Places will be offered to 2016, so after the initial offer date of 1 March 2016, late applicants in the second and third round offers. The parents have the opportunity to make changes to their deadline for any changes or additional information to be applications, change their preferences or notify us of any included in the second and third rounds is shown in the changeof address or current school. table below.
Deadline Offer Response
1 March 2016 - Offers are Response to offers required Main Offer Day 31 October 2015 released on this day by 15 March 2016
8 April 2016 is the last Offers will be made in the date for any changes to Response to offers required Second round offers week commencing 25 be included in the second by 6 May 2016 April 2016 round
6 May 2016 is the last date Offers will be made in the Response to offers required Third round offers for any changes to be week commencing 16 by 27 May 2016 included in the third round May 2016
After the third round places will be offered regularly as and when they become available
Please note that any information received after the closing date will not be considered until the next round of offers.
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 9 Open Events – Brent Secondary Schools 2016
The dates of open days/evenings for children due to transfer to secondary school in September 2016.
School Day and date Time
Alperton Community School Open evening (Upper School Site, Stanley Avenue) Wednesday 16 September 2015 6-8.30pm
Ark Academy Open mornings Monday 5 October 2015 Tuesday 6 October 2015 Please ring for Wednesday 7 October 2015 an appointment Open evening Thursday 8 October 2015 5pm
Ark Elvin Academy Open evening Wednesday 7 October 2015 5.30pm
Capital City Academy Open mornings Monday 28 September 2015 Tuesday 13 October 2015 Wednesday 21 October 2015 9.15-11am Open evening Thursday 8 October 2015 6-8pm
Claremont High School Open evening Thursday 24 September 2015 5-8pm
Convent of Jesus and Mary Open mornings Language College Tuesday 29 September 2015 to Friday 9 October 2015 9.30am-12.30pm Open evening Monday 21 September 2015 3.30-6.30pm
Gladstone School Open day Thursday 24 September 2015 6.30-8pm Venue to be confirmed on website. www.gladstoneschool.org
JFS Open evening Thursday 15 October 2015 4.15pm
10 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 School Day and date Time
Kingsbury High School Open evening Tuesday 29 September 2015 5-8.30pm
Michaela Community School Open mornings Friday 2 October 2015 Tuesday 6 October 2015 Thursday 15 October 2015 11am-12.30pm Open evening Monday 28 September 2015 5.30-7.30pm
Newman Catholic College Open mornings Tuesday 20 October 2015 Wednesday 21 October 2015 Tuesday 3 November 2015 Wednesday 4 November 2015 9.30-11.30am Open evening Thursday 22 October 2015 4-7pm
Preston Manor School Open morning Friday 2 October 2015 9.30-11.30am Open evening Thursday 1 October 2015 6-8.30pm
Queens Park Community School Open evening Thursday 17 September 2015 6-8.30pm
St Gregory’s Catholic Science College Open evening Thursday 17 September 2015 3-8pm
The Crest Academies Open days: Wednesday 30 September 2015 Saturday 17 October 2015 Thursday 22 October 2015 9-11am Open evenings: Wednesday 30 September 2015 Thursday 22 October 2015 6-8pm
Wembley High Technology College Open evening Tuesday 15 September 2015 5.30-8pm
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 11 Your questions answered
Finding a school You should also consider how your child will travel to school and how long the journey will take. Q Can I visit a school I am interested in? A Y es, every Brent secondary school holds open evenings Q What if my application is submitted after the when you can visit the school, look around the facilities closing date? and talk with teachers, pupils and other parents. A See late applications and making changes to your Details can be found on pages 10-11. application on page five. S chools in neighbouring boroughs will also hold open evenings. You should contact either that borough or Processing the application the school itself to find out when these are being held. Q How are decisions made about places? Q How do I decide which schools to apply for? A If a school has more places available than applications, A Visit the schools on their open evening and then every child who applies will be offered a place obtain a prospectus which will tell you all about there. Where a school receives more applications than the school. Speak to parents who already have a it has places to offer, the school will use its published child at the school and read the Ofsted report oversubscription criteria to rank the applicants to at www.ofsted.gov.uk. The Department for determine who has priority for the places. Education (DfE) also produces performance tables The coordinated admissions process aims to ensure that can be found at www.education.gov.uk/ that you have no more than one offer of a school performancetables place at any one time. If two schools are able to offer you a place you will be offered a place at your highest Q Where else can I get information? ranked school. A Talk to your child’s primary school teachers and friends and family who may have older children Q What happens if I am not offered a place at any attending local secondary schools. of my preferred schools? A The council has a responsibility to offer every Q What else should I consider? applicant a place. If you are not offered a place at A It is important to remember that if schools receive any of your preferred schools, the council will offer more applications than places they will need to you a place at the Brent school closest to your home consider each application in line with their published address that has a vacancy at the time. In order to oversubscription criteria. Therefore you need to check increase the chance of being offered one of your what criteria your child meets to see how likely it is preferred schools it is important to make accurate and your child will be offered a place. realistic preferences, based on the school’s published M ost secondary schools give higher priority to children admissions criteria. You should try to use all of the six who have a brother or sister at the school. preferences available to you. S ome secondary schools have a set of primary feeder Q Will schools be told my order of preference? schools and children who attend these feeder schools A No, schools will not be told your order of preference. will have priority when applying for places at these Councils will not pass on details of how the school schools. was ranked and no school will be told about other A nother important factor is the distance between the schools a parent has applied to. school and the child’s home, with priority given to those who live nearest. Confirming school offers F aith schools use alternative faith based criteria to Q When will I hear about my application? determine how many places should be offered. A Letters will be posted on 1 March 2016 giving the It is important parents consider each school’s outcome of the application. If you have applied online admissions criteria in relation to their own you will receive an email with the outcome of your circumstances. application during the evening of 1 March 2016. Brent Council’s School Admissions team will not tell
12 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 you over the telephone or by email which school you Applying online – eAdmissions have been offered. Q When can I use the online system? Q What if I do not want to accept the school A The online system will be available from offered? 1 September 2015 until the closing date for A We strongly advise parents to accept the place offered. applications at midnight on Saturday 31 October Accepting the place does not effect your waiting list 2015. If you miss the deadline you will still be able to position or appeals. If you do not accept the offer submit an application online until 21 July 2016. the place may be offered to another applicant, and Q Will my application be secure? subsequent offers may be further away from your home. A Yes, the system has a series of security features that will prevent others from seeing your information. A ccepting the offer secures the place for your child, so you have a back up, in case you’re unsuccessful in the Q What details will be requested online? second or third rounds or your appeal is not upheld. A You will not be asked to give any more information Q How do waiting lists work? than if you were making a paper application.
A Y ou will be automatically included on the waiting list of Apply online at www.brent.gov.uk/admissions any school listed as a higher preference that the school or www.eadmissions.org.uk offered If at a later date we are able to offer your child a place at a higher ranked preference, any previous offers will automatically be withdrawn and waiting list places for lower ranked preferences will be withdrawn too. Waiting lists are not operated on a first come, first served basis. The place on the waiting list, and whether a place is offered if another child drops out, is determined by the school’s admission criteria. If a space becomes available after offer day, all children on the waiting list are considered. Those who meet the school’s oversubscription criteria the closest will be offered a place. The length of time spent on the waiting list will not give priority over other applicants – it is possible for a child to go down as well as up the list. Being on a waiting list is no guarantee of a place at that school.
Q Can I appeal against the school’s decision? A If a parent does not receive an offer from a school of their preference, they have the right of appeal. An appeal for a place at an academy, a foundation or a voluntary aided school within or outside Brent must be made in writing to the chair of governors at the school. An appeal for a place in a community school outside Brent should be made in writing to the local authority in which the school is located. Appeals are heard by an independent appeal panel. Full details and guidance on the appeals process can be found online at www.brent.gov.uk/schoolappeals It is essential that you read and understand the appeals process before submitting a request for an appeal.
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 13 How places were allocated at Brent Secondary Schools – 2 March 2015
This table shows how places were offered in schools in Brent who had more applicants than places available. Schools in Brent not listed in this table had sufficient places to offer all applicants a place.
School name Number Criteria and band where applicable of places Alperton 220 Sibling connections 74 Community School Distance (maximum distance in metres) 144 (3020.32) Pupils with Statements of Special Educational Needs 2 Ark Academy 180 Current students progressing from Year 6 60 Looked after children/ previously looked after 2 Sibling connections 67 Zone A (maximum distance in metres) 12 (536.99) Zone B (maximum distance in metres) 35 (571.26) Pupils with Statements of Special Educational Needs 4 Claremont High School 252 Looked after children/ previously looked after 1 Sibling connections 79 Feeder school 131 Aptitude in music 21 Distance (maximum distance in metres) 14 (612.22) Pupils with Statements of Special Educational Needs 6 Kingsbury High School 336 Looked after children/ previously looked after 1 Sibling connections 128 Feeder school 122 Distance (maximum distance in metres) 79 (1886.59) Pupils with Statements of Special Educational Needs 6 Preston Manor 252 Looked after children/ previously looked after 1 High School Sibling connections 83 Social/medical 3 Distance (maximum distance in metres) 153 (2151.17) Pupils with Statements of Special Educational Needs 12 Queens Park 208 Sibling connections 94 Community School Distance (maximum distance in metres) 10 (731.42) Feeder school 97 Pupils with Statements of Special Educational Needs 7 St Gregory’s Catholic 176 Practising Catholic, priest reference, with sibling 39 Science College Practising Catholic, priest reference, distance 128 (6828.91) Pupils with Statements of Special Educational Needs 9 Wembley High 210 Looked after pupils 1 Technology College Sibling connections 78 Distance places (maximum distance in metres) 20 (554.86) Feeder school 106 Pupils with Statements of Special Educational Needs 5
14 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Location of Brent secondary schools
11 Alperton Community School 89 Kingsbury High School 22 Ark Academy 10 Michaela Community School 33 Ark Elvin Academy 118 Newman Catholic College 44 Capital City Academy 12 Preston Manor High School 55 Claremont High School 13 Queens Park Community School 66 Convent of Jesus and Mary Language College 14 St. Gregory’s Catholic Science College 7 Gladstone School* 15 The Crest Academies 8 JFS 16 Wembley High Technology College
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BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 15 Alperton Community School
www.alperton.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3045405
Head teacher: Mr Gerard McKenna Admission arrangements/policy Chair of Governors: Mrs Mona Shah 2016-2017 Email: [email protected] At Alperton Community School we will continuously Lower School strive to ensure that everyone in our school is treated Ealing Road, Wembley, Middlesex HA0 4PW with respect and dignity. Each person in our school will Tel: 020 8902 2293 be given fair and equal opportunities to develop their full Fax: 020 8900 2720 potential with positive regard to gender, ethnicity, cultural Email: [email protected] and religious background, sexuality or disability. Alperton Community School is an Academy and therefore Upper School the Admission Authority for the school is the Governing Stanley Avenue, Wembley, Middlesex HA0 4JE Body. The Governing Body has drawn up this document Tel: 020 8902 2038 to ensure fairness and clarity in the process, so that Fax: 020 8900 1236 parents/carers are able to understand how the offer to a Email: [email protected] child for admission is made. Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Andria Zafirakou The school’s Admissions Number for each year group is Tel: 020 8902 2038 ext. 302 220. Email: [email protected]
Co-educational Age range: 11-18 Arrangements for Admission at Type: Academy Secondary Transfer Stage Specialism: Mathematics and computing, visual arts The school takes part in the Brent local authority’s scheme for coordinated admission to secondary school. Published admission number: 220 Applications for Year 7 are made via the coordinated Number of pupils at the school in January 2015: 1376 Number of on-time applications admissions process on a Common Application Form which Parents/Carers obtain from the council. All received for September 2015 admissions: 494 applications received will be considered and if we receive Physical accessibility: Low accessibility more applications than places, places will be offered in Access to ground floor teaching spaces and facilities line with our over subscription criteria. significantly restricted. No access to upper floors. If the school is unable to offer an applicant a place, this Physical barriers limit ability of school to deliver an decision will be put in writing. This is done by the Local inclusive curriculum, but there may be scope to focus Authority (LA) for coordinated admissions. on sensory and learning disabilities.
A supplementary information form is NOT required. Arrangements for In – Year Admission (i.e. outside the normal admissions Open evening Wednesday 16 September 2015 6-8.30pm round) The schools in year admissions are managed by Brent. How many places were allocated for Parents/carers should contact Brent Council’s School September 2015 admissions: 220 Admissions team to complete a CAF requesting a position In Year Applications at the School. If a position is made available, the school Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team will send an application form, which should be completed at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions and returned as soon as possible. The school will also need to see the child’s birth certificate and passport in order to verify their date of birth. Offers for a place are made in accordance with the admissions criteria for the school. If the school is unable to offer an applicant a place, this decision will be put
16 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 in writing and will provide information as to why the 4. Proximity to the school at the time of application. application was unsuccessful. Priority will be given to those living nearer the school. The distance will be measured in a straight line from Admission of Students with a the pupil’s permanent address to the school gate on Statement of Special Educational Need Ealing Road. Applications for students with a Statement of Special 5. Feeder schools: Lyon Park, Barham, Brentfield, Vicar’s Educational Need (SEN) are made through the SENAS Green and Oakington Manor team at the Local Authority (LA). The placement of students with such a Statement is made after a process of Tie Breaker consultation between parents/carers, the school and the Within each criterion priority will be given to the applicant LA. Students with a Statement of SEN receive priority over who lives closer to the school. This will be measured in others for admission where the school is named in the a straight line from the pupil’s permanent address to the Statement. school gate on Ealing Road.
Admission and Oversubscription The Waiting List Criteria For all groups where the year cohort is full, the school Where applicants exceed the number of places available will operate a waiting lists procedure for admission. This the following criteria will be applied in the order set out will be maintained in accordance with the published below to decide which children to admit. admission criteria for the school. 1. Where the child is or has previous been “looked after” A student’s place on the waiting list is not dependent upon (Young People in Public Care). the date of being placed on it, but will be determined by how they meet the oversubscription criteria. An application for admission to school must be made by the person with parental responsibility and / or the This means that a student’s position on the list can child’s social worker. go down as well as up, depending upon the child’s circumstances and those of other applicants. 2. Brothers or sisters of a child who attends the school and who will continue to do so on the date of The waiting list will be closed each year and will not roll admission. This includes half and step brothers and over. Parents/carers wishing to stay on the waiting list will sisters and foster children so long as they live at the be required to submit a request in writing. same address - but not cousins. Independent Appeals Pupils transferring to the sixth form or students currently on roll at the sixth form are not considered as Parents/Carers wishing to appeal against refusal of a place sibling connections. in the school will be automatically placed on the waiting list when notification of appeal is received. 3. Where it is essential to admit a child because of special circumstances to do with significant medical needs, Parents/Carers will have the right to appeal against any social needs or special educational needs. decision not to offer a place at Alperton Community School. If you wish to appeal, you should do this by It is open to any parent/carer to make an application writing to the Chair of Governors at the school address, under this criterion. The application should be who will then put the appropriate arrangements in place. supported, where possible, with a recommendation in Parents/Carers must appeal within 20 school days from the writing from a recognised professional of senior status; date of notification that their application was unsuccessful. medical consultant, head teacher of current school or other appropriate officer. The recommendation should Appeals relating to admission at secondary transfer for demonstrate knowledge of the school in terms of on-time applications (i.e. those relating to decisions sent resources and organisation, which deems it essential on the national offer date) will be heard by 21st July. that the named child be admitted to a specific school. Appeals for late applications will, where possible be heard as above; however, if this is not feasible, they will be This criterion relates to the child’s medical, social and heard within 30 school days of the appeals being lodged. special needs - not any member of the child’s family. Decisions regarding whether children fall under this Appeals relating to in-year applications (i.e. those made criterion are made by the Admission Authority, which outside the timetabled admissions process) will be heard can only consider information it has received, so it is within 30 school days of the appeal being received. better to send information to support your application.
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 17 Parents/Carers will receive written notice of the date of Admission to the Sixth Form their appeal at least 10 school days in advance of the The Sixth Form is available to all existing students fulfilling hearing, unless they have waived this right. the school and individual requirements for suitability for Submission of evidence from the parent/carers is required courses. There is a limit on external applications of 20, by 12 noon, seven working days prior to the date of the with the same entry requirements as for internal students. appeal hearing. However, should the number of internal students be lower than expected, external applications of above 20 Twins, Triplets and other children of will be considered. multiple births Alperton Community School will publish specific criteria In the event that the school has one place to offer and the in relation to minimum entrance requirements for a next student on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets or wide range of courses available post 16. The detailed other children of multiple births, the Admission Authority information will be contained in the Sixth Form prospectus will, in the first instance, randomly select the student on an annual basis. As a general guide applications to offer the place to. The Admission Authority will also criteria will be based on the following depending upon inform Parents/Carers that they may prefer the other, or the particular course(s) sought in the application: another child, to have the place instead of the one initially n Achievement of particular GCSE or equivalent grades randomly selected. All Applications for the Sixth Form will be considered on Split Residence their relative merits. Where the number of applications for admission is greater than the number of places available, Where a student lives with Parents/Carers with shared applications will be considered against the school’s responsibility, each for part of a week, the address where oversubscription criteria. the student lives is determined using a joint declaration from the Parents/Carers stating the pattern of residence. If a student’s residence is split equally between both Parents/ Carers, then parents will be asked to determine which is the residential address for the purpose of admission to school. If the residence is not split equally between both parents/carers then the address used will be the address where the student spends the majority of the school week.
Fair Access Protocol It is often the case that the actual number within the year group exceeds the Published Admission Number and this will take account of the following factors:
n Where a child is admitted to the school as a result of a successful appeal to the School’s Admission Authority.
n Where children are admitted to the school in agreement with the Local Authority’s (LA) protocol.
n A child referred to the school and given a place under the designated SEN (Special Educational Needs) code of conduct. Applicants may take priority over children on the waiting lists if the school is directed to take children under locally agreed protocols.
