Moving On 2015 InfOrMatIOn fOr parents and carers

secondary for children born between 1 september 2003 and 31 august 2004 Upper for children born between 1 september 2001 and 31 august 2002 studio schools and Utcs for children born between 1 september 2000 and 31 august 2001

apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions application deadline 31 October 2014 customer service centre for help and support please contact the customer service centre 0300 123 4043 textphone (for deaf and hard of hearing people only) 0300 123 4041 calls to all numbers starting 0300 will be charged at no more than the national rate for 01 or 02 numbers and will count towards inclusive minutes in a mobile phone contract. the lines are open from 8am to 8pm Monday to friday and 9am to 4pm on saturday. Our team of advisers are able to answer most enquiries. If not you will be put into contact with staff in the admissions and transport team. admissions and transport team some enquiries will be referred to admission and transport officers who have knowledge of specific geographical areas in . the address of the admissions and transport team is: cHr102, county Hall, pegs Lane, sG13 8df

If you write to the admissions and transport team, please remember to include your child's full name and date of birth. If you send information in relation to an online application, please include your parent Id. foreword Moving On to a secondary, upper, studio school or university technical college (Utc) is an important step for your child.

We want to ensure as many children as possible get All the information you need is available on our website the place they want and we work hard to make the and the easiest way to apply is online at process smooth and straightforward. Last year nearly www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 95% of Hertfordshire children were offered a place at one of their four ranked secondary schools, with 79% We strongly recommend that you submit your getting their first preference. Many schools in application online so that we receive it by Friday 31 Hertfordshire are popular and oversubscribed. I advise October 2014. you to consider carefully the preferences you make and visit your local schools before you apply. Please get in touch if you need any help; the contact details are on the opposite page. Places at both studio schools and university technical colleges are available with provision for 14-19 year I wish your child every success as he or she continues olds. You may apply for a Year 10 place for your child their education. at these schools through the secondary transfer application process. county councillor chris Hayward Executive Member for Education and Skills

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Important dates 5 admission rules for co-educational schools using Hertfordshire county council’s How the system works 6-9 admission rules 21-24

How to apply 10 parish/priority area information 25-32 • Online applications 11 • paper applications 11 Home to school transport 33-36 • twins & multiple births 12 additional Information: Late applications 13 • complaints 37 • Other Useful Information 37-38 Which address to use 13-14 • neighbouring Local authorities 39-40 • contact details 41 How places are offered 15-16 • Glossary and definitions 42

allocation day and beyond 17-20

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This booklet is for parents and carers academies are bound by the to other sites or sources of of children applying for places in mandatory requirements of the information which may be helpful. secondary, upper, studio schools or School Admissions Code. university technical colleges (UTC) in Go to Hertfordshire for September 2015. studio schools www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Hertfordshire County Council co- Studio schools are state funded where you can also complete your ordinates the admissions to all schools that accept students via online application quickly and easily. Hertfordshire maintained schools and transfer at Year 10 or Year 12. They academies and we aim to make the are smaller than traditional Your application must reach us by 31 system fair and transparent for all. secondary schools and have a October 2014 either online or on different approach to curriculum paper. Information about Maintained schools delivery, based on offering practical, Hertfordshire schools can be found A maintained school is funded by the enquiry based projects and real work online at Government through the local experience. Studio schools offer www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or authority and does not charge fees. specialist subject areas which result in the Moving On directory. Maintained schools include in a suite of academic qualifications community, voluntary aided or including GCSE’s, BTEC awards and Find out more about the schools you foundation schools. “A” Levels. are interested in by visiting them on their open day, looking on their community schools University technical colleges website and reading their The local authority (Hertfordshire UTCs are colleges for students aged prospectus. County Council) is the admission 14 to 19 which specialise in technical authority for these schools and is studies and are sponsored by school place planning responsible for setting the admission universities. UTCs offer full time Local authorities are required to arrangement and allocating places in courses which combine practical and seek the views of parents about the accordance with the published academic studies. Employers are provision of school places in their admission rules. involved from the start in shaping the local area at the time of curriculum. application. If you would like to give Voluntary aided and your views please visit foundation schools application process www.hertsdirect.org/schoolplaces The school governing body is the If you are a Hertfordshire resident there is an online questionnaire as admission authority for these schools you should make an online well as information on how school and is responsible for setting the application at places are planned, how forecasting admission arrangements and www.hertsdirect.org/admissions If works and the number of places allocating places in accordance with your child lives outside Hertfordshire, available across the county. This the published admission rules. please contact your own local feedback is provided to county authority for details on how to apply. councillors who agree each year academies how many school places are Academies are also state schools We can provide support and advice provided in each area. which do not charge fees but receive before, during and after the their funding direct from central allocation process. government. Academies include UTCs, free schools and studio Our website will always have the schools. All maintained schools and most up to date information and links

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1 September 2014 The online system opens for you to apply online.

Sept/Oct 2014 Schools hold their open events.

31 October 2014 Statutory deadline for application (online or paper).

5 December 2014 Last date to submit a written explanation giving reasons why your application was late.

5 December 2014 If you move house, this is the latest date for you to notify the admissions team of your new address for it to be considered in the allocation process.

30 January 2015 Applications made after this date will not be offered a school place until the week commencing 27 April 2015. 2 March 2015 national allocation day If you applied online and confirmed your email address we will send you an allocation email. The online allocation system will be updated with allocations and be made available only after allocation emails have been sent. Notification letters will be posted first class only to parents/carers who applied on paper. 3 March 2015 Parents who applied online can make use of other online facilities (continuing interest, appeal etc.).

3 – 16 March 2015 Continuing interest lists will be created. Applicants with unsatisfied higher preferences will automatically be placed on the list for those schools. Parents/carers should confirm this with schools responsible for their own admissions. Please contact the admissions team if you do not want your child to remain on continuing interest lists (see pages 18-19).

16 March 2015 Last date for accepting the place offered. Online applicants must accept the place online, other applicants must return the response form to the admissions and transport team.

Week commencing First continuing interest run will take place. If you are successful in your continuing 23 March 2015 interest application, we will contact you with your new offer of a school place.

30 March - 10 April 2015 Continuing interest applications will open to allow new preferences to be added to continuing interest lists for the second continuing interest run.

2 April 2015 Last date to register an appeal.

10 April 2015 Last date to register a change of preferences or for new applications to be added for the second continuing interest process.

10 April 2015 Last date to make a late application online.

Week commencing 27 The second (and final) continuing interest process will run and successful applicants will April 2015 be notified of results.

May – August 2015 Places will be filled from continuing interest lists as and when vacancies occur.

7 May – 18 June 2015 Appeals to be heard during this period.

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< Back Next > Back to contents How the system works every year, Hertfordshire county council receives around 16,000 applications for pupils wishing to transfer to secondary and upper schools, in addition to applications for studio schools and university technical colleges. admissions are coordinated by local authorities to ensure that children across the country are offered a single school place on the same day. the coordinated admissions system is fairer, with more parents being offered one of their preferred schools earlier.

Under coordinated admissions Your child will be offered only one different admission rules and a arrangements you list the schools school place. This will be for the supplementary information form that you want to apply for on one highest ranked school that can offer (SIF) which you will also need to form, including schools both within a place to your child when the complete and return to the school. and outside the authority where you admission criteria (rules) are applied This information is used by the live, listing (ranking) them in order to all applications. school’s governors to consider your of preference. You need to apply child’s application fully. If you do not online or return your own Although Hertfordshire County submit a SIF your application will still authority’s application form to the Council coordinates the admission be considered but it may not be authority where your child lives. process for all maintained schools possible for your application to be and academies in Hertfordshire, accurately assessed against the Where a school receives more decisions about the rules and who school’s admission rules. Therefore applications than it has places to offer places to are made by the the chances of your child being available (oversubscribed), admission authority for the school. offered a place at the school may be published admission rules are used reduced. Some foundation schools to decide the order in which Most voluntary aided, foundation and academies have adopted the applicants will be offered places. schools and academies have same admission rules as

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Hertfordshire County Council and for and , or because your application form and these schools the county council will university technical colleges in allocation letter will usually form apply the rules on behalf of the Borehamwood and , if their part of the paperwork prepared for academy trust or governing body. child is transferring to Year 10 in the appeal process. September 2015. These are schools You need to think realistically about with provision for 14-19 year olds, Be realistic how likely you are to be offered a further details can be found in the Last year 641 children were place at a particular school before school directory or on the schools’ allocated secondary schools they did you apply for it. websites. not rank. 11% of these children only listed one school on their secondary Deciding your preferences is • Schools must consider all transfer form. important. We hope the following applications equally regardless of advice will help: rank – this is a mandatory The more realistic you are when requirement of the School deciding which schools to apply for, • You may rank any 4 schools Admissions Code. the more likely it is that you will get inside or outside Hertfordshire. If one of your preferred schools. Try to you only apply to one school, you • Schools do not know the order obtain as much information as will only be considered for that you have ranked them on your possible about how places at your school and will not be considered for application form or which other preferred schools are offered: other schools. schools you have applied for. Schools will not know and neither • Read the admission criteria (also • Parents can use the secondary should they ask. This information is known as rules) for each school you transfer application process to apply confidential prior to the allocation of are interested in. A summary of the for studio schools located in places. Appeals panels will be aware criteria for voluntary aided,

