Hackney’s Secondary Schools

2019 ADMISSION GUIDE

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CMYK 11 mm clearance all sides DATA PROTECTION The Borough of Hackney is a data controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act 2018. The London Borough of Hackney will handle any personal data provided during an admissions application in accordance with this information legislation.

Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of handling your school admission application, school admission appeals, sending you questionnaires, and assessing pupils’ eligibility for various pupil benefits and services as appropriate. The London Borough of Hackney also has a duty under the Children’s Act 2004 to work with partners to provide and improve services for children and young people in the borough. Therefore we may also share this information where necessary with other bodies responsible for administering Health, safeguarding and other services to children and young people where the law allows. The London Borough of Hackney must also protect public funds and may use personal information to detect and prevent fraud.

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Secondary INTRODUCTION 04 Welcome & key information Schools 05 Important dates HOW TO APPLY 2019 ADMISSION GUIDE 05 Documentation For children transferring to secondary school 05 Children with Special Educational Needs in September 2019. 06 Before you apply 07 Myth busters – get the facts ! 08 Applying online – step-by-step guide 10 Map of secondary schools & transport links 11 Open events PROCESSING YOUR APPLICATION – HOW DOES IT WORK? 13 Banding & Cognitive ability tests (CAT) 13 Home-to-school distance 13 Twins, triplets and multiple birth 14 Children educated out of normal age group 14 Late applications 14 Home address & moving house 14 Applying from overseas 15 Fraudulent applications 15 Exceptional medical or social needs 15 Looked after children NATIONAL OFFER DAY – WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? 16 Your school place and responding to your offer 16 Unsuccessful applicants 16 Waiting lists 17 Appeals HACKNEY SECONDARY SCHOOLS 18 Cardinal Pole Catholic School 20 City of London , Park 22 Clapton Girls’ Academy 24 Hackney New School 26 School 28 Lubavitch Senior Girls’ School 30 Mossbourne Community Academy 32 Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy 34 Our Lady’s High School 36 Skinners’ Academy 38 School and Sixth Form 40 42 The City Academy Hackney 44 The 46 48 Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School FURTHER INFORMATION 50 Neighbouring local authorities 50 Free school meals 50 Clothing grant 50 Home to school travel 52 Explanation of terminology WELCOME

This guide is produced in partnership with all the Hackney maintained secondary schools to help you make an informed decision about your child’s future.

Choosing the next step in your child’s education is a huge responsibility for any family, so it’s important that you read the guide carefully and look closely at each school’s admissions criteria in order to make the right choice for your child. We’re pleased that you, like so many other local parents/carers, have made Hackney your preferred choice. We have excellent schools in Hackney offering a rich curriculum and 93% of schools inspected are rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted. In 2017, the Progress 8 measure in Hackney was 0.38, an improvement on the previous year, making the borough the 12th best performing local authority in the country. Hackney Learning Trust is committed to supporting the best possible education for our young people. We work closely with schools to ensure they keep improving and that they give all children the best possible start in life. As your child makes the step from primary to secondary school, we hope you’ll continue to be involved in encouraging their learning and maintaining excellent levels of work, motivation and behaviour. Whichever school your child moves on to, they are guaranteed excellent opportunities. We wish you and all pupils starting secondary school in Hackney the very best for the future.

Annie Gammon Cllr Anntoinette Bramble Director of Education, Deputy Mayor Head of Hackney Learning Trust of Hackney

KEY INFORMATION

WHO SHOULD APPLY? If your child was born between 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2008 CONTACT US you must apply for them to start secondary school in September 2019. Telephone enquiries 020 8820 7000 (Option 3) IN YEAR ADMISSIONS & YEAR 10 OPPORTUNITIES 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday If your child does not currently have a school place or you want to Email enquiries transfer them to a different school, you need to make an In Year General enquiries application. Go to www.learningtrust.co.uk/inyear for more information. [email protected] If your child is due to start year 10 in September 2019 you can Secondary transfer (Year 6 to apply for a place at University Technical Colleges (UTCs) and Studio Year 7) Schools. UTCs and Studio Schools commonly have links to universities y6sectransfer@learningtrust. and/or businesses and specialise in technical subjects focusing on developing the skills needed for employment. Further information co.uk about UTCs and Studio Schools in London is available online at In-Year admissions www.learningtrust.co.uk/yr10opportunities inyear@learningtrust. co.uk

VISIT HACKNEY LEARNING TRUST In Person HLT 2nd Floor Reception Visit the Hackney Learning Trust reception counter on the second floor on Tuesdays from 9am to 1pm and on Thursdays from 1pm to 5pm. You Tuesdays from 9am to 1pm and can speak to an Admissions and Pupil Benefits Officer in person for Thursdays from 1pm to 5pm advice and support and access a computer to apply online. Outside these times you will need to telephone or email for support.

4 success in the making IMPORTANT DATES

Monday 3 September 2018 Online applications open From Wednesday 12 September to Open days and evenings at Hackney secondary schools Thursday 18 October 2018 (see page 11 for more information) From Monday 1 October to Cognitive ability tests for children attending Hackney primary schools Friday 19 October 2018 Friday 19 October 2018 Closing date for Hackney residents Wednesday 31 October 2018 Statutory deadline Saturday 24 November 2018 and Cognitive ability tests for children attending Saturday 1 December 2018 primary schools outside Hackney Last date to explain why your application was late; request changes to Friday 7 December 2018 your application submitted on-time or provide evidence of a change of address. See page 14 for further information Friday 1 March 2019 National offer day. See page 16 for further information Friday 15 March 2019 Last date to respond to your offer. See page 16 for further information September 2019 Children start school

HOW TO APPLY

Applications open on 3 September 2018. You should these dates. There are no alternative test dates complete Hackney Learning Trust’s Common and if your child does not sit the banding test your Application Form online at www.eadmissions.org.uk application will be disadvantaged. See page 13 for (see page 8 for step-by-step instructions). You can list further information. up to six state-funded secondary schools, academies or free schools anywhere in London. List your favourite WHAT DOCUMENTS DO I NEED school as the first preference, then your next favourite TO SEND WITH MY APPLICATION? school as your second preference and so on. You do not need to send any additional documents with your application. You should apply by Friday 19 October 2018. To confirm your address we will check your details Religious schools require you to complete a against council tax and other council records. If it is Supplementary Information Form (SIF) to be given not possible to confirm your address we will contact priority under their faith based criteria. SIFs are you directly to request further evidence. available from Hackney Learning Trust or directly from the school. The following religious secondary schools If you have changed address in the last year you may in Hackney will ask you to complete a supplementary be asked to complete a questionnaire to prove that form: you live permanently at your current address. • Cardinal Pole Catholic School, Catholic Failure to provide proof of your child’s address, • Lubavitch Senior Girls School, Orthodox Jewish if requested, may cause delays in processing your application. See page 15 for further information. • Our Lady’s High School, Catholic • The Urswick School, Church of CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS WHO HAVE AN EDUCATION, HEALTH AND CARE PLAN BANDING TESTS There is a separate transfer process for pupils who Most Hackney secondary schools require applicants have an Education, Health and Care plan. If your child to sit a cognitive ability test (CAT). If your child has a plan or has been issued with a draft plan by attends a Hackney primary school (in Year 6) they 19 October 2018 then your child should not apply will take the CAT at their school between Monday 1 through the general admission process explained in October to Friday 19 October 2018. this guide. You will get a separate application form to If your child attends a school outside Hackney they complete from the Education, Health and Care Plan will be invited to sit the CAT at a Hackney secondary (EHCP) team. You should use this form to list the school on Saturday 24 November or Saturday 1 schools you prefer for your child. December 2018. It is your responsibility Visit www.hackneylocaloffer.co.uk/secondarysend to ensure your child is available to sit the test on for more information or call 020 8820 7000 Option 4.

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 5 BEFORE YOU APPLY…

Schools and Academies in Hackney are very popular and not all applicants can be offered a place. You should follow the advice below and think carefully about which schools you list on your application before you apply. VISIT SCHOOLS and The Petchey Academy also include an element of random allocation You should visit schools to get an idea of (a computerised lottery) to determine OPEN what they can offer. Details of the open events at Hackney secondary schools are who gets a place. on page 11. If you cannot visit schools you can get more information from their HOW WILL YOUR CHILD TRAVEL websites. See pages 18 - 49 for details. TO SCHOOL? Hackney has a great network of buses, ARE YOUR PREFERENCES >> and rail links REALISTIC? making it easy to get to any of our local Consider how likely it is that your schools. child will be offered a place at your Children of secondary school age preferred schools. ? would generally be expected to travel Read the admissions criteria for each to school independently using public school and figure out which criteria transport. However a very long journey apply to your child. A summary of the to school on public transport may not admissions criteria for Hackney be the best choice for your child. secondary schools are included on Travel to school is free on Transport for pages 18 to 49. If you list a school as London (TfL) buses. Some families may a preference on your application you be eligible for help with the cost of should read the full admissions policy tube and/or train journeys. See page 50 which is available online at for more information. www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules or on the school’s website. RESEARCH SCHOOL If you are unsure whether you will PERFORMANCE AND INSPECTION qualify for a place you can call the OUTCOMES admissions team for impartial advice on All schools in Hackney are inspected 020 8820 7000. regularly by Ofsted. You can access the latest Ofsted reports at DO YOU LIVE CLOSE ENOUGH * TO GET A PLACE? www.reports.ofsted.gov.uk Headteachers will be happy to talk Some schools use home-to-school to you about any part of the Ofsted distance as part of their admission report for their school. arrangements. You can find out the approximate distance to your preferred You can get information about schools using the GOV.UK schools an individual school’s performance finder online at results from the Department www.gov.uk/find-school-in-england for Education (DfE) website at www.compare-school-performance. The distance from home to school of the service.gov.uk last child offered a place at Hackney secondary schools from last year is TALK TO YOUR CHILD & OTHERS included on pages 18 - 49 where applicable. Remember that although this What school does your child want to information can be used to give you an attend? Seek advice from teachers, idea of how likely it is that you will be other parents and the school offered a place, the cut-off will change admissions team. Remember that every year. We can never guarantee any the right school for your friend’s child child will be offered a place at any school. may not be the right school for your child. Don’t judge a school based solely Note that, in addition to distance, on what others say – visit the school Mossbourne Community Academy and make up your own mind.

6 success in the making MYTH BUSTERS – GET THE FACTS!

It is easy to make assumptions about how school admissions works. Here are some of the common assumptions and misunderstandings as well as the facts.

Not true! … your child will only be offered a place if they qualify according to the school’s admission criteria. If your child does not qualify for any of your My child has a right to preferred schools (e.g. because your preferences were unrealistic) they will be a place at one of my offered a place at the nearest school to your home with a vacancy remaining preferred schools. after all on-time applicants have been offered places. See page 16 for further information.

I don’t need to apply Not ture! ... everyone must apply for their child even if they have a brother because I have an or sister already at the school. Most schools give priority to brothers older child already and sisters but if you don’t apply you could miss out on a place. at the school.

If I list only one school Not true! … listing only one school does not increase your child’s chances then I have to be offered of being offered a place. You are strongly advised to include your nearest a place. schools amongst your preferences.