18 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Ark Academy www.arkacademy.org DfE number: 3046906
Principal: Mrs Delia Smith Admissions Policy - 2016/17 and Chair of Governors: Mr Patrick Wall beyond Bridge Road, Wembley HA9 9JP General Tel: 020 8385 4370 1. This document sets out the admission arrangements Fax: 020 8385 4371 for Ark Academy (Wembley) (“the academy”). The Email: [email protected] academy is an all-through academy with a nursery, Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Clodagh Boyle primary, secondary and sixth form school. Email: [email protected] 2. The academy will comply with all relevant provisions Co-educational, All Through school Age range: 3-18 of the Department for Education’s School Admissions Type: Academy Code of Practice 2014 (“the Admissions Code”), the Specialism: Mathematics and citizenship School Admission Appeals Code of Practice 2012 (“the Appeals Code”) and the law on admissions. The Published admission number: 180 academy will, through Ark Schools, consult as may be Number of pupils at the school in January 2015: 900 required and/or necessary. Reference in the Codes to Number of on-time applications admission authorities shall be deemed to be references received for September 2015 admissions: 1260 to the Board of Ark Schools, the powers and functions of which may be delegated to the Local Governing Physical accessibility: Medium accessibility Body (LGB) of the academy. Access to part of ground floor teaching spaces and facilities, including external spaces. No access to 3. All academies in the Ark Schools network including upper floors. School has capacity to deliver an inclusive Ark Academy (Wembley) will participate in the curriculum through time tabling adjustments, but coordinated admission arrangements administered by physical barriers restrict scope. the Local Authority (LA) in the relevant geographical location and in respect of other arrangements A supplementary information form is NOT required specified in the Admissions Code. Open mornings 4. Notwithstanding these arrangements, the Secretary of Monday 5 October 2015 State may direct the academy to admit a named pupil Tuesday 6 October 2015 Please ring for to the academy on application from a LA. Before doing Wednesday 7 October 2015 an appointment so the Secretary of State will consult the academy. Open evening NB. Thursday 8 October 2015 5pm A. The academy is one of a number within a network of academies overseen by Ark Schools. How many places were allocated for September 2015 admissions: 180 B. Ark Schools is the Academy Trust and through its Board may delegate some functions to LGBs set up to In Year Applications provide a local oversight of individual academies. Apply directly to Ark Academy C. The Ark Schools Board is responsible for the admissions policy of each academy. From time to Do I have to apply if I am currently in Year 6 time some admissions functions may be delegated to at Ark Academy? academies whilst others are carried out at Ark Schools l You do not need to apply to Brent Council if you under the direction of the Board. want to stay at Ark Academy and you’re not interested in any other schools. ? D. In the event of a query, enquiries should be made to l Make an application to Brent Council only if you the Admissions Team at Ark Schools, 65 Kingsway, wish to be considered for other schools as well as London, WC2B 6TD. Ark Academy. l Y ou do not need to list Ark Academy as a preference if you currently attend the school.
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 19 ADMISSION ARRANGEMENTS which will be used to fill casual vacancies occurring APPROVED BY THE SECRETARY OF as a result of an enrolled child leaving during the academic year or withdrawing from a place STATE that has been offered. The list will be compiled The normal admissions round in accordance with the Admissions Code so that 5. The admission arrangements for the academy for the children will be ranked in line with the academy’s academic year 2016/17 and for subsequent years are oversubscription criteria (see paragraph 12 below). set out below. b) Primary i. The academy has a Published Admission Number i. The primary school has an agreed PAN of 60 pupils (PAN) for the following year groups: in the Reception year. After the allocation of Reception Nursery: 30 full-time equivalent places – morning places, the academy will admit ‘rising fives’, i.e. all and afternoon children with places can be admitted to the Reception Primary (Reception): 60 year at school in the September following their fourth Secondary (Year 7): 180 birthday but before reaching compulsory school age. Sixth form (external Year 12): 15 In accordance with paragraph 2.16 of the Admissions ii. The academy may set a higher or lower admission Code, a parent/carer may request that their child’s number than its Published Admission Number (PAN) taking up of a place be deferred until later in the for any specific year. Before making any change school year but not beyond the point at which they to the agreed admission number, or a permanent reach compulsory school age, and not beyond the change to its PAN the academy will in accordance beginning of the final term of the school year for with the provisions of the School Admissions Code which the offer was made. A parent/carer may request 2014 notify the LA of the consent to such an that their child takes up the place part-time until arrangement of the Ark Board and the LGB. Where compulsory school age is reached. it is proposed to have a lower admission number Note: In respect of a child born late in an academic the academy will consult as required by paragraphs year after 1 April, the ordinary expectation is that he or 1.3 and 1.42 of the School Admissions Code. she will join Reception at the latest in the term he or iii. In accordance with its funding agreement the she turns five and then progress to Year 1 in the next academy will also seek the consent of the Secretary academic year. If a parent/carer wants their child to of State to any permanent change to its PAN. join Reception in the September term after their fifth birthday, that decision is strictly subject to the discretion a) Nursery of the academy. The process for making an out-of-age- i. The nursery will adopt the same admissions group application is described in paragraph 23. arrangements as the rest of the academy, with the exception that no appeal will be allowed against ii. Where the primary school is oversubscribed, the the refusal of a place. criteria for admission are as set out in paragraph 12 below. ii. It is important to note that attendance/enrolment in the nursery will be distinct and separate and c) Secondary have no relevance to attendance in the primary or The academy has an agreed PAN of 180 pupils in Year 7. other sections of the academy for which a separate i. Pupils in the primary school will transfer to the application will have to be made in accordance secondary school. with the LA’s coordinated admissions arrangements. ii. This means that the opportunity to gain admission iii. Oversubscription – If the nursery is oversubscribed, if a child does not already attend the primary school priority will be given to children with Statements of will, in reality, be restricted in respect of external Special Educational Needs or Education and Health applicants (those children not currently attending Care Plans where the academy is named. The the primary school) to 120 places in Year 7. remaining places will then be offered in accordance with the oversubscription criteria which applies to d) Post-16 provision the academy as a whole (as described in paragraph i. The sixth form opened in September 2015. The 12 below), except that sibling priority will only PAN for external Year 12s is 15. Those students apply where a sibling already attends the academy already attending the academy and achieving the nursery or primary school. minimum academic entrance requirements will transfer to the sixth form. iv. W aiting list – The nursery will keep a waiting list
20 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 ii. The minimum academic entrance requirements f) February – The LA applies the agreed scheme for for admission to the post- 16 provision will be its own schools, informing other LAs of offers to published in the academy sixth-form prospectus be made to their residents. which will be available on request and also g) February – Determination of the next academic published on the academy website. These year’s admissions policy. This will be published on requirements will relate to both internal and the academy’s website and sent to the LA by 15 external applicants. March for inclusion in the composite prospectus. iii. Young people may apply on their own. h) March – Offers made to parents/carers by the LA. iv. Students will be informed in writing whether or not 10. For primary applications: they have been allocated a place. a) September – The academy will publish in its Consideration of applications prospectus information about the arrangements for admission, including oversubscription criteria, for 6. Arrangements for applications for places at the the following September (e.g. in September 2015 academy will be made in accordance with the relevant for admission in September 2016). This will include LA’s coordinated admission arrangements and will be details of open evenings and other opportunities made on the Common Application Form provided and for prospective pupils and their parents/carers to administered by the relevant LA. visit the academy. 7. The Academy Trust will use the LA’s timetable for b) September/October – The academy will provide applications to the academy each year (exact dates opportunities for parents/carers to visit the within the months may vary from year to year). This academy. will fit in with the timetable for the coordination of admission arrangements agreed following consultation, c) January – Common Application Form to be within the LA. completed and returned to the pupil’s home LA to administer. For 2016 the national closing date for 8. Admission to the sixth form will be administered primary applications is 15 January. by the academy in accordance with the published arrangements (see paragraph 5d) above). d) February – The LA sends the academy applications to the Academy Trust. 9. For secondary applications: e) February – Determination of the next academic a) September – The academy will publish in its year’s admissions policy. This will be published on prospectus information about the arrangements for the academy’s website and sent to the LA by 15 admission, including oversubscription criteria, for March for inclusion in the composite prospectus. the following September (e.g. in September 2015 for admission in September 2016). This will include f) March – The academy or Ark Central will advise details of open evenings and other opportunities the LA of applicants who meet required admissions for prospective pupils and their parents/carers to criteria where it has been necessary to verify this for visit the academy. them, e.g. distance measurement. b) September/October – The academy will provide g) March – The LA applies the agreed scheme for its opportunities for parents/carers to visit the academy. own schools, informing other LAs of offers to be made to their residents. c) October – Common Application Form to be completed and returned to the relevant LA to h) April – Offers made to parents/carers. administer. 11. After the admission of pupils with statements of d) December – The LA sends applications to the Special Educational Needs or Education and Health academy. Care Plans where the academy is named, the academy will consider all applications for places. e) January – The academy sends list of pupils to be offered places to the LA; the academy or Ark Where fewer applications are received than places Central will advise the LA of applicants who meet available, the academy will offer places to all those required admissions criteria where it has been who have applied, including in respect of the necessary to verify this for them, e.g. distance secondary school from 2015 onwards all those pupils measurement. attending the primary school in Year 6.
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 21 Procedures where the academy is i) In those cases where the relevant LA measures oversubscribed distance on behalf of Ark Schools, the method they adopt for measurement and also selection between Oversubscription criteria equal applicants and those living in flats will apply. 12. Wher e the academy is named on a pupil’s Statement ii) In those cases where Ark Schools is required to carry of Special Educational Needs or Education and Health out the measurement itself, priority will be given to Care Plan, that child will be admitted by the academy. those children who live closest to the school using If the number of applications for admission to either a straight-line measurement taken from Ordnance the primary school or secondary school is greater than Survey Data from the academy building’s main the PAN, applications will be considered against the reception to the main entrance of the child’s home. criteria and order set out below. Admission of siblings Where a child resides in a block of flats, the distance to the primary and secondary schools will be separate will be measured from the academy building’s main and distinct to those schools. The secondary school reception to the main entrance of the building in has additional criteria in relation to distance zones. which the flats are located. a) Looked After Children and children who have been With regard to applications to the secondary school previously looked after (pursuant to the Admissions where distance from the school is the priority (sub Code)1. paragraph f) above) the following will apply: b) Children of staff at the school where there is a a) 25% of the remaining places will be allocated demonstrable skill shortage – Children of members to children who live closest to the school using of staff will have priority in the oversubscription straight-line measurement from the main entrance criteria if the staff member is filling a post for which of the academy to the main entrance to the child’s there is a demonstrable skill shortage. Ark Schools home (Zone A) and 75% of the remaining places is required to approve the Principal’s designation will be allocated to children who live closest to of such posts and confirm the assessment that a Fawood Children’s Centre using straight-line member of staff appointed meets the requirements measurement from the main entrance of the of the shortage. Priority will be limited to one place Children’s Centre to the main entrance to the for each form of entry in any year. child’s home (Zone B). c) In respect of the primary school only, children who b) If there are vacancies after applying the criteria at a) at the time of the admission have a sibling who above in either of Zone A or Zone B these vacancies attends the primary school in Years 1 to 6# will be filled by offering places to applicants who d) In respect of the secondary school, children who at remain to be offered places in the other zone using the time of admission have a sibling who attends the distance criteria set out in a) above for that the academy# zone. e) Children of staff in the school – Where there is no Tie breaker: If Ark Schools is unable to distinguish demonstrable skill shortage, priority may be given between applicants using the published criteria, including where the academy is oversubscribed to a child of a those who live in blocks of flats with the same building person who will have been employed in the academy entrance, places will be offered via a random draw for two or more years at the time the application which will be supervised by someone independent of the for admission is made. Priority will be limited to one academy. place for each form of entry in any year. Note: In the case of multiple births or brothers and sisters f) Distance measurement – A child’s home will be the in the same year group, where there is only one place address at which the child normally resides and available, both will be considered together as which has been notified to the academy and other one application. relevant agencies as being the child’s normal place of residence.
1 A ‘looked after child’ is a child who is (a) in the care of a Local Authority, # For this purpose (c) and d) above) sibling means a whole, half or step- or (b) being provided with accommodation by a Local Authority in the brother or -sister or an adopted child resident at the same address. The exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in Section fact that an applicant has a sibling attending the nursery school will not 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at the time of making an application be a factor giving rise to priority. to a school.” (footnote 16 of the School Admissions Code 2014). A previously looked after child “includes children who were adopted under the Adoption Act 1976 and children who were adopted under the Adoption and Childrens Act 2002.”
22 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Post-16 oversubscription criteria Applications for admission to 13. Where the sixth form is oversubscribed, priority will the academy outside the normal be given to those qualifying applicants following the admissions round – in-year applications oversubscription criteria as described in paragraph 12 19. In-year applications should be submitted to the above. academy unless other arrangements are published on Right of appeal the website. 14. Ther e will be a right of appeal to an Independent 20. Subject to any provisions in the LA’s published Appeal Panel for all applicants (with the exception of and agreed protocol on arrangements relating to nursery) refused admission (see paragraph 17 below). applications submitted for years other than the normal year of entry, the academy will consider all Operation of waiting lists such applications and if the year group applied for has a place available, admit the child. 15. Subject to any provisions regarding waiting lists in the LA’s coordinated admission scheme, the academy will 21. If more applications are received than there are places operate a waiting list. Where in any year the academy available, the oversubscription criteria in paragraph receives more applications for places than there are 12, shall apply. places available, a waiting list will operate until the Appeals against refusal of an in-year application end of the summer term. Thereafter, parents/carers 22. Except in relation to an application for admission into will be written to asking if they wish for their child to the nursery school, where there will be no right of remain on the waiting list. This will be maintained by appeal following an unsuccessful application, parents/ the academy and it will be open to any parent/carer carers will have a right of appeal to an Independent to ask for his or her child’s name to be placed on the Appeal Panel if they are dissatisfied with an admission waiting list following an unsuccessful application. decision of the academy. 16. A child’s position on the waiting list will be determined solely in accordance with the Admission of children outside of their oversubscription criteria set out in paragraph normal age group 12 above with separate distance criteria for the 23. Applications for children to be admitted to a school secondary school. When places become vacant they year outside of their chronological age group will be allocated to children on the waiting list in should be submitted to the home LA during normal accordance with the oversubscription criteria. round admissions, or to the academy as described Arrangements for appeal panels in paragraph 19 regarding the in-year admissions process. Each application will be considered 17. Except in relation to an application for admission into and decided by the academy on the individual the nursery school, where there will be no right of circumstances of each case. Applicants should appeal following an unsuccessful application, parents/ provide documentation in support of their application carers will have the right of appeal to an Independent regardless of whether they are asking for the student Appeal Panel (Appeal Panel) if they are dissatisfied to be admitted in a lower or higher year group. with an admission decision of the academy. Applicants will be notified in writing of the decision. 18. The Appeal Panel will be independent of the academy. Unsuccessful applicants will be given the right to The arrangements for appeals will be in line with the appeal. Appeals Code. The determination of the Appeal Panel will be made in accordance with the Code and will Procedures for determining admission be binding on all parties. The academy will provide arrangements written guidance for parents/carers about how the appeals process works and will provide parents/carers Consultation with a named contact who can answer any queries 24. The academy shall consult every seven years on its parents/carers may have about the process. proposed admission arrangements unless these are the subject of change in any year. 25. Wher e consultation is required the academy will consult for a period of six weeks between October and the following January. All relevant bodies listed
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 23 in paragraph 1.44, Section 1 of the Admission 32. The Secretary of State may direct changes to the Code will be consulted and the consultation will be academy’s proposed admission arrangements and, conducted directly with the relevant LA and applicable in addition to the provisions above, the Secretary of church authorities and by way of publication on the State may direct changes to the proposed PAN. The academy’s website and that of Ark Schools. Secretary of State will consult the academy and/or the Academy Trust before making any direction. Determination and publication of admission arrangements 33. Pursuant to the Admissions Code 2014 the academy 26. Following consultation, the Academy Trust will may decide to admit above its PAN in year. It may consider comments made by those consulted. The also increase its stated PAN for any determination Academy Trust will then determine its admission year and future years provided that the necessary arrangements by 28 February of the relevant year and approvals at board level and that of the Secretary of notify those consulted of what has been determined. State are received. In these cases it is not necessary to consult but the Admissions Code provides for the Publication of admission arrangements LA to be given notice to enable them to deliver their 27. The Academy Trust will publish its admission coordinated responsibilities effectively. arrangements each year once these have been Proposed changes to admission arrangements determined, by sending copies to the relevant LA and by the academy after arrangements have been parties named in paragraph 25 and by publishing on published the academy website. 34. Once the admission arrangements have been 28. The published arrangements will set out: determined for a particular year and published, the a) The name and address of the academy and contact academy will propose changes only if there is a major details; change of circumstances. In such cases, the academy must notify the bodies referred to in paragraph 25 b) A summary of the admissions policy, including above of the proposed variation and must then apply oversubscription criteria; to the Secretary of State setting out: c) Numbers of places and applications for those places a) the proposed changes; in the previous year; and b) reasons for wishing to make such changes; d) Arrangements for hearing appeals. c) any comments or objections from those entitled to Representations about admission arrangements object. 29. Wher e any bodies that were consulted, or that should have been consulted, make representations to the The need to secure the Secretary of State’s approval for Academy Trust about its admission arrangements, changes to admission arrangements the Academy Trust will consider the representations 35. Following the consultation process outlined in this before determining the admission arrangements. policy, the academy will, through Ark Schools, consult 30. Where the Academy Trust has determined its as may be required and/or necessary and seek the admission arrangements and notified all those bodies consent of the Secretary of State to any changes in whom it has consulted and any of those bodies its admission arrangements. object to the admission arrangements, they can make 36. Recor ds of applications and admissions shall be kept representations to the Schools Adjudicator. Objections by the academy for a minimum period of ten years must be referred to the Adjudicator by 15 May in and shall be open for inspection by the Secretary the admissions determination year. Information on of State. how to make an objection can be obtained from the office of the Schools Adjudicator: http://www. schoolsadjudicator.gov.uk 31. Those bodies referred to in paragraph 25 above have the right to ask the academy to increase its proposed PAN for any year. Where such a request is made, but agreement cannot be reached locally, they may ask the Secretary of State to direct the academy to increase its proposed PAN. The Secretary of State will consult the academy and will then determine the PAN.