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foundation schools and academies is visit, talk to school staff and make an How do I find out where the available in the schools directory at informed decision for your child. schools are? www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Schools are listed by town in the alternatively you can request a • Consider how your child will get directory section. The “find your paper copy of the school directory to school. Very few children are nearest school” service at or contact the school. entitled to free or discounted www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Information about the admission transport to school. The county provides information about the criteria for schools that use council has undertaken a review of closest schools to your home and Hertfordshire County Council’s school transport and introduced a will help you identify the “nearest” admission rules can be found from statutory only school transport school to your address in page 21. policy for pupils in September accordance with Hertfordshire 2012. Further details are available County Council’s definition for • Consider which rules apply to on pages 33-36. admission allocation purposes. your child. Home to school distance is an important aspect of the If you live near the county boundary, children with special admission rules for many schools. you may want to consider applying educational needs For schools using Hertfordshire for schools in neighbouring I. children with special educational County Council’s admission criteria it authority areas. The contact details needs but without a statement of is also important that you know for all areas bordering Hertfordshire special educational needs or education which is your “nearest” school are given from page 39. A list of out Health and care plan (eHcp) under the county’s definition (page county schools close to All schools in Hertfordshire can cater 32). Go to Hertfordshire’s border is also for children with a wide range of www.hertsdirect.org/admissions to included. This information is also special educational needs, whether find your “nearest school”. available on the school address book those needs are related to learning, pages on behaviour or a disability. Families • Look at individual school entries www.hertsdirect.org/schoolsaddress with children identified as needing online or in the school directory to book You can find more information SEN support or on the Special Needs find out how many children were about schools in other authorities Register should make an application offered places under each rule in by visiting the website of the in the usual way. previous years. relevant local authority or school. II. children with a statement of • Be realistic about your If you live in Hertfordshire you must special educational needs or preferences. It is recommended that apply to Hertfordshire County education Health and care plan you include your “nearest school” Council for a school outside the (eHcp) (by Hertfordshire County Council’s county and include it as one of your Children with a statement of special definition, see page 32) as one of four ranked schools. If you live educational needs or an Education, your four listed schools because this outside Hertfordshire you must Health and Care plan that names a is the school that is most likely to be apply to your home authority and school, are allocated secondary able to offer your child a place. may list up to four Hertfordshire school places through a separate However, please note that a place at schools. process. You can apply for a your “nearest school” cannot be mainstream secondary school place guaranteed. Which schools can I apply for? using the Hertfordshire online You can apply to any maintained system or paper application form but • Do not make your decision based (that is non feepaying) mainstream your application will be handled by on other peoples’ opinions or school or academy, studio school or the local special needs team. You will experiences. Your situation is UTC in and Wales on your not receive an allocation letter on 2 different and things change every home authority’s online system or March 2015 and allocation year. Check that your information form. information will not be available on about a school is correct – go and the online system.

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Your child’s SEN officer will have secondary school and will send the Educational Needs and Disabilities carefully considered all the school a copy of your child’s current (SEND) reforms, Hertfordshire information received with your statement/EHC plan and appendices. County Council is working with its child’s Year 5 annual review and you The Headteacher has 15 days to partners to develop a "local offer" will have already received an respond to this consultation. detailing provision and services for amended statement or EHC plan, Following this consultation your SEN children and young people with based on that information. When officer will finalise your child’s SEND in Hertfordshire. This local the statement/EHC plan was issued, statement/EHC plan and name a offer will primarily be a web based your SEN officer will have asked you secondary school in part 4 of the resource which will allow parents, for your preferred school, if you had statement or the relevant section of carers, children and young people to decided by that time. At the start of the EHC plan. Most parents will access the site to find out what the autumn term your SEN officer receive this document before the services are available. The local will send you an amendment notice. end of the autumn term, in advance offer will also include information on This will show you the changes that of the legal deadline which is 15 how early years providers, schools need to be made to your child’s February in the year of transfer. If and post 16 institutions in statement/EHC plan before they you have any questions about this Hertfordshire support children and transfer school. If you haven’t process please contact your child’s young people with SEND or already done so, you should let your named SEN officer, who will be additional needs. Whilst the local SEN officer know your preferred happy to help you. offer is still in development, you will secondary school at this time. During be able to see progress at the autumn term your SEN officer Hertfordshire's Local Offer www.hertsdirect.org/localoffer will consult with your preferred As part of the Government's Special

do do not • make time to visit the school • think that good exam results are the only important thing or • ask questions about anything that worries you • judge a school just by what others say – go and see for yourself. • talk to the headteacher about your child

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Does your child live in Hertfordshire?

Yes no  

Please apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/ Please contact the local admissions authority where you live and If you wish to apply on paper, complete their application please call the Customer form. You can still list up to 4 Service Centre. (If you wish to Hertfordshire schools. apply under rule 2 please read page 22-23).

Are you applying for a voluntary aided or foundation school or an academy?

Yes no  

You may also need to complete the You should submit your online school’s own Supplementary Information or paper application Form (SIF). The school directory clearly by 31 October 2014 to be states under each school’s entry whether considered as on time or not they require a completed SIF. If a There are no extra forms to SIF is required you can obtain a copy complete. either from the school or from www.hertsdirect.org/admissions and you should return it to the school by 31 October 2014.

completing the application form Please apply online at www.hertsdirect/admissions

You cannot apply direct to a school or return your application form to a primary school.

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schools in or outside Hertfordshire for Hertfordshire schools via your • check or change your details and are all shown on a drop down home local authority. Applications right up to the deadline. list. from overseas will only be accepted • receive instant confirmation from children of families of UK service by email. • Confirm if you are applying under personnel and crown servants or from “rule 2, social or medical” or a families that can evidence intent to • Have your school offer “children of staff” rule. return to and/or permanently reside emailed to you before allocation in Hertfordshire prior to the start of letters are received. • Make sure you include the new academic year (see page 13- • respond to your offer of a information about any brothers or 14 for further details). school place online. sisters (siblings) already attending the school. In 2014, 99% of parents applied for • check how the admission their school place online. rules were applied to your child. • The final page gives you a • register your continuing summary of the information you have apply on paper interest and appeals online. entered and includes a declaration We recommend that you apply that you have given accurate online. If you do not have internet If you don’t have internet access information. You must click on the “I access, you can apply using the paper you can apply online from any agree” button in order to finish your application form. A paper application Hertfordshire library. application. form can be requested by calling the Customer Service Centre. You must apply online • You will then be able to print the ensure that your paper form is You can only apply online to the confirmation page that shows that received by close of business on authority where you live. Only your application has been submitted Friday 31 October 2014. If you apply Hertfordshire residents can apply and if you provided an email address on paper you will not be able to use using Hertfordshire’s online and confirmed it, you will also receive the online application service at any application system. a confirmation email. stage of the admission process. For example, you will be unable to accept • Start by completing information • You can log back in to your your place online or appeal online. about the person who is making the application at any time up until 31 Additionally you will only receive application. October 2014 if you wish to change notification of your allocation by any of the details. letter, the day after allocations are • You choose your own username released to all online applicants. and password, and the system • If you apply online, you must generates a parent ID for you. All not send in a paper application We recommend that you submit your three are needed every time you form. If we do receive both an paper application so that it is received access the system. online and a paper application, the by Friday 24 October 2014, the Friday online form will take priority even if before the half term holiday. If your • Enter the details of the child you this is received before the paper application is received by Friday 24 are applying for. If your child is a twin copy. The paper copy will therefore October 2014, we will ensure that it is or multiple birth child, confirm this by not be considered. checked, and an acknowledgement “ticking” the relevant box. letter sent, confirming your application • Applications will only be accepted details and preferences, by 3 • Enter the names of the schools for children resident in Hertfordshire. November 2014. Please check the you want to apply for. These can be If you live in England you must apply details carefully and call the Customer

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Service Centre if you have any query Admissions and Transport team direct, aided and foundation schools) are with the information, or if you do not quoting your child's name and date of ultimately responsible for making receive an acknowledgement letter. birth. this decision for applications made to their school. Only children who live in Hertfordshire children out of year group can apply on the Hertfordshire paper Hertfordshire County Council’s policy twins or multiple application form. If you do not live in is for children to be educated within birth children Hertfordshire, but wish to apply for a their correct chronological year If you have more than one child Hertfordshire school, you should group, with the curriculum going through the secondary contact the local authority where you differentiated as necessary to meet transfer process at the same time, live for advice on how to make an the needs of individual children. you must make a separate application. You may express a application for each of them. preference for up to four Hertfordshire If parents/carers believe their schools. child(ren) should be educated in a If one of your children is offered the different year group they must, at the last place available at a school and Please complete the form in full and time of application, submit you have applied for the same return it to the Admissions and supporting evidence from relevant school for the other child(ren), we Transport team by the closing date. If professionals working with the child will try to offer a place for the other you need to send in additional and family stating why the child must child or children. For community evidence for applications under rule 2 be placed outside their normal age co-educational schools, and other for schools or academies using appropriate cohort. schools/academies using Hertfordshire County Council's rules or Hertfordshire County Council’s co- for whom the county council manages For community and voluntary educational rules, we will offer a admissions, this information must be controlled schools, the county council place to the other children. submitted with your application form as the relevant admission authority, (see page 22-23 for further details through a panel process, will decide For single sex academies (for whom regarding rule 2 applications). whether the application will be the county council allocates places), accepted on the basis of the evidence a place will be offered to the other It is recommended that you obtain submitted. There is no guarantee that child(ren) unless the place allocated proof of posting if you return the an application will be accepted on to the first child was offered under paper form. If the application form is this basis. If the application is not the random allocation procedure. not received you will need to show accepted this does not constitute a In this instance places will not be that you submitted it before Friday 31 refusal of a place and there is no right offered to other children in the October 2014. to an independent statutory appeal. family as this would compromise Similarly there is no right of appeal the random element of the Please note that you must ensure that for a place in a specific year group at allocation process. you have the correct postage for the a school. The internal management envelope. If you do not, the post office and organisation of a school, Foundation, voluntary aided will not deliver your application and it including the placement of pupils in schools and academies should have will not be received in time and will classes, is a matter for the their own policies on the therefore be considered late. Headteacher and senior leadership of admittance of twins and multiple individual schools. births. For further details please If you wish to provide any additional The governing body of schools contact the school direct. information to support your responsible for their own application, it must be sent to the admissions (academies, voluntary

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< Back Next > Back to contents Late applications any online or paper application received after the statutory deadline, 31 October 2014, will be treated as a late application. Late applications are not dealt with until all on time applications have been considered.

Once a late application has been why you were unable to make your be accepted if they are received submitted online, you will not be application by the closing date, after 5 December but they cannot able to make any amendments. If please write to the Admissions and be considered as “on time”. Late you do need to alter your Transport team giving your reasons applications received after 30 application please contact the and enclosing supporting evidence. January 2015 will not be allocated Admissions and Transport team, in Evidence must be received by 5 a place until the second continuing writing or via email. December 2014. Late applications interest run in the week will be considered by a panel and commencing 27 April 2015. The You are much less likely to be each case decided on its individual online system will continue to offered a place at one of your merit. Parents will be informed in accept late applications until 10 preferred schools if you apply late. writing whether their application April 2015. After 10 April late will be treated as late or on time. applications must be made on If there are exceptional reasons Late applications will continue to paper.