I live nearer to the Not true! … the home-to-school distance of the last child offered a place school than the last child will change every year. The information about offers in 2018 for each school offered under the distance is listed on page 18 to 49. This information is a guide only and no child is criterion last year so I’m guaranteed a place at any school. guaranteed a place.

Not always … the number of pupils offered under each criterion at each Children in my road school can change every year. Just because you know pupils living near go to the school so you that go to a certain school, it does not mean that your child will be my child will too. offered a place there.

If I apply to a school in Not true! ... an admissions authority cannot give preference to its own another borough, their residents and published admissions criteria cannot include the borough residents will have of residence. Hackney schools do not discriminate between applicants priority over me. who live in the borough and those who do not.

It matters! … If you apply after 31 October 2018, we will look at your It does not matter application after all those that applied on time have been processed. if my application In this case it is very unlikely that you will be offered a place at a is late. popular school.

I can only apply for Not true! ... you can apply for both Hackney and out of borough schools Hackney Schools. by listing them on the Hackney application form.

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 7 APPLYING ONLINE – STEP BY STEP GUIDE

BEFORE YOU START

• Research your preferred schools and decide your order of preference before you start the online application. See pages 6 and 7 for advice about choosing schools. • Get an email address – you need one to apply and you need to be able to access it in March 2019. If you don’t have one go to www.googlemail.com and click ‘Create an account’. 07. After you log in for the first time you will be sent a • Get a friend, a relative or your child to help you confirmation by email. Open the email and click make the application if you have trouble with the link to confirm your email address.You MUST computers. confirm your email address before you can make your application. LOGIN OR REGISTER 08. After you click the link in your email you will see 01. Go to www.eadmissions.org.uk the email validation webpage. Click ‘Please Login 02. If you have applied before (e.g. to start your application’. for an older child) choose ‘Login to your account’. Enter your email and password from your previous application and click ‘Login’. Skip to step 09. 03. If this is the first time you have applied you must register your details and choose your 09. After you log in you must check and update your password. Click ‘Register to apply online’. details if they have changed. Tick the boxes to confirm your details are correct and that you 04. Enter your name and contact details then click agree to the privacy policy, then click ‘ ‘ ’. Select your address from the list then click Save and Next ’. ‘Next’. Create a password then click ‘Next’. Set Continue up your security questions and answers then click ‘Next’.

10. Click the ‘Start a new application for a child that is not listed below’ button. 05. Note down your email address and username in a safe place for future reference. Choose ‘ Click here CHILD DETAILS AND PREFERRED SCHOOLS to login to the eAdmissions website’. 11. Enter your child’s details and click ‘Save and continue’.

12. Choose your preferred school from the list. Change the local authority if the school is outside Hackney. Click ‘Add this school’.

Add specific information about the school. 06. Enter your username or email and your password 13. Indicate if your child has brothers or sisters then click ‘Login’ already attending, if they have medical/social TIP: If you can’t remember your username or reasons to attend the school or if you are a staff password click the ‘ Forgotten your username or member, then click ‘Next’. password?’ link.

8 success in the making APPLYING ONLINE – STEP BY STEP GUIDE

19. Click ‘Submit Application’.

You will receive a confirmation email with your 20. application reference number (e.g. 204-2019-09-E-

001234). This email is proof that you have

submitted your application successfully.

MAKE CHANGES AND ATTACH DOCUMENTS • You can make changes and attach supporting information up to the statutory closing date by logging into the system with your username or email address and your password. 14. Repeat steps 12 & 13 to list more schools until you have listed all your preferences. • Each time you make a change you must resubmit your application. You will receive a confirmation 15. Change the order of preferences by clicking email each time you successfully change your ‘Move up’ / ‘Move down’. application. 16. Once all your preferred schools are listed click • You will also receive a confirmation for each ‘Next’. You will also need to click ‘Continue’ document you attach. if you have listed fewer than six preferences. • You do NOT need to provide proof of your NEW: address. We will confirm your address against council tax and other council records.

HELP AND SUPPORT If you need help logging into your online application or registering to apply online you can contact the London eAdmissions support helpdesk on 020 8255 5555 (option 1 or 4) or email [email protected]

If you have any other problems using the system

please contact us on or email 020 8820 7000 [email protected]

FINAL CHECK AND SUBMIT 17. Check your application carefully. To make changes click ‘Back’ at the bottom of the page. 18. Read and agree the declaration and Hackney terms and conditions by clicking in the boxes.

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 9 MAP OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND TRANSPORT LINKS IN HACKNEY

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Schools in Hackney (See reference number on the next page.)

Schools in other boroughs

10 success in the making OPEN EVENTS IN 2018

The open mornings and evenings for Hackney secondary schools are listed below. All applicants are encouraged to visit their preferred schools.

(Open mornings by appointment  1 CARDINAL POLE  6 LUBAVITCH SENIOR only) CATHOLIC SCHOOL GIRLS’ SCHOOL Tuesday 25 September, Tuesday 9 October 12 5–8pm (Contact the school for further  THE BRIDGE ACADEMY Thursday 13 September, information.) (Executive Headteacher 4.30–7.30pm. speech at (Last admission 7pm) 5.30pm & 6.30pm) 7  MOSSBOURNE Thursday 27 September & Thursday 27 September COMMUNITY ACADEMY Thursday 4 October, through to Friday 5 October Thursday 27 September, 9–10am from 9–10.15am 4.30–7.30pm (Last admission at 9.15am) (Last entry at 7.15pm. Last  2 CITY OF LONDON Principal’s speech at 7.30pm. Evening ends at 7.45pm) ACADEMY, SHOREDITCH 13 THE CITY ACADEMY, PARK Wednesday 3 October,  8 MOSSBOURNE VICTORIA HACKNEY Tuesday 2 October, 5–8pm 4.30-7.30pm (last entry 7pm) PARK ACADEMY (Visitors from 4.30pm. Last entry Thursday 11 October, Thursday 27 September, at 7.30pm. Evening ends at 8pm) 9am and 11am 4.30–7.30pm (Last entry at 7:30pm. Thursday 11 October, Friday 12 October, Evening ends at 8pm) 9.45–11am & 10.20–11.30am 9am and 11am Friday 12 October (open mornings by appointment 9 9.45–11am & 10.20–11.30am only)  OUR LADY’S HIGH SCHOOL (Open mornings by appointment Monday 17 September through only, book via school website) 3  CLAPTON GIRLS’ to Friday 28 September from ACADEMY 9.30–10.30am 14 Saturday 15 September,  THE PETCHEY ACADEMY Thursday 20 September, Monday 24 September, 10am–12.30pm 4–8pm (Last entry at 7.30pm. 5.30–8pm (last entry at 7.30pm) Thursday 20 September, Headteacher’s speech at Open Mornings every Thursday 9.15–10.30am 5pm and 6.30pm) 8.30am in September (by Tuesday 25 September, Saturday 29 September, appointment only, book by 9.15–10.30am 10am-12noon emailing mail@petcheyacademy. Wednesday 3 October, org.uk) 9.15–10.30am 10 SKINNERS’ ACADEMY Thursday 11 October, 5–7.30pm Wednesday 19 September, 15 THE URSWICK SCHOOL 4.30–6.30pm Thursday 4 October,  4 HACKNEY NEW SCHOOL (Principal’s presentation at 5.30–7.30pm Tuesday 18 September, 5-9pm 4.45pm and 5.45pm) (Headteacher speaks at Friday 21 September, 9–11am Wednesday 10 October, 5–7pm 6.15pm & 7pm) Friday 28 September, 9–11am (Principal’s presentation at Tours commence at Friday 5 October, 9–11am 5.15pm and 6.15pm) 9am & 10am every (Please book at Thursday 11 October, 9–10am Tuesday & Thursday between 13 goo.gl/7Nu9b3) (Principal’s presentation at September & 18 October. 9.35am) Contact the school for further information.  5 Wednesday 12 September, 11  STOKE NEWINGTON 16 9.15-10.30am SCHOOL & SIXTH FORM  YESODEY HATORAH Wednesday 19 September, Monday 17 September, SENIOR GIRLS SCHOOL 9.15-10.30am 5-7.30pm Open mornings are held in Wednesday 26 September, Monday 24 through to September & October 9.15-10.30am Thursday 27 September, by appointment only. Monday 1 October, 9.45-10.45am 5–7.30pm Monday 8 October, Wednesday 3 October, 5-7.30pm 9.15-10.30am Monday 15 October, 9.45-10.45am

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 11 PROCESSING YOUR APPLICATION – HOW DOES IT WORK?

12 success in the making PROCESSING YOUR APPLICATION – HOW DOES IT WORK?

The Admissions Team at Hackney Learning Trust will possible. This means that your child has an equal add all your preferences to a database so that these chance of being offered a place regardless of the can be considered all at the same time. Preferences band they are assigned to. If there are more for community schools will be considered by the applications than places available within each band, Local Authority (LA). If you list a religious school, the school will apply their admission criteria to offer academy or free school within Hackney, your details places. (See page 18 to 49 for a summary of each will be forwarded to them to consider your school’s admission criteria.) Children who are not application and rank your child in accordance with offered places will be put on the waiting list within their admissions criteria. their band group. The schools won’t know whether you’ve listed them first, second, third and so on. If you’ve listed any IMPORTANT schools outside of Hackney, your details will be sent There are no alternative test dates and it is your to the appropriate LA Admissions Team to consider. responsibility to make sure your child is available After all your preferences have been processed, to take the test on your allocated date. Failure to we will update our database with all potential offers take the test will result in your application being for your child and you will be offered a place at the placed at the bottom of the list of all applicants school ranked the highest out of those potential who have taken the test for that school. offers. For example, if there are available places for your child at the schools ranked third and fourth on your list, we’ll offer you a place at your third HOME-TO-SCHOOL DISTANCE preference school. You will not be advised about the offer that could have been made at the fourth Home-to-school distances are measured in a straight preference school and this place will be given to line using a computerised distance measuring system another child. from your home address to the main entrance of the school. Hackney Learning Trust uses geographical BANDING AND COGNITIVE ABILITY TESTS (CAT) references (i.e. eastings and northings) as provided by the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) Most Hackney secondary schools use a process database to determine the start point for your of banding to ensure they admit a wide range of address. For most homes the eastings and northings children of different abilities. Every child who applies are not located at the front door but they usually fall must sit a cognitive ability test (CAT) and the results within the footprint of your building. If you live in a are used to group applications into different ability block of flats the easting and northing point for the bands. block will be used. The measuring point used to If your child attends a Hackney primary school (in Year determine the school main entrance may not be the 6) they will take the CAT at their school between gate or entrance currently used by children and staff Monday 1 October to Friday 19 October 2018. The entering the school. school will arrange the testing and advise you in To help you work out the distance between your advance. address and a school, you can use the Direct Gov If your child attends a school outside Hackney and you schools finder online atschoolsfinder.direct.gov.uk apply for a school that uses banding your child will be This won’t give you an exact measurement but it will invited to sit the CAT at a Hackney secondary school on give you an idea of how close you are to a school’s Saturday 24 November or Saturday 1 December 2018. cut-off distance in the previous year, as listed on We will contact you via email in November 2018 to tell pages 18 to 49. Cut-off distances vary from year to you the date and venue for your child’s test. The session year. will last about three hours. TWINS, TRIPLETS AND MULTIPLE BIRTH The CAT has been designed to assess children’s ability in four areas. Each child will achieve an average Some schools will give special consideration to (mean) score. This score will decide the band group multiple birth children so that they are offered the they are placed in for each secondary school. Each same school. e.g. if a school has only one place and part of the test will last for about half an hour. the next child to be offered has a twin sibling, the school may admit the other twin sibling as well, Each band has equal priority and the same number of even if this means going over their published places are offered to applicants in each band where admission number.

