Admission to primary and secondary schools
Information for parents 2019/20
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Admission to primary and secondary schools • Information for parents 2019/20 Application information Key dates for admissions process
Secondary Transfer 2019
Monday 10 September 2018 – Application process starts Primary schools Wednesday 31 October 2018 – Applications closing date Friday 4 January 2019 – Any changes to the application e.g. address change and subsequent preference changes may be considered up until this date Friday 4 January 2019 – Late applications received after closing date can be requested to be considered on time with evidence of significant and exceptional circumstances for the late application up until this date Friday 1 March 2019 – National Offer Day* Transfer to Junior 2019 Monday 10 September 2018 – Application process starts
Tuesday 15 January 2019 – Applications closing date Secondary schools Friday 1 March 2019 – Any changes to the application e.g. address change and subsequent preference changes may be considered up until this date Friday 1 March 2019 – Late applications received after closing date can be requested to be considered on time with evidence of significant and exceptional circumstances for the late application up until this date Tuesday 16 April 2019 – National Offer Day* Starting School 2019 Monday 5 November 2018 – Application process starts Tuesday 15 January 2019 – Applications closing date Friday 1 March 2019 – Any changes to the application e.g. address change and subsequent preference
changes may be considered up until this date Useful information Friday 1 March 2019 – Late applications received after closing date can be requested to be considered on time with evidence of significant and exceptional circumstances for the late application up until this date Tuesday 16 April 2019 – National Offer Day*
* National Offer Day – Emails sent for online applicants. Letters sent to paper applicants and online applicants requesting a letter. Allocations cannot be notified over the phone.
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Contents Application information
Key dates for admissions process...... 3 Dear parent or carer...... 5 How to use this book...... 6 Transfer to secondary school September 2019/20 open evenings...... 7 Equal preference flow chart...... 8 Applying for a school place...... 9 Primary schools The admissions process...... 13 Schools and admissions policies...... 21 Infant, primary and junior schools admissions policies...... 22 Secondary school admissions policies...... 39 Guide to criteria and additional information on admission policies...... 52 List of schools (Infant / Junior / Primary)...... 55 List of schools (Secondary)...... 59 Secondary school catchment areas...... 60 Feeder schools chart...... 61 Infant, junior and primary school allocation breakdown for 2018 intake...... 62 Secondary schools Secondary school allocation breakdown for 2018 intake...... 66 Independent appeal statistics...... 68 Useful information...... 71 2019/20 Academic year groups ...... 77 Interpreting support for parents...... 78 Useful contacts...... 79 Summary of how to apply for a starting school place or a junior school place...... 80 Summary of how to apply for a secondary school place...... 81 Useful information
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Dear parent or carer If you have any questions or concerns, please contact either the school you have applied to
We are delighted that you are considering sending Primary schools or the Admissions Team via the Helpdesk at the your child to a Portsmouth school in September Civic Offices on 023 9268 8008 who will be 2019. happy to help you. Portsmouth City Council is committed to working in Your child’s time at school is precious and vital close co-operation with school staff, governors and to their success in life. We wish your child parents to make sure that all children in Portsmouth every success. have an exciting, rewarding and successful experience in school. To this end we are ambitious for Portsmouth’s children and we are working with schools: • to improve exam results for all pupils • to help ensure all schools are rated good
and as many as possible rated outstanding Councillor Suzy Horton Secondary schools Cabinet Member for Education • to improve pupils’ attendance at school As a parent or carer you have an important role to play in your child’s education. Your support is crucial to make sure they attend school regularly. Your child’s school will also be keen to help you support your child in their learning. We strongly encourage you to ask questions and make sure Alison Jeffery you have the information you need from the Director of Children’s Services school to help you do this as well as you can. In this booklet you will find: • the application and admission process for infant,
primary, junior and secondary schools Useful information • the admission policies for infant, junior, primary and secondary schools • general information
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How to use this book Application information
This book contains information for primary and secondary school admission applications. The information has been colour coded to help you find the relevant sections easily. Information relevant to all applications is contained in the blue sections titled ‘Application information’.
Primary schools Information relating to primary schools only is contained in the green sections titled ‘Primary schools’. Information relating to secondary schools only is contained in the pink sections titled ‘Secondary schools’.
Useful information and contact details. Secondary schools Useful information
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Priory School Mayfield School
Thursday 20 September 2018 (secondary section) Primary schools From 6.00pm to 8.00pm Wednesday 3 October 2018 Castle View Academy From 6.30pm (formerly King Richard School) Admiral Lord Nelson School Tuesday 25 September 2018 Thursday 4 October 2018 From 6.00pm to 7.30pm From 6.30pm to 8.30pm Trafalgar School The Portsmouth Academy Wednesday 26 September 2018 Tuesday 9 October 2018 Secondary schools From 5.30pm to 8.30pm From 6.00pm to 8.00pm Miltoncross Academy Charter Academy Wednesday 17 October 2018 Thursday 27 September 2018 From 5.00pm From 5.30pm to 8.00pm UTC Portsmouth St Edmund’s Catholic School (University Technical College) Tuesday 2 October 2018 For entry into Year 10 2019 From 6.00pm to 8.00pm Wednesday 26 September 2018 From 5.00pm to 7.00pm Springfield School Useful information Wednesday 3 October 2018 Saturday 29 September 2018 From 6.00pm to 8.00pm From 10.00am to 12.00pm Open college 1 – 5 October 2018
For infant, junior and primary schools please check school’s websites or contact schools see pages 55 – 58.
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Equal preference flow chart (This is how school places are allocated) Application information
All preferences are put in to each school’s pot
All preferences are ranked The admissions policies with the criteria are on against the criteria of the pages 22 – 54, as well as information regarding admissions policies of each the pattern of applications the previous year on Primary schools preferred school. Your preference pages 62 – 67. order is not used at this stage
Once ranked against the criteria For example: you may be a regular worshipping in the admission policies, Catholic applying for a Catholic school and be provisional offers are made for offered that school, you may also have applied for your catchment school and be offered that school, each school up to the number of you may have applied for an undersubscribed school places available (PAN). school where you have no criteria and be offered, Again your preference order is ending up with three potential offers at this stage. not used at this stage Secondary schools
At this stage some applicants may end up with more than one Example A. You have not been offered school provisionally offered. preference 1 but have been provisionally offered Now your preference order is preference 2 and preference 3. The LA must discard preference 3, offer (allocate) preference 2 used. By law we must offer your and invite you to join the waiting list for highest possible preference. preference 1 for which you have been Any school places no longer unsuccessful. needed (the lower preference Example B. You have been provisionally offered schools) are returned to the all three preferences. The LA must discard Useful information preferences 2 and 3 and offer (allocate) school’s pot to be further preference 1. allocated to other applicants
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Co-ordinated admissions process • transferring to junior school (Year 2 to 3), and
Portsmouth City Council (PCC) and other local • transferring to secondary school (Year 6 to 7) Primary schools authorities (LAs) are required to take part in a • transferring to Year 10 at UTC Portsmouth cross-border co-ordinated admission scheme for (see page 50). Applications direct to the UTC main round admissions. This allows parents to Non – Portsmouth residents should contact their complete one application form from their home home local authority or visit their website for local authority, regardless of the school and the area information on applying for a school and the they wish to apply for a place in. admissions process. This is known as a ‘Common Application Form’ (CAF). Portsmouth operates an ‘Equal Preference’ In-year applications admissions scheme (see flow chart opposite) in line with government requirements. Further information If you wish to apply for a school place at any other is contained in the ‘How are places allocated?’ time, please look at the information sheet ‘In-year applications – applying for a school place at other
section on pages 13 – 14. Secondary schools times during the school year’ and the ‘Admission to primary and secondary schools – information for How to contact us parents 2018 – 19’ booklet. • Admissions Team For all Portsmouth schools and academies (except St Portsmouth City Council Edmund’s Catholic School) applications are made to Civic Offices Portsmouth City Council – Admissions. Guildhall Square These are available on our website Portsmouth (www.portsmouth.gov.uk/schooladmissions) or PO1 2EA on request from the Admissions Team. • Tel: 023 9268 8008 via city Helpdesk • Email: [email protected] Closing dates and allocation dates
There are different closing dates and allocation Useful information How to apply for a school dates for starting school applications/junior transfer As part of a co-ordinated admission scheme, applications and secondary transfer applications. parents need to complete only one application form The closing date for secondary transfer applications for each child. is Wednesday 31 October 2018 and allocation You can either apply online or by completing a date for these applications is Friday 1 March 2019. paper application form. This booklet provides The closing date for starting school and junior transfer information for Portsmouth residents: applications is Tuesday 15 January 2019 and the • applying for starting school allocation date for these applications is Tuesday 16 April 2019.
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Applying online Application forms
Secondary transfer Portsmouth residents If for any reason you are unable to apply online you From Monday 10 September 2018 until can obtain an application form from us or from any Wednesday 31 October 2018 you can apply online infant, primary or junior school in Portsmouth. You at www.portsmouth.gov.uk/schooladmissions may use this form to apply for any school whether it is in your own or another local authority area.
Primary schools Junior transfers From Monday 10 September 2018 until Tuesday You can download and print a form from the 15 January 2019 you can apply online at council website – address below. www.portsmouth.gov.uk/schooladmissions Non – Portsmouth residents Starting School Non – Portsmouth residents who wish their child to attend a Portsmouth school need to contact their From Monday 5 November 2018 until Tuesday home local authority for an application pack. See 15 January 2019 you can apply online at contact details on page 79. www.portsmouth.gov.uk/schooladmissions All you need is access to the Internet and an email Starting school address. If you don’t have access to the Internet at home you can access the Internet at any city library Portsmouth residents or at the civic offices. Parents who have children starting school should
Secondary schools apply online or request an application form from What are the benefits of applying online? the council OR from the nearest infant or primary • quick and easy school. Application forms will be available from Monday 5 November 2018. • you can make changes to your application up to the closing date Please contact us again (see page 9) if you do not receive your form within two weeks of your • no risk of the application getting lost in the post request. • an email acknowledgement of your application For information on when your child has to start as soon as you have submitted it school please see page 71. • an email advising you of the outcome of your application on allocation day • facility to accept your allocated place straight away
Useful information • links to other useful information and websites
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Transferring from Infant to You must apply under the in-year process (see ‘In-year applications’ on page 9).
Junior School Primary schools As children attending primary schools automatically Portsmouth residents whose child currently move into year 3, we will not know whether there attends a Portsmouth infant school are vacancies until later in the summer term after In September you will receive a letter via your child’s the allocation date for junior schools. Therefore if infant school advising you how to apply. your child is in an infant school you are strongly advised to apply for a junior place for your child to Portsmouth residents whose child currently ensure they have a school place for Year 3 as well as attends a school outside Portsmouth applying for a primary school through the in-year process. In September you will receive a letter advising you how to apply. Where can I get help to complete the application?
Transferring to secondary school If you require help or would like advice about Secondary schools completing your application please contact us. Portsmouth residents whose child currently attends a Portsmouth school What are my rights? In September you will receive a letter via your child’s school advising you how to apply. You have the right to express a preference for a school. However, this is not a free and open-ended Portsmouth residents whose child currently choice. The law says that the local authority and attends a school outside Portsmouth admission authority for the school must comply with your preference unless it would prejudice the ‘efficient In September you will receive a letter advising you education and the efficient use of resources’. how to apply. Whether or not a place can be offered will depend upon the number of other applicants who want places
Transferring from an infant school at the school, the criteria for your child and other Useful information (Year 2) to a primary/all through applicants, and the number of places available. school (Year 3) If a place is not offered at any of your preferred You cannot apply for a place in year 3 for a schools, your child’s name will automatically be primary school as a junior transfer application added to the waiting list for the schools. You will (except for 15 places in Year 3 at Copnor Primary then be asked to confirm if you wish to remain on School and 30 places in Year 3 any waiting lists. You also have a right to appeal to at Mayfield All Through School), which are an independent panel. allocated through the junior transfer process.
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You can use pages 62 – 67 as a guide to It is important when applying for a school place: expressing realistic preferences based on your • to understand the order in which places are individual criteria for a school. allocated if a school is oversubscribed by reading How should I decide on my the admission policy for the school preferred schools? • to be aware of your designated catchment school and consider whether this needs to be Parents submit only one application form stating up one of your preferences (it doesn’t have to be to six preferences. If parents submit more than Primary schools your first preference school). Please note that one application then the application with the transport assistance can only be considered if latest date will be used as the admissions you have applied for, and been refused a place at application. It is therefore important to gain as your catchment school. Your child will not be much information as you can to decide which considered for a place at your catchment school school to put on your application. unless it is one of your preferences. Contact schools direct for a copy of their individual prospectus or view their website (see pages 55 to Who can apply? 59) and for dates of any open days or evenings (see page 7 for secondary open evenings). Applications must be made by a parent or carer Copies of inspection reports by the Office for who holds legal parental responsibility for a child. Standards in Education (OFSTED) are available from Only one application should be made per child. Any schools, libraries and from the OFSTED website dispute will have to be resolved between the parties www.ofsted.gov.uk School performance tables before the LA can process the application. Secondary schools can also be viewed on the Department for We will only be able to communicate with the Education (DfE) website www.education.gov.uk applicant. In the case of a split family, the applicant You need to be aware that many schools in the is responsible for informing others of the application city are oversubscribed and this is important to details and outcome. remember when deciding on your preferred schools. In previous years, at a number of schools in Portsmouth, it has not been possible to meet all preferences. If a school is oversubscribed by the number of applications for places available, the admission policy is used to allocate the places. When considering your preferred schools, you are strongly advised to look at the school’s admission policy criteria and consider which Useful information category you would come under.
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Proof of address catchment is a higher criteria than feeder. This is the same for many of the junior/ We will check the address on your application primary schools who are feeders for Primary schools against the records we hold for your child’s current secondary schools. school/nursery and against council tax records. We may also require you to submit proof of address !! For children starting school, attendance at a including council tax bills, utility bills, signed nursery – even on a school’s premises – is not tenancy agreement or other specified address a criterion and does not guarantee a place evidence on request. in the school.
What are my chances of getting How are places allocated? my preferred school place? We use an ‘Equal Preference Scheme’. This means at the first stage, each of your preferences is This can be difficult to assess as the pattern of considered for that school regardless of your applications changes from year to year for each preference order. If a school is oversubscribed by school. It would be unwise to assume that your Secondary schools the number of applications, places will be allocated child is guaranteed a place at a particular school strictly according to the admission criteria stated in based upon the pattern of applications in previous the admission policy for that school. If a school is years. Generally, if a school has been oversubscribed under subscribed then places can be offered to all you will need to consider if your child would meet applicants. any of the admission policy criteria and the priority of that criterion. If we are able to potentially offer a place at more than one of your preferences, the place will be allocated For information on previous years’ applications see at the school which you have ranked the highest. pages 62 – 67. If a place cannot be offered at any of the preferred !! Living in the catchment area does not schools, a place will be offered at the catchment guarantee a place in a school. area school (if places remain available), or the !! A sibling link at the preferred school does next nearest school with places available. Parents
not guarantee a place. will also be advised of alternative schools with Useful information !! If your child is transferring from infant to places available at that time. Please refer to the junior school or to a secondary school, they ‘Equal preference flow chart’ on page 8. are not guaranteed a place if they attend Please do not name the same school more than a linked feeder school (see page 61 for once as this will not increase your chance of feeder schools). obtaining a place at the school and will limit your !! If you are successful in gaining a place at an number of preferences. infant school which is not your catchment If you do not apply to your catchment area school, you may not gain a future place school as one of your preferences, you will not at the junior school that it feeds into if automatically be offered a place there if you
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are unsuccessful with your other preferences Informal residence arrangements / (as your catchment area school may already temporary addresses have filled with preference requests). You need to consider whether your catchment school Informal residence arrangements with family should be one of your preferences. and friends or temporary addresses will not generally be accepted unless there are exceptional Please be aware that you may not be eligible circumstances, for which independent supporting for transport assistance to school if you have evidence will be required, as specified by the
Primary schools not applied for your catchment school. authority.
