Lambeth In-Year admissions 2016/17

Information for parents/carers of children applying for a secondary school and UTC place after 1 September 2016 for years 7 to 11 in the 2016/17 academic year, and born between 01/09/2000 and 31/08/2005 Download application www.lambeth.gov.uk/eadmissions Frequently asked questions

Lambeth secondary schools and University Technology College (UTC) 2016/17 In-Year process

Important note: If your child is already on the waiting list for a community/voluntary- controlled school, they will be removed from the list on the last day of the summer term each year. If you want your child to continue to be considered for any places which may become available after the end of that term, you must make a new In-Year application. This booklet will give you details of how to apply. • You are applying for a place in where students develop highly years 1 to 6 at a or valued technical and employability What are ‘in-year’ admissions? years 8 to 11 at a secondary school. skills through strong industry and • You are applying to a place at a university partnerships and authentic An In-Year admission is when a child UTC, year 11. project-based learning. Students already attends a school but wishes • You are applying for a reception have access to cutting-edge to transfer to another school or UTC place at a primary school or a equipment and facilities including outside of the usual transfer time, for year 7 place at a secondary advanced computing, robotics and example because the child has school after school has started 3D printing. With specialisms in moved to a new address. These in September. engineering for the building and transfers take place during the • You are applying to a place at a medical sectors, the UTC is academic year, which is why they are UTC year 10 place after the term sponsored by London South Bank referred to as In-Year admissions. has started in September. University and leading employers including Skanska and two London A normal admissions round refers to Lambeth's UTC NHS trusts. Please see applications for the start of reception www.southbank-utc.co.uk for further in a primary school or secondary South Bank Engineering UTC is in information. transfer from primary school to year 7 operation in Brixton from September in secondary school. All applications 2016, with a catchment area which How do I apply for a Lambeth outside of normal admissions are includes all of Lambeth. school or UTC? regarded as ‘In-Year’ (casual) admissions. South Bank Engineering UTC is a The list below identifies who you non-traditional school for 14-19 should apply directly to for a Your application will be considered year-olds. The UTC has a narrow Lambeth secondary/UTC school In- as In-Year if: curriculum with high academic Year place: standards but in an environment

2 Section 1: Frequently asked questions schools Apply directly to the school City Heights E-ACT Academy Durand Academy Evelyn Grace Academy St Martin-in-the-Fields High School for Girls Trinity Academy

Community schools Apply to Lambeth Council So, who will decide who can or Education Health Care Plan please Lilian Baylis Technology School cannot be offered places in contact Lambeth's Special Lambeth schools and UTC? Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Team on 020 7926 9460. Foundation schools The admissions authority for each You also must not complete any Apply directly to the school school will decide who gets an offer other school application without first The of a place by using the school’s making contact with the SEND Team . admissions criteria. Lambeth is the Voluntary-aided schools admissions authority for all If you are not a Lambeth resident, Apply directly to the school community/voluntary-controlled then you will need to contact the Archbishop Tenison's School schools in the borough. SEND Team in your home borough. Bishop Thomas Grant In simple terms: Catholic Secondary School My child has been permanently La Retraite Roman Catholic • the schools parents/carers apply excluded. Do I complete an Girls' School for through Lambeth School iCAF for another place? Saint Gabriel's College Admissions Team, Lambeth Council will be the deciding body. Yes . However, if you are a Lambeth Voluntary-controlled school • The schools that parents/carers resident staff at the excluding school The Elmgreen School have to apply to directly will be the should inform Lambeth Local Apply to Lambeth Council deciding body. Authority, so that your child can be supported by Lambeth’s Inclusion University Technology College Do I need to complete an iCAF Team to ensure that they receive an Apply directly to the UTC if my child has a statement of education. If you are a non-Lambeth South Bank Engineering UTC Special Educational Needs or resident, please contact your home an Education Health Care Plan? LA and find out how they can offer support and guidance regarding the No . If your child has a statement of next steps for your child. Special Educational Needs or an

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Stage 1 • Visit the school, they may have House. The completed paper Research set open days or you can contact iCAFs can be handed in to The them to arrange an independent Lambeth Customer Service Centre It is important to consider as much visit. (Brixton) or sent by post to: information as possible about the schools or UTCs you wish to apply • Read the latest Ofsted report for Lambeth School Admissions Team to and how to apply for them (see the schools you are interested in. 10th Floor pages 2 & 3). These are available for viewing or International House downloading from Canterbury Crescent • For Lambeth community and www.ofsted.gov.uk London, SW9 7QE. voluntary-aided schools – The Elmgreen School, Lilian Baylis Stage 2 Please ensure that you use the right Technology School and The Apply postal charge to avoid this Norwood School - please use the application being delayed in Lambeth In-Year Common As mentioned above the method of reaching Lambeth School Application Form (iCAF). applying for schools vary depending Admissions Team. We recommend on the school. For Lambeth that you use recorded delivery to • For other Lambeth schools or community and voluntary-aided ensure you have proof of postage. If UTCs (including private (fee- schools use the Lambeth iCAF to list you want a receipt, you must attach paying schools)), you will need to up to three of these school in the a stamped addressed envelope, as apply directly to them using their order you prefer them. You can receipts are not usually given. own form. apply for in-Year places to any school regardless of what borough Stage 3 • If you wish to apply for schools in you live in where you are residing at Proof of child’s date of birth other boroughs please check the time of application, even if this is what their processes are for their temporary accommodation. The The secondary Lambeth iCAF is schools (details on page 18). details of your iCAF may be shared only for children born between with your home borough. However, 01/09/00 and 31/08/05. Using this • Check whether your child is likely please do not list schools you do form for children outside this age to be offered a place based on not want your child to attend ‘just to group will result in the form being the school’s published admissions fill up the form’. invalid (and will not be processed). criteria. The Lambeth community You must attach proof of your and voluntary-controlled schools Further copies of the iCAF can be child’s date of birth to the iCAF – criteria is on pages 10-14. For obtained via either a copy of their birth other Lambeth schools these can www.lambeth.gov.uk/eadmissions , certificate or passport, otherwise be found by visiting the Lambeth there is also a limited amount of the application will not be website at paper CAFs will be available processed. www.lambeth.gov.uk/eadmissions (Monday to Friday) at The Lambeth Customer Service Centre (Brixton), • Contact the school directly (see Olive Morris House. There are pages 15 and 16) for a copy of their facilities available at Olive Morris prospectus, or visit their website.

