Primary Admission Information September 2017

Information for parents applying for a school place Apply online at .gov.uk/admissions

Information for parents applying for a primary school place Apply online at thurrock.gov.uk/admissions

Foreword

Starting primary school is a very important time all aspects of school life which are important to in a child’s life and here in you and your child, and that you also consider we appreciate what a worrying time this is for how likely it is that your child will be offered a parents. We are determined to make this as place at one of your preferred schools. straightforward and worry free as we can. The information that follows is designed to help you Many primary schools are very popular, with make informed decisions when you come to a large number of applications each year. make an application for a primary school place. Each school has a set number of places and oversubscription or admissions criteria are Our online application facility has proved used to decide who will be offered places. 3 to be very popular and almost 9 out of 10 Whatever your school preferences, I hope you applications are now made this way. The find the process of getting there as smooth as advantages are that it is immediate, you will get possible. automatic confirmation your application has been received and it will remove any risk of an I would like to take this opportunity to wish your application being delayed or lost in the post. child an enjoyable and fruitful time at primary school and every success for the future. Apply online and you will, from 12.30am on the 18 April 2017, be able to check online which Please go online at school place has been allocated. This is nearly thurrock.gov.uk/admissions and two days earlier than offers in response to follow the instructions on screen. paper applications are likely to arrive.

Thurrock has a wide range of primary schools Rory Patterson and each is unique just as individual children Corporate Director of Children’s Services are different. It is important that you consider Information for parents applying for a primary school place Apply online at thurrock.gov.uk/admissions

Who is this brochure When do I need to you will be able to complete an application, review, amend and for? apply? submit it online. You will also If you have a child who was You need to get your application get an automatic confirmation born between 1 September to us by the closing date of 15 that your application has been 2012 and 31 August 2013, you January 2017. You can apply received. must apply for a school place from Tuesday 1 November for September 2017. Even if 2016. Once you have submitted your you do not want your child to application online, if you make start full time schooling until In order to maximise your any changes e.g. change reaching statutory school age chances of being offered one preference order, you must in the term following their fifth of your preferred schools you re-submit the application. birthday you should apply now are strongly advised to get your and defer admission. application in on time. If you change your email address you must notify the Alternatively, if your child was How do I apply? Admissions Team at born between 1 September school.admissions@ The easiest way to apply is 2009 and 31 August 2010 and thurrock.gov.uk is starting year 2 at an infant online. Go to thurrock.gov. school in September 2016, you uk/admissions and follow the must apply for a school place at instructions on screen. If you a Junior school for September do not have internet access at 2017 (Infant to Junior transfer) if home you can still apply online 4 your child is currently attending at your local library or at the an infant school outside council offices in Grays. Thurrock. Once you have an account Which schools schools are oversubscribed it schools for which you are should I apply to? is important that you consider most likely to be successful. as many schools as possible You should also try to attend In Thurrock there are when you are thinking about one of the briefings by community and voluntary which schools to apply for. Thurrock Council designed controlled schools, for which to help you through the the council is the admission Our advice is that you should application process. These will authority, as well as schools not base your decisions solely include sessions where you that are their own admission on reputation or what other will be able to put questions authority. These can be either people say about a school or to our admissions staff about voluntary aided, in which schools. We recommend that how the process works. case the governing body of you make up your own mind. the school determines the The two briefing sessions for admissions arrangements, Schools are usually happy parents will be on: or academies, including to welcome visitors by free schools, in which case arrangement and to show you Wed 19 October 2016 at the the academy trust is the around and answer questions. Civic Hall, Blackshots Lane, admission authority. When thinking about which Grays RM16 2JU schools to apply for, it is from 4.00pm - 5.30pm and The law gives you the right very important that you take 7.00pm - 8.30pm. to state a preference for the into account each school’s school that you want your oversubscription criteria. Please be aware that a child to attend rather than These describe how offers number of Thurrock schools to be given your choice. of places are determined, are becoming academies 5 This is because there will and who gets priority when a and that, therefore, the listed be times when there are school is oversubscribed. status of these schools in the more applications than table in the second half of this places. When this happens, The number of preferences booklet is subject to change. oversubscription criteria (often that you can make on your called admission criteria) are application is limited, and we used to determine priority for recommend that you include admission. Because many in your list of preferences Information for parents applying for a primary school place Apply online at thurrock.gov.uk/admissions