What is an admission policy? What happens if I move house during the application process? Each school in the city has an admission policy. The policy will describe the order in which places are Where families are moving home or have moved allocated when there are more applications than recently, it will be necessary to prove that the new places i.e. if a school is oversubscribed. address is their main dwelling. Parents will need to produce evidence to confirm occupancy, for The admission policies are on pages 22 to 54. example: a) that contracts have been exchanged for the Home address for allocation purchase of a residential property The address used in the admissions allocation b) details of a lease on such a property or proof process is the child’s permanent residential address of tenancy
Secondary schools on the closing date. c) council tax bill AND gas, electric or water/ Only one address can be used on the application sewage bill form and considered as your child’s residence for allocation purposes. The address used on the application form must be the child’s permanent address on the application Children residing within a split family closing date – Wednesday 31 October 2018 for secondary transfer applicants, and Parents must nominate one of their addresses as the Tuesday 15 January 2019 for starting school and child’s address for the application if the child spends junior transfer applicants. Future addresses will part of the week with each parent. This must be the be taken into account for the admissions process address of a parent not another family member. if you have exchanged contracts on a property Address checks will be carried out and we may or signed a lease rental agreement before Friday require further evidence (see page 15). In the 4 January 2019 for secondary applications and event of a dispute, the LA will determine residence Friday 1 March 2019 for starting school and Useful information based on the information it holds and/or where the junior transfer applications, but you must contact child benefit is paid. The same address will be used us to advise us of your change of address and for subsequent applications and waiting lists. provide evidence as stated above. If we receive
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information from the child’s school or other Children of UK service personnel sources that your address has changed before the start of the allocation process, we will For service families moving into the area a letter Primary schools update the address for allocation purposes from the Drafting Officer or an MOD 1132 will which may impact on the criteria for your be sufficient providing it is received by Friday preferred schools. 4 January 2019 for secondary applications or by Friday 1 March 2019 for starting school and junior Parents who are moving house but who are unable transfer applications. Please ensure you indicate on to provide evidence of this move by the closing date your application that you are a service family. This are advised to submit their application on time is important even if you are applying for a school/s using their current address and address evidence. which do not give priority for children eligible for The local authority will then amend the application service premium. to the new address, if the relevant evidence is received by Friday 4 January 2019 for secondary If you are making a late application, see page 17. applications or by Friday 1 March 2019 for starting
school and transfer to junior applications. However, Evidence requests and false Secondary schools if evidence is received after this date, as the information allocation process will have begun, the allocation will be based on the previous address. If your Evidence supplied at the request of the Admissions application is unsuccessful, your new address will be Team must be recent. Evidence must be received by used if you confirm you wish to remain on the the required date. school’s waiting list. It is the parent’s responsibility If requests for evidence are not responded to by to ensure the evidence is received by us by the dates the required date, the application will either not be specified. considered under that criterion or, if a change of We will determine the matter of residence, if address, the application may be considered using necessary, and must be satisfied with the evidence the old address. provided for an address to be accepted for the Checks are made on the information provided and purpose of a child’s admission to school. Admissions we will also investigate any allegations of fraud
staff will also verify addresses by checking council including using a false address. If it is established that Useful information tax records and by requesting further address fraudulent or misleading information has been used evidence direct from parents. We may make further in order to gain a place at a school, the law allows checks if claimed addresses, including temporary local authorities to withdraw places. An example of addresses, cause concern. Please note places can false information would be the use of an address be withdrawn if the address given is not the which is not the child’s normal residence. A child’s child’s permanent residence. place may be withdrawn even if the child has started at the school. If the child were allowed to remain at the school, any subsequent children within the same
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household would not benefit from the sibling link !! Failure to apply on time will seriously affect criterion. your child’s chances of being offered a place at your preferred school. !! It is an offence to give false information to obtain a place at a school. Applying online Pupils with an Education Health You will receive an email confirming that you have and Care Plan (EHCP) applied. If you do not receive an email you may Primary schools not have submitted your application. Please go If a child has a Education Health and Care back into your application and submit, or check Plan (previously known as statement of special your spam/junk/trash folder before contacting the educational needs) the local authority has a legal Admissions Team. duty to consult with the governing body of the parent’s preferred school to determine if the school can meet those needs. Where do I return my application The admission limit of each school includes the number form? of EHCPs. These applicants are usually allocated places before the mainstream application process is Applications for children starting school completed. However, if the EHCP is not completed If you are unable to apply online, you can complete until after allocation day, the law requires the a paper application form and return it to your first named school to admit these children over number preference school if it’s a Portsmouth school. The if necessary. school will send it to us via the internal courier Secondary schools Further information about SEND and the admissions service. Alternatively you can return it directly to us arrangements for children with an EHCP is available at the address on page 9. on page 72, or: Applications for children transferring to Web: www.portsmouth.gov.uk junior school or transferring to secondary Phone: 023 9284 1238 school Email: [email protected] Applications should be completed online. If you need to complete a paper application form, return it to Make sure you apply by the your child’s present school if it’s a Portsmouth school. closing date The school will send it to us via the internal courier service or you can return it directly to us at the Your online application or application form must be address on page 9. submitted by the relevant closing date. Parents (resident in Portsmouth) of children Useful information Secondary transfer attending schools outside of the city or independent Wednesday 31 October 2018 infant/primary schools should return the form to us Starting school and junior transfer at the address on page 9. Tuesday 15 January 2019 16 Apply online www.portsmouth.gov.uk/schooladmissions Admission to primary and secondary schools • Information for parents 2019/20 Application information
!! If you are posting your form we recommend All applications received by the closing date will you obtain proof of posting. If you hand be considered first. Late applications will only be deliver your form to the Civic Offices please considered after all those applications received on Primary schools obtain a receipt. time have been considered and allocated places. A late application, even to your catchment area Non – Portsmouth residents applying for a school, is unlikely to be successful if your preferred Portsmouth School schools have been oversubscribed with on time Parents should apply online through their home applications. Late applications will also mean that local authority’s website or return their applications you will have a delay in going onto the school’s as advised to their home local authority. waiting list as you will have to wait for your application to be processed before this can happen. For example, if you live in Havant and want to apply to a Portsmouth school you will need to apply If you consider you have significant and exceptional to Hampshire County Council and follow their reasons for your late application you will need to instructions. You can include Portsmouth or other put your reasons in writing to us for consideration area schools, not just schools from your home local before Friday 4 January 2019 for secondary Secondary schools authority. transfer or Friday 1 March 2019 for starting school or junior transfer. How do I know if my application Late applications will be processed in batches within has been received? time frames determined by the LA. Each batch will be allocated under the equal preference scheme If you have applied online, you will receive a (see page 8). confirmation email straight away. If it has been necessary to complete a paper application Children of UK service personnel before the closing date, you will receive a letter Applications from service families moving into to acknowledge receipt of your application Portsmouth will be accepted as on time until Friday form. Please contact us if you do not receive an 4 January 2019 for secondary applications and acknowledgement by January 2019 for secondary Friday 1 March 2019 for starting school or junior transfer applications, or by March 2019 for starting Useful information transfer providing there is proof of drafting/MOD school and junior transfer applications. 1132. If your application is late and you are applying What happens if my application is for a starting school place (Year R), the School late? (Received after the relevant Admissions Code allows for admission authorities closing date) to consider admitting your child to a school even if it is full (as an excepted pupil). This decision will You will not be able to apply online after the be based on all the circumstances including those closing date. relevant to your family and child and the impact on
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the school, including the ‘efficient education and When will I know whether my efficient use of resources’. application has been successful? The current guidance is that an excepted pupil can You will receive an email on allocation day if you only be admitted from the top of the waiting list. have applied online and requested this option. Other applicants will have a letter sent out to the Can I change my preferences? home address on allocation day by 2nd class post.
Primary schools BEFORE the closing date Emails or letters will also be sent by us on behalf of the governing body of voluntary aided and If you are applying online, you can change your academies to parents on that date. preferences online and resubmit your application. You will receive an email confirmation that your Parents need to ensure that the Admissions Team application has been resubmitted. We will process holds the correct address details. the latest application. !! Allocation details will NOT be given over If you have submitted a paper application and wish the telephone. to change the original preferences made on your !! Only parents who have applied online will form before the closing date, you should put your be able to be notified by email. request in writing to us.
AFTER the closing date What do I do when I receive You are not able to change your preferences notification of allocation? Secondary schools after the application closing date. Only additional Parents are required to confirm their acceptance of preferences received in writing may be added which the place offered via the online response – or if a will be considered as late preferences and processed paper application – in writing by the deadline in your after all the on-time applications. offer information. If you feel you have significant and exceptional Refusing the allocated place making your child reasons for changing your preferences after the unallocated will not increase your chances of closing date you will need to put your reasons getting your preferred school at a later date. Your in writing to us for consideration before Friday child may also end up being allocated a school 4 January 2019 for secondary applications and place much further away. before Friday 1 March 2019 for starting school If a parent does not confirm their acceptance of the and junior applications. place offered within the time specified, the offer of the place may be withdrawn. Useful information
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What can I do if I am not Please note: you can have your child’s name on more than one waiting list at the same time as successful in gaining a place at my Primary schools making an appeal to the school. preferred school(s)? We manage all waiting lists for starting school, You can confirm that you wish your child’s name to junior transfer and secondary transfer until the end remain on the waiting list and make an appeal to of each academic year (31 August). We also maintain an independent appeal panel. all waiting lists for in-year year groups except for We strongly recommend accepting the allocated St. Edmund’s Catholic School. For this school, please school place if you have opted to remain on a contact them directly with waiting list queries. waiting list and/or lodge an appeal as we cannot guarantee places will be allocated from waiting list Appeals process or via appeal. If we are unable to offer you a place at any of your preferred schools, you have the right of appeal Waiting lists to an independent panel, which is set up under
If you have not gained a place at one or more of Section 94 of the School Standards and Framework Secondary schools your preferred schools, we will place your child’s Act 1998. This right of appeal may be for more name on the school’s waiting list and ask you to than one school. You may only appeal where you confirm that you wish your child’s name to remain have applied and have been refused admission to on the waiting list for that academic year. Your a school. You have 20 school days within which to child’s position on the waiting list will be prioritised state that you intend to appeal or by the specified according to the admissions criteria in their deadline date given in your letter. admissions policies. If your appeal form is received after the deadline Note: there is no distinction between on time date, we cannot guarantee that your appeal will applicants and late applicants on the waiting list. be heard before the start of the academic year. On time appeals for admissions in September It is important to note that a child’s position on are usually heard in April and May for secondary the waiting list can change, moving both up or schools and June and July for starting school and down, as children either join or are removed junior transfers. Useful information from the waiting list. No priority is given based on the length of time on the waiting list. They The appeals process is independent and separate must be ordered by oversubscription criteria. from the process followed by the Admissions Team for the allocation of places and for the operation If you wish your child to remain on a school waiting of waiting lists. Successful appellants are allocated list please indicate this on your online response or a place in a school above the published admission on the response form received with your allocation limit by the appeals panel. letter and return it to us by the date specified as places can become available at any time. Please refer to page 69 for information on the number of appeals upheld for junior transfer last year and previous years. Please refer to page 70
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Secondary schools Ground A: The admission of additional children How many times can I appeal for a would not breach the infant class size limit. particular school? Ground B1: The admission arrangements do not If your appeal is unsuccessful, you cannot appeal comply with admissions law. for a place at the same school in the same academic Ground B2: The school’s admissions arrangements year again unless there is a significant and material were not correctly and impartially applied. change in your circumstances. A significant and material change in your circumstances would be, To be successful under grounds B1 and 2, your for example, if you moved into the designated child must have been disadvantaged and would catchment area for your preferred school or if a otherwise have been offered a place. brother or sister of the child you have made an Ground C: The decision not to admit your child was application for, is offered a place in another year a decision that no reasonable authority would make group at the school. You would need to notify the in the circumstances. Admissions Team of any change in circumstances Useful information prior to lodging a further appeal. The appeal panel are limited to a review of the decision of the LA to refuse a school place You can, of course, remain on the waiting list for a based on the information available at the school even if your appeal was unsuccessful.
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Types of school first. There is also lots of information on individual schools on their websites. Primary schools Community schools The LA is required to coordinate all admissions These are maintained by Portsmouth City Council as applications for the main point of entry in the local authority. These are run by the headteacher September for Year R, Year 3 (Infant – Junior and governors in partnership with the local only) and Year 7. authority. The council is responsible for the admission policy and admissions.
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 Portsmouth City Council as the local authority. These are run by the headteacher and governors in partnership with the local Secondary schools authority. The council is responsible for the admission policy and admissions.
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 city council. The governors are responsible for their admission policy and procedures.
Academies Academies are publicly funded, non-selective schools that operate within the state system Useful information although they are independently governed. Academies are responsible for their admission policies and admissions.
Enquiries for more information All schools are pleased to receive enquiries and can provide an individual prospectus. They are happy to meet parents but you must arrange an appointment
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Infant, primary and junior schools admissions policies This section contains information on schools’ admissions policies for 2019/20 Application information Infant Schools (including academies)
This policy will apply to all admissions for the 2) Children or families who have a significant academic year 2019/20 including in-year medical, physical, psychological or social need. applications. For details of Published Admission Evidence must be attached with the application Numbers (PAN’ s) for each community infant school form. Applications under this criterion must be please refer to list on pages 55 – 58. supported by written evidence from an appropriate professional involved stating clearly If the school is oversubscribed, applications will be why the preferred school is the most considered first according to the priorities in the appropriate for the child and reasons why other
Primary schools order set out below: schools in the city are inappropriate. All 1) Children who are looked after by a local applications received under this category are authority (i.e. in their care or provided with considered by a multi-disciplinary team of the accommodation by the authority for a local authority. continuous period of more than 24 hours). 3) Children living within the school’s designated Children who were previously looked after but catchment area. (If the school cannot admit all immediately following being looked after applications from the catchment area, became subject to an adoption order, residence applicants will be ranked within this category in or special guardianship order. accordance with the priorities below.) Secondary schools Useful information
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4) Children living outside the school’s catchment b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a area in the following priority order: – vacant post for which there is a Secondary schools demonstrable skill shortage i) children who have a brother or sister (living within the same household) at the school or iv) children who live closest to the school, an adjacent junior school in the following based on the shortest distance from home academic year. to school, measured on a straight line ‘as Note: this category includes step-brothers/ the crow flies’. (This distance will be used step-sisters, adoptive brothers/sisters living where necessary to prioritise applications). within the same household or children Should there be two or more identical whose parents are married or cohabiting distances requiring prioritisation, this will be and live together within the same household done by casting lots. ii) children eligible for service premium NOTE: should the school be oversubscribed Note: service premium is paid to eligible from within any of the criteria, then any children of armed services personnel under additional criteria will be used to prioritise Useful information S14 of the Education Act 2002 applications within these categories. iii) children of staff employed at the school (or school on an adjacent site) a) where the member of staff has been employed at the school for 2 or more years at the time at which the application is made, and or
Note: Attendance at a linked / on-site nursery is not a criterion for a starting school application
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All Community and Voluntary Controlled Primary Schools and Application information the following Academies: Arundel Court Primary, Flying Bull Primary, Gatcombe Park Primary, Highbury Primary and Westover Primary
This policy will apply to all admissions for the i) children who have a brother or sister (living academic year 2019/20 including in-year within the same household) already on roll applications. Please see a list of primary schools and who will still be attending the school and their published admission numbers (PAN’s) on the following academic year; pages 55 – 58. Note: this category includes step-brothers/ step-sisters, adoptive brothers/sisters living If the school is oversubscribed, applications will be within the same household or children whose considered first according to the following priorities parents are married or cohabiting and live
Primary schools in the order set out below: together within the same household 1) Children who are looked after by a local ii) children eligible for service premium authority (i.e. in their care or provided with Note: service premium is paid to eligible accommodation by the authority for a children of armed services personnel under continuous period of more than 24 hours). S14 of the Education Act 2002 Children who were previously looked after but immediately following being looked after iii) children of staff employed at the school became subject to an adoption order, residence a) where the member of staff has been or special guardianship order. employed at the school for 2 or more 2) Children or families who have a significant years at the time at which the medical, physical, psychological or social need. application is made, and or Evidence must be attached with the application b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a form. Applications under this criterion must be vacant post for which there is a supported by written evidence from an
Secondary schools demonstrable skill shortage appropriate professional involved stating clearly why the preferred school is the most iv) children who live closest to the school, appropriate for the child and reasons why other based on the shortest distance from home schools in the city are inappropriate. All to school, measured on a straight line ‘as applications received under this category are the crow flies’. (This distance will be used considered by a multi-disciplinary team of the where necessary to prioritise applications). local authority. Should there be two or more identical distances requiring prioritisation, this will 3) Children living within the school’s designated be done by casting lots. catchment area. (If the school cannot admit all applications from the catchment area, NOTE: Should the school be oversubscribed from applicants will be ranked within this category in within any of the criteria above, then any additional accordance with the priorities below.) criteria will be used to prioritise applications within these categories.