Which address to use It is very important that the address you give on your child’s application is your child’s permanent address at the time of application. If you are thinking of moving you must use the address where your child is living when you apply. If you move after submitting your application you must write to the admissions and transport team with proof of your new address which can be:

A letter from your solicitor must have received evidence that Applications will only be accepted for confirming your completion date you and your child are in residence children resident in Hertfordshire. If took place on or before 5 December by this date. If you change your you live elsewhere in England you 2014; address at any point, you must must apply for Hertfordshire schools Or inform the Admissions and Transport via your home local authority. A signed rental agreement of at least team in writing and submit proof. It Applications from other countries 12 months showing the start of your is not sufficient to amend your will only be accepted from children tenancy on or before 5 December address on your online application. of families of UK service personnel 2014 and crown servants, or from children and In addItIOn If you move or send evidence after 5 whose family can evidence intent to Proof that you and your child are December, it will not be possible to return to and/or permanently reside resident at the new address. process your child’s application using in Hertfordshire prior to the start of your new address because the the new academic year. Your completion date or tenancy allocation process will have already start date must be no later than 5 started. However, please let us know, children of UK December 2014 for your new because, we can send your allocation service personnel address to be used for allocation letter with the offer of a school place We understand that families of UK purposes. To be able to use your new to your new address. Service Personnel and other crown address when allocating places, we servants are subject to frequent

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movement within the UK and from children living at more than one What happens if someone uses a abroad. Please ensure you submit an address fraudulent address or gives other official letter from the MOD, FCO or If a child lives at more than one false information on their GCHQ with your application address (for example due to a application? declaring your relocation date and a separation), the address you use Every year we have cases where unit postal or quartering address in should be the one which the child parents give false information about Hertfordshire and we will arrange for lives at most of the time. We will their home address to get a place at that address to be used throughout only accept one application for each a particular school. We do all we can the admissions process. child. to make sure that this does not happen because this can prevent applications from other countries Only one address can be used. If a genuine applicants from getting a Hertfordshire County Council will child lives at two addresses equally, place at a school. The Admissions also consider accepting applications the address of the parent/carer that and Transport team may ask for from children* whose family can claims the Child Benefit/Child Tax proof of your address. Hertfordshire evidence intent to return to and/or Credit will be considered as the County Council will consider legal permanently reside in Hertfordshire child’s main residence. If you are not action against parents who prior to the start of the new in receipt of Child Benefit/Tax Credit, deliberately give false information, academic year. These applications, if alternative documentation will be and the offer of a school place will be accepted, will be processed from the requested. withdrawn. overseas address until sufficient evidence is received to show the If we receive more than one You must inform the Admissions and child is permanently resident in application with different details (e.g. Transport team of any change in Hertfordshire. Evidence must be address and ranked schools) and circumstance (e.g. change of submitted at the time of application. parents are not in agreement we will address). If information is Evidence submitted after the date process the application received as deliberately withheld, your for late applications (5 December detailed above. application may be invalid and lead 2014) can not be taken into account to the offer of a place being before National Allocation Day. If your child’s residence has been withdrawn. Decisions on these applications will disputed and you have court be made by a panel of senior officers documentation to support their If a place was obtained for an older and, for ontime applications, current address and/or living child using fraudulent information communicated to parents within 6 arrangements, please call the there will be no sibling connection weeks of the closing date for Customer Service Centre and your available to subsequent children applications. call will be referred to the from that family. If you have any Admissions and Transport team. concerns or information about the If an applicant owns a property in use of fraudulent addresses, please Hertfordshire but is not living in it, children with no fixed abode contact the Admissions and perhaps because they are working Families without a current Transport team in confidence. abroad at the time of application, permanent home address, for the Hertfordshire address will not be example traveller families or those For more information please see our accepted for the purposes of living on canal boats, should contact "Explanatory notes and definitions" admission until the child is resident the Admissions and Transport Team document available on the at that address. for individual advice on the address admission arrangements pages on used for the application. Hertsdirect.

*Children who hold full British Citizen passports (not British Dependent Territories or British Overseas passports), or have a UK passport describing them as a British citizen or British subject with the right of abode or are European Economic Area nationals normally have unrestricted entry to the UK.

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When a school is oversubscribed, am I more likely to get the school admission rules. They receive a list published admission criteria (rules) that I named as my first preference? of every child who has named their are used by the school’s admission All applications for schools are school on the application form, with authority to decide which children considered at the same time and no information about preference to offer places to. A summary of the the admissions criteria order (ranking). Governing bodies rules for each school in administered equally regardless of then apply their admission criteria Hertfordshire can be found in the the order the schools are listed on and place each child in order school directory online (a paper the application form. The order of according to how well they meet copy is available for those without preference (rank) will only be used the individual admission criteria of internet access). You should read if it is possible for your child to be the school. Each list is sent to the the complete set of admission offered a place at more than one of county council and uploaded into arrangements for each of the your preferred schools. If this is the the computer system. Many new schools you are interested in to get case a place will be offered at the academies using the county a full understanding of how places highest ranked school able to offer council’s admission rules (or similar) are offered. Full details can be a place. have requested that the Admissions obtained from and Transport team undertake this www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or The allocation process is an task on their behalf. The rest of the direct from the schools. automated process for all process is automated. community schools; officers are not All community co-educational involved and do not influence the Applications to schools outside schools in Hertfordshire have the decisions. The only exceptions are Hertfordshire or to Hertfordshire same admission rules. More details when deciding whether a child schools from families living outside about the admission rules for qualifies for a place under rule 2 (see Hertfordshire are coordinated with community schools can be found page 22-23) and when allocating a the relevant authority and are also from page 21. Many new child a non ranked allocation. processed electronically. You should academies are also using the list the schools in order of county council’s admission rules, The governing bodies of foundation preference. Assume that you might and/or priority areas, to allocate and voluntary aided schools and be offered a place at any of the places. academies prioritise applications in schools and place them in your accordance with their published preferred order.

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example of how places are allocated Jo applies for the following four schools

ranked 1st ranked 2nd ranked 3rd ranked 4th

school a school B school c school d A popular and The closest community Some distance away but School is popular and oversubscribed school school to her home her sister attends and oversubscribed but she some distance away from address and within her will still be at the school lives quite close to the her home. priority area. next year. school.    

Jo does not meet the Jo does meet the rules Jo does meet the rules Jo does not meet the rules for this school and for this school and would for this school and would rules for this school and is not offered be allocated be allocated is not offered a place. a place. a place. a place.  

Jo has ranked this school This place is reallocated higher so is offered a to the next child on the place here. list.

What if I do not get a place at any of my preferred schools? If a place cannot be offered at any of your preferred schools and you are a Hertfordshire resident, you will usually be allocated a place at the nearest suitable school to your home address with places still available. This might not be a school in Hertfordshire and may be a school /academy responsible for its own admissions.

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< Back Next > Back to contents allocation information will be sent out on 2 March 2015. allocations and acceptances for Online applications

• If you applied online and online school allocation system will online instructions. If you have not confirmed your email address we become available during the been offered a place at your most will send you an allocation email evening of 2 March 2015, but not preferred school, please refer to with details of your child’s until after all allocation emails the “What can you do now?” a allocated school. Allocation emails have been sent. leaflet which is available at will be sent after 6pm. www.hertsdirect.org/admissions • You must accept or decline the this will tell you about your • If you applied online but did school place by logging in to your options. not confirm your email address the application and following the

allocations and acceptances for paper applications

If you applied on paper you will be include a response form for you to your most preferred school, this sent an allocation letter by first return to the Admissions and letter will also include a copy of the class post on 2 March 2015. The Transport team to let them know if “What can you do now?” a leaflet letter will tell you which school has you wish to accept the place. If you which will tell you about your been offered to your child. It will have not been offered a place at options. next steps

If you no longer want the school place • Accepting or declining the place be some distance away. If you have offered, for example, if you have online, or not been offered your most moved out of Hertfordshire or have preferred school, you are advised to decided to educate your child • Returning the response accept the school place you have privately, please decline the place form to the Admissions and been offered to ensure your child online or use the response form Transport team. has a school place for September provided with your allocation letter. 2015. Accepting the place offered The Admissions and Transport team If you do not respond, we reserve will not affect your chances of need to know that places have been the right to withdraw the place getting a place at a school you declined so that your child’s place can offered to you in order to offer it to prefer more, either through the be offered to someone else. It is another child who wants it. You will continuing interest process or important that you accept or decline then be offered a place at the through an appeal. the school place offered by 16 March nearest school to your home that 2015 by: still has places available; this could

What can you do if you are unhappy with the school place you have been offered or you would like to try to get a place at a school you prefer more?