24 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Ark Elvin Academy www.arkelvinacademy.org DfE number: 3044001
Head teacher: Miss Annabel Bates Introduction Email: [email protected] This document sets out the admission arrangements for Ark Elvin Academy (“the academy”). The academy is a Cecil Avenue, Wembley HA9 7DU secondary academy with a sixth form. Tel: 020 8902 6362 Fax: 020 8903 1943 The academy will comply with all relevant provisions Email: [email protected] of the Department for Education’s School Admissions Code of Practice 2014 (“the Admissions Code”), the Admissions enquiries to: Miss Dawn Kinch School Admission Appeals Code of Practice 2012 (“the Email: [email protected] Appeals Code”) and the law on admissions. The academy Co-educational Age range: 11-18 will, through Ark Schools, consult as may be required Type: Academy and/or necessary. Reference in the Codes to admission Specialism: Language authorities shall be deemed to be references to the Board of Ark Schools, the powers and functions of which may Published admission number: 240 be delegated to the Local Governing Body (LGB) of the Number of pupils at the school in January 2015: 997 academy. Number of on-time applications All academies in the Ark Schools network including received for September 2015 admissions: 257 Ark Elvin Academy will participate in the coordinated Physical accessibility: Low accessibility admission arrangements administered by the Local Access to ground floor teaching spaces and facilities Authority (LA) in the relevant geographical location and in significantly restricted. No access to upper floors. respect of other arrangements specified in the Admissions Physical barriers limit ability of school to deliver an Code. inclusive curriculum, but there may be scope to focus Notwithstanding these arrangements, the Secretary of on sensory and learning disabilities. State may direct the academy to admit a named pupil to A supplementary information form is NOT required. the academy on application from a LA. Before doing so the Secretary of State will consult the academy. Open evening NB: Wednesday 7 October 2015 5.30pm 1. The academy is one of a number within a network of How many places were allocated for September 2015 academies overseen by Ark Schools. admissions: 240 2. Ark Schools is the Academy Trust and through its In Year Applications Board may delegate some functions to LGBs set up to Apply directly to Ark Elvin Academy provide a local oversight of individual academies. 3. The Ark Schools Board is responsible for the admissions policy of each academy. From time to time some admissions functions may be delegated to academies whilst others are carried out at Ark Schools under the direction of the Board. 4. In the event of a query, enquiries should be made to the Admissions Team at Ark Schools, 65 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6TD.
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 25 Admission Arrangements Approved academy in accordance with the published arrangements by the Secretary of State (see ‘Post-16 provision’ above). The Normal Admissions Round For secondary applications: The admission arrangements for the academy for the a) September – The academy will publish in its academic year 2016/17 and for subsequent years are set prospectus information about the arrangements for out below. admission, including oversubscription criteria, for the following September (e.g. in September 2015 i. The academy may set a higher or lower admission for admission in September 2016). This will include number than its Published Admission Number (PAN) details of open evenings and other opportunities for any specific year. Before making any change for prospective pupils and their parents/carers to to the agreed admission number, or a permanent visit the academy. change to its PAN the academy will in accordance with the provisions of the School Admissions Code b) September/October – The academy will provide 2014 notify the LA of the consent to such an opportunities for parents/carers to visit the arrangement of the Ark Board and the LGB. Where academy. it is proposed to have a lower admission number c) October – Common Application Form to be the academy will consult as required by paragraphs completed and returned to the relevant LA to 1.3 and 1.42 of the School Admissions Code. administer. ii. In accordance with its funding agreement the d) December – The LA sends applications to the academy will also seek the consent of the Secretary academy. of State to any permanent change to its PAN. e) January – The academy sends list of pupils to a) Secondary be offered places to the LA; the academy or Ark The academy has an agreed PAN of 240 pupils in Year 7. Central will advise the LA of applicants who meet b) Post-16 provision required admissions criteria where it has been necessary to verify this for them, e.g. distance i. The PAN for external Year 12s is 125. Those measurement. students already attending the academy and achieving the minimum academic entrance f) February – The LA applies the agreed scheme for requirements will transfer to the sixth form. its own schools, informing other LAs of offers to be made to their residents. ii. The minimum academic entrance requirements for admission to the post-16 provision will be published g) February – Determination of the next academic in the academy sixth-form prospectus which will year’s admissions policy. This will be published on be available on request and also published on the the academy’s website and sent to the LA by 15 academy website. These requirements will relate to March for inclusion in the composite prospectus. both internal and external applicants. h) March – Offers made to parents/carers by the LA. iii. Young people may apply on their own. After the admission of pupils with statements of Special iv Students will be informed in writing whether or Educational Needs or Education and Health Care Plans not they have been allocated a place. where the academy is named, the academy will consider all applications for places. Consideration of Applications Where fewer applications are received than places Arrangements for applications for places at the available, the academy will offer places to all those who academy will be made in accordance with the relevant have applied. LA’s coordinated admission arrangements and will be made on the Common Application Form provided and Procedures Where the Academy is administered by the relevant LA. The Academy Trust will Oversubscribed use the LA’s timetable for applications to the academy Oversubscription Criteria each year (exact dates within the months may vary from year to year). This will fit in with the timetable for the Where the academy is named on a pupil’s Statement of coordination of admission arrangements agreed following Special Educational Needs or Education and Health Care consultation, within the LA. Plan, that child will be admitted by the academy. If the number of applications for admission is greater than the Admission to the sixth form will be administered by the
26 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 PAN, applications will be considered against the criteria which will be supervised by someone independent of the and order set out below. academy. a) Looked After Children and Children who have been Note: In the case of multiple births or brothers and sisters previously looked after (pursuant to the Admissions in the same year group, where there is only one place Code)1. available in the academy, both will be considered together as one application. b) Children of staff at the school where there is a demonstrable skill shortage – Children of members Post-16 Oversubscription Criteria of staff will have priority in the oversubscription criteria if the staff member is filling a post for which Where the sixth form is oversubscribed, priority will there is a demonstrable skill shortage. Ark Schools be given to those qualifying applicants following the is required to approve the Principal’s designation oversubscription criteria as described above. of such posts and confirm the assessment that a member of staff appointed meets the requirements Right of Appeal of the shortage. Priority will be limited to one place There will be a right of appeal to an Independent Appeal for each form of entry in any year. Panel for all applicants refused admission (see below). c) Children who at the time of the admission have a sibling who attends the academy. Operation of Waiting Lists Subject to any provisions regarding waiting lists in the LA’s For this purpose “sibling” means a whole, half or coordinated admission scheme, the academy will operate a step-brother or -sister or an adopted child resident waiting list. Where in any year the academy receives more at the same address. applications for places than there are places available, a d) Children of staff in the school – Where there is no waiting list will operate until the end of the summer term. demonstrable skill shortage, priority may be given Thereafter, parents/carers will be written to asking if they where the academy is oversubscribed to a child of a wish for their child to remain on the waiting list. This will person who will have been employed in the academy be maintained by the academy and it will be open to any for two or more years at the time the application parent/carer to ask for his or her child’s name to be placed for admission is made. Priority will be limited to one on the waiting list following an unsuccessful application. place for each form of entry in any year. A child’s position on the waiting list will be determined e) Distance measurement – A child’s home will be the solely in accordance with the oversubscription criteria address at which the child normally resides and set out above. When places become vacant they will be which has been notified to the academy and other allocated to children on the waiting list in accordance relevant agencies as being the child’s normal place with the oversubscription criteria. of residence. i. In those cases where the relevant LA measures Arrangements for Appeal Panels distance on behalf of Ark Schools, the method they Parents/carers will have the right of appeal to an adopt for measurement and also selection between Independent Appeal Panel (“Appeal Panel”) if they are equal applicants and those living in flats will apply. dissatisfied with an admission decision of the academy. ii. In those cases where Ark Schools is required to carry The Appeal Panel will be independent of the academy. The out the measurement itself, priority will be given to arrangements for appeals will be in line with the Appeals those children who live closest to the school using Code. The determination of the Appeal Panel will be made in a straight-line measurement taken from Ordnance accordance with the Code and will be binding on all parties. Survey Data from the academy building’s main The academy will provide written guidance for parents/ reception to the main entrance of the child’s home. carers about how the appeals process works and will provide Where a child resides in a block of flats, the distance parents/carers with a named contact who can answer any will be measured from the academy building’s main queries parents/carers may have about the process. reception to the main entrance of the building in which the flats are located. 1“A ‘looked after child’ is a child who is (a) in the care of a Local Author- ity, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a Local Authority in Tie breaker: If Ark Schools is unable to distinguish 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 between applicants using the published criteria, including school.” (footnote 16 of the School Admissions Code 2014). A previously those who live in blocks of flats with the same building looked after child “includes children who were adopted under the Adop- entrance, places will be offered via a random draw tion Act 1976 and children who were adopted under the Adoption and Childrens Act 2002.”
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 27 Applications for Admission to the Schools. Academy Outside the Normal Determination and Publication of Admission Admissions Round – In-Year Applications Arrangements In-year applications should be submitted direct to the Following consultation, the Academy Trust will consider academy, unless other arrangements have been made and comments made by those consulted. The Academy Trust published on the academy website. will then determine its admission arrangements by 28 February of the relevant year and notify those consulted Subject to any provisions in the LA’s published and of what has been determined. agreed protocol on arrangements relating to applications submitted for years other than the normal year of entry, Publication of Admission the academy will consider all such applications and if the Arrangements year group applied for has a place available, admit the child. The Academy Trust will publish its admission arrangements each year once these have been If more applications are received than there are places determined, by sending copies to the relevant LA and all available, the oversubscription criteria shall apply. relevant bodies listed in paragraph 1.44, Section 1 of the Appeals Against Refusal of an In-Year Application Admissions Code and publishing on the academy website. Following an unsuccessful application, parents/carers will The published arrangements will set out: have a right of appeal to an Independent Appeal Panel a) The name and address of the academy and contact if they are dissatisfied with an admission decision of the details; academy. b) A summary of the admissions policy, including Admission of Children Outside of Their Normal Age oversubscription criteria; Group Applications for children to be admitted to a school c) Numbers of places and applications for those year outside of their chronological age group should places in the previous year; and be submitted to the home LA during normal round d) Arrangements for hearing appeals. admissions, or to the academy as described above regarding the in-year admissions process. Each application Representations about Admission will be considered and decided by the academy on the Arrangements individual circumstances of each case. Where any bodies that were consulted, or that should Applicants should provide documentation in support of have been consulted, make representations to the their application regardless of whether they are asking Academy Trust about its admission arrangements, the for the student to be admitted in a lower or higher year Academy Trust will consider the representations before group. determining the admission arrangements. Applicants will be notified in writing of the decision. Where the Academy Trust has determined its admission Unsuccessful applicants will be given the right to appeal. arrangements and notified all those bodies whom it has consulted and any of those bodies object to the admission Procedures for Determining Admission arrangements, they can make representations to the Arrangements Schools Adjudicator. Objections must be referred to the Consultation Adjudicator by 15 May in the admissions determination year. Information on how to make an objection can be The academy shall consult every seven years on its obtained from the office of the Schools Adjudicator: proposed admission arrangements unless these are the http://www.schoolsadjudicator.gov.uk subject of change in any year. Those bodies referred to above have the right to ask the Where consultation is required the academy will consult academy to increase its proposed PAN for any year. Where for a period of six weeks between October and the such a request is made, but agreement cannot be reached following January. All relevant bodies listed in paragraph locally, they may ask the Secretary of State to direct the 1.44, Section 1 of the Admissions Code will be consulted academy to increase its proposed PAN. The Secretary of and the consultation will be conducted directly with the State will consult the academy and will then determine relevant LA and applicable church authorities and by way the PAN. The Secretary of State may direct changes to of publication on the academy’s website and that of Ark the academy’s proposed admission arrangements and, in
28 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 addition to the provisions above, the Secretary of State may direct changes to the proposed PAN. The Secretary of State will consult the academy and/or the Academy Trust before making any direction. Pursuant to the Admissions Code 2014 the academy may decide to admit above its PAN in year. It may also increase its stated PAN for any determination year and future years provided that the necessary approvals at board level and that of the Secretary of State are received. In these cases it is not necessary to consult but the Admissions Code provides for the LA to be given notice to enable them to deliver their coordinated responsibilities effectively.
Proposed Changes to Admission Arrangements by the Academy After Arrangements have been Published Once the admission arrangements have been determined for a particular year and published, the academy will propose changes only if there is a major change of circumstances. In such cases, the academy must notify the bodies referred above of the proposed variation and must then apply to the Secretary of State setting out: a) the proposed changes, b) reasons for wishing to make such changes, c) any comments or objections from those entitled to object. The Need to Secure the Secretary of State’s Approval for Changes to Admission Arrangements Following the consultation process outlined in this policy, the academy will, through Ark Schools, consult as may be required and/or necessary and seek the consent of the Secretary of State to any changes in its admission arrangements. Records of applications and admissions shall be kept by the academy for a minimum period of ten years and shall be open for inspection by the Secretary of State.
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 29 Capital City Academy
www.capitalcityacademy.org DfE number: 3046905
Principal: Mr Alex Thomas Admissions Policy Chair of Governors: Mr Garth Crooks OBE This is a summary of the school’s admissions policy which Email: [email protected] has been approved by the Secretary of State and has been in effect from September 2006. Doyle Gardens, Willesden Green, London NW10 3ST Tel: 020 8838 8700 Admission to Year 7 196 places are available each year in Fax: 020 8838 8701 Year 7 and year groups will be maintained at 196 up to Email: [email protected] Year 11. Capital City Academy uses a fair banding scheme to ensure that the school admits students of all abilities. Admissions enquiries to: Aniela Czuczelowicz After the admission of students with statements of special Tel: 020 8838 8735 educational needs (SEN) who name Capital City Academy, Email: [email protected] all applicants for Year 7 will be asked to attend the school Co-educational Age range: 11-18 on specified days in December to take the fair banding Type: Academy test. Based on the test scores, applicants will be placed in Specialism: Dance and Sports four bands:- n Band A - Those with the best 25% of test scores. Published admission number: 196 Number of pupils at the school n Band B - Those with the second 25% of test scores. in January 2015: 1175 n Band C - Those with the third 25% of test scores. Number of on-time applications received for September 2015 admissions: 411 n Band D - Those with the fourth 25% of test scores. Applicants who do not take the fair banding test and Physical accessibility: High accessibility cannot be allocated to a band will be considered after Access to most ground floor and upper floor teaching those allocated to a band. Within each band, places will spaces and facilities, including external spaces. School be allocated using the following priorities: has capacity to deliver an inclusive curriculum with no significant physical barriers. 1. Students Looked After and previously Looked After by a local authority (i.e. Children in Public Care). A supplementary information form is required (for sports and dance places) 2. Up to 10% students will be admitted on the basis of aptitude in the specialisms of sport (performance Open mornings and/or leadership) and Visual and Performing Arts Monday 28 September 2015 9.15-11am using specified tests. Up to 20 students who meet the Thursday 13 October 2015 9.15-11am standards of the test will be admitted with priority to Wednesday 21 October 2015 9.15-11am the highest performing students. Applicants who wish Open evening to be admitted by their aptitude for sport will be asked Thursday 8 October 2015 6-8pm to attend in the first half of the autumn term to take a relevant aptitude test. How many places were allocated for September 2015 admissions: All applicants were offered a place. 3. Students for whom it is essential to be admitted to a specific school because of special circumstances to do In Year Applications with significant medical needs or social needs. A letter Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team from a doctor will be required in cases of medical need at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions and a letter from a social worker or other appropriate professional in cases of social need. These letters must show how the need can best be met by a place at the academy and not at another school. 4. Students whose siblings (brothers, sisters, half-brothers and half-sisters who live at the same address) currently attend the school and who will continue to do so on
30 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 the date of admission. of the applicant for the chosen course. The Academy will review the criteria on minimum entrance requirements a. In the event that the school has one place to offer on an annual basis and publish these in the Capital 6 and the next child on the waiting list is one of prospectus. All students, internal and external, must meet twins, triplets or other children of multiple births, the entry requirements to gain a place on a course. the policy of the school is not to separate them even if this means that the school will temporarily Course offers will be made in March and confirmed in go over the published Admissions Number. August for a September start. Students must accept a course offer in writing. Where there are more applicants 5. Distance will be measured in a straight line from the than the stated admission number places will be offered front door of the child’s home address (including flats) using the following priorities: to the main entrance of the school, using the local authority’s computerised measuring system, with those a. Students Looked After and previously Looked After living closer to the school receiving the higher priority. by a local authority (i.e. Children in Public Care); a. In the case of a single address with more than one b. Capital City Academy Year 11 students applying household, the ground floor is judged nearer than before the deadline; the upper floor(s). c. Capital City Academy Year 12 level 2 students b. Where a child lives with parents with shared (wishing to follow level 3 courses) applying before responsibility, each for part of a week, the address the deadline; where the child lives is determined using a joint d. External students applying before the deadline; declaration from the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s residence is split equally e. Those applying after the deadline but before 1st between both parents, then parents will be asked September; and to determine which is the residential address for f. If there are still unallocated places on 1st the purpose of admission to school. If the residence September (and, in extenuating circumstances) is not spilt equally between both parents then the those wishing to retake year 12. address used will be the address where the child In the case of over subscription within any of the above, spends the majority of the school week. distance will be applied as the tie break using the process c. Where two or more students are tied by distance a outlined for year 7. draw will determine the order of preference. Appeals Parents of students not allocated a place will Admission to Years 7-11 after the start be able to appeal to an independent appeals committee arranged by the school. A timetable for the appeal of Year 7 process will be published by 28th February. Appeals must Capital City Academy is heavily oversubscribed in all be lodged within 20 school days of the notification of the year groups. A waiting list is maintained in order of the decision not to allocate a place and must be set out on an admissions criteria above. All students who apply for appeal form available from the school. Other documents Year 7 but are not allocated a place will be placed on may be sent in support of an appeal but must be received the waiting list. In addition the academy will support no later than seven days before the hearing. Parents will Brent Council’s fair access protocol which gives priority be given ten school days notice of the appeal hearing to students new to the area who do not have a school and be sent the school’s reason for not allocating a place place and allows for the reintegration of students at least seven days before the hearing. Appeal hearings previously excluded from another school. All in year held to consider cases arising from on time applications applications should be made via Brent. All applications for a place at secondary transfer will be heard within will be considered in line with our published admission 40 school days of the deadline for appeal. The appeal arrangements. panel will give its decision in writing, together with the reasons, to parents within ten school days of the hearing. Admission Capital 6 Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Inclusion At Capital A total of 180 places are available for year 12 although City Academy, we believe that all students are of equal this may be limited by the capacity on the level 3 worth and that all can be successful. All students will be vocational pathway. given every chance to realise their potential regardless of ethnicity, faith, gender, ability or disability. The Academy Selection to Capital 6 is based on the achievement of has been designed to be fully accessible. The SEN policy GCSE or equivalent grades which endorse the suitability at Capital City Academy seeks to support its students
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 31 with SEN and disabilities, so far as is reasonably practical and compatible with the student receiving the special educational provision and the efficient education of the students with whom they are educated, by:- a. Ensuring transition arrangements are smooth and well informed; b. Providing a warm, secure, caring and welcoming environment meeting all educational and social development needs of all students; c. Making early identification and intervention to improve learning; d. Promoting positive self-esteem for all students; e. Ensuring fairness and equality of opportunity for all; and f. Communicating effectively with parents, carers and students.