Useful information 4) Children living outside the school’s catchment area in the following priority order: –
Note: Attendance at a linked / on-site nursery is not a criterion for a starting school application
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Ark Ayrton Primary Academy/Ark Dickens Primary Academy
Admissions policies relating to admissions to appointed meets the requirements of the these academies in the academic year 2019/20 shortage. Priority will be limited to one place for Primary schools (for a full copy of the policy and explanatory each form of entry in any year (i.e. two places in notes please go to the academy’s website) the Reception year). d) Children who at the time of the admission have Each academy has an agreed PAN of 60 pupils in a sibling who attends the academy. For this the Reception year. After the allocation of reception purpose “sibling” means a whole, half or places, the academy will admit ‘rising fives’, i.e. all step-brother or – sister or an adopted child children with places can be admitted to the resident at the same address. In respect of reception year at school in the September following applications to the primary school, the fact that their fourth birthday but before reaching an applicant has a sibling attending the nursery compulsory school age. school will not be a factor giving rise to priority. Oversubscription criteria e) Children of staff in the school – Where there is no Where the academy is named on a pupil’s demonstrable skill shortage, priority may be Secondary schools Statement of Special Educational Needs or given where the academy is oversubscribed to a Education and Health Care Plan, that child will be child of a person who will have been employed admitted by the academy. If the number of in the academy for two or more years at the applications for admission to the nursery or primary time the application for admission is made. school is greater than the PAN, applications will be Priority will be limited to one place for each form considered against the criteria and order set out of entry in any year (i.e. two places in the below: reception year). a) Looked After Children and Children who have f) Children living in the schools designated been previously looked after (pursuant to the catchment area – A map of the area will be Admissions Code) available at the academy. A child’s home will be the address at which the child normally resides b) Children who are eligible for the Service Pupil and which has been notified to the academy and Premium. other relevant agencies as being the child’s c) Children of staff at the school where there is a normal place of residence. Where it is necessary Useful information demonstrable skill shortage – Children of to prioritise applications within this category, the members of staff will have priority in the shortest distance from the child’s home to oversubscription criteria if the staff member is school, measured in straight line distance, will be filling a post for which there is a demonstrable used. skill shortage. Ark Schools is required to approve g) Children living outside the catchment area – A the Principal’s designation of such posts and child’s home will be the address at which the confirm the assessment that a member of staff child normally resides and which has been
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notified to the academy and other relevant agencies as being the child’s normal place of residence. i) Portsmouth City Council measures distances on behalf of Ark Schools, the method they adopt for measurement and also selection between equal applicants and
Primary schools those living in flats will apply.
Tie breaker Within each oversubscription criterion, eligible applicants will be ordered by straight line distance (e.g. siblings living closer to the academy will be given priority over those living further away). If Ark Schools is unable to distinguish between applicants using the published criteria, including those who live in blocks of flats with the same building entrance, places will be offered via a random draw which will be supervised by someone independent of the academy.
Secondary schools NOTE: In the case of multiple births or brothers and sisters in the same year group, where there is only one place available in the academy, both will be considered together as one application. Useful information
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Beacon View Primary Academy and The Victory Primary Academy
For a full copy of the policy and explanatory 4) Children living outside the school’s catchment notes please go to each academy’s website area in the following priority order: Primary schools This policy will apply to all admissions for the i) children who have a brother or sister (living academic year 2019/20 including in-year within the same household) already on roll applications. The Published Admission Number and who will still be attending the school (PAN) for these academies is 60. If the schools are the following year; oversubscribed, applications will be considered first Note: this category includes step-brothers/ according to the following priorities in the order set step-sisters, adoptive brothers/sisters living out below: within the same household or children whose parents are married or cohabiting and live 1) Children who are looked after by a local together within the same household. authority (i.e. in their care or provided with accommodation by the authority for a ii) children who live closest to the school, continuous period of more than 24 hours). based on the shortest distance from home Children who were previously looked after but to school, measured on a straight line ‘as immediately following being looked after the crow flies’. (This distance will be used Secondary schools became subject to an adoption order, residence where necessary to prioritise applications). or special guardianship order. Should there be two or more identical distances requiring prioritisation, this will 2) Children or families who have a significant be done by casting lots. medical, physical, psychological or social need. Evidence must be attached with the application NOTE: Should the school be oversubscribed from form. Applications under this criterion must be within any of the criteria above, then any additional supported by written evidence from an criteria will be used to prioritise applications within appropriate professional involved stating clearly these categories. why the preferred school is the most appropriate for the child and reasons why other schools in the city are inappropriate. All applications received under this category are considered by a multi-disciplinary team of the Useful information local authority. 3) Children living within the school’s designated catchment area. If the school cannot admit all applications from the catchment area, applicants will be ranked within this category in accordance with priorities below.
Note: Attendance at a linked / on-site nursery is not a criterion for a starting school application
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For a full copy of the policy and explanatory The PAN for each school is as follows: notes please visit each school’s website. Corpus Christi 45 Corpus Christi, St John’s, St Paul’s and St Swithun’s St John’s 30 are voluntary aided schools in the trusteeship of the St Paul’s 60 Diocese of Portsmouth. They are maintained by St Swithun’s 45 Portsmouth Local Authority (LA). The schools were founded by and are part of the Catholic Church. Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, St
Primary schools The schools are conducted as Catholic schools in John’s Cathedral Catholic Primary School, St accordance with canon law, the teachings of the Swithun’s Catholic Primary School Catholic Church and the Trust Deed of the Diocese Should there be more applications than places of Portsmouth. The schools offer a Catholic available at any one of the schools Corpus Christi, education serving the Catholic communities in the St. John’s or St. Swithun’s the governing body of Portsmouth Pastoral Area incorporating the parishes that school will admit children in the following of St John’s Cathedral, Corpus Christi with St category order: Joseph, Our Lady of Lourdes and St Swithun and St Colman with St Paul. Although Catholic children 1) Baptised Catholic looked after children and have priority of admission, the governing bodies of previously looked after children (see explanatory Corpus Christi, St John’s, St Paul’s and St Swithun’s notes*). also welcome applications from those of other 2) Baptised Catholic children of parents who have denominations and faiths who support the religious attended Sunday Mass weekly in a Catholic ethos of the schools. community for the last year at the point at
Secondary schools The admissions process for all schools in the city is which the Supplementary Information Form is co-ordinated by the LA. However, the Governing signed. Body of each Catholic school is its own Admission 3) Baptised Catholic children of parents who have Authority and is responsible for determining the attended Sunday Mass at least monthly in a School’s admission policy. The four Catholic primary Catholic community for the last year at the schools work closely with each other and with the point at which the Supplementary Information support of the LA and Diocese have agreed the Form is signed. following policy for 2019 – 2020. 4) Baptised Catholic children of parents who have The Governing Body of each school will admit attended Sunday Mass less than monthly in a children, who will attain the age of 5 years during the Catholic community for the last year at the school year 1 September 2019 to 31 August 2020, point at which the Supplementary Information up to its published admission number (PAN). Form is signed. 5) Looked after children and previously looked Useful information after children who are not baptised Catholic (see explanatory notes*).
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6) Other children who are not baptised Catholic of St Paul’s Catholic Primary School a baptised Catholic parent who has attended
Should there be more applications than places Primary schools Sunday Mass weekly in a Catholic community available at St Paul’s School, the governing body will for the last year at the point at which the admit children in the following category order: Supplementary Information Form is signed (see explanatory notes*). 1) Baptised Catholic looked after children and previously looked after children (see explanatory 7) Other children who are not baptised Catholic of notes*). a baptised Catholic parent who have attended Sunday Mass at least monthly in a Catholic 2) Baptised Catholic children (see explanatory community for the last year at the point at notes*). which the Supplementary Information Form is 3) Looked after children and previously looked signed (see explanatory notes*). after children who are not baptised Catholic 8) Other children who are not baptised Catholic of (see explanatory notes*). a baptised Catholic parent who have attended 4) Other children who are not baptised Catholic of Sunday Mass less than monthly in a Catholic a baptised Catholic parent (see explanatory Secondary schools community for the last year at the point at notes*). which the Supplementary Information Form is signed (see explanatory notes*). 5) Siblings of children at the school at the intended time of entry(see explanatory notes*). 9) Siblings of children at the school at the intended time of entry (see explanatory notes*). 6) Children who are members of other Christian denominations (see explanatory notes*). 10) Children who are active members of other Christian denominations (see explanatory 7) Children from other faith traditions. notes*). 8) Other applications. 11) Children who are active members of other faith Should there be more applicants than places traditions. available in any one of the above categories priority 12) Other applications. will be given in the following order: Useful information Should there be more applicants than places a) Siblings (see explanatory notes*). available in any one of the above categories priority b) Distance (see explanatory notes*). will be given in the following order: a) Siblings (see explanatory notes*). b) Distance (see explanatory notes*).
*To view each school’s explanatory notes please visit their individual website or contact the Admissions Team. Note: Attendance at a linked / on-site nursery is not a criterion for a starting school application
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This policy will apply to all admissions for the 4) Children living within the school’s designated academic year 2019/20 including in year applications. catchment area. (If the school cannot admit all applications from the catchment area, applicants The published admission number is 60 for September will be ranked within this category in accordance 2019. with priorities below. If the school is oversubscribed, applications will be 5) Children living outside the school’s catchment considered first according to the following priorities in area in the following priority order: – the order set out below: –
Primary schools i) children who have a brother or sister (living 1) Children who are looked after by a local within the same household) already on roll authority (i.e. in their care or provided with and who will still be attending the school accommodation by the authority for a the following academic year; continuous period of more than 24 hours). Note – this category does include step- Children who were previously looked after but brothers/step-sisters, adoptive and foster immediately following being looked after brothers/sisters living within the same became subject to an adoption order, residence household or children whose parents are or special guardianship order. Please see married or cohabiting and live together “Additional information” below. within the same household. 2) Children or families who have a significant ii) children eligible for service premium medical, physical, psychological or social need. Note – service premium is paid to eligible Evidence must be attached with the application children of armed services personnel under form. Applications under this criterion must be S14 of the Education Act 2002
Secondary schools supported by written evidence from an appropriate professional involved stating clearly iii) children of staff employed at the school why the preferred school is the most appropriate a) where the member of staff has been for the child and reasons why other schools in the employed at the school for 2 or more city are inappropriate. years at the time at which the 3) Children whose parents have a religious application is made, and or conviction for attending the school. Supporting b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a evidence must be submitted with the application vacant post for which there is a on the supplementary form provided, signed by demonstrable skill shortage the appropriate religious leader. If the school cannot admit all applications from this criteria applicants will be ranked within this category in accordance with priorities below. Useful information
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iv) children who live closest to the school, based on the shortest distance from home to school, measured on straight line ‘as the Primary schools crow flies’. (This distance will be used where necessary to prioritise applications). Please see “Additional Information” below. Should there be two or more identical distances requiring prioritisation, this will be done by casting lots. Please see “Additional Information” below. NOTE: Should a school be oversubscribed from within any of the criteria above then any additional criteria will be used to prioritise applications within these categories. Secondary schools Useful information
Note: Attendance at a linked / on-site nursery is not a criterion for a starting school application
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This policy will apply to all admissions for the brothers/sisters living within the same academic year 2019 – 20 including in year household or children whose parents are applications. married or cohabiting and live together within the same household. The Published Admission Number is 50 for September 2019. ii) Children whose parents have a religious conviction for attending the school; If the school is oversubscribed, applications will be considered first according to the following priorities in iii) children eligible for service premium;
Primary schools the order set out below: – Note – service premium is paid to eligible children of armed services personnel under 1) Children who are looked after by a local S14 of the Education Act 2002 authority (i.e. in their care or provided with accommodation by the authority for a iv) children of staff employed at the school ; continuous period of more than 24 hours). a) where the member of staff has been Children who were previously looked after but employed at the school for 2 or more immediately following being looked after years at the time at which the became subject to an adoption order, residence application is made, and or or special guardianship order. b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a 2) Children or families who have a significant vacant post for which there is a medical, physical, psychological or social need. demonstrable skill shortage Evidence must be attached with the application form. Applications under this criterion must be v) children who live closest to the school,
Secondary schools supported by written evidence from an based on the shortest distance from home appropriate professional involved stating clearly to school, measured on straight line ‘as the why the preferred school is the most appropriate crow flies’. for the child and reasons why other schools in the 4) Children living outside the school’s catchment city are inappropriate. area in the following priority order: 3) Children living within the school’s designated i) children who have a brother or sister (living catchment area. (If the school cannot admit all within the same household) already on roll applications from the catchment area, applicants and who will still be attending the school will be ranked within this category in accordance the following academic year; with priorities i) to v) below: ii) Children whose parents have a religious i) children who have a brother or sister (living conviction for attending the school; within the same household) already on roll and who will still be attending the school iii) children eligible for service premium
Useful information the following academic year; Note – service premium is paid to eligible Note – this category does include step- children of armed services personnel under brothers/step-sisters, adoptive and foster S14 of the Education Act 2002
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iv) children of staff employed at the school
a) where the member of staff has been Primary schools employed at the school for 2 or more years at the time at which the application is made, and or b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage v) children who live closest to the school, based on the shortest distance from home to school, measured on straight line ‘as the crow flies’. NOTE: Should a school be oversubscribed from within any criteria then any additional criteria will be used to Secondary schools prioritise applications within these categories. Useful information
Note: Attendance at a linked / on-site nursery is not a criterion for a starting school application
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Application information All Community Junior Schools and Academies (except Isambard Brunel Junior, Meon Junior and Newbridge Junior)
This policy will apply to all admissions for the academic Note: this category includes step-brothers/ year 2019/20 including in-year applications. Please see step-sisters, adoptive brothers/sisters living list of junior schools and their published admission within the same household or children whose numbers (PAN’s) on pages 55 – 58. parents are married or cohabiting and live together within the same household. If the school is oversubscribed, applications will be considered first according to the priorities in the order ii) children eligible for service premium set out below: Note: service premium is paid to eligible
Primary schools children of armed services personnel under 1) Children who are looked after by a local S14 of the Education Act 2002 authority (i.e. in their care or provided with accommodation by the authority for a continuous iii) children of staff employed at the school (or period of more than 24 hours). Children who school on an adjacent site) were previously looked after but immediately a) where the member of staff has been following being looked after became subject to employed at the school for 2 or more an adoption order, years at the time at which the application 2) Children or families who have a significant is made, and or medical, physical, psychological or social need. b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a Evidence must be attached. Applications under vacant post for which there is a this criterion must be supported by written demonstrable skill shortage evidence from an appropriate professional involved stating clearly why the preferred school is iv) children attending, at the time of the most appropriate for the child and reasons application, a named feeder infant school; Secondary schools why other schools in the city are inappropriate. All Please see list of feeder infant schools on applications received under this category are page 61. considered by a multi-disciplinary team of the v) children who live closest to the school, based local authority. on the shortest distance from home to 3) Children living within the school’s designated school, measured ‘as the crow flies’. (This catchment area. (If the school cannot admit all distance will be used where necessary to applications from the catchment area, applicants prioritise applications). will be ranked within this category in accordance Should there be two or more identical with priorities below. distances requiring prioritisation, this will be done by casting lots. 4) Children living outside the school’s catchment area in the following priority order: NOTE: Should the school be oversubscribed from within any of the criteria above, then any additional i) children who have a brother or sister (living criteria will be used to prioritise applications within Useful information in the same household) at the school or an these categories. adjacent infant school the following academic year.
