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Every maintained secondary, upper, studio school What happened in previous years and UTC in is listed in the online This information is to help you see how likely it is directory. There are 4 local school directories that your child will be offered a place at the school. which include information to help you with your The information is correct as at allocation day in application. each year and gives you an indication of what has School details happened in the last two years. The entry for each school gives the contact 2011 2012 details including the school website address. Number of places available 210 210 More information about school types is on page 2 of the Moving On booklet. A number Total number of applications 350 352 of schools have applied for status. Total number of places offered 210 210 Where possible this is indicated in the individual The table shows you how many places were school entry. Academy status will not change a available, how many applications the school had school’s published admission arrangements for in total and how many places were offered. September 2013. The number on roll shows the Other information includes how many children total number of children attending the school in were offered places under each rule. Additional January 2012. The published admission number information about allocations in previous years is shows the total number of children that can available at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions be admitted to the school for September 2013. The denomination will be given if applicable and Please note these statistics only include will be Catholic, Church of or Jewish. applications made prior to allocation day. The Specialist status will list any specialisms the total places offered also show the position as school has. at allocation day. Many schools receive late The School Code listed for each school must be applications and make additional allocations given on the paper application form if you apply through the continuing interest process which are on paper. not reflected in these figures. Example Headteacher: Mr Head Summary of admission rules School Street, Fieldford, AB1 2CD The admission rules in the directories are 01234 567890 FAX 01234 567891 correct as at the time of going to press. However, @ [email protected] objections have been made to the admission www.school.sch.uk arrangements of the following schools and Type: Community (co-educational) therefore there may be changes: Number on Roll: 1234 ; The Knights Templar School, Published Admission Number: 213 Bishops Stortford; Bishops Stortford High Specialist Status: Sports, Arts School, , School Code: 9991110 Herts & Essex High School Please contact the school for further information. Open Event details Information about the open events being held at The directory contains a summary of each the school. school’s admission rules. Application form For voluntary aided, foundation schools and This section will tell you if you need to complete academies, you should read the full admissions a supplementary information form as well as policy which is available on www.hertsdirect.org/ applying online or on the paper application form admissions or from the school. in this booklet.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 1 Directory 1 , Three Rivers and Hertswood School Borehamwood and .

School Details Queries about the outcome of applications to Headteacher: Jan Palmer Sayer this school and how the admissions rules were Cowley Hill, Borehamwood, WD6 5LG applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire 0208 238 7200 FAX 0208 238 7290 County Council. @ [email protected] www.hertswood.herts.sch.uk Type: Community* (co-educational) Yavneh College Number on roll: 1395 Published admission number: 280 School Details Specialist Status: Visual and Performing Arts Headteacher: Dr. Dena Coleman School Code: 9194001 Hillside Avenue, Borehamwood, WD6 1HL *Pending application to convert to Academy 0208 7365580 FAX 0208 9532749 status 1 September 2012 @ [email protected] www.yavnehcollege.org Open Event details Type: Academy (co-educational) Number on Roll: 788* Monday 24 September 6.00pm until 9.00pm Published Admission Number: 150 The Headteacher will speak at 6.30pm and Denomination: Jewish 7.30pm. There will be opportunities for tours of Specialist Status: Business and Enterprise the school during a normal working day in the School Code: 9194802 two weeks following Open Evening. *Yavneh College opened in September 2006 and Application form the school will grow incrementally. Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. Open Event details 20 September from 6.00pm – 9.00pm What happened in previous years Booking is essential for security purposes.

Borehamwood 2011 2012 Please see website, www.yavnehcollege.org for Number of places available 280 280 full details. Total number of applications 245 233 Application form Total number of places offered 256 265 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Places offered under each rule or on the Hertfordshire paper application form AND complete the Supplementary Information 2011 2012 Form available from the school or the above SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 3 3 website. Rule 3 73 64 What happened in previous years Rule 4 120 119 Rule 5 7 5 2011 2012 Rule 6 9 11 Number of places available 150 150 Rule 7 1 2 Total number of applications 503 451 Total number of places offered 150 150 Places are allocated in accordance with Hertfordshire county council’s admission Places offered under each rule rules – see page 16 - 26 of the Moving On 2011 2012 booklet. Parishes in the priority area for this school LAC 0 0 are; , , Elstree and SEN 1 1

1 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 2011 2012 2 Children attending Hertsmere Jewish Primary School or Clore Shalom Primary School at the Sibling 55 61 deadline for application. Feeder Schools 41 32 Nearest maintained 53 56 3 Children of members of teaching staff. For Jewish Schools these purposes, a member of teaching staff Distance 0 0 means an individual whom, at the deadline of application, has a full-time permanent teaching Summary of Admissions Rules contract of employment with Yavneh College and i) has been employed at the school for two A A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was or more years or ii) has been recruited to fill a previously looked after but ceased to be so vacant post for which there is a demonstrable due to an adoption, residence or special skill shortage, and in both cases i) and ii) will be guardianship order. A looked after child is one working at Yavneh College in September 2013. who is a) in the care of a local authority or b) being provided with accommodation by a local 4 Children for whom Yavneh College is their authority in the exercise of their social services nearest maintained Jewish secondary school. function (within the meaning of section 22 of the Children Act 1989) who obtain a minimum 5 In the event of over-subscription after each of three points on the Yavneh College Certificate of the above criteria 1- 4 has been applied, of Religious Practice. proximity to the School of the child’s home address as at the deadline for application Borehamwood/Bushey B Other children who obtain a minimum of will in each of the above categories be the three points on the Yavneh College Certificate of determining factor. Where the child lives with Religious Practice. parents with shared responsibility, each for a part of the week, the child’s home address C Any other ‘looked after child’, or child who will be defined as the address at which they was previously looked after but ceased to be spend the greater part of the week. so due to an adoption, residence or special guardianship order, who obtained fewer than Queries about the outcome of applications to 3 points on the Yavneh College certificate of this school and how the admissions rules were Religious Practice. applied should be addressed to the school direct. D Any other children who obtain fewer than three points on the Yavneh College Certificate of Religious Practice. The Bushey Academy In the event of over-subscription within each of School Details the above categories B and D, places will Principal: Mr A Hemmings be offered in accordance with the following Road, Bushey, WD23 3AA further criteria: 0208 950 9502 FAX 0208 420 4038 @ [email protected] 1 Siblings of pupils attending Yavneh College at www.thebusheyacademy.org the deadline for application and who i) will still Type: Academy (co-educational) be attending Yavneh College in September 2013 Number on Roll: 578 or ii) have formerly attended Yavneh College Published Admission Number: 210 for a period of at least two academic years. School Code: 9196906 For these purposes a sibling means the sister, brother, half-brother or sister, step-brother or Open Event details sister, adopted brother or sister, and in every case living permanently in the same house from Thursday 20 September, 6.45pm – 9.30pm Monday to Friday.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 2 Application form sister, or a half brother or sister, or a legally Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions adopted brother or sister or half-brother or or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. sister, or step brother or sister who will be living with them at the same address at the date What happened in previous years of their entry to the Academy) on the roll of the Academy. (Proof of the sibling relationship will 2011 2012 be required if a place is offered). Number of places available 210 210 4 Total number of applications 212 303 The remaining places will be offered to pupils with the nearest distance measurement Total number of places offered 200 225 on the basis of proximity; i.e. pupils who live the nearest distance at the close of the Places offered under each rule Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) admission 2011 2012 application date. Children Looked After 0 2 Tie Break Special educational needs 2 0 Siblings Distance 141 149 In the event of a tie break under the sibling Siblings 22 31 criterion, (4) will be used as a tie break.

Summary of Admissions Rules Distance After the admission of students with statements In the event of a tie break under the distance of Special Educational Needs where the Bushey criterion, random allocation will used. Academy is named on the statement, the criteria will be applied in the order in which Multiple Births they are set out below: Children from multiple births will be considered under the admissions criteria as individual 1 Looked After Children and previously Looked children. Bushey After Children in accordance with Section 22 of the Children Act 1989. Previously Looked After Queries about the outcome of applications to Children are children who were Looked After, this school and how the admissions rules were but ceased to be so because they were adopted applied should be addressed to the school under the terms of the Adoption and Children direct. Act 2002, section 46 (or became subject to a residence order under the terms of the Children Act 1989, Section 8 or Special Guardianship order, defined by Section 14A of the Children Act 1989). School Details Headteacher: Keith Douglas 2 Pupils for whom it is essential to be Coldharbour Lane, Bushey, WD23 4PA admitted to the Academy because of special 0208 950 3000 FAX 0208 950 6208 circumstances to do with significant medical @ [email protected] or social needs. The application will need to be www.busheymeads.org.uk supported by a letter from a hospital consultant, Type: Academy (co-educational) social worker or similar professional. The Number on Roll: 1060 information should demonstrate why the Published Admission Number: 170 Academy is the only school able to meet the Specialist Status: Technology child’s specific needs. School Code: 9195408

3 Pupils who, on the date of admission, will have a sibling (i.e. a natural brother or

3 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Open Event details Band A: applicants taken from Band B 13 September, 6.30pm – 9.00pm. No parking for Band B: applicants taken alternatively from visitors on the school site. The first presentation Bands A and C by the headteacher is at 6.45pm. Band C: applicants taken alternatively from Bands B and D Application form Band D: applicants taken from Band C Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions If there are no further applicants in the adjacent or on the Hertfordshire paper application form band, places will be allocated to AND complete the Supplementary Information applicants with scores in the next band. Form available from the school or the above website. Notes: A child who is the twin of a child offered a place will also be offered a place in the What happened in previous years appropriate ability band. 2011 2012 Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 requires Number of places available 170 170 the governing bodies of Foundation Total number of Applications 663 710 schools to admit a child with a statement of Total number of places offered 170 170 special educational needs that names their school. Places offered under each rule Oversubscription to any band

2011 2012 In the event of oversubscription to any band, Technology Aptitude 17 17 places will be offered by applying the following SEN/LAC 11 12 criteria in the order given below: Bushey Siblings 50 54 1 Children currently in public care (Children Medical Reasons 0 2 Looked After); children who were in care Distance to School 92 85 but have since been adopted, or subject to a residence/special guardianship order. 2011 2012 2 Children with a brother or sister already Band A 39 39 at the school and still expected to be at the Band B 38 38 school when the transfer takes place. (A sibling Band C 38 38 means the sister, brother, half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, or child of the parent/ Band D 38 38 carer or partner).

Summary of Admissions Rules 3 Children who have a compelling medical 1 17 places will be allocated on the results of reason attested by a Medical Practitioner a standardised test of abstract reasoning to or Consultant, which makes attendance at assess technological aptitude, places being Bushey Meads School essential. It would also offered in descending order of test score. be helpful to provide a letter from your child’s current school explaining how his/her medical 2 39 places will be allocated to Band A condition or disability impacts on his/her applicants school life. Please note that the letter from the 38 places will be allocated to Band B applicants Medical Practitioner must explain clearly WHY 38 places will be allocated to Band C applicants the child’s severity of illness or disability makes 38 places will be allocated to Band D applicants attendance at only Bushey Meads School In the event of under subscription to any essential. band, applicants with the highest score in the adjacent band will be allocated as follows:

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 4 4 Children who have a brother or sister who Queens’ School attended the school in the past or who currently attends but who will have left by the time School Details the transfer takes place. For the purpose of Headteacher: Terence James criterion 4, a sibling means the sister, brother, Aldenham Road, Bushey, WD23 2TY half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, 01923 224465 FAX 01923 223975 or child of the parent/carer or partner. @ [email protected] www.queens.herts.sch.uk 5 Children in order of preference relating Type: Academy (co-educational) to the distance of their home from Bushey Number on Roll: 1656 Meads School. When only one place remains Published Admission Number: 265 in a band and the remaining applicants live an Specialist status: Sports and Science. equal distance from the school, the place will School Code: 9195410 be allocated to the child with the higher score in the cognitive abilities tests. The distance Open Event details from an applicant’s house to the school is a Wednesday, 3 October, 3.00pm – 5.00pm and straight line distance measurement provided 6.45pm – 9.15pm by Hertfordshire County Council’s GIS system as outlined in the Moving On/Under 11’s Application form publications. Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or on the Hertfordshire paper application form Bands AND complete the Supplementary Information The band in which a child is placed is determined Form available from the school or the by the results of a set of standardised Maths above website. and Verbal Reasoning tests. • Children with a score equivalent to the top What happened in previous years 25% of the population taking the tests are 2011 2012 placed in band A. Number of places available 262 262 Bushey • The next 25% taking the test are placed in band B. Total number of applications 1176 1186 • The next 25% are placed in Band C and Total number of places offered 262 262 next 25% are placed in Band D. Places offered under each rule Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admissions rules were 2011 2012 applied should be addressed to the school SEN/LAC 2 2 direct. Siblings 99 108 Aptitude for Sport or Music 26 26 Assessment Test 92 92 Distance 43 34

Summary of Admissions Rules 1 Children who are currently, or have previously been, in the care of the Local Authority.

2 Children with a sibling attending the school at the time of admission (a sibling means the brother/sister, half brother/sister, adopted brother/sister, or a child of the parent or

5 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions partner, in every case living in the same house Parking on site is restricted and car sharing from Monday to Friday). is encouraged. The Headteacher will speak at 5.00pm, 6.00pm, 3 Children whose permanent residence is 7.00pm and 8.00pm. located within postcodes WD3-7, WD17-19, Following the Open Evening there will be WD23-25, AL2 (south of M25),HA6, HA5 3**, morning tours by appointment only HA5 4**, HA3 6**, HA7 3**, HA7 4**. If category 3 is oversubscribed, the following Application form criteria will be used: Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 4 (a) up to 5% of places (13) for children with a or on the Hertfordshire paper application form particular aptitude in sport. AND complete the Supplementary Information (b) up to 5% of places (13) for children with a Form available from the school or the particular aptitude in music. above website.

5 Up to 35% of places (92) will be available by What happened in previous years ability, in strict order of merit, based on the 2011 2012 results of the assessment test. Number of places available 208 208 6 Any remaining places, not less than 10% Total number of applications 697 765 (27), for those qualifying under 3 above will be Total number of places offered 208 208

allocated by the shortest distance to the school. Bushey/ Places offered under each rule and finally for any further places available: 2011 2012 7 Children whose permanent residence LAC 0 0 is outside the postcode areas in 3 above, 10% Closest to the School 21 21 preference being given to those living closest to the school. Siblings 81 83 Aptitude in Music 21 21 Queries about the outcome of applications to Academic Ability 21 21 this school and how the admissions rules were Proximity to School within WD3 62 62 applied should be addressed to the school direct. Proximity to School outside WD3 0 0 SEN 2 0

St Clement Danes School Summary of Admissions Rules 1 The Governors will fulfil their legal obligation School Details to allocate a place to a child in Public Care or Headteacher: Josephine Valentine a child who was in care, but ceased to be so Chenies Road, Chorleywood, WD3 6EW because they were adopted. 01923 286680 FAX 01923 284828 @ [email protected] 2 Children whose brother or sister is in www.stclementdanes.org.uk attendance at the school at the time of Type: Academy (co-educational) application. Number on Roll: 1354 Published Admission Number: 208 3 Children of staff who are permanently Specialist Status: Languages, Science employed by the Governors of St Clement School Code: 9195421 Danes School.

Open Event details 4 Up to 10% of places will be for students Monday, 1 October, 3.30pm – 8.30pm demonstrating musical aptitude as determined by test during the autumn term.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 6 5 Up to 10% of places will be for students Francis Combe Academy demonstrating academic ability. This will be determined by test during the autumn term and School Details places will be awarded in merit order. Principal: Mr Leo Gilbert Horseshoe Lane, Watford, WD25 7HW The new School Admissions Code, which came 01923 672964 FAX 01923 620828 into force on 1 February 2012, requires all schools @ [email protected] that use aptitude and academic tests as part www.franciscombeacademy.org.uk of their admission arrangements, to inform Type: Academy (co-educational) parents of the outcome of these tests before the Number on Roll: 1067 secondary transfer application deadline. This is Published Admission Number: 210 to ensure parents are able to make an informed Specialist Status: Arts and Media/English choice of school. School Code: 9196905

6 Distance places will be allocated on the basis Open Event details of proximity to the school, with priority given Tuesday,16 October, 5.00pm – 8.30pm. to WD3 postcodes only. The distance from The Principal will talk at 5.15pm, 6.30pm the school to an applicant’s home address and 7.45pm. is calculated using a straight line distance measurement provided by NLPG. Application form 7 Any remaining places will be allocated on Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions the basis of proximity to the school, outside or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. the WD3 postcode area. The distance from the school to an applicant’s home address What happened in previous years is calculated using a straight line distance 2011 2012 measurement provided by NLPG. Number of places available 210 210 Children with Statements of Special Total number of applications 292 285 Educational Needs are not subject to the above Total number of places offered 209 210 criteria and parents are advised to read the Secondary Transfer Admissions Policy. Summary of Admissions Rules Parents are strongly advised to read the Students with statements of Special

Chorleywood/Garston school’s prospectus, admissions policy and Educational Needs where Francis Combe information regarding the Musical Aptitude test Academy is named on the statement. and Academic Ability test before submitting their application. 1 Children in public care (children looked after) and children who were looked after, but ceased Queries about the outcome of applications to to be so because they were adopted (or become this school and how the admissions rules were subject to a residence order or a special applied should be addressed to the school guardianship order). direct.

2 Students with siblings currently attending the Academy and who will continue to do so on the date of admission.

3 On the basis of proximity to the school using straight line measurement.

Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admissions rules were

7 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire 2011 2012 County Council. SEN 1 2

Parmiter’s School Summary of Admissions Rules 1 Children Looked After. A “looked after child” School Details or child who was previously looked after but Headteacher: Mr N J Daymond immediately after being looked after became High Elms Lane, Garston, Nr Watford, Herts, subject to an adoption, residence or special WD25 0UU guardianship order. A “looked after child” is a 01923 671424 FAX 01923 894195 child who is in the care of the local authority or @ [email protected] being provided with accommodation by a local www.parmiters.herts.sch.uk authority. Type: Academy (co-educational) Number on Roll: 1260 2 10% of places will be allocated based on the Published Admission Number: 206 straight line distance measurement provided Specialist Status: Technology, Music, Languages by Hertfordshire County Council’s GIS system School Code: 9195404 as outlined in the Moving On/Under 11s publication. Open Event details Thursday, 27 September, 1.30pm – 3.30pm and 3 Students with an elder brother or sister 5.30pm – 9.00pm. attending the school at the time of application. Headmaster will talk at 1.45pm, 6.00pm, (The twin or other full brother or sister, born 7.00pm and 7.45pm. in the same academic year as an applicant offered a place, will qualify under this criterion. Garston Application form A sibling means the brother, sister, half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, or a child of Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions the parent or partner, in every case living in the or on the Hertfordshire paper application form same house from Monday to Friday). AND complete the Supplementary Information Form available from the school or the 4 Students for whom it can be demonstrated above website. that there is a compelling medical reason for attending the school (supported by independent What happened in previous years medical evidence). 2011 2012 5 25% of places shall be available in merit order Number of places available 186 186 by reference to academic ability. All applicants Total number of applications 1410 1425 for places under criterion 5 must have taken a Total number of places offered 186 206 verbal reasoning test and a mathematics test, which will be used to assess their academic ability. No minimum score will be required to Places offered under each rule gain admission; places being offered strictly 2011 2012 in descending order of each applicant’s LAC 0 2 standardised test score. Information about the tests and the arrangements, including Proximity 19 21 examples of the questions, are available on the Siblings 86 82 school website. Medical 3 1 Academic 47 52 6 Up to 10% of places to be allocated on the basis of proven aptitude in Music to be Music 19 21 determined by prescribed tests. All applicants Distance 11 25 for places under criterion 6 must have taken a

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 8 written test of musical aptitude. Further details Form available from the school or the are available on the school website. above website. With reference to Criteria 5 and 6: In order to distinguish between applicants who attain What happened in previous years the same, lowest ranking score, which would qualify them for admission, the proximity of 2011 2012 the home address to the School will be the Number of places available 168 180 deciding factor. Total number of applications 436 446 Total number of places offered 168 180 7 Remaining places will be allocated on the basis of proximity to the school. Places offered under each rule Parents who are applying under Criteria 2, 2011 2012 4, 5, 6 or 7 will need to provide proof that Rule 1 0 0 the home address quoted is the permanent Rule 2 62 72 residence of the applicant. For applicants who satisfy Criteria 4, 5 and 6, 95% of the places Rules 3 and 4 98 108 available will be allocated to applicants from Rules 5 and 6 8 0 the following post code areas: WD3 to WD25 Rules 7 and 8 0 0 inclusive, AL1, AL2, AL3,HP1, HP2, HP3 and Rules 9 and 10 0 0 HA6. Rule 11 0 0 Queries about the outcome of applications to Rule 12 0 0 this school and how the admissions rules were Rule 13 0 0 applied should be addressed to the school Rule 14 0 0 direct. Rule 15 0 0

St Michael’s Catholic High School Summary of Admissions Rules

Garston (Academy) 1 Catholic looked after children and Catholic children who have been adopted (or made School Details subject to residence orders or special Headteacher: Mr Edward Conway guardianship orders) immediately following High Elms Lane, Watford, WD25 0SS having been looked after. 01923 673760 FAX 01923 680511 @ [email protected] 2 Baptised Catholic children whose siblings are www.stmichaelscatholichighschool.co.uk on the school roll on the student’s first day of Type: Academy (co-educational) their first academic year. Number on Roll: 1113 Published Admission Number: 180 3 Baptised practising Catholics who are Denomination: Catholic attending the following feeder schools: Divine Specialist Status: Humanities Saviour, ; Holy Rood, Watford; School Code: 9195417 Sacred Heart, Bushey; St Adrian’s, ; St Anthony’s, West Watford; St Catherine’s, Open Event details Garston; St Joseph’s, South ; St Theresa’s, Borehamwood. Wednesday, 19 September, 6.00pm – 9.00pm. Friday, 21 September, 9.15am – 11.15am. 4 Baptised practising Catholics who are resident in the Watford Deanery (Parishes of Application form Abbots Langley, Bushey, Carpenders Park, Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions , Chorleywood, , or on the Hertfordshire paper application form Garston, Mill End, , Watford, AND complete the Supplementary Information Watford North).

9 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 5 Baptised Catholics who are attending the Hertfordshire County Council. following feeder schools: Divine Saviour, Abbots Langley; Holy Rood, Watford; Sacred Heart, Queries about the outcome of applications to Bushey; St Adrian’s, St Albans; St Anthony’s, this school and how the admissions rules were West Watford; St Catherine’s Garston; applied should be addressed to the school St Joseph’s, South Oxhey; St Theresa’s, direct. Borehamwood.

6 Baptised Catholics who are resident in the School Watford Deanery. School Details 7 Baptised practising Catholics who are Headteacher: Mr G Lewis resident outside the Watford Deanery, for whom Love Lane, Kings Langley, WD4 9HN St Michael’s is the nearest Catholic school. 01923 264504 FAX 01923 260564 @ [email protected] 8 Baptised Catholics who are resident outside www.kingslangley.herts.sch.uk the Watford Deanery, for whom St Michael’s is Type: Community (co-educational)* the nearest Catholic school. Number on Roll: 1071 Published Admission Number: 186 9 Other Baptised practising Catholics. Specialist Status: Arts School Code: 9194096 Garston/Kings Langley 10 Other Baptised Catholics. *Pending application to convert to Academy status on 1 December 2012. 11 Other looked after children and children who have been adopted (or made subject to Open Event details residence orders or special guardianship orders) immediately following having been Open Evening: Wednesday, 3 October, 7.00pm – looked after. 9.00pm Open Morning: 9 October and 17 October from 12 Baptised Christians whose siblings are on 11.00am – 12.15pm the school roll on the student’s first day of their Open Afternoon: 11 October, 2.00pm – 3.15pm first academic year and who produce an original Open Mornings and Afternoon are strictly by Baptismal Certificate or Certificate of Baptism. appointment only to be made with the school in advance. 13 Baptised Christians attending one of the following feeder schools: Divine Saviour, Abbots Application form Langley; Holy Rood, Watford; Sacred Heart, Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Bushey; St Adrian’s, St Albans; St Anthony’s, or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. West Watford; St Catherine’s, Garston; St Joseph’s, South Oxhey; St Theresa’s, What happened in previous years Borehamwood, who produce an original Baptismal Certificate or Certificate of Baptism. 2011 2012 Number of places available 186 186 14 Baptised Christians who produce an original Baptismal Certificate or Certificate of Baptism. Total number of applications 477 530 Total number of places offered 186 186 15 Any other children.