Warning The Academy’s reserves the right to make its own enquiries to verify any information supplied by you. If subsequently we find that a place has been offered in reliance on information that was materially incorrect or misleading (e.g. the parental address) and the place would not have been offered if the information had been correct, the Admissions Committee may withdraw the offer. If that happens, you have a right of appeal to the Independent Appeal Panel.
32 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Claremont High School www.claremont-high.org.uk DfE number: 3045400
Principal: Mr Terry Molloy ADMISSION ARRANGEMENTS 2016- Chair of Governors: Mr. Steven Brunswick 2017
Claremont Avenue, Kenton HA3 0UH Arrangements for Admission at Secondary Transfer Tel: 020 8204 4442 The school operates admissions under the Brent Local Fax: 020 8204 3548 Education Authority’s scheme for coordinated admission Email: [email protected] to secondary school. Where applications exceed the number of places available (Published Admission Number Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Maureen Ahimie 252 for years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11) the following criteria in Email: [email protected] order of priority will be employed for admission. Co-educational Age range: 11-19 Type: Academy Oversubscription Criteria Specialism: Performing Arts 1. Looked After Children or children in public care including children who were in care but have since Published admission number: 252 been adopted or become subject to a residence order Number of pupils at the school in January 2015: 1541 or special guardianship order. Number of on-time applications received for September 2015 admissions: 1085 2. Children for whom it is essential to be admitted to Claremont High School because of special Physical accessibility: Medium accessibility circumstances to do with significant medical needs, Access to part of ground floor teaching spaces and social needs or special educational needs. The facilities, including external spaces. No access to recommendation must be received in writing from upper floors. School has capacity to deliver an inclusive a consultant at an NHS hospital or equivalent. This curriculum through time tabling adjustments, but criterion relates to the child’s medical, social and physical barriers restrict scope. special needs and does not include any other member of the child’s family. The supporting evidence should A supplementary information form is required set out the particular reasons Claremont High School is (for sports and dance places). the most suitable school and difficulties that would be Open evening caused if the child had to attend another school. Thursday 24 September 2015 5-8pm 3. Those who have a brother(s) and/or sister(s) (including How many places were allocated for half or stepbrother(s) and sister(s) if residing at the September 2015 admissions: 252 same address) attending this school at the time of application and on the date of admission. This In Year Applications excludes a brother(s) or a sister(s) of those students Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team who join the school in Year 12 or Year 13. at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions 4. Those children attending one of the four Arts College feeder primary schools; Byron Court, Mount Stewart, Preston Park and Uxendon Manor. 5. Up to ten per cent of children will be admitted on the basis of aptitude in music. Each child applying under this criterion will be invited to attend a written musical aptitude assessment at the school. The assessment is approximately forty minutes’ duration and does not require any previous knowledge of music or music theory. There will be sixty questions to include pitch, rhythm, texture and melody. Each child will be notified in advance of the
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 33 assessment date and venue. Those unable to attend Casual Admission Arrangements on this date due to compelling religious, medical or When applying for a place in Years 7 to 11 parents/carers other reasons will be offered one alternative date. should apply to the Local Authority. Childr en who achieve the qualifying mark in the Proof of the child’s permanent residence will be required assessment will be invited to an audition to perform except where this has already been provided through the a single piece on their chosen instrument or vocally. Common Application Process. This will be a free choice of piece, which should last no longer than three minutes. As there is a free choice If you wish to make an application to this school you of instrument and piece, children of all abilities and will need to contact your local council. If you are a Brent all cultures will have equal opportunity to succeed. resident you need to contact Brent Council’s School The purpose of the audition is not to assess ability but Admissions team on 020 8937 3110 or visit www.brent. rather to determine whether the child has the capacity gov.uk/admissions. All applications will be considered to learn or develop musical skills and benefit from the in line with our published admission arrangements. facilities at the school. Outcomes of applications will be sent to you by Brent Council on behalf of the Governing Body. Unsuccessful Those children invited to audition will be given an applicants will be placed on the Waiting List. individual appointment during the school day. Pupils with a Statement of Special Educational Needs and 6. Childr en of members of staff employed for a minimum Hard to place Children of two years and/or recruited to fill a vacant post. The admission of pupils with a Statement of Special 7. Other children. Educational Needs (SEN) is dealt with by a completely Tie Breaker separate procedure. Details of this separate Procedure is set out in the SEN Code of Practise. Within each criterion, priority will be given to the applicant who lives closer to the school. This will be The School is also committed to taking vulnerable children measured in a straight line from the front door of a pupil’s who are hard to place and in accordance with locally permanent address to the school reception. A random agreed protocol. allocator will be used to determine the offer of a place where two or more children are deemed to live the same Independent Appeals distance from the School. Parents/Carers will have the right of appeal to an Independent Appeal Panel if they are dissatisfied with Waiting List an admission decision of the School. This includes pupils In addition to the right of appeal, unsuccessful candidates refused progression from the School’s Year 11 to Year 12. will be offered the opportunity to be placed on a The arrangements for appeals will be in line with the Waiting List, which will be maintained in order of the Code of Practice on School Admission Appeals published over-subscription criteria and not in the order in which by the Department for children, Schools and Families applications are received. (DCSF). Parents/Carers wishing to make an appeal should Brent Local Authority’s In Year Fair Access Protocol will send a completed form to the Clerk of Appeal Panel to take precedence over Waiting Lists where applicable. the address given on the Appeal form. Parents/Carers will be given 20 days to appeal. Lists will be maintained throughout the school year. A child’s position on the Waiting List does not depend upon Parents with Shared Responsibility the time they have been on the list but will be determined Where a child lives with parents with shared responsibility, by how they meet the oversubscription criteria. each for part of a week, the address where the child lives This means that a child’s position on the list can go down is determined using a joint declaration from the parents as well as up, depending upon the child’s circumstances stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s residence is and those of other applicants. The Waiting List will be split equally between both parents, then parents will closed each year and will not roll over. Parents wishing be asked to determine their residential address for the tostay on the Waiting List will be required to submit a purpose of admission to school. If the residence is not request to Brent Council’s School Admissions team. split equally between both parents then the address used will be the address where the child spends the majority of the school week.
34 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Admission arrangements for sixth form All Claremont Year 11 students who meet the minimum entry requirements are eligible to apply to progress to year 12 (the Sixth Form). Places are offered first to eligible year 11 students and then to external applicants who meet the minimum entry requirements as published in the Sixth Form prospectus and contingent on the availability of appropriate resources. The minimum number of external candidates likely to be admitted is 40 although this may be exceeded if demand for available courses can be met.
External Applicants In the event of all those applying meeting the qualification criteria and the published admissions number being exceeded, the School will apply its Admissions Criteria 1, 2, 3 and 5 (see Admissions Criteria) to determine places offered.
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 35 Convent of Jesus and Mary Language College
www.cjmlc.co.uk DfE number:3045404
Principal: Mrs Geraldine Freear Admissions Policy 2016 – 2017 Chair of Governors: Mr Danny Finnegan The Convent of Jesus and Mary Language College is an All Girls’ Voluntary Aided 11-18 Comprehensive College. Crownhill Road, Willesden, London NW10 4EP The College is conducted by its governing body as part Tel: 020 8965 2986 of the Catholic Church in accordance with its trust deed Fax: 020 8838 0071 and instrument of government and seeks at all times Email: [email protected] to be a witness to Jesus Christ. The governors secured Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Louise Allen academy status in April 2012. The school is a converter Tel: 020 895 2986 ext 214 academy. This status brings with it various freedoms. Email: [email protected] Girls will be admitted at age 11 regardless of ability Girls Age range: 11-18 or aptitude. Whenever there are more applicants than Type: Academy places, priority will always be given to Catholic applicants Specialism: Languages in accordance with the oversubscription criteria listed Published admission number: 180 below. In this policy the Applicant refers to you the Number of pupils at the school in January 2015: 1030 parent/carer applying for the place and Candidate refers Number of on-time applications to the girl for whom the application is being made. received for September 2015 admissions: 267 As a Catholic school we aim to provide a Catholic Physical accessibility: Low accessibility education for all our girls. Catholic doctrine and practice Access to part of ground floor teaching spaces and permeate every aspect of the school’s activity. It is facilities, including external spaces. No access to essential that the Catholic character of the school’s upper floors. School has capacity to deliver an inclusive education is fully supported by all the families in the curriculum through time tabling adjustments, but school. All applicants and candidates are therefore physical barriers restrict scope. expected to give their full, unreserved and positive support for the aims and ethos of the school. A supplementary information form is required. The Governing Body has sole responsibility for applications Open mornings to the school and intends to admit the Published 29 September to 9 October 2015 9.30am-12.30pm Admission Number of 180 girls to year 7 in 2016. Open evening 21 September 2015 3.30-6.30pm A Supplementary Information Form (SIF) and the How many places were allocated for September 2015 Diocesan Priest’s Reference Form, which consists of a admissions: All applicants were offered a place. written reference from your Parish Priest stating that one or both parents/carers attend Catholic Mass regularly In Year Applications with their daughter should be completed and returned Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team to the school together with a copy of the Baptismal at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions certificate. Only practising Catholic applicants need to complete the Priest Reference Form. A Common Application Form (CAF) must be sent to your Local Authority. Both the CAF and the SIF can be obtained from the School or from the local authority and should be available on the local authority website. The Diocesan Priest’s Reference Form is available from the School and is also on the Westminster Diocese website. If you do not complete and return these forms by the closing date the Governing Body may be unable to consider your application fully and it is unlikely that your daughter will be offered a place at the School. Applications received
36 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 after the closing date will be dealt with after the initial 2. C atholic The term Catholic in the policy means a allocation process has been completed. baptised person who is a member of any Catholic Church that is in full communion with the See of In light of the above the Governors will have regard to Rome. the following oversubscription criteria where there are more applications for places than the number of places 3. Practising Catholic ‘Practising Catholic’ means a available: Catholic child from a practising Catholic family where this practice is verified by a reference from a Catholic 1. C atholic ‘looked after’ children and Catholic children priest in the standard format laid down by the who have been adopted or made subject to child Diocese. ‘Family’ includes the Catholic or Catholics arrangements orders or special guardianship orders, who have legal responsibility for the child. immediately after having been looked after. 4. O versubscription Where the offer of places to all 2. Practising Catholic applicants. applicants in any of the above categories would lead to oversubscription, priority is given to those 3. Other baptised Catholic applicants. with a sister attending the school at the time of 4. O ther looked after girls - children who have been admission, or in the case of siblings in Year 11, those adopted or made subject to child arrangements who are expected to be in attendance at the time of orders or special guardianship orders, immediately admission. The term siblings includes step and half after having been looked after. sisters. Where the final place is offered to a child who has a twin/triplets etc. applying for a place in the 5. T hose preparing for the sacraments of Baptism same school year, these siblings will also be admitted. and Holy Communion with the Catholic Church (Catechumens) 5. D istance Tie Break Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any of the categories listed above 6. C hristian applicants who have a baptism certificate would still lead to oversubscription, the places up or a letter from their Minister showing they are a to the admissions number (180) will be offered member of the Church and that they regularly attend to those living nearest to the College. Distance church services). will be measured (in a straight line) from the front door of the child’s home (the address at which the 7. O ther Christian applicants whose parents wish them child resides for 50% or more of the school week) to receive a Catholic education and whose application (including flats) to the main entrance of the school, is supported by a religious leader. (using the local authority’s computerised measuring 8. All other applicants system), with those living closer to the school receiving the higher priority. . *’Parent’ is the person or persons who have legal responsibility for the child. 6. C hristian Applicants In order of preference this refers to baptised members of Christian denominations NOTES: affiliated to ‘Churches together in England (CTE)’ and 1. Looked After Children The term ‘Looked After Child’ then to other Christian denominations. has the same meaning as in s.22 of the Children 7. S ocial/Medical Needs The governors will increase Act 1989, and means any child in the care of a local to top priority an applicant within a category where authority or provided with accommodation by them compelling evidence is provided at the time of (eg. Children with foster parents at the time of application of exceptional circumstance, or a medical making an application to the school). or a pastoral need of the girl which can only be met A n adopted child ‘Children adopted from care whose at this school. This evidence must consist of letters/ parents can give evidence of that status. reports from a parish priest, head teacher, consultant or social worker. ‘Child Arrangements Order’. A Child Arrangements order is an order under the terms of the Children Act 8. S tatements of Special Educational Needs There 1989 s.8 settling the arrangements to be made as to are separate application procedures for girls with the person with whom the child is to live. Children statements of SEN. Pupils with a statement of Special ‘looked after’ immediately before the order is made Educational Needs/Education, Health and Care Plan qualify in this category. (EHC). The admission of pupils with a statement of
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 37 Special Educational Needs or Education Health and body in the order of the oversubscription criteria Care Plan (EHC) is dealt with by a completely separate [as modified above] and not in the order in which procedure. Details of this separate procedure are set the applications are received. Names are removed out in the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice. from the list at the end of each academic year. If your child has a Statement of SEN or EHC plan you When a place becomes available the governing must contact your local authority SEN officer. body will decide who is at the top of the list and the Governors will inform parents whether or not a place 9. Fair Access The College is committed to taking its is to be offered. fair share of vulnerable children who are hard to place, in accordance with locally agreed protocols. Admission to the Sixth-Form The Sixth Form is available for Accordingly, outside the normal round of admissions, all existing pupils subject to pupils fulfilling the individual the Governing Body is empowered to give absolute requirements of suitable courses. Remaining places in the priority to a child where admission is requested under Sixth Form of the College for both internal and external any local protocol which carries the agreement of applicants will be distributed in accordance with the both the Governing Body and the Diocese for the oversubscription criteria, subject to applicants fulfilling the current admission year. The Governing Body has individual requirements of suitable courses. The capacity this power even when admitting such a child would of the Sixth form for 2016 – 2017 will be 180. exceed the normal admission number.
10. Appeals and Waiting List Those girls who are unsuccessful in obtaining a place have the right to appeal and information on how to appeal will be sent with the letter of refusal. The deadline for submission of appeals is (Friday 7th April). A waiting list to be maintained by the College for the academic year of admissions until July 2017. As vacancies arise pupils will be admitted from the list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria above. It is important to note that because of this applications received after the allocation of places may take priority over those already on the waiting list.
11. In-Year Admissions
In year applications should be submitted to Brent Council’s School Admissions team who coordinate in year applications on behalf of, and in cooperation with, the governing body. If a place is available and there is no waiting list then the local authority will communicate offers on behalf of governors. If more applications are received than there are places available then applications will be ranked by the governing body in accordance with the oversubscription criteria, [with the following modifications: Catholic children without an offer of a school place elsewhere are given priority immediately after Catholic ‘looked-after’ children; similarly, other children without an offer of a school place are given priority immediately after other ‘looked-after’ children]. If a place cannot be offered at this time then you may ask us for the reasons and you will be informed of your right of appeal. You will be offered the opportunity of being placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be maintained by the governing
38 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Gladstone School www.gladstoneschool.org DfE number:3040752
Principal: Mr Paul Phillips Admissions to Gladstone School Chair of Governors: Ms Maria Evans Gladstone School, Brent’s new inclusive secondary school for boys and girls, is approved to open in Gladstone School, PO Box 71915 NW2 9QF September 2016 in the NW2/NW10 area and will accept Tel: 020 3529 7887 applications directly through its website. The closing Email: [email protected] date for applications is Thursday 11 February 2016. This Admissions enquiries to: Mr Paul Phillips application is an additional choice over and above the Email: [email protected] six choices available through the Common Application Process. For 2016 entry parents should also apply for, and Co-educational Age range: 11-18 hold places at existing schools. Type: Free school academy Our vision and ethos is for a local inclusive school and, if Published admission number: 120 oversubscribed, our criteria will be to look after vulnerable children first, preserve family units and then serve the A supplementary information form is NOT required needs of the local community by offering places to pupils Open day living nearest the school. Our admissions policy reflects Thursday 24 September 2015 6.30-8pm these aspirations. Application process 1 Gladstone School will provide school places for young people aged 11-18 and the admissions arrangements for the Year 7 intake are set out below. 2 The governing body of Gladstone School is the admissions authority for the school and holds responsibility for the admission of pupils. 3 Gladstone School is committed to straightforward, open, fair and transparent admission arrangements. The school will act fully in accordance with the School Admission Code (as revised February 2012), the School Admission Appeals Code and admissions law as they apply to academies. 4 Gladstone School will manage its own admissions for entry in September 2016 and applications should be made directly to the school. 5 Copies of the application form are available from the admissions team at Gladstone School or online at www.gladstoneschool.org. 6 Applications must be made by 11 February 2016. Gladstone School will write to applicants with the outcome of applications on 1st March 2016. Where email addresses have been provided applicants will receive an email on 1st March 2016. 7 For 2016 entry1 parents should also apply for, and hold places at existing schools. 8 Full details of the application process are available in Brent Council’s secondary school 11+ admission guide.
