Primary Schools 2013–2014 HARROW Schools at the Heart of the Community Online Applications Why Not Apply Online and Save Time

a guide to Primary Schools 2013–2014 HARROW Schools at the heart of the community Online applications why not apply online and save time

It’s simple, convenient and time-saving. You get an instant acknowledgement that your application has been received and you will be sent an email with the outcome of your application telling you which school you have been offered.

From 1 September 2012 you can apply online www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions (see further details on page 6)

Further details of the online admissions process – including the link to the online admissions portal are available on Harrow’s website

Or contact the School Admissions Service PO Box 22, Harrow Council, Station Road, Harrow HA1 2UW Tel: 020 8901 2620

2 Welcome This booklet has been produced by the council to give you information about Harrow’s primary schools. It provides details mainly relating to the school year that starts in September 2013. It also gives general information on education in Harrow.

The procedure to follow to get a place in a Harrow school is explained, as well as what to do if you don’t get a place in the school that you want. There is a map of Harrow Primary Schools showing their locations on the back cover.

Contents

Online applications 2 Timetable of applications to reception 5 How to apply 6-11 How places were allocated last year 12 List of primary schools in Harrow 13-16 How the system works 17 Appeals 18-19 Transfer to junior school 20 Community School admission arrangements 21 Academy School, Free School and Voluntary Aided Schools admission arrangements 22-51 In year applications for 2012-2013 52-53 Applying for schools in other areas 54 Applying for nursery school in Harrow 55 Education provision in Harrow 56 Year groups and term dates 57 Pupil support/travel options 58 Primary curriculum 59 Glossary 60-61 Useful Information 63 Map showing primary schools in Harrow Back cover

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Introduction

Dear parent or carer

Starting primary school is an exciting time for children and their families. The information in this booklet explains how you apply for a reception school place for your child. From September 1, parents are able to submit their applications online by visiting www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

Applications for reception will be co-ordinated by Harrow Council. Parents applying for a reception place for September 2013 should only complete one form. For families who live in Harrow this means you should only complete Harrow’s Common Application Form (CAF). You can list up to six state maintained schools, whether in Harrow and/or any local authority area, ranked in order of preference. Harrow will share information about applications with other admission authorities. The outcome will be co-ordinated to ensure that applicants only receive one offer, which will be the single best offer that can be made.

It is important that you ﬁnd out as much as possible about the schools you are applying for before completing your application form. It is very important that you read the information in this booklet carefully so that you can make informed decisions about how to rank your preferences.

Harrow Council is committed to providing excellent learning opportuities and high quality education for all pupils. We are proud of all of our schools and believe that your child will have every opportunity to succeed at whichever school he or she attends.

We hope that you will ﬁnd the information in this booklet helpful and should like to wish your child every success at their primary school.

Brian Gate Catherine Doran Adrian Parker Portfolio Holder Corporate Director Head of Education Strategy Children, Schools Children and Families and School Organisation and Families

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Timetable of Headingapplications heading to reception

The timetable for applications to school for children who live in Harrow born between 1 September 2008 and 31 August 2009 due to start reception in September 2013 is as follows:

1 September 2012 You can apply online at www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions or you can request a form from Access Harrow

September 2012 Application forms and booklets will be sent to all Harrow primary schools, and are available from Access Harrow for Harrow residents. If you live outside of Harrow you must apply to your own council. Parents applying for a Voluntary Aided (VA) school must complete and return a supplementary information form (SIF) direct to the school by 15th January 2013. If parents do not complete a SIF, the school will not have the information about how well the child meets their admission rules. SIF forms for Harrow VA schools are available from the school or www.harrow.gov.uk/ schooladmissions

15 January 2013 Closing Date for applications By this date you must have submitted an online application or completed a paper application form and returned it to a Harrow Primary school or to Access Harrow/Admissions Service.

17 April 2013 Letters posted to parents with the outcome of their application. If you have applied online you will be sent an email with the outcome of your application. Please wait until you have received the email before logging on to the eadmissions website.

1 May 2013 Deadline for acceptance or decline of offer (you can accept/decline your offer online).

17 May 2013 Closing date for receipt of appeals.

Summer Term 2013 Appeal hearings.

If you do not live in Harrow but wish to apply for a Harrow school, please contact your council to make an application.

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How to apply

Making your application for a reception class in a Harrow school to start in September 2013

There are two ways to apply, online or by t*OPSEFSUPBQQMZPOMJOFZPVXJMMmSTUOFFEUP completing the Common Application Form (CAF). register your details and will be sent a user We recommend you complete your application name and password. Once you have registered online. Please only use one method of application. you will be able to apply online. The online Do not complete a Common Application Form system will allow you to make changes to your (CAF) if you intend to apply online. If you send application before the closing date of 15 January more than one application, we will only use the 2013 and to keep track of the progress of your most recent one. application after the closing date t:PVDBOTBWFZPVSQPTJUJPOBOESFUVSOMBUFSJG Only Harrow residents should complete a Harrow you are unable to complete the application in CAF. one session. Every time you make or change your online application you will receive an email You cannot apply for private or independent conﬁrming the status of your application. You schools through this process. can also check the status when you log onto the system and select your application. If your child has a statement of special educational t"UUIFFOEPGUIFQSPDFTTZPVNVTUATVCNJUZPVS needs, please do not complete an application form in order for it to come through to us. Failure form. The Special Educational Needs Assessment UPATVCNJUXJMMNFBOUIBUZPVSBQQMJDBUJPOIBT and Review Service (SENARS) on 020 8966 6483 not been sent to us, and your application will not will manage your child’s admission to school. For be considered. If in doubt please call the Harrow further information please see page 56. School Admissions Service on 020 8901 2620 or email [email protected] to Please only complete an application for a check if it has been received reception class place if your child is born between: t*GZPVBQQMZPOMJOFZPVXJMMSFDFJWFBOFNBJM 1 September 2008 and 31 August 2009. with the outcome of your application during the evening of 17 April 2013. Applying online – helpful hints t*OUFSOFUBDDFTTJTBWBJMBCMFGSFFPGDIBSHFGSPN t*GZPVBSFDPNQMFUJOHZPVSBQQMJDBUJPOPOMJOF any Harrow library. a comprehensive guide is available at www.eadmissions.org.uk. Completing your application online or in writing t"QQMZPOMJOFBUwww.harrow.gov.uk/ schooladmissions or www.eadmissions.org.uk. tChild’s details: Complete your child’s name as You will be able to apply online to any of it appears on their birth certiﬁcate. Do not use London’s maintained primary schools shortened names or nicknames. t5IFPOMJOFBQQMJDBUJPOTZTUFNIBTBTFBSDI facility to help you identify schools in the local tAddress: If you are applying in writing please area and links to more information about the check that your address falls within Harrow schools. before completing the form. The address used must be the child’s home address on 15 January 2013. Applications must be made to your council. If you change your address after completing the form, you must tell the council straightaway. 6 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

How to apply (cont.)

Please do not list an address of someone who rankings on your application form and offer the provides a temporary care arrangement for school you have ranked highest. For example, your child, a business address, childminder’s if the school you named as your second address, a relative’s address or any other preference and the school you named as your address other than the child’s home address. fourth preference can offer you a place, we will If a school place is offered on the basis of an offer you a place at the school you ranked as incorrect address, the place may be withdrawn. your second preference. Lower preferences will be discarded. t8IFSFBDIJMEMJWFTXJUIQBSFOUTXJUITIBSFE responsibility, each for part of a week, the With a paper application you can apply to any address where the child lives is determined maintained school anywhere in the UK. Once using a joint declaration from the parents you have decided on the order in which to rank stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s your school preferences, please complete the residence is split equally between both parents, school preference section listing the names of then parents will be asked to determine which the schools (preference one being your highest residential address should be used for the ranked school). When filling in each preference purpose of admission to school. If no joint you must include the full name, Department for declaration is received where the residence is Education (DfE) number and postcode of each split equally by the closing date for applications, school. The DfE numbers for Harrow schools the home address will be taken as the address can be found on the relevant school pages in of the parent who receives child benefit. In this guide. cases where parents are not eligible for child benefit the address will be that of the parents You should try and use all the preferences where the child is registered with the doctor. available to you. You do not have to apply to If the residence is not split equally between six schools however initially you will only be both parents then the address used will be the considered for the schools that you list on the address where the child spends the majority form. We recommend that you apply to at least of the school week. one school which is near your home, as distance is used by many schools to decide which tCurrent school: Complete the details of the children are offered places. pre school your child is attending. If your child changes pre school after you submit your If you do not include a local Harrow school on application it is really important that you your list of preferences you will have no say in notify us. which school your child is offered. This could mean you may be offered a place a considerable tPreferences: On your application form you distance from your home as local schools will will be asked to list six schools, ranked in order have filled from applicants who named them on of preference. Each of your preferences will the application form. be treated as a separate application. You must name the schools that you wish to apply for, Consider the admissions arrangements of each wherever they are in the country, in the order you of the schools you are applying to and, using the prefer them. This is important because we can information about how places were offered in the only make one offer. If more than one school past, consider how successful your application that you have listed on your application form can might be. You will find the statistics on page offer your child a place, then we will refer to the 12 which show how places were allocated at Harrow schools last year. 7 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

How to apply (cont.)

The level and pattern of demand for schools school. Where twins are concerned and one changes every year. This means the distance twin has a Statement of Special Educational to which we can offer places also changes. The Needs that names a specific school the other table on page 12 shows the distance offered for twin will be treated as having a sibling link for last year. This will change every year depending that academic year. on where children live. Please do not assume that because children in your area attend a t Social/medical needs: Some schools give priority particular school that your child will also be to children with social or medical needs. If you offered a place. state a preference for a particular school because of the medical, social or special educational needs Where a school is oversubscribed, its published of your child, you must demonstrate how this admission criteria will be used to decide the school meets your child’s special circumstances. order in which applicants will be offered places. Along with your application you should submit Councils will not pass on details of where the supporting evidence which sets out the particular school was ranked, and no school will be told reasons why the school is the most suitable and about other schools a parent has applied for. the difficulties that could be caused if your child has to attend another school. This will normally To find out which are your local Harrow schools, be in the form of a report from a suitably qualified you can go to www.harrow.gov.uk/distancetool. professional, like a consultant. Please see individual schools’ oversubscription criteria for tReasons for preference: For each preference further information as to how this criterion will we have provided you with some space to note be applied and what information you will need why you have selected a school. This box does to provide. not need to be completed. Any information you do provide will be passed to the school. Please tLooked After Children/Previously Looked note that unless the information you provide After Children:"AMPPLFEBGUFSDIJMEPSBDIJME relates directly to the school’s oversubscription who was previously looked after but immediately criteria it will not have a bearing on your after being looked after became subject to an application. adoption, residence, or special guardianship order. A looked after child is a child who is (a) tSiblings: A sibling is a child’s brother or sister, in the care of a local authority, or (b) being half brother or sister, adopted foster brother provided with accommodation by a local or sister, step brother or sister living in the authority in the exercise of their social services same family unit at the same address. It does functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of not include cousins or other extended family the Children Act 1989). members who live in the same household. This may vary from school to school, please see An adoption order is an order under Section individual schools’ oversubscription criteria for 46 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. further information as to how this criterion will be "ASFTJEFODFPSEFSJTBOPSEFSTFUUMJOHUIF applied and what information you will need to arrangements to be made as to the person with provide. whom the child is to live under Section 8 of the Children Act 1989. Section 14A of the Children In the case of twins, triplets and other multiple- "DUEFmOFTBATQFDJBMHVBSEJBOTIJQPSEFS birth children, if one child can be offered a as an order appointing one or more individuals place in a preferred school, other multiple-birth to be a child’s special guardian (or special children will be allocated a place in the same guardians). 8 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

How to apply (cont.)

tChildren of Staff: Some schools may give Distance is calculated using a computerised priority to children of staff at the school. Please mapping system based on Ordnance Survey see individual schools’ oversubscription criteria and address data. To find distances to for further information on how this criterion will schools in Harrow go to www.harrow.gov.uk/ be applied. distancetool. tParent/carer details: Please enter details of In cases where applicants live equidistant from the the person with parental responsibility for the preferred school and places cannot be offered to child. All correspondence will be sent to the both children, the available place will be allocated address details provided. If your address is using a random computer selection. different to the child’s address, you will need to write to the Harrow School Admissions Service tParents/family: A parent is any person who has explaining why. parental responsibility for or is the legal guardian of the child. Where admission arrangements t*GCPUIQBSFOUTTIBSFDVTUPEZ QMFBTFBEWJTFVT SFGFSUPAQBSFOUTBUUFOEBODFBUDIVSDIJUJT in writing or by email and give both addresses, TVGmDJFOUGPSKVTUPOFQBSFOUUPBUUFOEA'BNJMZ quoting your child’s application reference members’ include only parents, as defined number. We will only discuss the application with above, and siblings. the persons listed in this section. Submitting your application tSupplementary Information Forms (SIF): If you are applying to a voluntary aided school tPlease ensure you note your application reference e.g. faith schools, Academy school, Free number as you will need to quote this number school, boarding school or selective school before we can discuss any details of your you will be required to complete an additional application over the telephone. If you apply online Supplementary Information Form (SIF). These you will be issued with an application reference can be obtained directly from the school and number once your application is submitted. If you for Harrow schools are available on the Harrow apply in writing your application reference number website www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions. will appear on the acknowledgement letter that The SIF should be completed in addition to your Harrow sends you. Email correspondence will only online or written application. Failure to complete be accepted from the email address provided on a SIF may result in your application to that your application. particular school being unsuccessful. t*GZPVBQQMZJOXSJUJOHQMFBTFFOTVSFZPV Where individual school admissions remember to sign and date the form. If the form arrangements do not provide explicit definitions is returned without being signed, we are unable of sibling, distance, additional/supplementary to accept it as a completed application form. forms and parents/family members the following Your completed form can be returned to your definitions will apply: child’s Harrow primary school or by post. Make sure you use the correct postal charge. Harrow tDistance: Distance will be measured in a Council cannot be held responsible for postal straight line from the address point of a home to delays, lost forms or non receipt of forms. the centre point of the school site. Each centre point factors in on-site buildings only and is t*GZPVOFFEIFMQXJUIZPVSBQQMJDBUJPOQMFBTF agreed by the school. contact us on 020 8901 2620 or email [email protected] 9 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

How to apply (cont.)

Proof of address What you should expect after you have sent us We do not require proof of address to be sent in your form with your application form. Online applications will receive an automatic t5IFSFJTTFDUJPOPOUIFGPSNXIJDIBTLTZPVGPS acknowledgement once the form is submitted. your council tax reference number, if you know Once we have received your paper application we your council tax reference please complete this will send you an acknowledgment. If you do not section receive an acknowledgement within 20 working t)BSSPX$PVODJMXJMMDIFDLJOUFSOBMDPVODJM days please contact us. databases in order to verify your address t8IFSFJUJTOPUQPTTJCMFUPWFSJGZZPVSBEESFTT Late applications and changes to your or you have recently moved we will write to you application asking for two proofs of address You will need to submit your application to Harrow Council by 15 January 2013. It is vital to get your False information application in on time. There is considerably less Harrow Council reserves the right to verify any chance of getting a place at a preferred school if address given as the child’s permanent address the application is late. in order to ensure that it is allocating places appropriately and fairly. If you deliberately give Closing date false address information to obtain a place at a Applications received by 15 January 2013 will school you must expect the offer of the place to be be processed ﬁrst. Applications received after withdrawn. 15 January 2013 will not be considered until all other applications have been dealt with, unless t"OZJOGPSNBUJPOBOEPSBOZTVQQPSUJOH there is supporting evidence to say why the documentation which is false or deliberately application is late. This information must be misleading may also lead to any place offered received by 17 February 2013. being withdrawn t4USJOHFOUDIFDLTXJMMCFDBSSJFEPVUUPFOTVSF Changes to preferences and the order of applications are not fraudulent preferences will only be accepted up until the t)PNFWJTJUTXJMMCFDBSSJFEPVUUPWFSJGZBEESFTTFT closing date of 15 January 2013. After this date any changes you make to your preferences will not be Harrow takes very seriously any attempt added to your application without a genuine reason to gain an advantage in the admissions for doing so, for example, if you have recently process by giving false information and will moved address proof will be required. After 17 investigate possible fraudulent claims. If we February 2013 any changes to your application offer a place at a school and then discover that the offer was made on fraudulent will be administered as a late application and will or misleading information (for example, therefore not be considered until after the offer day a false claim to living at an address) we of 17 April 2013. will withdraw the place offered. This has happened in previous years. Where a place has been offered based on false information, we can withdraw the offer even after your child has started at school. This will cause considerable distress, particularly for your child. Providing false information could lead to legal action being brought against you, including a criminal prosecution.

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How to apply (cont.)

The following are examples of exceptions that If you move in or out of Harrow will be considered. If you move into or out of Harrow after 15 January 2013 and have completed a Common Application If your family moved house after the closing Form (CAF) in your previous borough, you will date you will be asked to provide either: need to contact both your previous council and tQSPPGPGMJWJOHBUUIFOFXBEESFTTPS Harrow with details of your new address. You tBGPSNBMUFOBODZBHSFFNFOUGSPNBMFUUJOHFTUBUF will be given an opportunity to change your agent, which comes into effect on or before 17 preferences as long as this is before 17 February February 2013. 2013.

If you are returning from living abroad you will Starting in reception class need to provide either: In Harrow all children start school in September. tBDPVODJMUBYCJMMDPOmSNJOHSFPDDVQBUJPOPG There is no provision for children to go in to your property before 17 February 2013 if your reception class before September. Any request property has not been occupied or for earlier admission to reception class will be tDPOmSNBUJPOUIBUUFOBODZDFBTFECFGPSF refused. February 2013 and that you will re-occupy your property if it has been rented during your Delaying entry into reception absence or You may feel your child is young for their age or tDPOmSNBUJPOGSPNZPVSFNQMPZFSUIBUZPVXJMM there may be educational reasons why you wish to return to live in Harrow on or before 17 February consider delaying your child’s entry into school. 2013 if you were seconded abroad. You will need the school’s agreement for your child to start school at a later date. You must If you are a single parent who has been ill for discuss this with the headteacher before making some time you will need to provide: your application so that the full implications of de- tFWJEFODFGSPNBEPDUPSPSNFEJDBMQSPGFTTJPOBM layed entry can be explained to you. If you and the school agree to delay your child’s entry to school, If there has been a recent death of an immediate this place will be held for you but your child must family member you will need to provide: start before the end of the school year or the term tFWJEFODF after their fifth birthday, whichever comes first. You will need to provide written confirmation with your If you cannot provide the evidence required for application of the agreement to delay your child’s any of the above circumstances or similar, or it is entry to reception. received after 17 February 2013, your application will be treated as a late application. Even if you wish to delay your child’s Any changes to the application, (e.g. change of must address, change of linked school) received or entry to school you still apply for that come into effect, after the closing date will be a place for your child in the normal way. treated in the same way as a late application. Your application must be received by the deadline for receipt of applications. Change of circumstances You must keep us informed of any change in your circumstances in relation to your application (e.g. sibling leaving the school, change of address, etc).

