Children’s and Joint Commissioning Services Education in Hartlepool September 2020
To apply online please visit www.hartlepool.gov.uk/schooladmissions
Contents
Foreword 3
Schools 4
Attendance 5
Important dates for you to note 6
Apply for a school place:
. Co-ordinated admissions process 7 . How to apply for a school 7 . Closing date for applications 7 . Applying online 8 . Applying on paper 8 . Late applications 10 . Children with an education, health and care (EHC) plan 10 . Twins or multiple birth children 10 . Addresses 11
How places are offered 13
Allocation day and beyond 15
Primary school admissions for entry into Reception Class in September 2020 18
Secondary school admissions for entry into Year 7 in September 2020 67
Atypical admissions 79
Post-16 education 80
Definitions in relation to admissions criteria 85
Additional information:
. In-year transfers (transfers outside the normal year of entry) 86 . Fair access protocol 87 . Admissions to nursery 87 . Transport 87 . Meals and uniforms 89 . Special educational needs 89
School directory 91
Useful contacts 94
Glossary 95
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Foreword
Starting primary and secondary school is an important step for your child
Dear Parent/Guardian,
We are delighted that you are considering sending your child to a Hartlepool school in September 2020.
This booklet explains the different types of schools in Hartlepool and the co-ordinated admissions process that ensures all children are offered a school place at the same time. Some schools receive more applications than they have places, so we need a process to decide which children get a place and which have to go to other schools. These arrangements must be fair and unbiased and follow the conditions set by central government.
Hartlepool Borough Council is committed to working in close co-operation with school staff, governors and parents to make sure that all children in Hartlepool have an exciting, rewarding and successful experience in school. To this end we are ambitious for Hartlepool’s children and we are working with schools:
. to make sure children are well prepared for each step of their education and learning journey; . to support all Hartlepool schools to become ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ as judged by Ofsted; . to improve pupils’ attendance at school.
All the information you need is available on our website and the easiest way to apply is online at www.hartlepool.gov.uk/schooladmissions
We strongly recommend that you submit your application online; however, paper application forms can also be obtained. Please ensure we receive your application (either online or on paper) by the closing date:
Secondary applications by 31st October 2019 Primary applications by 15th January 2020
Please get in touch with the Admissions Team if you have any questions or concerns – contact details can be found on page 94.
Please accept my best wishes for your child’s happy and successful education in a Hartlepool school.
Sally Robinson Director, Children’s and Joint Commissioning Services
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Schools
Maintained schools A maintained school is funded by the Government . Academies These are publicly funded, non- through the local authority and does not charge selective schools that operate within the state fees. Maintained schools include community, system although they are independently voluntary controlled, voluntary aided or foundation governed. Academies were set up to provide schools. education for local pupils of all abilities. They place special emphasis on the individual needs of . Community schools These are run by the their pupils, including those with special headteacher and governors in partnership with educational needs. the Local Authority (Hartlepool Borough Council). The local authority is the admission All maintained schools and academies are bound by authority for these schools and is responsible for the mandatory requirements of the School setting the admission arrangements and Admissions Code and School Admissions Appeal allocating places in accordance with the Code. published admission rules.
. Voluntary controlled schools These were originally set up by bodies such as the Church of England or Roman Catholic Church but are now maintained by the Council. These are run by the headteacher and governors in partnership with the Local Authority (Hartlepool Borough Council). The Local Authority is the admission authority for these schools and is responsible for setting the admission arrangements and allocating places in accordance with the published admission rules.
. Voluntary aided schools These were originally set up by bodies such as the Church of England or Roman Catholic Church and are jointly funded by the Church Diocesan Boards and the Council. The school governing body is the admission authority for these schools and is responsible for setting the admission arrangements and allocating places in accordance with the published admission rules.
. Foundation schools These were formerly grant maintained schools but are now maintained by the Council. The school governing body is the admission authority for these schools and is responsible for setting the admission arrangements and allocating places in accordance with the published admission rules.
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Attendance
Why attendance at school is so important If a child of compulsory school age is registered at a school it is essential that they attend their school regularly and maintain a pattern of good attendance throughout their school career. Excellent attendance at school is important to allow a child or young person to fulfil their potential. Below are just some of the key reasons why it is so important children attend school:
. To learn. . To make new friends. . To experience new things in life. . To gain qualifications. . To develop new skills. . To build confidence and self esteem. . To have the best possible start in life
How parents can help . Establish a good routine in mornings and evenings so your child is prepared for the school day ahead. . Make sure your child goes to school regularly and follows the school rules. . Ensure your child arrives on time for school, not late. . Arrange dental and medical appointments outside school hours when possible. . Always inform the school if your child is absent due to illness – this should be followed up with a written note when your child returns to school. . If your child is not attending school as you expect, they may be putting themselves at risk – who are they with? What are they doing? . Do not take family holidays during term time. . Talk to your child about school and take an interest in their work, including homework. . Attend parents evening and school events. . Praise and reward your child’s achievements at school. . Always support school staff in their efforts to control difficult or challenging behaviour.
Can attendance make a difference to exam results?
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Important dates for you to note
Date Event 1st September 2019 . Secondary school application packs are distributed via your child’s primary school during w/c 2nd September 2019. If your child is absent, or doesn’t attend a mainstream primary school in Hartlepool, you will receive their pack by post. . The online system opens for you to apply online for secondary school places. September/October 2019 Secondary schools hold their open events. 31st October 2019 Deadline for secondary school applications (online or paper). 4th November 2019 . Primary school application packs are distributed via your child’s nursery school during w/c 4th November 2019. If your child is absent, or doesn’t attend a private or mainstream nursery school in Hartlepool, you will receive their pack by post. . The online system opens for you to apply online for primary school places. . If you do not receive your primary school application pack by 15th November 2019 (and your child is due to commence Reception in September 2020), please contact the Admissions Team (contact details on page 94). 15th January 2020 Deadline for primary school applications (online or paper). 24th January 2020 If you move house, this is the latest date for you to notify the admissions team of your new address for it to be considered in the secondary allocation process. 1st March 2020 National Offer Day for Secondary Schools . If you applied online your child’s allocation will be available to view on our Please note as the National website. If requested during the application process, you will also be sent an Offer Day falls on a allocation email. If unsuccessful at gaining a place at a preferred school, an weekend, letters will be allocation letter will also be posted second class to the child’s home address. posted the following . Allocation letters will be posted second class to parents/guardians who didn’t working day apply online. 5th March 2020 If you move house, this is the latest date for you to notify the admissions team of your new address for it to be considered in the primary allocation process. 16th March 2020 Deadline for accepting the secondary school place offered. Online applicants should accept the place online, other applicants must return the response form to the Admissions Team. 30th March 2020 Deadline to register an appeal. 16th April 2020 National Offer Day for Primary Schools . If you applied online your child’s allocation will be available to view on our website. If requested during the application process, you will also be sent an allocation email. If unsuccessful at gaining a place at a preferred school, an allocation letter will also be posted second class to the child’s home address. . Allocation letters will be posted second class to parents/guardians who didn’t apply online. 30th April 2020 Deadline for accepting the primary school place offered. Online applicants should accept the place online, other applicants must return the response form to the Admissions Team. 14th May 2020 Deadline to register an appeal. May/June 2020 Secondary appeals to be heard during this period. June/July 2020 Primary appeals to be heard during this period. September 2019 Children commence at their new school.
Key: Secondary date to note Primary dates to note
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Applying for a school place This section will help you understand the process of applying for a school place
Co-ordinated admissions process Each child is offered only one school place. This will Hartlepool Borough Council (HBC) and other local be for the highest ranked school that can offer a authorities (LAs) are required to take part in a cross- place to your child when the admission criteria border co-ordinated admission scheme to ensure (rules) are applied to all applications. that children across the country are offered a school place on the same day. Although HBC co-ordinates the admission process for all maintained schools in Hartlepool, decisions HBC co-ordinates the admissions to all Hartlepool about the rules and who to offer places to are made maintained schools and academies and we aim to by the admission authority for the school. make the system fair and transparent for all. Most academies, foundation and voluntary aided Under the co-ordinated admissions arrangements schools have different admission rules. you list the schools you want to apply for on one form, including schools both within and outside the How to apply for a school authority where you live, listing the schools in your You need to complete only one application for each ideal preference order. You need to apply online or child. You can either apply online or complete a return your paper application form to the authority paper application form. This booklet provides where your child lives - you will need to provide as information for Hartlepool residents on: much information as possible on your application. If you feel your child should be considered under a . applying to start school particular criterion please give reasons why. . transferring to secondary school (Year 6 to 7)
It is important that you check the admission criteria If you apply online, you are not required to also of each school for which you are applying and supply complete a paper application form. Please note – all supporting documentation/baptism certificates we will use the last application received e.g. if you by the closing date. This information is used by the submit an application online, then submit a paper school’s admission authority to consider your child’s application form, or vice versa, we will withdraw the application fully. If you do not supply additional earlier application and only process the latest information/baptism certificates your application application received even if these preferences differ will still be considered but it may not be possible for in any way. your application to be accurately assessed against the school’s admission rules. Therefore the chances If you wish to apply for a school place at any other of your child being offered a place at the school may time, please refer to ‘In-year transfers (transfers be reduced. outside the normal year of entry)’ on page 86, or
‘Atypical admissions’ on page 79. HBC operates an ‘Equal Preference’ admissions scheme in line with government requirements. Further information is contained in the ‘How places Closing dates for applications are offered’ section on page 13. There are different closing dates for starting school applications and moving from primary to secondary Where a school receives more applications than it applications. Applications must be received by the has places available (oversubscribed), published Admissions Team no later than: admission rules will be used to decide the order in 31st October 2019 for Secondary Applications which applicants will be offered places. 15th January 2020 for Primary Applications
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Applying online The final page gives you a summary of the All you need is access to the internet and an email information you have entered and includes a address. If you don’t have access to the internet at declaration that you have given accurate home you can access the internet at any library. information. You must click on the following button in order to finish and submit your application:
What are the benefits of applying online? . quick, safe and easy to use; . upload documents to support your application; . check or make changes to your application up to You will then be able view and/or print the the deadline; submitted application. You will also receive a . no risk of the application getting lost in the post; confirmation email. . receive an email acknowledgement of your application as soon as you have submitted it; You can log back in to your application at any time, . view your school offer on the website; up until the deadline, if you wish to change any of . receive an email (provided you have requested the details. one) advising you of the outcome of your application on allocation day; The website for ‘on-time’ online applications will be . accept your offer of a school place online. open for applications as follows:
You can only apply online to the authority where you Secondary Applications: live. Only Hartlepool residents can apply using 1st September 2019 - 31st October 2019* Hartlepool’s online system. Primary Applications: th th Using the on-line system 4 November 2019 - 15 January 2020*
If you are new to the online admissions website you * Any applications submitted after these dates will will need to register first (this should be done by the be processed as a late application. Please refer to parent/guardian who has parental responsibility for the late applications section on page 10, as late the child). You will need to have a working email applications are only dealt with after on-time address and choose a password. Please keep a note application forms have secured a place. of this password as you will need to use it every time you wish to enter the site. You will receive a verification code (sent to your email address) to Applying on paper enter each time you log on to your application. We recommend that you apply online. However, if you are unable to apply online you can obtain an Enter the details of the child you are applying for. application form from the School Admissions Team. You may use this form to apply for any school Enter the names of the schools you want to apply whether it is in Hartlepool or another local authority for. These can be schools in or outside of area. Hartlepool. Make sure you include information about any brothers or sisters (siblings) already Please complete the form in full and return it to the attending the school. Admissions Team by the closing date. If you need to send in additional information/expression of interest If you feel that your child should be considered forms/baptism certificates please submit them with under a particular criterion please state why, and your application form. ensure that any supporting documentation/ expression of interest forms/baptism certificates are It is recommended that you obtain proof of postage uploaded and submitted with your online if you return the paper form, and contact the application, or forwarded to the Admissions Team admissions team prior to the closing date to confirm before the deadline. receipt of your application. If the application form is not received you will need to show that you submitted it before the deadline.
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Please ensure that you have the correct postage Where can I get help to complete the application? affixed to your envelope. If you do not, Royal Mail If you require help or would like advice about may not deliver your application, or it may not be completing your application please contact us, received in time and will therefore be considered contact details can be found on page 94. late. How should I decide on my preferred schools? Non-Hartlepool Residents Parents submit only one application form stating up Non-Hartlepool residents who wish their child to to three preferences. It is therefore important to attend a Hartlepool school need to contact their gain as much information as you can to decide which home local authority for an application form. school is most suited to your child’s future Contact details of neighbouring local authorities are educational needs. Contact schools direct for a copy given on page 94. You may express a preference for of their individual prospectus or view their website up to three Hartlepool schools. (see pages 91-93). School performance information and Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education) Primary Applications reports can be compared, viewed and downloaded Parents in Hartlepool who have children starting from the UK Government website www.gov.uk. school in September 2020 will receive a primary application pack via their child’s nursery school With the new Education Inspection Framework during week commencing 4th November 2019. If coming into force in September 2019, Ofsted are your child is absent from nursery long-term, your changing the way they inspect and report on application pack will be posted to your home schools. Further information for parents, on how address. If your child does not attend a Hartlepool these changes will affect them, can be found at nursery school, please contact the School https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ofsted-is- Admissions Team to ensure we have your child’s changing-how-it-inspects-schools. details on our database in order for you to be issued with the correct paperwork. Be realistic You need to think realistically about how likely you Secondary Applications are to be offered a place at a particular school A letter advising parents/guardians about applying before you apply for it. The more realistic you are for secondary school will be delivered to all when deciding which schools to apply for, the more Hartlepool mainstream Year 6 children at their likely it is that you will get one of your preferred Hartlepool primary school at the beginning of schools. Try to obtain as much information as September 2019. possible about how places at your preferred schools are offered. For Hartlepool Year 6 children who attend primary schools outside of Hartlepool, the letters will be . Read the admission criteria for each school you posted to their home address. are interested in. . Consider which rules apply to your child. All Applications . Be realistic about your preferences. It is You must either apply online or complete a paper recommended that you include your zone application form to be considered for a place at any school/feeder secondary school as one of your school. You cannot apply direct to a school or return three listed schools because this is the school your application form to a school. Applications must that is most likely to be able to offer your child a be received by the Admissions Team by close of place. However, please note that a place at your business on: zone school/feeder secondary school cannot be guaranteed. 31st October 2019 for Secondary Applications . Do not make your decision based on other peoples’ opinions or experiences. Your situation 15th January 2020 for Primary Applications is different and things change every year. Check that your information about a school is correct –
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go and visit, talk to school staff and make an Late applications are not dealt with until all on time informed decision for your child. applications have been considered and offered (see . Consider how your child will get to school. Very reallocation of places information on page 17). few children are entitled to free transport to school. You are much less likely to be offered a place at one . If you live on the outskirts of Hartlepool you may of your preferred schools if you apply late. want to consider applying for schools in neighbouring authority areas. The contact details If there are exceptional reasons why you were for all areas bordering Hartlepool can be found unable to make your application by the closing date, on page 94. You can find information about please write to the Admissions Team giving your schools in other authorities by visiting the reasons and enclosing supporting evidence. Any late website of the relevant local authority or school. application will be considered on its individual merit.
. If you live in Hartlepool you must still apply to Applications deemed as late will only be considered Hartlepool Borough Council for a school outside during the reallocation of places process (see page of Hartlepool and include it as one of your three 17). ranked schools. If you live outside of Hartlepool you must apply to your home authority and may Changing preferences list up to three Hartlepool schools. It is very important that you get your preferences right before the closing date, as you will not be Secondary schools host open evenings, details of allowed to change them after the closing date which can be found on page 67. without a genuine reason for doing so, for example if you have moved address. We can provide support and advice before, during and after the allocation process. Information about
Hartlepool schools can be found on pages 91-93. Children with an Education, Health and Use all three preferences Care (EHC) Plan In Hartlepool you can apply for up to three schools in Children with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) order of preference. If you only apply to one school, Plan are allocated school places through a separate you will only be considered for that school and will process. You can apply for a mainstream school not be considered for other schools. Schools do not place using the Hartlepool online system or paper know the order you have ranked them on your application form but your application will be handled application form. This information is confidential by the local Special Educational Needs and Disability prior to the allocation of places. Schools will not (SEND) team. know and neither should they ask. Appeal panels will be aware because your application form and If you have any questions about this process please allocation letter will usually form part of the contact the SEND team who will be happy to help paperwork prepared for the appeal process. you. Contact details can be found on page 94.
Please do not name the same school more than once as this will not increase your chance of obtaining a Twins or multiple birth children place at the school and will limit your number of If you have more than one child going through the preferences. same primary or secondary process at the same time, you must make a separate application for each of them. Late applications Any online or paper application received after the For community and voluntary controlled schools, if deadline (31st October 2019 for secondary one of your children is offered the last place applications, 15th January 2020 for primary available at a school and you have applied for the applications), will be treated as a late application. same school for the other child(ren), we will offer a place for the other child(ren).
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Academies, foundation and voluntary aided schools address when allocating places, we must have should have their own policies on the admittance of received the evidence by this date. twins and multiple births. For further details please refer to the school’s admission criteria. If you change your address at any point, you must inform the Admissions Team in writing. It is not sufficient to amend your address on your online Addresses application. It is very important that the address you give on your child’s application is your child’s permanent address If you move or send evidence after the above dates, at the time of application. it will not be possible to process your child’s application using your new address. However, we If your address has changed temporarily, for can send your allocation letter with the offer of a example because you are living with another school place to your new address. member of the family during a period of sickness, or have taken up temporary accommodation due to Proof of address building works, then the parental address remains We will check the address on your application that at which you lived before the period of against the records we hold from your child’s temporary residence began. school/nursery. We may also require you to submit proof of address including utility bills, proof of child You should not give the address of childminders, benefit/tax credit on request. grandparents or any other family members who may share in the care of your child as the Authority What address do I use if my child lives with me part cannot consider those addresses for the purpose of of the week and their mother/father the other its admissions process to schools. part? If a child lives at more than one address Monday to For parents/guardians who may have more than one Friday (for example due to a separation), the address property, reference should only be made to the you use should be the one which the child lives at property in which they and the child(ren) mainly most of the time. Please write a joint letter to reside. explain your individual situation at the time of application. If you are thinking of moving you should still use the address where your child is living when you apply. If Only one address can be used. If a child lives at two you move after submitting your application you addresses, the address of the parent/guardian that must write to the Admissions Team with proof of claims the child benefit/child tax credit will usually your new address which can be: be considered as the child’s main residence. If you have shared custody supported by court a letter from your solicitor confirming your documentation, please supply a copy of the court completion date or a signed rental agreement of at documentation to the Admissions Team before the least 6 months showing the start of your tenancy closing date for applications. AND proof that you are no longer residing at the old Informal residence arrangements will not generally property, which can be in the form of a termination be accepted unless there are exceptional of your old tenancy agreement or solicitor letter circumstances, for which independent supporting showing the sale of your old property. evidence will be required. Each case will be considered on its individual circumstances. You must be resident in your new property no later than 24th January 2020 for secondary school Addresses of UK service personnel and crown applications, and 5th March 2020 for primary school servants applications, for your new address to be used for If you’re employed as UK service personnel or crown allocation purposes. To be able to use your new servants, when submitting your application please supply an official letter from either:
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. Ministry of Defence (MOD) deliberately give false information, and the offer of a . Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) school place will be withdrawn. . Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) You must inform the Admissions Team of any change in circumstance (eg change of address). If The letter must give your reallocation date and a information is deliberately withheld, your unit postal or quartering address in Hartlepool. application may be invalid and lead to the offer of a Your application will be processed in advance of place being withdrawn. your move (as long as it’s within a reasonable time). If a place was obtained for an older child using What happens if someone uses a fraudulent fraudulent information there will be no sibling address or gives other false information on their connection available to subsequent children from application? that family. Every year we have cases where parents give false information about their home address to get a place If you have any concerns or information about the at a particular school. We do all we can to make use of fraudulent addresses, please contact the sure that this does not happen because this can Admissions Team in confidence. prevent genuine applicants from getting a place at a school. The Admissions Team may ask for proof of It is an offence to give false information to your address. Hartlepool Borough Council will obtain a place at school. consider legal action against parents who
How places are offered When a school is oversubscribed, published Applications are prioritised in accordance with a admission criteria (rules) are used by the school’s school’s published admission criteria. An admissions admission authority to decide which children to authority receives a list of every child who has offer places to. A summary of the rules for each named their school on the application form, with no school in Hartlepool can be found within this information about preference order. booklet. You should read the admission arrangements for each of the schools you are Admissions authorities/governing bodies then apply interested in to get a full understanding of how their admission criteria and place each child in order places are offered. according to how well they meet the individual admission criteria of the school. The ordered list is All community and voluntary controlled schools in then sent to Hartlepool Borough Council and Hartlepool have the same admission rules. More uploaded into the computer system. The rest of the details about the admission rules for community and process is automated. Applications to schools voluntary controlled schools, voluntary aided, outside of Hartlepool or to Hartlepool schools from foundation and academy schools within Hartlepool families living outside of Hartlepool are co-ordinated can be found on pages 18-84. with the relevant authority.
Equal preference scheme If we are able to potentially offer a place at more We use an equal preference system. This means at than one of your preferences, the place will be the first stage, each of your preferences are allocated at the school which you placed highest on considered for the schools listed regardless of your your application. preference order. If a school is oversubscribed, places will be allocated strictly according to the admission criteria for that school.
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What are my chances of getting my preferred Attendance at nursery is not a criterion at school? the majority of Hartlepool primary school This can be difficult to assess as the pattern of and does not guarantee a place in the applications changes from year to year for each school. school. Information on the previous year’s can be obtained from the School Admissions Team, Living in the catchment area/attending a however it would be unwise to assume you are feeder school or having a sibling link does guaranteed/will not be offered a place this year not automatically guarantee a place. based on the pattern of applications last year. What if I do not get a place at any of my preferred Generally if a school has been oversubscribed in the schools? past, you will need to consider if your child would If a place cannot be offered at any of your preferred meet any of the admission criteria (rules) and schools and you are a Hartlepool resident, you will consider the priority of that criteria (ie how high up be allocated a place at the nearest available school the list of admission rules your child would be). to your home address with places still available.
It is important that you list the schools in preference order (ie the school you would
most prefer first, then second, then third)
as you could be offered a place at any of your three preferences.
Example of how places are allocated
Joe’s application lists the following three schools, as follows:
Preference 1 – School A Preference 2 – School B Preference 3 – School C
A popular and oversubscribed school The admission zone school for his Some distance away but Joe’s sister some distance away from his home home address attends and will still be at the school next year
▼ ▼ ▼
Joe does not meet the rules for this Joe does meet the rules for this school Joe does meet the rules for this school school and is not offered a place and would be allocated a place and would be allocated a place
▼ ▼
Joe has ranked this school higher so is This place is reallocated to the next child offered a place here on the list
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Allocation day and beyond – for children living in Hartlepool
Allocation information will be sent out on have decided to educate your child privately, please 1st March 2020* for secondary school placements decline the place online or use the response form or 16th April 2020 for primary school placements. provided with your allocation letter. The Admissions * Please note as the National Offer Day falls on a Team need to know that places have been declined weekend, letters will be posted the following so that your child’s place can be offered to someone working day. else. It is important that you accept or decline the school place offered by the following date: Allocations and acceptances for online applications If you applied online and requested an email this will Secondary school places by 16th March 2020 be automatically sent to you, on the above date, Primary school places by 30th April 2020 with details of your child’s allocated school. You can do this by: All online applicants can view the outcome of their application via the website on the above date. . Accepting or declining the place online Simply log in using your email address and password . Returning the response form to the Admissions and details of your child’s allocated school will be Team available. . Telephoning the Admissions Team
If you do not respond, we reserve the right to You must accept or decline the school place, and can withdraw the place offered to you in order to offer it do so by logging in to your allocation and following to another child who wants it. You will then be the online instructions. offered a place at the nearest school to your home
that still has places available, this could be some If unsuccessful at gaining a place at a preferred distance away. school, an allocation letter will be posted second class to the child’s home address. This letter will If you have not been offered your most preferred also include a copy of the “What Can You Do Now” school, you are advised to accept the school place leaflet which includes information about how to you have been offered to ensure your child has a accept/decline a school place, waiting lists and how school place for September 2020. Accepting the to appeal against the refusal of a school place. place offered will not affect your chances of getting
a place at a school you prefer more, either through Allocations and acceptances for paper applications the waiting list process or through an appeal. If you applied on paper you will be sent an allocation letter by second class post on the offer date above. What can you do if you are unhappy with the The letter will tell you which school has been offered school place you have been offered or would like to to your child. It will include a response form for you try to get a place at a school you prefer more? to return to the Admissions Team to let them know If you haven’t been allocated a place at a preferred if you wish to accept the place. school you can appeal against the decision. Details
of how to do this will be included in the “What Can If you have not been offered a place at your most You Do Now” leaflet which will accompany your preferred school, this letter will also include a copy allocation letter. Your allocation letter will include of the “What Can You Do Now” leaflet which pupil allocation information. This shows how the includes information about how to accept/decline a rules were applied to any applications you made. school place, waiting lists and how to appeal against Information relating to the allocations made to the refusal of a school place. oversubscribed schools will also be supplied or can
be found online at www.hartlepool.gov.uk. We will Next steps also include a list of schools which still have places If you no longer want the school place offered, for remaining. example if you have moved out of Hartlepool or
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Waiting lists You will have 20 school days within which to state Children will not automatically be placed on a that you intend to appeal or by the specified date waiting list for any unmet higher preferences. If you given in your letter. would like your child to be considered when we reallocate any available spaces you must let us If your appeal form is received after the deadline know, either by completing a waiting list application date, we cannot guarantee that your appeal will be form or via the online system. The deadline to do heard on time. Appeals for admissions to secondary this is 16th March 2020 for secondary school places schools are usually heard between May and June, and 30th April 2020 for primary school placements. and to primary schools between June and July. Further details regarding waiting lists will be The appeals process is independent and separate included in the “What Can You Do Now” leaflet from the process followed by the Admissions Team which will be included in allocation letters or can be for the allocation of places and for the operation of found at www.hartlepool.gov.uk/schooladmissions. waiting lists. Successful appellants are allocated a You can request your child’s details go on the place in a school above the published admission limit waiting list for any Hartlepool school. by the appeals panel.
Your child’s position on the waiting list will be To appeal for place at any of your preferred prioritised according to the admissions criteria Hartlepool community and voluntary controlled (rules) of the school. schools you may request an appeal pack to be posted to you by contacting the Admissions Team. Note: there is no distinction between on-time applicants and late applicants on the waiting list. Details of how to appeal for a place at an academy, voluntary aided or foundation school will be It is important to note that a child’s position on the included in the “What Can You Do Now” leaflet or waiting list can change, moving either up or down, direct from the school. The academy’s trust or as children either join, or are removed from, the governing body is the admission authority for these waiting list. schools but some have asked the council to make the arrangements for their appeals. The Admissions Team manage waiting lists for all community and voluntary controlled schools until Please submit your appeal by the deadline provided the children leave Year 6. We will write to you once in your allocation letter (secondary school th a year to ask whether you wish your child to remain placements by 30 March 2019, primary school th on the waiting list. If no response is received we will placements by 14 May 2020). remove your child’s details. If you wish to appeal for a school outside Hartlepool Some academies, foundation and voluntary aided you must contact the relevant local authority who schools manage their own waiting lists. Schools are will provide you with the necessary paperwork. not obliged to hold waiting lists indefinitely therefore please refer to the school’s admissions Accepting a place at another school will not affect policy for further details. Secondary schools in your chances of your appeal being successful. Hartlepool normally disband their waiting lists once children enter Year 10. Appeals for admission to infant classes By law, no child at Key Stage 1 (Reception Class, Year The Appeals Process 1 and Year 2) should be taught in a class of over 30 If we are unable to offer you a place at a school you pupils except in very limited circumstances. If you prefer, you have the right of appeal to an have been refused a place at a school in line with independent panel, which is set up under Section 94 infant class size legislation your grounds for of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. appealing are limited because of this legislation. The This right of appeal may be for more than one law only allows an infant class size appeal to be school. You may only appeal where you have upheld where one or more of the following grounds applied and been refused admission to a school. are established:
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Ground A: the appeal panel finds that the admission After allocations are made any new or amended of an additional child/ren would not breach the application must be made to Hartlepool Borough infant class size limit; or Council rather than to individual schools. If you wish to apply for a school that was not included on Ground B: the appeal panel finds that the admission your initial application form, you must make a new arrangements did not comply with admissions law or application to the Admissions Team. Any new were not correctly and impartially applied and the preferences for an academy, voluntary aided or child would have been offered a place if the foundation school will be forwarded to the relevant arrangements had complied or had been correctly school for consideration in accordance with that and impartially applied; or school’s published admission criteria. If your child cannot be offered a place at your preferred school, Ground C: the appeal panel details that the decision we will write out to you advising of your right of to refuse admission was not one which a reasonable appeal and provide information about how to place admission authority would have made in the your child’s details on a waiting list. circumstances of the case. For secondary schools, reallocation of places will Reallocating Places take place from 23rd March 2019. Once the deadline for accepting/declining the places has passed, the Admissions Team will reallocate any For primary schools, reallocation of places will take places that have become available since the offer place after week commencing 6th May 2020. day, for example because a family has moved out of Hartlepool and no longer requires a place, or a child Consideration during the reallocation of places has gained a place at a private or independent includes: school or has received a higher preference offer. There is a requirement for all local authorities to . Those who have not been offered any school coordinate the allocation process after allocation place because their applications were late day and to continue working closely with schools . Those who have been offered a school place but which have responsibility for their own admissions who now wish to apply for a place at an to ensure that only one place is offered to every alternative school. child. . Those who have placed their details on a waiting list.