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 39 9 Inaccurate or false information on the application form status. The founders of Gladstone School have could result in the place being withdrawn. applied to the Secretary of State for derogation from the school admissions code giving priority 10 W e will operate in keeping with the local authority’s in the oversubscription criteria to their children. If fair access protocol. granted, this will be limited to the individuals who Published admission number played a major role in establishing the school during the application and pre-opening stages, and have 11 Gladstone School has an agreed published admission continued to play a significant role in the running of umber of 120 for admission into Year 7 and will admit the school. up to this number each year. n Distance from the school with priority for admission 12 All applicants will be admitted if fewer than 120 given to children who live nearest. If more than one applications are received. applicant lives in a multi-occupancy building (e.g. flats) priority will be given to the applicant whose door Special Educational Needs (SEN) number is the lowest numerically and/or alphabetically. 13 Children with a Statement of Special Educational n Distance from home to school is measured in a straight Needs (SEN) where Gladstone School is named on the line from the front door of the address to the front Statement will be admitted to the school. gate of the main entrance to the school. In the event Fr om 2017 onwards, Gladstone School will be that, by the date of decision, no final site has been part of the local authority’s coordinated admission approved or the eventual location of the school gate arrangements. This requires parents to complete a cannot be precisely determined, distance will be Common Application Form (CAF), which is provided by measured to a nominal point on the site of the original the local authority in which the applicant lives. Copies William Gladstone Secondary School grounds, viz at of the CAF will be available from the admissions map coordinates 51.559437, - 0.229558. team at Brent or online at www.eadmissions.org.uk/ eadmissions/app Tie-break 15 In the event of two or more applications that cannot Oversubscription criteria otherwise be separated, random allocation will 14 Where the school receives more applications than it be used as the final tie-break. This process will be has places available the oversubscription criteria will overseen by someone independent of the school. be in the following order of priority:
n Looked after children or children who were previously Offers of places looked after. Looked after children and previously 16 All applications received after the deadline will be looked after children are those who have been considered late applications. Late applicants will be adopted or have become subject to a residence order considered after those received on time. or special guardianship order. A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care of the local authority Waiting list or (b) being provided with accommodation by a 17 If the school is oversubscribed, names of all local authority in their exercise of their social services unsuccessful applicants will be placed on a waiting functions (see the definition in Section 22 (1) of the list. The list will be kept until 31 December of each Children Act 1989). academic year and will operate in accordance with the n Siblings of children who will still be attending the oversubscription criteria defined above. school in the academic year of admission. Siblings are generally defined, for the purpose of school admission Other admissions (in-year or casual in Brent, as a full, half, adopted, foster or step brother admissions) or sister living at the same address, or a child living as 18 Applications for the vacancies that arise outside the part of the family by reason of a court order. normal annual admission round for Year 7 will be Childr en of Gladstone School staff who have been considered at any time of the year. Information and in post for at least two years at the time of the application forms may be obtained from the school. application and/or have been recruited to fill a vacant Where there is more than one application for a vacant post in a demonstrable skill shortage area. place, the offer of a place will be determined in accordance with the oversubscription criteria outlined n Children whose parents have been given founder
40 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 in paragraph 14 and tie-break outlined in paragraph accordance with the notification letter or email. 15. Unsuccessful in-year applicants will be allowed to Appeals should be made, in writing, within 20 school request that their name be added to the waiting list days from the date of notification that the application and will be advised of their right to appeal against the was unsuccessful. decision not to admit them. Evidence in relation to 25 G ladstone School will use the independent appeals applications and offers service provided by the local authority. The appeal will 19 In this document ‘parent’ means the person making be considered by an independent appeals panel, which the application who has parental responsibility for is appointed in accordance with the School Admission the child. For children who reside with a relative or Appeals Code. carer other than a natural parent, a residence order or other court order will be required. Proof of parental responsibility may comprise a letter from HM Revenue and Customs confirming receipt of Child Benefit or Child Tax Credits. 20 The child’s principal home address is where the child resides as the only or main residence during the term time. If the child resides equally between both parents, the principal home address will be considered as being the address at which the child is registered with their GP. 21 Proof of residence can be requested at any time throughout the admissions process. If false or misleading information is provided on the application form or is otherwise used to gain entry to the school, the offer of a place will be withdrawn and an appeal offered. The governing body will accept the following documents as proof of address: n Confirmation that the parent is liable for Council Tax at the principal home address given on the application form. n Utility bills in the name of the parent indicating they reside at the principal home address given on the application form. n A tenancy agreement (the tenancy period must extend beyond the start of the academic year in which the child starts secondary school). n Evidence of the exchange of contracts confirming the sale or purchase of a new property. 22 The governing body reserves the right to seek verification of the principal home address from the local authority in which the home is situated. 23 An offer of a place may be withdrawn if it has been offered in error, if a parent has not responded within a reasonable period of time or it is established that the offer was obtained through a fraudulent or intentionally misleading application.
Appeals 24 Par ents who are dissatisfied with the school’s decision not to admit their child(ren) may appeal by writing to the chair of governors at Gladstone School in
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 41 JFS
www.jfs.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3044033
Principal: Mr Jonathan Miller JFS admissions policy 2016-17 Chair of Governors: Mr Steven Woolf The process for admissions to JFS is governed by regulations made under the School Standards and The Mall, Kenton, Harrow HA3 9TE Framework Act 1998. All the processes described below Tel: 020 8206 3100 are in accordance with that Act and have been agreed Fax: 020 8206 3101 in consultation with the London Borough of Brent. The Email: [email protected] arrangements set out in this Policy apply to all students Admissions enquiries to: Ms Maxine Ratnarajh except those with Statements of Special Educational Tel: 020 8206 3100 voicemail option 2, 1 Needs. If your child has such a statement you do not Email: [email protected] apply for a place at the School under this policy. Instead, you must contact your local authority who will advise you Co-educational Age range: 11-18 on the procedure to follow. Type: Voluntary Aided School Specialism: Humanities Admission to year 7 in September Published admission number: 300 2016 Number of pupils at the school in January 2015: 2068 Number to be admitted Number of on-time applications l.l We have a Published Admission Number of 300 received for September 2015 admissions: 785 which means that we will admit 300 students in Year Physical accessibility: High accessibility 7. This includes students with Statements of Special Access to most ground floor and upper floor teaching Educational Needs whose Statements name the School spaces and facilities, including external spaces. School for the student. If 300 or fewer applications (including has capacity to deliver an inclusive curriculum with no those statemented children) are received, all those significant physical barriers. applying will be offered places. lf we receive more than 300 applications, i.e. the School is over-subscribed, the A supplementary information form is required following procedure is followed.
Open evening Oversubscription criteria Thursday 15 October 2015 4.15pm 1.2 The over-subscription criteria are applied in the How many places were allocated for following order September 2015 admissions 300 1.2.1 Looked after children and previously looked after In Year Applications children who (in either case) meet the religious Apply to JFS directly. practice test (this involves achieving 3 points on the Certificate of Religious Practice). A looked after child is a child who is in the care of a local authority within the meaning of the Children Act 1989. Previously looked after children are children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (under the terms of the Adoption and Children Act 2002) or became subject to a residence order or special guardianship order (under the terms of the Children Act 1989). 1.2.2 Children who meet the religious practice test and who have accommodation provided for them by a Jewish care home or care organisation- 1.2.3 Siblings who meet the religious practice test and
42 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 whose sibling is on roll at the time of application Form (SIF) as well as a Certificate of Religious Practice for or formerly attended JFS for a period of at least the School (CRP) and send them directly to the School no three consecutive terms within the 5 years later than the date by which the CAF has to be returned preceding the proposed date of entry. For this to your Local Authority. The SIF and CRP must be marked purpose, the term ‘siblings’ means brothers for the attention of the Admissions Officer at the School. and sisters, including half siblings, step siblings, It is not compulsory to complete a SIF or submit the CRP adopted siblings and foster siblings but not any but we cannot give your child priority consideration wider definition. without it. 1.2.4 The next 10 children who meet the religious The School decides the order in which places are to be practice test and who live nearest to the School. offered in accordance with the Admissions Policy but Those living closest will have higher priority. Brent Local Authority makes the offers, via your Local Distance will be calculated by a straight line Authority, through the coordinated admissions process. measurement between the front door of the Any offer of a place at the School must be accepted or child’s home address to the main entrance rejected within a reasonable time frame or it may be of the School using Brent Local Authority’s withdrawn. computerised measuring system. For those Unsuccessful applicants will be given the opportunity to applicants who live an equal distance from the go on the Waiting List. Places in Year 7 are offered from School, places will be determined 2.1 by random the Waiting List in accordance with the oversubscription allocation supervised by Brent Local Authority. criteria with random selection being used where there are Where a child lives with one parent for part of a more eligible applicants than there are places. week and with the other parent for the rest of the week, the permanent address for Distance All other admissions (other than for Tie-Break purposes will be the address at which the child lives for the greater part of the school year 7 or sixth form in September week, i.e. Monday to Friday. If the child lives 2016) equally with both parents at different addresses, All applications must be made directly to the School. the child’s home address will be taken to be the An application is made by completing a SIF and a CRP address given on the Common Application Form which must be forwarded to the School. If no SIF or CRP (CAF) supplied by the relevant Local Authority. is submitted the School will not be able to process the | .2.5 Other children who meet the religious practice application. All applications will be considered by the test Admissions Committee of the Governing Body and places will be offered if this will not prejudice efficient education 1.2.6 Other looked after children and other previously of others at the School or the efficient use of resources. looked after children. Where there are more applicants at any one time than 1.2.7 Any other children. there are places available, priority will be determined by applying the oversubscription criteria 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.5, 1.3 If in any category there are more applicants than there 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 set out above. Where there are more are available places remaining, offers will be made applicants in any category than there are available places, by random selection which will be conducted in the random selection will be used. presence of an independent scrutineer appointed by Brent Local Authority. If an offer is made under any A waiting list will be maintained for each year of entry. category to someone who is a twin/triplet or from a Parents will be invited each year to indicate whether or multiple birth, an offer will also be made to the other not they wish their child to remain on the Waiting List. sibling(s). Sixth form admissions Procedure for admission to year 7 4.1 Most of the School’s students progress from Year You must complete the Common Application Form (CAF) ll to Year 12 as a matter of course but the School supplied by your Local Authority and name the School as will admit at least 35 students who are not already one of your preferences. You must send the CAF to your students at the School. Priority is given to students Local Authority and not to the School. You will also be for whom a suitable course can be provided. able to do this on-line. Requirements for Sixth Form courses are stated in the School’s Sixth Form Prospectus. It is intended that the If you wish to claim priority based on the oversubscription overall size of the Sixth Form - Years l2 and I 3 - will criteria you should complete a Supplementary Information
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 43 be no more than 550. 4.2 External applicants must apply on the School’s Sixth Form Application Form by the last Friday in January 2016. Applicants should also submit a CRP. Priority will be given to those applicants who meet the religious practice test with the highest priority within this group to looked after children and previously looked after children who meet the academic entry criteria- 4.3 The School will invite those applicants and parents to meet with the School. The purpose of the meeting is only to provide advice on options and entry requirements for particular courses. All applicants, if invited to a meeting, must attend with a parent or guardian. Those students who do not meet the religious practice test will only be considered for a place once applications from all those who do meet the religious practice test have been considered and the School can see that further places may be available for offer. Such applicants will then be invited to a meeting as above, and they must attend with a parent or guardian. 4.4 Of fers are normally made by the end of the Spring Term. A decision regarding an offer may be deferred by the School and considered further once the applicant’s GCSE results have been issued. Offers may be made conditional on the applicant securing specified grades in specified GCSE subjects. 4.5 Exter nal students applying after the end of January 2016 or after publication of GCSE results may still be considered but course places at this stage are likely to be limited.
Appeals 5.1 Anyone applying under any of the provisions of this policy who is not offered a place at the School will be advised of the process for appeal to an Independent Appeal Panel.
44 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Kingsbury High School www.kingsburyhigh.org.uk DfE number: 3045402
Principal: Mr Jeremy Waxman Admission Arrangements for Chair of Governors: Mrs Georgina September 2016 Bondzi-Simpson The School’s Published Admission Number is 336 Princes Avenue, Kingsbury, London NW9 9JR Coordination Admission Scheme for transfer from Primary Tel: 020 8206 3000 to Secondary: Fax: 020 8206 3040 All applications for transfer to Year 7 are coordinated Email: [email protected] by the Local Authority. Applications for transfer must be Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Priti Shah made directly to the Local Authority of the borough in Tel: 020 8206 3010 which the child lives. Email: [email protected] Completed common transfer forms should be returned to Co-educational Age range: 11-18 the Local Authority for processing in accordance with the Type: Academy coordinated Admissions Scheme in accordance with the Specialism: Mathematics and computing published timeline. In the event that the School receives more applications Published admission number: 336 for places than it can accommodate according to Number of pupils at the school in January 2015: 1992 its Published Admissions’ Limit of 336, the School’s Number of on-time applications Oversubscription Criteria will be applied in the order given received for September 2015 admissions: 1055 below: Physical accessibility: Medium accessibility Access to part of ground floor teaching spaces and Oversubscription Criteria: facilities, including external spaces. No access to 1. Children in public care (looked after children) identified upper floors. School has capacity to deliver an inclusive and supported by social services and children who curriculum through time tabling adjustments, but were looked after but ceased to be so because they physical barriers restrict scope. were adopted (or became subject to a residence order or special guardianship order). A supplementary information form is NOT required 2. Where the child has a brother or sister currently Open evening attending the School and will continue to do so on Tuesday 29 September 2015 5-8.30pm the date of admission. This criterion does not apply to How many places were allocated for siblings of students who have newly joined the School September 2015 admissions 336 in the Sixth Form. 3. Children for whom there is evidence it is essential to In Year Applications be admitted to Kingsbury High School because of Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team significant medical needs requiring a level of education at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions best met by admission to this School. Applications should be supported in writing with a recommendation from a recognised professional of senior status. This criterion relates to the child’s medical, social and special needs and does not include any other member of the child’s family. The supporting evidence should set out the particular reasons why Kingsbury High School is the most suitable school and difficulties that would be caused if the child had to attend another school.
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 45 4. Wher e the child attends one of the four feeder primary Application Procedure: schools ( Fryent Primary, Kingsbury Green Primary, If you wish to make an application for this school, you Oliver Goldsmith Primary, Roe Green Junior) will need to contact your local council. If you are a Brent Where the number of applications arising from this resident, you will need to contact Brent Council’s School criterion exceed the number of places available, those Admissions team on 020 8937 3110 or visit www.brent. living closer to the school will be accorded the higher gov.uk/admissions. All applications will be considered priority. in line with our published admission arrangements. The distance will be measured (in a straight line) from the Outcomes of application will be sent to you by Brent front door of the child’s home address (including flats) Council on behalf of the Governing Body. Unsuccessful to the mid point between the Upper and Lower School, applicants will be placed on the waiting list. using the Local Authority’s computerised measuring system. Waiting Lists In the event that the School receives more applications for Any places still remaining will be filled according to the places that it can accommodate according to its published distance of the child’s parents’ home from the School, admissions’ limit of 336, a waiting list will operate. with those living nearer being accorded the higher priority. Where applicants live in the same block of flats, Lists will be maintained throughout the school year. A internal walkways will be treated as public rights of way child’s position on the waiting list does not depend upon when calculating distance travelled (measurements will be the time they have been on the list but will be determined taken from the door of each individual to a point midway by how they meet the oversubscription criteria. between the two sites of the School). This means that a child’s position on the list can go down Where a child lives with parents with shared responsibility, as well as up, depending upon the child’s circumstances each for part of a week, the address where the child lives and those of other applicants. is determined using a joint declaration from the parents The waiting list will be closed each year and will not roll stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s residence is over. Parents wishing to stay on the waiting list will be split equally between both parents, then parents will be required to submit a request to Brent Council’s School asked to determine which is the residential address for Admissions team. the purpose of admission to school. If the residence is not split equally between both parents then the address used Primary Transfer to High School will be the address where the child spends the majority of Offers for places to pupils transferring to High School will the school week. be sent on 1st March (unless this date falls on a week- Admission of Students with a end, then offers will go out on the first working day after 1st March) each year by the Local Authority under the Statement of Special Educational Needs coordinated Admission Scheme. Applications for students with a Statement of Special Educational Need (SEN) are made by the SEN team at In Year Fair Access the Local Authority (LA). The placement of students with The School will work closely with the LA, in accordance such a Statement is made after a process of consultation with local protocols. Children who are the subject of between parents/carers, the school and the LA. Students a direction by a local authority to admit or who are with a Statement of SEN receive priority over others for allocated to a school in accordance with an In Year Fair admission where the school is named in the Statement. Access Protocol, will take precedence over those on a If two or more applicants have equal priority under the waiting list. criteria, the criterion of proximity to the school will apply. Sixth Form Admission Twins, triplets and other children of 336 places in Year 12 (Sixth form) are available for internal multiple births applicants who fulfil the individual course requirements. In considering applications from twins, triplets or A limit of 40 places are available to external applicants. children from multiple births it will be policy of the Where places are not filled by internal applicants, the school not to separate them even if this means School will consider making more places available to temporarily exceeding the published admission number external applicants. to ensure that policy is achieved. Places in Year 12 will be awarded in the following order of
46 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 priority: The term ‘sibling’ include:
1. Childr en in public care (looked after children) and n Brother or sister children who were looked after but ceased to be so n Half brother or sister; because they were adopted (or became subject to a residence order or special guardianship order). n Adopted brother or sister; 2. Students who are on roll at Kingsbury High School at n Step brother or sister; the end of the academic year immediately preceding n The child of the parent/carer’s partner where the child the proposed date of entry into the Sixth Form. for whom the school place is sought is living in the 3. Exter nal candidates must apply before Friday 12th same family unit at the same address as that sibling. February 2016. Students must meet the entry requirements for their chosen programme of study as published in the Sixth Form Prospectus. Students must meet the individual subject specific criteria as published in the Sixth Form Prospectus. Late applicants may be admitted if places are available on their chosen course.