4 Section 2: 10 Stages parent/carers must follow or be aware of Stage 4 • Council Tax letter or statement, • Child Tax Credit Award, notice for Proof of address this must be supplied if you are the current financial year (please the council taxpayer. copy all pages of the letter to The application address stated include the home address, on your child's iCAF must be the • Copy of the tenancy agreement, if parents name and child’s details) address which you and your this is a new address, supply a child currently live at, even if this letter from solicitor confirming If you are unable to submit any or is a temporary address . All exchange of contracts or tenancy only some of the documents listed applications must be attached to agreement above for you and/or your child, you the iCAF when submitted. will need to obtain a sworn affidavit • Income Support/Benefit letter for or affirmation, through a solicitor. Applications received without the current financial year which This affidavit or affirmation must be all the required proof of includes your child's name stated signed by a Solicitor holding a address documents for the current practising certificate issued parents/carer may result in the • Current TV licence, a copy of a by the Solicitors Regulation child’s application being TV licence no older than 3 Authority. Please note that Lambeth withdrawn, if the address months Council cannot contribute towards cannot be verified. This means the cost of obtaining this. that your child will not receive • Current utility bill (excluding an offer of a school place. If mobile phone), a copy of a utility If you have any problems supplying your child lives between two homes, bill no older than 3 months these documents, please contact us e.g. split custody for parents only, as soon as possible. just one of the parental addresses • Driving Licence can be used for the application and for distance purposes. The address Applications must include one must be agreed between both of the following documents to parents/carers and is usually the confirm your child’s name and address where the child benefit is address paid to. If proof of address is not received, then this may delay the • Child Benefit letter for the current processing of your application. financial year (please copy all pages of the letter to include the Addresses of parent/carers and home address on the first page children may also be checked against and child’s name on the second Lambeth Council Tax and benefits page) records to aid verification. At least two of the following documents to • Child’s National Health confirm the your name and address registration card as the applicant (one of which must be either Council Tax, Tenancy • Immigration documents that Agreement or Benefit Letter) show address – if applicable

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Stage 5 Provide additional documentation

In additional to the proof of address and date of birth documents, you may need to attach additional supporting documentation with your child’s iCAF.

Medical/social If you want your child’s application to be considered as a medical/social application (where a school has this A previously ‘Looked After Child’ is their child outside of their normal age criterion) because you believe a stated as being the following in the group. Lambeth LA will manage such particular school is especially able to 2014 School Admissions Code, request via the following process: meet your child’s needs above others paragraph 1.7: in the area, you must submit Previously looked after children are • Parents applying for an out-of-year professional documentation outlining children who were looked after, but group place in a Lambeth this with the CAF for consideration. ceased to be so because they were community primary school must Submitting this documentation will adopted 17 (or became subject to a submit professional documentation not automatically guarantee your child child arrangements order 18 or (as per criterion 3 – Children with will be prioritised under this criterion. special guardianship order 19). exceptional medical/social reasons Further references to previously with their application. The Children of school staff looked after children in this Code MEDSOC Panel will then decide If you are work at a school that has means such children who were (along with the relevant criteria for prioritising children of staff adopted (or subject to child headteacher for the school members, supporting documentation arrangements orders or special concerned) whether such an out- from your workplace must be guardianship orders) immediately of-year group place will be offered submitted before the deadline for following having been looked after. at the named school. This will allow consideration. Submitting this For ‘Looked After Children’ or this LA to comply with section 2.17 documentation will not automatically previously ‘Looked After Children’ a of the Code, where it states that guarantee your child will be prioritised letter from your child’s social worker, “Admission authorities must make under this criterion. or a copy of court papers must be decisions on the basis of the submitted with the CAF by the circumstances of each case and in ‘Looked After Children’ or deadline for the correct school’s the best interests of the child previously ‘Looked After admissions criterion to be given. concerned. This will include taking Children’ account of the parent’s views; A ‘Looked After Child’ is a child Applications outside of cohort information about the child’s currently in the care of the Local In line with the School Admissions academic, social and emotional Council (foster or residential care). Code, parents may seek a place for development; where relevant, their