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Reception allocation for 2012

The following table gives information about the number of applications received by community schools for children entering reception in September 2012, and how places were allocated. Total offered Total Offered the nearest school with a vacancy School name Places available number of Total applications Children with special educational needs Looked after children Medical parent Sibling connections Places offered under distance criterion (furthest distance offered in miles) Medical child

Aylward Primary School 60 174 1 28 31 (0.919) 0 60 Belmont Primary School 60 240 31 29 (0.326) 0 60 Camrose Primary School and Nursery 60 136 12 27 (2.395) 21 60 Cannon Lane First School 120 520 45 75 (0.993) 0 120 Cedars Manor School 90 152 1 25 35 (1.726) 14 75 Earlsmead Primary School 60 133 12 15 (1.057) 7 34 Elmgrove Primary and Nursery School 120 242 2 1 36 65 (4.246) 16 120 Glebe Primary School 90 243 1 29 60 (0.756) 0 90 Grange Primary School 60 170 26 30 (5.777) 4 60 Grimsdyke School 60 313 16 44 (0.545) 0 60 Heathland School 90 279 39 51 (0.922) 0 90 Kenmore Park Infant and Nursery School 90 247 34 52 (2.056) 4 90 Longﬁeld Primary School 90 410 1 31 58 (0.608) 0 90 Marlborough Primary School 90 339 17 73 (0.516) 0 90 Newton Farm Nursery, Infant and Junior School 30 518 17 13 (0.140) 0 30 Norbury School 60 303 34 27 (0.205) 0 61* Pinner Park Infant and Nursery School 120 538 1 39 80 (0.836) 0 120 Pinner Wood School 60 268 1 33 26 (0.611) 0 60 Priestmead School and Nursery 90 374 1 43 46 (0.427) 0 90 Roxbourne Infant School 90 236 32 58 (1.710) 0 90 Roxeth Primary School 60 292 20 40 (0.457) 0 60 Stag Lane Infant and Nursery School 90 201 46 44 (0.340) 0 90 Stanburn First School 120 449 1 43 76 (0.933) 0 120 Vaughan Primary School 90 281 1 30 59 (0.618) 0 90 Weald Infant and Nursery School 90 145 36 18 (2.793) 26 80 Welldon Park Infant School 90 170 17 50 (1.746) 23 90 West Lodge Primary School 90 493 27 63 (0.530) 0 90 Whitchurch First School and Nursery 90 475 43 47 (0.783) 0 90 Whitefriars Community School 60 116 20 33 (3.108) 7 60

* In line with the School Admissions Code 2012, offered over the number places available as last pupil offered was a twin. For all other Harrow schools information can be obtained directly from the school.

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List of Primary Schools in Harrow

Belmont School Key to symbols Hibbert Road, Harrow Weald, HA3 7JT 020 8427 0903 Type of school C Community Headteacher: Mrs Lindsey Shaw VA Voluntary Aided Places Available: 60 A Academy www.belmont.harrow.sch.uk F Free School DfE No. 310 2055 Suplementary C 4-11 - 2 Information Form 9 Camrose Primary School and Nursery Age Range 4-11 St David’s Drive, Edgware, HA8 6JH Nursery Class - 020 8952 3272 Headteacher: Mrs Elena Evans Breakfast Club L Places Available: 60 After School Club G www.camrose.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 2053 Map reference number 1 Please see C 4-11 - L G 3 map on back page for details Cannon Lane First School Cannonbury Avenue, Pinner, HA5 1TS 020 8866 3536 Avanti House School Headteacher: Dame Reena Keeble The temporary site for the Avanti House School is Places Available: 90 the Harrow Teachers’ Centre, Tudor Road, www.cannonlaneﬁrst.org Wealdstone HA3 5PQ. DfE No. 310 2073 Currently Avanti House is also proposing the C 4-11 4 Harrow Teachers’ Centre as a permanent site for the school. Cannon Lane Junior School Cannonbury Avenue, Pinner, HA5 1TS 020 8381 3344 020 8868 7809 Principal: Mr Gareth Jones Headteacher: Mr Richard Johnson Places Available: 60 Places Available: 90 www.avanti.org.uk/avantihouse www.canonlanemiddleschool.ik.org DfE No. 310 4000 DfE No. 310 2056 F 4-11 48 C 4-11 5

Aylward Primary School Cedars Manor School Pangbourne Drive, Stanmore, HA7 4RE Whittlesea Road, Harrow, HA3 6LS 020 8958 9202 020 8428 5845 Headteacher: Mrs Moira Arnold Headteacher: Mrs Heather Lace Places Available: 60 Places Available: 90 www.aylwardschool.org.uk www.cedarsmanor.ik.org DfE No. 310 2099 DfE No. 310 3514 9 G C 4-11 - 1 C 4-11 - L G 6

13 Earlsmead Primary School Kenmore Park Junior School Arundel Drive, S. Harrow, HA2 8PW Moorhouse Road, Kenton, HA3 9JA 020 8864 5546 020 8204 6294 Headteacher: Mrs Emma Billington Headteacher: Mr Michael Baumring Places Available: 60 Places Available: 90 www.webfronter.com/harrow/earlsmead www.kenmoreparkjunior.ik.org DfE No. 310 2092 DfE No. 310 2059 C 4-11 L G 7 C 4-11 - L G 14

Elmgrove Primary and Nursery School Krishna-Avanti Primary School Kenmore Avenue, Kenton, HA3 8LU Camrose Avenue, Edgware, HA8 6ES 020 8907 0162 020 8381 3344 Headteacher: Mr Darren Aisthorpe Executive Headteacher: Mrs Pauline Edwards Places Available: 90 Places Available: 60 www.elmgove.harrow.sch.uk www.krishna-avanti.org.uk DfE No. 310 2082 DfE No. 310 3513 C 4-11 - L G 8 A 4-11 - 15

Glebe Primary School Longﬁeld Primary School D’Arcy Gardens, Kenton, HA3 9JU Dukes Avenue, N. Harrow, HA2 7NZ 020 8204 6564 020 8866 7331 Headteacher: Mrs Donna Barratt Headteacher: Mrs Pam Virdee Places Available: 90 Places Available: 90 www.glebe.harrow.sch.uk www.longﬁeldprimaryschool.co.uk DfE No. 310 2098 DfE No. 310 2066 C 4-11 - G 9 C 4-11 - 16

Grange Primary School Marlborough Primary School Welbeck Road, Harrow, HA2 0RJ Marlborough Hill, Harrow, HA1 1UJ 020 8422 5070 020 8427 3087 Headteacher: Mrs Annette Szymaniak Headteacher: Ms Julia Drozdowskij Places Available: 90 Places Available: 90 www.grangeprimary.org www.marlboroughschool.ik.org DfE No. 310 2071 DfE No. 310 2051 C 4-11 - L 10 C 4-11 L G 17

Grimsdyke School Moriah Jewish Day School Sylvia Avenue, Hatch End, HA5 4QE Cannon Lane, Pinner, HA5 1JF 020 8428 1324 020 8868 2001 Headteacher: Mrs Gwenda Caroli Headteacher: Mr Alan Shaw Places Available: 60 Places Available: 30 www.grimsdyke.harrow.sch.uk www.moriahschool.co.uk DfE No. 310 2052 DfE No. 310 3509 C 4-11 11 VA 4-11 - 18

Heathland School Newton Farm Nursery, Infant and Junior School Eastcote Lane, S. Harrow, HA2 9AG Ravenswood Crescent, S. Harrow, HA2 9JU 020 8422 4503 0208 864 8081 Headteacher: Mr Chris Spruce Headteacher: Mrs Rekha Bhakoo C.B.E. Places Available: 90 Places Available: 30 www.heathlandschool.net www.newtonfarm.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 2072 DfE No. 310 2045 C 4-11 - L G 12 C 4-11 - 19

Kenmore Park Infant and Nursery School Norbury School Moorhouse Road, Kenton, HA3 9JA Welldon Crescent, Harrow, HA1 1QQ 020 8204 8759 020 8863 8769 Headteacher: Mrs Rutinderjit Mahil-Pooni Headteacher: Ms Louise Browning Places Available: 90 Places Available: 60 www.kpins-harrow.org.uk www.norbury.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 2083 DfE No. 310 2096 L G 13 9 L G 20 14 C 4-11 - C 4-11 - Pinner Park Infant and Nursery School St Bernadette’s Catholic Primary School Melbourne Avenue, Pinner, HA5 5TL Clifton Road, Kenton, HA3 9NS 020 8863 2191 020 8204 8902 Headteacher: Miss Karen Disspain Headteacher: Mr David O’Farrell Places Available: 120 Places Available: 60 DfE No. 310 2076 www.st-bernadettes.co.uk C 4-11 - L G 21 DfE No. 310 3500 VA 4-11 L G 29 Pinner Park Junior School Melbourne Avenue, Pinner, HA5 5TJ St George’s Primary Catholic School 020 8863 1239 Sudbury Hill, Harrow, HA1 3SB Headteacher: Miss Katrina Mildner 020 8422 1272 Places Available: 120 Headteacher: Mr Patrick Morrissey www.pinnerparkjuniorschool.co.uk Places Available: 60 DfE No. 310 2060 www.stgeorgesprimary.org C 4-11 L G 22 DfE No. 310 3508 VA 4-11 L G 30 Pinner Wood School Latimer Gardens, Pinner, HA5 3RA St John Fisher Catholic Primary School 020 8868 2468 Melrose Road, Pinner, HA5 5RA Headteacher: Mrs Deb Spruce 020 8868 2961 Places Available: 60 Headteacher: Mrs Anne Lyons www.pinnerwood.harrow.sch.uk Places Available: 60 DfE No. 310 3512 www.stjohnﬁsherschool.co.uk C 4-11 - L G 23 DfE No. 310 3505 VA 4-11 L G 31 Priestmead School and Nursery Hartford Avenue, Kenton, HA3 8SZ St John’s C of E School, Stanmore 020 8907 5434 Green Lane, Stanmore, HA7 3FD Headteacher: Ms Jackie Treacy 020 8954 3978 Places Available: 90 Headteacher: Mrs Jo Hester www.priestmead.harrow.sch.uk Places Available: 60 DfE No. 310 2061 www.stjohns.harrow.sch.uk C 4-11 - G 24 DfE No. 310 3511 VA 4-11 L G 32 Roxbourne School (amalgamating January 2013) Torbay Road, Harrow, HA2 9QF St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School 020 8422 9207 Dobbin Close, Harrow, HA3 7LP Acting Headteacher: Miss Jane Frankau 020 8863 8531 Places Available: 90 Headteacher: Mr Philip Sutton www.roxbourneinfantschool.co.uk Places Available: 60 DfE No. 310 2084 DfE No. 310 2084 www.stjosephs.harrow.sch.uk C 4-11 - L G 25 DfE No. 310 3507 VA 4-11 L 33 Roxeth Primary School Brickﬁelds, Byron Hill Rd, Harrow, HA2 0JA St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School 020 8422 1344 and Nursery Headteacher: Mrs Carole Tobin Long Elmes, Harrow Weald, HA3 6LE Places Available: 60 020 8428 8640 www.roxethschoolharrow.org Headteacher: Mrs Jane Faint DfE No. 310 2050 Places Available: 60 C 4-11 - 27 www.st-teresas.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 3504 St Anselm’s Catholic Primary School VA 4-11 - L G 34 Roxborough Park, Harrow-on-the-Hill HA1 3BE 020 8422 1600 Stag Lane Infant and Nursery School Headteacher: Mrs Anne Monahan Collier Drive, Edgware, HA8 5RU Places Available: 60 020 8952 1475 www.st-anselms.harrow.sch.uk Headteacher: Mrs Nina Will DfE No. 310 3501 Places Available: 90 VA 4-11 G 28 www.staglaneinfant.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 2079 15 C 4-11 L G 35 Stag Lane Junior School Welldon Park Junior School Collier Drive, Edgware, HA8 5RU Wyvenhoe Road, S. Harrow, HA2 8LS 020 8952 2731 020 8422 4304 Headteacher: Mrs Elena Evans Headteacher: Mrs Judy Lethbridge Places Available: 90 Places Available: 90 www.staglanejunior.ik.org www.welldonparkmiddle.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 2063 DfE No. 310 2095 C 4-11 - L G 36 C 4-11 L G 43

Stanburn First School West Lodge Primary School Abercorn Road, Stanmore, HA7 2PJ West End Lane, Pinner, HA5 1AF 020 8954 1423 020 8866 9836 Headteacher: Mrs Anne Drakeford Headteacher: Mrs Kim James Places Available: 120 Places Available: 90 www.stanburnﬁrst.harrow.sch.uk www.westlodge.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 2085 DfE No. 310 2087 C 4-11 L G 37 C 4-11 L G 44

Stanburn Junior School Whitchurch First School and Nursery Abercorn Road, Stanmore, HA7 2PJ Wemborough Rd, Stanmore, HA7 2EQ 020 8954 3823 020 8905 6999 Headteacher: Mrs Lynn Chamberlain Headteacher: Mrs Anne Winstrom Places Available: 90 Places Available: 90 www.stanburnjuniorschool.co.uk www.whitchurchjunior.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 2064 DfE No. 310 2100 C 4-11 L G 38 C 4-11 - 45

Vaughan Primary School Whitchurch Junior School Vaughan Road, W. Harrow, HA1 4EL Wemborough Rd, Stanmore, HA7 2EQ 020 8427 7222 020 8951 5380 Headteacher: Mr Andrew Grifﬁn Headteacher: Ms Tara Gratton Places Available: 90 Places Available: 90 www.vaughan.harrow.sch.uk www.whitchurchunior.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 2097 DfE No. 310 2101 C 4-11 - L G 39 C 4-11 L G 46

Weald Infant and Nursery School Whitefriars Community School Robin Hood Drive, Harrow Weald, HA3 7DH Whitefriars Avenue, Wealdstone, HA3 5RQ 020 8954 4531 020 8427 2080 Acting Headteacher: Mrs Denise Doust Executive Headteacher: Mr Chris Spruce Places Available: 90 Places Available: 60 www.webfronter.com/harrow/wealdﬁrstschool www.whitefriars.harrow.sch.uk DfE No. 310 2086 DfE No. 310 2049 C 4-11 - G 40 C 4-11 - G 47

Weald Junior School Subject to continuing increase in demand for primary Robin Hood Drive, Harrow Weald, HA3 7DH school places it may be that additional reception 020 8954 2733 classes are opened in September 2013. Headteacher: Mr Michael Curtin Places Available: 90 The Planned Admission Numbers (PANs) have been www.wealdjunior.harrow.sch.uk amended to reﬂect permanent expansions agreed DfE No. 310 2067 by Cabinet. C 9 4-11 L G 41

Welldon Park Infant and Nursery School Kingsley Road, S. Harrow, HA2 8LT 020 8864 9378 Headteacher: Ms Tricia Serby Places Available: 90 www.welldonparkinfantschool.co.uk DfE No. 310 2093 C 4-11 - L G 42 16 Apply Applytoday todayat: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

How the system works

WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU ARE NOT OFFERED A Applications to go on the waiting list for schools PLACE AT YOUR PREFERRED SCHOOL? listed as a lower preference will not be considered In nearly every case where a place is offered in unless there are exceptional circumstances. a school that was not ranked on the application Documentary evidence will be required. Applicants form, parents are happy with the alternative who completed an on time application but did offered. It is always a good idea to visit the school not name the school as one of their original where you have been offered a place. This gives preference(s) may apply for their child’s name to you a chance to see the school, rather than rely be added to the waiting list. on what you might have heard about it, and you are also able to discuss any worries that you might 8BJUJOHMJTUTBSFOPUBAmSTUDPNFomSTUTFSWFE have with the school staff. However, if you are list and so time on the list does NOT give any still unhappy about the school offered you may priority. Waiting lists are kept in the priority order decide to use the appeals process (see pages as explained in the admission rules. 18-19). If you do not give a full list of preferences it is taken to mean that all other schools are Places are offered from the waiting list throughout equally acceptable. If it is not possible to offer a the year. When a place becomes available, it place at one of the schools you have listed on the is offered in line with the schools’ published application form you will be offered the school admission criteria. Children may also move down with a vacancy nearest to the home address. the waiting list if another family, with a higher priority under the admission rules, ask for their WITHDRAWAL OF OFFERS child’s name to be added to the list. Places offered at oversubscribed schools will be withdrawn if: Applicants who ask for their child’s name to be tUIFPGGFSXBTNBEFJOFSSPS placed on the waiting list for another school, after tUIFPGGFSXBTNBEFPOUIFCBTJTPGJOGPSNBUJPO a school place has been allocated, are indicating that cannot be conﬁrmed to the satisfaction of they prefer this school to the school already Harrow Council or later proves to be inaccurate allocated. If at a later date a place is offered from tBOJODPSSFDUBEESFTTPSPUIFSGBMTFJOGPSNBUJPOJT the waiting list, this new offer will supersede any supplied. If false information is provided this can previous offer, which will then be withdrawn. lead to prosecution tUIFGBNJMZIBTBDDFQUFENPSFUIBOPOFPGGFSBU Looked after children and previously looked after the same time children and those allocated a place at the school If your child’s place is withdrawn, you will have the in accordance with Harrow’s Fair Access Protocol, right of appeal against this decision. will take precedence over those on a waiting list.

WAITING LISTS If you have been allocated a school place which was not your ﬁrst preference your child’s name will automatically be placed on the waiting list for schools which you have ranked higher than the offer we have made.