If you are successful in gaining a place you will be contacted with the new offer.
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Primary school admissions for entry into Reception Class in September 2020 If your child’s date of birth falls between 1st September 2015 and 31st August 2016, they are due to commence full-time education in September 2020.
Delaying entry into primary school and family stating why it would be in the child’s best Legally a child does not have to be educated full- interests to be placed outside their normal age time until the prescribed day following their fifth appropriate cohort can also be provided. Please birthday (or on their fifth birthday if it falls on a apply at the normal time (ie by closing date of 15th prescribed day). The prescribed days are 31 January 2020), you will receive the response to your December, 31 March and 31 August. request before primary national offer day (16th April 2020). You may feel your child is young for their age, or you may have family reasons for wanting to delay their A school’s admission authority has responsibility for entry into primary school. Alternatively, you may deciding whether to accept an application for a child wish your child to attend school part-time until they “out of year group”. (Please note, one admission reach compulsory school age. authority cannot be required to honour a decision made by another admission authority on admission In these situations you still need to apply for a out of the normal age range, therefore the response school place within the timescales set out in this to your request from each admission authority may booklet, but can request that your child is differ). considered for ‘deferred entry’ until later in the school year, but not beyond. Please apply for a If the application is not accepted this does not place in the normal way and by the closing date of constitute a refusal of a place and there is no right of 15th January 2020. appeal.
Children out of year group If the application is accepted, parents must make a Children born in the summer term, 1 April to 31 new application as part of the main admissions August don’t have to to start school until a full round the following year. The application will then school year after the point at which they could first be considered against the criteria of the school/s have been admitted (the point at which other applied for. children would be entering Year 1). Before deciding whether you wish to delay a child’s entry to school, Once a child has been admitted to a school it is for the Local Authority would recommend that parents the headteacher to decide how best to educate visit the schools they are thinking of applying for. them. In some cases it may be appropriate for a child who has been admitted out of their normal age Teachers will explain the Early Years Foundation group to be moved to their normal age group – Stage curriculum and how it is tailored to meet the however in other cases it may not. Any decision to needs of the youngest pupils. If you then believe move a child to a different age group will be based your child(ren) should be educated in a different on sound educational reasons and made by the year group (ie start school in September 2021 rather headteacher in consultation with the parents. than 2020) admission authorities will expect parents to submit information in support of their request in order for them to be able to make a decision on the circumstances of the case. Supporting evidence from relevant professionals working with the child
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Admissions to Community and Voluntary Controlled Schools: Barnard Grove Primary Golden Flatts Primary Kingsley Primary Rossmere Primary Clavering Primary Grange Primary Lynnfield Primary St Helen’s Primary Fens Primary Greatham CE Primary Rift House Primary Throston Primary
The admission numbers for these schools are Definitions: displayed on pages 91-92. Looked After Child - A ‘looked after child’ is a child who is In the first instance, places will be awarded to those in the care of a local authority or being provided with pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in where the school is named as the most appropriate Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at the time of educational setting for the child. making an application to a school.
The remaining places will be awarded in the Sibling - Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or following priority order: sister, adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, or the child of the parent/guardian’s partner and, in every 1. Those children who are looked after children and case, the child should be living in the same family unit at previously looked after children (previously the same address. In all cases the responsible parent will looked after children are children who were hold the child benefit for those children permanently looked after, but ceased to be so because they living at that address. A brother or sister living at the same address must be attending the preferred school at were adopted or became subject to a child the same time as the child who is applying. Please note - arrangements order or special guardianship this criteria only applies to siblings who are of compulsory order); school age, not younger siblings who attend a nursery setting attached to a school. 2. Those children who have brothers or sisters who will be attending the school in September 2020; Twins or multiple birth children - If you have more than one child who are twins or part of a multiple birth going 3. Those children who live in the school’s admission through the application process this year, you must make zone; a separate application for each child and indicate on each online or paper form that your child has a sibling also going through the process. For community and voluntary 4. Those children who are distinguished from the controlled schools, we will offer a place to the other great majority of other applicants whether on child(ren) if one of your twins/multiple birth children is medical grounds or by other exceptional offered the last place available and you have applied to circumstances and who would suffer significant the same school for the other child(ren). hardship if they were unable to attend the school; Distance - Distance will be measured by a straight line distance measurement from the (ordnance survey) 5. Those children who live closest to the school as address point of the child’s home address to the determined by a straight line distance (ordnance survey) address point of the school, using the measurement; from the (ordnance survey) Local Authority’s computerised measuring system, with those living closer to the school receiving the higher address point for the child’s home to the priority. (ordnance survey) address point of the school, using the Local Authority’s computerised Medical Grounds/Exceptional Circumstances - A panel of measuring system. specialist officers will determine whether the evidence provided is sufficiently compelling to meet the Tie-breaker: If more children qualify under a requirements for this criterion. If you think your child has particular criterion than there are places available, a particular medical or social need to go to a certain priority will be given to those children who live school, you must provide supporting evidence from a closest to the school (as described under criteria 5). doctor, psychologist or other professional involved with your child. The supporting evidence must relate
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specifically to the school you are claiming medical 4 applications will only be considered at the time of grounds/ exceptional circumstances for, and clearly the initial application, unless there has been a demonstrate why it is only that school that can meet your significant and exceptional change of circumstances child’s needs in a way that no other school can. within the family since the initial application was If you are applying on-line for a place under this criterion, submitted. please send your supporting evidence to the Admissions
Team by the closing date, which should include your child’s name and date of birth. All schools in Hartlepool have experience in dealing with children with diverse social and medical needs. NB: Exceptional social reasons do not, in the view of the However in a few very exceptional cases, there are Authority, include domestic inconvenience arising from reasons why a child has to go to one specific school. parents’ work patterns, child-minding problems, Few applications under Criteria 4 are agreed. All separation from particular nursery/primary school applications are considered individually but a friends. Problems of this kind are widespread and cannot successful application should include the following: be classed as exceptional. Medical reasons do not include . specific professional evidence that justifies why temporary conditions. They are permanent medical only one school can meet a child’s individual conditions which require special treatment available at needs, and/or the preferred school only. Medical evidence must be provided and the Authority’s officers must be satisfied . professional evidence that outlines exceptional that the child would suffer to a significant degree if family circumstances making clear why only one he/she went to any other school. school can meet the child’s needs . if the requested school is not the nearest school NOTES: to the child’s home address clear reasons why the nearest school is not appropriate Criteria 1 Applications . medical cases – a clear explanation of why the . Applications from children who are looked after child’s severity of illness or disability makes must be accompanied by a letter from the Social attendance at only one specific school essential. Worker confirming the legal status of the child Evidence should make clear why only one school is and the reasons for the school preferences. Any appropriate. change of legal status and/or placement arrangements must be notified to the Examples of cases which have been accepted under Admissions Team. Criteria 4 . Applications for previously looked after children . A child with limited mobility who is only able to must be accompanied by a copy of any Special walk to their nearest school, as their admission Guardianship Order, Adoption Order or Child zone school is further away. Arrangements Order. . A child for whom only one school is suitable due to child protection issues. Criteria 2 Applications . To obtain a school place under the sibling Examples of cases which have not been accepted criteria the sibling must still attend the school at under Criteria 4 the time when the child for whom the place is . Case made for continuity of child minding sought joins the school. This criterion only arrangements, such as using a childminder that applies to siblings who are of compulsory school children are already familiar with who caters for age, not younger siblings who attend a nursery children attending certain schools, or setting attached to a school. childminding by family members living close to a specific school. These cases were not upheld Criteria 4 Applications because they are not exceptional. Many families A panel of officers will determine whether the rely on complex childminding arrangements. evidence provided is sufficiently compelling to meet . Cases made for children with specific learning the requirements for this rule. The evidence must and/or behavioural needs where the relate specifically to the school applied for under professional evidence submitted is not school Criteria 4 and must clearly demonstrate why it is the specific. All schools are able to support children only school that can meet the child’s needs. Criteria with a wide variety of individual needs. If a
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child’s individual needs warrant a Statement of example, a doctor, psychologist or police officer. Special Educational Needs or Education, Health We suggest you provide the relevant and Care (EHC) Plan, the Statement or EHC Plan professional with a full copy of the guidance will name the appropriate school. provided on these pages. Supporting evidence . Medical cases where even though there is a should demonstrate why only one named school severe illness, more than one school could deal can meet the social/medical needs of your child with the child’s needs. or family.
How to apply under Criteria 4 Admission Zones . Parents/guardians should submit all relevant Admissions Zones are used in Criteria 3 for information including professional evidence, community and voluntary controlled schools. Some with their application. If applying online, written of the secondary schools (academy, foundation and information should be received before the voluntary aided) have also adopted the council’s closing date for applications and include the criteria and will also use primary admission zones to child’s name and date of birth. Information prioritise applications. Your child is not guaranteed provided after the closing date will only be a place at an admission zone school. considered when there are significant changes of circumstances. If you are unsure which admission zone you live in . Applications under Criteria 4 will only be please refer to letter contained within the consider when supported by a letter from a application pack issued to you, or alternatively professional involved with the child or family, for contact the Admissions Team.
Admissions to Ad Astra Academy Trust Brougham Primary School West Park Primary School West View Primary School
Brougham Primary School, West Park Primary 1. Those children who are looked after children and School and West View Primary School are academy previously looked after children (previously schools and part of Ad Astra Academy Trust. The looked after children are children who were board of trustees of Ad Astra Academy Trust is the looked after, but ceased to be so because they admissions authority for these schools, however were adopted or became subject to a residence the trust commissions Hartlepool Borough Council order or special guardianship order); to undertake the administration of the admissions process on its behalf. 2. Those children who have brothers or sisters who will be attending the school in September 2020; The admission numbers for these schools are displayed on pages 91-92. 3. Those children who live in the school’s admission zone; The admissions policy is effective from 2020/21 admissions round, is as follows: 4. Those children who are distinguished from the great majority of other applicants whether on In the first instance, places will be awarded to those medical grounds or by other exceptional pupils with a statement of special educational circumstances and who would suffer significant needs/Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) where the hardship if they were unable to attend the school is named or recorded in the plan. school;
The remaining places will be awarded in the 5. Those children who live closest to the school as following priority order: determined by a ‘straight line’ distance measurement; from the (ordnance survey)
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address point for the child’s home to the doctor, psychologist or other professional involved with (ordnance survey) address point of the school. your child. The supporting evidence must relate specifically to the school you are claiming medical Tie-breaker: If more children qualify under a grounds/ exceptional circumstances for, and clearly particular criterion than there are places available, demonstrate why it is only that school that can meet your child’s needs in a way that no other school can. If you are priority will be given to those children who live applying on-line for a place under this criterion, please closest to the school (as described under criteria 5). send your supporting evidence to the Admissions Team by the closing date, which should include your child’s name Definitions: and date of birth.
Looked After Child - A ‘looked after child’ is a child who is NB: Exceptional social reasons do not, in the view of the in the care of a local authority or being provided with Authority, include domestic inconvenience arising from accommodation by that authority – as required by the parents’ work patterns, child-minding problems, Education (Admission of Looked After Children) (England) separation from particular nursery/primary school Regulations 2006. friends. Problems of this kind are widespread and cannot be classed as exceptional. Medical reasons do not include Sibling - Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or temporary conditions. They are permanent medical sister, adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, or conditions which require special treatment available at the child of the parent/carer’s partner, and in every case, the preferred school only. Medical evidence must be the child should be living in the same family unit at the provided and the Authority’s officers must be satisfied same address. In all cases the responsible parent will hold that the child would suffer to a significant degree if the child benefit for those children permanently living at he/she went to any other school. that address. A brother or sister living at the same address must be attending the preferred school at the Notes: same time as the child who is applying. Please note - this criteria only applies to siblings who are of compulsory Criteria 1 Applications school age, not younger siblings who attend a nursery setting attached to a school. . Applications from children who are looked after must be accompanied by a letter from the Social Twins or multiple birth children - If you have more than Worker confirming the legal status of the child one child who are twins or part of a multiple birth going and the reasons for the school preferences. Any through the application process this year, you must make change of legal status and/or placement a separate application for each child and indicate on each arrangements must be notified to the Admissions online or paper form that your child has a sibling also Team. going through the process. For community and voluntary . Applications for previously looked after children controlled schools, we will offer a place to the other must be accompanied by a copy of any Special child(ren) if one of your twins/multiple birth children is Guardianship Order, Adoption Order or Child offered the last place available and you have applied to the same school for the other child(ren). Arrangements Order.
Distance - Distance will be measured by a straight line Criteria 2 Applications distance measurement from the (ordnance survey) To obtain a school place under the sibling criteria address point of the child’s home address to the the sibling must still attend the school at the time (ordnance survey) address point of the school, using the when the child for whom the place is sought joins Local Authority’s computerised measuring system, with the school. This criterion only applies to siblings who those living closer to the school receiving the higher are of compulsory school age, not younger siblings priority. who attend a nursery setting attached to a school.
Medical Grounds/Exceptional Circumstances - A panel of specialist officers will determine whether the evidence Criteria 4 Applications provided is sufficiently compelling to meet the A panel of officers will determine whether the requirements for this criterion. If you think your child has evidence provided is sufficiently compelling to meet a particular medical or social need to go to a certain the requirements for this rule. The evidence must school, you must provide supporting evidence from a relate specifically to the school applied for under
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Criteria 4 and must clearly demonstrate why it is the children attending certain schools, or only school that can meet the child’s needs. Criteria childminding by family members living close to a 4 applications will only be considered at the time of specific school. These cases were not upheld the initial application, unless there has been a because they are not exceptional. Many families significant and exceptional change of circumstances rely on complex childminding arrangements. within the family since the initial application was . Cases made for children with specific learning submitted. and/or behavioural needs where the professional evidence submitted is not school specific. All All schools in Hartlepool have experience in dealing schools are able to support children with a wide with children with diverse social and medical needs. variety of individual needs. If a child’s individual However in a few very exceptional cases, there are needs warrant a Statement of Special Educational reasons why a child has to go to one specific school. Needs or ONE Plan the Statement or ONE Plan will name the appropriate school. Few applications under Criteria 4 are agreed. All . Medical cases where even though there is a applications are considered individually but a severe illness, more than one school could deal successful application should include the following: with the child’s needs.
. specific professional evidence that justifies why How to apply under Criteria 4 only one school can meet a child’s individual . Parents/guardians should submit all relevant needs, and/or information including professional evidence, with . professional evidence that outlines exceptional their application. If applying online, written family circumstances making clear why only one information should be received before the closing school can meet the child’s needs date for applications and include the child’s name . if the requested school is not the nearest school and date of birth. Information provided after the to the child’s home address clear reasons why closing date will only be considered when there the nearest school is not appropriate are significant changes of circumstances. . medical cases – a clear explanation of why the . Applications under Criteria 4 will only be child’s severity of illness or disability makes considered when supported by a letter from a attendance at only one specific school essential. professional involved with the child or family, for example, a doctor, psychologist or police officer. Evidence should make clear why only one school is Supporting evidence should demonstrate why appropriate. only one named school can meet the social/medical needs of the child or family. Examples of cases which have been accepted under Criteria 4 Admission Zones . A child with limited mobility who is only able to Admissions Zones are used in Criteria 3 for walk to their nearest school, as their admission community and voluntary controlled schools. Some zone school is further away. of the secondary schools (foundation and voluntary . A child for whom only one school is suitable due aided) have also adopted the council’s criteria and to child protection issues. will also use primary admission zones to prioritise applications. A child is not guaranteed a place at an Examples of cases which have not been accepted admission zone school. under Criteria 4 . Case made for continuity of child minding arrangements, such as using a childminder that children are already familiar with who caters for
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Admissions to Eldon Grove Academy Nursery Children are admitted into nursery on a part time Notes: Children who have an Education Health Care Plan basis; a child is offered either a place for 5 mornings and where the Academy is named in Part IV of the or 5 afternoons and there is also an opportunity to statement/recorded in the Education Health Care Plan access a flexible place eg 2 ½ days. Parents can (EHCP) - Those children will have undergone a statutory assessment of their special educational needs. Where an access up to 30 hours free childcare if they meet the academy is named in the statement/recorded in the eligibility criteria set by the government. Admissions EHCP, the academy must admit the child. is usually in the September or January following the child’s 3rd birthday. A place in our nursery does not 1. Looked after children - The definition of a 'looked guarantee the child a place in school. after child' is a person under the age of 18 who is provided with accommodation by a local authority, Main School acting in its social services capacity, for a continuous Eldon Grove Academy, as a non-selective and period of more than 24 hours, by agreement with the inclusive Academy, welcomes children regardless of parents or in accordance with section 22 of the their aptitude or ability. We have a standard Children's Act 1989. Previously looked after refers to those children who immediately after being looked admission number of 75. after became subject to an adoption order, child The Board of EXTOL Academy Trust is the arrangements order (under the provisions of the Admissions Authority and is responsible for the Children and Families Act 2014), or specialist administration of the admission arrangements. guardianship order (under Section 14A of the Children Act 1989). Children looked after under an agreed If the number of applications for places at the series of short term placements (respite care) are Academy is greater than the admission number set excluded. for that year group, applications will be considered against the criteria set out below. 2. Rules for Siblings - Those children who have brothers or sisters who will be attending the school in the following September. Included in this factor are After the admission of children with an Education stepbrothers and sisters and half-brothers and sisters Health Care Plan (EHCP), where the Academy is living at the same address and who will be attending named in part IV of the statement/recorded in the the Academy at the expected time of admission. Plan, we will use the following factors, in priority order, to decide which students will be given places: Twins of multiple birth children – If you have more than one child who are twins or part of a multiple 1. Looked after children (children in public care), or birth going through the application process this year, previously looked after children. you must make a separate application for each child and indicate on each online or paper form that your 2. Children with brothers or sisters who are already child has a sibling also going through the process.
at the Academy. 3. Rules for Residence - We have the right to investigate whether you live at the address you say you do and 3. Children whose main residence is within the we may change any offer if incorrect information has catchment area. been given.
4. Children who are distinguished from the great 4. Rules for those pupils who are distinguished from majority of other applicants. the great majority of other applicants - Those children who are distinguished from the great 5. Proximity to the Academy. majority of other applicants whether on medical grounds or by other exceptional circumstances and who would suffer significant hardship if they were Criterion 5 may be used as a tie-breaker. unable to attend the Academy.
Definitions of terms used in the admission Medical Grounds/Exceptional Circumstances - A arrangements: panel of specialist officers will determine whether the
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evidence provided is sufficiently compelling to meet Tie Breaker - If more children qualify under a the requirements for this criterion. If you think your particular criterion than there are places available, child has a particular medical or social need to go to a priority will be given to those children who live certain school, you must provide supporting evidence closest to the school (as described under criteria 5). from a doctor, psychologist or other professional involved with your child. The supporting evidence Appeals against a decision not to admit a child to must relate specifically to the school you are claiming medical grounds/ exceptional circumstances for, and the Academy clearly demonstrate why it is only that school that can Parents have a legal right to appeal against a meet your child’s needs in a way that no other school decision not to admit a child to the Academy. The can. If you are applying on-line for a place under this Academy will be happy to provide information about criterion, please send your supporting evidence to the this on request. Admissions Team by the closing date, which should include your child’s name and date of birth. Admission of children outside their normal age group NB: Exceptional social reasons do not, in the view of In reference to paragraph 2.17 of the School the Academy, include domestic inconvenience arising Admissions Code, if a parent requests their child to from parents’ work patterns, child-minding problems, separation from particular nursery/primary school be admitted outside of their normal age group, the friends. Problems of this kind are widespread and admissions authority will decide on the basis of the cannot be classed as exceptional. Medical reasons do circumstances provided. not include temporary conditions. They are permanent medical conditions which require special Waiting Lists treatment available at the preferred school only. Waiting lists are held in school for all year groups. Medical evidence must be provided and the Academy Please contact the Academy to place your child’s must be satisfied that the child would suffer to a name on the waiting list. Names will be ranked in significant degree if he/she went to any other school. line with the Admission Policy criteria. If a place
should become available the academy will write to 5. Proximity to the Academy - Those children who live closest to the school as determined by a ‘straight line’ offer a place to the highest ranked child. If the child distance measurement; from the (ordnance survey) does not require a place it will be offered to the next address point for the child’s home to the (ordnance highest ranked child until the place is filled. survey) address point of the school.
Admissions to Hart Primary School Northern Lights Learning Trust Multi Academy Trust Arrangements (England) Regulations 2012" and is the Admissions Authority for the school. The Local "School Admissions Code, February 2012." Governing Body of Hart Primary School considers the admissions on behalf of the Trust Board. This means Applications must be made on the Common that a committee of the governing body consider all Application Form (available from the Local applications sent to them by the Local Authority, Authority) by the determined closing date and an according to the criteria as stated below. This policy offer will be made by the Local Authority on behalf has been agreed following consultation between the of the school, on the National offer date. Governing Body, the Diocesan Board of Education, Applications, received after the closing date, will all other Admissions Authorities in the area and only be considered after all those received by the interested parties and parents through our web site. closing date have been considered. Parents must This policy gives regard to the "School Standards indicate which category they are applying for and and Framework Act 1998, as amended by the should provide supplemental evidence in support of Education Act 2011," "School Admissions (Admission the application. This will enable the governing body Arrangements and Co-ordination of Admissions to make an informed decision.
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Parents (a parent is determined as a person with 5. Feeder School - children who attend the Nursery parental responsibility) have the right to express a class of the same school in the previous academic preference for a school of their choice. In the first year to that of their application. instance, all preferences expressed will be considered on an equal weighting basis, but where a 6. Neighbourhood places - children living near the child is eligible for more than one place it will be the school will be admitted using the selection highest ranked school for which they are eligible criteria, measured who live closest to the school that they will be offered. as determined by the straight line distance measurement from the (ordnance survey) Children who have an Education Health Care Plan, address point of the child’s home address to the which names Hart Primary School as the school, will (ordnance survey) address point of the school, be admitted. using the Local Authority’s computerised measuring system). Proof of residency may be The Admission policy is applied if the number of sought ie a Council Tax Bill and may be sent in as applications exceeds the number of places. supplemental information with each application. (no other means of proving residency will be We will admit 15 applications in accordance with the accepted except in exceptional circumstances.) following criteria in the following order of priority: 7. Other children 1. Looked After children. This refers to children who are looked after by a Local Authority in Tie Breaker: In all criteria, if there are more accordance with Section 22 of the Children's Act applicants than places available then priority will be 1989(b) and children who were looked after, but given to those who live closest to the school as ceased to be so, because they were adopted (or determined by the straight line distance became subject to a child arrangements order, measurement from the (ordnance survey) address residence order or special guardianship order). point of the child’s home address to the (ordnance Parents/carers are asked to send proof as survey) address point of the school, using the Local supplemental information with their application Authority’s computerised measuring system). In the form. event that two distance measurements are identical, the school will use random allocation to decide 2. Looked After children. This refers to children who which child should be offered the place. The process have been previously looked after, in state care, will be conducted in the presence of a person outside of England, but ceased to be so, because independent of the school. they were adopted. Parents/carers are asked to send proof as supplemental information with Parents who are awarded a place for their child may their application form. request that: the date their child is admitted to school is 3. Siblings - children who have an older sibling deferred until later in the same academic year or attending the school, at the time of their subsequent year application. Sibling refers to brother or sister, half their child takes up the place part time, if it is in brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, step the interest of the child, until the child is of brother or sister, (foster brother or sister), or the compulsory school age child of the parent/carer's partner. This applies the date their child is admitted to school is where the child for whom the place is sought is deferred until the term after the child reaches living in the same family unit at the same address compulsory school age. as that sibling. In this instance, parents must discuss this with the 4. Those children who live in the school’s admission Head of School or Executive Headteacher. zone. The postcodes that are classed as being in Compulsory school age is determined as the term the admissions zone are attached to this policy. after the child's fifth birthday.