Allocation letters and emails will schools and academies for which each school can be found online at include pupil allocation the county council allocates places www.hertsdirect.org/admissions information. This shows how the It will also give you information Pupil allocation information is also admission rules were applied to any about your distance available online for online applications you made to measurements. Information applicants. community schools and other relating to the allocations made to

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Continuing Interest is the process of your initial preferences they must new offer within a few days. Please that re-allocates places that have be included in any amended do not call the team for the been declined by parents, for continuing interest application. Full outcome as offer information will example because the family has details of the continuing interest not be given by telephone. moved out of Hertfordshire, a child process will be available at has gained a place at a private or www.hertsdirect.org/admissions • If you wish to change your independent school or has received and in the “What can you do now?” preferred schools and make a late a higher preference offer. leaflet. application you can register a continuing interest application There is a requirement for all local Hertfordshire community schools online between 30 March and 10 authorities to coordinate the (and other schools/academies April 2015. Your child will then be secondary transfer process after whose admissions are managed by included on the next run of the allocation day, and to continue Hertfordshire county council) continuing interest process which working closely with schools which • Children will automatically be will take place in the week have responsibility for their own placed on the continuing interest commencing 27 April 2015. admissions to ensure that only one (CI) list for any unmet higher place is offered to every child. preferences. For example, if you are • After this date no further offered your fourth ranked countywide continuing interest runs after allocations are made on 2 preference you will be placed on the will take place and school places will March, any new or amended continuing interest list for any be allocated as and when vacancies applications for consideration at community schools or other occur. Any applications received continuing interest must be made schools/ academies whose after 10 April will be added to to Hertfordshire county council admission are managed by the continuing interest lists which will be rather than to individual schools. county council, that you ranked first, held in admission criteria order. second and third. Hertfordshire parents can have a Voluntary aided and foundation maximum of four preferences at • If you do not wish to remain on schools and academies continuing interest, including the continuing interest lists for these Most of these schools will also schools within and outside schools you MUST let us know automatically create a continuing Hertfordshire. Parents living outside immediately. This is because if a interest list of children who initially Hertfordshire may only express four place becomes available and your ranked the school on the secondary preferences for Hertfordshire child is the highest on the list, the transfer application form but were schools. place will be offered and your unsuccessful in obtaining a place on original offer will automatically be 2 March. If you wish to amend your withdrawn. If you are happy with preferences for continuing interest, the school offered and no longer Please contact the schools direct for example to apply for a school that wish to pursue a place at your for further details regarding their was not included on your initial original higher preferences, you continuing interest process. All application form, you must make that MUST let the Admissions and continuing interest allocations will application to the county council. any Transport team know straight away, be made by the governing bodies of new preferences for voluntary aided, otherwise you risk losing the original these schools but the county foundation schools or academies will school offered. council will write offering be forwarded to the relevant school continuing interest places on behalf for consideration in accordance with • The first continuing interest run of the governing body. that school’s published admission will take place week commencing 23 rules. March 2015. You will not be able to place your Amended preferences for continuing child on the continuing interest list interest will overwrite your initial • If you are successful in gaining a of a voluntary aided, foundation application. If you wish to retain any place you will be contacted with the school or academy you did not

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< Back Next > Back to contents initially ankr unless you make a new "rolled over" at the end of the County Council but in some cases application ot the county council. summer term. On 23 July 2015 all applications should be made direct You can have a maximum of four children on continuing interest lists, to the school. More information is preferences at the continuing for schools that are part of available at interest stage of the allocation Hertfordshire County Council's www.hertsdirect.org/inyear and process, including community, scheme of In Year coordination, are includes a link to the Hertfordshire voluntary aided, foundation schools removed. For your child to remain County Council In Year application and academies, either within or on continuing interest after 23 July form. It is important that you send outside Hertfordshire. and be considered for any places all of the necessary requested that become available at your paperwork, e.g. proof of you child's transition from continuing interest preferred school(s), you will need address, or there may be a delay in to In Year applications to make an In Year application. processing your In Year application. Continuing interest lists for the Most In Year applications anc be secondary transfer process are made direct to Hertfordshire

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Hertfordshire schools of your allocation screen. If you who will provide you with the You can appeal if your child is not made a paper application you may necessary paperwork. Accepting a offered a place at any of your request an appeal pack to be place at another school will not preferred Hertfordshire schools. posted to you by calling the affect your chances of your appeal You must submit your appeal form customer service centre. Please be being successful. by 2 April 2015. aware that due to the high volume of calls there may be a delay in In 2014, 18% of parents who If you applied online at sending the pack. appealed for a school administered www.hertsdirect.org/admissions by the county council, were you should also appeal online by If you wish to appeal for a school successful in their appeal for a clicking on the “register an appeal outside Hertfordshire you must secondary school place. online” button found at the bottom contact the relevant local authority

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< Back Next > Back to contents admission rules for schools and academies using Hertfordshire county council’s admission criteria co-educational (mixed) schools and academies using Hertfordshire county council’s admission criteria.

section 324 of the education act rule 2. Medical or social needs. which is non-faith, co-educational 1996 requires the governing Children for whom it can be and non-partially selective. bodies of all maintained schools to demonstrated that they have a admit a child with a statement of particular medical or social need to Note: non-partially selective means special educational needs that go to that specific school. that the school does not offer any names the school. schools must places based on academic ability. also admit children with an eHc rule 3. Sibling. Children who have a (education, Health and care) plan sibling at the school at the time of rule 5. Children who live in the that names the school. application, unless the sibling is in priority area who live nearest to the last year of the normal age the school. rule 1. Children looked after and range of the school. children who were looked after, but rule 6. Children living outside the ceased to be so because they were rule 4. Children who live in the priority area on the basis of adopted (or became subject to a priority area and for whom it is distance, with those living nearest child arrangements order or a special their nearest Hertfordshire to the school given priority. guardianship order). maintained school or academy

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tiebreak (this tiebreak is used for requirements for this rule. school that can meet the child’s all schools whose admissions are needs and why no other school will managed and administered by the The evidence must relate suffice. county council) specifically to the school applied for Where there is a need for a tiebreak under Rule 2 and must clearly If the requested school is not the where two different addresses demonstrate why it is the only nearest school to the child’s home measure the same distance from a school that can meet the child’s address, the panel will want clear school, in the case of a block of flats need in a way that no other school reasons why closer schools will not for example, the lower door number can. meet the needs of the child. will be deemed nearest as logically this will be on the ground floor and How many children are admitted examples of cases which have been therefore closer. If there are two under rule 2? accepted under rule 2 identical distance measurements for All Rule 2 applications are • Children with an exceptional different addresses of separate considered individually but very few illness or disability (for example, applicants, the tiebreak will be applications under Rule 2 are restricted mobility) and they can random. agreed. In the last three years there only reasonably attend one school. has been an average of 105 rule 1 applications submissions made each year for • Children for whom only one Applications from children looked Rule 2 with an average of 17 cases school is suitable due to child after (in public care) or children who agreed each year. protection issues. Social priority will were looked after, but ceased to be be given to children whose so because they were adopted (or How do I demonstrate that there is education would be seriously became subject to a child only one possible school for my affected if they did not go to a arrangements order or a special child? particular school. The family’s guardianship order) must be When making decisions, the Panel is circumstances as individuals, and as accompanied by a letter and/or mindful that all schools in a whole, will be considered. documentary evidence from the Hertfordshire are able to work with child’s social worker, advisory special educational needs and are examples of cases which have not teacher or other relevant expected to accommodate severe been accepted under rule 2 professional. medical needs. Hertfordshire • Cases made for continuity of schools support children with a wide child minding arrangements, such as To meet this criterion adopted range of abilities, from able, gifted using a childminder that children are children must have been previously and talented pupils to those with already familiar with who caters for looked after by an English or Welsh multiple and significant disabilities, children attending certain schools, local authority. special needs, medical conditions or childminding by family members and learning difficulties. living close to a specific school. rule 2 applications These cases were not upheld Rule 2 relates to children for whom A successful application should because they were not exceptional. it can be demonstrated that they include the following: Many families rely on complex have a wholly exceptional medical or • Recent independent objective childminding arrangements. social need for attendance at their evidence, for example from a doctor, preferred school and that no other psychologist, social worker or other • Cases made for children with school will suffice. professional involved with the child. specific learning and/or behavioural The evidence must relate specifically needs where the professional A panel of officers will determine to the school being applied for evidence submitted is not school whether the evidence provided is under rule 2 and must clearly specific. All schools are able to sufficiently compelling to meet the demonstrate why it is the only support children with a wide variety

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of individual needs. If a child’s you submit all relevant information can I apply for rule 2 for the individual needs warrant a including professional evidence with continuing Interest process? statement of special educational your application. If you apply online, Rule 2 applications will only be needs, the statement will name the your Rule 2 submission should be considered after the initial appropriate school. received before the closing date for application stage, if there has been a applications of 31 October 2014 and significant and exceptional change • Medical cases where even include your parents ID. If there are of circumstances within the family though there is a severe illness, exceptionally compelling since the initial application was more than one school could deal circumstances preventing you from submitted or if new evidence is with the child’s needs. obtaining independent objective disclosed which was not reasonably professional evidence by the available at the time of the initial How to apply under rule 2 application closing date, please hearing. Any submission after the For schools using Hertfordshire contact the Admissions and initial application must be supported County Council’s admission rules Transport Team by 31 October 2014. by details of how the circumstances (and other schools for which the have significantly changed since the county council manages Applications that are received previous application, and be admissions), you will need to tick without independent objective supported by further independent the rule 2 box (either online or on professional evidence will be professional evidence. the paper application form) and rejected and the application will be send in the required evidence. If you processed in accordance with the If you are considering making a Rule need further advice about what next highest appropriate criterion. 2 application you are advised to read evidence you should send, please the “Rule 2 (Social and Medical) contact the Admissions and Process” document available at Transport Team. Please ensure that www.hertsdirect.org/admissions

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sibling definition priority areas example For applications to schools using Priority areas are used by schools Joe lives in Stevenage and has ranked Hertfordshire County Council's using Hertfordshire County Council’s the following schools: admission criteria, a sibling is admission rules. Some foundation 1. Barnwell defined as: the sister, brother, half schools and academies have adopted This is Joe’s nearest school therefore brother or sister, adopted brother the county council’s rules and will his application will be considered or sister, child of the parent/carer also use priority areas to prioritise under rule 4. It is his nearest school or partner or a child looked after or applications. Your child is not and he is in the priority area. previously looked after* and in guaranteed a place at a school in every case living permanently** in your priority area but they will be 2. nobel a placement within the home as considered before children living Joe lives in the priority area but will part of the family household from outside the priority area. Within be considered under rule 5 because Monday to Friday at the time of this each priority area, children who Nobel is not his nearest school. application. apply to the nearest school (the nearest Hertfordshire maintained 3. fearnhill A sibling must be on the roll of the school or academy which is non- Joe does not live in the priority area. named school at the time the faith, co-educational and non- He will be considered under rule 6. younger child starts. partially selective) in their priority area will be considered under rule 5. 4. Joe did not rank a fourth school. If a place is obtained for an older You can only qualify for one school If his applications to his three child using fraudulent information, under rule 4 because only one school ranked schools are unsuccessful he there will be no sibling connection can be your nearest will usually be allocated a place at available to subsequent children the school closest to his home from that family. You can determine your priority area address that still has places and nearest school using the “Find available. Voluntary aided, foundation schools your nearest school” service and academies may have a different available online at sibling definition. Please check the www.hertsdirect.org/admissions rules of each individual school.