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Appeals

If you do not receive an offer from a school that First Stage: establishing the facts, at which the you have made an application to, you have the panel considers: right of appeal to an independent appeals panel. i) whether the admission of an additional child/ additional children would breach the infant class How to appeal size limit; An appeal has to be made in writing setting out the ii) whether the admission arrangements (including grounds on which it is made. You must include the area’s co-ordinated admission arrangements) at least a brief summary of your case. Any appeal complied with the mandatory requirements of the form received without any grounds of appeal School Admissions Code and Part 3 of the School may not be considered to have been lodged Standards and Framework Act 1998; properly and may be returned to you. Additional iii) whether the admission arrangements were information and evidence supporting your appeal correctly and impartially applied in the case(s) in should be submitted as soon as possible and question, and; before the appeal hearing. Please note that any iv) whether the decision to refuse admission was evidence or information submitted on the date one which a reasonable admission authority would of appeal might not be considered at the appeal have made in the circumstances of the case. hearing. The panel may only uphold the appeal at the first By 28 February 2013, Harrow Council will publish stage where: on their website an appeal timetable and who to a) it finds that the admission of additional children send your appeal to. Appeal timetables should would not breach the infant class size limit, or; also be published on each admission authority’s b) it finds that the admission arrangements did not website by the same date. comply with admissions law or were not correctly and impartially applied and the child would have If you wish to appeal please complete the relevant been offered a place if the arrangements had appeal form and return it to the address stated on complied or had been correctly and impartially the form. applied, or; c) it decides that the decision to refuse admission If you wish to appeal for a Harrow community was not one which a reasonable admission school, the form will be available on the website authority would have made in the circumstances but for further information contact the admissions of the case. service. In multiple appeals where a number of children If you wish to appeal for any other school in would have been offered a place under Harrow contact the school directly. paragraphs above, and to admit that number would seriously prejudice the provision of efficient If you wish to appeal for a school outside Harrow, education or efficient use of resources, the panel contact the school directly or that school’s local must proceed to the second stage. authority. The panel must dismiss the appeal at the first Appeals are heard by Independent Panels who are stage where: trained in hearing appeals. For Reception, Year 1 a) it finds that the admission arrangements did and Year 2 appeals the panel will consider each comply with admissions law and were correctly appeal in line with the information set out below. and impartially applied, or; b) it finds that the admission arrangements did not comply with admissions law or were not correctly 18 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

Appeals (continued)

and impartially applied but that, if they had complied and had been correctly and impartially applied, the child would not have been offered a place, and; c) it ﬁnds that the decision to refuse admission was one which a reasonable admission authority could have made.

Second Stage: The panel must compare each appellant’s case for their child to be admitted and decide which of them, if any, to uphold. Where the school could admit a certain number of children without breaching the infant class size limit (or without needing to take measures to avoid breaching it that would prejudice the provision of efﬁcient education or efﬁcient use of resources) the panel must uphold the appeals of at least that number of children.

If you wish to submit your appeal for a Harrow community school you must complete the appeals form available on our website and return it to us by Friday 17 May 2013.

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Transfer to junior school

In combined primary schools the children simply Children not attending a Harrow move on to the next year group (from Year 2 to school Year 3) in the same way as at the end of all You can apply online or you can request an other years. application form from Access Harrow. You should Where the infant school and junior school are return the completed form direct to the Admissions two different schools, parents must express a Service address. preference for a junior school. For the academic year 2013/2014, parents of children in Years 2 will On the application form you can name six schools be given full details of the application procedure you would like your child to attend ranked in order during the school year. of preference. We treat each of your six schools as a separate application and work out how well Applying for a junior school place you qualify for each school using the admission Children attending a Harrow school criteria. We will allocate places by looking at There are two ways to apply, online or by how you have ranked schools on your list of completing Harrow’s common application preferences in the following way: form. Children in Year 2 at a Harrow community t*GZPVSDIJMENFFUTUIFDSJUFSJBGPSNPSFUIBO infant school will be sent an application form in one of the schools for which you have applied, September 2012. we will offer you a place at your highest-ranked school. You should ﬁll in the form and return it to t*GZPVSDIJMENFFUTUIFDSJUFSJBGPSPOMZPOFPGUIF your child’s current school. The closing date schools on your list, we will offer you a place for receipt of applications is 15 January 2013. there. Applications received after this date will not t*GJUJTOPUQPTTJCMFUPPGGFSBQMBDFJOBOZPGZPVS be considered until all other applications have preferred schools, a place will be offered at the been dealt with. nearest junior school to your home address with a vacancy. If you do not put your child’s linked junior school as your highest priority ranking and Most junior schools are likely to have few, if any, are offered a place in a non-linked school you places available after children from the linked ranked higher, your child will NOT have a place infant school have been offered places. at their linked school.

Timetable for transfer to junior school: September 2013

September 2012 You can apply online at www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions. Application forms will be sent to schools for all Year 2 pupils – where the infant school and junior school are two different schools. 15 January 2013 Closing date for receipt of application forms. 17 April 2013 Letters posted to parents with the outcome of their application. If you have applied online you will be sent an email with the outcome of your application. Please wait until you have received the email before logging on to the eadmissions website. 17 May 2013 Closing date for receipt of appeals. Summer Term 2013 Appeal hearings.

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Admission arrangements: Oversubscription criteria

Places will be offered up to the number of places the information as above, the application will NOT available in each school. be treated as a medical claim. If, under any one criterion, more applications d) Medical* reasons relevant to parent(s) are received than there are places available the Parent(s) where there are special medical reasons tiebreaker of distance will be applied. Distance is for seeking a place for their child at the preferred measured in a straight line from home to school. school. Except in wholly exceptional circumstances such applications will only be The admission of pupils with a Statement of Special considered for the school nearest the child’s Educational Needs is dealt with by a completely home. It is only possible to apply to one separate procedure. Details on page 56. community or voluntary aided school on medical grounds. Applications will only be considered for a) A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was the parent(s) with whom the child lives and previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an MUST adoption, residence, or special guardianship 1. be accompanied by supporting evidence from order. a hospital consultant at the time of application. This letter must provide information about a) the b) Children attending the linked infant school parent’s medical condition, b) the effects of this All children currently attending Year 2 in the linked condition and c) why, in view of this, the child must infant school will be given priority even if this attend the preferred school. number is greater than the number of places available at the junior school. (This only applies to 2. If the school is not the closest to home the Infant to Junior transfer applications) consultant must set out in detail the wholly c) Medical* reasons relevant to pupil exceptional circumstances for attending this school Children where there are special medical reasons and the difﬁculties if the child had to attend another for seeking a place at the preferred school. school. If a report from a hospital consultant is not Except in wholly exceptional circumstances such submitted with the application, or does not contain applications will only be considered for the school the information as above, the application will NOT nearest the child’s home. It is only possible to be treated as a medical claim. apply to one community or voluntary aided school on medical grounds. Applications made on If a report from a hospital consultant is not medical grounds MUST submitted with the application, the application will NOT be treated as a medical claim. 1. be accompanied by supporting evidence from a hospital consultant at the time of application. When assessing claims for parents, medical advice This letter must provide information about a) the may be sought from the Harrow Association of child’s medical condition, b) the effects of this Disabled People or Harrow’s Mental Health Service. condition c) and why, in view of this, the child must attend the preferred school. e) Sibling link* (i.e. brothers/sisters living at the 2. If the school is not the closest to home the same address) consultant must set out in detail the wholly Children who will have a brother or sister still exceptional circumstances for attending this attending the infant or junior school at the same school and the difﬁculties if the child had to time (i.e. the sibling will still be attending when the child starts at the school). attend another school. f) Distance* In assessing these applications advice will be Distance measured in a straight line from home sought from Harrow’s Special Educational Needs to school. This must be the address where the Service. If a report from a hospital consultant is not parent and child normally live and they must be submitted with the application, or does not contain living there on the closing date for receipt of applications. 21 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

Applying for an academy school, Headingvoluntary heading aided school and free school

Avanti House 23-24 Krishna-Avanti Primary School Admissions Policy 25-27 Moriah Jewish Day School Admissions Policy 28-30 St Anselm’s Catholic Primary School Admissions Policy 31-33 St Bernadette’s Catholic Primary School Admissions Policy 34-36 St George’s Catholic Primary School Admissions Policy 37-39 St John Fisher Catholic Primary School Admissions Policy 40-42 St John’s Church of England School Stanmore Admissions Policy 43-44 St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School Admissions Policy 45-48 St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School Admissions Policy 49-51

Definitions Where no information is given in individual SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION FORMS school’s admission arrangements, the following Parents who list a voluntary aided school (i.e. Church definitions will apply. of England, Hindu, Jewish or Catholic school) on The admission of pupils with a Statement of Special Harrow’s Common Application Form (CAF) have Educational Needs is dealt with by a completely made a valid application. However, applicants for separate procedure. Details on page 56. voluntary aided schools must also complete and return a supplementary information form to each SIBLING voluntary aided school named on the CAF for their A sibling is a child’s brother or sister, half brother or application to be considered by the governors. sister, adopted/foster brother or sister, step brother or sister living in the same family unit at the same PARENTS address. It does not include cousins or other A parent is anyone who has parental extended family members who live in the same responsibility or is the full-time carer of a child household. (documentary evidence of having full-time care will be required). Where admission arrangements for DISTANCE voluntary aided schools refer to religious practice, Distance is measured in a straight line to the centre parent(s)will be required to provide confirmation point of the school, except for St George’s Catholic of religious practice. Primary School where distance is measured to the main gate. Each centre point/school gate is agreed FAMILY/FAMILIES by the school. When applying the admission rules for voluntary aided schools, family/families means the parent(s) Distance is calculated using a computerised of the child for whom the application is being made. mapping system based on Ordnance Survey and address data. To find your closest schools showing distances go to www.harrow.gov.uk/distancetool. The distance is measured from the address point for the home address to the centre point of the closest school. In cases where applicants live equidistant from the preferred school and places cannot be offered to both children, the available place will be allocated using a random computer selection.

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Avanti House 2013/2014 Admissions Policy

Admission Arrangements measured by “as the crow flies” from their normal family home3 to centre point of the The admission arrangements for Avanti House School using the agreed Local Authority School for the academic year 2013-2014 and, measure of distance as set out in the London subject to any changes approved by the Secretary Borough of Harrow Admissions Booklet/ of State, for subsequent years are: information for the relevant year. a) Avanti House School has a Published d) The remaining places will be offered by random Admission Number of 60 pupils in Year R and allocation using an independently scrutinised 180 students in Year 7. The School will admit process. This process will be equally applied the admission number of pupils/students in to all applicants who have not obtained a place the relevant age group each year if sufficient under all the above over-subscription criteria. applications are received. If there are more applications than available places, the Twins and Multiple birth. In cases where only oversubscription procedure will be applied. one place is available and twins (or other multiple birth children) tie for that place, both (or all) will be b) Avanti House School may set a higher offered a place even if this exceeds the planned admission number than its published admission admission number number for any calendar year. Not withstanding the provisions of paragraphs 8 Consideration of applications. The School will above, the Secretary of State may direct Avanti consider all applications for places. Where fewer House School to admit a named pupil to the than 60 in Year R and 180 applications in Year 7 School on application from an LA. are received, the School will offer places to all those pupils/students who have applied. The operation of a waiting list. After 60 (Year R) and 180 (Year 7) applicants have been offered Procedures where the School is a place for admission, others will be offered a oversubscribed. In the event of over-subscription, place on a waiting list for the relevant year. Places after places are offered to children with statements for admission which are declined or otherwise of SEN where the School is named in the become vacant will be offered to those on the list. statement, the following arrangements will apply: The waiting list will usually be maintained for one academic year from September. The order of the B "QQMJDBOUTXIPBSFAMPPLFEBGUFSPSXIPIBWF waiting list will be determined by the application of been previously looked after as defined by the the oversubscription criteria to the applicants on Admissions Code, (Section 1.7). the list at a point in time. b) Siblings of students who have been offered a Appeals. There will be an independent appeals place1 at Avanti House School in Years R to panel appointed in accordance with the provisions 13. These include brothers and sisters, half of the statutory Code of Practice on School brothers and sisters and step brothers and Admission Appeals. sisters who share the same home. These also include adopted and foster brothers and sisters Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 11, who share the same home. above, the Secretary of State may direct Avanti House School to admit a pupil on an application Of the remaining available places2 from Harrow LA in accordance with the terms of c) 50%: Children who live nearest to the School the Fair Access Protocol. 23 Late Applications. Late applications will not be considered until all on-time applications have been dealt with. Applications received after the closing date will only be considered alongside those applicants who have applied on time if places have not been allocated and there are exceptional reasons for the late application. i.e. a major change of circumstances. A late application will not affect the right of appeal or the right to be placed on the waiting list.

Proof of Identification. Following the offer of a place at the School, parents/carers can be asked to provide their child’s proof of identification and main residence to comply with the School’s admissions criteria. The forms of identification may include;

Birth certiﬁcate (A short Birth Certiﬁcate is acceptable) NHS registration Council tax bill Two current utility bills

1 If an offer is made dependant on a sibling link, the offer is subject to the sibling accepting the ﬁrst offer. However, if the ﬁrst offer is rejected. the dependant offer will be withdrawn. 2 In the event that the remaining places are an odd number, the distance criteria will apply to 50% to the nearest whole number rounded down; the remaining places will be ascertained by random allocation. 3 This would normally be the address of the child registered with their General Practitioner. (GP). 24 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

Krishna-Avanti Primary School HeadingAdmissions Policy heading 2013/2014

Krishna-Avanti Primary School (“the School”) ADMISSIONS AND OVERSUBSCRIPTION is an I-Foundation Voluntary-Aided Hindu faith CRITERIA school and has worked since its inception with the International Society for Krishna Consciousness Where there are more applications for places than (ISKCON) as its official Faith Partner. the number of places available, places will be offered according to the following The Vision Statement of the School reflects its order of priority: distinct character which is to help children realise their spiritual, moral and academic potential in a 1. All looked after children and All adopted welcoming, secure and supportive environment children who were previously looked after centred about loving service to Lord Krishna. The (and children who leave care under a special school enables pupils to enjoy learning, to develop guardianship or residence order) immediately character and competence, and to prepare for following having been looked after. secondary education & the responsibilities of adult 2. Siblings of children who will be attending the life in contemporary Britain. School at the start date of the new entrant 3. Five children per year from practising Hindu As such, all parents and carers as well as families who worship regularly at ISKCON applicants are expected to give their full, Bhaktivedanta Manor (Hilfield Lane, WD25 8EZ) unreserved and positive support for the aims and using the following criteria in order of priority. ethos of the School. This will increase to ten if the School expands to two form entry admitting sixty children: The School is currently a one form entry school a) Families who have taken initiation admitting thirty children into its Reception Class. (diksha) within ISKCON and are regularly The School has applied for planning permission attending Sanga (registered congregation and subject to obtaining planning permission programmes) (and possibly capital funding) the Governing Body b) Families who are registered candidates for intends to incrementally expand into a two form initiation within ISKCON and are regularly of entry school and admit no more than a total of attending Sanga sixty pupils into its Reception Class. Higher years c) Families who have taken initiation within will remain one form of entry with thirty places ISKCON or who have graduated from an each. If planning permission is not obtained then ISKCON gurukula the School will continue to operate as a one d) Families who worship at least weekly at an form entry school admitting thirty children to the ISKCON temple Reception Class. (Applicants applying under this criterion must complete the Bhaktivedanta Manor Form Parents should be aware that the School does section of the SIF. If more applicants apply receive more applications than the number of under this criterion than available places, then places available and that the submission of an unsuccessful applicants will be considered application does not guarantee the offer of a place under criterion 6 and ordered in accordance to at the School. distance to the school.) 4. Community places: If and when the school Parents need to apply for admission for a place expands to two forms of entry, any ten children in the Reception Class even for a child already per year group based on distance criterion admitted to the nursery. In accordance with the alone, irrespective of their faith (Applicants law, attendance at the nursery does not guarantee applying under this criterion are not required to admission to the Reception. complete a SIF.) 25 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions 5. Children of staff will be given priority where sixty children then priority will be given for ten places the member of staff has been employed at out of the sixty places to children who worship with the school for two or more years at the time their families at Bhaktivedanta Manor. The other at which the application for admission to the fifty places will be allocated according to the school is made. Admissions criteria. 6. Children from practising Hindu families (Applicants applying under this criterion must In-Year Admissions complete all sections of page 1 of the SIF) Applications for In-Year admissions are made directly 7. Children from other Hindu families (Applicants to the school using a common application form. who complete the SIF but where the temple If more applications are received than there are cannot verify regular attendance and places available then applications will be ranked adherence to the key tenets will be considered by the governing body in accordance with the under this criterion) oversubscription criteria. If a place cannot be offered 8. Any other children at this time then you may ask us for the reasons and you will be informed of your right of appeal. You Tie-break will be offered the opportunity of being placed on a In the event of there being insufficient vacancies waiting list. This waiting list will be maintained by the to admit all applicants in any of the categories governing body in the order of the oversubscription detailed above, priority will be given to children criteria and not in the order in which the applications whose home address is the shortest distance from are received. Names are removed from the list at the the centre point of the school site. Where two or end of each academic year. When a place becomes more applicants live equidistant from the school available the governing body will inform the parent and places cannot be offered to all children, the that the school is making an offer. places will be offered using random allocation in the presence of an independent witness. Fair Access Protocols The school is committed to taking its fair share of Twins and Multiple Birth children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place In cases where only one place is available and as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, twins (or other multiple birth children) tie for that outside the normal admissions round the governing place, both (or all) will be offered a place even if body is empowered to give absolute priority to this exceeds the planned admission number. a child where admission is requested under any local protocol that has been agreed by both the Children with a Statement of Special I-Foundation and the governing body for the Educational Needs current school year. The governing body has this The admission of children with a statement of power even when admitting the child would mean Special Educational Needs is dealt with by a exceeding the published admission number. completely separate procedure. Details of this separate procedure are set out in the Special ADMISSION PROCEDURE FOR A PLACE IN Educational Needs Code of Practice. RECEPTION SEPTEMBER 2013 1. Although not part of the procedure applicants are Hindu and Bhaktivedanta Manor Places encouraged to attend Open Days or to make an Evidence of Hindu practice or attendance and individual appointment to meet the Head Teacher of regular worship at Bhaktivedanta Manor before applying. (if claimed) is provided by applicants on the 2. Applicants must complete the Local Authority Supplementary Information Form. Applicants must (LA) “Common Application Form” (CAF) that complete the relevant parts of the form and then must be returned to the LA. They must also ask an authorised officer at their local temple or complete a Supplementary Information Form at Bhaktivedanta Manor (as the case may be) to (“SIF”) if wishing to apply for a place on the countersign the form. Bhaktivedanta Manor is the basis of Hindu practice or attendance or for a UK Headquarters of ISKCON. It helped to establish Bhaktivedanta Manor place. the School, assists with setting the ethos of the 3. The SIF must be returned to the School office School and nominates a Governor to the School and not the LA by the closing date. Governing Body. Priority is therefore given for five 4. The CAF and SIF forms can be obtained from places out of the thirty in each year to children Access Harrow at the Harrow Civic Centre, online who worship with their families at Bhaktivedanta at www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions and the Manor. The other twenty five places in each year School office. The SIF form can also be obtained are allocated according to the Admissions criteria. online at www.krishna-avanti.org.uk If the school expands to two form entry admitting 26 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions Krishna-Avanti Primary School Admissions Policy continued

5. Applications must be submitted no later than 8. Unsuccessful applicants will be placed on the date speciﬁed for the return of the LA’s CAF. a waiting list for each year group. If a place 6. Applications received after the closing date will becomes available this will be allocated be considered after those received on time. using the School’s admissions policy and 7. Offers of Reception places will be sent to oversubscriptions criteria. This will be revised applicants from Harrow LA. annually. 9. Unsuccessful applicants have the right to appeal and information will be sent with the decision letter from Harrow Local authority.

