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Your guide to Newham’s secondary schools Autumn 2012 edition for Year 7 admissions in September 2013

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Apply Online Back Contents Next A summary of the steps you need to take to apply for a Welcome place in a Year 7 class in a Newham secondary school

REMEMBER – your chances of getting the school To make sure you apply apply online. of your preference are better if you apply on time. on time, www.eadmissions.org.uk

STEP 1 Understand what you need to do to apply for a secondary school place. You can do this by reading through this brochure.

STEP 2 find out more about the secondary schools available in Newham. See pages 6-39

STEP 3 Understand what the admissions criteria are. See pages 37-53 Dear parent/carer, STEP 4 submit your online application via eadmissions.org.uk by 31 October 2012. Welcome to Newham’s secondary schools.

If you apply using the Common Application Form (CAF) you will need to: read the back cover This guide will help you find the Newham Secondary School where your child • hand the form in by Friday 26 October 2012 to a Newham , or to apply online or can flourish. • post the form to reach Pupil Services, PO Box 69972, use the form in the Schools in Newham work with each pupil, to give them the individual and group London E16 9DG no later than 5pm on 31 October 2012. back of this brochure. support they need to achieve the very best they can. Each year sees pupils in ‘The Mayor of STEP 5 submit your Supplementary Information Form (SIF) for any See pages 45-49 Newham schools achieve ever higher standards at GCSE. Last year Newham Newham has now Newham Voluntary Aided (VA) or faith schools you have applied for school children celebrated their best ever GCSE results with many more by 3 December 2012. pupils achieving A* - C grades than the average number expected for the local authority. extended ECaM STEP 6 Submit your proof of address to Pupil Services, PO Box 69972, See page 41 to the majority London E16 9DG by 31 October 2012 Our schools are making stronger links with employers while more pupils are choosing post-16 education to fulfil their work aspirations. These achievements of Year 7 pupils STEP 7 1 March 2013 National Offer Day have not come about by accident. They are the result of years of hard work by schools, parents and carers and continued investment in pupils by Newham and schools in • If you applied online via eadmissions.org.uk you will be able Council. to see which school you have been offered during the evening. the borough’ • If you applied using the Common Application Form (CAF) your Following the success of Every Child a Musician (ECaM), our groundbreaking offer for a school will be sent to you via first class post. free music tuition and instrument programme for children in Year 5 and 6, the Mayor of Newham has now extended ECaM to the majority of Year 7 pupils and schools in the borough.

We recommend that you visit schools during their open days, which are an opportunity to meet the teachers, see the facilities and hear about the schools’ CHECKLIST - use this checklist to keep a note of key activities and information. achievements. The open day dates are included in this guide.

1 application submitted online via eadmissions.org.uk Yes no We look forward to welcoming your child to one of our secondary schools and 2 Online user name: supporting them to achieve their potential.

3 online password: Yours sincerely

4 email address used:

5 Unique eAdmissions reference number:

6 have you submitted your SIF forms to the correct schools? Yes no

7 have you written your child’s name and date of birth or unique Yes no eAdmissions reference number on all your supplementary documents?

8 have you kept a record of any emails received in regard to your application? yes no Sir Robin Wales Kim Bromley-Derry Councillor Quintin Peppiatt Mayor of Newham Chief Executive Executive Member for 9 have you taken photocopies of any hardcopy forms you have submitted? Yes no Children and Young People

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Directory of Newham secondary schools 6 Go to

Map of secondary schools in Newham 8 Go to

Section 1 Secondary schools in Newham Page 9 Go to Brampton Manor 10 Go to 11 Go to 12 Go to 13 Go to Community School 14 Go to Kingsford Community School 15 Go to Langdon School 16 Go to 17 Go to Do you need help School 18 Go to (Girls Only) 19 Go to (Boys Only) 20 Go to deciding which The Royal Docks Community School 21 Go to St Angela’s Ursuline School (Girls Only) 22 Go to St Bonaventure’s Catholic Comprehensive School (Boys Only) 23 Go to school to choose P Go to (Girls Only) 24 School 21 25 Go to Academy 26 Go to

? Section 2 How we offer school places Page 27 Go to Important dates for admission to Year 7 in September 2013 28 Go to Transfer from primary to secondary school 29 Go to ‘On time’ offer information at 1 March 2012 32 Go to In Year admissions 34 Go to Changing secondary schools within Newham 36 Go to Pupil admission arrangements for community and trust secondary schools 37 Go to from September 2013 Newham community and trust secondary schools admissions criteria 39 Go to from September 2013 (including ) School Finder can help you. Voluntary-aided schools admissions criteria for September 2013 42 Go to Academy and free schools admissions criteria for September 2013 47 Go to You can use the Newham School Finder to: S Independent school admission appeals 54 Go to • find the six secondary schools closest to Section 3 Supporting schools Page 57 Go to your home in Newham Improving Newham secondary schools 58 Go to Healthy eating 59 Go to the distance from your home to your Special Education Needs (SEN) and physical access needs 60 Go to • see Travelling to secondary school 62 Go to six closest secondary schools in Newham Promoting good school attendance and limiting absence 65 Go to Applying online 68 Go to • find out if your home is in the Newham Roman Catholic Deanery. All information in this brochure is correct at time of publishing – August 2012. www.newham.gov.uk/schoolfinder

Front cover and internal photos: Cumberland School

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Secondary school Headteacher School details Open evening/morning Secondary school Headteacher School details Open evening/morning

Brampton Manor Academy* Dr Dayo Olukoshi Brampton Manor Academy 1 October 2012 between 5–7.30pm Plashet School Bushra Nasir CBE Plashet School 2 October 2012 between 2–3.15pm Roman Road BSc (Hons) Plashet Grove and 5–7pm E6 3SQ East Ham E6 1DG Phone: 020 7540 0500 Phone: 020 8471 2418 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.bramptonmanor.org Website: www.plashet.newham.sch.uk

Chobham Academy* Jason Baigent Chobham Academy 8 and 9 October 2012 from 5.30pm Rokeby School Charlotte Robinson Rokeby School 26 September 2012 29-35 West Ham Lane Barking Road between 3.30–6pm Stratford, London E15 4PH London E16 4DD Phone: 020 8253 7777 Phone: 020 7540 5620 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.chobhamacademy.org.uk Website: www.rokeby.newham.sch.uk

Cumberland School John Bradshaw Cumberland School 3 October 2012 between 5–7pm The Royal Docks Ruth Martin The Royal Docks Community School 26 September 2012 from 6pm Oban Close Community School BA (Hons) Prince Regent Lane Plaistow E13 8SJ Custom House E16 3HS Phone: 020 7474 0231 Phone: 020 7540 2700 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.cumberland.org.uk Website: www.royaldocks.newham.sch.uk

Eastlea Community School Chinye Jibunoh Eastlea Community School 20 September 2012 between 5–7pm St Angela’s Ursuline School Mark Johnson St Angela’s Ursuline School 4 October 2012 from 6pm BSc (Hons) NPQH pretoria Road St George’s Road Canning Town E16 4MP Forest Gate E7 8HU Phone: 020 7540 0400 Phone: 020 8472 6022 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.eastlea.newham.sch.uk Website: www.stangelas-ursuline.co.uk

Forest Gate Community Simon Elliott Forest Gate Community School 20 September 2012 from 5.30pm St Bonaventure’s Catholic Paul Halliwell St Bonaventure’s Catholic 11 October 2012 from 6pm School Forest Street Comprehensive School Comprehensive School, Boleyn Road Forest Gate E7 0HR Forest Gate E7 9QD Phone: 020 8534 8666 Phone: 020 8472 3844 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.forestgate.newham.sch.uk Website: www.stbons.org

Kingsford Community Joan Deslandes Kingsford Community School • 24 September 2012 between 5–7pm Sarah Bonnell School Sarah Jacobs Sarah Bonnell School 3 October 2012 between 6–8pm School B.Ed (Hons) MA Kingsford Way • 25 September 2012 between Deanery Road Beckton E6 5JG 9.30–10.30am Stratford E15 4LP Phone: 020 7476 4700 • 26 September 2012 between Phone: 020 8534 6791 Email: [email protected] 9.30–10.30am Email: [email protected] Website: www.kingsfordschool.com Website: www.sarahbonnell.net

Langdon School Nick Kemp Langdon School 27 September 2012 between 4–7pm School 21* Peter Hyman School 21 10 October 2012 (interim headteacher) Sussex Road Pitchford Street, between 5.30–7.30pm East Ham E6 2PS Stratford E15 4RZ Phone: 020 8471 2411 Phone: 020 3137 3921 Email: info@[email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.langdon.newham.sch.uk Website: www.school21.org

Lister Community School Anthony Wilson MA Lister Community School • 1 October between 11am–12.30pm Stratford School Academy* Andrew Seager MA Stratford School Academy 19 September 2012 between St Mary’s Road • 4 October between 11am–12.30pm Upton Lane 4.30–7.30pm Plaistow E13 9AE • 8 October between 11am–12.30pm Forest Gate E7 9PR Phone: 020 8471 3311 • 11 October between 11am–12.30pm Phone: 020 8471 2415 Website: www.lister.newham.sch.uk Email: [email protected] Website: www.stratford.newham.sch.uk Yvonne Powell Little Ilford School To be confirmed – please visit website Browning Road Manor Park E12 6ET Phone: 020 8478 8024 Email: [email protected] Website: www.littleilford.newham.sch.uk

*State funded independent schools within Newham.

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1 Brampton Manor (mixed – academy) 3164031 10 Plashet (girls only – community school) 3164032 2 Chobham Academy (mixed – academy) TBC 11 Rokeby (boys only – community school) 3164016 3 Cumberland (mixed – community school) 3164033 12 the Royal Docks (mixed – trust school) 3164036 4 Eastlea (mixed - community school) 3164034 13 st Angela’s Ursuline (girls only – VA Catholic school) 3164600 5 forest Gate (mixed – community school) 3164008 14 St Bonaventure’s (boys only – VA Catholic school) 3164601 6 Kingsford (mixed – community school) 3164037 15 Sarah Bonnell (girls only – community school) 3164035 7 Langdon (mixed – community school) 3164030 16 School 21 (mixed-free school) 3162003 8 Lister (mixed – community school) 3164025 17 stratford (mixed – school academy) 3165400 9 little Ilford (mixed – community school) 3164015

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Following our school motto ‘success Sociology their education, they are worthy of also have the option of joining our through effort and determination’ we Psychology greatness and are capable of, and Oxbridge mentoring scheme. treat each child as an individual and High quality vocational courses in responsible for, serving the community. Achievements work extremely hard to ensure that Media, Construction and Catering. We will be encouraging the their progress and happiness go hand traditional values of self-discipline, As a brand new school we will be in hand. Our highly-qualified staff have Our Sixth Form is selective and good manners and hard work. building on the achievements of the a simple mission – to ensure that no focuses on academic A Level subjects Students will achieve a great deal 13 Academies, all in London, that child is left behind. which will enable our students to gain of care and personal attention are also run by the . places at Oxbridge and other Russell from teachers who are trained and Nine of these have been rated by Specialism/curriculum Group Universities. resourced to inspire the best in them. as ‘Outstanding’ – a track We are a Specialist Arts school and record that is unmatched by any other Achievements Specialism/curriculum a Training School with an innovative, education body. GCSE progress is engaging and flexible curriculum, Brampton Manor was judged to be We believe in providing a regularly three or four times faster Introduction by the Principal Introduction by the headteacher tailored to the needs of each student. “Outstanding” in all aspects by Ofsted personalised, challenging curriculum. than the national average and they are Dr D. Olukoshi Literacy, Numeracy and Life-long in June 2012, the first secondary Jason Baigent Every student will have a named popular in their communities with four skills are paramount in enabling our school in Newham to achieve this member of staff taking personal applications for every place available. Ethos/aims students to become confident and under the new, tough framework. Ethos/aims responsibility for them and making Our new buildings are light, bright Choosing a secondary school for active citizens. Our curriculum is as Pupil progress is by far the best in the Opening in September 2013, sure they progress well, academically and airy. We have panoramic roof your child is perhaps one of the most follows: borough and has been in the top 1% of Chobham Academy will be a brand and socially. terraces from which students will see important decisions you will ever make. Key Stage 3 schools nationally for the last two years. new, vibrant and outstanding school There will be extra tuition, in small and be inspired by many of London’s At Brampton Manor, we care deeply English In addition to our strengths in at the heart of East Village, adjacent groups or on a one-to-one basis, most iconic buildings as well as, in the about each student and do our utmost Mathematics examinations, our achievements to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park . for students who need it as well as immediate vicinity, the whole of East to ensure that all children achieve, Biology, Chemistry and Physics in sports and the Arts are also We are sponsored by Lend Lease Master Classes in all subjects. Village. succeed, make progress and are happy Geography impressive. The facilities and teaching/ and run by the Harris Federation, We specialise in English and the We also have a fabulous theatre, a so that they can fully benefit from the History coaching expertise we have in these a charity with an outstanding track Performing Arts. large sports hall, dance and drama high quality education we provide. Languages (French, German and areas enable our students to develop record in London education. University coaching will begin studios, a suite of music rooms and a We are a very successful mixed, Spanish) their talents to the full. These include: When a school has high aspirations from the time that students begin lecture hall for our Sixth Formers. multicultural comprehensive school The Arts (Art, Drama, Dance and a 300 seat theatre, drama and dance and high expectations of its students, their GCSE options, so they make Outside there are playing fields, with high academic and social Music) studios, recording studios, a TV this is when they achieve their personal good decisions early on about tennis courts and playgrounds for standards and are fortunate to enjoy Physical Education studio, fitness suite, floodlit Astroturf, best. I am determined that Chobham their education. Through the Harris different age groups as well as a full outstanding specialist facilities in all Religious studies climbing wall, tennis courts, playing Academy will help to give its students Federation’s links with Oriel College, size all weather football pitch. Citizenship/PHSE field, sports hall and a gymnasium. Oxford and Harris Manchester curriculum areas including a brand- total self-belief: the belief that they Pastoral care Key Stage 4 College, Oxford, students will new, purpose-built Sixth Form Centre. Pastoral care can and will achieve excellence in As an 11-18 Academy we provide All subjects from KS3 plus further There will be a Faculty system, a balance of challenge and support to options in: At Brampton Manor, we are very similar to a House system, that ensure that children of all abilities and Computer Science proud of the quality of care we gives students a sense of belonging from all backgrounds excel and fulfil Business Studies provide for our pupils. Our dedicated and rewards them for academic their potential. Pathways are tailored Economics teams of Form Tutors, Progress achievement, good attendance and to suit the needs of each child right up Media studies Managers, Learning Support staff positive contributions to Academy life. to A Level. and Year Supervisors provide We have the highest expectation targeted support to all of our of behaviour. Our students will be students. In addition we have our respectful, polite and considerate own Educational Welfare Officer of each other and our community. and counsellor who support those Chobham will be known for its calm teams to ensure that the safety and and purposeful atmosphere where emotional wellbeing of each child is students and staff work together in our highest priority. harmony to achieve excellence. Behaviour at Brampton Manor is excellent. We never tolerate or ignore poor behaviour and have a clear behaviour policy which all students sign up to. We expect and receive the support of our parents in working together to ensure that standards of discipline remain outstanding.

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• Develop skills in literacy, numeracy for post 16 and lifelong learning and Our cutting edge Graphics’ suite Pastoral care/discipline and ICT as keys to success. education. A high priority is given is fully fitted with Apple Macs, which Eastlea is a caring community • Promote an inclusive school to literacy and numeracy in order to enables us to stretch students and which values the individual. We with equality of opportunity for all access essential areas of knowledge support them in surpassing their have opted away from organising regardless of race, religion, gender, and understanding. Our driving force targets. The school has invested the school’s pastoral care in the colour, sexuality or disability. is that our pupils make better than heavily in state of the art industrial traditional ‘horizontal year groups. • Maintain a school ethos and expected progress in the five years standard technology equipment. Instead we have created families of climate of care and commitment to they are with us. There is an annual whole school 16-20 students who are led by a one another, where individuals are All pupil information relating to Technology day during which all Mentor, who knows and supports valued, feel safe, are happy and have attainment, achievement, attendance subjects focus on technology and the individual learner. The school’s their achievements celebrated. and behaviour will be available online how it enhances their subject area. families are grouped into our 4 learning • Support pupils with additional to ensure that parents and carers We are supported on this day by communities, each led by an Assistant needs or talents and provide can be fully involved in their children’s our business partners ranging from Introduction by the Principal Principal and supported by a non- Introduction by the headteacher mentoring, counselling and support learning and progress. Barclays Bank, The Guardian Print teaching Student Services Manager. for those pupils and families to Press, Morgan Stanley, London City John Bradshaw Achievements Chinye Jibunoh BSc These individuals have close and remove barriers to success. Airport, Thames Water and Price (Hons), NPQH supportive relationships with parents. • Promote good citizenship with the Most recent achievements: Waterhouse Coopers. Ethos/aims Our success in caring for our students values of responsibility, courtesy, co- • Best ever exam results in 2011 as Ethos/aims Achievements is often commented on by visitors Our vision is to equip every operation and respect at the core. part of a three year upward trend. to the school and recently by Ofsted Cumberland pupil with the knowledge • Investors in People and Our motto at Eastlea is ‘being Eastlea was recognised as being in Curriculum who noted the excellent relationships and skills to develop as individuals, International School status. successful and feeling successful’. the top 10% of schools across the amongst the students, and between to contribute as citizens and to build Our pupils have access to a broad • National recognition for our work This permeates throughout everything country for adding value to student students and teachers. The school happy and fulfilling lives. and balanced curriculum which has on diversity. that we do at the school. All the staff attainment in 2011. received high praise for its care and To achieve this vision, we will: been designed to offer every pupil • Extensive range of external work together to ensure that our At GCSE 74% gained 5 or more safe guarding of students in the most • Promote learning as an exciting, the chance to achieve their potential. partnerships and residential students are successful individuals, A*-C grades, with over 16% of all recent Ofsted inspection in 2011. independent and lifelong activity The mix of academic and vocational opportunities. but more importantly, that they entries being A or A* grades. The vast and broaden pupil horizons and qualifications is delivered by teachers • Anti-bullying work judged as are given the opportunity to feel majority of subjects achieved excellent Discipline aspirations. who are motivated and passionate outstanding. successful. That is why we celebrate results. At Eastlea we have very high • Allow pupils to develop about their subjects and who are students’ achievements, of which In both, Maths and Double Science Pastoral care/discipline expectations of our students. Our academically, physically, artistically, committed to Cumberland School and there are many, on a regular basis. 72% of our students achieved A*-C school policies reinforce firm but creatively and emotionally. its wider community. We promote a real sense of In 2011, Eastlea was judged as, ‘a grades, which reflects the upward fair discipline and are designed to • Provide a curriculum that motivates We build on Key Stage 2 community within the school. We see good and highly inclusive school by trend across all subjects. support the needs of our diverse and meets the needs of all pupils. achievements and prepare our pupils transition from primary to secondary OFSTED inspectors. Our Triple Science in 2011 results student population. The school school as vitally important and we were OUTSTANDING. We achieved Specialism/curriculum strives for excellence in all areas. Like place great emphasis on ensuring that 100% A*-C in both Physics and good parents, we want to promote this process happens as smoothly Eastlea is a specialist Technology Biology, and 95% in Chemistry, half positive reinforcement before applying as possible. From the moment pupils college, and gained a second of these were either A* or A grade. disciplinary sanctions. Staff are arrive at Cumberland School they are specialism, as Leading Edge in 2008, English Literature has raised the bar by experienced and trained to work in supported by a strong welfare and following an ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted gaining 95% A* to C, which was 30% partnership with parents, who are guidance system. inspection in 2007. above the National average, and again equally supportive. All stakeholders Pupils are placed in a form group As a result of the Building Schools half of these were either A* or A grade. are keen to uphold the school values with a form tutor who moves with for the Future programme, we have • 100% of Eastlea students who and motto which is ‘being successful them through years 7 to 11. a newly refurbished Technology left in 2011 went on to College to and feeling successful. Year coordinators support, guide suite enabling us to deliver a breadth study a range of subjects at levels 2 and monitor pupils as they move of Technology subjects, including; and 3, as well as vocational courses, through the school, supported by Electronics, Textiles, Resistant meaning that we had 0% NEET (not in a learning mentor. Attendance and Materials, Graphics and Hospitality employment, education or training) behaviour is monitored closely and & Catering. Eastlea is the borough’s • In 2012 one student was offered a parents are contacted promptly if leading provider for Hospitality & scholarship to Rugby School - a leading there are any concerns. Catering. This is delivered in our co-educational boarding school situated Cumberland is an inclusive school. bespoke, industrial grade kitchen, and in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire. We have complete regard for the hosted in the hospitality suite. All this Two other students also received educational progress, personal was made possible with additional scholarships to attend Bancroft School development and wellbeing of every funding from the London Thames in Essex. A brilliant Dance student was pupil. Gateway Development Corporation. also accepted into the Brit School.