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Notes and supplemental information: Front Street Odd 1-13 TS27 3AW If there is an incomplete application for a child, in (Hart) No's circumstances where parents cannot agree on a Front Street Even 2-12 TS27 3AW preferred school or the main address where the (Hart) No's child resides, the governing body will suspend the Front Street Even 18 TS27 3AJ application until parents agree. This will mean that if (Hart) No's the closing date has passed, your child will not be Front Street The Barn, TS27 3AJ considered in the admission round and if all places (Hart) Brewery Farm have been allocated then your child will not be given Front Street Brewery TS27 3AJ a place. (Hart) Cottage Front Street Hopps Cottage TS27 3AJ Information given by parents which is found to be (Hart) fraudulent will result in the offer of a place being Front Street Lindisfarne TS27 3AJ withdrawn. (Hart) Front Street Masons House TS27 3AW The admissions committee is required by law to (Hart) consider the information supplied on the application Front Street Mill Vale TS27 3AJ form and the supplemental information asked for. It (Hart) is very important that you take great care to ensure Front Street Newholme TS27 3AJ the details you provide are complete and correct (Hart) before submitting them. Any advice or support you Front Street Old Brewery TS27 3AJ require in completing this form can be sought via the (Hart) Cottage school office. Front Street Old House Farm TS27 3AW Parents, who are unsuccessful in securing a place for (Hart) their child at the School, have a statutory right of Front Street Raby Arms TS27 3AJ appeal. Further details of the appeal process are (Hart) available by writing to the Chair of Local Governing Front Street Raby Cottage TS27 3AJ Body at the School address. Appeals are heard by an (Hart) independent panel. Front Street Redsills TS27 3AJ (Hart) Children, who are unsuccessful in securing a place at Front Street Southlands TS27 3AJ the School, will be placed on a waiting list, which will (Hart) be held by the School whilst the child is of primary Front Street Stonegables TS27 3AJ school age or unless the parent requests that the (Hart) name is removed. Front Street Voltigeur TS27 3AJ
(Hart) Cottage Should a place become available then the Front Street White Cottage TS27 3AJ admissions criteria will be applied again to every (Hart) child on the waiting list at the time of the vacancy Front Street Wyndways TS27 3AJ and evidence sought to support their application. (Hart)
Hart Chaplains Well TS27 3AP Buckingham Avenue (Hart) TS27 3BD Hart Hart Moor TS27 3BQ Burns Close (Hart) TS27 3AT Cottages Butts Lane (Hart) TS27 3AS Hart Manor Farm TS27 3AP Clevecoat Walk (Hart) TS27 3AD House Elwick Road Bungalow, TS26 0LH Hart North Hart TS27 3AR Quarry Farm Cottage Elwick Road Quarry Farm TS26 0LH Hart Tudor Cottage TS27 3BE Cottages Hart Hart Windmill TS27 3BW
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Hart Hart Mill Farm TS27 3BW Otterington Close (Hart) TS27 3BX Hart Pastures (Hart) TS27 3AQ Palace Row (Hart) TS27 3AY Holyrood Crescent (Hart) TS27 3BB South View (Hart) TS27 3AZ Magdalene Drive (Hart) TS27 3BU St. James Grove (Hart) TS27 3BA Middlethorpe The Old TS27 3AB The Darlings (Hart Village) TS27 3BY Farm Granary The Fens (Hart) TS27 3AH Middlethorpe The Old Barn TS27 3AB Voltigeur Drive (Hart) TS27 3BS Farm White Hart Court (Hart) TS27 3AN Milbank Close (Hart) TS27 3BT
Mill View (Hart) TS27 3AL Nelson Farm Nelson Lodge TS27 3AE Lane Nelson Farm Nelson Cottage TS27 3AE Lane Nine Acres (Hart) TS27 3BG
Admissions to Stranton Academy Trust Schools: Eskdale Academy Jesmond Gardens Primary Stranton Primary
The admission numbers for these schools are 4. Those children who are distinguished from the displayed on pages 91-92. great majority of other applicants whether on medical grounds or by other exceptional Eskdale Academy, Jesmond Gardens Primary and circumstances and who would suffer significant Stranton Primary are academy schools and part of hardship if they were unable to attend the Stranton Academy Trust. The board of trustees of school; Stranton Academy Trust is the admissions authority for this school. 5. Those children who live closest to the school as determined by a straight line distance In the first instance, places will be awarded to those measurement; from the (ordnance survey) pupils with an Education Health Care Plan (ECHP) address point for the child’s home to the where the school is the named provision. The (ordnance survey) address point of the school. remaining places will be awarded in the following priority order: Tiebreaker: If more children qualify under a particular criterion than there are places available, 1. Those children who are looked after children and priority will be given to those children who live previously looked after children (previously closest to the school (as described under criteria 5). looked after children are children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they Definitions: were adopted or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship Looked After Child - A ‘looked after child’ is a child who is order); in the care of the local authority or provided with accommodation by that authority – as required by the Education (Admission of Looked After Children) (England) 2. Those children who have brothers or sisters who Regulations 2006. will be attending the school in September 2020; Sibling - Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or 3. Those children who live in the school’s admission sister, adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, or zone; the child of the parent/carer’s partner, and in every case, the child should be living in the same family unit at the
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same address. In all cases the responsible parent will hold Medical Grounds/Exceptional Circumstances – A panel of the child benefit for those children permanently living at specialist officers will determine whether the evidence that address. A brother or sister living at the same provided is sufficiently compelling to meet the address must be attending the preferred school at the requirements for this criterion. If you think your child has same time as the child who is applying. Please note - this a particular medical or social need to go to a certain criteria only applies to siblings who are of compulsory school, you must provide supporting evidence from a school age, not younger siblings who attend a nursery doctor, psychologist or other professional involved with setting attached to a school. your child. The supporting evidence must relate specifically to the school you are claiming medical Twins or multiple birth children - If you have more than grounds/exceptional circumstances for, and clearly one child who are twins or part of a multiple birth going demonstrate why it is only that school that can meet your through the application process this year, you must make child’s needs in a way that no other school can. If you are a separate application for each child and indicate on each applying on-line for a place under this criterion, please online or paper form that your child has a sibling also send your supporting evidence to the Admissions Team by going through the process. Stranton Academy Trust will the closing date, which should include your child’s name offer a place to the other child(ren) if one of your and date of birth. twins/multiple birth children is offered the last place available and you have applied to the same school for the NB: Exceptional social reasons do not, in the view of the other child(ren). Trust, include domestic inconvenience arising from parents’ work patterns, child-minding problems, Distance - Distance will be measured by a straight line separation from particular nursery/primary school distance measurement from the (ordnance survey) friends. Problems of this kind are widespread and cannot address point of the child’s home address to the be classed as exceptional. Medical reasons do not include (ordnance survey) address point of the school, using the temporary conditions. They are permanent medical Local Authority’s computerised measuring system, with conditions which require special treatment available at those living closer to the school receiving the higher the preferred school only. Medical evidence must be priority. provided and the Trust Broad must be satisfied that the child would suffer to a significant degree if he/she went to any other school.
Admissions to Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School The Durham Diocesan Multi Agency Trust (DDMAT) Authority booklet will be accepted but considered is the Admissions Authority for this school. only after those received by the closing date.
The DDMAT intends to admit up to 30 pupils to the Transfer: Parents who wish their child to transfer to Reception year group in September 2020. Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School DDMAT, at any time other than the beginning of This arrangement follows consultation between the primary education, should contact the Local DDMAT, the Local Authority, all other schools in the Authority’s School Admissions Team. Should there areas and all other Admission Authorities in the be space in the school the DDMAT will admit your area. child. If more requests are received than there are places available, the below criteria will apply. Applications for admission must be made on the Local Authority Common Admission Form, according Over-subscription criteria to the timetable and detailed arrangements Children with a Statement of Special Educational published each year by Hartlepool Local Education Need or with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Authority. Plan naming Holy Trinity C of E Primary School will always be offered places. If there is then greater All places will be allocated on the national offer day. demand for admission than there are places available, the following criteria will be applied in the Late Applications: Admissions for Reception order set out below: received after the closing date details in the Local
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1. Looked-after children and children who were Note: By a “looked-after child” we mean one in the previously looked after, but ceased to be so care of a local authority or being provided with because, immediately after being looked after, accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of they became subject to an adoption, child its social services function. An adoption order is one arrangements or special guardianship order. made under the Adoption Act 1976 (Section 12) or the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (Section 46). A
‘child arrangements order’ is one settling the 2. Children previously in state care outside of arrangements to be made as to the person with England. This refers to children who were whom the child is to live (Children Act 1989, Section previously in state care outside of England, and 8, as amended by the Children and Families Act 2014, have ceased to be in state care as a result of Section 14). A ‘special guardianship order’ is one being adopted. appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian/s (Children Act 1989, Section 14A). 3. Siblings of children currently in the school. Applications under this criterion must be Parents should not that “current” means that accompanied by evidence to show that the child is your older child must still be in the school at the looked after or was previously looked after (e.g. a copy of the adoption, child arrangements or special point when the younger child enters it. guardianship order).”
4. Other children whose parents wish them to be Please note that the criterion can only apply to educated at Holy Trinity Church of England children adopted, subject to a child arrangements or Primary School DDMAT. Proximity of the special guardianship order immediately after being child’s home, as measured by the straight line looked after. Children adopted following private distance between the home and the school with fostering arrangements do not qualify as they were those living nearer being accorded the higher not in the case of a local authority immediately prior to being adopted, etc. The only way in which such priority. children could be given priority is under a medical/social criterion and, even then, they might Tie Breaker qualify. The tie breaker will serve to differentiate between children in criteria 1 to 3 should the need arise. 2. Children previously in state care outside of England Proximity of the child’s home, as measured by the means children who have been looked after outside straight line distance between the home and the of England by a public authority, a religious school with those living nearer being accorded the organisation or another provider of care whose sole higher priority. In the event that two distance purpose is to benefit society. The care may have been measurements are identical, the school will use provided in orphanages or other settings. In the case of children adopted from state care overseas, the random allocation to decide which child should be admissions authority will require evidence that a child offered the place. The process will be conducted in is eligible by asking the child’s parents or carers for the presence of a person independent of the school. appropriate evidence of their previously looked-after status. Appeal Parents have a right of appeal should the school be 3. Siblings of children currently in school unable to admit your child. You should contact the Sibling refers to blood brother or sister, half brother Local Academy Council at the school. They will make or sister, adopted brother or sister, step brother or the necessary arrangements for an appeal. sister, or the child of the parent/carer’s partner and in every case, the child must be living in the same family unit at the same address. In all cases, the Definitions: parent who receives the Child Benefit for those 1. Looked After Children: Looked after children and children must permanently live at that address with children who were previously looked after, but the children. Please note – this criterion only applies ceased to be so because immediately after being to siblings who are of compulsory school age, not looked after, they became subject to an adoption, younger siblings who attend a nursery setting child arrangements or special guardianship order. attached to a school.
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Waiting List fourth birthday. Parents are entitled to request in . Waiting lists are held in school for all year writing that: groups. . their child attends part-time until they reach . Please contact the school to place your child’s compulsory school age, or name on the waiting list. Waiting lists will be . that the date their child is admitted to school is maintained until 31st August of the admission deferred until later in the same academic year or year. until the term in which the child reaches . Names will be ranked in line with the Admission compulsory school age. The school will hold any Policy criteria and oversubscription criteria. deferred place for the child, although, in the . If a place should become available the school majority of cases, we find that children benefit will write to offer a place to the highest ranked from starting at the beginning of the school year, child. rather than part way through it. . If the child does not require the place it will be . that the date their child is admitted to school is offered to the next highest ranked child until the deferred until the term after the child reaches place is filled. compulsory school age.
Fair Access The child must, however, start school full-time in the The school participates in the LA’s Fair Access term after their fifth birthday. Protocol. This covers, for example, children who have moved into our area after the normal If parents of summer born children wish to defer admission round, or who need to move school as a entry as outlined above and wish them to be result of severe bullying or social issues. Children admitted to the Reception Year in the term following qualifying under the Fair Access Protocol may be their fifth birthday, rather than year 1, then parents offered a place even if there are no places available should apply at the usual time for a place in in the relevant year group and also take priority for September of the current academic year together admission over any child on the waiting list. with a written request that the child is admitted outside of his or her normal age group to the Reception Year in September the following year Multiple births providing supporting reasons for seeking a place In cases where there is one place available, and the outside of the normal age group. This should be next child on the list is a twin, triplet, etc., we would discussed with the Head Teacher as soon as admit both twins (and all the children in the case of possible. If their request is agreed, and this should other multiple births) even if this meant exceeding be clear before the national offer day, their the agreed admission number for Reception or the application for the normal age group may be number of places in other year groups in the withdrawn before any place is offered and they relevant admission year. should reapply in the normal way for a Reception place in the following year. If their request is Admission of children below compulsory school age refused, the parents must decide whether to wait and deferred entry to school for any offer of a place in the current academic year The School Admissions Code requires school (NB it will still be subject to the over-subscription admission authorities to provide for the admission of criteria in this policy) or to withdraw their all children in the September following their fourth application and apply for a year 1 place the following birthday. However, a child is not required to start year. Parents should be aware that the Year 1 group school until they have reached compulsory school may have no vacancies as it could be full with age following their fifth birthday. For summer born children transferring from the previous Reception children (those born after 1 April) this can Year group.” sometimes be almost a full school year after the Further information and advice on the admission of point at which they could first be admitted. summer born children is available from the School Admissions Team at Hartlepool Borough Council. Some parents may feel that their child is not ready to start school in the September following their
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Appeal where application is made outside of age so would be in the pupil’s interests. It is range recommended that parents discuss their wishes with Requests from parents for places outside a normal the Headteacher in advance of applying for a place. age group will be considered carefully e.g. for those The DDMAT may ask relevant professionals for their who have missed education due to ill health. Each opinion on the case. It should be noted that if a case will be considered on its own merits and place in the requested age group is refused, but one circumstances. However, such admissions will not in the normal age group is offered then there is no normally be agreed without a consensus that to do right of appeal.
Admissions to Sacred Heart RC Primary School Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School was founded These former parishes are now all part of the ‘One’ by the Catholic Church to provide education for Parish of the Holy Family which includes the children of Catholic families. Whenever there are following member churches: more applications than places available, priority will St Cuthbert, Hartlepool be given to Catholic children in accordance with the St John Vianney, Hartlepool oversubscription criteria listed below. The school is St Joseph, Hartlepool conducted by its governing body as part of the St Patrick, Hartlepool Catholic Church in accordance with its trust deed St Thomas More, Hartlepool and instrument of government, and seeks at all The Immaculate Conception (St Mary), Hartlepool times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus Christ. Published Admission Number As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic The governing body has set its published admission education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, number (PAN) at 60 pupils to be admitted to the Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every reception year in the school year which begins in aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the September 2020. Catholic character of the school’s education be fully supported by all families in the school. We therefore Application Procedures and Timetable hope that all parents will give their full, unreserved To apply for a place at this school in the normal and positive support for the aims and ethos of the admission round (not in-year applications), a school. This does not affect the right of an applicant Common Application Form (CAF) must be who is not Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a completed. This is available from the local authority place at the school in accordance with the admission in which the child lives. arrangements. The parent will be advised of the outcome of the The admission policy criteria will be dealt with on an application on 16 April or the next working day, by equal preference basis. the local authority. If the application is unsuccessful (unless the child gained a place at a school the The governing body is the admissions authority and parent ranked higher) the parent will be informed of has responsibility for admissions to this school. The the decision, related to the oversubscription criteria local authority undertakes the coordination of listed above, and has the right of appeal to an admission arrangements during the normal independent appeal panel. admission round for reception year admission in September. If the parent is required to provide supplemental Parishes served by the school evidence to support the application (eg a baptismal The school serves the former parishes of St Thomas certificate), this evidence should be provided at the More’s and St Joseph’s, Hartlepool. time of application. If not provided, evidence may be sought by the governing body following the closing date for applications. This information must have been correct at the date of closing for applications.
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All applications which are submitted on time will be views of the headteacher who has statutory considered at the same time and after the closing responsibility for the internal organisation, date for admissions which is 15 January 2020. management and control of the school, the governing body will take into account the views of Pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan (see the parents and of appropriate medical and note 1) education professionals. The admission of pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan is dealt with by a completely separate Summer Born Children procedure. Children with an Education, Health and The parents of a summer born child, i.e. a child born Care Plan that names the school must be admitted. between 1 April and 31 August, may request that the Where this takes place before the allocation of child be admitted out of their normal age group, to places under these arrangements this will reduce the the reception class in the September following their number of places available to other children. fifth birthday and that that the child will remain in this cohort as they progress through school. Late Applications Late applications will be administered in accordance Parents who want to make this request should make with the home local authority Primary Coordinated an application for their child’s normal age group at Admissions Scheme. Parents are advised to ensure the usual time. The application to the local authority that the application is submitted before the closing should include this request and in addition it should date. be made in writing to the headteacher of the school. The local authority will liaise with the governing Admission of Children below Compulsory School body that will make its decision about the request Age and Deferred Entry based on the circumstances of each case and in the A child is entitled to a full-time place in the best interests of the child. In addition to taking into September following their fourth birthday. A child’s account the views of the headteacher, who has parents may defer the date at which their child, statutory responsibility for the internal organisation, below compulsory school age, is admitted to the management and control of the school, the school, until later in the school year but not beyond governing body will take into account the views of the point at which they reach compulsory school the parents and of appropriate medical and age, or beyond the beginning of the final term of the education professionals. school year for which an offer was made. A child may take up a part-time place until later in the Parents will be informed of the outcome of the school year, but not beyond the point at which the request before primary national offer day. child reaches compulsory school age. Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent should notify the If the request is agreed by the governing body, the school in writing, as soon as possible, that they wish application for the normal age group may be to either defer their child’s entry to the school or withdrawn before a place is offered. If the request is take up a part-time place. refused, the parent must decide whether to accept the offer of a place for the normal age group, or to Admission of Children outside their Normal Age refuse it and make an in year application for Group admission to year one for the September following A request may be made for a child to be admitted the child’s fifth birthday. outside of their normal age group, for example, if the child is gifted and talented or has experienced Where a parent’s request is agreed, they must make problems such as ill health. a new application as part of the main admissions round the following year. Any such request should be made in writing to the headteacher of the school. The governing body will One admission authority cannot be required to make its decision about the request based on the honour a decision made by another admission circumstances of each case and in the best interests authority on admission out of the normal age group. of the child. In addition to taking into account the Parents, therefore, should consider whether to
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request admission out of the normal year group at Right of Appeal all their preference schools, rather than just their Where a parent has been notified that a place is not first preference schools. available for a child, every effort will be made by the local authority to help the parent to find a place in a Waiting Lists suitable alternative school. Parents who are refused In addition to their right of appeal, applicants will be a place have a statutory right of appeal. Further offered the opportunity to be placed on a waiting details of the appeals process are available by list. This waiting list will be maintained in order of writing to the chair of governors at the school the oversubscription criteria set out below and not address. in the order in which applications are received or added to the list. Waiting lists for admission will Fair Access Protocol operate throughout the school year. The waiting list The school is committed to taking its fair share of will be held open until the last day of the summer children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as term. Inclusion on the school’s waiting list does not set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, mean that a place will eventually become available. outside the normal admission round the governing body is empowered to give absolute priority to a Infant Class Size Regulations child where admission is requested under any local Infant classes may not, by law, contain more than 30 protocol that has been agreed by both the diocese pupils with a single qualified teacher (subject to the and the governing body for the current school year. provisions in the School Admissions Code for The governing body has this power, even when ‘excepted children’). Parents do have a right of admitting the child would mean exceeding the appeal in accordance with the infant class size published admission number (subject to the infant regulations if the school is oversubscribed and their class size exceptions). child is refused a place. Nursery The governing body will, where logistically possible, For children attending the school’s nursery, admit twins and all siblings from multiple births application to the reception class of the school must where one of the children is the last child ranked be made in the normal way, to the home local within the school’s PAN. authority. Attendance at the school’s nursery does not automatically guarantee that a place will be In-Year Applications offered at the school. An application can be made for a place for a child at any time outside the admission round and the child False evidence will be admitted where there are available places. The governing body reserves the right to withdraw For information on making an in-year application, the offer of a place or, where a child is already parents should contact the local authority attending the school, the place itself, where it is admissions team at School Admissions Team, satisfied that the offer or place was obtained by Hartlepool Borough Council, Centre for Excellence in deception. Teaching & Learning, Brierton Lane, Hartlepool, TS25 4AF, on 01429 284368 or by email at Oversubscription Criteria [email protected] Where there are more applications for places than the number of places available, places will be Where there are places available but more offered according to the following order of priority. applications than places, the published oversubscription criteria will be applied. First priority in each category will be given to children who will have an older sibling attending the If there are no places available, a request can be school in September 2020. made that the child is added to the waiting list (see above). 1. Catholic looked after and previously looked after children (see notes 2 and 3).
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2. Catholic children who are resident in the former the exercise of their social services functions (e.g. parishes served by the school (see note 3). children with foster parents) at the time of making application to the school. 3. Catholic children who are resident in the ‘One’ Parish of the Holy Family (see note 3). A previously looked after child is a child who was looked after, but ceased to be so because he or she
was adopted, or became subject to a child 4. Other Catholic children (see note 3). arrangements order or special guardianship order.
5. Other looked after and previously looked after 3. ‘Catholic’ means a member of a Church in full children (see note 2). communion with the See of Rome. This includes the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be 6. Catechumens and members of an Eastern evidenced by a certificate of baptism in a Catholic Christian Church (see notes 4 and 5). Church or a certificate of reception into the full communion of the Catholic Church. For the purposes 7. Children of other Christian denominations whose of this policy, it includes a looked after child living with a family where at least one of the parents is membership is evidenced by a minister or faith Catholic. leader (see note 6). For a child to be treated as Catholic, evidence of Catholic baptism or reception into the Church will be 8. Children of other faiths whose membership is required. Those who have difficulty obtaining written evidenced by a minister or faith leader (see note evidence of baptism should contact their Parish Priest 7). who, after consulting with the Diocese, will decide how the question of baptism is to be resolved and 9. Any other children. how written evidence is to be produced in accordance with the law of the Church. Tie Breaker 4. Catechumen means a member of the catechumenate Where there are places available for some, but not of a Catholic Church. For the purposes of admissions all applicants within a particular criterion, priority this refers to the child on whose behalf the will be given to children living closest to the school application is being made. This will normally be determined by the shortest distance. Distance will evidenced by a certificate of reception into the order be measured by a straight line distance of catechumens. measurement, from the (ordnance survey) address point for the child’s home to the (ordnance survey) 5. Eastern Christian Church includes Orthodox address point of the school, using the local Churches, and is normally evidenced by a certificate authority’s computerised measuring system. of baptism or reception from the authorities of that Church. Those who have difficulty obtaining written evidence of baptism or reception should contact the In the event of distances being the same for two or Diocese who will decide how the question of baptism more children where this would determine the last or reception is to be resolved and how written place to be allocated, random allocation will be evidence is to be produced in accordance with the carried out in a public place and supervised by a law of the Church. person independent of the school. 6. Children of other Christian denominations means Notes and definitions children who belong to other churches and ecclesial communities which, acknowledge God’s revelation in 1. An Education, Health and Care Plan is a plan made Christ, confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and by the local authority under section 37 of the Saviour according to the Scriptures, and, in obedience Children and Families Act 2014, specifying the special to God’s will and in the power of the Holy Spirit educational provision required for a child. commit themselves: to seek a deepening of their communion with Christ and with one another in the 2. A looked after child has the same meaning as in Church, which is his body; and to fulfil their mission section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and means to proclaim the Gospel by common witness and any child who is (a) in the care of a local authority or service in the world to the glory of the one God, (b) being provided with accommodation by them in Father, Son and Holy Spirit. An ecclesial community
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which on principle has no credal statements in its Applicants must provide a letter of support to tradition, is included if it manifests faith in Christ as confirm their faith membership from their minister or witnessed to in the Scriptures and is committed to faith leader. working in the spirit of the above. 8. A child’s “home address” refers to the address where All members of Churches Together in England and the child usually lives with a parent or carer, and will CYTÛN are deemed to be included in the above be the address provided in the Common Application definition, as are all other churches and ecclesial Form (“CAF”). Where parents have shared communities that are in membership of any local responsibility for a child, and the child lives for part of Churches Together Group (by whatever title) on the the week with each parent, the home address will be above basis. the address given in the CAF, provided that the child resides at that address for any part of the school Applicants must provide a baptismal certificate or week. where child baptism is not practised, a letter confirming their church membership from their 9. Sibling includes: minister or faith leader. (i) all natural brothers or sisters, half brothers or sisters, adopted brothers or sisters, stepbrothers 7. Children of other faiths means children who are or sisters, foster brothers or sisters, whether or members of a religious community that does not fall not they are living at the same address; and within the definition of ‘other Christian (ii) the child of a parent’s partner where that child denominations’ at 6 above and which falls within the lives for at least part of the week in the same definition of a religion for the purposes of charity law. family unit at the same home address as the child The Charities Act 2011 defines religion to include: who is the subject of the application.
. A religion which involves belief in more than one 10. A parent means all natural parents, any person who God, and is not a parent but has parental responsibility for a . A religion which does not involve belief in a God. child, and any person who has care of a child (having care of a child means that the child lives with and is Case law has identified certain characteristics which looked after by that person). describe the meaning of religion for the purposes of charity law, which are characterised by a belief in a This policy should be read in conjunction with the supreme being and an expression of belief in that local authority’s admission guidance for parents. supreme being through worship.
Admissions to Springwell School Springwell School caters for children with a full Springwell School must, in all but exceptional cases, range of special educational needs (SEN), including have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan. learning difficulties, autistic spectrum disorders and behavioural, emotional and social difficulties. For further information regarding SEN, please refer Admissions are considered by a panel comprising to page 89. If you wish to discuss any aspect of SEN representatives of the Children’s and Joint further, please contact the SEND Team (contact Commissioning Services SEND Team and Springwell details can be found on page 94). School Senior Leadership Team. Children accessing
Admissions to St Aidan’s Church of England Memorial Primary School The Durham Diocesan MAT is the Admissions follows consultation between the Durham Diocesan Authority for the school. MAT, the Academy Council, the Local Authority, all other schools in the area and all other Admission We intend to admit up to 50 pupils to the reception Authorities in the area. year group in September 2020. This arrangement
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Applications must be made on the Local Authority provided in orphanages or other settings. In Common Application Form. This form must be the case of children adopted from state care returned to the Local Authority. Applications overseas, the admissions authority will require received after the closing date will only be evidence that a child is eligible by asking the considered after all those received by the closing child’s parents or carers for appropriate date. evidence of their previously looked-after status.
Children who have an Education, Health and Care 3. Children who will have a sibling attending the (EHC) plan or a Statement of Special Educational school at the time of their admission. Sibling Need where the school is named as the most refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, appropriate educational setting for the child will be adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, admitted to the school before all others. Where or the child of the parent/carer’s partner where there are insufficient places available to meet all the child for whom the school place is sought is parental preferences, the Academy Council will permanently living in the same family unit at the allocate the remaining places on the basis of equal same address as that sibling. In all cases, the preference and priority will be given to applications parent who receives the Child Benefit for those in the following order: children must permanently live at that address with the children. Please note –this criteria only 1. Children in care. This refers to children who are applies to siblings who are of compulsory school looked after by a Local Authority in accordance age, not younger siblings who attend a nursery with Section 22 of the Children’s Act 1989 at the setting attached to a school. time the application for admission to the school is made, and whom the Local Authority can 4. Faith Criteria confirm will still be looked after at the time of admission to the school. Looked after children . Church of England: Children of one or more and children who were previously looked after, parents who regularly or frequently attend but ceased to be so because immediately after worship at St Aidan’s or St Columba’s being looked after they were then adopted (or churches. became subject to a child arrangements order or . Other Church of England churches or faith special guardianship order) also come under this communities: Children and/or one or more category. An ‘adoption order’ is defined as an parent who regularly and frequently order made under section 46 of the Adoption worship at another Church of England and Children Act 2002. A ‘child arrangements church. order’ is defined as an order outlining the arrangements as to the person with whom the Regularly and frequently is defined as child will live under section 8 of the Children Act attendance at least once per month over the 1989 as amended. A ‘special guardianship last twelve months. order’ is an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian or Applications for faith places must be supported guardians under the Children Act 1989. by a letter from an authorised minister or two office holders of the church. 2. Children previously in state care outside of England. This refers to children who were 5. Medical or social criteria. Pupils with very previously in state care outside of England, and exceptional medical or social factors directly have ceased to be in state care as a result of related to school placement. Applications must being adopted. Children previously in state care be supported by written evidence from a doctor outside of England means children who have or other professional practitioner, setting out been looked after outside of England by a public the particular reasons why our school is the only authority, a religious organisation or another school that can meet the child’s needs and will provider of care whose sole purpose is to be considered on a case by case basis, as benefit society. The care may have been assessed using the Local Authority criteria.
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from starting at the beginning of the school year 6. Children whose parents wish them to be rather than part way through it. educated at St Aidan’s Church of England . the date their child is admitted to school is Memorial Primary School up to the permitted deferred until the term after the child reaches admission number of 50. compulsory school age.
Multiple Births The child must, however, start school full time in the For applications of children of multiple births, if one term after their fifth birthday. of the children is offered the last place available, we will offer a place for the other child/ren. Requests for admission outside of normal age range Tie Breaker If parents of summer born children wish to defer Where there are places for some, but not all, entry as outlined above and wish them to be applicants within a particular criterion, distance will admitted to the Reception Year in the term be measured by a straight line distance following their fifth birthday, rather than year 1, measurement; from the (ordnance survey) address then parents should apply at the usual time for a point of the child’s home address to the (ordnance place in September of the current academic year survey) address point of the school, using the Local together with a request that the child is admitted Authority’s computerised measuring system, with outside of his or her normal age group to the those living closer to the school receiving the higher Reception Year in September the following year priority. In the event that two distance providing supporting reasons for seeking a place measurements are identical, the school will use outside of the normal age group. This should be random allocation to decide which child should be discussed with the Headteacher as soon as possible. offered the place. The process will be conducted in If their request is agreed, and this should be clear the presence of a person independent of the school. before the national offer day, their application for the normal age group may be withdrawn before any Admission of children below compulsory age range place is offered and they should reapply in the and deferred entry to school normal way for a Reception place in the following The School Admissions Code 2014 requires school year. If the request is refused, the parents must admission authorities to provide for the admission decide whether to wait for any offer of a place in the of all children in the September following their current academic year [nb it will still be subject to fourth birthday. However, a child is not legally the over-subscription criteria in this policy] or to required to start school until they have reached withdraw their application and apply for a Year 1 compulsory school age following their fifth birthday. place the following year. Parents should be aware For summer born children [those born after 1 April] that the Year 1 group may have no vacancies as it this can sometimes be almost a full school year after could be full with children transferring from the the point at which they could first be admitted. previous Reception Year group.