*Children previously looked after are those children adopted or with a special guardianship order or child arrangements order. **A sibling link will not be recognised for children living temporarily in the same house, for example a child who usually lives with one parent but has temporarily moved or a looked after child in a respite placement or very short term or bridging foster placement.

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Priority areas are determined by administrative parishes and the full list of priority areas is given below. You should use the “Find your nearest school” service available at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions to determine your parish and priority area. Your home parish is also clearly identified on your council tax bill. The co-educational priority areas in the admission rules are based on the following towns, parishes/unparished areas.

these priority areas only apply to schools and academies using Hertfordshire county council’s admission rules and/or priority areas.

priority area towns/parishes/Unparished areas schools

1. . , Hitchin, Holwell, , Langley, The Priory. Lilley, Offley, Pirton, Preston, St. Ippolyts, .

2. Letchworth Garden City. Letchworth. Fearnhill, Highfield.

3. and surrounding Ashwell, Baldock, , Caldecote, The Knights Templar*. villages. , Edworth, , Newnham, Radwell, Rushden, Sandon, Wallington, Weston.

4. , Puckeridge Anstey, , , , Barley, The Meridian*. and Royston. , , Buckland, Buntingford, , , , , , , Reed, Royston, Standon, Therfield, , .

5. Stevenage. Aston, Benington, , Graveley, The Barclay, Barnwell, , , Stevenage, Marriotts, The Nobel, The . Thomas Alleyne*.

6. , Kings , , , Adeyfield, Ashlyns*, , Berkhamsted, , , Chipperfield, , Langley*, The Astley Cooper, Garston, Watford, , , , The Cavendish, The Hemel Chorleywood and Hemel Hempstead, Kings Langley, Little Hempstead, Longdean*, Rickmansworth. Gaddesden, , with Westfield*. Potten End, , Rickmansworth (part) / Maple Cross, , Tring, , Watford, Wigginton.

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priority area towns/parishes/Unparished areas schools

7 and Ayot St. Lawrence, , , Beaumont*, Sir John Lawes*, . Harpenden, , Kimpton, Roundwood Park*, Samuel King’s Walden, , , Ryder*. , Ridge, , St. Michael, St. Pauls Walden, St. Stephen, St. Albans, , .

8 Garden City, Ayot St. Peter, , Essendon, Hatfield, Monks Walk*, Onslow St. Hatfield, and , Potters Bar, , Audreys*, Sir Frederic Brookmans Park. , Welwyn, Woolmer Osborn, Stanborough*. Green.

9 Ware and Hertford. Bayford, , Bramfield, Chauncy*, The Sele*, Simon Liberty, Great Amwell, Hertford, Hertford Balle*. Heath, , , , , , Stanstead St. Margarets, Stapleford, , , Ware, , Watton-at- stone, Widford.

10 Bishop’s Stortford and Albury, Birchanger, Bishop’s Stortford, . Eastwick, Elsenham, , , Great Hallingbury, , , Little Hallingbury, , Sawbridgeworth, Sheering, , Thorley.

11 Borehamwood, , Bushey, Elstree, Borehamwood, and . Watford Rural.

12 , Broxbourne, Broxbourne, , Hoddesdon, Nazeing, Sheredes, Turnford Turnford and Cheshunt. Northaw & Cuffley, , Cheshunt*. Waltham Cross.

*Foundation schools and academies using Hertfordshire County Council’s admission rules and/or priority areas for 2015/16.

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< Back Next > Back to contents Is my child likely to get a place at a co-educational community school? this flowchart applies to Hertfordshire community co-educational schools and Voluntary aided, foundation schools and academies have their own admission rules and will follow a similar process when considering your application against each of their rules in the published order. You should read the foundation schools and academies using the county council’s rules. If a school has admission rules for each school which are available online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or in the local enough places to offer to all children who have applied, the rules are not used and all school directory. children will be offered a place.

start Does your child have a sibling who will be at the school at the Does your child have Is your child looked Does your child have time of application? Do you live in the a statement of special after or was a particular medical If you live outside the priority (Unless the sibling is priority area for the educational needs/ no  previously looked no  or social need to go no  no  no  area your child will be considered in the last year of the school you are Education Health and after and is now to the school? (see under rule 6*. normal age- range of applying for? Care Plan (EHCP) adopted? page 22-23). the school, see page which names the (see page 22). 24). school?

Yes  Yes  Yes  Yes  Yes  Please tick the If you live in the priority area relevant box on the Your child will be considered for Is the school you are but it is not your nearest Your child will be online or paper form. a place under Rule 3. applying for your Hertfordshire non-faith co- offered a place at the If we receive nearest Hertfordshire no  educational, non-partially school. evidence from the maintained co- selective school or academy child’s social worker Please tick the educational non- faith, your child will be considered and/or advisory relevant box on the non-partially selective under rule 5*. The panel does not agree that teacher that your online or paper form. not school or academy? your case is sufficiently compelling child is looked after, You must provide agreed to be prioritised under rule 2. or previously looked supporting evidence  Your child will be considered after then your child from a relevant Yes  under rule 4* for a place at this professional at the school. If you live in the priority will be placed under The panel agree that your case is time of application. agreed area, you are most likely to gain rule 1. sufficiently compelling to be Your case will be  a place at your nearest prioritised under rule 2 for carefully considered Hertfordshire co- educational the school. by a panel of officers. non-faith, non- partially selective school.

* Rule numbers may change for schools and academies that have introduced slightly different criteria, for example a children of staff rule, but still retain Hertfordshire’s priority areas.

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All single sex schools in Hertfordshire are now academies with responsibility for their own admissions. All seven single sex schools (previously community schools) have adopted admission arrangements similar to those agreed by the county council and all continue to use the single sex priority areas and proportional allocation arrangements used historically by the county council.

Hertfordshire County Council continues to administer admissions and allocate places on behalf of the governing body for all seven schools.

The priority areas used by each school are listed below and parents shold read the individual admission arrangements of each school carefully before making an application.

priority areas for single-sex girls' schools

school towns/parishes/Unparished areas

1 Hitchin Girls School Baldock, Codicote, Graveley, Hexton, Hitchin, Holwell, Ickleford, King’s Walden, Knebworth, Langley, Letchworth, Lilley, Offley, Pirton, Preston, St. Ippolyts, St. Pauls Walden, Weston, Wymondley.

2 St Albans Girls’ Aldenham, Colney Heath, Harpenden, Kimpton, London Colney, Redbourn, Sandridge, School Shenley, St. Albans, St. Michael, St. Stephen, Wheathampstead.

3 Bishop’s Hatfield Codicote, Hatfield, Knebworth, North Mymms, Potters Bar, Welwyn, Welwyn Garden Girls’ School City, .

4 Presdales School Aspenden, Bayford, Bengeo Rural, Bramfield, Brickendon Liberty, Datchworth, Essendon, Great Amwell, Great Munden, Hertford, , Hertingfordbury, Hunsdon, Little Berkhamsted, Little Munden, Much Hadham, Sacombe, Stanstead Abbotts, Stanstead St. Margarets, Stapleford, Tewin, Thundridge, Ware, Wareside, Watton-at-stone, Widford.

priority areas for single-sex boys’ schools

school towns/parishes/Unparished areas

1 Hitchin Boys Baldock, Codicote, Graveley, Hexton, Hitchin, Holwell, Ickleford, King’s Walden, School Knebworth, Langley, Letchworth, Lilley, Offley, Pirton, Preston, St. Ippolyts, St. Pauls Walden, Weston, Wymondley.

2 Verulam School Aldenham, Colney Heath, Harpenden, Kimpton, London Colney, Redbourn, Sandridge, Shenley, St. Albans, St. Michael, St. Stephen, Wheathampstead.

3 Richard Hale Bayford, Bengeo Rural, Bramfield, Brickendon Liberty, Datchworth, Essendon, Great School Amwell, Great Munden, Hertford, Hertford Heath, Hertingfordbury, Hunsdon, Little Berkhamsted, Little Munden, Sacombe, Stanstead Abbotts, Stanstead St. Margarets, Stapleford, Tewin, Thundridge, Ware, Wareside, Watton-at-stone, Welwyn, Widford, Woolmer Green.

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a) After places have been offered Each parish is then allocated a • Then, if places still remain, to under any higher rules (e.g. CLA, number of places using the children for whom it is not the social & medical, siblings, staff etc) calculation below: nearest school on a random basis. it is calculated how many places Unused places are reallocated to are left to offer under the parish places available at parishes to remain as near to the proportionality rules. school X total originally established proportions as number of possible. This is achieved by b) The total number of applicants applications considering each place to be living in each parish within the a X b per parish redistributed in turn and assigning it priority area are counted. These ––––– to the most under allocated parish. total applications in are all ontime applications and c priority area include children qualifying under random allocation higher rules. Every preference is given an individual Places are then allocated within random number, between 1 and 1 c) The total number of applications each parish: million, as part of the allocation in each parish in the priority area is process. If a preference is expressed then divided by the total number • First to children for whom it is for a single sex school using the of applications from the whole the nearest school (if applicable) in county council’s admission rules, this priority area. order of distance. number will be used in the random element of the allocation process.

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< Back Next > Back to contents Measuring home to school distance

Home to school distances for applying admission rules. It does Please check the full admissions admission allocation purposes will not take into account the actual or policies which can be found on be measured along a straight line expected route a child will travel to www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or between a child’s address and the school. obtained from the school. relevant school or academy. Distances are measured using a a different method of What is the definition of “nearest computerised mapping system to measurement, using roads and school” for schools using two decimal places. The pathways, is used for considering Hertfordshire county council’s rules? measurement is taken from the home to school transport For co-educational schools it is the AddressBase Premium address entitlement. nearest school (in Hertfordshire for point of your child’s house to the rule 4 applicants) that is maintained address point of the school. Note: Voluntary aided and or an academy, non-faith, co- AddressBase Premium data is a foundation schools and academies educational and non-partially nationally recognised method of decide their own method of selective (that is, does not offer any identifying the location of schools distance measurement. Most places based on academic ability). and individual residences. schools use the county council’s measurement system as outlined This is an objective method of above but some schools use a measuring home to school different definition. distances consistently when

The following Hertfordshire schools are not included in the “nearest school” definition used by the county council:

category schools

Faith Schools. John F Kennedy, John Henry Newman, Loreto College, Nicholas Breakspear, St George’s, St Joan of Arc, St Mary’s Catholic, St Mary’s Church of England, St Michael’s, Townsend Church of England, Yavneh College.