6 Section 2: 10 Stages parent/carers must follow or be aware of medical history and the views of a processed. This form provides more school to school. If, however, there is medical professional; whether they information for the schools applied evidence that your child has been a have previously been educated out for and helps them assess what victim of other pupil’s behaviours, we of their normal age group; and needs your child may have and advise that you obtain a detailed whether they may naturally have ensure that they can be addressed. statement from the headteacher to fallen into a lower age group if it support your transfer request. In were not for being born Stage 7 some cases, transfers may follow prematurely. They must also take Change of circumstances different routes; if it is not clear that a into account the views of the head transfer may work, it may be agreed teacher of the school concerned.” The Lambeth School Admissions on a trial basis. Other things to Team will consider your application consider before deciding upon • This application must be received using the details you provide on your transfer: in the correct year in the relevant form. If you move address you must admissions round. inform the School Admissions Team If it becomes clear from your transfer of your new address so we are able form/additional information that your • If the request is granted, then the to contact you if we need further child has had an unsettling school child will be offered a place in the information or to communicate the history and/or your child has year group agreed by the outcome of your application. This attended two or more secondary MEDSOC Panel and the school. also applies if you have a change of schools, we may refer your medical circumstances or if a sibling application to colleagues who • If the place is not offered and no starts at a preferred school. manage Lambeth's Fair Access offer is made for the child to attend Protocol (FAP). We do urge the school is any other year group, Stage 8 parents/carers to work with your then the family will be given the Processing the iCAF child and school to find a solution right of appeal. that will allow them to successfully Before we consider a transfer complete their studies. Stage 6 request, information from the Transfer Form previous school will be required to If the information we receive from help us decide if a transfer is your child’s school highlights the The Lambeth iCAF has pages appropriate and, if so, how best to difficulties your child has faced in A-D which is a ‘Transfer Form’. achieve this. Transferring schools in- complying with its behaviour policies This part of the form must be year can have a negative impact on and code of conduct and if we are to completed if your child is on roll a child’s achievement. We do not consider the transfer request further, at a London school already and encourage transfers taking place you will need to provide us with you wish to transfer them in year where possible, but prefer to ask some evidence to support how their to another school. Senior staff at families to work with the child’s behaviour will be different in the new your child's current school must existing school to try and overcome environment. complete the school's sections of any existing issues which are driving the form and sign and stamp the the transfer request. It is normally If, from the information provided by back of the form. Please note that if found that behaviour patterns, and your child’s current school, it is clear this Transfer Form is not completed unfavourable associations with other that the school have put a number of in full, the whole iCAF will not be types of pupil follow a child from measures in place in order to

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support your child, and as the places to determine the rank order. schools unless you request that their school has invested so much time Where there is one school place name remain on the list on the reply and effort in your child, please make available and there is more than one form sent with the outcome letter. every effort to continue with this sibling who is eligible for a place You have two weeks to accept the process. You may find a new school under the published admissions offer. Failure to reply in this timescale is unwilling to resource the same criteria, Lambeth LA will randomly may cause the offer to be lost and level of support your school is allocate the place in order to offered to another child. currently offering to your child. determine who gets the offer. The parent/carer can then determine If your child is not offered a place at Please note that in some cases, whether to accept or reject the offer. any preference school this will mainly applications may be considered be because the school for is already through Lambeth’s FAP. This will Stage 9 full in your child’s year group. usually be where the child has high Outcome of application levels of support need or significant If your child is out of school, and did behavioural issues. In these cases a All your preferences on the iCAF will not receive an offer from one of their school or education provision may be considered at the same time. A preferred schools on then Lambeth be allocated to your child, which letter should be sent within 20 school School Admissions Team, in line with may not be one you have asked for. days where possible to inform you of statutory requirements, will seek to the outcome of your application. allocate a place at a Lambeth school We would strongly advise that you However, please note that regardless that has vacancies. Decisions on do not remove your child from of the information you obtain about a where to allocate places will be made school until a place at a new school’s performance, schools will on the basis of proximity to the school has been secured. This is only admit children in accordance school. (i.e. the nearest school to because a place at another with their admissions criteria when the child’s home address that school may not be immediately vacancies arise. identifies a vacancy). Please note that available for your child. allocations will be made according to It is also important to note that it will the number of vacancies there are in Applications relating to twins, not always be possible to offer you a the borough. An allocation will be triplets or other multiple births place at the school you want for your made to a school that parents/carers Where a parent/carer applies for child. Admission arrangements did not originally apply for. entry into the same year group for decide which children will or will not more than one child and it is not get a place. These arrangements Lambeth School Admissions Team possible to offer a place to all of must be fair and follow the will assist children without a school them, the names of the children who requirements of the School place wherever possible to ensure were unsuccessful will be added to Admissions Code. they have an offer ASAP. the waiting list in accordance with the published admissions criteria, as When and where an offer can be If you have applied for other Lambeth per other children. Where the made at a school listed on the iCAF, schools or UTC or those in other determining factor is based on your child will be offered the single boroughs and a place is offered, distance, and these children have highest place possible. Once a place please inform Lambeth School the same home to school distance, is offered your child’s name will be Admissions Team ASAP so we have Lambeth LA will randomly allocate removed from the list for other an accurate record of where a child

