Parental Preference Form

Parental Preference Form Transfer to Secondary schools in September 2017 Secondary Apply online at www.wirral.gov.uk/ schooladmissions Before completing this form you should read the Information Booklet, Secondary Education on Wirral, which describes the procedures we follow when pupils transfer from primary to secondary school in Wirral. You should read this very carefully before completing the preference form. All parents whose child is due to transfer from primary to secondary school in September 2017 that is, those children born between 1 September 2005 and 31 August 2006, must apply by 31 October 2016. The Information Booklet and school admission policies are available online at www.wirral.gov.uk/schooladmissions or call 0151 606 2020 for the booklet to be sent out to you in the post. Making an application school, neither does naming the same We may have to share the information Wirral’s online admission system can school more than once. you have provided on your parental be accessed from www.wirral.gov.uk/ It is important that any information you preference form with other departments of schooladmissions. Applying online is wish us to consider must be included in the Council in order to verify the authenticity quick and simple to do. You will receive your application. We may not be able to of pupils’ addresses. an automatic email so that you know take into account information which is Wirral Council processes personal data your application has been received by given after we have made decisions about in accordance with the Data Protection Act us. On 1 March 2017, online applicants school places. You can be assured that 1998. The information you provide on your will receive an email with their child’s any information provided is treated as preference form will be used by the Children allocated school place. The deadline for confidential. and Young People’s Department and the online applications to be submitted is governing bodies of secondary schools as 31 October 2016. Important information Admission Authorities. They will apply the about preferences information to their admissions policies You can put up to three schools in the Most school places are allocated on the in order to allocate school places. Where order of your preference. We would always basis of the home address of each child. there is a need to co-ordinate admission recommend putting more than one school This must be the child’s permanent home arrangements with neighbouring local in your preferences in case you are not address, where he or she lives with a authorities, pupil data may also be shared allocated your first choice. If you have person of parental responsibility as the to ensure the efficient allocation of school particular reasons for your preference you main carer (as defined by the Children Act places. Information about your child may should include them in the application. 1989). You must not give the address of also be shared with Members of Parliament If you want to give a preference for a a business, relative, childminder, friend, or Councillors if you ask them to act on school outside Wirral, you need to include a temporary address or an address to your behalf. this as one of your preferences. We will which you hope to move. tell other local authorities about parents’ The home address must not be where Selective assessments preferences for schools in their area. parents have taken out a short term let on Parents will be notified of the outcome If you cannot apply online, you can a property solely to use its address on the of the grammar assessment tests by complete the paper preference form application form without any intention of 21 October 2016. If you have requested provided, giving up to three schools in taking up permanent residence there. We that your child is assessed for a place at order of preference. You should return the will require evidence that the previous any grammar school, do not complete your form to your child’s primary school (if this is property has been sold. preference form/online application until you a Wirral school) or by post to the Children We can only process one application for have received the outcome of the test(s). and Young People’s department if your each child; therefore it is important that both child attends a school outside Wirral. The parties in shared custody arrangements Preferences for schools deadline for paper applications to be are in agreement over the preferred Most children will be allocated a place at returned is 31 October 2016. Your child’s school(s) named. Where a child spends a school which their parents have named school place allocation will be posted to equal time with both parents, the child’s as a preference. However, if schools are your home address on 1 March 2017. main residence should be submitted as oversubscribed, that is there are more If you do not apply online or return a their home address. Failure to provide a preferences than places available, we paper preference form, we will assume that definitive application could jeopardise your will not be able to meet every parent’s you do not have a particular preference. child’s priority for a school place. preference. We will give your child a place at the We regularly check addresses and any Once we have received all the nearest school which has places after we deliberate misrepresentation will result in a applications, we will produce a list of have allocated places to those parents place being withdrawn by the Authority. The applicants for each Wirral school. Your who have made preferences. LA acts on behalf of all Wirral admission application for each school named as a Naming just one school on your authorities and reserves the right to request preference will be ranked according to application does not increase the chance independent confirmation of the child’s the admissions criteria of the relevant of your child securing a place at that place of residence, as felt appropriate. Admission Authority. We are the Admission Authority for: We will co-ordinate with the other Preferences for schools in other Mosslands School admissions authorities by sending them education authorities Pensby High School details of your application. The governors If you are a Wirral resident you must will decide the order in which children complete our preference form. If you are The following schools are their own should be offered places in accordance resident in another Authority in England admission authority: with their admissions criteria. They are not but wish to indicate a preference for a Bebington High Sports College allowed to know the order of preference Wirral school or schools, you must Birkenhead High School Academy you have put their school and cannot use complete their preference form. Calday Grange Grammar School this when applying their criteria. Hilbre High School Full details of the school admissions No change of preferences will be Prenton High School for Girls policies are available online in a accepted unless there are exceptional Ridgeway High School supplementary booklet or can be obtained circumstances. South Wirral High School from the individual schools and you are St Anselm’s College advised to read them carefully before Allocation of secondary school places St John Plessington Catholic College completing this form. On 1 March 2017, if you have applied St Mary’s Catholic College If your child is eligible for a place in online you will receive an email informing The Birkenhead Park School more than one school we will offer a place you of the school allocated for your child. The Kingsway Academy at the school which you listed as the highest If you have applied on a paper form, on The Oldershaw Academy preference. If we cannot offer a place at 1 March 2017 we will send out by second Upton Hall School (FCJ) any of the schools you have named as a class post a letter informing you of the Weatherhead High School preference, we will give your child a place school allocated for your child. West Kirby Grammar School at the nearest appropriate school with a If you are unhappy with the school Wirral Grammar School for Boys place available. allocated you will be able to appeal against Wirral Grammar School for Girls the decision. Further details about the Woodchurch High School appeal procedures are outlined in both the allocation letter/email and the Information Booklet. Questions about transfer to Q. If I state a preference for a school Q. What happens if my child is not Secondary school in another Authority, is that counted allocated any of the schools I have as one of my preferences? named on the preference form? Q. Where can I look to help me decide? A. Yes. Although these schools are A. We will allocate a place at the nearest A. You can attend the schools open day/ managed by another Authority we appropriate school where there is a evenings and obtain a copy of the schools co-ordinate preferences for their schools place available. prospectus. You can also visit the Ofsted and you should include them on this form. website (www.ofsted.gov.uk) for school Q. Can I see my child’s 11+ test papers inspection reports. Q. Can I be guaranteed a place in or the Headteacher’s report that is a particular school? considered by the Independent Q. Do secondary schools on Wirral A. No. About 4000 applications are Assessment Board? have zones or catchment areas? received every year. The pattern of A. No. Test papers and all documentation A.

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