How do I complete Child’s address change your email address, the application? The address you give on the you must inform us so that application must be your correspondence continues to We recommend you apply child’s permanent place of reach you. online at thurrock.gov.uk/ residence at the closing date admissions for applications. It must not Parent/carer details Each local authority has its be a business, a relative’s, The person applying on behalf own application form whether a carer’s or childminder’s of the child will normally be it is electronic or a paper address. The address will the person with Parental copy. You must complete normally be the parents’ Responsibility for the child as the application for the local address. If the parents do defined by the Children Act authority in which you live, not live together, it should 1989 and amended by the regardless of which schools be the address of the parent Adoption and Children Act you are applying for. If you are with whom the child spends 2002. a Thurrock resident and want the majority of the time. This to apply for schools outside will normally be the main Reasons for preference address held by the primary Thurrock you must do so on There is space on the school and the address of the Thurrock application. application for you to give the parent who receives child reasons for naming a school benefit in respect of the child. It is important that the as a preference and this will You are required to provide application is fully and be shared with the relevant your council tax reference accurately completed. If there school. Whilst admission number which can be cross are omissions or inaccuracies authorities will take this into 6 referenced with the address your application may be consideration, this alone would you give. If you move after adversely affected. not normally give priority for a completing the application or place. If you wish to apply under a special criterion, after receive top priority for a Submitting your application you must ensure that you school place. If the child you Please do not submit more comply with the requirements are applying for is looked after than one application. for providing supporting or has previously been looked If you apply online, please do evidence. after and you would like your not send a paper application application considered under form as well. If you submit Your preferences this criterion, it is important more than one application You are invited to name up to that you include this on the for the same child, we will four preferences. You must application and provide consider only the most name the schools in the order supporting evidence from the recent one received before that you prefer them, with child’s social worker or other the closing date. your most preferred school supporting professional. named first. All preferences Supporting evidence are given equal weight and Siblings Please ensure that you comply schools will not know your For most schools in Thurrock with schools’ requirements order of preference on your that give priority to siblings, for supporting evidence and application. You do not gain sibling is defined as brother supplementary forms. Failure any advantage if you only or sister, half brother or sister, to do so may adversely affect name one or two preferences, adopted brother or sister, step your application. If you apply or if you name the same brother or sister, or the child online and want to submit school more than once. of the parent/carer’s partner, supporting evidence you will Whilst the local authority has and who is living as part of need to send paper copies to a responsibility to make a the same family unit at the the admissions team by the place available for your child, same address, Monday to deadline for applications. 7 it does not necessarily have Friday. However the definition Supplementary forms must to be at one of your named might be different in the case be returned direct to the preferences, nor at your of some schools. If your child school by the 15 January 2017 nearest school. If you meet will have a sibling at one which is the closing date for the oversubscription criteria of your preferred schools applications. for more than one school in September 2017, it is you will be offered the one important that you include that is higher on your list of the sibling’s details on the preferences. application to ensure that, if it applies, sibling priority is Children in public care given. You should not name any child who is not a sibling, Children who are looked nor any child who attends a after by a local authority, or different school to the school have previously been looked named as a preference. Information for parents applying for a primary school place Apply online at thurrock.gov.uk/admissions

Oversubscription criteria - community and voluntary controlled schools.

When there are fewer must be supported by applications in distance applications for places in a evidence from a relevant order with those living particular school than the professional (e.g. a doctor closer having higher published admission number or a social worker) and priority. for that school all legitimate must be submitted with the applications will be met with application for admission. 5 Non-catchment area the offer of a place there. The purpose of this siblings criterion is to give priority to Children whose normal Where there are more pupils with a specific need place of residence is applicants than places, the that can be met specifically outside the catchment area following oversubscription at one school rather than of the school at the closing criteria (admission criteria) another. The threshold for date for applications and will be used for deciding a successful application who will have a sibling at which applications have under this criterion is high the school at the point priority. These criteria are set and such cases are likely of admission in distance out below in the order in which to be rare since all schools order with those living they are applied. are able to offer support closer having higher and facilities for a wide priority. 1 Looked after children range of needs. and previously looked 6 Non-catchment area 8 after children 3 Catchment area siblings children Children in public Children whose normal Children whose normal care and all children place of residence is in place of residence is previously looked after the catchment area of outside the catchment will automatically be given the school at the closing area at the closing date for first priority over other date for applications, and applications in distance categories where priority is who will have a sibling at order with those living claimed on the application the school at the point of closer having higher and validated by the admission, in distance priority. relevant local authority. order with those living closer having higher 2 Special reasons priority. Priority for admission may be given where there are 4 Catchment area children exceptional social, medical Children whose normal or educational reasons for place of residence is admission to a particular in the catchment area school. These reasons at the closing date for Further information about admission criteria - community and voluntary controlled schools.