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indoor and outdoor climbing walls and expected to complete in Year 10 and The school has a sophisticated literacy, Science, Creative Arts (art, Astroturf) are hard to beat. one at the end of Year 11. and modern learning environment. drama, dance and music) and The school also has two large and All students study English, We believe the teaching of core skills physical education (PE) , Humanities well-equipped ‘breakout’ zones, mathematics, science, PE, RE and is essential to learning. We provide (personal social and health education, which students use to further their PSHCE every year. They choose their opportunities for achievement and citizenship, geography, history and learning, debate their subjects, share options from the following GCSE success for all giving advice about religious education), Mathematics and knowledge, and take a step towards courses: art, business studies, drama, learning, including individual and numeracy, ICT, and Business Studies independence. French, geography, ICT, product lifelong learning. and Entrepreneurship, Technology and design, textiles, history, media studies, We expect pupils to make good Engineering. Specialism/curriculum music, PE, RE, and Spanish. Some progress and to take responsibility Years 9, 10 and 11 Public We think FGCS provides an exceptional particularly academic students choose for their learning and good behaviour. Examination Curriculum learning environment with an enterprising to study triple science and statistics. We have a clear code of practice to Pupils begin their GCSE studies in and community spirit. FGCS gives Students have a further chance ‘Seeking excellence, deal with poor behaviour. We do not Year 9. Pupils are able to take a wide Introduction by the headteacher students a high degree of challenge, in Year 11 to take up an additional success and opportunity tolerate bullying or any kind of abuse range of GCSE subjects including, Simon Elliott combined with excellent support. Our subject, which they study intensively to others. double or triple science, English results are very good and they are for a year. This is important for their in an inspiring community The school is technology rich and language and literature, mathematics Ethos/aims improving. FGCS is a story of success. extended learning, but useful for CVs, where students and able to implement new and innovative and statistics, two foreign languages, I am passionate about ensuring our and for university applications. learning come first.’ ways of teaching and learning technology subjects and a choice FGCS is, of course, short for our students maximise their educational using information technology, video from a range of subjects within the Achievements school’s name, but we are more opportunities and my team at FGCS are Introduction by the headteacher conferencing and computer learning Creative Arts and Humanities. than a school. Children who come committed to helping our young people We stretch our students to become systems. Joan Deslandes, Achievements here are nurtured, supported and succeed. We are enthusiastic about ‘well rounded’ individuals, to be B.Ed (Hons) MA Pupils’ learning is enhanced by stretched. We help them to recognise them going on to college, university and confident and communicative, and we extra-curricular programmes, which GCSE results have improved every and embrace their true potential. So working life, fulfilling their aspirations. encourage them to take part in the Ethos/aims include a range of opportunities for year. In 2011 pupils achieved 90% 5 FGCS, for our children, means Fly, We offer a first-rate education wide range of extracurricular activities. those who are gifted and talented and A*-C grades in GCSE examinations Kingsford Community School, a Grow, Connect and Strive… because we provide our students As well as the excellent facilities used entrepreneurship programmes. making Kingsford the highest attaining Specialist Language College and To help us maintain our ethos, our with the skills, knowledge and attitude by our successful sports teams and co-educational school in Newham. Confucius Classroom, provides a Specialism/curriculum school has been given a massive required to be good citizens and to clubs, students enjoy music, drama, Pupils in the school have won distinctive and inspiring learning makeover as part of the Building Schools succeed in the twenty-first century. concerts and plays. To ensure their Kingsford is a Specialist Language or been placed in several national environment in which all pupils receive for the Future (BSF) programme. To ensure that all students have education is as complete as possible, College and was made the first academic competitions including the challenge and attention they need It’s our proud boast we now have the right combination of support and we also visit museums and other Confucius Classroom for London BBC’s Question Time, the British to become successful and confident nine computer labs, which are used challenge from the start, all our Year 7 important cultural venues throughout and the South East by the Chinese Council Chinese Speaking learners. The school has a culture of for a number of subjects, as well students are allocated to a Progress, the year. Government and the Schools Network. Competition and the National Maths high expectations, good discipline and as a well-resourced ICT suite in the Core or Accelerated pathway on Foreign language skills and a Kingsford School is therefore an Challenge, as well as being the only mutual respect. Learning Resource Centre. These arrival. We track our students’ wider understanding of the world are official centre of excellence for the school in Newham to have debated in Pupils benefit from our highly resources enable our students to be progress carefully and there are five essential to maximise students’ future teaching of the Chinese language the . qualified, hard-working and knowledgeable and skilled around ‘tracking points’ a year, this enables employability; so, to develop this and has been recognised as the committed teaching staff. Our staff Pastoral care/discipline the use of new technology, helping to us to quickly identify if there is an issue knowledge, our students benefit from best Confucius Classroom in the recognise the importance of working ensure that FGCS students will never and allows us to set up interventions. numerous day trips and residential world. Nick Gibb, Minister of State Pastoral Care is seen as the as a team and working in partnership be left behind. At the end of Year 8, students visits abroad. for Schools, remarked recently that responsibility of the whole staff. We with parents. And, our sports facilities (which are invited to opt for three subject We also provide targeted study “Schools like Kingsford are leading the emphasise establishing and maintaining include a new fitness suite, sports hall, preferences, two of which they are support for students including exam way in language teaching”. trust and co-operation within the school preparation for older students and All of Kingsford’s pupils are provided to allow all pupils to progress in a safe we run Saturday classes and evening with the opportunity to learn at and secure environment. The school classes for those students who want least 2 foreign languages including also works closely with parents through to improve their grades. Mandarin. Pupils who meet the criteria personal contact, parents’ evenings, are able to apply for a free £50,000 and curriculum information evenings. Pastoral care/discipline scholarship to undertake their Post 16 Parents receive a report on their child’s We like to think we provide the gold education as a full boarder at Brighton progress three times a year. Kingsford standard of education. Therefore, College, the best co-ed independent Community School expects all pupils we expect all students to wear our school in . to do better than they think they can. uniform with pride, and we expect and Years 7 and 8 Foundation We also believe that by the time they receive high standards of behaviour Curriculum leave school, Kingsford pupils will be from everyone in the school because Learning takes place within eight responsible citizens and have a love this helps to make the school an Learning Areas: Languages (French, of learning which will stay with them effective place to learn. Mandarin, Spanish), English and throughout their lives.

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All pupils, ranging from the gifted subjects are chosen at the end of Year need extra support to catch up on College we provide learning and talented to those with learning 9. Pupils also study on-line courses. literacy. A very high priority for us is opportunities in Dance, Drama and difficulties, have opportunities to We offer a personalised education developing a culture of reading across Music. There are lessons in these improve their learning. and keep the individual needs of our the whole school. subject as well as extra-curricular We have made significant children at the heart of everything Our recent Ofsted described this activities after school and often at investment in modern technology in we do. We know our children and as a harmonious community where weekends. It is important to note all areas of the school to enrich pupils’ young people very well. As a Training students enjoy coming to school. however that all subjects offer extra- learning for life in the 21st century. School and a Leading Edge Partnership While our main focus is on academic curricular clubs and activities. We believe education is a Programme mentor school we focus on achievement, every student at Lister From September we will be partnership between school, pupils continually developing and improving is expected to treat others with introducing a ‘Specialist Curriculum’ and families and we welcome families the quality of education we provide. kindness, politeness and respect. for Years 7 and 9. Students from to come and discuss matters. This year we have been the first these year groups will have the Achievements Introduction by the Langdon is a large, richly diverse school in the borough to introduce an opportunity to choose one area We are proud of our contribution to Introduction by the headteacher interim headteacher and highly inclusive school with ‘Induction Fortnight’ for Year 6s. The into which they put extra time and over seventy community languages the local community and to other Anthony Wilson idea behind this is to give the students achieve real excellence. Options for Nick Kemp spoken. It is set to become the largest schools through our work as a a taste of what life is like in secondary this include: Mandarin, pottery, art, All Through School in the country. Specialist Sports College. We work school and for them to experience the art textiles, furniture making, music, Ethos/aims Ethos/aims One of the many strengths of the with seven secondary and thirty seven range of lessons they will be taking computing, dance, drama and PE. school is the ethos of respect that primary schools to raise standards Lister has a simple aim: to offer as in Year 7. It also means they do not Langdon is a twenty first century Achievements gateway to a life-long learning journey, marks out the relationships between in coaching and sports leadership. good an education as at any school in need to spend the summer worrying enabling our entire community to excel pupils. Pupils are united by a common Most of our pupils have sports the country. We are proud to serve our about moving schools. The fortnight Students at Lister aim high, and we as responsible, global citizens. sense of pride in their school and the leadership qualifications. The school community, and believe our students has been a great success and are aiming steadily higher as a school. We aim: opportunities it offers them has been linked to the 2012 Olympic deserve the best. In order to achieve attendance has been very high. Our headline results last year were our and Paralympic Games and is a that we have become an outward and best ever, but at 52% they were still • To provide an outstanding twenty Specialism/curriculum Specialism/curriculum first century learning experience training venue. We are proud partners forward looking school, constantly well below what the current leadership • To equip our community with skills Langdon is a Sports College and of the Games. looking to learn from the most We want pupils to develop their of the school believes we can achieve, offers a wide range of sports. We also successful schools in the country. creative potential and value learning and we are expecting these figures to to be life long learners Pastoral care/discipline • To have a shared understanding of offer the full range of subjects in Years We have made big steps forward all their lives, as well as valuing rise by at least 7% this year, and to be our responsibilities as global citizens. 7, 8 and 9 and Year 10 and 11 pupils We offer a comprehensive pastoral in the last year, and above all in the learning that promotes justice and over 70% by Autumn 2014. study for GCSE examinations. Option programme where pupils have the level of rigor and challenge in our equal opportunities. Our curriculum Pastoral care/discipline opportunity to develop their study curriculum and teaching. As a large has been revised to give extra time skills and global citizenship as well school we can ensure we have top to English and Maths in Years 7 and We have this year moved to a House as plan for their academic success. set classes in which students are 8, and the chance to study a broader system within the school, along with a Homework is set regularly and support aiming for either A or A* at GCSE, range of GCSEs in Years 10 and 11. move to Vertical Tutoring. This means is always available. Every child matters and small classes for those who As a Performing Arts Specialist that tutor groups are no longer made at Langdon and our Learning Support up of students from one year group Teams ensure that all our pupils but include students from each year with special educational needs are group and it means tutors are able to supported to enable them to succeed. give quality time to those students that Every pupil receives individual care need it most at their most important and attention. The Heads of Learning times, such as Year 7s in September and Learning Tutors, supported by and Year 11s at exam times. We have the Sanctuary Team and senior staff been delighted by the extra sense of are responsible for pupils’ welfare belonging that this has given to our and progress. At Langdon we believe students and how much responsibility in developing each pupil’s sense they have taken on in looking after of personal responsibility and self- younger students in their House or discipline. tutor group. The introduction of a new behaviour policy with very clear guidelines and high expectations in September 2011 has meant a significant reduction in the number of exclusions over the year.

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• Managing their emotions, building Years 7 and 8 • prepare pupils for the challenges Achievements and maintaining relationships. • English, mathematics and science of life in a complex, changing society. The school achieved 73% 5 A* - C • Taking responsibility, showing • history, geography and religious Specialism/curriculum with English and Maths in 2011 and confidence in themselves and their education (RE) 84% 5 A* - C passes. The results contribution. • art and design, drama, music and Our Curriculum is designed to are well above the national average The organisation of students’ physical education (PE) make Plashet a Science and Maths and the value added results (showing learning will be evaluated and • information communication Specialist College. Although we progress that the students make in the transformed to ensure that: technology (ICT) promote achievement in all subjects, 5 years at the school) place Plashet • Students have opportunities • modern foreign languages – there are additional activities and in the top 5% of schools nationally. to generate ideas and explore French or Spanish projects to ensure high achievement in In addition to the academic success, possibilities in inventive, enterprising • citizenship/PSHE. these 2 subjects. the school assists students to achieve or entrepreneurial ways. Years 9, 10 and 11 We offer the following curriculum: their potential through the wide range • Students explicitly learn essential Our Key Stage 4 curriculum takes Years 7 to 9 ‘Learning together, Introduction by the headteacher of extracurricular activities. transferable skills which they apply into account the strengths and interests All pupils study English, maths, Lunchtime and after-school activities achieving together, across all subjects. of our pupils. Your child will be able science, language (one from French, Bushra Nasir CBE include choir, science, computer, Local and Global Responsibilities: to study a range of GCSE subject Urdu or Bengali), technology, history, succeeding together.’ BSc (Hons) drama, PE, technology, English, music • Students will become active preferences including some or all of geography, drama, physical education and maths clubs. Both school libraries Introduction by the headteacher participants in changing the local, the subjects studied at Key Stage 3 (PE), religious education (RE), music, Ethos/aims are open for pupils at lunchtime, national and global environment. (listed above) as well as GCSE courses art, information communication Yvonne Powell before and after school and on a • To enable this vision we create a in media studies, sociology and sports Our mission of ‘Working together to technology (ICT) and citizenship and Saturday for Year 10 and 11 pupils. learning environment which is safe, studies, depending on their individual promote and celebrate achievement’ personal social health education Ethos/aims We have an active pupil council where supportive, caring and calm. Our needs and abilities. Some students will underpins all our work. (CPSHE). Students will develop key skills pupils can debate issues of concern students, staff, parents, carers and be encouraged to complete the English Our schools aims are to: Years 10 and 11 to meet the demands of the 21st and put suggestions forward to staff. governors work collaboratively with Baccalaureate, which includes English, • generate a sense of ownership of the All pupils study English, maths, Century, through: a corporate responsibility. We have maths, science, a modern foreign school by valuing the contributions from language (one from French, Bengali or Pastoral care • Reviewing their own progress, exceptionally high expectations of our language and history or geography. all members of the school community – Urdu), PE, ICT, RE and CPSHE. dealing positively with praise, The school is orderly and pupils are students. pupils, staff, parents and governors They can choose: Achievements well-behaved, as they are encouraged setbacks and criticism. • provide a high quality education • double science or triple science Specialism/curriculum to develop self-discipline. Our options • Analysing and evaluating information, We celebrate our pupils’ for our pupils through an efficient use • one humanities subject from for discipline include detention, putting judging its relevance and value. Little Ilford’s curriculum is developed achievements as part of our daily of resources history, geography, sociology and life pupils on report or, in severe cases, • Connecting their own and others’ to provide for different abilities with a practice and in a variety of ways, • provide a broad, balanced and skills excluding pupils from school. ideas and experiences in inventive personalised curriculum to ensure that always recognising personal as well relevant curriculum within a stimulating • one technology subject from We want our students to develop and original ways. every child achieves at least 5 A*- C as academic success. Parents’ learning environment textiles, food, resistant, materials, as confident young women who Our students will develop qualities grades including English and maths. evenings are just one opportunity for • make sure all pupils have equal graphic products, ICT are responsible for their actions. We to enable them to be self aware and Students will be provided with depth you to discuss and recognise your opportunity to achieve their full • one arts subject from art and encourage them to be proud of their emotionally intelligent, through: of knowledge rather than breadth so child’s work and accomplishments. potential in their personal, social and design, drama, music and dance/PE. family background, their religion and • Working towards goals (including that they truly get to use and apply the academic development Pastoral care/discipline culture and be positive role models long-term goals), showing initiative, understanding of their subjects. commitment and perseverance. Your child will be assigned a Form in society. Tutor and Pastoral Year Team who will nurture and guide your child’s progress throughout their five years at Little Ilford School. You will be regularly updated about your child’s progress with termly reports. We endeavour to give our parents and carers an insight into how we support your child with targeted parents’ evenings and workshops for you to attend. We offer you the opportunity to be more informed about school life and its curriculum by joining our well established Friends of Little Ilford School (FLIS) an active parent and carer group.

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and keen to play a major part in the options including history, geography, progress every half term to make sure Achievements community where they live and work. sociology, art, drama, music, sport, that they are achieving and making The Royal Docks is an improving They will embody our values: technologies, computer science and the expected rates of progress. As school, in 2011 we achieved our Respect, Success, Personal media studies. a Co-operative School we have a best 5 A* - C GCSE results. Teaching Challenge, Passion for Learning and High achieving students are given successful stakeholder’s forum which and learning has made significant Harmony. the opportunity to study for AS levels gives parents, students, staff and improvements, four OFSTED in languages, maths and RE. members of the local community the Specialism/curriculum inspectors recently judged teaching opportunity to be part of the strategic Achievements and learning and behaviour to be We are proud of our specialism: direction of the school as the forum is good. Students excel at sport – our Mathematics and Languages. We “When boys start at Rokeby School, represented on the Trust Board. Year 10 boy’s football team reached chose these subjects because they they embark on a remarkable Specialism/curriculum the quarter-final of the National Cup transcend the linguistic barriers often journey on which they are set high and semi-finals of the Essex Cup, present in other subjects so students expectations and offered exemplary Music is our specialism – we provide Introduction by the headteacher our girl’s football team represented Introduction by the headteacher can experience early success. This care, guidance and support, as music tuition in a range of instruments London in an inter-county competition builds their self-confidence and sense well as a curriculum which is tailor- Ms R Martin BA (Hons) and students can take part in the Charlotte Robinson in Bolton. We are successful in judo, of achievement which impacts across made to suit their needs best. This is following extra-curricular activities – athletics, rugby and cross-country. all areas of school life. what makes Rokeby an outstanding Ethos/aims choir, samba band, rock ensemble Ethos/aims In March 2012 the school’s debating Our curriculum is based around school.” Ofsted 2011 The school’s aims are summed up and small group ensembles. In year 7 Our vision is that when our students team won the regional final of the the needs of students and includes Over the last five years our results in four words – Aspire, Learn, Co- we will be giving some students the leave Rokeby, they will be fully Debate Mate competition. extension for the more able as well speak for themselves. Our students operate and Achieve. We encourage opportunity to study Latin, Portuguese equipped to take the next step, as intervention and support when it is consistently perform above the our students to aspire, aim very high and Russian. In Key Stage 3 students Pastoral care/discipline either into or the needed. borough and national averages. Our study maths, English, science, ICT, and achieve beyond their potential. Students are put into six tutor groups; world of work. We aim to have an Years 7, 8 and 9: all students study highest achieving students often gain history, geography, French or Spanish, We want all our students to set the small number in year 7 allows the outstanding reputation for educating English, maths (including personal scholarships to study for A levels at food, textiles, graphics, resistant ambitious goals in life. The focus non-teaching head of year to get to boys to become accomplished, finance), science, French/Spanish, prestigious independent schools. materials, art, drama, music, PE, RE of our school is on learning – our know all year 7 students very quickly. ambitious young men of integrity and technology, IT, PE, humanities (history, Sport is a source of great pride & citizenship. GCSE students have students learn independently, in We have very high expectations of resilience who will be ready to make a geography, RE, PSHEE, citizenship), at Rokeby: we are regularly in finals a range of option choices including pairs and in groups. Our ethos is behaviour; students are rewarded significant contribution to society. art, music, drama and dance. at local and National level in several Russian, Portuguese, sociology, based on the co-operative values through Vivo points for high quality They will be multi-skilled, numerate, Years 10 and 11: all students study sports including basketball, football psychology, triple science and of self-help, self-reliance and social learning and achievement, for effort literate and most will be multilingual. English, maths and statistics, science, and futsol. statistics. responsibility. We track our students’ and helping the school community. They will be financially astute, French/Spanish/Russian, RE, PE Pastoral care/discipline In each year group we have student enterprising, creative, adventurous and choose from a wide range of ambassadors and an active school We set and maintain high standards council which is represented on of discipline. We make our the Stakeholder’s Forum. We have expectations clear to students and established excellent relations with have a behaviour philosophy which parents, every Thursday there is a is implemented consistently. Many parents’ surgery where the head boys take up leadership roles from teacher is available to talk to parents year 7 right up until they leave to go individually. At our recent year 7 to college. These include: senior and parents evening, 99% of parents said junior prefects, sports mentors, eco they would recommend our school to champions and peer mediators. Our another parent. Parents are welcome uniform is smart and helps to create to visit the school at any time for a a professional atmosphere in which tour so that they can see what it is like students “Dare to be the Best”. on a normal day.

