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2 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 3 Contents Section 1 – Apply
Map of Brent Primary, Infant and Junior schools...... 2 Apply... Important dates Section 1 – Apply 15 January 2017 Applications deadline Key Information...... 5 To start Reception class in 3 February 2017 Deadline to explain why your Before you make your application...... 5 September 2017 application was late 18 April 2017 National offer day Myth Busters – get the facts!...... 6 If your child was born between 1 September 2012 and 31 August 2013 you need to apply for them to start primary 2 May 2017 Response deadline Using the online application system...... 7 or infant school in September 2017. 2 May 2017 Deadline for applications and Your child’s address...... 10 changes for the second round To transfer to junior school in Fraudulent applications...... 10 19 May 2017 Second round offers September 2017 26 May 2017 Second round response deadline Special Needs and exceptional social/medical circumstances...... 10 If your child is in Year 2 at an Infant school and born between 6 June 2017 Deadline for applications and Looked after and previously looked after children...... 11 1 September 2009 and 31 August 2010, you need to apply changes for the third round Supplementary Information Forms (SIFs)...... 11 for them to transfer to junior school in September 2017. 23 June 2017 Third round offers 30 June 2017 Third round response deadline Twins & multiple births...... 11 Children attending the infant schools below have priority for a place at the linked junior school, but applications September 2017 Children start school Late applications...... 11 must be made before 15 January 2017.
Deferred Entry...... 11 Infant School Linked Junior School Applications for children outside the normal age group...... 11 Carlton Vale Infant The Kilburn Park Foundation Before you make your application School 1 Are your Read the admissions criteria for Changing preferences...... 12 Convent of Jesus and St Mary Magdalen's RC preferences each school and look to see realistic? which criteria apply to your child. Section 2 – Offers Mary RC Infant School Junior School Malorees Infant School Malorees Junior School How we process your application...... 13 Consider how The admissions criteria for Brent Mount Stewart Infant Mount Stewart Junior School likely it is that community schools are listed on Offers and responding...... 13 School your child will be page 19. For all other schools the Waiting lists and appeals...... 14 Our Lady of Grace RC Our Lady of Grace RC Junior offered a place admission criteria are included Infant School School at your preferred from page 27 owards. Section 3 – Brent primary/infant/junior schools Roe Green Infant Roe Green Junior School schools. How places were allocated for September 2016...... 16 School 2 Do you live You can find out the distance St Joseph's RC Infant St Joseph's RC Junior School close enough to of your preferred schools using Community Schools in Brent...... 18 School get a place? the Direct Gov schools finder at Oversubscription criteria for community schools in Brent ...... 19 schoolsfinder.direct.gov.uk In Year Admissions Find your Academies, Foundation and Voluntary Aided primary schools in Brent...... 26 home to school The distance from home to If your child does not currently have a school place or you distance then school of the last child offered Section 4 – Additional information wish to transfer them to a different school, you will need compare a place at Brent community Contact information...... 65 to make an “In Year” application. with cut-off schools from last year is on distances from page 16. Applicants with special educational needs...... 65 Please visit www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions for more information. last year. Home to school travel...... 67 Remember that although this information can be used to give Free school meals...... 67 you an idea of how likely it is Private fostering...... 68 that you will be offered a place, the ‘last distance’ will change Data Protection...... 68 every year. We can never guarantee any child will be offered a place at any school.
4 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 5 Before you make your application Before you make your application Section 1 – Apply 3 Find your You will have higher priority for 6 How will your The cost of home to school catchment area a place at your catchment area child travel to travel is covered by free Using the online application system school school. You can find out which school? transport provided by Transport school you are in the catchment for London (TfL). area for by entering your postcode online at www.brent.gov.uk/ A long journey to school on Before you start public transport may not be the catchmentarea. The map on n Research your preferred schools and decide your order best choice for your child. page 2 will also help you identify of preference before you start the online application. your catchment area school. 7 Talk to your Remember that the right school See pages 5 and 6 for advice about choosing schools. 4 Visit schools Contact the schools you are child and other for your friend’s child may not interested in to arrange a visit. parents be the right school for your n You need an email address to apply. If you don’t have child. Don’t judge a school one go to www.googlemail.com and click “Create 5 Read Ofsted You can view reports at based on what others say – visit an account”. reports www.ofsted.gov.uk the school and see for yourself. Register and Login Myth Busters – get the facts! 1. Go to www.eadmissions.org.uk
It is easy to make assumptions about how school admissions works. Here are some of the common myths and 2. If you have applied before, login with your email and misunderstandings as well as the facts. password from your previous application. Choose “Login to your account”. Myth The facts My child has a right to a place at The local authority must offer your child a place at the highest preference 3. If this is the first time you have applied you must one of my preferred schools. school you listed on your application that they qualify for. If your child does not register your details and email address. Choose qualify for any of your preferred schools (e.g. because your preferences were “Register to apply online”. unrealistic) they will normally be allocated a place at the nearest school to your 4. Enter your details and click “Register”. home with a vacancy. My child is in the nursery so Everyone must apply for their child even if they already attend the nursery. 5. You will be sent a confirmation by email. Open the they will automatically go into Schools are not permitted to give priority for Reception places to children email and click the link to confirm your email address. Reception. already in their Nursery class. Listing one school will mean Listing only one school does not increase your child’s chances of being offered 6. You will be sent another email with both your that you will have to offer me a place. If your child does not qualify for that school then they will normally be username and password. Save this email for that school. allocated a place at the nearest school to your home with a vacancy. future reference. Listing the same school six Your child can only be considered once for a school and any duplicated 7. Click the link in the email, enter your username or times will improve my chances preferences will be deleted. email address and password, then click “Login”. of being offered a place. I live nearer to the school than Although the information listed on page 16 can give you an idea of how likely the last child offered under it is that you will be offered a place at your preferred school, the ‘last distance’ the distance criterion last year will change every year. We cannot guarantee any child will be offered a place at so I’m guaranteed a place. any school. Children in my road go to the The number of pupils offered under each criterion at each school can change school so my child will too. every year so just because you know pupils living near you that go to a certain school, it does not mean that your child will be offered a place there. If I apply to a school in An admissions authority cannot give preference to its own residents and another borough, their published admissions criteria cannot include the borough of residence. Brent residents will have priority does not discriminate between applicants who live in the borough and those over me. who do not. It does not matter if my form If you apply after 15 January 2017, we will look at your application after all is late. those that applied on time have been offered a place and it is very unlikely that you will be offered one of your preferred schools. I can only apply for Brent schools. You can apply for both Brent and out of borough schools by listing them on the Brent application form.
6 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 7 Section 1 – Apply Making your application online Final Check and Submit 1. Check your application carefully. To make changes click “Back” at the bottom of the page. Child details and preferred schools 1. If you have applied before you must check and update your details if they have changed.
2. Click “Start application for New Child” button. 2. Read and agree the declarations by clicking in the boxes then click “Submit Application”. 3. Enter your child’s details and click “Next”.
3. You will receive a confirmation email with your 4. Choose your preferred school from the list. Change application reference number (e.g. 304-2017-09-E- the local authority if the school is outside Brent. Click 001234). This email is proof that you have submitted “Add this school”. your application successfully. 5. Add specific information about the school (e.g. brothers or sisters already attending) then click “Next”.
6. Repeat steps 4 & 5 to list more schools until you have Make changes and attach documents listed all your preferences. n You can make changes and attach supporting information up to the closing date by logging into the system with your username or email address and your password. 7. Change the order of preferences by clicking “Move n Each time you make a change you must re-submit up” / “Move down”. your application. You will receive a confirmation email 8. Once all your preferred school are listed click “Next”. each time you successfully change your application. You will also need to click “Continue” if you have n You will also receive a confirmation for each document listed fewer than six preferences. you attach.