Some parents may not feel that their child is ready Requests from parents for places outside a normal to start school in the September following their age group will be considered carefully, eg for those fourth birthday. Parents are entitled to request on who have missed education due to ill health. Each writing that: case will be considered on its own merits and circumstances. However, such admissions will not . their child attends part time until they reach normally be agreed without a consensus that to do compulsory school age. so would be in the pupil’s interests. It is . the date their child is admitted to school is recommended that parents discuss their wishes with deferred until later in the same academic year the Headteacher in advance of applying for a place. or until the term in which the child reaches The Academy Council may ask relevant professions compulsory school age. The school will hold any for their opinion on the case. It should be noted deferred place for the child, although in the that if a place in the requested age group is refused, majority of cases we find that children benefit
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but one in the normal age range is offered then in the relevant year group and also take priority for there is not right of appeal. admission over any child on the waiting list.
Information about waiting lists Right of Appeal If you wish your child to attend St Aidan’s School If you are not successful in obtaining a place for your you must fill in an application form, even if your child at our school, you have a statutory right of child attends nursery / you live in the admission appeal. Further details are available from the zone for the school. Attendance at the nursery does school, Local Authority or the Chair of Academy not guarantee you a place at the school. If you are Council in the first instance. unable to gain a place initially then your child’s name can be added to a waiting list for at least one Transfers term. This list will be administered in line with the Parents who wish their child to transfer to St Aidan’s admissions criteria. Waiting lists will be maintained School at any other time other than the beginning of until at least 31 December of the admission year. primary education should contact the Local Authority Admissions Team in the first instance. The Fair access protocol Admissions Team will contact the school on your The school participates in Hartlepool LA’s fair access behalf. Should there be space in the school the protocol. This covers, for example, children who admissions authority will admit your child. If more have moved into our area after the normal requests are received than there are places admission round, or who need to move school as a available, the above criteria will apply. result of severe bullying or social issues. Children qualifying under the fair Access Protocol may be offered a place even if there are no places available
Admissions to St Bega’s RC Primary School St Bega’s Catholic Primary School was founded by The admission policy criteria will be dealt with on an the Catholic Church to provide education for equal preference basis. children of Catholic families. Whenever there are more applications than places available, priority will The governing body is the admissions authority and be given to Catholic children in accordance with the has responsibility for admissions to this school. The oversubscription criteria listed below. The school is local authority undertakes the coordination of conducted by its governing body as part of the admission arrangements during the normal Catholic Church in accordance with its trust deed admission round for reception year admission in and instrument of government, and seeks at all September. times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus Christ. Parishes served by the school As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic The school serves the parish of The Holy Family, education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, Hartlepool. Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the Published Admission Number Catholic character of the school’s education be fully The governing body has set its published admission supported by all families in the school. We therefore number (PAN) at 25 pupils to be admitted to the hope that all parents will give their full, unreserved reception year in the school year which begins in and positive support for the aims and ethos of the September 2020. school. This does not affect the right of an applicant who is not Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a Application Procedures and Timetable place at the school in accordance with the admission To apply for a place at this school in the normal arrangements. admission round (not in-year applications), a Common Application Form (CAF) must be
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completed. This is available from the local authority may take up a part-time place until later in the in which the child lives. school year, but not beyond the point at which the child reaches compulsory school age. Upon receipt The parent will be advised of the outcome of the of the offer of a place a parent should notify the application on 16 April or the next working day, by school in writing, as soon as possible, that they wish the local authority. If the application is unsuccessful to either defer their child’s entry to the school or (unless the child gained a place at a school the take up a part-time place. parent ranked higher) the parent will be informed of the decision, related to the oversubscription criteria Admission of Children outside their Normal Age listed above, and has the right of appeal to an Group independent appeal panel. A request may be made for a child to be admitted outside of their normal age group, for example, if If the parent is required to provide supplemental the child is gifted and talented or has experienced evidence to support the application (e.g. a baptismal problems such as ill health. certificate), this evidence should be provided at the time of application. If not provided, evidence may be Any such request should be made in writing to the sought by the governing body following the closing headteacher of the school. The governing body will date for applications. This information must have make its decision about the request based on the been correct at the date of closing for applications. circumstances of each case and in the best interests of the child. In addition to taking into account the All applications which are submitted on time will be views of the headteacher who has statutory considered at the same time and after the closing responsibility for the internal organisation, date for admissions which is 15 January 2020. management and control of the school, the governing body will take into account the views of Pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan (see the parents and of appropriate medical and note 1) education professionals. The admission of pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan is dealt with by a completely separate Summer Born Children procedure. Children with an Education, Health and The parents of a summer born child, i.e. a child born Care Plan that names the school must be admitted. between 1 April and 31 August, may request that Where this takes place before the allocation of the child be admitted out of their normal age group, places under these arrangements this will reduce to the reception class in the September following the number of places available to other children. their fifth birthday and that that the child will remain in this cohort as they progress through Late Applications school. Late applications will be administered in accordance with the home local authority Primary Coordinated Parents who want to make this request should make Admissions Scheme. Parents are advised to ensure an application for their child’s normal age group at that the application is submitted before the closing the usual time. The application to the local authority date. should include this request and in addition it should be made in writing to the headteacher of the school. Admission of Children below Compulsory School The local authority will liaise with the governing Age and Deferred Entry body that will make its decision about the request A child is entitled to a full-time place in the based on the circumstances of each case and in the September following their fourth birthday. A child’s best interests of the child. In addition to taking into parents may defer the date at which their child, account the views of the headteacher, who has below compulsory school age, is admitted to the statutory responsibility for the internal organisation, school, until later in the school year but not beyond management and control of the school, the the point at which they reach compulsory school governing body will take into account the views of age, or beyond the beginning of the final term of the the parents and of appropriate medical and school year for which an offer was made. A child education professionals.
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Parents will be informed of the outcome of the In-Year Applications request before primary national offer day. An application can be made for a place for a child at any time outside the admission round and the child If the request is agreed by the governing body, the will be admitted where there are available places. application for the normal age group may be For information on making an in year application, withdrawn before a place is offered. If the request is parents should contact the local authority refused, the parent must decide whether to accept admissions team at School Admissions Team, the offer of a place for the normal age group, or to Hartlepool Borough Council, Centre for Excellence in refuse it and make an in year application for Teaching & Learning, Brierton Lane, Hartlepool, TS25 admission to year one for the September following 4AF, on 01429 284368 or by email at the child’s fifth birthday. [email protected]. Parents will be advised of the outcome of their application in Where a parent’s request is agreed, they must make writing. a new application as part of the main admissions round the following year. Where there are places available but more applications than places, the published One admission authority cannot be required to oversubscription criteria will be applied. honour a decision made by another admission authority on admission out of the normal age group. If there are no places available, a request can be Parents, therefore, should consider whether to made that the child is added to the waiting list. request admission out of the normal year group at all their preference schools, rather than just their Right of Appeal first preference schools. Where a parent has been notified that a place is not available for a child, every effort will be made by the Waiting Lists local authority to help the parent to find a place in a In addition to their right of appeal, applicants will be suitable alternative school. Parents who are refused offered the opportunity to be placed on a waiting a place have a statutory right of appeal. Further list. This waiting list will be maintained in order of details of the appeals process are available by the oversubscription criteria set out below and not writing to the chair of governors at the school in the order in which applications are received or address. added to the list. Waiting lists for admission will operate throughout the school year. The waiting list Fair Access Protocol will be held open until the last day of the summer The school is committed to taking its fair share of term. Inclusion on the school’s waiting list does not children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as mean that a place will eventually become available. set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the governing Infant Class Size Regulations body is empowered to give absolute priority to a Infant classes may not, by law, contain more than 30 child where admission is requested under any local pupils with a single qualified teacher (subject to the protocol that has been agreed by both the diocese provisions in the School Admissions Code for and the governing body for the current school year. ‘excepted children’). Parents do have a right of The governing body has this power, even when appeal in accordance with the infant class size admitting the child would mean exceeding the regulations if the school is oversubscribed and their published admission number (subject to the infant child is refused a place. class size exceptions).
The governing body will, where logistically possible, Nursery admit twins and all siblings from multiple births For children attending the school’s nursery, where one of the children is the last child ranked application to the reception class of the school must within the school’s PAN. be made in the normal way, to the home local authority. Attendance at the school’s nursery does
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not automatically guarantee that a place will be In the event of distances being the same for two or offered at the school. more children where this would determine the last place to be allocated, random allocation will be False evidence carried out in a public place and supervised by a The governing body reserves the right to withdraw person independent of the school. the offer of a place or, where a child is already attending the school, the place itself, where it is Notes and definitions satisfied that the offer or place was obtained by deception. 1. An Education, Health and Care Plan is a plan made by the local authority under section 37 of the Oversubscription Criteria Children and Families Act 2014, specifying the special educational provision required for a child. Where there are more applications for places than the number of places available, places will be 2. A looked after child has the same meaning as in offered according to the following order of priority. section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and means any child who is (a) in the care of a local authority or First priority in each category will be given to (b) being provided with accommodation by them in children who will have an older sibling attending the the exercise of their social services functions (e.g. school in September 2020. children with foster parents) at the time of making application to the school. 1. Looked after and previously looked after children (see notes 2 and 3). A previously looked after child is a child who was looked after, but ceased to be so because he or she
was adopted, or became subject to a child 2. Catholic children who are resident in the parish arrangements order or special guardianship order. of The Holy Family (see note 3). 3. ‘Catholic’ means a member of a Church in full 3. Other Catholic children (see note 3). communion with the See of Rome. This includes the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be 4. Catechumens and members of an Eastern evidenced by a certificate of baptism in a Catholic Christian Church (see notes 4 and 5). Church or a certificate of reception into the full communion of the Catholic Church. For the purposes 5. Children of other Christian denominations of this policy, it includes a looked after child living with a family where at least one of the parents is whose membership is evidence by a minister or Catholic. faith leader (see note 6). For a child to be treated as Catholic, evidence of 6. Children of other faiths whose membership is Catholic baptism or reception into the Church will be evidenced by a minister or faith leader (see note required. Those who have difficulty obtaining written 7). evidence of baptism should contact their Parish Priest who, after consulting with the Diocese, will 7. Any other children. decide how the question of baptism is to be resolved and how written evidence is to be produced in Tie Breaker accordance with the law of the Church.
Where there are places available for some, but not 4. Catechumen means a member of the catechumenate all applicants within a particular criterion, priority of a Catholic Church. For the purposes of admissions will be given to children living closest to the school this refers to the child on whose behalf the determined by the shortest distance. Distance will application is being made. This will normally be be measured by a straight line distance evidenced by a certificate of reception into the order measurement, from the (ordnance survey) address of catechumens. point from the child’s home to the (ordnance survey) address point of the school, using the local 5. Eastern Christian Church includes Orthodox authority’s computerised measuring system. Churches, and is normally evidenced by a certificate of baptism or reception from the authorities of that
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Church. Those who have difficulty obtaining written . A religion which involves belief in more than one evidence of baptism or reception should contact the God, and Diocese who will decide how the question of baptism . A religion which does not involve belief in a God. or reception is to be resolved and how written evidence is to be produced in accordance with the Case law has identified certain characteristics which law of the Church. describe the meaning of religion for the purposes of charity law, which are characterised by a belief in a 6. Children of other Christian denominations means supreme being and an expression of belief in that children who belong to other churches and ecclesial supreme being through worship. communities which, acknowledge God’s revelation in Applicants must provide a letter of support to Christ, confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and confirm their faith membership from their minister or Saviour according to the Scriptures, and, in faith leader. obedience to God’s will and in the power of the Holy Spirit commit themselves: to seek a deepening of 8. A child’s “home address” refers to the address where their communion with Christ and with one another in the child usually lives with a parent or carer, and will the Church, which is his body; and to fulfil their be the address provided in the Common Application mission to proclaim the Gospel by common witness Form (“CAF”). Where parents have shared and service in the world to the glory of the one God, responsibility for a child, and the child lives for part Father, Son and Holy Spirit. An ecclesial community of the week with each parent, the home address will which on principle has no credal statements in its be the address given in the CAF, provided that the tradition, is included if it manifests faith in Christ as child resides at that address for any part of the witnessed to in the Scriptures and is committed to school week. working in the spirit of the above. 9. Sibling includes: All members of Churches Together in England and (i) all natural brothers or sisters, half brothers or CYTÛN are deemed to be included in the above sisters, adopted brothers or sisters, stepbrothers definition, as are all other churches and ecclesial or sisters, foster brothers or sisters, whether or communities that are in membership of any local not they are living at the same address; and Churches Together Group (by whatever title) on the (ii) the child of a parent’s partner where that child above basis. lives for at least part of the week in the same family unit at the same home address as the Applicants must provide a baptismal certificate or child who is the subject of the application. where child baptism is not practised, a letter confirming their church membership from their 10. A parent means all natural parents, any person who minister or faith leader. is not a parent but has parental responsibility for a child, and any person who has care of a child (having 7. Children of other faiths means children who are care of a child means that the child lives with and is members of a religious community that does not fall looked after by that person). within the definition of ‘other Christian denominations’ at 6 above and which falls within the This policy should be read in conjunction with the definition of a religion for the purposes of charity local authority’s admission guidance for parents. law. The Charities Act 2011 defines religion to include:
Admissions to St Cuthbert’s RC Primary School St Cuthbert’s Catholic Primary School, Hartlepool, body as part of the Catholic Church in accordance was founded by the Catholic Church to provide with its trust deed and instrument of government, education for children of Catholic families. and seeks at all times to be a witness to Our Lord Whenever there are more applications than places Jesus Christ. available, priority will be given to Catholic children in accordance with the oversubscription criteria listed As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic below. The school is conducted by its governing education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school,
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Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every sought by the governing body following the closing aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the date for applications. This information must have Catholic character of the school’s education be fully been correct at the date of closing for applications. supported by all families in the school. We therefore hope that all parents will give their full, unreserved All applications which are submitted on time will be and positive support for the aims and ethos of the considered at the same time and after the closing school. This does not affect the right of an applicant date for admissions which is 15 January 2020. who is not Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a place at the school in accordance with the admission Pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan (see arrangements. note 1) The admission of pupils with an Education, Health The admission policy criteria will be dealt with on an and Care Plan is dealt with by a completely separate equal preference basis. procedure. Children with an Education, Health and Care that names the school must be admitted. The governing body is the admissions authority and Where this takes place before the allocation of has responsibility for admissions to this school. The places under these arrangements this will reduce local authority undertakes the coordination of the number of places available to other children. admission arrangements during the normal admission round for reception year admission in Late Applications September. Late applications will be administered in accordance with the home local authority Primary Coordinated Parishes served by the school Admissions Scheme. Parents are advised to ensure The school serves the parish of the former parish of that the application is submitted before the closing St Cuthberts, Hartlepool within Holy Family Parish. date.
Published Admission Number Admission of Children below Compulsory School The governing body has set its published admission Age and Deferred Entry number (PAN) at 40 pupils to be admitted to the A child is entitled to a full-time place in the reception year in the school year which begins in September following their fourth birthday. A child’s September 2020. parents may defer the date at which their child, below compulsory school age, is admitted to the Application Procedures and Timetable school, until later in the school year but not beyond To apply for a place at this school in the normal the point at which they reach compulsory school admission round (not in-year applications), a age, or beyond the beginning of the final term of the Common Application Form (CAF) must be school year for which an offer was made. A child completed. This is available from the local authority may take up a part-time place until later in the in which the child lives. school year, but not beyond the point at which the child reaches compulsory school age. Upon receipt The parent will be advised of the outcome of the of the offer of a place a parent should notify the application on 16 April or the next working day, by school in writing, as soon as possible, that they wish the local authority. If the application is unsuccessful to either defer their child’s entry to the school or (unless the child gained a place at a school the take up a part-time place. parent ranked higher) the parent will be informed of the decision, related to the oversubscription criteria Admission of Children outside their Normal Age listed above, and has the right of appeal to an Group independent appeal panel. A request may be made for a child to be admitted outside of their normal age group, for example, if If the parent is required to provide supplemental the child is gifted and talented or has experienced evidence to support the application (e.g. a baptismal problems such as ill health. certificate), this evidence should be provided at the time of application. If not provided, evidence may be
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Any such request should be made in writing to the One admission authority cannot be required to headteacher of the school. The governing body will honour a decision made by another admission make its decision about the request based on the authority on admission out of the normal age group. circumstances of each case and in the best interests Parents, therefore, should consider whether to of the child. In addition to taking into account the request admission out of the normal year group at views of the headteacher who has statutory all their preference schools, rather than just their responsibility for the internal organisation, first preference schools. management and control of the school, the governing body will take into account the views of Waiting Lists the parents and of appropriate medical and In addition to their right of appeal, applicants will be education professionals. offered the opportunity to be placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be maintained in order of Summer Born Children the oversubscription criteria set out below and not The parents of a summer born child, i.e. a child born in the order in which applications are received or between 1 April and 31 August, may request that added to the list. Waiting lists for admission will the child be admitted out of their normal age group, operate throughout the school year. The waiting list to the reception class in the September following will be held open until the last day of the summer their fifth birthday and that that the child will term. Inclusion on the school’s waiting list does not remain in this cohort as they progress through mean that a place will eventually become available. school. Infant Class Size Regulations Parents who want to make this request should make Infant classes may not, by law, contain more than 30 an application for their child’s normal age group at pupils with a single qualified teacher (subject to the the usual time. The application to the local authority provisions in the School Admissions Code for should include this request and in addition it should ‘excepted children’). Parents do have a right of be made in writing to the headteacher of the school. appeal in accordance with the infant class size The local authority will liaise with the governing regulations if the school is oversubscribed and their body that will make its decision about the request child is refused a place. based on the circumstances of each case and in the best interests of the child. In addition to taking into The governing body will, where logistically possible, account the views of the headteacher, who has admit twins and all siblings from multiple births statutory responsibility for the internal organisation, where one of the children is the last child ranked management and control of the school, the within the school’s PAN. governing body will take into account the views of the parents and of appropriate medical and In-Year Applications education professionals. An application can be made for a place for a child at any time outside the admission round and the child Parents will be informed of the outcome of the will be admitted where there are available places. request before primary national offer day. For information on making an in-year application, parents should contact the local authority If the request is agreed by the governing body, the admissions team at School Admissions Team, application for the normal age group may be Hartlepool Borough Council, Centre for Excellence in withdrawn before a place is offered. If the request is Teaching & Learning, Brierton Lane, Hartlepool, TS25 refused, the parent must decide whether to accept 4AF, on 01429 284368 or by email at the offer of a place for the normal age group, or to [email protected]. Parents will be refuse it and make an in year application for advised of the outcome of their application in admission to year one for the September following writing. the child’s fifth birthday. Where there are places available but more Where a parent’s request is agreed, they must make applications than places, the published a new application as part of the main admissions oversubscription criteria, as set out above, will be round the following year. applied.
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If there are no places available, a request can be First priority in each category will be given to made that the child is added to the waiting list (see children who will have an older sibling attending the above). school in September 2020.
The parent has the right of appeal to an 1. Catholic looked after and previously looked after independent appeal panel if refused a place. children (see notes 2 and 3).
Right of Appeal 2. Catholic children who are resident in the former Where a parent has been notified that a place is not parish of St Cuthbert’s, Hartlepool (see note 3). available for a child, every effort will be made by the local authority to help the parent to find a place in a 3. Other Catholic children (see note 3). suitable alternative school. Parents who are refused a place have a statutory right of appeal. Further 4. Other looked after and previously looked after details of the appeals process are available by children (see note 2). writing to the chair of governors at the school address. 5. Catechumens and members of an Eastern Christian Church (see notes 4 and 5). Fair Access Protocol The school is committed to taking its fair share of 6. Children of other Christian denominations children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as whose membership is evidenced by a minister or set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, faith leader (see note 6). outside the normal admission round the governing body is empowered to give absolute priority to a 7. Children of other faiths whose membership is child where admission is requested under any local evidenced by a minister or faith leader (see note protocol that has been agreed by both the diocese 7). and the governing body for the current school year. The governing body has this power, even when 8. Any other children. admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number (subject to the infant Tie Breaker class size exceptions). Where there are places available for some, but not all applicants within a particular criterion, priority Nursery will be given to children living closest to the school For children attending the school’s nursery, determined by the shortest distance. Distance will application to the reception class of the school must be measured by a straight line distance be made in the normal way, to the home local measurement, from the (ordnance survey) address authority. Attendance at the school’s nursery does point for the child’s home to the (ordnance survey) not automatically guarantee that a place will be address point of the school, using the local offered at the school. authority’s computerised measuring system.
False evidence In the event of distances being the same for two or The governing body reserves the right to withdraw more children where this would determine the last the offer of a place or, where a child is already place to be allocated, random allocation will be attending the school, the place itself, where it is carried out in a public place and supervised by a satisfied that the offer or place was obtained by person independent of the school. deception. Notes and definitions Oversubscription Criteria Where there are more applications for places than 1. An Education, Health and Care Plan is a plan made the number of places available, places will be by the local authority under section 37 of the offered according to the following order of priority. Children and Families Act 2014, specifying the special educational provision required for a child.
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2. A looked after child has the same meaning as in their communion with Christ and with one another in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and means the Church, which is his body; and to fulfil their any child who is (a) in the care of a local authority or mission to proclaim the Gospel by common witness (b) being provided with accommodation by them in and service in the world to the glory of the one God, the exercise of their social services functions (e.g. Father, Son and Holy Spirit. An ecclesial community children with foster parents) at the time of making which on principle has no credal statements in its application to the school. tradition, is included if it manifests faith in Christ as witnessed to in the Scriptures and is committed to A previously looked after child is a child who was working in the spirit of the above. looked after, but ceased to be so because he or she was adopted, or became subject to a child All members of Churches Together in England and arrangements order or special guardianship order. CYTÛN are deemed to be included in the above definition, as are all other churches and ecclesial 3. ‘Catholic’ means a member of a Church in full communities that are in membership of any local communion with the See of Rome. This includes the Churches Together Group (by whatever title) on the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be above basis. evidenced by a certificate of baptism in a Catholic Church or a certificate of reception into the full Applicants must provide a baptismal certificate or communion of the Catholic Church. For the purposes where child baptism is not practised, a letter of this policy, it includes a looked after child living confirming their church membership from their with a family where at least one of the parents is minister or faith leader. Catholic. 7. Children of other faiths means children who are For a child to be treated as Catholic, evidence of members of a religious community that does not fall Catholic baptism or reception into the Church will be within the definition of ‘other Christian required. Those who have difficulty obtaining written denominations’ at 6 above and which falls within the evidence of baptism should contact their Parish definition of a religion for the purposes of charity Priest who, after consulting with the Diocese, will law. The Charities Act 2011 defines religion to decide how the question of baptism is to be resolved include: and how written evidence is to be produced in accordance with the law of the Church. . A religion which involves belief in more than one God, and 4. Catechumen means a member of the catechumenate . A religion which does not involve belief in a God. of a Catholic Church. For the purposes of admissions this refers to the child on whose behalf the Case law has identified certain characteristics which application is being made. This will normally be describe the meaning of religion for the purposes of evidenced by a certificate of reception into the order charity law, which are characterised by a belief in a of catechumens. supreme being and an expression of belief in that supreme being through worship. 5. Eastern Christian Church includes Orthodox Churches, and is normally evidenced by a certificate Applicants must provide a letter of support to of baptism or reception from the authorities of that confirm their faith membership from their minister or Church. Those who have difficulty obtaining written faith leader. evidence of baptism or reception should contact the Diocese who will decide how the question of baptism 8. A child’s “home address” refers to the address where or reception is to be resolved and how written the child usually lives with a parent or carer, and will evidence is to be produced in accordance with the be the address provided in the Common Application law of the Church. Form (“CAF”). Where parents have shared responsibility for a child, and the child lives for part 6. Children of other Christian denominations means of the week with each parent, the home address will children who belong to other churches and ecclesial be the address given in the CAF, provided that the communities which, acknowledge God’s revelation in child resides at that address for any part of the Christ, confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and school week. Saviour according to the Scriptures, and, in obedience to God’s will and in the power of the Holy 9. Sibling includes: Spirit commit themselves: to seek a deepening of
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(i) all natural brothers or sisters, half brothers or 10. A parent means all natural parents, any person who sisters, adopted brothers or sisters, stepbrothers is not a parent but has parental responsibility for a or sisters, foster brothers or sisters, whether or child, and any person who has care of a child (having not they are living at the same address; and care of a child means that the child lives with and is (ii) the child of a parent’s partner where that child looked after by that person). lives for at least part of the week in the same family unit at the same home address as the This policy should be read in conjunction with the child who is the subject of the application. local authority’s admission guidance for parents.
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Admissions to St John Vianney RC Primary School St. John Vianney Catholic Primary School was Published Admission Number founded by the Catholic Church to provide The governing body has set its published admission education for children of Catholic families. number (PAN) at 30 pupils to be admitted to [the Whenever there are more applications than places reception year] in the school year which begins in available, priority will be given to Catholic children in September 2020. accordance with the oversubscription criteria listed below. The school is conducted by its governing Application Procedures and Timetable body as part of the Catholic Church in accordance To apply for a place at this school in the normal with its trust deed and instrument of government, admission round (not in-year applications), a and seeks at all times to be a witness to Our Lord Common Application Form (CAF) must be Jesus Christ. completed. This is available from the local authority in which the child lives. As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, The parent will be advised of the outcome of the Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every application on 16 April or the next working day, by aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the the local authority. If the application is unsuccessful Catholic character of the school’s education be fully (unless the child gained a place at a school the supported by all families in the school. We therefore parent ranked higher) the parent will be informed of hope that all parents will give their full, unreserved the decision, related to the oversubscription criteria and positive support for the aims and ethos of the listed above, and has the right of appeal to an school. This does not affect the right of an applicant independent appeal panel. who is not Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a place at the school in accordance with the admission If the parent is required to provide supplemental arrangements. evidence to support the application (e.g. a baptismal certificate), this evidence should be provided at the The admission policy criteria will be dealt with on an time of application. If not provided, evidence may be equal preference basis. sought by the governing body following the closing date for applications. This information must have The governing body is the admissions authority and been correct at the date of closing for applications. has responsibility for admissions to this school. The local authority undertakes the coordination of All applications which are submitted on time will be admission arrangements during the normal considered at the same time and after the closing admission round for reception year admission in date for admissions which is 15 January 2020. September. Pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan (see Parishes served by the school note 1) The school serves the former parish of St. John The admission of pupils with an Education, Health Vianney and the wider parish of the Holy Family in and Care Plan is dealt with by a completely separate Hartlepool. procedure. Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan that names the school must be admitted. The Parish of the Holy Family includes the following Where this takes place before the allocation of member churches: places under these arrangements this will reduce the number of places available to other children. St Cuthbert, Hartlepool St John Vianney, Hartlepool Late Applications St Joseph, Hartlepool Late applications will be administered in accordance St Patrick, Hartlepool with the home local authority Primary Coordinated St Thomas More, Hartlepool Admissions Scheme. Parents are advised to ensure The Immaculate Conception (St Mary), Hartlepool
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that the application is submitted before the closing the usual time. The application to the local authority date. should include this request and in addition it should be made in writing to the headteacher of the school. Admission of Children below Compulsory School The local authority will liaise with the governing Age and Deferred Entry body that will make its decision about the request A child is entitled to a full-time place in the based on the circumstances of each case and in the September following their fourth birthday. A child’s best interests of the child. In addition to taking into parents may defer the date at which their child, account the views of the headteacher, who has below compulsory school age, is admitted to the statutory responsibility for the internal organisation, school, until later in the school year but not beyond management and control of the school, the the point at which they reach compulsory school governing body will take into account the views of age, or beyond the beginning of the final term of the the parents and of appropriate medical and school year for which an offer was made. A child education professionals. may take up a part-time place until later in the school year, but not beyond the point at which the Parents will be informed of the outcome of the child reaches compulsory school age. Upon receipt request before primary national offer day. of the offer of a place a parent should notify the school in writing, as soon as possible, that they wish If the request is agreed by the governing body, the to either defer their child’s entry to the school or application for the normal age group may be take up a part-time place. withdrawn before a place is offered. If the request is refused, the parent must decide whether to accept Admission of Children outside their Normal Age the offer of a place for the normal age group, or to Group refuse it and make an in year application for A request may be made for a child to be admitted admission to year one for the September following outside of their normal age group, for example, if the child’s fifth birthday. the child is gifted and talented or has experienced problems such as ill health. Where a parent’s request is agreed, they must make a new application as part of the main admissions Any such request should be made in writing to the round the following year. headteacher of the school. The governing body will make its decision about the request based on the One admission authority cannot be required to circumstances of each case and in the best interests honour a decision made by another admission of the child. In addition to taking into account the authority on admission out of the normal age group. views of the headteacher who has statutory Parents, therefore, should consider whether to responsibility for the internal organisation, request admission out of the normal year group at management and control of the school, the all their preference schools, rather than just their governing body will take into account the views of first preference schools. the parents and of appropriate medical and education professionals. Waiting Lists In addition to their right of appeal, applicants will be Summer Born Children offered the opportunity to be placed on a waiting The parents of a summer born child, i.e. a child born list. This waiting list will be maintained in order of between 1 April and 31 August, may request that the oversubscription criteria set out below and not the child be admitted out of their normal age group, in the order in which applications are received or to the reception class in the September following added to the list. Waiting lists for admission will their fifth birthday and that that the child will operate throughout the school year. The waiting list remain in this cohort as they progress through will be held open until the last day of the summer school. term. Inclusion on the school’s waiting list does not mean that a place will eventually become available. Parents who want to make this request should make an application for their child’s normal age group at
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Infant Class Size Regulations Fair Access Protocol Infant classes may not, by law, contain more than 30 The school is committed to taking its fair share of pupils with a single qualified teacher (subject to the children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as provisions in the School Admissions Code for set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, ‘excepted children’). Parents do have a right of outside the normal admission round the governing appeal in accordance with the infant class size body is empowered to give absolute priority to a regulations if the school is oversubscribed and their child where admission is requested under any local child is refused a place. protocol that has been agreed by both the diocese and the governing body for the current school year. The governing body will, where logistically possible, The governing body has this power, even when admit twins and all siblings from multiple births admitting the child would mean exceeding the where one of the children is the last child ranked published admission number (subject to the infant within the school’s PAN. class size exceptions).