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Isambard Brunel Junior, Meon Junior and Newbridge Junior School admissions policy 2019 – 20
For a full copy of the policy and explanatory 3) a) Children who attend the following infant notes please go to each academy website. schools run by The Thinking Schools Academy Trust, namely Penhale Infant Primary schools This policy will apply to all admissions for the School , Moorings Way Infant School and academic year 2019/20 including in year Meon Infant School. applications. b) Children who attend Manor Infant School The Published Admission Number (PAN) for year 3 (for applications to Newbridge Junior and intake in September 2019 is; Isambard Brunel Junior only) and children • Isambard Brunel Junior – 90 who attend Meredith Infant School ( for applications to Isambard Brunel Junior • Meon Junior-90 only) • Newbridge Junior-150 If the school cannot admit all children from the If the school is oversubscribed, applications will be named feeder infant schools, applicants will be considered first according to the priorities in the ranked within this category in accordance with any order set out below: – of the additional priorities below: Secondary schools 1) Children who are looked after by a local i) Catchment authority (i.e. in their care or provided with ii) Children who have a brother or sister (living accommodation by the authority for a in the same household) at the school continuous period of more than 24 hours). already on roll and who will still be Children who were previously looked after but attending the school the following immediately following being looked after academic year. Note – this category does became subject to an adoption order, residence include step-brothers/step-sisters, adoptive or special guardianship order. Please see brothers/sisters living within the same “Additional Information”. household or children whose parents are 2) Children or families who have a significant married or cohabiting and live together medical, physical, psychological or social need. within the same household Evidence must be attached. Applications under iii) Children eligible for service premium. Useful information this criterion must be supported by written Note – service premium is paid to eligible evidence from an appropriate professional children of armed services personnel under involved stating clearly why the preferred S14 of the Education Act 2002 school is the most appropriate for the child and reasons why other schools in the city are iv) Children of staff employed at the school (or inappropriate. Please see “Additional school on an adjacent site) Information”.
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a) where the member of staff has been children of armed services personnel under employed at the school for 2 or more S14 of the Education Act 2002 years at the time at which the iii) Children of staff employed at the school (or application is made, and or school on an adjacent site) b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a a) where the member of staff has been vacant post for which there is a employed at the school for 2 or more demonstrable skill shortage years at the time at which the
Primary schools v) Children who live closest to the school, application is made, and or based on the shortest distance from home b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a to school, measured ‘as the crow flies’. vacant post for which there is a (This distance will be used where necessary demonstrable skill shortage to prioritise applications). Please see “Additional Information” iv) Children who live closest to the school, based on the shortest distance from home 3) Children living within the school’s designated to school, measured ‘as the crow flies’. catchment area. (If the school cannot admit all (This distance will be used where necessary applications from the catchment area, to prioritise applications). Please see applicants will be ranked within this category in “Additional Information”. accordance with priorities 4 i) to 4 iv) below). NOTE: should the school be oversubscribed from 4) Children living outside the school’s catchment within any of the criteria then any additional criteria area in the following priority order: as given in 5(i) to 5(iv) will be used to prioritise Secondary schools i) Children who have a brother or sister (living applications within these categories. Should there in the same household) at the school be two or more identical distances requiring already on roll and who will still be prioritisation, this will be done by casting lots (See attending the school the following additional information) academic year. Note – this category does include step- brothers/step-sisters, adoptive brothers/ sisters living within the same household or children whose parents are married or cohabiting and live together within the same household ii) Children eligible for service premium Note – service premium is paid to eligible Useful information
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Mayfield All Through School
This policy will apply to all admissions for the a) where the member of staff has been academic year 2019/20 including in year employed at the school for 2 or more years applications. Mayfield has a published admission at the time at which the application is Primary schools number (PAN) of: made, and or • 60 for entry into Year R b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a • 30 additional places for Year 3 (total PAN of demonstrable skill shortage 90 including children moving up from Year 2) 4) a) Children living in catchment who have a • 200 for entry into Year 7. brother or sister (living within the same There are three points of main phase entry for this household) already on roll and who will school in 2019/20 to Year R, Year 3 and to the still be attending the school the secondary phase in Year 7. This policy applies to all following academic year; cohorts. b) Children living outside of catchment who If the school is oversubscribed, applications will be have a brother or sister (living within Secondary schools considered according to the following priorities in the same household) already on roll and the order set out below: – who will still be attending the school the 1) Children who are looked after by a local following academic year authority (i.e. in their care or provided with Note – this category does include step- accommodation by the authority for a brothers/step-sisters, adoptive and foster continuous period of more than 24 hours). brothers/sisters living within the same Children who were previously looked after but household or children whose parents are immediately following being looked after married or cohabiting and live together became subject to an adoption order, residence within the same household. or special guardianship order. 5) Children living within the school’s designated 2) Children or families who have a significant catchment area. (If the school cannot admit all medical, physical, psychological or social need. applications from the catchment area, applicants will be ranked within this category in
Evidence must be attached with the application. Useful information Applications under this criterion must be accordance with priorities below.) supported by written evidence from an 6) Children eligible for service premium. appropriate professional person involved stating Note – service premium is paid to eligible clearly why the preferred school is the most children of armed services personnel under S14 appropriate for the child and reasons why other of the Education Act 2002 schools in the city are inappropriate. 7) Children attending a feeder junior/primary 3) Children of staff employed at the school school:
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• Isambard Brunel Junior • Lyndhurst Junior • Newbridge Junior • Northern Parade Junior • Stamshaw Junior (This is only relevant for Secondary
Primary schools Transfer applicants.) 8) Children who live closest to the school, based on the shortest distance from home to school, measured on a straight line (This distance will be used where necessary to prioritise applications) below. Should there be two or more identical distances requiring prioritisation, this will be done by casting lots – see additional information below under “Distance”. NOTE: Should the school be oversubscribed from within any of the criteria above, then any additional criteria will be used to prioritise applications within
Secondary schools these categories. Useful information
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Admiral Lord Nelson School
For a full copy of the policy and explanatory notes brothers/step-sisters, adoptive brothers/ please go to the academy website. The Published sisters living within the same household or Admission Number (PAN) is 200 for Year 7 2019. children whose parents are married or Primary schools cohabiting and live together within the If the school is oversubscribed, applications will be same household. considered first according to the following priorities in the order set out below: ii) children attending a feeder junior/primary school, these are Copnor Primary, Westover 1) Children who are looked after by a local Primary and Gatcombe Park Primary authority (i.e. in their care or provided with accommodation by the authority for a iii) children who are eligible for service premium continuous period of more than 24 hours). Note: service premium is paid to eligible Children who were previously looked after but children of armed services personnel under immediately following being looked after S14 of the Education Act 2002: became subject to an adoption order, residence iv) children who live closest to the school, or special guardianship order. based on the shortest distance from home Secondary schools 2) Children or families who have a significant to school, measured ‘as the crow flies’. medical, physical, psychological or social need. Note: should the school be oversubscribed Evidence must be attached with the application. from within any of the criteria 4i to 4iii Applications under this criterion must be above, then any additional criteria as given supported by written evidence from an in 4i – iv, will be used to prioritise appropriate professional involved stating clearly applications within these categories. Should why the preferred school is the most there be two or more identical distances appropriate for the child and reasons why other requiring prioritisation, this will be done by schools in the city are inappropriate. casting lots. 3) Children living within the school’s designated catchment area. If the school cannot admit all applications from the catchment area, priorities 4i to 4iv, will be used. Useful information 4) Children living outside the school’s catchment area in the following priority order: i) children who have a brother or sister (living within the same household) already on roll and who will still be attending the school the following academic year, Note: this category does include step-
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For a full copy of the policy and explanatory notes brothers/step-sisters, adoptive brothers/ please go to the academy’s website. sisters living within the same household or children whose parents are married or The published admission number (PAN) is 200 and cohabiting and live together within the both boys and girls are welcome to apply for Year 7 same household. in September 2019/20. ii) children attending a feeder junior/primary If the school is oversubscribed, applications will be school (Isambard Brunel Junior, Lyndhurst considered according to the priorities in the order
Primary schools Junior, Newbridge Junior, Northern Parade set out below. Junior, Stamshaw Junior), 1) Children who are looked after by the Local iii) children who are eligible for service Authority (i.e. in their care or provided with premium. accommodation by the authority for a Note: service premium is paid to eligible continuous period of more than 24 hours). children of armed services personnel under Children who were previously looked after but S14 of the Education Act 2002. immediately following being looked after became subject to an adoption order, residence iv) children who live closest to the school, or special guardianship order. based on the shortest distance from home to school, measured ‘as the crow flies’. 2) Children or families who have a significant (This distance will be used where necessary medical, physical, psychological or social need. to prioritise applications, see additional Evidence must be attached with the application. information). Applications under this criterion must be
Secondary schools supported by written evidence from an NOTE: should the school be oversubscribed from appropriate professional involved stating clearly within any of the criteria 4i to 4iii above, then any why the preferred school is the most additional criteria as given in 4i-iv, will be used to appropriate for the child and reasons why other prioritise applications within these categories. schools in the city are inappropriate. Should there be two or more identical distances requiring prioritisation, this will be done by casting 3) Children living within the school’s designated lots. catchment area (shared with Mayfield School). If the school cannot admit all applications from the catchment area, priorities 4i to 4iii, will be used. 4) Children living outside the school’s catchment area in the following priority order: i) children who have a brother or sister (living within the same household) already on roll Useful information and who will still be attending the school the following academic year: Note: this category does include step-
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Charter Academy
For a full copy of the policy and explanatory notes step-brother or – sister or an adopted child please go to the academy website. resident at the same address. Primary schools The academy is a Church of England Secondary e) Children of staff in the school – Where there is School. no demonstrable skill shortage, priority may be given where the academy is oversubscribed to a The academy has an agreed PAN of 180 pupils in child of a person who will have been employed Year 7. in the academy for two or more years at the Oversubscription criteria time the application for admission is made. Priority will be limited to one place for each Where the academy is named on a pupil’s Statement form of entry in any year. of Special Educational Needs or Education and Health Care Plan, that child will be admitted by the f) Children who attend one of the following academy. If the number of applications for admission feeder primary schools at the time of to the secondary school is greater than the PAN, application: applications will be considered against the criteria • Ark Ayrton Primary Academy (URN: 139713) Secondary schools and order set out below: • Ark Dickens Primary Academy (URN: 141020) a) Looked After Children and all children who • St George’s Beneficial CE Primary have been previously looked after (pursuant to School (URN: 116346) the Admissions Code) • St Jude’s CE Primary School (URN: 116344) b) Children who are eligible for the Service Pupil Premium. g) Pupils who live in the catchment area for the academy, which is defined as: south of and c) Children of staff at the school where there is a including both sides of Kingston Crescent; west demonstrable skill shortage – Children of of centre of Kingston Road and Fratton Road; members of staff will have priority in the west of and excluding Victoria Road North; oversubscription criteria if the staff member is west of centre of Victoria Road South, Lennox filling a post for which there is a demonstrable Road South and Clarence Parade down to Jack skill shortage. Ark Schools is required to
Cockerill Way then south of Clarence Parade Useful information approve the Principal’s designation of such and part of South Parade. A map of the area is posts and confirm the assessment that a attached to this policy and will be available at member of staff appointed meets the the academy and on the website. requirements of the shortage. Priority will be limited to one place for each form of entry in i) Where there are more applicants than any year. available places in the catchment area, priority will be given to children attending a d) Children who at the time of the admission have feeder school listed in (h) below. a sibling who attends the academy. For this purpose “sibling” means a whole, half or ii) Children will then be ordered by straight line distance.
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h) Children living outside the catchment area but currently attending one of the following primary schools. Children will be prioritised by straight line distance between their home address and Charter Academy: • Arundel Court Primary Academy (URN: 144194) • Cottage Grove Primary School (URN: 116203) Primary schools • The Flying Bull Academy (URN: 140719) i) Distance measurement – Children living outside the catchment area and not attending a feeder primary school will be prioritised by the nearest straight line distance between their home address and Charter Academy. A child’s home will be the address at which the child normally resides and which has been notified to the academy and other relevant agencies as being the child’s normal place of residence. Portsmouth City Council measures distance on behalf of Ark Schools. The method they
Secondary schools adopt for measurement and also selection between equal applicants and those living in flats will apply.
Tie breaker: Within each oversubscription criterion, eligible applicants will be ordered by straight line distance (e.g. siblings living closer to the academy will be given priority over those living further away). If Ark Schools is unable to distinguish between applicants using the published criteria, including those who live in blocks of flats with the same building entrance, places will be offered via a
Useful information random draw which will be supervised by someone independent of the academy.
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Castle View Academy (formerly King Richard School)
For a full copy of the policy and explanatory notes Note: this category includes step-brothers/ please go to the school’s website. step-sisters, adoptive brothers/sisters living within the same household or children whose Primary schools The Published Admission Number (PAN) is 200. parents are married or cohabiting and live lf the school is oversubscribed, applications will be together within the same household. considered first according to the following priorities ii) children attending a feeder junior/primary in the order set out below: school; 1) Children who are looked after by a local iii) children who live closest to the school, authority (i.e. in their care or provided with based on the shortest distance from home accommodation by the authority for a to school, measured ‘as the crow flies’. continuous period of more than 24 hours). (This distance will be used where necessary Children who were previously looked after but to prioritise applications). immediately following being looked after Should there be two or more identical became subject to an adoption order, residence distances requiring prioritisation, this will or special guardianship order. be done by casting lots. Secondary schools 2) Children or families who have a significant NOTE: should the school be oversubscribed from medical, physical, psychological or social need. within any of the criteria 4(i) to 4(ii) above, then Evidence must be attached with the application. any additional criteria as given in 4(ii) to 4(iii) will be Applications under this criterion must be used to prioritise applications within these supported by written evidence from an categories. appropriate professional involved stating clearly why the preferred school is the most appropriate for the child and reasons why other schools in the city are inappropriate. All applications received under this category are considered by a multi-disciplinary team of the local authority.