8 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 9 Your child’s address Fraudulent applications n Evidence should be submitted by 15 January 2017 Late applications n (the closing date for on time applications). Evidence n n The address used must be the child’s permanent home Brent Council takes any attempt to obtain a school place Applications received after 15 January 2017 will be submitted after this date may not be considered until address on 15 January 2017. through fraudulent means very seriously. classed as late. the second or subsequent round of offers. n n n Do not list an address of a relative or someone who We will verify addresses to ensure that places are If there are exceptional circumstances why your n See individual schools oversubscription criteria for provides temporary care for your child, a business allocated appropriately and fairly. application was received after the deadline, please further information (pages 27 to 64). provide independent written evidence by 3 February address, a childminder’s address or any address other n Any address proof or supporting documentation which 2017 (from someone who is impartial) explaining why than the child’s permanent home address. is false or deliberately misleading may lead to offers the application was late. being withdrawn. Looked after and previously looked after children n The evidence you provide will be considered by Brent n Stringent checks will be carried out to ensure n If you are completing the application for a looked after Proof of address school admissions who will decide if your application will applications are not fraudulent. child or a child who was previously looked after please n We do not require proof of address to be sent in with be processed as late or on time. indicate this on the application. your application. n Home visits may be carried out to verify addresses. n Late applications will only be considered after all the n Previously looked after children are children who were n Please supply your council tax reference number on the n If you suspect someone intends to use, or has used, other applications that were received on time have been looked after but ceased to be so because they were application (e.g. from your bill). If you don’t pay council a false address to obtain a school place please advise offered a place. For this reason late applicants are very adopted or became subject to a child arrangements or tax directly please leave this question blank. Brent School Admissions immediately by emailing unlikely to be offered one of their preferred schools. special guardianship order. [email protected]. You can remain n Brent Council will check internal council databases in anonymous and all cases will be investigated. n Applicants must name the council who looks after order to verify your address. the child and provide a letter from the social worker Deferred Entry n Where it is not possible to verify your address or you confirming that the child is in care. n Parents can request that the date their child is admitted have recently moved we will write to you asking for two Children with special needs n If the child was adopted immediately after being in care to school is deferred until later in the year in which proofs of address. they apply or until the term in which the child reaches n If your child has a Statement of Special Educational please provide a copy of the child arrangements order, statutory school age. Statutory school age begins the Needs (SEN) or an Education, Health and Care Plan special guardianship order or proof of adoption from first day of term after your child’s fifth birthday. Children living at two addresses (EHCP), please do not complete an application. your child’s home authority. n n An application can only be processed from one address. See page 65 for further information. Parents wishing to defer entry must contact the school to advise them on this after a place has been offered. n The application should include the address the child n You should contact Brent Special Educational Needs Supplementary Information Forms (SIFs) Assessment Service (SENAS) on 020 8937 3229 who will n Parents can also request that their child attends part- normally lives at for the majority of the school week. n Some schools require an additional or Supplementary manage your child’s transition to primary or junior school. time until their child reaches statutory school age. n If a child resides equally between two addresses, it is Information Form (SIF) to be completed in addition to the parents’ responsibility to agree between themselves the normal application. The online application system will tell you if any of the schools you listed require a SIF. which address will be used. One application should be Exceptional social/medical circumstances Applications for children outside the normal submitted using the address agreed by both parents. n Some schools give higher priority to children with social n Completed SIFs should be submitted direct to the school age group or medical needs, even if they do not have a statement prior to the closing date, 15 January 2017. n The council’s policy is for children to be educated or an EHCP. within their correct chronological year group, with the Change of address n SIFs can be obtained directly from schools or downloaded curriculum differentiated as necessary to meet the needs n If you state a preference for a particular school because from the school’s or Brent Council’s website. n We can only accept changes of address after you have of individual children. This is in line with the Department of the medical, social or special educational needs of n Failure to complete a SIF may result in your application moved. We will not process your application from an for Education’s (DfE) most recent “Advice on the your child you must demonstrate how only this school to that particular school being unsuccessful. intended future address. Admission of Summer Born Children”, published in meets your child’s special circumstances. n If you move address prior to the closing date (15 December 2014, which states that, “in general, children n To be considered on this basis you must submit should be educated in their normal age group, with the January 2017) you should update your address online Twins and multiple births and resubmit your application. If the closing date has independent, professional evidence which sets out the curriculum differentiated as appropriate, and that they n Parents with multiple birth children must complete a passed you should must tell the council straight away by particular reasons why the school is the most suitable should only be educated out of their normal age group separate application form for each child. emailing [email protected] and the difficulties that could be caused if your child has in very limited circumstances”. to attend another school. n Most schools have admission arrangements that ensure n You must supply evidence of your change of address. n If parents/carers believe their child should be educated in multiple birth children will be offered together, even n For community schools (see page 18) your evidence a different year group they should submit an application n Evidence must be received on or before 3 February 2017 if this means the school will admit more than their should be submitted directly to Brent School Admissions for the ‘normal’ reception round for their child, and in order for your new address to be used when processing published admission number. and attached to your online application. For all other provide supporting evidence from relevant professionals your application and calculating home to school distances. schools, evidence should be sent directly to the school. n See individual schools over subscription criteria for working with the child and family stating why it is in the n If we receive evidence of your change of address n Evidence will normally be in the form of a report from a further information (pages 27 to 64). child’s best interest to be placed outside their normal age after 3 February 2017 we will not be able to update suitably qualified, independent professional like a doctor. appropriate cohort. DfE guidance makes clear that “it is your home to school distances until after 18 April reasonable for admission authorities to expect parents to 2017 (national offer day). provide them with information in support of their request
10 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 11 – since without it they are unlikely to be able to make a decision on the basis of the circumstances of the case”. Section 2 – Offers
n For community schools, the council as the admission n Offer emails are sent in the evening on 18 April 2017. authority will decide whether the application will be How we process your application accepted on the basis of the information submitted. n The online application system is updated with offers and Brent school admissions work closely with schools and Decisions will be based on the individual circumstances applicants can respond from the evening of 18 April 2017. other local authorities so that every child is offered a of each case including the view of parents, the relevant place at the highest preference school for which they n Offer letters are posted first class on Tuesday 18 April head teacher(s), the child’s social, academic and qualify. The process involves the following stages: 2017 and should arrive by Friday 21 April 2017. If you emotional development and whether the child has been have not had an offer letter in the post by Friday 21 April previously educated out of year group. 1. Exchange information contact Brent school admissions. n There is no guarantee that an application will be Applications are processed and addresses checked, and accepted on this basis. If the application is not accepted applicant’s details are sent to schools. The schools do not n Online applicants offered their first preference school are this does not constitute a refusal of a place and there is know the order of your preferences. not sent an offer letter. no right to an independent statutory appeal. Similarly Responding to offers (accepting/rejecting) there is no right of appeal for a place in a specific Additional information? n For the community schools listed on page 18, year group at a school. The internal management and n Please respond to your offer by 2 May 2017. organisation of a school, including the placement of supporting documentation should be submitted to pupils in classes, is a matter for the head teacher and Brent school admissions via the online application n Online applicants must respond to the offer online by senior leadership of individual schools. system. Supporting documentation for all other logging into the online application system schools should be submitted directly to the school. (www.eadmissions.org.uk) using their email address n The governing body of schools responsible for their own or username and their password. admissions (academies, voluntary aided, foundation and n Some schools require applicants to return a SIF free schools) are ultimately responsible for making this (Supplementary Information Form) directly to the n We strongly advise applicants to accept the place decision for applications made to their school. school. Check your preferred schools, pages 27 to 64. offered. Accepting the offer secures the school for The online application system will tell you if any of the your child, so you have a back-up, in case you are schools you listed require a SIF. unsuccessful in the second or third rounds or if you Changing preferences appeal and your appeal is not upheld. n If you wish to change your preferences before the 2. Rank applications closing date (15 January 2017) you should login to Schools rank applications according to their published n Accepting the place does not effect your waiting list the online application system, edit and resubmit your oversubscription criteria to determine which children position or appeals. application. have priority for places. Brent Council ranks applicants n If you do not accept the offer the place may be offered for community schools. For all other schools the n If you wish to change your preferences after 15 to another applicant, and subsequent offers may be governing body or academy trust decides whether your January 2017 use the online form at further away from your home. www.brent.gov.uk/changeapplicationdetails child qualifies for a place, not the council. Changes of preference will not be accepted over the Further Offers Which criteria relates to your child? telephone. n After national offer day (18 April 2017) Brent school Check the oversubscription criteria for your preferred admissions continue to process applications and make n Regardless of the circumstances, changes requested schools, pages 19 and 27 to 64. after 3 February 2017 can only be included for the offers on behalf of schools until the end of August. second and subsequent rounds of offers after national 3. Offer places Schools do not offer places directly. offer day, 18 April 2017 (see page 14). Every school has a maximum number of children that can n Two additional rounds of offers will be sent out be admitted. The ranked lists for each school are used to according to the timetable on page 14. determine the highest preference each child can be offered. Where an applicant qualifies for more than one school the n All late applicants living in Brent will be offered a place order of preferences determines which school is offered. in the second and third round.
What if the offer isn’t any of my preferred schools? n Unsuccessful applicants will not receive notification in The council will offer every Brent child a place. When the second or third round, only successful applicants applicants do not qualify for a place at any of their will be sent a letter. preferred schools a place is offered at the nearest school n After the third round places will be offered as and to your home with an available place. when they become available. Offers n National offer day is Tuesday 18 April 2017.
12 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 13 Second Round Third Round Deadline 2 May 2017 6 June 2017 Last date for changes to be included in the round (e.g. changed address/preferences) Offer Week ending Week ending Offers will be send by first class post to successful 19 May 2017 23 June 2017 applicants only Response 26 May 2017 30 June 2017 Successful applicants must respond by this date
Waiting lists Appeals n If we cannot offer your first preference on national offer n If your child is not offered a place at one of the schools day (18 April 2017) then your child will be automatically you listed on your form you can appeal against this added to the waiting list for each school you ranked as decision to an independent appeal panel. a higher preference than the school offered. n Appeals are heard by an independent appeal panel of n Any vacancies available in the second and third round three members of the public who are independent of will be offered to applicants on a waiting list. the school and the local authority.
n Priority on the waiting list is determined by the n If you wish to appeal for a Brent community school you oversubscription criteria for each school. There is no must read the guidance and complete the appeal form guarantee that a place will be offered for your child off available online at www.brent.gov.uk/schoolappeals the waiting list. n Appeals for Brent community schools (see page 18) n When an applicant on a waiting list is offered a place, should be returned to School Admissions, PO Box 1057, any previous offer will be automatically withdrawn. You Wembley, HA9 1HJ. will not be given a choice between your current offer and n Appeals for all other Brent schools and schools outside the new offer. If you are happy with your current offer Brent must be made to the school or admitting then you must advise Brent school admissions to remove authority directly. your child from waiting lists. n Your offer letter will give information about how to n Your child’s position on a waiting list can go up as well appeal. as down when other applicants are offered a place or join the list.
n Waiting lists are not operated on a first come, first served basis. The length of time your child is on a waiting list will not give them priority over other applicants.
n Please note: Waiting lists for Brent schools will be refreshed for the start of each academic year. To ensure that your child remains on a school waiting list and in consideration after the end of the academic year, you must make a separate 2017/18 In Year application online before Friday 21 July 2017. In Year applications for 2017/18 will open on Monday 3 July 2017. The local authority will not contact you again to remind you to reapply.
