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Your application How places were offered 2018

How to apply How the application process works

School open days

Hints and tips on choosing a school

Late applications

Admissions arrangements Schools information

Applying for schools in other boroughs

Children with Special Educational Needs University technical colleges and studio schools

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Sixth form education LGBT pupils Schools map Your application

Your application must be received by Wednesday, 31 October 2018

To avoid any last-minute problems, we strongly recommend you submit your Home application by Friday, 19 October 2018. This is the Friday before the half-term holiday If your child does not live in Harrow, but you wish to apply for a , please contact your child’s local authority to make an application. If your child lives in Harrow, and was born between 1 September 2007 and 31 Map August 2008, and is due to start secondary school in September 2019, the full timetable for applications is:

1 September 2018 Website opens, and you can apply online at http://www.eadmissions.org.uk

Admissions September / October 2018 Secondary schools hold Open Days / Evenings. Parents applying for a Voluntary Aided school must complete and return a supplementary information form direct to the school. These forms are available from the school or www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions

Apply now Friday 19 October 2018 Last Friday before the half-term holiday. We strongly recommend that you submit your application by this date to avoid any delay.

Wednesday 31 October 2018 Closing date for applications. Parents applying for a Voluntary Aided school must complete and return a supplementary information form direct to the school.

Friday 1 March 2019 Emails sent to parents with the outcome of their application. Please wait until you have received the email before logging on to the e-Admissions website. In some cases, letters will be sent through the post

Friday 15 March 2019 Deadline for acceptance or decline of offer.

Friday 12 April 2019 Closing date for receipt of appeals.

If your child lives in Harrow, and is due to start secondary school in September 2019, but was not born between 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2008, please do not fill out an application form. Instead, contact us on 0208 901 2620 or email [email protected] How places were offered in 2018

This table shows how places were allocated to year. Please do not assume that because to children starting at Harrow’s secondary children in your area attend a particular schools in September 2018. school that your child will also be offered a It shows how many places were available, place. how many people applied for those places Harrow schools do not have catchment areas and how those places were then allocated. as part of their admission arrangements1. Home These are the statistics for last year, and while Schools in Harrow use distance as part of this year’s statistics may be similar, the level their admission arrangements. All schools and pattern of demand for schools changes in Harrow measure distances from home every year. This means that the distances to school in a straight line from the home cited in the table below change from year address to the school.

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School name Number of applications receieved Number of places available Special Educational Needs - EHC Plans Looked-after children Medical/Social needs child Medical parent Sibling Children of staff school Feeder Random allocation Distance criteria distance offered in miles* Furthest Offered as the nearest school with a vacancy Apply now Avanti House 614 180 3 0 0 0 75 0 16 n/a 86 1.109 n/a Bentley Wood 663 224 0 0 0 1 53 0 n/a 110 60 1.919 n/a Canons High 713 210 5 0 0 0 61 1 n/a n/a 143 1.196 n/a Harrow High 433 180 0 0 0 0 22 0 n/a n/a 79 n/a 69 Hatch End 489 240 5 1 0 0 39 0 n/a n/a 105 n/a 29 Nower Hill 1455 324 3 0 0 0 104 0 n/a n/a 217 0.97 n/a Park High 798 270 7 0 0 0 95 1 n/a n/a 167 1.151 n/a High 908 180 5 0 0 0 23 2 n/a n/a 150 1.505 n/a Rooks Heath 473 210 2 0 0 0 65 0 n/a n/a 134 n/a 9 Salvatorian 149 150 Information for and The Sacred Heart 27 Sacred Heart 403 180 Language College can be obtained directly from the school n/a Whitefriars 272 90 2 0 0 0 11 0 n/a n/a 71 n/a 6 Whitmore 1376 270 5 1 2 3 120 0 n/a n/a 139 0.791 n/a

* Distance is measured in a straight line from the home address to the centre point of the school 1 Catchment area for the purposes of admissions is a defined geographical area set out in the admission arrangements.

Total places available: This is the “PAN” or Published Admissions Number. SEN: These are children with an Educational, Health and Care Plan. Random Allocation: These are places allocated by random computer selection from the applications received. All applications inside this distance were accepted. Distance is measured in a straight line from the home address to the centre point of the school site as defined by the school using a computerised mapping system based on ordnance survey data. Tables for previous years are available on our website How to apply

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Home We ask everyone to apply using 2019 but was not born between 1 the online form with the following September 2007 and 31 August 2008, exceptions: please do not complete an application form. Please contact us on 0208 901 1. If your child has an Educational, 2620 or email schooladmissions@ Map Health and Care Plan, please do not harrow.gov.uk to apply. complete an application form. 3. You cannot apply for private or 2. If your child wishes to begin independent schools through this secondary school in September process.

Admissions Frequently Asked Questions Do I need to register? Do I have to complete the form all at once? Yes, you will first need to register your Apply now details with the website and will be sent No – if you wish, you can complete part a user name and password. of the form, save your position and return later to review, complete or change it. What is the deadline? Every time you change your application you will receive a confirmation email. Your application must be complete and submitted by 31 October 2018. You can Are there any tools online to make changes to your application right help me choose schools? up to the closing date. The online application system has a What happens if I do not search facility to help you find schools submit my application in time? in the local area and offers links to more information about the schools. At the end of the process, you will be invited to “submit” the form. Failure to Can I apply for a Harrow school “submit” will mean that your application if I live outside the borough? has not been sent to us, and will not be considered. You will then have to enter If you live outside Harrow and want the late application process. to apply to a Harrow school you can list the school on the application you Computers with internet access are submit to your local authority. available to use free of charge at any Harrow library and at the Civic Centre.

Can I apply to schools in Free internet access is also available at Arqiva WiFi hotspots around the other boroughs? borough.

Yes – if you are a Harrow I don’t like using computers. resident you can use the same online form to apply to schools Can I get a paper form in Harrow and also to schools instead? Home maintained by other local authorities. You can apply for No – paper forms will only be issued six schools; however, you may under exceptional circumstances, due only apply to a maximum of to the extra administrative cost and four schools in Hertfordshire. complexity of processing them. Otherwise there is no restriction Map to the mix of schools on your I need help! Can you help? application. Yes – if you need help with your application please contact us on I don’t have the internet at 0208 901 2620 or email Admissions home. Where can I apply? [email protected]

Apply now What to do if your details lead to an offer being withdrawn. change Deciding which address to put It is vitally important that you tell us on your application straight away if any of your details change after you have submitted your The only acceptable address to put application. on your application is your child’s permanent address. If you move house and change your address; if your child changes primary Please do not list an address of school; or if any other factual details someone who provides a temporary regarding your application change, care arrangement for your child, a please contact us immediately on business address, childminder’s 0208 901 2620 or email address, a relative’s address or any [email protected]. other address other than the child’s permanent home address. Failure to let us know about changes could invalidate your application or even Where families have recently moved into an address prior to completing including a criminal prosecution. an application, we may require further Harrow Council reserves the right information to ensure that the property at any time to investigate and verify has not been obtained solely for the any address, information and/or purposes of obtaining a school place. documentation in order to ensure that it is allocating places appropriately and fairly. These investigations may extend All applications that are received to Council databases, home visits and will be verified. We would background checks. We may also ask normally expect families to be you for further proofs. living at property for some time prior to making the application. If we offer a place at a school and then Home discover that the offer was made on fraudulent or misleading information If a family moves into a property (for example, a false claim to living at temporarily to increase the chances of an address) we will withdraw the place gaining a school place, the council will offered. This has happened in previous Map use the permanent residence for the years. This will cause considerable purpose of the application. distress, particularly for the child involved. If the family own a property but are living at and apply from a different address, the council will assume that the second Where a place has been offered Admissions address is temporary and that the based on false information, we property that you own is where the can withdraw the offer even after child ordinarily lives. Where the owned your child has started at school. property is being renovated, this will still be considered the family’s permanent address. In some cases, a child may live Apply now permanently with parents with officially Evidence will otherwise be required shared responsibility at more than one that the property is disposed of. If a home address. Please note, this only family own more than one property, the applies to parents, not other carers council will request further evidence to or relatives. In these cases, the only demonstrate where the family normally acceptable address is the residence live to determine the address the council where the child spends the majority will use for the child’s application. of the school week (Monday-Friday). On the rare occasions when a child’s If a school place is offered on the basis residence during the school week is of an incorrect address, the place will be split equally between parents, then withdrawn. parents will be asked to determine which residential address should be Providing false information or fraudulent used for the purpose of admission to documentation could lead also to legal school. action being brought against you, In all such cases, we require a joint will be taken as the address of the declaration from the parents with parent who receives child benefit. In officially shared responsibility stating cases where parents are not eligible for the pattern of residence. If no joint child benefit the address will be that of declaration is received by the closing the parent where the child is registered date for applications, the home address with the doctor.

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On your application form you will be asked to list six schools, ranked in order of preference. You must name the schools that you wish to apply for, in the order you prefer them. You do not need to use all six preferences, however, we strongly advise that you do use all six preferences. There is no advantage in naming only one school. Once the closing date has passed on 31 October 2018, the admissions process will begin. Home

How the preference at any of their schools of preference, system works they will be offered a place at the closest Harrow school to their home address Map that still has vacancies once the above All the applications we receive will be admissions process is complete. considered individually against the Councils will not pass on details of criteria published in this guide. Each where the school was ranked on your school will then allocate its places to the application. No school will be told about children with highest priority under its other schools listed on your application. Admissions own admissions criteria.

Each school you name on your Extremely important advice application is considered separately. about the preference system That means that if you have entered six preferences, your child could be Apply now Harrow has many oversubscribed allocated as many as six places. schools. Every year there are children in Harrow who are not allocated a place When children are allocated a place at at any of their schools of preference. more than one school, the system refers These children will receive an offer for to the order of preference that you have a place, but it will be at a school which listed on your application form. they did not choose. These places may be at a considerable distance from It will then keep the offer at the school home. you have ranked highest, and take your child’s name off the list for their If you wish to have the best chance lower-ranked preferences. These places of avoiding this, and avoiding other will then be allocated to the children common mistakes in the applications with next-highest priority under those process, please consider the following schools’ admissions criteria. advice when making your application:

Children will only be offered one school • Use all six preferences available to you. place. Nobody is ever offered more than • Use one or more of your preferences one place, or a choice of places. on the school or schools nearest When children are not allocated a place your home. The most common admissions tie-breaker for an process. This means that your child may oversubscribed school is distance move down the waiting list if another from home to school. child, with a higher priority under the • To find out which are your local admission arrangements, is added (for Harrow schools, you can use the instance, through late application). online distance tool. • Remember to list the school you Places are offered from the waiting list like the most as first preference, throughout the year. If a place is offered the school you like the second- from the waiting list, this new offer will most as second preference and so supersede any previous offer, which will on, regardless of its popularity or then be withdrawn. Waiting lists can be historical oversubscription. Home viewed online via MyHarrow. • Remember to fill out and submit a Supplementary Information Form if you are applying to a Catholic Why do some children get school (The Sacred Heart Language places at schools they College or the Salvatorian College). haven’t applied for? Map Reasons for preference If, at the end of the application process, your child cannot be offered a place at When you complete the application, any of the schools on their application, there is a space for each preference your child will be allocated a place at Admissions where you can note why you have the closest Harrow school to their home selected a school. This information will which still has a vacancy. be passed to the school. The box is optional and will only have an effect on In nearly every case where this type of your application if it relates directly to allocation occurs, parents are happy the school’s admissions criteria. with the alternative offered. It is always a Apply now good idea to visit the school where you Waiting lists have been offered a place. This gives you a chance to see the school, rather After the admissions process is complete, than rely on what you might have heard we strongly advise that you accept the about it, and you are also able to discuss place your child has been offered. any worries that you might have with If you have not been allocated a place the school staff. However, if you are still at your first preference school, your unhappy about the school offered you child’s name will be placed on a waiting may decide to use the appeals process. list for all the schools which you ranked as a higher preference than the school where you received an offer. Your child Accepting a place will remain on these waiting lists even after you accept your offered place. Every parent who has applied online Waiting lists are not a ‘first come, first for a Secondary place for their child will served’ list and so time on the list does receive an email on 1 March to offer NOT give any priority. their child a place. You will need to log Waiting lists remain in the priority order back into the e-admissions website as determined during the admissions and accept the offered place. School open days

Harrow’s secondary schools will be holding open events in September and October to help parents and children decide on their applications. Many schools begin their sessions with a short presentation. If you cannot make these dates and times, please contact schools for alternatives – all schools welcome visitors at other times. Home Avanti House Evening: Wednesday, 19 Evening: Thursday, 13 September September 2018 6pm-8.30pm 2018 6.30pm-9pm | Mornings: Mornings: Monday, 24 September Friday, 14 September 2018 – Map to Thursday, 27 September 2018 11.15am-12.15pm; Monday, from 9.30am by appointment 17 September to Friday 21 with the school September 2018 9am-12 noon

Canons High School Admissions Evening: Wednesday, 26 Evening: Tuesday, 18 September September 2018 6pm-8.30pm 2018 6.30pm Mornings: Monday, 1 October & Morning tours from 9.15am from Tuesday, 2 October 2018 Thursday 20 September (by 9.30am-10.30am appointment – please contact Apply now the school)

Hatch End High School Evening: Monday, 24 September 2018 5.30pm – 8.30pm Day/Evening: Tuesday, 25 Mornings: Wednesday, 26 September 2018 September; Thursday, 27 9am, 1.30pm and 5.45pm September; and Information, presentations and Friday, 28 September 2018 tours for parents/carers and 9.15am-10.30am children to see the school in the normal working day commence at 9am and 1.30pm. The evening meeting at 5.45pm is only for those who cannot make a daytime visit and will only consist of a presentation and tour of the premises. Park High School Pinner High School Evening: Thursday, 20 September Evening: Monday, 4 October 2018 2018 6pm-8pm 5.30pm-8.30pm Mornings: Tuesday, 25 September We will be running tours between – Thursday, 27 September 2018, the 10 and 18 October at 9.15am 9am-10.15am (by appointment – – please contact the school to please contact the school) book a place.

Rooks Heath College Sacred Heart Home Evening: Tuesday, 11 September Language College 2018* 6.45pm Evenings: Wednesday, 12 *Tours on other dates can be arranged by September 2018 6.30pm-8.30pm; contacting our Admissions Officer on 020 8422 4675 Thursday, 20 September 2018 4pm-6pm Map Salvatorian College Whitefriars Evening: Monday, 1 October 2018 Evening: Wednesday, 3 October 5.30pm-7.30pm 2018 6.30pm-8pm Mornings: Monday, 1 October Mornings: Wednesday, 10 2018 9.30am-11am Admissions October and Monday, 15 October 2018 9am-11am

Whitmore High School Apply now Open Day/Evening – Monday, 17 September 2018 3.30pm- 5.30pm; and 6.30pm-8.30pm Hints and tips on choosing a school

„„ Think what kind of school your child demonstrate practice of their faith. is best suited to: You may want to think about if you want a same sex „„ Not all schools give priority to school or, a faith based school does siblings, or there may be restrictions the school have a specialism in the for siblings in Sixth Form arts, sports, science etc., uniform Home vs. non uniform school, are there „„ Distance from home to school is breakfast clubs / afterschool clubs, often used as tie breaker. Distance travel to and from school is usually measured in a straight line from your house to the centre point „„ Familiarise yourself with the of the school (but it can be different Map admissions criteria for schools in some cases)

„„ Visit the school you are interested in „„ Some schools use random applying to. Attend any open days / allocation (lottery) evenings held at the school. Look at the information on how places were „„ Some schools will have medical and Admissions allocated in previous year. social criteria but only if you meet certain conditions – see page 18 „„ Look at the school Ofsted report / school website – schools do change „„ Some schools will give priority to over time so it is important to get staff who work for the school for a Apply now your information from a variety of certain number of years or in hard to sources and remember that not recruit subjects everything you hear about a school may still be true. „„ Some schools outside of Harrow may have additional criteria’s that „„ During your research, you will need are to do with streaming, testing, to read the admissions criteria for banding, musical or sporting ability, the school(s) you want to apply to. catchment or priority areas.

To give you some samples of what to „„ Make sure you submit your check for: application on time – if you miss the deadline your application won’t be „„ Church / Faith schools will give considered until after the National priority to applicants that can Offer Day. Late applications

If you do not submit your application to Harrow Council by 31 October 2018 then your child will not take part in the normal admissions process. Instead, they will need to go through a late application process.

You will still need to complete an application form online as normal. However, your preferences will not be assessed or considered until the normal admissions Home process is complete and offers are made on 1 March 2018. Late applications will then be allocated places out of the pool of places that are remaining.

There are a small number of exceptions to this rule. The following are examples of exceptions that will allow late applications to be considered for the normal Map admissions process:

1 If your family moved house after the closing date, but before 12 Late changes to your December 2018. application You will be asked to provide a letter from Admissions your solicitor confirming the completion It is vitally important that you tell date and confirming you have taken up us straight away if any of your residency. If you are renting, you will be details change after you have asked for a formal tenancy agreement submitted your application. from a letting agent or estate agent. Apply now If you move house and change 2 If your family returned home from your address; if your child abroad after the closing date, but changes primary school; or before 12 December 2018. if any other factual details You will be asked to provide a council regarding your application tax bill confirming re-occupation of your change, please contact us property and cease of any tenancy on immediately on 0208 901 2620 the property; you will also be asked for or email schooladmissions@ confirmation for your move from your harrow.gov.uk. employer. Failure to let us know about 3 If a single parent has been ill for changes could invalidate your some time, or there has been a recent application or even lead to an death of an immediate family member. offer being withdrawn. You will be asked to provide evidence of the above.