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 13 PROCESSING YOUR APPLICATION – HOW DOES IT WORK?

The admission arrangements for each school will Addresses are checked against council records and explain how they deal with applications from multiple we may require you to provide evidence. (See page 5 birth children. If this effects your children you should for more information) Where parental responsibilities read the full admissions policy for your preferred are equally shared, we will consider the home address schools which are available online at to be the place where your child sleeps and spends www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules most of their time, from Monday to Friday. This is the address that will be used to process your application CHILDREN EDUCATED OUT OF NORMAL AGE and calculate home-to-school distance or confirm a GROUP sibling attending the school. If your child is currently educated out of his/her normal We cannot accept a temporary address if you still age group, you can request that this continues, and possess a property that was previously used as a home your child remains in their current year group when address; nor will we accept a temporary address if it is they start secondary school. Most secondary schools used solely or mainly to obtain a school place. will decide whether or not your child can remain out of their normal age group. Hackney Learning Trust In the case of UK service personnel with a confirmed makes this decision on behalf of Haggerston School posting in the area or Crown servants returning from and & Sixth Form. If your overseas who will reside in Hackney, we will allocate a child is offered a place at a school that does not school place on the basis of the family’s intended agree with your request, your child will be placed in future address. For UK service personnel the their correct year group. application must be accompanied by an official letter declaring a relocation date and unit address or quartering address in Hackney. Applications from LATE APPLICATIONS Crown servants will be dealt with on a case by case Applications open on 3 September 2018 and the basis and proof of the intended future address must closing date is Wednesday 31 October 2018. If you be provided, particularly in the case where the submit your application after this date it will be application includes oversubscribed schools. In all considered only if there were exceptional reasons that other aspects these applications will be treated as for prevented you from applying on time. For example, any other Hackney resident and in accordance with this could be where you are a single parent and you published admission arrangements. have been seriously ill for an extended period, a member of your immediate family has died, or if your APPLYING FROM OVERSEAS family has recently moved into the area or has just If you reside outside the UK but intend to return to returned from abroad. We’ll also need to see the live in Hackney before the start of the 2019 academic proof of ownership or tenancy of a property within year you must apply according to the process set out Hackney as well as a utility bill. in this booklet. The last date that exceptional reasons can be You must apply using a paper application form which considered and agreed is Friday 7 December 2018. is available by emailing y6sectransfer@learningtrust. After this date your application will be late regardless co.uk You will not be able to use the online of the circumstances and will only be considered after eAdmissions system. all the applications that were sent in on time have been dealt with. This is most likely to be after 1 March Your application will be processed on the basis of 2019, but you may still receive a letter telling you the your overseas address. Home-to-school distance outcome of your application. measurements will be based on your location at the closing date, 31 October 2018. This means that you CHANGING YOUR PREFERENCES are unlikely to be offered a place at an oversubscribed school on the basis of distance. If you wish to change your preferences before the closing date, Wednesday 31 October 2018, you must Upon returning to the UK and providing proof that login to the online application system, make changes you are resident in Hackney your application will then and then resubmit your application. If you applied on be considered on the basis of your Hackney address. time, but decide to change your preferences after the closing date, your request will be dealt with after all MOVING HOUSE the late and unplaced applicants’ requests for school If you move you must let the Admissions Team know places have been considered. your new address immediately. You must provide proof of residence at your new address to confirm HOME ADDRESS that you are living there before Friday 7 December Your child’s home address is the address where they 2018. This could include proof of exchange of are living on the closing date, 31 October 2018. contracts or a tenancy agreement. We will also need

14 success in the making PROCESSING YOUR APPLICATION – HOW DOES IT WORK? to see an original utility bill, such as a gas or water In every case you must provide detailed evidence bill. If you are unable to provide evidence prior to from a GP, hospital consultant, social worker or any 7 December 2018, we will only be able to use your other agency or professional involved with your case. new address to adjust your child’s position on the The evidence must be specifically about your child’s waiting list after 1 March 2019. medical/social condition, the effects of the condition and why, in view of this, your child needs to attend a FRAUDULENT APPLICATIONS particular school. The evidence should demonstrate detailed knowledge of the school in terms of If a school place is offered based on fraudulent or resources and organisation which demonstrate that intentionally misleading information, the offer will your child can only be admitted to the specific school be withdrawn and your application processed using and why no other school is suitable. the appropriate address. We may also consider withdrawing the place after your child has started It is your responsibility to provide evidence to support school, regardless of how much time has passed, if your claim and this should be submitted with your information comes to light that a false address was application by the closing date, 31 October 2018. It used during the application process. may not be possible to consider evidence received after this date for National Offer Day We will also ask the secondary school to check your (1 March 2019) but it will be considered for offers child’s home address at the time of admission. If it made after this date. If you tick the box on the is different from the address on your application form application form but do not submit evidence your we will investigate further. application will not be considered under this criterion We carry out random checks and investigate and you will not be reminded to submit evidence. a sample of applications where there has been a Not all academies and schools in Hackney give change of address in the last 12 months, or where priority on medical or social grounds and you should a parent moves after 1 March 2019, up to the end check the admission criteria for your preferred of the child’s first term in Year 7. schools on pages 18 to 49. We will investigate all applications: • where there are any doubts about the information LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN/ provided; PREVIOUSLY LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN • where information has been received from If you are completing the application for a looked a member of the public to suggest a fraudulent after child or a child who was previously looked after application has been made; but immediately after being looked after became • where council records do not match the application. subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order please tell us on the application Any applicant who provides false information will form. You must name the council who looks after the have their offer of a school place withdrawn. They child (or previously looked after the child) and provide may also be subject to legal proceedings. If we find a letter from the social worker to confirm this. In out that your home address is not in Hackney, we will addition, if the child was adopted or became subject advise you to make a new application via your home to a child arrangements or special guardianship order local authority. immediately after being in care you must also provide We reserve the right to seek additional information a copy of the child arrangements order, special to carry out our investigations. We also reserve the guardianship order or proof of adoption from the right to carry out home visits to the address used relevant local authority. on the application form and any other addresses used previously.

EXCEPTIONAL MEDICAL OR SOCIAL NEEDS Some schools and academies give priority to children who have an exceptional need to attend a specific school on medical or social grounds. If this is the case with your child you must tick the appropriate box on the online form and provide independent, professional evidence explaining why your child can only attend a particular school. Your own medical needs cannot justify a place at a particular school but your child could have a social need arising from your medical needs.

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 15 NATIONAL OFFER DAY – WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

home with a vacancy remaining after all on-time applicants have been offered places. You will also be advised which schools still have places available and you may add further preferences. Detailed information will be available in your offer email. If you need to discuss your situation in more detail, you can contact the Admissions Team on 020 8820 7000 who can give you help and advice about your options, including details of available schools outside Hackney. You may also email [email protected] for advice.

WAITING LISTS If you have been offered a place at a lower preference school, your child will automatically be added to the waiting lists for any Hackney schools you ranked higher on your application form. If you have been refused a place at all Hackney schools you listed on your application form, your child will automatically be added to the waiting lists for all of them. Your child’s position on the lists will be worked out according to the admissions criteria for each school YOUR SCHOOL PLACE and can go up or down as other children leave or join If you applied online you will receive an email on the the lists. Hackney Learning Trust will continue to offer evening of Friday 1 March 2019 to inform you of the places and maintain waiting lists until October Half outcome of your application. If you applied using a Term 2019. paper application, your offer will be sent by first class On 25 October 2019 waiting lists will close and you post on 1 March and should arrive by Monday 4 March. must re-apply for your child to remain on waiting lists The offer will be for the highest ranked school on after this date. your application that was able to offer your child a place. If your child is not offered a place at any of your To ensure that your child remains on the waiting list preferred schools they will normally be offered a and in consideration after 25 October 2019 you must place at the nearest school to your home with a make a separate 2019/20 In Year application before vacancy remaining after all on-time applicants have Friday 18 October 2019. From 28 October 2019, been offered places. (see below for further waiting lists will be maintained in accordance with the information). secondary school In Year admissions process. All secondary schools will inform us when a vacancy RESPONDING TO YOUR OFFER becomes available and the next child on the waiting list will be offered a place. You must respond to the offer by Friday 15 March. Your offer email will explain how to respond online. You will need to login to your online application at www.eadmissions.org.uk using your email address or username and your password. If you applied using a paper application, you must complete and return the reply slip enclosed. If you don’t respond by 15 March we may withdraw the offer. We also need to know if your circumstances have changed and you no longer want the place.

UNSUCCESSFUL APPLICATIONS If it is not possible to offer a place at any of your preferred schools Hackney Learning Trust will normally offer a place at the nearest school to your

16 success in the making APPEALS HACKNEY APPEALS FOR 2018 If you believe you have good reasons why your child SECONDARY ADMISSIONS can only attend a particular school, you can appeal SCHOOLS against the refusal of a place at that school. Appeals are heard by an Independent Appeal Panel and their decision is binding on Hackney Learning Trust, the school and the parent. If the Independent Appeal Lodged Heard Successful City of London Academy, Panel agrees that your appeal should be upheld, the 4 3 1 school must admit your child. You must complete and return an appeal form by Clapton Girls’ Academy 22 22 2 Friday 29 March 2019. Further information is available Mossbourne Community online at . 73 72 6 www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionappeals Academy You can get independent advice about appeals from the Advisory Centre for Education on 0300 0115 142 or Mossbourne Victoria Park 22 22 5 at www.ace-ed.org.uk and Coram Children’s Legal Skinners’ Academy 9 6 1 Centre on 0300 330 5485 or at www. childrenslegalcentre.com Stoke Newington School 27 23 3 Please note from the information outlined in the table and Sixth Form that very few appeals are successful. The City Academy, Hackney 51 51 2 The Petchey Academy 25 24 5

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 17 Cardinal Pole Catholic School