8 Section 2: 10 Stages parent/carers must follow or be aware of 1st Floor, Olive Morris House, 18 Brixton Hill, SW2 1RD Tel: 020 7926 2170, Email: [email protected]. A guidance note on appeals and an appeal form can also be downloaded from the council’s website via the following link: www.lambeth.gov.uk/eadmissions

An appeal should be lodged within 20 school days of receipt of application outcome letter. Appeals lodged will be heard within 40 days of being lodged. Democratic Services will write to you regarding the arrangements for considering your appeal. Your appeal will be will be attending and whether you have accepted an allocated offer. If heard by an Independent Appeals wish the preferences listed on the requested, Lambeth School Panel made up of panellists with Lambeth iCAF are still required. Admissions Team can provide you knowledge of education issues. You with information about Lambeth will be invited to attend the appeal Stage 10 schools who have vacancies and hearing and make representations in Next steps how to apply for them. person to the Independent Appeals Panel. You will be informed in writing If your child was not offered your Appeals about the outcome by the first preference school, we You can appeal against the refusal of Democratic Services Team. advise you to follow the steps a school place listed on your CAF below. under the School Standards and If you wish to appeal against Framework Act 1998. If you wish to nonadmission to any other Waiting lists appeal against the decision not to secondary school, you will need to Ensure that your child’s name is on offer your child a place at a Lambeth contact the individual school(s) the waiting list for the school(s) that community or voluntary-controlled directly, to obtain information about you applied for and were placed school: how to appeal. higher than the school offered on your iCAF by stating this on the reply • Lilian Baylis Technology School If you are unsure about any form with the outcome letter. • The Elmgreen School aspect of the secondary • The Norwood School In-Year procedure please Apply for other schools contact Lambeth School You can apply for further schools, please contact the Clerk to the Admissions Team on whilst your child’s name is on the Independent Appeals Panel, 020 7926 9503. waiting list for other schools or you Democratic Services,

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the Children Act 1989) or who is the management. Documents from an subject of a care order under Part IV appropriate professional (not of the Act. Children who are looked including general information from a after under an agreed series of website, etc) must support these short-term placements (such as applications. However, any respite) are excluded. supporting evidence does not automatically mean that applicants Criterion 2 – Siblings will gain priority as the decision to Children with a brother or sister who prioritise under this criterion will Oversubscription criteria for already attends the school, and who solely rest with the MEDSOC Panel. The Elmgreen School will not have left the school at the time of admission. As a result Criterion 4 – Children of staff at Lambeth LA, as the admission siblings in or above Year 11 will not the school authority for all Lambeth be regarded as a sibling under this Applications for children of staff at community/voluntary-controlled criterion. A sibling is defined as a the school. A member of staff for the secondary schools, will comply, full/half/step brother or sister (who purposes of this criterion must be wherever possible with parents/carers are living at the same address in all employed by the said school as a wishes where they have expressed a instances) or a child who is living as qualified teacher for a minimum of preference for a particular school. part of the family by reason of a 0.6fte (16.5 hours teaching staff) and Nevertheless, if there are more court order, or a child who has been this employment must have been for applications than places available, the placed with foster carers at that at least 3 years at the time of Local Authority, as the admissions address as a result of being looked submitting the application (ie, their authority for these schools will give after by the Local Authority. employment must have started no priority to children in the following However, children who are looked later than September 2013). order: after under an agreed series of 1. All such applications must be short-term placements (such as submitted to the MEDSOC Panel Criterion 1 – Looked After Children respite) will not be regarded as via an iCAF application submitted to Priority will be given to looked after siblings under this criterion. the LA and must be accompanied children and previously looked after with the relevant paperwork children. Previously looked after Criterion 3 – Children with supporting an application on these children are children who were Exceptional Medical or Social grounds. The applicant must take looked after, but ceased to be so Needs sole responsibility to provide such because they were adopted (or Children with a professionally paperwork. Without the provision of became subject to a residence order supported medical or social need, the relevant papers that identify all or special guardianship order) whose application identifies a the above, priority will not be given immediately following having been particular school that is especially on these grounds looked after. A child in public care able to meet that need. The decision 2. There will only be a maximum (looked after child) means a person to prioritise children on these priority limit of 2 children per year under the age of 18 years who is grounds will be determined via group. provided by social services with Lambeth Education, Learning and accommodation by agreement with Skills (ELS) MEDSOC Panel, which Criterion 5 – Distance their parents/carers (Section 20 of is comprised of Lambeth LA senior Priority will be given on the basis of