INTERPRETATION OF TERMS USED IN THE ADMISSIONS POLICY AND OVERSUBSCRIPTION CRITERIA

Looked after Children"AMPPLFEBGUFSDIJMEJTBDIJMEXIPJT B JOUIFDBSFPGBMPDBMBVUIPSJUZ PS C CFJOH provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at the time of making an application to a school. Under the terms of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. See Section 46 (adoption orders). 6OEFSUIFUFSNTPGUIF$IJMESFO"DU4FF4FDUJPOXIJDIEFmOFTBASFTJEFODFPSEFS as an order settling the arrangements to be made as to the person with whom the child is to live. 4FF4FDUJPO"PGUIF$IJMESFO"DUXIJDIEFmOFTBATQFDJBMHVBSEJBOTIJQPSEFSBT an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or special guardians). Hindu Either practicing or other Hindu families as defined below. Practicing Hindu Regular family attendance at a Hindu temple and following all the key tenets of the Hindu faith (as practised by the Temple) and which are both confirmed by the Temple Priest. Other Hindu families Family attendance at the Temple but where the Temple Priest cannot confirm that all the key tenets of the faith are followed. Family Those individuals who live at the residential address of the parents and/or parent carers and or legal guardians who are submitting an application for a place on behalf of a child. Sibling A child’s brother or sister living at the same address. This includes a child’s half brother or sister, adopted/foster brother or sister and step brother or sister. However this will not apply where the older child will leave school before the younger one starts. Distance Measured in a straight line from home to the centre point of the school site, using the Local Authority’s computerised mapping system based on ordnance survey data. All school official entrances are mapped onto the system. The journey is measured from the address point for the home address to the centre point of the school site. Home Address Where a child lives with parents with shared responsibility, each for part of a week, the address where the child lives is determined using a joint declaration from the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s residence is split equally between both parents, then parents will be asked to determine which residential address should be used for the purpose of admission to school. If no joint declaration is received where the residence is split equally by the closing date for applications, the home address will be taken as the address of the parent who receives child benefit. In cases where parents are not eligible for child benefit the address will be that of the parents where the child is registered with the doctor. If the residence is not split equally between both parents then the address used will be the address where the child spends the majority of the school week. 27 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

Moriah Jewish Day School Admissions Policy 2013/2014

For Admission of a place to the There are 26 places in the Nursery for children aged from three to four (see separate Admissions School from September 2013 Policy). Moriah Jewish Day School’s Foundation Body is the United Synagogue and its religious authority is The School will admit children at any time to all the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew year groups, provided a place is available. Congregations of the Commonwealth. Parents are invited to visit the School prior to Moriah Jewish Day School’s vision is to be an applying. An Open Evening for prospective excellent Jewish school, loved by pupils and parents is held in the autumn, and individual visits parents and admired by the wider community. are also welcome by prior arrangement. Please contact the School for details. The School’s ethos1 demonstrates orthodox Jewish belief and practice, embodied in the The School is not permitted by law to interview principles of Torah and Halachah, in a modern parents, or children, with a view to selection. setting. These include creating a sense of belonging, encouraging and preparing for lifelong All children whose Statement of Special 4 Jewish learning, spiritual growth and practice, Educational Need (SEN) names the School will mutual responsibility within the Jewish community be admitted. and the wider world, and the importance of Israel in Jewish life. Jewish belief and practice permeate OVERSUBSCRIPTION every aspect of the School’s activities and are If the School is oversubscribed, after the intrinsically linked to its secular curriculum. The admission of SEN4 children, priority for admission School welcomes families from any synagogue will be given to those children who meet the denomination or none. criteria as set out in the order of 1 to 7 listed below. The School will give priority to applicants who meet a religious practice test based Oversubscription Criteria 5 on guidelines from the Chief Rabbi. Those 1 Children who are looked after by a local applicants wishing to be considered a authority, or a child who was previously looked 6 priority for available places must complete after , with a completed and valid CRP. a Certificate of Religious Practice (CRP) 2 Children who are currently attending the Moriah 7 based on criteria such as the family’s Nursery , with a completed and valid CRP. 8 synagogue service attendance, commitment 3 Siblings of pupils attending the School on the to Jewish education and voluntary work date of admission, with a completed and valid within the community. CRP. 4 Siblings of former8 pupils of the School, with a The School admits children aged four to 11 and completed and valid CRP. all children must attend full-time schooling by 5 Other children who have a completed and valid the term in which they reach their fifth birthday CRP. 5 (compulsory school age2). There are 30 places 6 Other children who are looked after by a local available in one class in every school year. This is authority, or other children who were previously 6 the School’s Published Admission Number (PAN). looked after by a local authority. Additional children may be admitted under limited 7 Any other children. exceptional circumstances3.

28 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions Moriah Jewish Day School Admissions Policy continued

Tie-Breaker the national offer date will be 16 April (or next In the event of there being more applicants than working day11). places available within each of the above criteria 4 Response by Parents 1 to 7, priority will be given to children living A parent who does not respond to the offer nearest the School. Distance will be measured of a place may have the offer withdrawn if the from the home address9 to the centrepoint of the deadline quoted in the letter is not met. School site using Harrow Council’s computerised 5 Waiting List mapping system. In cases where more than one For those applicants who do not receive applicant lives equidistant from the School, and an offer of a place, parents must advise the places cannot be offered to all these children, School, in writing, if they wish the child’s name the available place will be determined by random to be included on the waiting list. The School’s allocation supervised by a person independent of waiting lists for all years will be kept open the School. indefinitely and the School may check with parents, from time to time, to establish whether APPLICATION PROCEDURES they wish their child to remain on the waiting 1 When to Apply list. The child’s place on the waiting list will be a) Children will be admitted to Reception determined at all times in accordance with the (Foundation II)10 in the September following oversubscription criteria. their fourth birthday. Applications should be Following the application procedure for made by 15 January in the calendar year of Reception places, and once initial offers have entry. Forms are available from September been made, the waiting list will be adjusted to each year. All applications received on time will include late applications. A child’s position on be processed together. By law, priority must the waiting list will not depend upon when the not be given to children based on the date their application was made, but will be determined application is received or their name is added by how the oversubscription criteria are met. to the list. This means that a child’s position on the list 2 How to Apply can go down as well as up, depending on the a) Application for a place in Reception circumstances of all applicants. In the event of (Foundation Stage II)10 is by completion of a a vacancy occurring, the place will be offered Common Application Form (CAF). The form to a child on the waiting list starting with is available from, and should be returned to, the one at the top, at the time, and working the local authority where the child lives9 by 15 downwards until the vacancy is filled. January in the calendar year of entry. Parents are asked to inform the School when b) In addition, the School’s Supplementary they no longer wish their child’s name to Information Form (SIF) must be completed. remain on the waiting list. In order to be eligible for a priority place, 6 Late Applications the School’s Certificate of Religious Practice a) Applications for Reception (Foundation II)10 (CRP1) must also be completed. Both the SIF received between March and the end of and CRP1 are available from the School Office August, for entry in the September of the or website (www.moriahschool.co.uk) and must same year, must be made by completion of a be returned to the School by 15 January in the Common Application Form (CAF). The form is calendar year of entry. available from, and should be returned to, the c) Application for a child whose Statement of local authority where the child lives12 without Educational Need4 names the School is made delay. by a separate process. b) In addition, the School’s Supplementary 3 Offer Date Information Form (SIF) must be completed. For admission in September 2013, a letter to In order to be eligible for a priority place, the parents offering, or refusing, a place will be Certificate of Religious Practice (CRP) must sent by the local authority where the child also be completed. Both the SIF and CRP are lives on 18 April 2013. From 2014 onwards, available from the School Office or website

29 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions (www.moriahschool.co.uk) and must be Access Protocol that has been agreed for that returned to the School without delay. school year. The Governing Body has this Late applications will be processed after power even when admitting the child would those that have been received on time. mean exceeding the PAN. 7 In-Year Applications Application for Reception (Foundation II)10 Notes: 1 Whilst priority will be given to those children whose families received after the start of the academic year demonstrate an on-going commitment to the School’s of normal entry should be made directly to ethos, all families will be expected to respect the ethos. the School. Application is by completion of 2 If a child is offered a place in Reception (Foundation II)10 an Application Form and Supplementary and would start school before the child is of compulsory school age, parents can defer until later in the year, or until Information Form (SIF). In order to be eligible the term in which the child reaches compulsory school for a priority place, the School’s Certificate age, or take up the place part-time until the child reaches of Religious Practice (CRP) must also be compulsory school age. 3 Twins and children from multiple births will be admitted completed. All forms are available from the when one of the siblings is the 30th child and, as a result, School Office or website (www.moriahschool. the School’s PAN will be increased. co.uk), and must be returned to the School 4 A Statement of Special Educational Need is a statement 12 made by the local authority (see section 324 of the without delay, together with proof of address . Education Act 1996) specifying the special educational 8 Applications Outside the Normal Admissions provision required for that child. Round 5 A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care of a Places may be available in years other than local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority (see section 22(1) of the Children Act Reception. Application for a school place 1989). Applications for looked after children must be made outside the normal admissions round should by the person with parental responsibility and/or the child’s be made directly to the School. An Application social worker. 6 A previously looked after child is a child who has ceased to Form, Supplementary Information Form (SIF) be so because they have been adopted (see section 46 of and Certificate of Religious Practice (CRP) must the Adoption & Children Act 2002), or became subject to a be completed. All forms are available from the residence order (see section 8 of the Children Act 1989), or special guardianship order (see section 14A of the Children School Office or website (www.moriahschool. Act 1989). co.uk), and must be returned to the School 7 There is no automatic transfer from the School’s Nursery without delay, together with proof of address12. to Reception (Foundation II)10. Parents must apply via the 9 Right of Appeal local authority where the child lives9. 8 Siblings of pupils attending the School at the time of Parents who receive a letter to say that their admission and siblings of former pupils include half- application has not been successful have the siblings, foster siblings, step-siblings, adopted siblings and right to appeal. Parents wishing to appeal other children living permanently in the same home. 9 The child’s home address shall be determined as at the must write to the Clerk to the Governors at the deadline for application. Where parents reside at separate School address, within 20 days of receiving addresses, but with shared responsibility for the child, it will the letter of refusal. The procedure will be be the address at which the child spends most of the week. 10 Reception (Foundation II)10 is the entry class to primary explained in a response by the School and schools as defined by section 142 of the School Standards the timetable for the process will be published Framework Act 1998. on the School’s website (www.moriahschool. 11 ‘Working day’ is defined as any day other than a Saturday, co.uk) by 28 February each year. Sunday, or a day which is a bank holiday within the meaning of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971. Parents are 10 Children from Overseas advised to make any necessary arrangements if the National Applications for children coming from Offer Day falls during Pesach. overseas must be treated in accordance with 12 If proof of address is requested by the School, this must not include evidence of personal details about parents European Union law or Home Office rules and families, such as maiden names, criminal convictions, for non-European Economic Area nationals. marital or financial status (including marriage certificates), Non–statutory guidance on this should be the first language of parents or the child; details about parents’ or a child’s disabilities, special educational needs available on the website of the Department for or medical conditions. Education. 13 If proof of date of birth is requested by the School, at no 11 Fair Access Protocol time must a ‘long’ birth certificate be provided. Moriah Jewish Day School is committed to FALSE INFORMATION taking its reasonable share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set Places can be withdrawn after an offer has been out in the locally agreed Fair Access Protocol. made if it is found that the offer was made on the Accordingly, outside the normal admissions basis of false or fraudulent information. round, the Governing Body is empowered For further information please contact the to give absolute priority to a child where School Office on: 020 8868 2001 admission is requested under a local Fair

30 ARCHDIOCESEApply today OF WESTMINSTER/LONDONat: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions BOROUGH OF HARROW St Anselm’s Catholic Primary School 2013/2014 Admissions Policy

As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic The Governing Body will consider all education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, applications for admission to the school in Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every accordance with this Admissions Policy and aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that Oversubscription Criteria the Catholic character of the school’s education is fully supported by all families in the school. All The Governing Body intends to admit no more applicants are therefore expected to give their full, than a total of 60 pupils into its Reception Classes unreserved and positive support for the aims and in any school year. Parents should be aware that ethos of the school. the School regularly receives more applications than the number of places available and that the Applications must be submitted no later than submission of an application does not guarantee the date speciﬁed for the return of the LA’s the offer of a place at the School. CAF.

Applications are invited for September 2013 The admission of pupils with a statement of from families whose child attains 4 years of age Special Educational Needs is dealt with by a between 01/09/2012 and 31/08/2013. completely separate procedure. This procedure is integral to making and maintaining statements Making an Application by the pupil’s home Local Authority. Details of this 1. Applicants must complete the Local Authority procedure are set out in the Special Educational (LA) “Common Application Form” (CAF). Needs Code of Practice. They should also complete a Supplementary Information Form. Both of these forms are Applicants must provide proof of their residential obtainable from the school office, the LA address at the time of application. The two Admissions Service and online at www. harrow. acceptable forms of documentation are either a gov.uk/schooladmissions. The CAF allows current Council Tax letter or current Child Benefit you to nominate up to six schools in order of letter. Independent verification may be sought of preference. You should submit only one CAF the applicant’s residential address. by the specified date of return. If you submit more than one CAF the last CAF received will Applicants may defer entry to school up until withdraw an earlier submitted CAF. statutory school age, i.e. the first day of term 2 Failure to complete and return both following the child’s fifth birthday. Application is the Common Application Form and the made in the usual way and then the deferment is Supplementary Information Form by 15th requested. Applicants may also request that their January 2013 may affect the priority accorded child attend part-time until statutory school age is to your application by the Governing Body. reached. The place will then be held until the first The supplementary forms should be returned day of the spring or summer term. directly to the school office together with the child’s baptismal certificate, if applicable. Entry may not be deferred beyond statutory If you are applying to another Catholic school school age or beyond the year of application. you will be required to complete a set of Parents of children with birthdays in the summer supplementary papers for each Catholic term should be aware that, if they wish to defer, school. they will need to apply for a Year 1 place for the The local authority will write to you on behalf of following September and that if the school is the Governing Body with the outcome of your oversubscribed they are very unlikely to obtain application on 16th April 2013. a place. 31 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions If your application for a place at St Anselm’s is 1. Catholic looked after children and Catholic refused you will have the right of appeal to the children who have been adopted (or made Independent Appeal Panel. Further details of this subject to residence orders or special procedure will be sent out with the refusal letter. guardianship orders) immediately following having been looked after. Unsuccessful applicants may request in writing 2. Baptised children of practising Catholic to be placed on a waiting list maintained for each families. Children must be baptised at the date year group. If a place becomes available this will of application. be allocated in accordance with the School’s 3. Other baptised Catholics. Admissions Policy and Oversubscription Criteria. 4. Other looked after children and children Names will remain on the list for the remainder of who have been adopted (or made subject the academic year. Applicants will need to show, in to residence orders or special guardianship writing, their continued interest at the end of each orders) immediately following having been academic year. looked after. 5. Catechumens and children who belong to an In-Year Admissions Eastern Christian Church. Applications for In-Year admissions are made 6. Children of non-Catholic Christian families directly to the school. If a place is available and whose parents wish them to have a Catholic there is no waiting list the child will be admitted. education and whose application is supported If more applications are received than there are by a minister of religion. places available then applications will be ranked 7. Children from non-Christian faiths whose by the governing body in accordance with the parents wish them to have a Catholic education oversubscription criteria, with the following and whose application is supported by a modifications: Catholic children without an offer of a school place elsewhere are given priority minister of religion. JNNFEJBUFMZBGUFS$BUIPMJDAMPPLFEBGUFSDIJMESFO 8. Any other applicants. similarly, other children without an offer of a school place are given priority immediately after Note A: PUIFSAMPPLFEBGUFSDIJMESFO*GBQMBDFDBOOPUCF The Governing Body will give first priority to an offered at this time then you may ask us for the application within a category where compelling reasons and you will be informed of your right evidence is provided at the time of application of of appeal. You will be offered the opportunity of an exceptional social or medical need of the child being placed on a waiting list. This list will be which can only be met at this school. maintained by the governing body in the order of the oversubscription criteria as modified above Any application on these grounds within one of and not in the order in which the applications the above admission criteria must be made at are received. Names will be reviewed at the end of each academic year. When a place becomes the time of application and be accompanied by available the governing body will decide who is at supporting documentation from a social worker or the top of the list so that an offer can be made. NHS Consultant fully detailing the child’s condition or need, which fully states why St Anselm’s is Fair Access Protocols the only school where this need can be met. The The school is committed to taking its fair share Governing Body reserves the right to request of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to further information where an application is made place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. on this basis. Accordingly, outside the normal admissions round the governing body is empowered to give absolute Note B: priority to a child where admission is requested In applying each of the above eight under any local protocol that has been agreed by oversubscription criteria priority will then be given both the Diocese and the governing body for the to those children who, at the proposed date of current school year. The governing body has this admission, will have a sibling attending power even when admitting the child would mean St Anselm’s Catholic Primary School. exceeding the published admission number. In cases where multiple siblings tie for the last OVERSUBSCRIPTION CRITERIA available space, then all will be offered a place, Where there are more applications than the even if this exceeds the planned admission number. number of places available, places will be offered according to the following order of priority:

32 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions St Anselm’s Catholic Primary School Admissions Policy continued

Tie-breaker lives is determined using a joint declaration from In the event of there being insufficient vacancies the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a to admit all applicants in any of the categories child’s residence is split equally between both detailed above, priority will be given to children parents, then parents will be asked to determine whose parents’/legal guardians’ residential which residential address should be used for address is the shortest distance from the the purpose of admission to school. If no joint midpoint of St Anselm’s Catholic Primary School. declaration is received where the residence is Distance is measured in a straight line from split equally by the closing date for applications, home to the centre point of the school site using the home address will be taken as the address a computerised mapping system based on of the parent who receives child benefit. In cases ordnance survey data. In cases where applicants where parents are not eligible for child benefit the live equidistant from the school and places cannot address will be that of the parents where the child be offered to both children, the place will be is registered with the doctor. If the residence is offered using random allocation in the presence not split equally between both parents then the of an independent witness. Where a child lives address used will be the address where the child with parents with shared responsibility, each spends the majority of the school week. for part of a week, the address where the child

INTERPRETATION OF TERMS USED IN THE ADMISSIONS POLICY AND OVERSUBSCRIPTION CRITERIA

Looked after Children Any child in the care of the Local Authority or in accommodation provided by them e.g. a child who has been placed with foster carers, as defined by section 22 of The Children Act 1989 CatholicA$BUIPMJDNFBOTBNFNCFSPGB$IVSDIJOGVMMDPNNVOJPOXJUIUIF4FFPG3PNF5IJT includes the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be evidenced by a certificate of baptism in a Catholic Church or a certificate of reception into the full communion of the Catholic Church. For the purposes of this policy, it includes a looked after child who is part of a Catholic family where a priest’s reference demonstrates that the child would have been baptised or received if it were not for their status as a looked after child (e.g. a looked after child in the process of adoption by a Catholic family). Parent The person or persons who have legal responsibility for the child. Sibling A child’s brother or sister living at the same address. This includes a child’s half brother or sister, adopted/foster brother or sister and step brother or sister. Practising Catholics Practising Catholic means a Catholic child from a practising Catholic family where weekly practice is verified by a reference from a Catholic priest in the standard format laid down by the Diocese. Catechumens Children for whom there is a certificate of reception into the order of catechumens. Eastern Christians Eastern Christian Churches that are not in full Communion with the See of Rome. Christian A member of one of the member churches of Churches Together in Great Britain and Ireland.