14 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 15 Section 3 – Brent primary/infant/junior schools. How places were allocated for Brent community schools for September 2016
This table shows how places were offered at Brent community schools. Offers by citeria (straight line distance in metres where applicable) Education, Health and Looked after Attend Nearest Care Plan and previously the Sibling in school Total places Total which names looked after linked infant catchment Sibling outside Any other with a Total available applications the school children school area In catchment area catchment area applicant vacancy offers Anson Primary School 52 263 6 (848.9) 30 (950.8) 6 (3636.8) 10 (521.5) 52 Barham Primary School 120 364 1 53 (1044.2) 66 (812.6) 120 Braintcroft Primary School 90 122 1 36 (1516.9) 34 (1299.3) 4 (2085.4) 5 (4271.6) 10 90 Brentfield Primary School 90 132 1 17 (665.1) 15 (620.1) 19 (2123.6) 16 (7575.8) 11 79 Byron Court Primary School 90 269 2 18 (811) 25 (1173.9) 22 (5233.3) 23 (1421.6) 90 Carlton Vale Infant School 60 102 1 6 (1155.7) 13 (384) 6 (4954.3) 11 (4573.6) 2 39 Chalkhill Primary School 60 173 1 14 (1077.7) 25 (1302.9) 16 (4120.7) 4 (1059.1) 60 Donnington Primary School 30 151 9 (546.4) 7 (472.1) 3 (2400.3) 11 (835.1) 30 Elsley Primary School 120 161 17 (995.9) 27 (1018.4) 6 (3134.9) 13 (4847.3) 33 96 Fryent Primary School 120 184 1 18 (1409.7) 19 (1100.2) 15 (1880.4) 18 (4960) 19 90 Harlesden Primary School 90 160 11 (410.5) 14 (1052.1) 11 (4930.6) 14 (2676.4) 4 54 Kingsbury Green Primary School 90 228 5 1 3 (578.7) 24 (821.8) 18 (3978.1) 32 (5804.1) 6 89 Leopold Primary School 120 346 3 9 (331.5) 25 (501.2) 23 (9478.2) 60 (1083.7) 120 Lyon Park Infant School 120 235 37 (1265.3) 79 (1125.4) 4 (778.5) 120 Lyon Park Junior School 120 171 1 117 2 (640) 120 Malorees Infant School 60 243 10 (1032.6) 30 (909.5) 4 (3167.9) 16 (1292.4) 60 Mitchell Brook Primary School 90 150 1 12 (801.5) 11 (700.2) 16 (3517.7) 27 (3299.8) 17 84 Mora Primary School 60 128 12 (470.2) 14 (531.4) 10 (3133.4) 13 (1537.5) 11 60 Mount Stewart Infant School 90 280 1 18 (2170) 27 (1409.5) 28 (4187) 16 (729.1) 90 Mount Stewart Junior School 90 149 2 1 86 1 (142.3) 90 Newfield Primary School 60 89 1 5 (640.5) 3 (209.5) 9 (3254.2) 10 (1954) 9 37 Northview Primary School 30 108 9 (407.4) 20 (707.6) 1 (477.9) 30 Oliver Goldsmith Primary School 60 224 19 (653.4) 25 (683.9) 12 (5150.6) 4 (472.5) 60 Park Lane Primary School 60 294 12 (704) 19 (649.3) 11 (5265.1) 18 (621.3) 60 Preston Park Primary School 120 279 1 25 (778.9) 29 (964.6) 18 (12036.4) 38 (11135.2) 9 120 Roe Green Infant School 120 290 42 (922.8) 71 (1075.5) 7 (4663.4) 120 Roe Green Junior School 120 168 1 116 2 (753.7) 1 (858.2) 120 Salusbury Primary School 90 268 1 10 (969.6) 31 (886.2) 14 (7851.6) 33 (7465.4) 1 90 The Stonebridge School 60 85 11 (639.7) 7 (464.4) 12 (2902.8) 3 (1192) 4 37 Uxendon Manor Primary School 120 189 26 (1142.4) 29 (1064.3) 15 (4090.8) 20 (4461.4) 7 97 Wembley Primary School 120 477 2 23 (761.2) 39 (1361) 20 (3359.1) 36 (1405.6) 120 Wykeham Primary School 60 243 1 12 (904.6) 32 (690.4) 15 (4662.8) 60
Note: n Data at 18 April 2016
16 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 17 Community Schools in Brent Oversubscription criteria for community schools in Brent for September 2017 1. Look after or previously looked after children 6. Children inside the catchment area n Brent Council decide the admission criteria that are n Detailed information about each school listed below is A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was previously Children living within the school’s catchment area. The used to determine who has priority for places at available on pages 20 to 26. looked after but immediately after being looked after catchment area is the defined neighbourhood in which the schools listed below. The admission criteria are became subject to an adoption, residence, or special the school is located. It is generally bounded by major outlined below. guardianship order. roads and/or railway/tube. 2. Children attending infant school 7. Children with brothers or sisters at the school Community Schools Children attending an infant school on the same site as Brothers or sisters of a child who attends the school, a junior school (for applications to junior schools only). or an infant or junior school on the same or adjoining site, and who will continue to do so on the date of Anson Primary School Kingsbury Green Primary School Park Lane Primary School 3. Medical or social needs admission. Barham Primary School Leopold Primary School Preston Park Primary School Special circumstances to do with significant medical needs and or social needs. 8. All other children Braintcroft Primary School Lyon Park Primary School Roe Green School Any other applicants. Children who do not meet any Brentfield Primary School Malorees Infant School Roe Green Junior School 4. Children inside the catchment area with brothers or sister at the school higher criteria will be considered under this criterion. Byron Court Primary School Mitchell Brook Primary School Salusbury Primary School Brothers or sisters of a child who attends the school, Tie break Carlton Vale Infant School Mora Primary School The Stonebridge School or an infant or junior school on the same or adjoining Within each criterion priory will be given to applicants Chalkhill Primary School Mount Stewart Infant School Uxendon Manor Primary School site, living in the catchment area of the school and living nearest to the school. The distance from home to Donnington Primary School Mount Stewart Junior School Wembley Primary School who will continue to do so on the date of admission. school will be measured by straight-line, from a point in Elsley Primary School Newfield Primary School Wykeham Primary School This includes half and step brothers and sisters and the property to a point in the school determined by the Fryent Primary School Northview Primary School foster children if they live at the same address - but grid references for the centre of the school’s postcode. Harlesden Primary School Oliver Goldsmith Primary School not cousins or other relatives. Siblings attending the The measuring system is an integral part of the admission same school should have priority over those attending a software, uses Ordnance Survey maps and the LLPG (Local separate school on the same site. Land Property Gazetteer) and is accurate to 1 metre. Schools with split sites 5. Children of staff Leopold Primary School Roe Green School Children whose parent is a member of staff who has Complete Admission Arrangements Leopold Primary School has expanded to admit 120 pupils Roe Green Infant School has expanded to admit 150 been employed at the school for two or more years at You can view the complete admission arrangements into Reception each year. pupils into Reception each year. the time of application or has been recruited to fill a for Brent community schools online at vacancy for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements The school is split over two sites and will admit 60 The school is split over two sites. The first site is Roe children to Reception at each site. The first site is Leopold Green Infants, Princes Avenue, Kingsbury, NW9 9JL where Hawkeshead on Hawkshead Road, Willesden, NW10 9UR 120 Reception places will be allocated. The second site is and the second site is Leopold Gwenneth Rickus, 242-250 Roe Green Strathcona, Strathcona Road, Wembley, HA9 Brentfield Road, Neasden, NW10 8HE. 8QL where 30 Reception places will be allocated. Applicants interested in the school should indicate which site Applicants interested in the school should indicate which they would like their child to attend by including the relevant site they would like their child to attend by including the preference on their application. If an applicant would be relevant preference on their application. If an applicant happy for their child to attend either site then a preference for would be happy for their child to attend either site then a both should be included. Reception offers at Leopold Primary preference for both should be included. Reception offers School will indicate clearly which site the child must attend. at Roe Green School will indicate clearly which site the child must attend.
18 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 19 Community primary schools – contact details Carlton Vale Infant School www.carlton.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-7 years Admission places available to reception: 60 DfE number: 3042007 On time applications made last year: 102 Anson Primary School www.ansonprimaryschool.com Head teacher: Ms Helen Mooney Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 192 Malvern Place, Kilburn NW6 5PX Map reference: 15M Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 52 Tel: 020 7624 0348 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): No DfE number: 3042000 On time applications made last year: 263 Fax: 020 7328 6293 Accessibility: High Head teacher: Ms Saadia Lansiquot Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 412 Admissions Officer: Mrs Rosa Gammalliere Anson Road, Cricklewood NW2 4AB Map reference: 13I Email: [email protected] Tel: 020 8452 8552 Fax: 020 8450 3845 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Admissions Officer: Ms Claire Houlihan/ Accessibility: Medium Suzanne Richards Chalkhill Primary School www.chalkhillprimaryschool.co.uk Email: [email protected] Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 60 Barham Primary School www.barhamprimary.co.uk DfE number: 3042068 On time applications made last year: 173 Head teacher: Ms Rose Ashton Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 541 Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 120 Barnhill Road, Wembley HA9 9YP Map reference: 7H DfE number: 3042049 On time applications made last year: 364 Tel: 020 8904 4508 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC Head teacher: Ms Karen Giles Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 900 Fax: 020 8904 1227 Accessibility: Medium Danethorpe Road, Wembley HA0 4RQ Map reference: 3J Admissions Officer: Mrs Jenny Deutrom Tel: 020 8902 3706 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): No Email: [email protected] Fax: 020 8903 5098 Accessibility: Medium Admissions Officer: Ms Mina Hirani www.donnington.brent.sch.uk Email: [email protected] Donnington Primary School Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 30 Braintcroft Primary School www.braintcroftprimary.co.uk DfE number: 3042056 On time applications made last year: 151 Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 90 Head teacher: Mr Roger Roberts Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 231 DfE number: 3042075 On time applications made last year: 122 Uffington Road, Willesden NW10 3TL Map reference: 11K Head teacher: Ms Nadine Ferguson Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 767 Tel: 020 8451 0761 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): No Warren Road, Cricklewood NW2 7LL Map reference: 10G Fax: 020 8459 1145 Accessibility: Medium Tel: 020 8452 2413 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): No Admissions Officer: Mrs Angela McAllister Fax: 020 8452 2369 Accessibility: High Email: [email protected] Admissions Officer: Ms Lorraine Draper Email: [email protected] Elsley Primary School www.elsley.brent.sch.uk Brentfield Primary School www.brentfield.