Partially Selective Schools. Dame Alice Owens, Parmiters, Queens’, Rickmansworth and St Clement Danes.

Single Sex Schools. Bishops Hatfield Girls, Bishops Stortford High, Hertfordshire and Essex High, Hitchin Boys, Hitchin Girls, Presdales, Richard Hale, St Albans Girls, Verulam, Watford Grammar School for Boys and Watford Grammar School for Girls.

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please visit www.hertsdirect.org/schooltransport for the full home to school transport policy.

It is very important to consider how schools in neighbouring authorities Green, Brent Pelham, Carpenders your child will get to school. You will when considering the nearest Park, Cockernhoe, Eastwick, need to decide whether it is more suitable school for transport Flaunden, Furneux Pelham, Gilston, important for your child to attend a purposes. Families living near to the Hexton, Kings Walden, Lilley, Long school of your preference, which Hertfordshire border may find that Marston, Maple Cross, Markyate, Mill may be some distance from your their nearest suitable school for End, Northwood, Offley, Pepperstock, home, or a school nearer your home transport purposes is in a Puttenham, South Oxhey, Stocking and the likelihood of your child neighbouring authority, and may Pelham, Whitwell and Wilstone. This having entitlement to free home to wish to take this into account when is not a definitive list. school transport under the statutory making their application. only policy. please note that the county’s Areas affected include, among admissions policy and the home to Please be aware that we include others: Bovingdon, Breachwood school transport policy are separate.

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The priority areas used for school travel website The full home to school transport admissions are not relevant when A Hertfordshire school travel website policy is available at considering whether a child has a providing information on home- www.hertsdirect.org/schooltransport statutory entitlement to school school journeys is available for It gives details of arrangements that transport. parents. Using the Journey planner will apply during the school year you can plan a journey from your beginning September 2015. A You can make an application to any home to/from a selected summary of the statutory policy is school, but your child will only have Hertfordshire school, or schools in outlined below. one nearest suitable school for neighbouring authorities. You are transport purposes. There is one offered four travel options - public Also available online are: exception which relates to children transport; walking; cycling; driving. • a list of “Frequently Asked aged 11 – 16 of families on a low Please visit this via Questions” about transport income (more information is www.hertsdirect.org/schooltravel entitlement. available on page 35). This means that the nearest suitable school for Hertfordshire savercard – • a list of bus and coach routes transport can be different from the discounted travel for school pupils running to secondary/upper schools “nearest school” used for allocating On public buses in Hertfordshire, from September 2014, including places under the county council’s your child will get discounted travel information about schools who are admission rules. if they have a current Hertfordshire setting up their own travel SaverCard. The SaverCard allows arrangements for pupils. school travel arrangements – what young people aged 11 to 18 to pay do I need to consider when making half the adult fare* (this is the • a link to the Intalink website, preferences for schools? amount of discount set for school www.intalink.org.uk for public Only a small number of children in year 2015/16) on public bus transport routes to schools Hertfordshire qualify for free home services throughout Hertfordshire to school transport. If your child is (except transport for London • the timetable for transport eligible for free home to school services). To be eligible your child entitlement decision making transport, we will let you know in must be aged 11 to 18, live in May 2015. Hertfordshire, and be in full-time • car sharing tips education. The SaverCard costs £20 If your child is not eligible, you will a year for new applicants. (*please Who is eligible for free home to be responsible for ensuring your note: the level of discount is school transport? child can get to and from school, negotiated each year with bus When considering home to school accompanying them as necessary, operators, and is therefore subject transport entitlement, the distance is and paying travel costs where to change.). measured using roads and pathways applicable. from a child’s home address to the To apply for your child’s SaverCard school. For low income entitlement, Some schools may run their own online, please go to distances of more than two miles are transport arrangements. You may www.hertsdirect.org/savercard measured using the Integrated wish to discuss what options they Transport Network (ITN), which may be planning, or any initiatives If you do not have access to the measures along roads. such as “park and stride” where internet, you can get a paper families park at an agreed point away application form from schools, from the school and then walk the colleges, Hertfordshire County rest of the way. You should also Council (0300 123 4050) and most consider the school travel plan. Hertfordshire libraries.

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1) distance 3) Income belief, and be within 2-15 miles of Free transport will be provided if If your family has a low income, the home address. your child attends their nearest your child may be eligible. Low suitable school, inside or outside income families are defined as Your eligibility for free transport due Hertfordshire, where the distance those having children entitled to to low income will be assessed each from home to school is over the free school meals or where parents year. statutory walking distance: are in receipt of the maximum level • More than 2 miles from home for of Working Tax Credit. 4) special educational children aged under 8 For entitlement to free school meals needs/disability and Mobility for your child you must be in receipt difficulties • More than 3 miles from home for of one of the following: Transport entitlement for children children aged 8 and over. • Income support, with special educational needs and In applying the home to school disabilities or mobility difficulties is transport policy, the nearest • Income-Based Job Seekers assessed against the statutory suitable school is identified by Allowance, home to school transport policy, considering whether your child except where: would have qualified for a place at • Income-related Employment and • the child’s statement of special the school regardless of whether Support Allowance, educational needs/Education, Health you named it on your application. and Care plan expressly states that • Pension Credit (Guarantee transport should be provided. Faith schools will be included in the Credit), transport entitlement decision For those pupils without a making process where the county • Child Tax Credit (with an income statement of SEN/EHC Plan who council is able to allocate children of less than £16,190 and not have special educational needs to that school. For the academic receiving Working tax credit), and/or mobility difficulties year 2015/16 the following faith (including temporary medical schools will therefore be used in • Support under Part V1 of the conditions) entitlement to transport consideration of the nearest Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, will be considered on an individual suitable school: basis and regularly reviewed • St Mary’s Church of England • Working Tax Credit during the following an assessment of the High School, Cheshunt four-week 'run-on' period. child’s ability to walk to school, having regard to the child’s special • Townsend C of E (VA) Secondary Under these circumstances, free educational needs, disability and/or School, St Albans transport will be provided to children mobility problems where relevant, of compulsory secondary school age and taking into account any • Nicholas Breakspear Catholic either to: exceptional circumstances. School, St Albans • one of the three nearest schools Parents/carers should complete the 2) safety within six miles of the child’s home “Individual Transport Needs” form, Your child will be eligible if he/she where the child lives between 2 and available at attends their nearest suitable school 6 miles from that school, or www.hertsdirect.org/schooltransport which is less than three miles from and return it with their application home but where it is considered • the nearest school preferred by for transport. unsafe for him/her, accompanied as reason of a parent’s religion or belief. necessary, to walk the route with The school must be the nearest reasonable safety for as long as the school to the home address having route remains unsafe. regard to the relevant religion or

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support to families exceptions Other transport Where a disability prevents a Where there are individual If there are any spare seats available parent/carer from accompanying exceptional and extenuating on routes run by the county council, their child to school, we will circumstances, you can request your they can be purchased by other consider the child’s individual child’s case to be considered by a children, for a term at a time. There needs and have due regard to the transport appeal panel (see page 37). is no guarantee or continued right to requirement to make reasonable purchase spare seats as availability adjustments under the Equalities please note: will depend on the number of Act 2010. Where eligible, the family If a family moves house we will re- children with a statutory entitlement will receive appropriate support to assess a child’s eligibility for free home to transport, which may change. enable the child to attend a school to school transport in accordance with These routes do not run to every within the statutory walking the home to school transport policy at school. Further details about how distance. This would be for both the time of the move. spare seats are allocated is available short and long term. at www.hertsdirect.org/schooltransport

charges for spare seats

Miles from home current yearly charge per approved proposed charges for 2015/16 to school pupil academic year

Under 3 miles £765 £765

3 - 4.99 miles £1020 £1020

5 miles and over £1173 £1173

Please note for the price of seats on any commercially operated routes, or routes run by schools or communities, you will need to contact the operator directly.

sustainable Modes of travel The main strategy, as well as a with learning difficulties and Hertfordshire County Council has a summary document, is also disabilities aged 19 and up to the Sustainable Modes of Travel strategy available online or by calling 0300 age of 25, for the academic year (SMoTS) for schools. This strategy 123 4047. Details of the current commencing September 2014 can aims to increase opportunities for transport policy for full-time be found at: children and young people to travel students aged 16-19 and students www.hertsdirect.org/schooltransport to and from school by sustainable modes. This improves their physical wellbeing and the quality of the local environment and provides a cost- effective alternative to using the car. In practice this means promoting journeys on foot, by bicycle or by public transport. Information on travel alternatives to every school in Hertfordshire can be obtained from our new travel website www.hertsdirect.org/schooltravel

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Help with school expenses for your application for a school place Department for Education (DfE), families on low income or disagree with a decision about academic institutions or If your family has a low income, we transport entitlement please contact independent researchers with a may be able to give you financial the Admissions and Transport team. legitimate need for information for assistance while your children are They will be happy to check and their research) or for internal learning. You can apply for free confirm any details with you. research for the purpose of school meals, help with travel costs statistical analysis, statistical surveys and the cost of music fees. To check If you wish to take your case further: or research purposes only. if you are eligible and apply online visit www.hertsdirect.org/ admissions • to model the effectiveness of freeschoolmeals You can appeal to an independent alternative admission arrangements appeal panel against the decision to improve service. Making a complaint not to allocate a school place (see If you have a complaint about the page 20). These issues can not be • to contact you about related service provided, please discuss the taken forward through the county admissions and transport issues. problem with an Admissions and council’s complaints procedure. Transport Officer, in the first data security instance (contact details inside front transport All admissions application data is cover). Most cases can usually be If you are unhappy with the way the stored securely and maintained in resolved in this way. If you are still transport policy has been applied, accordance with the Data Protection unhappy, you can write direct to the you may submit your case to a Act. Admissions and Transport Manager transport appeal panel where who will investigate your concerns. officers will review your case. Please Hertfordshire online systems that contact the Admissions and are publicly available for entry of We aim to respond to enquiries and Transport team for more details. personal application data are complaints as quickly as possible. If regularly independently tested to you contact us by telephone, we will Use of Information – data assess risk of penetration and to aim to answer your enquiry within protection and security guard against unauthorised entry for three working days. If you contact us access to personal or any other data. by email, letter or fax, we will aim to data protection This includes ensuring that the user provide a full response within ten In addition to processing your name and password access meets working days. Although we will try application for a school place, under industry level 3 standards. to respond as swiftly as we can, it the data legislation we may use your may not always be possible to application information for the Applicants who choose to make respond within these deadlines, following purposes: their applications on the paper form particularly during peak periods. • to co-operate with our partners will have their details entered in health and youth justice to directly by Hertfordshire County Further information on how to improve the wellbeing of children in Council officers. We will not share comment, compliment and the Hertfordshire area as required personal data for admissions and complain is available from by the Children Act 2004. transport applications with anyone www.hertsdirect.org/complaints or Information sharing between except schools and other admissions by calling the Customer Service partner organisations is authorities that require the data in Centre. You cannot use the proportionate and only given when order to process applications for complaints procedure to complain it is necessary to help the services schools within their own authority. about the implementation of county provided by those partner council policy. organisations.