Applications for Reception 2012 The school was heavily oversubscribed in 2012. We received 209 applications for 60 places. 28 applicants in category 2(a) – baptised children of practising Catholic families with a sibling attending the school – were offered a place and 32 applicants in category 2(b) – baptised children of practising Catholic families with no sibling attending the school – were offered a place in accordance with the distance criterion set out in our tie breaker. 33 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions St Bernadette’s Catholic Primary School Admissions Policy 2013/2014

St. Bernadette’s School is for children who are School attached:- St William of York, St baptised Catholics and whose parents/guardians Erconwald’s and St Anthony’s. (Parish maps wish them to be instructed in the Catholic Faith are available from the school or respective and receive the sacraments of the Church. Pupils parishes) should be from practising Catholic families and be 4. Baptised practising Catholic children likely to derive spiritual beneﬁt from being at the 5. Other baptised Catholic children. School. 0UIFS-PDBM"VUIPSJUZA-PPLFEBGUFSDIJMESFO and children who have been adopted (or Practising Catholic Applicants for places should made subject to residence orders or special be supported by a recommendation from their guardianship orders) immediately after having Parish Priest or from a Priest known to them, on been looked after. the form provided by the School, indicating the 7. Catechumens and Christians of other regularity of attendance at Church and any other denominations whose parents wish them relevant information. As a Catholic school, we to have a Catholic education and whose aim to provide a Catholic education for all our application is supported by their Minister of pupils. At a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and religion practice permeate every aspect of the school’s 8. Any other applicants whose parents wish them activity. It is essential that the Catholic character to have a Catholic education and can provide of the school’s education is fully supported written evidence from a religious leader of the by all families in the school. All applicants are regular practise of their faith. therefore expected to give their full, unreserved 9. Any other applicants and positive support for the aims and ethos of the school. Applications are invited for September Where offering places to all applicants in any 2013 from families whose children attains 4 years category would lead to oversubscription priority of age between 1st September 2012 and 31st will be given as follows: August 2013. THE GOVERNORS received 150 1. Exceptional Circumstances: Governors applications for the sixty available places last year will give top priority within each criterion to and intend to admit up to sixty children to the applications where professional evidence, Reception Year in each school year. supplied at the time of application, indicates that the applicant has a compelling need to OVERSUBSCRIPTION CRITERIA attend St Bernadette’s Catholic Primary School. Such evidence must be supplied by such as a Where there are more applications for places than doctor, social worker or priest. the 60 available, applicants will be placed in the 2. Siblings of pupils who will be in attendance at following categories, listed in order of priority: the school at the start date of the new entrant. 1. Catholic Looked-after children and Catholic Siblings are deﬁned as a brother or sister, children who have been adopted (or made adopted and half brothers/sisters living at the subject to residence orders or special same address, not including cousins or other guardianship orders) immediately after having extended family members who reside in the been looked after. household, but will include step brothers and 2. Baptised Catholic children from practising foster children who are part of the Catholic Catholic families living in All Saints’ Parish, family. Kenton. For a map of the parish please visit 3. The proximity of the address point for the www.rcdow.org.uk/virtual. home address to the centre point of the school 3. Other baptised Catholic children from measured by a straight line on the Ordnance practising Catholic families living in Survey map, using Harrow’s computerised neighbouring parishes without a Catholic 34 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions St Bernadette’s Catholic Primary School Admissions Policy continued

mapping system (www.harrow.gov.uk/ 3. If you are applying to another Catholic school distancetool), in cases where applicants’ live you will be required to complete a set of equal distance from the school and places supplementary papers for each Catholic cannot be offered to both children, a random school. allocation i.e. lottery, will take place in the 4. The admission of pupils with a Statement of presence of an independent witness. Special Educational Needs is dealt with by a 4. Multiple births: Governors will take the completely separate procedure. This procedure opportunity to admit twins/triplets siblings is integral to making and maintaining applying for the same academic year, where statements by the pupil’s home Local Authority. one child has been offered a place and the Details of this procedure are set out in the other(s) have not. This will most commonly be Special Educational Needs Code of Practice. by admitting a second twin and going over the 5. Applicants must provide proof of their infant class size limit. (We will no longer have residential address. The two acceptable forms to take qualifying measures after a year as the of documentation are either a current Council BEEJUJPOBMDIJMEDIJMESFOXJMMSFNBJOAFYDFQUFE Tax letter or current Child Benefit Book/letter. until the end of KS1). Independent verification may be sought of the applicant’s residential address. Applications must be submitted by the date 6. If your application for a place at St Bernadette’s specified for the return of the LA’s CAF and letters Catholic Primary School is refused you will to Parents offering a place will be sent on the 16th have the right of appeal to the Independent April. Appeal Panel. 7. Unsuccessful applicants will be invited to Making an Application be placed on a Waiting List maintained 1. In accordance with the Local Authority (LA), for each year group. If a place becomes BQQMJDBOUTNVTUDPNQMFUFUIF-"A$PNNPO available this will be allocated in accordance Application Form’ (CAF) from their own LA. with the School’s Admissions Policy and The Harrow CAF is obtainable both from the Oversubscription Criteria. Places on our School Office and the Harrow LA Admissions waiting list will be held open for a period until Service. The CAF allows you to nominate up to the end of Year 6 when the child would have left six schools in order of preference. You should our school. submit only one CAF by the specified date 8. In-Year Admissions : applications for in-year of return. If you submit more than one CAF, admissions are made directly to the school the last CAF received will withdraw an earlier using a Common Application Form. If a place submitted CAF. is available and there is no waiting list the child 2. Applicants should complete and return the will be admitted. If there is a waiting list, then School’s own Supplementary (SIF) form. applications will be ranked by the Governing The SIF is obtainable from the School Office/ Body in accordance with the oversubscription or website: www.st-bernadettes.co.uk, and criteria – Catholic children without an offer of parents/carers should provide the stipulated a school place elsewhere are given priority documentation including the child’s proof of JNNFEJBUFMZBGUFS$BUIPMJDAMPPLFEBGUFS date of birth and baptismal certificates. The children and Catholic children who have been Supplementary Information Form (SIF) should adopted or made subject to residence orders be returned directly to the school office by the or special guardianship orders immediately specified closing date. If any of the evidence after having been looked after, similarly, other in the SIF is found to be fraudulent or wrong children without an offer of a school place are in any way then the place may be withdrawn. HJWFOQSJPSJUZJNNFEJBUFMZBGUFSPUIFSAMPPLFE Practising Catholics need to provide a priests after’ children and children who have been reference. adopted or made subject to residence orders

35 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions or special guardianship orders immediately by both the Diocese and the governing body after having been looked after. If a place for the current school year. The governing cannot be offered at this time then you body has this power even when admitting the may ask us for the reasons and you will be child would mean exceeding the published informed of your right of appeal. You will be admission number. Applicants may defer offered the opportunity of being placed on a entry to school up until statutory school age waiting list. This waiting list will be maintained i.e. the first day of term following the child’s by the Governing Body in the order of the fifth birthday. Application is made in the usual oversubscription criteria and not in the order in way and then the deferment is requested. The which the applications are received. When a place will then be held until the first day of the place becomes available the Governing Body spring or summer term. Applicants may also will decide who is at the top of the list so that request that their child attend part-time until an offer can be made. statutory school age or beyond the year of 9. Fair Access Protocols : The school is application. committed to taking its fair share of children Applicants whose children have birthdays in who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set the summer term should be aware that, if they out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, wish to defer, they will need to apply for a Year outside the normal admissions round the 1 place for the following September and if the governing body is empowered to give absolute school is oversubscribed they are very unlikely priority to a child where admission is requested to obtain a place. under any local protocol that has been agreed

INTERPRETATION OF TERMS USED IN THE ADMISSIONS POLICY AND OVERSUBSCRIPTION CRITERIA

Applicants The parents and/or carers submitting an application for a place on behalf of a child. Looked after Any child in the care of the Local Authority or in accommodation provided by them e.g. a child who has been placed with foster carers. As defined by section 22 of the Children Act 1989 Catholic means a Catholic child from a practising Catholic family where this practice is verified by a SFGFSFODFGSPNB$BUIPMJDQSJFTUJOUIFTUBOEBSEGPSNBUMBJEEPXOCZUIF%JPDFTFA'BNJMZ includes the Catholic or Catholics who have legal responsibility for the child. Family Those individuals who live at the residential address of the parents and/or legal guardians who are submitting an application for a place on behalf of a child. Siblings A brother or sister living at the same address not including cousins or other extended family members who reside at the household, but will include step brothers/sisters and foster children who belong to the Catholic family Home Address Where a child lives with parents with shared responsibility, each for part of a week, the address where the child lives is determined using a joint declaration from the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s residence is split equally between both parents, then parents will be asked to determine which residential address should be used for the purpose of admission to school. If no joint declaration is received where the residence is split equally by the closing date for applications, the home address will be taken as the address of the parent who receives child benefit. In cases where parents are not eligible for child benefit the address will be that of the parents where the child is registered with the doctor. If the residence is not split equally between both parents then the address used will be the address where the child spends the majority of the school week. Practising CatholicsA1SBDUJTJOH$BUIPMJDNFBOTB$BUIPMJDDIJMEGSPNBQSBDUJTJOH$BUIPMJDGBNJMZXIFSF5IJT practice is verified by a reference from a Catholic Priest in the standard format laid down by the Diocese. Regular attendance Families who attend Sunday Mass more often than not as can be determined by the priest’s reference form. Catechumens Children for whom there is a certificate of reception into the order of catechumens. Eastern Christians Eastern Christian Churches that are not in full Communion with the See of Rome. Christian A member of one of the Churches as defined by “Churches Together” (the organisation formerly known as the British Council of Churches). CAF Common Application Form used by all schools in Harrow. NB: Only one CAF to be completed.

36 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

St George’s Catholic Primary School Admissions Policy 2013/2014

As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a 2. Practising Catholic – Siblings Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Catholic i. Resident in the parish of St. George’s, school, Catholic doctrine and practice permeates Sudbury every aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential ii. Resident in the parishes of St. Bernard’s, that the Catholic character of the school’s St. Gabriel’s or St. Erconwald’s education is fully supported by all families in the iii. Other practising Catholic siblings school. All applicants are therefore expected to 3. Practising Catholic children of members of give their full, unreserved and positive support for the teaching and support staff employed at the aims and ethos of the school. St George’s Catholic School with a contract of employment of 0.5 FTE or more where the Applications are invited for September 2013 member of staff has been employed at the from families whose child attains 4 years of age school for two or more years at the time when between 1st September 2012 and 31st August the application for admission to the school is 2013. made. 4. Practising Catholic – Non Siblings The Governing Body intends to admit in the i. Resident in the parish of St. George’s, academic year 2013-14 up to the school’s Sudbury Published Admission Number of 60 pupils in the ii. Resident in the parishes of St. Bernard’s, Reception class. St. Gabriel’s or St. Erconwald’s. iii. Other practising Catholic children The Governing Body will give top priority 5. Other Catholic – Siblings within each category to an application where 6. Other Catholic – Non Siblings compelling evidence is provided at the time 7. Other children looked after by a local of application of a compassionate need of the authority, adopted children who were child, which can only be met at this school. previously looked after and children who Such evidence must be supported in writing by leave care under a special guardianship or a priest, doctor, social worker or other relevant residence order. professional. 8. Catechumens and members of an Eastern Christian Church Where there are more applications for places 9. Other applicants than the number of places available, places will be offered according to the following order of In the event of the above criteria needing further priority. selection distance from the school main entrance to the home address (that is the address at which Over Subscription Criteria the child resides for 50% or more of the school 1. Catholic children looked after by a local week) as measured by a straight line will be authority, adopted children who were used as the ﬁnal criterion. (This distance will be previously looked after and children who provided by the Local Authority) leave care under a special guardianship or residence order.

37 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions Governing Body’s Deﬁnition of Terms Used in Criterion

1. ‘A Child in Public Care’ is one who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see section 22 of The Children Act).

2. ‘Catholic’ is a member of a church in full communion with the See of Rome. This includes the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be evidenced for a child by a certiﬁcate of baptism in a Catholic church or a certiﬁcate of reception into the full communion of the Catholic Church.

3. ‘Practising Catholic’ means weekly family attendance at Sunday Mass which is conﬁrmed by the Priest Reference. (Family normally includes the Catholic or Catholics who have legal responsibility for the child). A certiﬁcate of the child’s Baptism is also required.

4. ‘Sibling’ refers to all blood or adoptive brothers or sisters or half brothers and sisters. However, this will only apply when the older child is expected to be on roll at the School on 1 September 2013.

5. ‘Catechumens’NFBOTUIFNFNCFSPGUIFDBUFDIVNFOBUFPGB$BUIPMJD$IVSDIAEastern Christian Church’ includes Orthodox Churches and is usually evidenced by Certiﬁcate of Baptism or from Reception from the authorities of the Church.

6. ‘Resident of the Parish’ Please be aware that the Parish in which you live is likely to have a signiﬁcant effect on your application. Please check with your local church if you are unclear as to which parish you live in. If you live near the boundary of St George’s parish please enquire at the School for clariﬁcation.

Where the offer of places to twins or multiple births within the above criteria would lead to oversubscription than all will be offered a place, even if this exceeds the planned admission number.

Where two or more families live equidistant from the School places will be offered by random allocation i.e. lottery in the presence of an independent witness.

Where a child lives with parents with shared responsibility, each for part of a week, the address where the child lives is determined using a joint declaration from the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s residence is split equally between both parents, then parents will be asked to determine which residential address should be used for the purpose of admission to school. If no joint declaration is received where the residence is split equally by the closing date for applications, the home address will be taken as the address of the parent who receives child beneﬁt. In cases where parents are not eligible for child beneﬁt the address will be that of the parents where the child is registered with the doctor. If the residence is not split equally between both parents then the address used will be the address where the child spends the majority of the school week

Last year the School received over 200 applications. In 2012 the School used the distance tie-break to offer places to some, but not all, children in 4.1.i (Practising Catholic Children resident in the parish of St George’s, Sudbury.).

Application Procedure and Timetable In Year Admissions To apply for a place at St George’s School you In-Year Admissions: applications for in-year should complete and return two separate forms by admissions are made directly to the school using the closing date. In order to make a full application a common application form. If a place is available complete a Common Application Form and send and there is no waiting list the child will be admitted. this to the local authority you live in. You should If there is a waiting list, then applications will be also complete the School’s Supplementary ranked by the Governing Body in accordance with Information Form (SIF) and return it to the School the oversubscription criteria – Catholic children together with all other paperwork required for without an offer of a school place elsewhere are your application. The Supplementary Information HJWFOQSJPSJUZJNNFEJBUFMZBGUFS$BUIPMJDAMPPLFE Form (SIF) is available from the School, on the after’ children and Catholic children who have School website www.stgeorgesprimary.org and been adopted or made subject to residence orders is also available from the LA Ofﬁces. You can or special guardianship orders immediately after collect the forms from the School or contact the having been looked after, similarly, other children School and ask for them to be sent to you. If you without an offer of a school place are given priority do not complete both the CAF and the School’s JNNFEJBUFMZBGUFSPUIFSAMPPLFEBGUFSDIJMESFOBOE Supplementary Information Form and return them children who have been adopted or made subject by the closing date the Governing Body may to residence orders or special guardianship orders be unable to consider your application and it is immediately after having been looked after. If a very unlikely that your child will get a place at the place cannot be offered at this time then you may School. ask us for the reasons and you will be informed

38 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions St George’s Catholic Primary School Admissions Policy 2013/2014 of your right of appeal. You will be offered the Deferring your child’s entry until late in the opportunity of being placed on a waiting list. This school year waiting list will be maintained by the Governing Applicants may defer entry to school up until Body in the order of the oversubscription criteria statutory school age i.e. the first day of term and not in the order in which the applications are following the child’s fifth birthday. Application is received. When a place becomes available the made in the usual way and then the deferment is Governing Body will decide who is at the top of the requested. The place will then be held until the first list so that an offer can be made day of the spring or summer term. Applicants may also request that their child attend part-time until Waiting List statutory school age is reached. Entry may not be If a place cannot be offered at this time then deferred beyond statutory school age or beyond you may ask us for the reasons and you will be the year of application. Applicants where children informed of your right of appeal. You will be offered have birthdays in the summer term should be the opportunity of being placed on a Continued aware that, if they defer, they will need to apply for Interest List. This list will be maintained by the a Year 1 place the following September and if the governing body in the order of the oversubscription school is oversubscribed they are very unlikely to criteria as modified above and not in the order in obtain a place. which the applications are received. Names will be reviewed at the end of each academic year. When Admission of children with a Statement of SEN a place becomes available the governing body will The admission of pupils with a Statement of decide who is at the top of the list and inform the Special Needs is dealt with by a completely parent. separate procedure. This procedure is integral to the making and maintaining statements by the Fair Access Protocols pupil’s home local education authority. Details of The school is committed to taking its fair share this separate procedure are set out in the Special of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to Educational Needs Code of Practice. place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admissions round, Right of Appeal the governing body is empowered to give absolute If your application for a place at St George’s is priority to a child where admission is requested unsuccessful, you will have the right of appeal under any local protocol that has been agreed by to the Independent Appeal Panel. Further details both the Diocese and the governing body for the of this procedure will be sent out with the refusal current school year. The governing body has this letter. power even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number.