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Specialism/curriculum Our primary focus is the provision Christian principles are at the very All students are given challenging of exceptional teaching and learning heart of all that we do. attainment targets and we expect all The school has a broad and balanced to ensure the highest achievement for We expect everyone in our school to boys to make good progress. curriculum which helps students to all. We place a strong emphasis on make the most of their opportunities, Key Stage 4 be highly successful up to GCSE and homework and on the development to learn something new each day, to All students follow compulsory beyond, in our sixth form. The core of our students as independent reflect upon their experiences and to English, Mathematics, Science, RE, subjects of English, Maths & Science learners. show respect to all that they meet, DT, PE and a Language. They will also remain paramount in the school but St Angela’s sixth form is the also inside and outside of school. We expect select from a range of Option subjects. our curriculum also meets the artistic, the most successful post-16 provider our students to work hard and try their We have a reputation for the manner musical, linguistic, technological and in Newham. Students achieve superb best at all that they do. We assist them, that we assist our students to achieve philosophical needs of the students. A-levels with 50% at A and B grade. by providing the very best learning their very best. We are one of the As a Catholic school, Religious It is no surprise then with 350+ environment and outstanding teaching. highest attaining schools in England. Education is compulsory up to GCSE students going on to university each This is all underpinned by an atmosphere Key Stage 5 and the majority of our students “Live, Love & Learn In year that the centre is in the top 10 of good order, discipline and love. Our joint 6th Form Centre with Introduction by the headteacher study modern foreign languages and The Presence Of The Lord” providers in the country for sending St Angela’s continues to offer an technology. Specialism/curriculum Mr Mark Johnson BSc students to prestigious Russell Group impressive range of courses. The Our outstanding sixth form is Introduction by the headteacher universities Your Child’s Learning collaboration between the two mainly an A-level provider offering Paul Halliwell At St Bonaventure’s we provide Outstanding schools ensures that our Ethos/aims 29 individual A-level subjects, with Pastoral care a balanced curriculum that will adult learners can access the very maths and the science amongst the Ethos/aims In 2012, St Angela’s celebrates 150 St Angela’s is renowned for its set the foundations for increased best post-16 provision. most popular. Our curriculum offering years of Ursuline tradition. All through pastoral care. Heads of Year and St Bonaventure’s has a long and life opportunities. We encourage will allow your daughter to pursue Achievements those years, the ethos of the school form tutors are fully involved in distinguished history. Our school has independence and progress through the academic standards demanded has been embodied in the motto of the academic and pastoral life of provided the very best education creativity and innovation. Our teachers Our last inspection in March 2009, led by prestigious universities, including ‘Serviam’. The aims of the school are: their students. This begins with an for Catholic boys since 1877. I am strive to be the very best at what by one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Oxford and Cambridge. • to provide a first class education excellent induction programme to certain that you will want your son to they do. Schools, stated that “St Bonaventure’s and instil a life-long love of learning; Achievements support the transition from primary be a part of our on-going success. Key Stage 3 continues to be an Outstanding • to be warm, welcoming and school and continues until the day All students follow the National school.” Since then, results at GCSE St Angela’s is Newham’s most Our school motto, “In Sanctitate et respectful of all; your daughter leaves. Curriculum for 3 years. This gives and A level have continued to increase. successful school. It regularly Doctrina” symbolises what we expect • to recognise the talents and needs Discipline - St Angela’s is a them the perfect grounding for We are very proud of our school and achieves the highest GCSE pass from every member of our school of every pupil in order to help them strict and well-ordered school - maximum success at GCSE. our boys. The Inspectors also support rates. English and Maths pass rates community. grow and develop; we believe only through this can Students are placed in sets according our school mission by saying “St are consistently above 80% and this We are a Catholic school founded • to nurture relationships in our learning be retained and embedded. to the KS2 prior attainment and our Bonaventure’s provides a community standard is now achieved in nearly all on Christian gospel values and our school community so that we live Expectations are high and students own baseline assessments which are where each individual can grow subjects at KS4; achievement in KS3 school is an important part of the together in a spirit of reconciliation are taught standards of behaviour conducted on entry into Year 7. spiritually, academically and socially.” is equally impressive. Newham Catholic faith community. and forgiveness. required for their social and working If you wish to see for yourself the life. The school operates a detention outstanding work that is occurring on system and uniform is rigidly a daily basis at St Bonaventure’s, do monitored. not hesitate to contact us. We always The standards of St Angela’s welcome visitors and prospective Ursuline School are high; we parents. I delight in allowing others to have a ‘high praise’ culture which see the “exceptional care, guidance and encourages the girls to achieve support” and the “outstanding teaching those standards. School awards, and learning” present in our school. commendations and end-of- “My Child is blessed to go here.” term liturgies play a central role in (Parental comment to OfSTED celebrating each individual student’s Inspectors, 2009.) achievements when she becomes “a Pastoral care St Angela’s girl.” Parental Contact We are able to do all that we do, because of the support of our parents. Full cooperation between school and home is paramount. We will contact parents on a regular basis, if at any time you need us, we make ourselves available for you.

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self-belief, resilience, kindness, creativity • Harkness tables. 12 students with the Leadership of the school Achievements and the ability to think. debating and leading enquires round through a shared moral purpose As a school we are proud of • A small school with personal an oval table like a university seminar. linked to learning, achievement and our achievements which reflect attention for your child. With only • High quality music, art, design and improvement, and by creating an successes in areas across the 75 children in each year and small photography. All children engaged in ethos and culture where success at all school. We hold several awards class sizes we build strong and lasting music, as well as developing their art, levels is valued and celebrated. including; Arts Mark Gold, Quality relationships with every family. Your design and photography skills in 21st Specialism/curriculum in Study Support, Healthy Schools child will get the attention that he or Century studios. and International Schools amongst she deserves and will be part of our • Deep enquiries in Maths, science Sarah Bonnell is a Language College others. school family. and Humanities that build children’s and we are proud of the diverse Our students confidently represent • High quality facilities that shape understanding in new ways. range of languages spoken by us both locally and regionally as great learning. State of the art facilities students and staff and those taught Pastoral care/discipline Sports Leaders, in Enterprise Introduction by the headteacher for great teaching, independent learning, as part of the curriculum offer. 1:1 mentoring, small group work and Two values run through everything Introduction by the headteacher activities (recently gaining a regional Peter Hyman All students have the opportunity the school does: Integrity and award) and in music, drama, literary lectures. Our specialist science, drama Sarah Jacobs to study two languages during Humanity. Integrity means teaching and debating events. We use our Ethos/aims and PE areas will give every child the Key Stage 3. Our well-developed students to be “true to their word”. website and Twitter to celebrate chance to fulfill their potential. international links and our work with Preparing students for success in Humanity means all students “looking Ethos/aims and publicise achievements to our Specialism/curriculum partner schools enable students to the 21st Century out for each other”. This way of school and the wider community. At Sarah Bonnell School our aim experience a variety of cultures both We offer an education that gets Every Child an Expert in the thinking is designed to give students as a school community is to ensure here and abroad. Pastoral care/discipline children ready for top universities, English Language a real stake, both in the school and in that every student is fully equipped Students follow a broad and top careers and success in life. Rich We understand the importance of School 21 offers students the chance their own behaviour. in the best possible way to meet balanced curriculum encompassing learning experiences allow every working with our parents/carers to become avid readers, fluent writers We expect the highest standards the challenges of education, work a wide range of knowledge and student to master skills, develop and our community to serve the and confident speakers. These are of conduct so that learning in the and life and that the learning skills, and in Year 7 students passions and reach heights they did young people we care for together, the skills that are the foundation of classroom is protected and the school opportunities we offer enable us to follow a ‘Learning for Life’ course not imagine possible. We believe in: and seek to strengthen this further. everything else. Whether your child is always remains calm, safe and happy. make a positive difference to our - a competency based curriculum • Excellence in all that we do. Our School Home Support Worker already strong at English or needs extra We therefore ask all members of the students’ futures. aimed at developing students’ An ethic of excellence means that leads parent groups and sessions help, at School 21 we help them make school community to make a firm We seek to develop confident, learning attitudes and skills. One children and teachers take pride to help parents/carers support outstanding progress by instituting: commitment to: rounded young women with a love of of the units focuses on developing in producing beautiful work and their daughters’ education. The • Reading and writing each day. • Live each day as exceptional people learning, enquiring and discriminating students’ emotional resilience. At outstanding results. academic progress of students is • The chance to learn from poets, • Craft beautiful work, never settling minds, and above all high aspirations KS4 all students follow courses in • Above all else a place of overseen by Key Stage Achievement authors, playwrights and actors. for second best for themselves and a commitment English, Maths, Science, PE, PSHRE learning. Great teaching and great Leaders and their pastoral support • Our own rigorous tests so that all • Take pride in reading avidly, writing to making a positive contribution and one language and have the learning are at the heart of everything. is provided by non-teaching Year students make progress in reading, fluently and speaking confidently to society. Our vision is driven opportunity of studying a range of What goes on in the classroom Leaders. In addition we have a writing and speaking every year. • Have spark: Imagination + Zest + by me as Headteacher together additional subjects at GCSE. matters most and any barriers that get range of provision to address Learning personal to your child asking: what if…? in the way of learning are removed. students’ emotional and behavioural Our staff teach in exciting and varied • Show grit in the face of setbacks • Strong values. A successful student needs. We are proud that the ways so that students learn how • Be true to their word has self-discipline, excellent behaviour, behaviour of our students was to think. Here are some important • Look out for each other recognised as outstanding in examples: We will provide personal support, our last Ofsted inspection (June • One-to-one coaching to set goals including extra lessons for those with 2011). They stated that ‘Students and check progress. special needs or those who are new are proud of the school’ and that • Individual study. Students learn to learning English. There will be extra ‘Students feel extremely safe and how to work carefully on their classes to make sure the brightest are secure’. own - pursuing their passions and challenged to the full and are never completing their weekly goals. bored or coasting at school. • Mastery lessons. Time is devoted We believe in real and lasting each day to making sure students partnerships between parents/carers improve in key areas e.g. grammar and the school. We want parents to feel and punctuation. they can get involved at every stage of • Project-based learning to combine their child’s education. We believe in knowledge, thinking, creativity and constant dialogue so that parents know teamwork. when things are going well and when • Expert lectures from subject children may need extra support. specialists to develop deeper thinking Together we can give your child the and knowledge. best possible future.

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DfE number Stratford School Academy 3165400 A Specialist College for Mathematics and Computing

expected results. Our job is to make Achievements sure this happens. Our OFSTED report (April 2011) Specialism/curriculum stated that: “Stratford School provides a good Our Curriculum is designed to make education for students with wide- sure that everyone can leave us with ranging abilities, interests and the qualifications they need to follow needs. The school is a lively, friendly their chosen career route. community where students attend All students who want to can regularly, feel safe and receive achieve the English Baccalaureate, good care, guidance and support. that is GCSEs in English Language, Relationships between students from Mathematics, Double (or Triple) different ethnic and social groups are Science, Geography or History and harmonious and students report that Introduction by the headteacher a language. they feel safe.” For more details of what we teach Andrew Seager MA Our exam results are on an upward see our website. trend. For more details see our website. We have a system of classroom Ethos/aims ‘non-negotiables’ – things that all Pastoral care teachers must include in every lesson. We are a mixed, all ability non-faith All pupils belong to a vertical tutor group And to check that all teachers are school. Our specialisms are maths and made up of pupils from Years 7 to 11. using them, we have a system of computing. Older pupils ‘look after’ younger ones, classroom checks. It’s why OFSTED By learning together we come to and younger pupils can learn from found that the large majority of understand each other and learn how older ones. Tutors, with help from the teaching and learning is good or to be good citizens in a multicultural, older pupils, induct new pupils (Year 7), outstanding. multi-faith society. Stressing what we advise on options (Year 9) and moving We expect all our pupils to become have in common is as important as on to further education (Year 11). independent learners. So we set celebrating our diversity. Tutor groups are organised into homework every day and we expect Some people think that humans Houses run by a Head of House. We it done: pupils who want to can go to are born with a fixed amount of ability have our own Educational Welfare our after school homework sessions. and intelligence. We don’t. Research Officer, who deals with attendance Extra-curricular activities include shows that our brains are like muscles and lateness and a 14 -19 Coordinator the Duke of Edinburgh Scheme, – with ‘exercise’ our brains develop who deals with moving on to further chess, cricket, football, table tennis, and can do more: with carefully education. basketball, art, cooking, drama, planned lessons all pupils can achieve We have a clear behaviour policy cycling and debating. surprising things and get better than that sets out what pupils, parents and staff should expect of each other. Year 11 prefects help to make sure the school runs smoothly. For more information about our behaviour policy and school uniform see our website.

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26 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 27 ApplyApply OnlineOnline BackBack ContentsContents NextNext Important dates for admission to Year 7 Transfer from primary to secondary school in September 2013 Applying for a Year 7 place for September 2013 Information and application process How do I apply? 3-17 September 2012 If you have submitted a common 3 December 2012 ‘Moving from primary to secondary application form (CAF) by 31 October Deadline for you to return Pan-London admission system for children moving You need to complete an application 2012 but it is not received by Pupil schools 2013 Autumn 2012 edition’ supplementary information forms from primary to secondary school form. The easiest way to apply is guides and application forms are sent Services until after this date it will (SIF) to the two Newham Catholic online www.eadmissions.org.uk to primary schools by Pupil Services. be treated as a late application (see voluntary-aided (VA) secondary Every year around 60,000 pupils living in London transfer to secondary – see page 68 for more details. page 30). We can only back date your school, many crossing borough boundaries to do so. All 33 London These guides are given (usually by schools. If you do not want to apply online application if we have proof of receipt boroughs together with six councils bordering the capital co-ordinate hand) to Newham families who have If you do not meet this deadline 3 copies of the paper application by a primary school. No other proof of admissions to their secondary schools. forms are available: a child in Year 6 at a Newham primary postage will be accepted. December your application will be school by their current school. Most treated as ‘on time’ if your CAF was What this means for you • at the back of this guide schools keep records of who they are If you apply online you will know when received by the 31 October 2012. your application was received as you If you are a Newham resident, you only need to apply to Newham Pupil • from any Newham primary and issued to and when. However a school’s Governing Body junior school will receive an acknowledgement may be unable to rank your application Services (even if you want to apply for a secondary school place outside For Newham families whose year 6 email. If you don’t get an email then Newham). You can put these schools on the application form we provide, • from Newham Council on child attends a primary school outside correctly as the SIF holds the you can log in again before 23.59 information they need to do this. as one or more of your six named schools. 020 8430 2000 of the borough, Newham Council on 31 October 2012 to review your makes every effort to establish who You must find out about the schools by contacting those boroughs and • from www.newham.gov.uk application and submit it again. 1 March 2013 – national offer day these families are and their contact giving us the details of the school on the application form. details so the guide can be sent 31 October 2012 If you applied online you will receive We will pass your information onto the other Local Authorities using a secure If you apply online your application directly to their home. As we cannot an email during the evening on 1 recorded process. All Newham children will only receive the offer of one will not be completed until you receive Deadline for online applications is 31 rely on receiving this information March 2013 with your offer details. secondary school place. The offer will be posted 1st class on 1 March 2013 a receipt of successful submission October 2012 at 23:59 GMT. from other Local Authorities, parent/ Pupil Services sends out secondary by Pupil Services. from the eadmissions system. Please Deadline for change of preferences school offer letters by 1st class post carers must obtain the guide and form The Governing Bodies of Chobham Academy and School 21 will make be aware that if you do not receive a to be accepted by Pupil Services for to all Newham residents who applied themselves from Newham Council’s decisions on their own admissions. Brampton Manor Academy, Stratford receipt it means your application has those who handed in forms on time. for maintained schools in any London website - www.newham.gov.uk School Academy and voluntary-aided faith schools St. Angela’s and St. not been submitted, which means local authority and neighbouring Any other change, such as address or Bonaventure’s will continue to make decisions on their own admissions, your child will not be offered a school September – October 2012 county councils by 31 October preferred school notified after this date but will advise us and we will let you know each applicants rank number. To place. 2012. Applications received from 1 Secondary school ‘open evenings’ are will be treated in the same way as late apply for a voluntary-aided faith school you must complete a supplementary November 2012 to 15 February 2013 detailed on pages 6-7. applications. information form (SIF) as well as a common application form (CAF). Parent/carers will be processed as ‘late’ applications responsibilities You should try to attend every open Applying online gives you the but they will receive their offer letter on As we need to work with other boroughs, the deadline dates for you to evening, even if you think you know maximum amount of time to complete the same day as ‘on time’ applicants. apply are even more important. As a parent or carer of a year 6 child and submit your application. You can what schools you will be naming on Please see the important dates on the previous page. it is your responsibility to ensure your form. The information given at the do this at www.eadmissions.org.uk Middle of May 2013 you follow the application process - If you do not receive a confirmation correctly. For example your child may open evenings of schools you may not Admission appeal hearings start for receipt from eadmissions your not get offered a place in the school at first have been interested in may parent/carers who lodged an appeal Applying for a secondary school application has not been accepted, you were hoping for if you miss the change your mind. for a place at their preferred school(s) this may be as a result of missing You can name up to six schools you would prefer your child to attend. Please deadline for ‘on time’ applications or as they applied and were refused. remember the more schools you name the more your child will be considered Deadlines information. All you need to do is log you do not fill in all the information into eadmissions again using your To appeal for an out of borough school, for. Before naming any schools, we recommend you visit them and read required properly by forgetting to put • For handing in your application password and review the application you will need to contact that LA. their prospectuses. If you wish to you can write on the form the reasons you in the name of their older sibling who to your child’s Newham primary you created then submit it again. prefer each school you have named, for example these might include that attends the school. June onwards you have another child at the school, or medical reasons, or your religious school If you are worried about the process Friday 26 October 2012 End of November Offer/alternative allocation letters are and philosophical views and do as much research as you want to. Please remember for Newham schools we cannot take medical reasons or religious or how to complete the form please by close of school office All ‘on time’ applicants will receive a sent to ‘late’ applicants usually within and philosophical views into account at this stage of the process as they do ask office staff at your child’s primary confirmation of ‘on time’ receipt letter 10 days of receipt of their application not form part of our admissions criteria. Then check, sign and return the form school to check it for you. • For postal applications to sent to the address entered on the form in Pupil Services. have arrived at Pupil Services to the head of your child’s primary school. application form. Admission appeal hearings are held. Wednesday 31 October 2012 Please note that we cannot automatically reserve a child a place in any 17.00 GMT 14 November 2012 Taster days for Year 6 children will take school, not even your local school or the school where their siblings place at the secondary school they attend. We only consider schools you name on your application form. • For applying online If you have named out of borough should be attending in September Wednesday 31 October 2012 school(s) on your application form, 2013. We strongly recommend you name your local community school as one To make sure you apply 23.59 GMT Pupil Services will inform the local apply online. authority (LA) of those applications of your six preferences as unless your child has a sibling at the school on time, by this date via secure data exchange. this will be the where they have the highest priority for a place. But this www.eadmissions.org.uk does not gurantee you will get a place at your local school.