Please note if you move after the 12 December your application will be considered from the address that you were living at prior to moving. We will only be able to update the address after the 1 March 2019. Admissions arrangements

The pages that follow contain • Park High School admissions arrangements for • Harrow’s secondary schools, • (Secondary including Academies, Free Schools Phase) and Voluntary Aided Schools. For each school, a list of criteria Separate Admissions Arrangements are Home will be outlined which explain which included for: children have priority for admission, should the school be oversubscribed. • Avanti House Tie-breakers are also explained, in the • Bentley Wood High School case of a tie for priority. • Pinner High School Map • The Sacred Heart Language College The arrangements in this guide have • Salvatorian College been abbreviated for your convenience. • Complete versions of each school’s Admissions Arrangements are available We strongly recommend you read these to download on the Harrow Council arrangements in full before applying Schools website. to the schools of your choice. Many arrangements differ substantially from The Admissions Arrangements listed each other. first apply to: The admissions arrangements that • follow are binding, and no exceptions Apply now • Harrow High School will be made during the admissions • process. • Nower Hill High School Admissions arrangements

Admissions arrangements for: Canons High School Pinner High School Harrow High School Rooks Heath College Hatch End High School Whitefriars School Nower Hill High School (Secondary Phase) Park High School Whitmore High School

If there are fewer applicants than there parent(s) Parent(s) where there are are places available for Year 7 entry special medical reasons for seeking a in September 2019, everyone who place for their child at the school. (See Home applies will be offered a place. below for definition of medical reasons relevant to parent(s) and parent); Children who have an Education, 4. Siblings Children with a brother or Health and Care Plan which names the sister attending the in years Academy will be allocated a place at 7 to 11 at the time of application. The Map the Academy in accordance with their sibling link does not apply to students statutory entitlement. who are attending the sixth form in September 2018. (see following pages Oversubscription criteria for definition of sibling); 5. Children of staff of the school Children where their parent(s) has Schools If there are more applicants than there are places available after been employed by the academy trust the admission of students with an at the academy for at least two years Education, Health and Care Plan at the date of admission or where the naming the academy, the following member of staff has been recruited criteria will be considered, in order, to to a vacant post where there is a Apply now determine who will be offered a place: demonstrable skills shortage (see below for definition of parent); and 1. Children who are looked after 6. Distance from home to school or were previously looked after A Places are allocated to applicants who ‘looked after child’ or a child who was live closest to the school. This must previously looked after but immediately be the address where parent and child after being looked after became normally live and they must be living subject to an adoption, residence, there on the closing date for receipt of child arrangements order, or special applications. (See below for definition guardianship order.(See below for of distance). definitions of children who are looked after or were previously looked after); Tie-breaker: If more applications are 2. Medical or social needs of the child received in any one criterion than Children for whom it is essential to be there are places available admitted to a specific school because of special circumstances to do with The tiebreaker of distance from the significant medical needs and or social address point for the home address needs. (See below for definition of to the centre point for the school site, medical or social needs of the child); measured in a straight line, will be 3. Medical reasons relevant to applied. The school centre point is computer generated and is the centre will be required. Where a child lives point of a bounded polygon of the with parents with shared responsibility, school site that includes elements each for a part of a week, then the such as buildings, playgrounds address used will be the address and car parks but excludes playing where the child spends the majority fields. In cases where applicants live of the school week. Where residence equidistant from the preferred school is split equally between parents, if no and places cannot be offered to all of joint declaration is received by the the applicants affected, the available closing date for applications, the home place(s) will be allocated using a address will be taken as the address of random computer selection. the parent who receives child benefit; in cases where parents are not eligible Home Children of multiple births: In cases for child benefit the address will be where there is only one place available that of the parent where the child is at the school and the next child on the registered with the doctor. waiting list is one of a twin, triplet or other multiple birth group, both twins Children who are looked after or Map (or all the siblings in the case of other were previously looked after A multiple births) would be admitted, looked after child is a child who is (a) even if this meant that the school in the care of a local authority, or (b) would admit in excess of the admission being provided with accommodation number. by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see Schools Definitions the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at the time of making an application to the school. Distance The home address is where Previously looked after children are a child normally lives. The distance children who were looked after, but will be measured in a straight light ceased to be so because they were from the address point for the home Apply now adopted or became subject to a address to the centre point for the child arrangements order or special school site. Each centre point factors guardianship order. An adoption in on-site buildings only and is agreed order is an order under Section 46 by the school. Distance is calculated of the Adoption and Children Act using a computerized mapping system 2002. A ‘residence order’ or a ‘child based on Ordinance Survey data. To arrangement order’ is an order settling find distances to schools in Harrow go the arrangements to be made as to to www.harrow.gov.uk/distancetool. In the person with whom the child is to cases where applicants live equidistant live under Section 8 of the Children Act from the preferred school and places 1989. Section 14A of the Children Act cannot be offered to both children, the 1989 defines a ‘special guardianship available place will be allocated using order’ as an order appointing one or a random computer selection. more individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or special guardians). Home address This must be the address where parent and child Medical or social needs of the normally live and they must be living child Except in wholly exceptional there on the closing date for receipt of circumstances such requests will applications. Confirmation of address only be considered for the school similar role in another local authority. closest to the home address. The The director must set out in detail the application must be supported by wholly exceptional circumstances that written evidence. The supporting in their view require attendance at the evidence should set out the particular academy and the difficulties if the child reasons why the academy is the most had to attend another school. suitable school and the difficulties Parents can only make an application that would be caused if the child under this criteria (whether for medical had to attend another school. The or social need) to one school in recommendation for this specific Harrow. school should demonstrate knowledge Home of the school in terms of resources and Medical reasons relevant to organisation which deems it essential parent(s) Except in wholly exceptional that the named pupil be admitted to circumstances such requests will only the academy. The academy can only be considered for the school closest consider entry under this criterion if to the home address. Applications will the required documents have been only be considered for the parent(s) Map produced. with whom the child lives and must be accompanied by compelling medical Applications made on medical grounds evidence from a hospital Consultant at must be accompanied by compelling the time of application. The letter from medical evidence from a hospital the hospital consultant must provide Consultant at the time of application. information about the parent’s medical Schools The letter from the hospital consultant condition, the effects of this condition must provide information about the and why, in view of this, the child child’s medical condition, the effects needs to attend the academy. If the of this condition and why, in view of academy is not the closest school to this, the child needs to attend the the home address, the consultant must Apply now academy. If the academy is not the set out in detail the wholly exceptional school closest to the home of the child, circumstances for attending the the consultant must set out in detail academy and the difficulties if the the wholly exceptional circumstances child had to attend another school. for attending the academy and the In assessing these applications difficulties if the child had to attend independent advice will be sought as another school. In assessing these appropriate (e.g. Harrow Association applications advice may be sought of Disabled People or Harrow’s Mental from Harrow’s Special Education Health Service). Needs Service. Medical claims relevant to parent(s) Applications made on social grounds will only be considered for one school must be accompanied by compelling and this should be named by the evidence at the time of application. consultant. Social needs claims will only be considered where there is involvement Parent(s) making a medical claim from a social worker. The application solely on the grounds of the young will need to be supported with a letter person’s need to be accompanied from a Divisional Director from Children on the journey to school will not be and Families or a person holding a allowed. Sibling Where children live as brother 2019) to either accept or decline the and sister in the same household they offer of a place. This will in no way are treated in the same way as siblings affect parents’ right to appeal for for admissions purposes. This includes a place at another school. Harrow a child’s brother or sister, half brother Council will write to all parents who or sister, adopted/foster brother or have not accepted or declined an sister, step brother or sister living in the offer giving them a further 7 days. If no same family unit at the same address. response is received a further letter will It does not include cousins or other be sent to advise that the place has extended family members who live in been withdrawn. Unaccepted places the same household. In the case of will be allocated to other applicants. twins, triplets and other multiple-birth Appeals procedure Home children, if one child can be offered a place in the school, other multiple-birth Parents can choose to appeal against children will be allocated a place in the the decision of the academy trust school. Where twins are concerned not to offer their child a place at the and one twin has an Education, Health academy. Harrow Council administer Map and Care Plan that names the school any admissions appeals on behalf of the other twin will be treated as having the academy trust. To appeal against a sibling link for that academic year. the decision not to offer their child a place, parents must complete the Parent this means the parent who has appeal forms that are available on the parental responsibility as defined in the Harrow Council website (www.harrow. Schools Children Act 1989, or the person in the gov.uk/schooladmissions) or from household who is defined as a parent the Harrow Council Admissions Team for the purposes of Section 576 of the (020 8901 2620). To be considered Education Act 1996. This could include in the first round of appeals, the a person who is not a biological parent notice of appeal must be received by Apply now but who has responsibility for her or the Council by their specified date him (such as a child’s guardians) but (expected to be around 31 March will not usually include other relatives 2019). such as grandparents, aunts, uncles etc unless they have all the rights, The appeal will be heard by an duties, powers and responsibilities and independent appeals panel constituted authority, which by law a parent of a and operated in accordance with the child has in relation to the child and School Admissions Appeals Code. their property. Parents will receive written notification of the date and time of their appeal Notification and acceptance of places hearing, which they can attend to In accordance with the co-ordinated explain their case. If they wish, parents admissions policy, on 1 March 2019 may be accompanied by an adviser the Local Authority will make the formal or friend. Following the appeal, the offer of a place to parents or carers on Clerk to the appeals panel will write to behalf of the Academy Trust. parents with the decision.

The onus is on parents to contact the Waiting list for the incoming Year 7 Local Authority by their specified date Parents / carers can ask for their (expected to be around 16 March child’s name to be put on a waiting list for the academy. The waiting list Fair access protocol will be maintained by Harrow Council Admissions Team on behalf of the As part of the co-ordinated admissions academy trust from the offer date (1 arrangements with Harrow Council March 2019). the school may accept hard-to-place pupils onto the school roll from time to The waiting list will give priority in time in accordance with the In-Year Fair accordance with the admissions Access agreement. criteria. Any places that become available will be filled in priority order Admission of a child out from the waiting list or late applicants. of the normal age group Home Whenever an applicant is removed from or added to the waiting list, the list will be reordered in accordance In exceptional circumstances, parents with the oversubscription criteria. or carers may wish to seek admission to a year group that is not the normal group for a child of that age. If a parent Map In-Year applications or carer is considering this they must contact the school for a discussion If a parent wants to make an in-year prior to making an application. application for a child to join the academy they should complete the The Headteacher will consider a Common Application Form for In-Year request and make a decision on the Schools Admissions that is available on the basis of the circumstances of the Harrow Council admissions website or case and the best interests of the from the Harrow Council Admissions child concerned. This will include Team (020 8901 2620). There is no consideration of the parent’s or carer’s Supplementary Information Form for views, the academic, social and the academy; parents only need to Apply now emotional development of the child, complete the Common Application any relevant information provided by Form. The Common Application Form medical professionals, and whether should be returned to the Harrow they have previously been educated Council Admissions Team who will outside of their normal age group. If then liaise with the schools who are the Headteacher refuses a request to listed on the form and write to the consider an application for outside applicants with the result of their of the child’s normal age range, they application. will set out the reasons for this refusal. If the Headteacher agrees to the In-Year admissions will be considered request, if the application would then in accordance with the number seek entry into Year 7, the application of places available at the school would be processed as part of the in the 2019/20 school year and main admissions process and using oversubscription criteria outlined the oversubscription criteria outlined above and any places that become above (if the request was received after available will be filled in priority order the closing date for Year 7 entry then from the existing waiting list and any the application would be considered current applications. alongside other late applications). While parents have a right of appeal against a decision to refuse admission colleges join courses at a particular to their child, there is no right of appeal sixth form and some students from the if they have been offered a place but school may join sixth form courses in not in their preferred year group. other schools and/or colleges. Applications should be made to the Admission to the Harrow school by the first Friday in February Collegiate for Sixth Form in the academic year preceding the year of entry. Any applications All students may continue to study from students who are not currently in the sixth form of their current students at the academy will be school, providing they meet the entry judged according to the same entry Home requirements of their selected courses. requirements of the school and their A collegiate system operates at sixth form level within Harrow and selected subjects and will be offered some courses are offered through places if there are spaces available in this arrangement. As a result some those subjects. Map students from other schools and/or

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Apply now AvantiHatch End House SecondaryHigh School School Excellence Virtue Devotion High Performing Specialist Arts Avanti Houseschool Secondary status School Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex WembroughHA3 Road, 6NR HA7 2EX & 0208 249Tel: 6830 020 8428 4330 * [email protected]: 020 8428 9286 Email: [email protected]. 8 www.avanti.org.uk/avantihouseuk Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. Principal:uk Mr Simon Arnell

PLACES AGES GENDER TYPE Travel map DfE NO: 310 4000 180 4-18 Mixed Free school

Avanti House is a free school for boys English Baccalaureate with specialisms in and girls aged 11-18, set up in response mathematics and performing arts. Targets to parental demand. are set for the very highest achievement The school has moved to its new across the curriculum and current £25-million-pound building located in students are already on target to exceed them. Home Stanmore, Wemborough Road, HA7 2EQ. There are a full range of facilities including; state of the art sports grounds In Year Seven, pupils have the chance to and hall, performing arts suite and study French and Spanish and Sanskrit. fantastic teaching rooms. Yoga and meditation are taught within drama lessons. The school, via its Ethos bespoke philosophy, religion and ethics Map programme (PRE), encourages students to understand and appreciate the value Avanti House is founded on three pillars of self, of others, of family and community – Educational Excellence, Character and of the environment. Formation and Spiritual Insight. We ensure that Avanti House is a truly The PRE programme also looks to nurture Admissions inclusive school where the values, critical thinking and reflection around enshrined in our vision statement are meaning in life, their own understanding evident not just in our policies but also of and relationship with God and how they in our daily practice; that they can be might live an ethically and morally sound witnessed in the curriculum we offer and life. in the relationships which we develop with Open The curriculum as a whole is designed one another. day to nurture highly aspirational, confident, independent, expert learners who both The Ofsted report of July 2014 cited truly realise fully their academic potential whilst outstanding behaviour rooted in excellent also developing the attributes of social relationships, in a safe and deeply caring responsibility and enterprise alongside community. other skills. This all ensures that our Apply now students will go on to thrive as young Curriculum adults with all the challenges that they will face in a fast-changing 21st century global Avanti House School offers a broad, economy and community. The entire balanced and challenging curriculum curriculum is also underpinned by the centred on the academic rigour of the development of six key values: Respect, Courage, Empathy, Integrity, Self-discipline cater for the needs of all and also a very and Gratitude. Behaviour at Avanti House active Student Council which feeds back School is outstanding; our existing regularly to staff and actively influences students are fiercely proud of their school. school-policy on such matters as The school currently operates a six period behaviour, homework and catering. day (each of one hour) with an hour after school most evenings for enrichment clubs. Beyond the formal Curriculum Our early start at 8 a.m. (Breakfast Club from 7.30am) and vegetarian cuisine Avanti House offers a wide variety of ensures we get the best out of our pupils after-school clubs on mid-week evenings, while still leaving time at the end of the day including: Home for our varied extra-curricular programme. chess, choir, dance, art, drama, netball, cricket, football, ultimate frisbee, gifted and Staffing talented, magazine, and science clubs to name a few. Avanti House benefits from a highly Music tuition is available across a range dedicated and professional staff who of instruments and amongst the many Map are entirely committed to the academic, extra-curricular events this year have spiritual and emotional needs of the been the following:• All You Need is children. Their approach to teaching is Love performance on the Southbank, characterised by: Arts Week, museum trip, “Stomp” visit, “Winter’s Tale”, “Phantom”, Gothic Tales, • High expectations which encourage mask-making, tap dancing, Lord’s Cricket, Admissions achievement drumming workshop, “Avanti’s Got Talent” • An understanding of the individual and an in-house production of “Oliver!”. needs of each child be they gifted and talented or having a special GCSE Results 2018 educational need. • An appreciation of the benefits of • 32% of all grades in all subjects 9-7 Open collaborative learning, supported day (A*/A) by high quality ICT and bespoke • 88% Mathematics 9-4 (A*-C) resources, and of learning beyond the • 91% English overall 9-4 (A*-C) classroom – including trips and visits. • 82% gained English and Maths 9-4 (A*-C) Quality Assurance, Student Apply now Support and Student Voice In conclusion

Every parent wants to know that their child Avanti House offers a well-rounded is well-known and well-looked after at education to all its pupils, identifying school and at Avanti House our OFSTED- strengths and talents and developing endorsed systems ensure just that. Each that potential to the full, with academic child is allocated a tutor and is placed achievement and character development in one of our four Houses. While taught side-by-side. Young people will leave in year groups, each student belongs Avanti House well qualified, confident, to a House which contains pupils of creative and characterful. mixed age groups so that the younger can learn from the older and vice-versa. More details are available on our This also provides a structure for inter- website and parents are encouraged house competitions and leadership to visit the school in session to meet opportunities where pupils can take on our very happy community, sample the additional responsibilities, regardless of unique family atmosphere and witness their age. The school has a well-staffed for themselves the excellent teaching and experienced inclusion department to and strong work ethic. Admissions arrangements

Avanti House Secondary School

Avanti House Secondary School (“the The PAN for external candidates meeting School”) is part of the Avanti Schools the minimum academic entry criteria for Trust and is an inclusive Hindu faith- entry into Year 12 (sixth form) is 40. designated school which welcomes Internal students already on the roll in children of all faiths and none. More Year 11 do not need to formally apply information about the School can be for admission, they will simply transfer found by visiting the website at www. from Year 11 to Year 12 if they meet the avanti.org.uk/avantihousesecondary. minimum academic entry criteria. Where a lower number of Year 11 Home The Trust Board of Avanti Schools Trust students transfer to Year 12 than (“the Trust Board”) is the “admission anticipated, it may be possible to admit authority” for all schools within the external candidates to Year 12 over the trust, and is responsible for determining PAN. and implementing the admission The minimum academic entry criteria for arrangements for those schools. admission/transfer to Year 12 is set out Map further below. Definition of “Parent” In this policy, a “parent” is defined as Children with an Education, Health including a natural or adoptive parent and Care Plan of a child (irrespective of with whom the Children with an education health and Schools child lives, or whether the parent has care plan (“EHC plan”) which names contact with or parental responsibility for Avanti House Secondary School will be admitted to the School under separate the child), as well as non-parents who statutory procedures, rather than under have care of, or parental responsibility this policy. Where they will be admitted for, the child. in the normal admission round (i.e. in Apply now the September following their fourth Published Admission birthday), the number of places available Number (“PAN”) within the PAN stated above will be reduced, otherwise they will be admitted Year 7 over the PAN where necessary. The published admission number (“PAN”) for entry to Year 7 is 180. Oversubscription Criteria Where fewer applicants than the published admission number for the Where the School is oversubscribed, relevant year group are received, offers the available places will be allocated to will be made to all those who have children in the following order of priority: applied. 1. Looked after children1 and Year 12 (Sixth Form) previously looked after children

1 A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care of a Local Authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a Local Authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989). 2 A “sibling” is defined in this policy as a full or half brother or sister, an adopted brother or sister, a step-brother or sister or a foster brother or sister. For the avoidance of doubt, the children of extended family members (for example, cousins) or friends will not be a sibling for the purpose of this policy. Avanti House Secondary School (continued)

who became subject to adoption, a Tie Breaker child arrangements order or special Where two or more children live an guardianship order immediately after equal distance from the School, random being looked after. allocation supervised by someone independent of the School will be used 2. Children with a sibling2 attending as a tie-breaker to determine the order in Avanti House Primary School or Avanti which places are allocated. House Secondary School at the time of application. Details of sibling to be Child’s Home Address include in the Common Application For the purpose of this policy, the child’s Form submitted to the Local Authority. home address will be the residential address at which the child lives and Home 3. Children who attend Avanti House sleeps for more than 50% of their time Primary School or Krishna Avanti from Monday to Friday during term Primary School (Harrow) at the time of time. It will usually be the address at application. which Child Benefit is claimed or, if ineligible, the address at which the Map 4. Children of a member of the School’s child is registered with their GP and staff who: dentist. Business addresses will not be accepted. a. Has been employed at the School for two or more years at the time of The child must be living at the address application; and/or at the time of application and is Schools anticipated to be living there at the time b. Was recruited to fill a vacant post for of admission. which there was a demonstrable skill shortage. Where an issue arises, the Trust Board reserves the right to seek supporting Apply now For the avoidance of doubt, “a” and “b” evidence that the residential address above do not denote an order of priority stated in the application for admission – all children falling within this category meets this definition before the child is will be treated equally. admitted.