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different types of schools middle schools are In Year for a school if your child doesn’t like applications and cannot be made on that particular specialism. Maintained schools and academies the secondary transfer application Community schools in Hertfordshire (including free schools, Utc’s and form. do not offer places to children based studio schools) on their ability in the specialist All schools in the directory are either special schools subject. “maintained” (funded via the local Some children who have significant authority) or academy (funded special educational needs will attend selective schools direct by central government). None a special school if that type of school Some voluntary aided, foundation of these schools charge fees. is more suitable for their needs. schools and academies offer a small Admission to special school is not percentage of their places to Independent schools part of the process covered by this children with a particular aptitude. An independent or private school booklet and you should contact the Specialism and selection are two charge fees for children to attend. SENCo (Special Educational Needs different things. Although a school For further details on Independent Co-ordinator) at your child’s current may have a specialism, it does not schools you should contact: The school for more information. Most mean they will test children in that Independent Schools Council, St children attend a mainstream subject. Some schools also select a Vincent’s House, 30 Orange street, school. All the schools in the percentage of their places based on London, WC2H 1HH www.isc.co.uk directory are mainstream schools. academic ability.

The arrangements outlined in this day and boarding schools All schools selecting pupils by booklet do not affect admissions to Two non fee-paying schools in aptitude or ability should have made private or independent schools. Hertfordshire have boarding places arrangements to test pupils and available. Education is free at these provide the outcome of tests, before first, middle and upper schools schools and you just pay for the 31 October 2014. For more details (three tier system) boarding place. These schools are contact the schools concerned. Most of the schools in Hertfordshire Hockerill Anglo-European College are part of a two tier system. and St George’s school and you can Additional information about Children attend a primary school (or find more information in the school schools is available from a number an infant and then a junior school) directory. of different places, for example: and then leave at the end of Year 6 • The school directory online at to start at secondary school. Some specialisms www.hertsdirect.org/admissions schools in Hertfordshire are part of a Secondary schools can specialise in a three tier system. Children attend a variety of subjects including • School open evenings (details in first school, then move on to a business and enterprise, language, the directory section). middle school and then finally to an music and sports. The school upper school. This booklet is for directory shows the specialism for • School prospectus and website admission to secondary (Year 7) or each school. All schools (except upper schools (Year 9) or studio academies) must teach the national • Ofsted reports and exam results schools and UTCs (Year 10). curriculum and offer a broad and at www.schoolsfinder.direct.gov.uk Information about the four middle balanced curriculum. Having a schools in Hertfordshire is available specialism does not mean that only • Talking to staff at the school. online and at the back of the school children good at that subject should directory. Applications to Year 7 of attend, or that you should not apply

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< Back Next > Back to contents neighbouring local authorities You may want to apply for schools outside Hertfordshire. Listed below are all schools within 3 miles of Hertfordshire’s border.

Barnet • Chesham Grammar School 0208 359 7651 www.cheshamgrammar.bucks.sch.uk [email protected] • Chesham Park Community College www.barnet.gov.uk/school-admissions www.cheshampark.bucks.sch.uk • East Barnet School • Cottesloe School www.eastbarnet.barnet.sch.uk www.cottesloe.bucks.sch.uk • Finchley Catholic High School • Dr Challoner’s Grammar School (Boys) www.finchleycatholic.org.uk www.challoners.com • Hasmonean High School for Boys • Dr Challoner’s High School (Girls) www.hasmonean.co.uk www.dchs.bucks.sch.uk • Hasmonean High School for Girls • John Colet School www.hasmonean.co.uk www.johncolet.co.uk • Jewish Community Secondary School (JCoSS) www.jcoss.org cambridgeshire • London Academy 0345 045 1370 www.londonacademy.org.uk [email protected] • Mill Hill High School www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/admissions www.mhchs.org.uk • Bassingbourn Village College • Queen Elizabeth’s Girls’ School www.bassingbournvillagecollege.com www.qegschool.org.uk • Melbourn Village College • Queen Elizabeth’s School www.mvc.org.uk www.qebarnet.co.uk • St James’ Catholic High School central Bedfordshire www.st-james.barnet.sch.uk 0300 300 8037 [email protected] Bedford Borough www.centralbeds.gov.uk/admissions 01234 718 120 • Manshead School [email protected] www.mansheadschool.co.uk www.bedford.gov.uk • Queensbury Academy www.qusonline.com Brent • Samuel Whitbread Academy 0208 937 1234 www.swcc.beds.sch.uk [email protected] • Stratton Upper School www.brent.gov.uk www.stratton.beds.sch.uk

Buckinghamshire enfield 01296 383 250 0208 379 5501 [email protected] enfield.school.admissions@enfield.gov.uk www.buckscc.gov.uk www.enfield.gov.uk • Amersham School • Oasis Academy Hadley www.amersham.bucks.sch.uk www.oasisacademyhadley.org • Aylesbury Grammar School (Boys) • Oasis Academy Enfield www.ags.bucks.sch.uk www.oasisacademyenfield.org • Chalfonts Community College • Bishop Stopford’s CE School www.chalfonts.org www.bishopstopfords.enfield.sch.uk

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• Chace Community School • Park High School www.chace.enfield.sch.uk www.parkhighstanmore.org.uk • Enfield County School (Girls) • Sacred Heart Language College www.enfieldcs.enfield.sch.uk www.tshlc.harrow.sch.uk • Enfield Grammar School (Boys) • Salvatorian College www.enfieldgrammar.com www.salvatoriancollege.co.uk • Highlands School www.highlands.enfield.sch.uk Hillingdon • Kingsmead School 01895 556 644 www.kingsmeadschool.org admissionsbenefi[email protected] • Lea Valley High School and Sports College www.hillingdon.gov.uk www.lvhs.org.uk • Bishop Ramsey School • Southgate School www.bishopramsey.hillingdon.sch.uk www.southgate.enfield.sch.uk • The Harefield Academy • St Ignatius College RC (Boys) www.theharefieldacademy.org www.st-ignatius.enfield.sch.uk • Haydon School www.haydonschool.com essex • Northwood School 0845 603 2200 www.northwoodschool.org.uk [email protected] www.essex.gov.uk Luton • Burnt Mill Academy 01582 548 016 www.burntmill.essex.sch.uk [email protected] • King Harold School www.luton.gov.uk www.kingharold.essex.sch.uk • Ashcroft School • Forest Hall School www.ashcroft.beds.sch.uk www.fhs.essex.sch.uk • Barnfield South Academy • Mark Hall School www.south.barnfield.ac.uk www.markhall.essex.sch.uk • Cardinal Newman Catholic Secondary School • Passmores Academy www.cardinalnewman.luton.sch.uk www.passmoresacademy.com • Challney Girls High School • St Mark’s West Essex Catholic School www.challneygirls.luton.sch.uk www.st-marks.essex.sch.uk • Challney High School for • Stewards School Boys & Community College www.stewardsschool.co.uk www.challneyboys.co.uk • Denbigh High School Harrow www.denbighhigh.luton.sch.uk 0208 901 2620 • Icknield High School [email protected] www.icknield.beds.sch.uk www.harrow.gov.uk • Lea Manor High School & Community College • Bentley Wood High School www.leamanorschool.co.uk www.bentleywood.harrow.sch.uk • Putteridge High School • Canons High School www.putteridgehigh.org www.canonshighschool.org.uk • Hatch End High School www.hatchend.harrow.sch.uk • Nower Hill High School www.nowerhill.org.uk

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< Back Next > Back to contents contact details and useful links contact details for the admissions and transport team are on the inside front cover. some other useful contacts and sources of information can be found below.

customer service centre schools finder Advisers have access to information on many subjects A government funded website that provides detailed that can help you, for example, information about information about schools, including links to school special educational needs, your local schools, starting performance data and the school profile. school and much more. If you need the use of an schoolsfinder.direct.gov.uk interpreter, please ask the person who answers your call to use Language Line. department for education (dfe) The government department responsible for schools If you do not have internet access they can send you a and education. copy of the admissions booklet and tell you which are your nearest schools. If your enquiry about school 0870 000 2288 admissions is more complex, they can refer you to the [email protected] Admissions and Transport team who have detailed www.education.gov.uk local knowledge. Independent schools council Opening hours: 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and Independent or private schools are schools where you 9am to 4pm on Saturdays. have to pay to attend. More information is available on the website. 0300 123 4043 www.isc.co.uk [email protected] www.hertsdirect.org ace education advice line A voluntary organisation which offers support with Ofsted education issues. Inspect and report on standards of schools and childcare providers. Reports can be viewed online or by 0300 0115 142 asking in person at the school if you can see a copy. (Monday-Wednesday, 10am-1pm) Many schools also have a link on their website. www.ace-ed.org.uk www.ofsted.gov.uk

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< Back Next > Back to contents Glossary and definitions You may come across some words you’re not familiar with or abbreviations you’ve not seen before. this is a list of some common words and abbreviations and definitions.

children Looked after Ofsted Children who are “in care” to social services Office for Standards in Education – a government agency that inspects schools and childcare services and co-educational school reports on their standards. A school which offers places to both boys and girls throughout the school. private (or Independent) school A fee-paying school. community school A school where the local authority is responsible for sen or send admissions. Special Educational Needs – where a child has particular needs affecting their education. cs Children’s Services - the department at Hertfordshire single sex County Council that deals with school admissions. A school which offers places to only boys or girls. They may have a mixed sixth form for both boys and girls. curriculum What is taught in schools – the different subjects special school children learn. A school particularly designed for children with a statement of special educational needs who need Hcc specialist educational facilities/provision. Hertfordshire County Council. statement of special educational needs/education La Health and care plan (eHcp) Local Authority – the legal name for the role carried out A document produced by the council for children with by Hertfordshire County Council dealing with education significant learning difficulties. Not all children with and schools. special educational needs will have a statement/EHCP.