CATHOLIC VOLUNTARY AIDED SCHOOL

EXECUTIVE HEADTEACHER Jane Heffernan ASSOCIATE HEADTEACHER Paula Whyte CONTACT DETAILS 205 Morning Lane, London E9 6LG 020 8985 5150 [email protected] www.cardinalpole.co.uk AGE / SPECIALISM 11–19 (boys & girls) / Science 2019 ADMISSION NUMBER 180 OPEN EVENING Tuesday 25 September, 5–8pm (Executive Headteachers speech at 5.30pm & 6.30pm) OPEN MORNINGS Thursday 27 September through to Friday 5 October from 9–10.15am BUS ROUTES Morning Lane: 30 / 425 Nearby (Mare Street): 48 / 55 / 106 / 236 / 254 / 276 / 277 / 394 / 425 / 488 / D6 / W15 NEAREST STATIONS Bethnal Green then bus 106 / 254 / D6 then 5 minutes’ walk then bus 30 Homerton then 5 minutes’ walk Manor House then bus 254 ADMISSION POLICY The admissions policy for Cardinal Pole Catholic School is summarised on the next page. If you want to apply for this school you should read the full admissions policy which is available online at www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules INFORMATION AND ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

SUMMARY OF ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR 2019 priority is given to those with a sibling attending the school at the time of the admission. All children applying for a place must take the Cognitive Ability Tests (CAT4) and their score in the Distance tie break test will place them in one of four ability bands Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any reflecting the national range of abilities (See page 13 of the categories listed above would still lead to for further information). The school may seek other oversubscription the places will be offered to those evidence of the child’s academic ability if they are living nearest to the school. Where two or more unable to take the test. students have equal priority for one remaining place, Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan the offer will be decided by random allocation i.e. where Cardinal Pole Catholic School is named will drawing of lots. be admitted ahead of other applicants. Social and medical needs If there are more applicants than places available, The governors will increase to top priority an places will be allocated to pupils in each band in applicant within a category where compelling the following order of priority: evidence is provided at the time of application 01. Catholic looked after children or Catholic children of exceptional circumstances, or a medical or a who have been adopted or made subject to child pastoral need of the student which can only be arrangements orders or special guardianship met at this school. orders immediately after being looked after. ADMISSION IN 2018 (data as at 1 March 2018) 02. A Catholic child with a certificate of Catholic practice. 03. Other baptised Catholic applicants. Total on-time applications 427 04. Other looked after children and children who have been adopted or made subject to child Total offers 189 arrangements orders or special guardianship orders immediately following having being looked after. NOTE: for further information about how 05. Those preparing for the sacraments of Baptism places were offered please contact and Holy Communion with the Catholic Church the school directly. (Catechumens). 06. Christian applicants who have a baptism certificate or a letter from their Minister showing they are a member of the Church. 07. Children of other Faiths whose application is supported by a letter from a religious leader confirming membership of the faith community. 08. All other applicants.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A Certificate of Catholic Practice should be completed by all those applying under criterion 2. The Certificate of Catholic Practice is available from the priest at the parish where your family normally worships and is also on the Westminster Diocese website. If you do not have a Certificate of Catholic Practice but wish to be considered under the faith oversubscription criteria, you must let the school know of your faith commitment in writing. You must submit this additional information directly to the school by Friday 26 October 2018. Failure to return information by this date mean the Governing Body may be unable to consider your application fully and it is unlikely that your child will be offered a place.

PRIORITIES Siblings Where the offer of places to all applicants in any of the above categories leads to oversubscription,

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 19 City of London Academy Shoreditch Park

ACADEMY TRUST

PRINCIPAL Holly Arles CONTACT DETAILS Audrey Street, London E2 8QH 020 3011 2162 (Interim number for the City of London Academies Trust) [email protected] www.shoreditch.cola.org.uk Location from September 2021 40 Hyde Road, London, N1 5JU

AGE 11–19 (boys & girls) 2019 ADMISSION NUMBER 100 OPEN EVENTS Wednesday 3 October, 4.30–7.30pm (last entry 7pm) Thursday 11 October, 9am and 11am Friday 12 October, 9am and 11am (open mornings by appointment only) Note: The open evening will be held at the site on Audrey Street, E2 8QH BUS ROUTES Nearby (Whiston Road): 394 Nearby (): 26 / 48 / 55 NEAREST STATIONS Haggerston then 15 minutes’ walk Hoxton then 10 minutes’ walk Old Street then bus 55 ADMISSIONS POLICY The admissions policy for City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park is summarised on the next page. If you want to apply for this school you should read the full admissions policy which is available online at www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules INFORMATION AND ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

SUMMARY OF ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR 2019 Distance will be used as a tiebreaker with children All children applying for a place must take the living nearest the school having priority. If only one Cognitive Ability Tests (CAT4) and their score in the place is available and two or more children qualify for test will place them in one of four ability bands which the place (i.e. live the same distance from the school), as far as possible will be of equal size (See page 13 the child offered will be determined by random for further information). The academy may seek other allocation. evidence of the child’s academic ability if they are unable to take the test. Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan where the academy is named will be admitted ahead of other applicants. If there are more applicants than places available, places will be allocated to the same number of pupils in each band in the following order of priority: 01. Looked after children. A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after was adopted or became subject to a child arrangements or special guardianship order. 02. Children with a Child Protection Plan. 03. Children with siblings who are already on roll at the City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park and will still be on roll at their date of entry. 04. Children with exceptional medical, social or psychological needs, where it is agreed by the Academy Trust that these can best be addressed at the City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park. 05. Children of staff who work at the academy with at least two years’ continuous employment, or where the academy reasonably considers a member of staff has been recruited for a position for which there is a demonstrable skills shortage. 06. Children living nearest to the academy as measured by a straight line from the child’s home to the proposed main entrance of the academy (easting: 533013, northing: 183562).

HOW PLACES WERE OFFERED IN 2018 (data as at 1 March 2018) ADMISSION CRITERIA* OFFERS TOTAL Band A Band B Band C Band D Education, Health and Care Plan 0 0 0 1 1

01. Looked after children 0 0 1 0 1

03. Siblings 2 1 4 4 11

04. Social or Medical need 1 1 0 2 4

06. Distance (cut-off in miles) 40 (3.687) 48 (2.921) 46 (2.289) 41 (2.417) 175

Total offers 43 50 51 48 192 Total on-time applications 575

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 21 Clapton Girls’ Academy

ACADEMY TRUST

HEADTEACHER Anna Feltham CONTACT DETAILS Laura Place, Lower Clapton Road, London E5 0RB 020 8985 6641 [email protected] www.clapton.hackney.sch.uk AGE / SPECIALISM 11–19 (girls) / National Support School, Teaching School, Leading Edge School, member of World Class Schools network and Hackney Teaching Schools Alliance 2019 ADMISSION NUMBER 180 OPEN EVENING Thursday 11 October, 5–7.30pm OPEN MORNINGS Saturday 15 September, 10am–12.30pm Thursday 20 September, 9.15–10.30am Tuesday 25 September, 9.15–10.30am Wednesday 3 October, 9.15–10.30am BUS ROUTES Lower Clapton Road: 38 / 48 / 55 / 106 / 253 / 254 / 425 / 488 Nearby: 56 / 242 / 393 NEAREST STATIONS Clapton then walk or bus 106 / 253 / 254 Hackney Central and Hackney Downs then walk or bus 38 / 48 / 55 / 56 / 106 / 253 / 254 Manor House then bus 253 / 254 Bethnal Green then bus 106 / 254 Lea Bridge Road then bus 55 / 56 / 48

ADMISSION POLICY The admissions policy for Clapton Girls’ Academy is summarised on the next page. If you want to apply for this school you should read the full admissions policy which is available online at www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules INFORMATION AND ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

SUMMARY OF ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR 2019 01. Looked after children. A ‘looked after child’ All children applying for a place must take the or a child who was previously looked after but Cognitive Ability Tests (CAT4) and their score in the immediately after being looked after was adopted test will place them in one of five ability bands which or became subject to a child arrangements or as far as possible will be of equal size (See page 13 special guardianship order. for further information). The academy may seek other 02. Children whose siblings currently attend Clapton evidence of the child’s academic ability if they are Girls’ Academy and Sixth Form and who will unable to take the test. continue to do so on the date of admission. Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan Siblings must live permanently at the same where the academy is named will be admitted ahead address as the child for whom the application of other applicants. is being made. If there are more applicants than places available, 03. Children who live closest to the academy. places will be allocated to the same number of pupils Distance will be measured in a straight line by the in each band in the following order of priority: Local Authority’s computerised measuring system from the designated point of the child’s home address to the designated point of the academy. If distances are equal (for example within a block of flats), lots will be drawn by a person independent of Clapton Girls’ Academy to determine the allocation.

HOW PLACES WERE OFFERED IN 2018 (data as at 1 March 2018) ADMISSION CRITERIA OFFERS TOTAL Band A Band B Band C Band D Band E Education, Health and Care Plan 0 0 0 1 1 2

01. Looked after children 0 0 1 0 1 2

02. Siblings 5 16 9 14 9 53

03. Distance (cut-off in miles) 32 (1.088) 21 (0.745) 28 (0.809) 22 (0.779) 26 (0.699) 129

Total offers 37 37 38 37 37 186 Total on-time applications 626

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 23 Hackney New School

FREE SCHOOL

HEADTEACHER Mary Li CONTACT DETAILS 317–319 , London E8 4DL 020 7617 7181 [email protected] www.hackneynewschool.org AGE / SPECIALISM 11–16 (boys and girls) / Music 2019 ADMISSION NUMBER 100 OPEN EVENTS Tuesday 18 September, 5–9pm Friday 21 September, 9–11am Friday 28 September, 9–11am Friday 5 October, 9–11am (Please book at goo.gl/7Nu9b3) BUS ROUTES Kingsland Road 67 / 149 / 242 / 243 NEAREST STATIONS Haggerston then one minute walk Dalston Kingsland and Dalston Junction then bus 67 / 149 / 243 or 10 minutes’ walk Old Street then bus 243 Hackney Central then bus 242 Liverpool Street then bus 149 / 242

ADMISSION POLICY The admissions policy for Hackney New School is summarised on the next page. If you want to apply for this school you should read the full admissions policy which is available online at www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules INFORMATION AND ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

SUMMARY OF ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR 2019 All children applying for a place must take the Cognitive Ability Tests (CAT4) and their score in the test will place them in one of four ability bands which as far as possible will be of equal size (See page 13 for further information). The school may seek other evidence of the child’s academic ability if they are unable to take the test. The school will admit up to 10% of its Year 7 intake (i.e. maximum of 10 pupils) on the basis of musical aptitude. In October, the school will run sessions to assess those children who have applied for consideration as musically talented pupils. Parents must notify the school of their intention to apply under this criteria before 8 October online at hackneynewschool.org All applicants will be examined on 13 October at the school. Children selected for outstanding musical aptitude will be selected regardless of CAT results i.e. there is no In the event of a tie-break between two or more restriction on the number of these children in any applications after applying the oversubscription one band. criteria, the Admissions Authority will prioritise according to criterion 6, i.e. distance to the school. Places will be allocated in the first instance to children In the case of a number of addresses being in the following order: equidistant from the school the children’s ranking • Pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan that will be determined by random allocation names Hackney New School. administered by an independent person from HLT. • Pupils who have shown musical aptitude to the level required under the test (i.e. regardless of the HOW PLACES WERE OFFERED IN 2018 band they are in based on their CAT test). All applicants seeking a place at the school for September 2018 were offered. If there are more applicants than places available, the remaining places will be allocated to pupils in each band in the following order of priority: 01. Looked after or previously looked after children who immediately after being looked after became subject to adoption, a child arrangements order or special guardianship order. 02. Children of the founding members of the Hackney New School trust (which will not apply before 2019 and will not make up more than 1% of the full school cohort). 03. Children with a social or medical need. In order to be considered under this criterion applicants must produce a supporting report from either a Senior Social Worker or medical practitioner setting out why Hackney New School is the only appropriate school for this student. 04. Siblings of children at Hackney New School. 05. Siblings of children at Hackney New Primary School. 06. Children living nearest to the gates of the school on Kingsland Road as measured in a straight line using a computerised batch distance measuring system.