Appeals Process You have the right to appeal against a decision not to admit your child to the School. The School’s Appeals procedure is as follows:- 1. Contact the Admissions Officer and ask for an Appeals Notification form. 2. Complete the form stating the reasons for your appeal, why you wish your child to attend the School and return the completed form to the School as directed. 3. Y ou will be invited to an Appeals Hearing. The Appeals Committee will be made up of three people who are Independent of the School. At the hearing you will be asked to present your case, the School will present its case and you will be questioned and can ask questions yourself. 4. Any decision by the Appeals Committee will be binding. Appeals for Primary transfer on time applications will be heard before 16th June 2016. Application documents should be returned by no later than the published date. NB The term ‘parent’ include: n All natural parents, whether they are married or not; n Any person who, although not a natural parent, has parental responsibility for a child or young person; and n Any person who, although not a natural parent, has care of a child or young person.
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 47 Micheala Community School
www.mcsbrent.co.uk DfE number: 3044000
Head teacher: Ms Katharine Birbalsingh Michaela Community School (MCS) Chair of Governors: Ms Suella Fernandes Admissions Policy
North End Road, Wembley HA9 0UU 1. MCS has an admission number of 120 year 7 pupils. Tel: 020 8795 3183 MCS will accordingly provide for the admission of 120 Email: [email protected] pupils each year if sufficient applications for entry are received. Where fewer than the published admission Admissions enquiries to: Ms Liza Silvanian numbers for year 7 are received, MCS will offer places Email: [email protected] to all those who have applied.
Co-educational Age range: 11-18 2. Oversubscription criteria Type: Free school Published admission number: 120 In the event that MCS is oversubscribed, after the Number of on-time applications admission of pupils with statements of Special Educational received for September 2015 admissions: 253 Needs (SEN) where the school is named in the Statement, priority for admission will be given to; A supplementary information form is NOT required 1. Looked After Children and previously Looked After Open morning Children1 Monday 28 September 2015 11am – 12.30pm 2. Siblings at the school2 Open evenings Friday 2 October 2015 5.30 – 7.30pm 3. Random allocation for children within a 5 mile radius Tuesday 6 October 2015 5.30-7.30pm from the school Thursday 15 October 2015 5.30 – 7.30pm 4. Other children with distance to the school being the final deciding factor How many places were allocated for September 2015 admissions: All applicants were offered a place. 3. Tie-Breaks In Year Applications Tie-breaks will be decided according to distance to the Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team school with the child living closest to the school being at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions given priority for admission. Distance is measured from the front door of child’s home3 to the front gates of the school in a straight line. In the event of two or more children living the same distance from the school, the final tie-break will be the random allocation of the place.
4. Waiting Lists MCS will operate a waiting list for each year group. Where in any year MCS receives more applications for places than there are places available, a waiting list will operate throughout the school year. This will be maintained by the MCS Trust and it will be open to any parent to ask for his or her child’s name to be placed on the waiting list, following an unsuccessful application. The position of the children on the waiting list will be determined solely in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. Where places become vacant they will be allocated to children on the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria.
48 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 5. Appeals Parents/Carers wishing to appeal against refusal of a place in the school will be automatically placed on the waiting list when notification of appeal is received. Parents/Carers will have the right to appeal against any decision not to offer a place at MCS. If you wish to appeal, you should do this by writing to the Clerk to the Governors, Michaela Community School, Arena House, North End Road, Wembley, London, HA9 0AD who will then put the appropriate arrangements in place. Parents/ Carers must appeal within 20 school days from the date of notification that their application was unsuccessful. Appeals relating to admission at secondary transfer for on-time applications (i.e. those relating to decisions sent on the national offer date) will be heard by 6th July or the next working day, if 6th July falls on a weekend. Appeals for late applications will, where possible be heard as above; however, if this is not feasible, they will be heard within 30 school days of the appeals being lodged. The MCS independent appeals panel will be properly trained to act in accordance with the admissions code. If there are a number of appeals, these will be heard at the same time.
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. The definition of “previously looked after children” in the Admissions Code is children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a residence order or special guardianship order. 2 A sibling is defined as a full brother or sister, a step/half brother or sister living at the same address, a child who is living as part of the family by reason of a court order or a child who has been placed with foster carers as a result of a being looked after by a local authority. 3 The child’s home address is defined as the address at which the child spend the majority of their time; in cases where parents have joint and equal custody, the home address is deemed as being that at which the child is registered with their GP.
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 49 Newman Catholic College
www.ncc.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3045407
Head teacher: Mr Danny Coyle Newman Catholic College admissions Chair of Governors: Mr Paul O’Shea policy 2016/17
415 Harlesden Road, London NW10 3RN Newman Catholic College is an all boys’ voluntary aided Tel: 020 8965 3947/8497 11-18 comprehensive college. The college is conducted Fax: 020 8965 3430 by its governing body as part of the Catholic Church Email: [email protected] in accordance with its trust deed and instrument of government and seeks at all times to be witness to Jesus Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Maria Hughes Christ. The school welcomes applications from those Email: [email protected] of all faiths and of none. At present over 70 % of our students are Catholic or Christian whilst 10 % is Muslim Boys Age range: 11-18 and 11% Hindu. The school is proud of the way in which Type: Voluntary Aided School we reflect the multi faith nature of the local community Published admission number: 150 and especially of the way in which the school actively Number of pupils at the school in January 2015: 714 promotes an ethos of tolerance and love amongst all Number of on-time applications children and staff. received for September 2015 admissions: 112 Boys will be admitted at age 11 regardless of ability Physical accessibility: Low accessibility or aptitude. Whenever there are more applicants than Access to ground floor teaching spaces and facilities places, priority will always be given to Catholic applicants significantly restricted. No access to upper floors. in accordance with the oversubscription criteria listed Physical barriers limit ability of school to deliver an below. In this policy the applicant refers to the parent/ inclusive curriculum, but there may be scope to focus carer applying for the place and candidate refers to the on sensory and learning disabilities. boy for whom the application is being made. As a Catholic school we aim to provide a Catholic A supplementary information form is required education for all our boys. Catholic doctrine and practice Open mornings permeate every aspect of the schools activity Monday 20 October 2015 9.30-11am The published admission number for Year 7 will be 150 Tuesday 21 October 2015 9.30-11am Tuesday 3 November 2015 9.30-11am 1. Catholic looked after children and Catholic children Wednesday 4 November 2015 9.30-11am who have been adopted (or made subject to residence Open evening orders or special guardianship orders) immediately Thursday 22 October 2015 4-7pm after having been looked after. 2. Practising Catholics ( see below for a definition ) will How many places were allocated for September 2015 require a priest reference form. Within this criterion admissions: All applicants were offered a place. the following order of preference will be applied. In Year Applications a. The presence of a brother in the school at the time Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team of admission. at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions b. The proximity of the child’s home to the school measured in a straight line from the main school gate to the front door of the home. 3. Other Catholic applicants. 4. Other looked after children and children who have been adopted (or made subject to residence orders or special guardianship orders) immediately after having been looked after. 5. Those preparing for the sacraments of baptism
50 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 and Holy Communion with the Catholic Church from the school the place will be allocated by (Catechumens). random allocation undertaken in the presence of an independent witness. 6. Members of Christian churches. n Christian applicants In order of preference this refers 7. All other applicants. to Christian denominations affiliated to Churches Notes: Together in Britain and Ireland and then to other n ‘Catholic’ means a member of a church in full Christian denominations. communion with the See of Rome. This will normally n Exceptional circumstances. The governors will give be evidenced by a certificate of baptism in a Catholic top priority to an applicant within a criterion where church or a certificate of reception into the full evidence is provided at the time of application of communion of the church. For the purposes of this exceptional circumstance, or a medical or a pastoral policy, it includes a looked after child who is part of a need of the boy (supported by a priest, minister, doctor Catholic family where a priest’s reference demonstrates or primary school head teacher) which can only be met that the child would have been baptised or received if at the school. it were not for their status as a looked after child (e.g. n Pupils with a Statement of Special Education Needs a looked after child in the process of adoption by a (SEN). There are separate application procedures for Catholic family. boys with a Statement of SEN. Boys with a Statement, n Practising Catholics.‘Practising Catholic’ means a which names this school, have priority for admission. Catholic child from a practising Catholic family where this weekly practice is verified by a reference from a In-year admissions Catholic priest in the standard format laid down by Applications for in-year admissions are made direct to the the diocese. ‘Family’ includes the Catholic or Catholics local authority. If there is no room to accommodate the who have legal responsibility for the child. request the parent will notified and advised of their right n Oversubscription Where the offer of places to all of appeal. applicants in any of the sub-categories listed above If a place becomes available and there is a waiting list, would lead to over subscription, priority is given to then applications will be ranked by the governing body those with a sibling attending the school at the date in accordance with the oversubscription criteria, Catholic of admission. Brothers (which includes brothers in the children without an offer of a school place elsewhere sixth form) will need to already be on roll at the time are given priority immediately after Catholic looked after of application and expected to still be in attendance on children. If a place cannot be offered at this time then you the date admission. may ask us for the reasons and you will be informed of Siblings are defined as the legal half/step brothers your right of appeal. You will be offered the opportunity living in the same household as father or mother. A of being placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be child who is legally adopted and living in the same maintained by the governing body in the order of the household would be considered as a sibling. oversubscription criteria and not in order in which the In considering applications from twin, triplets or applications are received. Names are removed from the list children from multiple births, it will be the policy of at the end of each academic year. When a place becomes the school not to separate them even if this means available the governing body will decide who is at the temporarily exceeding the published admission top of the list and the local authority will send offers on number to ensure that policy is achieved. behalf of the governing body. n Distance (tie breaker) Where the offer of places to all Admission to the sixth form the applicants in any of the categories listed above The sixth form is available for all existing pupils subject would still lead to over subscription, the places up to pupils fulfilling the individual requirements of suitable to the admissions number (150) will be offered to courses. The minimum number of external candidates those living nearest to the school. The school will use to be admitted is five, although this may be exceeded straight line distance measured from the main school if demand for available courses can be met. Remaining gate to the front door of the home address. This will places in the sixth form of the school will be distributed be measured by the local authority on behalf of the in accordance with the over subscription criteria, subject school using a computerised geographical mapping to applicants fulfilling the individual requirements of system to calculate the distance. In the case of a tie suitable courses as indicated in the sixth form prospectus. break where two applicants are living equidistant
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 51 Preference will always be given to Catholic applicants. 2 The CAF must be returned to their home local authority so that it can coordinate admissions both Hard to place students (fair access) inside and outside Brent. In addition parents should The school is committed to taking its fair share of complete a diocesan Supplementary Information vulnerable children who are hard to place, in accordance Form (SIF) which is available from Newman Catholic with locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the College and the school’s website as well as the Local normal round of admissions, the governing body are Authority website and must be returned to the empowered to give absolute priority to a child where school. Completion of the SIF is not compulsory but admission is requested under any local protocol which presents the school with important administrative carries the agreement of both the governing body and information. If parents do not return the SIF and the the diocese for the current admission year. The governing priest’s reference form the governors may be unable to body has this power even when admitting such a child consider which criterion the application fulfils and this would exceed the normal admission number. may affect the chances of gaining a place at the school. Applicants without a SIF or priest reference form will be Waiting list considered under Criterion 8, Any other applicant. For all groups where the year cohort is full, the school 3 The diocesan standard priest’s reference form, will operate a waiting lists procedure for admission. This providing proof of Catholicity, is obtained from will be maintained in accordance with the published Newman Catholic College and its website. This form admission criteria for the school. will be sent by the admissions secretary to applicants, along with the SIF. The priest’s reference form contains A student’s place on the waiting list is not dependent two parts. Parents must complete Part A and send it upon the date of being placed on it, but will be to their priest. The priest will then complete Part B and determined by how they meet the oversubscription send that to the school. Priests will retain Part A for criteria. This means that a student’s position on the list their own records. Applicants applying under Criterion can go down as well as up, depending upon the child’s 8,Any other applicant , are not required to complete a circumstances and those of other applicants. SIF or the priest’s reference form. The waiting list will be closed at the end of the academic 4 The date informing parents of their offer will be year for which admission is sought. Parents/carers wishing 1st March 2016. This is done by the local authority their son’s name to stay on the waiting list beyond this time on behalf of the school but the reply slips must be will be required to submit a request in writing to the school. returned to the local authority. Appeals 5 A child is deemed to be resident at a particular address when he resides there for 50 per cent or more of the Parents/carers have the right to appeal to an independent school week. appeal panel against a decision not to admit a child. Parents wishing to exercise their right of appeal should 6 Late applications for secondary transfer (after the cut - write to the chair of governors at the school within off date which is on the application form) will only be 20 school days of receipt of the letter informing them considered after 1st March 2016. that a place is not available. They will then be sent an appeal form to complete, setting down the reasons for their appeal. Parents will be given the date when the independent appeal panel will meet and hear their appeal and they will have the right to attend. Parents may be represented if they so choose. Parents are however reminded that appealing for a place does not guarantee entry to the school. Protocol on admissions procedures – 2016/17 (these notes form part of the admissions policy) 1 The admissions authority is the governing body of Newman Catholic College. All applicants should complete and return a Common Application Form (CAF), which they acquire from their primary school or their home local authority.
52 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Preston Manor School www.preston-manor.com DfE number: 3045410
Head teacher: Ms Beth Kobel Admission to Year 7 under Local Chair of Governors: Dr Donald Palmer Authority Secondary Transfer
Carlton Avenue East, Wembley HA9 8NA Arrangements Tel: 020 8385 4040 The school’s admission number for Year 6 transfer into Fax: 020 8908 2607 Year 7 in September 2016 is 252. Applications are made Email: [email protected] through the Local Authority online facility; eadmissons. org.uk. This website can be used for secondary Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Glynis Condison applications from 1 September 2015 until the deadline. Tel: 020 8385 4040 ext 222 Email: [email protected] In Year Admissions Co-educational, All Through school Age range: 11-18 From Reception to Year 11 you must contact the school. Type: Academy Unsuccessful applicants will be placed on the waiting list. Specialism: Science Children with a Statement of Special Published admission number: 252 Number of pupils at the school in January 2015: 1880 Educational Needs Number of on-time applications If your child has a statement of Special Educational Needs received for September 2015 admissions: 1063 the Local Authority will process your application for a school place as it is their responsibility to arrange SEN Physical accessibility: Medium accessibility provision and consider the suitability of individual schools. Access to part of ground floor teaching spaces and facilities, including external spaces. No access to Right of Appeal upper floors. School has capacity to deliver an inclusive If the school is unable to offer a place there is a statutory curriculum through time tabling adjustments, but right of appeal to an independent Appeal Panel. physical barriers restrict scope. Appeals under the coordinated Admission Scheme A supplementary information form is NOT required. Admissions appeals for on-time applications (i.e. those Open morning relating to decisions sent on national offer date) will be Friday 2 October 2015 9.30-11.30am heard by 6 July or earlier. Open evening Appeals must be lodged within 20 school days from the Thursday 1 October 2015 6-8.30pm date of notification that the application was unsuccessful. How many places were allocated for Please contact the school for a Preston Manor School September 2015 admissions: 252 appeal form (which should be returned to the school’s Admission Secretary). In Year Applications Late Applications under the coordinated Admission Apply to Preston Manor School directly. Scheme
Do I have to apply if I am currently in Year 6 The school will comply with the Local Authority regarding at Preston Manor? Late Applications as detailed in the Local Authority’s Secondary School Guide. l You do not need to apply to Brent Council if you want to stay at Preston Manor and you’re Waiting Lists not interested in any other schools. ? l Make an application to Brent Council only if you wish Lists will be maintained by the school throughout the to be considered for other schools as well as Preston school year. A child’s position on the waiting list does not Manor. depend upon the time they have been on the list but will be l You do not need to list Preston Manor as a preference if you currently attend the school. determined by how they meet the oversubscription criteria. This means that a child’s position on the list can go down
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 53 as well as up, depending upon the child’s circumstances and special needs and does not include any other and those of other applicants. The waiting list will be member of the child’s family. The supporting closed each year and will not roll over. Parents wishing to evidence should set out the particular reasons stay on the waiting list will be required to apply directly to Preston Manor School is the most suitable school the school at the beginning of each academic year. and difficulties that would be caused if the child had to attend another school. “Hard To Place” and Excluded Students iv children who have attended Preston Manor Lower from Other Schools School and completed Year 6. The school will work closely with the Local Authority, in v children of Preston Manor School staff, teaching accordance with local protocols, regarding students who and non-teaching, who have been employed fall into these categories. Children who are the subject for two or more years, or who will meet a skills of a direction by a local authority to admit or who are shortage. allocated to a school in accordance with an In-Year Fair Access Protocol, must take precedence over those on a vi proximity to the school (for children who do not waiting list. fall within criteria i – v) distance will be measured in a straight line from the front door of the child’s This policy is reviewed by the Admissions Committee on permanent address (including flats) to the school behalf of the Governing Body on an annual basis. reception, [using the Local Authority’s computerised measuring system], with those living nearest to the Over Subscription Criteria school being accorded the highest priority. Where applications exceed the number of places available, offers of places will be made using the Tie Breaker following criteria in order of priority: If two or more students have equal priority under criteria i. children in public care (looked after children) i - v, the criterion of proximity to the school will apply with those living nearest to the school (in a straight line from An application for admission to the school must be the front door of the child’s permanent address to the made by the person with parental responsibility and school reception) being accorded the highest priority. / or the child’s social worker. Notes ii. children who have a brother or sister (including blood, half, step, adoptive or foster who live at Distance does not take into account access by public the same home address) attending the school in transport or any private vehicle. the year in which the application is made and will Where a child lives with parents with shared responsibility, continue to be on roll at the date of admission. each for part of a week, the address where the child lives T wins, Triplet and other children of multiple is determined using a joint declaration from the parents births stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s residence is split equally between both parents, then parents will be In the event that the school has one place to offer asked to determine which is the residential address for and the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, the purpose of admission to school. If the residence is not triplets or other children of multiple births, the policy of split equally between both parents then the address used the school is not to separate them even if this means will be the address where the child spends the majority of that the school will temporarily go over the published the school week. Admissions Number. (Note: brother or sister connections will only be Admission to the Sixth Form considered if the brother or sister is currently attending Places in Year 12 will be awarded in the following order of the school including the sixth form and will continue priority: to be on roll on the date of admission) 1. Children in public care (looked after children) who meet iii. children for whom it is essential to be admitted the entry requirements and subject specific criteria (see to Preston Manor School because of special Notes below). circumstances to do with significant medical needs, social needs or special educational needs. 2. Students who were on the roll at Preston Manor School The recommendation must be received in writing at the end of the academic year immediately preceding from a consultant at a NHS hospital or equivalent. the proposed date of entry into the Sixth Form. To This criterion relates to the child’s medical, social receive priority Preston Manor Students must apply
54 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 before the first Monday in March. Any applications received after this date will be counted as external applications. 3. External students must apply by the set deadline in the prospectus. Any applications received after this date will be added to the waiting list and applications received after the first Monday in July will not normally receive an acknowledgement until September.