In-Year Applications Nursery An application can be made for a place for a child at For children attending the school’s nursery, any time outside the admission round and the child application to the reception class of the school must will be admitted where there are available places. be made in the normal way, to the home local For information on making an in-year application, authority. Attendance at the school’s nursery does parents should contact the local authority not automatically guarantee that a place will be admissions team at School Admissions Team, offered at the school. Hartlepool Borough Council, Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, Brierton Lane, Hartlepool, TS25 False evidence 4AF, on 01429 284368 or by email at The governing body reserves the right to withdraw [email protected]. Parents will be the offer of a place or, where a child is already advised of the outcome of their application in attending the school, the place itself, where it is writing. satisfied that the offer or place was obtained by deception. Where there are places available but more applications than places, the published Oversubscription Criteria oversubscription criteria, as set out above, will be Where there are more applications for places than applied. the number of places available, places will be offered according to the following order of priority. If there are no places available, a request can be made that the child is added to the waiting list (see First priority in each category will be given to above). children who will have an older sibling attending the school in September 2020. The parent has the right of appeal to an independent appeal panel if refused a place. 1. Looked after and previously looked after children (see notes 2). Right of Appeal Where a parent has been notified that a place is not 2. Catholic children who are resident in the former available for a child, every effort will be made by the parish of St John Vianney Hartlepool (see note local authority to help the parent to find a place in a 3). suitable alternative school. Parents who are refused a place have a statutory right of appeal. Further 3. Catholic children who are resident in the ‘One’ details of the appeals process are available by Parish of the Holy Family, Hartlepool (see note writing to the chair of governors at the school 3). address. 4. Other Catholic children (see note 3)
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5. Catechumens and members of an Eastern Church or a certificate of reception into the full Christian Church (see notes 4 and 5). communion of the Catholic Church. For the purposes of this policy, it includes a looked after child living 6. Children of other Christian denominations with a family where at least one of the parents is whose membership is evidenced by a minister or Catholic. For a child to be treated as Catholic, evidence of faith leader (see note 6). Catholic baptism or reception into the Church will be required. Those who have difficulty obtaining written 7. Children of other faiths whose membership is evidence of baptism should contact their Parish evidenced by a minister or faith leader (see note Priest who, after consulting with the Diocese, will 7). decide how the question of baptism is to be resolved and how written evidence is to be produced in 8. Any other children. accordance with the law of the Church.
Tie Breaker 4. Catechumen means a member of the catechumenate Where there are places available for some, but not of a Catholic Church. For the purposes of admissions this refers to the child on whose behalf the all applicants within a particular criterion, priority application is being made. This will normally be will be given to children living closest to the school evidenced by a certificate of reception into the order determined by the shortest distance. Distance will of catechumens. be measured by a straight line distance measurement, from the (ordnance survey) address 5. Eastern Christian Church includes Orthodox point for the child’s home to the (ordnance survey) Churches, and is normally evidenced by a certificate address point of the school, using the local of baptism or reception from the authorities of that authority’s computerised measuring system. 47 Church. Those who have difficulty obtaining written In the event of distances being the same for two or evidence of baptism or reception should contact the more children where this would determine the last Diocese who will decide how the question of baptism or reception is to be resolved and how written place to be allocated, random allocation will be evidence is to be produced in accordance with the carried out in a public place and supervised by a law of the Church. person independent of the school. 6. Children of other Christian denominations means Notes and definitions children who belong to other churches and ecclesial communities which, acknowledge God’s revelation in 1. An Education, Health and Care Plan is a plan made Christ, confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and by the local authority under section 37 of the Saviour according to the Scriptures, and, in Children and Families Act 2014, specifying the special obedience to God’s will and in the power of the Holy educational provision required for a child. Spirit commit themselves: to seek a deepening of their communion with Christ and with one another in 2. A looked after child has the same meaning as in the Church, which is his body; and to fulfil their section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and means mission to proclaim the Gospel by common witness any child who is (a) in the care of a local authority or and service in the world to the glory of the one God, (b) being provided with accommodation by them in Father, Son and Holy Spirit. An ecclesial community the exercise of their social services functions (e.g. which on principle has no credal statements in its children with foster parents) at the time of making tradition, is included if it manifests faith in Christ as application to the school. witnessed to in the Scriptures and is committed to working in the spirit of the above. A previously looked after child is a child who was looked after, but ceased to be so because he or she All members of Churches Together in England and was adopted, or became subject to a child CYTÛN are deemed to be included in the above arrangements order or special guardianship order. definition, as are all other churches and ecclesial communities that are in membership of any local 3. ‘Catholic’ means a member of a Church in full Churches Together Group (by whatever title) on the communion with the See of Rome. This includes the above basis. Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be evidenced by a certificate of baptism in a Catholic
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Applicants must provide a baptismal certificate or be the address provided in the Common Application where child baptism is not practised, a letter Form (“CAF”). Where parents have shared confirming their church membership from their responsibility for a child, and the child lives for part minister or faith leader. of the week with each parent, the home address will be the address given in the CAF, provided that the 7. Children of other faiths means children who are child resides at that address for any part of the members of a religious community that does not fall school week. within the definition of ‘other Christian denominations’ at 6 above and which falls within the 9. Sibling includes: definition of a religion for the purposes of charity law. The Charities Act 2011 defines religion to (i) all natural brothers or sisters, half brothers or include: sisters, adopted brothers or sisters, stepbrothers or sisters, foster brothers or sisters, whether or . A religion which involves belief in more than one not they are living at the same address; and God, and (ii) the child of a parent’s partner where that child . A religion which does not involve belief in a God. lives for at least part of the week in the same family unit at the same home address as the Case law has identified certain characteristics which child who is the subject of the application. describe the meaning of religion for the purposes of charity law, which are characterised by a belief in a 10. A parent means all natural parents, any person who supreme being and an expression of belief in that is not a parent but has parental responsibility for a supreme being through worship. child, and any person who has care of a child (having care of a child means that the child lives with and is Applicants must provide a letter of support to looked after by that person). confirm their faith membership from their minister or faith leader. This policy should be read in conjunction with the local authority’s admission guidance for parents. 8. A child’s “home address” refers to the address where the child usually lives with a parent or carer, and will
Admissions to St Joseph’s RC Primary School St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School was founded by place at the school in accordance with the admission the Catholic Church to provide education for arrangements. children of Catholic families. Whenever there are more applications than places available, priority will The admission policy criteria will be dealt with on an be given to Catholic children in accordance with the equal preference basis. oversubscription criteria listed below. The school is conducted by its governing body as part of the The governing body is the admissions authority and Catholic Church in accordance with its trust deed has responsibility for admissions to this school. The and instrument of government, and seeks at all local authority undertakes the coordination of times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus Christ. admission arrangements during the normal admission round for reception year admission in As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic September. education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, Parishes served by the school Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every The school serves the former parish of St Joseph’s, aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the Hartlepool within the ‘One’ Parish of the Holy Catholic character of the school’s education be fully Family, which includes the following member supported by all families in the school. We therefore churches: hope that all parents will give their full, unreserved and positive support for the aims and ethos of the St Cuthbert, Hartlepool school. This does not affect the right of an applicant St John Vianney, Hartlepool who is not Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a St Joseph, Hartlepool
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St Patrick, Hartlepool Admissions Scheme. Parents are advised to ensure St Thomas More, Hartlepool that the application is submitted before the closing The Immaculate Conception (St Mary), Hartlepool date.
Published Admission Number Admission of Children below Compulsory School The governing body has set its published admission Age and Deferred Entry number (PAN) at 24 pupils to be admitted to the A child is entitled to a full-time place in the reception year in the school year which begins in September following their fourth birthday. A child’s September 2020. parents may defer the date at which their child, below compulsory school age, is admitted to the Application Procedures and Timetable school, until later in the school year but not beyond To apply for a place at this school in the normal the point at which they reach compulsory school admission round (not in-year applications), a age, or beyond the beginning of the final term of the Common Application Form (CAF) must be school year for which an offer was made. A child completed. This is available from the local authority may take up a part-time place until later in the in which the child lives. school year, but not beyond the point at which the child reaches compulsory school age. Upon receipt The parent will be advised of the outcome of the of the offer of a place a parent should notify the application on 16 April or the next working day, by school in writing, as soon as possible, that they wish the local authority. If the application is unsuccessful to either defer their child’s entry to the school or (unless the child gained a place at a school the take up a part-time place. parent ranked higher) the parent will be informed of the decision, related to the oversubscription criteria Admission of Children outside their Normal Age listed above, and has the right of appeal to an Group independent appeal panel. A request may be made for a child to be admitted outside of their normal age group, for example, if If the parent is required to provide supplemental the child is gifted and talented or has experienced evidence to support the application (e.g. a baptismal problems such as ill health. certificate), this evidence should be provided at the time of application. If not provided, evidence may be Any such request should be made in writing to the sought by the governing body following the closing headteacher of the school. The governing body will date for applications. This information must have make its decision about the request based on the been correct at the date of closing for applications. circumstances of each case and in the best interests of the child. In addition to taking into account the All applications which are submitted on time will be views of the headteacher who has statutory considered at the same time and after the closing responsibility for the internal organisation, date for admissions which is 15 January 2020. management and control of the school, the governing body will take into account the views of Pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan (see the parents and of appropriate medical and note 1) education professionals. The admission of pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan is dealt with by a completely separate Summer Born Children procedure. Children with an Education, Health and The parents of a summer born child, i.e. a child born Care Plan that names the school must be admitted. between 1 April and 31 August, may request that Where this takes place before the allocation of the child be admitted out of their normal age group, places under these arrangements this will reduce to the reception class in the September following the number of places available to other children. their fifth birthday and that that the child will remain in this cohort as they progress through Late Applications school. Late applications will be administered in accordance with the home local authority Primary Coordinated
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Parents who want to make this request should make Infant Class Size Regulations an application for their child’s normal age group at Infant classes may not, by law, contain more than 30 the usual time. The application to the local authority pupils with a single qualified teacher (subject to the should include this request and in addition it should provisions in the School Admissions Code for be made in writing to the headteacher of the school. ‘excepted children’). Parents do have a right of The local authority will liaise with the governing appeal in accordance with the infant class size body that will make its decision about the request regulations if the school is oversubscribed and their based on the circumstances of each case and in the child is refused a place. best interests of the child. In addition to taking into account the views of the headteacher, who has The governing body will, where logistically possible, statutory responsibility for the internal organisation, admit twins and all siblings from multiple births management and control of the school, the where one of the children is the last child ranked governing body will take into account the views of within the school’s PAN. the parents and of appropriate medical and In-Year Applications education professionals. An application can be made for a place for a child at
any time outside the admission round and the child Parents will be informed of the outcome of the will be admitted where there are available places. request before primary national offer day. For information on making an in-year application,
parents should contact the local authority If the request is agreed by the governing body, the admissions team at School Admissions Team, application for the normal age group may be Hartlepool Borough Council, Centre for Excellence in withdrawn before a place is offered. If the request is Teaching & Learning, Brierton Lane, Hartlepool, TS25 refused, the parent must decide whether to accept 4AF, on 01429 284368 or by email at the offer of a place for the normal age group, or to [email protected] Parents will be refuse it and make an in year application for advised of the outcome of their application in admission to year one for the September following writing. the child’s fifth birthday.
Where there are places available but more Where a parent’s request is agreed, they must make applications than places, the published a new application as part of the main admissions oversubscription criteria, as set out above, will be round the following year. applied.
One admission authority cannot be required to If there are no places available, a request can be honour a decision made by another admission made that the child is added to the waiting list (see authority on admission out of the normal age group. above). Parents, therefore, should consider whether to request admission out of the normal year group at The parent has the right of appeal to an all their preference schools, rather than just their independent appeal panel if refused a place. first preference schools. Right of Appeal Waiting Lists Where a parent has been notified that a place is not In addition to their right of appeal, applicants will be available for a child, every effort will be made by the offered the opportunity to be placed on a waiting local authority to help the parent to find a place in a list. This waiting list will be maintained in order of suitable alternative school. Parents who are refused the oversubscription criteria set out below and not a place have a statutory right of appeal. Further in the order in which applications are received or details of the appeals process are available by added to the list. Waiting lists for admission will writing to the chair of governors at the school operate throughout the school year. The waiting list address. will be held open until the last day of the summer term. Inclusion on the school’s waiting list does not mean that a place will eventually become available.
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Fair Access Protocol 6. Catechumens and members of an Eastern The school is committed to taking its fair share of Christian Church (see notes 4 and 5). children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, 7. Children of other Christian denominations outside the normal admission round the governing whose membership is evidenced by a minister or body is empowered to give absolute priority to a faith leader (see note 6). child where admission is requested under any local protocol that has been agreed by both the diocese 8. Children of other faiths whose membership is and the governing body for the current school year. evidenced by a minister or faith leader (see note The governing body has this power, even when 7). admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number (subject to the infant 9. Any other children. class size exceptions). Tie Breaker Nursery Where there are places available for some, but not For children attending the school’s nursery, all applicants within a particular criterion, priority application to the reception class of the school must will be given to children living closest to the school be made in the normal way, to the home local determined by the shortest distance. Distance will authority. Attendance at the school’s nursery does be measured by a straight line distance not automatically guarantee that a place will be measurement, from the (ordnance survey) address offered at the school. point for the child’s home to the (ordnance survey) address point of the school, using the local False evidence authority’s computerised measuring system. The governing body reserves the right to withdraw In the event of distances being the same for two or the offer of a place or, where a child is already more children where this would determine the last attending the school, the place itself, where it is place to be allocated, random allocation will be satisfied that the offer or place was obtained by carried out in a public place and supervised by a deception. person independent of the school.
Oversubscription Criteria Notes and definitions Where there are more applications for places than the number of places available, places will be 1. An Education, Health and Care Plan is a plan made offered according to the following order of priority. by the local authority under section 37 of the Children and Families Act 2014, specifying the special
First priority in each category will be given to educational provision required for a child. children who will have an older sibling attending the 2. A looked after child has the same meaning as in school in September 2020. section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and means any child who is (a) in the care of a local authority or 1. Catholic looked after and previously looked after (b) being provided with accommodation by them in children (see notes 2 and 3). the exercise of their social services functions (e.g. children with foster parents) at the time of making 2. Catholic children who are resident in the former application to the school. parish of St Joseph’s, Hartlepool (see note 3). A previously looked after child is a child who was 3. Catholic children who are resident in the ‘One’ looked after, but ceased to be so because he or she Parish of the Holy Family, Hartlepool. was adopted, or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order. 4. Other Catholic children (see note 3). 3. ‘Catholic’ means a member of a Church in full 5. Other looked after and previously looked after communion with the See of Rome. This includes the children (see note 2). Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be evidenced by a certificate of baptism in a Catholic
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communion of the Catholic Church. For the purposes Applicants must provide a baptismal certificate or of this policy, it includes a looked after child living where child baptism is not practised, a letter with a family where at least one of the parents is confirming their church membership from their Catholic. minister or faith leader.
For a child to be treated as Catholic, evidence of 7. Children of other faiths means children who are Catholic baptism or reception into the Church will be members of a religious community that does not fall required. Those who have difficulty obtaining written within the definition of ‘other Christian evidence of baptism should contact their Parish denominations’ at 6 above and which falls within the Priest who, after consulting with the Diocese, will definition of a religion for the purposes of charity decide how the question of baptism is to be resolved law. The Charities Act 2011 defines religion to and how written evidence is to be produced in include: accordance with the law of the Church. . A religion which involves belief in more than one 4. Catechumen means a member of the catechumenate God, and of a Catholic Church. For the purposes of admissions . A religion which does not involve belief in a God. this refers to the child on whose behalf the application is being made. This will normally be Case law has identified certain characteristics which evidenced by a certificate of reception into the order describe the meaning of religion for the purposes of of catechumens. charity law, which are characterised by a belief in a supreme being and an expression of belief in that 5. Eastern Christian Church includes Orthodox supreme being through worship. Churches, and is normally evidenced by a certificate of baptism or reception from the authorities of that Applicants must provide a letter of support to Church. Those who have difficulty obtaining written confirm their faith membership from their minister or evidence of baptism or reception should contact the faith leader. Diocese who will decide how the question of baptism or reception is to be resolved and how written 8. A child’s “home address” refers to the address where evidence is to be produced in accordance with the the child usually lives with a parent or carer, and will law of the Church. be the address provided in the Common Application Form (“CAF”). Where parents have shared 6. Children of other Christian denominations means responsibility for a child, and the child lives for part children who belong to other churches and ecclesial of the week with each parent, the home address will communities which, acknowledge God’s revelation in be the address given in the CAF, provided that the Christ, confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and child resides at that address for any part of the Saviour according to the Scriptures, and, in school week. obedience to God’s will and in the power of the Holy Spirit commit themselves: to seek a deepening of 9. Sibling includes: their communion with Christ and with one another in (i) all natural brothers or sisters, half brothers or the Church, which is his body; and to fulfil their sisters, adopted brothers or sisters, stepbrothers mission to proclaim the Gospel by common witness or sisters, foster brothers or sisters, whether or and service in the world to the glory of the one God, not they are living at the same address; and Father, Son and Holy Spirit. An ecclesial community (ii) the child of a parent’s partner where that child which on principle has no credal statements in its lives for at least part of the week in the same tradition, is included if it manifests faith in Christ as family unit at the same home address as the witnessed to in the Scriptures and is committed to child who is the subject of the application. working in the spirit of the above. 10. A parent means all natural parents, any person who All members of Churches Together in England and is not a parent but has parental responsibility for a CYTÛN are deemed to be included in the above child, and any person who has care of a child (having definition, as are all other churches and ecclesial care of a child means that the child lives with and is communities that are in membership of any local looked after by that person). Churches Together Group (by whatever title) on the above basis. This policy should be read in conjunction with the local authority’s admission guidance for parents.
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Admissions to St Peter’s Elwick Church of England VA Primary School Northern Lights Learning Trust Multi Academy Trust is the Admissions Authority for the school. The Local 1. Looked After children. This refers to children Governing Body of St Peter’s Elwick C of E Primary who are looked after by a Local Authority in School considers the admissions on behalf of the accordance with Section 22 of the Children's Act Trust Board. This means that a committee of the 1989(b) and children who were looked after, but governing body consider all applications sent to ceased to be so, because they were adopted (or them by the Local Authority, according to the criteria became subject to a child arrangements order, as stated below. This policy has been agreed residence order or special guardianship order). following consultation between the Governing Body, Parents/carers are asked to send proof as the Diocesan Board of Education, all other supplemental information with their application Admissions Authorities in the area and interested form. parties and parents through our web site. This policy gives regard to the "School Standards and 2. Looked After children. This refers to children Framework Act 1998, as amended by the Education who have been previously looked after, in state Act 2011," "School Admissions (Admission care, outside of England, but ceased to be so, Arrangements and Co-ordination of Admissions because they were adopted. Parents/carers are Arrangements (England) Regulations 2012" and asked to send proof as supplemental information "School Admissions Code, February 2012". with their application form.
Applications must be made on the Common 3. Siblings - children who have an older sibling Application Form (available from the Local attending the school, at the time of their Authority) by the determined closing date and an application. Sibling refers to brother or sister, offer will be made by the Local Authority on behalf half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, of the school, on the National offer date. step brother or sister, (foster brother or sister), Applications, received after the closing date, will or the child of the parent/carer's partner. This only be considered after all those received by the applies where the child for whom the place is closing date have been considered. Parents must sought is living in the same family unit at the indicate which category they are applying for and same address as that sibling. should provide supplemental evidence in support of the application. This will enable the governing body 4. Those children who live in the school’s admission to make an informed decision. zone. The postcodes that are classed as being in the admissions zone are attached to this policy. Parents (a parent is determined as a person with parental responsibility) have the right to express a 5. Feeder School - children who attend the Nursery preference for a school of their choice. In the first class of the same school in the previous instance, all preferences expressed will be academic year to that of their application. considered on an equal weighting basis, but where a child is eligible for more than one place it will be the 6. Neighbourhood places - children living near the highest ranked school for which they are eligible school will be admitted using the selection that they will be offered. criteria, measured who live closest to the school as determined by the straight line distance Children who have an Education Health Care Plan, measurement from the (ordnance survey) which names St Peter’s Elwick C of E Primary School address point of the child’s home address to the as the school, will be admitted. (ordnance survey) address point of the school, The Admission policy is applied if the number of using the Local Authority’s computerised applications exceeds the number of places. measuring system). Proof of residency may be sought ie a Council Tax Bill and may be sent in as We will admit 15 applications in accordance with the supplemental information with each application following criteria in the following order of priority:
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(no other means of proving residency will be The admissions committee is required by law to accepted except in exceptional circumstances.) consider the information supplied on the application form and the supplemental information asked for. It 7. Other children is very important that you take great care to ensure the details you provide are complete and correct Tie Breaker: before submitting them. Any advice or support you In all criteria, if there are more applicants than require in completing this form can be sought via the places available then priority will be given to those school office. who live closest to the school as determined by the straight line distance measurement from the Parents, who are unsuccessful in securing a place for (ordnance survey) address point of the child’s home their child at the School, have a statutory right of address to the (ordnance survey) address point of appeal. Further details of the appeal process are the school, using the Local Authority’s computerised available by writing to the Chair of Local Governing measuring system). In the event that two distance Body at the School address. Appeals are heard by an measurements are identical, the school will use independent panel. Children, who are unsuccessful random allocation to decide which child should be in securing a place at the School, will be placed on a offered the place. The process will be conducted in waiting list, which will be held by the School whilst the presence of a person independent of the school. the child is of primary school age or unless the parent requests that the name is removed. Parents who are awarded a place for their child may request that: Should a place become available then the . the date their child is admitted to school is admissions criteria will be applied again to every deferred until later in the same academic year or child on the waiting list at the time of the vacancy subsequent year and evidence sought to support their application. . their child takes up the place part time, if it is in the interest of the child, until the child is of Admission Zone Postcodes compulsory school age Address Postcode . the date their child is admitted to school is Abbots Lea (Dalton Piercy) TS27 3JS deferred until the term after the child reaches College Close (Dalton Piercy) TS27 3JA compulsory school age. Dalton Heights (Dalton Piercy) TS27 3JB Dalton Piercy Acre Bungalow TS27 3HY In this instance, parents must discuss this with the Dalton Piercy Boggle Beck TS27 3HS Head of School or Executive Headteacher. Dalton Piercy Bon Accord TS27 3HP Compulsory school age is determined as the term Dalton Piercy Briardene TS27 3HG after the child's fifth birthday. Dalton Piercy Brierton Heights TS27 3HR Farm, Three Notes and supplemental information: Gates If there is an incomplete application for a child, in Dalton Piercy Bridgemere TS27 3HP circumstances where parents cannot agree on a Dalton Piercy Burnside TS27 3HS preferred school or the main address where the Dalton Piercy Dalton Lodge TS27 3HN child resides, the governing body will suspend the Dalton Piercy Field House Farm TS27 3HY application until parents agree. This will mean that Dalton Piercy The Grove TS27 3HS if the closing date has passed, your child will not be Dalton Piercy Jennael TS27 3HP considered in the admission round and if all places have been allocated then your child will not be given Dalton Piercy Kenmaran TS27 3HS a place. Dalton Piercy The Laurels TS27 3HP Dalton Piercy Leamount TS27 3HS Information given by parents which is found to be Dalton Piercy Livery Yard TS27 3HW fraudulent will result in the offer of a place being Dalton Piercy Lowfield Farm TS27 3HY withdrawn. Dalton Piercy Mayfield House TS27 3HY Dalton Piercy Meadow View TS27 3HW
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Dalton Piercy Moorfield TS27 3HP Elwick Pudding Poke TS27 3ET Dalton Piercy The Old Red Lion TS27 3HL Farm Bungalow Dalton Piercy Pine Cottage TS27 3HP Elwick Stotfold Moor TS27 3EY Dalton Piercy Rose Cottage TS27 3HS Farm Dalton Piercy Shalom TS27 3HS Elwick Sunrise TS27 3HF Dalton Piercy Tees View TS27 3HL Elwick Woodland House TS27 3HF Dalton Piercy The Villa TS27 3HS Elwick Woodview Farm TS27 3HD Dalton Piercy Three Gates TS27 3HW Greenlea (Elwick) TS27 3DY Farm Hillcrest Grove (Elwick) TS27 3EH Dalton Piercy Woodside TS27 3HP Manor Close (Elwick) TS27 3EE Dalton Piercy Wyncroft TS27 3HG Manor Fields (Dalton Piercy) TS27 3JD Dene Garth (Dalton Piercy) TS27 3HT Martindale Close (Elwick) TS27 3DU Elwick Amerston Hall TS27 3HB North Close (Elwick) TS27 3EQ Elwick Amerston Hill TS27 3EZ North Lane (Elwick) TS27 3EG Elwick Benknowle TS27 3HF North View (Dalton Piercy) TS27 3HU Elwick Church Side TS27 3EL The Ghyll (Elwick) TS27 3DS Cottage The Green (Elwick) Odd No's 1-17 TS27 3ED Elwick Claypit Farm TS27 3BL The Green (Elwick) Odd No's 19-43 TS27 3EF Elwick Crookfoot House TS27 3HA The Green (Elwick) Even No's 2-18 TS27 3ED Elwick Crookfoot TS27 3HA The Green (Elwick) Even No's 20-42 TS27 3EF Reservoir The Green (Elwick) Allwinds TS27 3EF Bungalow The Green (Elwick) Bee Cottage TS27 3ED Elwick Elwick Hall TS27 3EJ The Green (Elwick) Carlton TS27 3ED Elwick Gunnersvale TS27 3HH The Green (Elwick) Churchbank TS27 3ED Cottage Cottage Elwick The Hawthorns TS27 3HF The Green (Elwick) Deerness TS27 3EF Elwick High Farm TS27 3HD Heights Bungalow The Green (Elwick) Elwick House TS27 3ED Elwick High Stotfold TS27 3HJ The Green (Elwick) Greencroft TS27 3ED Cottage The Green (Elwick) Hazel Bank TS27 3ED Elwick High Stotfold TS27 3HJ Cottage Farm The Green (Elwick) High Garth TS27 3EF Elwick Hillcrest TS27 3EB The Green (Elwick) Hill Lodge TS27 3EF Elwick Lambs Cottage TS27 3HZ The Green (Elwick) Garden Cottage, TS27 3EF Elwick Low Stotfold TS27 3HQ Home Farm Farm Cottage The Green (Elwick) Mount Pleasant TS27 3EF Elwick Middle Stotfold TS27 3HQ The Green (Elwick) Norse Cottage TS27 3EF Cottage The Green (Elwick) Shindells TS27 3EF Elwick Middleton House TS27 3EN The Green (Elwick) Sycamore House TS27 3EF Farm Bungalow The Green (Elwick) White Barns TS27 3ED Elwick Mill House TS27 3HF The Green (Elwick) Windy Ridge TS27 3EF Elwick North Urn TS27 3EB The Green (Elwick) Wyndlee TS27 3EF Cottage The Paddock (Elwick) TS27 3DZ Elwick The Old Mill TS27 3HF The Terrace (Dalton Piercy) TS27 3HX Elwick Pawton Hill TS27 3EX The Walk (Elwick) TS27 3DX
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Admissions to St Teresa’s RC Primary School St Teresa’s R.C. Primary School was founded by the completed. This is available from the local authority Catholic Church to provide education for children of in which the child lives. Catholic families. Whenever there are more applications than places available, priority will be The parent will be advised of the outcome of the given to Catholic children in accordance with the application on 16 April or the next working day, by oversubscription criteria listed below. The school is the local authority. If the application is unsuccessful conducted by its governing body as part of the (unless the child gained a place at a school the Catholic Church in accordance with its trust deed parent ranked higher) the parent will be informed of and instrument of government, and seeks at all the decision, related to the oversubscription criteria times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus Christ. listed above, and has the right of appeal to an independent appeal panel. As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, If the parent is required to provide supplemental Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every evidence to support the application (eg a baptismal aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the certificate), this evidence should be provided at the Catholic character of the school’s education be fully time of application. If not provided, evidence may be supported by all families in the school. We therefore sought by the governing body following the closing hope that all parents will give their full, unreserved date for applications. This information must have and positive support for the aims and ethos of the been correct at the date of closing for applications. school. This does not affect the right of an applicant who is not Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a All applications which are submitted on time will be place at the school in accordance with the admission considered at the same time and after the closing arrangements. date for admissions which is 15 January 2020.