Distance Multiple births The distance measurement When there are not enough used is the shortest straight places remaining in a line distance from home to particular criterion to allow school. For most schools all children from a multiple the straight line distance birth to be admitted within the measurement is taken from published admission number, the front door of the home the local authority will admit address to the main school the others as excepted pupils gate. in the terms of the infant class size legislation so as to allow Addresses within the same all children from that multiple apartment block will be birth to attend the same regarded as a tie and resolved school. using the tie breaker. Tie breaker Siblings In circumstances where more For the purpose of allocating than one child is entitled to places siblings will be defined the same place the place as will be offered using the random allocation system (a 9 • Full siblings living at the lottery). This process will be same address; administered by the school • Step siblings living at the admissions service and same address; supervised by an independent • Half siblings living at the witness. same address; • Long-term foster siblings Other offers living at the same address Applications that are not met at the date of application with an offer of a preferred and admission. school will receive an offer at the catchment school if there Children attending a school are vacancies or at the next nursery class nearest school with vacancies. Admission to or attendance at Distance measurement used a school nursery class does to assess the next nearest not guarantee, or give any school is shortest walking priority, for admission to the distance. main part of a primary or infant school. Information for parents applying for a primary school place Apply online at thurrock.gov.uk/admissions

Oversubscription criteria - foundation schools, voluntary aided schools and academies, including free schools.

Foundation schools, Council’s Admissions Team to will be an investigation. The voluntary aided schools and process your application. The local authority as the co- academies details provided may also be ordinating body reserves the The admission authority for used in the future to ascertain right to seek evidence from a foundation school or a your levels of satisfaction parents, council records, voluntary aided school is the with the service provided. primary schools or any other governing body, and for an Once the form has been source deemed appropriate. academy it is the academy completed the information will Any application found to trust. Details of these schools’ be stored in hard copy and have been made using false oversubscription criteria are on the Admissions Team’s information may be withdrawn available from the schools electronic database. Access by the relevant admission and their associated websites. to the information will be on authority and may be subject Please use the links on pages a need-to-know basis and to legal proceedings. If an 16 and 17. will be archived until 6 years application is found to be after the child’s 18th birthday fraudulent after places are Children with statements of (before being securely offered, the place offered may special educational need disposed of). The Council be withdrawn in which case (SEN) or an Education, may share information about a new application will have to Health and Care Plan you in certain circumstances be made at a time when the (EHCP) where the law allows. This availability of places is likely to 10 All children with a Statement could include sharing with be extremely limited. of Special Educational Needs other authorities and schools (SEN) or Education, Health in order to process your and Care plan (EHCP) that admission application; names a particular school in or with external statutory the statement or plan must be bodies for the purposes of admitted to that school. For child protection or criminal further information please investigations. Any sharing contact Special Educational will always be done fairly and Needs on 01375 652556. securely.

Data Protection Act Fraud Statement Where there is evidence to The purpose for collecting suggest that a fraudulent personal details on the attempt has been made to application is to allow the secure a school place there Appeals Deadlines for the All admission appeals must hearing of appeals be heard by an independent These are: appeal panel in accordance with the School Admission a) for applications made in the Appeals Code. normal admissions round, within 40 school days of Appeals for community and the deadline for lodging voluntary controlled schools appeals; are arranged by Thurrock Council. b) for late applications within 40 school days from Appeals for foundation the deadline for lodging schools, voluntary aided appeals or within 30 school schools and academies days of the appeal being are the responsibility of the lodged. governing body or academy trust.