10 Section 3: Lambeth secondary community and voluntary-controlled schools’ admissions criteria distance (proximity) between the a straight-line) in accordance with the admissions process. The entrance child’s home and the school, measuring information in criterion 4. test will be used to band pupils in measured by a straight-line. This However, in the case where children order to ensure that the school has a measurement will be done using a have exactly the same distance balanced and comprehensive intake. computerised mapping system. between their home and the school, This measurement will be from a Lambeth LA will randomly allocate All children applying for a secondary point from the child’s home as identified places as a tiebreaker. transfer place at the school will be by the software to a central point in required to take a Verbal Reasoning, the school’s grounds as profiled in the Oversubscription criteria for Numeracy as well as Non Verbal software. The child’s home address Lilian Baylis Technology School Reasoning tests. Children who have will be the child’s permanent place of not taken the tests will only be residency and must not be a business Lambeth LA, as the admission considered for a place at the school address, or the address of a relative or authority for all Lambeth community/ after those who have taken the test. carer, unless they have legal custody voluntary-controlled secondary In the case of continued of the child. Applications must only schools, will comply, wherever oversubscription, (i.e. after the full be made from a single address. possible with parents/carers wishes allocation of places) a place will only where they have expressed a become available to a child who has If parents/carers are separated and preference for a particular school. not taken the test once all other share custody of the child, the Nevertheless, if there are more children remaining on the address given should be that of the applications than places available, oversubscription waiting list for parent/carer with whom the child the Education, Learning and Skills places have been offered a place. spends most of the school week, Delivery Cluster will give priority to All applicants will be placed in one of and will be the address where Child children in the order listed below: five bands, based on their score in Benefit is payable/child is registered. the Test. If the parent/carer making the Year 7 intake and other year groups application lives at a different Lambeth School Admissions Team, Once the children with a Statement address to the child, a letter of In accordance with the School of Special Educational Needs or explanation should be attached. It is Admissions Code, will maintain the Education Health Care Plan in which not acceptable for a family to use a school’s secondary transfer (i.e. entry the school is the named school are temporarily rented address to secure to year 7) waiting list from for one offered a place, the remaining places a place of their preference. In term. This means that the banding will be allocated on the basis of the disputed cases, Lambeth School set up for secondary transfer remains oversubscription criteria detailed Admissions will make a judgement effective until 31 December 2016. below, so that equal numbers of based on the evidence available to applicants are admitted from each them. Applications or offers under After 31 December 2016 the banding band. The criteria will be applied to this criteria will only be valid once set up will be removed and applicants in each band in the order proof of address has been given and subsequent offers (from this point set out below. confirmed. forward) will be made from waiting lists drawn up using the admissions For Year 7 intake after 31 December As a tiebreaker for all criteria, priority criteria only. Lambeth school 2016 and all other years from 1 will be given to children living closest Admissions Team will use the September 2016 the admissions to the preferred school (measured by school’s test as part of its criteria alone is used as follows:

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Criterion 1 – Looked After Children Criterion 3 – Children with application on these grounds. The Priority will be given to looked after Exceptional Medical or Social applicant must take sole children and previously looked after Needs responsibility to provide such children. Previously looked after Children with a professionally paperwork. Without the provision children are children who were supported medical or social need, of the relevant papers that identify looked after, but ceased to be so whose application identifies a all the above, priority will not be because they were adopted (or particular school that is especially given on these grounds became subject to a residence order able to meet that need. The decision 2. There will only be a maximum or special guardianship order) to prioritise children on these priority limit of 2 children per year immediately following having been grounds will be determined via group. looked after. A child in public care Lambeth council's MEDSOC Panel, (looked after child) means a person which is comprised of Lambeth LA Criterion 5 – Distance under the age of 18 years who is senior management. Documents Priority will be given on the basis of provided by social services with from an appropriate professional (not distance (proximity) between the accommodation by agreement with including general information from a child’s home and the school, their parents/carers (Section 20 of website, etc) must support these measured by a straight-line. This the Children Act 1989) or who is the applications. However, any measurement will be done using a subject of a care order under Part IV supporting evidence does not computerised mapping system. of the Act. Children who are looked automatically mean that applicants This measurement will be from a after under an agreed series of will gain priority as the decision to point from the child’s home as short-term placements (such as prioritise under this criterion will identified by the software to a central respite) are excluded. solely rest with the MEDSOC Panel. point in the school’s grounds as profiled in the software. The child’s Criterion 2 – Siblings Criterion 4 – Children of staff at home address will be the child’s Children with a brother or sister who the school permanent place of residency and already attends the school, and who Applications for children of staff at must not be a business address, or will not have left the school at the time the school. A member of staff for the the address of a relative or carer, of admission. As a result siblings above purposes of this criterion must be unless they have legal custody of the Year 11 will not be regarded as a employed by the said school as a child. Applications must only be sibling under this criterion. A sibling is qualified teacher for a minimum of made from a single address. defined as a full/half/step brother or 0.6fte (16.5 hours teaching staff) and sister (who are living at the same this employment must have been for If parents/carers are separated and address in all instances) or a child who at least 3 years at the time of share custody of the child, the is living as part of the family by reason submitting the application (ie, their address given should be that of the of a court order, or a child who has employment must have started no parent/carer with whom the child been placed with foster carers at that later than September 2013). spends most of the school week, address as a result of being looked 1. All such applications must be which will normally be the address after by the Local Authority. However, submitted to the MEDSOC Panel where Child Benefit is payable. It is children who are looked after under an via an iCAF application submitted not acceptable for a family to use a agreed series of short-term placements to the LA and must be temporarily rented address to secure (such as respite) will not be regarded as accompanied with the relevant a place of their preference. In disputed siblings under this criterion. paperwork supporting an cases, Lambeth School Admissions