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 120 DfE number: 3042055 On time applications made last year: 161 Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 90 Head teacher: Mr Raphael Moss Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 521 DfE number: 3042003 On time applications made last year: 132 Tokyngton Avenue, Wembley HA9 6HT Map reference: 5J Head teacher: Mrs Paola Riddle Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 607 Tel: 020 8902 8003 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): No 41-43 Meadow Garth, Neasden NW10 0SL Map reference: 8J Admissions Officer: Miss Michelle Moore Accessibility: Medium Tel: 020 8965 5326 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Email: [email protected] Fax: 020 8453 0316 Accessibility: Medium Admissions Officer: Ms Ivarine McGibbon Email: [email protected] Fryent Primary School www.fryent.brent.sch.uk Byron Court Primary School www.byroncourtschool.co.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 120 Age Range: 4-11 years Admission places available to reception: 150 DfE number: 3042074 On time applications made last year: 184 DfE number: 3042006 On time applications made last year: 269 Head teacher: Mr Samuel Nowak Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 698 Head teacher: Mrs Martine Clark Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 694 Church Lane, Kingsbury NW9 8JD Map reference: 8E Spencer Road, Wembley HA0 3SF Map reference: 2F Tel: 020 8205 4047 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): No Tel: 020 8904 2785 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): ASC Fax: 020 8208 3480 Accessibility: High Fax: 020 8908 2447 Accessibility: Low Admissions Officer: Ms Kundan Soni Admissions Officer: Mrs Margaret Brookes Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
20 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 21 Harlesden Primary School www.harlesdenschool.com Mitchell Brook Primary School www.mbrook.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 90 Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 90 DfE number: 3042017 On time applications made last year: 160 DfE number: 3042066 On time applications made last year: 150 Head teacher: Mrs Sarah Wawn Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 331 Head teacher: Ms Theresa Landreth Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 575 Acton Lane, London NW10 8UT Map reference: 9L Bridge Road, Neasden NW10 9BX Map reference: 9J Tel: 020 8965 7445 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Tel: 020 8459 1392 / 020 8459 5681 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8963 1828 Accessibility: Medium Admissions Officer: Mrs Shalaine Gordon Accessibility: Medium Admissions Officer: Miss Wendy Ferguson Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Mora Primary School www.mora.brent.sch.uk Kingsbury Green Primary School www.kingsburyprimaryschool.co.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 60 Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 90 DfE number: 3042073 On time applications made last year: 128 DfE number: 3042024 On time applications made last year: 228 Head teacher: Ms Nicola Denton Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 451 Head teacher: Ms Laura Wynne Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 667 Mora Road, Cricklewood NW2 6TD Map reference: 12H Old Kenton Lane, Kingsbury NW9 9ND Map reference: 7D Tel: 020 8452 2634 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Tel: 020 8204 6423 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8452 5656 Accessibility: Low Fax: 020 8905 0258 Accessibility: High Admissions Officer: Mrs Sheila McMullan Admissions Officer: Mrs Hansa Valji Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
Leopold Primary School www.leopoldprimary.co.uk Mount Stewart Infant School www.msi.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Map reference: 8J Age Range: 3-7 years Admission places available to reception: 90 Head teacher: Mrs Audrey Kendall Tel: 020 8961 5336 DfE number: 3042019 On time applications made last year: 280 Leopold Hawkeshead (DfE number: 3042028) Admission places available to reception: 120 Head teacher: Mrs Naomi Ninvalle Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 294 Hawkeshead Road, Willesden NW10 9UR On time applications made last year: 346 Carlisle Gardens, Kenton HA3 0JX Map reference: 3E Map reference: 10K Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 680 Tel: 020 8907 5113 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Tel: 020 8459 5654 Fax: 020 8459 6245 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8907 2639 Accessibility: High Leopold Gwenneth Rickus Accessibility: Medium Admissions Officer: Mrs Nila Mistri (DfE number: 3049901) Admissions Officer: Mrs Barbara Cheltenham Email: [email protected] 242-250 Brentfield Road, Neasden, Email: [email protected] London, NW10 8HE See page 18 for important information Mount Stewart Junior School www.mstewartjnr.brent.sch.uk about how to apply. Age Range: 7-11 years Admission places available to Year 3: 90 Lyon Park Primary School www.lyonparkprimaryschool.co.uk DfE number: 3042018 On time applications made last year: 149 Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 120 Head teacher: Mrs Earnshaw Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 390 DfE number: 3042031 On time applications made last year: 235 Mount Stewart Avenue, Kenton HA3 0JX Map reference: 3E Head teacher: Mrs Nicola Yudin Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 986 Tel: 020 8907 1977 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Vincent Road, Wembley HA0 4HH Map reference: 5K Admissions Officer: Mrs Yasmin Deboo Accessibility: Medium Tel: 020 8902 5454 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): No Email: [email protected] Fax: 020 8903 3564 Accessibility: High Admissions Officer: Mrs Saman Chaudhry Newfield Primary School www.newfield.brent.sch.uk Email: [email protected] Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 60 DfE number: 3042064 On time applications made last year: 89 Malorees Infant School www.maloreesinfants.com Head teacher: Ms Sarah Bolt Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 413 Londstone Avenue, London NW10 3UD Map reference: 10K Age Range: 3-7 years Admission places available to reception: 60 Tel: 020 8961 1566 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC DfE number: 3042033 On time applications made last year: 243 Fax: 020 8961 8517 Accessibility: High Head teacher: Ms Sian Davies Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 242 Admissions Officer: Ms Penny Trotman Christchurch Avenue, London NW6 7PB Map reference: 13K Email: [email protected] Tel: 020 8459 3038 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): ASC Admissions Officer: Ms Clare Wood Accessibility: Medium Email: [email protected]
22 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 23 Northview Primary School www.northview.brent.sch.uk Roe Green Junior School www.rgjs.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 30 Age Range: 7-11 years Admission places available to Year 3: 120 DfE number: 3042034 On time applications made last year: 108 DfE number: 3042041 On time applications made last year: 169 Head teacher: Mr David Syed Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 235 Head teacher: Ms Melissa Loosemore Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 475 Northview Crescent, Neasden NW10 1RD Map reference: 10L Princes Avenue, Kingsbury NW9 9JL Map reference: 7C Tel: 020 8450 7982 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Tel: 020 8204 5221 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): ASC Fax: 020 8452 0817 Accessibility: High Fax: 020 8905 0256 Accessibility: High Admissions Officer: Mrs Michelle O’Connor Admissions Officer: Miss Lucy McDonnell Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Oliver Goldsmith Primary School www.olivergoldsmithschoolbrent.co.uk Salusbury Primary School www.salusbury.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 60 DfE number: 3042071 On time applications made last year: 224 Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 90 Head teacher: Mr James Simmons Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 462 DfE number: 3042070 On time applications made last year: 268 Coniston Gardens, Kingsbury NW9 0BD Map reference: 8D Head teacher: Mrs Debby Rigby Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 673 Tel: 020 8205 6038 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): ASC Salusbury Road, London NW6 6RG Map reference: 14L Fax: 020 8205 4987 Accessibility: Low Tel: 020 7624 0311/0250 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Admissions Officer: Mrs Teresa O’Connell Fax: 020 7328 1380 Accessibility: Low Email: [email protected] Admissions Officer: Mrs Elizabeth Villegas Email: [email protected] Park Lane Primary School www.parklane.brent.sch.uk Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 60 The Stonebridge School www.stonebridge.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 3042038 On time applications made last year: 294 Head teacher: Miss Enid Lewis Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 474 Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 90 Park Lane, Wembley HA9 7RY Map reference: 4I DfE number: 3042057 On time applications made last year: 85 Tel: 020 8902 5006 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Head teacher: Ms Sophie Allen Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 618 Fax: 020 8903 7939 Accessibility: High Shakespeare Avenue, Stonebridge Map reference: 8K Admissions Officer: Miss Sonia Penrose NW10 8NG Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Email: [email protected] Tel: 020 8965 6965 (Main Site) / Accessibility: Low 020 8963 1656 (Annexe Site) Preston Park Primary School www.prestonparkschool.co.uk Fax: 020 8838 0784 Admissions Officer: Mrs Alexandra Abd-Allah Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 120 Email: [email protected] DfE number: 3042039 On time applications made last year: 279 Head teacher: Miss Georgina Nutton Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 824 College Road, Wembley HA9 8RJ Map reference: 4F Uxendon Manor Primary School www.uxmanor.brent.sch.uk Tel: 020 8904 3602 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 120 Fax: 020 8904 8745 Accessibility: High DfE number: 3042020 On time applications made last year: 189 Admissions Officer: Ms Christine Harris Head teacher: Mr Jonathan Parry Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 543 Email: [email protected] Vista Way, Kenton, HA3 0UX Map reference: 4D Roe Green School www.rgreeninf.brent.sch.uk Tel: 020 8907 5019 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC Fax: 020 8907 2367 Accessibility: Medium Head teacher: Mrs Nicole Lobo Map reference: 3G Admissions Officers: Mrs Varsha Chandarana Roe Green Infants (DfE number: 3042042) Tel: 020 8904 5597 Email: [email protected] Age Range: 3-7 years Admissions Officer: Mrs Reema Vasa Princes Road, Kingsbury, NW9 9JL Admission places available to reception: 150 Map reference: 7C On time applications made last year: 290 Tel: 020 8204 3531 Fax: 020 8905 0256 Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 575 Admissions Officer: Mrs Manoja Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): ASC Wickramasinghe Accessibility: High Roe Green Strathcona (DfE: 3049902) Email: [email protected] Age Range: 4-11 years See page 18 for important information Strathcona Road, Wembley, HA9 8QL about how to apply.