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 25 Haggerston School

COMMUNITY SCHOOL

HEADTEACHER Ms Ciara Emmerson

CONTACT DETAILS Weymouth Terrace, London E2 8LS 020 7739 7324 [email protected] www.haggerston.hackney.sch.uk

AGE / SPECIALISM 11–19 (boys & girls) / Expressive Arts

2019 ADMISSION NUMBER 180 (In order to ensure there are sufficient secondary school places for Hackney residents, Haggerston Secondary School have agreed to offer up to 60 additional places in 2019)

OPEN EVENTS Wednesday 12 September, 9.15-10.30am Wednesday 19 September, 9.15-10.30am Wednesday 26 September, 9.15-10.30am Monday 1 October, 5–7.30pm Wednesday 3 October, 9.15-10.30am

BUS ROUTES 26 / 48 / 55 / 67 / 149 / 242 / 243 / 394

NEAREST STATIONS Bethnal Green then bus 26 / 48 then bus 26 / 48 / 55 ww Hoxton then 5 minutes’ walk Old Street then bus 55

ADMISSION POLICY The admissions policy for Haggerston School is summarised on the next page. If you want to apply for this school you should read the full admissions policy which is available online at www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules INFORMATION AND ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

SUMMARY OF ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR 2019 Distance as measured in 5 above will be used in any All children applying for a place must take the tie-breaker decisions. If two applicants live exactly the Cognitive Ability Tests (CAT4) and their score in the same distance the allocation of the place will be test will place them in one of four ability bands which determined by lottery which will be carried out by the as far as possible will be of equal size (See page 13 Hackney Learning Trust’s Admissions Team in the for further information). The school may seek other presence of an independent witness. evidence of the child’s academic ability if they are unable to take the test. HOW PLACES WERE OFFERED IN 2018 All applicants seeking a place at the school for Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan September 2018 were offered. where the school is named will be admitted ahead of other applicants. If there are more applicants than places available, places will be allocated to the same number of pupils in each band in the following order of priority: 01. Looked after children and children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order. 02. Children subject to a Child Protection Plan. 03. Children whose acute medical or social needs justify allocation of a place at Haggerston School. 04. Children with a brother or sister on roll at the school in Years 7 to 13 at the time of the proposed admission. 05. Children living nearest to the main entrance of the school as measured in a straight line using an in-house computerised distance measuring system.

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 27 Lubavitch Senior Girls’ School

ORTHODOX JEWISH ACADEMY

PRINCIPAL Rabbi S Lew HEADTEACHER Mrs Helen Freeman CONTACT DETAILS 107–115 , London N16 5RP 020 8800 0022 ext 128 [email protected] www.lubavitchseniorgirls.com AGE / SPECIALISM 11–19 (girls) / Jewish Orthodox Chassidic school 2019 ADMISSION NUMBER 30 OPEN EVENING Tuesday 9 October contact the school for further information. BUS ROUTES Stamford Hill Broadway: 67 / 76 / 149 / 243 / 253 / 254 / 318 / 476 NEAREST STATIONS Bethnal Green then bus 26 / 48 Clapton then bus 253 / 254 Manor House then bus 253 / 254 Seven Sisters then bus 76 / 149 / 243 / 476 South Tottenham then bus 76 / 149 / 243 / 476 Stamford Hill then 2 minutes’ walk

ADMISSION POLICY The admissions policy for Lubavitch Senior Girls’ School is summarised on the next page. If you want to apply for this school you should read the full admissions policy which is available online at www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules INFORMATION AND ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

SUMMARY OF ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR 2019 05. Other looked after girls and girls who have been Priority in admissions will be given to children who are adopted or made subject to child arrangement Jewish according to Halochah (Jewish Practice). In the orders or special guardianship orders immediately event of any dispute as to whether a child is Jewish, following having been looked after. the decision of the Rabbinate of Orthodox Hebrew 06. Other Jewish girls. Congregations of the is final. 07. Other girls. Children with Education, Health and Care Plans, where the school has been named will be admitted to In the event of there being insufficient vacancies to the school and will be included in the admission admit all applicants in any of the categories listed number. above, priority will be given to pupils living nearest to the school, as measured in a straight line. For the If there are more applications than places available, purpose of calculating distances addresses will be the Governing body will admit pupils in accordance identified from the child’s home address to the main with the following oversubscription criteria in order entrance of the school using the geographical of priority: property references as provided by the borough 01. Looked after Orthodox Jewish girls and Orthodox Council in which the applicant lives. Jewish girls who have been adopted or made subject to a child arrangement order or special SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION FORMS (SIF) guardianship order immediately following having Applicants must complete an additional application been looked after. form as well as applying online to the Hackney Learning Trust. The school’s Certificate of Religious 02. Orthodox Jewish girls with a sister living at the Practice (CRP) is available directly from the school or same address who is currently on roll at the school can be downloaded at and who will continue to be on roll after the www.learningtrust.co.uk/ssif or from the school website. The completed form must proposed admission. be submitted directly to the school by 7 January 2019. 03. Orthodox Jewish girls with a sister on roll at Ruth Lunzer primary school after the proposed HOW PLACES WERE OFFERED IN 2018 admission. All applicants seeking a place at the school for 04. Other Orthodox Jewish girls. September 2018 were offered.

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 29 Mossbourne Community Academy

ACADEMY TRUST

CEO Peter Hughes ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL Rebecca Warren CONTACT DETAILS 100 Downs Park Road, London E5 8JY 020 8525 5200 [email protected] www.mca.mossbourne.org AGE / SPECIALISM 11–19 (boys & girls) / Music 2019 ADMISSION NUMBER 216 OPEN EVENING Thursday 27 September, 4.30–7.30pm (Last entry at 7:15pm. Last Principal’s Speech at 7.30pm. Evening Ends at 7:45pm) BUS ROUTES Downs Park Road: 56 / 276 Nearby: 38 / 48 / 55 / 106 / 253 / 393 / 425 / 488 NEAREST STATIONS Bethnal Green then bus 106 / 254 Hackney Central then 10 minutes’ walk Hackney Downs then 5 minutes’ walk Manor House then bus 253 / 254 ADMISSION POLICY The admissions policy for Mossbourne Community Academy is summarised on the next page. If you want to apply for this school you should read the full admissions policy which is available online at www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules INFORMATION AND ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

SUMMARY OF ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR 2019 If there are more applicants than places available, places will be allocated to pupils in each band and All children applying for a place must take the zone in the following order of priority: Cognitive Ability Tests (CAT4) and their score in the test will place them in one of four ability bands 01. A looked after child or a child who was previously reflecting the national range of abilities (See page 13 looked after but immediately after being looked for further information). The academy may seek other after became subject to an adoption order, child evidence of the child’s academic ability if they are arrangement order or special guardianship order. unable to take the test. 02. Children with a Child Protection Plan for whom Within each band, pupils will be allocated to zones the academy is their nearest school. based on the proximity of their home address to the academy, measured in a straight line, as follows: 03. Children with a sibling on roll at the academy in years 7 to 13 at the time of application. Inner zone: pupils living within 1km radius of the academy 04. Children whose acute medical or social need justifies a place at the academy. Middle zone: pupils living from 1km to 2.3km from the academy 05. Children of staff who work at the academy full time with at least two year’s continuous Outer zone: pupils living from 2.3km to 3km employment or where the academy reasonably from the academy considers a member of staff has been recruited for a position for which there is a demonstrable Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan skill shortage. where the academy is named will be admitted ahead of other applicants. 06. Children on roll at Mossbourne Parkside Academy at the time of application. Of the 216 places available at the academy, 25% will be available to each of the four bands. These shall Remaining places in each band and zone will be then be divided between the inner, middle and outer allocated amongst remaining applicants in that band zones giving 50% to the inner zone, 30% to the and zone using a random computerised lottery. In the middle zone and 20% to the outer zone. This gives event of a tie-break random computerised lottery will the following numbers per zone and band as follows: also be used. Inner zone: 27 places each band (108 in total) Middle zone: 16 places each band (64 in total) Outer zone: 11 places each band (44 in total)

HOW PLACES WERE OFFERED IN 2018 (data as at 1 March 2018) ADMISSION CRITERIA OFFERS TOTAL Band A Band B Band C Band D

I M O I M O I M O I M O

Education, Health and Care Plan 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 1 1 10

01. Looked after children 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 5

03. Siblings 7 10 5 10 6 7 15 9 3 9 9 5 95

04. Social or Medical need 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 3

05. Children of staff 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 6

06. Attend Mossbourne Parkside Academy 1 0 0 6 1 0 10 2 0 8 3 0 31

Twins/Multiple births 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Random 18 4 5 9 8 4 0 3 7 3 1 5 67

Total offers 27 16 11 27 16 12 29 15 10 28 16 11 218 Total on-time applications 1679

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 31 Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy

ACADEMY TRUST

PRINCIPAL Nick Rutherford CONTACT DETAILS Victoria Park Road, London E9 7HD 020 8510 4550 [email protected] www.mvpa.mossbourne.org AGE / SPECIALISM 11–16 (boys & girls) / Oratory 2019 ADMISSION NUMBER 168 OPEN EVENTS Thursday 27 September, 4.30–7.30pm (Last entry: 7.30pm. Evening ends at 8pm) BUS ROUTES Victoria Park Road: 388 Lauriston Road: 277 / 425 NEAREST STATIONS Cambridge Heath then 20 minutes’ walk Hackney Central then bus 277 Homerton then 20 minutes’ walk then bus 277 ADMISSION POLICY The admissions policy for Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy is summarised on the next page. If you want to apply for this school you should read the full admissions policy which is available online at www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules INFORMATION AND ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

SUMMARY OF ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR 2019 All children applying for a place must take the Cognitive Ability Tests (CAT4) and their score in the test will place them in one of four ability bands reflecting the national range of abilities (See page 13 for further information). The school may seek other evidence of the child’s academic ability if they are unable to take the test. Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan where Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy is named will be admitted ahead of other applicants. If there are more applicants than places available, places will be allocated to the same number of pupils in each band in the following order of priority: 01. A looked after child or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption order, child arrangement order or special guardianship order. 02. Children with a Child Protection Plan for whom the academy is their nearest school. 03. Children with a sibling on roll at the academy in years 7 to 11 at the time of application. 04. Children whose acute medical or social need justifies a place at the academy. 05. Children of staff who work at the Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy full time with at least two year’s continuous employment by the Academy or where the Academy reasonably considers a member of staff has been recruited for a position for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. 06. All remaining places in each band will then be allocated amongst remaining applicants in the band admitting first, those who live closest to the school.