12 Section 3: Lambeth secondary community and voluntary-controlled schools’ admissions criteria will make a judgement based on the secondary transfer process remains Special Educational Needs or evidence available to them. effective until 31 December 2016. Education Health Care Plan in which After 31 December 2016 the the school is the named school are Applications or offers under this criteria banding and bursary set up is offered a place, the remaining places will only be valid once proof of address removed and subsequent offers will be allocated on the basis of the has been given and confirmed. (from this point forward) will be made oversubscription criteria detailed from waiting lists drawn up using the below, so that equal numbers of As a tiebreaker for all criteria, priority admissions criteria only. Lambeth applicants are admitted from each will be given to children living closest to school Admissions Team will use the band. The criteria will be applied to the preferred school (measured by a school’s test as part of its applicants in each band in the order straight-line) in accordance with the admissions process. The entrance set out below. measuring information in criterion 4. test will be used to band pupils in However, in the case where children order to ensure that the school has a For Year 7 intake after 31 December have exactly the same distance balanced and comprehensive intake. 2016 and all other years from 1 between their home and the school, The Norwood School will reserve up September 2016 the admissions Lambeth LA will randomly allocate to 10% of places as Bursaries criteria alone is used as follows: places as a tiebreaker. offered to pupils who show a particular aptitude for our Specialism The criteria will be applied to Oversubscription for in Visual and Performing Arts. Please applicants in each band in the order The Norwood School see the website for more details, set out below: provision and interviewing process. Lambeth LA, as the admission Criterion 1 – Looked After Children authority for all Lambeth All children applying for a secondary Priority will be given to looked after community/voluntary-controlled transfer place at the school will be children and previously looked after secondary schools, will comply, required to take a Verbal Reasoning, children. Previously looked after wherever possible with parents/carers Numeracy as well as Non Verbal children are children who were looked wishes where they have expressed a Reasoning tests. Children who have after, but ceased to be so because preference for a particular school. not taken the tests will only be they were adopted (or became subject Nevertheless, if there are more considered for a place at the school to a residence order or special applications than places available, the after those who have taken the test. guardianship order) immediately Education, Learning and Skills In the case of continued following having been looked after. Delivery Cluster will give priority to oversubscription, (i.e. after the full A child in public care (looked after children in the following order: allocation of places) a place will only child) means a person under the age become available to a child who has of 18 years who is provided by social Year 7 intake and other year groups not taken the test once all other services with accommodation by Lambeth School Admissions Team, children remaining on the agreement with their parents/carers In accordance with the School oversubscription waiting list for places (Section 20 of the Children Act 1989) Admissions Code, will maintain the have been offered a place. All applicants or who is the subject of a care order school’s secondary transfer (i.e. entry will be placed in one of five bands, under Part IV of the Act. Children who to year 7) waiting list from for one based on their score in the Test. are looked after under an agreed term. This means that the banding series of short-term placements and bursary set up set up for Once the children with a Statement of (such as respite) are excluded.

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Criterion 2 – Siblings Criterion 4 – Children of staff at be the child’s permanent place of Children with a brother or sister who the school residency and must not be a business already attends the school, and who Applications for children of staff at address, or the address of a relative or will not have left the school at the time the school. A member of staff for the carer, unless they have legal custody of of admission. As a result siblings above purposes of this criterion must be the child. Applications must only be Year 11 will not be regarded as a sibling employed by the said school as a made from a single address. under this criterion. A sibling is defined qualified teacher for a minimum of as a full/half/step brother or sister 0.6fte (16.5 hours teaching staff) If parents/carers are separated and (who are living at the same address in and this employment must have share custody of the child, the all instances) or a child who is living as been for at least 3 years at the time address given should be that of the part of the family by reason of a court of submitting the application (ie, their parent/carer with whom the child order, or a child who has been placed employment must have started no spends most of the school week, with foster carers at that address as a later than September 2013). which will normally be the address result of being looked after by the Local 1. All such applications must be where the child is registered to Authority. However, children who are submitted to the MEDSOC Panel receive child benefit is payable. It is looked after under an agreed series via an iCAF application submitted not acceptable for a family to use a of short-term placements (such as to the LA and must be temporarily rented address to secure respite) will not be regarded as accompanied with the relevant a place of their preference. In disputed siblings under this criterion. paperwork supporting an cases, Lambeth School Admissions application on these grounds. The will make a judgement based on the Criterion 3 – Children with applicant must take sole evidence available to them. Exceptional Medical or Social responsibility to provide such Needs paperwork. Without the provision Applications or offers under this Children with a professionally of the relevant papers that identify criterion will only be valid once proof supported medical or social need, all the above, priority will not be of address has been given and whose application identifies a given on these grounds confirmed. particular school that is especially 2. There will only be a maximum able to meet that need. The decision priority limit of 2 children per year As a tiebreaker for all criteria, to prioritise children on these group. priority will be given to children living grounds will be determined via closest to the preferred school Lambeth council's MEDSOC Panel, Criterion 5 – Distance (measured by a straight-line) in which is comprised of Lambeth LA Priority will be given on the basis of accordance with the measuring senior management. Documents distance (proximity) between the information in criterion 4. However, from an appropriate professional child’s home and the school, in the case where children have (not including general information measured by a straight-line. This exactly the same distance between from a website, etc) must support measurement will be done using a their home and the school, Lambeth these applications. However, any computerised mapping system. LA will randomly allocate places as a supporting evidence does not This measurement will be from a point tiebreaker. automatically mean that applicants from the child’s home as identified by will gain priority as the decision to the software to a central point in the prioritise under this criterion will school’s grounds as profiled in the solely rest with the MEDSOC Panel. software. The child’s home address will

14 Section 3: Lambeth secondary community and voluntary-controlled schools’ admissions criteria Lambeth secondary schools and UTC