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< Back Next > Back to contents If you need help to understand this information, please call 0300 123 4043. An interpreting service is available for those who need it.

Arabic Portuguese Este folheto explica como candidatar‐se a uma vaga no ﺗﺨﺒﺮك هﺬﻩ اﻟﻨﺸﺮة آﻴﻔﻴﺔ اﻟﺘﻘﺪم ﻟﻠﻤﺪارس اﻟﺜﺎﻧﻮﻳﺔ أو اﻟﻤﺪارس اﻟﻌﻠﻴﺎ أو ensino secundário, superior, UTC (Colégio Técnico اﻟﻤﺪارس اﻟﻌﻤﻠﻴﺔ اﻟﺘﻄﺒﻴﻘﻴﺔ أو اﻟﻤﺪن اﻟﺠﺎﻣﻌﻴﺔ ﻓﻲ هﻴﺮﺗﻔﻮردﺷﺎﻳﺮ ﻟﺸﻬﺮ ,Universitário) ou em uma escola‐estúdio em Hertfordshire ﺳﺒﺘﻤﺒﺮ 2015. اﻟﻤﻮﻋﺪ اﻟﻨﻬﺎﺋﻲ ﻟﻠﺘﻘﺪم هﻮ 31 أآﺘﻮﺑﺮ 2014 com início em setembro de 2015. O prazo de inscrição é 31 .de outubro de 2014 إن آﻨﺖ ﻓﻲ ﺣﺎﺟﺔ ﻟﻠﻤﺴﺎﻋﺪة آﻲ ﺗﻔﻬﻢ هﺬﻩ اﻟﻤﻌﻠﻮﻣﺎت، ﺑﺮﺟﺎء اﻻﺗﺼﺎل ﺑﻤﺮآﺰ ﺧﺪﻣﺔ اﻟﻌﻤﻼء ﻋﻠﻰ رﻗﻢ 4043 123 0300. ﺗﺘﻮاﻓﺮ ﺧﺪﻣﺔ Se precisar de ajuda para entender essa informação, por favor contacte o centro de atendimento ao cliente no اﻟﺘﺮﺟﻤﺔ اﻟﻔﻮرﻳﺔ ﻟﻤﻦ ﻳﺤﺘﺎﺟﻮﻧﻬﺎ.

telefone 0300 123 4043. Um serviço de interpretação Bengali encontra‐se disponível para aqueles que dele necessitem. হাটর্ েফাডর্ শায়ােরর েকান েসেকnাির, আপার, sুিডo sুল বা iuিটিসেত েসেpmর 2015 eর জনয্ িকভােব আেবদন করেত হেব ei িলফেলট েথেক আপিন তা Punjabi জানেত পােরন| 31 aেkাবর 2014 আেবদন করার েশষ তািরখ| ਇਸ ਲੀਫ਼ਲੈਟ ਿਵੱਚ ਸਤੰ ਬਰ 2015 ਲਈ ਹਰਟਫੋਰਡਸ਼ਾਇਰ ਦੇ ਸੈਕੰ ਡਰੀ, ਅੱਪਰ, ei তথয্ বুঝেত আপনার সাহাযয্ pেয়াজন হেল aনুgহ কের 0300 123 ਸਟਡੀਓੂ ਸਕੂਲ ਜਾਂ ਯੂਟੀਸੀ ਿਵੱਚ ਦਾਿਖਲਾ ਲੈਣ ਲਈ ਅਰਜ਼ੀ ਦੇਣ ਬਾਰ ੇ ਦੱਿਸਆ ਿਗਆ 4043 নmের gাহক েসবা েকেnd েযাগােযাগ করন।ু যােদর pেয়াজন তােদর ਹੈ। ਅਰਜ਼ੀ ਭੇਜਣ ਦੀ ਅੰ ਿਤਮ ਤਾਰੀਖ਼ 31 ਅਕਤਬਰੂ 2014 ਹੈ। জনয্ aনুবাদ েসবার বয্বsা রেয়েছ। ਜੇਕਰ ਤੁਹਾਨੂੰ ਇਹ ਜਾਣਕਾਰੀ ਸਮਝਣ ਲਈ ਦੁਭਾਸ਼ੀਏ ਦੀ ਲੋੜ ਹੈ, ਤਾਂ ਿਕਰਪਾ ਕਰਕ ੇ

Cantonese 0300 123 4043 ਤੇ ਗਰ੍ਾਹਕ ਸੇਵਾ ਕਦਰ ਤੇ ਸੰ ਪਰਕ ਕਰੋ। ਜਰਰਤਮੂ ੰ ਦਾਂ ਲਈ ਦੁਭਾਸ਼ੀਆ 此宣傳單告訴您如何在赫特福德郡为2015年9月的 ਸੇਵਾ ਵੀ ਉਪਲਬਧ ਹੈ। secondary, upper, studio school or Tamil UTC（初中、高中、工作室學校或UTC）申请建造地方 ெசப்டம்பர் 2015-க்கு Hertfordshire-ல் ெசகண்டாி, அப்பர், 。該申請截止時間為2014年10月31日。 ஸ்ேயா ஸ்கூல் அல்ல UTC இடத்திற்கு எப்ப விண்ணப்பிப்ப என்பைதந்த இ ைகேய உங்கக்குச் 如果您需要幫助理解這個資訊，請聯繫客戶服務中心， ெசால்கிற. விண்ணப்பத்திற்கான காலக்ெக 31 அக்ேடாபர் 電話：0300 123 4043。可為需要的人提供口譯服務。 2014.

இத்தகவைல ாிந்ெகாள்வதில் உங்கக்கு உதவி Italian In questo dépliant si trovano le informazioni su come ேதைவப்பட்டால், தயெசய் வாக்ைகயாளர் ேசைவ presentare domanda d'iscrizione in una secondary school( ைமயத்ைத 0300 123 4043 -ல் scuola media), upper school (scuola superiore), studio ெதாடர்ெகாள்ங்கள். ேதைவப்பபவர்கக்கு school (14‐19 anni) o UTC ( University technical College‐ ெமாழிெபயர்ப்ச் ேசைவ கிைடக்கின்ற. scuola media gestita da un Università) a Hertfordshire per l’anno scolastico che comincerà a Settembre 2015. La Turkish domanda deve essere presentata entro il 31 ottobre 2014. Bu kitapçık, size Eylül 2015 için Hertfordshire'da nasıl

Se avete bisogno di assistenza per comprendere quanto ortaokul (secondary), üst ortaokul (upper secondary), indicato, vi preghiamo di contattare il servizio di meslek okulu (studio school) veya teknik okul (UTC) attenzione al cliente al 0300 123 4043. Un servizio di başvurusu yapacağınızı anlatmaktadır. Başvuru için son tarih 31 Ekim 2014'tür. interpretariato è disponibile su richiesta. Bu bilgileri anlamak konusunda yardıma ihtiyacınız varsa, Polish lütfen 0300 123 4043 numaralı telefondan müşteri Niniejsza ulotka zawiera informacje na temat zasad hizmetleri merkezi ile bağlantıya geçiniz. İhtiyaç duyanlar składania wniosków o przyjęcie do szkoły średniej, wyższej, için tercümanlık hizmeti mevcuttur. zawodowej lub technicznej w Hertfordshire od września 2015 roku. Termin składania wniosków mija 31 Urdu ہﻳ ﭘﺮﭼہ ﺁﭘﮑﻮ ﺑﺘﺎﺗﺎ ﮨﮯ ﮐہ ﮨﺎرﭨﻔﻮرڈ ﺷﺎﺋﺮ ﮟﻴﻣ ﺳﺘﻤﺒﺮ 2015 ﮐﮯ ﻟﺌﮯ .października 2014 r ﻴﺳ ﮑﻨﮉر ،ﯼ اَ ﭘَ ﺮ ، ﺳﭩﻮڈ ﻮﻳ ﻳاﺳﮑﻮل ﺎ UTC ﮟﻴﻣ داﺧﻠہ ﻴﻟ ﻨﮯ ﮐﯽ درﺧﻮاﺳﺖ Jeżeli potrzebują Państwo dalszych informacji, prosimy o ﻴﮐ ﺴﮯ داﺋﺮ ﮐﺮ ﮟﻳ ۔ درﺧﻮاﺳﺖ ﻳد ﻨﮯ ﮐﯽ ﺁﺧﺮﯼ ﺗﺎر ﺦﻳ 31 اﮐﺘﻮﺑﺮ 2014 ﮨﮯ۔ kontakt z biurem obsługi petentów pod numerem 0300 اﮔﺮ ﺁﭘﮑﻮ ﻳہ ﻣﻌﻠﻮﻣﺎت ﺳﻤﺠﻬﻨﮯ ﮟﻴﻣ ﻣﺪد ﮐﯽ ﺿﺮورت ﮨﻮ ﺗﻮ ﺑﺮاﺋﮯ ﻣﮩﺮﺑﺎﻧﯽ Pomoc tłumacza ustnego dostępna jest dla osób .123 4043 ﮐﺴﭩﻤﺮ ﺳﺮوس ﻴﺳ ﻨﭩﺮ ﮐﮯ اس ﻧﻤﺒﺮ ﭘﺮ راﺑﻄہ ﮐﺮ ﮟﻳ 0300 123 4043۔ ﺟﻦ .wymagających takiej usługi اﻓﺮاد ﮐﻮ ﺿﺮورت ﮨﻮ اﻧﮑﮯ ﻟﺌﮯ ﻣﺘﺮﺟﻢ ﮐﯽ ﺳﮩﻮﻟﺖ ﺑﻬﯽ دﺳﺘﻴﺎب ﮨﮯ۔

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