24 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 25 Wembley Primary School www.wembleyprimary.co.uk Ark Academy Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 120 www.arkacademy.org DfE number: 304 6909 DfE number: 3043605 On time applications made last year: 477 Head teacher: Mr Rob Fenton Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 897 East Lane, Wembley HA9 7NW Map reference: 4H Head teacher: Mr Ian Doswell Admissions Criteria Tel: 020 8904 3725 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC 1. Looked After Children and children who have been Forty Avenue, Wembley, HA9 9JR Fax: 020 8901 9895 Accessibility: Medium previously looked after. Admissions Officer: Mrs Susanne Joseph/ Tel: 020 8385 4390 Mrs Maureen Roye-David Email: [email protected] 2. Children of staff at the school where there is a Email: [email protected] demonstrable skill shortage – Children of members of Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Clodagh Boyle staff will have priority in the oversubscription criteria if Wykeham Primary School www.wykeham.brent.sch.uk Academy Age range: 3 to 18 the staff member is filling a post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. Ark Academy is required Age Range: 3-11 years Admission places available to reception: 60 Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 420 to approve the Principal’s designation of such posts DfE number: 3042053 On time applications made last year: 243 Number of Reception places for 2017: 60 and confirm the assessment that a member of staff Head teacher: Mr Everton Sharpe Number of pupils on the roll at January 2016: 574 Number of on-time applications appointed meets the requirements of the shortage. Aboyne Road, Neasden NW10 0EX Map reference: 9H received for September 2016 admissions: 556 Priority will be limited to one place for each form of Tel: 020 8450 8425 Breakfast (BC) or after school club (ASC): BC, ASC entry in any year. Fax: 020 8450 8425 Accessibility: Medium Physical accessibility: Medium Admissions Officer: Mrs Harveen Sehra 3. Children who at the time of admission have a sibling Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC Email: [email protected] who attends the academy in Reception to Year 6. After school club (ASC): Sibling means a whole, half or step-brother or -sister or How places were offered for 2016: an adopted child resident at the same address. The fact Information about how Reception places were that an applicant has a sibling attending the nursery Academies, Foundation and Voluntary Aided offered in 2016 is available online at school will not be a factor giving rise to priority. www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers 4. Children of staff in the school –Where there is no primary schools in Brent demonstrable skill shortage, priority may be given In Year Applications where the academy is oversubscribed to a child of a n The admission criteria that are used to determine who n A summary of admission arrangements and detailed Apply to Ark Academy directly after 1 September 2017 person who will have been employed in the academy has priority for places at the schools listed below are information for each school is available on pages 27 to A supplementary information form is not required. for two or more years at the time the application for decided by the governing body or academy trust of 64. The full admission policies are available online at admission is made. Priority will be limited to one place each school. www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements for each form of entry in any year. 5. Distance measurement – A child’s home will be the Academies, Foundation and Voluntary Aided primary schools in Brent address at which the child normally resides and which has been notified to the academy and other relevant Ark Academy North West London Jewish St Joseph’s RC Junior School agencies as being the child’s normal place of residence. Ark Franklin Academy Day School St Joseph’s RC Primary School Measurements are made in a straight line to the Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Oakington Manor Primary School St Margaret Clitherow RC Primary school gate on Forty Avenue. Primary School Our Lady of Grace RC Primary School Chirst Church CofE Infant School St Mary Magdalen’s RC Tie Breaker Primary School Our Lady of Grace RC Junior School If Ark Academy is unable to distinguish between applicants Convent of Jesus & Mary RC Junior School St Mary’s CofE Primary School using the published criteria, including those who live in Infant School Our Lady of Lourdes RC St Mary’s RC Primary School blocks of flats with the same building entrance, places will Primary School Floreat Colindale Primary School St Robert Southwell RC be offered via a random draw which will be supervised by Furness Primary School Preston Manor School Primary School someone independent of the academy. Gladstone Park Primary School Princess Frederica CofE Sudbury Primary School View the complete admission arrangements online at Primary School Islamia Primary School The Kilburn Park Foundation www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements Sinai Jewish Primary School John Keble CofE Primary School Wembley High St Andrew & St Francis CofE Kilburn Grange School Technology College Primary School Malorees Junior School St Joseph’s RC Infant School
26 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 27 Ark Franklin Primary Academy Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School
www.arkfranklinprimary.org DfE number: 304 2021 www.torahtemimah.wordpress.com DfE number: 304 3603
1. Looked After Children as defined by the School Head teacher: Ms Janine Ryan Admissions Criteria Head teacher: Rabbi Yitzchak Freeman Admissions Code (2012) edition who are of the Faith. 1. Looked After Children and children who have been Harvist Road, London, NW6 6HJ Parkside, Dollis Hill, London NW2 6RJ previously looked after. 2. Children who have a sibling (including a half or step- Tel: 020 8969 3846 Tel: 020 8450 4377 brother) of the faith residing in the same household as Email: [email protected] 2. Children of staff at the school where there is a Email: [email protected] the applicant, at the school at the date of admission. demonstrable skill shortage – Children of members of Admissions enquiries to: Ms Lourdes De Lucia staff will have priority in the oversubscription criteria Admissions enquiries to: Mr Uri Kaplan 3. In respect of children who are of the faith, by a lottery (Lottery) to be conducted by a solicitor or chartered Academy Age range: 3 to 11 if the staff member is filling a post for which there is Voluntary Aided Age range: Boys aged 3 to 11 a demonstrable skill shortage. Ark Franklin Primary accountant of at least 10 years’ standing who is Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 647 Academy is required to approve the Principal’s designation Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 220 independent of the School and appointed for this Number of Reception places for 2017: 90 of such posts and confirm the assessment that a member Number of Reception places for 2017: 25 purpose by the Rabbinate. The Lottery will be held in the Number of on-time applications of staff appointed meets the requirements of the Number of on-time applications following order: received for September 2016 admissions: 277 received for September 2016 admissions: 36 shortage. Priority will be limited to one place for each 3.1. For those applicants whose father or guardian form of entry in any year. (i.e. maximum of 3 places) Physical accessibility: Low Physical accessibility: Low is a full time student in a Kollel approved by the 3. Children who at the time of admission have a sibling Rabbinate; Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC Breakfast club (BC) or No who attends the academy in Reception to Year 6. 3.2. Those applicants whose father is a Rabbi in a After school club (ASC): After school club (ASC): Sibling means a whole, half or step-brother or -sister or synagogue recognised by the Rabbinate; How places were offered for 2016: an adopted child resident at the same address. The fact How places were offered for 2016: 3.3. Those applicants whose parents or guardians are Information about how Reception places were that an applicant has a sibling attending the nursery Information about how Reception places were school will not be a factor giving rise to priority. active in a professional or voluntary capacity in a offered in 2016 is available online at offered in 2016 is available online at charity or communal organisation affiliated to or www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers 4. Children of staff in the school – Where there is no www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers recognised by the Rabbinate. demonstrable skill shortage, priority may be given where the In Year Applications In Year Applications academy is oversubscribed to a child of a person who will 4. All other applicants. Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team Apply to Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School have been employed in the academy for two or more years at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions directly after 1 September 2017 at the time the application for admission is made. Priority will Tie Breaker A supplementary information form is not required. be limited to one place for each form of entry in any year. A supplementary information form is required and Within each criterion the Lottery will be used as the tie- breaker. 5. Distance measurement – A child’s home will be the should be returned direct to the school. address at which the child normally resides and which Twins, Triplets and other children of has been notified to the academy and other relevant Admissions Criteria multiple births agencies as being the child’s normal place of residence. The overriding consideration is commitment to the practice of Orthodox Judaism (Faith), as determined from time to Applications on behalf of children of multiple births will Tie Breaker time by the Rabbinate of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew be considered treating each child as an independent If Ark Franklin Primary Academy is unable to distinguish Congregations (the Rabbinate). In the case of all applications application. between applicants using the published criteria, including The Admissions Authority will conduct enquiries to ascertain View the complete admission arrangements online at those who live in blocks of flats with the same building that the family of the applicant and (if different) the home in www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements/ entrance, places will be offered via a random draw which which the applicant spends most of his time abides by the will be supervised by someone independent of the academy. Shulchan Aruch and its commentaries, conduct themselves in accordance with the book Oz Vehadar Levusha by Twins, Triplets and other children of Elyahu Falk and that the applicant does not have access to multiple births the internet or television. A reference from the Rabbinate confirming the foregoing may be required. In the case of multiple births or brothers and sisters in the same year group, where there is only one place available in the Subject to the foregoing and adopted Protocols (formal academy, both will be considered together as one application. and informal) in respect of Hard to Place Children, where applications for admissions exceed the number of places View the complete admission arrangements online at available the following criteria are applied, in the order set www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements out below, to decide which children to admit:
28 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 29 Christ Church CofE Primary School
www.cchurch.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 304 3301
more years at the time at which the application for (OS) national grid references. The measuring system is an Head teacher: Ms Joy Donaldson admission to the school is made or the member of integral part of the admission software produced by Tribal Clarence Road, Willesden Lane, Brondesbury, London staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is Technology Ltd., uses OS maps and the LLPG (Local Land NW6 7TE a demonstrable skill shortage. Property Gazetteer) and is accurate to 1 metre. Tel: 020 7624 4967 6. Children of families who regularly worship at St. Email: [email protected] Exceptional circumstances Anne’s, Brondesbury, or at St Gabriel’s, Cricklewood. Priority will be given within each criterion to children Admissions enquiries to: Miss Juliet Hardwicke 7. Children of families of Christian denominations who with exceptional medical or social needs which are fully have attended regular worship at churches which are Voluntary Aided Age range: 3 to 11 documented and who, in the opinion of the governors, fully affiliated toChurches Together in Britain & Ireland would benefit from a place at Christ Church School. Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 208 or The Evangelical Alliance and who live within the Supporting evidence from a health professional (e.g. a Number of Reception places for 2017: 30 parish boundaries of Christ Church with St Laurence, doctor or social worker) is required detailing the particular Number of on-time applications Brondesbury. reasons as to why this school is the most suitable and the received for September 2016 admissions: 65 8. Children of families of other Christian denominations difficulties that would be caused if the child had to attend Physical accessibility: Medium who have attended regular worship and who live a different school. within the parish boundaries of Christ Church with St Breakfast club (BC) or BC Laurence, Brondesbury. Twins, Triplets and other children of After school club (ASC): 9. Children of families of other faiths who live within the multiple births How places were offered for 2016: parish boundaries of Christ Church with St Laurence, In processing applications in respect of twins, triplets or Information about how Reception places were Brondesbury. other multiple births, governors cannot agree to exceed offered in 2016 is available online at 10. Children of other families who live within the parish the class size. If governors are only able to offer one www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers boundaries of Christ Church with St Laurence, place to a family in these circumstances they will ask the parents if they are prepared for the children to be split In Year Applications Brondesbury. and to decide for which of the children they would wish Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team 11. Children of families of Christian denominations who to accept the place. at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions have regularly attended worship at churches which are fully affiliated toChurches Together in Britain & Ireland View the complete admission arrangements online at A supplementary information form is required and or The Evangelical Alliance and who live outside the www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements/ should be returned direct to the school. parish boundaries of Christ Church with St Laurence, Brondesbury. Admissions Criteria 12. Children of families of other Christian denominations 1. Looked after children and children who were looked who have regularly attended worship and who live after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted outside the parish boundaries of Christ Church with St (or became subject to a child arrangements order or Laurence, Brondesbury. special guardianship order). 13. Children of families of other faiths who live outside 2. Children of families who regularly worship at Christ the parish boundaries of Christ Church with St Church with St Laurence, Brondesbury. Laurence, Brondesbury. 3. Children who have a brother or sister already 14. Other applicants. attending Christ Church School (this refers to siblings in the nursery and the main school who will be on roll Tie Breaker at the time of application and are still there at the time Priority within any one criterion will be determined by of admission). considering which applicant has the shortest walking 4. Children eligible for the Early Year Pupil Premium, the route between their home and the school. This will be Pupil Premium or Service Premium. measured by the Local Authority using a computerised measuring system The distance from home to school will 5. Children of staff at the school where the member be measured by straight-line, from a point in the property of staff has been employed at the school for two or to a point in the school determined by Ordnance Survey
30 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 31 Convent of Jesus and Mary RC Infant School
www.cjminfantschool.co.uk DfE number: 304 3507
whose parent is employed as a permanent member of Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any Head teacher: Mrs Teresa O’Higgins staff at the Convent of Jesus and Mary Catholic Infant of the sub-categories above would still lead to over- 21 Park Avenue, Willesden Green, London NW2 5AN School & Nursery and whose application is supported subscription, the places up to the admission number Tel: 020 8459 5890 by a Certificate of Catholic Practice. will be offered according to distance as measured on a Email: [email protected] straight line on a large map. Distance will be measured 5. Baptised Catholic children of ‘practising families’ who in a straight line from the front door of the child’s home Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Catherine Doig are resident in other parishes and whose application is address (including flats) to the main entrance of the supported by a Certificate of Catholic Practice. Voluntary Aided Age range: 3 to 11 school by the Local Authority’s computerised measuring 6. Other baptised Catholic children whose application is system, with those living closer to the school receiving the Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 326 supported by a Certificate of Catholic Practice. higher priority. Number of Reception places for 2017: 90 7. Other baptised Catholic children. Number of on-time applications Twins, Triplets and other children of received for September 2016 admissions: 206 8. Other Looked After Children and other children who have been adopted (or subject to Child Arrangements multiple births Physical accessibility: Low Order or special guardianship orders) immediately Parents are advised that should the cut off point for Year following having been looked after. 3 divide twins or multiple siblings these siblings will be Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC admitted. After school club (ASC): 9. Catechumens and members of the Eastern Orthodox Church whose application is supported with a letter View the complete admission arrangements online at How places were offered for 2016: confirming membership of the faith community. www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements Information about how Reception places were offered in 2016 is available online at 10. Christian children of other Christian denominations www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers who subscribe to the Catholic faith and whose application is supported with a letter confirming In Year Applications membership of the faith community. Apply to Convent of Jesus and Mary RC Infant School 11. Applications from children of other faiths who directly after 1 September 2017 subscribe to the Catholic faith and whose application A supplementary information form is required and is supported with a letter confirming membership of should be returned direct to the school. the faith community. 12. Any other children. Admissions Criteria Exceptional Need 1. Catholic Looked After Children and Catholic children who have been adopted (or subject to Child The Governing Body will give top priority after the Arrangements Order or special guardianship orders) appropriate category of’ looked-after children’, to an immediately following having been looked after. application (where compelling evidence is provided at the time of application, from an appropriate professional 2. Baptised Catholic children of ‘practising families’ who such as a doctor, priest or social worker) of an exceptional are resident in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen’s, social, medical, pastoral or other need of the child, which Willesden Green and the Parish of the Church of can be only be met at this school. the Transfiguration, Kensal Rise whose application is supported by a Certificate of Catholic Practice. Tie-Breaker 3. Baptised Catholic children of ‘practising families’ who Within each criterion applicants will be ranked in the are resident in parishes bordering St Mary Magdalen’s following order: Willesden Green (The Transfiguration Kensal Rise, St Mary’s & St Andrews Dollis Hill, Our Lady of Willesden 1. Children who have a sibling in the Convent of Jesus Harlesden, St Agnes 2 Cricklewood, St Patrick’s, and Mary Catholic Infant School at the time of Neasden) and whose application is supported by a application. Certificate of Catholic Practice. 2. Children with a sibling in St. Mary Magdalen’s Catholic 4. Baptised Catholic children of ‘practising families’ Junior School at the time of application.