If you are refused admission to a particular school you will receive further information about how to appeal. 11 Please note that you can only appeal for a school for which you have made an application and been refused. Information for parents applying for a primary school place Apply online at thurrock.gov.uk/admissions

Frequently asked questions

How are places allocated? Can I apply for schools to the pattern and number of outside Thurrock? applications from year to year. Places are offered strictly This means that some people according to the priority Yes. You need to include any will live outside the created afforded to each application school outside Thurrock that catchment for their nearest by the oversubscription criteria you wish to apply for on your school, and their most realistic set out in this information application. We will arrange options will be further away. booklet or in schools’ own for your details to be passed Parents are advised to apply information where Thurrock on so that your application to schools other than just the Council is not the admission can be considered. You will one nearest to them. authority. need to ensure that you also complete any supplementary What happens if my child Schools that are their own forms required by schools is not offered one of our admission authorities have and return them directly to the preferences? access to lists of applicants school by the closing date for ranked by the council as co- applications. If you are not offered one of ordinating body. These lists your preferences, you will are ranked using the school’s Will my application be be offered another school published oversubscription treated differently if I apply place. The offer will be made criteria but the final decision online? at your catchment school if 12 on each application rests with places are still available after the school and not the council. No, applications submitted all allocations have been online will be treated in exactly made to on-time applicants. When will I hear? the same way as paper If places are not available at applications. your catchment school after As an online applicant you allocations you will be offered will receive confirmation that Will I get offered a school of the next nearest school with your application has been my choice? spaces measured by shortest submitted. Paper applications walking route from your home will not be acknowledged The law gives you the right address to the school. unless accompanied by a to state a preference for the stamped addressed envelope. school or schools that you Are my preferences want your child to attend confidential? As an online applicant you rather than offering choice. can log in to your account This is because there will be Yes. Your preferences are any time from 12.30am on 18 times when there are more confidential and will not be April 2017 to view your offer. applicants than places and shared with schools before An email will also be sent to not all preferences can be admission decisions are you on the morning of 18 April met. made. However, details of any 2017. out of borough preferences Do I automatically get you put on the application will If you apply on paper, your offered a place at my normally be shared with the offer letter will be sent out 2nd nearest school? relevant local authority. If you class post on 18 April 2017. appeal against the refusal of No. Different schools offer to admission to a school, your different distances in different application and, therefore, years. This variation is due your preferences will normally be made available to the What should I do if I feel my for a short period only, it independent appeals panel child must go to a school may be reasonable to refuse that hears your case. because of special reasons? admission to a school.

We live in Thurrock and pay The first thing to do is to check Children who hold full British our council tax to Thurrock. to see whether the admission Citizen passports (not British Do we have the right to criteria for the school include Dependent Territories or British have a place at a Thurrock a special reasons category. Overseas passports) and school? If they do you must make have a passport endorsed to sure that you comply with any show a right of abode in the A local authority has a requirements for supplying UK or are European Economic responsibility to provide supporting evidence. The Area nationals, normally have school places for children admission authority will make unrestricted entry to the UK. residing in its area, but may an informed decision as do so outside its area. to whether the school you An application for a school want is the only one which place will be accepted for Can we stop giving places your child can go to for the such children even though in Thurrock to children not reasons given. It may seek they may not be resident in the resident in Thurrock? further professional advice on UK at the time of application. the evidence you provide in The application may however No. There is a legal ruling support of your application. be processed on the basis of (known as the Greenwich You will need to submit these the overseas address. Judgement) which effectively reasons together with the states that a local authority supporting evidence at the Other children from overseas 13 cannot give priority for school time of application in order for do not generally have places in its area to children them to be considered. automatic right of entry to living within its boundaries. the UK. An application for Are places reserved for a school place will not be My next door neighbour got children moving into the accepted, therefore, until a place at the school last area? they are resident in the UK. year, will I? Proof of entry to the UK will be No. It is unlawful to reserve required before an application Not necessarily. The distance places for children moving is processed. that each school allocates out in. Additionally, we would be to varies each year according unable to predict the number How many places are to the volume and spread of needed and it would be unfair reserved for successful applications. to those parents who are appeals? already living in the area. Will a child who lives further None. An independent appeal away from the school be What if my child is from panel is empowered to direct given a place ahead of me? overseas? the admission authority to make an additional place This can happen. A child All children of compulsory available for a successful may be offered a place on a school age (5 to 16 years) applicant. higher criterion giving him or in the UK have a right of her priority such as an older access to education. However, brother or sister at the school. where the child is in the UK Information for parents applying for a primary school place Apply online at thurrock.gov.uk/admissions