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They will pass your information forms (SIFs) for the 2012 - it will be a late application. If you any school outside of Newham you information on to us securely using your child a place at schools you have named as are applying by post your application must contact the LA responsible for a government approved secure any of your named preferences on your application will be considered as late if it is received that school to find out the procedure. forms, whether the schools are in by Pupil Services after the first post they computer system. We will treat preferred schools receive on Thursday 1 November your request in the same way as All Newham secondary school waiting or outside Newham. If we are unable to offer a Newham 2012 or later. applications from Newham residents. lists are cleared on the last day of • If you name one of the Newham We will not offer you another Newham child a place at any of your preferred school each term (autumn, spring and Catholic secondary schools, We can only back date applications school place if we cannot offer you a schools because all the places summer). Each application form you (St Angela’s or St Bonaventure’s) where you have proof of sending in the place in one of your preferred schools. available were offered to other children submit replaces the last. If you are as one of your preferences, application form via a Newham school with a higher priority for a place (see on a waiting list for a school and you you MUST fill in a SIF for those – no other proof is acceptable. For If you move out page 39) we will allocate your child submit a fresh form without naming schools. If your child goes to a example we will not accept recorded an alternative place at the closest of Newham that school as one of your current Newham Catholic primary school, or registered delivery numbers as If you do not school to your home that has a place preferences, your child’s name will be these do not prove what was included that school will give the form to want a Newham If you move out of Newham and your available. This may not be close to withdrawn from that school’s waiting you. If not, you must obtain the in the envelope. child leaves their Newham primary your home and maybe on the other list. So for your child’s first year in SIFs you need from the Newham Late applications are processed in secondary school school before they start secondary side of Newham to where you live. secondary school the first time you website, the school directly or by the same way as those received on We strongly recommend that you school and after we have offered would need to reapply to be on a calling 020 8430 2000. time, but we offer places to ‘on time’ apply for your local Newham school a school place, you must let Newham Waiting lists waiting list is December 2012. applicants first. Late applicants will as well, just in case your child does Pupil Services know if you want To remain on the waiting list you • If you are applying online you Waiting lists are created for all be offered schools places left over not get a place at an out of borough to keep their place in a Newham must complete a Newham secondary must not attach your SIF to schools on 2 March 2013, after after we have completed all ‘on time’ school. If the school is in another secondary school. school transfer form and then get your your application as it will not the on time applicants offer letters be considered. SIFs must be applications. London borough or one of the county child’s current school, if in Newham, to have been posted. complete their section and return it completed and returned direct to From the table on pages 32 and 33 councils next to London, for example, If you change We are required by law to to Pupil Services. the school by post or by hand. you will see that the majority of our Essex, you should apply for that your address organise school waiting lists in schools places are offered to ‘on time’ school by naming it on the Newham For information on waiting list for • Many schools outside Newham If you change your permanent address accordance with their own admissions applicants and only a few schools had application form. Please say which academy, free schools and voluntary- also expect you to fill in an extra before 31 October 2012 we will use criteria, they are not first come first places that could be offered to late borough or council the school is in, aided schools check their pages in form. Please check with those the new address – if you provide served, so your child can go down as schools about how they do their applicants. and we will pass on your information this guide. to them. You cannot apply to those the required proof (see page 41) well as up a school’s waiting list. admissions and if you need The majority of ‘late’ applicants do not to determine the school place we boroughs or councils direct. As waiting lists must be How to use the to complete additional forms. gain a place at any of their preferred allocate. After the 31 October 2012 organised in accordance with our offer information You also need to check when schools and are then allocated If you are a Newham resident and we will use the previous address to admissions criteria, late applicants you have to get those forms back an alternative place at the closest you only apply for schools outside determine which school place we table on page 32 of Newham and none of your are not disadvantaged. This means to the school. We are sorry that school to their home that has a place offer/allocate. If you want to change The table on pages 32 and 33 is applications are successful, we will they do not automatically go to we cannot obtain this information available - in some cases this school your school preference because of provided to help you consider whether allocate your child an alternative place the bottom of the list. for you. may be on the other side of the the move, this will be treated as a your child is likely to be offered a place at the closest school to your home borough to your home as the schools at a school in Newham. The table tells address that has a place available. closer will be full. you about the number of applications This may not be a school that is close made to each secondary school for We strongly recommend that if your to your home as all their places may admission in September 2012. child attends a Newham Primary have already been offered to other School and you do not want to children. Please use this information as apply online you should return the a guide as the application rates form direct to the school rather than If you live in Newham but may not be the same for this year. using the postal system as this is not Information on qualifying distances guaranteed. When we have processed your child goes is provided on page 40. all the ‘on time’ applications we ask to a primary school our primary schools to check our files outside Newham against their lists. This means if your form has not been correctly processed Complete the form at the back they will be able to tell us immediately. of this guide. We still recommend that you apply for your local Newham school as one of your preferences. If you prefer a secondary school outside of Newham, as a Newham resident you should still follow the process outlined in this guide.

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Places On Time Statement % In % Link & % Link % P/A & % Sib % P/A % All % VA % LA % Total Miles Applications Public Sib Sib Other ALT Care

Brampton Manor 300 1369 2 0.67 1 0.33 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 93 31.00 N/A N/A 204 68.00 N/A N/A N/A N/A 300 1.602

Choham Academy The academy does not open until September 2013 The academy does not open until September 2013

Cumberland 300 1057 11 3.67 0 0.00 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 98 32.67 N/A N/A 191 63.67 N/A N/A N/A N/A 300 2.010

Eastlea 240 365 4 1.67 0 0.00 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 27 11.25 N/A N/A 49 20.42 N/A N/A 35 14.58 115 N/A

Forest Gate 210 797 1 0.48 0 0.00 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 65 30.95 N/A N/A 144 68.57 N/A N/A N/A N/A 210 2.196

Kingsford 300 829 2 0.67 0 0.00 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 78 26.00 N/A N/A 217 72.33 N/A N/A 3 1.00 300 N/A

Langdon 360 1258 8 2.22 0 0.00 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 90 25.00 N/A N/A 262 72.78 N/A N/A N/A N/A 360 1.939

Lister 270 944 8 2.96 0 0.00 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 80 29.63 N/A N/A 154 57.04 N/A N/A 28 10.37 270 N/A

Little Ilford 270 896 2 0.74 0 0.00 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 86 31.85 N/A N/A 182 67.41 N/A N/A N/A N/A 270 0.814

Plashet 270 878 5 1.85 0 0.00 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 60 22.22 N/A N/A 205 75.93 N/A N/A N/A N/A 270 1.034

Rokeby 180 442 3 1.67 0 0.00 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 21 11.67 N/A N/A 107 59.44 N/A N/A 12 6.67 143 N/A

Sarah Bonnell 240 760 1 0.42 1 0.42 N/A N/A N/A N/A 34 14.17 15 6.25 83 34.58 106 44.17 N/A N/A N/A N/A 240 2.269

School 21 75 187 0 0.00 1 1.33 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 0 0.00 N/A N/A 74 98.67 N/A N/A N/A N/A 75 1.209

Stratford 180 1086 1 0.56 0 0.00 28 15.56 98 54.44 N/A N/A 4 2.22 N/A N/A 49 27.22 N/A N/A N/A N/A 180

The Royal Docks 240 412 7 2.92 0 0.00 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 33 13.75 N/A N/A 59 24.58 N/A N/A 27 11.25 126 N/A

St. Angela's 186 571 3 1.61 0 0.00 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 183 98.39 N/A N/A 186 1.465

St. Bonaventure's 186 497 1 0.54 2 1.08 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 183 98.39 N/A N/A 186 1.340

Totals 3987 12348 0 0.00 5 0.13 28 0.70 98 2.46 34 0.85 750 18.81 83 2.08 2006 50.31 366 9.18 105 2.63 3475

These figures do not include the offers made to Newham residents in out of borough schools. 8. priority area and sibling (Sarah Bonnell 11. all other applicants – children offered a place at any of their families preferred KEY 4. statement of special education needs 5. children in public care – children in the School only) – children offered a who place who are not in any higher priority schools (cloest school with a vacancy) live in the schools priority area and have group, based on their home to school 2. admission number (AN) – the number of – children with statements of special care of a LA 14. total – the total number of ‘on time’ a sister on roll at the school or a brother walking distance measurements places available at the school for Year 7 educational needs, those where a school 6. link and sibling (Stratford School applicants offered a place at the school on roll at Rokeby School in Years 7-10 (closest first) for September 2012 is receiving ‘exceptional resource funding’ Academy only) – children offered a place on National Secondary School Offer Day and those whose access physical 9. sibling – children offered a place who 12. VA – offers made by the admission (1 March 2012) 3. total ‘On Time’ applications – the who attend one of the linked primary access difficulties or other partial disability have a sibling on roll at the school in authority’s (governing body) of our number of families who applied by the schools and already have a sibling on roll 15. miles – the home to school distance of that requires a particular placement. at the secondary school in Years 7-10 Years 7-10 voluntary-aided schools closing date and named the school as This priority is only given when local the child who was offered the last place. one of their preferred schools on their authority (LA) officers carry out a formal 7. link (Stratford School Academy only) – 10. priority area (Sarah Bonnell School 13. local authority (LA) alternative – application form children offered a place who attend one only) – children offered a place who children who were allocated an assessment and decide that only a N/A – does not apply to this school. particular school can meet the child’s of the linked primary schools live in the school’s priority area but do alternative placement at this school special educational needs not have a sibling on roll at the school because they could not be offered a

32 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 33 Apply Online Back Contents Next You can download a copy of our PAN holiday abroad, there is no guarantee If you are unhappy with the place In Year admissions London ‘In year’ common application that your child will be offered a allocated you do not have to accept it. form (CAF) from the Newham website place back in that school when you It is a parent/carers legal responsbility or call Newham Council on 020 8430 return to Newham even if you to ensure their children are suitably Finding a place at a 2000 to ask for a secondary school name it as one of your preferences educated, you must therefore tell Pupil ‘In Year’ admission system for 2013/14 in year common application form then on your application form. Services in writing what arrangements secondary school if you you should use the process below to If there is a suitable vacancy for your you have made. have just moved into or Every year Newham Pupil Services receives over 2500 new ‘In Year’ make your application. child at your preferred school we The Local Authority cannot provide are returning to Newham admission applications from parent/carers for their children who have • Decide which school(s) you will offer you a place. If not, we will you with any financial assistance to recently moved into or returned to Newham or just want their child to would like your child to go to. then consider the school you have do this. attend secondary school in Newham for the first time. Many of these Information and We recommend you visit the named as your second preference. families also want to apply for schools outside Newham. school(s) you are considering If that school does not have a suitable Appeals application process All 33 London boroughs together with some councils bordering the - make an appointment vacancy we will consider your third If your child does not get a place at As a parent or carer, you must make capital will work in partnership to co-ordinate admissions to their before you go. preference and so on to your final your preferred school you have the sure all your children of legal school maintained secondary schools. • If you want to apply for a school preference named on the application legal right of appeal (see page 54). age (5-16) are suitably educated. outside of Newham in another form. If we cannot offer a place at The local authority (LA) must make London Borough see previous page. any of your preferred schools we will Pan-London admission system for allocate an alternative place at the The Human Rights Act allows sure there are enough primary and • Although you have the right to apply secondary school places across ‘In Year’ admissions 2012/13 closest school to your home address parents/carers to give religious only for schools that are outside of that has a suitable vacancy. and/or philosophical reasons Newham for all children resident in the Newham, we strongly recommend For ‘In Year’ admissions for the 2012/13 school year if you are a Newham for wanting a particular school borough. that you also apply for your local We will also put you on the waiting list resident you need to apply to Pupil Services even for schools outside the place. The LA is required to The map on page 8 shows where our Newham School as this will be the at your preferred schools (see page 43). borough. take these into account when secondary school places are located. school where your child has the If you are applying for more than one it can. In practice, this means What this means for you highest prioirity for a place. child to attend a Newham secondary we can only take this into Between all the secondary schools, school and we are unable to offer account if the school has enough If you are a Newham resident, you only need to apply to Newham Pupil • When you have completed the there are enough places for all them both a place at your preferred places. In cases where we have Services (unless you want to apply for a school outside Newham). For application form, return it to children resident in the borough. school, we may contact you to ask if more applications than places applications for schools outside of Newham, contact the local authority the Pupil Services, PO Box 69972, However, each secondary school has your priority is for all the children to be for a school, we will follow our school is in for information on the process. You can name up to six state London E16 9DG. a limit on how many children it can in the same school or if your priority admissions criteria to decide maintained schools (non fee paying) on the application form we provide in • We aim to process your application take in each year group. This limit is is for your preferred school for any which children are offered a place. called the admission number. this guide, as one or more of your six named schools. within five days of receipt by Pupil of your children that we can offer the The governing bodies of voluntary-aided faith schools, such as St. Angela’s Services, which may be a few place. This would mean you agree for For admissions for September Ursuline and St. Bonaventure’s and academy schools, Brampton Manor days after it is received in a council them to be in different schools. 2013 onwards, the governing Academy, Chobham Academy and School 21 (free school) will make office. This means if you use first bodies of the state funded decisions on their own admissions, but will advise us and we will let you class post it should be on our independent schools within know the results. This process is the same for academy/foundation/free/ database within seven working Newham have the right to trust/voluntary aided schools across London. To apply for a voluntary-aided days of you posting it. withdraw from the ‘in year’ co- faith school you must complete a supplementary information form (SIF) as well • All school places are offered in ordination process at any time. as a common application form (CAF). accordance with the schools Check their website for the admissions criteria. For admissions latest information at the time You have the right to name any schools as your preferences but we strongly arrangements for the school year when you are applying. recommend that you use at least one of your six preferences to name your local secondary Newham school where most children will have the highest starting 2012, visit www.newham. priority for a place. gov.uk for all schools located in Newham. For admissions for Through this new process you will now receive the highest of your named 2013/14 see pages 37 onwards. preferences available. This offer will usually be made within 10 school days of your application being received in Pupil Services. • We then aim to have a decision from all the schools you have There is no guarantee that we will be able to offer a place at any of your named as your preferred schools preferred schools as many of our schools will be full at the time you apply. within ten school days of them If this happens and your child is not already being educated in Newham or receiving it. Remember this is been offered a place in Newham an alternative placement will be made but school days so if you apply just this will be within the borough. before or during a school holiday the school will not be available The admission arrangements for the 2012/13 school year can be found at to consider your application until www.newham.gov.uk or call 020 8430 2000. Do not refer to the admission they return to work after the break. arrangements in this guide. Your child will be offered a place at the school you prefer if there is a place. If your child has lost their place at a Newham school because of an extended or unauthorised visit or

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Information and application process to change your How we offer places Introduction declares a relocation date and a Unit before the deadline and the school is postal address or quartering area not included on the new form. child’s secondary school within Newham For admission for the school year Parents/carers have the right to state address. starting September 2012, visit preferences for the schools they want Each application form submitted for Think before you transfer! www.newham.gov.uk or call 020 8430 their child to attend by completing For all other children from overseas the a child for the same year group will 2000 for the admission arrangements the relevant common application application will not be processed until supersede the last except where Please think very carefully before you decide to move your child from for all schools located in Newham. For form. Admissions criteria operate the child has moved to an address in a change of preference is received one school to another. You could be damaging your child’s chances admissions for 2013/14 see page 37 when a school has more applications the UK (which must be specified by for reception after the deadline, the of doing well at school. onwards. than places available to decide how the parent/carer on the application change will not be considered until You will know that stability in your child’s life is important. Remaining in the school places will be allocated when form along with the date they moved after the PAN London offer date same school is part of your child’s stability. Moving to another school means Waiting lists the preferences of all parents cannot to this address). Applications for Applications that have been sent to that your child will be worried trying to get used to new routines, new rules, be granted. The Local Authority is children who will be moving to the UK Pupil Services but not received can new teachers and making new friends. All this means is that they may find it Please see waiting list information responsible for deciding annually the in the future will not be accepted until only be back dated if the parent/carer harder to concentrate on their schoolwork. on page 38. admissions criteria for its community they are resident in the UK. has proof of submission from the and voluntary controlled schools and If you are trying to change your child’s school because they are having 4. School applications Office Manager of their child’s current is required to consult about those problems please speak to staff at the school before applying for a transfer Appeals All parent/carers must apply for a Newham School. No other proof of criteria where changes are proposed. postage or delivery will be accepted. as they may be able to resolve the problem and stop your child having to go If your child does not get a place at school place for their child. The Local through the upheaval of changing schools. your preferred school you have the 1. Compulsory school age Authority does not automatically 5. Siblings (5 to 16 years) If your child is in Key Stage 4 and studying for their GCSEs it is possible legal right of appeal (see page 54). reserve a child a place at their local Sibling priority will only be granted that the new schools you prefer do not offer the same options/subjects as Children reach compulsory school school or the school where their other where the parent/carer has supplied their current school or if they do offer the same options/subjects they may The Human Rights Act allows age on the first day of the new term children are/were on roll. A child will the full name and date of birth of be following a different syllabus so any course work may not be relevant. parents/carers to give religious after their 5th birthday. From this date only be considered for a place at the sibling on the application form Changing GCSE courses during Key Stage 4 can have an adverse affect and/or philosophical reasons for parent/carers have to ensure their schools where their parent/carer has and where the sibling is and will be on your child’s exam results. wanting a particular school place. child(ren) receive suitable education applied by completing and submitting reasonably expected to be on roll at until the last Friday in June of the the appropriate common application So please think very carefully before requesting a transfer to another school. The LA is required to the school when the child for whom year they become 16 provided their form (CAF). Is moving school really in the best interests of your child’s education?. take these into account when a place is being sought is due to it can. In practice, this means birthday is before the beginning of the All parent/carers are given the opportunity start. If a child awaiting a school offer we can only take this into next school year. to name up to a maximum of six or on a waiting list has a sibling who This is a big step to take. You need Pupil Services will send you an account if the school has enough If parent/carer of a school aged child schools as part of their application. has started at the school since the to consider carefully if this will really letter acknowledging your transfer places. In cases where we have fails to provide suitable education All parent/carers are given the submission of their application their benefit your child. We recommend application form, if they are more applications than places the Local Authority reserves the right opportunity to supply their religious, parent/carer must notify Pupil Services that before you ask for a transfer, unable to offer your child a new for a school, we will follow our allocate their child a place at the philosophical, medical, personal or in writing of the sibling’s details for you discuss your reasons with senior school place within ten days admissions criteria to decide closest school to the child’s home social reason for wanting a school the child’s priority for a place to be staff at your child’s present school. of them receiving the form. which children are offered a place. with a place available at that time. place. changed to include their new sibling priority. They will be happy to talk over any If you do not get a letter offering 2. Admission number All of the schools (up to a maximum concerns and help put matters right. 6. Change of address your child a new school place or Each school has a designated of 6) named by parents/carers on their If you have done this but still want to an acknowledgement letter within ‘admission number’ for each year application forms will be treated equally If a child awaiting a school offer or on move, you must: 15 working days of you giving the group which is then calculated using to assess whether a school place can a waiting list changes their address • decide which school you would like form to your child’s current school a formula. be offered to their child based on the their parent/carer must notify Pupil your child to go to. We recommend for posting please call Newham admission criteria set out above. Services in writing and provide 3. Children from overseas that you visit any school you Council on 020 8430 2000 who will The normal month for admission for acceptable proof of that change. Applications for children who have are considering, and make an investigate what has caused the delay. secondary schools is September. If Pupil Services are not notified of an come from outside the UK are dealt appointment before you go. Applying for a transfer does address change the Local Authority with in accordance with the latest ‘In Year’ applicants usually start • obtain a form from www.newham. not guarantee a place at your cannot be held responsible for letters European Union law or Home Office within five school days of the parent/ gov.uk or by calling Newham preferred school. being sent to the child’s old address rules for non-European Economic carer’s contact with the named school Council on 020 8430 2000. or the child’s priority for a placement We will meet your preference for a Area nationals. following receipt of the offer letter. • take the common application form different school as long as that school being incorrect. For the children of service personnel Year 7 applications for September of (CAF) to your child’s present school. has a place in your child’s year group. with a confirmed posting to Newham, the new school year received by the This will give you another chance If that school does not have a place or Crown servants returning from published deadline will have priority to discuss the issue with the school available, your child will be put on its overseas to live in Newham, the above those who apply after that staff and consider whether the move waiting list and MUST continue at Local Authority will allocate a place date, provided their preference for is in the child’s best interests. The their present school in the meantime. in advance of the family arriving in the school has not been withdrawn. school will send the form back to us. the area provided the application is A preference will be withdrawn if a accompanied by an official letter that change of preference is submitted