32 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 33 Floreat Colindale Primary School Furness Primary School
www.floreatcolindale.org.uk DfE number: 304 2036 www.furness.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 304 2067
Head teacher: Ms Naila Noye-Allen Admissions Criteria Head teacher: Mrs Sylvia Libson Admissions Criteria 1. A looked after child or a child who was previously looked 1. Children in public care (sometimes referred to as 434 Church Lane, London, NW9 8BD (temporary site) Furness Road, Harlesden NW10 5YT after but immediately after being looked after became Looked After Children) or a child who was previously Tel: 020 8353 4195 (option 3) Tel: 020 8965 5977 subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special looked after but immediately after being looked after Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] guardianship order. became subject to an adoption, child arrangements, or special guardianship order. Admissions enquiries to: Ms Charlotte Pearce Cornish 2. Children for whom it is essential to be admitted to the Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Morcene Thompson Free School Age range: 4 to 11 school because of special circumstances to do with Academy Age range: 3 to 11 2. Where the child has a sibling currently attending the school significant medical needs or social needs. and will continue to do so on the date of admission. Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 538 3. Brothers or sisters of a child who attends the school and Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, The school will open in September 2017 Number of Reception places for 2017: 60 who will continue to do so on the date of admission. adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, or the Number of Reception places for 2017: 30 Number of on-time applications child of the parent / carer’s partner where the child for 4. Children who are eligible for the pupil premium, received for September 2016 admissions: 118 whom the school place is sought is living in the same Physical accessibility: Medium including the service premium. Physical accessibility: Low family unit at the same address as that sibling. Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC 5. Children whose permanent home address is a shorter 3. Children whose parent is a member of staff at Oakington After school club (ASC): distance from the school. Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC After school club (ASC): Manor School or Furness School and has been employed How places were offered for 2016: Tie Breaker at the school for at least two years at the time of Information about how Reception places were How places were offered for 2016: application or is being recruited to fill a vacancy for which offered in 2016 is available online at Within criterion 2-3 priority will be given to the applicant Information about how Reception places were there is a skill shortage. www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers who lives closer to the school. Where more than one offered in 2016 is available online at 4. Proximity of the child’s home to the school, with those applicant applies from the same address, e.g. a block of www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers In Year Applications flats places will be allocated by random allocation. In the living nearer being accorded the higher priority. (Please Apply to Furness Primary School directly after 1 event that the distances are equal in any criterion, random In Year Applications see Tie Breaker for details of how distance will be September 2017 allocation determines which applicant should be offered the Apply to Furness Primary School directly after 1 measured). place. September 2017 A supplementary information form is NOT required Tie Breaker A supplementary information form is not required. Distance When there is more than one applicant that meets The distance from home to school is measured by straight- the criterion stated above, priority will be given to the line, from a point in the property to a point in the school applicant who lives closer to the school. Where applicants determined by the grid references for the centre of the live in the same block of flats, internal walkways will school’s postcode. The measuring system is an integral part be treated as public rights of way when calculating the of the admission software produced by Tribal Technology distance travelled. Ltd. It uses Ordnance Survey maps and the LLPG (Local Land Distance will be measured by the shortest walking route Property Gazetteer) and is accurate to 1 metre. from the front door of the child’s home address (including View the complete admission arrangements online at flats) to the main entrance to the school, with those living www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements closer to the school receiving the higher priority. Twins, Triplets and other children of multiple births In the event that the school has one place to offer and the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets or other children of multiple births, the Governing Body will randomly select the child to offer the place to. Parents will then be informed that they may prefer the other, or another, child to have the place instead of the child randomly selected. View the complete admission arrangements online at www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements
34 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 35 Gladstone Park Primary School Islamia Primary School
www.gladpark.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 304 2022 www.islamiaprimary.org.uk DfE number: 304 5949
example a medical consultant, head teacher of current 6. Other Muslim children who meet the religious practice Head teacher: Mrs Angela Anterkyi Head teacher: Mrs Zahida Shaheem school or other appropriate officer. test who live outside the catchment area and do not Sherrick Green Road, London NW10 1LB 129 Salusbury Road, London NW6 6PE have a sibling at the school or a sibling who is due 4. Brothers or sisters of a child who attends the school, Tel: 020 8452 1350 Tel: 020 7372 2532 to be attending the school at the proposed date of or an infant or junior school on the same or adjoining Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] admission of the applicant. site, and who will continue to do so on the date of Admissions enquiries to: Ms Dee Edghill admission. This includes half and step brothers and Admissions enquiries to: Miss Nilofar Pathan 7. Any other looked after children or previously looked sisters and foster children so long as they live at the after children. Academy Age range: 3 to 11 same address - but not cousins. Siblings attending the Voluntary Aided Age range: 4 to 11 8. Any other children. same school should have priority over those attending Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 674 Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 415 a separate school on the same site. Number of Reception places for 2017: 90 Number of Reception places for 2017: 60 Tie breaker Number of on-time applications 5. Children living within the school’s catchment area. Number of on-time applications If the number of applicants within any of the above over- received for September 2016 admissions: 215 received for September 2016 admissions: 244 6. All other applicants. subscription categories exceeds the number of places available at the school, places will be offered in any over- Physical accessibility: Medium Physical accessibility: High Tie Breaker subscription category according to the distance from the Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC Breakfast club (BC) or After school club (ASC): BC front door of the child’s home to the main entrance of the Within each criterion priority will be given to the applicant After school club (ASC): school and those living closer to the school will be offered who lives closer to the school. This will be judged by the How places were offered for 2016: places before those living further away. How places were offered for 2016: shortest measured walking distance using road networks Information about how Reception places were Information about how Reception places were including public rights of way from the child’s home to offered in 2016 is available online at In the event of a tie, after all other over-subscription offered in 2016 is available online at the school main gate. Where a school has more than one www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers criteria have been applied; the final place will be allocated www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers gate as defined in the admission arrangements distances using random allocation. Where random allocation is will be measured to the main school gate from the child’s In Year Applications used to determine admission in these circumstances, the In Year Applications home. Where schools have an agreed travel plan, this will Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team use of random allocation will be supervised by a person Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team also include any routes that schools have determined as at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions appointed by the school but who is independent of the at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions being ‘safe routes to walk’. The travel plan used for this school and of its Foundation Trust. A supplementary information form is required and purpose will be the plan that is used by the school at the A supplementary information form is not required. should be returned direct to the school. closing date for applications. Distance and catchment area The distance of a child’s home from the school will be Admissions Criteria Twins, Triplets and other children of Admissions Criteria measured on a straight line basis from the front door 1. A looked after child or a child who was previously multiple births 1. Looked after Muslim children and previously looked after of the child’s home address to the main entrance of looked after but immediately after being looked after In the event that the school has one place to offer and Muslim children who meet the religious practice test. the school using the local authority’s computerised became subject to an adoption, residence, or special measuring system. the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets 2. Muslim children who meet the religious practice test who guardianship order. or other children of multiple births, the local authority will live within the catchment area and have a sibling at the The school’s “catchment area” is the area within the 2. Children attending an infant school on the same offer both twins, all triplets or children of multiple births school or a sibling who is due to be attending the school boundaries of the London Borough of Brent and South of site as a junior school. This criterion will only affect a place, even if this means temporarily going over the at the proposed date of admission of the applicant. the North Circular (A406). A map of the catchment area is admission to a junior school that is on the same site as school’s published admissions number. available to view at the school. 3. Other Muslim children who meet the religious practice test the infant school the child attends immediately prior to View the complete admission arrangements online at who live outside the catchment area and have a sibling at the transfer. www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements the school who was on the school roll in September 2012. Twins, Triplets and other children of 3. Children for whom it is essential to be admitted to a multiple births 4. Muslim children who meet the religious practice test who specific school because of special circumstances to do live within the catchment area and do not have a sibling Where a single place remains available at the school and with significant medical needs, social needs or Special at the school or a sibling who is due to be attending the the application being considered is for multiple birth Educational Needs (SEN). school at the proposed date of admission of the applicant. children, the school will allocate above its published admission number to admit each child. It is open to any parent to make an application under 5. Other Muslim children who meet the religious practice View the complete admission arrangements online at this criterion. The application should be supported, test who live outside the catchment area and have www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements where possible, with a recommendation in writing a sibling at the school or a sibling who is due to from a recognised professional of senior status, for be attending the school at the proposed date of admission of the applicant.
