Application for Admission for September 2021
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DULWICH VILLAGE, LONDON SE21 7AL TEL (020) 7525 9233 Option 4 Website www.dulwichvillageinfants.co.uk. E-Mail: [email protected] APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION FOR SEPTEMBER 2021 Dear Parent/Carer Thank you for considering applying for a place for your child at Dulwich Village C of E Infants’ School. Please find attached the details of the Admissions Policy which sets out how to apply to the school and the criteria by which places are offered. The following applies to applicants who are due to start school in September 2021. All applicants must submit a “Common Application Form” and applicants for a “Foundation Place” must also submit a “Supplementary Form”. Please complete one of each form for each child for whom you are applying. COMMON APPLICATION FORM (“CAF”): both Foundation and Open Place applicants must submit a CAF and return it to the Southwark admissions team by 15th January 2021. If you are a Southwark resident you must apply online at https://www.eadmissions.org.uk. If you are not a Southwark resident, the CAF can be obtained from your home local authority. Please note that in order for your application to be valid, a CAF form must be completed. SUPPLEMENTRY FORM: This form only needs completing if you are applying for a Foundation Place and is available to download from our website. Please return this form with the required information directly to the school by 15th January 2021. If you are applying for a Foundation Place you must insert the full name and full address of your current vicar/priest/minister and, if you have worshipped at your present church for less than two years, your previous clergy. The school will write to the clergy listed to ask them to complete and return a clergy form. Please note letters will be sent to your clergy after the closing date. Please ensure that your clergy have returned your clergy form to the school by 2nd February 2021. We will not routinely send repeat requests to clergy. If the school has not received your clergy form by the date specified, applications for Foundation Places will be ineligible under the admissions criteria for Foundation Places. If you do not meet the requirements of the Admissions Policy relating to Foundation Places your application will be considered under the criteria for Open Places. Please see the criteria in the attached policy, which has details of key terms and definitions We specialise in the infant phase, “Key Stage 1”, and children leave our school at the end of Year Two. Please note that although we have close links with Dulwich Hamlet Junior School the children do not transfer there automatically and there is no sibling policy between the schools. Please note that your application will be considered on the basis of the address provided by you on your Common Application Form. If you are offered a place and then move before your child is due to start school, your application will be reconsidered in light of your new address and your place may be withdrawn. We look forward to receiving your application and we hope to welcome you and your child to the school in September. Yours sincerely, Matilda Walker Chair of Governors ADMISSIONS POLICY FOR SEPT 2021 This Admissions Policy is subject to annual review, which might result in amendments being made in future years. Capitalised terms are defined in the text or in the Definitions section at the end of this policy so please refer to this section. The Governors will accept applications from the 1st September 2020 for the September 2021 intake. Because the school is usually oversubscribed, the following criteria, approved by the Southwark Diocesan Board of Education and the London Borough of Southwark, make up the “Rules for Admission”. TYPES OF PLACES There are two types of places: Foundation Places 45 places Open Places 45 places Applicants will need to decide whether they are applying for a Foundation or Open Place. They cannot apply for both. FOUNDATION PLACES The Governors have designated 45 places to be offered to pupils whose Parents/Carers (at least one) are Faithful and Regular Worshippers of Christian Churches (a “Foundation Place”). Within this category, priority will be given to members of St Barnabas Church, Dulwich. Please note Criteria 3, 4, and 5 below also require us to be the Nearest Church of England School to your home. Foundation place applicants ONLY must complete and return a Supplementary Form to the school at the time of application. The Governors will also seek verification of the applicant’s faithful and regular worship from the clergy named on the Supplementary Form. If the applicant has worshipped at their current church for less than the 2 years, details of their previous clergy will be required. Oversubscription Criteria If two or more applicants have equal right to a place under any of the criteria, the place will be offered to those living Nearest to the school. If two or more applicants live equidistant from the school and there are insufficient places to admit all applicants, the remaining places will be allocated by drawing lots. Foundation Places will be allocated according to the following criteria, stated in order of priority: 1. Looked After Children or Previously Looked After Children of Faithful and Regular Worshippers at St Barnabas Church or other Christian Churches. 2. Children of Faithful and Regular worshippers at St Barnabas Church or other Christian Churches with known Special Medical or Social Needs, for whom this is the only appropriate school. 3. Children of Faithful and Regular Worshippers at Christian Churches, who will have a Sibling at the School at TIME OF ENTRY and for whom this is the Nearest Church of England School. 4. Children of Faithful and Regular Worshippers at St Barnabas Church for whom this is the Nearest Church of England School. 5. Children of Faithful and Regular Worshippers of other Christian Churches for whom this is the Nearest Church of England School. 6. Children of Faithful and Regular Worshippers at St Barnabas Church. Applicants for a Foundation Place must submit a Supplementary Form to the School by the closing date for application 15th January 2021. The School will then send a form to the clergy you have named to ask them to verify that you fulfil the requirement of Regular and Faithful Worship (as defined in this policy) at their church. Please note letters will be sent to your clergy on 19th January 2021 and it is your responsibility to ensure that your clergy has received and returned this form direct to the School. Unless the School has received your clergy form by 2nd February 2021, applications will be ineligible under the admissions criteria for Foundation Places and will therefore be considered for an Open Place OPEN PLACES The Governors have designated 45 places to be offered to applicants who have not applied for a Foundation Place (“Open Places”). Oversubscription Criteria Open Places will be allocated according to the following criteria, stated in order of priority. If two or more applicants have equal right to a place under any of the criteria, the place will be offered to those living Nearest the School. If two or more applicants live equidistant from the school and there are insufficient places to admit all applicants, the remaining places will be allocated by drawing lots. 1. Looked After Children or Previously Looked After Children. 2. Children with known Special Medical or Social Needs, for whom this is the only appropriate school. 3. Children who will have a Sibling at the School at time of entry. 4. Children of Permanent Staff Members. 5. Children who live Nearest to the School. Any unfilled Foundation Places will become additional Open Places and any unfilled Open Places will become additional Foundation Places. HOW TO APPLY PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND ENSURE THAT YOU PROVIDE THE NECESSARY INFORMATION TO SUPPORT YOUR APPLICATION. Applications for both Foundation Places and Open Places must submit a Common Application Form (“CAF”) to your home Local Authority Admissions Team by 15th January 2021. This must be done: • if you are a Southwark resident, online at https://www.eadmissions.org.uk; or • by obtaining a CAF from your home Local Authority. Please note that applications must be made using a CAF otherwise they are deemed invalid. Applications for Foundation Places must also submit a Supplementary Form. If you submit an application correctly, it does not mean your child will necessarily be offered a place. GENERAL RULES FOR FOUNDATION AND OPEN PLACES SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL OR SOCIAL NEEDS Please see the definition of “Special Educational or Social Needs” at the end of this document. Parents/Carers of pupils who have a statement of Special Educational or Social Needs, or Education, Health and Care (“EHC”) Plan are required to apply for school places separately through the local authority from whom advice is available. If a child with a statement or an EHC Plan is placed in the school by the local authority before the normal admission round, the number of places available to other applicants will be reduced. The Governors will admit all those pupils whose statement, or EHC Plan, names the School as being the only suitable school for the child. An application for a child with Special Educational or Social Needs without a statement or an EHC Plan will need to be supported by written evidence from an appropriate healthcare professional but please follow the advice of your local authority. LOOKED AFTER OR PREVIOUSLY LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN Please see the definition of “Looked After Children” and “Previously Looked After Children” at the end of this document.