36 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 37 Apply Online Back Contents Next 7. Schools offers and alternative Parent/carers must contact the OR Newham community and trust secondary schools allocations school to arrange admission within 3 The parent/carer submits a fresh All school places are offered school days from receipt of the school application and has not named admissions criteria from September 2013 conditionally. They can be withdrawn if offer letter to arrange an admission the school as one of their current the parent cannot provide the originals meeting. At this meeting parent/carers preferences Brampton Manor Academy have adopted the arrangements detailed below must provide acceptable proof of their of the required documents as listed on OR the offer letter or the parent provided child’s date of birth and address which Children with Statements of Special Village Primary School and Drew A sibling will only be considered if their false information on the application must correspond with the details The application was found to be Educational Needs will be admitted to Primary School, priority will be given details are supplied by the parent/ form. If the applicant is unable to supplied on the application form. If a fraudulent. the school named in their statement for admission into The Royal Docks carer on the application form. provide the required documents, a child’s address has changed since the OR form was completed the school will before other applicants are considered. Community School. For All Through schools this home visit maybe required to confirm The last school day of each term residence. require proof of the address on the If we have more applications with the connection does not count when application form and the new address. when the waiting list closes, except above considerations than we have the sibling is attending the school’s The Authority will make every effort where the application was received Fair access protocol If the parent/carer is unable to provide places available, we will apply the nursery class. to offer every child a place at one of by Pupil Services on or after the first The council is legally required to the required documents, the school admissions criteria below to decide their parent/carer’s preferred schools, of the month in which the school have a fair access protocol. This may arrange a home visit to confirm which applicant gets priority. Children where this is not possible and the holiday starts when the application explains that children who come Home address residence. in a lower priority group will not be child is out of education because will be automatically rolled forward to offered a place unless all the children under certain vulnerable groups, An address supplied as the child’s they are not on roll at a school or 9. Waiting lists the new waiting list for the new term. in the group or groups higher have for example, children: in the care of home will not be considered if this no previously allocated placement Waiting lists open on the first day Whichever occurs first will apply. been offered a local authority; without a school is a family member’s address, an is available to them, an alternative of September and are closed and Where a child has been removed from place; who are the main carer in their address registered with the Council as school will be allocated. This school cleared on the last school day of a waiting list, to be added again their Priority 1: Looked after children family; with physical disabilities; and commercial, the tenant’s address for will be the closest to their home each school term, except where the parent/carer must submit complete and children who were looked after, those who are from traveller families, a property owned by the parent/carer address that has a place available at application was received in Pupil and submit a fresh application form. but ceased to be so because they will be given priority admission to a and rented to a third party, or a child- the time of their application. were adopted (or became subject school if necessary. These children minder’s. Future addresses will not be Services from the first of the month in When any school officially reports a to a residence order or special will be given priority over the children accepted for allocating school places. The Authority cannot guarantee that which the school holiday starts when vacancy the place will be offered to any alternative allocation will be close the application will be automatically guardianship order)1 on a school’s waiting list. You can If a child’s natural parents are not living the child who is at the number one see the full fair access protocol at to the family’s home, but it will be rolled forward to the new term. position on the waiting list for that year And then together and the child spends a few within the borough boundary. www.newham.gov.uk days in both households on week If a child cannot be offered a group on the day the vacancy was Priority 2: Children who are on the days, then the address that will be The Authority cannot guarantee that place at any of their parent/carer’s reported. ‘school action plus’ stage of the Twins and children from used for measurement purposes will siblings will be placed in the same preferred schools as detailed on their special educational needs code 10. Independent admission be the one from which the child goes school. If this is the case and an application, a child’s name will be of practice, and who are also in multiple births appeals to school in the morning most often on alternative allocation is required for all automatically added to the waiting list receipt of ‘exceptional resource A parent/carer whose child has not No priority is given if only one child week days. of the children as parental preference for each of the schools named. funding’, or those whose access been offered a place at a school from a set of twins or a multiple birth cannot be met or the parent has difficulties, as assessed by borough The allocation of a preferred school named on their application form will can be offered a place. agreed via their application form, will automatically result in lower ranked officers, require a particular school Tie break the Authority will attempt to place be notified in writing of their right to Sibling (brother or sister). For schools being withdrawn unless the placement. If we have to decide between applicants all the siblings or the majority of the an independent admissions appeal admission purposes this is: adopted applicant notifies Pupil Services of And then in any of the above admission criteria siblings in the closest school that can hearing under the School and siblings, step-children, common law their requirements. the tie break will be: home to school accommodate the maximum number Standards Framework Act 1998. They Priority 3: Children who at the time step-children, half-siblings, children shortest walking distance, starting with of the children even if individually they Waiting lists are organised in still have the right of appeal for a place of admission will have a sibling (see subject of a residence order and foster the nearest address. could have been placed in separate accordance with the published criteria ranked lower than the school offered. below) in the school. children (only those “looked after” by page 39, not on a first come first any local authority). schools closer to their home address. If a parent/carer has had an And then The local authority uses a council served basis. Children added to a approved Geographical Information If a parent/carer of a compulsory unsuccessful appeal a second Examples of those who will not be waiting list are added in their rightful Priority 4: Other children, whether System (GIS) to calculate shortest school aged child is unhappy with the appeal application for a place in considered as siblings incluse cousins, place based on their priority for a or not they live in Newham. walking distance measurements. This offered school they must still ensure the same academic year, for the friends, other family members living in place. system calculates the distance in miles their child is admitted to and regularly same school, will not be considered In cases where there are more the same home, other children living and yards to three decimal places attends that school unless they can As a result of waiting lists being unless there have been significant children in a given criterion than the in the same household who are not using a routing database system provide evidence they have suitable organised in accordance with changes in circumstances relevant places on offer, places are allocated included in the list above, children which uses two dimensional maps alternative education for their child or published criteria it is possible for a to the application. The LA will make as follows: who share the same childminder and which means it does not take into they no longer need a school place in child to move down a list as well as their decision as to whether to grant For Sarah Bonnell School priority children of a childminder. up. the second appeal based on the account any contours or terrains. Newham as they have moved away. will be given for children living Sibling priority will only apply to significance of the change. 8. Start date Child added to a waiting list will remain in the catchment areas of the children if they live in the same home on that list until: 11. Fair access protocol following primary and junior schools: as another sibling attending the The normal month for admission for Carpenters; Colegrave; Earlham; The child is offered a place at a school Where a Newham child cannot be named school who is reasonably infant/primary schools is September. Manor; Maryland; Park; St. James; ranked higher placed in any school in the borough expected to still be in attendance ‘In Year’ applicants, those outside the and West Ham Church. when the child is admitted. OR due to a shortage of school places, normal admission rounds, usually start a place will be offered in accordance During the normal primary to within five school days of the parent/ The parent/carers request in writing with our Fair Access Protocol. secondary transfer admission carer’s contact with the named school their child to be removed from the list. process only, for children living in 1An adoption order is an order under Section 46 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. A ‘residence order’ is following receipt of the offer letter. the catchment areas of Britannia an order settling the arrangements to be made as to the person with whom the child is to live under Section 8 of the Children Act 1989. Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 defines a ‘special guardianship order’ as an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or special guardians).

38 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 39 Apply Online Back Contents Next Start point of calculation For pupils who live in a flats, whether • If you are using the Royal Mail Mandatory documents Proof of the child’s main address: • Recent gas bill (home address) they are within a block or a house, postal system rather than applying for admission to Newham Proof of address documents must OR priority will be given based on the floor on line or submitting your form be addressed to at least one of For calculation purposes the local schools and educational • Recent electricity bill the child lives, with the lowest floor via a Newham primary school we the parent/carers detailed on the authority uses the best address having priority over higher floors. recommend that you post early so establishments application form who must live at the OR database available to determine the it is received by pupil services by For pupils who live in single family The following documents will be same address as the child. • Current water bill address points. the deadline. The Council cannot houses or ground floor flats with their requested, and must be received, for take responsibility for forms that are • Council Tax Bill for the current financial OR The LA’s approved computer system own entrance or those who have the all new admissions for September not delivered to Pupil Services by year (residential not commercial) uses a centroid point generated same home to school distance to three 2012 onwards, including transfers • Recent telephone bill the deadline due to postal delays from the Ordnance Survey’s building decimal places as another children from other Newham schools. OR OR or other problems that may result in polygon (OS) for an address to random allocation will be used. • Current Housing Benefit Entitlement determine the start point of the home the form being lost in transit. This applies to all children being • Recent mobile bill Note: to ensure continuity for all Letter to school distance measurement. admitted to a Newham school or If your child has moved since the applicants only the LA council • Applications received by Pupil This means if a child lives in a block educational establishment which OR application form was completed proof approved system can be used to Services by close of business on of flats where a communal entrance includes Community Links, New • Tenancy Agreement for Council of their new address and the address calculate home to school distance Wednesday 31 October 2012 used as an entry point the LA will use Directions, Tunmarsh and Special Housing or a Housing Association you supplied on the application form tie breaks. Other GIS systems will be processed as ‘on time’ the centroid of the block and not the Schools. Property must be provided. such as Google Maps or personal applications. individual flat for these calculations. These documents will be requested Satellite Navigation Systems will not OR Proof of parent/carers: • Applications received by Pupil by the head teacher/teacher/officer All calculations are based on the necessarily calculate the same route Services after Wednesday 31 conducting the admission meeting at • Tenancy Agreement for Private Documents must be provided to prove child’s home address supplied on as the LA approved system as they October 2012 will be accepted the school a child has been allocated Accommodation from Newham you have legal responsibility for the the application form being correct may not be able to accommodate our but will be processed as ‘late’ a place. Accredited Landlord (acceptable child. at the date of parental/carer’s approved routes applications which means they to December 2012) or Tenancy Certified, dated copies must be taken Medical contact information: signature and the address being cannot be considered until after the Agreement from a Newham in all cases and will be added to your classified as a residential property on ‘on time’ applications. Licensed Landlord (accepted from • Doctor’s Name, Surgery Address the Council’s database. Closing date for ‘on time’ child’s file. January 2013 onwards) and Telephone Number • Parents/carers who prefer to hand End point of calculation (school applications Other documents cannot be accepted. AND in the a form at their child’s primary OR nominated entrance) If you cannot provide these documents • Dentist’s Name, Surgery Address • We strongly recommend that you school, will need to ensure that they • Letter from the National Asylum The entrance used for calculation you must still attend the admission and Telephone Number submit your application on line as do this by Friday 26 October 2012, Support Service (NASS) Team purposes is the main gate at the meeting, but we cannot guarantee it is easier and you will receive an so that the school can forward it to informing the family of the address of Both sets of details should be official postal address of the school that your child will be taken on roll. electronic receipt acknowledging us before the half-term holiday the accommodation being provided verified using the internet or unless their Governing Body has your application when you have fully Proof of the child’s date of birth: for you and your family. telephone directories officially notified the LA by 31 Children will only be offered completed the process. August of a different entrance for a secondary school place for • UK Birth Certificate OR Emergency contact details September 2013 if their parent/carers measurement purposes. No other • If cannot apply online and you OR • Social Services Asylum Team At least two emergency contact aged correctly complete the process. entrance will be used to calculate want the submission of your paper • Valid Current Passport (not expired) informing the family of the address of 18 or over the distance. application recorded you must send the accommodation being provided (If possible one of the contacts should it to Pupil Services via a Newham OR for you and your family. Route speak English). primary school, no later than • Documentation from the National AND one of the following Utility The shortest walking route is • Full Name Friday 26 October 2012 Asylum Seeker Service Bills (this is not required for families calculated using the LA’s adopted • Address – this is the Friday before the supported by NASS or a Social highways and approved footpaths • Language (if non English speaker) October half term. Services Asylum Team) available to the best of our knowledge • Relationship to the Child at the time of the calculations. • Home Number The following are excluded from our • Mobile Number calculations (this is not an exhaustive If you cannot provide any of these list) documents because you are living • Unlit areas with friends or family, the Local Authority will make checks on your • Parks/recreational areas behalf to ensure your child has their To make sure you apply • Unofficial crossing points of the apply online. legal access to education. A12/3 and Newham docks on time, • Footpaths not approved by the LA www.eadmissions.org.uk Please be aware that supplying any false or deliberately Tie break misleading information on If the LA’s system calculates that a school application form or two or more pupils applying for the supplementary form and/or same school in the same year group supporting information may have the same home to school make your application invalid, distance (to three decimal places) the lead to the offer of a place being following criteria are used to determine withdrawn and may result in legal their priority. prosecution.

40 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 41 Apply Online Back Contents Next Voluntary-aided schools admissions criteria Sixth form admissions for September 2013 For admissions to the sixth form please refer to St Angela’s and St. Bonaventure’s Admission Criteria 2013-2014 available from St Angela’s St Angela’s Ursuline Convent School and St Bonaventure’s Sixth Form Centre. St George’s Road, Forest St Angela’s Ursuline School is an 11-18 voluntary-aided girls’ school founded by the Gate, London, E7 8HU. Telephone Ursuline Sisters in 1862 and now under the trusteeship of the Diocese of Brentwood. Number: 020 8475 7392. The primary aim of the school is the education of Catholic children in accordance with its trust deed St Angela’s seeks at all times to foster the growth of pupils’ Pupils with Statement understanding and appreciation of their faith. of Special Educational The Governors of St Angela’s Ursuline School intend to admit 186 pupils into Year 7 for the academic year 2013/2014. Applications for places at St Angela’s for admission in Needs September 2011 were 570. The admission of pupils with a By naming St Angela’s as a preference, it is assumed that parents/carers wish their Statement of Special Educational child to receive a Catholic education and support the aims and ethos of the school as Needs is dealt with by a separate described in the school prospectus. procedure. This procedure is integral to the making and maintaining Wherever there are more applicants than places available, priority will always be given Statements by the pupil’s home Local to Catholic applicants in accordance with the over-subscription criteria for 2013/14 Authority. Details of this separate listed below. procedure are set out in the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice.

Catholic N.B. Applicants must complete their local authority’s Common In the event of over-subscription • Baptised Christians whose Timescales ‘Catholic’ means a member of the applicants will be considered in minister can confirm their level of Application Form (CAF) for their application to be considered. Church in communion with the See the following order of priority: practice. Parents will be advised of the of Rome. This includes the Eastern 1. Looked After Catholic Children or • All other Christians whose minister outcome of their application on Catholic Churches. (See school Catholic ‘formerly Looked After can confirm their level of practice. Name of Catholic Parish in Newham District 1 March 2013, National Offer Day. Feeder School Deanery website for complete list) Children’ who have been adopted • Any other Christians. Late applications 2. Baptised Roman Catholic girls 8. Children of families of other faiths ‘Practising Catholic’ St Edward’s our Lady of Compassion Upton Park Late applications received after the whose permanent residence is residing in Newham whose religious closing date will be considered in The Governors will determine practice within one of the following Roman leader can confirm in writing that St Joachim’s st Anne’s Custom House accordance with the Admissions of the Catholic Faith with reference to Catholic parish boundaries they are practising regularly. St Mark’s the following criteria: of the Newham Deanery (see Criteria from the date of receipt but 9. Any other applicants, including table opposite), and who with St Antony’s St Antony of Padua Forest Gate not so as to prejudice decisions • Evidence that the child has been those who have not provided their family practise regularly already taken after the closing date baptised in accordance with the proof of residence and/or a recent as confirmed by the Diocese of St Francis’ St Francis of Assisi Stratford regarding the allocation of places. disciplines and rites of the Catholic utility bill as stipulated in part ‘e’ of Brentwood’s Priest’s Reference Church. the Admissions Criteria. St Helen’s St Margaret and All Saints canning Town Form. Accuracy • A copy of the Child’s Baptismal Tie break St Mary and St Edward Beckton/Silvertown/ certificate is to be attached to the 3. Baptised Roman Catholic girls All offers are made on condition 1. The attendance of a sibling at North Woolwich who attend any Roman Catholic that the information received by the priest’s Reference Form. St Angela’s Ursuline school Primary school but live outside the Governing Body is entirely accurate. • The practice of the faith is on the school roll at the time St Michael’s st Michael’s East Ham Newham Deanery and who with If at any stage this is proved to be confirmed by the Diocesan Priest’s of enrolment (years 7 – 11) their family, practise regularly as St Winefride’s st Stephen’s Manor Park otherwise, the offer of a place may be reference Form. will increase the priority of an confirmed by a Priest’s Reference withdrawn. Form. application within each category. Siblings 4. Baptised Roman Catholic girls, 2. Where the offer of places to all Applicants who have a sister currently who are resident in Newham, but the applicants in any of the sub attending the school in Year 7-10 at whose level of practice cannot categories listed above would the time of application and who will be supported by the Diocese of still lead to over subscription, still be attending the school in the Brentwood’s Priests Reference the places up to the admission Academic Year 2013/2014. Form. number will be offered to those To make sure you apply living nearest to the school. The apply online. 5. Any other baptised Catholic girls. on time, distance measured is the shortest www.eadmissions.org.uk 6. All other Looked After Children or walking distance from the front ‘formerly Looked After Children’ gate or door of the house to the who have been adopted. Brescia Gate of theschool not 7. Children of families of another using unlit footpaths, parks, other Christian denomination in the open ground or private property following order of priority: (as calculated by Newham).