3) Children living within the school’s designated Useful information catchment area. lf the school cannot admit all applications from the catchment area, priorities 4i to 4iii, will be used. 4) Children living outside the school’s catchment area in the following priority order: i) children who have a brother or sister (living within the same household) already on roll and who will still be attending the school the following academic year:
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For a full copy of the policy and explanatory notes 4) Children living outside the school’s catchment please go to the academy website. area in the following priority order: The Published Admission Number (PAN) is 200. i) children who have a brother or sister (living If the school is oversubscribed, applications will be within the same household) already on roll considered first according to the following priorities and who will still be attending the school in the order set out below: the following year; Note: this category includes step-brothers/ 1) Children who are looked after by a local
Primary schools step-sisters, adoptive brothers/sisters living authority (i.e. in their care or provided with within the same household or children whose accommodation by the authority for a parents are married or cohabiting and live continuous period of more than 24 hours). together within the same household. Children who were previously looked after but immediately following being looked after ii) children attending a feeder junior/primary became subject to an adoption order, residence school; or special guardianship order. iii) children who live closest to the school, 2) Children or families who have a significant based on the shortest distance from home medical, physical, psychological or social need. to school, measured ‘as the crow flies’. Evidence must be attached with the application. (This distance will be used where necessary Applications under this criterion must be to prioritise applications). supported by written evidence from an appropriate professional person involved stating NOTE: Should a school be oversubscribed from clearly why the preferred school is the most Secondary schools within any of the criteria 4 (i) to 4 (ii) above, then appropriate for the child and reasons why other any additional criteria as given in 4 (i) to 4 (iii) will schools in the city are inappropriate. be used to prioritise applications within these Applications received under this category are categories. Should there be two or more identical considered by a multi-disciplinary team of the distances requiring prioritisation, this will be done local authority. by casting lots. 3) Children living within the school’s designated catchment area. If the school cannot admit all applications from the catchment area, priorities 4(i) to (iii) will be used. Useful information
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The Portsmouth Academy
For a full copy of the policy and explanatory notes d) “Children attending Isambard Brunel Junior please go to each academy’s website. School and Meon Junior School” (schools who are part of the Thinking School Academy Trust). Primary schools The Portsmouth Academy (formerly Portsmouth Academy for Girls and part of the Thinking Schools e) “Children of staff at the school where there is a Academy Trust) is a co-educational school from demonstrable skill shortage.” September 2017*and has no defined catchment Note – priority will be given to the children of area; applications are welcome from anywhere in members of staff if the staff member is filling a Portsmouth and the surrounding area. post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. TSAT will be required to approve the Where the Academy is named on a student’s Principal’s designation of such posts and Statement of Special Educational Needs or Statutory confirm the assessment that a member of staff Education, Health and Care Plan, the student will be appointed meets the requirements of the admitted by the Academy. If the number of shortage. applications for admission to the Academy is greater than the Published Admissions Number (PAN) of f) “Children of staff at the school.” Note – priority
225, places will be allocated in the following priority will be given to the child of a person who has Secondary schools order: been employed in the Academy for two or more years at the time the application is made. a) “Looked After Children and children who have been previously looked after, but following g) “Children or families who have a significant being looked after became subject to an medical, physical, psychological or social need.” adoption order, residence order or special Evidence must be attached with the application. guardianship order.”** Applications under this criterion must be supported by written evidence from an b) “Children who, at the time of the admission, appropriate professional person involved stating have a sibling who attends the Academy.” For clearly why the preferred school is the most this purpose, “sibling” means a whole, half or appropriate for the child and reasons why other step-sister or brother, or an adopted child schools in the city are inappropriate. resident at the same address. The Academy will also include in this criterion children whose h) “Children eligible for service premium.” Note – Useful information parents are married or cohabiting and live service premium is paid to eligible children of together within the same household. In the armed services personnel under S14 of the case of multiple births or siblings in the same Education Act 2002”. If the school is over- year group, where there is only one place subscribed from within any of the above available in the Academy, the other child/ categories (a) to (h) then distance as described children will be offered place above PAN. in Category (i) will be used to prioritise applications. c) “Children who attend Newbridge Junior School.”
*Years 10/11 will remain as single sex for 2019 – 20. **Looked after Children are defined as being in the LA’s care or provided with accommodation by the authority for a continuous period of more than 24 hours
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i) “Children who live closest to the school.” Distance will be based on the shortest distance from home to school, measured in a straight line, using the LA Geographical Information System. Should there be two or more identical distances requiring prioritisation, this will be done by casting lots by an independent party such as the LA Admissions Team. Primary schools Secondary schools Useful information
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Priory School (Academy)
For a full copy of the policy and explanatory notes Note: this category does include step- please go the academy’s website. brothers/step-sisters, adoptive brothers/ sisters living within the same household or Primary schools The Published Admission Number (PAN) is 225. children whose parents are married or If the school is oversubscribed, applications will be cohabiting and live together within the considered first according to the following priorities same household (see additional in the order set out below: information). 1) Children who are looked after by a local ii) Children attending a feeder junior/primary authority (i.e. in their care or provided with school. accommodation by the authority for a iii) Children who are eligible for the Service continuous period of more than 24 hours). Premium. Note; Service Premium is eligible Children who were previously looked after but to children of people in the Armed Services immediately following being looked after as outlined in S14 of the Education Act became subject to an adoption order, residence 2002. or special guardianship order. Secondary schools iv) Children who live closest to the school, 2) Children or families who have a significant based on the shortest distance from home medical, physical, psychological or social need. to school, measured ‘as the crow flies’. Evidence must be attached with the application. (This distance will be used where necessary Applications under this criterion must be to prioritise applications- see additional supported by written evidence from an information). appropriate professional involved stating clearly why the preferred school is the most NOTE: Should the school be oversubscribed from appropriate for the child and reasons why other within any of the criteria 4i to 4ii above, then any schools in the city are inappropriate. All additional criteria as given in 4(i) to 4(iii) will be applications received under this category are used to prioritise applications within these considered by a multi-disciplinary team of the categories. Should there be two or more identical local authority. distances requiring prioritisation, this will be done by casting lots (See additional information) 3) Children living within the school’s designated Useful information catchment area. If the school cannot admit all applications from the catchment area, priorities 4i to 4iv, will be used. 4) Children living outside the school’s catchment area in the following priority order: i) Children who have a brother or sister (living within the same household) already on roll and who will still be attending the school the following academic year:
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For a full copy of the policy and explanatory notes Tiebreakers: please go to the academy website. Oversubscription within the above criteria. The Published Admission Number (PAN) for 2019/20 Should there be more applicants than places is 189. available in any of the above criteria, priority will be Should there be more applicants than places given in order of: available based on the evidence provided with each 1) Category 2: application, the governors will use the criteria for
Primary schools admission to place every applicant in one of the i) Baptised Catholic children categories listed below. The order of the categories ii) Distance listed below determines the order of priority for admission. Applicants who qualify for more than iii) Random allocation one category will be placed in the highest one in 2) All other categories: which they appear. i) Distance Admission categories: ii) Random allocation 1) Baptised Catholic Looked After Children and previously looked after children 2) Baptised Catholic children 3) Other Looked After Children and previously Looked After Children Secondary schools 4) Children being prepared to be received into the Catholic Church (RCIA) 5) Children whose parent(s) are baptised Catholic 6) Children attending schools who are part of the Edith Stein Catholic Academy Trust 7) Children with siblings at the School at the intended time of entry 8) Children who are members of Eastern Orthodox Churches 9) Children from families who are members of other Christian churches Useful information 10) Children of staff employed at the school 11) Other applicants
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Springfield School
This policy will apply to all admissions for the 4) Children living within the school’s designated academic year 2019/20 including in year catchment area. (If the school cannot admit all applications. Springfield has a PAN of 227. applications from the catchment area, Primary schools applicants will be ranked within this category in If the school is oversubscribed, applications will be accordance with priorities below.) considered according to the following priorities in the order set out below: – 5) Children living outside the school’s catchment area in the following priority order: 1) Children who are looked after by a local authority (i.e. in their care or provided with i) children who have a brother or sister (living accommodation by the authority for a within the same household) already on roll continuous period of more than 24 hours). and who will still be attending the school Children who were previously looked after but the following academic year; immediately following being looked after Note – this category does include step- became subject to an adoption order, residence brothers/step-sisters, adoptive and foster or special guardianship order. See “Additional brothers/sisters living within the same
information” below. household or children whose parents are Secondary schools married or cohabiting and live together 2) Children or families who have a significant within the same household. medical, physical, psychological or social need. Evidence must be attached with the application. ii) children eligible for service premium Applications under this criterion must be Note – service premium is paid to eligible supported by written evidence from an children of armed services personnel under appropriate professional person involved stating S14 of the Education Act 2002 clearly why the preferred school is the most iii) children attending a feeder junior/primary appropriate for the child and reasons why other school; Please see a list of feeder junior/ schools in the city are inappropriate. primary schools at the end of this Applications received under this category are document. considered by a multi-disciplinary team of the local authority. See “Additional information” iv) children who live closest to the school,
below. measured as a straight line (this distance Useful information will be used where necessary to prioritise 3) Children and staff employed at the school applications). Should there be two or more a) where the member of staff has been employed identical distances requiring prioritisation, at the school for two or more years at the time this will be done by casting lots. at which the application is made, and/or; Note – should a school be oversubscribed from within any of the criteria then any b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant additional criteria will be used to prioritise post for which there is a demonstrable skill applications within these categories. shortage
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Application information University Technical College (UTC) Portsmouth
For a full copy of the policy, explanatory notes , Year 12 Applications Procedure details of how to apply and other information about Applications for post 16 places at UTC Portsmouth the UTC please go to the Portsmouth UTC website. will be made directly to, and be administered by the UTC Portsmouth is a state funded, co-educational UTC either online on UTC Portsmouth’s website school, for 14-19 year-olds. It delivers the core (www.utcportsmouth.org) or via the paper form, national curriculum with a specific focus on STEM which will be available on request. The application education. deadline is 13 January 2019.
Primary schools The PAN for academic year 2019/20 is 125 for year 10 and 125 for year 12. Procedures where UTC Portsmouth is oversubscribed Students have the option to join the UTC at the beginning of either year 10 or year 12. The UTC will If the UTC is oversubscribed, applicants with process applications for the college outside the statements of Special Educational Needs (SEN) or normal process of LA co-ordination. This means that Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCP) for whom you will need to make a separate application for the UTC offers a suitable provision, will be admitted this college. Applications should be sent to the first. Thereafter, in the event of oversubscription, Admissions Team at UTC Portsmouth using the the following criteria will be applied in the order in website link www.utcportsmouth.org which they are set out below: Paper copies of the application form are available 1) Looked after children and previously looked on request from the Admissions Team at UTC after children. Portsmouth: 2) Children eligible for the service pupil premium.
Secondary schools • Email: [email protected] See ‘further information and definitions’ below for guidance on who this applies to. • Postal address: UTC Portsmouth, London Road, Portsmouth, PO2 9DU 3) Children of UTC Portsmouth’s staff where the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post Year 10 Application Process for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. Applications for places in 2019 will be made directly 4) 50% of the remaining places will be allocated to, and be administered by the UTC either online on to girls, where there is an odd number of places UTC Portsmouth’s website to be allocated, random selection will be used, (www.utcportsmouth.org) or via the paper form. if required, to determine whether to allocate The closing date for applications is noon on the extra place to a boy or a girl. If there are 02/11/2018. Offers of places will be made by email more female applicants than places, the by the end of the autumn term. following oversubscription criteria are to be used: Useful information
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a) 50% of these places will be allocated to c) If there are an odd number of boys’ places, girls resident in Zone A, which will include random selection will be used to determine all postcodes in the City of Portsmouth. which zone to allocate a place to. Primary schools b) 50% of these places will be allocated to d) If one zone is undersubscribed then girls resident in Zone B, which will include remaining places will be allocated to the all postcodes in Havant, Fareham, Gosport, remaining zone. Southampton, Eastleigh, the Isle of Wight, 6) Any remaining places will be allocated to Chichester, East Hants, Winchester and children who live outside the main zones and Arun. will be prioritised to those who live closest to c) If there are an odd number of girls’ places, the UTC, based on the shortest distance from random selection will be used to determine home to school, measured on a straight line. which zone to allocate the extra place to. (See ‘further information and definitions’ for further information on distance measurement.) d) If one zone is undersubscribed then remaining places will be allocated to the Tie-break Secondary schools remaining zone. Should there be a need for a tie breaker for two 5) The remaining places will be allocated to boys, or more applicants that cannot be otherwise if there are more male applicants than places, separated, the decision will be made by the following oversubscription criteria are to be independently verified random selection (drawing used: of lots) to determine which applicant is offered a a) 50% of these places will be allocated to place. boys resident in Zone A, which will include all postcodes in the City of Portsmouth. b) 50% of these places allocated to boys resident in Zone B, which will include all postcodes in Havant, Fareham, Gosport, Southampton, Eastleigh, the Isle of Wight, Chichester, East Hants., Winchester and Useful information Arun.
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Guide to criteria and additional information on admission policies NOTE: Not all schools have the criteria below. You must check the schools policy. If the criterion is not in the policy then it cannot be considered in allocating places eg. medical evidence cannot be considered for schools without this criterion. Application information
Pupils with special educational needs and Please note that many children experience anxiety an Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) linked to changing schools or leaving friendship groups and this will not usually be considered a The Admissions Code states that all children with an significant medical or psychological need. EHCP which names a particular school must be admitted. These children have priority over and Failure to attach supporting evidence will delay the above all applications and so are allocated first or progress of your application and/or result in it not overnumber if the school is already full. being considered under this criterion. It is your responsibility to provide the necessary evidence to Primary schools Looked After Children support your application. All information given will be treated confidentially. If you are in any doubt These are defined as children who are looked after about whether or not to include details, please by a local authority, i.e. in their care or provided contact the Admissions Team for further advice. with accommodation by the authority for a continuous period of more than 24 hours. Catchment areas Children who were previously looked after*, but A catchment area is a geographical area defined by ceased to be so because they were adopted or the council. The idea of having a catchment area is subject to a residence (now a child arrangement to give some priority for the admission of children order) or special guardianship order. A copy of the living in the local area of the school. Please note – relevant court order will be required. living in the catchment area does not guarantee a *A child is considered as ‘Looked After’ as defined in section place at the school. Your catchment area is 22(1) of the Children Act 1989. A child is considered ‘Adopted’ as defined in section 46 of the Adoption and determined by your home address (the child’s
Secondary schools Children Act 2002. Residence order – as defined in section 8 of permanent residence). Further details of the the Children Act 1989. Special guardianship order – as defined individual school’s catchment area is provided on in section 14 a of the Children Act 1989 the council’s website. Medical, physical, psychological or social need Sibling link If your child or a family member has a significant medical, physical, psychological or social need A sibling link is defined as a child’s brother or sister which relates to your school application, please tick (living in the same household) already on roll and the relevant box on application form and attach attending the school you have applied to or at an supporting evidence to your form. All evidence adjacent infant/junior school and who still be must be sent together with the application form. attending the school the following academic year. The evidence must be in writing from your doctor This category includes step-brothers/step-sisters; or other appropriate professional involved with your adoptive brothers/sisters living in the same child’s health, wellbeing or your specific family household or children whose parents are married or
Useful information circumstances. In all cases evidence must show why cohabiting and live together within the same it is appropriate that your child attends your household. This does not include siblings who live in preferred school and why other schools in the city a different household. If you have twins, triplets or are inappropriate. more children in the same household who are due 52 Apply online www.portsmouth.gov.uk/schooladmissions Admission to primary and secondary schools • Information for parents 2019/20 Application information
to transfer into the same year group, please be Children of staff employed at the school aware that should the admission limit of a school be (or school on an adjacent site) reached by admitting one child, your other Primary schools child(ren) will be offered a place at the same school. a) where the member of staff has been employed at the school for 2 or more years at the time at Please note: a sibling link at the school does not which the application is made, and or guarantee admission to the school. b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant Feeder schools post for which there is a skill shortage Junior schools have named feeder infant schools. We will contact the headteacher to confirm this information. Secondary schools have named feeder junior/ primary schools, see page 61. Distance measurement Attendance at a feeder school does not guarantee Where it is necessary to prioritise applications the admission to a linked school. criterion will be prioritised based on the shortest
distance from the child’s home to school, measured Secondary schools Children eligible for service premium in a straight line ‘as the crow flies’. Distances will be Service premium is paid to eligible children of measured using the council’s Geographical armed services personnel under S14 of the Information System (GIS). The Local Land and Education Act 2002 Property Gazetteer (LLPG) unique property reference co-ordinates will be used to represent the school, The service premium is designed to support children whilst home co-ordinates will be primarily derived with parents serving in the regular British armed from the LLPG, with Ordnance Survey’s ADDRESS- forces. Pupils attract the premium if they meet the POINT® product used as support. Only distances following criteria: measured by GIS will be taken into account for the • one of their parents is serving in the regular purposes of the distance criterion. Should there be armed forces two or more identical distances, the prioritisation • one of their parents served in the regular armed will be done by casting lots. The Admissions Team will arrange for this to be carried out by the LA’s forces in the last 3 years Useful information Democratic Services who are independent of the • one of their parents died while serving in the armed school and the admissions process. forces and the pupil is in receipt of a pension under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) Subsequent sibling applications and the War Pensions Scheme (WPS). Where the LA is unable to meet a parental Evidence may be required if none available from preference in relation to a catchment school, the current educational setting. LA will have to allocate a place at a lower preference school or even allocate the next nearest school with places available. Parents may prefer to then try and get a place for another sibling at the
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same school. In such instances, this school could then be treated as the catchment school for subsequent sibling applications. Parents would have to notify the LA on application that they
Secondary schools consider this exception applies. If the application was for the actual catchment school this criterion would still be applied. This would be applicable to Portsmouth schools who have catchment criterion as part of their admissions policy. Fair Access Protocol The Local Authority operates a Fair Access Protocol which prioritises admissions for certain categories of children. This protocol relates to admission applications during the year (but not the transfer of year 6 pupils from primary/junior to secondary schools or transfer of year 2 pupils from infant to junior schools). The protocol takes priority above Useful information the school’s admission policy for those on a waiting list and the LA may require the school to admit above their published admission number.