Waiting Lists In the event that students apply for subjects that are oversubscribed, they are added to a waiting list on a first come first served basis. If two or more students have equal priority under criteria i - iv, the criterion of proximity to the school will apply with those living nearest to the school (in a straight line from the front door of the child’s permanent address to the school reception) being accorded the highest priority Notes All applicants must be aged 16 on 31 August in the year of application. In exceptional circumstances students aged 17 may be accepted. Students must meet the entry requirements for their chosen programme of study as published in the Sixth Form Prospectus. Students must meet the individual subject specific criteria as published in the Sixth Form Prospectus. Late applicants may be invited for discussion if places are available on their chosen courses or for a place on the waiting list. If other places become available, applicants on the waiting list will be informed. No admissions will take place after the first Monday in October.
Entry Requirements for Progression from Year 12 to Year 13 n A Levels – 3 AS Levels with Grade D+ in chosen subject n A Level Double Award – AS Double Award with Grade D+D+
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 55 Queens Park Community School
www.qpcs.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3045403
Head teacher: Mr Mike Hulme Admissions and over subscription Chair of Governors: Mr Martin Beard criteria 2016/17 Email: [email protected] Queens Park Community School is a popular school and Aylestone Avenue, London NW6 7BQ there is an increasing demand for places. The school has Tel: 020 8438 1700 Academy Status and therefore the Admission Authority Fax: 020 8459 1895 for the School is the Governing Body. Email: [email protected] The Governing Body of the school has drawn up this document to ensure fairness and clarity in the process, Admissions enquiries to: Ms Janet Smith so that parents are able to understand how the offer to a Email: [email protected] student for admission to the year group is made. Co-educational Age range: 11-18 The school’s Published Admission Number (PAN) for each Type: Academy year group is as follows: Specialism: Business and enterprise - Arts Year 7 - 208 Year 10 - 208 Published admission number: 208 Number of pupils at the school in January 2015: 1275 Year 8 - 208 Year 11 – 208 Number of on-time applications Year 9 - 208 Year 12- 120 received for September 2015 admissions: 582 It is often the case that the actual number within the year Physical accessibility: High accessibility group exceeds the PAN and this will take account of the Access to most ground floor and upper floor teaching following factors: spaces and facilities, including external spaces. School has capacity to deliver an inclusive curriculum with no n Where a student is admitted to the school as the significant physical barriers. result of a successful appeal to the School’s Admission Authority. A supplementary information form is NOT required. n Where students are admitted to the school in Open evening agreement with the Local Authority in-year fair access Thursday 17 September 2015 6-8.30pm protocol.
How many places were allocated for n A student referred to the school and given a place September 2015 admissions: 208 under the designated SEN code of conduct. Offers for a place (including applications for school In Year Applications places outside the normal admission round) are made in Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team accordance with the admissions criteria for the school. at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions Applications for places in Year 7 are made through the Brent Coordinated Admission Scheme (CAS) and the admission and over subscription criteria for the school (in the box overleaf) are applied in all cases. Within each admission criterion in the event of a tie break situation, priority will be given to the applicant who lives closer to the school. This will be measured in a straight line from the pupil’s home address to the school. (Pupil services office) A student’s home address will be determined as that specified on the school application form. In cases where a student lives with parents with shared responsibility, each for part of a week, the address will be determined using
56 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 a joint declaration from the parents stating the pattern The Waiting List. of residence. If a child’s residence is equal between both For year groups 7 to 10 where the year cohort is full, parents, then the parents will be asked to determine which the school will operate a waiting list procedure for is the residential address for the purpose of admission to admission from September 1st in each academic year. the school. If the residence is not split equally between This will be maintained in accordance with the published both parents then the address used will be that where the admission criteria for the school and instigated when a child spends the majority of the school week. place becomes available during the year. Where a place Casual admissions becomes available before an appeal it will be filled from the waiting list, in line with the published admissions Applications made for school places outside the normal criteria and will not be determined by the length of time admission round, whether in-year or at the start of a being placed on the waiting list. The waiting list will be school year should be submitted to Brent Council’s School closed each year and will not roll over. Admissions team who coordinate applications on half of, and in cooperation with, Brent Secondary schools. The admission and our over subscription criteria for Queens Park Community School Academy Trust are: Appeals 1. Looked after children. Details of how to appeal against an unsuccessful 2. Children with significant special medical or social application for a place at the school, including those reasons where the supporting evidence at the time made outside the normal admission round, should of application (a letter from a registered health be requested in writing from the Head teacher. professional e.g. a doctor, social worker) sets out the Documentation giving information, details and support in additional difficulties if the child was to attend another making an appeal will be sent. school. Parents wishing to appeal against an unsuccessful 3. Childr en who have a sibling, by birth or marriage, who application for a place in the school will be automatically has attended the school for at least one year, including placed on the waiting list when the appeal application the sixth form, and is expected to continue to do so on and a school application form are completed. Students the date of admission. whose entry to the school is coordinated through the 4. Ten places will be designated for children not attending Brent LA CAS are automatically placed on the waiting list one of our feeder schools, those living closest to the as determined by the initial offer made. school will be accorded the higher priority* Sixth Form 5. Childr en attending one of our partnership primary Progression to the school’s sixth form will not require schools – (Ark Franklin Primary Academy School; formal application for students already in the school. Donnington Primary School; Gladstone Park Primary There will be a meeting to provide advice and appropriate School; Kilburn Park Primary School; Malorees Junior progression routes. The published PAN is based upon School; Princess Frederica CE Primary School; Salusbury an estimate and it will be acceptable to exceed this Primary School) if demand for available courses can be met. External 6. Pr oximity of the child’s home address to the school, applicants will be required to complete an application with those living nearer the school being accorded form. The entry requirements for each course are higher priority*. (*calculated as a straight line distance published in the sixth form brochure and are placed on from the school using the Brent Local Authority the school website. They will be the same for internal and Coordinated Admission Scheme recognised software) external applicants. Priority will be given to those who have completed their compulsory education at QPCS. Any applicant refused a place in year 12 is entitled to make an appeal to an independent appeal panel, whether the child is already attending the school or is an external candidate (details available from the Head teacher as above) External Applicants: In the event of those applying meeting the qualification criteria and the publish admission number being exceeded, the school will apply admission criteria 1,2,3 and 6 to determine places offered.
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 57 St Gregory’s Catholic Science College
www.stgregorys.harrow.sch.uk DfE number: 3045406
Head teacher: Mr Andrew Prindiville Admission policy 2016/17 Chair of Governors: Mr Alloysius Frederick We admit pupils to the school from age 11 without reference to ability or aptitude. Our Published Admission Donnington Road, Kenton HA3 0NB Number for entry into Year 7, as in previous years, will be Tel: 020 8907 8828 176. We believe that pupils should derive spiritual as well Fax: 020 8909 1161 as academic benefit from being at the school. In order to Email: [email protected] preserve the Catholic character of the school, priority will Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Cora Ryan be given to Catholic applicants. As a Catholic school, we Email: [email protected] aim to provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate Co-educational Age range: 11-19 every aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that Type: Voluntary Aided School the Catholic character of the school’s education is fully Specialism: Science supported by all families in the school. All applicants Published admission number: 176 are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved and Number of pupils at the school in January 2015: 1069 positive support for the aims and ethos of the school. Number of on-time applications The school had 629 applicants for 176 places for received for September 2015 admissions: 629 September 2015, and these were filled using the 2015/16 admission criteria. Physical accessibility: Medium accessibility Access to part of ground floor teaching spaces and Children with Statements facilities, including external spaces. No access to of special educational need 8 upper floors. School has capacity to deliver an inclusive 1. Catholic Looked after 0 curriculum through time tabling adjustments, but physical barriers restrict scope. 2a. Practising Catholics with a sibling at the school 39 A supplementary information form is required. 2b Practising Catholics Open evening without a sibling at the school 129 Thursday 17 September 2015 3-8pm 3. Other baptised Catholic children 0 How many places were allocated for September 2015: 176 4. Other looked After Children 0
In Year Applications 5. Other children with a sibling in school 0 Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions TOTAL PLACES ALLOCATED 176 Over-subscription Where applications exceed the number of places available, offers of places will be made using the following criteria in order of priority. 1. Catholic ‘looked after’ children and Catholic children who have been adopted (or made subject to child arrangements orders or special guardianship orders) immediately after having been looked after. 2. Practising Catholics (a reference from a Priest will be required). Within this criterion the following order of preference will be applied. a. The presence of a sibling in the school at the time
58 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 of admission in the presence of an independent witness.
b. The proximity of the child’s home to the school. Pupils with a Statement of Special 3. Other baptised Catholic children. Educational Needs/Education, Health 4. Other ‘looked after’ children and children who have and Care Plan (EHC) been adopted (or made subject to child arrangements The admission of pupils with a statement of Special orders or special guardianship orders) immediately Education Needs or Education Health and care Plan (EHC) after having been looked after. is dealt with by a completely separate procedure. Details 5. Other children who will have a sibling at the school at of this separate procedure are set out in the Special the time of admission Educational Needs Code of Practice. If your child has a 6. Pupils from committed Christian families whose Statement of SEN or EHC plan you must contact your parents wish them to have a Catholic education. In local authority SEN officer. order of preference: Children Educated Outside Their a) Christians attending Christian Churches affiliated to Chronological Age Group ‘Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. Parents may request that their child be educated out of b) Other Christian denominations. his/her chronological age group. Such requests must be 7. Pupils from other faith backgrounds whose parents made in writing to the Chair of Governors during the wish them to have a Catholic education. autumn term in the year of application. Governors will 8. Any other applicants. consider each request on its own merits and permission will only be given in exceptional circumstances. When the Siblings (which include siblings in the sixth form) will application is made, it will be ranked with all the other need to already be on roll at the time of application applications and no further exceptions will be given. A and expected to still be in attendance on the date of statutory right of appeal will be given upon refusal if no admission. Siblings are defined as including the legal half place has been offered in any school year. / step brothers or sisters living in the same household as Father or Mother. A child who is legally adopted and living Fair Access Protocol in the same household would be considered as a sibling. The school is also committed to taking its fair share of In considering applications from twins, triplets or children vulnerable children who are hard to place, in accordance from multiple births it will be the policy of the school with locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the not to separate them even if this means temporarily normal round of admissions, the governing body are exceeding the published admission number to ensure that empowered to give absolute priority to a child where policy is achieved. admission is requested under any local protocol, which carries the agreement of both the governing body and Tie Break the diocese for the current admission year. The governing Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any of body has this power even when admitting such a child the sub-categories listed above would still lead to over- would exceed the normal admission number. subscription, the places up to the admissions number will be offered to those living nearest to the school. In Year Admission The school will adopt the Local Authority method of Applications for In-Year admission should be submitted to measuring distance between the school gate and the Brent Council’s School Admissions team who coordinate front door of the home address using a computerised applications on half of, and in cooperation with, the geographical system to calculate the distance in a straight governing body. You will also need to complete the line from the main school gate to the front door of schools Supplementary Information Form which you can the home address. Where there are applicants living in download from our website, pick up from the council or the flats at the same address, the distance will include the school. If you are a Brent resident you will also need the distance from the front door of the flat within the to contact Brent Council’s School Admissions team on building i.e. the flat nearest the main door to the building 020 8937 3110 or visit www.brent.gov.uk/admissions to will have priority. complete their CAF as well. The child’s residence at the time of application will be considered as their main home Where two applicants live at the same distance from the address. school the offer will be determined by random allocation
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 59 If there is a place available and no waiting list your child Appeal Form to complete setting down the reasons for will be offered a place although you should be aware that their appeal. Parents will be given the date when the there are waiting lists for most year groups. In the event Independent Appeal Panel will meet and hear their appeal of a place being available applications will be considered and they will have the right to attend. Parents may be by the Governing Body in line with our published represented if they so choose. admission arrangements and will take account of those Appeals relating to admission at secondary transfer for already on the waiting list. The waiting list is at all times on-time applications (i.e. those relating to decisions sent maintained in criteria order and not in order of the date on the national offer date) will be heard within 40 school of application. days. Timetable for appeals will be published on our If it is not possible to offer your child a place the letter website in February of each year. notifying you of the decision will give you information Parents are however reminded that appealing for a place about the reasons for refusal and your right of appeal. does not guarantee entry to the school. Unsuccessful applicants will be placed on the waiting list. Notes (these notes form part of the over subscription Admission to the Sixth Form criteria) The sixth-form is available for all existing pupils subject ‘Looked after child’ has the same meaning as in section to pupils fulfilling the individual requirements of suitable 22 of the Children Act 1989, and means any child in the courses. The minimum number of external candidates care of a local authority or provided with accommodation to be admitted is 12, although this may be exceeded if by them (e.g. children with foster parents). demand for available courses can be met. Remaining ‘Catholic’ means a member of a church in full communion places in the sixth-form of the school will be distributed in with the See of Rome. This will normally be evidenced accordance with the over subscription criteria, subject to by a certificate of baptism in a Catholic Church or a applicants fulfilling the individual requirements of suitable certificate of reception into the full communion of the courses as indicated in the sixth form prospectus. When church. considering external applicants, the Governors will give preference to practising Catholic applicants (for which For the purposes of this policy, it includes a looked after a priest’s reference will be required) in line with over child who is part of a Catholic family where a priest’s subscription criteria. reference demonstrates that the child would have been baptised or received if it were not for their status as a Sixth-Form admissions appeals will be heard within forty looked after child (e.g. a looked after child in the process school days of the appeal being lodged. of adoption by a Catholic family). Waiting Lists ‘Practising Catholic’ means a Catholic child from a practising Catholic family where this practice is verified by In addition to the right of appeal, unsuccessful candidates a reference from a Catholic priest in the standard format will be offered the opportunity to be placed on a waiting laid down by the Diocese. list. Lists will be maintained throughout the school year. A child’s position on the waiting list does not depend upon ‘Adopted’. For the purposes of this policy an adopted the time they have been on the list but will be determined child is any child who has been formally adopted from by how they meet the oversubscription criteria. care and whose parent/guardian can give proof of legal adoption. This means that a child’s position on the list can go down as well as up, depending upon the child’s circumstances ‘Child Arrangements Order’. A child arrangement order and those of other applicants. The waiting list will be is an order under the terms of the Children Act 1989 s.8 closed each year and will not roll over. Parents wishing settling the arrangements to be made as to the person to stay on the waiting list will be required to submit a with whom the child is to live. Children ‘looked after’ request to the school. immediately prior to the granting of the order qualify under this category Appeals ‘Special Guardianship Order’. A special guardianship order Parents have the right of appeal to an Independent is an order under the terms of the Children Act 1989 Appeal Panel against a decision not to admit a child. s.14A which defines it as an order appointing one or Parents wishing to exercise their right of appeal should more individuals to be a child’s special guardian(s). write to the Chair of Governors at the school within ‘Parent’ means the adult or adults with legal responsibility 20 school days of receipt of the letter informing them that a place is not available. They will then be sent an for the child.
60 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Protocol on admissions procedures – 2016/17 1. The Admissions Authority is the Governing Body of St Gregory’s Catholic Science College. All applicants, whether Harrow or Brent residents, or elsewhere, must complete and return a Common Application Form, which they acquire from their Primary School or their home LA. 2. The Common Application Form must be returned to their home LA so that they can coordinate admissions both inside and outside Brent. In addition parents should complete a Supplementary Information Form (SIF), which is available from Brent Local Authority or from St Gregory’s Catholic Science College and must be returned to the school. Both the Common Application Form and SIF must be returned by 31st October 2015; late application will jeopardise your chance of obtaining a place. If parents do not return the Supplementary Information Form and Priest’s Reference Form (only practising Catholics need to submit a Priest’s Reference Form) the governors may be unable to consider your application fully and it is unlikely that your child will be offered a place at the school. 3. The Diocesan Standard Priest’s Reference form, providing proof of practice of the Catholic faith, is obtained from St Gregory’s and is also available on the Diocese of Westminster website at www.rcdow.org. uk/education and should be returned directly to the school. The Priest’s Reference Form contains two parts: Parents complete Part A and send it to their priest. The Priest will then complete part B and send that to the school. Priests will retain Part A for their own records. (For applicants from other faith backgrounds, forms will be available on request to provide proof from their appropriate faith leader.) 4. The date for informing parents on their application will be 1st March 2016. This is done by the LA on behalf of the school but the reply slips must be returned to the LA. 5. In the letter of offer parents will be given details of the right to appeal. Appeals will be heard by an independent appeals panel convened by the Governing Body. 6. A child’s residential address is where the child lives for 50% or more of the school week. 7. Late applications for secondary transfer (after the cut- off date which is on the application form) will only be considered after the 1st March 2016.