5. All other children. Children of UK Service Personnel and Crown Servants Order of Allocation The children of UK service personnel (UK armed forces) with a confirmed The order in which places will be posting to the area of the School, and allocated the categories above will be by the children Crown servants returning reference to the distance the child lives from overseas to live in the area of the from the School, with those living closest School, will be regarded as living at to the School receiving highest priority. the address stated in the application Distance will be measured from the for admission at the time of application centre point of the child’s home address where it is accompanied by an official to the centre point of the School’s site in letter confirming the relocation date a straight line using the Local Authority’s and a unit postal address or quartering specialist software. address. This is an exception to the rule that the child must be living at the Avanti House Secondary School (continued)

address at the time of application. medical professionals (where relevant), whether the child has previously been Minimum Academic Entry Criteria for education outside their normal age Year 12 (Sixth Form) group, and whether they would have The minimum academic criteria for naturally fallen into a lower age group if transfer/admission to Year 12 (sixth they had not been born prematurely. form) are the same for current Year 11 students and external candidates. Parents should note that, where the Trust Only students who meet the minimum Board refuses a request for admission application criteria will be permitted to to a year other than the child’s normal transfer/admitted. age group, there is no statutory appeal Home against that decision as there is with the The minimum academic entry criteria refusal of a place, however parents may are: submit a complaint under the School’s published Complaints Policy. Where a • Six GCSE at Grade C including request is refused, the Trust Board will English and Mathematics; write to the parents clearly setting out Map their reasons for doing so. • GCSE at Grade B in every subject to be studied in Year 12. Where the Trust Board agrees a request in principle, they will write to the parents Admission of Children confirming their agreement. A request for admission outside normal age group Schools Outside their Normal Age is not an application for admission, and Group parents will need to submit a separate application for admission in the usual Parents have a right to ask for their child way at the appropriate time. Where a to be admitted to a school to a year request for admission to a different year Apply now group other than their child’s year group, group has been agreed in principle, the either above or below. It is, however, for letter from the Trust Board confirming the Trust Board to determine whether to this must be submitted with the agree or refuse the application. application for admission.

The procedure for asking for admission It is important for parents to note that of a child to a year group other than obtaining the Trust Board’s agreement the child’s normal year group is by in principle to admission to a different letter to the School giving details of all year group does not mean that the child relevant circumstances and attaching will achieve a place in that year group. any relevant supporting evidence. The The separate application for admission Trust Board will consider the request will be considered with all other and make a decision on the basis of the applications for that year group and the circumstances of the case and in the oversubscription criteria applied where best interests of the child concerned, necessary. taking into account the parent’s views, the Principal’s view, information about Applications for Admission the child’s academic, social and emotional development, the child’s Year 7 medical history and the view of their Applications for admission to Year 7 Avanti House Secondary School (continued)

must be made to the Local Authority on In-Year Admissions their Common Application Form, which is accessible on their website. Applications for in-year admissions should be made to the Local Authority. Applications must be submitted by the If more applications are received than closing date, which is 31st October there are places available, applications 2018. will be ranked by the governing body in accordance with the admissions/ Parents will be notified of the outcome over subscription criteria as outlined of applications on “national offer day” above. Applicants will be notified of the which is on or about 1st March 2019. outcomes by the School. Home Year 12 (Sixth Form) Applications for the admission of external Fair Access Protocol candidates to Year 12 must be made to the School (not the Local Authority) on The School is committed to taking a fair the Sixth Form Application Form, which and reasonable proportion of children Map accessible via the School’s website and who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, in hard copy from the School’s office. as identified in the locally agreed Fair Access Protocol. Accordingly, outside Applications must be submitted by the closing date, which is 1st December the normal admissions round, the Trust 2018. Board will admit a child for whom a Schools place is requested under the Fair Access Parents will be notified of the outcome of Protocol agreed for that school year, applications on or before 1st April 2019. even where this will result in the PAN being exceeded. Following the offer of a place at the Apply now School, parents/carers can be asked to Waiting Lists provide their child’s proof of identification and main residence. The forms of The School operates a waiting list for identification may include the child’s each year group for the duration of the birth certificate, NHS registration card, school year. The names of all children council tax bill and recent utility bills. who do not achieve a place in Year 7 will be placed on the waiting list, and it will Late Applications be open to other parents to ask for their child’s name to be placed on the waiting Applications received after the closing list following an unsuccessful application. date for applications stated above will be late applications, and will not A child’s position on the waiting list will be considered until after applications be determined solely in accordance received on or before the closing date with the oversubscription criteria set out for applications have been considered above, and not by reference to the date and places allocated. This means that that the application for admission was the chance of achieving a place will be made. This means that a child’s place reduced. The names of those children on the waiting list may go down as well who do not achieve a place will be as up, as more applications are received placed on the waiting list (see below). from children with higher priority. Avanti House Secondary School (continued)

Statutory Right of Appeal 28 February after the closing date for applications for that year. Information Parents have a statutory right of appeal will also be included in the letter sent to to an independent appeal panel in the parents notifying them of a refusal. event of a refusal of a place. Appeals are dealt with strictly in accordance with the False and/or Intentionally School Admission Appeals Code 2012. Misleading information

Information on the appeal timetable Parents should note that an offer of a (including the deadline for requesting place is likely to be withdrawn if it is an appeal) will be published on the found that it was made on the basis of Home School’s website (www.avanti.org.uk/ fraudulent or intentionally misleading avantihousesecondary) on or before information provided by parents.

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Apply now BentleyHatch End Wood HighHigh SchoolSchool

A Mathematics,High Computing, Performing Science Specialist College Arts and National Teachingschool status School Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex Clamp Hill HA3 6NR Stanmore Tel: 020 8428 4330 Fax: 020 8428 9286 Middlesex HA7Email: [email protected]. & 020 8954uk 3623 8 www.bentleywood.harrow.sch.ukWebsite: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. uk Headteacher: Dr Janice Howkins PLACES AGES GENDER TYPE Travel DfE NO: 310 4032 224 11-18 Girls Academy map

Our Ethos best. All students in Year 7 and 8 follow an enhanced model of the National Curriculum. “The school’s motto, ‘learning today: The full range of GCSE courses are leading tomorrow’ permeates through offered for students to study. The vast students’ attitudes and the commitment majority of our students follow the English of staff: all are united in working Baccalaureate, which is enhanced by other together. The school has successfully GCSE options. Homework is an important part of studying and is set daily from Year 7 Home created an inclusive atmosphere where through to Year 13. mutual respect exists.” – Ofsted Our curriculum is underpinned by: We are very proud of Bentley Wood. It is a • outstanding teaching and support staff; truly outstanding, inclusive academy girls’ • the highest expectations of students; school which values each of the students • extensive use of IT in our learning and Map equally and recognises their individual gifts teaching in school and at home; and talents. The school has an outstanding • a coherent approach to personal record of academic excellence. This is development where we care about every achieved through the highest expectations, child; together with inspirational teaching and • excellent provision for the most able learning experiences. There is a strong students. Admissions sense of pride with the girls and staff showing great commitment to the school. Our teaching and support staff are of the Pastoral Curriculum and Student highest calibre. We all share the vision Support of achieving our personal best and are committed to working hard. Pastoral care commences before girls Open join Bentley Wood. Parents/carers have day The school’s excellent GCSE examination individual meetings to establish our close success has been recognised by Ofsted family partnership. During the summer and in the Government’s Performance all students attend an induction day. On Tables with both sources confirming that induction day girls meet their tutors who the school adds exceptional value to care for them on a daily basis and stays Apply now students’ achievement. with them as they progress up the school. The pastoral team ensures that each Our Curriculum student’s academic progress, attendance, punctuality and overall development are At Bentley Wood we provide a rich and monitored very closely. relevant personalised curriculum that engages, motivates and challenges girls to achieve their Integral to our pastoral and academic support is: in Harrow, and its facilities, indoors and outdoors, are acknowledged as superb: • our close liaison with primary schools; • regular consultation with parents/family • A brand new state-of-the-art school members; building with 13 additional classrooms • detailed assessments and reports; • 27 acres of woodland, tennis courts, • parents’ information evenings; hockey fields and athletics track; • support for students with additional • A brand new sports hall with • learning needs; outstanding facilities • active student voice through school • 8 new science laboratories council and their committees and our • New outstanding library facilities student leaders. • 7 new IT suites plus Apple Mac facilities Home in music, art, technology, health and Wider Interests social care as well as iPads for students • A modern Sixth Form building “Students’ contributions to the • Purpose-built drama and dance studio school and community are truly • Fully refurbished Technology suites. exceptional.” – Ofsted Map At Bentley Wood, students extend their My daughter wears a learning and personal development through constant smile since moving a wide and exciting range of extra-curricular to Bentley Wood High School. activities including: ‘ Her self-confidence, personality and academic abilities have Admissions • Duke of Edinburgh programme; • visits abroad to Spain, France and improved so much. The staff Germany; have very high aspirations for • an extensive range of sporting activities her and are all fully committed in including; tennis, football, aerobics, ensuring she succeeds in life.” – Year 9 parent. Open athletics, netball, and dance; day • annual drama productions and showcases; • concerts of music and dance; Conclusion • visits to art galleries, museums and theatres; • an extensive range of lunchtime and “Students’ behaviour around the Apply now after school clubs and activities; school and their attitudes to learning • Breakfast Club daily from 7.40am – in lessons are exemplary.” – Ofsted 8.40am offering a free healthy breakfast; • Student Leader groups including Bentley Wood is a flourishing and Digital, Engineering, Numeracy and successful school in which staff, students, Learning Leaders. parents and the school’s Governing Body all work together in partnership to ensure Our Facilities that every student is able to fulfil her potential in all aspects of school life by Bentley Wood is set in a unique environment achieving her best. Admissions arrangements

Bentley Wood High School

The Academy Trust will comply with the requirements of the Funding Agreement and the School Admissions Code, and recognises that its ‘relevant area’ is the Borough of Harrow since this is the local authority area within which the school is situated. Number of places 1. Girls who are looked after or were The number of year 7 places available previously looked after for September 2019 entry (the 2019/20 A ‘looked after child’ or a child who Home school year) will be 224. If you are a was previously looked after but parent resident in Harrow, applications immediately after being looked after for September 2019 entry should be became subject to an adoption, made via the Harrow co-ordinated residence, child arrangements order, or admissions scheme (for more details special guardianship order. (See below Map see the ‘school admissions’ section for definitions of girls who are looked of the Harrow Council website, www. after or were previously looked after); harrow.gov.uk). If you are a parent resident outside Harrow applications 2. Medical or social needs of the should be made through your home child local authority’s admissions scheme. Girls for whom it is essential to be Schools The school will hold an open evening in admitted to a specific school because September/October where prospective of special circumstances to do with students and their parents are welcome significant medical needs and or social to visit and find out more about the needs. (See below for definition of school; this will be advertised on the medical or social needs of the child); school website. Apply now 3. Medical reasons relevant to Oversubscription criteria parent(s) Parent(s) where there are special If there are fewer applicants than there medical reasons for seeking a place are places available for Year 7 entry for their daughter at the school. (See in September 2019, everyone who below for definition of medical reasons applies will be offered a place. relevant to parent(s) and parent); Girls who have an Education, Health and Care Plan which names the 4. Siblings Academy will be allocated a place at Girls with a sister attending the the Academy in accordance with their academy in years 7 to 11 at the time of statutory entitlement. application. The sibling link does not If there are more applicants than there apply to students who are attending are places available after the admission the sixth form in September 2017. (see of girls with an Education, Health and below for definition of sibling); Care Plan naming the academy, the following criteria will be considered, in 5. Children of staff of the school order, to determine who will be offered Girls where their parent(s) has been a place: employed by the academy trust at the Bentley Wood (continued)

academy for at least two years at the from the preferred school and places date of admission or where the member cannot be offered to both girls, the of staff has been recruited to a vacant available place will be allocated using a post where there is a demonstrable random computer selection. skills shortage (see below for definition of parent); and Home address This must be the address where parent 6. Random computer selection and girl normally live and they must all except 60 places will be allocated be living there on the closing date for on the basis of random selection made receipt of applications. Confirmation by computer after girls have been of address will be required. Where allocated places under criteria 1 to 5 a girl lives with parents with shared above; responsibility, each for a part of a Home week, then the address used will be 7. Distance from home to school the address where the girl spends the 60 places will be allocated to the girls majority of the school week. Where who live closest to the school. This residence is split equally between must be the address where parent parents, if no joint declaration is Map and girl normally live and they must received by the closing date for be living there on the closing date for applications, the home address will be receipt of applications (see below for taken as the address of the parent who definition of distance). receives child benefit; in cases where parents are not eligible for child benefit Girls of multiple births: In cases where the address will be that of the parent Schools there is only one place available at the where the child is registered with the school and the next girl on the waiting doctor. list is one of a twin, triplet or other multiple birth group, both twins (or all Children who are looked after or the siblings in the case of other multiple were previously looked after births) would be admitted, even if this A looked after child is a child who is (a) Apply now meant that the school would admit in in the care of a local authority, or (b) excess of the admission number. being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of Definitions their social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Distance Children Act 1989). The home address is where a girl This includes children who were normally lives. The distance will be adopted under the Adoption Act 1976 measured in a straight line from the (see section 12 adoption orders) and address point for the home address children who were adopted under the to the centre point for the school site. Adoption and Children’s Act 2002 (see Each centre point factors in on-site section 46 adoption orders). Child buildings only and is agreed by the arrangements orders are defined in s.8 school. Distance is calculated using a of the Children Act 1989, as amended computerized mapping system based by s.12 of the Children and Families on Ordinance Survey data. To find Act 2014. Child arrangements orders distances to schools in Harrow go to replace residence orders and any www.harrow.gov.uk/distancetool. In residence order in force prior to 22 cases where applicants live equidistant April 2014 is deemed to be a child Bentley Wood (continued)

arrangements order. person holding a similar role in another Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 local authority. The director must set defines a ‘special guardianship order’ out in detail the wholly exceptional as an order appointing one or more circumstances that in their view require individuals to be a child’s special attendance at the academy, including guardian (or special guardians). the reasons for requiring a single-sex school, and the difficulties if the child Medical or social needs of the child had to attend another school. The application must be supported by Parent’s can only make an application written evidence, including indicating under this criteria (whether for medical why a single-sex education is required. or social need) to one school in Harrow. The supporting evidence should set out Home the particular reasons why the academy Medical reasons relevant to parent(s) is the most suitable school and the Applications will only be considered difficulties that would be caused if the for the parent(s) with whom the girl child had to attend another school. lives and must be accompanied by The recommendation for this specific compelling medical evidence from Map school should demonstrate knowledge a hospital Consultant at the time of of the school in terms of resources and application, including the reasons for organisation which deems it essential requiring a single-sex school. The that the named pupil be admitted to letter from the hospital consultant must the academy. The academy can only provide information about the parent’s consider entry under this criterion if medical condition, the effects of this Schools the required documents have been condition and why, in view of this, the produced. girl needs to attend the academy. If the Applications made on medical grounds academy is not the closest school to must be accompanied by compelling the home address, the consultant must medical evidence from a hospital set out in detail the wholly exceptional Consultant at the time of application. circumstances for attending the Apply now The letter from the hospital consultant academy and the difficulties if the must provide information about the girl had to attend another school. girl’s medical condition, the effects of In assessing these applications this condition and why, in view of this, independent advice will be sought as the girl needs to attend the academy, appropriate (e.g. Harrow Association of including the reasons for requiring a Disabled People). single-sex school. In assessing these Medical claims relevant to parent(s) applications advice may be sought will only be considered for one school from Harrow’s Special Education and this should be named by the Needs Service. consultant. Applications made on social grounds Parent(s) making a medical claim solely must be accompanied by compelling on the grounds of the young person’s evidence at the time of application. need to be accompanied on the Social needs claims will only be journey to school will not be allowed. considered where there is involvement from a social worker. The application Sibling will need to be supported with a letter Where girls live as sisters in the same from a Divisional Director of Children household they are treated in the and Young People Services or a same way as siblings for admissions Bentley Wood (continued)

purposes. This includes a girls’ sister, right to appeal for a place at another half sister, adopted/foster sister, or school. Harrow Council will write to step sister living in the same family all parents who have not accepted or unit at the same address. It does not declined an offer giving them a further include cousins or other extended 7 days. If no response is received family members who live in the same a further letter will be sent to advise household. In the case of twins, triplets that the place has been withdrawn. and other multiple-birth children, if Unaccepted places will be allocated to one child can be offered a place in the other applicants. school, other multiple-birth children will be allocated a place in the school. Appeals procedure Where twin girls are concerned and Home one girl has an Education, Health and Parents can choose to appeal against Care Plan that names the school the the decision of the academy trust not other twin will be treated as having a to offer their daughter a place at the sibling link for that academic year. academy. Harrow Council administer any admissions appeals on behalf of Parent Map the academy trust. To appeal against This means the parent who has parental responsibility as defined in the the decision not to offer their child Children Act 1989, or the person in the a place, parents must complete the household who is defined as a parent appeal forms that are available on the for the purposes of Section 576 of the Harrow Council website or from the Schools Education Act 1996. This could include Harrow Council Admissions Team (020 a person who is not a biological parent 8901 2620). To be considered in the but who has responsibility for the girl first round of appeals, the notice of (such as a child’s guardians) but will appeal must be received by the Council not usually include other relatives by their specified date (expected to be such as grandparents, aunts, uncles around 31 March 2019). Apply now etc unless they have all the rights, The appeal will be heard by an duties, powers and responsibilities and independent appeals panel constituted authority, which by law a parent of a and operated in accordance with the child has in relation to the child and School Admissions Appeals Code. their property. Parents will receive written notification of the date and time of their appeal Notification and hearing, which they can attend to explain their case. If they wish, parents acceptance of places may be accompanied by an adviser or friend. Following the appeal, the In accordance with the co-ordinated Clerk to the appeals panel will write to admissions policy, on 1 March 2019 parents with the decision. the Local Authority will make the formal offer of a place to parents or carers on behalf of the Academy Trust. Waiting list for the The onus is on parents to contact the incoming Year 7 Local Authority by their specified date (expected to be around 16 March 2019) Parents / carers can ask for their to either accept or decline the offer of a girl’s name to be put on a waiting list place. This will in no way affect parents’ for the academy. The waiting list will Bentley Wood (continued)

be maintained by Harrow Council onto the school roll from time to time in Admissions Team on behalf of the accordance with the In-Year Fair Access academy trust from the offer date agreement. (1 March 2019). The waiting list will give priority in Admission of a child out of accordance with the admissions criteria. Any places that become the normal age group available will be filled in priority order from the waiting list or late applicants. In exceptional circumstances, parents Whenever an applicant is removed from or carers may wish to seek admission or added to the waiting list, the list will to a year group that is not the normal be reordered in accordance with the group for a girl of that age. If a parent Home oversubscription criteria. or carer is considering this they must contact the school for a discussion In-Year applications prior to making an application. The Headteacher will consider a request If a parent wants to make an in- and make a decision on the basis of Map year application for a girl to join the the circumstances of the case and the academy they should complete the best interests of the child concerned. Common Application Form for In-Year This will include consideration of the Admissions that is available on the parent’s or carer’s views, the academic, Harrow Council admissions website or social and emotional development of the girl, any relevant information Schools from the Harrow Council Admissions Team (020 8901 2620). There is no provided by medical professionals, Supplementary Information Form for and whether they have previously the academy; parents only need to been educated outside of their normal complete the Common Application age group. If the Headteacher refuses Form. The Common Application Form a request to consider an application Apply now should be returned to the Harrow for outside of the child’s normal age Council Admissions Team who will then range, they will set out the reasons liaise with the schools who are listed for this refusal. If the Headteacher on the form and write to the applicants agrees to the request, if the application with the result of their application. would then seek entry into Year 7, the In-Year admissions will be considered in application would be processed as accordance with the number of places part of the main admissions process available at the school in the 2019/20 and using the oversubscription criteria school year and oversubscription outlined above (if the request was criteria outlined above and any places received after the closing date for Year that become available will be filled in 7 entry then the application would priority order from the existing waiting be considered alongside other late list and any current applications. applications). While parents have a right of appeal against a decision to Fair access protocol refuse admission to their daughter, there is no right of appeal if they have As part of the co-ordinated admissions been offered a place but not in their arrangements with Harrow Council the preferred year group. school may accept hard-to-place pupils Bentley Wood (continued)