Tie Break Places offered under each rule In case of over subscription in each of the 2011 2012 criteria, a proximity criterion will be applied SEN/Rule 1 and Rule 2 0 2 with priority given to children who live nearest Rule 3 76 82 to the school with measurements carried out by

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 10 2011 2012 These rules are applied in the order they are printed above. If more children qualify under a Rule 4 73 71 particular rule than there are places available, Rule 5 37 31 a tiebreak will be used by applying the next rule Rule 6 0 0 to those children. Rule 7 0 0 Parishes in the priority area for this school are: 6a: , , , Summary of Admission Rules: , , Nash Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 requires Mills, with Potton End, , the governing bodies of all maintained schools , , Wigginton. to admit a child with a statement of special 6b: Kings Langley, Abbots Langley, Watford, educational needs that names their school. Chorleywood and Rickmansworth, , Chipperfield, , , Croxley Green and 1 Children in public care (children looked Rickmansworth (part) /Maple Cross. after) and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or Queries about the outcome of applications to became subject to a residence order or a special this school and how the admissions rules were guardianship order). applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire County Council. 2 Medical or Social: Children for whom it can be demonstrated that they have a particular medical or social need to go to the school. Dame Alice Owen’s School 3 Sibling: Children who have a sibling at the School Details school at the time of application, unless the Headteacher: Dr Alan Davison sibling is in the last year of the normal age Dugdale Hill Lane, , EN6 2DU range of the school. 01707 643441 FAX 01707 645011 @ [email protected] 4 Children who live in priority area 6b and www.damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk for whom it is their nearest Hertfordshire Type: Academy (co-educational) maintained, non-faith, co-educational, non- Number on Roll: 1443 partially selective school or academy in the Published Admission Number:200 priority area. Specialist Status: Languages, Science Where more children qualify under this rule School Code: 9195407

Kjings Langley/Potters Bar Kjings Langley/Potters than there are places available, places will be allocated to those who live nearest to the school or academy. Open Event details Open Afternoon 5 Children who live in the whole priority area 19 July, 2.00pm – 5.00pm. Tours of the school (6a and 6b) who live nearest to the school. and speeches by Head teacher

6 Children who live outside the priority area 2 – 5 October at 9.30am only. Tours of school. and for whom it is their nearest Hertfordshire maintained, non-faith, co-educational, non- Application form partially selective school or academy. Where Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions more children qualify under this rule than there or on the Hertfordshire paper application are places available, places will be allocated to form. those who live nearest the school or academy. If your child has a sibling that previously 7 Children living outside the priority area who attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, please live nearest to the school. contact the school direct.

11 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions What happened in previous years 4 Children demonstrating musical aptitude as determined by the Governors’ Assessment 2011 2012 Procedure (not more than 10 places).The Number of places available 200 200 Governors’ Assessment Procedure consists of a Total number of applications 1216 1259 musical aptitude test. A limited number Total number of places offered 200 200 of children will be invited back for an individual test.

Places offered under each rule 5 Up to 65 children selected by academic 2011 2012 ability having taken the Governors’ Entrance Examination. Of these we will admit: SEN 1 1 As many children from the Islington priority Looked After 0 1 area as when added to the number from that Distance 22 22 area already admitted under criteria 1 to 4, will Siblings 94 98 ensure that at least 20 children are admitted from Islington. As many children from the non- Music 10 10 Islington Local Priority Areas as, when added Examination 65 65 to the number from Islington already admitted Locality 8 3 under the paragraph above, will total not more than 65 children. Subject to these Admission Arrangements, places will be offered in merit Summary of Admissions Rules order with priority to those children obtaining 1 Looked after children. A looked after child is the highest total score from all three papers. a child who is in the care of the local authority Potters Bar or provided with accommodation by a local 6 Children of Staff. A member of staff is defined authority in the exercise of its social service as a person who has a permanent contract of functions. Priority under this criterion will also employment with the Governing Body of the be given to a formerly looked after child who School at the time of application, and qualifies has ceased to be so because they were adopted in the following circumstances; (a) the member or became subject to a residence order or of staff has been employed at the school for special guardianship order. two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, 2 The 22 children whose permanent home or (b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a address is closest to the school and who would vacant post for which there is a demonstrable not be allocated a place under any skill shortage. other criterion. 7 Children whose permanent home address 3 Children with a sibling who is at the School is closest to the school within the Local or who have a sibling who is a former pupil Priority Areas. of the School, and for whom the School has a record as held on the School’s management 8 Any other child. system. All multiple birth siblings will be admitted, provided that at least one of the If a tie-break is needed between children who siblings gains a place at the School under any are equally qualified within any particular other criterion. Such additional places will be priority criterion, the place will be offered to counted as sibling admissions. Places will be the child whose permanent home address is allocated under oversubscription criteria 4 & closest to the school. If there are two identical 5 only to children who have their permanent distance measurements for different addresses home address within one of the Local Priority of separate applicants, the tie break will Areas for the School or are educated within the be random. London Borough of Islington.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 12 Local Priority Areas Number on Roll: 1000 The Local Priority Areas referred to above Published Admission Number: 174 consist of the following parishes, towns, London Specialist Status: Business and Enterprise and Post Code sectors and Borough. Applied Learning School Code: 9195411 Parishes and towns within Hertfordshire: Aldenham, Essendon, , Open Event details Bayford, Hatfield, Potters Bar, Thursday, 27 September, 5.00pm – 8.00pm Liberty, , Ridge, Colney Open mornings 2 and 4 October, 9.15am by Heath, , , Elstree and appointment only please ring the school. Borehamwood, , Garden City. Application form Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions London postcodes within the London or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. Boroughs of Barnet and Enfield EN2 sectors 7, 8 N11 sectors 1, 3 What happened in previous years N12 all sectors N13 sectors 4, 5 2011 2012 N14 all sectors N20 all sectors N21 all sectors EN4 all sectors Number of places available 174 174 EN5 all sectors Total number of applications 397 363 Total number of places offered 174 174 Within Islington Children who have their permanent home Places offered under each rule address in the London Borough of Islington or are being educated in that Borough. 2011 2012 SEN/Rule 1 and Rule 2 4 0 An objection to the arrangements of Dame Rule 3 58 53 Alice Owen’s School has not been upheld by the Rule 4 112 118 Potters Bar Potters Office of the Schools Adjudicator. Minor amendments have been made to the schools Rule 5 (new rule for 2012) 0 3 arrangements which have been reflected in this booklet but these amendments will not impact Summary of Admissions Rules upon the school’s oversubscription criteria for 1 Children in public care. If you are applying 2013. For full details go to www.education.gov.uk/schoolsadjudicator on behalf of a child in public care or a child previously looked after, please send a supporting professional letter from the child’s Queries about the outcome of applications to social worker and/or the child’s advisory this school and how the admissions rules were teacher to the school. If you apply online, please applied should be addressed to the school ensure that the letter includes the child’s full direct. name, date of birth and Unique Application Code (UAC). 2 Children for whom it can be demonstrated School Details that they have a particular medical or social Headteacher: Peter Baker need to go to the school. A panel from the Church Road, Potters Bar, EN6 1EZ Governors’ School Admissions’ Committee 01707 655512 FAX 01707 621298 will determine whether the evidence @ [email protected] provided is sufficiently compelling to meet www.mountgrace.herts.sch.uk the requirements for this rule. If you think Type: Academy (co-educational) your child has a particular medical or social need to go to Mount Grace School, you must

13 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions provide supporting evidence from a doctor, Queries about the outcome of applications to psychologist or other professional involved with this school and how the admissions rules were your child. The supporting evidence must relate applied should be addressed to the school specifically to Mount Grace School under Rule direct. 2 and must clearly demonstrate why it is the only school that can meet your child’s needs. If you are applying online and applying under The Reach Free School Rule 2, please send your supporting evidence, Approved for opening September 2013 which should include your child’s name, date of birth and Unique Application Code (UAC), to the Applications will only be accepted for this school. We give medical priority to children who school through the co-ordinated process when have an exceptional illness or disability which the school’s funding agreement for opening in means that they can only go to Mount Grace September 2013 is agreed. More details about School. the application process for this school will be We give social priority to children whose available on Hertsdirect and the school’s own education would be seriously affected if they website. did not go to Mount Grace School. School Details 3 Children who have a sibling at the school at Potters Bar/Rickmansworth the time of application, unless the sibling is in Headteacher: Mr Richard Booth (Principal Year 13. Designate) Note: A sibling means the sister, brother, half location to be confirmed please see school brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, website for up to date information or child of the parent/carer or partner, and 07552 358200 FAX in every case living in the same house from @ [email protected] Monday to Friday. www.thereachfreeschool.co.uk Type: Free school (co-educational) 4 Children living nearest to the school. The Number on Roll: Planned 840 school uses home school measurements Published Admission Number: 180 provided by Hertfordshire County Council which School Code: 9199995 measures the distance between the child’s address point and the school’s address point. Open Event details 8 and 16 October 7.00pm – 9.00pm. 5 Aptitude in Modern Foreign Languages, MFL The Headteacher will speak at 7.30pm. The remaining 10% of places (17 places) will be Watersmeet, The High Street, Rickmansworth, allocated for children who show an aptitude for WD3 1EH MFL on the basis of an assessment carried out by the school. Priority will be given to those with Summary of Admissions Rules the highest score in this test. In the event of a Where the number of applications for admission tie-break being required under this criterion, is greater than the published admission places will be allocated using criteria 4. number, applications will be considered against (Home-school distance using the home-school the criteria set out below. After the admission of measurement system used by Hertfordshire students with statements of Special Educational County Council as outlined in the County’s Needs where The Reach Free School is named admission arrangements and application on the statement, the criteria will be applied in literature). In the event that applications for the order in which they are set out below: places under this criterion are less than 10% of the total (17), any remaining places will be 1 Children who are looked after by a local added to the places available under criteria 1, authority in accordance with Section 22 of the 2, 3 and 4 (in that order until all the places have Children Act 1989 at the date of the relevant been allocated).

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 14 application for admission is made and children Enjoyment - A commitment to innovative previously looked after who are now adopted or practice and the utilisation of technology to have a special residence/guardianship order. develop enthusiasm for learning.

2 Students who, on the date of admission, will have a sibling (i.e. a natural brother or sister, or a half brother or sister, or a legally adopted brother or sister or half-brother or School Details sister, or step brother or sister who will be Headteacher: Dr. S Burton living with them at the same address at the date Scots Hill, Rickmansworth, WD3 3AQ of their entry to The Reach Free School) on 01923 773296 FAX 01923 897314 the roll of the school. (Proof of the sibling @ [email protected] relationship will be required if a place is www.rickmansworth.herts.sch.uk offered). Type: Academy (co-educational) Number on Roll: 1252 3 The remaining places will be offered to Published Admission Number: 185 pupils with the nearest distance measurement School Code: 9195400 on the basis of proximity to the Mill End Sports and Social Club, WD3 8QN; i.e. pupils who Open Event details live the nearest distance at the close of the Tuesday, 9 October, 5.30pm – 9.00pm Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) admission application date. As measured by Hertfordshire Application form County Council’s GIS system. Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or on the Hertfordshire paper application form Tie Break AND complete the Supplementary Information Siblings Form available from the school or the In the event of a tie break under the sibling above website. criterion, criterion 3 will be used as a tie break. What happened in previous years Distance

Rickmansworth In the event of a tie break under the distance 2011 2012 criterion, random allocation will be used. Number of places available 185 185 School Ethos Total number of applications 855 808 The core ethos of The Reach Free School is to Total number of places offered 185 186 personalise the education of every student in order for them to maximise their potential and Places offered under each rule realise their dreams and aspirations. 2011 2012 The Reach Free School believes in the following SEN/Public Care 0 0 principles: Distance 10% 18 18 Achievement - Realised through recognising Siblings 79 80 the individual needs of every learner. Music Aptitude 18 18 Academic Ability 46 46 Community & Cooperation - Embracing and Distance 24 24 utilising the local community for the benefit of all learners and building partnerships to The Education Act 1996 requires the governing support teaching and learning. bodies of all maintained schools to admit a child with a statement of special educational needs that names their school.

15 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Summary of Admissions Rules applied should be addressed to the school 1 Looked after children and previously looked direct. after children.

2 Not more than 18 (10%) places will be St Joan of Arc Catholic School allocated to children who do not qualify under School Details any other criterion based on the nearness of their home to the front gate of the School at the Headteacher: Mr Peter Sweeney time applications are required. High Street, Rickmansworth, WD3 1HG 01923 773881 FAX 01923 897545 @ 3 Children with brothers or sisters on the [email protected] School’s roll in Years 7 to 12 at the time www.joa.herts.sch.uk applications are required and who are Type: Academy (co-educational) reasonably expected to be on the School’s roll in Number on Roll: 1265 September 2013. Published Admission Number: 210 Denomination: Roman Catholic 4 Not more than 18 (10%) places will be Specialist Status: Mathematics, Computing and available for applicants with a proven aptitude Science College and a HPSS Centre for Gifted in music in descending order of merit as and Talented Pupils determined by the School’s assessment School Code: 9195418 arrangements. Open Event details Rickmansworth 5 Not more than 46 (25%) places will be Open Evening Thursday, 4 October, 6.00pm – available by reference to academic ability in 9.00pm (the Headteacher to speak at 6.30pm descending order of merit as determined by the and 7.30pm. School’s assessment arrangements. Open Morning Friday, 5 October 9.00am – 11.30am the Headteacher to speak at 10.30am. 6 Nearness of the child’s home to the front gate of the School. Application form Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Under Criteria 4 and 5, applicants will be placed or on the Hertfordshire paper application form in categories as follows: AND complete the Supplementary Information Form available from the school or the i) Those resident in the area defined by above website. postcodes beginning with WD17, WD18, WD19, WD23, WD24, WD25, WD3, WD4, WD5, HA6 2 and HA6 3. This is our priority What happened in previous years catchment area. A map of this area and 2011 2012 accompanying explanatory notes can be viewed on the School’s website. Number of places available 210 210 ii) Other candidates. Total number of applications 657 601 Total number of places offered 210 210 There are up to 64 places in total available under criteria (4) and (5). 62 (97%) pupils Places offered under each rule from priority catchment area, (i) above. The remaining 2 (3%) places will be allocated to 2011 2012 category (ii) applicants. If there are insufficient SEN 7 6 applicants from category (i) to reach 97%, Social Medical for Practising 1 1 the number will be made up with category (ii) Catholic Family applicants. Catholic looked after children 1 0 Queries about the outcome of applications to Catholic Siblings 86 84 this school and how the admissions rules were

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 16 2011 2012 (i) Exceptional social, medical and pastoral needs. Please provide compelling recent Children from practising 96 119 professional supporting evidence. Catholic Families (ii) Siblings. Sister, brother, half brother or Children from other Catholic 19 0 sister, adopted brother or sister, or the child of Families the parent/carer or partner and in every case Other looked after children 0 0 living in the same house Monday to Friday. Other Siblings 0 0 (ii) Children of staff. Providing that the staff Other denominations 0 0 member is the child’s parent by blood or All other Children 0 0 adoption, or have legal parental responsibility for the child and has been employed by the school for a minimum of two years at the time Summary of Admissions Rules of application. Criterion 1 Catholic children looked after by a (iv) Nearest Catholic school. Home address is local authority. A child who is looked after by a the child’s current permanent address at the local authority is (a) in their care; or (b) provided time of application (applicable only to Criterion with accommodation by the authority in the 1,2 & 3). exercise of any functions; or (c) children looked (v) Distance. after and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted Please see full Admission Arrangements. (or became subject to a residence order or a special guardianship order). Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admissions rules were Criterion 2 Children from practising Catholic applied should be addressed to the school families. Catholic means a member of a church direct. in full communion with the See of Rome. This includes the Eastern Catholic churches. Normally evidenced by a certificate of baptism Watford Grammar School for Boys in a Catholic church or a certificate of reception School Details into the full communion of the Catholic Church. Headteacher: M Post Criterion 3 Children from other Catholic Rickmansworth Road, Watford, WD18 7JF FAX families. Catholic means a member of a church 01923 208900 01923 208901 @ in full communion with the See of Rome. [email protected] Rickmansworth/Watford This includes the Eastern Catholic churches. www.watfordboys.org Normally evidenced by a certificate of baptism Type: Academy (Boys) in a Catholic church or a certificate of reception Number on Roll: 1269 into the full communion of the Catholic Church. Published Admission Number: 190. Specialist Status: Mathematics, Science and Criterion 4 Other children looked after. Languages School Code: 9195401 Criterion 5 Siblings of all children other than those covered in criterion (1) to (4). Open Event details Open Morning Saturday, 6 October Criterion 6 Baptised children of other Christian 9.30am – 12.00pm denominations. Application form Criterion 7 Applications from children not Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions covered by criterion 1 – 6. or on the Hertfordshire paper application form AND complete the Supplementary Information Within each criterion applications will be Form available from the school. considered in the following preference order

17 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions What happened in previous years 4 Applicants with a brother enrolled at the school, excluding brothers who first entered the 2011 2012 school in the Sixth Form (Year 12 or Year 13). Number of places available 190 190 Total number of applications 812 785 5 Applicants with a sister enrolled at Watford Total number of places offered 190 190 Grammar School for Girls, excluding sisters who first entered the school in the Sixth Form (Year 12 or 13). Places offered under each rule 6 Places will then be allocated to applicants 2011 2012 living closest to the school. LAC and Statements 3 4 Proximity 19 19 SPECIALIST PLACES Same Sex Siblings 53 50 7 Applicants selected on the basis of aptitude Distance 48 50 for music as measured by the school’s Music 19 19 assessment procedures (19 places, 10% of Academic 48 48 total admissions).

8 Applicants selected by academic ability Summary of Admissions Rules as measured by the school’s assessment The school will designate 123 places (65% of procedures, in merit order (48 places, 25% of the whole) as Community Places and 67 places total admissions). (35% of the whole) as Specialist Places. The Admission Area comprises the Watford 1 Children Looked After. A Child Looked After Area and the Rest of the Admission Area. Watford means a child who is or has been looked after by a local authority in accordance with Watford Area Rest of the Section 22 of the Children Act 1989[2] at the Admission Area: time an application for his admission to the WD17 1 to 4 WD3 1, 4 to 9 school is made and who the local authority has WD18 0, 6 to 9 WD4 8 and 9 confirmed will still be looked after at the time WD19 4 to 7 WD5 0 when he is admitted to the school. Children WD23 1 to 7 and 9 WD6 3 who were looked after will be treated as a Child Looked After if they have been adopted, subject WD24 4 to 7 and 9 WD7 7 and 8 to a Residence Order or Special Guardianship WD25 0, 5, 7 to 9 HA3 6 Order. WD3 3 HA5 1 to 5 HA6 1 to 3 2 Applicants whose permanent home address is nearest to the school and would not be HA7 3 and 4 allocated a place under any other criterion (19 places, 10% of the total admissions). The school will reserve 40 specialist places (60% of the total specialist places) for 3 Applicants who are children of a parent who applicants whose permanent address lies is a permanent member of the school staff (as within the Watford Area. The school will reserve defined in the Admissions Code). A member 27 specialist places (40% of the total specialist of staff must either have been employed at places) for applicants whose permanent the schools for two or more years at the time address lies within the rest of the Admission at which the application for admission to the Area. school is made; and/or have been recruited to fill a post for which there is a demonstrable Queries about the outcome of applications to skill shortage. this school and how the admissions rules were

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 18 applied should be addressed to the school Summary of Admissions Rules direct. 1 Children Looked After. A Child Looked After means a child who is or has been looked after by a local authority in accordance with Watford Grammar School Section 22 of the Children Act 1989[2] at the for Girls time an application for her admission to the school is made and who the local authority has School Details confirmed will still be looked after at the time Headteacher: Mrs Helen Hyde when she is admitted to the school. Children Lady’s Close, Watford, WD18 0AE who were looked after will be treated as a Child 01923 223403 FAX 01923 350721 Looked After if they have been adopted, subject @ [email protected] to a Residence Order or Special Guardianship www.watfordgrammarschoolforgirls.org.uk Order. Type: Academy (Girls) Number on Roll: 1291 2 Applicants whose permanent home address Published Admission Number: 180 is nearest to the school and who would not be Specialist Status: Visual Arts, Maths and allocated a place under any other criterion (18 Computing places, 10% of the total admissions. School Code: 9195403 3 Applicants who are children of a parent who Open Event details is a permanent member of the school staff (as Wednesday, 10 October, 6.00pm – 9.00pm defined in the Admissions Code). A member of staff must either have been employed at Application form the school for two or more years at the time Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions at which the application for admission to the or on the Hertfordshire paper application form school is made; and/or have been recruited to AND complete the Supplementary Information fill a post for which there is a demonstrable Form available from the school. skill shortage.

Watford 4 What happened in previous years Applicants with a sister enrolled at the school, excluding sisters who first entered the school in 2011 2012 the Sixth Form (Year 12 or Year 13). Number of places available 180 180 5 Applicants with a brother enrolled at Watford Total number of applications 701 754 Grammar School for Boys, excluding brothers Total number of places offered 180 180 who first entered the school in the Sixth Form (Year 12 or 13). Places offered under each rule 6 Places will then be allocated to applicants 2011 2012 living closest to the school. LAC and Statements 0 2 Proximity 18 18 SPECIALIST PLACES Same Sex Siblings 40 36 7 Applicants selected on the basis of aptitude Distance 59 61 for music as measured by the school’s Music 18 18 assessment procedures (18 places, 10% of total Academic 45 45 admissions).

The school will designate 117 places (65% of 8 Applicants selected by academic ability the whole) as Community Places and 63 places as measured by the school’s assessment (35% of the whole) as Specialist Places. procedures, in merit order (45 places, 25% of total admissions)

19 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions The Admission Area comprises the Watford Open Event details Area and the Rest of the Admission Area. Thursday, 11 October, 6.00pm – 8.00pm (There is no entry before 6.00pm). Principal’s speech Watford Area Rest of the will be at 6.20pm and 7.20pm. Car Parking is Admission Area: available on site. WD17 1 to 4 WD3 1, 4 to 9 Application form WD18 0, 6 to 9 WD4 8 and 9 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions WD19 4 to 7 WD5 0 or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. WD23 1 to 7 and 9 WD6 3 WD24 4 to 7 and 9 WD7 7 and 8 What happened in previous years WD25 0, 5, 7 to 9 HA3 6 2011 2012 WD3 3 HA5 1 to 5 Number of places available 240 240 HA6 1 to 3 Total number of applications 267 261 HA7 3 and 4 Total number of places offered 239 304 The school will reserve 38 specialist places Westfield Community Technology College was (60% of the total specialist places) for able to offer places to all children who applied applicants whose permanent home address lies in 2011 and 2012. within the Watford Area. The school will reserve 25 specialist places (40% of the total specialist Places are allocated in accordance places) for applicants whose permanent home with Hertfordshire County Council’s address lies within the rest of the Admission admission rules - see page 16 - 26 of the Watford Area. Moving On booklet.

Queries about the outcome of applications to Parishes in the priority area for this school this school and how the admissions rules were are: Abbots Langley, Aldbury, Berkhamsted, applied should be addressed to the school Bovingdon, Chipperfield, Chorleywood, Croxley direct. Green, Flaunden, Great Gaddesden, Hemel Hempstead, Kings Langley, Little Gaddesden, , Nettleden with , Westfield Community Northchurch, Rickmansworth (part)/Maple Technology College Cross, Sarratt, Tring, Tring Rural, Watford and Wigginton. School Details Headteacher: Emma Aylesbury Queries about the outcome of applications to Tolpits Lane, Watford, WD18 6NS this school and how the admissions rules were 01923 231560 FAX 01923 210568 applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire @ [email protected] County Council. www.westfield.herts.sch.uk Type: Community (co-educational)* Number on Roll: 1097 Published Admission Number: 240 Specialist Status: Technology School Code: 9194111

*Pending application to convert to Academy status 1 November 2012.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 20 The directory section 2 and St Albans Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 requires the governing bodies of all maintained School Details schools to admit a child with a statement Headteacher: Mr James Shapland of special educational needs that names Chesham Road, Berkhamsted, HP4 3AH their school. 01442 863605 FAX 01442 876292 @ [email protected] Summary of Admissions Rules www.ashlyns.herts.sch.uk 1 Children in public care (children looked after) Type: Foundation (co-educational) and children who were looked after, but ceased Number on Roll: 800 to be so because they were adopted (or became Published Admission Number: 210 subject to a residence order or a special Specialist Status: Languages guardianship order). School Code: 9195406 2 Children for whom it can be demonstrated This is an upper school which takes children that they have a particular medical or social from Year 9. need to go to the school.

At the time of publication, statutory proposals 3 Children who have a sibling at the school at have been made to change the age range of the time of application, unless the sibling is in Ashlyn’s school, from September 2013, to 11- the last year of the normal age-range of the 19, effectively making it a secondary school school. Note: the ‘normal age range’ is the with admissions from Year 7. The proposal is designated range for which the school provides, one of a number designed to change education for example Years 7 to 11 for 11-16 secondary provision within Berkhamsted from a three- school, Years 7 to 13 in a 11-18 school. tier to a two-tier system. Final decisions have yet to be made and full details will be 4 Children who live in the priority area for whom available on HertsDirect at www.hertsdirect. it is their nearest Hertfordshire maintained org/berkhamsted There will not be an impact school or academy that is non-faith, co- upon the Year 9 allocation process to Ashlyns educational and non-partially selective. Note: Berkhamsted for 2013. Non-partially selective means that the school does not offer any places based on academic Open Event details ability. Thursday, 4 October, 7.00pm – 9.00pm please see school website for further details. 5 Children who live in the priority area who live nearest to the school. Application form Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 6 Children who live outside the priority area and or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. for whom it is their nearest maintained school or academy that is non-faith co-educational and non- partially selective. What happened in previous years 2011 2012 7 Children living outside the priority area on the Number of places available 210 210 basis of distance, with those living nearest to the school given priority. Total number of applications 255 269 Total number of places offered 190 205 Hertfordshire County Council allocates places on behalf of the school’s governing body. Ashlyns School was able to offer places to all children who applied in 2011 and 2012.