39 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions St. John Fisher Catholic Primary School Admissions Policy 2013/14

Growing and Learning Together with Christ

The published Admission Number (PAN) for accordance with the oversubscription criteria, September 2013 is 60. Applications are invited with the following modifications: from families whose child was born between 1st Catholic children without an offer of a school September 2008 and 31st August 2009. place elsewhere are given priority immediately BGUFS$BUIPMJDAMPPLFEBGUFSDIJMESFOTJNJMBSMZ The admission of pupils with a statement of other children without an offer of a school place Special Educational Need is dealt with by a BSFHJWFOQSJPSJUZJNNFEJBUFMZBGUFSPUIFSAMPPLFE completely separate procedure. This procedure after’ children. If a place cannot be offered at is integral to making and maintaining statements this time then you may ask us for the reasons by the pupil’s home Local Authority. Details of this and you will be informed of your right of appeal. procedure are set out in the Special Educational You will be offered the opportunity of being Needs Code of Practice. placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be maintained by the governing body in the order of Reception Class Application: the oversubscription criteria and not in the order in Application for admission to Reception Class which the applications are received. When a place must be made by completing the Local Authority becomes available the governing body will make Common Application Form (CAF) available from an offer to the applicant at the top of the waiting schools, the Local Authority Admissions Service list. or online on the Harrow website. Applicants should also complete the school’s Supplementary Fair Access Protocols Information Form, available from the school or The school is committed to taking its fair share the local authority and a Priest’s Reference Form of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to (where applicable), available from the school or place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. the Diocese of Westminster website, to enable Accordingly, outside the normal admissions round the correct oversubscription criteria to be applied. the governing body is empowered to give absolute The CAF should be returned to your local authority priority to a child where admission is requested with proof of date of birth and proof of address under any local protocol that has been agreed by (as specified in Application Booklet). In the event both the Diocese and the governing body for the of a false statement of date of birth the governors current school year. The governing body has this reserve the right to withdraw the place. power even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number. Supplementary Information Forms should be returned to all specified Voluntary Aided Schools ADMISSIONS AND with the baptismal certificate and completed OVERSUBSCRIPTION CRITERIA Priests’ Reference Form (where applicable). If the year group is oversubscribed places will be Offers of places will be sent by the Local Authority allocated according to the following criteria: in April 2013. 1. To Catholic looked after children and Catholic In-Year Admissions: children who have been adopted (or made In-year applications are made directly to the subject to residence orders or special school, using a Common Application Form and guardianship orders) immediately following Supplementary Information Form. If a place is having been looked after. available and there is no waiting list then the 2. To Catholic children of practising Catholic governing body will make an offer. Alternatively, if families, who have a sibling at the school at the there is a waiting list, applications will be ranked in time of admission. 40 St. John Fisher Catholic Primary School Admissions Policy 2013/14

3. To Catholic children, whose parents are practising any information relating to its accuracy or require Catholics and resident in the parish of St. John clarification please contact the Parish Priest. Fisher Church (boundary map available on the diocesan website please visit www.rcdow.org.uk/ Armed Forces Personnel: Baptised children virtual). of practising Catholic Armed Force Personnel, 4. To Catholic children, whose parents are practising moving into the parishes of St. John Fisher, St. Catholics and resident in the parish of St. Luke’s Luke’s or a parish without an attached school Church. will be offered a place even when the statutory 5. To Catholic children, whose parents are practising number is exceeded. Catholics and resident in any other parish. 6. To any other Catholic child. Twins and Multiple Births: In cases were multiple 7. To other looked after children and children siblings tie for the last available space, all will be who have been adopted (or made subject to offered a place, even if this exceeds the planned residence orders or special guardianship orders) admission number. Where multiple births are immediately following having been looked after. concerned and one child has a statement of SEN 8. To Christian children whose application is that names St John Fisher School, the other supported by a letter from the minister of their siblings will be treated as having a sibling link for religion at their place of worship. that academic year. 9. To any other child. Applicants may defer entry to school up until Tie Breaker: In the event of there being insufficient statutory school age i.e. the first day of term vacancies to admit all applicants in any of the criterion following the child’s fifth birthday. Application is detailed above, priority will be given to children in the made in the usual way and then the deferment is following order: requested once the offer of a place has been received. The place will then be held until the first The Governing Body will give top priority, within day of the spring or summer term. Applicants may a criterion, to an application where compelling also request that their child attend part-time until professional written evidence, from a medical statutory school age is reached. Entry may not be consultant or senior social worker, is produced at the deferred beyond statutory school age or beyond time of application of a social or medical need of the the year of application. Applicants whose children child or family which can only be met at this school. have birthdays in the summer term should be aware that, if they wish to defer, they will need to Applicants with a brother or sister already at the apply for a Year 1 place for the following school at the proposed date of admission will September and if the school is oversubscribed increase the priority within each category. Parents they are very unlikely to obtain a place. of children within criteria 6, 8, and 9 must be aware that younger siblings will not qualify under Unsuccessful applicants have the right to appeal criterion 2, as priority will be given to children of and information will be sent with the decision letter practising Catholic families. from the local authority.

Applicants whose home address is the shortest A waiting list will be held, ranked in accordance distance from the school. Where two or more families with oversubscription criteria and updated live equidistant from the school places will be offered annually. by random allocation i.e. lottery in the presence of an independent witness. Whilst every effort has been The Governors of St. John Fisher Catholic taken to ensure the accuracy of the Parish Boundary Primary School will review the Admissions Criteria Maps, their content is subject to change. If you have annually.

41 INTERPRETATION OF TERMS USED IN THE ADMISSIONS POLICY AND OVERSUBSCRIPTION CRITERIA

ACatholic’ means a member of a Church in full communion with the See of Rome. This includes the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be evidenced by a certificate of baptism in a Catholic church or a certificate of reception into the full communion of the Catholic Church. For the purposes of this policy, it includes a looked after child who is part of a Catholic family where a priest’s reference demonstrates that the child would have been baptized or received if it were not for their status as a looked after child (e.g. a looked after child in the process of adoption by a Catholic family). 2. ‘Practising means a Catholic child from a practising Catholic family where this practice is verified Catholic’ by a reference from a Catholic priest in the standard format laid down by the Diocese. 3. Looked After This term refers to children who are subject to care orders and those who are Children accommodated by the Local Authority. 4. Sibling A sibling means a child’s brother or sister living at the same address. The sibling priority does not include cousins or other extended family members who live in the same household, but will include step-brothers/sisters and foster children. 5. Distance is measured by the local authority in a straight line from home to the centre point of the school site using a computerised mapping system based on ordinance survey data. 6. Home Address Where a child lives with parents with shared responsibility, each for part of a week, the address where the child lives is determined using a joint declaration from the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s residence is split equally between both parents, then parents will be asked to determine which residential address should be used for the purpose of admission to school. If no joint declaration is received where the residence is split equally by the closing date for applications, the home address will be taken as the address of the parent who receives child benefit. In cases where parents are not eligible for child benefit the address will be that of the parents where the child is registered with the doctor. If the residence is not split equally between both parents then the address used will be the address where the child spends the majority of the school week.

42 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions St. John’s Church of England School, Stanmore Admissions Policy 2013/14

The Governing Body is responsible for determining admissions to this Church of England Voluntary Aided School. When there are more applications than places available, the following criteria will be considered in order when considering applications for admissions to the school. It would also be made available in the event of an appeal. The school’s admission number for 2013/2014 is 60. Following the allocation of places to any Looked After Children, remaining places will be allocated in the proportion of 50 places under criterion 2 and 10 places under criterion 3 Governors’ Criteria and Admissions Priorities

1 Looked After Children, adopted children who 3 Open Places Criterion were previously looked after (and children who Please note any applicants which fall under leave care under a special guardianship or criterion 2 will not be considered under criterion 3. residence order) Children of families living within the local community3 who wish their children to attend 2 Foundation Criterion St John’s C of E School. A Practising Anglican Church Families Note: Within categories 2 and 3 priority will be Children of families who worship regularly1 in an given in order as follows: Anglican Church. 1. Medical4 B Practising Christian Families of other 2. Siblings – ‘Sibling’ means brother or sister, denominations to include adopted brothers and sisters, half Children of families who worship regularly1 in brothers and sisters or step brothers and Church or Chapels of other Christian sisters. A sibling relationship does not apply denominations2. when the older child(ren) will leave before the younger one starts. The sibling priority does C Non-practising Christian Families who wish not include cousins or other extended family their children to attend a Church School. members who live in the same household.’ Baptismal dedication certificate to be produced 3. Residents of the Parish of St John, Great to the School. Stanmore. (For a map of the parishes please visit www.achurchnearyou.com) Any applications received under criteria 2A or 2B 4. Residents of the Parishes of: which do not meet the qualifications for those a) All Saint’s, Harrow Weald criteria will automatically be processed under b) St Lawrence, Little Stanmore criterion 2C. c) St Anselm, Belmont d) St Michael and All Angels, Harrow Weald 5. Residents of other Parishes in the Anglican Deanery of Harrow 6. All Others. Footnotes: 1Regularly is defined as being one or both parents attending Church at least twice a month for a minimum of at least 12 months. Confirmation is required from the Parish Priest/Minister giving details of church attendance – see Supplementary Information Form. 2i.e. . Defined as membership of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) and/or the Evangelical Alliance. 3Local community is defined as “those families living nearest to the School within Categories 1 – 6 above.” 4where evidence is provided by a hospital consultant stating why this is the most suitable school and the detriment that would be suffered if another school had to be attended. 43 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions Tie-breaker In the event of there being insufficient vacancies to Children with a Statement of Special Educational admit all applicants in any of the categories detailed Needs, where the School is named in that above, priority will be given to children whose Statement, do not apply through the Coordinated parents/legal guardians’ residential address is the Admissions Process. shortest distance from the centre point of the school. Distance is measured in a straight line using In- Year Admissions the LA’s computerised mapping system. In cases Application for In-Year admission can be made where applicants live equidistant from the school directly to the school using a common application and places cannot be offered to both children, the form. If a place is available and there is no waiting place will be offered using random allocation in the list then the governors’ will offer of a place to presence of an independent witness. the family. If more applications are received than there are places available then applications will be Where a child lives with parents with shared ranked by the governing body in accordance with responsibility, each for part of a week, the address the oversubscription criteria, with the following where the child lives is determined using a joint modifications: children without an offer of a school declaration from the parents stating the pattern place are given priority immediately after other of residence. If a child’s residence is split equally AMPPLFEBGUFSDIJMESFO*GBQMBDFDBOOPUCFPGGFSFE between both parents, then parents will be asked at this time then you may ask us for the reasons to determine which residential address should be and you will be informed of your right of appeal. used for the purpose of admission to school. If no You will be offered the opportunity of being joint declaration is received where the residence placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be is split equally by the closing date for applications, maintained by the governing body in the order of the home address will be taken as the address of the oversubscription criteria [as modified above] the parent who receives child benefit. In cases and not in the order in which the applications where parents are not eligible for child benefit the are received. Names are removed from the list address will be that of the parents where the child at the end of each academic year. When a place is registered with the doctor. If the residence is becomes available the governing body will decide not split equally between both parents then the who is at the top of the list and inform the parent address used will be the address where the child that the school is making an offer. spends the majority of the school week. Vulnerable Children If an application for a place at St John’s is not The school is committed to taking its fair share successful, the parent/carer will have the right of of vulnerable children who are hard to place, appeal to the Independent Appeal Panel. Further in accordance with locally agreed protocols. details of this procedure will be sent out with the Accordingly, outside the normal round of notification letter. admissions, the governing body are empowered to give consideration to a child where admission In the event of under-subscription in either criterion, is requested under any local protocol which places will be offered in strict ranking order to carries the agreement of both the governing body those applicants on the waiting list of the parallel and the diocese for the current admission year. criteria. The governing body has this power even when admitting such a child would exceed the normal In the event of twins, triplets, or other multiple admission number. births where only one place is available and twins (or other multiple birth children) tie for that place, Children of UK service personnel (UK Armed both (or all) will be offered a place even if this Forces) exceeds the planned admission number. Families of service personnel with a confirmed posting to their area, or crown servants returning Unsuccessful applicants may request in writing from overseas to live in that area, the school to be placed on the waiting list maintained for will allocate a place in advance of the family each year group. If a place becomes available this arriving in the area provided the application is will be allocated in accordance with the School’s accompanied by an official letter that declares Admissions Policy and Oversubscription Criteria. a relocation date and a Unit postal address or Names will remain on the list for the remainder of quartering area address if the school has vacancy the academic year. Applicants will need to show, in in the specific year group in accordance with the writing, their continued interest at the end of each oversubscription criteria academic year.

44 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School 2013/2014 Admissions Policy

St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School was founded The Governing Body will consider all applications by the Catholic Church to provide education for admission to the school in accordance with for children of Catholic families. The school is their Criteria for Admission (see attached). conducted by its governing body as part of the Catholic Church in accordance with its trust deed The Governing Body has responsibility for and instrument of government, and seeks at all admissions to this school and intends to admit 60 times to be a witness to Jesus Christ. pupils (Published Admission Number), 30 in each of the two classes, in the school year which begins As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic in September 2013. Applications from Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, families must be supported by a Baptismal Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every Certificate. A priest’s reference must also be aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that completed by all practising Catholic applicants the Catholic character of the school’s education (see attached forms). is fully supported by all families in the school. All applicants and candidates are therefore expected ST JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL to give their full, unreserved and positive support MAKING AN APPLICATION for the aims and ethos of the school. 1. Applicants who live in Harrow must obtain MISSION STATEMENT and complete a “Common Application Form” (CAF) which is obtainable from the At St Joseph’s School Office, Harrow Council’s Admissions we love, learn and live Service and online at www.harrow.gov.uk/ by the example of Jesus Christ schooladmissions. (If you live outside the London Borough of Harrow, you must obtain In a happy Catholic environment, we work to help and complete a CAF form from your Local our children grow closer to God and to respect Authority. The CAF allows you to nominate and discover the best in each other. up to six schools in order of preference. You should submit ONLY ONE CAF to the We want the children to enjoy and make the most SCHOOL NAMED FIRST by the specified date of their learning experiences together – to develop of return (15th January 2013) If you submit their many talents and achieve their highest more than one CAF, the last CAF received potential. will withdrawan earlier submitted CAF. 2. Applicants are advised to complete, and return We encourage our children to be responsible and to the School, the Supplementary Information caring members of the wider community. and the Priest’s Reference Forms (obtainable from the School Office, Harrow Council’s We are committed to the well being of the staff and Admissions Service and online at www. to their continuing professional development. stjosephs.harrow.sch.uk or the LA Website: www.harrow.gov.uk/admissions). You should We regard highly the special relationship we have also provide the stipulated documentation, with our parents and wish to strengthen it. including the child’s proof of date of birth and baptismal certificate. We value and appreciate the support we The Supplementary Information Form and receive from our Governors, Clergy and Parish Priest Reference Form (where applicable) Community. should be returned directly to the school office by the specified closing date. Applicants 45 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions are advised to complete all forms contained current school year. The governing body has this within the pack. Failure to do so may mean power even when admitting the child would mean that your child is not placed in the correct exceeding the published admission number. oversubscription criteria. Reception Year Deferred Entry If you are applying to another Catholic school, Applicants may defer entry to school up until you will be required to complete a set of statutory school age, i.e. the first day of term supplementary papers for each Catholic following the child’s fifth birthday. Application is school. made in the usual way, and then the deferment is requested. The place will then be held until the The admission of pupils with a statement of first day of the spring or summer term. Applicants Special Educational Needs is dealt with by a may also request that their child attend part-time completely separate procedure. This procedure is until statutory school age is reached. Entry may integral to making and maintaining of statements not be deferred beyond statutory school age or by the pupil’s home Local Education Authority. beyond the year of application. Applicants whose Details of this separate procedure are set out in children have birthdays in the summer term and the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice. want to defer entry to the term following their child’s fifth birthday, should be aware that, if they Applicants must provide proof of their residential wish to defer, they will need to apply for a Year address. The ONLY Acceptable forms of 1 place for the following September and, if the documentation are: current Council Tax bill, a school is oversubscribed, they are very unlikely to copy of tenancy agreement arranged through a obtain a place. letting agent/estate agent or a recent letter from the housing department/housing association. OVERSUBSCRIPTION CRITERIA FOR ORIGINAL DOCUMENTATION ONLY WILL BE ADMISSION 2013/2014 ACCEPTED. Independent verification may be ST JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL sought of the applicant’s residential address. Dobbin Close Harrow HA3 7LP

If your application for a place at St Joseph’s is The governing body has responsibility for refused, you will have the right of appeal to an admissions to this school and intends to admit 60 Independent Appeal Panel. Further details of this pupils (30 in each of the two classes) in the school procedure will be provided on request. year which begins in September 2013. Applications from Catholic families must be Unsuccessful applicants may ask to be placed on supported by a Baptismal Certiﬁcate and a priest’s a Waiting List maintained for each year group. If reference. a place becomes available, this will be allocated in accordance with the School’s Criteria for In order to select children for admission to the Admission. Names will be reviewed at the end of school, the following criteria will apply:- each academic year. $BUIPMJDAMPPLFEBGUFSDIJMESFOBOE$BUIPMJD In-Year Admissions children who have been adopted (or made In-year applications are made directly to subject to residence orders or special the school using Common Application and guardianship orders) immediately following Supplementary Information forms. If more having been looked after. applications are received than there are 2. Children of practising Catholic families. places available within a year group, then the 3. Other Catholic children. oversubscription criteria will be applied by the 0UIFSAMPPLFEBGUFSDIJMESFOBOEDIJMESFO Governing Body in order to offer a place(s). who have been adopted (or made subject to residence orders or special guardianship Fair Access Protocols orders) immediately following having been The school is committed to taking its fair share looked after. of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to 5. Catechumens and members of an Eastern place as set out in locally agreed protocols. Christian Church. Accordingly, outside the normal admissions round 6. Christians of other denominations whose the governing body is empowered to give absolute parents wish them to have a Catholic education priority to a child where admission is requested and whose application is supported by their under any local protocol that has been agreed by minister of religion. both the Diocese and the governing body for the 46 St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School 2013/2014 Admissions Policy continued

7. Any other applicants whose parents wish In cases where applicants live equidistant from them to have a Catholic education and whose the school and places cannot be offered to application is supported by their religious both children, the places up to the admission leader. number will be decided by means of a lottery 8. Any other applicants. which will be carried out by the governors in the presence of an independent witness. Tie Breaker Where the offer of places to all the applicants Information about Applications in Previous in any of the sub-categories listed above Years would lead to oversubscription the following provisions will be applied. Last year (September 2012) the school was heavily oversubscribed. We received 140 full 1. The governing body will give top priority to an applications for 60 places, of which 20 were application within a category where compelling siblings. written evidence is provided at the time of application of an exceptional pastoral, social Waiting Lists or medical need of the child which can only be In addition to their right of appeal, unsuccessful met at this school. candidates will be offered the opportunity to be 2. The attendance of a brother or sister already at placed on a waiting list for the current academic the school at the proposed date of admission year. This waiting list will be maintained in the will increase the priority within each category. order of the oversubscription criteria set out 3. Where the offer of places to all the above and not in the order in which applications applicants in any of the sub-categories listed are received or added to the list. The list will above would still lead to over-subscription, be reviewed and up-dated at the end of each the places up to the admission number academic year. will be offered to those whose residential address is the shortest distance from the Pupils with a Statement of Special Educational centre point of the St Joseph’s school site. Needs Distance is measured from the address The admission of pupils with a statement of point for the home address to the centre Special Educational Needs is dealt with by a point of the school site in a straight line completely separate procedure. This procedure using the Local Authority’s computerised is integral to the making and maintaining of mapping system based on ordnance statements by the pupil’s home Local Education survey data. Authority. Details of this separate procedure are set out in the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice.