The admission policy criteria will be dealt with on an Pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan (see equal preference basis. note 1) The admission of pupils with an Education, Health The governing body is the admissions authority and and Care Plan is dealt with by a completely separate has responsibility for admissions to this school. The procedure. Children with an Education, Health and local authority undertakes the coordination of Care Plan that names the school must be admitted. admission arrangements during the normal Where this takes place before the allocation of admission round for reception year admission in places under these arrangements this will reduce the September. number of places available to other children.
Parishes served by the school Late Applications The school serves the former parishes of St Teresa’s Late applications will be administered in accordance and St Patrick’s Hartlepool. The area covered by the with the home local authority Primary Coordinated former parishes forms part of the guidance notes. Admissions Scheme. Parents are advised to ensure that the application is submitted before the closing Published Admission Number date. The governing body has set its published admission number (PAN) at 45 pupils to be admitted to the Admission of Children below Compulsory School reception class in the school year which begins in Age and Deferred Entry September 2020. A child is entitled to a full-time place in the September following their fourth birthday. A child’s Application Procedures and Timetable parents may defer the date at which their child, To apply for a place at this school in the normal below compulsory school age, is admitted to the admission round (not in-year applications), a school, until later in the school year but not beyond Common Application Form (CAF) must be the point at which they reach compulsory school
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age, or beyond the beginning of the final term of the the parents and of appropriate medical and school year for which an offer was made. A child education professionals. may take up a part-time place until later in the school year, but not beyond the point at which the Parents will be informed of the outcome of the child reaches compulsory school age. Upon receipt request before primary national offer day. of the offer of a place a parent should notify the school in writing, as soon as possible, that they wish If the request is agreed by the governing body, the to either defer their child’s entry to the school or application for the normal age group may be take up a part-time place. withdrawn before a place is offered. If the request is refused, the parent must decide whether to accept Admission of Children outside their Normal Age the offer of a place for the normal age group, or to Group refuse it and make an in year application for A request may be made for a child to be admitted admission to year one for the September following outside of their normal age group, for example, if the child’s fifth birthday. the child is gifted and talented or has experienced problems such as ill health. Where a parent’s request is agreed, they must make a new application as part of the main admissions Any such request should be made in writing to the round the following year. headteacher of the school. The governing body will make its decision about the request based on the One admission authority cannot be required to circumstances of each case and in the best interests honour a decision made by another admission of the child. In addition to taking into account the authority on admission out of the normal age group. views of the headteacher who has statutory Parents, therefore, should consider whether to responsibility for the internal organisation, request admission out of the normal year group at management and control of the school, the all their preference schools, rather than just their governing body will take into account the views of first preference schools. the parents and of appropriate medical and education professionals. Waiting Lists In addition to their right of appeal, applicants will be Summer Born Children offered the opportunity to be placed on a waiting The parents of a summer born child, i.e. a child born list. This waiting list will be maintained in order of between 1 April and 31 August, may request that the the oversubscription criteria set out below and not child be admitted out of their normal age group, to in the order in which applications are received or the reception class in the September following their added to the list. Waiting lists for admission will fifth birthday and that that the child will remain in operate throughout the school year. The waiting list this cohort as they progress through school. will be held open until the last day of the summer term. Inclusion on the school’s waiting list does not Parents who want to make this request should make mean that a place will eventually become available. an application for their child’s normal age group at the usual time. The application to the local authority Infant Class Size Regulations should include this request and in addition it should Infant classes may not, by law, contain more than 30 be made in writing to the headteacher of the school. pupils with a single qualified teacher (subject to the The local authority will liaise with the governing provisions in the School Admissions Code for body that will make its decision about the request ‘excepted children’). Parents do have a right of based on the circumstances of each case and in the appeal in accordance with the infant class size best interests of the child. In addition to taking into regulations if the school is oversubscribed and their account the views of the headteacher, who has child is refused a place. statutory responsibility for the internal organisation, management and control of the school, the The governing body will, where logistically possible, governing body will take into account the views of admit twins and all siblings from multiple births
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where one of the children is the last child ranked published admission number (subject to the infant within the school’s PAN. class size exceptions).
In-Year Applications Nursery An application can be made for a place for a child at For children attending the school’s nursery, any time outside the admission round and the child application to the reception class of the school must will be admitted where there are available places. be made in the normal way, to the home local For information on making an in-year application, authority. Attendance at the school’s nursery does parents should contact the local authority not automatically guarantee that a place will be admissions team at School Admissions Team, offered at the school. Hartlepool Borough Council, Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Brierton Lane, Hartlepool False evidence TS25 4AF, on 01429 284368 or by email at The governing body reserves the right to withdraw [email protected]. Parents will be the offer of a place or, where a child is already advised of the outcome of their application in attending the school, the place itself, where it is writing. satisfied that the offer or place was obtained by deception. Where there are places available but more applications than places, the published Oversubscription Criteria oversubscription criteria, as set out below, will be Where there are more applications for places than applied. the number of places available, places will be offered according to the following order of priority. If there are no places available, a request can be made that the child is added to the waiting list (see First priority in each category will be given to above). children who will have an older sibling attending the school in September 2020. The parent has the right of appeal to an independent appeal panel if refused a place. 1. Catholic looked after and previously looked after children (see notes 2 and 3). Right of Appeal 2. Catholic children who are resident in the former Where a parent has been notified that a place is not parishes of St Teresa’s and St Patrick’s (see note available for a child, every effort will be made by the 3 and note 11). local authority to help the parent to find a place in a suitable alternative school. Parents who are refused 3. Other Catholic children (see note 3). a place have a statutory right of appeal. Further details of the appeals process are available by 4. Other looked after and previously looked after writing to the chair of governors at the school children (see note 2). address. 5. Catechumens and members of an Eastern Fair Access Protocol Christian Church (see notes 4 and 5). The school is committed to taking its fair share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as 6. Children of other Christian denominations whose set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, membership is evidenced by a minister or faith outside the normal admission round the governing leader (see note 6). body is empowered to give absolute priority to a child where admission is requested under any local 7. Children of other faiths whose membership is protocol that has been agreed by both the diocese evidenced by a minister or faith leader (see note and the governing body for the current school year. 7). The governing body has this power, even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the 8. Any other children.
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Tie Breaker 4. Catechumen means a member of the catechumenate Where there are places available for some, but not of a Catholic Church. For the purposes of admissions all applicants within a particular criterion, priority this refers to the child on whose behalf the will be given to children living closest to the school application is being made. This will normally be determined by the shortest distance. Distance will evidenced by a certificate of reception into the order of catechumens. be measured by a straight line distance measurement, from the (ordnance survey) address 5. Eastern Christian Church includes Orthodox point for the child’s home to the (ordnance survey) Churches, and is normally evidenced by a certificate address point of the school, using the local of baptism or reception from the authorities of that authority’s computerised measuring system. Church. Those who have difficulty obtaining written In the event of distances being the same for two or evidence of baptism or reception should contact the more children where this would determine the last Diocese who will decide how the question of baptism place to be allocated, random allocation will be or reception is to be resolved and how written carried out in a public place and supervised by a evidence is to be produced in accordance with the person independent of the school. law of the Church.
6. Children of other Christian denominations means Notes and definitions children who belong to other churches and ecclesial communities which, acknowledge God’s revelation in
1. An Education, Health and Care Plan is a plan made Christ, confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and by the local authority under section 37 of the Saviour according to the Scriptures, and, in obedience Children and Families Act 2014, specifying the special to God’s will and in the power of the Holy Spirit educational provision required for a child. commit themselves: to seek a deepening of their communion with Christ and with one another in the
2. A looked after child has the same meaning as in Church, which is his body; and to fulfil their mission section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and means to proclaim the Gospel by common witness and any child who is (a) in the care of a local authority or service in the world to the glory of the one God, (b) being provided with accommodation by them in Father, Son and Holy Spirit. An ecclesial community the exercise of their social services functions (e.g. which on principle has no credal statements in its children with foster parents) at the time of making tradition, is included if it manifests faith in Christ as application to the school. witnessed to in the Scriptures and is committed to working in the spirit of the above. A previously looked after child is a child who was looked after, but ceased to be so because he or she All members of Churches Together in England and was adopted, or became subject to a child CYTÛN are deemed to be included in the above arrangements order or special guardianship order. definition, as are all other churches and ecclesial communities that are in membership of any local
3. ‘Catholic’ means a member of a Church in full Churches Together Group (by whatever title) on the communion with the See of Rome. This includes the above basis. Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be evidenced by a certificate of baptism in a Catholic Applicants must provide a baptismal certificate or Church or a certificate of reception into the full where child baptism is not practised, a letter communion of the Catholic Church. For the purposes confirming their church membership from their of this policy, it includes a looked after child living minister or faith leader. with a family where at least one of the parents is Catholic. 7. Children of other faiths means children who are members of a religious community that does not fall For a child to be treated as Catholic, evidence of within the definition of ‘other Christian Catholic baptism or reception into the Church will be denominations’ at 6 above and which falls within the required. Those who have difficulty obtaining written definition of a religion for the purposes of charity law. evidence of baptism should contact their Parish Priest The Charities Act 2011 defines religion to include: who, after consulting with the Diocese, will decide how the question of baptism is to be resolved and . A religion which involves belief in more than one how written evidence is to be produced in God, and accordance with the law of the Church. . A religion which does not involve belief in a God.
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Case law has identified certain characteristics which or sisters, foster brothers or sisters, whether or describe the meaning of religion for the purposes of not they are living at the same address; and charity law, which are characterised by a belief in a (ii) the child of a parent’s partner where that child supreme being and an expression of belief in that lives for at least part of the week in the same supreme being through worship. family unit at the same home address as the child who is the subject of the application. Applicants must provide a letter of support to confirm their faith membership from their minister or 10. A parent means all natural parents, any person who faith leader. is not a parent but has parental responsibility for a child, and any person who has care of a child (having 8. A child’s “home address” refers to the address where care of a child means that the child lives with and is the child usually lives with a parent or carer, and will looked after by that person). be the address provided in the Common Application Form (“CAF”). Where parents have shared 11. Former Parishes of St Teresa and St Patrick covers responsibility for a child, and the child lives for part of the area of Hartlepool east of the Brierton Lane the week with each parent, the home address will be boundary, continuing to the coast to encompass the the address given in the CAF, provided that the child Warrior Drive area and all of Seaton Carew. It also resides at that address for any part of the school includes Greatham Village. week. This policy should be read in conjunction with the 9. Sibling includes: local authority’s admission guidance for parents. (i) all natural brothers or sisters, half brothers or sisters, adopted brothers or sisters, stepbrothers
Admissions to Ward Jackson Church of England VA Primary School The Governing Body of Ward Jackson Church of 3. Those children who live in the school’s admission England VA Primary School is the Admissions zone; Authority for this school. 4. Those children who are distinguished from the The Governing Body intends to admit up to 25 pupils great majority of other applicants whether on to the Reception year group in September 2020 by medical grounds or by other exceptional applying following admissions criteria: circumstances and who would suffer significant In the first instance, places will be awarded to those hardship if they were unable to attend the pupils with a Statement of Special Educational school; Needs or Education, Health and Care (ONE) Plan where the school is named as the most appropriate 5. Those children who live closest to the school as educational setting for the child. The remaining determined by a straight line distance places will be awarded in the following priority measurement; from the (ordnance survey) order: address point for the child’s home to the (ordnance survey) address point of the school. 1. Those children who are looked after children and previously looked after children (previously Tie-breaker looked after children are children who were If more children qualify under a particular criterion looked after, but ceased to be so because they than there are places available, priority will be given were adopted or became subject to a child to those children who live closest to the school (as arrangements order or special guardianship described under criteria 5). order); Right of Appeal 2. Those children who have brothers or sisters who If you are not successful in obtaining a place for your will be attending the school in September 2020; child at Ward Jackson Church of England VA School you have a statutory right of appeal. Full information
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on the appeals procedure is available from the Local nursery/primary school friends. Problems of this kind are Authority’s School Admission Team. widespread and cannot be classed as exceptional. Medical reasons do not include temporary conditions. They are Definitions permanent medical conditions which require special treatment available at the preferred school only. Medical Looked After Children – A ‘looked after child’ is a child evidence must be provided and the Authority’s officers who is in the care of a local authority or being provided must be satisfied that the child would suffer to a with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise significant degree if he/she went to any other school. of their social services functions (see the definition in Distance Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at the time of making an application to a school. Distance will be measured by a straight line distance measurement from the (ordnance survey) address point Sibling - Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or of the child’s home address to the (ordnance survey) sister, adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, or address point of the school, using the Local Authority’s the child of the parent/guardian’s partner, and in every computerised measuring system, with those living closer case, the child should be living in the same family unit at to the school receiving the higher priority. the same address. In all cases the responsible parent will hold the child benefit for those children permanently Criteria 1 Applications living at that address. A brother or sister living at the Applications from children who are looked after same address must be attending the preferred school at must be accompanied by a letter from the Social the same time as the child who is applying. Please note – Worker confirming the legal status of the child and this criteria only applies to siblings who are of compulsory the reasons for the school preferences. Any change school age, not younger siblings who attend a nursery of legal status and/or placement arrangements must setting attached to a school. be notified to the Admissions Team. Applications for
Twins or multiple birth children - If you have more than previously looked after children must be one child who are twins or part of a multiple birth going accompanied by a copy of any Special Guardianship through the application process this year, you must make Order, Adoption Order or Child Arrangements Order. a separate application for each child and indicate on each online or paper form that your child has a sibling also Criteria 2 Applications going through the process. For community and voluntary To obtain a school place under the sibling criteria controlled schools, we will offer a place to the other the sibling must still attend the school at the time child(ren) if one of your twins/multiple birth children is when the child for whom the place is sought joins offered the last place available and you have applied to the school. This criterion only applies to siblings who the same school for the other child(ren). are of compulsory school age, not younger siblings
Medical Grounds/Exceptional Circumstances who attend a nursery setting attached to a school. A panel of specialist officers will determine whether the evidence provided is sufficiently compelling to meet the Criteria 4 Applications requirements for this criterion. If you think your child has A panel of officers will determine whether the a particular medical or social need to go to a certain evidence provided is sufficiently compelling to meet school, you must provide supporting evidence from a the requirements for this rule. The evidence must doctor, psychologist or other professional involved with relate specifically to the school applied for under your child. The supporting evidence must relate Criteria 4 and must clearly demonstrate why it is the specifically to the school you are claiming medical only school that can meet the child’s needs. Criteria grounds/ exceptional circumstances for, and clearly 4 applications will only be considered at the time of demonstrate why it is only that school that can meet your child’s needs in a way that no other school can. If you are the initial application, unless there has been a applying online for a place under this criterion, please significant and exceptional change of circumstances send your supporting evidence to the Admissions Team by within the family since the initial application was the closing date, which should include your child’s name submitted. and date of birth. NB: Exceptional social reasons do not, in the view of the Authority, include domestic Evidence should make clear why only one school is inconvenience arising from parents’ work patterns, child- appropriate. minding problems, separation from particular
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How to apply under Criteria 4 you provide the relevant professional with a full Please ensure that you submit all relevant copy of the guidance provided on these pages. information including professional evidence, with Please ensure that the supporting evidence your application. If you apply online, written demonstrates why only one named school can meet information should be received before the closing the social/medical needs of your child or family. date for applications and include your child’s name and date of birth. Information provided after the Admission Zones closing date will only be considered when there are Your child is not guaranteed a place at an admission significant changes of circumstances. zone school. If you are unsure which admission zone you live in please refer to letter contained within the We can only consider applications under Criteria 4 application pack issued to you, or alternatively which are supported by a letter from a professional contact the Admissions Team. involved with your child or family, for example, a doctor, psychologist or police officer. We suggest
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Secondary school admissions for entry into Year 7 in September 2020 If your child’s date of birth falls between 1st September 2008 and 31st August 2009, they are due to move up to secondary school in September 2020.
Statement on Behalf of all Secondary School Children have the best chance of educational Headteachers success if they stay at the same school for the All secondary schools in Hartlepool have the shared duration of their secondary education and so it is ambition to provide our children and young people important to carefully consider your choice of with the highest standard of education to give them secondary school. Each secondary school in the best chance for success in the future. To this Hartlepool has its own unique culture, end, we all have high standards and expectations of characteristics and experiences to offer your child; pupils within our schools in relation to attending we invite you to make your choice of school based school daily and on time, being in the correct on the individual merits of the school and the uniform, showing respect to staff and peers, educational provision it offers for your child. behaving in an acceptable manner and working hard. These expectations, taken together, give your We look forward to working in partnership with all child the best possible chance to enjoy their school parents and carers to support the secondary years and achieve good outcomes from their education of children and young people in secondary education. Hartlepool.
Open Evenings The following table shows dates and times of school open evenings when parents and pupils can visit the school and talk to staff:
Secondary School Open Evenings School Name Date of Open Evening Times Dyke House Sports and Technology College Tuesday, 8th October 2019 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm High Tunstall College of Science Wednesday, 25th September 2019 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm Manor Community Academy Tuesday, 1st October 2019 4.00 pm – 7.00 pm St Hild’s Church of England VA School Thursday, 26th September 2019 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College Thursday, 3rd October 2019 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm
Partner Primary School System Hartlepool secondary schools operate a ‘partner education. In the event that there are more primary school’ system for its schools. This means applications for the secondary school than there are that each primary school has a feeder link to a places available, priority is given to those pupils designated secondary school. attending a linked partner primary school and living in the admission zone of that primary school. For It is important for you to know about the partner further guidance on the partner primary model, the primary school arrangements when you apply to Admissions Team will be happy to help – contact transfer your child to the next stage of their details can be found on page 94.
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The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College High Tunstall College of Science also operates a feeder link system however, when Eldon Grove Academy considering applications, the governing body of the Hart Primary school give priority to baptised Roman Catholic Jesmond Gardens Primary (see note) children attending a feeder primary school (one of Lynnfield Primary (see note) the Catholic primary schools). Rift House Primary St Peter’s Elwick C of E Primary Please find below a list of primary schools and their Throston Primary (see note) linked secondary school, as follows: West Park Primary
Dyke House Sports and Technology College Manor Community Academy Brougham Primary Eskdale Academy Holy Trinity C of E Primary Fens Primary Jesmond Gardens Primary (see note) Golden Flatts Primary Lynnfield Primary (see note) Grange Primary St Aidan’s CE Memorial Primary Greatham C of E Primary Stranton Primary Kingsley Primary Ward Jackson C of E (VA) Primary Rossmere Primary
The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form St Hild’s Church of England VA School College Barnard Grove Primary Sacred Heart RC Primary Clavering Primary St Bega’s RC Primary St Helen’s Primary St Cuthbert’s RC Primary Throston Primary (see note) St John Vianney RC Primary West View Primary St Joseph’s RC Primary St Teresa’s RC Primary
Notes: . Lynnfield Primary will be partnered with both Dyke House Sports and Technology College and High Tunstall College of Science. . Throston Primary will be partnered with both High Tunstall College of Science and St Hild’s Church of England VA School . Jesmond Gardens will be partnered with Dyke House Sports and Technology College and, in part, High Tunstall College of Science (certain streets only are partnered with High Tunstall College of Science – see below):
Jesmond Gardens Admission Zone Addresses which are linked to High Tunstall College of Science Birchill Gardens Grange Road (even North Drive Thornhill Place Brafferton Street numbers 104-164) Oval Grange Topcliffe Street Briarhill Gardens Granville Avenue Roseberry Mews Tunstall Avenue Bright Street Granville Place Roseberry Road Tunstall Grove Broomhill Gardens Harcourt Street Ryehill Gardens Welldeck Gardens Byron Street Hart Avenue Serpentine Road (odd Welldeck Road Cobden Street Hart Lane (odd numbers numbers 1-35) Wilson Street Cundall Road 117-225a, even numbers South Drive Wooler Road Duke Street (even 78-136, Low Throston Stephen Street (odd numbers 1-27) numbers 2-44) House) Suggitt Street Oval Grange Cottages Elm Grove Mulgrave Road (even The Crescent Zetland Road Elmwood Place numbers 4-38) Thornhill Gardens (odd Elmwood Road Netherby Gate numbers 1-83)
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Admissions to Catcote School Catcote School caters for children with a full range of Catcote School must, in all but exceptional cases, special educational needs (SEN), including learning have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan. difficulties, autistic spectrum disorders and behavioural, emotional and social difficulties. For further information regarding SEN, please refer Admissions are considered by a panel comprising to page 89. If you wish to discuss any aspect of SEN representatives of the Children’s and Joint further, please contact the SEND Team (contact Commissioning Services SEND Team and Catcote details can be found on page 94). School Senior Leadership Team. Children accessing
Admissions to Dyke House Sports and Technology College The Academy’s published admission number for Year link. If the older child has attended Dyke House 7 is 250. Sports and Technology College and will transfer to the Sixth Form when the younger brother or In the first instance, children who have an Education, sister starts the College, this will be classed as a Health and Care Plan or a Statement of Special sibling link. Educational Need, where the school is named as the most appropriate educational setting for the child, 3. Children of staff in either or both of the will be admitted. following circumstances:
When the number of applications exceeds the a) Where the member of staff has been number of places available, offers of places will be employed at the school for two or more made following the criteria listed below in order of years at the time at which the application for priority: admission to the school is made; and/or b) The member of staff is recruited to fill a 1. Those children who are looked after children vacant post for which there is a and previously looked after children (previously demonstrable skill shortage. looked after children are children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they 4. Children who attend a Partner Primary School were adopted or became subject to a child linked to Dyke House Sports and Technology arrangements order or special guardianship College. The partner primary schools for order); 2020/2021 admissions are: Brougham, Holy Trinity, Jesmond Gardens, Lynnfield, St Aidan’s, 2. Children who have a sibling who will still be Stranton and Ward Jackson Schools. Within this attending the school in September 2020. criterion places will be allocated in the following - Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother order of priority: or sister, adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, or the child of the parent/carer’s a) Those children who attend a Partner Primary partner, and in every case, the child should be School and live within the admission zone of living in the same family unit at the same that primary school. address. b) Those children who attend a Partner Primary - In the case of siblings in the same age cohort School but live outside the admission zone and where there is only one place available in of that primary school. the school, all will be admitted even if it goes c) Those children who do not attend a Partner above the admission number for the school. Primary School but live within the admission - If a student attends the sixth form at Dyke zone of a Partner Primary School. House Sports and Technology College and will still be there when a younger brother or sister 5. Students who have an aptitude* for one or more starts the school this will be classed as a sibling sports who meet the eligibility criteria of a
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performance athlete** within the max 5% (13) 1. Parents of pupils to be considered express their of cohort. wishes via an expression of interest form. 2. Sporting Aptitude Testing (SAT) takes place (2 dates 6. Children who have a significant medical, available) alongside current sporting performance physical or psychological condition. When using using sport specific national ranking criteria. 3. Ranking of Test results, identification and reward of this criterion it must be supported by written names already offered a place through criteria laid evidence from the medical professional involved out for PAN. stating clearly why Dyke House Sports and 4. Up to 5% of PAN offered a place base on ranking. Technology College is the most appropriate and In the event of non-acceptance by those identified in reasons why other schools are inappropriate. 5%, next name in rank order offered. SAT 7. Those children who live closest to the school as . Tests are non-specific determined by a straight line distance . Endurance measurement. The distance will be measured . Explosive power . from the (ordnance survey) address point for the Hand-eye coordination . Reaction time child’s home to the (ordnance survey) address . Agility point of the school, using the Local Authority’s . Balance computerised system. . Flexibility . Strength Tie-breaker: If more children qualify under a particular criterion than there are places available, ** Performance Athletes - The top tier athletes will be priority will be given to those children who live performing at county or international levels or have closest to the school (as described under Criteria 7). contracts with a professional body.
Additional Notes: * Sporting aptitude – the selection procedure for sporting aptitude is as follows:
Admissions to High Tunstall College of Science High Tunstall College of Science became a Foundation School with effect from 23rd April 2008 In the event of the College being oversubscribed in and the Governing Body is responsible for all 2020/21, the remaining places will be in accordance admissions to the college. The criteria set out follow with the following priority criteria which have been general guidelines of Hartlepool Admission Authority agreed by the Governing Body. and take into account the statutory duties and recommendations of the School Admissions Code. 1. Those children who are looked after children and Whilst High Tunstall College of Science is its own previously looked after children (previously Admission Authority it works in consultation with looked after children are children who were the Local Authority and recognises that all looked after, but ceased to be so because they admissions must comply with the published co- were adopted or became subject to a child ordinated arrangements. The admissions policy will arrangements order or special guardianship be applied on an equal preference basis. The order); Governing Body intends to admit up to 270 students to Year 7 in September 2020. 2. Those children who have older brothers and/or sisters who will be attending the College in In the first instance, places will be awarded to those September 2020; pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan, where the school is named as the most appropriate educational setting for the child.