1 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 2 Medical or social needs: Children for whom it can be demonstrated that they have a particular School Details medical or social need to go to that specific Headteacher: Mr Alan Henshall school. Roundwood Park, , AL5 3AE 01582 765344 FAX 01582 461404 3 Sibling: Children who have a sibling at the @ [email protected] school at the time of application, unless the www.roundwoodpark.co.uk sibling is in the last year of the normal age Type: Academy (co-educational) range of the school. Note: the ‘normal age Number on Roll: 1199 range’ is the designated range for which the Published Admission Number: 196 school provides, for example Years 7 to 11 in a Specialist Status: Maths, Computing and 11-16 secondary school, Years 7 to 13 in a 11-18 Languages. school. School Code: 9194070 4 Children who live in the priority area and Open Event details for whom it is their nearest Hertfordshire Thursday 27 September, 6.00pm to 9.00pm. maintained school or academy that is non-faith, co-educational and non-partially selective. Note: Non-partially selective means that the Application form school does not offer any places based on Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions academic ability. or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. 5 Children who live in the priority area who live

What happened in previous years nearest to the school. Harpenden 2011 2012 6 Children living outside the priority area and Number of places available 196 196 for whom it is their nearest maintained school Total number of applications 598 646 or academy that is non-faith, co-educational Total number of places offered 196 196 and non-partially selective.

7 Children living outside the priority area on the Places offered under each rule basis of distance, with those living nearest to 2011 2012 the school given priority. SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 2 4 Parishes in the priority area for this school are: Rule 3 58 104 , , , Rule 4 106 88 Harpenden, , Kimpton, Kings Rule 5 30 0 Walden, London Colney, , , Rule 6 0 0 Ridge, , Shenley, St Albans, St Michael, St Paul’s Walden, St Stephen Rule 7 0 0 and .

Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 requires Hertfordshire County Council allocates places the governing bodies of all maintained schools on behalf of the school’s governing body. to admit a child with a statement of special educational needs that names the school.

Summary of Admissions Rules 1 Children in public care (children looked after) and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a residence order or a special guardianship order).

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 2 2 Medical or social needs: Children for whom it can be demonstrated that they have a particular School Details medical or social need to go to that specific Headteacher: Claire Robins school. Manland Way, Harpenden, AL5 4QP 01582 760043 FAX 01582 463170 3 Sibling: Children who have a sibling at the @ [email protected] school at the time of application, unless the www.sjl.herts.sch.uk sibling is in the last year of the normal age Type: Academy (co-educational) range of the school. Note: the ‘normal age Number on Roll: 1186 range’ is the designated range for which the Published Admission Number: 196 school provides, for example Years 7 to 11 in a Specialist Status: Arts, Science, Teaching 11-16 secondary school, Years 7 to 13 in a 11-18 School school. School Code: 9194028 4 Children who live in the priority area and for whom it is their nearest Hertfordshire Open Event details maintained non-faith, co-educational, non- Tuesday, 2 October, 6.00pm – 9.00pm partially selective school or academy. Note: Non-partially selective means that the Application form school does not offer any places based on Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions academic ability. or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. 5 Children who live in the priority area who live nearest to the school. What happened in previous years 2011 2012 6 Children living outside the priority area and Number of places available 187 192 for whom it is their nearest maintained school or academy that is non-faith, co-educational Total number of applications 589 646 and non-partially selective.

Harpenden Total number of places offered 187 196 7 Children living outside the priority area on the Places offered under each rule basis of distance, with those living nearest to the school given priority. 2011 2012 SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 5 11 Tie-Break Rule 3 75 75 Where there is a need for a tie-breaker where two different addresses measure the same Rule 4 107 110 distance from a school, in the case of a block of Rule 5 0 0 flats for example the lower door number will be Rule 6 0 0 deemed nearest as logically this will be on the Rule 7 0 0 ground floor and therefore closer. If there are two identical addresses of separate applicants, Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 requires the tie break will be random. the governing bodies of all maintained schools Parishes in the priority area for this school are: to admit a child with a statement of special Ayot St Lawrence, Colney Heath, Flamstead, educational needs that names the school. Harpenden, Harpenden Rural, Kimpton, Kings Walden, London Colney, Markyate, Redbourn, Summary of Admissions Rules Ridge, Sandridge, Shenley, St Albans, 1 Children in public care (children looked St Michael, St Paul’s Walden, St Stephen after) and children who were looked after, but and Wheathampstead. ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a residence order or special Hertfordshire County Council allocates places guardianship order). on behalf of the school’s governing body.

3 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions St Georges School – Tie Break Criteria: 2011 2012 Day places Medical/Social 1 0 School Details Multi - denominational Reasons 21 0 Headteacher: Mr Norman Hoare Boarding qualified n/a n/a Sun Lane, Harpenden, AL5 4TD Distance 48 83 01582 765477 FAX 01582 469830 @ [email protected] Summary of Admissions Rules www.stgeorges.herts.sch.uk Type: Academy (co-educational) 1 Children looked after or were previously looked Number on Roll: 1319 after. Published Admission Number: 160 Denomination: Christian 2 Children of a member of staff. Specialist Status: Technology, Languages School Code: 9194614 3 Children who have a brother or sister at the school as a day pupil at the time of application. School Code: This school has day places and boarding places. If you apply online, please 4 Children who have previously at any time had a choose whether you want to apply for a day brother or sister at the school as a day pupil. place or a boarding place. If you apply on paper you should use the code 9194614 for a day place 5 Children living with a parent or parents with a or 9199910 for a boarding place. Christian commitment shown by membership of a Christian Church. Harpenden Open Event details a) 80% of places available under this criterion Friday, 5 October, 6.15pm – 9.30pm, with the will be allocated to children living in the Headmaster speaking at 6.30, 7.30, and 8.30. Harpenden Area (the civil parishes of Harpenden and Harpenden Rural). Application form Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions b) 20% of places available under this criterion or on the Hertfordshire paper application form will be allocated to those living in the civil AND complete the supplementary information parishes of Ayot St Lawrence, Flamstead, form available from the school or the above Kimpton, Kings Walden, Markyate, Redbourn, website. St.Paul’s Walden and Wheathampstead.

What happened in previous years If there are insufficient applications to match any of the above allocations, the places will be 2011 2012 transferred to other allocations in priority order Number of places available 160 160 (a), then (b), until they are all allocated. Total number of applications 546 562 Total number of places offered 166* 166* 6 Children whose parent or parents can prove that they have a particular medical or social *Following late In-year Adjustment. reason that makes St.George’s School uniquely well suited for the child. Places offered under each rule 7 Children whose parents can prove that they 2011 2012 are of different Christian denominations, and SEN/LAC 1 2 are currently active members of their separate Churches. Siblings 95 81 Christian Commitment 70 83 8 Children whose normal residence is nearest the School, using the straight line home-school distance measurement provided by Hertfordshire

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 4 County Council’s GIS system as outlined in their 2 All children applying for a boarding place Moving On publications. must attend for an interview to establish suitability for boarding according to the government’s published guidelines. St Georges School – Boarding places 3 Children whose parent or parents do not normally live in the UK or who travel frequently School Details away from home must have a suitable guardian Please see page 5 for contact details. over the age of twenty-one who resides within Published Admission Number: to be advised approximately an hour’s journey of the school. School Code: 9199910 4 All applicants for boarding places will need to School code satisfy the School as to their ability to pay the boarding fees and expenses incurred at This school has day places and boarding places. the School and to pay a deposit on receipt of If you apply online, please choose whether an offer. you want to apply for a day place or a boarding place. If you apply on paper you should use the 5 Boarders and their parents and guardians code 9194614 for a day place or 9199910 for a must also agree to the statement of Principles, boarding place. Aims and Practice.

Application form 6 Children who would qualify for a day place Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions according to their normal residence at the date or on the Hertfordshire paper application of application will not be given priority to board. form AND complete the supplementary Applications may be made for EITHER a day OR information form available from the school or a boarding place at the school, but not for both. the above website. 7 Siblings of boarders on the school roll at the

Harpenden What happened in previous years time of application will not be given priority for day places. 2011 2012 Number of places available 20 20 The criteria for boarding admission to year 7 Total number of applications 21 22 are: (applied at the time of application). Total number of places offered 9 9 1 Looked after children and previously looked after children. Places offered under each rule 2 Children of members of the UK Armed Forces 2011 2012 who qualify for Ministry of Defence financial LAC 0 0 assistance with the cost of boarding school fees. Boarding Need 9 9 3 Children with a need to be considered for a Boarding place and where circumstances Summary of Admissions Rules clearly point to a benefit from Boarding. It is essential to view a full copy which contains important additional explanation (available on Over-subscription Criteria line at www.stgeorges.herts.sch.uk or from the 1 Children who have a brother or sister in school) before applying for a boarding place. boarding at the school at the time of admission.

1 Boarders at St George’s must be UK or EU 2 Children of parents working outside the UK citizens or have full UK passports with the right for a recognised Christian missionary society or of abode in the UK. children of ordained ministers and leaders of recognised Christian churches in the UK or

5 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions serving in parishes and church areas outside What happened in previous years the UK. 2011 2012 3 Children who have satisfied the Governing Number of places available 150 150 Body that they have a significant degree of Total number of applications 222 230 boarding need according to one of the following Total number of places offered 104 111 criteria: • Children of Crown Servants serving abroad; Adeyfield School was able to offer places to all • Children at risk or with an unstable home children who applied in 2011 and 2012. environment; • Children of service personnel who have died Places are allocated in accordance with while serving or who have been discharged as a Hertfordshire County Council’s admission result of attributable injury; rules – see page 16 - 26 of the Moving On booklet for details. If there are more applications that fulfil the above criteria than spaces available, the Parishes in the priority area for this school Governors will apply a random allocation

are; Abbots Langley, Aldbury, Berkhamsted, Harpenden/Hemel Hempstead system to allocate the available places. Bovingdon, Chipperfield, Chorleywood, Croxley Green, Flaunden, Great Gaddesden, Hemel Queries about the outcome of applications to Hempstead, Kings Langley, Little Gaddesden, this school and how the admissions rules were Nash Mills, Nettleden with Potten End, applied should be addressed to the school Northchurch, Rickmansworth (part)/Maple direct. Cross, Sarratt, Tring, Tring Rural, Watford and Wigginton.

Adeyfield School Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admissions rules were School Details applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire Headteacher: Mr Scott Martin County Council. Longlands, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 4DE 01442 406020 FAX 01442 406025 @ [email protected] www.adeyfieldschool.org Type: Community (co-educational) School Details Number on Roll: 702 Headteacher: Mr Edward Gaynor Published Admission Number: 150 St. Agnells Lane, Hemel Hempstead, Specialist Status: Business and Enterprise HP2 7HL School Code: 9194029 01442 394141 FAX 01442 401407 @ [email protected] Open Event details www.astleycooper.herts.sch.uk Type: Community (co-educational) Open Evening: Monday, 8 October, 7.00pm Number on Roll: 412 Open Mornings: Tuesday, 9 October, 9.00am Published Admission Number: 180 and Wednesday, 10 October, 9.00am Specialist Status: Performing and Visual Arts School Code: 9194499 Application form Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Open Event details or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. Open Evening: Tuesday, 9 October, 6.45pm - 9.00pm. Headteacher to speak at 7.00pm Open Mornings: Thursday, 11 October and Monday, 15 October, 9.15am - 11.00am

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 6 Application form Open Event details Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Open Morning, 29 September, 9.30am - 12.30pm or on the Hertfordshire paper Application form. Application form What happened in previous years Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 2011 2012 or on the Hertfordshire paper application form.

Number of places available 180 180 What happened in previous years Total number of applications 98 96 Total number of places offered 62 81 2011 2012 Number of places available 210 210 The Astley Cooper School was able to offer Total number of applications 383 426 places to all children who applied in 2011 Total number of places offered 206 210 and 2012. Places offered under each rule Places are allocated in accordance with Hertfordshire County Council’s admission 2011 2012 rules – see page 16 - 26 of the Moving On SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 5 2 booklet for details. Rule 3 61 64 Rule 4 81 83 Parishes in the priority area for this school are; Abbots Langley, Aldbury, Berkhamsted, Rule 5 37 37 Bovingdon, Chipperfield, Chorleywood, Croxley Rule 6 0 0 Green, Flaunden, Great Gaddesden, Hemel Rule 7 3 1 Hempstead, Kings Langley, Little Gaddesden, Nash Mills, and Nettleden with Potten End, Places are allocated in accordance with Northchurch, Rickmansworth (part) /Maple Hertfordshire County Council’s admission Cross, Sarratt, Tring, Tring Rural, Watford and rules – see page 16 - 26 of the Moving On Wigginton. booklet. Hemel Hempstead Queries about the outcome of applications to Parishes in the priority area for this school this school and how the admissions rules were are : Abbots Langley, Aldbury, Berkhamstead, applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire Bovingdon, Chipperfield, Chorleywood, Croxley County Council. Green, Flaunden, Great Gaddesden, Hemel Hempstead, Kings Langley, Little Gaddesden, Nash Mills, Nettleden with Potten End, The Cavendish School Northchurch, Rickmansworth(part)/Maple Cross, Sarratt, Tring, Tring Rural, Watford and School Details Wigginton. Headteacher: Susan Forde Warners End Road, Hemel Hempstead, Queries about the outcome of applications to HP1 3DW this school and how the admissions rules were FAX 01442 404333 01442 404378 applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire @ [email protected] County Council. www.cavendish.herts.sch.uk Type: Community (co-educational) Number on Roll: 1125 Published Admission Number: 210 Specialist Status: Sports School Code: 9194100

7 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions The Hemel Hempstead School Nash Mills, Nettleden with Potten End, Northchurch, Rickmansworth(part)/Maple School Details Cross, Sarratt, Tring, Tring Rural, Watford Acting Headteacher: Mr Tim Jordan and Wigginton. Heath Lane, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1TX 01442 390100 FAX 01442 233706 Queries about the outcome of applications to @ [email protected] this school and how the admissions rules were www.hhs.herts.sch.uk applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire Type: Community (co-educational) County Council. Number on Roll: 1152 Published Admission Number: 180 Specialist Status: Performing Arts, Science and John F Kennedy Catholic School Mathematics. School Code: 9194005 School Details Headteacher: Mr Paul Neves Hollybush Lane, Hemel Hempstead, Open Event details HP1 2PH Open Evening Thursday, 11 October, 6.30pm – 01442 266150 FAX 01442 250014 9.00pm @ [email protected] www.jfk.herts.sch.uk

Application form Type: Voluntary Aided (co-educational) Hemel Hempstead Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Number on Roll: 1139 or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. Denomination: Catholic Published Admission Number: 180 Specialist Status: Technology, Languages What happened in previous years School Code: 9194619 2011 2012 Number of places available 180 180 Open Event details Total number of applications 804 807 Tuesday, 2 October, 6.30pm – 9.00pm Total number of places offered 180 180 Wednesday, 10 October, 9.30am - 12.00 noon

Open Evening - The Headteacher will speak at Places offered under each rule 6.30pm and 8.00pm. There will be guided tours 2011 2012 of the school from 6.30pm onwards. Visitors SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 6 7 are invited to park on the school site but are encouraged to share transport where possible. Rule 3 74 90 Rule 4 82 83 Open morning will begin with a talk from the Rule 5 18 0 Headteacher at 9.30am followed by guided Rule 6 0 0 tours. If you wish to visit the school on any Rule 7 0 0 other working day, please telephone to make an appointment. Places are allocated in accordance with Hertfordshire County Council’s admission Application form rules – see page 16 - 26 of the Moving On Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions booklet for details. or on the Hertfordshire paper Application form. In addition please complete the Supplementary Parishes in the priority area for this school Information Form and Priest’s/Minister’s are: Abbots Langley, Aldbury, Berkhamsted, Reference Form available from the school or Bovingdon, Chipperfield, Chorleywood, Croxley the above website. Green, Flaunden, Great Gaddesden, Hemel Hempstead, Kings Langley, Little Gaddesden,

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 8 What happened in previous years 8 Other children from St. Cuthbert Mayne, St. Albert the Great and St. Thomas More 2011 2012 Schools. Number of places available 180 180 Total number of applications 499 528 9 Children from other Christian families Total number of places offered 180 180 (supported by confidential written confirmation of commitment to their faith from a minister, with Baptismal Certificate where applicable). Places offered under each rule 2011 2012 10 Children from other faith backgrounds whose parents wish them to have a Catholic SEN 2 3 education (supported by confidential written Catholic looked after 0 0 confirmation of commitment to their faith from Catholic siblings 67 59 a religious leader). Catholics from feeder schools 57 54 11 Any other applicants. Other Catholics 47 59 Other siblings 4 5 Queries about the outcome of applications to Other from feeder schools 3 0 this school and how the admissions rules were applied should be addressed to the school Summary of Admissions Rules direct. 1 Catholic children looked after and Catholic children who have been adopted (or made subject to residence orders or special guardianship orders) immediately following School Details having been looked after. Headteacher: Mr Graham Cunningham Rumballs Road, Bennetts End, 2 Catholic children with a sibling at John F Hemel Hempstead, HP3 8JB

Kennedy Catholic School, where the sibling FAX 01442 217277 01442 233098 will be expected to be in attendance at the time @ [email protected] Hemel Hempstead of admission. www.longdeanschool.co.uk Type: Academy (co-educational) 3 Practising Catholic children from St. Cuthbert Number on Roll: 1162 Mayne, St. Albert the Great and St. Thomas Published Admission Number: 218 More Schools. Specialist Status: Mathematics and Computing School Code: 9194080 4 Other practising Catholic children.

5 Other Catholic children. Open Event details Open evening Tuesday, 2 October, 6.00pm – 6 Other looked after children and children 9.00pm. The Headteacher will speak at 6.30pm who have been adopted (or made subject to and 7.45pm. residence orders or special guardianship Open mornings 8, 9 and 10 October, 9.45am orders) immediately following having been –11.00am. Please arrive by 9.30am. looked after. Application form 7 Other children with a sibling at John F Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Kennedy Catholic School, where the sibling will or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. be expected to be in attendance at the time of admission.

9 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions What happened in previous years Open Event details 2011 2012 Open Evening: Wednesday, 3 October, 7.00pm – 9.00pm Number of places available 218 218 Total number of applications 407 406 Open Morning: 9 October and 17 October from Total number of places offered 199 198 11.00am – 12.15pm

Places offered under each rule Open Afternoon: 11 October, 2.00pm – 3.15pm Open Mornings and Afternoon are strictly by 2011 2012 appointment only to be made with the school SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 8 3 in advance. Rule 3 60 69 Application form Rule 4 53 61 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Rule 5 66 59 or on the Hertfordshire paper application form.

Rule 6 0 1 Hemel Hempstead/Kings Langley Rule 7 0 0 What happened in previous years

Places are allocated in accordance with 2011 2012 Hertfordshire County Council’s admission Number of places available 186 186 rules – see page 16 - 26 of the Moving On Total number of applications 477 530 booklet for details. Total number of places offered 186 186 Parishes in the priority area for this school are: Abbots Langley, Aldbury, Berkhamstead, Places offered under each rule Bovingdon, Chipperfield, Chorleywood, Croxley 2011 2012 Green, Flaunden, Great Gaddesden, Hemel Hempstead, Kings Langley, Little Gaddesden, SEN/Rule 1 and Rule 2 0 2 Nash Mills, Nettleden with Potten End, Rule 3 76 82 Northchurch, Rickmansworth(part)/Maple Rule 4 73 71 Cross, Sarratt, Tring, Tring Rural, Watford and Wigginton. Rule 5 37 31 Rule 6 0 0 Hertfordshire County Council allocates places Rule 7 0 0 on behalf of the school’s governing body. Summary of Admission Rules: Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 requires the governing bodies of all maintained schools School Details to admit a child with a statement of special Headteacher: Mr G Lewis educational needs that names their school. Love Lane, Kings Langley, WD4 9HN 01923 264504 FAX 01923 260564 1 Children in public care (children looked @ [email protected] after) and children who were looked after, but www.kingslangley.herts.sch.uk ceased to be so because they were adopted (or Type: Community (co-educational)* became subject to a residence order or a special Number on Roll: 1071 guardianship order). Published Admission Number: 186 Specialist Status: Arts 2 Medical or Social: Children for whom it can School Code: 9194096 be demonstrated that they have a particular *Pending application to convert to Academy medical or social need to go to the school. status on 1 December 2012

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 10 3 Sibling: Children who have a sibling at the Beaumont School school at the time of application, unless the sibling is in the last year of the normal age School Details range of the school. Headteacher: Mrs Elizabeth Hitch Oakwood Drive, St Albans, AL4 0XB 4 Children who live in priority area 6b and 01727 854726 FAX 01727 732932 for whom it is their nearest Hertfordshire @ [email protected] maintained, non-faith, co-educational, non- www.beaumontschool.com partially selective school or academy in the Type: Academy (co-educational) priority area. Number on Roll: 1170 Where more children qualify under this rule Published Admission Number: 180 than there are places available, places will be Specialist Status: Languages, Maths and allocated to those who live nearest to the school Computing or academy. School Code: 9194043

5 Children who live in the whole priority area Open Event details (6a and 6b) who live nearest to the school. Wednesday, 10 October, 5.45pm – 8.45pm Headteacher’s talks will be at 6.00pm, 6.40pm, 6 Children who live outside the priority area 7.20pm and 8.00pm by ticket on arrival. and for whom it is their nearest Hertfordshire Please walk to the school to avoid parking and maintained, non-faith, co-educational, non- congestion problems. partially selective school or academy. Where more children qualify under this rule than there Application form area places available, places will be allocated to those who live nearest the school or academy. Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. 7 Children living outside the priority area who live nearest to the school. What happened in previous years These rules are applied in the order they are 2011 2012 printed above. If more children qualify under a particular rule than there are places available, Number of places available 178 180 a tiebreak will be used by applying the next rule Total number of applications 815 788 Kings Langley/St Albans Kings Langley/St to those children. Total number of places offered 178 180

Parishes in the priority area for this school are: Places offered under each rule 6a: Aldbury, Berkhamsted, Great Gaddesden, Hemel Hempstead, Little Gaddesden, Nash 2011 2012 Mills, Nettleden with Potton End, Northchurch, SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 8 5 Tring, Tring Rural, Wigginton. Rule 3 78 86 Rule 4 92 89 6b: Abbots Langley, Bovingdon, Chipperfield, Chorleywood and Rickmansworth, Rule 5 0 0 Croxley Green, Flaunden, Kings Langley, Rule 6 0 0 Rickmansworth (part)/Maple Cross, Sarratt, Rule 7 0 0 Watford. Places are allocated in accordance with Queries about the outcome of applications to Hertfordshire County Council’s admission this school and how the admissions rules were rules – see page 16 - 26 of the Moving On applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire booklet for details. County Council. Parishes in the priority area for this school are: Ayot St Lawrence, Colney Heath, Flamstead,

11 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Harpenden, Harpenden Rural, Kimpton, Kings Places offered under each rule Walden, London Colney, Markyate, Redbourn, 2012 Ridge, Sandridge, Shenley, At Albans, St Michael, St Paul’s Walden, St Stephen and SEN/Rule 1 and Rule 2 1 Wheathampstead. Rule 3 15 Rule 4 21 Queries about the outcome of applications to Rule 5 7 this school and how the admissions rules were applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire Rule 6 0 County Council. Rule 7 4

Summary of admissions rules Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 requires School Details the governing bodies of all maintained schools to admit a child with a statement of special Headteacher: Mr Matthew Gauthier educational needs that names the school. Drakes Drive, St Albans, Herts AL1 5AR Telephone: 01727 859382 FAX 01727 810199 1 Children in public care (looked after children) @ [email protected] and children who were looked after, but ceased School type: Academy (co-educational) to be so because they were adopted (or became Number on Roll: 325 subject to a residence order or a special Published Admission Number: 180 guardianship order). Specialist Status: English, New Technologies School Code: 9195402 St Albans 2 Medical or social: children for whom it can be demonstrated that they have a particular Samuel Ryder is a new all-through school (3-19) medical or social need to go to the Academy. that opened in St Albans in September 2012. A panel of officers will determine whether the evidence is sufficiently compelling to meet the Open Evening Details requirements for this rule. The evidence must Thursday, 27 September, 6.00pm – 9.00pm relate specifically to the Academy applied for under rule 2 and must clearly demonstrate why Samuel Ryder Academy is a new school that it is the only school that can meet the child’s opened in September 2012 on the site occupied needs. by Francis Bacon Maths and Computing College. 3 Sibling: Children who have a sibling at the Academy at the time of application, unless the Application form sibling is in the last year of the normal age Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions range of the Academy. Note: the “normal age or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. range” is the designated range for which the Academy provides, years R to 13. What happened in last year 4 Children who live in the priority area nearest 2012 the Academy. Number of places available 180 5 Children who live outside the priority area and Total number of applications 70 for whom it is the nearest school. Total number of places offered 67 The priority area consists of: Ayot St Lawrence, Colney Heath, Flamstead, Harpenden, Harpenden Rural, Kimpton, Kings Walden, London Colney, Markyate, Redbourn, Ridge,

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 12 Sandridge, Shenley, St Albans, St Michael, St 2011 2012 Pauls Walden, St Stephen, Wheathampstead. Other ( Siblings ) 0 0 Hertfordshire County Council allocates places Other ( St Albans Primary 0 0 on behalf of the school’s governing body. Schools ) Other ( Medical/Social/Distance ) 0 0 Loreto College Summary of Admissions Rules School Details 1 Catholic looked-after girls and Catholic girls Headteacher: Mrs M Lynch who had been adopted (or subject to residence Hatfield Road, St Albans, AL1 3RQ orders or special guardianship orders) 01727 856206 FAX 01727 833794 immediately following having been looked after. @ [email protected] www.loreto.herts.sch.uk 2 Girls from practising Catholic families with a Type: Academy (Girls) sister already at the school, and expected to be Number on Roll: 905 at the school when the transfer takes place. Published Admission Number: 150 Denomination: Catholic 3 Girls from practising Catholic families and School Code: 9194620 who have a compelling social or medical reason for attending the school which is demonstrated Open Event details by written evidence from a doctor, social worker, Tuesday, 25 September, 6.00pm – 9.00pm. or other suitably qualified professional person. The Headteacher will speak at 6.15, 7.15 and 8.15pm. 4 Girls from practising Catholic families who attend the following primary schools in the city and district of St Albans: St Adrian’s; St Alban Application form and Stephen; St John Fisher; St Bernadettes,

St Albans Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions London Colney. or on the Hertfordshire paper application form AND complete the supplementary information 5 Girls from practising Catholic families. form available from the school or the In applying this priority the Governors will, above website. provided there are sufficient applicants, allocate places to girls from each named feeder school What happened in previous years so that the total number of places for each school, including those allocated under earlier 2011 2012 priorities, is as indicated: Number of places available 150 150 (i) Sacred Heart, Bushey 7 places Total number of applications 384 372 (ii) St Theresa’s, Borehamwood 8 places Total number of places offered 150 150 (iii) St Joseph’s, Hendon 7 places (iv) St Vincent’s, Mill Hill 10 places (v) St Joseph’s, Luton 7 places Places offered under each rule (vi) St Dominic’s, Harpenden 4 places 2011 2012 (vii) St Philip Howard, Hatfield 4 places (viii) Our Lady, 4 places SEN 3 0 (ix) Holy Family, Welwyn Garden City 4 places Catholic ( Looked after ) 0 0 (x) Pope Paul, Potters Bar 4 places Catholic ( Siblings ) 32 42 (xi) St Catherine’s, Barnet 4 places Catholic ( Feeder Schools ) 82 70 (xii) Sacred Heart, Whetstone 4 places Catholic ( Medical/Social/ 33 38 (xiii) St Robert Southwell, Kingsbury 4 places Distance ) In the event of there being insufficient places to meet the total required for this list the number Other ( Looked After ) 0 0 for all schools listed will be reduced by one.