42 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 43 Apply Online Back Contents Next Appeals procedure paper CAF to Pupil Services by non Catholic applicants must also pupil Services (not the school) the closing date (see the inside arrange for their minister/faith St Bonaventure’s Catholic Comprehensive School on Friday, 1 March 2013. Parent/carers wishing to appeal front cover for closing date details) leader to send a letter confirming St Bonaventure’s School was founded by the Catholic Church to provide Unsuccessful applicants will be should read pages 54-56 or visit and the pink St Angela’s their practice to the school. education for boys of Catholic families. The school is conducted by its given reasons related to the over www.newham.gov.uk for more application form (SIF) together governing body as part of the Catholic Church in accordance with its subscription criteria listed above information. e.  The Governors require parents with a photocopy of the Baptismal to submit proof of residence by trust deed and instrument of government and seeks at all times to be and advised of their righ of appeal Certificate to St Angela’s by attaching a photocopy of their a witness to Jesus Christ. to an independent appeal panel Monday, 3 December 2012. Waiting lists most recent Council Tax bill, Whenever there are more applications than places available, priority 3. Parent/carers wishing to appeal In addition to the right of appeal, non-Newham residents must Housing Benefit or Council will always be given to Catholic applicants in accordance with the over should read pages 54-56 or visit unsuccessful candidates will be apply through their own Local tenancy Agreement with their subscription criteria stated below. All applicants are required to declare www.newham.gov.uk for more offered the opportunity to be placed authority. They can either obtain application form together with their positive support for the aims and ethos of the school. information. the pink St Angela’s application a recent utility bill, not telephone. on a waiting list. The waiting list will The Governors of St Bonaventure’s school intend to admit 186 pupils into be maintained in order of the over- form (SIF) from the school or No other forms are acceptable. contact Newham’s Pupil Service Year 7 in the school year which begins in September 2013. Applications for subscription criteria set out above and places at St Bonaventure’s for Year 7 starting September 2012 were 600. not in the order in which applications section to be sent one. Applicants who do not produce are received or added to the list. non-Newham residents should a parish priest’s reference/ return their own borough’s CAF All waiting lists will be maintained only minister’s supporting letter Application procedures school’s website: www.stbons.org; to their local authority and the for the academic year 2013-2014. with their application will not and timetable – what you or contact Newham’s Pupil Service pink Application form (SIF) If parents wish the application to join qualify within their respective section to be sent one. together with photocopies of the have to do or to remain on the waiting list for the category and should not assume Baptismal Certificate to St Angela’s non-Newham residents should following year after that date, they an offer of a place. 1. newham Residents should by Monday, 3 December 2012. return their own borough’s CAF need to contact the school in writing complete the common application to their Local Authority and the to request this after the start of the d. catholic applicants will be required form (CAF) and return it to Green St Bonaventure’s School Over subscription criteria next school year in early September to support their application with If you are applying online via Pupil Services for receipt by supplementary information form At any time where there are more 2014. a Parish Priest’s Reference Form, eadmissions you must still send 31 October 2012. This includes (SIF) together with photocopies applications for places than the which will confirm practice. your completed SIF directly to those whose children attend of the Baptismal Certificate to number of places available, places the school. You MUST NOT attach The Priest’s Reference Form is school outside of the Borough. St. Bonaventure’s by Monday, will be offered according to the Applications it to the online form. obtainable only from the Parish The Yellow St Bonaventure’s 3 December 2012. following order of priority: a. Common Application Forms (CAF) church/Parish Priest. School supplementary information catholic applicants will be required 1. ‘looked after’ children from found online at eadmissions.org.uk form (SIF) (obtained from or in the ‘Moving from Primary to to support their application with a catholic families Newham’s Pupil Service Section parish Priest Reference Form Secondary’ handbook provided on request after completion 2. Practising Catholic boys who by Newham’s Children and Young (PRF), which will confirm practice. are resident in the Deanery of the CAF); downloaded the Priests Reference Form People’s Services indicating from the school’s website: of Newham for whom St preference of secondary school is obtainable only from the Bonaventure’s is the nearest www.stbons.org; or collected from parish Church/Parish Priest. must be sent to the London the school’s reception) together catholic school Borough of Newham, Pupil this must be completed and with a photocopy of the Baptismal signed by the Priest. 3. other practising Catholic boys Services Section, Newham Certificate should be returned 4. other baptised Catholic boys Dockside, 3rd Floor Eastside only to St Bonaventure’s school. non-Catholic applicants must (airport side), 1000 Dockside A copy of Baptismal Certificate also arrange for their minister/faith 5. catechumens: members Road,E16 2QU by the closing must be firmly attached to this leader to send a letter confirming of the catechumenate of the date. See the inside front cover application form. The closing their practice to the school. catholic Church for closing date details. date for the forms is Monday, applicants should note that unless 6. any other ‘Looked after’ b. A pink application form (the 3 December 2012. both the CAF and the SIF forms children who are not Catholic Supplementary Information form the Governors require parents described above have been in public care - SIF) for St Angela’s (obtained completed and returned on to submit proof of residence 7. members of an Eastern Christian from Newham on completion time to the correct addresses, by attaching a photocopy of church whose application is of the CAF or from St Angela’s the Governors will be unable their most recent Council Tax Bill, supported by a minister of religion directly) should be returned only Housing Benefit or Council to operate their criteria to decide 8. Christians of other denominations to the school. A copy of Baptismal tenancy Agreement with their whether a place can be offered whose parents are in sympathy Certificate must be attached to this application form together with at the school and will be placed with the aims and ethos of the application form. The closing date a recent utility bill. No other under criteria ten: “Other school and whose application is for the forms is Monday, forms are acceptable. applicants”. If the CAF is not 3 December 2012. completed and returned as supported by a minister of religion non-Newham residents must explained above the application 9. children of parents of other faiths c. Newham residents only should apply through their own Local will be invalid. whose parents are in sympathy complete the Newham CAF. This authority. They can either obtain with the aims and ethos of the includes those children who attend the Green St Bonaventure’s the Parish Priest will organise the school and whose application school outside of the Borough. school supplementary information delivery of the PRF to the school. is supported by a religious leader newham residents should submit form (SIF) from the school’s 2. Parents will be advised of the their online CAF or return the reception; downloaded from the outcome of their application by 10. other applicants.

44 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 45 Apply Online Back Contents Next Definitions 1. the attendance of a brother at none of whom have any connection the school who will be on the with the school and one of whom Academy and free schools admissions criteria ‘Looked after child’ has the same school roll at St Bonaventure’s will be a lay person. The lay person meaning as in Section 22 of the for September 2013 in September 2012 in Years is someone who is aware of Children Act 1989 and means any 8-12 will increase the priority of an educational issues but is not directly child in the care of a local authority application within each category involved with it. or provided with accommodation by year reflecting the growing size of the Admissions arrangements for Chobham Academy Academy, and then annually each them (e.g. children with foster parents). 2. distance from home to the • the appeals panel will accept nominated central point of year until the final arrangement is ‘Catholic’ means a member of the representation from any interested newham, which has been agreed achieved. This is critical to admissions Church in communion with the See parties in writing or in person at as the Front Entrance of Our Lady at Year 7 and Year 12 where, as of Rome. This includes the Eastern the appeal hearing of Compassion Catholic Church, numbers move through the Academy, Catholic Churches. This will normally green Street, London E13 9AX. • the names of unsuccessful there will be reduced places available be evidenced by a certificate of candidates will be placed for external entry. Eventually the baptism in a Catholic Church and a on a waiting list, which will intention is that there will be 90 places certificate of reception into the full be organised in accordance available in reception (and through the communion of the Catholic Church. with St Bonaventure’s primary section), 90 places (plus any ‘Practicing Catholic’ – governors admissions criteria. vacancies) in Year 7 (and 180 in total will determine the term in the following per year through the 11 – 16 section) way: Waiting lists and 30 (plus any vacancies) in Year 12. • proof that the child has been In addition to their right of appeal, baptised in the Catholic Church unsuccessful candidates will be Secondary (11 – 16) aged • that the obligation to attend Mass offered the opportunity to be placed provision frequently (a minimum of twice a on a waiting list. The waiting month) is observed in accordance list will be maintained in order The Academy has an admission with the teaching of the Church Admission to sixth form of the oversubscription criteria set The Academy opens in September An admission number may be number of 120 in Year 7 and an 2013 and will serve East Village published for Year 6 in January 2014 if admission number of 60 in Year 9. • the above will be confirmed by The sixth form is available for all out above and not in the order in (the brand new community being agreed with the LA that there is then the the priest’s reference existing pupils at St Bonaventure’s which applications are received The Academy will accordingly provide created after the Olympics in what demand. If it is clear that demand from School if pupils fulfil the individual or added to the list. Names are for the admission of 120 pupils to ‘Brother’ – a brother includes a was the Athletes Village) and the East Village will exceed the published requirements of suitable courses, normally removed from the list at Year 7 and 60 pupils to Year 9 in the half-brother, or by adoption who surrounding areas of Newham, admission number (PAN) in other year details of which can be found in the the end of the Autumn, Spring and academic year 2013/14 if sufficient is resident at the same address Hackney and Waltham Forest. The groups these will also be increased in sixth form prospectus. Remaining Summer terms. Parents must applications for entry are received. at the school as the child for whom planning permission for the Academy January 2014 and April 2014. places in the sixth form of the school make a fresh application to remain Where fewer applications than the a place is being sought. requires it to provide places for those will be distributed in accordance with on the list for the following term. published admission number for the occupying the development. East The intention will be to provide primary ‘Catechumen’ means a member the school’s oversubscription criteria, relevant year groups are received, the Village is currently planned to be age places for all children moving into of the catechumenate of a Catholic subject to applicants fulfilling the Pupils with a Statement Academy Trust will offer places at the occupied from March 2013 through East Village but this is not possible Church preparing for Baptism. individual requirements of suitable Academy to all those who have applied. of Special Educational to the February 2014. for secondary aged children – other This will normally be evidenced courses. The published minimum than year 7 – because numbers are There will be no admission number for by a certificate of reception into admission number for external Needs (SEN) The Academy needs to provide places unlikely to allow a full and balanced Years 8, 10 and 11 and no pupils will the order of catechumens. candidates will be 50. The admission of pupils with a for those moving into East Village – curriculum to be offered to those be admitted to those year groups. ‘Eastern Christian Church’ includes statement of SEN is dealt with by a providing that does not compromise in Year 8 and above. Transfers into The Academy will admit students Orthodox Churches, and is normally Appeals procedure separate procedure. This procedure is the provision of efficient and effective Year 10 and 11 will be less popular evidenced by a certificate of baptism integral to the making and maintaining representing all levels of ability Parents may appeal against the education of these children and others in any case because of students among applicants for admission or reception from the authorities of statements by the pupil’s home Local within the Academy. The admissions being established in their schools that Christian Church. decision of the governors to offer Education Authority. Details of this to the Academy. For Year 7 all their son a place, in the first instance timetable, with coordinated admission and starting or engaged in GCSE applicants will take a standardised ‘Deanery boundaries’ – for the separate procedure are set out in the arrangements administered by the courses. The exception will be Year by writing to the Chair of Governors SEN Code of Practice (see page 66). non-verbal reasoning test, which will purposes of this policy, deanery (admissions appeals) c/o the school Local Authority, does not assist 9 where a limited number of places be standardised against the national boundaries (as laid down by the within 20 days, stating the grounds making places available to those will be available but for children who distribution of ability. Then students Diocese of Brentwood) are as shown for the appeal. Online admissions who move in during the period of wish to take courses in the Academy’s will be placed in rank order and will be on the map in the school office. occupation since parents will not have specialist area of performing arts If you are applying online via allocated to one of nine groups (with • the appeal will be heard by an been aware of their move of house in leading to qualifications at age 16. Where the offer of places to all eadmissions website you must still the number of places in each group independent appeal panel, which October 2012 and January 2013 when However applicants will need to be applicants in any of the categories send your completed SIF directly determined by the national distribution will be made up of three people, applications close for places in Year 7 aware that there will be strictly limited listed above would lead to to the school. You MUST NOT of ability). There is no pass or fail to the and Reception Year respectively. The choices of course options at GCSE – oversubscription, the following attach it to the online form. assessment but the process produces provisions will be applied. admission arrangements therefore will as a performing arts focused course valid and reliable scores so that places allow for modest admission numbers offer implies. can be allocated from each of the to all primary years except Year 6 (with nine groups to produce a balanced an assumption of creating mixed age These admission arrangements only To make sure you apply and equitable intake. Applicants who apply online. classes in Reception through to Year apply for the academic year 2013/14 complete the common application form on time, 5) and these admission numbers will and revised admissions with different showing one of the preferences to be www.eadmissions.org.uk be reviewed with the Local Authority PANs will be published in Autumn for the Academy will also be required to (LA) during the academic year when 2012/Spring 2013 for the 2014/15 complete a Supplementary Application demand is clearer.

46 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 47 Apply Online Back Contents Next Form which should be submitted to be offered to unallocated applicants Oversubscription criteria Appeals the Academy to allow arrangements to Oversubscription criteria each course available based upon next in line for places in group 3, The school will offer an appeal to be made for the test and any special for Year 9 for Year 12 GCSE grades or other measures of then group 5, then group 3 etc.) anyone refused admission. The appeal prior attainment. These criteria will requirements allowed for. Because the places in Year 9 will be Looked after children will always will be before an independent appeals The Chobham Academy operates a be the same for internal and external to undertake a course focused on the The places in Year 9 will be to be allocated the first places in any panel constituted in accordance sixth form for a total of 420 students. transfers and will be published in its performing arts (with limited choices of undertake a course focused on group. with the School Admission Appeals 210 places overall will be available prospectus and on its website. other subjects at GCSE) all applicants the performing arts (with limited Code. If refused admission you should in year 12 (the year 12 ‘capacity’). Proof of residence or offer of letting will be invited to an open meeting with Young people failing to meet the choices of other subjects at GCSE) contact the school to lodge an appeal. The admission number for year 12 is from landlord will be required (council grades for their preferred course and applicants will be invited to an the Academy before applying, to make initially 210. tax bill, utility bill). sure the course content suits them option will be offered alternative open meeting with the Academy It assumes that eventually when Other than children with Statements and to understand the restrictions on courses if available. Young people before applying, to make sure the the Academy is full the PAN for of Special Educational Needs choice of GCSE options. This meeting already on the Academy roll are course content suits them and to external applicants will be 30. This is and Looked after children, those and any discussions arising shall not entitled to transfer to Year 12 if they understand the restrictions on choice the number of places which will be who apply via the CAF and then be part of the admissions criteria. meet the published standards of entry. of GCSE options. This meeting and offered on an annual basis to eligible do not turn up for the test, will be If Year 12 is oversubscribed then, after any discussions arising will not be If more applications are received than external applicants. part of the admissions criteria. The considered for a place after all those places available, after the admission the admission of students with Special admission criteria will not include children who have sat the test. of pupils with Statements of Special At that stage, if fewer than 180 of Educational Needs where the Chobham banding on abilities. Educational Needs where the school the Academy’s own year 11 pupils Academy is named on the statement, Waiting lists is named in the Statement, priority transfer into year 12, additional the criteria will be applied in the order in Oversubscription for admission will be given to those external pupils will be admitted until which they are set out below: The Academy will operate a waiting children who meet the criteria set out year 12 meets its capacity of 210. criteria for Year 7 list for Year 7. Where in any year the a) Students in public care below, in priority order: To determine eligibility for admission, Academy receives more applications b) Students who live within East When the Academy is oversubscribed, the Academy will publish specific for places than there are places a) Children who are in the care of a Village. A map of the East Village after the admission of pupils with criteria in relation to minimum available, a waiting list will operate local Authority will be available on the Chobham Statements of Special Educational entrance requirements for Year 12 until the end of the first term after the Academy website. Needs where the school is named in b) Children who live in East Village. based on GCSE grades or other beginning of the school year This will the Statement (who will be tested to A map of the East Village will measures of prior attainment. The c) Nearness to the Academy, as be maintained by the Academy Trust determine which band they are in but be available on the Chobham Chobham Academy will also publish calculated by straight line distance and it will be open to any parent to this will not affect their admission), Academy website. academic entry requirements for from the main gate. ask for his or her child’s name to be the following criteria will be applied to c) Nearness to the Academy, as placed on the waiting list, following an the children placed within each ability calculated by straight line distance unsuccessful application. group to determine which children from the main gate. will be offered the places in that Children’s position on the waiting Proof of residence or offer of letting group, in priority order: list will be determined solely in from landlord will be required (council accordance with the oversubscription a) Children who are looked after or tax bill, utility bill). former looked after children as criteria. Where places become vacant defined in the Admissions Code they will be allocated to children on the waiting list in accordance with the Waiting lists b) Children who live in East Village. oversubscription criteria. Where casual A map of the East Village will The Academy will operate a waiting applications are made and a request be available on the Chobham list for Year 9. Where in any year the made to be added to the waiting Academy website. Academy receives more applications list the rank order of children on the for places than there are places c) Nearness to the Academy, waiting list will be recalculated using available, a waiting list will operate as calculated by straight line the oversubscription criteria. until the end of the first term after the distance from the main gate. beginning of the school year This will These criteria will be applied to Appeals be maintained by the Academy Trust and it will be open to any parent to candidates as they are allocated to The school will offer an appeal to ask for his or her child’s name to be each group as a result of the tests anyone refused admission. The appeal placed on the waiting list, following an until the correct number in each will be before an independent appeals unsuccessful application. group as identified in the previous panel constituted in accordance page is reached. with the School Admission Appeals Children’s position on the waiting If at the end of this process there Code. If refused admission you should list will be determined solely in are unallocated places in any contact the school to lodge an appeal. accordance with the oversubscription group these will be filled by the criteria. Where places become vacant applicants next in line for admission they will be allocated to children on to the groups above and below, the waiting list in accordance with the alternating between the group oversubscription criteria. Where casual above and below, using the same applications are made and a request allocation criteria set out above (e.g. To make sure you apply made to be added to the waiting apply online. if the group 4 has vacancies but all on time, list the rank order of children on the waiting list will be recalculated using the applicants in the group 4 ability www.eadmissions.org.uk band have places, the place(s) will the oversubscription criteria.