47 INTERPRETATION OF TERMS USED IN THE ADMISSIONS POLICY AND OVERSUBSCRIPTION CRITERIA

‘Looked after child’ has the same meaning as in section 22 of the Children Act 1989, and means any child in the care of a local authority or provided with accommodation by them (e.g. children with foster parents).

‘Catholic’ means a member of a Church in full communion with the See of Rome. This includes Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be evidenced by a certiﬁcate of baptism in a Catholic Church or a certiﬁcate of reception into the Catholic Church.

‘Practising Catholic’ means: (a) weekly attendance at Mass by the family. The governing body will expect this practice to be veriﬁed by a reference from a Catholic priest on the standard diocesan priest reference form. Sunday Mass includes those on Saturday evenings and (b) the child has been baptised into the Catholic Church.

‘Catechumen’ means a member of a catechumenate of a Catholic Church. This will normally be evidenced by a certiﬁcate of reception into the order of catechumens.

‘Eastern Christian Church’ includes Orthodox Churches, and is normally evidenced by a certiﬁcate of baptism or reception from the authorities of that Church.

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‘Exceptional social, medical or pastoral need’ 5PEFNPOTUSBUFBOAFYDFQUJPOBMTPDJBM NFEJDBMPSQBTUPSBM need’ of the child which can only be met at this school, the governing body will require written evidence. Any application on these grounds within one of the above admission criteria must be made at the time of application and be accompanied by supporting documentation from a social worker, NHS Consultant or priest/minister of religion fully detailing the child’s condition or need which fully states why St Joseph’s is the only school where these needs can be met. The Governing Body reserves the right to request further information where an application is made on this basis.

‘Distance’ this is measured in a straight line from home to school, using the Local Authority’s computerised mapping system based on ordnance survey data. All ofﬁcial school entrances are mapped onto the system. The journey is measured from the address point for the home address to the centre point of the school site.

‘Home address’ is defined as the address at which the child resides for more than 50% of the week. Proof of a child residing at an alternative address will be required and will be verified by the local authority. Where a child lives with parents with shared responsibility each for part of a week, the address where the child lives is determined using a joint declaration from the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s residence is split equally between both parents, then parents will be asked to determine which residential address should be used for the purpose of admission to school. If no joint declaration is received, where the residence is split equally, by the closing date for applications, the home address will be taken as the address of the parent who receives child benefit. In cases where parents are not eligible for child benefit, the address will be that of the parent where the child is registered with the doctor. If the residence is not split equally between both parents, then the address used will be the address where the child spends the majority of the school week.

‘Sibling’ Where children live as brother and sister in the same household they are treated in the same way as siblings for admissions purposes. This includes a child’s brother or sister, half brother or sister, adopted/foster brother or sister, step brother or sister living in the same family unit at the same address. It does not include cousins or other extended family members who live in the same household.

‘Twins and Multiple Births’ – Infant Classes (Yrs R, 1 & 2) twins and other multiple-birth children to be offered the same primary school. For all other admissions – In cases where only one place is available and twins tie for the last available place, then both will be offered even if this exceeds the planned admission number.

‘Family/families’ means the Catholic/Catholics who have legal responsibility for the child for whom the application is being made.

‘Parents’ A parent is anyone who has parental responsibility1 or is the full-time carer2 of a child (documentary evidence of having full-time care will be required). Where admission arrangements for voluntary aided schools refer to religious practice, parent(s)3 will be required to provide conﬁrmation of religious practice.

1Mothers automatically have parental responsibility. Married fathers automatically have parental responsibility. Others who have acquired parental responsibility by: being appointed as a guardian to care for a child whose parent(s) has died; obtained a parental responsibility order or residence order from the court; adopted the child. 2 A person who has care and responsibility (equal to parental responsibility) for a child who lives with them. This does not include child minders or other family members who help the family with child minding arrangements. 48 3 At least one parent will be required to provide evidence of religious practice. St. Teresa’s Catholic Primary School Admissions Policy 2013/2014

Living, Learning, Growing in Jesus

St Teresa’s is a voluntary-aided Catholic Primary St. Joseph’s, Wealdstone; St. Luke’s, Pinner. School, founded to provide for the education of For a map of the parish please visit www.rcdow. Catholic children. org.uk/virtual 4. Other Baptised Catholic children from As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic practising Catholic families. education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, 5. Other Baptised Catholic children. Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every 6. Other looked after children and children aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that who have been adopted (or made subject the Catholic character of the school’s education to residence orders or special guardianship is fully supported by all families in the school. All orders) immediately after having been looked applicants are therefore expected to give their full, after. unreserved and positive support for the aims and 7. Catechumens and members of an Eastern ethos of the school. Christian Church. 8. Christians of other denominations whose The Published Admissions Number (PAN) for application is supported by their Minister of the reception classes at St.Teresa’s is 60. The Religion. Governing Body has sole responsibility for 9. Children of other faiths whose application is admissions to this school and intends to admit supported by their Religious Leader. 60 children in the school year which begins in 10. Any other children. September 2013. Applications are welcome from families whose child reaches his/her 4th birthday Tie Break between 1st September 2012 and 31st August Within each criterion applicants will be considered 2013. in the following order:

Whenever there are more applications than places The Governing Body will give top priority, after available, priority will always be given to Catholic the appropriate category of looked-after children, applicants in accordance with the criteria listed to an application where compelling evidence below. is provided at the time of application, from an appropriate professional such as a doctor, priest In this Policy applicant refers to the person making or social worker, of an exceptional social, medical, an application on behalf of a child; candidate refers pastoral or other need of the child, which can to the child on whose behalf the application is only be met at this school. The Governing Body being made. reserves the right to request further information where an application is made on this basis. OVERSUBSCRIPTION CRITERIA Where there are more applications than the The attendance of a sibling at the school at number of places available, places will be offered the time of admission will give priority within according to the following order of priority: - categories 5 to 10.

1. Catholic looked after children and Catholic Where the offer of places to all the applicants in children who have been adopted (or made any of the sub-categories listed above would still subject to residence orders or special lead to oversubscription, the places up to the guardianship orders) immediately after having admission number will be offered to those living been looked after. nearest to the school. Distance is measured in a 2. Baptised Catholic children, from practising straight line using the LA’s computerised mapping Catholic families, who have a sibling at the system. school at the time of admission. 3. Baptised Catholic children from practising Where the ﬁnal place is offered to a child who has Catholic families who are resident in the other siblings applying for a place in the same parishes of St. Theresa’s, Headstone Lane; school year, these siblings will also be admitted. 49 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions Last year the school was heavily oversubscribed school place are given priority immediately after we received 136 applications for 60 places. All PUIFSAMPPLFEBGUFSDIJMESFO*GBQMBDFDBOOPUCF applicants in category 1 [0] and category 2 [30] offered at this time then you may ask us for the were offered a place, along with [29 in category reasons and you will be informed of your right of 3] and [1 in category 4] in accordance with the appeal. You will be offered the opportunity of being distance criteria set out in our tie-breaker. The placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be governing body was unable to offer places to any maintained by the Governing Body in the order of applicants beyond category 4. As the school is the oversubscription criteria (as modiﬁed above) usually oversubscribed by Catholic candidates, and not in the order in which the applications are it is very unlikely that applicants who are not received. Names are removed from the list at the Catholics will obtain a place. In the past 5 years, end of each academic year. When a place becomes the governing body has been unable to offer available the Governing Body will decide who is a place to any applicant who is not a Catholic, at the top of the list and inform the parent that the except in 2010. school is making an offer.

Fair Access Application Procedure The school is committed to taking its fair share 2013 - 2014 of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to In order to make an application, you must complete place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. a Common Application Form (CAF) from your Accordingly, outside the normal admissions round local authority. You should also complete the the governing body is empowered to give absolute School’s Supplementary Information Form (SIF). priority to a child where admission is requested The information on the SIF enables the Governing under any local protocol that has been agreed by Body to assess your application fully against the both the Diocese and the governing body for the School’s criteria in the event of oversubscription. current school year. The governing body has this Please return the SIF (in person or by post) to the power even when admitting the child would mean School together with all other relevant paperwork exceeding the published admission number. required for your application. This includes the Common Diocesan Priest’s Reference Form where Reception Year Deferred Entry relevant, a copy of the child’s baptismal certificate Applicants may defer entry to school up until and proof of residence (i.e. Council Tax Bill or statutory school age i.e. the first day of term Landlord’s Tenancy Agreement). following the child’s fifth birthday. Application is made in the usual way and then the deferral If you do not complete both of the forms (CAF is requested. The place will then be held until and SIF) described above and return them by the first day of the spring or summer term as 15th January 2013, the Governing Body will be applicable. Applicants may also request that unable to consider your application fully and it is their child attend part-time until statutory school very unlikely that your child will be offered a place. age is reached. Entry may not be deferred Applications received after the closing date will be beyond statutory school age or beyond the year dealt with after the initial allocation process has of application. Applicants whose children have been completed. birthdays in the summer term should be aware that, if they wish to defer, they will need to apply The local authority will write to you on behalf of for a Year 1 place for the following September the Governing Body with the outcome of your and if the school is oversubscribed they are very application on 16th April 2013. unlikely to obtain a place. Please note: If you are applying to another In-Year Admissions Catholic School you will be required to complete Applications for In-Year admissions are made supplementary forms for each Catholic School. directly to the school using a common application form. If a place is available and there is no waiting Right Of Appeal list then the governors will offer a place to the If you are unsuccessful you may ask us for the family. If more applications are received than there reasons for the refusal of a place. These reasons are places available then applications will be will be related to the oversubscription criteria listed ranked by the Governing Body in accordance with in the Policy and you will have the right of appeal to the oversubscription criteria, with the following an independent panel. modifications: children without an offer of a

50 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions Waiting List Change Of Details In addition to their right of appeal, unsuccessful If any of the details on either of your forms candidates will be offered the opportunity to be changes between the date of application and placed on a waiting list. This list will be maintained the receipt of the letter of offer or refusal, you in order of the oversubscription criteria set must inform the School and the local authority out in the Policy and not in the order in which immediately. If misleading information is given applications are received or added to the list. or allowed to remain on either of your forms, the Names are removed from the list after one year, Governing Body reserves the right to withdraw the unless applicants request to remain on the list. place, even if the child has already started at the School. Pupils With A Statement Of Special Educational Needs Nursery Admissions The admission of pupils with a statement of There is a separate policy for admission to the Special Educational Needs is dealt with by a Nursery and an entirely separate applications completely separate procedure. Details of this process (contact the School Ofﬁce). Attendance separate procedure are set out in the Special at the Nursery does not guarantee a place at the Educational Needs Code of Practice. If your child school. has a Statement of SEN you must contact your local authority SEN ofﬁcer. INTERPRETATION OF TERMS USED IN THE ADMISSIONS POLICY AND OVERSUBSCRIPTION CRITERIA

‘Looked after child’ has the same meaning as in section 22 of the Children Act 1989 and means any child in the care of a local authority or provided with accommodation by them (e.g. children with foster parents). ‘Parent’ means the adult or adults with legal responsibility for the child. ‘Sibling’ means brother or sister, to include adopted brothers and sisters, half brothers and sisters or step brothers and sisters. A sibling relationship does not apply when the older child(ren) will leave before the younger one starts. The sibling priority does not include cousins or other extended family members who live in the same household. ‘Catholic’ means a member of a church in full communion with the See of Rome. This includes the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be evidenced by a certificate of baptism in a Catholic Church or a certificate of reception into the full communion of the Catholic Church. ‘Practising Catholic’ means a Catholic child from a practising Catholic family where the practice is WFSJmFECZBSFGFSFODFGSPNB$BUIPMJDQSJFTUJOUIFTUBOEBSEGPSNBUMBJEEPXOCZUIF%JPDFTFA'BNJMZ includes the Catholic or Catholics who have legal responsibility for the child. ‘Catechumen’ means a child who is a member of the catechumenate of a Catholic Church. This will normally be evidenced by a certificate of reception into the order of catechumens. ‘Eastern Christian Church’ includes Orthodox Churches and is normally evidenced by a certificate of baptism or reception from the authorities of that Church. ‘Christian’ for the purposes of this policy, means a member of one of the Churches affiliated to A$IVSDIFT5PHFUIFSJO#SJUBJOBOE*SFMBOE ‘Resident’ A child is deemed to be resident at a particular address when he/she resides there for 50% or more of the school week. Where a child lives with parents with shared responsibility, each for part of a week, the address where the child lives is determined using a joint declaration from the parents stating the pattern of residence. If a child’s residence is split equally between both parents, then parents will be asked to determine which residential address should be used for the purpose of admission to school. If no joint declaration is received where the residence is split equally by the closing date for applications, the home address will be taken as the address of the parent who receives child benefit. In cases where parents are not eligible for child benefit the address will be that of the parents where the child is registered with the doctor. If the residence is not split equally between both parents then the address used will be the address where the child spends the majority of the school week. ‘Distance from School’ Distance is measured from the address point for the home address to the centre point of the school site in a straight line, using the Local Authority’s computerised mapping system based on ordnance survey data. In the case of those living in flats, random allocation will be used in the presence of an independent witness.

51 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

In-Year applications for 2012-2013

Applying for a school place during the education and being out of school for any period academic year of time before he/she can be admitted to a new school. Who should make an in-year application? Which Local Authority should you apply to? Moves to or within the Local Authority If you live in Harrow or have moved in to Harrow Applications for in-year admission are usually you should apply to Harrow Council for a school made by parents/carers who have moved into place even if you wish to apply for a school the area and who require a school place for their outside of Harrow. child. If you require a school place for a child who If you live outside Harrow you must contact your is moving in to the area or a child who attends home Local Authority for details on how to apply a school but due to a house move is unable to for a school place, even if you wish to apply for a continue attending their existing school, you will place at a Harrow school. need to complete the in-year application form. Which schools can you apply for? Transfers between schools You can apply for any state-funded school on It is extremely important that a child has continuity your in-year application form. A list of all Harrow in their education. For this reason, the Local schools can be found on our website. For more Authority strongly discourages unnecessary details of the schools in Harrow visit transfers between schools. If your child is already www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions. You attending a school but you feel that a move would should not however name any private or be beneficial, you must discuss your reasons for independent schools. this with your child’s current school. It is common for some children to feel unsettled when they How will your application be considered? join a new school and there may occasionally be 5IFMBXHJWFTZPVUIFSJHIUUPTUBUFBAQSFGFSFODF other issues that arise. However, it is important for the school that you want your child to attend. It that you try to resolve any difficulties by working JTXPSEFEJOUIJTXBZSBUIFSUIBOADIPJDFCFDBVTF with the school rather than seeking a transfer. It there may be reasons why your preference cannot is extremely rare that a transfer to another school be met, for example if the school is full or there are resolves a child’s difficulties and any difficulties more applicants than places. When this happens, are best addressed at your child’s current school. it is the school’s admission criteria that determine If you still wish to apply for a school transfer, you which children will be offered a place. As many will need to complete the in year application form. schools are oversubscribed it is important that However, you will need to provide your reasons for you consider as many schools as possible when seeking a change of school and set out what you deciding which schools to apply for. have done to try and resolve the issues with the Before making an application, please read the current school. admission criteria for each school carefully so In considering your application we will need to you understand how places will be allocated. The determine whether it would be more beneficial for admissions criteria will also tell you about any you to resolve any difficulties your child is having documents or supplementary forms required that with their current school, and a member of the you will need to send to the school to complete Admissions Service or another officer may wish to your application. discuss this with you. It is very important that you You can make arrangements to visit schools in do not withdraw your child from his/her current which you are interested by contacting the school school until you have secured an alternative direct. You should also check who is responsible school place. This will avoid your child missing for making decisions on admissions for a school. 52 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

HeadingIn-Year applications heading for 2012-2013 (cont.)

The decision as to whether on a school can offer a decisions on all your applications, we will co- place is dealt with differently depending on which ordinate any offers. We do this by applying the school(s) you are applying for. All secondary ranking information you gave on the application schools in Harrow besides Whitmore High School form in the following way: are their own admission authorities, which means t*GZPVSDIJMEDBOCFPGGFSFEPOMZPOFPGUIF the school governors will make the decision about schools on your list, we will offer you a place at your application and inform the admissions service that school. of the outcome. t*GZPVSDIJMEDBOCFPGGFSFEBQMBDFBUNPSFUIBO If you are applying for a school outside of Harrow, one of the schools you have asked for we will the admissions service will send details of your look at the rankings you gave the schools and application to the relevant council. If the council offer you a place at your highest ranked school. is the admission authority for the school they Offers for schools placed lower on your list of will make the decision about your application. If preferences will not be made, when a higher the school is its own admission authority, then preference has been offered. If a place is not the school governors will make the decision and available at any of your preferred schools, inform the council. In either case, the council and your child does not have a school place will inform the Harrow Admissions Service of the or is currently not attending a school within a outcome of your application. reasonable distance from your home, you will be As you can see from this it may take longer to offered a place in the nearest Harrow school that process applications where a number of different has a vacancy admission authorities are involved in the decision However, if you are not happy with the school offered, making. QMFBTFTFFA8IBUIBQQFOTJGZPVBSFOPUPGGFSFEB Once the Harrow Admissions Service has the place at your preferred school?’ on page 17.