13 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 6 Baptised Catholic girls. form AND complete the supplementary information form available from the school or 7 Any looked-after girls and girls who have the above website. been adopted (or subject to residence orders or special guardianship orders) immediately What happened in previous years following having been looked after. 2011 2012 8 Any girls with a sister at the school and Number of places available 205 205 expected to be at the school when the transfer Total number of applications 409 474 takes place. Total number of places offered 203 205 9 Any girls who have a compelling social or medical reason for attending the school Places offered under each rule which is demonstrated by written evidence 2011 2012 from a doctor or other suitably qualified professional person. SEN 0 1 Social/Medical 0 0 10 Any other girl. Siblings 58 69 Proximity to School 132 131 Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admissions rules were applied should be addressed to the Summary of Admissions Rules school direct. Students who have a Statement of Special St Albans Education Needs which names The Marlborough Science Academy. The Marlborough Science Academy 1 Students who are in public care or were previously in public care (children looked after School Details or children previously looked after who ceased Headteacher: Ms A F Thomson to be looked after because they were adopted or Watling Street, St Albans, AL1 2QA became subject to a residence order or special 01727 856874 FAX 01727 855285 guardianship order). @ [email protected] www.themarlboroughscienceacademy.co.uk 2 Students for whom it can be demonstrated Type: Academy (co-educational) that they have a particular medical or social Number on Roll: 1186 need to go to the Academy, (evidence should Published Admission Number: 205 be provided by a professional dealing with the Specialist Status: Science School child’s case). School Code: 9195414 3 Students who have a sibling on the roll of the Open Event details Academy at the time of admission. Thursday, 20 September, 3.00pm – 5.00pm and 6.00pm – 9.00pm 4 Students whose permanent address is closest The Headteacher’s and Heads of School talks to the Academy address point. will take place at 3.45pm, 6.15pm, 7.15pm and 8.15pm. Queries about the outcome of applications to Tours from 9.15 m - 10.00am from Monday 24 this school and how the admissions rules were September. applied should be addressed to the school direct. Application form Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or on the Hertfordshire paper application

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 14 Nicholas Breakspear 2011 2012 Catholic School All LAC 0 0 School Details Children of other Christian 5 3 denominations: Siblings Headteacher: Phil Jakszta Colney Heath Lane, St Albans, Hertfordshire, Children of other Christian 0 0 AL4 0TT denominations: Social Medical 01727 860079 FAX 01727 848912 Children of other Christian 13 8 @ [email protected] denominations: Distance www.nicholasbreakspearschool.co.uk Children of non Christian faith: 2 3 Type: Academy (co-educational) Siblings Number on Roll: 909 Children of non Christian faith: 0 0 Published Admission Number: 180 Social Medical Specialist Status: Sports College Any other applicant: Distance 37 22 School Code: 9195412

Summary of Admissions Rules Open Event details 1 Catholic looked after children and Catholic Wednesday, 19 September, 6.00pm – 9.00pm children who have been adopted (or subject There is ample parking available on the school to residence orders or special guardianship site. The Headteacher will speak at 6.00pm and orders) immediately following having been 7.15pm. Refreshments will be provided. looked after.

Open mornings 24 September - 26 October; 2 Children baptised into the Catholic faith. please telephone the school office to make an appointment. 3 All other looked after children and other children who have been adopted (or subject Application form to residence orders or special guardianship St Albans Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions orders) immediately following having been or on the Hertfordshire paper application looked after. form AND complete the supplementary information form available from the school or 4 Children of other Christian denominations, the above website. whose parents wish them to have a Catholic education and whose application is supported What happened in previous years by a minister of religion, or other religious leader. 2011 2012 5 Children of non-Christian faiths, whose Number of places available 180 180 parents wish them to have a Catholic education Total number of applications 344 262 and whose application is supported by a Total number of places offered 119 87 religious leader.

6 Any other applicants. Places offered under each rule 2011 2012 Queries about the outcome of applications to Catholic LAC & SEN 0 2 this school and how the admissions rules were applied should be addressed to the school Children Baptised into the 29 16 direct. Catholic faith: Siblings Children Baptised into the 0 1 catholic faith: Social Medical Children Baptised into the 33 32 Catholic faith: Distance

15 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Summary of Admissions Rules 1 Children in Public Care. School Details

Headteacher: Alan Gray 2 Medical. Children for whom it can be The Ridgeway, St Albans, AL4 9NX demonstrated that they have a compelling 01727 759240 FAX 01727 759242 medical reason for attending the school. @ [email protected] www.sandringham.herts.sch.uk 3 Sibling. Children with a sibling already at the Type: Academy (co-educational) school at the time of application where there Number on Roll: 1175 is a reasonable expectation that the sibling will Published Admission Number: 180 continue to be attending the school at the start Specialist Status: Arts, Science, Leading Edge of the new academic year. School Code: 9194197 4 Children of staff. Open Event details Open Evening: Monday, 1 October, 5.45pm – 5 Children who live in the priority admission 8.45pm area for whom it is their nearest Hertfordshire Headteacher’s speeches 6.00pm, 6.45pm, maintained school or academy that is non-faith, 7.30pm and 8.15pm. co-educational and non-partially selective. Open Mornings: Wednesday, 3 October, 9.00am – 10.30 am and Friday, 5 October, 9.00am – 6 Children who live in the priority admission 10.30am area who live nearest to the school. St Albans Application form 7 Children living outside the priority area and for whom it is their nearest maintained school Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or academy that is non-faith, co-educational or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. and non-partially selective.

What happened in previous years 8 Children living outside the priority admission area on the basis of distance, with those living 2011 2012 nearest to the school given priority. Number of places available 180 180 Total number of applications 791 771 Parishes in the priority area for this school are; Ayot St Lawrence, Colney Heath, Flamstead, Total number of places offered 180 200 Harpenden, Harpenden Rural, Kimpton, Kings Walden, London Colney, Markyate, Redbourn, Places offered under each rule Ridge, Sandridge, Shenley, St Albans, 2011 2012 St Michael, St Paul’s Walden, St Stephen, Wheathampstead. SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 10 2 Rule 3 91 68 Hertfordshire County Council allocates places Rule 4 (old Rule 4) 79 126 on behalf of the school’s governing body. For Rule 5 (old Rule 5) 0 4 queries about the school’s medical and children of staff rules, parents should contact the Rule 6 0 0 school. Rule 7 0 0

Children with statements of special educational needs that name the school must be admitted and will count towards the admission numbers.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 16 St Albans Girls’ School subject to a residence order or a special guardianship order). School Details Headteacher: Mrs Margaret Chapman 2 Medical or Social: Children for whom it can Sandridgebury Lane, St Albans, AL3 6DB be demonstrated that they have a particular 01727 853134 FAX 01727 831157 medical or social need to go to the school. @ [email protected] Governors will determine whether the evidence www.stags.herts.sch.uk provided is sufficiently compelling to meet the Type: Academy (Girls) requirements for this rule. The evidence must Number on Roll: 1141 relate specifically to the school applied for Published Admission Number: 196 under Rule 2 and must clearly demonstrate why Specialist Status: Business and Enterprise it is the only school that can meet the child’s School Code: 9194083 needs.

Open Event details 3 Sibling: Children who have a sibling at the Thursday, 4 October, 6.00pm – 9.00pm school at the time of application, unless the sibling is in the last year of the normal age- range of the school. Note: the ‘normal age Application form range’ for our school is Years 7 to 13 as we are Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions an 11-18 school. or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. Children who live in the priority area What happened in previous years Places will be allocated to each parish/ 2011 2012 unparished area or town in proportion to the number of applications made. In the event Number of places available 196 196 of there being more applications than places Total number of applications 617 597 available to a particular parish/unparished area Total number of places offered 196 196 or town, places will be allocated as follows:- St Albans

Places offered under each rule 4 Children of staff: Children of members of staff who have been employed at the school 2011 2012 for two or more years at the time at which the SEN/Medical/Social/Looked 1 0 application is made, whether full time or part After time, teaching or education support staff; Siblings 37 40 and/or Children of a member of staff recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a Living in the Priority area 67 42 demonstrable skill shortage. (old Rule 4) Living in the Priority area 91 114 5 Those for whom it is their nearest (old Rule 5) Hertfordshire maintained school or academy Living outside the Priority area 0 0 that is nonfaith and non partially selective and (old Rule 6) makes provision for children of the relevant gender, (if more children qualify under rule 5 Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 requires than places, the tiebreak would be those that the governing bodies of all maintained schools live closest to the school). to admit a child with a statement of special educational needs that names their school. 6 Any remaining places available to a parish/ unparished area or town. Places will be Summary of Admissions Rules allocated on a random basis. 1 Children in public care (children looked after) and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became

17 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Children who live outside the priority area Application form 7 Places will be allocated on a random basis, Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions based on the principle that every child will be or on the Hertfordshire paper application allocated an individual random number once form AND complete the supplementary their name has been entered onto the database. information form available from the school or If a preference is expressed for a single sex the above website. community school, this number will be used in the random process. What happened in previous years These rules are applied in the order they are printed above. If more children qualify 2011 2012 under Rules 1, 2, and 3 than there are places Number of places available 150 150 available, a tie-break will be used by applying the next rule to those children. The same Total number of applications 323 296 tiebreak will be employed as for coeducational Total number of places offered 134 144 community schools. Places offered under each rule Parishes in the priority area for this school are Aldenham, Colney Heath, Harpenden Rural, 2011 2012 Kimpton, London Colney, Redbourn, Sandridge, LAC 0 0 Shenley, St Albans, St Michael, St Stephen, SEN 0 1 Wheathampstead. Siblings 49 37 FI 18 9 Hertfordshire County Council allocates places St Albans on behalf of the school’s governing body. For F2 16 5 queries about the school’s children of staff rule, F3 0 4 parents should contact the school. F4 15 13 C1 2 1 Townsend Church of C2 19 33 England School C3 14 18 School Details Summary of Admissions Rules Headteacher: Mr Wellbeloved A child with a statement of special educational High Oaks, St Albans, Hertfordshire  needs that names the school will be admitted. AL3 6DR FAX 01727 853047 01727 834523 1 All “looked after” children or children who @ [email protected] were previously “looked after” but immediately www.townsend.herts.sch.uk after being “looked after” became subject to Type: Voluntary Aided (co-educational) an adoption, residence or special guardianship Number on Roll: 867 order. Published Admission Number: 150 Denomination: Church of England 2 Children for whom it can be demonstrated School Code: 9194606 that they have a particular medical or social reason why they must attend Townsend Church Open Event details of England School. Wednesday, 26 September, 6.00pm – 9.00pm. Headteacher talks at 6.15pm, 7.15pm and 3 Children who have a sibling in Years 7 to 12 at 8.15pm. the school at the time of application.

FOUNDATION/FAITH PLACES (60% of the residual places)

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 18 F1 Parents or children who regularly worship 9.30am, 10.15am and 11.00am. The school will at a Church of England Church and whose be open for tours during the mornings from application is supported by their minister. 2-12 October. Please phone reception to book a tour. F2 Parents or children who regularly worship at another Christian Church and whose Application form application is supported by their minister. Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. F3 Parents or children who regularly take part in church-sponsored activities and whose What happened in previous years application is supported by their minister. 2011 2012 F4 Children who attend a Church of England Number of places available 178 178 Primary School. The child must be on the roll of the Church of England Primary School at the Total number of applications 472 516 closing date for receipt of applications. Total number of places offered 178 178

COMMUNITY PLACES (40% of the residual places) Places offered under each rule 2011 2012 C1 Children or parents who regularly take SEN/Medical/Social/Looked 2 3 part in the activities of a non-Christian faith After and whose participation is confirmed by their appropriate faith leader. Siblings 35 39 Living in priority area (old Rule 46 47 C2 Other applicants who indicate on the school 4) application form that they wish for a Church Living in priority area (old Rule 78 89 School education for their child. 5) St Albans Living outside priority area (old 17 0 C3 Other applicants. Rule 6) Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admissions rules were Summary of Admissions Rules applied should be addressed to the school 1 Children in public care (children looked direct. after) and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a residence order or special guardianship order). School Details 2 Medical or social: Children for whom it can Headteacher: Mr P A Ramsey be demonstrated that they have a particular Brampton Road, St Albans, AL1 4PR medical or social need to go to the school. 01727 766100 FAX 01727 766256 @ [email protected] 3 Siblings: Children who have a sibling at the www.verulamschool.net school at the time of application, unless the Type: Academy (Boys) sibling is in the last year of the normal age Number on Roll: 1056 range of the school. Published Admission Number: 178 School Code: 9194011 4 Children of staff rule.

Open Event details 5 Those for whom it is their nearest Open Morning Saturday, 29 September, 9.00am Hertfordshire non-faith, non-partially selective – 12.00 noon. The Headmaster will speak at

19 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions maintained school or academy, making What happened in previous years provision for children of the relevant gender. 2011 2012 6 Any remaining places available to a parish/ Number of places available 240 240 unparished area or town. Places will be Total number of applications 367 381 allocated on a random basis. Total number of places offered 240 240 7 Children who live outside the priority area. Allocated on a random basis. Places offered under each rule 2011 2012 Parishes in the priority area for the school are: Aldenham, Colney Heath, Harpenden, Kimpton, SEN/Medical/Social/ 6 2 London Colney, Redbourn, Sandridge, Shenley, Looked After St Albans, St Michael’s, St. Stephen and Religious grounds 10 6 Wheathampstead. Siblings 98 85 Specific Parishes 102 106 Hertfordshire County Council allocates places Nearest to school 24 41 on behalf of the school’s governing body. For queries about the school’s children of staff rule, parents should contact the school. Summary of Admissions Rules 1 Children in public care (children looked after) St Albans/Tring and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became School Details subject to a residence order or a special guardianship order). Headteacher: Susanna Collings Mortimer Hill, Tring, HP23 5JD 2 Medical or Social: Children for whom it can FAX 01442 822303 01442 890409 be demonstrated that they have a particular @ [email protected] medical or social need to go to the school. www.tring.herts.sch.uk Type: Academy (co-educational) 3 Up to a maximum 10 places are available for Number on Roll: 1502 children who can prove that they have specific Published Admission Number: 240 religious need to attend the school. Children Denomination: Church of England will be of parents/carers who worship at church Specialist Status: Humanities at least once a month having done so for the School Code: 9194504 past year in a church which is eligible for membership in Churches Together in England Open Event details or the Evangelical Alliance. A Supplementary Open Evening Tuesday, 25 September, 5.30pm – Information form for those claiming a church 8.30pm. place will need to be submitted. This form is Open Morning Thursday, 27 September, 9.00am available on request. If there are more than ten – 11.00am. applications which meet this criteria, priority Open Morning – BY APPOINTMENT ONLY - We will be given to those who live nearest the kindly ask that ONLY PARENTS/GUARDIANS school. attend as it is a working day for Tring School 4 Sibling: Children who have a sibling at the Application form school at the time of application, unless the sibling is in the last year of the normal age Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions range of the school. Note: the ‘normal age or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. range’ is the designated range for which the school provides, Years 7 to 13 in a secondary school.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 20 5 Children who live in the parishes of Tring, Tring Rural, Aldbury, Wigginton and Little Gaddesden. If there are more children living in these parishes than there are places then priority will be given to those who live nearest to the school.

6 Children who live nearest to Tring School.

Hertfordshire County Council allocates places on behalf of the school’s governing body. For queries about the school’s religious rule parents should contact the Student Information Manager at Tring School. Tring

21 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions The directory 3 Broxbourne, East Herts and subject to an adoption, residence or special guardianship order. School Details Headteacher: Dr. Chris Ingate 2 Siblings: Children who, at the closing date for Parsonage Lane, Bishop’s Stortford, applications, have a brother or sister currently CM23 5BD attending Birchwood High School in years 01279 655936 FAX 01279 757459 7 – 12 who are living at the same permanent @ [email protected] address from Monday to Friday and who have www.birchwood.herts.sch.uk joined the school during years 7 – 12. Type: Academy (co-educational) ‘Brothers and sisters’ includes stepbrothers, Number on Roll: 1417 stepsisters, half brothers, half sisters and Published Admission Number: 240 adopted brothers and sisters who are living at School Code: 9194200 the same permanent address as the applicant. ‘Currently attending’ means children who are actually at the school, or children who have Open Event details been offered or accepted a place but have not Thursday 4 October from 4.30pm to 8.00pm. yet started at the school. Talks by the Headteacher will be at 5.00pm, 6.00pm and 7.00pm. 3 Staff: Priority may now be given to all Please be aware, only very limited parking Birchwood employees provided that they have on site. been employed for a minimum of two years and/or are recruited to fill a vacant post for Application form which there is a demonstrable skills shortage. Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 4 or on the Hertfordshire paper application form Priority Area: Children who, at the closing date for applications, live in the chosen urban AND complete the Supplementary Information priority area of Bishop’s Stortford, Thorley Form (SIF) available from the school. Parish and the area North West of Bishop’s Stortford namely; Albury, Birchanger, Brent What happened in previous years Pelham, Farnham, , Little 2011 2012 Hadham, and .

Bishop’s Stortford Bishop’s Addresses are routinely checked and places Number of places available 240 240 may be withdrawn if a false address has Total number of applications 654 690 been given. Total number of places offered 240 255 Tie break will be made on the basis of shortest Places offered under each rule distance from their permanent residence to the School as determined by Hertfordshire 2011 2012 County Council. SEN/Looked After 3 1 5 Geographical distance: Places will be Siblings 65 60 offered on the basis of shortest distance from Priority Area 97 120 their permanent residence to the school as Geographical distance 75 74 determined by Hertfordshire County Council, with those who are closer being accorded a Children with statements of educational needs higher priority. Addresses are routinely checked naming the school will be admitted regardless and places may be withdrawn if a false address of the school’s oversubscription criteria. has been given.

Summary of Admissions Rules Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admissions rules were 1 Looked After Child (children in public care) applied should be addressed to the school or a child who was previously looked after but, direct. immediately after being looked after, became

1 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions The directory 3 Broxbourne, East Herts and Welwyn Hatfield The Bishop’s Stortford High School Summary of Admissions Rules 1 Children looked after or previously looked School Details after (children who ceased to be looked after Acting Headteacher: Mr Paul Noble because they were adopted or became subject London Road, Bishop’s Stortford, to a residence order or special guardianship CM23 3LU order) or children in respect of whom there 01279 868686 FAX 01279 868687 are compelling medical grounds for admission @ [email protected] (in which respect supporting evidence will www.tbshs.org be required in the form of a letter from an Type: Foundation (Boys)* appropriate registered health professional, Number on Roll: 1127 setting out why the School is the most suitable Published Admission Number:155 and the difficulties which would be caused Specialist Status: Maths and Computing; if the child had to attend another school, Leading Edge with Gifted and Talented which evidence will be assessed objectively by School Code: 9195405 the School’s admissions committee) will be admitted. *Pending application to convert to Academy status. 2 Pupils with a brother or sister (natural or adopted) at the School at the time of admission, Open Event details or a half brother, half sister, stepbrother, or Tuesday 25 September 6.00pm stepsister living at the same address and going Presentations at 6.15pm, 7.00pm and 7.45pm to the School at the time of admission will Bishop’s Stortford be admitted. Application form 3 Places will be allocated to the following Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions groups of primary schools. The percentages or on the Hertfordshire paper application allocated to each group of primary schools will form AND complete the Supplementary reflect the proportion of remaining applications Information Form. received from those primary schools.

What happened in previous years Group A:Northgate, St Michael’s, Summercroft, 2011 2012 All Saints. Group B:Richard Whittington, Thorley Hill, Number of places available 155 155 Windhill Primary School, St Joseph’s, Manor Total number of applications 409 407 Fields, Thorn Grove, Hillmead. Total number of places offered 155 155 Group C:Albury, Furneux Pelham, , Little Hallingbury, Manuden, St Andrews Much Hadham. Places offered under each rule Group D:, Mandeville, Matching 2011 2012 Green, Reedings, Rodings, Spellbrook. SEN/Medical/Social/Looked After 1 0 Group E:Bentfield, Clavering, Elsenham, Henham & Ugley, Rickling, St Mary’s Stansted. Current Siblings 33 43 Group F:Other schools which lie within a radius Primary Schools Group A 19 22 of six miles of the School. Primary Schools Group B 31 26 Primary Schools Group C 8 14 OVER SUBSCRIPTION FROM ANY PRIMARY SCHOOL GROUP A TO F Primary Schools Group D 11 8 Recent experience is that applications from Primary Schools Group E 8 6 any group of primary schools will exceed Primary Schools Group F 14 14 the number of places available. In these Proximity 18 11 circumstances, places will be allocated to pupils who live furthest from the nearest Music, Sport, Aptitude 12 11 alternative community or foundation school

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 2 with male students, those being furthest away The Hertfordshire & Essex High having priority. School and Science College 4 Any places remaining will be allocated School Details according to the proximity of the School to Headteacher: Cathy Tooze, BA (Hons) the pupil’s normal place of Monday to Friday Warwick Road, Bishop’s Stortford, residence, those nearest (as determined by the CM23 5NJ LA’s distance measuring system), being given 01279 654127 FAX 01279 508810 priority. @ [email protected] www.hertsandessex.herts.sch.uk Up to 10% of places will be allocated using the Type: Foundation (Girls) following criterion. Number on Roll: 1071 Published Admission Number: 160 5 Up to 5% of places (i.e. 8) will be allocated to Specialist Status: Science, Leadership pupils with a proven aptitude in one or more Partner School and Teaching School of the sports in which the School specialises. School Code: 9195420 Aptitude will be assessed using an appropriate sporting aptitude test. Open Event details Up to 5% of places (i.e. 8) will be allocated to pupils with a proven aptitude in music. Thursday, 27 September, 5.30pm - 8.30pm. Aptitude will be assessed by an appropriate Mrs Tooze and her staff look forward to musical aptitude test. welcoming girls and their families to the school and introducing them to ‘Excellence for All’. An objection to the arrangements of The Bishop’s Stortford High School has been upheld Application form by the Office of the School’s Adjudicator and Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions the School Admissions Code requires the or on the Hertfordshire paper application form school to amend its admission arrangements AND complete the Supplementary Information as quickly as possible. For full details go to Form available from the school or the www.education.gov.uk/schoolsadjudicator above website.