Admission to the Harrow sixth form and some students from the Collegiate for Sixth Form school may join sixth form courses in other schools and/or colleges. All girls may continue to study in the Applications should be made to the sixth form of their current school, school by the first Friday in February in providing they meet the entry the academic year preceding the year requirements of their selected courses. of entry. Any applications from students A collegiate system operates at who are not currently students at the sixth form level within Harrow and academy will be judged according to some courses are offered through the same entry requirements of the this arrangement. As a result some school and their selected subjects Home students from other schools and/or and will be offered places if there are colleges join courses at a particular spaces available in those subjects.

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Apply now HatchCanons End HighHigh School School

At the heartHigh of Performing our community, Specialist with Arts communityschool status at our heart Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex Shaldon RoadHA3 6NR Tel: 020 8428 4330 Fax: 020 8428 9286 HA8 6AN Email: [email protected]. & 020 8951uk 5780 Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. 8 www.canons.harrow.sch.ukuk Headteacher: Mr Keven Bartle PLACES AGES GENDER TYPE Travel DfE NO: 310 4022 210 11-18 Mixed Academy map

“Excellent relationships between • A site with its own playing fields, a staff and students, and amongst refurbished gym and fitness suite, students, underpin the extremely excellent sixth form facilities and a master plan for the development of the site to harmonious atmosphere” create the very best teaching spaces. – Ofsted 2013 • Involvement of students in the running of the school through student government Home Canons High School is an Outstanding and through a range of student School. We are a vibrant, thriving, successful responsibilities and inclusive School that produces • Very close relationships with our outstanding academic results. We have been neighbouring primary schools to ensure designated by the DfE as a ‘High Performing continuity of progress between Years 6 Specialist School’, and have Leading Edge and 7 Map status. Our GCSE and A Level results over the past “All staff mirror the school’s core five years have been very strong, placing us in the top 5% of schools nationally for values of trust and integrity” progress, attainment is also above the – Ofsted 2013 national average. Our Ofsted inspections in April 2010 and Admissions “Teachers generate high expectations June 2013 judged Canons High to be an by making students feel confident Outstanding School. We also received the that they can be successful. Lessons prestigious Evening Standard Schools Award 2011 for Outstanding Achievement’. combine hard work and enjoyment” – Ofsted 2013 Open The success of the school has been based upon: We aim to recognise the strengths and needs day of every individual member of our school • A calm, supportive yet challenging community and provide the teaching and working atmosphere in which every pupil curriculum that will stretch them to the limit of can achieve the best possible academic their own capabilities and enable everyone to results. be successful. Apply now • A commitment to personalised learning e.g. challenging the most able Our Curriculum • An emphasis on traditional values such as good manners and high standards of In Years 7 and 8, students follow an advanced behaviour and dress model of the national curriculum plus a Personal, • Use of the latest technologies throughout Social and Health Education programme. the curriculum Students begin in Year 9. There is an exciting and varied curriculum school. There is a programme of school in Years 9-11 which includes the opportunity trips including trips abroad. We have very to select from a wide range of GCSE and successful sporting teams and a renowned BTec Courses to allow every pupil to achieve reputation for high quality music, drama and excellence. Rigorous monitoring of progress sporting events. towards personalised stretch targets and regular reports to parents/carers allows us to ensure that Sixth form each pupil is supported and challenged.

“Many students describe “The sixth form is outstanding because the teaching as ‘brilliant’ or students achieve exceptionally well ‘motivational’.” – Ofsted 2013 and are superbly prepared for the Home next stage of their education and their Focus on the Individual future lives” – Ofsted 2013

At Canons High, every child really does Established in 2007 our sixth form is matter. Every student is placed into a tutor flourishing and highly successful, with the group when they enter Canons and the tutor vast majority of our students going to Further Map acts as an academic and personal mentor to or Higher Education. Canons High School is a support their development with us. We keep member of the Harrow Sixth Form Collegiate parents fully informed of progress via regular and is working with other Harrow high reports and parent’s evenings and there is schools and colleges to deliver the very best a clear link to individual student targets at 6th form provision possible. A wide range of every stage of their learning. There is a Head subjects are offered in dedicated sixth form of Year for each year group of 180 pupils, buildings. Our £4 million state-of-the-art sixth Admissions who is responsible for monitoring progress form building opened in July 2009. and rewarding all those who have achieved well. We have an innovative electronic reward system (Vivo) which turns attainment, effort Conclusion and progress into actual rewards. To add to this support Relate have helped us establish a At Canons we pride ourselves on providing Open Peer Listening Scheme. Year 10 and 11 pupils every individual student with the outstanding day are trained to listen to younger pupils and help learning experience and support they need them reach solutions to their problems. to enjoy school and achieve their academic potential. We are proud of our very high Performance and standards standards and we will continue to work hard in partnership with students and their families Apply now We believe, above all else, that our students to reach even more challenging targets for must leave us with the best possible each student that joins us. academic results and with enhanced skills for life. We are therefore proud that Canons “Canons High School is an is now nationally recognised as a centre of Outstanding School” academic excellence. We have continued to improve our results at GCSE year on year. In “Leadership and management are other words, we move all our pupils further outstanding” forward than the majority of other schools. “The achievement of pupils is outstanding” Wider Activities “The quality of teaching is outstanding” Extra-curricular activities are a strength of “The behavior and safety of pupils is the school. In addition to the timetabled curriculum, we encourage students to outstanding” benefit from a variety of opportunities – Ofsted 2013 available out of school hours, from choir, to sport, to homework clubs before and after HarrowHatch End High School School Excellence for all High Performing Specialist Arts school status Gayton Road,Headstone Harrow, Lane, Harrow, Middlesex HA3 6NR Middlesex HA1Tel: 020 2JG 8428 4330 & 020 8861Fax: 7300 020 8428 9286 * [email protected]: [email protected]. uk 8 www.hhsweb.orgWebsite: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. uk Headteacher: Mr Paul Gamble

PLACES AGES GENDER TYPE Travel map DfE NO: 310 4033 180 11-18 Mixed Academy

Achievement „„ Excellent behaviour, safety and care for each other Harrow High School is an exciting and „„ Respectful challenge, showing empathy dynamic school. We have a track record „„ Excellent communication of excellent examination outcomes at both „„ Understanding each other, clarity of GCSE and post-16 level (A-level and BTEC) purpose where, year on year, learners make excellent Home progress. We know that when young people Teaching and Learning join us their parents expect them to be successful and to enjoy school, and we work “Students are keen to learn and hard as a community to meet and exceed these expectations. Our staff expect to learn there is a good atmosphere in too and are all involved in research and classrooms. Teaching in English and Map pedagogical study to ensure that their practise maths is outstanding” – Ofsted is constantly evolving, allowing us to deliver even greater rates of progress for our learners. Our dedicated and skilled staff ensures excellent teaching and learning for all. Classes Our strong academic success is a testament are energetic, vibrant and tailor-made to meet to the dedication of our teaching staff, together the needs of individuals, whatever their level of with the outstanding pastoral support provided ability. At Harrow High School we truly believe Admissions by experienced senior staff. As a result, in excellence for all. learners from Harrow High regularly secure We are proud of our learners. The school’s places at some of the best universities in the strategy to raise achievement is reflected in country. We have the highest expectations of our continued upward trend in GCSE and each other and this is reflected in the excellent A level results and the excellent rates of behaviour and attitudes to learning of our Open transition to university. Exam results are only young people. Our core beliefs are based one facet of school life. day around the expectation of excellence and are the characteristics we want our learners to The school has the highest aspirations for leave with after a long and happy education. all of our learners. If learners believe they will be successful, they will be. We work School Beliefs hard to embed within them confidence and a desire for success in all that they do. Our Apply now We believe in Excellence for All. This means: aspirations programmes involves cultural „„ Excellent learning and progress and philosophical activities which help young „„ Challenge and engagement, meeting and people develop this. Education outside of the exceeding targets school premises is key to this. Every learner „„ Excellent aspirations is involved in at least three cultural trips every „„ Quality progression, passion for learning year, designed to expand their horizons and all learners will have the opportunity to experience they are able to speak to their form tutors or foreign travel. This year, our Year 8s are visiting specially trained peer mentors. Students are Paris. In addition, a wide range of excursions recognised through the praise and reward take place across all faculties in the school system. which support learning across the curriculum. “Students say they feel very safe in “It has been a great experience for the school and are extremely well my daughters to attend Harrow High cared for” – Ofsted School for the past few years, as the school has helped them since As a parent/carer you have a vital role in their very first day… The positive supporting your child in school. Parents are experience of my daughters in the invited in for regular parents’ evenings to Home discuss academic progress, or to discuss Sixth Form, achieving A* A* A C in option choices and students receive three Year 13 and achieving AAAA grades reports a year. The learner planner and the in Year 12 encouraged me to enrol school website are also good sources of my youngest daughter in Harrow information. High School too” – Parent Map Sixth Form “I am very grateful to all the staff at Harrow High School, for supporting Our learners are happy studying in Key my daughter so much over her time in Stage 5 knowing they have made the right choice, working in a familiar environment the school. Her successes (achieving with teachers who are always there to help, Triple Distinction* in BTEC Science) encourage, support and teach outstanding Admissions would not be possible without the lessons. The majority of our Year 11 stay on to hard work and encouragement of her join our expanding Sixth Form, with excellent teachers” – Parent progress rates to university, apprenticeships or employment. Behaviour and Safety Open “I put my English results down to day We expect good behaviour in school at all two things – hard work and… the times and learners to be polite, co-operative best teacher in the world!” and respectful of their teachers and each other. – Year 11 Learner, A**(9) x 2 in Excellent attendance, punctuality and English language and English being prepared for classes is essential. literature, plus AAAABB) Apply now “The teachers were always there for “Quite simply Teachers! Teachers! us when things got hard, offering Teachers!” support and advice. The friendly – Year 11 Learner, A**(9) in English environment and people at Harrow literature, plus A*AAAAABB) High School are amazing”. – Learner Students are clearly proud of their school and Pastoral System value the great efforts staff are prepared to go to in order to help them. Parents and carers All year groups are supported by a echo this view very strongly. Visitors comment Standards and Achievement Leader, an on the warmth of our children’s welcome Assistant Standards and Achievement and this is instrumental in building learners’ Leader, a member of the senior leadership confidence and ambition. team and form tutors who all ensure that students are well cared for and provides the We want to ensure your child is happy at link between home and school. On the rare school. Do come and visit us to find out more occasion when children need extra support about Harrow High School. Hatch End End High School School

High PerformingHigh Performing Specialist Specialist School Arts school status Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex Headstone HA3Lane, 6NR Harrow, Middlesex HA3Tel: 020 6NR 8428 4330 & 020 8428Fax: 4330 020 8428 9286 Email: [email protected]. 7 020 8428uk 9286 * [email protected]: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. 8 www.hatchend.harrow.sch.ukuk Headteacher: Ms Sue Maguire PLACES AGES GENDER TYPE Travel DfE NO: 310 4020 240 11-18 Mixed Academy map

Consistently in the top performing schools nationally for student progress at GSCE and A Level, . 2018 A Level results place the school in the top 10% of all Sixth Forms nationally.

Our Mission These GCSE pathways are carefully constructed to allow choice and flexibility in a wide range of academic and “The school has a welcoming and inclusive applied subjects. In Years 12 and 13, our flexible and ethos. Pupils say they feel part of a harmonious student-centred curriculum enables students to choose Home community. The diversity of cultures and from an exceptionally wide range of courses, after which experiences pupils bring to the school is over 90% of students move successfully on to University, many of them Russell Group. celebrated and valued. Pupils respect different lifestyles and cultures.” Ofsted 2018 Our students consistently make outstanding progress and we are regularly in the top 20% of all schools At Hatch End High School, we care about and are nationally for both GCSE and A Level performance. totally committed to each and every student’s academic However, this academic excellence is paralleled by our success and personal well-being. Our core purpose is equal commitment to develop the personality, talents Map to enable all young people to make exceptional progress and abilities of all our students. We care about our young and achieve outstanding outcomes so they are able people as individuals which means always ensuring a to live fulfilling and successful lives. We are proud of careful balance between challenge and support. being a high performing, inclusive community school which welcomes all cultures, faiths and beliefs. Our core “Published examination results confirm that values of co-operation, ambition, respect and excellence learning has remained strong across the school, underpin everything we do. particularly in the Sixth Form.” Ofsted 2018 Admissions An Outstanding Curriculum A Tailored Learning Experience

“The curriculum motivates students and promotes STEAM is an educational approach to learning that uses their skills and knowledge development effectively. Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics Students say that the promotion of independent as access points for guiding student inquiry, dialogue, learning skills helps them prepare well for future and critical thinking. The end results are students who Open learning and work.” Ofsted 2018 take thoughtful risks, engage in experiential learning, day persistent in problem-solving, embrace collaboration, We offer a broad, ambitious and personalised curriculum and work through the creative process. We believe that which provides for all abilities, challenging the most young people need to be encouraged to be independent able and developing skills and talents for all groups and resilient in and outside the classroom and not be of students. The Parliamentary Review published in afraid of making mistakes and taking risks. September 2018 has recognised our outstanding curriculum on a national level. We believe STEAM “One of the central reasons for pupils’ success is subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and the clear and effective promotion of their well- Apply now Mathematics) are major contributors to the prosperity being.” Ofsted 2018 of the UK and our curriculum reflects a creative and inspirational approach to teaching and learning in We recognise that everyone needs to be challenged all subjects, including English, Languages and the throughout their school life and we place great emphasis Humanities. on monitoring individual academic progress with regular and robust assessments. Our most able students are After a sound foundation in Years 7 and 8, students given numerous opportunities to excel, including the commence GCSE studies at the beginning of Year 9. opportunity to study two modern foreign languages and acquire membership of the nationally renowned Brilliant whole school productions are now legendary across Club. Our Aspirations Programme provides high quality Harrow and London. academic enrichment activities for all students, including strong links with Oxbridge and the Russell Group Learning outdoors is essential to develop resilience, Universities. When a student is identified as having a and we offer many visits to centres like PGL and particular learning need, our large and very experienced HOAC. The challenges and experiences students face Special Educational Needs team provides an extensive are invaluable markers for future life – building self- variety of interventions to support the individual and allow confidence, a spirit of adventure and teamwork. An them to have equal access to the curriculum, enabling exciting variety of trips, both locally and internationally, them to consistently make outstanding progress. The take place throughout the whole year, from the school also provides the Local Authority Hearing Battlefields in France and Belgium to the Art Galleries Impaired Provision, which is a beacon of best practice. of New York and the many wonderful free museums in “I have had so many fantastic opportunities over London. my seven years at Hatch End High School and am now looking forward to being successful at “Pupil satisfaction and pride are echoed by parents university.” (Year 13 student) and carers in the feedback they provide to the Home school. Parents highlight the individual attention Awards and Achievements include: and additional help pupils receive to help them succeed.” Ofsted 2018 • Regularly in the top 20% of schools nationally for student progress at GSCE and A Level Prime Location • Partner School with and Cambridge Universities Hatch End High School is conveniently situated in the North Map • High Performing Schools Award - The Schools, West of the borough with easy access to Central Harrow Students and Teachers Network as well as Hertfordshire, Brent, Hillingdon and Barnet. • Inclusion Quality Mark, 2018 • Cultural Diversity Quality Standard GOLD – The We are well serviced by the local bus routes: the H12, Schools, Students and Teachers Network H14, H18 and 182 – the H12 and H14 stopping directly • Parental Engagement Standard GOLD - The outside the school. The journey to Central Harrow is only Schools, Students and Teachers Network 10 minutes by bus and Headstone Lane Overground • Arts Mark GOLD – The Schools, Students and train station, which services the Euston - Watford Admissions Teachers Network Overground line, is a 5-minute walk away. • TeachFirst Partner School Whilst the majority of our students live in Harrow, we The Hidden Curriculum welcome each year, students from Hertfordshire, Brent, Hillingdon, Ealing and Barnet. Inspirational teaching and learning in the classroom ensures our students’ academic success. Hatch Redeveloped School Facilities Open End High School also believes that an outstanding day education offers all students an extensive range of extra Hatch End High School is undergoing a multi-million experiences, which will enable them to develop and be pound regeneration programme which delivers some of truly successful in life. We ensure our young people the very best bespoke facilities to support our student’s have full access to the same kinds of opportunities in the learning and development including: private sector. • Brand new build school building opening September 2019 providing 23 classrooms, including In Years 7 and 8, all students have a timetabled hour specialist ICT rooms, plus a showcase state of the Apply now where they are able to choose from an enrichment offer art library. which will provide them with new skills and broaden their • Newly refurbished Great Hall, the largest theatre horizons. They are also actively encouraged to become space in Harrow. involved in a wide range of supplementary activities • Fully refurbished science laboratories and state-of- provided before and after school, at breaktime and out the-art technology suite. of school hours. These will include sport and the arts as • Modern Sixth Form Centre with designated private well as character forming programmes such as Duke of study room and bright relaxation area. Edinburgh: Brilliant Club; Debate Mate; Young Enterprise; • Exceptionally spacious site with new grassed Maths Challenge; BBC News Report and the National football pitch, an all-weather floodlit games area and Citizen Service. two gyms. • Beautifully designed performance studio to Our Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics complement our performing arts and drama enrichment programme is second to none, and students curriculum. compete in regular challenges as well as making frequent • Specialist art classrooms, including a photography visits to the Russell Group Universities to participate in a darkroom and pottery kiln. wide range of Masterclasses and an annual visit to CERN • Professional recording and radio station. in Geneva. We place great emphasis on harnessing new The Arts are woven into the very “fabric of the building” technologies to deliver transformational teaching & at Hatch End High School and brought alive in the main learning across all areas of the curriculum. With over curriculum areas as well as our extensive enrichment 1,200 devices including desktops, tablets, iPads plus provision. The Music Department offers a huge arrange specialist multimedia suites for video and music editing, of opportunities – from individual instrumental lessons students have access to the very best equipment. to banks, choirs and many, many public concerts. Our Hatch End HighNower School Hill High School HighOfsted Performing Outstanding Specialist Provider Arts school status Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex George V Avenue,HA3 6NR Pinner, Middlesex HA5Tel: 020 5RP 8428 4330 Fax: 020 8428 9286 & 020 8863Email: 0877 [email protected]. 8 www.nowerhill.org.ukuk Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. Headteacher:uk Mr Chris Livesey