What if I am offered a place or, request that the date their grounds. Parents have a right that I do not want? child is admitted to school to appeal against the refusal is deferred until later in the of a place at a school for You have the right to reject same academic year, but which they have applied. This any place offered. However, if not beyond the start of the right does not apply if they are you reject an offer it will then summer term of the academic offered a place at the school become your responsibility year for which a place has but it is not in their preferred to secure a place at an been offered. age group. alternative school. Our advice would be to accept an In addition, parents of All requests must include offer you receive until such summer born children* (those recent professional evidence time as you get a preferred born between 1 April and of the child’s circumstances alternative. At that time you 31 August) can request for which make education outside can then reject the earlier their child to be admitted to the age group necessary. offer. Accepting an offer does reception a year later, that is Each admission authority must not prejudice your waiting list outside their chronological make its own decision, but all position or appeals for any year group, thereby starting will expect to see evidence higher preference schools. school only once they reach of an individual child’s statutory school age. This educational need, rather than Can I defer entry? does not apply to children general factors which relate to born in the autumn and spring a wider group of children born Children are required by law terms and these children at a similar time. They may to receive full-time education must, by law, be in school want to discuss with 14 at the start of the school term full time in the term after they you the impact of the child following their fifth birthday turn five years old (Further being educated with children but have the opportunity to information is provided of a different age, both start in the reception year in below). within primary school and at the September following their You must still apply at the transition to secondary school fourth birthday. Children will normal time even if you wish when admission outside normally be admitted to the to defer entry. the age cohort cannot be reception year at the school in guaranteed. the September following their Request for admission to fourth birthday. Your child primary school outside a If you are seeking admission will get the most from their child’s age group to an age group below the Reception education if they child’s actual age you should start at the same time as other Children are educated in submit your request in the children at the beginning of school with others of their September before the year in the school year. age group. However, you which children of the same can request that your child age are due to start school. If a parent/carer feels that is exceptionally admitted It is recommended that you their child is not ready to outside their age group. The also apply for a school place start school in the September admissions authority of a in your child’s actual age after they turn four they can school must decide whether group before the closing date either request that their child or not the individual child’s on 15 January 2017. This attends part time until they circumstances make this enables the application to reach statutory school age appropriate on educational be processed and a school place secured in the child’s automatically placed on If I accept a place at a actual age group if the request the waiting list for higher school that was not one of is refused by the admission preference schools for which my preferences, will it affect authority. your child is eligible. my waiting list positions for other schools or any appeal If the admission authority Waiting lists are drawn up by I make? approves the request, you will using the oversubscription be advised to re- apply in the criteria to rank applications. No. Accepting an alternative following year and provide a Priority cannot be given to place does not prejudice your copy of the decision. However children based on the date child’s position on a waiting there can be no guarantee their application was received list for a higher preference of a place being available or their name was added to school or any appeals you at the school, as this is the list. If you are not offered might lodge. However, any dependent on the number of a place and you also wish preference that is ranked applications and pattern of your child’s name to go on the lower on your application form admissions for that year. It waiting list for a school that will be withdrawn as part of is not possible to reserve a you did not originally apply the coordinated process. place for the following year. for, you should contact our You are therefore advised to admissions service. If you What about transport to and have alternative arrangements were not offered a place at from school? in place. an out of borough school and you wish to go on the waiting Limited help may be available Will my child be on the list you will need to contact with home to school transport. waiting list and how do the relevant local authority to For further information please 15 these work? find out how to put your child’s contact Awards and Benefits name on the list. on 01375 652511. If you are offered a place which is not your first preference, or if no offer is made, you will be Information for parents applying for a primary school place Apply online at thurrock.gov.uk/admissions

List of primary schools in Thurrock

School Headteacher/ Address Telephone Type of School Age Admission Principal number Academy, range Limit Community, 2017-18 Voluntary Controlled, (pan) Free, Voluntary Aided Abbots Hall Miss Laura Abbotts Drive, Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex 01375 673188 Academy 4 -11 30 Primary Academy Fishleigh SS17 7BW www.abbots-hall.co.uk