HOW PLACES WERE OFFERED IN 2018 (data as at 1 March 2018) ADMISSION CRITERIA OFFER TOTAL Band A Band B Band C Band D Education, Health and Care Plan 0 0 0 1 1

01. Looked after children 0 1 0 1 2

03. Siblings 13 10 17 14 54

06. Distance (cut-off in miles) 30 (0.557) 32 (0.654) 26 (0.467) 27 (0.722) 115

Total offers 43 43 43 43 172 Total on-time applications 840

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 33 Our Lady’s High School

CATHOLIC VOLUNTARY AIDED SCHOOL

HEADTEACHER Ms Justine McDonald CONTACT DETAILS 6-16 Amhurst Park, London N16 5AF 020 8800 2158 [email protected] www.ourladys.hackney.sch.uk AGE / SPECIALISM 11–19 (girls) / Languages 2019 ADMISSION NUMBER 120 OPEN EVENTS Monday 17 September through to Friday 28 September from 9.30 -10.30am Thursday 20 September, 4 -8pm (Last entry: 7.30pm Headteacher’s speech at 5pm and 6.30pm) Saturday 29 September, 10am-12noon

BUS ROUTES Amhurst Park: 253 / 254 Nearby: 67 / 73 / 76 / 149 / 243 / 318 / 349 / 476 NEAREST STATIONS Stamford Hill then 2 minutes’ walk Manor House then bus 253 / 254 Seven Sisters (High Road exit) then bus 76 / 149 / 243 / 349 / 476 South Tottenham then bus 243 / 349 / 476 or 10 minutes’ walk

ADMISSION POLICY The admissions policy for Our Lady’s High School is summarised on the next page. If you want to apply for this school you should read the full admissions policy which is available online at www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules INFORMATION AND ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

SUMMARY OF ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR 2019 Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan where Our Lady’s High School is named will be admitted ahead of other applicants. If there are more applicants than places available, places will be allocated to pupils in accordance with the following oversubscription criteria in order of priority: 01. Catholic looked after girls and Catholic girls who have been adopted (or made subject to child arrangement orders or special guardianship orders) immediately following having been looked after. 02. Baptised Catholic girls with a Certificate of Baptism and a Certificate of Catholic Practice. 03. Baptised Catholic girls. This will be determined by reference to the applicant’s Baptismal certificate. 04. Other looked after girls and girls who have been adopted (or made subject to child arrangement orders or special guardianship orders) immediately following having been looked after. 05. Christian girls. This will be determined by reference to the applicant’s Baptismal (or SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION FORMS (SIF) Dedication) certificate and/or a letter confirming membership of the Church. Applicants must complete additional application forms as well as applying online to the Hackney 06. Other girls. Learning Trust. The school’s Supplementary Within each category above preference will be given Information Form (SIF) must be completed when according to the following order: applying under criteria 2, 3 or 5 and is available directly from the school or can be downloaded at A) Governors will give top priority within a category to www.learningtrust.co.uk/ssif or from the school any child whose exceptional medical or social website. needs justify a place at this particular school. A Certificate of Catholic Practice (CCP) and Certificate B) Sisters of siblings who are on roll at the school of Baptisim must be submitted by those applying at the time of the proposed admission. under criterion 2. The CCP is available from the parish where the family normally worships or from the C) Distance from school, measured ‘as the crow flies’ diocesan website. Supplementary information must to the Main Entrance door of the school. be returned directly to the school by Friday 20 October 2017.

HOW PLACES WERE OFFERED IN 2018 All applicants seeking a place at the school for September 2018 were offered.

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 35 Skinners’ Academy

ACADEMY TRUST

PRINCIPAL Tim Clark CONTACT DETAILS Woodberry Grove, London N4 1SY 020 8800 7411 [email protected] www.skinnersacademy.org.uk AGE / SPECIALISM 11–19 (boys & girls) / Enterprise 2019 ADMISSION NUMBER 180 OPEN EVENTS Wednesday 19 September, 4.30–6.30pm (Principal’s presentations at 4.45pm & 5.45pm) Wednesday 10 October, 5–7pm (Principal’s presentations at 5.15pm & 6.15pm) Thursday 11 October, 9-10am (Principal’s presentation at 9.35am)

BUS ROUTES Woodberry Grove: 253 / 254 / 259 / 279 Nearby: 29 / 141 / 341 NEAREST STATIONS then bus 253 / 254 / 259 / 279 Harringay Green Lanes then bus 29 / 141 / 341 Manor House then 5 minutes’ walk Stamford Hill then bus 253 / 254 Seven Sisters then bus 259 / 279 ADMISSION POLICY The admissions policy for Skinners’ Academy is summarised on the next page. If you want to apply for this school you should read the full admissions policy which is available online at www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules INFORMATION AND ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

SUMMARY OF ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR 2019 02. Pupils whose siblings attend the academy at the All children applying for a place must take the date of application in Years 7 to 13. Cognitive Ability Tests (CAT4) and their score in the 03. Pupils with an acute medical or social need for test will place them in one of five ability bands which admission to Skinners’ Academy. as far as possible will be of equal size (See page 13 for further information). The academy may seek other 04. Pupils whose parent is a full-time member of staff evidence of the child’s academic ability if they are at the academy and either (i) the parent has two unable to take the test. years continuous full-time employment at the academy or (ii) in the reasonable view of the Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan academy the parent has been recruited for a where the academy is named will be admitted ahead position for which there is a demonstrable skills of other applicants. shortage. If there are more applicants than places available, 05. Pupils who live nearest to the main entrance of places will be allocated to the same number of pupils the academy (Woodberry Grove, N4 1SY) using a in each band in the following order of priority: straight line measurement. 01. Looked after children or previously looked after Where more than one applicant lives the same children (previously looked after children are distance away, any “tie-breaker” decision required children who were looked after but ceased to be will be made by random allocation. so because they were adopted or became subject to a child arrangement order or special guardianship order).

HOW PLACES WERE OFFERED IN 2018 (data as at 1 March 2018) ADMISSION CRITERIA OFFERS TOTAL Band A Band B Band C Band D Band E Education, Health and Care Plan 0 0 0 0 1 1

02. Siblings 5 2 14 17 12 50

05. Distance (cut-off in miles) 31 (1.956) 34 (1.776) 22 (1.092) 19 (0.913) 23 (0.969) 129

Total offers 36 36 36 36 36 180 Total on-time applications 557

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 37 Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form

COMMUNITY SCHOOL

HEADTEACHER Mark Bynoe (Interim), Zehra Jaffer (from January 2019) CONTACT DETAILS Clissold Road, London N16 9EX 020 7241 9600 [email protected] www.sns.hackney.sch.uk AGE / SPECIALISM 11–19 (boys & girls) / Expressive Arts (Art, Photography, Drama, Music and Media), Science and Mathematics 2019 ADMISSION NUMBER 255 OPEN EVENTS Monday 17 September, 5–7.30pm Monday 24 through to Thursday 27 September, 9.45–10.45am Monday 8 October, 5–7.30pm Monday 15 October, 9.45–10.45am (Open mornings by appointment only, telephone Linda Perkola to book)

BUS ROUTES Stoke Newington Church Street: 73 / 393 Nearby: 106 / 141 / 341 / 476 NEAREST STATIONS Canonbury then bus 73 / 476 Highbury & Islington then bus 393 Manor House then bus 141 / 341 Stoke Newington then bus 393 / 476 ADMISSION POLICY The admissions policy for Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form is summarised on the next page. If you want to apply for this school you should read the full admissions policy which is available online at www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules INFORMATION AND ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

SUMMARY OF ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR 2019 All children applying for a place must take the Cognitive Ability Tests (CAT4) and their score in the test will place them in one of four ability bands which as far as possible will be of equal size (See page 13 for further information). The school may seek other evidence of the child’s academic ability if they are unable to take the test. Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan where the school is named will be admitted ahead of other applicants. If there are more applicants than places available, places will be allocated to the same number of pupils in each band in the following order of priority: 01. Looked after children and children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order. 02. Children subject to a Child Protection Plan. 03. Children whose acute medical or social needs justify allocation of a place at Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form. 04. Children with a brother or sister on roll at the school in Years 7 to 13 at the time of the proposed admission. 05. Children living nearest to the main entrance of the school as measured in a straight line using an in-house computerised distance measuring system. Distance as measured in 5 above will be used in any tie-breaker decisions. If two applicants live exactly the same distance the allocation of the place will be determined by lottery which will be carried out by the Hackney Learning Trust’s Admissions Team in the presence of an independent witness.

HOW PLACES WERE OFFERED IN 2018 (data as at 1 March 2018) ADMISSION CRITERIA OFFERS TOTAL Band A Band B Band C Band D Education, Health and Care Plan 0 1 3 11 15

01. Looked after children 0 2 0 0 2

04. Siblings 27 20 23 28 98

05. Distance (cut-off in miles) 37 (0.486) 39 (0.557) 38 (0.783) 26 (0.646) 140 Twins 1 0 0 0 1

Total offers 65 62 64 65 256 Total on-time applications 983

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 39 The Bridge Academy

ACADEMY TRUST

PRINCIPAL Chris Brown CONTACT DETAILS Laburnum Street, London E2 8BA 020 7749 5240 [email protected] www.bridgeacademy.hackney.sch.uk AGE / SPECIALISM 11–19 (boys & girls) / Music and Mathematics 2019 ADMISSION NUMBER 180 OPEN EVENING Thursday 13 September, 4.30–7.30pm (Last admission 7.00pm) OPEN MORNINGS Thursday 27 September & Thursday 4 October, 9–10am (Last admission at 9.15am) BUS ROUTES Kingsland Road: 67 / 149 / 236 / 242 / 243 Nearby: 394 NEAREST STATIONS Dalston Kingsland and Dalston Junction then bus 67 / 149 / 243 Hackney Central then bus 394 Haggerston then 5 minutes’ walk Hoxton then 10 minutes’ walk Liverpool Street (exit Bishopsgate) then bus 149 / 242 Old Street (exit 2) then bus 243

ADMISSION POLICY The admissions policy for The Bridge Academy is summarised on the next page. If you want to apply for this school you should read the full admissions policy which is available online at www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules INFORMATION AND ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

SUMMARY OF ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR 2019 All children applying for a place must take the Cognitive Ability Tests (CAT4) and their score in the test will place them in one of five ability bands which as far as possible will be of equal size (See page 13 for further information). The school may seek other evidence of the child’s academic ability if they are unable to take the test. Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan where the academy is named will be admitted ahead of other applicants. If there are more applicants than places available, places will be allocated to the same number of pupils in each band in the following order of priority: 01. Looked after children, or previously looked after children. 02. Students subject to a Child Protection Plan. 03. Children with a brother or sister on roll at the academy in years 7 to 13 at the time of the proposed admission. 04. Children of staff who work at The Bridge Academy, Hackney full time with at least two years’ continuous employment at The Bridge Academy, Hackney, or where the Academy reasonably considers a member of staff has been recruited for a position for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. 05. Students living nearest to the main entrance of the academy as measured in a straight line using a computerised distance measuring system. In the case of a number of addresses in a block with the same geographical references or one of more applicants living the same distance, lots will be drawn to decide which applicant is offered a place.