Bishop’s Stortford Bishop’s The school’s amended arrangements will be available at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Where a SIF has not been submitted, the and from the school’s own website. information provided to the school on the HCC form will be used to prioritise applications. Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admissions rules were applied should be addressed to the school What happened in previous years direct. 2011 2012 Number of places available 160 160 Total number of applications 466 478 Total number of places offered 161 160

Places offered under each rule 2011 2012 Statemented students 0 1 Children Looked After 0 1 Siblings 29 37 Primary School /distance 115 105 Aptitude in Music/Sport 16 16

3 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Summary of Admissions Rules b) 13% of these further places will be allocated Girls who have a statement of Special to students attending the following schools: Educational Needs naming the school will be Albury, Little Hadham, Spellbrook, Furneux admitted. Pelham, Little Hallingbury, St Andrew’s (Much Hadham). 90% of allocations will be made using criteria 1 - 4. 10%of allocations will be reserved for In the case of over-subscription under either applicants taking the aptitude tests under 4a) or 4b), the number of places assigned criterion 5. to each school will be proportional to the number of remaining applications from each 1 Looked after children (children in public care) school. Where it is not possible to allocate a and those previously in care who, immediately whole place to a school, because of the level after leaving care, became subject to an of oversubscription and the low number of adoption, residence or special guardianship applicants from a school, these applications will order. be grouped together and places assigned on the same basis. Priority for the places assigned 2 Girls with a sibling at the school at the time to each school or group will be given to the girls of application, unless the sibling is in the last from that school or group who live nearest to year of the normal age-range of the school (ie The Hertfordshire & Essex High School. Year 13). A sibling is defined as a brother or sister, a half c) 13% of these further places will be allocated Bishop’s Stortford brother or sister, an adopted brother or sister, to students attending any other school not or the child of a parent/carer or partner living listed in a) or b). at the same address, and in every case living there from Monday to Friday in term time. NB In the case of over-subscription under 4, At secondary transfer the twin, or multiple birth priority will be given to the girls who live sibling, of any child allocated a place would be nearest to The Hertfordshire & Essex High admitted. School. When measuring distances under criterion 4, the home to school distance will 3 Daughters of a parent who works at the be measured using a ‘straight line’ distance school as a teacher, administrator or member measurement provided by Hertfordshire County of the support staff and who will have been Council’s GIS system as outlined in the Moving directly employed by the school on contract for On publication. a continuous period of two or more years at In the event of a tie-break (not including the date of application; or of a parent who has multiple-birth siblings at the same address, been recruited to fill a vacant post for which who would be admitted) a random allocation there is a demonstrable shortage. A daughter would be made. is defined as a child, by birth or adoption, of a member of staff; or a child, by birth or adoption, 5 For applicants who have not been allocated of a wife/husband/partner of a member of a place under criteria 1-4, up to 5% of places staff living at the member of staff’s home from (8) will be allocated to girls with a proven Monday to Friday during term-time; or a child aptitude in music and up to 5% (8) to girls for whom child benefit is paid to a member of with a proven aptitude in sport. This is in line staff. with the school’s long tradition of excellence in these areas. Aptitude in these areas will be 4 Further places will be allocated in the assessed by tests to be taken by applicants in following manner: November 2012. The tests have been devised to a) 74% of these further places will be allocated be taken by children whether or not they have to students attending the following schools: had experience of, or formal training in, either All Saints, Richard Whittington, Thorley Hill, music or sport. More detailed information Hillmead, St Joseph’s, Thorn Grove, Manor about the tests is available from the school on Fields, St Michael’s, Windhill, Northgate, request. Summercroft.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 4 In the event of a tie-break under criterion 5, the This school has day places and boarding places. place wil be allocated to the student who lives If you apply online, please choose whether closest to Herts & Essex. you want to apply for a day place or a boarding place. If you apply on paper you should use the An objection to the arrangements of The code 9195427 for a day place and 9199909 for a Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science boarding place. College has been upheld by the Office of the School’s Adjudicator and the School Admissions What happened in previous years Code requires the school to amend its admission arrangements as quickly as possible. 2011 2012 For full details go to Number of places available 70 68 www.education.gov.uk/schoolsadjudicator Total number of applications 610 627 The school’s amended arrangements will be Total number of places offered 70 68 available at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions and from the school’s own website www.hertsandessex.herts.sch.uk Places offered under each rule 2011 2012 Queries about the outcome of applications to Statement of SEN 0 3 this school and how the admissions rules were applied should be addressed to the school Looked after children 0 0 direct. Siblings 38 30 Aptitude 12 12 Medical 0 0 Hockerill Anglo European Future boarding need 4 4 College – Day places Feeder primary schools/ 16 19 Distance School Details Headteacher: Mr Simon Dennis, B.Ed. (Hon), In considering applications for admissions the Dip Ed, M.Ed College, in common with all other schools, is Dunmow Road, Bishop’s Stortford, required to admit any child with a statement Bishop’s Stortford Bishop’s CM23 5HX of special educational needs that names the FAX 01279 658451 01279 755918 College. @ [email protected] www.hockerill.herts.sch.uk Summary of Admissions Rules Type: Academy (co-educational) Number on Roll: 808 1 Children who are looked after by a Local Published Admission Number: 68 Authority in England and Wales, in accordance Specialist Status: Languages and Music with Section 22 of the Children Act 1989 and School Code: 9195427 (day) 9199909 (boarding) children who were looked after and ceased to be so because they were adopted under the terms of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. Open Event details Saturday, 29 September from 8.45am to 12 2 Children who have a sibling as a day student noon. Aptitude tests 22 September. Closing at the College at the time of application unless date for submission of test application form 3 the sibling is in the last year of the normal age September. Please see college website range of the school, [Year 13] or the sibling has already indicated that he or she will not be Application form attending the school at the date of admission. Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions A sibling means the sister, brother, half or on the Hertfordshire paper application form brother or sister, or child of the parent /carer AND complete the Supplementary Information permanently living at the same address as that Form available from the school or the above brother or sister. website.

5 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 3 Children who are successful in gaining one of Hockerill Anglo European the places available to those who demonstrate College – Boarding places the greatest aptitude for modern foreign languages and/or music. 12 places may be School Details allocated in this way. 7 of these places will be Headteacher: Mr Simon Dennis, B.Ed. (Hon), based solely on aptitude for languages, 3 will be Dip Ed, M.Ed based solely on aptitude for music and 2 on a Dunmow Road, Bishop’s Stortford, combination of both languages and music. CM23 5HX 01279 658451 FAX 01279 755918 4 Children of staff directly employed by the @ [email protected] school in either or both of the following www.hockerill.herts.sch.uk circumstances: Type: Academy(co-educational) - where the member of staff has been Number on Roll: 808 employed for two or more years at the time Published Admission Number: 52 at which the application for admission to the Specialist Status: Languages and Music school is made, and/or School Code: 9195427 (day) 9199909 (boarding) - the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a This school has day places and boarding places. demonstrable skill shortage. If you apply online, please choose whether Children of staff are those where the staff you want to apply for a day place or a boarding member is the child’s parent by blood or place. If you apply on paper you should use the Bishop’s Stortford adoption, or the member of staff has legal code 9195427 for a day place and 9199909 for a parental responsibility for the child. The child boarding place. must have lived at the same address as the parent employed by the school for at least one Open Event details year at the time of application. Saturday, 29 September from 8.45am to 12 5 Any further places will be allocated in the noon (last presentation 11.00am). Aptitude tests following manner: 22 September. Closing date for submission of • Up to 33% of these places will be allocated test application form 3 September. Please see to pupils attending the following schools: All college website. Saints, St.Joseph’s, Summercroft, Thorn Grove, Windhill. Application form • Up to 33% of these places will be allocated Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions to pupils attending the following schools: or on the Hertfordshire paper application Hillmead, Manor Fields, Richard Whittington, form AND complete the supplementary form Northgate, St. Michael’s, Thorley Hill. available from the school or the above website. • Up to 33% of these places will be allocated to pupils attending other schools. What happened in previous years 2011 2012 Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admissions rules were Number of places available 50 52 applied should be addressed to the school Total number of applications 130 159 direct. Total number of places offered 50 52

Places offered under each rule 2011 2012 Looked after children 0 0 Boarding Need 50 52 Siblings 0 0 Random Allocation 0 0

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 6 In considering applications for admissions the Queries about the outcome of applications to College, in common with all other schools, is this school and how the admissions rules were required to admit any child with a statement applied should be addressed to the school of special educational needs that names the direct. College.

Summary of Admissions Rules St Mary’s Catholic School 1 Children who are looked after by a Local School Details Authority in England and in Wales, in accordance with Section 22 of the Children Act 1989 and Headteacher: Mr Anthony Sharpe BA(Hons), children who were looked after and ceased to M.Mus, NPQH, MBA be so because they were adopted under the Windhill, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23 2NQ terms of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. 01279 654901 FAX 01279 653889 @ [email protected] 2 Children of members of the UK Armed www.stmarys.net Forces who qualify for Ministry of Defence Type: Voluntary Aided (co-educational) financial assistance with the cost of boarding Number on Roll: 910 school fees. Denomination: Catholic Published Admission Number: 155 3 Candidates who have satisfied the Governing School Code: 9195422 Body that they have a significant degree of boarding need (see below). Open Event details Thursday 20 September 4 Children who have a sibling (as defined above) 6.00pm to 8.30pm at the College at the time of application unless Headteacher speaking in Main Hall at 6.15pm the sibling is in the last year of the normal age and 7.15pm range of the school, [Year 13] or the sibling Refreshments available in the Dining Room has already indicated that he or she will not be throughout the evening. Individual guided attending the school at the date of admission. tours start from both Main Reception and the Roundabout Entrance. Bishop’s Stortford Bishop’s 5 Should any places remain after applying the above criteria the Governors will use a random Application form allocation system. Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or on the Hertfordshire paper application Boarding Need form AND complete the Supplementary Places allocated under this criterion will first Information Form available from the school be offered to children of members of the UK or the above website. Armed Forces, who because of high family mobility, qualify for Ministry of Defence What happened in previous years financial assistance with the cost of boarding school fees. 2011 2012 This category includes, but is not limited to, Number of places available 155 155 children of Crown Servants serving abroad; Total number of applications 374 344 children at risk or with an unstable home environment; children whose parent/s spend Total number of places offered 155 155 much of the year abroad for work purposes; children whose parent/s is/are temporarily or Places offered under each rule permanently resident abroad; children who 2011 2012 will be subject to a high degree of mobility SEN 5 1 over the next 7 years; children whose parents’ work pattern compromises their effective care 1 Catholic Looked after children 0 0 outside the normal day school hours. 2 Catholic Siblings 58 49

7 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 2011 2012 Dunmow, Bardfield and Thaxted, Saffron Walden and Stansted. 3 Catholics with priests 72 73 reference in designated These areas are defined in the maps which parishes accompany these criteria. available at http:// 4 Catholics with a baptism 6 5 www.stmarys.net/sitepage1.cfm?pageid=34. certificate in designated parishes If any of the three designated areas is under- 5 Non Catholic Looked 1 0 subscribed, the places will be redistributed after children among the designated areas in the relative 6 Catchecumens or members 1 0 proportions above, before any offers are made of an Eastern Christian Church to applicants in Criterion 4. 7 Catholics attending a Catholic 8 10 4 A catholic applicant who is the son/daughter primary in designated areas of a member of staff at the school. The 8 Applicants with a sibling 3 0 member of staff must be a direct employee 9 Non catholics attending a 0 0 of the governors, and have been in this Catholic primary in designated employment for at least 2 years. areas 5 Catholic applicants with no sibling 10 Catholics outside designated 1 8 connection, who have provided a Certificate of Bishop’s Stortford area Baptism, who live in the three areas designated 11 Other practising Christians 0 3 in Criterion 3. The allocation of places between 12 Any other applicant 0 6 the three areas will be such that the cumulative number of places in Criterion 3 and Criterion Summary of Admissions Rules 4 taken together are in the “42½-42½-15” 1 Catholic Looked After Children and Catholic proportions described in Criterion 3. children who have been adopted (or made If any of the three designated areas is under- subject to residence orders or special subscribed, the places will be redistributed guardianship orders immediately following among the designated areas in the relative having been looked after); Looked After proportions above, before any offers are made Children are defined as children in public care to applicants in Criterion 6. within the meaning of s22 of the Children Act 1989. 6 Any applicant who is a catechumen or member of an Eastern Christian Church. 2 Catholic applicants who have provided a Certificate of Baptism and who have a sibling 7 Any Catholic applicant who at the time of who attends (or attended up to Yr 13 and has application is attending a primary school within now left) the school. one of the areas designated in Criterion 3.

3 Practising Catholic applicants with no sibling 8 Any Catholic applicant who has provided a connection, who have provided a Certificate of Certificate of Baptism and who lives outside the Baptism and a Parish Priest’s Reference, in the areas designated in Criterion 3. following proportions: • 42½% of the remaining places to those living 9 Any other Catholic applicant in the Catholic parishes that are based in Bishop’s Stortford, and Much 10 Non-Catholic Looked After Children and Hadham non-Catholic children who have been adopted • 42½% of the remaining places to those living (or made subject to residence orders or special in other parts of the Lea Valley Deanery guardianship orders) immediately following • 15% of the remaining places to those living having been looked after. in the Catholic parishes that are based in

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 8 11 Any applicant with a sibling who attends Application form (or attended up to Yr 13 and has now left) Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions the school, or an applicant who is the son/ or on the Hertfordshire paper application form daughter of a member of staff at the school. AND complete the supplementary information The member of staff must be a direct employee form available from the school or the of the governors, and have been in this above website. employment for at least 2 years. What happened in previous years 12 Any applicant who is a practising Christian of another denomination. Evidence of regular 2011 2012 church or chapel attendance will be required Number of places available 180 180 from the appropriate priest or minister of Total number of applications 526 588 religion. This evidence should state that the priest or minister knows the applicant as a Total number of places offered 180 180 member of the faith community who regularly worships. A baptismal certificate is not required Places offered under each rule but a birth certificate is required as proof 2011 2012 of identity. SEN/LAC 1 3 13 Any other applicant, including those Siblings 68 82 submitting incomplete applications. Music Aptitude 18 18 Feeder Primary Schools 51 66 Queries about the outcome of applications to Proximity 42 11 this school and how the admissions rules were applied should be addressed to the school direct. Summary of Admissions Rules 1 Looked after Children and children who were looked after but ceased to be so because they Chancellor’s School were adopted (or became subject to a resident’s order or special guardianship order. School Details Headteacher: Mr David Croston (BSc) 2 Children with a sibling attending the School at Pine Grove, Brookmans Park, Hatfield, the time of admission. AL9 7BN 01707 650702 FAX 01707 663204 3 Children of staff at the school where the @ member of staff has been employed at the

Bishop’s Stortford/Brookman’s Park Stortford/Brookman’s Bishop’s [email protected] www.chancellors.herts.sch.uk school for two or more years at the time at Type: Foundation (co-educational) which the application for admission to the Number on Roll: 1029 school is made, or the member of staff is Published Admission Number: 180 recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is Specialist Status: Maths & Computing, a demonstrable skill shortage. Languages School Code: 9195419 4 Pupils with a proven aptitude in Music.

5 Children attending the following primary Open Event details schools. Thursday, 20 September 6.00pm - 9.00pm Car parking available Brookmans Park 11% Oakmere 6% Headteacher will talk at 6.15pm, 7.00pm and Countess Anne 3% Oakview 5% 7.45pm Cuffley 14% Ponsbourne 4% There will be organised tours of the School. St. Mary's

9 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Cranborne 14% Pope Paul 3% De Havilland 6% St Giles, S 3% School Details Mimms Headteacher: Ms Paula Humphreys Essendon 4% St Mary's N. 5% High Road, Broxbourne, EN10 7DD Mymms 01992 411060 FAX 01992 411061 Ladbrooke 6% St. Philip 3% @ [email protected] Howard www.broxbourne.herts.sch.uk Little Heath 6% Wroxham 4% Type: Academy (co-educational) Number on Roll: 1247 Northaw 3% Published Admission Number: 206 Specialist Status: Business and Enterprise, 6 Any remaining places will be allocated by Languages and Science proximity to the School using the home school School Code: 9194101 measurement system used by Hertfordshire County Council as outlined in the County’s admission arrangements and application Open Event details literature. Tuesday 11 September, 5.45pm to 9.00pm. Brookman’s Park /Broxbourne Headteacher’s talks are at 6.30pm and Ten per cent of places (i.e. 18) will be allocated 7.30pm. annually on the basis of a musical aptitude test. In the three weeks after the Open evening, In the event of a tie for the final place(s) parents and children may visit the school priority will be given to those pupils living during the working day for a group tour – please in closest proximity to the school, using the telephone the school to make an appointment. home-school measurement system used by Hertfordshire County Council. In the case of Application form over-subscription under criterion 4, the number Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions of places assigned to each listed school will or on the Hertfordshire paper application be by fixed percentages to the remaining form AND complete the supplementary available places. The percentages have been information form available from the school or set with regard to the size of the school and the above website. the historical acceptances from the individual school. Within each listed school’s application, What happened in previous years proximity to Chancellor’s using the home school measurement system used by Hertfordshire 2011 2012 County Council from each applicant’s registered Number of places available 206 206 home address to Chancellor’s will be used to Total number of applications 878 870 decide priority. Where the number of applicants from the named school is less than the Total number of places offered 206 206 allocation, the excess places will be distributed according to criterion 5. Places offered under each rule 2011 2012 Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admissions rules were SEN/Medical/Social/Looked 8 5 applied should be addressed to the school After direct. Siblings 85 76 Geographical 93 105 Aptitude 20 20

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 10 Summary of Admissions Rules under criteria 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (in that order until 90% of allocations (186) will be made using the all the places have been allocated). following criteria (1 to 5) in the order set out below and the remaining 10% of allocations will Queries about the outcome of applications to be made using criterion (6). this school and how the admissions rules were applied should be addressed to the school 1 Children who are or have been in public care direct. (Children, Looked After).

2 Children for whom it can be demonstrated that they have a particular medical and/or social need which makes Broxbourne School School Details the most suitable school for that child. Headteacher: Ms Helen Loughran Bowling Green Lane, , SG9 9BT 3 Children of staff at the school where the 01763 271818 FAX 01763 273467 member of staff has been employed under a @ [email protected] contract of employment with the school for www.fremancollege.herts.sch.uk two or more years at the time at which the Type: Academy (co-educational) application for admission to the school is made Number on Roll: 900 or the member of staff is recruited under a Published Admission Number: 210 contract of employment to fill a vacant post for Specialist Status: Humanities which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. School Code: 9194141

4 Children who have an older brother or sister This is an upper school which takes children (a sibling) at the school living at the same from Year 9. address at the time of application, unless it is anticipated that the sibling will have left the Open Event details school before the date of proposed admission of Wednesday 3 October from 6.30pm - 8.30pm the applicant. Tours running until the Headteacher speaks at 8.00pm 5 Home to school distance. The ‘Tie-breaker’. Tours also available during the working day After places have been allocated using criteria throughout September and October. Please Broxbourne/Buntingford 1, 2, 3 and 4 home to school distance is used telephone the college office to arrange an as the ‘tie-breaker’ to allocate any remaining appointment. places within the 90% of places (186) allocated to criteria 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Application form 6 The remaining 10% of places (20) will be Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions allocated for children who show an aptitude for or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. languages on the basis of an assessment of aptitude carried out by the school. Priority will What happened in previous years be given to those with the highest score in this test. In the event of a tie-break being required 2011 2012 under this criterion, places will be allocated Number of places available 210 210 using criteria 5 (home-school distance using Total number of applications 323 342 the home-school measurement system used Total number of places offered 210 211 by Hertfordshire County Council as outlined in the County’s admission arrangements and application literature). In the event that Places offered under each rule applications for places under this criterion are 2011 2012 less than 10% of the total (20), any remaining places will be added to the places available SEN/LAC 3 7

11 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 2011 2012 Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admissions rules were Feeder School Distance 118 122 applied should be addressed to the school Feeder School Sibling 81 69 direct. Non Feeder School Distance 2 0 Non Feeder School Sibling 6 13 School

Summary of Admissions Rules School Details 1 Children in public care (children looked Headteacher: Andy Stainton after) and children who were looked after, but College Road, Cheshunt, Waltham Cross, ceased to be so because they were adopted (or Hertfordshire EN8 9LY became subject to a residence order or special 01992 624375 FAX 01992 643411 guardianship order). @ [email protected] www.cheshunt.herts.sch.uk 2 Students at the college’s partner middle Type: Foundation (co-educational) schools, Edwinstree Church of England (VC) Number on Roll: 830 Middle School in Buntingford and Ralph Sadleir Published Admission Number: 176 Middle School in Puckeridge, at the time of Specialist Status: Technology application, will be considered in the School Code: 9195425 Buntingford/Cheshunt following order: a. Students with a sibling attending the college Open Event details at the time of application with a reasonable Thursday 4 October from 6.00pm to 9.00pm. expectation they will be attending at the time of Headteacher’s talk at 7.00pm the start of the new academic year; then b. Students living closest to the college according to the definition of ‘home to school Application form distance’ given in Hertfordshire County Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Council’s current Determined Schools or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. Admissions Arrangements. What happened in previous years 3 Applications from students who do not attend 2011 2012 the Edwinstree Church of England Middle School or Ralph Sadleir Middle School at the Number of places available 176 176 time of application, will be considered in the Total number of applications 328 202 following order: Total number of places offered 124 71 a. Students with a sibling attending the college at the time of application with a reasonable expectation they will be attending at the time Places offered under each rule of the start of the new academic year; and then 2011 2012 b. Students living closest to the college according to the definition of ‘home to SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 4 2 school distance’ given in Hertfordshire Rule 3 47 37 County Council’s current Determined Schools Rule 4 36 19 Admissions Arrangements. Rule 5 22 8

Rule 6 8 3 Tiebreaker In the event that there are more applicants Rule 7 0 0 meeting any of the oversubscription criteria above than remaining places available, the Summary of Admissions Rules tiebreaker described in Hertfordshire County Under Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 Council’s current admissions arrangements will Cheshunt School will admit children with a be applied to allocate the remaining places.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 12 Statement of special educational needs that Goffs School names the school. School Details 1 Children who are in public care and children Headteacher: Ms Alison Garner who were looked after, but ceased to be so Goffs Lane, Cheshunt, EN7 5QW because they were adopted (or became subject 01992 424200 FAX 01992 424201 to a residence order or a special guardianship @ [email protected] order). www.goffs.herts.sch.uk Type: Academy (co-educational) 2 Medical or Social: Children for whom it can Number on Roll: 1286 be demonstrated that they have a particular Published Admission Number: 210 medical or social need to go to the school. Specialist Status: Languages School Code: 9195415 3 Siblings: Children who have a sibling at the school at the tie of application, unless the Open Event details sibling is in the last year of the normal age Tuesday 25 September from 5.00pm – 8.00pm range of the school.

4 Children who live in the Priority Area for Application form Cheshunt School and for whom Cheshunt Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions School is their nearest Hertfordshire or on the Hertfordshire paper application maintained non-faith co-educational school. form AND complete the supplementary Where more children qualify under this rule information form available from the school or than there are places available, places will be the above website. allocated to those who live nearest to Cheshunt School. What happened in previous years 2011 2012 5 Children living in the Priority Area who live

Cheshunt nearest to the school. Number of places available 210 210 Total number of applications 523 578 6 Children who live outside the Priority Area Total number of places offered 210 210 and for whom the school is their nearest Hertfordshire maintained non-faith co- educational school. Where more children Places offered under each rule qualify under this rule than there are places 2011 2012 available, places will be allocated to those living the nearest to the school. SEN/Looked after 3 5 Medical/social 0 0 7 Children living outside the Priority Area who Siblings 85 69 live nearest to the school. If more children Language Aptitude 21 21 qualify under a particular rule than there are Distance by Feeder School 88 113 places available, the school will use a tiebreak by applying the next rule to those children. Shortest distance 13 2

Hertfordshire County Council allocates places Summary of Admissions Rules on behalf of the school’s governing body. 1 Looked After Children as defined in section 22 (1) of the Children Act 1989 and previously Looked After Children. Children are previously looked after if they were looked after but ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a special guardianship order or residency order.

13 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 2 Children who can prove that they have a (please note this will be supervised by an particular medical or social reason why they independent adjudicator). must go to the school. Queries about the outcome of applications to 3 Children who have an older brother or sister this school and how the admissions rules were at the school at the time of admission, applied should be addressed to the school as defined by the County Council’s direct. admissions policy.