Arthur Bugler Mr John Bryant St James Avenue East, 01375 677079 Academy from 4 -11 60 Primary School Stanford-Le-Hope, 01.09.16 Essex SS17 7BQ www.arthurbugler.com

Aveley Primary Miss N Shadbolt Road, , Essex 01708 865868 Community 3 -11 60 School RM15 4AA www.aveleyprimary.net

Benyon Primary Mrs S Walker Tyssen Place, West Road, , 01708 853200 Academy 4 -11 30 RM15 6PG www.benyonprimary.co.uk

Belmont Castle Mr Mark Jones Parker Road, Grays 01375 373601 Academy 4 -11 90 Academy RM17 5YN www.belmontcastleacademy.org

Bonnygate Mrs Sarah Arisdale Avenue, South Ockendon, Essex 01708 853316 Community 3 -11 60 Primary School McHugh RM15 5BA www.bonnygateprimary.co.uk

Bulphan C of E Mrs E Wigmore Fen Lane, , Essex RM14 3RL 01375 891220 Voluntary Controlled 5 -11 12 Primary School www.bulphanprimary.thurrock.sch.uk

16 Mrs Julie Riverview, Chadwell St Mary, Grays Essex 01375 843280 Academy from 4 -11 30 Primary School Donnelly RM16 4DH 01.09.16 www.chadwellstmaryprimary.co.uk

Corringham Mrs Lorna Herd Lane, Corringham, Essex, SS17 9BH 01375 672157 Academy 2 -11 60 Primary School Hamilton www.tscst.co.uk

Deneholm Primary Mrs Susan Culford Road, Grays, Essex 01375 373405 Academy 4 -11 60 Basnett RM16 2SS www.deneholmprimary.co.uk

Dilkes Academy Mr Rhys Garron Lane, South Ockendon, 01708 852128 Academy 3 -11 60 Latham, Acting Essex RM15 5JQ Headteacher www.dilkesacademy.org.uk

East Mrs L Coates Princess Margaret Road, , RM18 01375 846181 Academy 4 -11 90 Primary School & 8SB Nursery http://easttilburyprimary.thurrock.sch.uk

Giffards Primary Ms Nicky Queen Elizabeth Drive, Corringham, Essex 01375 672138 Primary Academy 4 -11 60 School Haslam SS17 7TG www.giffardsprimary.thurrock.sch.uk

Graham James Mrs Petra Back The Sorrells, Stanford Le Hope 01375 675889 Academy 4 - 11 60 Primary Academy Essex SS17 7ES years http://grahamjamesacademy.co.uk (2½-4 Nursery) Harris Primary Principal - Harris Primary Academy, , 01375 484490 Academy (Primary 3 -11 90 Academy Tracey Boanas Mayflower Road, Chafford Hundred, Grays, with Nursery) Chafford Hundred Essex RM16 6SA www.harrisprimarychaffordhundred.org.uk

Harris Primary Principal - Harris Primary Academy,Mayflower, 0203 772 4588 Academy (Primary) 3 -11 150 Academy Katie Hanley Mayflower Road, Chafford Hundred, Grays, Mayflower Essex RM16 6SA www.harrisprimarymayflower.org.uk

Herringham Mrs S Otto St Mary’s Road 01375 489860 Academy 4 -11 60 Primary Academy Chadwell St Mary Grays, Essex RM16 4JX www.theglc.org.uk