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Our Mission one of success and improvement. In 2017, 82% of our students achieved a Grade C or higher in both English Nower Hill High School exists to enhance the future and Mathematics, 31% of all GCSE grades were A* or A, life chances and opportunities of all our students, 81% of all grades were A* to C. Our progress at GCSE whatever their starting point, by providing a centre of places us in the top 10% of schools nationally. Nower educational excellence at the heart of our community Hill also performs considerably above the national in which all our students can fulfill their potential. We average in the 6th form. This year’s Value Added aspire to be a world class school developing world analysis places our A level performance in the top 4% class students. of schools, with over 90% of students moving on to their Home university of choice. Our Aim “Students are extremely keen to achieve. They engage quickly in lessons, maintain high levels of Our aim is to realise our mission by a relentless focus concentration and acquire knowledge rapidly. This, on the development of highly literate, articulate, together with teachers’ exceptional planning, high numerate, resilient and confident students who are expectations, positive relationships and examination equipped with the ambition, qualities and qualifications focus, contributes significantly to students’ Map necessary to compete in the 21st century global outstanding academic progress over time.” – economy. Ofsted Our ethos is based on the following values:- LEARNING: an enjoyment of learning, knowledge, literacy, articulacy and numeracy, creativity, hard (Years 7 and 8) work, teamwork, a can do attitude to overcome The full range of core and foundation subjects are adversity. taught at KS3. Students study English, Mathematics, SELF: self-discipline, excellent behaviour, smartness Science, RS, Citizenship, ICT, PE, Art, Classical of appearance, high self-esteem and self-respect, Admissions Studies, Design Technology, Drama, Geography, resilience, personal pride, a healthy lifestyle. History, Music and a discrete period focusing OTHERS: integrity, respect, impeccable manners, on Oracy skills. Students will study at least two kindness, honesty, empathy, the appreciation of languages from French, German, Latin and Spanish. diversity. Ancient Greek and Mandarin are an additional option for some. Awards Key Stage 4 (Years 9, 10 and 11) In Year 9 students Open study the core subjects of English, Mathematics, day • Amongst the top 100 highest performing non- Science, RS, ICT, PE, Citizenship, Work Related selective state schools • Combined Science Learning and Enterprise Education and are able and Arts Specialisms • Specialist Schools and to choose up to 4 more subjects which provides a Academies Trust High Attaining School • Specialist personalised KS4 course in anything from 6 up to 10 Schools and Academies Trust Value Added School GCSEs. This means that within a broad and balanced • Healthy School • Partner School with Cambridge programme we can meet the needs of every student. University • Partner School with Middlesex We offer over 25 subjects to GCSE. A number of Apply now University • Eco School • Artsmark Gold • Ofsted students may take up the option of an early entry in Outstanding • World Class Schools Quality Mark • Ancient History, Ancient Greek or Astronomy GCSE. The Good Schools Guide 6th Form Academic Standards “The Sixth Form is outstanding.” – Ofsted Nower Hill is well known for its very high academic standards; this is a priority for us and our track record is • Nower Hill has a large and successful 6th Form of some 400 students studying 4 or 5 AS levels in Year Extra-Curricular Activities 12 and 3 or 4 A levels in Year 13 from a range of more than 40 subjects “The curriculum provides a rich and highly relevant • The ALPS (A Level Performance System) identifies range of opportunities, both in and out of the our overall 3 year A Level performance trend as classroom. Enrichment opportunities are extensive” excellent – Ofsted • The purpose built Howard Freed 6th Form Centre Activities include: music, drama, a whole host of sports offers excellent teaching accommodation, social teams and clubs, Duke of Edinburgh Award, a variety of and study facilities and has a complement of over school journeys, numerous educational visits and trips 100 computers abroad. Our Library and Learning Resource Centre and • 6th Form private study periods are supervised and our ICT rooms are open out of school hours; homework supported in one of two study centres and study clubs are also available. • The vast majority of our students progress to Universities including Oxford and Cambridge. Excellent Facilities

Home Student Support We are both proud of our facilities and constantly striving to improve them. They include: “Behaviour and safety are outstanding. Students overwhelmingly agree that the school is a safe place • Suites of rooms for every subject, enabling to be” – Ofsted specialist teachers to each have their own classroom within a faculty suite • Outstanding support is evident throughout the • Every faculty has access to sets of tablets Map school. We have strong systems to provide situated in their curriculum area; with subject appropriate support in meeting the needs of specific software and broadband access to a individuals and to ensure all students feel secure filtered Internet. There are 36 PCs in the Learning • One Deputy Headteacher, Student Support, 3 Resources Centre and over 100 in the 6th Form Assistant Headteachers, Student Support, who Centre oversee each stage • Every teacher has a laptop or tablet ; digital • Each Year group has 2 Year Co-ordinators who lead projection and interactive whiteboard technology is and manage, in partnership, 150 students each available in every classroom Admissions • Form groups of 25 with continuity of Form Tutors. • 16 modern Science laboratories • Lesson by lesson electronic monitoring of • A new teaching block for the English and Science attendance, homework, equipment, behaviour and faculties effort • A very high quality Arts building housing Music, • Systematic follow up by Year Co-ordinators to Dance, Drama and Sports Hall for PE address any concerns in effort, homework or • Superb suite of Visual Arts studios representing behaviour an outstanding and unique learning environment, • Close liaison with parents with 3 written reports as Open incorporating multimedia and photography well as a Parent/Carers’ Consultation meeting each • An extensive Design and Technology centre day year. There are 2 opportunities for parents of the incorporating Food, Textiles, Graphics and Design new Year 7 to meet with staff before Christmas in wood, metal and plastics • Rewards and celebration of achievement • A large and extensive Library and Learning • Many opportunities for student leadership and Resources Centre equipped with ICT facilities and a responsibility silent 6th Form study room • Attendance Officer • Specialist 6th Form areas and rooms • School Counsellor • A fully resourced Careers Room Apply now • School Nurse • A modern Dining Centre and 6th Form Refectory • Daffon Centre • State-of-the-art all-weather field • Mentoring centre including 6th Form and Year 11 • A fully equipped medical centre Peer Mentors as well as outside mentors • Award-Winning Careers Education • Individual guidance interviews with senior staff at The Nower Hill Managed Learning transitions and other points as necessary Environment • Inclusion Centre We have adopted Fronter as our Managed Learning Before and after Nower Hill Environment and parents may be familiar with this new and innovative way of supporting students in their We work very closely with Primary Schools to ensure learning from Primary Schools. good academic progression and effective pastoral care. We are also proud of our 6th Form destinations. Since Nower Hill has recently won the award for the most the inception of the 6th Form students have gained successful and innovative implementation of the university places at a range of universities including Fronter MLE across the whole of London. Students will Oxford and Cambridge, in a range of courses including find a wealth of learning materials organised in their medicine and dentistry. on-line classrooms across a broad range of subjects designed to organise and support the children in their “They are exceptionally well prepared for the next learning and their homework. Parents are supported stages of their education and over 90% of all Year 13 in monitoring their children’s homework by Show My students have progressed to Higher Education since Homework, an online homework setting system. the 6th Form opened” – Ofsted ParkHatch HighEnd SchoolHigh School A National Teaching School High Performing Specialist Arts school status Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex ThistlecroftHA3 Gardens, 6NR Stanmore, Middlesex HA7Tel: 020 1PL 8428 4330 Fax: 020 8428 9286 & 020 8952Email: 2803 [email protected]. 8 www.parkhighstanmore.org.ukuk Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. uk Headteacher: Mr Emlyn Lumley

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“This is an outstanding school.” – We are a very focused school, clear Ofsted, 2013 about our purposes. We provide a stimulating and caring environment We combine the best of traditional so that all members of the school – values with a leading role in important students and staff alike - can grow in and exciting new developments in knowledge, skills, understanding and Home education. character and achieve to the best of their ability. We have a strong sense of Our students come to school to learn purpose. We encourage our students and it is our job to help them. High and our staff to be enthusiastic about achievement is our central aim and we their own learning and positive about Map expect all our students to try their very the future; to have high self-esteem best. and be confident and successful in what they do; to have understanding Respect and good manners are and respect for others; to have the fundamental to our community. ability and desire to further their own We have high expectations about development and contribute to the Admissions behaviour, respect, politeness and the society in which we live. consideration which should be shown to others. In this we are both supportive Ours is a hugely diverse school and firm. population and we actively celebrate the richness that such diversity brings Open Our job is to provide the foundations for to our everyday experiences. day a successful and happy adult life. Our students must leave us, not only with Almost seventy different languages good qualifications, but also with a wide are spoken at home by our students range of skills to help them in an ever- and, between our students and staff, changing world. Learning continues virtually every major world religion is throughout our lives. We want our represented. We insist on equality of Apply now students to be highly skilled learners, opportunity and in celebrating success able to make the most of opportunities of all kinds. as they arise. We value responsibility, initiative and enterprise and build these We provide students with the into our curriculum. knowledge and skills they need for employment, training and higher number of years; our track record in education in today’s technological developing teachers at all stages of their society. careers, from entering the profession to senior leadership; and our willingness We strive to enhance the educational to learn with and from other schools, experiences for all of our students sometimes in more challenging through the provision of the highest circumstances than our own. This quality teaching and learning was the culmination of progress and opportunities across the attainment improvement over a number of years. range, and the further development of our community links. We promote an Home Park High is proud to have received inclusive and stimulating educational the ‘Investor in People’ award on environment for our students and share our enthusiasm, expertise and seven occasions between 1996 and resources in an active partnership with 2013. This shows the commitment the community. we have to the training of our staff. Map Qualifications, of course, are vitally In 2005 we were presented with the important and our examination results ‘Healthy School’ award, which tells speak for themselves. We are also parents a lot about our commitment to proud of all the other ways in which our healthy living for young people. Admissions students achieve to a high standard, for example in the arts and sports. We are This was re-awarded in September, passionate about the Arts and have the 2009 and once more in 2012. We are ArtsMark Gold Award for our work in renowned nationally for our work in promoting art, music, drama, dance and developing young leaders and have Open the performing arts. been awarded Gold Partner status with day the Youth Sport Trust for this work. We Park High School was rated are also a hub school for their work in ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted in 2009 and, Health and Well-being. then again in 2013, when all areas of the school were recognised as Our examination results are always “Outstanding”. Apply now either the best, or among the best in We know that that does not mean the Borough. In recent years they have that we are perfect and we are always been our best ever. striving to improve. In April 2014, we were designated as a National Teaching We are optimistic we can build on our School and National Support School, successes and preserve those aspects in recognition of our many areas of of the school we value. At the same excellence, including: our examination time, clearly, there are many challenges results and the high quality of teaching ahead. Complacency has no room at and learning in the school over a Park High. Hatch End HighPinner School High School High Performing Specialist Arts school status Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex Beaulieu Drive,HA3 6NR Pinner HA5 1NB Tel: 020 8428 4330 Fax: 020 8428 9286 & 020 3096Email: 0769 [email protected]. 8 www.pinnerhighschool.orguk Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. Headteacher:uk Mr Chris Woolf

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Our Background appreciation of the world around them Pinner High School opened for the and a desire to innovate and solve first time in September 2016 with Year problems as active contributors to 7 students. It will grow every year until society. it has students in Years 7-13. It is an The ethos is based around the Pinner Home inclusive school for the whole local High School Values: community. Pinner High School was set up by the existing successful Harrow Myself high schools, and their expertise and kindness, compassion, integrity, support ensured Pinner High School balance, respect, trust. launched very successfully. Map My School Our Ethos creativity, enthusiasm, resilience, Pinner High School is a learning based flexibility, dedication, perseverance. community with high aspirations for all. We provide a first rate personal, My community Admissions inclusive education, through a tried and responsibility, collaboration, open- tested curriculum carefully supported mindedness, confidence, adaptability, by individual pastoral care. Students courage have the opportunity to excel in and out of the classroom, on the sports field, on Our Curriculum Open the stage, in the community, enjoying a Years 7 and 8 students follow a Key day wealth of enrichment opportunities. Stage 3 curriculum that will prepare We bring life to the motto ‘Inspiring them with the skills and knowledge to Learning’. A great deal of this comes succeed in their subsequent GCSE with the exceptional every day studies. experiences students expect with our The broad and balanced curriculum Apply now first class staff. It also demonstrates includes English, Maths and the responsibility our young people will Science, History, Geography, Art, have as Pinner High School students Design technology, PE, Drama, to make a commitment to inspire Music, Computer Science, and PRE others. We will equip our students with (philosophy, religion and ethics). All an understanding of themselves, an students study Chinese and Spanish. Our Staff All students should come to Pinner The Governing Body appointed Chris High School ready to be challenged, Woolf as the Founding Headteacher and confident that the staff will enthuse of Pinner High School. He started at and stretch them. The Key Stage 4 the school two terms before the school curriculum will have a core GCSE opened to ensure a smooth opening for curriculum in English, Maths, Science, the school. PE, and PRE, including banding Chris has a range of experiences as to ensure appropriate stretch and a school leader through his previous challenge. roles as Vice Principal at The Bushey Students will then select options Academy, and Head of Senior School depending upon their interests and at Dulwich College Beijing. He started Home abilities. Staff will support students in his teaching career at Mill Hill County their choices, including consideration of High School. Chris is committed to the implications for progression at 18 into higher education or employment. expectation that every student fulfils their potential. Over 650 applications have been Map Our Enrichment received to work at Pinner High School programme since it opened. Staff appointed are Happy students are busy students, in of the highest calibre. The school and out of the classroom. Students achieved the Investors in People Health at Pinner High will enjoy a range of and Wellbeing Award in its first year of academic, sporting, performance Admissions opening to ensure these colleagues are and cultural opportunities to enrich retained as long as possible. their learning and to stretch and challenge themselves. This forms a compulsory part of our school Sharing our success day, where all students take part Inspectors during our opening year Open in a Club on a Monday afternoon, concluded Pinner high School has ‘the day cross curricular Homework Club or model for an outstanding school’ and a speaker in our Q?rius programme is ‘a very special place’. The school that alternate with a House event was delighted to be featured in The on a Wednesday afternoon, and a Parliamentary Review 2017, showcasing different Club activity on a Thursday and highlighting best practice in Apply now afternoon. This programme is known education across the country. Students, as the Headteacher’s Challenge. The parents and staff all rated the school as Headteachers Challenge Club leaders ‘Outstanding’ in all categories in 2017. were recognised with a Certificate of For more information find us on Excellence in the ‘Outstanding School Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Team of the Year’ category of the LinkedIn, and watch our latest film on Pearson Teaching Awards in 2017. our Youtube channel. HatchRooks End Heath HighCollege School

High Performing Specialist Arts Eastcote Lane,school South status Harrow, Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex Middlesex HA2HA3 6NR 9AH & 020 8422Tel: 4675 020 8428 4330 * [email protected]: 020 8428 9286 Email: [email protected]. 8 www.rooksheath.harrow.sch.ukuk Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. Headteacher:uk Dr John Reavley