36 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 37 John Keble CofE Primary School Kilburn Grange School
www.johnkeble.com DfE number: 304 3302 www.kilburngrangeschool.org.uk DfE number: 304 2035
parent/carer’s partner where the child for whom the cemeteries, golf courses and any other enclosed spaces Head teacher: Mrs Catherine Allard Head teacher: Miss Helen Richardson school place is sought is living in the same family unit will not be used. Applicants will be prioritised by distance Crownhill Road, London NW10 4DR at the same address as that sibling but not cousins.) Priory Park Road, Kilburn, London NW6 7UJ (starting with the nearest). Proximity to school is measured Tel: 020 8965 5072 An application made under this category will only be Tel: 020 7504 0547 on a computerised mapping system using the shortest Email: [email protected] considered if the sibling will continue to attend on the Email: [email protected] route by road or maintained footpath measurement. date of admission. Routes will be calculated from the home address (as Admissions enquiries to: Ms Cleide Kennedy Admissions enquiries to: Ms Alison Thomas determined by the borough council in which the child 6. Children with medical, special educational or pastoral lives) to the main entrance of the school (as determined Voluntary Aided Age range: 3 to 11 needs that can be substantiated by the local church, Free School Age range: 4 to 11 by the London Borough of Brent). health authority or social worker. The supporting Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 425 Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 52 evidence should set out the particular reasons why the In the event that two or more children live at the same Number of Reception places for 2017: 60 Number of Reception places for 2017: 60 school is the most suitable school and the difficulties distance from the school, the tie breaker will be random Number of on-time applications Number of on-time applications that would be caused if the child had to attend allocation, where the supervised drawing of lots by an received for September 2016 admissions: 111 received for September 2016 admissions: 120 another school. independent responsible person of good standing will Physical accessibility: Medium Physical accessibility: High be used to decide which child(ren) will be allocated the 7. Children of other faiths or none, who live within the remaining place(s). Breakfast club (BC) or N/A Anglican parish boundaries of All Souls’, St Matthew’s or Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC After school club (ASC): St Michael’s churches and whose parents have chosen After school club (ASC): Multiple Births this school for the type of education that it provides. How places were offered for 2016: How places were offered for 2016: In cases of multiple births where there is only one place 8. All other applicants. Information about how Reception places were Information about how Reception places were available, and the next child on the list is a twin, triplet, offered in 2016 is available online at Tie breaker offered in 2016 is available online at or other example of multiple birth, we would admit both www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers twins (and all the children in the case of other multiple When deciding between applicants who, ostensibly, have births) even if this meant exceeding the agreed admission In Year Applications In Year Applications equal entitlement under the above criteria, the Governors number of 60 for reception 2017/18 or the number of Apply to John Keble CofE Primary School directly after Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team will have regard to: places in other year groups. 1 September 2017 at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions Distance: will be measured by the shortest walking route View the complete admission arrangements online at A supplementary information form is required and from the front door of the child’s home address (including A supplementary information form is not required. www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements should be returned direct to the school. flats), [using the Local Authority’s computerised measuring system] with those living closer to the school receiving the Admissions Criteria Admissions Criteria higher priority. 1. Looked After Children and Previously Looked After 1. Looked After Children and children who have been Twins, Triplets and other children of Children. looked after previously. multiple births 2. Children with a sibling at the school at the time of 2. Children whose parents are committed members of As a rule the school will not admit more than 30 children admission. All Soul’s Harlesden, St Matthew’s Willesden or St to a class. However, in the event that the school has one 3. Children of staff at the school. Michael’s Stonebridge. place to offer and the next child is one of twins, triplets 4. Proximity to the school. This will be measured by 3. Children whose parents are committed members in or other children of multiple births, the Governing Body the shortest walking distance by road or maintained another Anglican Church. will in the first instance consider admitting all the children footpath or other public rights of way from the pupil’s if the school’s resources at the time can accommodate 4. Children whose parents are committed members in home, to the main entrance point of the school using it. Should that not be possible, the Governing Body will churches and chapels of other Christian denominations, a GIS computerised mapping system. which are members of or affiliated to Churches randomly select the child to offer the place to. Parents / Together in Britain and Ireland and the Evangelical Carers will have the right to choose the other, or another Tie Breaker Alliance Children. child, have the place instead of the child initially randomly selected. Proximity of the child’s home to the school, with those 5. Children with siblings in the school and children of living nearer being accorded the higher priority, will also View the complete admission arrangements online at staff who will be currently employed by the school serve to differentiate between pupils in criteria 2-4 if the www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements at the beginning of the school year. (Sibling refers to need arises. Proximity to the school will be measured brother or sister, half brother or sister, adopted brother by the shortest route by road or maintained footpath or sister, step brother or sister, or the child of the or other public rights of way. Paths through car parks,
38 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 39 Malorees Junior School North West London Jewish Day School
www.maloreesjuniorschool.co.uk DfE number: 304 5202 www.nwljds.org.uk DfE number: 304 5201
6. Priority children of regular worshippers at other Head teacher: Ms Sian Davies Admissions Criteria Head teacher: Ms Judith Caplan Orthodox Synagogues. 1. Looked after children/ previously looked after children. Christchurch Avenue, London NW6 7PB 180 Willesden Lane, London NW6 7PP 7. Other Priority children. Tel: 020 8459 5452 2. Children attending Year 2 of Malorees Infant School Tel: 020 8459 3378 Email: [email protected] at the time of application and who have a sibling who Email: [email protected] 8. Other Looked After and Previously Looked After currently attends the Junior school who will continue children. Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Nadine Tester Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Naomi Landy to do so on the date of admission. 9. All other children. Foundation Age range: 7 to 11 Academy Age range: 3 to 11 A sibling is defined as a brother or sister, step or half Priority applicants will be ranked according to the points brother or sister, adopted brother or sister residing at Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 238 Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 275 achieved on the SIF. the same address. Number of Reception places for 2017: 60 Number of Reception places for 2017: 35 Number of on-time applications 3. Children attending Malorees Infant School at the time Number of on-time applications Tie Breaker received for September 2016 admissions: 113 of application who do not fulfil criterion 2. received for September 2016 admissions: 57 Proximity of the child’s home to the School’s main gate, as measured in a straight line, with those living Physical accessibility: Medium 4. Other children who currently have a sibling at Physical accessibility: Medium Malorees Junior School and will continue to do so on nearer the School being accorded the higher priority. Breakfast club (BC) or ASC the date of admission Breakfast club (BC) or ASC Measurements will be taken from the front door of the After school club (ASC): After school club (ASC): child’s home address (including flats) to the main entrance 5. Children for whom it is essential to be admitted of the School, using the Local Authority’s computerised How places were offered for 2016: because of special circumstances to do with significant How places were offered for 2016: measuring system. Information about how Reception places were medical or special educational needs. Information about how Reception places were Where the Distance Tie-Break does not produce a clear offered in 2016 is available online at It is open to any parent to make an application under offered in 2016 is available online at www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers outcome (i.e. two children live precisely the same distance this criterion. The application should be supported from the school), the place will be determined by random In Year Applications with a written statement of educational needs. The In Year Applications allocation supervised by a person independent of the Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team recommendation for this specific school should Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team school. This tie-break will apply in the case of non-Priority at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions demonstrate knowledge of Malorees Junior School in at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions applicants as well. terms of resources and organisation which deems it A supplementary information form is not required. essential that the named pupil be admitted to the school. A supplementary information form is required and Twins, Triplets and other children of This criterion relates to the child’s special needs and not should be returned direct to the school. to any member of the child’s family. This does not apply multiple births to children with statements of Special Educational Need Admissions Criteria In the event that the School has one place to offer and who have the school named on their statement. the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets 1. Looked After and previously Looked After Priority or other children of multiple births, the Admissions 6. Proximity of the child’s home to the school, with children. Committee will exceed the planned admission number those living nearer to the school entrance gate being 2. Priority children with siblings at the School. Sibling when one of the siblings is the 35th child. accorded the higher priority. connection will only be considered if the sibling will be View the complete admission arrangements online at Tie Breaker attending the school at the time of application. www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements Where there is more than one applicant who meets the 3. Priority children with a sibling who has previously criterion above, priority will be given to the applicant attended the School for a minimum period of five who lives closer to the school. This will be judged by the years, providing the child is residing within three miles shortest measured walking distance by public right of way of the School. from the home to the school gate. 4. Priority children of members of staff who have been View the complete admission arrangements online at employed at the School for a minimum of two years www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements at the time of application or who have been recruited to fill a post for which there is a demonstrable skills shortage. 5. Children of regular worshippers at Orthodox Synagogues within a three mile radius of the School’s main gate who have scored a minimum of 34 points on the SIF.
