Directory by School Name Directory by School Area Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 1 The directory section Every maintained secondary and upper school What happened in previous years and academy in Hertfordshire is listed in the This information is to help you see how likely it is directory section and includes information to that your child will be offered a place at the school. help you with your application. The information is correct as at allocation day in each year and gives you an indication of what School details has happened in the last two years. The entry for each school gives the contact details including the school website address. 2009 2010 More information about school types is given on Number of places available 210 210 page 2 of this booklet. A number of schools in Hertfordshire have applied for Academy status. Total number of applications 400 350 Where possible this is indicated in the individual Total number of places offered 210 210 school entry. Academy status will not change a school’s published admission arrangements for The table shows you how many places were September 2011. The number on roll shows the available, how many applications the school had total number of children attending the school in in total and how many places were offered. January 2010. The published admission number Other information includes how many children shows the total number of children that can were offered places under each rule and, for be admitted to the school for September 2011. community schools, how many children applied The denomination will be given if applicable and from each parish and how many were offered will be Catholic, Church of England or Jewish. places under rules 4 and 5. Specialist status will list any specialisms the school has. The School Code listed for each Please note these statistics only include school must be given on the paper application applications made prior to allocation day. form if you apply on paper. The total places offered also show the position as at allocation day. Many schools receive late Example applications and make additional allocations Headteacher: Mr Head through the continuing interest process which are not reflected in these figures. School Street, Fieldford, AB1 2CD 01234 567890 FAX 01234 567891 @ [email protected] The priority area parish information does not www.school.sch.uk include late applications. Type: Community (mixed) Number on Roll: 1234 Summary of admission rules Published Admission Number: 213 The admission arrangements in this booklet Specialist Status: Sports, Arts are correct at the time of going to press. School Code: 9991110 However, objections can be made until 31st July 2010 and therefore there may be Open Event details changes. Please visit the website or speak to Information about the open events being held at the school for further information. the school. The directory contains a summary of each Application form school’s admission rules. Pages 16-27 explain the rules for community and voluntary This section will tell you if you need to complete controlled schools. a supplementary information form as well as applying online or on the paper application form The full admission arrangements for each in this booklet. voluntary aided, foundation school and academy is available at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 2 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions The Knights Templar School Priority Area Parish information Parishes are only listed if it is in the priority School Details area and had applications to the school. Headteacher: Andrew Pickering Park Street, Baldock, SG7 6DZ Name of 2009 2010 01462 620700 FAX 01462 620701 Parish Rule 4 and 5 Rule 4 and 5 @ [email protected] Applications Allocations Applications Allocations www.ktemplar.herts.sch.uk Type: Community (mixed) Ashwell 14 14 14 14 Number on Roll: 1348 Baldock 84 84 71 71 Published Admission Number: 210 Bygrave 0 0 2 2 Specialist Status: Sports, Arts Caldecote 0 0 1 1 School Code: 9194016 Clothall 1 1 0 0 Open Event details Edworth 0 0 1 1 Wednesday 6 October and Thursday 7 October Hinxworth 2 2 1 1 from 9.30 am to 12 pm Radwell 2 2 1 1 Rushden 0 0 1 2 Application form Sandon 2 1 2 2 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Wallington 1 1 1 1 or on the Hertfordshire paper Application form. Weston 9 9 4 4 What happened in previous years Newnham is in the priority area but had no 2009 2010 applications to the school in 2009 or 2010. Baldock Number of places available 210 210 Places are allocated in accordance with Total number of applications 588 609 Hertfordshire County Council’s admission Total number of places offered 222 210 rules - see page 16-27 for details Places offered under each rule Parishes in the priority area for this school are: Ashwell, Baldock, Bygrave, Caldecote, Clothall, 2009 2010 Edworth, Hinxworth, Newnham, Radwell, SEN/ Rule 1 and Rule 2 7 5 Rushden, Sandon, Wallington and