In Year Transfer Timetable Any applications received after the closing dates, will be processed after all the on time applications have been dealt with.

Fair Access Protocol Harrow has an In-Year Fair Access Protocol for Harrow resident pupils. Harrow may exceptionally require schools to admit children in excess of the published admission number in order to protect the interests of vulnerable children and those with challenging behaviour. These pupils will be shared among schools using Harrow’s Fair Access Protocol in ways that are fair and objective. Pupils placed through the Fair Access Protocol take priority over children on the waiting lists.

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Applying for schools Headingin other heading areas

Applying for a place in a school in another local authority or borough

Parents who live in Harrow may wish to apply to a school maintained by another local authority. You will need to include any out of borough schools on your Harrow CAF. The telephone numbers given here are for admissions sections in neighbouring local authorities or boroughs where you can get advice on the admissions rules for individual schools.

Barnet Brent Pupil Admissions and Travel Children’s Team – Building 4 School Admissions North London Business Park Brent House Oakleigh Road South 8th Floor, East Wing London N11 1NP 349-357 High Road, Wembley, Middx. HA9 8BZ Tel: 020 8359 7651 Tel: 020 8937 3110 [email protected] [email protected] www.barnet.gov.uk www.brent.gov.uk

Ealing Hillingdon Education Department Admissions Team Perceval House Civic Centre 14 - 16 Uxbridge Road High Street London W5 2HL Uxbridge, Middx UB8 1UW Tel: 020 8825 5511 Tel: 01895 556644 [email protected] admissionsbeneﬁ[email protected] www.ealing.gov.uk www.hillingdon.gov.uk

Hertfordshire Children, Schools & Families, Registry Ofﬁce Block, CHR 102, www.education.gov.uk Pegs Lane, For other Local Authority Hertford address details SG13 8DQ Tel: 03001 234043 [email protected] www.hertsdirect.org

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Applying for a nursery class place in Harrow

Applying for a place in a nursery class attached to a Harrow school

Nursery classes provide the ideal bridge from A list of schools with an attached nursery class, home to school. Parents are welcome to come in including the telephone numbers and addresses, and spend time with their child to help them settle is given on pages 13-16. To apply for a nursery in and make the transition from home. class place in any of these schools you will need to contact the school direct for a nursery All Harrow’s nursery classes have a qualiﬁed application form. The school you apply for will let teacher and trained assistant working together you know if you have been offered a place in the with others, often including parents. All nursery nursery and when your child will start. classes follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum which focuses on four themes: A Unique Child, Positive Relationships, Enabling Environments and Learning and Development. The Early Years Foundation Stage accounts for children developing and learning in different ways and at different speeds.

Moving from a nursery class to a reception class in an infant or primary school

You must apply separately for a place in a reception class in a primary school.

Attendance at a nursery class does not give any priority for a place in the school’s reception class, with the exception of the Moriah Jewish Day School.

There is no guarantee that if your child attends the nursery you will be offered a place in the school’s reception class. You will need to plan and prepare your child for changing school.

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Education provision in Harrow

What’s special about Harrow’s schools? In addition, there are nursery classes at many Harrow Schools perform exceptionally well nationally schools. and Ofsted inspections confirm this. In the Inspection of the Local Authority the Inspectors noted: “Children Most of the Primary schools in Harrow are and young people achieve very well. Education ADPNNVOJUZTDIPPMT PXOFEBOEGVOEFECZUIF standards are high. They are above national council (these are sometimes known as state averages and in line with those of similar authorities TDIPPMT *OBEEJUJPO UIFSFBSFTPNFAWPMVOUBSZBJEFE at all key stages, and continue to improve. Children schools that are funded by the council but are the at foundation stage make good progress. The overall property of other organisations. These are Church of effectiveness of most schools is good. A high England and Catholic schools, the Moriah Jewish Day proportion of children and young people surveyed for School. From September 2012, the Avanti House Free this review rightly say they are doing very well or quite School opened in Harrow and Krishna-Avanti will be well at school. Many take part in an extensive range an academy school. of recreational and out of school learning activities. Attendance at school is excellent. It is well above Pupils with Special Educational Needs national averages.” experiencing learning difficulties We provide a range of support services, working with There are many reasons for success in our schools: families and schools, for children of pre-school age t$POTJTUFOUIJHITUBOEBSET onwards. The council is committed to providing t$POTJTUFOUIJHIBDIJFWFNFOU opportunities for all children to benefit from the t(PPESBOHFBOERVBMJUZPGTFSWJDFT education available in our schools. Where possible, t8FMMTUSVDUVSFETZTUFNQSPWJEJOHDPOUJOVJUZ children with special educational needs will be t(PPETUBCJMJUZ supported in their local school, working alongside t$PNQSFIFOTJWFTZTUFNPGGFSJOHFRVBMJUZ their friends and other children from the local area. of opportunity Some children with very specific educational needs t6OJRVFGBNJMZBUNPTQIFSFBOEJOEJWJEVBMBQQSPBDI may attend an additionally resourced school, where t5ISJWJOHNVMUJDVMUVSBMFOWJSPONFOU specialist provision is available. For those children t-JGFMPOHMFBSOJOHPQQPSUVOJUJFT who will benefit from a particularly specialised education, places are available for children with Education provision in Harrow statements of special educational needs at our All primary schools in Harrow are either infant/first, special schools. junior or primary schools. The age ranges of schools from September 2012 is as follows: Support for children from minority t*OGBOU'JSTUTDIPPMT GPSQVQJMTBHFEo ethnic communities t+VOJPSTDIPPMT GPSQVQJMTBHFEo In Harrow we provide additional support for t1SJNBSZTDIPPMT BDBEFNZTDIPPMTBOEBGSFF some children and families. The Harrow School school, for pupils aged 4 – 11 Improvement Partnership works with schools, t4FDPOEBSZTDIPPMT BDBEFNZTDIPPMTBOEBGSFF parents/carers and a range of services to raise the school, for pupils aged 11 – 18 achievement of ethnic minority pupils. These include new arrivals, Traveller, Black Caribbean, Asylum In many cases, infant and junior schools are separate Seeking and Refugee pupils. from each other, but usually on the same site. However, some schools are combined primary schools for pupils aged 4-11. All Harrow infant, junior and primary schools are co-educational, educating girls and boys together. 56 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

Year groups and term dates

Year groups for 2013/2014: National Curriculum and Key Stages There is a standard way of labelling school year groups and deciding to which year group each child belongs BDSPTTUIFDPVOUSZ5IF/BUJPOBM$VSSJDVMVNEJWJEFTZFBSHSPVQTJOUPBTFSJFTPGA,FZ4UBHFT*O)BSSPXT infant, junior and primary schools, children are in Key Stages: Early Years Foundation stage and Key Stages 1 and 2. In secondary schools they are in Key Stages 3 and 4. Post 16 is also known as Key Stage 5. In the school year that starts in September 2013 and ﬁnishes in July 2014, children will be in the following year groups and key stages:

Date of birth Year Group School Phase Key Stage Between and 1 September 1997 31 August 1998 11 Secondary school 4 1 September 1998 31 August 1999 10 Secondary school 4 1 September 1999 31 August 2000 9 Secondary school 3 1 September 2000 31 August 2001 8 Secondary school 3 1 September 2001 31 August 2002 7 Secondary school 3 1 September 2002 31 August 2003 6 Junior/Primary school 2 1 September 2003 31 August 2004 5 Junior/Primary school 2 1 September 2004 31 August 2005 4 Junior/Primary school 2 1 September 2005 31 August 2006 3 Junior/Primary school 2 1 September 2006 31 August 2007 2 Infant/Primary school 1 1 September 2007 31 August 2008 1 Infant/Primary school 1 1 September 2008 31 August 2009 R Infant/Primary school Foundation Family holidays during term time It is important that children attend school for as many days as possible each term. Wherever possible, family holidays should be taken during school holidays. You should not expect the school to agree to a holiday during term time. They are likely to take your child’s attendance record into account, and will not agree to more than 10 school days’ absence each year. Please contact the school for details of how to request time away from school for this purpose.

Term dates for Community schools Harrow community schools’ term dates and Staff Development Days (Training Days) can be seen on the website: www.harrow.gov.uk/termdates.

Voluntary aided schools, Avanti House and Krishna Avanti School arrange their own term dates.

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Pupil support/travel options

Free school meals When choosing which school your children will attend, You may be entitled to free school meals if your child please consider both your children’s health and the state goes to a Harrow community or voluntary aided of your local environment. primary School. AND Details of Harrow Council’s sustainable School Travel you receive Income Support, Income Based Job Plan and Home to School Transport Strategy are Seeker’s Allowance, Income Based Employment available on http://www.harrow.gov.uk/schooltravelplans Support Allowance, Pension Credit, supported as an Asylum seeker or Child Tax Credit without working tax Help with costs of travel to primary school credit (ensuring that your annual income is no more Free bus travel is available for all under 16’s in London. than £16,190.00) See the Transport for London website www.tﬂ.gov.uk for more information. However, if you live in Harrow you Please contact Access Harrow on 020 8901 2620 for may be entitled to help with other travel costs if: further details. Your child is under the age of eight and the nearest Considering travel options suitable school offer is more than two miles from your With nearly 70 schools and some 33,000 pupils in the home address measured by the shortest safe walking borough, school travel is a major issue for Harrow route. Council. There is increasing concern about the OR number of children who are taken to and from school Your child is over the age of eight and the nearest suitable by car and the impact this has on children’s health, school offer is more than three miles from your home the environment, local residents and peak hour trafﬁc address, measured by the shortest safe walking route. congestion. OR Your child attends a single sex or denominational Most schools in London have travel plans. A list of Harrow school more than two or three miles away as schools in Harrow which have travel plans is available described above. on the Harrow Council website along with local travel OR information maps and the school travel plans. The If your child is of compulsory school age and cannot school’s travel plan will help you to be more aware of walk to school safely unaccompanied due to a parent/ sustainable travel options for getting to school and carer with a serious disability. ways in which the school is trying to encourage sustainable transport. Sustainable ways of reaching If one of the above applies to your child and you are schools include walking, cycling, and public transport. a low income family you may be eligible for School Walking and cycling are also both considerably more Travel Assistance. healthy options than travelling by car. For more information please contact Access Harrow on The council is unable to reduce the school run and 020 8901 2620. the associated congestion without your assistance.

Finding out about schools There is a list of all the infant, junior and primary schools in Harrow on pages 13-16 of this booklet and the map on the back cover shows their locations. You can ﬁnd out about schools from: t5IF)BSSPXXFCTJUF t1VCMJTIFESFQPSUTo0GTUFESFQPSUBOE(PWFSOPST www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmisssions Annual Report – from the school (you may have t7JTJUJOHTDIPPMTo"MMTDIPPMTXFMDPNFWJTJUPSTXIP to pay for photocopying). Ofsted reports are are considering them for their children and it is available at www.ofsted.gov.uk important that you make an appointment to visit t1VCMJTIFEUFTUSFTVMUTo,FZ4UBHF5XPSFTVMUTBSF t4DIPPMQSPTQFDUVToGSPNUIFTDIPPM available at www.education.gov.uk 58 Apply today at: www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

Primary curriculum

Infant schools The National Curriculum for younger children is Harrow infant schools offer Early Years made up of the following subjects: English, Foundation education to children from reception mathematics, science, art, geography, history, classes through to Year 2. information and design technology, music and physical education. In addition, pupils are taught Nursery and Reception classes religious education. In a nursery or reception class, children will work at activities that encourage: While the National Curriculum provides a common compulsory educational framework, t1FSTPOBMBOETPDJBMEFWFMPQNFOU there are other signiﬁcant areas of learning which t-BOHVBHFBOEDPNNVOJDBUJPOTLJMMT make up the whole curriculum on offer to children t.BUIFNBUJDBMBCJMJUZ in our schools. These important aspects of the t8JEFOJOHLOPXMFEHFBOEEFFQFOJOH curriculum are: understanding of the world t1IZTJDBMEFWFMPQNFOU t&DPOPNJDBOEJOEVTUSJBMVOEFSTUBOEJOH t$SFBUJWFEFWFMPQNFOU t$JUJ[FOTIJQ t&OWJSPONFOUBMFEVDBUJPO The Early Years curriculum places a high value t$BSFFSTFEVDBUJPOBOEHVJEBODF on learning through play. Early Years teachers t)FBMUIFEVDBUJPO see play as an essential component in the t1FSTPOBM TPDJBMBOEDJUJ[FOTIJQFEVDBUJPO development of all children and they provide a t&RVBMPQQPSUVOJUJFT wealth of opportunity for practical activities. When children are given such opportunities, The whole curriculum contributes to the all-round their achievements are enhanced, particularly in development of pupils, enabling them to make a developing literacy. We’re very proud to see our full contribution as individuals and members of young children acquiring language skills at an society. early age. Our best classroom libraries are well supplemented by child-made books describing Junior schools and illustrating work achieved on practical Harrow junior schools teach children from Year 3 projects. to Year 6.

It is acknowledged that a rich Early Years The National Curriculum is the same in junior Foundation curriculum provides a valuable schools as in infant schools, but children might foundation from which children can consolidate also study a modern foreign language, although and further their learning. We believe that this many schools start this earlier. In junior schools, contributes to the excellent results achieved subjects may be taught by specialist staff in some consistently by Harrow’s secondary schools. subjects such as music and French.

Years 1 and 2 In all schools the children take part in activities From the age of ﬁve, children will build on these that make their school experience wider and foundations by continuing with enjoyable and richer. After-school clubs, study trips to places of practical activities at school which give a high interest in Britain and abroad, and visits to schools priority to the development of literacy and by artists or musicians are just a few examples of numeracy, but also include the study of all the activities that our schools offer. subjects required by the National Curriculum.

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Glossary

Here is a list, in alphabetical order, of some of the words that are used when talking about education nowadays, together with explanations of their meanings.

Academy School If you qualify for more than one school, Harrow Academy Schools are publicly funded, Council will offer you the one you ranked highest. independent schools, outside local authority Forms of entry control and funded direct from central The number of classes that a school admits each government. An academy is its own admissions year (and usually the same as the number of authority. classes in each year group).

Access Harrow Free school Harrow Council’s reception service (also known as Free schools are all-ability state-funded schools UIFA0OF4UPQ4IPQ set up in response to what local people say they want and need in order to improve education for Admissions authority children in their community. For Harrow community schools, Harrow Council is the admissions authority. For Harrow Church of Secondary school England, Hindu, Jewish and Catholic schools, the In Harrow: Governing Body is the admissions authority. tDPNNVOJUZTDIPPMTGPSQVQJMTBHFEUP tWPMVOUBSZBJEFETDIPPMTGPSQVQJMTBHFEUP Co-educational t"DBEFNJFTGPSQVQJMTBHFEUP A school where girls and boys are educated together (single-sex schools are for just girls or Infant school just boys). Schools for children aged 4 to 7.

Common Application Form (CAF) Junior school This is the form to complete to apply for a place in In Harrow, the schools for children aged 7 to 11. a Harrow primary school (i.e. community, Church of England, Hindu, Jewish or Catholic School). Key stages Groupings of year groups used in planning the Community school National Curriculum (see page 59). School which is maintained by a Local Authority (LA). Local Authority (LA) Maintained school School which is the responsibility of the LA. Co-ordinated admission scheme Harrow Council will co-ordinate with the admission National Curriculum authorities for Harrow’s Church of England, Hindu, Program of study outlining what must be taught at Jewish and Catholic schools so that applicants are each level as set by the UK Government. offered ONE school place only. National curriculum tasks and tests DFE Part of the national assessment system that helps Department for Education – the government to record each child’s attainment at the end of department that deals with all education matters. each Key Stage – you may hear them referred to The website is www.education.gov.uk. as SATs.

Equal preference Ofsted Each school named as a preference on the Ofﬁce for Standards in Education – Government common application form is treated as a separate organisation to oversee regular inspections of application. The admission rules are then applied schools and to report on other matters to do to ﬁnd out how well you qualify for each school. with the quality of education. The website is www.ofsted.gov.uk.

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Glossary (continued)

Reception class In Harrow, the ﬁrst year group in each infant/ primary school (not including nursery classes).

School year A year starting on 1 September and technically ending on 31 August (though in Harrow the summer term ends well before this date).

Statement of Special Educational Needs A formal assessment of the special needs of a child and details of the provision that should be made to support the needs – these are used for only a small proportion of children; any learning needs of other pupils are supported in a less formal way.

State School School which is maintained by a Local Authority (LA).

Supplementary Information Form (SIF) Form required by voluntary aided schools to conﬁrm religious afﬁliation

Voluntary aided school A school largely funded, but not owned, by the LA – the buildings are owned by a voluntary body, usually a religious organisation, and the governors have responsibility for admissions.

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Do you want to make a difference to the lives of pupils in Harrow schools ? Become a school governor !

Our governing bodies make a positive difference to the quality of teaching and learning in schools in Harrow.

The challenges facing modern schools can be equated to those of a multi-million pound industry, with the added interest of a ADVTUPNFSCBTFDPNQSJTFEPGVOEFSZFBSPMET"TTDIPPMT have the autonomy to run their own affairs, school governors have an increasingly important part to play.

Governors do not all have to be parents, have special skills, or have detailed knowledge of the education system. The most important qualities they should have are enthusiasm for the success of our children, common sense and a desire to make a difference in the community.

If you would like to help schools to thrive and pupils to achieve to their full potential or simply ﬁnd out more please contact Governor Services on 020 8736 6504 or e-mail [email protected]

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Useful information

You may contact schools direct for Ofsted Reports, a school prospectus and to arrange visits.

Harrow Council’s website is Online Admissions, Direct URL – www.harrow.gov.uk www.eadmissions.org.uk

Access Harrow – for general education information, free school meals, and travel grants. Open: 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday Address: Civic Centre, Harrow, HA1 2UW Telephone: 020 8901 2620 (Text-phone: 020 8420 9697 for people with hearing impairments) Email: [email protected]

Admissions Service – for admissions queries Telephone: 020 8901 2620

Special Educational Needs (SEN) Assessment and Review Service – for information about arrangements for children with special educational needs Telephone: 020 8966 6483

Harrow Public Libraries – for free lnternet access

Department for Education (DfE) Website: www.education.gov.uk – for Performance Tables etc Telephone for DfE publications: 0845 6022260

Ofﬁce for Standards in Education (Ofsted) – for Ofsted Reports Website: www.ofsted.gov.uk

This booklet was correct when it was printed but it is possible that some details may change during the year – contact 020 8901 2620 if you wish to check any details.

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