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Rooks Heath College has maintained its Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ status for fifteen consecutive years. Ofsted: ‘Rooks Heath is an outstanding school’ comprehensive range of AS, A Level and BTEC Level 3 courses on offer. Students make College Aims: good progress and the College consistently 1. To ensure that Rooks Heath is a vibrant, performs well with 75% of our students achieving inclusive College that encourages all A* - C grades in the results for summer 2017. students to learn and achieve, irrespective Recent College leavers’ destinations include of culture, race, ability or gender. top universities such as Cambridge, Imperial, 2. To provide a learning environment where Warwick, Surrey and other Russell Group Home students are healthy, safe and enjoy the Universities. opportunities available to enable them to achieve economic well-being. Outstanding Pastoral Care 3. To serve the needs of the community. Ofsted: ‘Rooks Heath has a highly effective Ofsted: ‘Students’ spiritual, moral, social pastoral system’ and cultural development is promoted very Map effectively across the College. Creativity and Rooks Heath provides a caring atmosphere imaginative approaches adopted in many where children feel secure and comfortable areas of the curriculum provide students with opportunities for collaborative learning and as they settle down to focus on learning. reflection. British values are also strongly Personal Tutors look after the day to day needs promoted throughout the College through of students and remain with their tutor groups throughout the five years wherever possible. Admissions numerous planned off site activities and in the day to day life of the College’. Students build up a trusting and friendly relationship with their Tutor and their peers through activities in Registration, Assemblies Outstanding Curriculum and Inter-form competitions. Rooks Heath has a diverse curriculum which Communication with Parents Open enables students to undertake a broad spectrum day of learning pathways to meet their individual needs and abilities. We recognise the importance of close, In Years 7 and 8 students study a wide range supportive links. Contact between teachers of subjects which provides the basic skills to and parents is encouraged. Every student has move into Year 9 where appropriate pathways a Link Book and parents can log into ‘My Child are chosen. In Year 9 students study a common at School’ to monitor attendance, reporting and core and a mixture of booster and bridging homework online by using a secure login. Apply now course to prepare them for the examination courses in Years 10 and 11. A broad range of Ofsted: ‘Students’ spiritual, moral, cultural subjects are offered at Keystage 4 including and societal development is promoted both GCSEs and Technical Awards. through a well-organised and effective programme of theme-based assemblies, The College also has an excellent Post 16 courses in personal development, religious provision where demand is very high for the studies and ethics lessons. Students readily participate in these activities and have good lessons including: opportunities to reflect on, and discuss, moral and topical issues. These provide • Book Club strong ethics of dignity, humility and respect • Debating Society in the lives of all students.’ • Music Groups including: Stage Band, String Ensemble and Steel Pans. Able, Gifted and Talented • Competitive team-games which are arranged between tutor groups, against Student progress is carefully monitored to other schools in Harrow and nationally. ensure each one reaches their full potential. • A variety of subject areas including Maths, Where students show promise in any area their English, Science, Drama, Geography and learning is extended, with many students being many more. identified as Able, Gifted and Talented. These • Photographic Club students are provided with a rich and varied • Breakfast club which is held at 7.30 am - Home programme of events aimed at developing and 8.30 am daily and offers a healthy breakfast, enhancing their education. the use of ICT and library facilities and teacher support. Special Educational Needs Teaching and Learning Rooks Heath actively promotes and offers an Map inclusive education for students with a variety of Ofsted: ‘Expectations for all students different needs. We have excellent relationships are clear and the procedures are applied with local primary schools and we offer consistently by all staff.’ outstanding transition support for students coming to us in Year 7. We have a dedicated SENCO As a comprehensive college, we are committed coordinating a team of Teaching Assistants and to promoting equality of opportunity for all and specialist providers who work with students in a everyone has the chance to excel. Students’ Admissions variety of environments to ensure that they receive academic achievements take place within a the support they need to progress. stimulating and caring environment, which enables them to develop their individual English as an Additional Language talents and skills to the full. Teaching staff are encouraged to plan and develop creative Students arriving at Rooks Heath with little Schemes of Work to keep students engaged Open or no English attend daily Additional English with each topic. Directors of Learning work with day classes whilst following a normal timetable with students to help maintain good attendance and their peers. Their language skills are quickly standards of behaviour on a daily basis. improved and we are proud of the achievement that these children make at GCSE and A Level, Ofsted noted that teachers’ subject knowledge, where their results are in line with, or above the focused planning, productive relationships national average. and consistently high expectations ensure that Apply now students make rapid and sustained progress. Monitoring Student Progress The College’s Behaviour for Learning Policy is The progress 8 score for Rooks Heath in 2017 used to effectively maintain a clear system of is 0.23 which is significantly above the national rewards and consequences. Respect for others average. There are three academic monitoring forms the basis on which we expect students to periods each year and three grade assessment behave. sheets are produced to monitor progress. Student reports can be found on-line using ‘My Ofsted: ‘The behaviour of students around Child at School’. Directors of Learning monitor the college is exemplary. They are courteous, the progress of each student in their year considerate and cooperate well when moving group and ensure that intervention takes place between lessons and in their social time… to stretch students when they are exceeding Attitudes to learning are usually very positive expectations or provide additional support if in lessons and students say that they feel they are not meeting their targets. very safe in the college’

Extra-Curricular Activities Parents may enquire about student progress or any concerns they may have at: There are a variety out-of-hours learning [email protected] clubs which take place outside of timetabled Hatch End TheHigh Sacred School Heart Language College High Performing Specialist Arts school status 186 High Street,Headstone , Lane, Harrow, Middlesex Middlesex HA3 6NR 7AY Tel: 020 8428 4330 & 020 8863Fax: 9922 020 8428 9286 7 020 8861Email: 5051 [email protected]. uk 8 www.tshlc.harrow.sch.ukWebsite: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. uk Headteacher: Miss Geraldine Higgins

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The Sacred Heart Language College Opportunities for a has a long tradition of excellence Catholic Education in education and has been part of Wealdstone since 1907. Our faith underpins all aspects of our school life. Pupils are empowered to As a single-sex Catholic school, Home respond to God’s call to service. Girls are we provide the opportunity for girls encouraged to make a real contribution to acquire confidence, qualities of to the wider community. As such charity leadership and a love of learning and work is an important part of our school life. high expectations. The school has been a specialist Language College We warmly welcome contact between Map since September 2003 and in 2009 home and school and we work in close became a Leading Edge School. In co-operation with parents to ensure 2008 and 2014 the school was graded high standards of behaviour and work, Outstanding by Ofsted and the Diocese so that every girl can make full use of of Westminster. her God-given talents. Our values and Admissions beliefs enable us to develop as a strong Aims community where all are enabled to achieve. The aims of our College are very clear: to enable our pupils to come to a Opportunities for Open deeper knowledge of Christ; to discover day and use their individual gifts and skills; Academic Success and to be aware of the importance of integrity, honesty and justice. We The Sacred Heart Language College develop their knowledge, skills and offers a broad and balanced curriculum abilities so as to provide an which inspires every girl to explore her excellent foundation for high individual talents and skills. Apply now achievements. We proclaim the Gospel of Christ so that the girls live by these Our last OFSTED inspection judged the values now and in the years to come. school to be outstanding for the second time. It praised the school, stating: “It is a place that engenders a gifted and talented pupils and to raise sense of wonder and enthusiasm the aspirations of all our girls. for learning in a safe and secure There are opportunities for everyone environment where all are known, to shine, to gain confidence and to valued and respected.” develop personal and social skills.

We are a comprehensive community responding to the needs of our ‘I’m glad I came here. I came students. Teaching provides challenge on my own, but I soon made and support. Every girl is also ‘ friends. The minute you come encouraged to become a self-motivated in, it feels like home.’ Home independent learner. Homework is an – Year 8 Pupil important part of our work ethos. The Study Centre and IT Suite, with their excellent facilities, provide scope for Opportunities for the future quality research and study. All girls in Year 10 take part in a work Map related learning programme. The The school has given my College is proud of its links with industry daughter confidence. We are and consultants from business and very happy with the quality of ‘ commerce are invited into the school. the teaching – because they are expected to do well, they do.’ Supported by careers advisers Admissions – Parent every pupil is helped to explore the possibilities suitable for her interests Opportunities to Shine and aptitudes. All pupils progress on to further education or training with most Open Music is a real strength in The Sacred progressing to our partner Sixth Form at day Heart Language College. With the help St. Dominic’s Sixth Form College. of a team of professional musicians, girls have the opportunity to learn We at The Sacred Heart Language to play a wide range of musical College look to educate the citizens of instruments which cater for almost every tomorrow and to prepare them to face the challenges of their future. Apply now taste. Pupils’ talents and skills are also celebrated throughout the year in dance and drama productions. The school’s high quality PE and sports see our teams regularly Borough Champions Children are encouraged to in trampolining and a wide range of make full use of their natural sporting activities. ‘ talents.’ The College currently works with key – Parent partners to provide opportunities for Admissions arrangements

The Sacred Heart Language College

This policy refers to admissions to the a Certificate of Catholic Practice school to Year 7 at The Sacred Heart Language College in September 2019. Criterion 3 Other baptised Catholic girls The Sacred Heart Language College is a Catholic school in the trusteeship Criterion 4 Other “looked after” girls of the Archdiocese of Westminster. and girls who have been adopted (or Its prime purpose is the education of made subject to child arrangements Catholic girls. orders or special guardianship orders) immediately following having been Home As a Catholic school, we aim to provide looked after a Catholic education for all our girls. At a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine Criterion 5 Christian girls from and practice permeate every aspect of Christian families, whose application the school’s activity. It is essential that is supported by either a certificate of Map the Catholic character of the school’s baptism or a letter from a minister of education be fully supported by all religion confirming membership of the families in the school. All applicants faith community. are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved and positive support for the Criterion 6 Girls from other faiths aims and ethos of the school. whose application is supported by a Schools letter from their faith leader confirming Admission to Year 7 membership of the faith community.

The published admission number Criterion 7 Any other girl (PAN) for the school is 180 girls. The Apply now Governing Body has sole responsibility NOTES for admissions to this school and intends to admit 180 girls to Year 7 in Inside of each criterion, priority is September 2019. Priority will always to those with a sibling attending the be given to Catholic applicants. school at the time of admission. ‘Sibling’ means a sister to include Where there are more applications adopted sisters, half sisters or step for places than the total published sisters. A sibling relationship does not admission number (PAN) of 180 apply when the older girl(s) will leave places available, places will be offered before the younger one starts. according to the following order of priority: Exceptional Need: The Governing Body will give top priority, after the appropriate Criterion 1 Catholic “looked-after” category of looked-after children, to an girls and Catholic girls who have application where compelling evidence been adopted (or made subject to is provided at the time of application, child arrangements orders or special from an appropriate professional such guardianship orders) immediately as a doctor, priest or social worker, of an following having been looked after exceptional social, medical, pastoral or Criterion 2 Baptised Catholic girls with other need of the child, which can only Sacred Heart (continued)

be met at this school. in full communion with the See of Rome. This includes the Eastern Distance tie-break: where the offer of Catholic Churches. This will normally places to all applicants in any of the be evidenced for a girl by a certificate categories listed above would lead of baptism in a Catholic church or to oversubscription, places up to the a certificate of reception into the full published admission number of 180 communion of the Catholic Church. will be offered to those living nearest For the purposes of this policy it also to the school. Each address is geo- includes a “looked after” girl who is in coded and distance is measured by the process of adoption by a “Catholic Harrow Local Authority in a straight line family”. Home from the home to the centre point of the school. In cases where applicants Certificate of Catholic Practice means live equidistant from the school and a certificate given by the family’s parish places cannot be offered to both girls, priest (or the priest in charge of the random allocation by lottery in the church which the family attends) in presence of an independent witness the form laid down by the Bishop’s Map will be used. Conference of and Wales.

‘Looked after child’ has the same Christians means those whose meaning as in S.22 of the Children religious affiliation is evidenced Act 1989, and means any child in the by either a baptism certificate or a care of a local authority or provided letter from their Minister confirming Schools with accommodation by them (e.g. membership of the faith community. children with foster parents at the time of making an application to the school). ‘Parent’ means the adult or adults with Continued over the page… legal responsibility for the child.

Apply now ‘Adopted’ An adopted child is a child Residential / Home This must be the who is adopted under the terms of the address where the girl lives for more Adoption and Children Act 2002 s.46 than 50% of the school week and they (adoption orders). must be living there on the closing date for receipt of applications. Confirmation ‘Child arrangements order’ A child of address will be required. arrangements order is an order under the terms of the Children Act 1989 s.8 Multiple Births: The Governing which defines it as an order settling Body does not give priority under its the arrangements to be made as to the admission criteria for twins, triplets or person with whom the child is to live. other multiple applications from one family for the same year group. If ‘Special Guardianship Order’ A there are insufficient places available special guardianship order is an order and one twin/sibling is offered the last under the terms of the Children Act place, the Governing Body will agree 1989 s.14A which defines it as an order to exceed the published admission appointing one or more individuals to number and admit the additional girl(s). be a child’s special guardian(s). Where a girl is admitted according Catholic means a member of a church to Criteria 3, 5, 6 and 7 parents are Sacred Heart (continued)

advised that any future siblings are age group. The applicant should write unlikely to get a place as the school is to the Chair of Governors at the time of usually oversubscribed with applicants application requesting that the girl be in criteria 1 and 2. admitted out of her chronological age group. Pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHC): The admission Change of Details: If any of the of girls with an Education, Health details on your form change between and Care Plan (EHC) is dealt with by the date of application and the receipt a completely separate procedure. of the letter of offer or refusal, you Details of this separate procedure must inform the school immediately. are set out in the Special Educational If misleading information is given Needs Code of Practice. If your child or allowed to remain on the form, Home has an EHC plan you must contact governors reserve the right to withdraw your local authority SEN officer. Girls the place, even if the girls has already with an EHC Plan naming this school started at the school. will be admitted. Fair Access Map In-Year Admissions In-year applications are made directly to the The School is committed to taking its fair school. If a place is available and share of girls who are vulnerable and/or there is no waiting list then the Local hard to place, as set out in locally agreed Authority will be informed and the girl protocols. Accordingly, outside the will be admitted. If more applications normal admissions round the governing Schools are received than there are places body is empowered to give absolute available then applications will be priority to a girl where admission is ranked by the governing body in requested under any local protocol that accordance with the oversubscription has been agreed by both the Diocese criteria. If a place cannot be offered and the governing body for the current Apply now at this time then you may ask us for school year. The governing body has the reasons and you will be informed this power even when admitting the girl of your right of appeal. You will be would mean exceeding the published offered the opportunity of being placed admission number. on a waiting list. This waiting list will be maintained by the governing body Applications to Year 7 in the order of the oversubscription criteria and not in the order in which Please note, there are two application the applications are received. Names forms: are removed from the list at the end of each academic year. When a place i. The e-admissions form (formerly becomes available the governing body called the Common Application Form). will re-rank the list and inform parents This can be accessed from the website whether or not a place is to be offered. online at www.harrow.gov.uk. All Girls educated out of chronological completed e-application forms should age group: Application may be made be submitted, together with a copy of for a girl to be educated out of her age proof of your daughter’s age and proof group i.e. a 12 year old being admitted of your address, to the Admissions to Year 7, or any girl admitted in-year Service of your local borough, as to the year below their chronological directed, on or before Wednesday 31st Sacred Heart (continued)

October 2018. church, baptism etc.) the school must be notified immediately. If a place is ii. The School’s Supplementary offered on the basis of misleading or Information Form. Applicants applying out of date information, the governors under criteria 2, 3, 5 and 6 should reserve the right to withdraw the offer complete our school’s Supplementary of the place even if the girl has already Information Form. This may be started at the school. obtained from the school or the Local Authority and should be returned, The local authority will write to you together with a copy of your daughter’s on behalf of the governing body with Baptism certificate (if applicable), to the outcome of your application on the Admissions Secretary, The Sacred 1st March 2019 and the information Heart Language College, on or before will also be available on line. You Home Wednesday 31st October 2018. should indicate your acceptance of the place by Midday, 15th March 2019. All applications received after that Information concerning the Appeals date will be classified as “LATE”. Procedure will be sent out to those who This means that these applications are unsuccessful in obtaining a place. Map will not be processed until after all administrative procedures have been The school maintains a waiting list, completed. Late applicants will then ranked according to the published be placed at the bottom of the relevant criteria, and places will be offered category, according to the admissions as and when vacancies occur. The criteria. THIS MAY RESULT IN A LOSS waiting list will remain open until 31st Schools OF AN OFFER OF A PLACE. August 2020. If you wish your child’s name to stay on the waiting list after Applications for criterion 1 must be this you must apply to the school in accompanied by written proof of the writing before that date. girl’s status from the appropriate Apply now authority. Those wishing to be Unsuccessful applicants who wish considered under criterion 2 or 3 to appeal should do so, stating the should also provide the school with a grounds for appeal, in writing, to: copy of the girl’s baptismal certificate. The Clerk to the Governors, If the certificate is not available, The Sacred Heart Language College, applicants should indicate in writing the 186 High Street, Harrow HA3 7AY reasons for this being the case. Those applying under criterion 2 should In the case of oversubscription a waiting obtain a Certificate of Catholic Practice list will be drawn up for parents who from the priest at the parish where the wish their daughter to be included on family normally worships, or diocesan this. The waiting list will be held open website, The priest will not sign the until the start of the Autumn Term 2020. form if he does not know the family. Admissions from the waiting list will It is essential that all relevant details be according to the norms of the are sent in at the time of application Admissions Criteria. so that the criteria for admission may be applied fairly in the event of Please note: The closing date for the any change of circumstances (e.g. a receipt of any appeals: Friday 19 April change of address, reception into the 2019. SalvatorianHatch End CollegeHigh School

High Road,High Harrow Performing Weald, Specialist Arts Middlesex HA3school 5DY status Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex & 020 8863HA3 2706 6NR (admin) 7 020 8863Tel: 3435 020 8428 4330 * Fax: 020 8428 9286 [email protected]: [email protected]. 8 www.salvatoriancollege.comuk Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. uk Executive Headteacher: Mr Martin Tissot PLACES AGES GENDER TYPE Travel DfE NO: 310 5400 150 11-16 Boys Academy map

Our vision: To be the School of First Choice. Our mission: We will embrace the teachings of Christ and, in our pursuit of excellence, we will foster a greater knowledge and love of the Divine Saviour. We will develop, in our pupils, exemplary manners and a commitment to their studies so that they make outstanding progress. We will nurture our pupils so that they become effective leaders of good influence. A Tradition of Learning: Securing the Future likely to be in excess of +0.3 which is a marked increase from -0.08 in 2016/2017. Under the new leadership of Executive “Leaders have high aspirations for both staff and pupils’’ Headteacher Martin Tissot, year 11 pupils have excelled. – OFSTED 2017 Mr Tissot said, “This year 30% of all grades were above Salvatorian College has a long tradition of providing an grade 7. With a state-of-the-art new building about to be Home excellent education for boys. These are exciting times for delivered, the future is very bright for the school.” the school as the main campus on the High Road is being completely rebuilt and extended to provide facilities of Mr McAleer, Chair of Governors, said, “The results this year quality, fit for the twenty first century. are testimony to a year of very hard work by students and Last year, Salvatorian College entered in to a partnership staff alike and I am particularly pleased that the boys have arrangement with the Cardinal Hume Academies Trust and done so well under the increased rigour of the examinations its high-achieving schools. The new Executive Headteacher, and the new, 1 to 9 marking system.” and Governors, are determined to ensure that all students Map have the opportunities they need to achieve and excel Mr Bryant, Head of School, commended the hard work within a disciplined learning environment. of pupils, the dedication of staff and Governors and We believe the care and guidance offered at Salvatorian the support of parents. He said, “The boys have done College, by our outstanding teachers, engenders an exceptionally well this year. The percentage of boys ethos that will allow your child to develop their talents and achieving a grade 4 or above in English and Maths has bring them fulfilment and happiness. We stretch our most risen by 10% this year, to 77% (well above the Harrow and able and support those with additional needs. We believe national average) and the percentage achieving grade 5 or passionately in the importance of recognising every pupil as above is 50%. The results also include a string of grade 9s; a unique individual, with their own gifts and talents, who can in the History department, 25% of all boys achieved grade Admissions make a contribution and positive difference to our thriving 9. Our push for academia has given our boys a firm platform school community. for future success.” Impressive progress is made by students at all Key Stages. We offer a clear progression pathway at the end of KS4 Mrs Griffin, Head of Year 11, said she was certain the to our sister college, St Dominic’s in Harrow, and to other boys’ success stems from the extra hours they commit leading providers. to, as everyday there are additional lessons, and on every We have a strong pastoral system as well as a full Saturday and in every holiday they attend supplementary Open programme of enrichment activities. We offer a wide range timetabled lessons. Mrs Griffin said, “Having been in school of extra-curricular provision including music, sport, drama, on most of the Saturdays this year, I have seen the boys’ day debating clubs and travel experiences. Our new facilities hard work and sacrifice and I am so pleased to see that they include: state of the art science laboratories, a drama studio, are reaping the rewards.” a four-court sports hall and fitness centre, music technology and well-resourced Information Technology suites for A passion for Teaching and Learning student use. We are adapting to the changing demands of education to ensure our students are prepared for more “Teachers use a range of information on pupils’ prior rigorous examinations by building a culture of study. We learning to plan interesting and engaging activities.” Apply now are incorporating new practices such as e-learning in every Ofsted January 2017 classroom. You are cordially invited to visit the school at our Open Evening, or through appointment, to see for yourself “Pupils’ work is well presented, thoughtful and shows our unique brand of education. progress over time.” Ofsted January 2017