Academy Secondary Schools City Heights E-Act Academy, mixed, (years 7-10 only in 2016/17) 33 Abbots Park, SW2 3PW Tel: 020 3691 4600 website: www.cityheightse- actacademy.org Principal: Mr Jim Henderson DfE code: 208 6907 Wheelchair accessible? Yes Dunraven School , mixed 94-98 Leigham Court Road, SW16 2QB Tel: 020 8696 5600 Website: www.dunraven.org.uk Principal: Mr David Boyle; Head of Secondary: St. Martin-in-the-Fields High Ms Jessica West Lambeth Academy , mixed, School for Girls CE DfE code: 208 5402 Elms Road, SW4 9ET 155 , SW2 3UP Wheelchair accessible? Yes Tel: 020 7498 5004 Website: www.lambeth-academy.org Tel: 020 8674 5594 Durand Academy , mixed Principal: Ms J. Shadick Website: www.stmartins.academy Early Years Site (nursery to Year 3) - DfE code: 208 6905 Headteacher: Mrs Beverley Stanislaus Mostyn Gardens, Stockwell, Wheelchair accessible? Yes DfE code: 208 5404 London, SW9 6HF Wheelchair accessible? No Junior and Middle School Site Oasis Academy South Bank , mixed, Trinity Academy (Years 4 to 8) - Hackford Road, (years 7-10 only in 2016/17) mixed, (years 7-9 only in 2016/17) Stockwell, London, SW9 0RD 75 Westminster Bridge Road, Upper School Site - (Years 9-11) SE1 7HS 56 Brixton Hill St Cuthman’s, Stedham, Near Tel: 020 7921 4531 SW2 1QS Midhurst, West Sussex, GU29 0QJ Website: Tel: 020 3126 4993 Tel: 020 7735 8348 www.oasisacademysouthbank.org Website: Website: www.durandacademy.com Principal: Ms Carly Mitchell www.trinityacademylondon.org Headteacher: Mr Mark McLaughlin DfE: 208 4000 Headteacher: Mr Ben Thompson DfE code: 208 5207 Wheelchair accessible? Yes DfE: 208 4003 Wheelchair accessible? Yes Wheelchair accessible? Yes Platanos College , mixed Evelyn Grace Academy , mixed, Clapham Road, SW9 0AL 255 Shakespeare Road, SE24 0PZ Tel: 020 7733 6156 Tel: 020 7274 9395 Website: www.platanoscollege.com Website: www.evelyngraceacademy.org Headteacher: Ms Judette Tapper Principal: Mr Devon Hanson DfE code: 208 4322 DfE code: 208 6906 Wheelchair accessible? Yes Wheelchair accessible? Yes Section 4: Lambeth secondary schools and UTC 15 Lambeth secondary schools and UTC

Community Secondary Schools Bishop Thomas Grant RC University Technology College School , mixed (UTC) Lilian Baylis Technology School , Beltrees Grove, SW16 2HY mixed South Bank Engineering UTC , Tel: 020 8769 3294 323 Kennington Lane, Kennington, mixed (year 10 only in 2016/17) Website: www.btg.ac SE11 5QY 56 Brixton Hill, London SW2 1QS Headteacher: Ms Bernadette Boyle Tel: 020 7091 9500 Tel: 020 7815 8181 DfE code: 208 5401 Website: www.lilianbaylis.com Website: http://southbank-utc.co.uk Wheelchair accessible? No Headteacher: Mr Gary Phillips Principal: Mr Dan Cundy DfE code: 208 4321 La Retraite DfE code: tbc Wheelchair accessible? Yes Roman Catholic Girls’ School Wheelchair accessible? Yes Atkins Road, SW12 0AB The Norwood School , mixed Tel: 020 8673 5644 Children with Special Crown Dale, SE19 3NY Website: www.laretraite.lambeth.sch.uk Educational Needs and/or Tel: 020 8670 9382 Acting Headteacher: Mr Dominic Disabilities (SEND) Website: www.thenorwoodschool.org Malins Headteacher: Mrs Denise Webster Admission to a special school requires DfE code: 208 5400 DfE code: 208 4223 a child to have a statement of Special Wheelchair accessible? Yes Wheelchair accessible? Yes Educational Needs or an Education Saint Gabriel's College mixed Health Care Plan, which follows a From summer 2016: Cormont Road, statutory assessment. However, if your Foundation Secondary Schools London SE5 9RF child already has a Special Educational The London Nautical School , boys From spring 2018: Langton Road, Needs or an Education Health Care Plan, 61 Stamford Street, Blackfriars, London SW9 6UL contact your home borough’s Special SE1 9NA Tel: 020 7793 3901 Educational Needs and Disabilities Tel: 020 7928 6801 Website: www.saintgabrielscollege.org (SEND) Team directly for advice. Website: www.lns.org.uk Principal: Mr Nick Butler Special Education Needs Headteacher: Mr Andrew Bull DfE code: 208 4509 and Disabilities (SEND) Team DfE code: 208 5405 Wheelchair accessible? Ground floor 10th Floor, International House Wheelchair accessible? Yes only Canterbury Crescent Voluntary-Aided Voluntary-Controlled London SW9 7QE Secondary Schools Secondary School phone: 020 7926 9460 Visit Lambeth's Local Offer website Archbishop Tenison’s School , The Elmgreen School , mixed at www.younglambeth.org CE mixed (year 7 and 8 only, years Elmcourt Road, SE27 9BZ 9-11 boys only in 2016/17) Tel: 020 8766 5020 Information Advice and 55 Kennington Oval, SE11 5SR Website: www.the-elmgreen- Support Service Tel: 020 7735 3771 school.org.uk Provides free confidential advice to Website: www.tenisons.com Headteacher: Mr Dominic Bergin the parents and carers of children Headmistress: Mrs Elizabeth Sims DfE code: 208 4731 with special educational needs DfE code: 208 5403 Wheelchair accessible? Yes and/or disabilities. Contact the Team Wheelchair accessible? Yes on 020 7926 1831/9805, www.lambeth.gov.uk/parentpartnership