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School types PAN = Published Admission Number, i.e the number of places available for September 2019 entry. COM: Community VA: Voluntary Aided VC: Voluntary Controlled ACAD: Academy
Name of school Address Tel Type PAN Ark Ayrton Primary Somers Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO5 4LS 9282 4828 ACAD 60 Academy (part of ARK Headteacher: Mrs Hibberd-Chapman Schools Academy Trust) www.arkayrtonprimary.org Primary schools Ark Dickens Primary Turner Road, Portsmouth, PO1 4PN 9282 6514 ACAD 60 Academy (part of ARK Principal: Mrs Chapman Schools Academy Trust) www.arkdickensprimary.org Arundel Court Primary Northam Street, Landport, Portsmouth, PO1 1JE 9282 4893 ACAD 75 Academy (part of Headteacher: Ms Stocks University of Chichester www.arundelcourt.com Academy Trust) Beacon View Primary Allaway Avenue, Paulsgrove, Portsmouth, PO6 3PS 9237 5302 ACAD 60 Academy (part of United Headteacher: Miss Sykes Learning Academy Trust) www.beaconviewprimary.co.uk Bramble Bramble Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4 0DT 9282 8604 COM 60 Infant School Headteacher: Mr Bradley Secondary schools www.bramble.portsmouth.sch.uk College Park Crofton Road, Portsmouth, PO2 0LB 9266 2823 ACAD 120 Infant School Executive Headteacher: Mrs Anderson (part of King’s Group Head of School: Mr Lathem Academy Trust) www.collegeparkinfantschool.co.uk Copnor Primary School Copnor Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5BZ 9266 1191 COM 90 (yr R) Headteacher: Mr Brawley 15a for www.copnorprimary.co.uk yr 3 junior transfer Corpus Christi Catholic Gladys Avenue, North End, Portsmouth, PO2 9AX 9266 1818 VA 45 (aided) Primary School Executive Headteacher: Mrs Schouller Headteacher: Mrs Kelly www.corpuschristi.portsmouth.sch.uk Useful information Cottage Grove Primary Chivers Close, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO5 1HG 9234 1133 COM 60 School Headteacher: Mrs Honeychurch www.cottagegrove.co.uk
a PAN for years 3 – 6 is 105 so there are an additional 15 places to allocate in the junior transfer process.
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Name of school Address Tel Type PAN Court Lane Hilary Avenue, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 2PP 9237 8890 ACAD 120 Infant Academy Executive Headteacher: Mrs Ramshaw (part of University of Head of School: Mrs Geddes Chichester Academy Trust) www.courtlane-inf.portsmouth.sch.uk Court Lane Hilary Avenue, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 2PP 9237 5444 ACAD 120 Junior Academy Executive Headteacher: Mrs Ramshaw (part of University of Head of School: Mr Wessels Chichester Academy Trust) www.cljs.co.uk
Application information Craneswater St. Ronan’s Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4 0PX 9273 4787 COM 120 Junior School Headteacher: Mr Jones www.craneswater.portsmouth.sch.uk Cumberland Methuen Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4 9HJ 9273 3161 COM 60 Infant School Headteacher: Mrs Naylor www.cumberland.portsmouth.sch.uk Devonshire Infant Francis Avenue, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4 0AG 9273 4902 COM 60 School Headteacher: Miss Collins www.devonshire.portsmouth.sch.uk Fernhurst Francis Avenue, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4 0AG 9273 5998 COM 90 Junior School Headteacher: Mrs Kirby
Primary schools www.fernhurst.portsmouth.sch.uk Flying Bull Academy Flying Bull Lane, Buckland, Portsmouth, PO2 7BJ 9269 4313 ACAD 60 (part of University of Headteacher: Mr Hewett – Dale Chichester Academy Trust) www.fbacademy.co.uk Gatcombe Park St. Barbara Way, Hilsea, Portsmouth, PO2 0UR 9269 4412 ACAD 30 Primary School Headteacher: Mr Baker (part of The Ridings Trust) www.gatcombepark.portsmouth.sch.uk
Highbury Primary Dovercourt Road, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 2RZ 9237 5404 ACAD 60 School (part of University Headteacher: Mrs Sadler of Chichester Academy Trust) www.highburyprimary.org Isambard Brunel Wymering Road, Portsmouth, PO2 7HX 9266 3444 ACAD 90 Junior School (part of Executive Headteacher: Mrs Carroll The Thinking Schools www.isambardbrunelschool.wordpress.com
Secondary schools Academy Trust) Langstone Infant Stride Avenue, Copnor, Portsmouth, PO3 6HL 9283 2642 ACAD 90 Academy (part of Headteacher: Miss Page University of Chichester www.langstoneinfants.co.uk Academy Trust) Langstone Junior Lakeside Avenue, Portsmouth, PO3 6EZ 9282 4138 ACAD 90 Academy (part of Headteacher: Mrs Bush University of Chichester www.langstone-jun.portsmouth.sch.uk Academy Trust) Lyndhurst Junior Crofton Road, North End, Portsmouth, PO2 0NT 9266 3645 ACAD 120 School (part of King’s Executive Headteacher: Mrs Anderson Group Academy Trust) Head of School: Ms Beechhurst www.kgalyndhurst.uk
Useful information Manor Infant School Inverness Road, Portsmouth, PO1 5QR 9282 0548 COM 90 Headteacher: Mr Howard www.manorinfantschool.co.uk
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Name of school Address Tel Type PAN Mayfield Schoola Mayfield Road, North End, Portsmouth, PO2 0RH 9269 3432 COM 60 (Yr R) Application information Headteacher: Mr Jeapes 30 (for Yr 3 Admissions: Mr Stedman junior www.mayfield.portsmouth.sch.uk transfer) Medina Primary Medina Road, Portsmouth, PO6 3NH 9237 5475 COM 30 School Headteacher: Mr Payne (part of Thinking Schools www.medinaprimary.co.uk Academy Trust) Meon Infant School Shelford Road, Milton, Portsmouth, PO4 8NT 9273 1082 COM 60 (part of Thinking Schools Headteacher: Mrs Daish Academy Trust) www.meoninfant.co.uk Meon Junior School Shelford Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4 8NT 9273 2844 COM 90 (part of Thinking Schools Senior Head of School: Mrs Nickerson Academy Trust) Head of School: Mrs Paine
www.meonjuniorschool.org.uk Primary schools Meredith Portchester Road, North End, Portsmouth, PO2 7JB 9266 3846 COM 90 Infant School Executive Headteacher: Mrs Carroll www.meredithinfantschool.co.uk Milton Park Eastney Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4 8ET 9273 3792 COM 60 Primary School Headteacher: Mrs Fowler www.miltonparkprimaryschool.co.uk Moorings Way Moorings Way, Milton, Portsmouth, PO4 8YJ 9282 9147 ACAD 45 Infant School Senior Head of School: Mrs Nickerson (part of Thinking Schools Head of School: Mrs Vonk Academy Trust) www.mooringsway.co.uk Newbridge New Road, Portsmouth, PO2 7RW 9282 9424 ACAD 150 Junior School Headteacher: Mrs Webb Secondary schools (part of The Thinking www.newbridgeschool.co.uk Schools Academy Trust) Northern Parade Kipling Road, Portsmouth, PO2 9NJ 9266 2596 ACAD 120 Infant School (part of Executive Headteacher: Mrs Wilson the King’s Group Academies) www.npschools.co.uk Northern Parade Doyle Avenue, Portsmouth, PO2 9NE 9266 2129 ACAD 120 Junior School (part of Executive Headteacher: Mrs Wilson the King’s Group Academies) www.npschools.co.uk Penhale Infant School Lincoln Road, Portsmouth, PO1 5BG 9282 1016 ACAD 90 (part of The Thinking Headteacher: Mrs Keller Schools Academy Trust) www.penhaleinfants.co.uk
Portsdown Primary Sundridge Close, Portsmouth, PO6 3JL 9237 8991 COM 60 Useful information School Headteacher: Mr Vaghela www.portsdownprimary.co.uk Solent Infant School Evelegh Road, Farlington, Portsmouth, PO6 1DH 9237 1073 ACAD 90 (part of the De Curci Trust) Executive Headteacher: Mrs Wilby Head of school: Mrs Peterkin – Aldred www.solent-inf.portsmouth.sch.uk
a Mayfield is an All Through school (year R to year 11) but currently primary applications can only be made for year R September 2018 and current year R, year 1, year 2 and year 3 as an in-year application. There will be an additional 30 places for year 3 2018 available for junior transfer applicants. Children in current year 2 will automatically transfer to year 3 and attending the primary part of the school will automatically transfer to year 7
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Name of school Address Tel Type PAN Solent Junior School Solent Road, Drayton, Portsmouth, PO6 1HJ 9237 5459 ACAD 90 (part of the De Curci Trust) Executive Headteacher: Mrs Wilby Head of School: Mrs Peterkin-Aldred www.solentjuniorschool.co.uk Southsea Collingwood Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO5 2SR 9282 8176 COM 60 Infant School Headteacher: Miss Cook www.southsea.portsmouth.sch.uk St. George’s Beneficial Hanover Street, Portsea, Portsmouth, PO1 3BN 9282 2886 VC 50
Application information CE Primary School Headteacher: Mrs Gibb www.stgbs.co.uk St. John’s Cathedral Cottage View, Landport, Portsmouth, PO1 1PX 9282 1055 VA 30 Catholic (aided) Headteacher: Mrs Park Primary School www.stjohnscathedralschool.org.uk St. Jude’s CE St. Nicholas Street, Old Portsmouth, PO1 2NZ 9282 4061 VC 60 Primary School Headteacher: Miss Osborne www.st-judes.portsmouth.sch.uk St. Paul’s Catholic Bourne Road, Portsmouth, PO6 4JD 9237 5488 VA 60 Primary School Executive Headteacher: Mrs Schouller Head of School: Mrs Killick
Primary schools www.st-pauls.portsmouth.sch.uk St. Swithun’s Catholic Taswell Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO5 2RG 9282 9339 VA 45 Primary School Headteacher: Mr Olive www.stswithunscatholicprimaryschool.co.uk Stamshaw North End Avenue, Stamshaw, Portsmouth, 9266 1192 COM 90 Infant School PO2 8NW Headteacher: Mrs Cooper www.stamshawinfant.co.uk Stamshaw Tipner Road, Portsmouth, PO2 8HQ 9266 1045 ACAD 90 Junior School Interim Principal: Ms Cunningham (part of Portswood www.stamshawjun.org.uk Academy Trust) The Victory Primary Allaway Avenue, Portsmouth, PO6 4QP 9200 1160 ACAD 60
Secondary schools School (part of United Headteacher: Mr Hartley Learning Academy Trust) www.thevictoryprimary.co.uk Westover Westover Road, Portsmouth, PO3 6NS 9266 0178 ACAD 60 Primary School Headteacher: Mr Martin (part of The Ridings Trust) www.westoverprimary.co.uk Wimborne Wimborne Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4 8DE 9273 3783 COM 70 Infant School Headteacher: Mrs Cragg www.wimborne-inf.portsmouth.sch.uk Wimborne Wimborne Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4 8DE 9273 3784 COM 90 Junior School Headteacher: Mrs Jacobs www.wimborne-jun.portsmouth.sch.uk Useful information
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School types: COM: Community VA: Voluntary Aided FOU: Foundation ACAD: Academy
PAN = Published Admission Number, i.e the number of places available for September 2019 entry.
Name of school Address Tel Type PAN Admiral Lord Dundas Lane, Portsmouth, PO3 5XT 9236 4536 ACAD 200 Nelson School Headteacher: Mrs Hardingham, Admissions: Mrs Power (part of Salterns www.alns.co.uk Academy Trust) Charter Academy Hyde Park Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO5 4HL 9282 4204 ACAD 180 (part of ARK Schools Acting Principal: Mr Masters, Admissions: Mrs Dymott Academy Trust) Primary schools www.charteracademy.org.uk Castle View Allaway Avenue, Paulsgrove, Portsmouth, PO6 4QP 9237 0321 ACAD 200 Academy Principal: Mr Down (formerly King Admissions: Mrs West – Thomas Richard School) www.kingrichardschool.net Mayfield Schoola Mayfield Road, North End, Portsmouth, PO2 0RH 9269 3432 COM 200 Headteacher: Mr Jeapes, Admissions: Miss Hillier www.mayfield.portsmouth.sch.uk Miltoncross Milton Road, Milton, Portsmouth, PO3 6RB 9273 8022 ACAD 200 Academy Headteacher: Ms Calderbank, Admissions: Mrs Cross (part of The Kemnal www.miltoncross-tkat.org Academies Trust) Secondary schools The Portsmouth St. Mary’s Road, Fratton, Portsmouth, PO1 5PF 9281 2822 ACAD 225 Academy (part of Principal: Ms Sheppard, Admissions: Mrs Meale The Thinking Schools www.theportsmouthacademy.org.uk Academy Trust) Priory School Fawcett Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4 0DL 9281 9115 ACAD 250 (part of Bohunt Headteacher: Mr Vaughan, Admissions: Ms Williams Education Trust) www.priorysouthsea.org St. Edmund’s Arundel Street, Landport, Portsmouth, PO1 1RX 9282 3766 VA 208 Catholic School Headteacher: Mr Graham, Admissions: Mrs White www.saintedmunds.org.uk Springfield Central Road, Drayton, Portsmouth, PO6 1QY 9237 9119 ACAD 227c School (part of The Headteacher: Ms Spivey, Admissions: Ms Kelly De Curci Trust) www.springfield.uk.net Useful information Trafalgar School London Road, Hilsea, Portsmouth, PO2 9RJ 9269 3521 ACAD 200 (part of Salterns Executive Headteacher: Mr Labedz Academy Trust) Headteacher: Ms Copeland, Admissions: Mrs H Robson www.trafalgarschool.org.uk University London Road, Hilsea, Portsmouth, PO2 9RJ 9283 4785 – 100 (Yr 10) Technical College Principal: Mr O’Dowda Portsmouthb www.utcportsmouth.org a Mayfield School is an ‘All Through school’ (year R to year 11). See page 37. b for 14 – 19-year-olds only, see page 50 – 54 c will be increasing to 240 on completion of building works
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Primary/Junior Secondary Application information Feeder Copnor Primary Gatcombe Park Primary Admiral Lord Nelson School schools chart Westover Primary Ark Ayrton Primary (grouped by Ark Dickens Primary Arundel Court Primary secondary school) Cottage Grove Primary Charter Academy Flying Bull Primary Sibling criterion applies for pupils St. George’s Beneficial Primary on adjacent site feeder schools St. Jude’s C of E Primary which are highlighted in yellow. NB: some schools are feeders for Beacon View Primary Academy Medina Primary more than one school. Castle View Academy Portsdown Primary (formerly King Richard School) Infant The Victory Primary School Primary schools Meredith Infant Isambard Brunel Junior Manor Infant Isambard Brunel Junior Newbridge Junior Penhale Infant Newbridge Junior Meon Junior Isambard Brunel Junior The Portsmouth Academy Meon Infant Meon Junior Isambard Brunel Junior Newbridge Junior Moorings Way Infant Isambard Brunel Junior Newbridge Junior Meon Junior
Northern Parade Infant Northern Parade Junior Stamshaw Infant Stamshaw Junior College Park Infant Lyndhurst Junior Secondary schools Manor Infant Isambard Brunel Junior Mayfield School Newbridge Junior Trafalgar School Meredith Infant Isambard Brunel Junior Penhale Infant Newbridge Junior Moorings Way Infant Isambard Brunel Junior Newbridge Junior
Langstone Infant Langstone Junior Meon Infant Meon Junior Miltoncross Academy Moorings Way Infant Meon Junior Milton Park Primary
Devonshire Infant Fernhurst Junior Bramble Infant Fernhurst Junior Craneswater Junior Southsea Infant Craneswater Junior Priory School Useful information Cumberland Infant Craneswater Junior Wimborne Junior Wimborne Infant Wimborne Junior
Court Lane Infant Court Lane Junior Solent Infant Solent Junior Springfield School Highbury Primary
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Infant, junior and primary school allocation breakdown for 2018 intake This section tells you how many applicants were successful, and admission criteria used in the allocation process. This information
Application information is for on-time applications only.