4 Children of staff employed by Goffs. St Mary’s Church of England High School 5 Children with an aptitude in languages up to a maximum of 10% for the year, as measured by School Details the school’s testing procedures. Headteacher: Ms Stephanie Benbow Lieutenant Ellis Way, Cheshunt, 6 The remaining children will be allocated Hertfordshire, EN7 5FB places at the school on a strict quota basis. 01992 629124 FAX 01992 643354 @ [email protected] Children attending the named feeder primary www.st-maryshigh.herts.sch.uk schools, in the following proportions: Type: Academy (co-educational) a) Andrews Lane School 5% Number on Roll: 730 b) Bonneygrove School 15% Published Admission Number: 180 c) Cuffley School 10%

Denomination: Church of England Cheshunt d) Dewhurst St Mary’s School 3% Specialist Status: Mathematics and Computing e) Fairfields School 22% School Code: 9195423 f) Flamstead End School 22% g) Goffs Oak School 10% Open Event details h) St Paul’s School 3% Thursday, 27 September from 6.00pm - 9.00pm i) Woodside School 10% Headteacher’s presentation at 7.00pm and 7.45pm In the event of over-subscription within Allsorts Creche available. To reserve a space criterion 6, a tiebreak of the applicant living call 01992 412649. closest to the school will be used based on a Plenty of car parking on site. straight line distance measurement provided by Hertfordshire County Council’s GIS system as outlined in the Moving On publication. If Application form there are two identical measurements for Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions different addresses of separate applicants, the or on the Hertfordshire paper application tie break will be random. If a named feeder form AND complete the supplementary primary school does not use its full allocation, information form available from the school or any surplus places will be allocated under the above website. this criterion to children from the other feeder schools in proportion to the above percentages. What happened in previous years

7 Any remaining places will be allocated to 2011 2012 children living closest to the school, using a Number of places available 180 180 straight line distance measurement provided Total number of applications 276 319 by Hertfordshire County Council’s GIS system Total number of places offered 131 178 as outlined in the Moving On publication. All remaining applicants to the school will be St Mary’s Church of England High school were considered under this criterion. In the event able to offer places to all children who applied of a ‘tie break’ random allocation will be used to them in 2011 and 2012.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 14 Summary of Admissions Rules F3 Regular worship or regular participants in A child with a statement of special educational the activities of a non-Christian faith Children needs that names the school will be admitted. or parents who regularly take part in the activities of a non-Christian faith and whose 1 Children who are or who have been in public participation is confirmed by their appropriate care. faith leader. Active membership or regular participation in the activities of a non-Christian 2 Children for whom it can be demonstrated faith means taking part in faith-sponsored that they have a particular medical or social worship or activities at least once a month and need to go to the school. for at least the last two years at the closing date for applications. 3 Children who have a sibling (brother or sister) in Years 7 to 12 at the school at the time F4 Church Primary School. Children who attend of application. The governors use the same a Church of England or Roman Catholic Primary definition of sibling as the LA as explained in School. The child must be on the roll of the their booklet ‘Moving On’. Church Primary School at the closing date for receipt of applications and known to 4 The remaining (residual) places will be the Church. allocated within two categories: 60% of the places available will be allocated as Foundation/ F5 Active participation in Church-led activities Faith Places; 40% of the places available will be either in the Church of England or in another allocated in the ‘Community Places’ category. recognised Christian Church. Parents/Carers In the event of under-subscription in either or children who regularly take part in church- category, the remaining places will be given sponsored activities and whose participation is to the other category. Should there be over- confirmed by their minister. Regularly take part subscription within any one priority group within in Church sponsored activities means at least a category, those with the shortest journey once a month and for at least the past two years from home to school – measured by the County at the closing date for applications in activities Cheshunt Council’s computerised mapping system – will directly organised by the Church. be given priority. COMMUNITY PLACES FOUNDATION/FAITH PLACES (40% of the residual places) (60% of the residual places) C1 Church Primary School. Children who F1 Regular worship in the Church of England. attend a Church of England or Roman Catholic Parents/Carers or children who regularly Primary School. The child must be on the roll of worship at a Church of England Church and the Church Primary School at the closing date whose attendance is verified by their minister. for receipt of applications and not necessarily Regular worship means attending at least once known to the Church. a month and for at least the past two years at the closing date for applications. Worship as C2 Other applicants who indicate on the school part of school activities would not be application form that they wish for a Church considered sufficient. School education for their child.

F2 Regular worship in another recognised C3 Other applicants. Christian Church. Parents/Carers or children who regularly worship at another Christian Queries about the outcome of applications to Church and whose attendance is verified this school and how the admissions rules were by their minister. Regular worship means applied should be addressed to the school attending at least once a month and for at direct. least the past two years at the closing date for applications.

15 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Turnford School Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School School Details School Details Headteacher: Mrs Jo Gant Headteacher: Ms Theodora Nickson Mill Lane, Cheshunt, Waltham Cross, Woods Avenue, Hatfield, Hertfordshire Hertfordshire EN8 0JU AL10 8NL 01992 308333 FAX 01992 304999 01707 275331 FAX 01707 270244 @ [email protected] @ [email protected] www.turnford.herts.sch.uk www.bishophatfield.herts.sch.uk Type: Community (co-educational) Type: Academy (Girls) Number on Roll: 998 Number on Roll: 691 Published Admission Number: 182 Published Admission Number: 124 Specialist Status: Sports Specialist status: Humanities School Code: 9194105 School Code: 9194099

Open Event details Open Event details Tuesday 18 September starting at 6.00pm. Open Evening: The Headteacher’s speech will be take place at Tuesday 2 October 6.00pm - 9.00pm 6.00pm and 7.00pm Open Mornings 8, 9, 10 and 11 October. Cheshunt/Hatfield Application form We offer two slots during the Open Mornings - Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 9.20am and 11.20am by appointment only. or on the Hertfordshire paper application form AND complete the supplementary information Application form form available from the school or the Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions above website. or on the Hertfordshire paper application form.

What happened in previous years What happened in previous years 2011 2012 2011 2012 Number of places available 182 182 Number of places available 122 122 Total number of applications 315 338 Total number of applications 284 285 Total number of places offered 144 182 Total number of places offered 122 122

Turnford School were able to offer places to all Places offered under each rule children who applied to them in 2011 and 2012. 2011 2012 Places are allocated in accordance with SEN/Medical/Social/Looked 0 1 Hertfordshire County Council’s admission After rules – see page 16 - 26 of the Moving On Siblings 21 20 booklet. Living in the Priority area 26 39 (Rule 4 Parishes in the Priority area for this school are Broxbourne, Cheshunt, , Nazeing, Living in the Priority area 65 62 Northaw and Cuffley, and (Rule 5) Waltham Cross. Living outside the Priority area 10 0 (Rule 6) Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admissions rules were Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 requires applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire the governing bodies of all maintained schools County Council. to admit a child with a statement of special educational needs that names their school.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 16 Summary of Admissions Rules Places will be allocated on a random basis, 1 Children in public care (children looked after) based on the principle that every child will be and children who were looked after, but ceased allocated an individual random number once to be so because they were adopted (or became their name has been entered onto the database. subject to a residence order or a special If a preference is expressed for a single sex guardianship order). community school, this number will be used in the random process. 2 Medical or Social: Children for whom it can be demonstrated that they have a particular If more children qualify under Rules 1, 2, and medical or social need to go to the school. 3 than there are places available, a tie-break will be used by applying the next rule to those Governors will determine whether the evidence children. The same tiebreak will be employed provided is sufficiently compelling to meet the as for coeducational community schools. requirements for this rule. The evidence must relate specifically to the school applied for Parishes in the priority area for this school are: under Rule 2 and must clearly demonstrate why Hatfield, North Mymms, Welwyn, it is the only school that can meet the child’s Welwyn Garden City and . needs. Hertfordshire County Council allocates places 3 Sibling: Children who have a sibling at the on behalf of the school’s governing body. school at the time of application, unless the sibling is in the last year of the normal age- range of the school. Note: the ‘normal age Onslow St Audrey’s School range’ is the designated range for which the school provides, for example Years 7 to 11 for School Details an 11-16 secondary school, Years 7 to 13 in a Headteacher: Paul Meredith 11-18 school. Old Rectory Drive, Hatfield, AL10 8AB

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Hatfield 01707 264228 01707 262332 Children who live in the priority area @ [email protected] Places will be allocated to each parish/ www.onslow.herts.sch.uk unparished area or town in proportion to the Type: Academy (co-educational) number of applications made. In the event Number on Roll: 508 of there being more applications than places Published Admission Number: 150 available to a particular parish/unparished area Specialist Status: Business and Enterprise or town, places will be allocated as follows:- School Code: 9194154

4 Those for whom it is their nearest Open Event details Hertfordshire maintained school or academy Open Evening: Monday, 24 September that is non-faith and non partially selective and Times: 6.00pm - 9.00pm makes provision for children of the relevant Headteacher Speech: 7.30pm Main Hall gender, (if more children qualify under rule 4 Open Mornings: 26 and 27 September 9.15am. than places, the tiebreak would be those that live closest to the school). Application form Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 5 Any remaining places available to a parish/ or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. unparished area or town. Places will be allocated on a random basis. What happened in previous years Children who live outside the priority area 2011 2012 6 Places will be allocated on a random basis. Number of places available 150 150 Total number of applications 111 126

17 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 2011 2012 school or academy that is non-faith, co- educational and non- partially selective. Total number of places offered 72 102 Rule 7 Children living outside the priority area Onslow St Audrey’s School were able to offer on the basis of distance, with those living places to all children who applied in 2012. nearest to the school given priority. If more children qualify under a particular Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 requires rule than there are places available, a tiebreak the governing bodies of all maintained schools will be used by applying the next rule to those to admit a child with a statement of special children. Where there is a need for a tie- educational needs that names their school. breaker where two different addresses measure the same distance from a school, in the case Summary of Admissions Rules of a block of flats for example the lower door Rule 1 Children in public care (children looked number will be deemed nearest as logically this after) and children who were looked after, but will be on the ground floor and therefore closer. ceased to be so because they were adopted If there are two identical addresses of separate (or became subject to a residence order or a applicants, the tie break will be random. special guardianship order). Parishes in the priority area for this school are: Rule 2 Medical or Social: Children for whom it , , Essendon, Hatfield,

can be demonstrated that they have a particular North Mymms, South Mymms, Potters Bar, Hatfield/ medical or social need to go to the school. Welwyn Garden City, Welwyn and Governors will determine whether the evidence Woolmer Green. provided is sufficiently compelling to meet the requirements for this rule. The evidence must Hertfordshire County Council allocates places relate specifically to the school applied for on behalf of the school’s governing body. under Rule 2 and must clearly demonstrate why it is the only school that can meet the child’s needs. Rule 3 Sibling: Children who have a sibling at School Details the school at the time of application, unless Headteacher: Stephen M Neate the sibling is in the last year of the normal Hale Road, Hertford, SG13 8EN age-range of the school. Note: the ‘normal age 01992 583441 FAX 01992 503413 range’ is the designated range for which the @ [email protected] school provides, for example Years 7 to 11 in a www.richardhale.herts.sch.uk 11-16 secondary school, Years 7 to 13 in a 11-18 Type: Foundation* (Boys with mixed sixth form) school. Number on Roll: 1124 Published Admission Number: 165 Rule 4 Children who live in the priority area Specialist Status: Science, Applied Learning for whom it is their nearest Hertfordshire School Code: 9194006 maintained school or academy that is non-faith, co-educational and non-partially selective. *pending application to convert to Academy Note: Non-partially selective means that the status school does not offer any places based on academic ability. Open Event details Rule 5 Children who live in the priority area who 15 October, 6.30pm - 9.00pm and live nearest to the school. 16 October, 4.30pm - 7.00pm. Headmaster speaks 8.30pm on Monday and Rule 6 Children living outside the priority area 6.30pm on Tuesday. and for whom it is their nearest maintained Visits during the working day from Wednesday 17 to Friday 19 October at 9.15am please book.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 18 Please note there is no wheelchair access other 4 Boys of staff at the school. than to the Main Hall. Children who live in the Priority area: Application form Places will be allocated to each parish/ Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions unparished area or town in proportion to the or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. number of applications made. In the event of there being more applications than places available to a particular parish/unparished area What happened in previous years or town, places will be allocated as follows:- 2011 2012 Number of places available 165 165 5 Boys for whom it is the nearest Hertfordshire non-faith, non partially selective maintained Total number of applications 503 525 school or Academy, making provision for Total number of places offered 165 165 children of the relevant gender. If more children qualify under rule 5 than places available, the Places offered under each rule tiebreak would be those that live closest to the school. (Using the straight line distance 2011 2012 measurement provided by Hertfordshire County SEN/Medical/Social/Looked 10 2 Council’s GIS system as outlined in the Moving After On Publication). Siblings 35 46 6 Any remaining places available to a parish/ Living in the Priority area 18 16 unparished area or town. Places will be (old Rule 4) allocated on a random basis [Every boy will Living in the Priority area 102 101 be given an individual random number when (old Rule 5) entered onto the database]. Living outside the Priority area 0 0 (old Rule 6) Children who live outside the priority area: Hertford

Summary of Admissions Rules 7 Places will be allocated on a random basis. [Every boy will be given an individual random number when entered onto the database]. 1 Boys in public care (children looked after) and children who were looked after, but ceased to These rules are applied in the order they be so because they were adopted (or became are printed above. If more children qualify subject to a residence order or a special under criteria 1, 2 and 3 than there are places guardianship order). available; a tie break will be used by applying the next rule to those children. 2 Boys for whom it can be demonstrated that they have a particular medical or social need to The Priority Area for the school is comprised of: go to the school. Bayford, Rural, Bramfield, Brickendon 3 Boys with a sibling attending Richard Hale Liberty, , Essendon, Gt Amwell, at the time of application, unless the sibling is Hertford, , , in the last year of the normal age range of the , Little Berkhamsted, , school. Note: the ‘normal age range ‘ is the , , Stanstead Abbotts, designated range for which the school provides, , Stapleford, , i.e. Years 7 -13 in an 11-18 school. A sibling , Ware, , Watton-at-Stone, is defined as a brother or sister (adopted or Welwyn, Widford, Woolmer Green. natural), half brother or half sister, or the child of a partner living at the same address, and in Notes - Medical Need every case living in the same house Monday The Governors will determine whether the to Friday. professional evidence provided is sufficiently compelling to meet the requirements for this

19 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions rule. The evidence must relate specifically to 2011 2012 the school, and must clearly demonstrate why it is the only school that can meet the child’s Total number of Applications 219 220 needs. The professional evidence should be in Total number of places offered 81 86 the form of a letter from a professional involved with your family such as a doctor, psychologist, were able to offer places to all social worker, or police officer, and should children who applied in 2011 and 2012. set out reasons why Richard Hale is the most suitable school. Evidence pertaining to the need Places are allocated in accordance with of the family or child to attend Richard Hale Hertfordshire County Council’s admission School because of an aptitude or interest in rules – see page16 - 26 of the Moving On our specialism will not be considered under booklet. this criterion. The Priority Area for the school is comprised of: Hertfordshire County Council allocates places Bayford, , Bramfield, Brickendon on behalf of the school’s governing body. For Liberty, Great Amwell, Hertford, Hertford Heath, queries about the school’s children of staff rule, Hertingfordbury, Hunsdon, Little Berkhamsted, parents should contact the school. Little Munden, Sacombe, Stanstead St Margarets, Stapleford, Tewin, Thundridge, Ware, Wareside, Watton-at-Stone and Widford.

The Sele School Queries about the outcome of applications to School Details this school and how the admissions rules were Hertford Headteacher: Nicholas Binder applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire County Council. Welwyn Road, Hertford, Hertfordshire SG14 2DG 01992 581455 FAX 01992 500408 @ [email protected] www.sele.herts.sch.uk School Details Type: Community (co-educational)* Headteacher: Alison Saunders Number on Roll: 420 Mangrove Road, Hertford, SG13 8AJ

Published Admission Number: 150 FAX 01992 410400 01992 410401 Specialist Status: Sports and Performing Arts @ [email protected] School Code: 9194117 www.simonballe.herts.sch.uk Type: Foundation* (co-educational) *Pending application to convert to Academy Number on Roll: 1049 status on 1 August 2012. Published Admission Number: 165 Specialist Status: Humanities Open Event details School Code: 9194067 Thursday 27 September 6.00pm – 9.00pm * pending application to convert to Academy Headteacher’s talk at 6.30pm and 7.30pm status Car parking available on site. Open Event details Application form Wednesday 3 October 6.30 - 9.00pm Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Thursday 4 October 4.00pm - 7.00pm or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. Any Other Information: Please note there is no parking on the school What happened in previous years site. Please park in the town car parks and walk to the school. 2011 2012 Number of places available 150 150

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 20 Application form Published Admission Number: 192 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Specialist Status: Science or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. School Code: 9195426

What happened in previous years Open Event details Open Evening 20 September 6.00pm to 9.00pm 2011 2012 The Headteacher will speak at 6.00pm and Number of places available 160 160 7.30pm Total number of applications 704 758 Total number of places offered 160 160 Application form Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or on the Hertfordshire paper application Places offered under each rule form AND complete the supplementary 2011 2012 information form available from the school or the above website. SEN/Rule 1 and Rule 2 6 2 Rule 3 48 60 What happened in previous years Rule 4 64 75 Rule 5 42 23 2011 2012 Rule 6 0 0 Number of places available 191 192 Rule 7 0 0 Total number of applications 546 559 Total number of places offered 191 192 Places are allocated in accordance with

Hertfordshire County Council’s admission rules – see page16 - 26 of the Moving On Places offered under each rule booklet. 2011 2012 SEN/LAC 1 0 The Priority Area for the school is comprised of: Bayford, Bengeo Rural, Bramfield, Brickendon Medical/Social 7 5 Liberty, Gt Amwell, Hertford, Hertford Heath, Technology Aptitude 19 19 Hertford/Hoddesdon Hertingfordbury, Hunsdon, Little Berkhamsted, Siblings 75 89 Little Munden, Sacombe, Stanstead St Distance 89 79 Margarets, Stapleford, Tewin, Thundridge, Ware, Wareside, Watton-at-Stone and Widford. Summary of Admissions Rules Hertfordshire County Council allocates places 1 Children in Public Care (Children Looked on behalf of the school’s governing body. After) and children who were previously looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a residence order or special guardianship order). School Details 2 Children for whom it can be demonstrated Headteacher: Mr David J Kennedy BA, ACIM, that they have a particular medical or social FRSA reason which makes it essential that they attend the school. Stanstead Road, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire EN11 0QF

FAX 3 Children who have a sibling at the same 01992 462889 01992 470679 address who is a pupil at the school at the time @ [email protected] of application. For the purpose of this clause www.johnwarner.org.uk siblings would include sister, brother, half, Type: Academy (co-educational) Number on Roll: 1231

21 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions step, adoptive children provided they also live at Headteacher’s speeches will take place at the same address. 6.30pm and 7.30pm. Open Mornings 4 Children who would have the longest extra From 17 September until 28 September parents journey to get to their next nearest Local and children may visit the school during any Authority maintained non faith co-education morning - please telephone the school to make school*. Proof of residence will be required (this an appointment. must be the permanent address). The offer of a place maybe withdrawn if proof of residency is Application form not met. Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. 5 Children who show an aptitude for Technology on the basis of an assessment of aptitude What happened in previous years carried out by the school. 2011 2012 Tie-Break Number of places available 171 171 When there is a need for a tie-breaker where two different addresses measure the same Total number of applications 306 252 distance from a school, in the case of a block of Total number of places offered 150 137 Hoddesdon/Potters Bar flats for example, the lower door number will be deemed nearest as logically this will be on the The Sheredes School was able to offer places to ground floor and therefore closer. If there are all children in 2011 and 2012. two identical addresses of separate applicants, the tiebreak will be random. Places are allocated in accordance with *The details of how distances are calculated is Hertfordshire County Council’s admission explained in Appendix A and B in the full copy of rules – see page16 - 26 of the Moving On the admission arrangements which is available booklet. on the school website or from the school office. Parishes in the priority area for this school are: Queries about the outcome of applications to Broxbourne, Cheshunt, Hoddesdon, Nazeing, this school and how the admissions rules were Northaw and Cuffley, Stanstead Abbotts and applied should be addressed to the school Waltham Cross. direct. Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admissions rules were Sheredes School applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire County Council. School Details Headteacher: Mr Michael Smith Cock Lane, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire Dame Alice Owen’s School EN11 8JY 01992 410800 FAX 01992 410801 School Details @ [email protected] Headteacher: Dr Alan Davison www.sheredes.herts.sch.uk Dugdale Hill Lane, Potters Bar, EN6 2DU Type: Community (co-educational) 01707 643441 FAX 01707 645011 Number on Roll: 671 @ [email protected] Published Admission Number: 171 www.damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk School Code: 9194137 Type: Academy (co-educational) Number on Roll: 1443 Open Event details Published Admission Number: 200 Open Evening Specialist Status: Languages, Science School Code: 9195407 Thursday 13 September at 5.30pm

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 22 Open Event details of the School, and for whom the School has a 19 July, 2.00pm – 5.00pm. Tours of the school record as held on the School’s management and speeches by Head teacher system. All multiple birth siblings will be 2 – 5 October at 9.30am only. Tours of school admitted, provided that at least one of the Application form siblings gains a place at the School under any other criterion. Such additional places will be Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions counted as sibling admissions. Places will be or on the Hertfordshire paper application allocated under oversubscription criteria 4 & form. 5 only to children who have their permanent home address within one of the Local Priority If your child has a sibling that previously Areas for the School or are educated within the attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, please London Borough of Islington. contact the school direct 4 Children demonstrating musical aptitude What happened in previous years as determined by the Governors’ Assessment Procedure (not more than 10 places).The 2011 2012 Governors’ Assessment Procedure consists of a Number of places available 200 200 musical aptitude test. A limited number Total number of applications 1216 1259 of children will be invited back for an Total number of places offered 200 200 individual test.

5 Up to 65 children selected by academic Places offered under each rule ability having taken the Governors’ Entrance 2011 2012 Examination. Of these we will admit: SEN 1 1 As many children from the Islington priority area as when added to the number from that Looked After 0 1 area already admitted under criteria 1 to 4, will Distance 22 22 ensure that at least 20 children are admitted from Islington. As many children from the non-

Potters Bar Potters Siblings 94 98 Music 10 10 Islington Local Priority Areas as, when added to the number from Islington already admitted Examination 65 65 under the paragraph above, will total not more Locality 8 3 than 65 children. Subject to these Admission Arrangements, places will be offered in merit Summary of Admissions Rules order with priority to those children obtaining the highest total score from all three papers. 1 Looked after children. A looked after child is a child who is in the care of the local authority 6 Children of Staff. A member of staff is defined or provided with accommodation by a local as a person who has a permanent contract of authority in the exercise of its social service employment with the Governing Body of the functions. Priority under this criterion will also School at the time of application, and qualifies be given to a formerly looked after child who in the following circumstances; (a) the member has ceased to be so because they were adopted of staff has been employed at the school for or became subject to a residence order or two or more years at the time at which the special guardianship order. application for admission to the school is made, or (b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a 2 The 22 children whose permanent home vacant post for which there is a demonstrable address is closest to the school and who would skill shortage. not be allocated a place under any other criterion. 7 Children whose permanent home address is closest to the school within the Local 3 Children with a sibling who is at the School Priority Areas. or who have a sibling who is a former pupil

23 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 8 Any other child. Mount Grace School

If a tie-break is needed between children who School Details are equally qualified within any particular Headteacher: Peter Baker priority criterion, the place will be offered to Church Road, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire the child whose permanent home address is EN6 1EZ closest to the school. If there are two identical 01707 655512 FAX 01707 621298 distance measurements for different addresses @ [email protected] of separate applicants, the tie break will www.mountgrace.herts.sch.uk be random. Type: Academy (co-educational) Number on Roll: 1000 Local Priority Areas Published Admission Number: 174 The Local Priority Areas referred to above Specialist Status: Business and Enterprise and consist of the following parishes, towns, London Applied Learning Post Code sectors and Borough. School Code: 9195411

Parishes and towns within Hertfordshire: Open Event details Aldenham, Essendon, Northaw and Cuffley, Thursday, 27 September 5.00pm – 8.00pm Bayford, Hatfield, Potters Bar, Brickendon Open mornings 2 and 4 October 9.15am by Liberty, Little Berkhamsted, Ridge, Colney appointment only please contact the school. Heath, London Colney, Shenley, , North Mymms, Welwyn Garden

Application form Potters Bar City. Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. London postcodes within the London Boroughs of Barnet and Enfield What happened in previous years EN2 sectors 7, 8 N11 sectors 1, 3 N12 all sectors N13 sectors 4, 5 2011 2012 N14 all sectors N20 all sectors Number of places available 174 174 N21 all sectors EN4 all sectors Total number of applications 397 363 EN5 all sectors Total number of places offered 174 174

Within Islington Places offered under each rule Children who have their permanent home address in the London Borough of Islington or 2011 2012 are being educated in that Borough. SEN/Rule 1 and Rule 2 4 0 Rule 3 58 53 An objection to the arrangements of Dame Alice Owen’s School has not been upheld by the Rule 4 112 118 Office of the Schools Adjudicator. The OSA has Rule 5 (new rule for 2012) 0 3 recommended that a few minor amendments are made to the schools arrangements but Summary of Admissions Rules these amendments will not impact upon the 1 Children in public care. If you are applying school’s oversubscription criteria for 2013. on behalf of a child in public care or a For full details go to child previously looked after, please send a www.education.gov.uk/schoolsadjudicator supporting professional letter from the child’s social worker and/or the child’s advisory Queries about the outcome of applications to teacher to the school. If you apply online, please this school and how the admissions rules were ensure that the letter includes the child’s full applied should be addressed to the school name, date of birth and Unique Application direct. Code (UAC).