HOW PLACES WERE OFFERED IN 2018 (data as at 1 March 2018) ADMISSION CRITERIA OFFERS TOTAL Band A Band B Band C Band D Band E Education, Health and Care Plan 0 0 2 1 6 9

03. Siblings 3 12 14 5 7 41

05. Distance (cut-off in miles) 24 (N/A) 25 (N/A) 31 (2.049) 31 (1.318) 24 (1.279) 135

Total offers 27 37 47 37 37 185 Total on-time applications 690

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 41 The City Academy Hackney

ACADEMY TRUST

PRINCIPAL Mark Malcolm CONTACT DETAILS Homerton Row, London E9 6EA 020 8525 5440 [email protected] www.thecityacademy.org AGE / SPECIALISM 11–19 (boys & girls) / Business and financial services 2019 ADMISSION NUMBER 180 OPEN EVENING Tuesday 2 October, 5–8pm (Last entry: 7.30pm. Evening ends at 8pm) OPEN MORNINGS (by appointment only, book via schools website) Thursday 11 October, 9.45–11am & 10.20–11.30am Friday 12 October 9.45–11am & 10.20 –11.30am BUS ROUTES Homerton Row: 394 / 425 / 488 Nearby: 30 / 38 / 48 / 55 / 106 / 236 / 242 / 253 / 254 / 276 / 277 / D6 / W15 NEAREST STATIONS Bethnal Green then bus 106 / 254 Hackney Downs then bus 242 Hackney Central then 5–8 minutes’ walk Homerton then 5–8 minutes’ walk ADMISSION POLICY The admissions policy for The City Academy, Hackney is summarised on the next page. If you want to apply for this school you should read the full admissions policy which is available online at www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules INFORMATION AND ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

If there are more applicants than places available, places will be allocated to the same number of pupils in each band in the following order of priority: 01. A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangement order, or special guardianship order. 02. A child subject to a Child Protection Plan. 03. Children with a sibling on roll at the academy in years 7 to 13 at the time of application. 04. Up to nine children resident in the City of London. If more than nine students apply, selection to be determined by drawing lots. SUMMARY OF ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR 2019 05. Children of staff employed at the academy, where All children applying to the academy, including a member of staff has been employed for two or children with an Education, Health and Care Plan more years at the time at which the application (EHCP) and looked after children, will be required to is being made, and/or the member of staff is take the Cognitive Ability Tests (CAT4 Level C) recruited to fill a vacant post for which there designed by GL Assessments. Children who do not sit is a demonstrable skills shortage. the test will be considered after those who sit the test. 06. Students will then be offered places on the basis of the proximity of their home (permanent Applicants will be placed in one of four bands, based residence) to the main entrance of the academy on their performance in the test. An equal number of measured in a straight line on a map or using a children will be assigned to each band (where computerised distance measuring system. possible) based on the range of ability of the applicants. Each band represents approximately 25% TIE BREAK of the applicants. Children with EHCP naming City are included in the appropriate band. If they are unable Random allocation undertaken by an independent to take the test, their band allocation will be based on body will be used as a tiebreaker in categories 2 - 6 their primary school teacher assessments. above to decide who has highest priority for a place if the distance between a child’s home and The City Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan Academy, Hackney is equidistant in any two or where the academy is named will be admitted ahead more cases. of other applicants.

HOW PLACES WERE OFFERED IN 2018 (data as at 1 March 2018) ADMISSION CRITERIA OFFERS TOTAL Band A Band B Band C Band D Education, Health and Care Plan 1 1 0 7 9

01. Looked after children 0 0 1 0 1

03. Siblings 18 24 20 17 79

04. City of London resident 1 0 0 0 1

06. Distance (cut-off in miles) 28 (0.489) 23 (0.424) 27 (0.378) 24 (0.376) 102

Twins 0 2 0 0 2

Total offers 48 50 48 48 194 Total on-time applications 1430

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 43 The Petchey Academy

ACADEMY TRUST

PRINCIPAL Ms Olivia Cole CONTACT DETAILS Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EY 020 7275 1500 [email protected] www.petcheyacademy.org.uk AGE / SPECIALISM 11–19 (boys & girls) / Medical Science and STEM 2019 ADMISSION NUMBER 180 OPEN EVENTS Monday 24 September, 5.30 -8pm (last entry at 7.30 pm) Open Mornings every Thursday 8.30am in September (by appointment only, book by emailing [email protected])

BUS ROUTES Shacklewell Lane: 488 Nearby: 67 / 76 / 149 / 236 / 243 / 276 NEAREST STATIONS Dalston Junction or Dalston Kingsland then bus 488 or 10/15 minutes’ walk Hackney Downs then 15 minutes’ walk Old Street (Exit 2) then bus 243 Liverpool Street (Bishopsgate exit) then bus 149 Rectory Road then 10 minutes’ walk

ADMISSION POLICY The admissions policy for The Petchey Academy is summarised on the next page. If you want to apply for this school you should read the full admissions policy which is available online at www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules INFORMATION AND ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

SUMMARY OF ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR 2019 band. If places still remain within a band, these will All children applying for a place must take the then be allocated from the equivalent zone in the Cognitive Ability Tests (CAT4) and their score in the nearest band, looking first at remaining applicants test will place them in one of four ability bands which in the band above (where applicable). as far as possible will be of equal size (See page 13 Any places remaining after the above process has for further information). The school may seek other been applied will be allocated to students living evidence of the child’s academic ability if they are outside both zones, again using a random unable to take the test. computerised allocation programme, which will Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan be independently verified. where the academy is named will be admitted ahead of other applicants. If there are more applicants than places available, places will be allocated to the same number of pupils in each band in the following order of priority: 01. Children in public care (looked after children) and previously looked after children. 02. Children with a brother or sister on roll at the academy in Years 7–13 at the time of the proposed admission. Brothers and sisters must live permanently at the same address and must have a parent in common. 03. Random allocation. The academy will operate a two-zone random computerised allocation system, with the remaining places divided equally between the two zones. Children will be allocated to the inner or outer zone based on the proximity of their home address to the academy as follows:

Inner zone: children living within a radius of 1km of the academy

Outer zone: children living between 1 km and 2.3 km of the academy If insufficient applications exist within the zone and band required, places will be allocated in the first instance from the alternate zone within the same

HOW PLACES WERE OFFERED IN 2018 (data as at 1 March 2018) ADMISSION CRITERIA OFFERS TOTAL Band A Band B Band C Band D Inner Outer Inner Outer Inner Outer Inner Outer Education, Health and Care Plan 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 8

01. Looked after children 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1

02. Siblings 7 1 8 9 10 9 11 12 67

03. Random 30 14 17 13 14 15 9 9 120

Total offers 37 14 25 22 24 24 25 25 196 Total on-time applications 820

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 45 The Urswick School

CHURCH OF ENGLAND VOLUNTARY AIDED SECONDARY SCHOOL

EXECUTIVE HEADTEACHER Richard Brown B.Ed (Hons), NPQH HEAD OF SCHOOL Dele Rotimi M.A CONTACT DETAILS Paragon Road, London E9 6NR 020 8985 2430 [email protected] [email protected] www.theurswickschool.co.uk AGE 11–19 (boys & girls) 2019 ADMISSION NUMBER 180 OPEN EVENING Thursday 4 October, 5.30–7.30pm The Executive Headteacher will address parents/carers at 6.15pm & 7pm OPEN MORNINGS Tours commence at 9am & 10am every Tuesday and Thursday between 13 September and 18 October 2018. Contact the school for further information. BUS ROUTES Mare Street: 48 / 55 / 106 / 236 / 254 / 276 / 277/ 394 / D6 / W15 Nearby: 30 / 38 / 242 / 25 NEAREST STATIONS Bethnal Green then bus 106 / 254 / D6 Hackney Central then 5–10 minutes’ walk London Fields then 5 minutes’ walk ADMISSION POLICY The admissions policy for The Urswick School is summarised on the next page. If you want to apply for this school you should read the full admissions policy which is available online at www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules INFORMATION AND ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

SUMMARY OF ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR 2019 All children applying for a place must take the Cognitive Ability Tests (CAT4) and their score in the test will place them in one of four ability bands reflecting the national range of abilities (See page 13 for further information). The school may seek other evidence of the child’s academic ability if they are unable to take the test. Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan where the school is named will be admitted ahead of other applicants. If there are more applicants than places available, places will be allocated to the same number of pupils in each band in the following order of priority: 01. Looked after children and children who have been adopted (or made subject to child arrangement order or special guardianship orders) immediately Remaining places within each band will be divided following having been looked after. equally between Foundation and Community applicants. 02. Children subject to a Child Protection Plan. Foundation Places F1. Children who regularly attend a Church of 03. Children who are the subject of an Education Supervision Order which names The Urswick England church. School. F2. Children who regularly attend other Christian churches or chapels, or other Christian 04. Children whom the Governors and Headteacher accept have an exceptional medical or social denominations as defined by ‘Churches together need for a place at The Urswick School. in Britain and Ireland’ or members of the Evangelical Alliance or Afro-Caribbean Evangelical Alliance. In the case of oversubscription within foundation places, priority will be given to: • Children with siblings at the school at the time of admission or previously. • Children living nearest to the main entrance of the school measured in a straight line.

Community Places C1. Children who regularly attend other World Faith organisations. C2. Children with siblings at the school at the time of admission. C3. Children living nearest to the main entrance of the school measured in a straight line. In the case of more than one child having the same distance, a decision will be made by drawing lots.

HOW PLACES WERE OFFERED IN 2018 All applicants seeking a place at the school for September 2018 were offered.