48 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 49 Apply Online Back Contents Next For All Through schools this connection or a “looked after child” by a Admissions criteria for School 21 with effect from does not count when the sibling is Admissions criteria for Stratford School Academy with local authority living in the same September 2013 attending the school’s nursery class. effect from September 2013 household as one of their natural parents or guardians. A child who Home address is looked after for these purposes is a child who is in the care of a An address supplied as the child’s local authority and placed with home will not be considered if this foster carers, adoptive parents or is a family member’s address, an other family members. address registered with the Council as 14. For Stratford School Academy commercial, the tenant’s address for to take a sibling into account the a property owned by the parent/carer sibling’s name must be correct and rented to a third party, or a child- on the application form and the minder’s, or future addresses will not sibling must be on roll of Stratford be accepted as for allocating school School Academy at the time of places. application. If a child’s natural parents are not living 15. By an employee of the Stratford together and the child spends a few School Academy we mean days in both households on week someone who is on the payroll of days, then the address that will be the Academy. used for measurement purposes will be the one from which the child goes 16. By child of an employee of School 21 local authority; without a school place; to school in the morning most often on General principles 7. the admission number for Stratford School Academy we who are the main carer in their family; September 2013 will be 180. mean a child living in the same School 21 is a state-funded, week days. 1. stratford School Academy is with physical disabilities; and those household as an employee or, if independent, non-selective, mixed, an 11-16 mixed comprehensive 8. stratford School Academy who are from traveller families, will be living in a different household, then all-through 4-18 school with an Tie break school. We do not have any participates in the Local Authority given priority admission to a school if the employee is the natural parent admission number of 75 in Year 7 and requirement for aptitude from co-ordinated scheme and all necessary. These children will be If we have to decide between or guardian of that child. 75 in Reception. prospective students. deadlines within that scheme given priority over the children on a applicants in any of the above must be adhered to by applicants. 17. For Stratford School Academy to Children with Statements of Special 2. The main principle of admission school’s waiting list. You can admission criteria the tie break will consider the child of an employee Educational Needs will be admitted to to Stratford School Academy 9. children with Statements of see the full fair access protocol at be: home to school shortest walking then one or other of the following the school named in their statement is to maintain the character of Special Educational Needs www.newham.gov.uk distance, starting with the nearest circumstances must apply: a) the before other applicants are considered. the school as a comprehensive naming Stratford School address. employee has been employed school. Where possible within Academy will be admitted. All other applications for places at Sibling (brother or sister) We ask Newham Council to use their at the school for two or more the bounds of the published the school will be considered in approved Geographical Information 10. As required by the Education years at the time at which the For admission purposes this is: admission criteria, we aim to accordance with the arrangements set System (GIS) to calculate shortest (Admission of Looked After application for admission to the Adopted siblings, step-children, provide for the needs of young out below. walking distance measurements. This Children) (England) Regulations school is made, and /or b) the common law step-children half- persons within the 11-16 age system calculates the distance in miles 2006 the school will give priority to employee is recruited to fill a siblings, children subject of a range, who have brothers or Priority 1: Looked after children and yards to three decimal places applications on behalf of children in vacant post for which there is a residence order and foster children sisters in the school who have and children who were looked after, using a routing database system public care (looked after children). demonstrable skill shortage but ceased to be so because they (only those “looked after” by any local attended a linked primary school which uses two dimensional maps 11. The Board of Governors of 18. Home address: proof of residence were adopted1 (or became subject authority). or who otherwise live in the area which means it does not take into Stratford School Academy has will be required by the co-ordinated to a residence order or special Examples of those who will not be in which the school is situated. account any contours or terrains. determined that the criteria scheme. The offer of a place may guardianship order) considered as siblings are cousins, 3. there is no guarantee of a place for planned admissions from be withdrawn if proof of residency is friends, other family members living in for children who have a brother And then September 2013 will be as follows. not met or a place has been offered the same home, other children living or sister who attended the school under fraudulent grounds. Priority 2: Children who at the time in the same household who are not or who attend a linked primary of admission will have a sibling (see included in the list above, children Definitions and details 19. Where a child lives part of the school. below) in the school. who share the same childminder and week with one parent and part of 4. admission to our school is not 12. Our linked primary schools are: children of a childminder. To make sure you apply the week with another member And then apply online. dependent on any ‘voluntary’ elmhurst School, Upton Park Road, on time, of the family the ‘home address’ Priority 3: Other children, whether Sibling priority will only apply to contribution. Forest Gate, London E7 9PG will be considered to be the or not they live in Newham. children if they live in the same home www.eadmissions.org.uk 5. the school will endeavour to park School, Mathews Park residence where the child spends as another sibling attending the provide places for students who Avenue, Stratford, London E15 4AE at least three nights of the school named school who is reasonably Fair access protocol do not have a brother or sister in week each week. expected to still be in attendance shaftesbury School, Shaftesbury the school and who do not attend Newham Council is legally required when the child is admitted. Road, Forest Gate, London E7 8PF 20. Looked after: A looked after child a link primary school provided to have a fair access protocol. This is a child who is (a) in the care A sibling will only be considered if their that they can be accommodated St Stephen’s School, Whitfield explains that children who come of a local authority, or (b) being details are supplied by the parent/ within the admission limits. Road, East Ham, London E6 1AS under certain vulnerable groups, for provided with accommodation by carer on the application form. William Davies School, Stafford example, children: in the care of a 6. pupils will be admitted at the age a local authority in the exercise of of 11+ without reference to ability Road, Forest Gate, London E7 8NL their social services functions (see or aptitude using the criteria below. 13. By sibling we mean a half, full definition in Section 22 (1) of the or adoptive brother or sister, Children Act 1989)

50 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 51 Apply Online Back Contents Next Admissions criteria Applications made 27. To the extent that it does not Tie breaker Example: the school receives 984 applications for 180 places 21. If there are fewer applications outside the normal conflict with this principle, or with made than places available, then 24. If there are more applications the law, or with our obligation than places available, then all admissions round Places every child will be offered a place. remaining to educate our students for the applicants will be allocated a 28. Admissions for all other year 21st Century, we will do our best 22. Children with a statement of number via a random allocation groups will be dealt with in Children with a statement of to accommodate the religious Special Educational Needs that (lottery) process. This number accordance with this policy and Special Educational Needs that names and cultural practices of the names Stratford School Academy will decide a child’s priority in accordance with the Local Stratford School Academy; then 3 3 177 communities we serve. will be admitted before any other within each of the admission Authority scheme as adopted applicants and these admissions 28. So, for example, in almost criterion set out above. It will Example will count toward the admission only be used if there are not all cases, including some PE Category Applicants Offer Places number. enough available places left to 29. By the deadline set Stratford lessons, students are taught School Academy receives 984 satisfying places to remaining accommodate all the applicants in mixed classes; but at the applications for 180 places. criteria Oversubscription criteria falling under that criterion. Places 1. Children who are in the care same time Stratford School will then be offered to applicants 3 applicants have statements of 23. In the event of over subscription of a local authority 1 1 176 Academy has sought and been in accordance with the randomly Special Educational Needs that we will offer places to applicants 2. Children of staff in either or both granted by the Local Authority allocated number, starting with the name Stratford School Academy in this order: of the following circumstances: a ‘Determination’ which allows lowest number first. and so are offered places. This a) where the member of staff has us to organise our daily acts means there are 981 applicants been employed at the school for Criterion 1. A ‘looked after child’ or of collective worship as times Waiting lists for the remaining 177 places. two or more years at the time at a child who was previously looked of reflection that have the right therefore each of the 981 which the application for after but immediately after being 25. The school will hold separate flavour for our school and setting applicants is randomly allocated a admission to the school is made, looked after became subject to waiting lists for each and do not have to be wholly or number from 1 to 981. and /or an adoption, residence, or special oversubscribed year group. b) the member of staff is recruited mainly Christian. guardianship order1. 26. In regard to applicants for Year 7 1 applicant falls into category 1. The school can offer the applicant to fill a vacant post for which there 29. Although a specialist school for And then places, all children whose Year 7 is a demonstrable skill shortage. 2 2 174 Mathematics and Computing applications were unsuccessful2 a place and so does. This leaves Criterion 2. Children of employees we do not recruit students by in the normal admission round will 176 places available. of Stratford School Academy. 3. Children who attend a linked aptitude in these subjects. be placed on our Year 7 waiting 2 applicants fall into category And then primary school and who have a list on 1st March 2013 in addition 2. The school can offer both 30. We believe that the one thing that Criterion 3. Children who attend sibling at Stratford School to all children whose parents applicants places and so does. Stratford School Academy, as a linked primary school and who Academy who is on our school have applied unsuccessfully for This leaves 174 places available. have a sibling at Stratford School roll at the time of application. 46 46 128 a school, can uniquely offer its Year 7 places outside the normal Academy who is on our school roll 46 applicants fall into category students is a good education. So admissions round. at the time of application. 3. The school can offer all 46 4. Children who have a sibling at the school will take very seriously 27. When place(s) becomes available, applicants places and so does. Stratford School Academy who is behaviour that interrupts our And then if there are more children in the This leaves 128 places available. on our school roll at the time Criterion 4. Children who have a students learning. relevant year group(s) on the of application. 21 21 107 sibling at Stratford School Academy 21 applicants fall into category 31. We expect any student whose waiting list than the number of who is on our school roll at the time 4. The school can offer all 21 places available, then all those on 5. Children who go to a linked behaviour interferes with their of application. applicants places and so does. primary school. learning or the learning of others to the waiting list in the relevant year This leaves 107 places available. And then group(s) will be allocated a number 107 of these 154 applicants will take responsibility for their behaviour Criterion 5. Children who go to a via a fresh random allocation 154 applicants fall into category 5 be offered places by the process and work with us to change it and to linked primary school. (lottery) process3. This number will but the school now only has 107 of random allocation 154 107 0 put matters right. We will not accept places available. So the numbers And then decide a child’s priority within the continued poor behaviour. We allocated under the random 6. Other children. 759 0 0 Criterion 6. Other children highest relevant oversubscription expect parents to support us and allocation procedure will be used to criterion set out above which they their children in this work. meet. It will only be used if there decide which of these applicants are not enough available places will be offered places. The 154 Please remember this is just an example and that the figures will vary from 32. Stratford School Academy applicants who fall into category year to year believes its students are members left to accommodate all those on 5 will each have been allocated a of its community and represent the waiting list in the relevant year To make sure you apply number between from 1 to 984, the School from the time they apply online. group(s) falling under that criterion, The ethos of Stratford on time, in which case places will be offered so it will be the 107 applicants with leave home to come to school www.eadmissions.org.uk to children in order of the randomly the lowest numbers that will be School Academy until the time they return. Stratford offered a place. allocated number, starting with the 26. Stratford School Academy is a School Academy expects all its lowest number first. non selective, mixed non-faith students to wear its uniform whilst school that believes in the equality at school and on the way to and 1An adoption order is an order under Section 46 of 2That is, children who were allocated a place 3Any number allocated in a previous random of all peoples, whatever their faith, from school. the Adoption and Children Act 2002. A ‘residence at a school for which they had not expressed a allocation will be discounted. order’ is an order settling the arrangements to be preference or for which they had expressed a ethnicity or sexual preference: we 33. We ask all parents applying for a made as to the person with whom the child is to live preference that was lower than that expressed for believe that what unites us as a place here to respect this ethos under Section 8 of the Children Act 1989. Section Stratford School Academy. 14A of the Children Act 1989 defines a ‘special human race is more important and its importance to the school guardianship order’ as an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or than what divides us. community. special guardians).

52 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 53 Apply Online Back Contents Next Independent school admission appeals If you want the appeal panel to take Who sits on What happens at any extra information into account the independent the hearing? you should, send us any supporting documents with your appeal or give appeal panel? The hearing is quite informal. these to the clerk in good time for In Newham the panel is made up of You should do your best to attend.You members of the panel to be able to three people. At least one of these can take a friend, relative or local consider them properly. people will be a lay member. Lay representative if you want. A friend, If you have been refused a place The letter telling you that a place To appeal for a school that is members are people without personal relative or representative, locally at any school named on your most cannot be offered to your child should We will let you know when we have in another borough you must experience in the management and elected politician, or an employee of recent application form you have make the reasons clear why this received your form. We then send it contact that borough directly. provision of education in a school. the local education authority, such the legal right to appeal against the decision has been taken and will tell to the Committee and Partnerships Team, Democratic Services, who will Though it is permissible to use people as an educational social worker, SEN decision and your case will be heard If you are appealing for a Year 7 you how to appeal. make the arrangements for the appeal who have experience as governors advisor or learning mentor, provided by an Independent Appeal Panel. secondary school place for admission Before deciding whether to appeal, hearings. of schools other than those schools this will not lead to a conflict of Please note you can normally only in September 2013 and you receive a you will probably want to think about: relating to your appeal. interest. Admission authorities cannot appeal for the same school once for decision letter by national offer day (1 To appeal for a state funded At least one of the others must allow an employee of the school each academic year. In exceptional March 2013) your appeal will be heard • the school’s published policy for independent school in Newham have experience in education, who you are appealing for or a member circumstances you may be able by 6 July 2013. We will endeavour admitting pupils or a school outside of the is acquainted with educational of the admission authority concerned to appeal more than once, if there to include any appeals for late • your reasons for wanting your child borough check the schools conditions in the area, or who is the to attend as your representative. are significant changes to your applications with the on-time appeals. to attend the school website to find our where to send parent of a registered pupil at a school However, remember that the hearing personal circumstances. A change However, if this is not feasible, your is informal and it will rarely be appro- • your child’s view of what school the appeal to. (not relating to your appeal). or significant change to your appeal will be heard within 30 school priate to take a legal representative. personal circumstances does not days of the appeal being lodged. they should go to Some people are disqualified from If it is not possible for you to go, mean you will automatically be • how strong your case is. What happens next? being members of the panel, if you If you have recently moved to you can give your case in writing. In given a second appeal. Newham or are applying for a transfer would like a list of these please Ten working days before your hearing contact Committee and Partnership’s making your case, you will probably You can only have an independent from one Newham secondary school How do I appeal? you will receive a letter from the Team by calling 020 8430 2000. want to refer back to your original appeal for a place at a school where to another, your appeal will be heard If you are not offered a place at the Committee and Partnerships Team reasons for preferring the school. you have expressed a preference within 30 school days from the date of Also in the room will be a clerk, to school you have named as your who are part of Newham Democratic and have been refused a place. receipt of your form. Services telling you where your appeal take notes and give advice to the first preference an appeal form and panel. A representative from the The order of the If you want to appeal for a place If your child has a ‘statement of will beheard. It will usually be during guidance notes on the process will Local Authority (LA) who works for hearing is normally at any Newham secondary school Special Educational Needs’ (SEN) office hours and at Newham Town be sent to you with the letter offering a Children and Young People’s Services including voluntary- aided faith you cannot use this appeal process. Hall in East Ham, Newham Dockside as shown below place in another school. will also be there to explain why schools, you must complete the You must appeal to a special needs in Beckton or another suitable venue. Alternatively, you can download the your child could not be offered a place • introductions. borough’s appeal form or send in a tribunal. To do this contact the SEN The local authority (LA) will send you form from www.newham.gov.uk or at the school. • the chair of the appeal panel letter of appeal detailing your reasons. section - see page 60. a statement explaining why your child call 020 8430 2000 to request one. explains the process to you. could not be offered a place at your The panel will be guided by a ‘code On the form, you must detail the preferred school. of practice’ which all councils must • the education officer explains why reasons for preferring this school. It is use for appeals. your child could not be offered a important that you state any religious place at that school. or philosophical reasons. Your appeal • questions on the LA statement to form must be returned by post to the the officer from the parent, carer, following address. Forms cannot be friend or representative. delivered by hand to this address: • the parent, carer, friend or

representative explains why they Committee and Partnerships Team think the child should be admitted to Democratic Services the school. You may give evidence School Admission Appeals that may help your case. Newham Dockside • questions from the LA. 1000 Dockside Road • summing up by the LA officer. London E16 2QU • summing up by the parent, carer, friend or representative. • the appeal panel can ask questions at any time. To make sure you apply apply online. on time, • you and the LA officer will be asked www.eadmissions.org.uk to leave. The appeal panel will send you their decision in writing, usually within seven days.

54 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 55 Apply Online Back Contents Next If you feel that the LA has acted unreasonably with regard to the appeal process, then you may contact the Secretary for Education.

Section| 3 How does the panel make If you feel that the LA has acted For further information its decision? unreasonably with regard to the Please visit the following websites or appeal process, then you may contact phone for advice: • Stage one The appeal panel decides the Secretary of State for Education. Supporting schools whether the LA has given good Primary and secondary school The Secretary of State for Education enough reasons why your child could admissions and appeals: a guide has no power to review the decisions not go to the school. This is usually for parents of individual appeal panels. that the school has the maximum www.direct.gov.uk number of children it should have in your child’s year group. This number You cannot use this appeals London Borough of Newham – is given on the LA statement that process for a place at a Special School admission appeals: a guide for you will receive. The panel also School or for a resource provision parents checks to make sure the correct place in any school. www.newham.gov.uk admission procedures were used. Appeals for these schools Advisory Centre for Education • Stage two If the appeal panel is must be made to the special www.ace-ed.org.uk satisfied with the LA case, it then educational needs tribunal and looks at the case presented by the can be arranged through the Phone 0808 800 5793 parent or carer. The panel then has Special Educational Needs Coram Children’s Legal Centre to make a ‘balancing judgement’. section and will only be heard This means it has to decide whether if the child has a statement of www.childrenslegalcentre.com the benefits to your child of going Special Education Needs. Phone 0808 802 0008 to the school you are appealing If your child does not have for, outweighs the effects on the a statement contact the school and the education of the SEN section for further advice other children due to the class being see page 66. overcrowded.

The decision of the appeal committee is binding. The appeal Primary to secondary transfer appeals for September 2012 panel is completely independent and the LA has no part in making admission decisions. Primary to secondary appeals Appeal Establishment Heard Upheld Not upheld What do I do if I am not Brampton Manor Academy 33 2 31 happy with the decision? Chobham Academy Not open until September 2013 Local Government Ombudsman and the Secretary of State for Cumberland School 10 1 9 Education Eastlea Community School 0 0 0 If you feel procedures for the appeal hearing were not followed correctly, Forest Gate Community School 5 0 5 you can complain to the Local Kingsford Community School 3 0 3 Government Ombudsman in writing to PO Box 4771, Coventry CV4 0EH, Langdon School 11 0 11 call the LGO advice team on 0300 061 Lister Community School 6 2 4 0614 or visit www.lgo.org.uk Little Ilford School 20 1 19 The Ombudsman will not deal with your complaint if you are just Plashet School 41 0 41 unhappy about the decision the appeal panel has made. Sarah Bonnell School 21 0 21 You must explain how you believe the School 21 12 2 10 procedures were not followed. St Angela's Ursuline Convent School 12 2 10 If the Ombudsman agrees with your St Bonaventure's Catholic 17 4 13 complaint, he might recommend Comprehensive School that a new appeal be arranged. The Ombudsman will not change Stratford School Academy 18 0 18 the decision of the appeal panel.