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3. Those children who attend Eldon Grove If parents are not successful in obtaining a place for Academy, St Peter’s Elwick C of E Primary School, their child at High Tunstall College of Science they Hart Primary School, Jesmond Gardens Primary have a statutory right of appeal. Full information on School (see note on pages 67-68), Lynnfield the appeals procedure is available from the Local Primary School (see note on pages 67-68), Rift Authority’s School Admissions Team on Telephone House Primary School, Throston Primary School 01429 523768. (see note on pages 67-68) and West Park Primary School – High Tunstall’s identified Parents who wish their child to transfer to High partner primary schools. Places will be allocated Tunstall College of Science from another school at in the following order of priority: any time other than the beginning of the first year of secondary education (Year 7) should contact the a) those children who attend a partner primary School Admissions Team at the Local Authority on school and live within the admission zone of 01429 523752. Should it be necessary to decide that primary school; between more than one student in such b) those children who attend a partner primary circumstances, the order of priorities published school but live outside the admission zone of above will apply. that primary school; c) those children who do not attend a partner Please refer to the Local Authority’s published primary but live within the admission zone admissions booklet for definitions in relation to the of a partner primary school. above admissions criteria.
4. Those children who are distinguished from the Please refer to the page 85 for definitions in relation majority of other applicants whether on medical to the above admissions criteria. grounds or by other exceptional circumstances and who would suffer significant hardship if they Notes: were unable to attend the College; . Lynnfield Primary will be partnered with both Dyke House Sports and Technology College and 5. Those children who live closest to the College as High Tunstall College of Science. determined by a ‘straight line’ distance . Throston Primary will be partnered with both measurement; from the (ordnance survey) High Tunstall College of Science and St Hild’s address point for the child’s home to the Church of England VA School (ordnance survey) address point of the College. . Jesmond Gardens will be partnered with Dyke House Sports and Technology College and, in Should it prove necessary to distinguish between part, High Tunstall College of Science (certain children in any other criteria, priority will be given to streets only are partnered with High Tunstall those who live closest to the College. College of Science – see below):
Jesmond Gardens Admission Zone Addresses which are linked to High Tunstall College of Science Birchill Gardens Grange Road (even numbers North Drive Thornhill Place Brafferton Street 104-164) Oval Grange Topcliffe Street Briarhill Gardens Granville Avenue Roseberry Mews Tunstall Avenue Bright Street Granville Place Roseberry Road Tunstall Grove Broomhill Gardens Harcourt Street Ryehill Gardens Welldeck Gardens Byron Street Hart Avenue Serpentine Road (odd Welldeck Road Cobden Street Hart Lane (odd numbers 117- numbers 1-35) Wilson Street Cundall Road 225a, even numbers 78-136, South Drive Wooler Road Duke Street (even numbers Low Throston House) Stephen Street (odd numbers 1-27) 2-44) Suggitt Street Oval Grange Cottages Elm Grove Mulgrave Road (even The Crescent Zetland Road Elmwood Place numbers 4-38) Thornhill Gardens (odd Elmwood Road Netherby Gate numbers 1-83)
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Admissions to Manor Community Academy The Governing Body of Manor Community Academy b) those children who attend a partner primary is responsible for all admissions to the Academy. school but live outside the admission zone of The admission number for Manor Community that primary school. Academy in September 2020 is 250. The criteria c) those children who do not attend a partner proposed follow the general guide lines of primary school but live within the admission Hartlepool Admission Authority and takes in to zone of a partner primary school. account the statutory duties and recommendations contained within the School Admissions Code. 4. Those children who are distinguished from the great majority of other applicants, whether on Manor Community Academy is a sponsored medical grounds or by other exceptional academy and is part of the Northern Education Trust circumstances, and who would suffer significant and, as such, we are our own Admission Authority; hardship if they were unable to attend the we recognise that all admissions must comply with Academy. the published co-ordinated arrangements. 5. Those children who live closest to Manor In the first instance, places will be awarded to those Community Academy as determined by a pupils with a statement of special educational needs ‘straight line’ distance measurement; from the or ONE (Education, Health and Care) Plan where (ordnance survey) address point for the child’s Manor Community Academy is named in the home to the (ordnance survey) address point of statement. the school.
In the event of the Academy being oversubscribed in Should it prove necessary to distinguish between 2020-2021, the remaining places will be in children in any category, distance from home to accordance with the following priority criterion Manor Community Academy will be used (using the which has been agreed by the Governing Body. straight line distance measurement) to determine the order of admission, with those children living 1. Those children who are looked after children and closest to the Academy receiving priority. previously looked after children (previously looked after children are children who were Children who have a Statement of Special looked after, but ceased to be so because they Educational Need or ONE (Education, Health and were adopted or became subject to a child Care) Plan which names Manor Community arrangements order or special guardianship Academy will be admitted to the Academy. If your order). child has Special Educational Needs but does not have a “statement” of need naming the Academy, 2. Those children who have older brothers or/and then your application will be considered on the basis sisters who will be attending the Academy in of the Academy’s admission criterion. September 2020. If you are not offered a place at Manor Community Academy you may appeal. Parents should write to 3. Those children who attend Fens, Eskdale, the Governing Body, by the deadline given in their Grange, Greatham, Golden Flatts, Rossmere and allocation letter, stating their wish to appeal. Kingsley – Manor’s identified Partner Primary Schools. Places will be allocated in the following If you are not successful in obtaining a place for your order of priority: child at Manor Community Academy you have a statutory right of appeal. Full information on the a) those children who attend a partner primary appeals procedure is available from the Local school and live within the admission zone of Authority’s School Admissions Team on that primary school. 01429 523768.
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Parents who wish their child to transfer to Manor between more than one student in such Community Academy from another school at any circumstances, the order of priorities published time other than the beginning of the first year of above will apply. secondary education (Year 7) should contact the School Admissions Team at the Local Authority on 01429 523752. Should it be necessary to decide
Admissions to St Hild’s Church of England VA School The Governing Body of St. Hild’s Church of England accommodated by a public authority, a religious Voluntary Aided School is the Admissions Authority organisation or any other provider of care whose for the school. Applications must be made on the sole purpose is to benefit society Local Authority Common Application Form. This form must be returned to the Local Authority by the 3. Children who have an older sibling attending published closing date. Applications received after the school at the time of their admission. the closing date will only be considered after all Sibling refers to brother or sister, half-brother or those received by the closing date. sister, adopted brother or sister, step-brother or sister, or the child of the parent/carers partner The admission number for the school from where the child for whom the school place is September 2020 is 190. This arrangement follows sought is living in the same family unit at the consultation between the governing body, the Local same address as that sibling; Authority, all other schools in the area and all other Admissions Authorities in the area. Children who 4. Those children who attend Barnard Grove, have an Education Health and Care Plan or a Clavering, St Helens, West View or Throston (St statement of Special Educational Needs, where the Hild’s identified Partner Primary Schools). school is named as the most appropriate educational setting for the child, will be admitted to the school. 5. Pupils with very exceptional medical or social If the number of applications exceeds the number of factors directly related to school placement. places available, children will be admitted in the Applications must be supported by written following order: evidence from a doctor or other professional practitioner, setting out the particular reasons 1. Looked after children and children who were why our school is the most suitable school and previously looked after but immediately after will be considered on a case by case basis, as being looked after became subject to adoption, a assessed using the Local Authority criteria; child arrangements order, or special guardianship order1. 6. Those children who live closest to the school as determined by a ‘straight line’ distance 2. Children who appear (to the admission authority measurement; from the (ordnance survey) of the school) to have been in state care outside address point of the child’s home to the of England and ceased to be in state care as a (ordnance survey) address point of the school. result of being adopted2. Tie-breaker 1 A looked after child is a child who is in the care Should it prove necessary to distinguish between of a local authority in England, or is being children within criteria 2, priority will be given to provided with accommodation by a local those with older siblings attending the school in authority in England in the exercise of their September 2020, followed by those who live nearest social services functions. to the school. Should it prove necessary to distinguish between children in any other criterion 2 A child is regarded as having been in state care (or between children with older siblings in the above in a place outside of England if they were situation) then priority will be given to those who
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live nearest the school. Distance will be measured by Right of Appeal: straight line from the (ordnance survey) address If you are not successful in obtaining a place for your point of the child’s home to the (ordnance survey) child at St Hild’s Church of England Voluntary Aided address point of the school. School, you have a statutory right of appeal. Appeals should be made in writing, by the deadline given in Other information the allocation letter, setting out the reasons for The child’s home address is the address of the appeal, to: parent/carer receiving the Child Benefit. If you do not receive Child Benefit then other proof would be The Diocesan Director of Education required. The addresses of childminders or family (St Hild’s Appeal Panel) members sharing in the care of the children must Church House not be used. If you wish your child to attend St Hild’s St John’s Terrace Church of England Voluntary Aided School, you must North Shields fill in an application form even if you live in the NE29 6HS admission zone for the school. Full information on the appeals procedure is Admission outside of normal age range available from: Parents may submit a request in writing for their child to be admitted outside of his or her normal age St Hild’s Church of England Voluntary Aided School range together with supporting reasons for doing so. King Oswy Drive This should be discussed with the Head Teacher as West View soon as possible. Hartlepool TS24 9PB Requests from parents for places outside a normal age group will be considered carefully, eg, for those Parents who wish their child to transfer to St Hild’s who have missed education due to ill health. Each School from another school at any other time other case will be considered on its own merits and than the beginning of the first year of secondary circumstances. However, such admissions will not education (age 11) should contact the Admissions normally be agreed without a consensus that to do Team at the Local Authority. Should it be necessary so would be in the pupil's best interests. It is to decide between more than one candidate in such recommended that parents discuss their wishes with circumstances, the order of priorities published the Head Teacher in advance of applying for a place. above will apply. The governors may ask relevant professionals for their opinion on the case. It should be noted that if Waiting List a place in the requested age group is refused, but The school holds a waiting list for Year 7 children one in the normal age group is offered, then there is until the end of the Autumn Term. no right of appeal.
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Admissions to The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College Common Application Form (CAF) must be was founded by the Catholic Church to provide completed. This is available from the local authority education for children of Catholic families. in which the child lives. Whenever there are more applications than places available, priority will be given to Catholic children in The parent will be advised of the outcome of the accordance with the oversubscription criteria listed application on 1 March 2020 or the next working below. The school is conducted by its governing day, by the local authority. If the application is body as part of the Catholic Church in accordance unsuccessful (unless the child gained a place at a with its trust deed and articles of association, and school the parent ranked higher) the parent will be seeks at all times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus informed of the decision, related to the Christ. oversubscription criteria listed above, and has the right of appeal to an independent appeal panel. As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, If the parent is required to provide supplemental Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every evidence to support the application (e.g. a baptismal aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the certificate), this evidence should be provided at the Catholic character of the school’s education be fully time of application. If not provided, evidence may be supported by all families in the school. We therefore sought by the governing body following the closing hope that all parents will give their full, unreserved date for applications. This information must have and positive support for the aims and ethos of the been correct at the date of closing for applications. school. This does not affect the right of an applicant who is not Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a All applications which are submitted on time will be place at the school in accordance with the admission considered at the same time and after the closing arrangements. date for admissions which is 31 October 2019.
The admission policy criteria will be dealt with on an Pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan (see equal preference basis. note 1) The admission of pupils with an Education, Health The governing body is the admissions authority and and Care Plan is dealt with by a completely separate has responsibility for admissions to this school. The procedure. Children with an Education, Health and local authority undertakes the coordination of Care Plan that names the school must be admitted. admission arrangements. Where this takes place before the allocation of places under these arrangements this will reduce the Catholic Feeder Primary Schools number of places available to other children. Sacred Heart, Hartlepool St Bega’s, Hartlepool Late Applications St Cuthbert’s, Hartlepool Late applications will be administered in accordance St John Vianney’s, Hartlepool with the home local authority coordinated St Joseph’s, Hartlepool admissions scheme. Parents are advised to ensure St Teresa’s, Hartlepool that the application is submitted before the closing date. Published Admission Number The governing body has set its published admission Admission of Children outside their Normal Age number (PAN) at 270 pupils to year seven in the Group school year which begins in September 2020. A request may be made for a child to be admitted outside of their normal age group, for example, if Application Procedures and Timetable the child is gifted and talented or has experienced To apply for a place at this school in the normal problems such as ill health. admission round (not in-year applications), a
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Any such request should be made in writing to the suitable alternative school. Parents who are refused headteacher of the school. The governing body will a place have a statutory right of appeal. Further make its decision about the request based on the details of the appeals process are available by circumstances of each case and in the best interests contacting Julie Picken at the School Admissions of the child. In addition to taking into account the Team at Hartlepool Borough Council on 01429 views of the headteacher who has statutory 523768. responsibility for the internal organisation, management and control of the school, the Fair Access Protocol governing body will take into account the views of The school is committed to taking its fair share of the parents and of appropriate medical and children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as education professionals. set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the governing Waiting Lists body is empowered to give absolute priority to a In addition to their right of appeal, applicants will be child where admission is requested under any local offered the opportunity to be placed on a waiting protocol that has been agreed by both the diocese list. This waiting list will be maintained in order of and the governing body for the current school year. the oversubscription criteria set out below and not The governing body has this power, even when in the order in which applications are received or admitting the child would mean exceeding the added to the list. Waiting lists for admission will published admission number. operate throughout the school year. The waiting list will be held open until the last day of the summer False evidence term. Inclusion on the school’s waiting list does not The governing body reserves the right to withdraw mean that a place will eventually become available. the offer of a place or, where a child is already attending the school, the place itself, where it is In-Year Applications satisfied that the offer or place was obtained by An application can be made for a place for a child at deception. any time outside the admission round and the child will be admitted where there are available places. Oversubscription Criteria Parents should contact the local authority Where there are more applications for places than admissions team at School Admissions Team, the number of places available, places will be Hartlepool Borough Council, Centre of Excellence for offered according to the following order of priority. Teaching and Learning, Brierton Lane, Hartlepool, TS25 4AF, on 01429 284368 or by email at First priority in each category will be given to [email protected]. children who will have an older sibling attending the school in September 2020. Where there are places available but more applications than places, the published 1. Looked after and previously looked after oversubscription criteria, as set out above, will be children (see note 2). applied. 2. Catholic children who attend a Catholic feeder If there are no places available, a request can be primary school (Sacred Heart, St Bega’s, St made that the child is added to the waiting list (see Cuthbert’s, St John Vianney’s, St Joseph’s, and St above). Teresa’s) (see note 3).
The parent has the right of appeal to an independent 3. Other catholic children (see note 3). appeal panel. 4. Catechumens and members of an Eastern Right of Appeal Christian Church (see notes 4 and 5). Where a parent has been notified that a place is not available for a child, every effort will be made by the 5. Non-Catholic children who attend a Catholic local authority to help the parent to find a place in a feeder primary school.
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6. Up to twenty students to be admitted based on Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be football aptitude as determined by Improtech evidenced by a certificate of baptism in a Catholic Soccer Limited (see note 8). Church or a certificate of reception into the full communion of the Catholic Church. For the purposes 7. Children of other Christian denominations whose of this policy, it includes a looked after child who is part of a Catholic family where a letter from a priest membership is evidenced by a minister or faith demonstrates that the child would have been baptised leader (see note 6). or received if it were not for their status as a looked after child (e.g. a looked after child in the process of 8. Children of other faiths whose membership is adoption by a Catholic family). evidenced by a minister or faith leader (see note 7). For a child to be treated as Catholic, evidence of Catholic baptism or reception into the Church will be 9. Any other children. required. Those who have difficulty obtaining written evidence of baptism should contact their parish priest Tie Breaker who, after consulting with the diocese, will decide how the question of baptism is to be resolved and Where there are places available for some, but not how written evidence is to be produced in accordance all applicants within a particular criterion priority will with the law of the Church. be given to children living closest to the school determined by the shortest distance. Distance will 4. Catechumen means a member of the catechumenate be measured by a straight line distance of a Catholic Church. For the purposes of admissions measurement, from the (ordnance survey) address this refers to the child on whose behalf the application point for the child’s home to the (ordnance survey) is being made. This will normally be evidenced by a address point of the school, using the Local certificate of reception into the order of catechumens. Authority’s computerised measuring system.
5. Eastern Christian Church includes Orthodox Churches, and is normally evidenced by a certificate of baptism In the event of distances being the same for two or or reception from the authorities of that Church. more children where this would determine the last Those who have difficulty obtaining written evidence place to be allocated, random allocation will be of baptism or reception should contact the Diocese carried out in a public place and supervised by a who will decide how the question of baptism or person independent of the school. reception is to be resolved and how written evidence is to be produced in accordance with the law of the NOTES AND DEFINITIONS Church.
1. An Education, Health and Care Plan is a plan made by 6. Children of other Christian denominations means the local authority under section 37 of the Children children who belong to other churches and ecclesial and Families Act 2014, specifying the special communities which, acknowledge God’s revelation in educational provision required for a child. Christ, confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Scriptures, and, in obedience 2. A looked after child has the same meaning as in to God’s will and in the power of the Holy Spirit section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and means any commit themselves: to seek a deepening of their child who is (a) in the care of a local authority or (b) communion with Christ and with one another in the being provided with accommodation by them in the Church, which is his body; and to fulfil their mission to exercise of their social services functions (e.g. children proclaim the Gospel by common witness and service with foster parents) at the time of making application in the world to the glory of the one God, Father, Son to the school. and Holy Spirit. An ecclesial community which on principle has no credal statements in its tradition, is A previously looked after child is a child who was included if it manifests faith in Christ as witnessed to looked after, but ceased to be so because he or she in the Scriptures and is committed to working in the was adopted, or became subject to a child spirit of the above. arrangements order or special guardianship order. All members of Churches Together in England and 3. Catholic means a member of a Church in full CYTÛN are deemed to be included in the above communion with the See of Rome. This includes the definition, as are all other churches and ecclesial
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communities that are in membership of any local (A pupil with aptitude is one who demonstrates a Churches Together Group (by whatever title) on the particular capacity to succeed in playing soccer. above basis. In determining allocations the board of Directors will Applicants must provide a baptismal certificate or consider whether a child has an aptitude for soccer, a where child baptism is not practised, a letter particular capacity to learn or to develop skills in confirming their church membership from their soccer and will benefit from particular expertise and minister or faith leader. facilities in the academy).
7. Children of other faiths means children who are 9. A child’s “home address” refers to the address where members of a religious community that does not fall the child usually lives with a parent or carer, and will within the definition of ‘other Christian be the address provided in the Common Application denominations’ at 6 above and which falls within the Form (“CAF”). Where parents have shared definition of a religion for the purposes of charity law. responsibility for a child, and the child lives for part of The Charities Act 2011 defines religion to include: the week with each parent, the home address will be the address given in the CAF, provided that the child . A religion which involves belief in more than one resides at that address for any part of the school God, and week. . A religion which does not involve belief in a God. 10. Sibling includes: Case law has identified certain characteristics which (i) all natural brothers or sisters, half brothers or describe the meaning of religion for the purposes of sisters, adopted brothers or sisters, stepbrothers charity law, which are characterised by a belief in a or sisters, foster brothers or sisters, whether or supreme being and an expression of belief in that not they are living at the same address; and supreme being through worship. (ii) the child of a parent’s partner where that child lives for at least part of the week in the same Applicants must provide a letter of support to confirm family unit at the same home address as the child their faith membership from their minister or faith who is the subject of the application. leader. 10. A parent means all natural parents, any person who 8. Children selected on the basis of aptitude. There are is not a parent but has parental responsibility for a up to 20 places available in total to girls and boys who child, and any person who has care of a child (having fulfil the following criteria on the basis of aptitude: care of a child means that the child lives with and is . The individual girls and boys must be identified looked after by that person). by an independent professional soccer training company who is the partner provider with The This policy should be read in conjunction with the English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College. local authority’s admission guidance for parents.
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Atypical admissions Some schools have atypical admissions ages to take pupils at a different age to typical 11-18 secondary schools.
We will write to parents of Year 9 pupils to advise of This does not mean that parents are expected to other opportunities for education starting the move their child from their existing school if this is following academic year which are available in the still the best option for them. North East and North Yorkshire areas, such as: Details of establishments within a reasonable . University Technical Colleges (UTCs) travelling distance (within 60-minutes travelling www.utcolleges.org are set up by universities time), can be found on page 92. and businesses and specialise in one or two technical subjects. At GCSE they offer a similar You may wish to look into and consider whether curriculum to a typical 11-18 secondary school, your child would want to apply for a place. You including the basics of English and Maths, as well should also look at the GCSE curriculum at your as their specialist subject. child’s current school, to help consider what the best option is for your child’s education. . Studio Schools www.studioschoolstrust.org are similar to UTCs All schools have a statutory duty to secure impartial in that they have employer involvement in the careers guidance for all Year 8 to Year 13 students to curriculum and focus on developing the skills inspire young people to fulfil their potential and to needed for employment, involving personal make them aware of all opportunities open to them. coaching and work experience, alongside a We strongly recommend that your child discuss their similar curriculum to a typical 11-18 secondary. options with a Careers Adviser in their current school or college. . Career Colleges www.careercolleges.org.uk increase the range Please contact UTCs, Studio Schools and Career and choice of vocational education opportunities Colleges direct for further information and advice on for 14-19 year olds. Career Colleges have how to make an application. carefully designed programmes, which incorporate core academic elements with highly practical vocational and technical education, designed to equip young people to enter a career in a particular industry.
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Post-16 Education Details of establishments which offer full-time education for children over the age of 16 can be found on page 92.
Although the LA co-ordinates admissions for Years 7- transfer from Year 11, but places are also available 11 at Dyke House Sports and Technology College and for external students. The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College, it is not responsible for admissions to the sixth forms Please contact sixth forms and colleges direct for within these schools. further information and advice on how to make an application. Dyke House Sports and Technology College’s sixth form provision is available for current students only. Transport For information about help with transport costs for At The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form children aged 16-19 in full or part-time education, College, the majority of the sixth form students please contact the Integrated Transport Team on 01429 523695 or 284382.
Sixth Form Admissions Policy for The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College The admission policy criteria will be dealt with on an was founded by the Catholic Church to provide equal preference basis. education for students of Catholic families. Whenever there are more applications than places The governing body is the admissions authority and available, priority will be given to Catholic students has responsibility for admissions to this school. The in accordance with the oversubscription criteria local authority undertakes the coordination of listed below. The school1 is conducted by its admission arrangements. governing body2 as part of the Catholic Church in accordance with its trust deed and articles of Published Admission Number association, and seeks at all times to be a witness to The governing body has set its published admission Our Lord Jesus Christ. number (PAN) at 200 pupils to year 12 in the school year which begins in September 2020. As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, Entry requirements Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every Both internal and external pupils wishing to enter aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the the sixth form will be expected to have met the Catholic character of the school’s education be fully same minimum academic entry requirements for the supported by all families in the school. We therefore sixth form. hope that all parents will give their full, unreserved and positive support for the aims and ethos of the The College’s success is based on students following school. This does not affect the right of an applicant a full-time programme of academic and enrichment who is not Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a courses. Thus, all students who apply to enter Year place at the school in accordance with the admission 12 must follow a study programme consisting of at arrangements. least three subject options that they will continue with over two years, Maths and English GCSE if a Level 4 or above equivalent has not already been
1 The term ‘school’ is used throughout the document to 2 The term ‘governing body’ is used throughout to refer to mean a Catholic school or academy in the diocese. the admission authority under the appropriate constitutional arrangements.
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achieved, in addition to the programme of tutorial The parent will be advised of the outcome of the guidance and supervised study periods. All three application by the school. If the application is subject options must be studied at the College. If a unsuccessful the parent will be informed of the subject is not available at the College then this decision, related to the oversubscription criteria, requirement may be waived and the student may be and has the right of appeal to an independent able to study that subject at another approved Sixth appeal panel. Form College. As a Catholic College, we will also expect that students access one lesson based upon If the parent is required to provide supplemental Moral, Ethical and Theological teaching per week. evidence to support the application (e.g. a baptismal certificate), this evidence should be provided at the The College will assess all applications received on time of application. If not provided, evidence may be an individual basis but it will be expected that the sought by the governing body following the closing applicant has 5 GCSEs at Level 9-4 or equivalent and date for applications. This information must have fulfils specific subject requirements, as outlined in been correct at the date of closing for applications. the prospectus supplied by the college. All applications which are submitted on time will be In addition to the sixth form’s minimum academic considered at the same time and after the closing entry requirements pupils will need to satisfy date for admissions which is 30 September 2020. minimum entrance requirements to the courses for which they are applying. If either internal or external Pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan (see applicants fail to meet the minimum course note 1) requirements, they will be given the option of The admission of pupils with an Education, Health pursuing any alternative courses for which they do and Care Plan is dealt with by a completely separate meet the minimum academic requirements. procedure. Students with an Education, Health and Care Plan that names the school must be admitted. Course requirements are published annually in the Where this takes place before the allocation of school’s prospectus and on its website. places under these arrangements this will reduce the number of places available to other students. When year 12 is undersubscribed all applicants meeting the minimum academic entry requirements Late Applications will be admitted or permitted to progress. Late applications will be administered in accordance with the home local authority coordinated When there are more external applicants that satisfy admissions scheme. Parents are advised to ensure any academic entry requirements, priority will be that the application is submitted before the closing given in accordance with the oversubscription date. criteria set out below. Admission of Students outside their Normal Age Application Procedures and Timetable Group The sixth form is available for all existing pupils A request may be made for a student to be admitted subject to pupils fulfilling the individual outside of their normal age group, for example, if requirements of suitable courses. Remaining places the student is gifted and talented or has experienced in the sixth form of the school will be offered in problems such as ill health. accordance with the oversubscription criteria, subject to applicants fulfilling the individual Any such request should be made in writing to the requirements of suitable courses. headteacher of the school. The governing body will make its decision about the request based on the To apply for a place at this school, the parent must circumstances of each case and in the best interests complete an application form available from the of the student. In addition to taking into account the school. The parent will be advised of the outcome of views of the headteacher who has statutory the application by the school. responsibility for the internal organisation, management and control of the school, the
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governing body will take into account the views of set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, the parents and of appropriate medical and outside the normal admission round the governing education professionals. body is empowered to give absolute priority to a student where admission is requested under any Waiting Lists local protocol that has been agreed by both the In addition to their right of appeal, applicants will be diocese and the governing body for the current offered the opportunity to be placed on a waiting school year. The governing body has this power, list. This waiting list will be maintained in order of even when admitting the student would mean the oversubscription criteria set out below and not exceeding the published admission number. in the order in which applications are received or added to the list. Waiting lists for admission will False evidence operate throughout the school year. The waiting list The governing body reserves the right to withdraw will be held open until the last day of the summer the offer of a place or, where a student is already term. Inclusion on the school’s waiting list does not attending the school, the place itself, where it is mean that a place will eventually become available. satisfied that the offer or place was obtained by deception. In-Year Applications An application can be made for a place for a student Oversubscription Criteria (for external applicants) at any time outside the admission round and the Where there are more applications for places than student will be admitted where there are available the number of places available, places will be places. Applications should be made to the school by offered according to the following order of priority. contacting Colette Hogarth at The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College. Parents/ students First priority in each category will be given to will be advised of the outcome of their application in students who will have a sibling attending the school writing. in September 2020.
Where there are places available but more 1. Looked after and previously looked after applications than places, the published students (see notes 2 and 3). oversubscription criteria, as set out above, will be applied. 2. Other Catholic students (see note 3).
If there are no places available, a request can be 3. Catechumens and members of an Eastern made that the student is added to the waiting list Christian Church (see notes 4 and 5). (see above). 4. Students of other Christian denominations The parent has the right of appeal to an whose membership is evidenced by a minister or independent appeal panel. faith leader (see note 6).