Table header key: PAN: Published Admission LAC: Looked After Child !! Please note the pattern of Number MED: Medical/social applications and places allocated changes from year to Apps considered = applications CAT: Catchment year, so 2018 trends may not remaining after applicants SIB: Sibling allocated to higher preference give an indication of what will DIST: Distance schools during the first stage of happen in September 2019. REL: Religion the allocation process For guidance on criteria see pages
Primary schools SEN: Special Educational Needs 52 – 54.
Breakdown for Infant allocation
School Name PAN Applications Total Apps Considered SEN LAC MED CAT SIB Service Premium of staff* Children DIST Last place offered was on the criterion: Bramble Infant 60 174 59 * * * * * * * * All applicants successful (Goldsmith) College Park Infant 120 346 154 0 2 6 51 33 0 0 30 Distance (0.557) Court Lane Infant 120 297 138 0 1 4 105 2 0 0 8 Distance (0.646)
Secondary schools Cumberland Infant 60 234 92 1 0 2 34 6 4 0 13 Distance (0.236) Devonshire Infant 60 246 78 0 1 1 21 17 2 1 18 Distance (0.516) Langstone Infant 90 177 91 1 0 1 65 13 0 0 11 Distance (1.261) Manor Infant 90 131 70 * * * * * * * * All applicants successful Meon Infant 60 248 102 0 2 1 45 12 0 0 0 Sibling (0.826) Meredith Infant 90 159 62 * * * * * * * * All applicants successful Moorings Way Infant 60 143 56 * * * * * * * * All applicants successful Northern Parade 120 224 120 * * * * * * * * All applicants successful Infant Penhale Infant 85 131 58 * * * * * * * * All applicants successful Solent Infant 90 247 116 1 1 4 70 8 0 0 6 Distance (0.687) Southsea Infant 60 243 80 0 0 0 41 2 0 0 17 Distance (0.521) Stamshaw Infant 90 105 49 * * * * * * * * All applicants successful Wimborne Infant 70 243 81 0 0 2 36 17 0 0 15 Distance (0.463) Useful information
62 Apply online www.portsmouth.gov.uk/schooladmissions Admission to primary and secondary schools • Information for parents 2019/20 Application information Breakdown for Primary allocation (a) PAN Total Applications Apps Considered SEN LAC MED REL CAT REL* SIB Service Premium of Children staff** DIST Last place was on offered the criterion: Distance in miles Arundel Court 75 169 85 0 0 3 N/A 40 N/A 14 0 0 17 Distance (0.5) Primary Copnor Primary 90 260 98 0 1 1 N/A 38 N/A 19 0 0 31 Distance (0.974) Cottage Grove 60 108 64 0 1 2 N/A 26 N/A 14 0 1 16 Distance (0.334) Primary All applicants Flying Bull Academy 60 105 60 * * * N/A * N/A * * * * successful Gatcombe Park Catchment – not all 30 137 49 0 1 1 N/A 28 N/A 0 0 0 0
Primary successful (0.413) Primary schools Highbury Primary 60 151 70 1 1 1 N/A 54 N/A 0 3 0 0 Sibling (2.313) Medina Primary 30 98 33 0 0 1 N/A 20 N/A 2 0 0 7 Distance (0.475) All applicants Milton Park Primary 60 130 55 * * * N/A * N/A * * * * successful All applicants Portsdown Primary 60 92 56 * * * N/A * N/A * * * * successful St George’s Beneficial All applicants 50 60 48 * * * N/A * * * * * * CE Primary successful St Jude’s CE Primary 60 131 78 0 0 1 39 6 N/A 7 0 0 7 Distance (0.487) All applicants Westover Primary 60 96 35 * * * N/A * N/A * * * * successful *REL applicable to St Jude’s and St George’s only **Employed 2+ yrs or filling a demonstrable skill shortage Secondary schools Breakdown for Primary allocation – Ark academies (b) Skill –
PAN Applications Total Apps Considered SEN LAC Staff Child Shortage SIB of staff* Children CAT DIST Last place offered was on the criterion: Distance in miles ARK Ayrton Primary 60 103 37 * * * * * * * All applicants successful Academy ARK Dickens Primary 60 106 63 0 2 0 27 0 23 8 Distance (0.34) *Employed 2+ yrs Breakdown for Primary allocation (c) Useful information PAN Applications Total Apps Considered SEN LAC MED CAT SIB DIST Last place offered was on the criterion: Distance in miles Beacon View Primary 60 90 40 * * * * * * All applicants successful Academy The Victory Primary 60 106 60 * * * * * * All applicants successful
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Breakdown for Catholic Primary allocation (d)
School name PAN Last place offered was on the criterion: Distance in miles
Application information Corpus Christi 45 Distance (0.043) Catholic Primary St John’s Cathedral 30 Other Christian (0.18) Catholic Primary St Paul’s Catholic 60 All applicants successful Primary St Swithun’s Catholic 45 Distance (0.134) Primary
Please contact the school regarding details of allocations against each criteria
Breakdown for Mayfield all through school allocation (Year R) Primary schools
School name PAN applications Total Applications considered SEN LAC MED of staff* Children Service Premium CAT SIB DIST Last place offered was on the criterion: Distance in miles Mayfield 60 330 105 0 2 2 1 1 54 0 0 Catchment (0.514)
Breakdown for Junior allocation Secondary schools
School name Published Admission Limit for Sept 2019 applications Total Applications Considered School Named on Statement/EHCP Looked After Child Significant Medical, physical, psychological or Social Need Catchment Area Sibling Link Service Premium Child Staff Feeder School Distance All on-time applicants Copnor Primary 15 58 13 * * * * * * * * * successful The final criterion Court Lane Junior under which places 120 162 127 2 1 8 95 9 0 0 5 0 Academy have been offered is Feeder (0.593) The final criterion under which places Craneswater Junior 120 188 124 1 2 5 68 13 0 0 31 0 have been offered is Feeder (1.673) The final criterion
Useful information under which places Fernhurst Junior 90 180 102 2 1 1 51 15 0 1 19 0 have been offered is Feeder (0.778)
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School name Published Admission Limit for Sept 2019 applications Total Applications Considered School Named on Statement/EHCP Looked After Child Significant Medical, physical, psychological or Social Need Catchment Area Sibling Link Service Premium Child Staff Feeder School Distance All on-time applicants Langstone Junior 90 100 83 * * * * * * * * * successful All on-time applicants Lyndhurst Junior 120 141 111 * * * * * * * * * successful The final criterion Mayfield All Through under which places 30 145 46 * * 3 26 * 1 * * * School have been offered is Catchment (0.678) All on-time applicants Meon Junior 90 113 84 * * * * * * * * * successful All on-time applicants Newbridge Junior 150 171 143 * * * * * * * * * successful The final criterion
Northern Parade under which places Useful information 120 156 129 3 1 4 78 20 0 0 14 0 Junior have been offered is Feeder (2.178) The final criterion under which places Solent Junior 90 146 98 3 1 0 72 11 1 0 2 0 have been offered is Feeder (0.394) All on-time applicants Stamshaw Junior 90 82 68 * * * * * * * * * successful All on-time applicants Wimborne Junior 90 179 88 * * * * * * * * * successful NB: Staff child – where staff member has been employed for 2+ years/is filling a demonstrable skill shortage
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Secondary school allocation breakdown for 2018 intake This section tells you how many applicants were successful, and the admission criteria used in the allocation process.
Application information This information is for on-time applications only.
!! Please note the pattern of applications and Applications considered = applications remaining places allocated changes from year to year, after applicants allocated to higher preference so 2018 trends may not give an indication of schools during the first stage of the allocation process what will happen in September 2019. * = see last column Primary schools
School Name Published Admission Limit for September 2018 Applications Total Applicants Total Considered School Named on EHCP Looked After Children (a) of Staff Children Sibling Link of Staff(b) Children Catchment Area Feeder School Distance Notes The final criterion under which Admiral Lord Nelson 220 438 259 3 0 2 119 41 26 2 27 places have been offered is School distance of 0.997 miles Trafalgar School 200 341 171 * * * * * * * * All on-time applicants successful
School Name Published Admission Limit for September 2018 Applications Total Applicants Total Considered School Named on EHCP Looked After Children (a) of Staff Children Sibling Link of Staff(b) Children Catchment Area Feeder School Distance Notes Charter Academy 180 303 164 * * * * * * * * All on-time applicants successful Secondary schools
School Name Published Admission Limit for September 2018 Applications Total Applicants Total Considered School Named on EHCP Looked After Children Medical, Physical, Psychological or Social Need of Staff Children Service Premium Catchment Area Sibling Link Feeder School Distance Notes All on-time applicants Mayfield School 200 384 181 * * * * * * * * * successful Useful information
School Name Published Admission Limit for September 2018 Applications Total Applicants Total Considered School Named on EHCP Looked After Children Sibling Link Feeder Link of Staff Children Distance Notes The Portsmouth The final criterion under which places have been 235 478 279 3 3 31 97 0 101 Academy offered is distance of 0.861 miles
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School Name Published Admission Limit for September 2018 Applications Total Applicants Total Considered School Named on EHCP Looked After Children Medical, Physical, Psychological or Social Need Catchment Area Sibling Link Service Premium Feeder School Distance Notes Springfield School 227 326 219 * * * * * * * * All on-time applicants successful Secondary schools
School Name Published Admission Limit for September 2018 Applications Total Applicants Total Considered School Named on EHCP Baptised looked After Children Baptised Catholic Child Non Catholic looked after child for Preperation Catholic Church Child of Baptised Catholic Parent Feeder School Sibling Members of Eastern Orthdox Members of other Christian Churches Child of Staff Distance Notes The final criterion under which places St Edmund’s have been 212 478 328 3 1 116 5 3 14 20 31 1 15 0 0 Catholic School offered is Other Christian and distance of 0.926 miles Useful information
School name Published Admission Limit for September 2018 Applications Total Applicants Total Considered School Named on EHCP Looked After Children Medical, Physical, Psychological or Social Need Catchment Area Sibling Link Feeder School Distance Notes Castle View Academy (formerly 200 127 98 * * * * * * * All on-time applicants successful King Richard School) Miltoncross 200 240 139 * * * * * * * All on-time applicants successful Academy The final criterion under which places have Priory School 250 437 277 1 2 1 166 26 35 19 been offered is distance of 0.611 miles
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Independent appeal statistics Independent appeals were made to the following schools for entry at the start of the academic year (not including in-year appeals) between September 2015 and September 2018. Application information
Starting school infant appeals School Appeals 2015 Appeals 2016 Appeals 2017 Appeals 2018* Appeals Appeals Appeals Appeals Admitted Admitted Admitted Admitted heard heard heard heard Ark Ayrton Primary 2 0 0 0 - - - - Arundel Court Primary 1 0 3 1 2 2 - - College Park Infant 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 Copnor Primary 0 0 3 0 0 0 - -
Primary schools Corpus Christi Catholic Primary - - - - 3 0 - - Cottage Grove Primary 0 0 3 0 0 0 - - Court Lane Infant 3 0 5 0 3 0 3 0 Devonshire Infant 1 0 2 0 - - - - Flying Bull Primary 0 0 0 0 - - - - Gatcombe Park Primary 4 1 1 0 2 0 - - Highbury Primary 6 0 3 0 4 0 1 0 Langstone Infant 0 0 3 0 - - - - Mayfield School 2 0 5 0 7 0 1 0 Medina Primary 0 0 1 0 8 0 - - Meon Infant 0 0 0 0 2 0 - - Milton Park Primary 0 0 0 0 - - - - Northern Parade Infant 0 0 0 0 - - - - Penhale Infant 1 0 0 0 - - - - Secondary schools Portsdown Primary - - - - 4 0 - - Solent Infant 13 0 5 0 - - - - Southsea Infant 0 0 1 0 3 0 - - St George’s Beneficial CE VC - - 1 0 - - - - Primary St John’s Cathedral Catholic - - - - 2 0 1 0 Primary St Jude’s CE Primary 2 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 St Paul’s RC Primary - - - - 1 0 - - Stamshaw Infant - - - - 1 0 - - *Latest data correct as of 17/07/18 For information on appeals prior to 2017 to Corpus Christi, St John’s, St Paul’s and St Swithun’s please
Useful information contact the school direct.
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Independent appeals were made to the following junior schools for entry at the start of the academic year (not including in-year appeals) between September 2015 and September 2018. Transfer to junior school appeals School Appeals 2015 Appeals 2016 Appeals 2017 Appeals 2018*
Appeals Appeals Appeals Appeals Primary schools Admitted Admitted Admitted Admitted heard heard heard heard Copnor Primary 0 0 0 0 - - - - Court Lane Junior 6 4 6 2 2 1 4 3 Craneswater Junior 0 0 0 0 4 2 - - Fernhurst Junior 1 0 0 0 2 0 - - Langstone Junior 0 0 3 0 - - - - Lyndhurst Junior 6 0 2 0 - - - - Meon Junior 0 0 3 1 5 3 - - Solent Junior 3 3 0 0 2 0 - - Wimborne Junior 0 0 1 0 3 1 - - *Latest data correct as of 17/07/18 Secondary schools Useful information
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Independent appeals were made to the following secondary schools for entry at the start of the academic year (not including Application information in-year appeals) between September 2015 and September 2018. Secondary school appeals 2015 entry 2016 entry 2017 entry 2018 entry* Appeals Appeals Appeals Appeals Admitted Admitted Admitted Admitted heard heard heard heard Admiral Lord Nelson School 6 1 2 1 2 1 2 0 Charter Academy - - 11 2 - - - - Mayfield School 16 2 18 8 - - - - Priory School 7 0 0 0 - - 2 0 Primary schools Springfield School 11 3 9 3 - - 0 0 St Edmund’s Catholic School - - 12 1 10 0 15 3 The Portsmouth Academy ------8 2 *Latest data correct as of 17/07/18 For information on appeals prior to 2016 for St Edmund’s Catholic School and Charter Academy, please contact the schools direct. Secondary schools Useful information
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Starting school Summer-born children – requests to delay entry into Year R When can my child start school? Primary schools Parents have a right to request that their summer- To start school in September 2019, your child must born children start school in Year R the following be born on or between 1 September 2014 and academic year. The law has not been changed to 31 August 2015. give parents the right to insist their child starts in According to the law, your child must attend school Year R the following year. Although you do not at the start of the term following their fifth birthday. have to send your child to school until they are However, in Portsmouth, most children will start statutory school age, they will have to start in Year school when they are four years old. 1 if delayed entry has not been agreed. Generally, most pupils will attend school on a In Portsmouth the LA co-ordinates these requests full-time basis by the end of September 2019. with all own admission authority schools and Parents will need to contact schools direct for academies. Please see the full guidance and request form. You must make your request by the closing
information as starting arrangements will vary Secondary schools between schools. date for applications of 15 January 2019. The LA will not consider requests for delayed entry into Can I defer starting school for my child? Year R after this date unless there are exceptional reasons for doing so. Once a child has been allocated a place, parents can ask their school to defer their child(ren)’s entry into A decision not to start your child at school in their school until the beginning of either the spring term chronological year group will not give you or the summer term. Entry cannot be deferred additional criteria for Early Years’ funding. You beyond the beginning of term after the child’s fifth should enquire with your child’s early years setting birthday, or beyond the academic year for which the about the possibility of keeping your child there and admission is sought. Parents may also request that whether they will continue to be able to access a their child attends on a part-time basis until the free place if you are considering delaying your child reaches compulsory school age. child’s start at school.