Holy Cross Mrs Maria Daiglen Drive, South Ockendon, 01708 853000 Voluntary Aided 3 -11 30 Catholic Primary Shepherd Essex RM15 5RP School B.Ed(Hons), www.holycrossprimary.com NPQH, M.A. Horndon-On-The- Mr T R Hillcrest Road, Horndon-On-The-Hill, Essex SS17 8LR 01375 673260 Foundation 4 -11 30 Hill C Of E Primary Martinson www.horndononthehill.org.uk School Kenningtons Mrs Jo Sawtell- Tamar Drive, Aveley, Essex 01708 865663 Academy 3 -11 60 Primary Academy Haynes RM15 4NB www.kenningtonsprimaryacademy.co.uk Lansdowne Monique Lansdowne Road, Tilbury, 01375 487200 Academy 3 -11 90 Academy Anderson Essex RM18 7QB www.theglc-lansdowne.org.uk Jaki Cole Rectory Road, Grays, 01375 373586 Community 3 -11 90 Primary and Essex RM17 5SW Nursery Nursery www.littlethurrock.thurrock.sch.uk for 3-4 year 52 places C of E Miss Shelley School Lane, Orsett, 01375 891383 Voluntary 4 -11 30 Primary School Jones Essex RM16 3JR Aided (Headteacher) www.orsettprimary.co.uk Primary Mrs L Mabey Tankhill Road, Purfleet RM19 1TA 01708 865038 Academy 3 -11 90 Academy www.purfleetprimary.co.uk Quarry Hill Mr Tony Parfett Bradleigh Avenue, Grays, 01375 373729 Academy 5 -11 60 Academy Headteacher Essex RM17 5UT Plus Mrs Samantha www.quarryhillacademy.org.uk Nursery Wakeling Deputy Provision Headteacher Shaw Primary Ms Dawn Avon Green, South Ockendon, Essex RM15 5QJ 01708 852367 Academy 4 -11 60 Academy Copping www.shawprimaryacademy.co.uk Somers Heath Mr Kevin Imbush Foyle Drive, South Ockendon, Essex RM15 5LX 01708 853397 Community 3 -11 60 Primary www.somersheathschool.ik.org St Joseph’s Mr Spencer Scratton Road, Stanford-Le-Hope Essex SS17 0PA 01375 672217 Voluntary 4 -11 30 Catholic Primary Bragg www.stjosephscatholicprimaryschool.co.uk Aided 17 School St Mary’s Catholic Mrs M Jones Calcutta Road, Tilbury Essex RM18 7QH 01375 843254 Voluntary 4 -11 30 Primary School www.stmarystilbury.co.uk Aided St Thomas Of Mr Chris Birtles Ward Avenue, Grays RM17 5RW 01375 375826 Voluntary 4 -11 90 Canterbury www.stthomasofcanterbury.thurrock.sch.uk Aided Catholic Primary School Stanford-Le-Hope Mrs Joanna Bray Copland Road, Stanford-Le-Hope Essex SS17 0DF 01375 672066 Academy 3 - 11 60 Primary Academy www.stanfordlehopeprimary.co.uk Stifford Clays Mr Anthony Whitmore Avenue, Grays 01375 373866 Academy 2 -11 90 Primary School Peltier Essex RM16 2SP www.stiffordclaysprimary.thurrock.sch.uk Thameside Mr Jonathan Manor Road, Grays RM17 6EF 01375 372188 Academy 3 -11 120 Primary Fish (Interim www.thamesideprimaryschool.com Head Teacher) The Gateway Mr Thom Martin Marshfoot Road Tilbury/Chadwell-St-Mary Essex RM16 4LU 01375 489094 Free 4 -11 60 Primary Free www.theglc-primaryfreeschool.org.uk School Tilbury Pioneer Mr D George, Dickens Avenue, Tilbury, Essex RM18 8HJ 01375 488420 Academy 3 - 9 90 Academy Head of School www.theglc-pioneer.org.uk Tudor Court Mr P. Kyriacou Bark Burr Road, Chafford Hundred RM16 6PL 01375 480662 Academy 4 -11 120 Primary www.tudorcourtprimary.com Warren Primary Miss Emma Gilbert Road, Chafford Hundred 01375 482288 Community 3 -11 60 School Field Grays, Essex RM16 6NB School www.warrenps.co.uk Mrs Susan Cook Schoolfield Road, Grays 01708 866743 Academy 3 -11 60 Academy RM20 3HR www.westthurrockacademy.co.uk Woodside Mr E E Caines Woodside Academy, Grangewood Avenue, Grays, 01375 372513 Academy 3 -11 90 Academy MA RM16 2GJ www.woodsideprimary.org WHAT HAPPENED ON NATIONAL OFFER DAY FOR RECEPTION 2016 No Places 1st preference applications received number of place offered Total Catchment Catchment Sibling Children of Staff Distance Children Founders LAC Out of Catchment Out of Catchment Siblings SEN Sibling Social/Medical Denominational Non - Denominational Abbots Hall Primary Academy 30 29 30 11 6 * * * 1 8 4 * * * * *