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Secondary Schools and UTC

1 Archbishop Tenison’s School mixed in two years (see page 16) 10 2 Bishop Thomas Grant Catholic Secondary School (mixed) 3 City Heights E-ACT Academy 1 (mixed) 4 Dunraven School (mixed) 5 Durand Academy (mixed) 5 15 6 The Elmgreen School (mixed) 14 7 Evelyn Grace Academy (mixed) 8 Lambeth Academy (mixed) 9 La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls’ School (girls) 10 Lilian Baylis Technology School (mixed) 7 18 11 The London Nautical 8 School (boys) 17 12 The Norwood School (mixed) 13 Oasis Academy South Bank (mixed) 14 Platanos College (mixed) 9 16 15 Saint Gabriel's College ( mixed) 3 16 St Martin-in-the-Fields High School for Girls (girls) 6 17 Trinity Academy (mixed)

18 South Bank Engineering UTC 4 (mixed)

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Section 4: Lambeth secondary schools and UTC 17 Schools in other boroughs

All boroughs produce a booklet similar to this one, which gives full details of schools and how to apply for them. Details of local school admissions teams in other boroughs within reasonable distance to Lambeth are listed here.

London Borough of Bromley Schools Admissions Team Civic Centre Stockwell Close Bromley BR1 3UH Tel. 020 8313 4044 www.bromley.gov.uk

London Borough of Croydon School Admissions Team London Borough of Merton London Borough of Wandsworth 4th Floor (Zone C) Schools Admissions Team Pupil Services Section Bernard Weatherill House Civic Centre Education and Social Services 8 Mint Walk London Road Department Croydon, CR0 1EA Morden SM4 5DX Town Hall Extension Tel. 020 8726 6400 Tel. 020 8274 4906 Wandsworth High Street www.croydon.gov.uk/education/sch www.merton.gov.uk/admissions London SW18 2PU ools-new/school-admissions/ Tel. 020 8871 7316 London Borough of Southwark www.wandsworth.gov.uk/admissions London Borough of Lewisham School Admissions Team School Admissions Southwark Children's Services City of Westminster Laurence House 4th Floor, Hub 3 Tri-borough School Admissions Team 1 Catford Road PO Box 64529 Green Zone, 2nd Floor London SE6 4RU London SE1P 5LX Kensington Town Hall Tel. 020 8314 8282 Tel. 020 7525 5337 Hornton Street http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/myserv www.southwark.gov.uk/ London W8 7NX ices/education/schools/school- schooladmissions Tel. 020 7745 6433 admission/Pages/default.aspx www.westminster.gov.uk/admissions

18 Section 5: Schools in other boroughs School term and holidays

School term and holiday dates 2016/17

Term Start date Finish date Number of days Term One Monday 5 September 2016 Friday 21 October 2016 35 Holiday Monday 24 October 2016 Friday 28 October 2016 Term Two Monday 31 October 2016 Wednesday 21 December 2016 38 Holiday Thursday 22 December 2016 Monday 2 January 2017 Term Three Tuesday 3 January 2017 Friday 10 February 2017 29 Holiday Monday 13 February 2017 Friday 17 February 2017 Term Four Monday 20 February 2017 Friday 31 March 2017 30 Holiday Monday 3 April 2017 Monday 17 April 2017 Term Five Tuesday 18 April 2017 Friday 26 May 2017 28 Holiday Monday 29 May 2017 Friday 2 June 2017 Term Six Monday 5 June 2017 Wednesday 21 July 2017 35

Total number of days = 195 Professional Training Days days (INSET), which may be (INSET) allocated as whole day training Bank and public holidays From the 195 pupil days set out sessions during pupil holiday • Sunday 25 December 2016 above, headteachers will need to periods or by the use of (Christmas Day) designate, in consultation with staff, additional hours before or after • Monday 26 December 2016 five non-teaching staff development school sessions. (Boxing Day) • Tuesday 27 December 2016 (extra bank holiday) • Monday 1 January 2017 (New Year) • Friday 14 April 2017 (Good Friday) • Monday 17 April 2017 (Easter Monday) • Monday 1 May 2017 (May Day) • Monday 29 May 2017 (Spring Bank Holiday) • Monday 28 August 2017 (Summer Bank Holiday)

Section 6: Holidays 19 Lambeth School Admissions Team

10th Floor, International House Canterbury Crescent London, SW9 7QE

020 7926 9503 www.lambeth.gov.uk/eadmissions

Many thanks to all schools supplying photos.

All information in this booklet, published by London Borough of Lambeth, is accurate at time of print (August 2016).

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