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 24 2 Children for whom it can be demonstrated places under this criterion are less than 10% that they have a particular medical or social of the total (17), any remaining places will be need to go to the school. A panel from the added to the places available under criteria 1, Governors’ School Admissions’ Committee 2, 3 and 4 (in that order until all the places have will determine whether the evidence been allocated). provided is sufficiently compelling to meet the requirements for this rule. If you think Queries about the outcome of applications to your child has a particular medical or social this school and how the admissions rules were need to go to Mount Grace School, you must applied should be addressed to the school provide supporting evidence from a doctor, direct. psychologist or other professional involved with your child. The supporting evidence must relate specifically to Mount Grace School under Rule Leventhorpe 2 and must clearly demonstrate why it is the only school that can meet your child’s needs. School Details If you are applying online and applying under Headteacher: Mr Jonathan Locke Rule 2, please send your supporting evidence, Cambridge Road, Sawbridgeworth, which should include your child’s name, date of Hertfordshire CM21 9BY birth and Unique Application Code (UAC), to the 01279 836633 FAX 01279 600339 school. We give medical priority to children who @ [email protected] have an exceptional illness or disability which www.leventhorpe.net means that they can only go to Mount Grace Type: Academy (co-educational) School. Number on Roll: 1158 Published Admission Number: 180 3 Children who have a sibling at the school at Specialist Status: Business and Enterprise; the time of application, unless the sibling is in Training School Year 13. School Code: 9195416 Note: A sibling means the sister, brother, half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, Open Event details or child of the parent/carer or partner, and Wednesday 26 September 6.00pm – 9.00pm in every case living in the same house from Mr Locke will speak at 6.00pm, 6.40pm, 7.20pm Monday to Friday. and 8.00pm. Visits during the school day can be arranged – please contact the school for

Potters Bar/Sawbridgeworth Potters 4 Children living nearest to the school. The details. school uses home school measurements provided by Hertfordshire County Council which measures the distance between the child’s Application form address point and the school’s address point. Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or on the Hertfordshire paper application 5 Aptitude in Modern Foreign Languages, MFL form AND complete the supplementary The remaining 10% of places (17 places) will be information form available from the school allocated for children who show an aptitude for or the above website. MFL on the basis of an assessment carried out by the school. Priority will be given to those with What happened in previous years the highest score in this test. In the event of a tie-break being required under this criterion, 2011 2012 places will be allocated using criteria 4. Number of places available 168 168* Total number of applications 494 535 (Home-school distance using the home-school Total number of places offered 168 180 measurement system used by Hertfordshire County Council as outlined in the County’s *In 2012 the school had an agreement with the admission arrangements and application LA to admit 180 places. literature). In the event that applications for

25 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Places offered under each rule (b) After applying (a) above, up to 10% of places will be allocated from all of the applications 2011 2012 remaining using criterion 6 below: SEN/LAC/Medical 7 0 Siblings 53 63 6 Students who can demonstrate a proven Feeder School 92 99 aptitude in music - this will be determined on the basis of an aptitude test. Priority will be Music Aptitude 16 18 given to those with the highest scores in this Distance 0 0 test. Parents should apply for their child to Twins/multiple births 0 0 take the test on Leventhorpe’s Supplementary Information Form. Summary of Admissions Rules In the event of a tie-break being required under (a) 90% of allocations will be made using the criterion 6 then places will be allocated using following five criteria in the order set out below: criteria 1 – 5 in order. Should less than 10% of places be allocated under criterion 6 then any 1 Looked after children (children in public care) remaining places will be allocated using criteria and those previously in care who, immediately 1 – 5. Students with a statement of Special after leaving care, became subject to an Educational Needs which names the school will adoption, residence or special guardianship be admitted. order. Sawbridgeworth Please ensure that you read the full admission 2 Children who, at the closing date for rules – available from the school’s website or applications, have a brother or sister the school itself. currently attending The Leventhorpe School in years 7 – 12. They also need to live at the An objection to the arrangements of the The same permanent address from Monday Leventhorpe School has been upheld by the to Friday.‘Brothers and sisters’ includes Office of the School’s Adjudicator and the stepbrothers, stepsisters, half brothers, half School Admissions Code requires the school to sisters and adopted brothers and sisters who amend its admission arrangements as quickly are living at the same permanent address as as possible. For full details go to the prospective student.‘Currently attending’ www.education.gov.uk/schoolsadjudicator means children who are actually at the school, The school’s amended arrangements will be or children who have been offered a place, but available at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions have not yet started at the school. and from the school’s own website.

3 Children of staff who are directly employed by Queries about the outcome of applications to the governing body of Leventhorpe Trust. this school and how the admissions rules were applied should be addressed to the school 4 Children who, at the closing date for direct. applications, attend one of the following primary schools: Hatfield Heath, High Wych, Little Hallingbury, Mandeville, Reedings, Sheering, Spellbrook, St Andrews (Much Hadham).

5 Should there be places unfilled after applying 4, then places will be offered on the basis of shortest straight line distance between permanent residence to the School as determined by Hertfordshire County Council, with those living closer being accorded a higher priority.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 26 Nicholas Breakspear 2011 2012 Catholic School All LAC 0 0 School Details Children of other Christian 5 3 denominations: Siblings Headteacher: Phil Jakszta Colney Heath Lane, St Albans, Hertfordshire, Children of other Christian 0 0 AL4 0TT denominations: Social Medical 01727 860079 FAX 01727 848912 Children of other Christian 13 8 @ [email protected] denominations: Distance www.nicholasbreakspearschool.co.uk Children of non Christian faith: 2 3 Type: Academy (co-educational) Siblings Number on Roll: 909 Children of non Christian faith: 0 0 Published Admission Number: 180 Social Medical Specialist Status: Sports College Any other applicant: Distance 37 22 School Code: 9195412

Summary of Admissions Rules Open Event details 1 Catholic looked after children and Catholic Wednesday, 19 September, 6.00pm – 9.00pm children who have been adopted (or subject There is ample parking available on the school to residence orders or special guardianship site. The Headteacher will speak at 6.00pm and orders) immediately following having been 7.15pm. Refreshments will be provided. looked after.

Open mornings 24 September - 26 October; 2 Children baptised into the Catholic faith. please telephone the school office to make an appointment. 3 All other looked after children and other children who have been adopted (or subject Application form to residence orders or special guardianship St Albans Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions orders) immediately following having been or on the Hertfordshire paper application looked after. form AND complete the supplementary information form available from the school or 4 Children of other Christian denominations, the above website. whose parents wish them to have a Catholic education and whose application is supported What happened in previous years by a minister of religion, or other religious leader. 2011 2012 5 Children of non-Christian faiths, whose Number of places available 180 180 parents wish them to have a Catholic education Total number of applications 344 262 and whose application is supported by a Total number of places offered 119 87 religious leader.

6 Any other applicants. Places offered under each rule 2011 2012 Queries about the outcome of applications to Catholic LAC & SEN 0 2 this school and how the admissions rules were applied should be addressed to the school Children Baptised into the 29 16 direct. Catholic faith: Siblings Children Baptised into the 0 1 catholic faith: Social Medical Children Baptised into the 33 32 Catholic faith: Distance

27 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Places are allocated in accordance with Hertfordshire County Council’s admission School Details rules – see page16 - 26 of the Moving On Headteacher: Janine Robinson booklet. Hoe Lane, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 9NX Parishes in the priority area for this school are: 01920 462210 FAX 01920 461187 , Bramfield, Bayford, Bengeo Rural, @ [email protected] Brickendon Liberty, Datchworth, Essendon, www.presdales.herts.sch.uk Great Amwell, Great Munden, Hertford, Hertford Type: Academy (Girls with mixed Sixth Form) Heath, Hertingfordbury, Hunsdon, Little Number on Roll: 1071 Berkhamsted, Little Munden, Much Hadham, Published Admission Number: 165* Sacombe, Stanstead Abbotts , Stanstead St Specialist Status: Languages, Music, Margarets, Stapleford, Tewin, Thundridge, Ware, Mathematics and Computing (with a Gifted and Wareside, Watton-at-stone, Widford. Talented focus) School Code: 9194013 Hertfordshire County Council allocates places on behalf of the school’s governing body. *Although the school’s PAN is 165 the governing body has agreed to admit 168 pupils in September 2013. The School Details Open Event details Headteacher: Dennis O’Sullivan Open Evening Details: Park Road, Ware, Hertfordshire. SG12 0DP

Monday 22 October, 7.00pm to 9.30pm FAX Ware 01920 411200 01920 411201 Tuesday 23 October, 4.30pm to 7.00pm @ [email protected] www.chauncy.org.uk Application form Type: Academy (co-educational) Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Number on Roll: 976 or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. Published Admission Number: 160 Specialist Status: Arts and Maths & Computing What happened in previous years (with a Gifted & Talented focus) School Code: 9194498 2011 2012 Number of places available 165 165 Open Event details Total number of applications 447 509 Wednesday 10 October Total number of places offered 165 165 6.15pm to 9.15pm.

Application form Places offered under each rule Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 2011 2012 or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. SEN/Medical/Social/ 1 1 Looked After What happened in previous years Siblings 34 34 2011 2012 Living in priority area (Rule 4) 28 36 Number of places available 150 160 Living in priority area (Rule 5) 83 94 Total number of applications 304 311 Living outside priority area 19 0 (Rule 6) Total number of places offered 150 160

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 28 Places offered under each rule 7 Children living outside the priority area who live nearest to the school. 2011 2012 SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 5 1 Tiebreaker Rule 3 56 54 In the event that there are more applicants Rule 4 82 78 meeting any of the oversubscription criteria above than remaining places available, the Rule 5 6 12 tiebreaker described in Hertfordshire County Rule 6 0 0 Council’s current Determined Schools Rule 7 1 12 Admissions Arrangements will be applied to allocate the remaining places. Summary of Admissions Rules The priority area consists of: Bayford, Bengeo 1 Looked after children or previously looked Rural, Bramfield, Brickenden Liberty, after (children who ceased to be looked after Great Amwell, Hertford,Hertford Heath, because they were adopted or became subject Hertingfordbury, Hunsdon, Little Berkhamsted, to a residence order or special guardianship). Little Munden, Sacombe, Stanstead St Margarets, Stapleford, Tewin, Thundridge, Ware, 2 Children for whom it can be demonstrated Wareside, Watton-On-Stone, Widford. that they have a particular medical or social need to go to the school. Note: A panel of Hertfordshire County Council allocates places Governors will determine whether the evidence on behalf of the school’s governing body. provided is sufficiently compelling to meet the requirements for this rule.

3 Children who have a sibling at the school Monk’s Walk School at the time of application, unless the sibling School Details is in the last year of the normal age range of Headteacher: Kathleen Smith the Chauncy School. The ‘normal age range’ Knightsfield, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7NL

for The Chauncy School is Years 7-13. Note: A FAX 01707 322846 01707 375080 sibling means the sister, brother, half brother @ [email protected] or sister, adopted brother or sister, or child of www.monkswalk.herts.sch.uk the parent/carer or partner, and in every case

Ware/Welwyn Garden City Garden Ware/Welwyn Type: Foundation* (co-educational) living in the same house from Monday to Friday. Number on Roll: 1243 Published Admission Number: 226 4 Children who live in the priority area and Specialist Status: Science for whom it is their nearest Hertfordshire School Code: 9194118 maintained non-faith, co-educational, *pending application to convert to Academy non-partially selective school. status on 1 September 2012 Note: Non-partially selective means that the school does not offer any places based on academic ability. Open Event details Thursday 4 October from 6.00pm - 8.30pm 5 Children who live in the priority area who live School in action tours held each morning from nearest to the school. Tuesday 9 October until Friday 19 October. No appointment necessary simply arrive at 6 Children who live outside the priority area reception at 9.00am. If you wish your child and for whom it is their nearest Hertfordshire to accompany you on the tour please ask maintained non-faith co-educational school. permission from their headteacher. Where more children qualify under this rule than there are places available, places will be Application form allocated to those who live nearest the school. Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or on the Hertfordshire paper application form.

29 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions What happened in previous years Welwyn Garden City, Welwyn, Woolmer Green. 2011 2012 5 Children who live in the priority area who live Number of places available 210 210 nearest the School. Total number of applications 624 620 Total number of places offered 210 210 6 Children living outside the priority area who live nearest the School.

Places offered under each rule Tie break 2011 2012 In the event of over-subscription on any of the admission rules (ie more children qualify SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 5 8 under a particular rule than there are places Rule 3 67 64 available), a tie break will be used by applying Rule 4 94 96 the next rule to those children. Rule 5 44 42 Where there is a need for a tie break where Rule 6 0 0 two different addresses measure the same Rule 7 0 0 distance (e.g., in a block of flats), the place will be offered by random selection. A computer Summary of Admissions Rules programme will be used to allocate the place by Welwyn Garden City 1 Children in Public Care (children looked random number generation. after), and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted Hertfordshire County Council allocates places (or became subject to a residence order or a on behalf of the school’s governing body. special guardianship order).

2 Medical or social needs: Children for whom Sir Frederic Osborn School it can be demonstrated that they have a School Details particular medical or social need to go to that specific school. Headteacher: Sue Lewis Herns Lane, Welwyn Garden City, 3 Siblings: Children who, at the closing date for Hertfordshire AL7 2AF applications, have a brother or sister currently 0844 477 2515 FAX 0844 4772526 attending Monk’s Walk School in Years 7-12. @ [email protected] They also need to live at the same permanent www.sfosborn.herts.sch.uk address from Monday to Friday and to have Type: Community (co-educational) joined the School during Years 7-11. ‘Brothers Number on Roll: 722 and sisters’ includes step brothers, stepsisters, Published Admission Number: 215 half brothers, half sisters and adopted Specialist Status: Sports brothers and sisters who are living at the same School Code: 9194087 permanent address as the applicant. (‘Currently attending’ means children who are Open Event details actually at the School, or children who have Thursday, 20 September at 6.15pm and finish at been offered or accepted a place but have not 8.30pm yet started the School). Application form 4 Children who live in the priority area and Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions for whom it is their nearest Hertfordshire or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. maintained non-faith, co-educational, non- partially selective school or academy. The priority area is as defined by HCC, namely: Ayot St Peter, Codicote, Essendon, Hatfield, North Mymms, South Mymms, Potters Bar,

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 30 What happened in previous years Application form 2011 2012 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Number of places available 215 215 or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. Total number of applications 285 282 Total number of places offered 175 157 What happened in previous years 2011 2012 Sir Frederic Osborn School was able to offer Number of places available 188 188 places to all children who applied in 2011 and Total number of applications 516 511 2012. Total number of places offered 188 188 Places are allocated in accordance with Hertfordshire County Council’s admission Places offered under each rule rules – see page16 - 26 of the Moving On 2011 2012 booklet. SEN/Rule 1 and Rule 2 2 2 Parishes in the priority area of the school are: Rule 3 61 71 Ayot St Peter, Codicote, Essendon, Hatfield, Rule 4 53 41 North Mymms, South Mymms, Potters Bar, Rule 5 69 74 Welwyn Garden City, Welwyn and Woolmer Green. Rule 6 0 0 Rule 7 2 0 Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admissions rules were Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 requires applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire the governing bodies of all maintained schools County Council. to admit a child with a statement of special educational needs that names their school.

Stanborough School Summary of Admissions Rules 1 Children in public care (children looked School Details

Welwyn Garden City Garden Welwyn after) and children who were looked after, but Headteacher: Mr Peter Brown ceased to be so because they were adopted (or Lemsford Lane, Welwyn Garden City, became subject to a residence order or a special AL8 6YR guardianship order). 01707 321755 FAX 01707 387701 @ [email protected] 2 Medical or Social: Children for whom it can www.stanborough.herts.sch.uk be demonstrated that they have a particular Type: Academy (co-educational) medical or social need to go to the school. Number on Roll: 1093 Governors will determine whether the evidence Published Admission Number: 188 provided is sufficiently compelling to meet the Specialist Status: Maths and Computing requirements for this rule. The evidence must School Code: 9194014 relate specifically to the school applied for under Rule 2 and must clearly demonstrate why Open Event details it is the only school that can meet the child’s Thursday 27 September from 6.00pm to 9.00pm. needs. Headteacher’s speeches at 6.30pm and 7.30pm. Open Mornings 3 Sibling: Children who have a sibling at the Monday 1 October, Thursday 4 October, Tuesday school at the time of application, unless the 9 October at 8.45am sibling is in the last year of the normal age- Please contact the school to book an range of the school. Note: the ‘normal age appointment for Open Morning. range’ is the designated range for which the school provides, for example Years 7 to 11 in a

31 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 11-16 secondary school, Years 7 to 13 in a 11-18 school.

4 Children who live in the priority area for whom it is their nearest Hertfordshire maintained school or academy that is non-faith, co-educational and non-partially selective.

5 Children who live in the priority area who live nearest to the school.

6 Children living outside the priority area and for whom it is their nearest maintained school or academy that is non-faith, co-educational and non- partially selective.

7 Children living outside the priority area on the basis of distance, with those living nearest to the school given priority. Welwyn Garden City Where there is a need for a tie-breaker where two different addresses measure the same distance from a school, in the case of a block of flats for example the lower door number will be deemed nearest as logically this will be on the ground floor and therefore closer. If there are two identical addresses of separate applicants, the tie break will be random.

Parishes in the priority area of the school are: Ayot St Peter, Codicote, Essendon, Hatfield, North Mymms, South Mymms, Potters Bar, Welwyn Garden City, Welwyn and Woolmer Green.

Hertfordshire County Council allocates places on behalf of the school’s governing body.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 32 The directory section for North Herts and The Knights Templar School 2 Medical or social needs: Children for who it can be demonstrated that they have a particular School Details medical or social need to attend Knights Headteacher: Andrew Pickering Templar. Park Street, Baldock Hertfordshire SG7 6DZ 3 Siblings living in the Priority area: Children 01462 620700 FAX 01462 620701 who have a sibling at the School at the time of @ [email protected] application, unless the sibling is in Year 13. www.ktemplar.herts.sch.uk Type: Academy (co-educational) 4 Children living in the Priority area who live Number on Roll: 1345 nearest to the school who do not already have a Published Admission Number: 210 sibling attending the school. Specialist Status: Sports and Performing Arts School Code: 9194016 5 Children of Staff.

Open Event details 6 Siblings living outside the Priority area: Wednesday 3 and Thursday 4 October from Children who have a sibling at the school at the 9.00am to 12.00 noon. time of application, unless the sibling is in Year 13. Application form 7 Children living outside the Priority area who Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions live nearest to the school. or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. * Children of Staff - are defined as children What happened in previous years of employees who have been employed at the 2011 2012 school for two or more years on the date of the application. Number of places available 210 210 Baldock Total number of applications 601 591 Tie break Total number of places offered 210 210 If more children qualify under a particular rule Places offered under each rule* than places available, a tie break will be used by applying the next rule to those children. In the 2011 2012 cases of two applicants with exactly the same SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 7 2 priority under the same admission rules, but Rule 3 87 83 only one place being available, the school will offer to both families. Rule 4 80 114 Rule 5 1 0 Rule 6 26 11 Parishes in the priority area for this school are : Ashwell, Baldock, , Caldecote, , Rule 7 9 0 Edworth, , Newnham, Radwell, *In 2011 and 2012 places were allocated in Rushden, Sandon, Wallington and Weston. accordance with Hertfordshire County Council’s admission rules. An objection has been made to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator about the admission Summary of admission rules arrangements for this school and therefore their arrangements may be subject to 1 Children in public care (children looked change. Information about the objection after) and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or process is available at www.education.gov. become subject to a residence order or special uk/schoolsadjudicator/ The outcome of the guardianship) determination will be published at

1 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions www.hertsdirect.org/admissions as soon as it 2011 2012 is available. Non Feeder School Distance 2 0 Hertfordshire County Council allocates places Non Feeder School Sibling 6 13 on behalf of the school’s governing body. For queries about the school’s children of staff Summary of Admissions Rules rule, parents should contact the school. 1 Children in public care (children looked after) and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or Freman College became subject to a residence order or special guardianship order). School Details Headteacher: Ms Helen Loughran 2 Students at the college’s partner middle Bowling Green Lane, Buntingford, SG9 9BT schools, Edwinstree Church of England (VC) 01763 271818 FAX 01763 273467 Middle School in Buntingford and Ralph Sadleir @ [email protected] Middle School in Puckeridge, at the time of www.fremancollege.herts.sch.uk application, will be considered in the Type: Academy (co-educational) following order. Number on Roll: 900 a. Students with a sibling attending the college Published Admission Number: 210 at the time of application with a reasonable Specialist Status: Humanities expectation they will be attending at the time of School Code: 9194141 the start of the new academic year; then

b. Students living closest to the college Buntingford This is an upper school that takes children from according to the definition of ‘home to school Year 9. distance’ given in Hertfordshire County Council’s current Determined Schools Open Event details Admissions Arrangements. Wednesday 3 October from 6.30pm- 8.30pm Tours running until the Headteacher speaks at 3 Applications from students who do not attend 8.00pm. Tours also available during the working the Edwinstree Church of England Middle day throughout September and October. School or Ralph Sadleir Middle School at the Please telephone the college office to arrange time of application, will be considered in the an appointment. following order: a. Students with a sibling attending the college Application form at the time of application with a reasonable expectation they will be attending at the time Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions of the start of the new academic year; and then or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. b. Students living closest to the college according to the definition of ‘home to What happened in previous years school distance’ given in Hertfordshire 2011 2012 County Council’s current Determined Schools Number of places available 210 210 Admissions Arrangements.

Total number of applications 323 342 Tiebreaker Total number of places offered 210 211 In the event that there are more applicants meeting any of the oversubscription criteria Places offered under each rule above than remaining places available, the tiebreaker described in Hertfordshire County 2011 2012 Council’s current admissions arrangements will SEN/LAC 3 7 be applied to allocate the remaining places. Feeder School Distance 118 122 Queries about the outcome of applications Feeder School Sibling 81 69 to this school and how the admissions rules

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 2 were applied should be addressed to the rules – see page16 - 26 of the Moving On school direct. booklet.

Parishes in the priority area for this school are: Boys’ School Baldock, Codicote, Graveley, , Hitchin, Holwell, , King’s Walden, , School Details Langley, , Lilley, , Pirton, Headteacher: Mr M Brown Preston, , St Pauls Walden, Weston Grammar School Walk, Hitchin, SG5 1JB and . 01462 432181 FAX 01462 440172 @ [email protected] Queries about the outcome of applications to www.hbs.herts.sch.uk this school and how the admissions rules were Type: Community* (Boys) applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire Number on Roll: 1013 County Council. Published Admission Number: 165 Specialist Status: Technology, Languages School Code: 9194008 Hitchin Girls’ School *Pending application to convert to School Details Academy status on 1 January 2013. Headteacher: Mrs Frances Manning Highbury Road, Hitchin Hertfordshire Open Event details SG4 9RS Tuesday 25 September 9.15am to 12.15pm 01462 621300 FAX 01462 621301 Tuesday 25 September 6.45pm to 8.30pm @ [email protected] Thursday 27 September 9.15am to 12.15pm www.hgs.herts.sch.uk Type: Academy (Girls) Application form Number on Roll:1063 Hitchin Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Published Admission Number:165 or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. Specialist Status: Science School Code: 9194009 What happened in previous years Open Event details 2011 2012 Open evening: Tuesday 25 September 5.30pm Number of places available 160 165 - 8.00pm. The Headteacher will give a talk at Total number of applications 441 427 6.30pm, repeated at 7.30pm. Total number of places offered 160 165 Open mornings: Thursday 27 September 9.30am – 11.30am, Tuesday 2 October 9.30am – 11.30am Places offered under each rule 2011 2012 Application form SEN/Medical/Social/ 2 3 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Looked After or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. Siblings 36 35 Living in priority area (Rule 4) 62 53 What happened in previous years Living in priority area (Rule 5) 60 74 2011 2012 Living outside priority area 0 0 Number of places available 160 165 (Rule 6) Total number of applications 495 497 Places are allocated in accordance with Total number of places offered 160 166 Hertfordshire County Council’s admission

3 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Places offered under each rule* available to a particular parish/unparished area or town, places will be allocated as follows: 2011 2012 SEN/Medical/Social/ 4 1 5 Children who live in the Hitchin Parish. Looked After If, under proportionality, fewer than 65 places Siblings 45 41 would be available to girls living in Hitchin, Living in priority area (Rule 4) 59 61 the school will allocate 65 places to children whose permanent home address is in the Living in priority area (Rule 5) 52 63 parish of Hitchin. In the event of more than 65 Living outside priority area 0 0 applications for consideration under this rule, (Rule 6) places will be allocated as follows: • to girls for whom it is their nearest * In 2011 and 2012 places were allocated Hertfordshire maintained school or in acccordance with Hertfordshire County academy that is non-faith and non partially Council’s community single sex admission selective and makes provision for children rules. of the relevant gender.

Summary of admission rules If more children qualify under this rule than 1 Children in public care (children looked after) places are available, the tiebreak would be and children who were looked after, but ceased those that live closest to the school. If fewer to be so because they were adopted (or became than 65 places are allocated, the balance will be subject to a residence order or a special added to the places available to applicants from guardianship order). the rest of the priority area and distributed

under rule 6 and 7 Hitchin 2 Medical or Social: Children for whom it can be demonstrated that they have a particular 6 Children who live in the rest of the priority medical or social need to go to the school. area by parish, on a proportional basis. Those for whom it is their nearest Hertfordshire 3 Sibling: Children who have a sibling at the maintained school or academy that is non-faith school at the time of application, excluding and non partially selective and makes provision sisters who a) first entered the school in the for children of the relevant gender, (if more Sixth Form (Year 12 ) or b) are in Year 13 which children qualify under rule 6 than places, the is the last year of the normal age range of the tiebreak would be those that live closest to the school. school).