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 61 The Crest Academies
www.thecrestacademies.org.uk DfE number: 3046907
The Crest Academies1 will offer 330 places in Year 7 from Head teacher: Mr Mohsen Ojja September 2016. Chair of Governors: Mr Robert Turner Process of application - Arrangements for applications for Crest Road, Neasden, London NW2 7SN places at the academy will be made in accordance with Tel: 020 8452 4842 the local authority’s coordinated admission arrangements Fax: 020 852 6024 and will be made on the Common Application Form (CAF) Email: [email protected] provided and administered by the local authority. Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Anna Kowalska Oversubscription criteria - Where the number of Email: [email protected] applications for admission is greater than the published admission number, applications will be considered against Co-educational Age range: 11-19 the criteria set out below. Type: Academy Specialism: Technology/Modern Foreign Languages After the admission of students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) where the Crest Academies are named on Published admission number: 330 the Statement and the academies believe they can meet Number of pupils at the school in January 2015: 1291 the needs of the student, the admission criteria will be Number of on-time applications applied in the following order: received for September 2015 admissions: 222 1. Applicants in public care and previously looked after Physical accessibility: High accessibility children. A supplementary information form is NOT required. 2. Applicants whose siblings currently attend The Crest Academies and who will continue to do so on the date Open day of admission. Wednesday 23 September 2015 9-11am Saturday, 17 October 2015 9-11am 3. Applicants with special circumstances related to Thursday 22 October 2015 9-11am significant medical needs, social needs, or Special Open Evenings: Educational Needs i.e. either SEN pupils without a Thursday 24 September 2015 6-8pm Statement or those whose Statement does not name Wednesday 21 October 2015 6-8pm the academy. It is open to any parent to make an application under this criterion. The application should How many places were allocated for September 2015 be supported, where possible, with a recommendation admissions: All applicants were offered a place. in writing from a recognized professional of senior status i.e. a medical consultant, head teacher of In Year Applications current school or other appropriate officer. The Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team recommendation should provide evidence that it is at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions essential for the named pupil to be admitted to the academy. This criterion relates to the child’s medical, social and special needs, and not to any other member of the child’s family. The governing body of the academy makes decisions regarding whether children fall under this criterion. 4. Admission of applicants on the basis of proximity to the academy, using a straight line measurement from the main entrance of the academy to the main entrance to the child’s home, using the local authority’s computerised measuring system. In the case of children who live in flats, random allocation will be used after distance as a tie break to determine admission. If criteria (2)-(3) above are oversubscribed,
62 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 criterion (4) will be applied to applicants to determine who is admitted. Waiting lists - Subject to any provisions regarding waiting lists in the local authority’s coordinated admission scheme, the academy will operate a waiting list for each year group. Where in any year the academy receives more applications for places than there are places available, a waiting list will operate throughout the academy year. This will be maintained by the local authority. Unsuccessful applicants will be placed on this list. An applicant’s position on the waiting list does not depend upon the time they have been on the waiting list. It will be determined solely in accordance with the oversubscription criteria set out above. Where places become vacant they will be allocated to children on the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. This means that a child’s position on the list can go down as well as up, depending on the child’s circumstances and those of other applicants. The waiting list will be closed each year and not roll over. Parents wishing to have their child remain on the list will be required to submit a request to Brent Council’s School Admissions team on 020 8937 3110.
Arrangements for admitting students to other year groups, including replacing any students who have left The Crest Academies. In Year Applications should be submitted to Brent Council’s School Admissions team who coordinate applications on half of, and in cooperation with, the governing body. All applications will be considered in line with our published admission arrangements. Outcomes of applications will be sent to you by the school on behalf of the governing body. Unsuccessful applicants will be placed on the waiting list. Subject to any provisions in the council’s coordinated admission arrangements relating to applications submitted for years other than the normal year of entry, the academy will consider all such applications and if the year group applied for has a place available, it will admit the child unless one of the permitted reliefs apply. If more applications are received than there are places available, the oversubscription criteria described above shall apply. Parents whose application is turned down are entitled to appeal.
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 63 Wembley High Technology College
www.whtc.co.uk DfE number: 3044006
Head teacher: Ms Gill Bal Admissions policy Chair of Governors: Mr Kishor Mistry Wembley High Technology College is a highly oversubscribed College. We received over 1244 on time East Lane. Wembley HA0 3NT applications for 210 places in September 2014. We have Tel: 020 8385 4800 eight forms of entry in Year 7 to ensure that class sizes are Fax: 020 8385 4899 kept small. Email: [email protected]
Admissions enquiries to: Ms Davinder Guron Applications Tel: 020 8385 4800 Wembley High Technology College operates within Email: [email protected] the Brent Coordination Scheme and Applications for Secondary Transfer should be made using the Common Co-educational Age range: 11-18 Applications Form. The Common Application Form must Type: Academy be returned to the Local Authority. Applications for Published admission number: 210 students with a statement of Special Educational Need Number of pupils at the school in January 2015: 1329 (SEN) are made by the Local Authority by a completely Number of on-time applications received for separate procedure. received for September 2015 admissions: 1313 Over Subscription Criteria A supplementary information form is NOT required. Where applications for admission exceed the number of Open evening places available, the following will be applied in the order Tuesday 15 September 2015 5.30-8.30pm set out below:
How many places were allocated for 1. Looked After Children, including previously Looked September 2015 admissions: 210 after Children. 2. Special medical or social reasons. These reasons must In Year Applications relate to the student and does not apply to family Apply to Wembley High Technology College directly. members. Parents applying under this criterion must provide supporting evidence from a professional e.g. a consultant, stating why Wembley High Technology College is the most suitable school and the difficulties caused if the child attends another school. 3. Children who have a sibling at Wembley High Technology College on the date of admission. This does not include the Sixth Form or Primary school. 4. Those pupils attending one of the four Technology College feeder primary schools (Sudbury, Barham, Byron Court and Lyon Park). Where the number of applications arising from this criterion exceeds the number of places available, those living nearest the College will be accorded a higher priority. 5. Those living closest to the College. Distance will be measured in a straight line from the child’s permanent home address to the College. Where applicants live in the same block of flats measurements will be taken from the door of each individual.
64 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Appeals following academic year. The Sixth Form Application Form (from the website) should be submitted to the school Parents can appeal by writing to Ms Guron (Admissions prior to the December deadline. Officer) at the College. All on-time application appeals will be heard at the latest by the 30th May 2016. Appeals Places in Year 12 will be awarded in the following order of of late applications will be heard within 30 days of the priority: appeal being lodged. 1. Children currently in public care (looked after children) / children previously in public care who meet the entry Waiting List requirements and subject specific criteria (see notes In addition to the right of appeal, unsuccessful candidates below). will be offered the opportunity to be placed on a 2. Students who were on roll at Wembley High waiting list which will be ranked according to the over Technology College at the end of the academic year subscription criteria, and not in the order in which the immediately preceding the proposed date of entry into applications are received. the Sixth Form and who meet the entry requirements Lists will be maintained throughout the school year. A and subject specific criteria (see notes below). child’s position on the waiting list does not depend upon To receive priority for 2016 entry Wembley High the time they have been on the list but will be determined Technology College students must apply by Friday 11th by how they meet the oversubscription criteria. December 2015. Applications received after this date This means that a child’s position on the list can go down will be treated as external applications. as well as up, depending upon the child’s circumstances 3. External applicants for 2016 entry who meet the entry and those of other applicants. The waiting list will be requirements and subject specific criteria (see notes closed each year and will not roll over. Parents wishing below) must apply by Friday 8th January 2016. Any to stay on the waiting list will be required to submit a applications received after this date will be added to request to Brent Council’s School Admissions team. Brent the waiting list. In Year Fair Access Protocol will take precedence over waiting lists where applicable. Additional notes: n All applicants must be aged 16 on the 31 August in Sibling the year of application. Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, or n Students must meet the entry requirements for their adopted brother or sister. The child must be living in the chosen programme of study as published in the Sixth same family unit at the same address. Form prospectus. Split Residency n Students must meet the individual subject criteria as published in the Sixth Form prospectus. If a child’s residence is split equally between both parents, then parents will be asked to determine which is the n Sixth Form admission meetings for 2016 entry will residential address of the purpose of admission to the commence on Monday 23rd November 2015. Places College. If the residence is not split equally between both will be offered in accordance with points 1-3 above parents then the address used will be the address where and are subject to availability of places on courses and the child spends the majority of the college week. availability of resources.
n Late applicants may be invited for discussion if places Twins, Triplet and other children of are available on their chosen courses or for a place on multiple births the waiting list.
In the event that the school has one place to offer and n The Sixth Form does not normally admit students to the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets or re-take Year 12 or Year 13. other children of multiple births, the policy of the school is not to separate them even if this means that the school Entry requirements for 2016-17 will temporarily go over the published Admissions number. Year 12 - Level 3 courses – AS Level Sixth Form Admission Arrangements The AS courses are one-year courses with exams taken in the summer series. Most Sixth Form students study 4 We have seven forms of entry in Year 12 and six forms of subjects at AS level. Normally, applicants must have at entry in Year 13 to ensure that class sizes are kept small. least a grade B in the specific subjects they wish to study Applications for the Sixth Form open in November for the
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 65 (or in related subjects if the A level subject is new) and grades B in English and mathematics. Specific subject entry requirements for AS courses are outlined with the details of the courses Wembley High Technology College offers in the Sixth Form prospectus. These requirements will vary and will be in addition to the following minimum requirements. The 4 AS Level programme: 6 GCSE passes at grades A*-B, including English and Maths. The 3 AS Level programme: 5 GCSE passes at grades A*-C (or equivalent), including English and Maths. No admissions will take place after week 3 of the autumn term 2016. Year 13 - Level 3 courses – A2 Level The A2 courses are one-year courses with exams taken in the summer series. Most Sixth Form students study 3 subjects at A2 level. Students must follow A2 courses in a minimum of 3 subjects in which they have met the minimum entry requirements. Students must have a minimum of 3 passes at grades A-D at AS level in the subjects they have chosen to study at A2 level, for all subjects except Further Mathematics. The minimum requirement for A2 Further Mathematics is grade A at AS Level. The minimum requirement to follow 4 A2 courses is 4 A grades at AS Level. No admissions will take place after week 1 of the autumn term.
66 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Special Educational Needs (SEN)
Brent Council’s policy is that children with Special Special schools Educational Needs (SEN) or Education, Health and Care Special schools in Brent cater for the small number of plans (EHCP) should attend their local secondary school children who have complex needs that cannot be met at wherever possible. A small number of children who have their local school. All applications to special schools must the most complex needs attend a special school or have be made in conjunction with the Special Educational special provision attached to a mainstream school. The Needs Assessment Service (SENAS). You cannot apply majority of children with SEN attend their local secondary directly to these schools. The information provided below school. The Special Educational Needs Assessment is designed to inform parents of the provision available in Service (SENAS) will discuss this with parents and provide Brent. information regarding the most appropriate placements for individual children. The Village School Head teacher: Mrs K Charles Admission arrangements for children Address: Grove Park, London NW9 0JY without a Statement or EHCP Tel: 020 8204 3293 Children who have SEN but do not have a Statement Fax: 020 8206 1103 or EHCP will transfer to secondary school through the Email: [email protected] coordinated admission procedures. The Code of Practice Number of places at school: 235 on School Admissions states: ‘Children with SEN but Age range: 2-19 without Statements or Education, Health and Care plans Special school for nursery, primary, secondary and post 16 must be treated as fairly as other applicants. Admission students, with complex physical and medical needs and a authorities may not refuse to admit a pupil because they range of communication, learning and sensory needs. consider themselves unable to cater for his or her SEN’. Woodfield School Admission authorities must consider applications from Head teacher: Ms Desi Lodge-Patch children who have SEN but no Statement or EHCP, on Address: Glenwood Avenue, London, NW9 7LY the basis of the school’s published admissions criteria. All Tel: 020 8205 1977 mainstream schools receive funding to provide extra help Fax: 020 8205 5877 for children with SEN. Email: [email protected] Number of places at school: 110 Transfer arrangements for children Age range: 11-19 with a Statement or EHCP For pupils aged from 11 to 19 with moderate learning The main admission criteria and application processes difficulties, social and communication disorders and do not apply to children who have a Statement of SEN autism. Ten of the above 100 places are for pupils or EHCP. The council will apply for places on behalf of all diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who such children. An annual review of the statement/EHCP are taught by specialist teachers in a specialist base. will be held before the end of the summer term in Year 5. Discussion will take place at the review between parents, Preston Manor School school staff and other professionals about appropriate Headmaster: Mr Matthew Lantos arrangements for secondary transfer. Parents should Carlton Avenue East, Wembley HA9 8NA note there is no automatic right for any pupil to receive Tel: 020 8385 4040 assistance with transport, and should consider carefully Fax: 020 8908 2607 how their child would get to school if they do not express Email: [email protected] a preference for a local school. Number of places at school: 254 Age range: 11-16 For further information please contact Brent Council’s Special Educational Needs Assessment Service (SENAS). This is an additionally resourced provision for children with speech and language and communication needs and Tel: 020 8937 3229 children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Email: [email protected]
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 67 Other school information
The school curriculum Children who receive a qualifying benefit in their own The school curriculum, which all pupils follow, includes right are also allowed to receive free school meals. the National Curriculum plus other subjects including Children under the compulsory school age who are in religious education, sex education and careers education. full time education may also be entitled to receive free The National Curriculum is organised into four key stages. school meals. A key stage is a learning period which is designed to You must provide us with your NI or NASS number and DOB provide relevant skills, knowledge, and understanding for in order for us to check your eligibility with the Department students at specific ages. Key Stage 1 and 2 are usually of Education, Eligibility Check Service (DfE ECS). taught at primary schools and Key Stage 3 and 4 at secondary schools. Pupils’ knowledge and understanding If you are already in receipt of free school meals and for each key stage level are assessed by tests at the end of nothing has changed then you do not need to reapply. each key stage. We will check with the Benefits Agency if you get any of these benefits. We may have to contact you again if we All schools offer courses leading to General Certificate require evidence or information from you. You can make of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations in all the an application at any time during the year, for example, if main subjects. As well as GCSE, schools offer a range you are made redundant or start receiving income support. of vocational qualifications known as General National Vocational Qualifications (GNVQs). Applications must be made to the local council where the school is situated. For children attending a Brent school all Pupils are tested in English, maths and science at the end applications must be made to Brent Council. of Key Stage 3 (Year 9). During Year 9 decisions are made about a range of core and optional subjects leading to Application forms are available from Brent School GCSE or related vocational qualifications (GNVQ). Admissions Service on 020 8937 3110 or visit: Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley HA9 0FJ Free school meals You can also apply for free school meals online at To be eligible for free school meals you must be in receipt www.brent.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals. of one of the following benefits: Home to school travel n Income Support (IS) or Income Based Job Seekers Allowance (IBJSA) The Education and Inspections Act 2006 extends rights to free home to school transport to maintained schools and n An income-related employment and support academies for children from low income families. This is allowance defined as those whose children are entitled to free school n Support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum meals or who are in receipt of their maximum level of Act 1999 Working Tax Credit. This will remove the lack of affordable n Guaranteed element of State Pension Credit transport as a barrier to choice for these families.
n Child Tax Credit (provided you are not also entitled to The position is different for primary and Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income secondary schools: of no more than £16,190.00) n For children of primary age, transport will only be provided to the nearest suitable school, but for those n Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for four weeks after from low income families aged 8-11, local authorities you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit must ensure that free transport is provided for children n Universal Credit. living more than two miles from the school.
n For children of secondary age, local authorities must ensure that those from low income families have free transport to any one of the three nearest suitable schools where the distance travelled is between two and six miles. Local authorities must also ensure that transport is provided to the nearest school preferred on the grounds of religion or belief where this is between two and 15 miles away.
68 BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 In London, travel is free on buses for children up to n In the terms in which they offer pupils a place 18 years of age. Where it is possible to travel free of at the school. charge the council would expect that option to be n By refusing to accept, or deliberately not accepting, an taken. However, where a journey is considered too application form from a disabled pupil for admission. long (more than an hour by bus) or too complicated (more than two changes) to be undertaken by bus the It is also illegal for councils and school governing council will provide assistance with tube or train fares. bodies to discriminate unfairly against disabled people The council will consider all applications submitted. when providing non-educational services on the school Application forms are available from Brent Customer premises. Non-educational activities might include Services, Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley leisure activities for children and adults that are not HA9 0FJ or by telephone 020 8937 3110. related to educational development, school fundraising events or any community use of school facilities. Disability Discrimination Act – information for parents How to complain about Brent Council We always try to provide excellent services. But sometimes In September 2002 the Disability Discrimination Act things go wrong and when they do, we want to know so (DDA) was extended and it became illegal for any school that we can put things right and learn from our mistakes. to discriminate against disabled pupils (either current or prospective). Parents can now seek redress via the new Ways to complain: SEN and Disability Tribunal, and through the admissions n Online at www.brent.gov.uk/complaints. and exclusions appeal panels. Under the DDA it is illegal n Telephone Brent Customer Services on 020 8937 1234. for anyone providing goods, facilities or services to unjustifiably discriminate against a disabled person, and this applies to schools and the provision of education. A person is considered to have a disability if he or she has a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. Since September 2002, councils and school governing bodies have been required to treat disabled pupils equally, and to make reasonable adjustments to ensure disabled pupils are not put at a substantial disadvantage compared to nondisabled pupils. The new responsibilities cover: n Admissions n Exclusions n Education and associated services. This covers: – All teaching provided in the school, both by teachers and other school staff. – Pr ocedures and activities undertaken at lunch and during other breaks. – Activities such as after-school clubs, school trips, and school orchestras. – It does not include adult education provided in schools and services to parents. The following are examples of situations where a school must not treat disabled children in a discriminatory manner: n In the way they decide who will get a place in a school (this includes any rules when schools are oversubscribed i.e. more people apply than there are places available, and how they use the rules).
BRENT SECONDARY SCHOOL 11+ ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 69 Useful contacts
Brent School Admissions Service For information/enquiries about admissions to Brent secondary schools Tel: 020 8937 3110 Email: [email protected] www.brent.gov.uk/admissions Alternatively you can visit Brent Customer Services, Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley HA9 0FJ for assistance.
Neighbouring local authorities Barnet Tel: 020 8359 7651 Email: [email protected] www.barnet.gov.uk/schooladmissions
Camden Tel: 020 7974 1625 Email: [email protected] www.camden.gov.uk/admissions
Ealing Tel: 020 8825 5522 Email: [email protected] www.ealing.gov.uk/admissions
Harrow Tel: 020 8901 2620 Email: [email protected] www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions
Hillingdon Tel: 01895 556 644 Email: [email protected] www.hillingdon.gov.uk/schooladmissions
For other local authority address details visit www.education.gov.uk
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