Finding a School Place Issue 3 Information for Parents About Applying for a School Place During the School Year
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Education Finding a school place Issue 3 Information for parents about applying for a school place during the school year 1 Welcome Dear parents and carers Welcome to the borough of Barking and Dagenham. We are very pleased that you are considering sending your child to one of our schools. This booklet is designed to help you through the ‘In-year application process’. Barking and Dagenham is a small, friendly borough with schools and other learning opportunities close to all neighbourhoods. The borough has a good reputation for its teaching and learning. We are very proud of our schools’ achievements. We have a total of one all-through school, 44 infant, junior and primary schools, and 10 secondary schools. All our schools are fully comprehensive and have a clear commitment to raising the levels of achievement for all their pupils and students. We believe that attending any of the schools in Barking and Dagenham will provide the educational opportunities your child needs to prepare for future life. By law, all children aged between 5 and 18 must be receiving an education or taking part in training. There is a different process for dealing with applications for children with special needs or those aged 16 to 19. If your child has a statement of special educational need you must contact the SEN Team (see page 30). If your child is aged 16 to 19 they must receive education, employment or training, and the 14 to 19 Careers Advice Service will deal with your request (see page 29). Children aged between 5 and 16 must receive an education. If you would like to apply for a place at any of our schools during the school year, you will need to apply to the School Admissions Team, and not directly to the schools. This booklet is designed to help you through this ‘In-year’ process. Yours faithfully Councillor Evelyn Carpenter, Cabinet member for Education and Schools 2 Contents Welcome to the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. This booklet gives you all the information you need when applying for a school place in this borough during the school year. If you have any questions, or need more information, please contact us (the School Admissions Team). Postal Address: School Admissions Team, Town Hall, Barking, Essex, IG11 7LU Phone: 020 8215 3004 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk/admissions Welcome 2 What you need to know 20-24 Introduction 4-5 Options for children 14 and over 25 In-year admission 6-9 Useful information and services 26-30 Transferring between schools 10 Other London authorities school admissions sections 31 Admission criteria for Barking and Dagenham schools 11-19 Map of our schools 32 Admission criteria for academy, community Contact details for our schools 33 and free infant, junior and primary schools 11 Admission criteria for community, free and Glossary – voluntary-controlled secondary schools 12 definition of words used in this booklet 34 All Saints admission criteria 13-14 Checklist 35 Important notes for all catholic primary 15 school applications St Joseph’s – Barking admission criteria 16 St Joseph’s – Dagenham admission criteria 16 St Peter’s admission criteria 16 St Teresa’s admission criteria 17 St Vincent’s admission criteria 17 St Margaret’s admission criteria 18 William Ford admission criteria 18-19 3 Introduction We, the Admissions Team, process In-year admissions Our voluntary-aided (faith) applications for school places for primary and junior schools children from reception to age 16. This process is for parents who There are four different processes. have just moved into the borough We have seven voluntary-aided (VA) How and when you apply depends and need to apply for a school primary schools and one voluntary- on the child’s date of birth and your place for their child. Please aided junior school. These are circumstances. This booklet gives follow the in-year admissions run by the Catholic or Church of information about applying for a process on pages 6 to 9 and England authorities and are listed school place during the year and 20 to 24. Application forms are on page 33 of this booklet, starting transferring between schools. available online or from either of with F. Before you apply for a place our one-stop shops in Barking or at any of our faith schools, you If your child is three or four years Dagenham (see page 9 for the full must read the school’s admission of age, please see our booklet addresses). criteria (pages 15 to 19) and follow ‘Starting school full time’, which the instructions on page 8. explains the process of applying for Transferring between a reception school place (the first schools All other Barking and year of school). If your child is 10 or Dagenham infant, junior 11 years of age and is in their last If your child is already at a school year of primary or junior school, and you would like them to move and primary schools to another, you will need to follow please see our booklet ‘Moving to The George Carey Church of the transfer process set out on secondary school’, which explains England Primary School is a pages 10 and 20 to 24 of this the process of applying for a year-7 voluntary-aided school, Dorothy booklet. place (the first year of secondary Barley Junior and Thames View school). Please see our website for Schools available Infants are academies. These more details. schools are their own admissions If your child is aged 14 to 18, There is a map with a list of our all- authority. However, they follow please see pages 25 for details through, infant, junior primary and the same admission criteria as about applying for a place in secondary schools on page 32 in our community infant, junior education, employment or training. this booklet. As the council has had and primary schools and we will to increase the number of places offer places on their behalf. The If you have just moved to the at some schools over the years, locations of these schools are listed borough and would like to apply the published admission number on page 33. The admission criteria for a place at a Barking and (PAN) for each school has changed for infant places (from reception to Dagenham school at any other from year to year. Please contact year 2) and junior school places time during the school year (except us in writing if you would like us to (years 3 to 6) are listed on page 11. when starting school for the first give you this information. time, or moving to a secondary All-through school school for the first time), you will There are six infant schools in the need to follow the in-year process. borough for children aged four to Goresbrook School is an academy. This process includes moving your seven. Each infant school is linked This school is its own admissions child from their current school to a junior school for children aged authority, however, they follow the to another and this is called the seven to 11. There are 31 primary same admission criteria as our transfer process. schools for children aged four to 11. community schools and we will offer places on their behalf. The At the time of your application, locations of this school is listed on most schools will be full with page 33. Before you apply for a children who have been attending place at these schools, please read the school since reception, year 3 the admission criteria (page 11). or year 7 (depending on whether Important note it is a primary, junior or secondary school). Places only become For a definition of words used available when children leave and in this booklet, please see the we do not know when and at which glossary on page 34. school this will happen. 4 Introduction Our voluntary-aided (faith) secondary school We have one voluntary-aided (VA) secondary school - All Saints Catholic School. This is run by the Catholic authority and its location is listed on page 33 of this booklet, starting with F. Before you apply for a place at this school, you must read the school’s admission criteria (pages 13 to 14) and follow the instructions on page 8. All other Barking and Dagenham secondary schools Dagenham Park Church of England School is a voluntary- controlled school and Riverside school is a free schooland the Warren School is an academy governed by the Loxford School Trust. All these schools are their own admissions authority. However, they follow the same admission criteria as our community schools and we will offer places on their behalf. The locations of these Note 1: If you want to apply for a Note 2: If you do not name the schools are listed on pages 32 and place at Manor, Ripple, site you prefer on your 33. Before you apply for a place Roding or Valence application form, we will at these schools, please read the schools you must give automatically process your admission criteria (page 12). the name of the site you request for site 1 as listed would like your child on page 33. Schools on different sites to go to. However, if Note 3: We will keep a waiting list your application is not Some of our schools are quite large for each site, in criteria successful you can only and are located on two different order. We will follow the appeal for a place at the sites. When applying for a place at waiting list process for school, not a place at our primary schools with two sites, each site as listed on a specific site, as both please see the notes below.