Weston. Rule 3 101 98 Rule 4 114 98 Rule 5 0 1 Rule 6 0 8 Rule 7 0 0 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions 3 Ashlyns School Birchwood High School School Details School Details Headteacher: Mr James Shapland Headteacher: Dr Christopher Ingate Chesham Road, Berkhamsted, HP4 3AH Parsonage Lane, Bishop’s Stortford, 01442 863605 FAX 01442 876292 CM23 5BD @ [email protected] 01279 655936 FAX 01279 757459 www.ashlyns.herts.sch.uk @ [email protected] Type: Foundation (mixed) www.birchwood.herts.sch.uk Number on Roll: 748 Type: Trust School (Foundation) (mixed) Published Admission Number:210 Number on Roll: 1330 Specialist Status: Languages Published Admission Number: 240 School Code: 9195406 Specialist Status: Technology, Sports School Code: 9194200 This is an upper school which takes children from Year 9. Open Event details Thursday 30 September from 4.30 to 9 pm. Open Event details Thursday 7 October 7 to 9pm Application form Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Application form or on the Hertfordshire paper application Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions form AND complete the supplementary or on the Hertfordshire paper Application form. information form available from the school or the above website. What happened in previous years What happened in previous years 2009 2010 Number of places available 210 210 2009 2010 Total number of applications 201 254 Number of places available 240 240 Total number of places offered 182 205 Total number of applications 562 625 Total number of places offered 270 270 Ashlyns School was able to offer places to all children who applied in 2009 and 2010. Places offered under each rule 2010 Summary of Admissions Rules Berkhamsted/Bishop’s Stortford Berkhamsted/Bishop’s SEN/Medical/Social/Looked After 3 Parishes in the priority area for this school are: Siblings 83 Abbots Langley, Aldbury, Berkhamsted, Bovingdon, Chipperfield, Chorleywood, Croxley Priority Area – nearest school 23 Green, Flaunden, Great Gaddesden, Hemel Priority Area – closest to school 133 Hempstead, Kings Langley, Little Gaddesden, Outside Priority Area – nearest 17 Nettleden with Potten End, Northchurch, school Rickmansworth (part)/Maple Cross, Sarratt, Outside Priority Area – closest to 11 Tring, Tring Rural, Watford and Wigginton. school Places are allocated in accordance with In 2009, Birchwood School were able to offer Hertfordshire County Council’s admission rules places to all children who applied. - see page 16-27 for details. 4 Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions Summary of Admissions Rules The Bishop’s Stortford High School 1 Children Looked After (children in public care). School Details 2 Siblings: Children who, at the closing date for Headteacher: Mr. Andrew Goulding applications, have a brother or sister currently London Road, Bishop’s Stortford, attending Birchwood High School in years CM23 3LU 7 – 12. They also need to live at the same 01279 868686 FAX 01279 868687 permanent address from Monday to Friday and @ [email protected] to have joined the school during years 7 – 11. www.tbshs.org ‘Brothers and sisters’ includes stepbrothers, Type: Foundation (Boys with a mixed sixth form) stepsisters, half brothers, half sisters and This school has agreement in principle to adopted brothers and sisters who are living at convert to academy status. the same permanent address as the applicant. Number on Roll: 1085 ‘Currently attending’ means children who are Published Admission Number:155 actually at the school, or children who have Specialist Status: Maths and Computing; been offered or accepted a place but have not Leading Edge with Gifted and Talented yet started at the school. School Code: 9195405 3 Priority Area: Children who, at the closing Open Event details date for applications, live in the chosen urban Wednesday 22 September from 6.30 pm to 9 pm priority area of Bishop’s Stortford Town Council and Thorley Parish. Addresses are routinely Application form checked and places may be withdrawn if a false Stortford Bishop’s Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions address has been given. or on the Hertfordshire paper application 4 Geographical distance: Should there be form AND complete the supplementary places unfilled after applying criteria 1, 2 and information form available from the school 3, then places will be offered on the basis or the above website. of shortest distance from their permanent residence to the School as determined by What happened in previous years Hertfordshire County Council, with those who 2009 2010 are closer being accorded a higher priority. Number of places available 155 155 Addresses are routinely checked and places may be withdrawn if a false address has Total number of applications 439 447 been given. Total number of places offered 155 155 In the event of over-subscription with this fourth Places offered under each rule criterion, a Tie Break will be made on a random address basis.