Best GCSE results ever The school is focussed on ensuring that pedagogy is of the highest quality. As a partner in the Cardinal Hume Salvatorian College have achieved their best GCSE results Academies Trust, collaborative approaches are taken ever. Under the Progress 8 measure, the expected progress is to planning and developing teaching and resources. Standards are rigorously monitored and training provided so conjunction with our sister schools we offer an annual trip to that staff remain at the cutting edge of educational practice. Rome and a skiing trip. Teachers keep up to date with developments in their Academic development is encouraged through a wide subject areas within the changing demands of the school range of clubs including Art & Photography Club, Debate curriculum. We subscribe to various online providers to Club, Maths Challenge and the Justice and Peace Group. ensure resources are accessible from home. Salvatorian College has a long tradition of excellence in Pace, challenge and skilful questioning are consistent sport and there are plentiful opportunities to participate in features in encouraging our students to think critically and football, rugby and basketball. develop their numeracy and literacy. Students are taught in We make use of the excellent facilities and coaching at sensibly sized classes – grouped as appropriate, according Bannister’s Sports Centre e.g. for squash and athletics. to ability, aptitude or interest – to ensure that the individual’s Music lessons are available, providing an opportunity to learning needs can be met. acquire graded qualifications. The school operates a charity Homework is integral to fostering progress and is both giving calendar and our responsibility to help others less differentiated and supplemented by ‘challenge’ tasks, so fortunate is important to our ethos. We organise an annual students consolidate their knowledge and advance their Senior Citizens’ party at Christmas in addition to termly learning. The progress of students is kept under regular fundraising for nominated charities. review and progress grades are sent home half-termly. Teachers recognise that children learn in a variety of ways Caring and professional approaches to Home and so we strive to tailor approaches, techniques and technologies to maximise progress for all. Pastoral Care, Guidance and Support “The Catholic ethos permeates the work of the school A school with an inspiring curriculum and pupils are encouraged to show respect, tolerance and understanding towards each other and adults.” “Leaders have created a supportive environment and Ofsted January 2017 planned a curriculum that meets pupils’ interests and aspirations and ensures equality of opportunity. “Pupils know which staff to turn to should they have Map Additional subjects are offered to meet pupils’ varying a concern, and believe that any issues are dealt with abilities.” Ofsted January 2017 quickly. Leaders are clear about the prevalent dangers in the wider community and consequently provide “Pupils enjoy the full range of practical activities on a nurturing and safe community in which pupils can offer.” Ofsted January 2017 thrive.” Ofsted January 2017

We provide a broad, balanced and diverse curriculum We pride ourselves on looking after our students as if developing the skills pupils need to make their way they were our own and value each individual as unique Admissions successfully in life and achieve strong results in public and created in the image of God. Pastoral care is led by examinations. We place special emphasis on developing dedicated Heads of Year and ably supported by teams of mathematics, science and English skills and additional time form tutors. The key role of a form tutor is to ensure that is devoted to these in both Key Stages. As a Catholic school pupils are safe, happy and making good progress and with a strong religious ethos at its heart, we ensure 10% of meeting and exceeding their academic targets. We have curriculum time is devoted to religious studies. Our ‘highly a strong sense of community and instil pupils with pride in able’ programme identifies those with particular strengths their Salvatorian heritage. Tutor teams work with the Director and through bespoke interventions enables them to make of Teaching and Learning to ensure that interventions are Open accelerated progress. For our older pupils we organise extra put in place for pupils who have pastoral needs or when day study sessions to ensure they are best placed to secure they are falling behind in their academic studies. Pupils are outstanding examination results. We have a literacy co- rewarded, when they do well, with a variety of initiatives, ordinator who promotes a structured reading programme, including postcards home and prizes selected by pupils as well as other events e.g. National Poetry Day. through our E-praise system. The formal curriculum consists of twenty-five one hour We are an inclusive school catering for all abilities and periods. Four lessons take place in the morning and there aptitudes. Our Additional Needs department offers a range is one lesson in the afternoon. Our after-school curriculum of support including reading recovery lessons, one to one consists of additional lessons for those taking public tuition, homework club, and targeted withdrawal to ensure examinations and a wide variety of clubs and after-school Apply now pupils can access the curriculum. activities. We provide supported study until 5pm with The promotion of our Catholic ethos is woven into the ‘Evening Prep’. At Key Stage 4 we offer an eclectic range of day-to-day practices and routines of school life. Mass is GCSE and vocational courses to suit the creative, sporting, celebrated weekly and our pupils are challenged to discover practical and academic learner including art, business and celebrate the spirituality in their own lives and to see studies, design and technology, drama, geography, history, God’s work in those around them. modern foreign languages, music, sociology and sport. Pupil leadership is well developed through the student council, the prefect system, and peer mentoring which A wealth of enriching opportunities: supports good behaviour in the school. Pupils are Educating Beyond the Classroom encouraged through a variety of means to have a voice in the school. “Pupils value the opportunities to express themselves Our school is a safe and happy place to be. We work closely through art, photography and drama.” Ofsted January alongside our feeder primary schools to ensure that all our 2017 new pupils experience smooth and successful transition to Year 7. We visit pupils and their teachers in their primary “Pupils enjoy the full range of practical activities on schools and run an induction day to provide a selection of offer.” Ofsted January 2017 taster lessons before they join in September. This ensures that before their first day, each pupil is comfortable and At Salvatorian College we believe in educating the whole familiar with our school. Pupils’ success at school is only child and there is a broad meta- curriculum that gives pupils possible with the support of parents; journals, the school the opportunity to develop and expand a range of interests, website and our weekly parent newsletter are vital channels sporting and cultural activities, skills and knowledge. In of communication between home and school. Admissions arrangements

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The Salvatorian College is a boys’ even if this exceeds the planned Voluntary Aided Catholic Academy in admission number. the trusteeship of the Society of the Divine Saviour. Located in the London Separate application procedures apply Borough of Harrow, its prime purpose is to boys with an Educational Health & the education of Catholic boys aged 11- Care (EHC) Plan. 16 in Harrow and the surrounding area. Home As a Catholic school, we aim to provide Oversubscription criteria a Catholic education for all our pupils. Where there are more applications than At a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine the number of places available, places and practice permeate every aspect of will be offered according to the following the school’s activity. It is essential that order of priority: Map the Catholic character of the school’s education is fully supported by all 1. Catholic looked after boys and families in the school. All applicants Catholic boys who have been are therefore expected to give their full, adopted or made subject to child unreserved and positive support for the arrangements orders or special aims and ethos of the school. Schools guardianship orders, immediately after having been looked after. The published admission number (PAN) for the school is 150 children. The 2. Other Practising Catholic boys. Governing Body has sole responsibility for admissions and will admit a 3. Other baptised Catholic boys. Apply now maximum of 150 pupils to Year 7 in September 2019. When there are more 4. Other looked after boys and other than 150 applications, places will be boys who have been adopted or offered according to the following order made subject to child arrangements of priority: orders or special guardianship orders, immediately after having The Governors will give top priority been looked after. within a category to any applicant whose son has an exceptional 5. Boys from Christian denominations educational, social or medical need who worship regularly as evidenced which can only be met at this school by their minister. and for which compelling professional evidence is supplied at the time of 6. Boys from other faiths who worship application. regularly as evidenced by their minister or religious leader. Applications from boys of multiple births, e.g. twins, triplets, etc. In cases 7. Any other applicants. where only one place is available and twins/triplets tie for the last available Sibling priority will be given within each place, then all will be offered a place category, where an older brother will be Salvatorian College (continued)

attending the school at the same time or paragraph on Applications). If a place is at the date of admission. available and there is no waiting list then the child will be offered a place. If more Where the offer of places to all the applications are received than there are applicants in a category would lead to places available then applications will oversubscription, places will be offered be ranked by the governing body in on the basis of proximity to the school accordance with the oversubscription as measured in a straight line from the criteria. If a place cannot be offered at address point of a home to the centre the time of application the reasons for point of the school site. Distance is refusal will be supplied and information calculated by the London Borough of will be provided about the right of Home Harrow using a computerised mapping appeal. The opportunity of being placed system based on Ordnance Survey and on a waiting list will be offered. address data. In cases where applicants live equidistant from the preferred Fair access protocols school and places cannot be offered to both children, the available place will The school is committed to taking its be allocated using a random computer Map fair share of children who are vulnerable selection. and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, Admission of children outside outside the normal admissions round their normal age group the governing body is empowered to Schools give priority to a Catholic child where Any application for a child to be admission is requested under any educated out of his age group will local protocol that has been agreed by be considered by governors on an both the Diocese and the governing individual basis and will only be body for the current school year. The granted in exceptional circumstances. governing body has this power even Apply now Parents should write to the Chair when admitting the child would mean of Governors on or before the date exceeding the published admission of application, giving reasons and number. providing compelling professional evidence. If governors give permission NOTES for the child to be educated out of his normal age group, parents must submit Catholic means baptised or received an application in the normal way. This into the Catholic Church as evidenced application will be treated in the same by a baptismal certificate or certificate way as all other applications and there of reception into the Church, a member is no guarantee that an offer will be of a Church in full communion with the made. See of Rome. This includes the Eastern Catholic Churches. This will normally be In-year admissions evidenced by a Certificate of Baptism in a Catholic church or a Certificate of Applications for In-Year admissions Reception into the full communion of the are made directly to the school using Catholic Church. a common application form. (For information on how to apply, see the Looked after child means a child in the Salvatorian College (continued)

care of the Local Authority or provided he/she resides there for more than 50% with accommodation by them, e.g. of the school week. Catholic children with foster parents (see Section 22 of the Children’s Act Home Address A child is deemed to be 1989). resident at a particular address when he/she resides there for more than 50% Brother means full, half or step living at of the school week. the same address. Applications Practising Catholic means a Catholic child from a Practising Catholic family Please note, there are three* forms to Home where this practice is verified by a be completed: Certificate of Catholic Practice from a Catholic priest in the standard format 1. The Common Application Form. laid down by the Diocese. A practising 2. The Diocese of Westminster Catholic means a person who attends a Supplementary Information Form (SIF) mass on a weekly basis. 3. The Certificate of Catholic Practice Map (CCP) Form – *Please note, that this Adopted One who has been adopted form should only be completed by those from care and whose parents can give who wish to be considered as practising evidence of this status. Catholics.

Child Arrangements Order A Child Schools The Common Application Form Arrangements order is an order under You will need to apply via your local the terms of the Children Act 1989 s.8 authority, on or before 31st October settling the arrangements to be made as 2018 – see your local authority’s website to the person with whom the child is to for details about how applications are live. Children ‘looked after’ immediately processed. Harrow Council uses the Apply now before the order is made qualify in this eAdmissions website where you can category. register and apply online.

Special Guardianship Order A special The Diocese of Westminster guardianship order is an order under Supplementary Information Form (SIF) the terms of the Children Act 1989 s.14A This may be obtained directly from the which defines it as an order appointing school or from the school’s website one or more individuals to be a child’s www.salvatoriancollege.com as well as special guardian(s). from your local authority’s website and should be returned to the Admissions Parent Means the adult or adults with Officer, Salvatorian College, High Road, legal responsibility for the child. , Middlesex, HA3 5DY on or before 31st October 2018. Christian For the purposes of this policy, means a member of one of Certificate of Catholic Practice Form the Churches affiliated to ‘Churches For those who wish to be considered as Together in Britain and Ireland’. a practicing Catholics, the Certificate of Catholic Practice (CCP) form is available Resident A child is deemed to be from the Diocesan website resident at a particular address when www.rcdow.org.uk/education Salvatorian College (continued)

The completed forms should be your child has an EHC plan you must returned together with the Diocese of contact your local authority SEN officer. Westminster Supplementary Information Children with this school named in their Form (SIF) and any supporting EHC Plan will be admitted to the school. documents to the Admissions Officer at Salvatorian College on or before 31st October 2018. Unsuccessful applicants

All applications received after that date Unsuccessful applicants who wish to will be classified as “LATE”. This means appeal should do so to: that these applications will not be Home processed until after the offer date. The Clerk to the Governors, It is essential that all relevant details Salvatorian College, High Road, are sent in at the time of application Harrow Weald, Middlesex HA3 5DY so that the criteria for admission may stating the grounds for appeal, in writing be applied fairly. If not, the chance of a on the appropriate form available from place may be jeopardised. Map the school. The Governors’ Admissions Committee In the case of oversubscription, a will meet in January to consider all applications. The Local Authority will waiting list will be drawn up for parents write to all applicants to let them know who wish their son to be included on their decision on 1 March, 2019. this. This waiting list will be maintained Schools by the governing body in the order of If you are offered a place, the onus the oversubscription criteria and not in is on the applicant to accept on the order in which the applications are E-admissions by Wednesday, 13 received. March, 2019 to confirm whether the Apply now place is accepted. Unaccepted places Names are removed from the list at the will be allocated to applicants on the end of each academic year. When a waiting list. place becomes available the governing body will decide who is at the top of the Pupils with an Educational list and make an offer. Health & Care (EHC) Plan Admission to the waiting list will be in The admission of pupils with an accordance with the Admissions Criteria. Education Health and Care (EHC) Plan is dealt with by a completely separate procedure. Details of this separate Please note: Closing date for the procedure are set out in the Special receipt of any appeals: 19 April 2019. Educational Needs Code of Practice. If WhitefriarsHatch End High School School High Performing Specialist Arts Whitefriars schoolAvenue, status Harrow, Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex HA3 5RQ HA3 6NR & 020 8427Tel: 2080 020 8428 (admin) 4330 * [email protected]: 020 8428 9286 Email: [email protected]. 8 www.whitefriarsschool.netuk Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. Executiveuk Headteacher: Ms Lucy Caswell

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* Whitefriars is an all-through school, therefore 60 places will be reserved for children attending Year 6. On 1 March, 90 places will be offered via the co-ordinated process

Introduction importance of friendship and unity and how to approach life with positivity and hope. The ‘Pupils’ attitudes towards learning students gain merits throughout the year for embracing the growth mindset, being happy are exceptional’ – OFSTED when they are stuck and when revelling in learning from their mistakes. This allows the Whitefriars School is a member of the Home students to work towards their bronze, silver Heathland Whitefriars Federation. In and gold awards. Every week there is a lovely September 2015, in recognition of the special mentions assembly where all teachers Federation’s outstanding leadership, we nominate students for their efforts that week. opened our new secondary section. With our new state-of-the-art building and experienced and well-qualified staff, we are now offering our Teaching and Learning Map first Key Stage 3 and GCSE students the best possible start to their secondary education. ‘High quality teaching ensures that In May 2018 OFSTED graded our school as outstanding. pupils make exceptional progress in Key Stage 3’ – OFSTED Our students make rapid progress in an environment of love and care without bells and Our lessons are characterised by active Admissions detentions. Our school is a strong family where learning with sparkle that engages our expectations are high, values are positive, children. We do not set or label our students forgiveness is abundant and children are but instead ensure that everyone is focusing treasured. We believe that anyone can learn on their precise next steps. This is real anything and the growth mind-set underpins differentiation in small classes. everything we do. Open Curriculum day Ethos ‘All pupils are seen as individuals. ‘Pupils from a diverse range of Staff go out of their way to ensure all backgrounds are welcomed into the pupils are fully included in school’ school. They receive the support – OFSTED Apply now and encouragement they need to excel’ – OFSTED Our curriculum is broad and balanced and provides students with the best that has been We do not have a list of rules and negative thought and said. The curriculum helps the sanctions, instead we teach our students to students appreciate human creativity and live by positive shared values and to hold them achievement and promotes their spiritual, deep in their hearts. Our students learn the moral, social and cultural development. We offer academic and applied pathways, set of positive, shared values which help us to including the English Baccalaureate, and work and learn with one another co-operatively ensure that our courses are designed to meet and with respect. We learn the importance of our student’s needs and ambitions. Every half friendship and unity, and how to approach life term there is a different theme which links all with positivity and hope. the subjects together, for example the students learn about volcanoes in Geography, make The whole staff team and all pupils are involved them in Art and explode them in Science. in promoting values and recognising their There is a real emphasis on reading and positive effects around the school. every half term our year groups are turned into giant book clubs. Every student uses Microsoft OneNote and OneDrive so that they Beyond the curriculum can access all the resources used at school, at home. ‘An exceptional range of enrichment Home activities, thoroughly enjoyed Facilities by pupils, further enhances the curriculum’ – OFSTED ‘The excellent facilities and school It is crucial that students feel that they belong grounds are used to provide to the school and this is why we do so much Map pupils with an enriched curriculum beyond the curriculum and why our reward that stimulates their interest and system is so robust. There are so many extra- enthusiasm for learning’ – OFSTED curricular clubs so that students can become interested in new things. Our secondary section has its home in our large new buildings and we have a wide range These include art, textiles, photography, Admissions of extensive facilities including: gardening, cooking, media, gadget and origami. There are lots of musical • Class leading Computing and library opportunities, there is a thriving choir and facilities rock band and our students learn a variety of • Dance and Drama studios and specialist musical instruments including steel pans and Art and Design studios dohl drums. Our sports clubs include football, • Attractive dining area netball, rugby, basketball, weekly workout, Open gymnastics, athletics and dance. Every young day • Large Music centre with a suite of practice rooms person gets involved in a drama production • Large and well equipped sports hall every year and we even run our own radio • Modern and well equipped Science labs station. We have our very own forest area • Specialist facilities for catering, horticulture where our students sing around the bonfire and media production and take part in nature trails. • All weather sport pitches Apply now • Extensive grounds and green spaces There are lots of exciting trips including the TATE, Design Museum, Warwick Castle, We have our very own resident chef who cooks Royal Observatory, Bletchley park, the Globe, fresh food on site every day, sometimes using London Zoo and the trenches in Belgium. We fruit and vegetables that we have grown in our have a hugely successful house system where garden. forms take part in friendly competition in a range of activities, including sports cooking and photography. Values Conclusion ‘The behaviour of pupils is outstanding. The school is a calm, We look forward to working closely with each orderly place’ – OFSTED and every one of you to find friendship, fun and success as we build a bright future together. Our ethos and curriculum is underpinned by a We love our schools and we hope you do too. WhitmoreHatch End HighHigh School School and