Arthur Bugler Primary School 60 63 60 13 7 * * * * 21 19 * * * * * Aveley Primary 60 67 60 32 12 * * * * 5 11 * * * * * Academy 90 138 90 55 35 * * * * * * * * * * * Benyon Primary School 30 35 30 19 11 * * * * * * * * * * *

Bonnygate Primary School 60 41 57 21 10 * * * * 16 10 * * * * * Bulphan C of E Primary 12 11 12 2 3 * * * * 7 * * * * * * Chadwell St Mary Primary School 30 49 30 13 8 * * * * * 9 * * * * * Corringham Primary School 60 45 49 17 13 * * * * 12 7 * * * * * Deneholm Primary 60 83 60 23 14 * * * * 8 15 * * * * * Dilkes Academy 60 106 60 21 9 * * * 4 16 9 1 * * * * East Tilbury Primary School & Nursery 120 94 90 49 32 * * * 1 * 8 * * * * * Giffards Primary 60 52 60 22 13 * * * * 16 9 * * * * * Graham James Primary Academy 60 76 60 13 11 * * * * 14 22 * * * * * Harris Primary Academy Chafford Hundred 90 97 90 45 24 * * * * 18 3 * * * * * 18 Harris Primary Academy Mayflower 150 32 66 * * * 51 1 * * * * 14 * * * Herringham Primary Academy 60 41 60 21 * * * * * 23 * * 16 * * * Holy Cross Catholic Primary School 45 24 26 * * * * * * * * * * * 10 16 Horndon-On-The-Hill C of E Primary 30 17 28 8 4 * * * * 14 2 * * * * * Kenningtons Primary Academy 60 51 60 22 13 * * * * 12 13 * * * * * Lansdowne Primary Academy 90 44 59 34 16 * * * 1 4 4 * * * * * Little Thurrock Primary 90 74 90 26 8 * * * * 39 17 * * * * * Orsett C of E Primary 30 47 30 * * * * * 2 * * * 23 * 5 * Purfleet Primary Academy 90 47 78 49 29 * * * * * * * * * * * Quarry Hill Academy 60 57 60 24 14 * * * 1 12 9 * * * * * Shaw Primary Academy 60 57 60 16 10 * * * * 13 21 * * * * * Somers Heath Primary 60 35 44 11 9 * * * * 18 6 * * * * * St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School 30 27 29 * * * * * * * * * * * 14 15 St Mary’s Catholic Primary School 30 52 30 * * * * * * * * * * * 30 * St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary 90 84 90 * * * * * * * * * * * 62 28 Stanford Le Hope Primary 60 30 37 17 9 * * * * 9 2 * * * * * Stifford Clays Primary School 90 79 86 29 25 * * * * 16 16 * * * * * Thameside Primary School 120 74 101 44 27 * * * * 20 10 * * * * * The Gateway Primary Free School 60 57 60 * * 1 36 * * * * * 23 * * * Tilbury Pioneer Academy 90 49 62 33 * * 12 * * * * * 17 * * * Tudor Court Primary 120 103 120 40 44 * * * 1 27 8 * * * * * Warren Primary School 60 71 60 34 22 * * * 1 * * * * 3 * * West Thurrock Academy 60 90 60 31 29 * * * * * * * * * * * Woodside Academy 90 100 90 * * * 56 * 1 * * * 33 * * * * This is not part of the schools criteria Information for parents applying for a primary school place Apply online at thurrock.gov.uk/admissions

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Barking 5th Floor, Roycraft House, 15 020 8215 3004 [email protected] lbbd.gov.uk/ and Linton Road, Barking, Essex, admissions Dagenham IG11 8HE (301) Essex School Admissions 0845 603 2200 [email protected] essex.gov.uk (881) Essex County Council PO Box 426, Chelmsford CM1 1GS Havering London Borough of Havering 01708 434600 schooladmissions@havering. www.havering.gov.uk (311) School Admissions Team gov.uk Town Hall, Main Road, Romford, RM1 3BD Kent (886) Admissions and Transport 03000 41 21 21 [email protected] www.kent.gov.uk Team Room 2.24, Sessions House, County Hall, Maidstone ME14 1XQ Children’s Services PO Box 118 Civic Offices, New Road, Grays Thurrock, Essex RM17 6GF thurrock.gov.uk/admissions