TIPS 4 Booklet in Year School Admissions
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In Year Admissions Torbay Information for Parents and Students TIPS 4 TIPS 4 Contents Introduction This booklet is for people who are moving to Torbay or moving within Torbay Introduction.......................................................................................................................................................................... 3 and whose child is already attending school. It tells you how to apply for a Step by step guide: school place in Torbay and provides information about schools in the area. Further information about Torbay schools is provided on our website 1. Understanding how the application process works...........................................................................4 www.torbay.gov.uk, on school websites and in school brochures. If you are 2. Gathering information .......................................................................................................................................6 moving out of Torbay you should contact the local authority where you will be moving to. 3. Filling in the form ...................................................................................................................................................7 If you would like a place at one of the following schools, you should contact 4. The result of your application and how waiting lists work .......................................................... 10 the school directly as they process their own in-year admission applications: 5. The appeals process ............................................................................................................................................11 ¬ Barton Hill Academy Financial Assistance: ¬ Churston Ferrers Grammar School 1. Home to school transport ................................................................................................................................11 ¬ Ellacombe Academy 2. Free school meals ................................................................................................................................................12 ¬ Ilsham Academy Data Protection .................................................................................................................................................................12 ¬ St Cuthbert Mayne School APPENDICES ¬ Torquay Boys’ Grammar School ¬ Appendix 1 – Maps of primary and secondary schools ............................................................................... 14 Torquay Girls’ Grammar School ¬ Appendix 2 – List of primary and secondary schools ................................................................................. 26 Warberry Primary School You can apply to these schools using form TIPS4/A. *This list may change from time to time. For up to date information, visit torbay.gov.uk/schooladmissions The information in this booklet is correct at the time of publication in September 2019. Any subsequent amendments can be found at www.torbay.gov.uk Images kindly supplied by Churston Ferrers Grammar School, Paignton Academy, St Cuthbert Mayne School and Torquay Academy 3 TIPS 4 TIPS 4 For all other Torbay Schools you should follow the process described in this ¬ Your child will be considered ¬ If your child has an Education, booklet and complete form TIPS4/B. separately for each school that Health and Care Plan we you have listed. Using the school’s recommend that you contact the You can download the TIPS4/A and application forms from our website. published admission criteria Special Needs team on 01803 Please note that some schools may be full in some year groups. the admission authority decides 208274 for further information If you require further guidance you can contact Student Services, whether or not you can be offered before you complete an telephone 01803 208908 or email [email protected] a place. Torbay Council will not application form. The Special pass on the order in which you Needs team will contact your have listed your preferred schools. preferred school who will consider If your child can be offered a place whether they would be able to at more than one school, you will support your child’s needs and STEP BY STEP GUIDE: be offered a place at the school whether the placement would listed highest on your form. affect other children already at the school. We will also consider STEP 1: ¬ Some schools are full in some year whether this is a good use of the groups and you may not be offered Understanding how council’s resources. A school cannot a place at any of your preferred refuse a place simply because schools. In these circumstances, if the application your child has special educational your child needs a school place we needs. If you are refused a place will offer one at the school closest process works at your preferred school you have to your home address with a place Before you complete the application the right of appeal to the Special available. form, it is very important that you Educational Needs and Disability understand how the process works: ¬ If you are not offered a place at Tribunal. one of your listed schools, your ¬ You use one form to apply for up to three Torbay schools. child’s name can be put on a waiting list for that school if the ¬ You can download an application admission authority keeps a form from www.torbay.gov.uk, waiting list. Torbay Council will complete it and email it to us at keep a waiting list for applications [email protected] to all Community and Voluntary If you prefer, you can complete a Controlled Primary schools in the paper version of the form available area. You will need to let us know from Student Services, tel - 01803 in writing before the start of each ¬ You are asked to list up to three 208908. Please return it to half term if you want to continue Torbay schools on your application on the waiting list. You will have Student Services, SF 338 Electric form, in the order that you prefer the right to appeal if you are House, c/o Town Hall, Castle Circus, them. refused a place. Torquay TQ1 3DR. 4 5 TIPS 4 TIPS 4 STEP 2 - Gathering information STEP 3 - Filling in the form You should gather as much of England and some are Roman After you have read this booklet (under 18 if disabled) and is staying information as possible about your Catholic. please complete online form ‘TIPS4/B with you for 28 days or longer. preferred schools. You can do this by: Application’ or complete a paper You can find out more about ¬ Looking at our Primary and form. private fostering by visiting www. ¬ Reading this brochure (also Secondary admission booklet (TIPS torbay.gov.uk/privatefostering available at www.torbay.gov.uk 8 and supplements) on our website ¬ You may not be offered a place or by contacting Torbay’s Private with links to school websites) for more information about the until you have confirmation of a Fostering Officer on 01803 208100, admission arrangements for new property purchase through a ¬ Obtaining the brochures of any or emailing privatefoster@torbay. individual schools. solicitor, a rental agreement or an other council whose schools you gov.uk. If the child is in the care of offer of employment. are interested in ¬ Finding out which schools have another local authority it will be vacancies. The Student Services ¬ You should tell us the date from necessary to arrange a meeting ¬ Contacting schools to see their team, telephone 01803 208908 which you need the place and, if before s/he is admitted to school. prospectus will be able to offer advice about a place can be offered, this will ¬ You must use your home address ¬ Looking at schools’ websites vacancies normally be held for a month/until for the application, not a business the next half term starts. It may ¬ Reading schools’ determined ¬ Thinking about how your child address, childminder’s address not be possible to reserve places admission arrangements would get to school and whether or any other address. If you are for more than a month at a time in (available at www.torbay.gov.uk or you would be responsible for home separated from your child’s other advance of a move to the area. from the school) to school transport parent and your child lives partly ¬ You must have parental at both addresses, the address ¬ Looking at schools’ OFSTED responsibility to apply for a inspection reports. You can find used will normally be the one school place for your child. If you reports on the OFSTED website, where the child lives for 80% of the are caring for someone else’s www.ofsted.gov.uk. Information is week. This should be supported by child it is important you state also available about examination a Court Order. If you have a shared your relationship to the child on results from the Council’s website care arrangement or no legal your application. If you aren’t the or from schools evidence, the home address will child’s parent and not a close be determined by the Admission ¬ Visiting any school, but please relative of the child (aunt, uncle, Authority. make an appointment first grandparent, brother, sister or ¬ For families of service personnel step-parent) and you don’t hold ¬ Finding out which, if any, of your or crown servants returning from a Child Arrangement Order or preferred schools give higher overseas we will allocate a place Special Guardianship Order, then priority to children who follow in advance of your move to the this may be a private fostering a particular religion and which area provided the application is arrangement. The law requires you (secondary) schools require your accompanied by an