Post 16 Education in Cumbria Booklet 2014
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Cumbria County Council Post 16 Education In Cumbria Applying for a Sixth Form (Year 12) School Place in Cumbria September 2014 School Admissions and Appeals Team Tel: Carlisle (01228) 221582, 226775 or 221198 Cumbria County Council Admissions policies include the admissions limit and Welcome and the criteria that must be applied if the number of introduction students seeking a place exceeds the admissions number. I am pleased that you are considering a place at a school in Year 12 at a sixth form in Cumbria. The admissions policy, including the admissions number for Year 12, only relates to those pupils The following information is designed to help you seeking a place at the school or academy who understand how to apply for a place in Year 12 and, were not previously attending the school in Year 11. therefore, make your application easier. This means the admission arrangements for those students who progress from Year 11 into Year 12 Detailed below are three routes for you to follow. needs to be different from that for those students who wish to join the school for the first time in Year 12. Route 1 – For students who are currently in Year 11 at a school and wish to progress into Year 12 at the Where can I find information about same school. the category of schools? – For students who are currently in Year 11 Route 2 Lists of schools and academies with a sixth form at a school and wish to progress into Year 12 at a can be found on page 5 of this booklet. These lists different school and where the different school is a also provide information about the current category community or voluntary controlled school. for each school. Please note the Government has announced arrangements to allow schools to convert – For students who are currently in Year 11 Route 3 to academies. You should, therefore, check with the at a school and wish to progress into Year 12 at a school that you wish to apply to in order to confirm different school and where the different school is a the type of school that it is. foundation or voluntary aided school or academy. What are the entrance requirements You may follow one or more of these routes. for admission to Year 12? For each route you will need to make a separate Each school will have its own requirements for application. entry into its sixth form and separate entrance requirements for each course. You will need to meet both the requirements for entry to the sixth form and Why are the arrangements different? the separate entry requirements for the course. You should contact your chosen school or schools to The admissions authority for community and request this information. voluntary controlled schools is the Local Authority (Cumbria County Council). Will I get assistance to meet the cost The admissions authority for foundation and of home to school transport? voluntary aided schools and academies is the Assistance with home to school transport may be Governing Body for that school. provided in accordance with the discretionary power of the County Council. However, if you wish to Admission authorities are responsible for producing claim for such assistance in Year 12, you must and implementing the admissions policy. This make a new application, even if you have been includes deciding who should be offered a school receiving assistance with school transport in place in Year 12. Year 11. Any applications or queries regarding transport should be directed to the: This means that the County Council, as the admissions authority for community and voluntary Integrated Transport Team controlled schools, is responsible for managing The Lonsdale Building admissions to these schools. This includes deciding The Courts English Street who should be offered a school place. Carlisle Cumbria CA3 8NA The individual Governing Body for foundation North Area: Tel No: 01228 226430 and voluntary aided schools and academies West Area: Tel No: 01228 226428 is responsible for managing the admission South Area: Tel No: 01228 226427 arrangements for these schools. or email: [email protected] 2 Post 16 Education in Cumbria Route 1 – For students who are Should more students’ names be on the waiting currently in Year 11 at a school and list than places available, these will be offered in wish to progress into Year 12 at the accordance with the admissions criteria – see same school. below. • Students not offered a place on 4 July 2014 will You should speak with the admissions staff at your automatically be included on the waiting list. This existing school. will include any student who applies for a place between 21 March and 4 July 2014 who is not You should be offered a place in Year 12 if you offered a place. Other students who apply late meet the minimum requirements for entry to your and are not offered a place will also be included school’s sixth form AND you meet the minimum on the waiting list. The waiting list will be kept up entry requirements for the course that you wish to until the end of the Autumn Term 2014. Should undertake. any places in Year 12 become available, these will be offered to students on the waiting list in You can obtain more information about this from accordance with the admissions criteria. your school. Attached is a list of community and voluntary Route 2 – For students who are controlled schools with a sixth form, their admission currently in Year 11 at a school and limits, and the criteria that will be used if more wish to progress into Year 12 at students request places than there are available. a different school and where the different school is a community or Route 3 – For students who are voluntary controlled school. currently in Year 11 at a school and wish to progress into Year 12 at • Ask the school for a copy of its sixth form a different school and where the prospectus or look at Cumbria’s on-line different school is a foundation or Area Wide Prospectus, applycumbria voluntary aided school or academy. (www.ucasprogress.com). • Make sure that the course and the subjects you • Ask the school for a copy of its sixth form wish to study are provided by this school. prospectus AND application form. • Find out about the “open evenings” for the sixth • Make sure that the course and the subjects you form and arrange to attend. wish to study are provided by this school. • Fill in the attached application form and submit • Find out about the “open evenings” for the sixth this to the school by 21 March 2014. Please form and arrange to attend. contact either your home school or Inspira for • Fill in the school specific application form and further details. Note that some schools may submit this to the school by the date specified encourage you to apply earlier to enable them to in the school sixth form prospectus. Please plan the curriculum for 2014 – 2015. You should, do not use the application form included with therefore, check with the school about the this booklet for applying for a place in Year 12 closing date. If you apply after 21 March 2014 at a foundation or voluntary aided school or you will only be considered for a place after all academy. those who applied on time have been offered a place. This may mean that all the available Attached is a list of foundation and voluntary places have been offered to other students. aided schools and academies with a sixth form. • The School Admissions and Appeals Team, as Information about the admission arrangements the admissions authority, will write to you on 4 for these is available from each individual school/ July 2014 to inform you whether you have been academy. offered a conditional school place in Year 12. This offer of a school place will be conditional Appeals on you meeting the minimum requirements for entry to the school sixth form AND the entry Students and parents not offered a place at their requirements for your course of study. If you are preferred school or schools have the right of appeal not offered a place you will be informed of your against the decision or decisions not to offer them a right of appeal against this decision. You will be school place. provided with information on how to appeal. • In early September 2014, when the outcome Should you not be offered a place in Year 12 at your of the examinations taken by students in 2014 preferred school or academy you have a right of is known, where a community or voluntary appeal against that decision. controlled school has places available, these will be offered to students on the waiting list. 3 Cumbria County Council Information should be provided to you about the will be given to those students who live nearest admission appeals process if you are refused a place. to the school – see note 4 overleaf. If you wish to submit an appeal against the decision Applications will be prioritised on the above basis. to refuse to offer you a place at any foundation and An exception will be made under the Authority’s voluntary aided school or academy it should be sent policy for the education of children with special to the Clerk of the Governing Body for each school needs (i) where a child holds a Statement of Special for which you wish to make an appeal. Educational Needs, or (ii) is currently undergoing a statutory assessment, and in either case it is If you wish to submit an appeal against the decision considered that attendance at a particular school is to refuse to offer you a place at any community or necessary to meet the identified needs of that child.