Once your child has a place confirmed, any If a delay is agreed you will need to re-apply for a Useful information discussions about deferring or attending part time Year R place for the following academic year – should be with the headteacher of the school. places cannot be reserved. Please note that any subsequent schools are not legally required to You will also not be entitled to any funding for a continue this arrangement and the agreement will nursery place if you agree with the school part time not give any additional priority when you apply the attendance or deferred start date. following year.
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Information on schools How to access the FIS Specific information on individual schools, such as Telephone: 023 9268 8830 opening times, school policies, uniform etc. can Email: [email protected] often be found in the school prospectus which can be obtained direct from the school or from the View: www.portsmouth.gov.uk/fis school’s own website. Links to school websites are Facebook: www.facebook.com/portsmouthfis available on the council website – Post or visit:
Primary schools www.portsmouth.gov.uk Family Information Service, Ground Floor, Civic Family Information Service Offices, Guildhall Square PO1 2DX The Family Information Service (FIS) provides tailored When are we open? information, advice and guidance for families with The city helpdesk lines are open from 9am – 4pm, children from pre-birth to 19 and those working Monday – Friday with families. You can visit us from 9am – 4pm Monday – Friday. Our services We offer guidance on a range of topics, including: Special educational needs • Childcare Many children and young people experience difficulties with learning at some point in their Sourcing childcare, understanding the jargon, education. These are often temporary and are
Secondary schools accessing financial support to pay for childcare usually dealt with by the child’s school. A very small • Leisure opportunities number of children have significant, complex or Children’s Centres, local groups and clubs long term needs. These children might need a co- ordinated assessment of Educational, Health and • Rights for working parents Care needs. Some of these children may be issued Maternity/paternity leave, flexible working with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) – a options, taking time off for dependents legal document that describes special educational, health and care provisions and which school or • Financial entitlements further educational establishment the child or Accessing family benefits; including funding for young person will attend. 2 year olds and early years education for 3 – 4 Admissions arrangements for children with year olds, applying for free school meals and statements and EHCP’s are managed by the local school transport, completing claim forms and authority’s SEND team, and not the Admissions
Useful information estimating tax credits Team. • Family support Help to make life as a parent/carer run smoothly
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Further information about SEND and the admissions Elective home education arrangements for children with statements or
(educating your child at home) Primary schools Education Health and Care Plans is available at: Parents and carers intending to elective home Web: www.portsmouth.gov.uk educate with their child must inform their child’s Phone: 023 9284 1238 school in writing. If this is not done, the child will Email: [email protected] remain registered on their school’s roll. If your child is not at school, please inform the Local Authority of your intention to home educate by contacting Fair Access Protocol the School Attendance Team (see details below). The Local Authority and schools have agreed a ‘Fair School Attendance Team, Access Protocol’ for certain categories of school age Floor 2, Core 5 – 6, Civic Offices children. This protocol relates to admission PO1 2EA. applications throughout the year (but not children Tel: 023 9284 1419 starting school, transferring to junior or secondary school in September). The protocol will take priority Email: Secondary schools above the school’s admission policy for those on a [email protected] school’s waiting list and may require schools to Further details can be found at admit above their published admission limit. www.portsmouth.gov.uk
Admission out of chronological Concerns about your child’s year group education Children will usually be admitted into their If you have a concern about any aspect of your chronological year group except in exceptional child’s education you should speak to your child’s circumstances and with the agreement of the school. teacher first. It is quite likely that you will be able to Where children may have missed school, been sort problems out this way. If not, you may then wish educated in another country or have been out of to raise the matter with the headteacher. If the issue education, these problems can be addressed by Useful information is not resolved by the headteacher you can take it to additional support in the child’s chronological year the school governors. A copy of a school’s complaint group. For gifted and talented pupils, parents can procedure is available from schools on request. discuss directly with a school the way it makes provision. For further information see www.gov.uk
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Leave of absence in term time Free School Meals Only headteachers can authorise a leave of absence Parent/carers of children in Yr 3 and above who are in term time through a ‘leave of absence form’ entitled to any of the following benefits are entitled which is available from schools. Parents are to free school meals: reminded that headteachers will decide on a case by • Income Support case basis whether they will authorise this absence based on exceptional circumstances. If the leave is • Income based Jobseekers Allowance
Primary schools not authorised but taken, parents may receive • Income based Employment and Support penalty notices for the absence. Allowance • Support under Part VI of the Immigration and School terms and holiday dates Asylum Act 1999 Autumn Term 2019 • The guarantee element of State Pension Credit • Child Tax only, provided your annual household 4 September to 20 December income (as by the evidence & customs) does not • Half term – 28 October to 1 November exceed £16,190 • Christmas – 23 December to 3 January • Working Tax run-on-paid for 4 weeks after you Spring Term 2020 stop qualifying for work Tax Credit • Universal Credit 6 January to 3 April Since the introduction of Universal Credit, the Secondary schools • Half term – 17 to 21 February Government has agreed that all children who are • Easter – 6 April to 17 April eligible for free school meals will have their eligibility protected, regardless of any changes in Summer Term 2020 financial circumstances. Free school meals are 20 April to 22 July protected until the 31 March 2022 or until the end • May Day – 4 May of your child’s current phase of education, • Half term – 25 to 29 May whichever is the latest. The application form to apply for free school meals is available at school, Portsmouth City Council or to download at: www.portsmouth.gov.uk Useful information
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Universal infant free school meal • the guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
All pupils in year R, 1 and 2 will be able to receive a • support through part 6 of the Primary schools school meal at no cost to the parent/guardian. Immigration and Asylum Act School meals in the city are healthy, tasty, social and • the Working Tax Credit 4-week run on fun and will help parents to save up to £400 per year. (the payment you get when you stop If you require more information please contact the qualifying for Working Tax Credit) Family Information Service on 023 9268 8830. A child can also get free early education and childcare if any of the following apply: Transport to school • they’re looked after by a local council Transport assistance to mainstream or special • they have a current statement of special schools is provided to children based on specific education needs (SEN) or an education, criteria laid out in the Home to School Travel health and care (EHC) plan Assistance Policy. For further information contact
• they get Disability Living Allowance Secondary schools 023 9283 4962, www.portsmouth.gov.uk or visit the Portsmouth Local Offer website • they’ve left care under a special guardianship www.portsmouthlocaloffer.org order, child arrangements order or adoption order
Funded Early Education Universal Funded Early Education (eligible two-year-olds) (all three and four-year-olds) Your 2-year-old can get free early education and Universal funded childcare places ensure that childcare if you live in England and get one of the children from 3 years old have access to high quality following benefits: early years education in readiness for school. These places are offered to eligible parents free of charge. • Income Support Your child will be eligible from the term after their • income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) 3rd birthday until they start school, regardless of • income-related Employment and household income or family circumstances. Children Useful information Support Allowance (ESA) are entitled to use up to 15 hours per week when • Universal Credit - if you and your partner taken over 38 weeks of the year. Some early years have a combined income from work of settings are able to offer fewer hours over more less than £15,400 a year after tax weeks; for example; around 11 hours per week taken over 52 weeks a year. Be sure to ask your • tax credits and you have an annual chosen setting about what they can offer. income of under £16,190 before tax
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In Portsmouth there are a variety of providers Delaying your child’s start in offering the funded entitlement including nurseries school and funding. and childminders. Parents should consult with the provider of their choice with regards to what A request and subsequent agreement, not to start sessions are available. Parents may not always be your child at school in their chronological year able to access their full entitlement at the times group will impact on your entitlement to Funded they want, with the provider of their choice. In Early Education; this will cease at the end of the these circumstances, parents should contact the term your child turns 5 years old. You should Primary schools Family Information Service who can provide enquire with your child’s early years setting about information about other settings that offer the the possibility of keeping your child there and entitlement. whether they will continue to be able to access a free place if you are considering delaying your For further information about Early Education child’s start at school. Funding, approved settings, help with paying for childcare or general family enquiries; please contact the Family Information Service. Phone: 023 9268 8830 Website: www.portsmouth.gov.uk and search FIS Email: [email protected]
Secondary schools Extended Funded Early Education (eligible three and four-year-olds) In addition to the ‘universal’ 15 hours, some families are eligible for additional funded early education if they are working. Eligible families can access an additional 15 hours per week when taken over 38 weeks (a total of 30 hours per week). Some early years settings are able to offer fewer hours over more weeks; be sure to ask your chosen setting about what they can offer. To find out more and apply for this extended funding you must visit
Useful information www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
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Transfer Group Date of birth (between and inclusive of) Age Year Key Stage Primary schools Rising 4s 1 Sept 2015 to 31 Aug 2016
Infant 1 Sept 2014 to 31 Aug 2015 4 – 5 R 1
1 Sept 2013 to 31 Aug 2014 5 – 6 1 1
1 Sept 2012 to 31 Aug 2013 6 – 7 2 1
Junior 1 Sept 2011 to 31 Aug 2012 7 – 8 3 2
1 Sept 2010 to 31 Aug 2011 8 – 9 4 2
1 Sept 2009 to 31 Aug 2010 9 – 10 5 2 Secondary schools
1 Sept 2008 to 31 Aug 2009 10 – 11 6 2
Secondary 1 Sept 2007 to 31 Aug 2008 11 – 12 7 3
1 Sept 2006 to 31 Aug 2007 12 – 13 8 3
1 Sept 2005 to 31 Aug 2006 13 – 14 9 3
1 Sept 2004 to 31 Aug 2005 14 – 15 10 4
Secondary Leavers 1 Sept 2003 to 31 Aug 2004 15 – 16 11 4 Useful information
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Portsmouth City Council Department for Education
Admissions Team, Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, You can view information on school performance Primary schools Portsmouth, PO1 2EA tables on this website – www.education.gov.uk Tel: 023 9268 8008 (City Helpdesk will be first point Family Information Service of contact) Email: [email protected] Telephone: 023 9268 8830 Web: www.portsmouth.gov.uk Email: [email protected]
Hampshire County Council Ofsted Tel: 0300 555 1377 Office for Standards in Education. You can view Email: [email protected] school Ofsted inspection reports on this website: Web: www.hants.gov.uk/admissions www.ofsted.gov.uk
West Sussex County Council Portsmouth Local Offer Secondary schools Telephone: 033 301 42903 Information on services for children and young Email: [email protected] people (0 – 25) with special educational needs or Web: www.westsussex.gov.uk disabilities. Web: www.portsmouthlocaloffer.org Southampton City Council Tel: 023 8083 3004 Office of Schools Adjudicator Email: [email protected] Deals with the legalities of and any objections to Web: www.southampton.gov.uk admission authority’s procedures and policies. GOV.UK Web: www.gov.uk (and search for ‘school adjudicator’) This is a government website and has a variety of information including information about schools, admissions and appeals. Useful information Web: www.gov.uk
The Advisory Centre for Education (ACE) National charity which provides independent advice on education issues for parents of school age children, including advice on school admission and appeals. Tel: 020 8888 3377 Web: www.ace-ed.org.uk
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Summary of how to apply for a starting school place or a junior school place
Application information Step 1: Gain as much Step 4: Return the application information as you can about form the schools and admissions Closing date Tuesday 15 January 2019. process You will not be able to apply online after the You are encouraged to request a copy of the closing date. school’s prospectus from the school and you Failure to apply on time will seriously affect your can also ask about any open days or child’s chances of being offered a place at your evenings. You are also advised to read the preferred school. guidance notes on the application form and in this booklet. You can speak to the Paper application froms Admissions Team for advice and information
Primary schools For children starting school on 023 9268 8008 via City Helpdesk You should send your application to your first preference school if it’s a Portsmouth school or to the Admissions Team. Step 2: Decide on your For children transferring from infant to preferred schools junior school, applications should be returned to your child’s current school. This should follow your visits to preferred schools and after you have considered the If your child attends a school outside of the city admission policies. or an independent school return the form to: Admissions Team, Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2EA !! If you are posting your form we
Secondary schools Step 3: Apply recommend you obtain proof of posting. For starting school, apply online from Any forms that arrive after this date will be 5 November 2018 at regarded as late applications (see page 17 for www.portsmouth.gov.uk/schooladmissions exceptions). or request and complete an application form. We will acknowledge all on-time applications. For junior transfers, apply from Please contact us if you do not receive an 10 September 2018. acknowledgement letter before March 2019. You can state up to six preferences for starting school and six for junior, and must submit the online form or return the application form by Tuesday 15 January 2019. Guidance notes Step 5: Allocation for completing your application are attached Parents are advised of allocation via email to the form and in this booklet. Useful information (if applied online) or by letter sent on The final decision regarding which preference Tuesday 16 April 2019. Allocations cannot be to state lies with you. notified by telephone.
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Step 1: Attend the open Step 4: Return the application evenings/days form Portsmouth secondary schools’ open Closing date Wednesday 31 October 2018 evenings/days will take place in September/
Failure to apply on time will seriously affect your Primary schools October 2018 and the dates of these can be child’s chances of being offered a place at your found on page 7. Help and advice preferred school. sessions are also available for parents (details included with application pack). Paper application forms If your child attends a Portsmouth primary/junior school, you can return the form to your child’s present school. If your child attends a school outside of the city or an independent school, return the form to: Step 2: Decide on your Admissions Team preferred schools Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2EA. This should follow your visit to a preferred Secondary schools !! If you are posting your form we school and after you have considered the recommend you obtain proof of posting. admission policy. You will not be able to apply online after the closing date. Any forms that arrive after this date will be regarded as late applications. (see page 17 for exceptions). The Admissions Team will acknowledge all on-time applications. Please contact the Step 3: Apply Admissions Team if you do not receive your Apply online from 10 September 2018 at acknowledgement letter before January 2019. www.portsmouth.gov.uk/schooladmissions or request and complete an application form. Useful information You can state up to six preferences and must submit the online form or return the application form by Wednesday 31 October 2018. Guidance Step 5: Allocation notes for completing the application can be Parents are advised of allocations by email found on the form and in this booklet. (if applied online) or by letter sent on The final decision regarding which Friday 1 March 2019. Allocations cannot be preferences to state lies with you. notified by telephone.
Call the Admissions Team on 023 9268 8008 or email [email protected] 81 LAST YEAR 1 IN 5 CHILDREN IN PORTSMOUTH MISSED AT LEAST A WEEK OF SCHOOL BECAUSE OF UNAUTHORISED ABSENCE SOME MISSED MUCH MORE THAT’S NOT OK
When a child misses school it aff ects their opportunities in later life. Don’t let your child be that one in fi ve.
MISS SCHOOL MISS OUT Find out why attending school matters. Go to portsmouth.gov.uk/attendance
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