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 47 Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School

CHAREDI JEWISH VOLUNTARY AIDED SCHOOL

HEADTEACHER Mrs Rivky Weinberg CONTACT DETAILS Egerton Road, London, N16 6UB 020 8826 5500 [email protected] www.yesodeyhatorah.org AGE 9–16 (girls) 2019 ADMISSION NUMBER - YEAR 5 65 OPEN MORNINGS Open mornings are held in September & October 2017 by appointment only. BUS ROUTES Stamford Hill: 67 / 76 / 149 / 243 / 318 / 349 / 476 Nearby: 253 / 254 NEAREST STATIONS Clapton then bus 253 / 254 Manor House then bus 253 / 254 Seven Sisters and South Tottenham then bus 76 / 149 / 243 / 349 / 476 Stamford Hill then 5 minutes’ walk. ADMISSION POLICY The admissions policy for Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School is summarised on the next page. If you want to apply for this school you should read the full admissions policy which is available online at www.learningtrust.co.uk/admissionrules INFORMATION AND ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

IMPORTANT CHANGES FOR ADMISSION If there are insufficient vacancies for all applicants in FROM 2019 any of the above categories, priority will be given to From September 2019 onward Yesodey Hatorah pupils living closest to the school. Distance will be Senior Girls School will open Years 5 and 6 classes in measured in a straight line from their home address addition to Year 7-11. The normal point of entry will to the main gates of the school. be Year 5. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION FORMS (SIF) There is a new application process for children to the Applicants must complete an additional application start at the school in 2019 in Years 5, 6 and 7. form as well as applying online to the Hackney Learning Trust. The school’s supplementary HOW TO APPLY information form is available directly from the school It is not possible to apply for the school using the or can be downloaded at www.learningtrust.co.uk/ssif online, eAdmissions system. Applications must be or from the school website. made on a paper form and returned to Hackney Learning Trust School Admissions and Pupil Benefits HOW PLACES WERE OFFERED IN 2018 team. All applicants seeking a place at the school for Get the application form to apply for a place in Year September 2018 were offered. 5, Year 6 or Year 7 to start at the school in September 2019 at www.learningtrust.co.uk/yesodeyhatorah PLEASE NOTE You can also call the Admissions and Pupil Benefits The Office of the Schools Adjudicator has recently team on (Option ) or email 020 8820 7000 3 considered an objection against the admission [email protected] arrangements which will result in some changes to the admission arrangements. SUMMARY OF ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR 2019 Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School is a school with For further information visit religious designation which exists to meet the needs www.learningtrust.co.uk/yesodeyhatorah of Charedi Jewish families who desire a Charedi Jewish education for their daughters. Any disputes as to whether a child is Charedi will be settled by reference to the Rabbinate of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations. Children with Education, Health and Care plans, where the school has been named, will be admitted to the school and will be included in the admission number. If there are more applications than places available, the Governing body will admit pupils in accordance with the following oversubscription criteria in order of priority: 01. Charedi Jewish girls who are looked after children or previously looked after children. 02. Charedi Jewish girls with sisters at the school at the time of application. A sister must live permanently at the same address as the child for whom the application is being made. This includes half sisters, step sisters and foster sisters who live permanently as a family unit at the same address. 03. Other Charedi Jewish girls. 04. Other girls who are looked after children or previously looked after children in public care. 05. Other girls.

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 49 FURTHER INFORMATION

NEIGHBOURING LOCAL AUTHORITIES • Guarantee element of State Pension You can apply for a place at any secondary school in • Child Tax Credit with an income of £16,190 or London by listing them as a preference on the online less where the household is not getting application form. You should contact the relevant Working Tax Credit school admissions team listed below for information about schools in their area. • Working Tax Credit for the four weeks after employment ends Haringey, 020 8489 1000 • , Your household income must be www.haringey.gov.uk/schooladmissions Universal Credit less than £7,400 a year (after tax and not including Islington, 020 7527 5515 any benefits you get) www.islington.gov.uk/admissions If you are not entitled to pupil benefits, school meals Newham, 020 8430 2000 are available for a standard charge. Schools can also www.newham.gov.uk/schooladmissions arrange meals for children who have special diets for Tower Hamlets, 020 7364 5006 religious or health reasons. You should speak with www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/schooladmissions your child’s school about this. Waltham Forest, 020 8496 3000 CLOTHING GRANT AT AGE 11 www.walthamforest.gov.uk/service-categories/ applying-school-place Pupils transferring from primary to secondary school at age 11 may be able to get a clothing grant. The grant PUPIL BENEFITS is £100 and must be used to purchase clothing suitable for the school. Further information about who is Children whose parents receive certain Department eligible and how to apply is available online at www. for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits and Inland learningtrust.co.uk/pupilbenefits. Revenue Tax Credits may qualify for pupil benefits This scheme does not apply to Hackney New School, from Hackney Council. Parents can get free school Skinners’ Academy, The Petchey Academy or meals when their child starts school, a clothing grant Lubavitch Senior Girls. You will need to contact them when transferring from primary to secondary schools to find out their policies on help with uniform costs. at age 11 and help with home to school travel fares. We will also assess eligibility for the Pupil Premium HELP WITH HOME TO SCHOOL TRAVEL and, if attending a school in Hackney, let them know. Hackney Learning Trust can help with tube and/or train To apply for any of the above pupil benefits you will fares for children living in Hackney. Children are entitled need to complete specific application forms available to free transport if there is no suitable, alternative, nearer online from our website. Please go to school place on offer, and they cannot reasonably be www.learningtrust.co.uk/pupilbenefits expected to travel by bus. Bus fares are currently free for secondary aged children (see the section below PLEASE NOTE on “Free transport for children in London”). Pupil benefits may change due to government Children who are entitled to free transport will be policy and guidance. Hackney Learning Trust has funded to purchase a travel card each term. This will the right to change existing grants and travel allow them to travel to and from a state-funded policies at any time. school. We will pay for the cheapest form of suitable transport from home to school. You can apply at any time, but you must live in the borough of Hackney. FREE SCHOOL MEALS If you have been assessed on your income, you will have to re-apply every year to check that you are still Your child can have free school meals if you get: entitled to this help. You have the right to appeal if • Income support you are refused help with travel costs. • Income based Job Seekers Allowance • Income related Employment and Support Allowance • NASS support

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Children can qualify for free transport if any of the circumstances outlined below apply.

Non-income assessed parents 01. Children with Special Educational Needs, disability or mobility problems without suitable, alternative, nearer school place on offer. Also, children who cannot be expected to walk to school, even though it is within the normal walking distance of three miles. Evidence of the child’s disability or mobility difficulties must be provided. 02. Children that cannot reasonably be expected to walk a particular route – even though the school is within the normal walking distance of three miles because of the nature of the route. Income assessed parents The below criteria applies only to students who are 03. Children attending a school outside the distance either eligible for Free School Meals or have parents (three miles or more), who do not have a suitable in receipt of their maximum level of Working Tax Credit. alternative nearer school placement offer. 05. Children aged 11 or over, where there are not 04. Children attending a school outside the distance three or more suitable nearer school places, and (three miles or more) on grounds of religion or where the school place is more than two miles but belief who do not have a suitable alternative not more than six miles from home. nearer school available to them. Parents will need to prove that they have applied and been refused 06. Children attending a school on grounds of a place at other equivalent nearer schools. religion or belief, where the school is more than two miles and less than 15 miles from home, and there is no suitable alternative school nearer home. Examples might include a particular ethos in a school or a single sex school of a religion different to the parents where their belief in single sex education is sufficiently serious.

Hackney Learning Trust will consider the safety of the route when measuring statutory walking distance.

Hackney Learning Trust, London Borough of Hackney 51 FURTHER INFORMATION

FREE TRANSPORT FOR CHILDREN IN LONDON Hackney has a great network of buses, London overground and rail links making it easy to get to any of our local schools.

Travel-for-under-18s Generally, the cheapest way for children to travel is by using a Zip Oyster photocard. Apply for an Oyster photocard https://tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-payments/ travel-for-under-18s With a Zip Oyster photocard: • 16 and 17 year olds can travel at half adult-rate on all TfL services and most National Rail services in London. If they live in London they may be eligible to travel free on buses and trams • 11-15 year olds can travel free on buses and trams and travel at half adult-rate on all other TfL services and most National Rail services in London • 5-10 year olds can travel free on all TfL and most National Rail services in London

Find out more and how to apply for a Zip Oyster photocard. https://tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-payments/ travel-for-under-18s

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Academies and free schools: Computerised distance measuring system: Academies are state-funded schools independent A way of calculating straight line distances from a from the local authority and responsible for their own child’s home address to the main entrance of the admission arrangements. school.

Admission arrangements / admissions criteria: Cut-off distance: A formal document that sets out how a school or local The home-to-school distance of the last pupil who authority will manage the admission of pupils. The was offered a place under the distance criterion. document normally explains which applications will have priority for places (the admission criteria or Education, Health and Care Plan: oversubscription criteria). A document which sets out the education, health and social care needs of children and young people aged Allocation / allocated: up to 25 and the support that is necessary to cater for The offer of a school place or the process of offering those needs. The document will usually name the a school place. specific school that the child or young person must attend. Applicant: The person (parent, carer or family member) who has Fair access protocol: parental responsibility or care of the child and who A process for admitting pupils to school other than has submitted the application for a school place. through the normal admissions process.

Banding / ability bands: Home local authority: The process of dealing with application in groups A child’s home local authority (local council) is the (bands) according to cognitive ability so that an even Local Authority (LA) where they live i.e. the council spread of children of both lower and higher ability are you pay your council tax to. admitted to school. Schools who use banding will have either four or five bands. The ability range within Looked after children: each band will be based on either the ability range of A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care of those applicants who apply for place at the school or a local authority, or (b) being provided with on the national range of abilities as below: accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions in accordance with above 110 90–100 Band A: Band C: section 22 of the Children Act 1989(a) at the time an 101–110 below 90 Band B: Band D: application to a school is made. CAT score: Ofsted: The average mean score attained after completing Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, the CAT4 test. CAT4 is an online cognitive ability test Children’s Services and Skills. Ofsted inspect and administered by an independent company which regulate services that care for children and young provides a robust, standardised measure of cognitive people, and services providing education and skills reasoning ability, without reference to curriculum- for learners of all ages. based material and regardless of previous www.ofsted.gov.uk achievements or first language. Oversubscribed / oversubscription criteria: An oversubscribed school has more applications than CCP (Certificate of Catholic Practice): places available. Oversubscription criteria are the This is an additional form to be completed for rules used to determine who has priority for a place at applicants considered under the criteria of Catholic an oversubscribed school. schools. All practising Catholic families applying for a place at Hackney’s Catholic secondary schools must PAN (published admission number): complete and return a CCP signed by their parish The number of school places that the admission priest directly to the school by the published closing authority must offer in each relevant age group. date. CCP forms are available from the parish where your family normally worships and is also on the Preferences: Westminster Diocese website. A ranked list of schools submitted on an application, with the most desired school first, and followed by Community schools: the second most desired school, and so on. State-funded schools whose admission arrangements are set by the local authority.

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Previously looked after children: Previously looked after children are children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order. This includes children who were adopted under the Adoption Act 1976 and under the Adoption and Childrens Act 2002. Child arrangements orders replace residence orders in force prior to 22 April 2014.

Pupil premium: Pupil premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers.

Random allocation: A process of offering school places by lottery. Random allocation is usually determined using a computer system developed by a software company independent of the schools or performed manually in the presence of an independent witness e.g. drawing names out of a hat.

Religious or faith schools: These schools practise a particular faith and their governing body is responsible for their own admission arrangements.

Sibling: Sibling normally refers to a brother or sister, half- brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, step- brother or sister, or the child of the parent or carer’s partner, living as a family unit at the same address. A sibling must live permanently at the same address as the child for whom the application is being made. Siblings do not include cousins, aunties, uncles or any other family relations.

SIF (supplementary information form): This is an additional form that may also have to be completed for applicants considered under the criteria of faith schools. The completed SIF form must be signed by a religious leader and submitted directly to the faith school by the published closing date. SIF Keep up to date at forms are available from faith schools and Hackney www.learningtrust.co.uk Learning Trust. Follow us on Twitter Voluntary-aided schools: @hackneysuccess Voluntary-aided schools are often religious schools funded by the local authority. The governing bodies Like us on Facebook of Hackney’s religious schools set and apply their own facebook.com/hackneyschools admission criteria. successinthemaking Watch us on YouTube youtube.com/hackneysuccess

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