4 Children of Staff: Children of permanent 7 Any remaining places available to a parish/ members of staff whose permanent home unparished area or town. Places will be address is in the Priority Area for Hitchin Girls’ allocated on a random basis. School and who are a) directly employed by Hitchin Girls’ School and b) will have been Children who live outside the priority area employed at the school for a minimum of two years at the time the applicant would be 8 Places will be allocated on a random basis. admitted to the school or have been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a Parishes in the priority area for this school demonstrable skills shortage, such shortage to are: Baldock, Codicote, Graveley, Hexton, be determined at the Headteacher’s absolute Hitchin, Holwell, Ickleford, Knebworth, Langley, discretion. Letchworth, Lilley, Offley, Pirton, Preston, St Ippolyts, St Pauls Walden, Weston and Children who live in the priority area Wymondley. Places will be allocated to each parish/ Hertfordshire County Council allocates places unparished area or town in proportion to the on behalf of the school’s governing body. number of applications made. In the event of there being more applications than places

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 4 The Priory School Parishes in the priority area for this school are: Hexton, Hitchin, Holwell, Ickleford, Langley, School Details Lilley, Offley, Pirton, Preston, St Ippolyts and Headteacher: Mr. Peter Loach Wymondley. Bedford Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG5 2UR Queries about the outcome of applications to 01462 622300 FAX 01462 622301 this school and how the admissions rules were @ [email protected] applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire www.priory.herts.sch.uk County Council. Type: Community (co-educational) Number on Roll: 1000 Published Admission Number: 180 Maths and Specialist Status: Business and Enterprise Computing College Applied Learning School Code: 9194000 School Details Headteacher: Mr Jed Whelan Open Event details Icknield Way, Letchworth Garden City, Open Evening: Monday 24 September, 6.30pm – Hertfordshire SG6 4BA FAX 8.30pm. Headteacher presentations at 6.45pm 01462 621200 01462 621201 @ and 8.00pm. [email protected] Open Morning: Monday 1 October 9.15pm – www.fearnhill.herts.sch.uk 11.00am. Type: Community (co-educational) Number on Roll: 867 Application form Published Admission Number: 180 Specialist Status: Mathematics and Computing Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions School Code: 9194010 or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. Open Event details What happened in previous years Open Evening: Thursday 20 September from 2011 2012 6.00pm – 8.30pm Number of places available 180 180 Open Morning: Monday 24 September from 9.00am – 10.45am. The headteacher will give a Total number of applications 420 430 talk at 6.30pm and 7.15pm Total number of places offered 180 180 Hitchin/Letchworth Garden City Garden Hitchin/Letchworth Application form Places offered under each rule Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. 2011 2012 SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 5 3 What happened in previous years Rule 3 52 55 2011 2012 Rule 4 77 76 Number of places available 180 180 Rule 5 20 22 Total number of applications 301 202 Rule 6 2 3 Total number of places offered 131 112 Rule 7 24 21

Fearnhill School Maths and Computing College Places are allocated in accordance with were able to offer places to all children who Hertfordshire County Council’s admission applied in 2011 and 2012. rules – see page16 - 26 of the Moving On booklet. Places are allocated in accordance with Hertfordshire County Council’s admission

5 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions rules – see page16 - 26 of the Moving On Places offered under each rule booklet. 2011 2012 Parishes in the priority area for this school are: SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 2 3 Letchworth Garden City. Rule 3 61 54 Rule 4 24 39 Queries about the outcome of applications to Rule 5 43 66 this school and how the admissions rules were applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire Rule 6 11 13 County Council. Rule 7 11 5

Places are allocated in accordance with Hertfordshire County Council’s admission School Details rules – see page16 - 26 of the Moving On booklet. Headteacher: Mr Ian Morris Highfield, Letchworth Garden City, Parishes in the priority area are: Letchworth Letchworth Garden City/Royston Hertfordshire SG6 3QA Garden City. 01462 620500 FAX 01462 620501 @ [email protected] Queries about the outcome of applications to www.highfield.herts.sch.uk this school and how the admissions rules were Type: Community (co-educational) applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire Number on Roll: 1022 County Council. Published Admission Number: 180 Specialist Status: Science School Code: 9194122 The Meridian School Open Event details School Details Open Evening: Headteacher: Dr Michael Firth Monday 1 October 6.00pm to 8.30pm Garden Walk, Royston Hertfordshire Open Morning: SG8 7JH Tuesday 2 October 9.00am to 10.45am 01763 242236 FAX 01763 245749 The Headteacher will speak at 7.00pm and @ [email protected] 8.00pm on Monday and at 10.00am on Tuesday. www.meridian.herts.sch.uk On Tuesday 2 October we welcome our visitors Type: Academy (co-educational) to see the school during a normal working day. Upper School (13 - 18) Number on Roll: 452 Application form Published Admission Number: 213 Specialist Status: Mathematics and Computing Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions School Code: 9194140 or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. This is an upper school which takes children from year 9. What happened in previous years

2011 2012 Open Event details Number of places available 180 180 Tuesday 2 October 6.30pm to 8.30pm The Headteacher will speak at 6.30pm. Total number of applications 549 573 Tours of the school are available by Total number of places offered 160 180 appointment from 24 September to 5 October.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 6 Application form 7 Children living outside the priority area on the Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions basis of distance, with those living nearest to or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. the school given priority. What happened in previous years If more children qualify under a particular 2011 2012 rule than there are places available, a tiebreak Number of places available 213 213 will be used by applying the next rule to those children. Where there is a need for a tie- Total number of applications 214 235 breaker where two different addresses measure Total number of places offered 125 155 the same distance from a school, in the case of a block of flats for example the lower door The Meridian School was able to offer places to number will be deemed nearer as logically this all children who applied in 2011 and 2012. will be on the ground floor and therefore closer. If there are two identical addresses of separate Summary of Admissions Rules applicants, the tie break will be random. 1 Children in public care (children looked after) and children who were looked after, but ceased Parishes in the priority area for this school to be so because they were adopted (or became are: Anstey, , Aspenden, , subject to a residence order or a special Barley, , , Buckland, guardianship order). Buntingford, , Great Munden, , , , , 2 Medical or Social: Children for whom it can Reed, Royston, Standon, , be demonstrated that they have a particular and . medical or social need to go to the school. Governors will determine whether the evidence Queries about the outcome of applications to provided is sufficiently compelling to meet the this school and how the admissions rules were requirements for this rule. The evidence must applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire relate specifically to the school applied for County Council. under Rule 2 and must clearly demonstrate why it is the only school that can meet the child’s The Barclay School Royston/Stevenage needs. School Details 3 Sibling: Children who have a sibling at the Headteacher: Ms Debbie Upton school at the time of application, unless the  Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire sibling is in the last year of the normal age- SG1 3RB

range of the school. FAX 01438 232221 01438 232300 @ [email protected] 4 Children who live in the priority area for whom www.barclayschool.co.uk it is their nearest Hertfordshire maintained Type: Community (co-educational) school or academy that is non-faith, co- Number on Roll: 1131 educational and non-partially selective. Published Admission Number: 196 Specialist Status: Technology 5 Children who live in the priority area who live School Code: 9194047 nearest to the school. Open Event details 6 Children living outside the priority area and for whom it is their nearest maintained school Thursday 20 September 6.30pm until 9.00pm. or academy that is non-faith, co-educational Headteacher will speak at 6.45pm and 7.45pm. and non-partially selective. Tours of the school during w/c 8 October: Monday, Wednesday and Friday between 9.00am and 10.00am and Tuesday and

7 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Thursday between 10.00am and 11.00am. By Published Admission Number: 300 Appointment, please book with reception. Specialist Status: Business and Enterprise School Code: 9194066 Application form Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Open Event details or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. Tuesday 25 September from 6.30pm – 9.00pm Headteacher talks will be at 6.30pm, 7.15pm What happened in previous years and 8.00pm - admission by ticket only, issued on arrival. 2011 2012 Number of places available 196 196 Application form Total number of applications 516 462 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Total number of places offered 196 186 or on the Hertfordshire paper application form.

What happened in previous years Places offered under each rule 2011 2012 2011 2012 SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 8 1 Number of places available 240 300 Rule 3 55 81 Total number of applications 514 425 Rule 4 47 44 Total number of places offered 258 260

Rule 5 86 55 Stevenage Rule 6 0 0 Places offered under each rule Rule 7 0 1 2011 2012 SEN/Rule 1 and Rule 2 6 4 Places are allocated in accordance with Hertfordshire County Council’s admission Rule 3 104 81 rules – see page16 - 26 of Moving On booklet. Rule 4 148 128 Rule 5 0 27 Parishes in the priority area for this school are: Rule 6 0 2 Aston, Benington, Datchworth, Knebworth, Graveley,, Stevenage and Walkern. Rule 7 0 3 Places are allocated in accordance with Queries about the outcome of applications to Hertfordshire County Council’s admission this school and how the admissions rules were rules – see page16 - 26 of the Moving On applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire booklet. County Council. Parishes in the priority area for this school are: Aston, Benington, Datchworth, Knebworth, Barnwell Business and Graveley,Great Ashby, Stevenage and Walkern. Enterprise School Queries about the outcome of applications to School Details this school and how the admissions rules were Acting Headteacher: Mr T Fitzpatrick applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire Barnwell, Stevenage Hertfordshire County Council. SG2 9SW 01438 222500 FAX 01438 222501 @ [email protected] www.barnwellschool.co.uk Type: Community (co-educational) Number on Roll: 1447

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 8 John Henry Newman RC School Summary of admission rules 1 Catholic looked after children and Catholic School Details children who have been adopted (or made Headteacher: Mr C Mathew subject to residence orders or special Hitchin Road, Stevenage, SG1 4AE guardianship orders) immediately following 01438 314643 FAX 01438 747882 having been looked after. @ [email protected] www.johnhenrynewman.herts.sch.uk 2 Catholic Children: In considering applications Type: Academy (co-educational) in Category 2 the following criteria will be Number on Roll: 1575 applied in the following order Published Admission Number: 210 2.1 Catholic Children from practising Catholic Denomination: Catholic families Specialist Status: Arts 2.2 Other Catholic Children School Code: 9195413 3 Other looked after children and children Open Event details who have been adopted (or made subject to Thursday 27 September from 6.00pm. residence orders or special guardianship Headteacher’s speech at 7.30pm. orders) immediately following having been looked after. Application form 4 Catechumens and baptised children of Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Eastern/Orthodox Churches (i.e., one which is or on the Hertfordshire paper application not in communion with the See of Rome) where form AND complete the supplementary the application is supported by their priest. information form available from the school or the above website. 5 Children from Christian families where the application is supported by a reference from a What happened in previous years minister of religion. Stevenage 2011 2012 6 Children from families of other faiths where Number of places available 210 210 the application is supported by a reference from Total number of applications 538 535 a religious leader. Total number of places offered 226 210 7 Any other children. Places offered under each rule Prioritising Applications 2011 2012 Priority will be applied within Categories in the SEN/CLA 4 6 order set out below: Baptised, fully practicing, 92 89 Where one child is offered a place but a twin/ sibling & at feeder primary triplet/siblings of that child applying for a Baptised, fully practicing & at 120 115 place in the same academic year group is not feeder primary school offered a place the twin/triplet/sibling will also be offered a place at the School, even when Baptised, fully practicing, sibling 4 0 admitting such a child(ren) would exceed the & not at feeder primary Published Admissions Number. Baptised, regular commitment 6 0 to church, no sibling and does (i) attendance of a sibling at the School AND by not attend a feeder primary the child at a Feeder Primary School school. (ii) attendance by the child at a Feeder Primary Baptised, some church 0 0 School BUT no sibling at the School commitment, sibling and attends a feeder primary school.

9 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions (iii) attendance of a sibling at the School BUT Open Events the child does not attend a Feeder Primary Thursday 4 October, 6.00pm - 9.00pm. School Acting Headteacher, Geraint Edwards will (iv) no attendance at a Feeder Primary School speak at 6.30pm and 7.30pm. and no sibling at the School

The Governing Body will give top priority to an Application form application within a category where compelling Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions evidence is provided at the time of application or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. of an exceptional social, medical or pastoral need of the child that can only be met at The What happened in previous years John Henry Newman School. Evidence of such factors must be provided from an appropriate 2011 2012 professional at the time of application. Number of places available 210 210 Total number of applications 468 458 Tie Break Total number of places offered 177 144 Where the offer of places to all applicants in any of the categories or subcategories listed above would lead to oversubscription the Places offered under each rule places up to the admissions number within 2011 2012 that category or sub category will be offered to those living nearest the School. The home SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 1 0

to school distance will be measured using Rule 3 50 56 Stevenage the home-school measurement system used Rule 4 47 26 by Hertfordshire County Council as outlined Rule 5 61 56 in the County’s admission arrangements and application literature. Home is defined as the Rule 6 0 0 place where the child is resident for at least Rule 7 2 1 50% of the School week. If two or more children have equal priority after applying all the criteria was able to offer places to all then a drawing of lots will determine who gains children who applied in 2011 and 2012. the place. Places are allocated in accordance with Queries about the outcome of applications to Hertfordshire County Council’s admission this school and how the admissions rules were rules – see page16 - 26 of the Moving On applied should be addressed to the school booklet. direct. Parishes in the priority area for this school are: Aston, Benington, Datchworth, Graveley,Great Marriotts School - Ashby, Knebworth, Stevenage and Walkern. A Sports College Queries about the outcome of applications to School Details this school and how the admissions rules were Acting Headteacher: Geraint Edwards applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire Brittain Way, Stevenage, Herts SG2 8UT County Council. 01438 760400 FAX 01438 743548 @ [email protected] www.marriotts.herts.sch.uk Type: Community (co-educational) Number on Roll: 1000 Published Admission Number: 240 Specialist Status: Sports School Code: 9194116

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 10 applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire County Council. School Details Headteacher: Mr Alastair Craig Mobbsbury Way, Stevenage, SG2 0HS The Thomas Alleyne School 01438 222600 FAX 01438 222606 @ [email protected] School Details www.nobel.herts.sch.uk Headteacher: Mark Lewis Type: Community (co-educational) High Street, Stevenage, Hertfordshire Number on Roll: 1237 SG1 3BE Published Admission Number: 240 01438 344344 FAX 01438 344340 Specialist Status: Science and Performing Arts @ [email protected] School Code: 9194104 www.tas.herts.sch.uk Type: Community (co-educational) Open Event details Number on Roll: 607 Tuesday, 2 October between 6.00pm - 9.00pm. Published Admission Number: 180 Headteacher will speak at 6.30pm, 7.15pm Specialist Status: Science and 8.00pm. School Code: 9194201

Application form Open Event details Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Tuesday 18 September 6.00pm to 9.00pm. or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. Headteacher’s talks at 6.30pm and 7.15pm. Visits to school: Monday 8 to Friday 12 October What happened in previous years Application form 2011 2012 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Number of places available 240 240 or on the Hertfordshire paper application form.

Stevenage Total number of applications 784 684 Total number of places offered 240 240 What happened in previous years 2011 2012 Places offered under each rule Number of places available 181 181 2011 2012 Total number of applications 336 338 SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 4 1 Total number of places offered 138 106 Rule 3 82 85 Rule 4 115 121 The Thomas Alleyne School were able to Rule 5 39 33 offer places to all children who applied in 2011 and 2012. Rule 6 0 0 Rule 7 0 0 Places are allocated in accordance with Hertfordshire County Council’s admission Places are allocated in accordance with rules – see page16 - 26 of the Moving On Hertfordshire County Council’s admission booklet. rules – see page16 - 26 of the Moving On booklet. Parishes in the priority area for the school are Aston, Benington, Datchworth, Graveley, Great Parishes in the priority area for this school are: Ashby, Knebworth, Stevenage and Walkern. Aston, Benington, Datchworth, Graveley, Great Ashby, Knebworth, Stevenage and Walkern. Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admissions rules were Queries about the outcome of applications to applied should be addressed to Hertfordshire this school and how the admissions rules were County Council.

11 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Information about Studio Schools and University Technical Colleges (UTCs)

Studio Schools Studio Schools are state funded schools which accept students via transfer at Year 10 or Year 12. They are smaller than traditional secondary schools and have a different approach to curriculum delivery, based on offering practical, enquiry based projects and real work experience. Studio Schools offer specialist subject areas which result in a suite of academic qualifications including GCSE’s, BTEC awards and ‘A’ Levels.

University Technical Colleges UTCs are a new concept in education. They are sponsored by a university and offer clear progression routes into higher education or further learning in work. They offer 14-19 year olds technically-oriented full time courses. Students learn in a very practical way, integrating national curriculum requirements with technical and vocational elements. The UTC ethos and curriculum is heavily influenced by local and national employers who also provide support and work experience for students.

The Elstree UTC Application form Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or on the Hertfordshire paper application form. School Details Proposed address: Elstree Way, Borehamwood, This is a new school which opens in September Herts WD6 1HY 2013 offering 90 places in Year 10 and 140 places in Year 12. Contacts Valerie Bragg, Project Director *Students apply to join this school in Year 9 to @ [email protected] start at the beginning of Year 10 or in Year 11 to 07786394242 start at the beginning of Year 12.

Stephen Boffey, Pro Vice-Chancellor at The The Elstree UTC is sponsored by the Meller University of Hertfordshire Educational Trust and The University of @ [email protected] Hertfordshire and will have many Industry 01707285201 partners who will be offering projects, work experience and apprenticeships to the students. www.utcolleges.org/utcs/the-elstree-utc- They include Elstree Studios, the BBC, (hertfordshire) Ambassador Theatre Group, Universal Music Type: UTC (co-educational 14 - 19 years)* Group, Greenhouse, Endemol and Lifecast. Planned number on roll: 600 Proposed admission number: Year 10: 90 Specialism: Entertainment Technologies and Crafts; Electronic Engineering and Digital Technologies School Code: 9199993

Open Event details Dates and times for events will be published on the school’s website.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 1 The Da Vinci Studio School of 2 Medical or Social: Children for whom it can be Creative Enterprise demonstrated that they have a particular medical or social need to go to the school.

School Details 3 Random allocation. The remaining places will Headteacher: Principal Designate be allocated as follows: Broadway, Letchworth Garden City, Herts SG6 3GB • 50% of places allocated randomly to those 01462 424242 living within a circular area enclosed by a 10 @ [email protected] miles circular radius of the school. This will be www.davinci-school.co.uk determined by Hertfordshire County Council’s Type: Studio School (co-educational 14-19 years)* measuring system from the address point of the Planned number on roll: 400 Da Vinci Studio School of Creative Enterprise Published admission number for Year 10: 40 to the address point of the student’s registered Specialism: Creative Media and Technology, permanent postal address. Production Arts and Design School Code: 9199994 • The remaining 50% of applicants, irrespective of their home address (including outside the 10 miles radius) will be pooled and the remaining Open Event details places will be allocated randomly. September, October 2012, February and March 2013. Dates and times will be published on the Queries about the outcome of applications to this website. school and how the admissions rules were applied should be addressed to the school direct. Application Form Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or using the Hertfordshire paper application form. The Da Vinci Studio School of Science and Engineering This is a new school which opens in September 2013 offering, 40 places in Year 10 and 75 places in School Details Year 12. Headteacher: Donna Lodge Monkswood Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire It plans to increase in size taking a maximum of SG11LA 90 students in Year 10, 01462 443040 90 students in Year 11, @ [email protected] 110 students in Year 12, www.davinci-school.co.uk 110 students in Year 13 Type: Studio School (co-educational 14-19 years)* Planned number on roll: 400 *Students apply to join this school in year 9 to Published admission number for Year 10: 90 start at the beginning of year 10 or in year 11 to Specialism: STEM subjects (Science, Technology, start at the beginning of year 12 Engineering, Mathematics) School Code: 9194002 The School will accept any child who has a statement of special educational needs that Open Event Details: names the school. Thursday, 4 October, Open Evening for Year 10 Intake 2013 6.30pm – 8.30pm Summary of Admission Rules Tuesday, 9 October, Open Morning 9.30am –12 1 Children in public care (children looked noon. after) and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or Application Form became subject to a residence order or a special Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org.admissions or guardianship order). using the Hertfordshire paper application form.

2 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions This is a new school which opened in September 2012 offering, 40 places in Year 10 and 75 places in Year 12.

It plans to increase in size taking a maximum of 90 students in Year 10, 90 students in Year 11, 110 students in Year 12,110 students in Year 13

*Students apply to join this school in year 9 to start at the beginning of Year 10 or year 11 to start at the beginning of Year 12

The School will accept any child who has a statement of special educational needs that names the school.

Summary of Admission Rules 1 Children in public care (children looked after) and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a residence order or a special guardianship order).

2 Medical or Social: Children for whom it can be demonstrated that they have a particular medical or social need to go to the school.

3 Random allocation. The remaining places will be allocated as follows:

• 50% of places allocated randomly to those living within a circular area enclosed by a 10 miles circular radius of the school. This will be determined by Hertfordshire County Council’s measuring system from the address point of the Da Vinci Studio School of Science and Engineering to the address point of the student’s registered permanent postal address.

• The remaining 50% of applicants, irrespective of their home address (including outside the 10 miles radius) will be pooled and the remaining places will be allocated randomly.

Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admissions rules were applied should be addressed to the school direct.

Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 3 Information about Middle Schools Three areas of Hertfordshire have a three tier school system of first, middle and upper schools. Middle schools accept children between the ages of 8-13 (Years 5-8). You can not apply for a middle school on the secondary transfer form. If you are interested in a Year 7 place at a middle school for your child you will need to apply on an In Year application form. In Year forms are available from each school or by calling 0300 123 4043. Bridgewater School Edwinstree C of E Middle School Headteacher: Rachel Swaffield Headteacher: J. D. Michael Bridle Way, Berkhamsted, HP4 1ES Norfolk Road, Buntingford, SG9 9AW 01442 871231 FAX 01442 873658 01763 271446 FAX 01763 274005 @ [email protected] @ [email protected] www.bridgewater.herts.sch.uk www.edwinstree.herts.sch.uk Type: Community (co-educational) Type: Voluntary controlled (co-educational) Number on roll: 408 Number on roll: 454 Published Admission Number: 110 Denomination: Church of England School Code: 4144 Published Admission Number: 112 Open Events School Code: 4506 Thursday 29 November at 7.00pm and Open Events Tuesday 4 December at 9.15am and Thursday, 4 October, 6.45pm for 7.00pm start. Tuesday 15 January at 9.15am. Open Morning: Tuesday, 9 October from Talk from the Head Teacher followed by tour. 10.30am - 11.30am. Please phone if you intend to come to a morning event. No parking for the open mornings. Roysia Middle School At the time of publication, statutory proposals have been made to change the age range of Headteacher: Miss Z J Linington Bridgewater Middle School, from September 2013 Burns Road, Royston, SG8 5EQ to 3 - 11 effectively making it a primary school. 01763 241555 FAX 01763 246928 However, for the 2013 intake, the admission @ [email protected] process into Year 5 will remain unchanged. The www.roysia.herts.sch.uk proposal is one of a number designed to change Type: Academy (co-educational) education provision within Berkhamsted from a Number on Roll: 192 three-tier to a two-tier system. Final decisions Published Admission Number: 90 have yet to be made and full details will be School Code: 4149 available on Hertsdirect at www.hertsdirect.org/ Open Events berkhamsted Tuesday 9 October. Open Morning: we run 3 tours of the school: 9.15am, 10.15am and 11.45am. Open Evening: 7.00pm – 9.00pm. Headteacher’s talk followed by school tours.

1 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Ralph Sadleir School The Thomas Coram C of E VA Headteacher: Mrs E M Hinton Middle School Station Road, Puckeridge, SG11 1TF Headteacher: Mr. E.Delasalle FAX 01920 821042 01920 822663 Swing Gate Lane, Berkhamsted, HP4 2RP

@ FAX [email protected] 01442 866757 01442 865467 www.ralphsadleir.herts.sch.uk @ [email protected] Type: Community* (co-educational) www.thomascoram.herts.sch.uk Number on Roll: 337 Type: Voluntary aided (co-educational) Published Admission Number: 90 Number on Roll: 370 School Code: 4146 Published Admission Number: 120 *Pending application to Academy status Denomination: Church of England School Code: 4627 Open Events Open Evening: Monday, 1 October, Open Events 7.00pm - 8.30pm. Open Evening: Wednesday, 28 November, 7.00pm. The Headteacher will speak at 8.00pm. Open Mornings: Monday, 3 December and Open Mornings: Wednesday, 3 October and Thursday, 10 January, 9.15am. Tuesday, 27 November 10.30am - 12.00 noon. At the time of publication, statutory proposals have been made to change the age range of Thomas The Greneway School Coram school from September 2013 to 7 - 11 Headteacher: Miss Laura Flitton effectively making it a junior school. However, Garden Walk, Royston, SG8 7JF for the 2013 intake, admissions into Year 5 will 01763 243650 FAX 01763 241499 remain unchanged. The proposal is one of a @ [email protected] number designed to change education provision www.greneway.herts.sch.uk within Berkhamsted from a three-tier to a two-tier Type: Academy (co-educational) system. Final decisions have yet to be made and Number on Roll: 431 full details will be available on Hertsdirect at Published Admission Number: 120 www.hertsdirect.org/berkhamsted. School Code: 4145 Open Events Open day and evening: Wednesday, 10 October, 9.00am - 10.30am tour of school. 6.30pm - 8.00pm Headteacher’s talk followed by school tours.

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