56 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 57 ApplyApply OnlineOnline BackBack ContentsContents NextNext Improving Newham secondary schools Healthy eating

School meals Secondary school meals Cashless school meals Lunchtime meals are available at Pupils are able to choose from The following schools operate a Newham Secondary Schools. The a wide selection of hot meals. cashless payment system: Brampton recommended cost of a school meal A pasta-based or rice-based Manor, Cumberland, Kingsford, in September 2012 is £1.80. We have main meal choice is usually available Lister, Little Ilford, Rokeby and Sarah one of the lowest selling prices of a in addition to takeaway options. Bonnell. If your child has a place at school meal in London. Daily menu choices are displayed any of these schools they will provide The majority of our secondary schools at point of sale to assist pupils with you with details on how this works. have either a breakfast service and/ their meal choices. Free School Meal pupils will receive their entitlement automatically if your or healthy snacks served during mid All secondary schools have ‘theme’ morning break. child is a paying customer they will competitions and ‘upgrade’ offers need to put money onto their account. throughout the year. Nutritional guidelines All our school menus meet nutritional standards laid down Free school meals by the government. A software (All information in this brochure is correct at time of publication August 2012.) package checks this and Children and Young People’s Children whose parents are in receipt of one of the following will be entitled Services monitor school to receive free school meals: meals in Newham Secondary • Income Support Schools. • Income-based Jobseekers Allowance Newham Catering Services has • an income-related employment and support allowance a healthy eating policy: Developing our been selected to receive investment maintain continuous improvement and • support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 • foods are baked in school facilities via the Priority Schools Building improved outcomes. Programme over the next five years. preference to fried • Child Tax Credit (provided they are not entitled to Working Tax Credit) and have an annual income that does not exceed £16,190 as assessed Building Schools for the Future (BSF) • low-fat dairy products are used Free music tuition by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs* was a pupil centred educational Standards in Newham in preference to full fat products improvement programme, initiated by available in Newham e.g. reduced fat cheese • the Guarantee element of State Pension Credit the previous government and aimed secondary schools secondary schools *Note: From 1 May 2009 where a parent is entitled to Working Tax Credit at transforming teaching and learning • fresh vegetables are incorporated The GCSE results for 2012 show during the four-week period immediately after their employment ceases, for all secondary school age children. Every Child a Musician has delivered into home cooked dishes for the ninth year in a row we, have or after they start to work less than 16 hours per week, their children are Newham successfully secured funding significant successes in Year 5 and • fresh fruit choices and vegetables continued to improve. The percentage 6, receiving positive feedback from entitled to free school lunches. for eight of its secondary schools as of young people achieving five or more are served daily parents, schools and teachers alike. Children who receive a qualifying benefit in their own right are also eligible part of Wave 1 of the BSF programme. A*- C Grades or equivalents at GCSE, • minimal salt is added in cooking As a result of this successful music to receive free school meals. The availability of BSF funding enabled including English and Mathematics, learning, the Mayor of Newham has • desserts have reduced If you do not apply your child will not receive free school meals. Newham to accelerate planned the government’s gold standard - rose chosen to expand this opportunity to sugar content. improvements to these secondary from 52% in 2010 to 62% in 2012, Year 7 children. To apply please call 020 8430 2000 and ask for an application form. This claim schools to meet the council’s which exceeds the local authority The scheme will now offer children can also be made at the same time as you are claiming for Housing Benefit. Corporate Plan targets relating to target of 59%. The gap between three years (in Years 5, 6, and 7) of If you stop receiving the qualifying benefits you must notify us immediately as it Educational Improvement. Investment Newham and national attainment free music lessons, in the majority of is an offence for your child to take free school meals if you are no longer eligible. in new buildings and services also has also narrowed over this period, schools in the borough, with their own contributes to the upgrading of the showing that Newham secondary musical instrument and will build upon urban environment and creates training schools are improving faster than the the skills they have learnt previously. Help your child’s school get extra funds and job opportunities for local people. average national rate of improvement. We are currently undertaking If you apply for free school meals for your child(ren) and they are Although Newham’s second phase entitled to this benefit, their school will receive an extra £600 from the It is our intention to harness the academic evaluation with the Institute of funding (Wave 5) was cancelled of Education, who support our Government. by the coalition government in July expertise and experience of our best schools to help transform all view that musical training enhances 2010, future investment by the concentration, develops team work government in the schools estate has our schools to outstanding schools. Through collaborative working with skills and has a positive impact on been announced, including the Priority a child’s learning and emotional Schools Building Programme. school leaders and local partnerships of schools we will ensure that schools development. Two Newham secondary schools are supported and challenged to Stratford and Little Ilford school, have

58 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 59 Apply Online Back Contents Next Special Education Needs (SEN) Physical accessibility of Newham secondary schools from September 2012 and physical access needs

Brampton Manor Academy 1 Has lift access in main block only. Some areas adapted to exclude Special needs Resourced provision Special schools ultra violet light. If your child has been identified as in schools Eleanor Smith School Annexe Chobham Academy 1 having special educational needs, Lawson Close We also prioritise places in five Cumberland School 1 also has life skills suite (kitchen, bedroom, study). teachers at your child’s school can secondary schools for a small number Canning Town E16 3LU provide extra help if they need it. of pupils with special educational Places are offered to pupils with Eastlea Community School 1 Has a large site – could be hard for someone who has difficulty We aim to provide extra help in local needs. These are as follows: complex emotional and behavioural walking and does not use a wheelchair. schools. Eastlea Community School difficulties and pupils are usually linked Forest Gate Community School 1 has lift access in one block only. – pupils with complex needs. to a mainstream school. All our mainstream secondary Kingsford Community School 1 schools have children with special Langdon School – pupils with autism. John F Kennedy School educational needs.Schools have Pitchford Street Langdon School 1 fully wheelchair accessible and has physio and hygiene space. funding to support these children Lister Community School London E15 4RZ Stair lifts are used which are unsuitable for a high volume of traffic – pupils who are deaf. due to slowness. and we also give top up funding to For pupils with profound and multiple schools in a small number of cases. The Royal Docks Community learning difficulties, severe learning Lister Community School 1 Has hygiene room jointly with physio space (limits numbers We also reserve a small number of School – pupils with complex needs. difficulties or pupils with complex of dependant wheelchair users to 3 or 4.) Has a small lift in the places for children in our resource Cumberland School needs on the autistic continuum. main block – the upstairs of the old block is only accessible by provision schools or in our special – pupils with autism. climbing stairs. schools. We always try to meet parental Places in resource provision are preference but when there are more Little Ilford School 3 In a small number of cases we make allocated through the SEN section suitable applicants for resource a detailed assessment of your child’s following assessments and reviews provision places in a school than the Plashet School (girls) 3 Lift access to part of one block only, stairs to other upper floors. learning needs. The assessment of the child’s needs. Most children number available we use the following School is spread over a large area making it difficult for pupils will involve you, the school and can have their needs met in local oversubscription criteria (tie break): with limited mobility. a range of of other people such as a secondary schools without needing to • pupils who currently have a sibling Rokeby School (boys) 1 doctor, nurse or social worker. attend resource provision or special on roll at the school and will still be The Royal Docks Community School 1 also has a life skills suite As a result of this, we will issue a schools. on the schools roll when the pupil statement of special educational needs Through our funding arrangements, is due to be admitted. St Angela’s Ursuline School (girls) 3 or a ‘note in lieu’. The note in lieu pupils with complex needs are also St Bonaventure’s Catholic gives guidance to your child’s school • the shortest home to school able to access appropriate provision Comprehensive School (boys) 3 Has wheelchair stair lift to one floor only; upper floor and basement on what support your child needs. walking distance (see page 56 in local schools. for a full explanation of how have stair access. The current funding arrangements these are calculated). mean that children can receive Sarah Bonnell School (girls) 3 Lift access to part of one block only, stairs to other upper floors. extra support without having a All places in special schools are School 21 1 statutory assessment of their special allocated by the SEN section following Stratford School Academy 3 Has some very narrow corridors and stairs – difficult for people educational needs. assessments and reviews of the child’s needs. using walking aids. For pupils with statements of special educational needs we will consider The SEN section can be contacted SPECIAL SCHOOLS your preference and aim to meet on 020 3373 1810 or by post to SEN the preference if it is for a school in section, Newham Dockside, 1000 John F Kennedy (Post 16 Beckton) 1 Newham. Dockside Road, London E16 2QU or Eleanor Smith Special School 3 by emailing [email protected] If your preferred school is further John F Kennedy Special School 1 away from your home than more local school(s) which can meet your child’s special educational needs, we may Key to table of physical accessibility refuse to provide help with home-to- 1. Full physical access – physical access to whole curriculum and the building. In addition this would school travel. include a physiotherapy exercise space and a hygiene room. 2. Significant physical access – physical access to the majority of the curriculum, may have accessible toilet To make sure you apply apply online. or physio therapy exercise space but no hygiene room. on time, 3. Partial physical access – physical access into premises for meetings, limited access around premises www.eadmissions.org.uk and no physiotherapy space or hygiene room. 4. No physical access – no significant access. Note: • a hygiene room is a space with a shower, toilet with grab rails and a height adjustable changing bed/physio bed and hand basin • physical access means accessible to wheelchair users and people who use walking aids.

60 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 61 Apply Online Back Contents Next To apply for a pass under the • the distance between home and Travelling to secondary school Travel assistance for Newham scheme the child school is two miles or pupils with complex must attend or be due to start more for children aged under special educational needs at a state maintained school 8 or three miles or more for – the scheme does not apply children aged 8 or over, as to children attending: nursery measured by the shortest A small number of pupils with special schools, nursery classes in available walking route; School travel plans • assisting schools to apply for the educational needs receive assistance primary schools, special schools and look at the journey Mayor of London’s Cycle Parking with home to school transport. This or fee paying independent pupils take to and Programme for free cycle storage so may be in the form of independent schools or nurseries. • no place can be found in from school each day your child’s bike can be kept safely travel training, personalised payments, a suitable school less than The nearest suitable school and promote more at school walking escort, bus pass or transport. two miles away for children referred to in 2.3, is taken to active and sustainable • support schools with the Junior Initial enquiries about this assistance under 8 or less than three mean the nearest suitable school modes of travel like Road Safety Officer Scheme should be made to: miles away for children with places available that is within walking, cycling, (JRSO) and Sustainable Travel aged 8 or over. Postal address only the statutory home to school public transport or and Recognised Accreditation 2.4 The authority will not regard a distances for free travel and car sharing. Scheme (STARs) Transport officer, SEN Section school as automatically unsuitable provides education appropriate School travel plans are documents London Borough of Newham, because it does not provide the • road safety advice and work with to the age, ability and aptitude written by school communities Newham Dockside, kind of religious education that is schools, their staff, students, of the child, and any physical and set out a range of actions that 1000 Dockside Road, preferred by the parents/carers or parents and wider community access or special educational encourage sustainable travel as well London, E16 2QU because it does not comply with needs that the child may have. as looking at aspects of safety around • walking and cycling events Phone: 020 8430 2000 their parents/carers philosophical school sites and aiming to make In the transition to secondary This scheme is not intended to beliefs. So, for example, a school routes to school safer. School school, pupils are now travelling Free bus and travel provide free travel passes or would not automatically be travel plans are whole school independently and often greater pass policies for schools travel assistance to children who considered unsuitable because approaches that look to involve distances than when at primary. attend, or are due to attend, a it is a mixed school when the pupils, parents, staff and governors All pupils aged 11-15 years have to – September 2012 school for which their parent has parents/carers would prefer a Zip Oyster in finding solutions to the transport have an Oyster photo card which expressed a preference (named single-gender school, or they problems of a school. enables them to travel for free on The Zip Oyster is for students aged 1. Mayor of London’s free bus on their application form). This prefer a mixed school and the 11-15 years old. It allows you to does not mean the child will be There are several benefits of walking buses and trams. Application forms pass scheme school offered is a single-gender for Oyster cards are available at travel for free on journeys made automatically refused. Parents school. However, in considering and cycling to school for your child 1.1 The Mayor of London has post offices and more information at any time by bus or tram. It also still have the right to apply and each application, the authority will and the school: implemented a scheme whereby on the oyster scheme can be found at charges child fares on the Tube, for their case to be considered. consider all relevant factors and all school pupils up to the age • less congestion around school sites www.tfl.gov.uk DLR, London Overground and However if Newham can allocate have regard to any wish of the of 18 years old, will be eligible • pollution is three times higher in a National Rail. the child a place within the parents/carers for their child to be for a free bus pass. Therefore car than if your child is walking or statutory distances (see 2.3 educated at a school where the More information There is a behaviour code to follow the Council’s travel assistance cycling to school and if broken there is a risk of your below) the application will be religious education is that of the For more information or advice policy below will not apply refused even if this alternative • walking and cycling puts physical Zip Oyster being revoked. religion or denomination to which about school travel plans unless a pupil falls outside of allocation is not accepted. activity into a pupil’s daily lives. 30 the parent adheres and/or their and sustainable travel please It can be given back through the the Mayor of London’s free bus minutes of walking or cycling can In all cases where a travel pass is philosophical concerns. contact Newham’s school Earn Your Travel Back Scheme pass scheme. Parents/carers reduce the risk of coronary heart granted, the child’s eligibility will 2.5 pupils, whose family are, as a travel plan advisors: Details on how to apply for a Zip wishing to be considered under disease by over half, diabetes be reviewed at the end of each result of the decision of their Oyster and the Earn Your Travel Newham Council’s scheme for in adulthood by 50 per cent, The Traffic Management and school term to determine if housing authority, temporarily Back Scheme can be found at a Free London Transport Travel obesity by 50 per cent, Road Safety Unit they still qualify for the free re-housed in Newham by www.tfl.gov.uk Pass must provide evidence to hypertension by 30 per cent Newham Dockside, 3rd floor, show that their child is ineligible travel pass or free travel in the another local authority, if they West side, 1000 Dockside Road Cycle training next school term. • improved road safety knowledge. under the Mayor of London’s free are in year 10 or 11 and are London E16 2QU Newham offers free cycle bus pass scheme, unless they fall 2.1 provided they are not eligible within reasonable daily travelling There are many barriers that prevent Phone: 020 3373 1294 training if you live, work or under the exceptions mentioned under the Mayor for London’s distance of their existing school pupils from travelling to school by Email: study in the borough. in 1.2 below. bus pass scheme, the policy laid and over three miles away from sustainable modes of travel and a [email protected] out below will apply. it. This is designed to facilitate school travel plan helps to develop [email protected] You can be a complete beginner 1.2 Pupils that are temporarily school attendance, and avoid actions to overcome these. or want the skills or confidence re-housed as detailed in 2.2 For all pupils, except those who disruption to the education of to ride on road. Or you can a paragraphs 2.5 and 2.6 will be Some of the school travel initiatives have a statement of special pupils in their last two years of dvance your road skills for considered for a travel pass under the Road Safety section run to assist educational needs, for whom secondary education who may be commuting and leisure activities. this policy where this is assessed schools in delivering their travel plan a separate policy exists, the unable to gain access as a significantly quicker way objectives are as follows: For further information policy laid out below will apply. to complete a home to school In all instances the cheapest form ww.newham.gov.uk/ • cycle training, which includes off journey. of travel is expected to be taken. road level 1 and on road level 2 parkingandtransport/roadsafety 2. London Borough of Newham National Standard Training 2.3 Except in the situations described free travel pass scheme in paragraph 3, a free travel pass It does not cover free travel will only be issued if: passes or travel assistance for their parents/carers or escorts.

62 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 63 Apply Online Back Contents Next to a similar range of curriculum subjects, or similar syllabi, in Promoting good school attendance a local school. and limiting absence 2.6 Pupils whose family is temporarily re-housed in bed and breakfast Newham Children and Young People School attendance and Parent’s/carer’s responsibility accommodation in another London Services (CYPS) are here to help compulsory school age in securing regular attendance: borough under the Housing children and young people benefit what the law says Act 1996, by Newham Housing When your child reaches the age of from the education on offer to them. Education Act 1996, Section 444: Services. The only children that We want all children in Newham five they must start primary school will be considered are those who to have the best chances in life in the school term following their fifth (1) if a child of compulsory school are in years 10 or 11; have been irrespective of their race, culture, birthday (unless a child is educated age who is a registered pupil at attending a Newham school for gender, age or disability. We monitor otherwise). School terms start in a school fails to attend regularly at least one term; and who have attendance and punctuality of all September, January and after the at the school, the parent/carer is a school attendance record of children registered at our schools. spring break each year. guilty of an offence. at least 90 per cent. If the pupil’s Parents of children of compulsory (1A) if in the circumstances school attendance drops below Our main priority is to work in school age (5 to 16 years; 17 from mentioned in the above section 90 per cent and/or the school partnership with parents and pupils September 2013) are required to (1), the parent knows that their reports problems with lateness, to raise the profile and importance of ensure that they receive a suitable child is failing to attend regularly the offer of travel assistance regular and punctual attendance at education by regular attendance at at the school and fails to cause will be removed. school. school or otherwise. Failure to comply him to do so, the parent is guilty Good school attendance is linked with 3. Additional support for families with this duty can lead to prosecution. of an offence. on low income positive attainment and pupil well- being. The importance of narrowing Schools are required to take 3.1 Under the Education and the education gap and promoting attendance registers twice a day. If found guilty of an offence the Inspections Act 2006, provided opportunities for its residents is a Where a day pupil of compulsory parents/carers can be fined up • in this context, based on case 4. Appeals the pupil does not fall under the top priority for Newham Council and school age is absent, schools to £2,500 and/or face a custodial law, the DfE suggests that for Mayor for London’s Free Bus 4.1 Appeals will be considered if its partners. CYPS has redesigned have to indicate in their register sentence of up to three months. ‘belief’ to be considered, it Pass Scheme, the local authority the parent/carer feels that the its service with this in mind and to whether the absence is authorised must attain a certain level of If your child is approaching will also take into account the above policy has not been achieve the best value for money for by the school or unauthorised. cogency, seriousness, cohesion compulsory school age or is already following factors for families applied correctly. Officers will its residents. Local Authorities (LA) are responsible that are defined as on low and importance; be worthy of consider each pupil’s particular in law for making sure that pupils of compulsory school age and is not We support Newham Schools to income. Low income families respect in a democratic society; circumstances on their merits attend school. attending school and you have not for this purpose is defined by and not be incompatible comply with the legal duties related applied for a school place, you must and take account of any Under section 47 of the Education Act the government’s Department with human dignity or the to attendance and absence through ensure you submit an application form representations made to them. 1996, LAs must make arrangements for Education (DfE) as when the fundamental rights of the child. schools consortia (area based) Early immediately. You can download a form To appeal, a parent/carer must for the provision of suitable education pupil is entitled to free school Intervention Teams, Attendance at www.newham.gov.uk or request a Examples of the types of beliefs put this in writing to Pupil Services, at schools or otherwise for children meals or their parents/carers Management Services. There are also form by calling Newham Council on that are not included are: PO Box 69972, London E16 9DG. of compulsory school age who might are in receipt of the maximum designated Attendance Management 020 8430 2000. • a wish to attend a particular not receive a suitable education for level of Working Tax Credit. Officers whose roles is to locate children category of school e.g. missing from education, regulate child reasons such as illness or exclusion. 3.2 Primary aged children – the two foundation, grammar etc employment and take legal action mile limit for providing transport • preference for a particular against parents who fail to ensure their costs mentioned in paragraph type of management or children attend school regularly. 2.3 above, is extended to governance which does include children up to the age not affect the curricula or of 11 years attending their teaching at the school nearest suitable school. • a belief that a child should 3.3 secondary aged children – be educated privately support with transport costs will be provided to any one of the • a wish that a child must be nearest three suitable schools, taught a particular language. where the home to school • objection to having to wear distance traveled is between a school uniform two and six miles: • a wish for single sex or • where the nearest suitable co-educational education, school is preferred on the where this is not based on the grounds of religion or belief, parent/carer’s religious views. support with transport costs will be provided if the school is between 2 and 15 miles from the family home.

64 | moving from primary to secondary school moving from primary to secondary school | 65 Apply Online Back Contents Next Holidays during term time The Newham Governors’ Forum and the Newham Admissions Forum have both confirmed their unanimous support to very strongly discourage 140128 any authorised holidays or leave of absence for pupils from Newham Schools other than in the most exceptional circumstances. No parent can demand leave of absence for the purpose of a holiday as a right. If a parent or carer takes a child away from school as an unauthorised absence, that pupil’s school place becomes at risk.

Child protection in Newham schools Child protection and the prevention of abuse is a key priority in Newham. The welfare of children and young people is very important. Everyone has a responsibility to report concerns where they believe a child or young person may be at risk. If you are worried about a child, please contact Newham council via www.newham.gov.uk and visit the My Newham portal. In an emergency please call 020 3373 4600. We work in partnership with other agencies to detect, prevent and protect children and young people from harm.

Child employment – performance/ entertainment licence for 0-16 years If your child wants to take part in performance/entertainment, their employing agency must get a Performance/Entertainment Licence from the LA. For more information about Performance/ Entertainment License and/or Child Employment Regulations contact Helen Green, Attendance and Child Employment Officer on 020 3373 8605.

To make sure you apply apply online. on time, www.eadmissions.org.uk

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Applying for your child’s secondary school place online at www.eadmissions.org.uk is easy, secure and fast.

If you apply online: • your child’s details are safe and secure • you will receive a confirmation email as soon as you have successfully submitted your application • you can log in and change your school preferences any time right up until 23.59 GMT on 31 October 2012 • you will receive an email on during the evening of 1 March 2013 informing you of your child’s offer.

To apply online you need to register at www.eadmissions.org.uk after 1 September 2012 to create a password and start your application.

After you have submitted your application successfully you will receive a reference number that looks like this: 316-2012-09-E- 001234. If you do not receive a reference number your form has not been submitted. You should log in to review your application and submit it again.

You can attach documents to support your reasons for choosing your preferred schools.

For applicants of faith schools You MUST NOT attach Supplementary Information Forms (SIF). These must be sent by post or handed in at the relevant school.

To make sure you apply on time, apply online www.eadmissions.org.uk

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