ScienceHigh Performing Specialist College Arts school status Headstone Lane, Harrow, Middlesex Porlock Avenue,HA3 6NR Harrow, Middlesex HA2Tel: 020 0AD 8428 4330 Fax: 020 8428 9286 & 020 8864Email: 7688 [email protected]. 8 www.whitmore.harrow.sch.ukuk Website: www.hatchend.harrow.sch. Headteacher:uk Ms Susan Hammond

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Student Success Drama; French; German; Spanish; Geography; History; Media Studies; Music; PE; Sociology “Students make excellent progress from their and Triple Science. All students complete a Work starting points. The achievement of pupils is Experience placement in Year 10. outstanding.” - Ofsted Homework is a vital part of education which helps develop independent learning and is set throughout At Whitmore High School we believe passionately that the school. A homework timetable is issued to every child has unique gifts and talents and deserves students and parents and our library runs a daily the best possible education. We have an excellent homework club, available for all students. Home record of academic achievement and regularly obtain the highest rating from the government for our Science College examination results. We value all our students and expect them to reach the highest standards of work “Teachers have excellent subject knowledge and and behaviour in our positive, friendly but disciplined high expectations of what students can achieve.” atmosphere. – Ofsted

Map Curriculum The school is a Specialist Science College. Resources coming into the school have led to “The quality of teaching is outstanding. The exciting developments in Science and Mathematics, school provides a wide range of subjects which including innovative courses at GCSE and A Level, match the needs and interests of all students well-equipped laboratories for inspiring practical extremely well.” - Ofsted lessons, extensive use of computer technology, competitions and special events for our partner schools and the wider community. Admissions At Whitmore, every child follows a rich, broad and balanced curriculum. High quality teaching inspires and supports students to develop the confidence, Pastoral Care motivation and self-discipline to succeed. Teachers provide well-resourced lessons with challenge for the “Students say they feel happy and safe in the most able and additional support for students with school. They value the support that they receive specific learning and language needs. from all staff.” - Ofsted Open In Year 7 and 8 students follow an enhanced programme of study, which includes the national “There are excellent arrangements to support day curriculum and much more. Our curriculum includes students new to the school. The year team and dual languages (French and German), Music, Drama, a range of mentors and support staff liaise with Ceramics, Sculpture and Computing. A large number local primary schools prior to transfer ensuring a of students also take advantage of the extra music smooth transition and successful start.” Ofsted tuition available. Students in Years 9, 10 and 11 study a range of We pride ourselves on the quality of our pastoral care, GCSE subjects that follow the English Baccalaureate. which commences before students join Whitmore Apply now Excellent exam results are a priority and the majority High School. We have an experienced team, which of our students work towards ten GCSEs. All students works very closely with primary schools to ease the study six core GCSEs (English Language and transfer. Our induction programme includes visits to Literature, Combined Science, Mathematics and RE). primary schools, individual interviews for tutors to Optional GCSE subject choices include Art (Painting meet each student and their parents and a day of & Drawing, Ceramics, Sculpture); Business Studies; special activities that takes place at Whitmore High Computer Science; Design & Technology (Food, School. Graphic Products, Resistant Materials, Textiles); Pastoral care is organised through form tutors and Heads of Year, who move up the school with seating and a superb fitness suite the students and get to know them very well as • An all-weather sports pitch and courts for tennis individuals. Academic progress, attendance and and netball, all floodlit punctuality are all monitored closely. Parents are • A spacious and attractive dining area welcomed regularly for consultations and Year 8 • A courtyard where students can relax at break students have an individual interview to discuss their and lunchtimes choice of upper school courses. In Year 11 they have a guidance interview to discuss the range of Sixth Extra-Curricular Activities Form courses available. Our rewards system recognises hard work and “Students have many opportunities to take part positive contributions to school life and certificates in a wide range of clubs, extra lessons and and prizes for these achievements are presented in educational visits.” – Ofsted assemblies and at our annual Achievement Evening. A clear Code of Conduct ensures all students are fully aware of our high standards of behaviour. Emphasis A key strength of the school is the extensive variety is placed on students developing self-discipline which and range of enrichment opportunities, which entice Home results from the desire to learn and a respect and a high proportion of students to participate. These awareness of the rights and needs of others. are very strong in the areas of the creative arts, Progress is assessed regularly in all subjects and sports, Duke of Edinburgh awards and study support. parents receive three reports a year and attend a Flourishing music groups include brass, wind and Parents’ Evening. We regard the partnership with string ensembles; a samba band, jazz band, steel parents as vital to each student’s development and pans and choir. They perform regularly in concerts progress and parents are encouraged to contact the both within the school, nationally and internationally. school with any concerns. They are also welcome to Map raise any issues with the Headteacher at her surgery Our Drama productions and showcases are extremely each Monday after school. The school’s newsletter popular and play to capacity audiences. Each spring and website keeps parents up to date with school there is an Art and Design Exhibition, which is open to successes and events. the public. Our Debating and Maths Challenge Teams continue to achieve success at local and national Sixth Form level. A wide range of sporting activities is open to all and includes competitive teams - particular successes Admissions “The Sixth Form provision is outstanding. in recent years include football, trampolining, netball, Students achieve very well… and are very athletics, tennis, swimming, cricket, basketball, positive about the education and care they badminton and the Panathlon. receive.” – Ofsted Departments organise many curriculum trips and visits. Recent journeys include adventure activities Whitmore has a very popular and successful Sixth in the Isle of Wight and Devon; Language trips to Form. We offer a full range of A Levels and our Sixth France and Germany; Music tours to Spain and Italy; Open Form programme includes trips and visits, extra- History trips to the WW1 graves; Art trips to various curricular activities, volunteering and leadership exhibitions and centre court tickets for Wimbledon. day opportunities and advice on careers and progression to university, apprenticeships and employment. We regularly welcome politicians, civil servants and Standards are high and the majority of our students the media interested in our curriculum developments progress to highly regarded university courses. A and the achievements of our students. Each year separate Sixth Form prospectus is available on the students also actively raise tens of thousands of school website. pounds for national and local charities. Apply now Facilities Awards Whitmore provides state-of-the-art facilities for all our The school’s many awards include: students. Our landmark building provides extensive • OFSTED Outstanding 2015 and 2008 specialist accommodation and equipment which • High Performing Specialist Science College includes: • Good Schools Guide Awards: • Modern ICT suites and class sets of laptop -- 2016: Best performance in English computers Language GCSE in an English • A well-resourced modern library and computer centre which is also open out of school hours for Comprehensive School homework -- 2016: Best performance in Maths GCSE in • 13 well equipped laboratories with prep rooms an English Comprehensive School to support teaching and learning of Chemistry, -- 2015: Best performance in Science GCSE in Biology and Physics an English Comprehensive School • An impressive drama and dance studio used for • National Training and Leadership Development rehearsals and performances School • Separate studios for Ceramics, Sculpture and • Specialist Schools and Academies Trust – High Painting & Drawing Attaining School • Impressive Media and Music studios with • Specialist Schools and Academies Trust – recording facilities Outstanding Student Progress • A large study area and seminar rooms for our • National Healthy Schools status Sixth Form • UNICEF Rights Respecting School Award • A large, well-equipped sports hall with spectator Applying for schools in other boroughs

Parents of children who live in Harrow form, and that should be the form from may apply to schools in neighbouring the borough where you live. So if your boroughs. Similarly, parents of children child is a Harrow resident, fill out a Harrow who live outside Harrow may apply to form – even if you are not applying to any schools inside Harrow. It may be true that Harrow schools. You can only apply to a the nearest school or schools to your maximum of four schools in Hertfordshire. Home home are located in other boroughs. Please find contact details below for You can apply to schools in other admissions departments in neighbouring boroughs by simply naming them on Councils where you can get advice your application form in the usual way. on school open days, admissions Map You should only fill out one application arrangements and other details.

Barnet Brent Pupil Admissions and Travel Pupil and Parent Services Building 4 PO Box 1057 Admissions North London Business Park Wembley Oakleigh Road South Middlesex HA9 1HJ London N11 1NP & 020 8937 3110 & 020 8359 7651 * [email protected] * [email protected] 8 www.brent.gov.uk 8 www.barnet.gov.uk 8 www.brent.gov.uk/admissions

Apply now Ealing Hertfordshire School Admissions Children, Schools & Families Perceval House CHR 102 14 – 16 Uxbridge Road, London W5 2HL Pegs Lane & 0208 825 5511 (Primary school Hertford admissions) SG13 8DQ & 0208 825 5522 (High school admissions) & 0300 123 4043 * [email protected] * [email protected] 8 www.ealing.gov.uk/admissions 8 www.hertsdirect.org

Hillingdon London Borough of Hillingdon School Placement and Admissions Team 4E/09 Civic Centre www.education.gov.uk High Street, Uxbridge For other Local Authority UB8 1UW address details & 01895 556644 * [email protected] 8 www.hillingdon.gov.uk/schools Children with Special Educational Needs

Harrow aims to allow children with Special a review of your child’s EHC Plan, Educational Needs (SEN) to attend their where parents, school staff and local secondary school wherever possible, other professionals will discuss the and the vast majority of children with SEN arrangements for secondary school do so. Only a small number of children, transfer. SENARS will receive a report of who have the most complex needs, that review, and will write to parents at Home receive places at a special school or at a the beginning of September, asking for mainstream school with special provision. confirmation of their school preference. To talk about the most appropriate SENARS will then consult with the placement for your child, parents should secondary school of preference (if contact the Special Educational Needs appropriate) and, if required, contact Assessment and Review Service (SENARS) parents again to discuss other options. Map on 020 8966 6483. SENARS will write to parents in the third week in January to offer their child a place There are two separate admissions at a secondary school and to propose arrangements for SEN children, support arrangements. An amended Final depending on whether they have an EHC Plan which names a secondary Educational, Health and Care Plan. school will then be issued by 15 February on the year of transfer. Admissions Children WITHOUT an EHC Plan Right to appeal

These children go through the normal Parents who are dissatisfied with the admission procedure. Parents should fill school that is being offered should contact Apply now out an application form in the usual way SENARS. If concerns cannot be resolved, and children will be offered a place based parents have the right of appeal to the on the school’s published admissions First-Tier Tribunal of the Health, Education criteria. All schools in Harrow receive and Social Care Chamber (HESC). additional funding to provide extra help for children with SEN. The Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice January 2015 Children WITH an EHC Plan states that a school may only object to the admission of a child with an EHC Plan on the following grounds: These children do not go through the That the placement of the child would be normal admission procedure. SENARS will incompatible with the efficient education consult schools for places on their behalf. of the pupils with whom they would be We encourage parents to complete school educated and that there are no reasonable application forms but this is optional. steps that can be taken to enable the Parents are welcome to visit schools and inclusion of the child. attend open days. If you believe this process applies to you or your child please contact SENARS on Before the end of year 5 there will be 020 8966 6483. University technical colleges and studio schools

University Technical Colleges and Studio boroughs should fill out an application form Schools accept 14-19 year olds for courses at www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions. of study that are technically oriented or Currently there are no University Technical based around work skills. Colleges or Studio Schools in Harrow. Students born between 1 September 2003 For information on University Technical and 31 August 2004 who live in Harrow Colleges visit www.utcolleges.org. Home and wish to apply to University Technical For information on Studio Schools visit Colleges and Studio Schools in other www.studioschoolstrust.org.

The full timetable for applications is:

Map 1 September 2018 Website opens, and you can apply online at http://www.eadmissions.org.uk

Friday 20 October 2018 Last Friday before the half-term holiday. We strongly recommend that you submit your application by this date to avoid any delay.

Admissions Tuesday 31 October 2018 Closing date for applications

Thursday 1 March 2019 Emails sent to parents with the outcome of their application. Please wait until you have received the email before logging on to the e-Admissions website. In some cases, letters will be sent through the post Apply now Thursday 15 March 2019 Deadline for acceptance or decline of offer.

Information on the appeals process for University Technical Colleges and Studio Schools is available direct from the schools. Appeals

You can appeal any decision made about the school place you have been offered. Bear in mind that appeals will be heard on the basis of the admissions criteria listed in this guide. Please be sure you have strong grounds before you make an appeal. Last year only 2 per cent of secondary school transfer appeals were successful.

Name of school Number of appeals Number of successful Home in 2018 appeals in 2018 Avanti House 13 0 Bentley Wood High School 6 0 Canons High School 1 0 Nower Hill High School 10 0 Map Park High School 1 0 Pinner High School 2 1 Whitmore High School 15 0

Appealing to Salvatorian & form must be received by Friday 12 April Admissions Sacred Heart 2019. Subsequently, appeals hearings are held periodically through the academic year. Appeals about decisions at the above schools are dealt with by the schools How the appeals process works directly. Please contact the school and ask for their appeal form to be sent to you. Appeals are organised by Harrow Apply now Democratic Services, independently of the Appealing to all other Harrow Admissions Service. Democratic Services will notify you of the date of your appeal Secondary Schools hearing and you will be requested to attend. At the appeal, the Admissions Service will Appeal forms are available on our website explain the reasons why your child could at www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions. not be offered a place. You will have the For guidance and information, please chance to ask questions and members of contact us on 020 8901 2620. the appeal panel will ask you questions. The An appeal has to be made in writing, setting appeal panel will then make its decision and out the grounds on which it is made, in full. you will be notified of the result in writing. You must include a full description of your Any child admitted to a school as a result of case. Additional information and evidence an appeal will take precedence over others supporting your appeal and its grounds on the waiting list. should be submitted as soon as possible and before the appeal hearing. Please note that any evidence or information submitted Appealing to a school on the date of the appeal may not be outside Harrow considered. Appeals will be heard early in the summer Please contact the Local Authority where term 2019. To be considered in this first the school is located for information of how round of grouped appeals, your appeal to appeal. Sixth form education

If you wish to apply for a sixth form place in The Harrow Sixth Form Collegiate is a Harrow, do not fill out partnership of the following: a secondary school application form. Bentley Wood Sixth Form Applications for sixth Home Canons Sixth Form form places are made Harrow Sixth Form directly to the school or Sixth Form Centre* college. Hatch End Sixth Form All of Harrow’s secondary Nower Hill Sixth Form schools and colleges Park Sixth Form Map work together in a Rooks Heath Sixth Form partnership called the Stanmore Sixth Form College* Harrow Sixth Form Whitmore Sixth Form Collegiate. Other sixth form provision St Dominic’s Sixth Form College* Admissions

How to apply The offer of a place is conditional on you achieving the appropriate entrance You should apply to your first choice of qualifications. Details of these are school or college. indicated in prospectuses or information Forms are available directly from high leaflets from each school or college. You schools and colleges. The form contains will be given further details during your full details of how to fill in the application guidance interview. and where to send it. An appropriate programme will be negotiated. You will be offered a guidance interview. Where a school or college does not offer The school or college will consider your a place, your application will be passed predicted grades and reference when to your second choice. deciding whether to offer a place. The offer of a place will be confirmed. If you do not meet the entrance What happens next conditions of your original offer, every effort will be made to place you on a Your application will be acknowledged. different course in September.

* Harrow College Sixth Form Centre, Brookshill, Harrow Weald HA3 6RR & Lowlands Road, Harrow, HA1 3AQ. Tel 020 8909 6000. Email [email protected]. Visit www.harrow.ac.uk St Dominic’s Sixth Form College, Mount Park Avenue, Harrow on the Hill, HA1 3HX. Tel 0208 422 8084. Email [email protected]. Visit www.stdoms.ac.ukStanmore Sixth Form College, FEC, Elm Park, Stanmore, HA7 4BQ. Tel 0208 420 7700. Email [email protected] Visit www.stanmore.ac.uk LGBT pupils

Our vision is to ensure that this is a proud, fair and cohesive Harrow, a great place to live, work and visit and the same applies to places of study. Home Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pupils may face additional challenges and several of our secondary schools have signed up as Stonewall’s Diversity Champions. These include Hatch may be a good time for transition for Map End High School, Park High School, Nower Hill High School and The Helix some but it should not be the only Education Centre. opportunity. The right time to transition from one gender to another is when the The Equality Act 2010 provides child or young person feels they are protection from discrimination because ready. Admissions of gender reassignment in schools. This means that it is unlawful for We acknowledge that this may be a schools to treat pupils less favourable challenge for school and families but because of gender reassignment and we feel that every school in Harrow that schools will have to fact in gender can work to support every child in the borough including those transitioning. Apply now reassignment when considering their obligations. Gender reassignment is We would encourage families to defined in the Equality Act as someone contact us early so we can offer advice who is undergoing has undergone or and support and also to discuss our is proposing to under a process (or admission criteria for children for part of a process) of reassigning their whom it is essential to be admitted to sex by changing physiological or other a specific school because of special attributes. This definition means that circumstances to do with significant in order to be protected under the act, medical needs and or social needs. For a pupil will not necessarily have to children who are new to the borough be undertaking a medical procedure and without a school place we can also to change their sex. Pupils who are consider our Fair Access Panel. undergoing a social transition for example going by a preferred name or Harrow Admissions Service wishes pronoun are protected by the Equality to work with families to ensure that a Act. change of school is made as smooth as possible and ensuring that the child A change in school at a key transition or young person accesses any support point e.g. from primary to secondary they may need. Secondary 1 Hover over the location to see school details Schools 1 Click to see travel maps Map The Common

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Oxhey Lane LondonMarsh Lane Road

Old Church Lane Stanmore

Gordon Ave Uxbridge Road Canons Park Hatch End Kenton Lane Road Whitchurch Honeypot Lane Long Elmes

Courtenay Ave High Street

Culver Grove Buckingham Rd Uxbridge Road Kenton Lane

George V Lane Locket Rd Headstone Lane

Headstone Lane Pinner Streatfield Rd Harrow View Harrow & Wealdstone Christchurch Ave

Civic Centre Pinner Road Sheepcote Rd

North Harrow Greenhill Way on Harrow the Hill Village Way Shaftesbury Ave Lowlands Rd West Harrow

Imperial Drive

Alexandra Ave Rayners Lane Besborough Rd Peterborough Rd

South Harrow Sudbury Hill Secondary schools 1. Avanti House 2. Bentley Wood High School Eastcote Lane 3. Canons High School Northolt Rd 4. Harrow High School 5. Hatch End High School 6. Nower Hill High School 7. Park High School 8. Pinner High School 9. Rooks Heath College 10. Salvatorian College 11. The Sacred Heart Language College 12. Whitefriars School 13. Whitmore High School