Right of Appeal 5. Students of other faiths whose membership is Where a parent has been notified that a place is not evidenced by a minister or faith leader (see note available for a student, every effort will be made by 7). the local authority to help the parent to find a place in a suitable alternative school. Parents who are 6. Any other students. refused a place have a statutory right of appeal. Further details of the appeals process are available Tie Breaker by writing to the chair of governors at the school Where there are places available for some, but not address. all applicants within a particular criterion priority will be given to children living closest to the school Fair Access Protocol determined by the shortest distance. Distance will The school is committed to taking its fair share of be measured by a straight line distance students who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as measurement, from the (ordnance survey) address
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point for the child’s home to the (ordnance survey) 5. Eastern Christian Church includes Orthodox address point of the school, using the Local Churches, and is normally evidenced by a certificate Authority’s computerised measuring system. of baptism or reception from the authorities of that Church. Those who have difficulty obtaining written In the event of distances being the same for two or evidence of baptism or reception should contact the Diocese who will decide how the question of baptism more children where this would determine the last or reception is to be resolved and how written place to be allocated, random allocation will be evidence is to be produced in accordance with the carried out in a public place and supervised by a law of the Church. person independent of the school. 6. Students of other Christian denominations means Notes and definitions students who belong to other churches and ecclesial communities which, acknowledge God’s revelation in 1. An Education, Health and Care Plan is a plan made Christ, confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and by the local authority under section 37 of the Saviour according to the Scriptures, and, in obedience Children and Families Act 2014, specifying the special to God’s will and in the power of the Holy Spirit educational provision required for a student. commit themselves: to seek a deepening of their communion with Christ and with one another in the 2. A looked after student has the same meaning as in Church, which is his body; and to fulfil their mission section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and means to proclaim the Gospel by common witness and any student who is (a) in the care of a local authority service in the world to the glory of the one God, or (b) being provided with accommodation by them Father, Son and Holy Spirit. An ecclesial community in the exercise of their social services functions (e.g. which on principle has no credal statements in its students with foster parents) at the time of making tradition, is included if it manifests faith in Christ as application to the school. witnessed to in the Scriptures and is committed to working in the spirit of the above. A previously looked after student is a student who was looked after, but ceased to be so because he or All members of Churches Together in England and she was adopted, or became subject to a child CYTÛN are deemed to be included in the above arrangements order or special guardianship order. definition, as are all other churches and ecclesial communities that are in membership of any local 3. ‘Catholic’ means a member of a Church in full Churches Together Group (by whatever title) on the communion with the See of Rome. This includes the above basis. Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be evidenced by a certificate of baptism in a Catholic Applicants must provide a baptismal certificate or Church or a certificate of reception into the full where child baptism is not practised, a letter communion of the Catholic Church. For the purposes confirming their church membership from their of this policy, it includes a looked after child living minister or faith leader. with a family where at least one of the parents is Catholic. 7. Students of other faiths means students who are members of a religious community that does not fall For a child to be treated as Catholic, evidence of within the definition of ‘other Christian Catholic baptism or reception into the Church will be denominations’ at 6 above and which falls within the required. Those who have difficulty obtaining written definition of a religion for the purposes of charity law. evidence of baptism should contact their Parish Priest The Charities Act 2011 defines religion to include: who, after consulting with the Diocese, will decide how the question of baptism is to be resolved and . A religion which involves belief in more than one how written evidence is to be produced in God, and accordance with the law of the Church. . A religion which does not involve belief in a God.
4. Catechumen means a member of the catechumenate Case law has identified certain characteristics which of a Catholic Church. For the purposes of admissions describe the meaning of religion for the purposes of this refers to the student on whose behalf the charity law, which are characterised by a belief in a application is being made. This will normally be supreme being and an expression of belief in that evidenced by a certificate of reception into the order supreme being through worship. of catechumens.
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Applicants must provide a letter of support to or sisters, foster brothers or sisters, whether or confirm their faith membership from their minister or not they are living at the same address; and faith leader. (ii) the child of a parent’s partner where that child lives for at least part of the week in the same 8. A child’s “home address” refers to the address where family unit at the same home address as the child the child usually lives with a parent or carer, and will who is the subject of the application. be the address provided in the Common Application Form (“CAF”). Where parents have shared 10. A parent means all natural parents, any person who responsibility for a child, and the child lives for part of is not a parent but has parental responsibility for a the week with each parent, the home address will be student, and any person who has care of a student the address given in the CAF, provided that the child (having care of a student means that the student lives resides at that address for any part of the school with and is looked after by that person). week. This policy should be read in conjunction with the 9. Sibling includes: local authority’s admission guidance for parents.
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Definitions in relation to admissions criteria The following terms used throughout this booklet are defined as follows, except where individual arrangements spell out a different definition.
Looked After Child - A ‘looked after child’ is a child system, with those living closer to the school who is in the care of the local authority or provided receiving the higher priority. with accommodation by that authority – as required by the Education (Admission of Looked After Medical Grounds/Exceptional Circumstances - A Children) (England) Regulations 2006. panel of specialist officers will determine whether the evidence provided is sufficiently compelling to Sibling - Sibling refers to brother or sister, half meet the requirements for this criterion. If you think brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, step your child has a particular medical or social need to brother or sister, or the child of the go to a certain school, you must provide supporting parent/guardian’s partner, and in every case, the evidence from a doctor, psychologist or other child should be living in the same family unit at the professional involved with your child. The same address. In all cases the responsible parent supporting evidence must relate specifically to the will hold the child benefit for those children school you are claiming medical grounds/ permanently living at that address. A brother or exceptional circumstances for, and clearly sister living at the same address must be attending demonstrate why it is only that school that can meet the preferred school at the same time as the child your child’s needs in a way that no other school can. who is applying. Please note - this criteria only If you are applying on-line for a place under this applies to siblings who are of compulsory school age, criterion, please send your supporting evidence to not younger siblings who attend a nursery setting the Admissions Team by the closing date, which attached to a school. should include your child’s name and date of birth.
Twins or multiple birth children - For community NB: Exceptional social reasons do not, in the view of and voluntary controlled schools, if one of your the Authority, include domestic inconvenience children is offered the last place available at a school arising from parents’ work patterns, child- and you have applied for the same school for the minding problems, separation from particular other child(ren), we will offer a place for the other nursery/primary school friends. Problems of child(ren). Foundation and voluntary aided schools this kind are widespread and cannot be classed should have their own policies on the admittance of as exceptional. twins and multiple births. For further details please refer to the school’s admission criteria. Medical reasons do not include temporary conditions. They are permanent medical Distance - Distance will be measured by a straight conditions which require special treatment line distance measurement; from the (ordnance available at the preferred school only. Medical survey) address point of the child’s home address to evidence must be provided and the Authority’s the (ordnance survey) address point of the school, officers must be satisfied that the child would using the Local Authority’s computerised measuring suffer to a significant degree if he/she went to any other school.
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Additional information
In-year transfers (transfers outside the year application form (known as a MAF) is normal year of entry) available to download on our website www.hartlepool.gov.uk or by contacting the Hartlepool schools are very popular and it is not Admissions Team, contact details can be found always possible to offer you the place you want on page 94. for your child. We need a process to decide which children get a place when there are more When will I hear about my child’s application? applications than places available. These Transfers usually take 2-3 school weeks to arrangements must be fair and follow the organise, although during busy periods and requirements of School Admissions Code. school holidays this may be longer. We aim to Please refer to the school admissions criteria process the request within 10 working days of found within this booklet for more information receiving it. If a place is available at the on the schools you are interested in. requested school, the new school will make contact with parents to arrange admission. If Important information to know before you have not heard from us or the school within applying to transfer your child that time and wish to find out the progress of Please note school moves can be disruptive to your application, please contact the Admissions your child’s education and should be a last Team on 01429 284368. Your application may resort. Before applying for a transfer please be delayed if you do not provide the required ensure that you discuss your intentions with documentation or complete the form correctly. your child’s current Headteacher. If you still wish to go ahead with a transfer following Which schools have vacancies? discussions with the school, please complete an Many Hartlepool schools will already be full and In-year school transfer form (MAF) and submit may only have occasional vacancies when a to the Admissions Team. child leaves. As vacancies are filled regularly, any information you receive regarding What is an In Year admission? availability is only valid at the time of enquiry. If An In Year Admission is when a child already a school has a vacancy when you enquire, you attends a school but wishes to transfer to may not be offered that place if the vacancy is another school outside of the usual transfer filled by an earlier applicant, or the school has a time eg the move from primary to secondary waiting list in operation. To check availability, school. This is usually because the child is please contact the Admissions Team on 01429 moving to a different address but can be for 284368. other reasons as well. These transfers usually take place during the academic year which is How many schools can I apply for? why they are referred to as In Year Admissions. Parents can express up to three preferences.
What happens if I cannot be offered a place at How can I make an In Year application? the school I want? Changing schools is not always the best way If your child cannot be offered a place, you will forward. If after speaking to the Headteacher at be informed of your right of appeal and also your child’s current school you are still advised about waiting lists. Waiting lists are interested in an alternative school, an ordered in accordance with the school’s application form needs to be completed. The In published admission criteria.
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Fair Access Protocol childminder and the hours can be split across more than one setting. Hartlepool Local Authority operates a Fair Access Protocol, in line with the School Admissions Code, to Each nursery works differently - some of the school ensure that (outside the normal admissions round) nurseries offer a fixed morning or afternoon place, unplaced children, especially the most vulnerable, other nurseries can be flexible and offer full days. are offered a place at a suitable school as soon as Some schools will be offering 30 hours per week possible. The Fair Access Protocol is separate to the from September. Please contact the school nursery in-year admission arrangements and is triggered to find out what they can offer. You should contact when a parent of an eligible child has not secured a the school direct to make enquiries about gaining a school place under in-year admission procedures. place for your child in the nursery. A child attending There is no duty for local/admission authorities to nursery is not entitled to assistance with transport. comply with parent preference when processing places via the Fair Access Protocol. Free educational places are also available at approved private nurseries and approved childminders. For further information, parents Admissions to nursery should contact the Children’s Hub on 01429 284284.
Special Educational Needs Admission to a nursery attached to a primary school Children over 3 years of age with special educational does not guarantee a place for your child in the needs will be admitted to a mainstream nursery with reception class at that school. parental consent. This is subject to agreement with
the headteacher of the school concerned and If a school’s nursery provision is oversubscribed, subject to detailed discussions with parents and places will be allocated in accordance with the professionals involved to ensure that the needs of school’s criteria. the particular child are met within the mainstream
setting, some with additional support. Over the last Every primary school in Hartlepool has a nursery few years, mainstream nurseries have developed class attached to it. their skills and knowledge to meet the needs of
children with significant special educational needs. Children are usually admitted to nursery at the beginning of the term after their third birthday if there is space and parents wish it. In some nurseries, however, the demand for places is high Transport and children may have to wait one or two terms until a place becomes available. Places are, Hartlepool covers a compact geographical area and however, available for all four year-olds. consequently many pupils live close to their nearest school and therefore do not require any travel All three and four year-olds are entitled to 15 hours arrangements. However it is the Authority’s a week. This is their Universal Entitlement. responsibility to make arrangements for all eligible* children to travel to and from school, ensuring they Some three and four year-old children of working travel in reasonable safety and comfort and arrive at parents may be entitled to an additional 15 hours school without stress or difficulty, so that they can per week. To see if you are entitled to this benefit from their education. additional 15 hours, parents must go online at www.childcarechoices.gov.uk where they will be We ensure that our drivers and passenger assistants given an eligibility code. The parent then takes this are all appropriately trained and have an enhanced code to the school/setting of their choice to arrange Disclosure and Barring check and that the vehicles their hours. These additional hours can be taken in a meet the necessary safety standards, including school, with a private provider or a registered fitting of seatbelts wherever possible.
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*Eligible children Children who need special transport arrangements Travel assistance will be provided free of charge for Free home-to-school travel will be provided in line those pupils of primary and secondary age, who with the policy set out above. We may provide reside within the Borough and who are travelling transport for your child if they are unable to walk over the statutory walking distance to/from the because of a disability or mobility problem, including main entrance of their nearest suitable school. temporary medical conditions (such as a broken Please note that in some instances the nearest limb). This will normally be agreed as part of the school may not be the partner school. statutory assessment process or when you provide relevant medical evidence to the Passenger The statutory walking distances are: Transport Services Team. 2 miles up to the age of 11 years (primary pupils); 3 miles from the age of 11 - 16 years (secondary Pupils going to residential special schools pupils). If your child goes to a residential special school, we will provide free transport, or a transport allowance, In the case of children who receive free school meals at half and full term holidays or as set out in the or whose parents receive their maximum level of Education, Health and Care (ONE) Plan. Working Tax Credit, we will provide travel assistance to: Other schools If your child goes to a school that is not the nearest . one of their 3 nearest qualifying schools, if that suitable school, you are responsible for the travel school is more than 2 but less than 6 miles from arrangements and costs (please see ‘eligible your child’s home; or children’ for exceptions). However, pupils who are . the nearest suitable school preferred because of not entitled to free transport may be offered a your religion or belief, where the school is more concessionary seat on a school bus if a spare seat is than 2 but less than 15 miles from your child’s available. Where such facilities are made available home. they will be at the discretion of the Local Authority, and will be subject to strict conditions and may be Measuring of routes withdrawn at any time. We measure the route from the front entrance of the home and nearest gate of the school using the Change of address shortest suitable walking route a child can walk, If during their school life, a pupil changes address accompanied if necessary, with reasonable and intends to continue at the same school, it is the safety. We take the measurement using an responsibility of the parent to ensure that the child electronic mapping system. attends school. The terms of section 444 (4 & 5) and section 509 (1 & 2) of the Education Act 1996 places For children who receive free school meals or whose no responsibility on the Local Authority to provide parents receive their maximum level of Working Tax home to school transport. Credit, the route will be measured as above for a journey of up to 2 miles, and by road for journeys Appeals procedures over 2 miles. If the Local Authority refuse to provide free home- to-school travel to your child, you can appeal against Safety of walked routes the decision. For further information contact the If we believe the route is not safe for your child to Passenger Transport Services Team who will provide walk, accompanied by an adult as necessary, we may details of the appeals process. provide transport under the minimum distance. We will assess how safe the route to walk to school is, if General Hartlepool Borough Council transport your child goes to the nearest suitable school to information your home address. Application forms can be obtained from www.hartlepool.gov.uk and further information about local transport in your area and route planning can be found at
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www.connectteesvalley.com, or you can contact Universal infant free school meals the Passenger Transport Services Team on 01429 Children who are in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2 will 523523, 523695 or 284382. qualify for Universal Infant Free School Meals. However anyone in receipt of one or more of the benefits listed above (including parents/guardians of children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2), should Meals and uniforms contact the Benefits Department on 01429 284188 to make their claim for Free School Meals. Free school meals If you successfully claim Free School Meals, Uniforms Hartlepool will receive extra money from All pupils are expected to attend school government to spend in our schools and colleges. appropriately dressed. To assist parents, some schools have adopted guidelines on clothing. Who can apply? Information regarding uniform policies can be found A person in receipt of one or more of the following in a school’s prospectus available from individual payments who has responsibility for a child or schools. children: Help with the cost of school uniform . Universal Credit. New applicants in receipt of The Children’s and Joint Commissioning Services Universal Credit must have a net income (take Department does not normally make any grants home pay) as assessed in their Universal Credit towards the provision of school uniform or other Award of less than £616.67 in a Universal Credit clothing for pupils. Parents who are in real Assessment period to qualify for Free School difficulties over the purchase of clothing for pupils Meals. can contact the individual school. . Income Support* . Income Based Job Seekers Allowance* Alternatively, the Children’s Hub has a free school . Income Related Employment and Support uniform recycling scheme with a range of good Allowance quality clothing in different colours and sizes. This . Child Tax Credit with annual income (as assessed includes primary and secondary school uniform for by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) of boys and girls. If you would like to access this £16,190 or less and are not entitled to Working scheme please contact the Children’s Hub on 01429 Tax Credit 284284. . Pension Credit . Support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 Special educational needs
* Please note that children who receive Income At some time in their school life, some children will Support, Income Based Job Seekers Allowance and need extra help with their learning. This will Income Based Employment Support Allowance in normally be provided within their own mainstream their own right can claim free school meals. school, in close consultation with parents and with the involvement of the Children’s and Joint How to apply? Commissioning Services Department’s special . Telephone 01429 284188 to make a claim; educational needs team, health personnel and staff . Complete an application form, which are from other agencies, as appropriate. available from schools or the Civic Centre. The form can be returned to school or to the Benefits Parents who would like further information Department, Level 2, Civic Centre, Victoria Road, regarding their child’s difficulties should contact Hartlepool, TS24 8AY; or their child’s headteacher in the first instance. Notes . Make an online application at for guidance on special educational needs are www.hartlepool.gov.uk/claim-free-school-meals available from staff in the Children’s and Joint
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Commissioning Services Department. The guidance assist parents in this process, the Authority can can also be found on the Local Authority website introduce someone who has knowledge of the www.hartlepool.gov.uk or the Local Offer procedures and can provide independent parental https://hartlepool.fsd.org.uk/send. support.
The provision made for pupils with special Pupils transferring with an Education, educational needs in mainstream school varies in Health and Care (EHC) Plan different authorities. Parents need to be aware of It is a legal requirement that children who have an this if they are considering expressing a preference Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan and who are for a school outside Hartlepool. in their last year in primary school to have their Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan reviewed in Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan the autumn term. The Children’s and Joint In exceptional circumstances the Children’s and Joint Commissioning Services Department will send a Commissioning Services Department may decide to representative to attend that review, which will start conduct a statutory assessment of an individual planning for the child’s secondary education. A pupil’s needs. Such an assessment will give parents parent of a child with an Education, Health and Care an opportunity to make their views known and will (EHC) Plan has the same opportunity as all parents involve the Children’s and Joint Commissioning to express a preference for their child to be Services Department in obtaining advice from a educated in a particular school. number of sources. If, when the assessment is complete, the Children’s and Joint Commissioning In some exceptional cases, the Education, Health Services Department decides to make an Education, and Care (EHC) Plan may include the name of the Health and Care (EHC) plan, parents will again be school in which the child should attend which may able to make their views known and to discuss with not be in accordance with parental wishes. officers how their child’s needs can best be met. To
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School Directory Admission zone maps can be accessed at Hartlepool Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL), all Hartlepool primary schools and libraries. KEY: Address; Telephone Number; E-mail Address
Primary Schools School Admission No. for School Code Status 2020 intake Barnard Grove Primary School 2310 Community 45 Barnard Grove, Hartlepool, TS24 9SD 01429 230300 Brougham Primary School 2090 Academy 45 Brougham Terrace, Hartlepool, TS24 8EY 01429 273663 Clavering Primary School 2238 Community 60 Clavering Road, Hartlepool, TS27 3PN 01429 422088 Eldon Grove Academy 2151 Academy 75 Eldon Grove, Hartlepool, TS26 9LY 01429 273895 Eskdale Academy 2002 Academy 30 Eskdale Road, Hartlepool, TS25 4AF 01429 272255 Fens Primary School 2187 Community 60 Mowbray Road, Hartlepool, TS25 2LY 01429 870405 Golden Flatts Primary School 2126 Community 30 Seaton Lane, Hartlepool, TS25 1HN 01429 274711 Grange Primary School 2364 Community 50 Owton Manor Lane, Hartlepool, TS25 3PU 01429 272007 Greatham C of E Primary School 3006 Voluntary 15 Egerton Terrace, Greatham, Hartlepool, TS25 2EU 01429 870254 Controlled Hart Primary School 2001 Academy 15 Magdalene Drive, Hart, Hartlepool, TS27 3AP 01429 273283 Holy Trinity C of E Primary School 3330 Academy 30 Crawford Street, Hartlepool, TS25 1BZ 01429 855620 Jesmond Gardens Primary School 2127 Academy 45 Jesmond Gardens, Hartlepool, TS24 8PJ 01429 274672 Kingsley Primary School 2189 Community 60 Taybrooke Avenue, Hartlepool, TS25 5JR 01429 273102 Lynnfield Primary School 2153 Community 55 Grosvenor Street, Hartlepool, TS26 8RL 01429 275122 Rift House Primary School 2341 Community 36 Masefield Road, Hartlepool, TS25 4JY 01429 275239 Rossmere Primary School 2342 Community 55 Catcote Road, Hartlepool, TS25 3JL 01429 274608 Sacred Heart RC Primary School 3321 Voluntary 60 Hart Lane, Hartlepool, TS26 8NL 01429 272684 Aided Springwell School 7027 Special N/A Catcote Road, Hartlepool, TS26 0TB 01429 280600 St Aidan’s Church of England Memorial Primary School 3320 Academy 50 Loyalty Road, Hartlepool, TS25 5BA 01429 273695 St Bega’s RC Primary School 3328 Voluntary 25 Thorpe Street, Hartlepool, TS24 0DX 01429 267768 Aided St Cuthbert’s RC Primary School 3322 Voluntary 40 Stratford Road, Hartlepool, TS25 5AJ 01429 275040 Aided St Helen’s Primary School 2211 Community 45 Durham Street, Hartlepool, TS24 0HG 01429 267038 St John Vianney RC Primary School 3329 Voluntary 30 King Oswy Drive, Hartlepool, TS24 9PA 01429 273273 Aided
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School Admission No. for School Code Status 2020 intake St Joseph’s RC Primary School 3323 Voluntary 24 Musgrave Street, Hartlepool, TS24 7HT 01429 272747 Aided St Peter’s Elwick C of E Primary School 3003 Academy 15 North Lane, Elwick, Hartlepool, TS27 3EG 01429 274904 St Teresa’s RC Primary School 3324 Voluntary 45 Callander Road, Hartlepool, TS25 3BG 01429 274936 Aided Stranton Primary School 2156 Academy 50 Southburn Terrace, Hartlepool, TS25 1SQ 01429 275595 Throston Primary School 2236 Community 60 Flint Walk, Hartlepool, TS26 0TJ 01429 288291 Ward Jackson C of E VA Primary School 2000 Voluntary 25 Clark Street, Hartlepool, TS24 7LE 01429 293777 Aided West Park Primary School 2237 Academy 45 Coniscliffe Road, Hartlepool, TS26 0BU 01429 282090 West View Primary School 2215 Academy 60 Davison Drive, Hartlepool, TS24 9BP 01429 267466
Secondary Schools School Admission No. for School Code Status 2020 intake Catcote School 7026 Special / N/A Catcote Road, Hartlepool, TS25 4EZ 01429 264036 Academy Dyke House Sports and Technology College 4001 Academy 250 Mapleton Road, Hartlepool, TS24 8NQ 01429 266377 High Tunstall College of Science 4133 Foundation 270 Elwick Road, Hartlepool, TS26 0LQ 01429 261446 Manor Community Academy 4002 Academy 250 Owton Manor Lane, Hartlepool, TS25 3PS 01429 288338 St Hild’s Church of England VA School 4000 Voluntary 190 King Oswy Drive, Hartlepool, TS24 9PB 01429 273041 Aided The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College 4603 Academy 270 Catcote Road, Hartlepool, TS25 4HA 01429 273790
Atypical Establishments School Website Career College North East www.ccne.co.uk c/o South Tyneside College, Westoe Campus, St Georges Avenue, South Shields, NE34 6ET 0191 427 3500
North East Futures UTC www.nefuturesutc.co.uk Forth Road, Stephenson Quarter, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3AS 0191 917 9888 UTC South Durham www.utcsouthdurham.org Long Tens Way, Aycliffe Business Park, County Durham, DL5 6AP 01325 430250
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Post-16 Education School Website The Sixth Form at Dyke House College www.thesixthformatdykehouse.com Mapleton Road, Hartlepool, TS24 8NQ 01429 266377 The English Martyrs Sixth Form College www.emshartlepool.org Catcote Road, Hartlepool, TS25 4HA 01429 273790 Cleveland College of Art & Design www.hartlepool.ccad.ac.uk Church Square, Hartlepool, TS24 7EX 01429 422000 Hartlepool College of Further Education www.hartlepoolfe.ac.uk Stockton Street, Hartlepool, TS24 7LB 01429 295000
Hartlepool Sixth Form College www.hpoolsfc.ac.uk Brinkburn, Blakelock Road, Hartlepool, TS25 5PF 01429 294444
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Useful contacts KEY: Address; Telephone Number; E-mail Address Hartlepool Borough Council School Admissions School Admissions, Hartlepool Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL), Brierton Lane, Hartlepool, TS25 4AF Primary Admissions - 01429 523765 Secondary Admissions - 01429 523768 In Year School Transfers - 01429 284368 [email protected] or [email protected] (secure e-mail) Free School Meals 01429 284188 Integrated Transport Team 01429 523523, 523695 or 284382 Special Educational Needs (SEND) Team 01429 284143 [email protected] The Children’s Hub 01429 284284
Other Local Authorities Darlington Borough Council School Admissions, Children, Families and Learning, People Services, Darlington Borough Council, Town Hall, Darlington, DL1 5QT 01325 406333 [email protected] Durham County Council School Places and Admissions Team, Durham County Council, Children and Young People’s Services, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UJ 03000 265896 [email protected] Middlesbrough Borough Council School Admissions, Third Floor, Middlesbrough House, 50 Corporation Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 2RH 01642 201889, 01642 201890 or 01642 201856 [email protected] Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council School Admissions, Redcar & Cleveland House, Cooper Centre, Kirkleatham Street, Redcar, TS10 1RT 01642 837740, 01642 837730, 01642 837702, 01642 201891 [email protected] Stockton Borough Council School Admissions Section, Children, Education & Social Care, Municipal Buildings, Church Road, Stockton on Tees, TS18 1XE 01642 526605 [email protected]
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Glossary You may come across some words you’re not familiar with or abbreviations you’ve not seen before. This is a list of some common words and abbreviations and definitions.
Academy - A state school which is funded direct by central Maintained school - A state school funded by central government. Academies do not have to follow the National government through the local authority – a school which Curriculum. does not charge fees. Admission Arrangements - All the procedures, criteria and Net Capacity – The net capacity of a school is the total publications which must be put in place by an admission number of pupil places available. authority in order to process applications for admission to Offer Day – The day each year in which an authority’s single school. These arrangements determine whether a child is offer of a primary/secondary school place is communicated eligible for admission to a school. to parents with the co-ordinated scheme. Admission Number – The number of pupils in any relevant Ofsted – Office for Standards in Education – a government age group intended to be admitted in any school year as agency that inspects schools and childcare services and determined by an admissions authority. reports on their standards. Admissions Authority – The body responsible for Oversubscribed – Where the number of applications for a determining the admissions arrangements for a school. This year group in an admissions year exceeds the admission can be the Local Authority or, for some schools, the number. governing body. PAN - Published admission number Admissions Criteria – The rules, which govern who should Preference – Parent(s) must be able to indicate which and should not be offered a place at an oversubscribed school(s) they would prefer their child to attend and to give school. reasons for their preference(s). Admission Year – The school year to which the admission Private (or Independent) school - A fee-paying school. arrangements apply. Prospectus – a booklet produced by the school which Appeal – Where a parent is not offered a place for their child includes detailed information about the school such as at a school for which they have expressed a preference, they subjects, uniform, class sizes, school times, contact numbers, have a legal right for their preference to be further behaviour, attendance and bullying policies, etc. considered by an independent panel. Ranking – The order in which parents have to list their three Children Looked After - Children who are “in care” to social preferences on the Common Application Form to enable the services. Authority to determine the single offer of a school place. Common Application Form – The form to be used by parents SEN - Special Educational Needs – where a child has on which they are required to express preferences for particular needs affecting their education. schools and give reasons for those preferences. It is referred Special school - A school particularly designed for children to as common because it allows parents to name schools for with a statement of special educational needs or education, different authorities. health and care (ONE) plan who need specialist educational Co-ordinated Admission Scheme – This is the method for facilities/provision. determining, from potential offers of school places, which is Statement of Special Educational Needs or Education, going to be the single offer of a place communicated to Health and Care (ONE) Plan - A document produced by the parents. council for children with significant learning difficulties. Not Community Schools – These schools follow the admission all children with special educational needs will have a rules set by the Local Authority. They provide free statement or education, health and care (ONE) plan. education. Studio Schools – are a new type of government-funded state Curriculum - What is taught in schools – the different school for 14-19 year olds. subjects children learn. University Technical Colleges (UTCs) – are schools for 14-19 Foundation Schools – These schools are funded through year olds, offering education that combines technical, their local council. They make their own arrangements for practical and academic learning. admissions but co-ordinate their secondary transfer process Voluntary Aided - A school (often a faith school) where the with the Local Authority. They provide free education. governors are responsible for admissions. They provide free Home Local Authority – The borough where your child lives. education. LA - Local Authority – the legal name for the role carried out Voluntary Controlled - A school (usually a church school) by Hartlepool Borough Council dealing with education and where the local authority is responsible for admissions. They schools. provide free education.
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