40 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 41 Oakington Manor Primary School Our Lady of Grace RC Infant School
www.oakmanor.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 304 5200 www.ologinfants.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 304 3510
6. Baptised Catholic children with a Certificate of Head teacher: Mrs Sylvia Libson Admissions Criteria Head teacher: Mrs Philomena Bourne Catholic Practice, resident in other parishes. 1. Children in public care (sometimes referred to as Oakington Manor Drive, Wembley HA9 6NF Dollis Hill Avenue, London NW2 6EU Looked After Children) or a child who was previously 7. Other Catholic children. Tel: 020 8902 2871 Tel: 020 8450 6757 looked after but immediately after being looked after Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 8. Other looked after children and previously looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements, or children who have now been adopted or who are now Admissions enquiries to: Ms Karen Tomlin special guardianship order. Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Irene Cunniffe subject to a child arrangements or special guardianship order. Academy Age range: 3 to 11 2. Where the child has a sibling currently attending the school Voluntary Aided Age range: 3 to 7 and will continue to do so on the date of admission. 9. Children of Catechumens and members of the Eastern Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 746 Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 230 Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, Orthodox Churches. Number of Reception places for 2017: 90 Number of Reception places for 2017: 60 adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, or the Number of on-time applications Number of on-time applications 10. Children from other Christian Churches. child of the parent / carer’s partner where the child for received for September 2016 admissions: 317 received for September 2016 admissions: 163 whom the school place is sought is living in the same 11. Any other children. family unit at the same address as that sibling. Physical accessibility: Medium Physical accessibility: High Tie Break 3. Children whose parent is a member of staff at Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any Oakington Manor School or Furness School and has After school club (ASC): After school club (ASC): of the sub-categories listed above would still lead to been employed at the school for at least two years at oversubscription, places up to the admission number will How places were offered for 2016: the time of application or is being recruited to fill a How places were offered for 2016: be offered to those living nearest to the school as measured Information about how Reception places were vacancy for which there is a skill shortage. Information about how Reception places were (by the shortest walking route) from the front door of the offered in 2016 is available online at offered in 2016 is available online at 4. Proximity of the child’s home to the school, with those child’s home address (including flats) to the main entrance www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers living nearer being accorded the higher priority. (Please of the school located on Dollis Hill Ave (using the local In Year Applications see Tie Breaker for details of how distance will be In Year Applications authority’s computerised measuring system) Apply to Oakington Manor Primary School directly after measured). Apply to Our Lady of Grace RC Infant School directly 1 September 2017 after 1 September 2017 Exceptional Need Tie Breaker A supplementary information form is not required. A supplementary information form is required and The Governing Body will give top priority, after the When there is more than one applicant that meets the should be returned direct to the school. appropriate category of looked-after children, to an criterion stated above, priority will be given to the applicant application where compelling evidence is provided at who lives closer to the school. Where applicants live in the the time of application, from an appropriate professional same block of flats, internal walkways will be treated as Admissions Criteria such as a doctor, priest or social worker, of an exceptional public rights of way when calculating the distance travelled. 1. Catholic looked after children and previously looked social, medical, pastoral or other need of the child, which Distance will be measured by the shortest walking route after children who have now been adopted or who are can only be met at this school. from the front door of the child’s home address (including now subject to a child arrangements order or special flats) to the main entrance to the school, with those living guardianship order. Twins, Triplets and other children of closer to the school receiving the higher priority. 2. Baptised Catholic children with a Certificate of multiple births Catholic Practice of Catholic staff, where the member Parents are advised that where the final place is offered to Twins, Triplets and other children of of staff has been an employee of the school for at a child who has other siblings applying for a place in the multiple births least two years at the time of application. same school year, these siblings will also be admitted. In the event that the school has one place to offer and 3. Baptised Catholic children with a Certificate of View the complete admission arrangements online at the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets Catholic Practice who have siblings at the Infant or www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements or other children of multiple births, the Governing Body Junior School at the time of application. will randomly select the child to offer the place to. Parents 4. Baptised Catholic children with a Certificate of will then be informed that they may prefer the other, Catholic Practice who are resident in the parish of St or another, child to have the place instead of the child Mary and St Andrew, Dollis Hill. randomly selected. 5. Baptised Catholic children with a Certificate of View the complete admission arrangements online at Catholic Practice attending Our Lady of Grace Nursery www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements who are not included in criteria 1-4
42 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 43 Our Lady of Grace RC Junior School Our Lady of Lourdes RC Primary School
www.ourladyofgracejuniors.co.uk DfE number: 304 3500 www.lourdes.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 304 3508
7. Applications for other looked after children and children 6. Children of catechumens and members of an Eastern Head teacher: Mr Steve McGrath Head teacher: Mrs Mary Bickerstaff who have been adopted or made subject to child Christian Church. Dollis Hill Lane, London NW2 6HS arrangements order or special guardianship orders. Wesley Road, Stonebridge NW10 8PP 7. Christians of other denominations whose application is Tel: 020 8450 6002 Tel: 020 8961 5037 8. Applications for children of catechumens* and supported by a letter from their Minister of Religion. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] members of the Eastern Orthodox Churches. 8. Children of other faiths whose application is supported Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Eileen O’Carroll 9. Applications for other Christian children who are in Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Marion Fogarty by a letter from their Religious Leader. Year 2 at Our Lady of Grace Infants School. Voluntary Aided Age range: 7 to 11 Voluntary Aided Age range: 3 to 11 9. Any other children 10. Applications for children in other Christian Churches. Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 240 Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 232 Tie Breaker Number of Reception places for 2017: 60 11. Applications for any other children Number of Reception places for 2017: 30 Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any Number of on-time applications Number of on-time applications of the sub-categories listed above would still lead to received for September 2016 admissions: 120 Tie Breaker received for September 2016 admissions: 76 oversubscription, the places up to the admission number If there are more applicants meeting a particular criterion Physical accessibility: Low/Medium Physical accessibility: Low will be offered to those living nearest to the school as than there are places available, places will be offered to measured in a straight line from the applicant’s home to Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC applicants in the following order: Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC the school. The measurement will be conducted by the After school club (ASC): After school club (ASC): i. Children who have a sibling in Our Lady of Grace Junior Local Authority (LA). How places were offered for 2016: School and who will continue to be on roll at the date of How places were offered for 2016: Information about how Reception places were admission. Information about how Reception places were Exceptional Need offered in 2016 is available online at ii. Children who have a sibling in Our Lady of Grace offered in 2016 is available online at The Governing Body will give top priority, after the www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers Infants School and who will continue to be on roll at the www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers appropriate category of looked- after children, to an date of admission. application where compelling evidence is provided at In Year Applications In Year Applications the time of application, from an appropriate professional Apply to Our Lady of Grace RC Junior School directly Where there is more than one applicant that meets a Apply to Our Lady of Lourdes RC Primary School such as a doctor, priest or social worker, of an exceptional after 1 September 2017 criterion above, priority will be given to the applicant that directly after 1 September 2017 social, medical, pastoral or other need of the child, which lives closer to the school. This will be judged by the shortest can only be met at this school. A supplementary information form is required and measured walking distance by road networks and public A supplementary information form is required and should be returned direct to the school. right of way from the front door of the applicant’s home should be returned direct to the school. (including flats) to the front door of the school (using the Twins, Triplets and other children of Admissions Criteria local authority’s computerised measuring system). If two or Admissions Criteria multiple births more applicants’ homes are equidistant to the school, the Where the final place is offered to a child who has other 1. Applications for Catholic looked after children and 1. Catholic “looked after” children and previously place will be chosen by random allocation in the presence of children who have been adopted or made subject to “looked after” children, who have been adopted or siblings applying for a place in the same school year, these an independent witness. child arrangements order or special guardianship orders. made subject to child arrangements orders or special siblings will also be admitted. guardianship orders. View the complete admission arrangements online at 2. Applications for baptised, Catholic children in Year 2 of Exceptional Circumstances www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements Our Lady of Grace Infant School. The Governors will give top priority, within each criterion, 2. Baptised Catholic children from practising Catholic families, who are resident in the Parishes of The Five 3. Baptised Catholic children of Catholic staff with a to an application for a child who has demonstrated, at Precious Wounds and St. Patrick’s, whose application is Certificate of Catholic Practice, where the member of the time of application, an exceptional medical, social or supported by a Certificate of Catholic Practice. staff has been a permanent employee of the school for pastoral need. at least two years at the time of application. 3. Baptised Catholic children from practising Catholic Twins, Triplets and other children of families who are resident in all other parishes whose 4. Applications for baptised Catholic children, with a application is supported by a Certificate of Catholic Certificate of Catholic Practice, who are resident in the multiple births Practice. Parish of St. Mary and St. Andrew. Parents are advised that should the cut off point for Year 3 4. Other Baptised Catholic children. 5. Applications for baptised Catholic children, with a divide twins or multiple siblings these siblings will be admitted. Certificate of Catholic Practice, who are not resident in View the complete admission arrangements online at 5. Other ‘looked after’ children and previously ‘looked the Parish of St. Mary and St. Andrew. www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements after’ children who have been adopted or made subject to child arrangements orders or special guardianship 6. Applications for other baptised Catholic children. orders.
44 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 45 Preston Manor School Princess Frederica CofE Primary School
www.preston-manor.com DfE number: 304 5410 www.princessfrederica.com DfE number: 304 3303
the same address as that sibling but not cousins). Head teacher: Mr Rob Fenton Admissions Criteria Head teacher: Ms Beatrix Simpson 1. Children in public care (looked after children) D1. Siblings with religious reference forms from St Princess Avenue, Wembley, Middlesex, HA9 8LZ College Road, London, NW10 5TP Marks or St Martins. Tel: 020 8385 4089 2. Children who have a brother or sister (including blood, Tel: 020 8969 7756 Email: [email protected] half, step, adoptive or foster who live at the same home Email: [email protected] D2. Siblings with religious reference forms from other address) attending the school in the year in which the Anglican and Christian denominations and other world Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Lucy Allman application is made and will continue to be on roll at Voluntary Aided Age range: 3 to 11 faiths. Academy Age range: 4 to 18 the date of admission. Brother or sister connections will Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 432 D3. All other siblings. only be considered if the brother or sister is currently Number of Reception places for 2017: 60 Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 420 An application made under this category will only be attending the school including the sixth form and will Number of on-time applications Number of Reception places for 2017: 60 considered if the older sibling will continue to attend on continue to be on roll on the date of admission. received for September 2016 admissions: 196 Number of on-time applications the date of admission. Where the number of applicants 3. Children for whom it is essential to be admitted to received for September 2016 admissions: 275 Physical accessibility: Medium exceeds vacancies in this category, priority will first be Preston Manor School because of special circumstances given to applicants with siblings on roll the longest in the Physical accessibility: High to do with significant medical needs, social needs or Breakfast club (BC) or ASC school then by distance where there is a tie and if the special educational needs. After school club (ASC): distance calculated for different applicants is the same, Breakfast club (BC) or BC priority will be given to the older sibling with the highest After school club (ASC): 4. Children who have attended Preston Manor Lower How places were offered for 2016: attendance record in the previous academic year. School and completed Year 6. Information about how Reception places were How places were offered for 2016: 5. Children of Preston Manor School staff, teaching and offered in 2016 is available online at E. Children who live in the parish boundary of St Marks Information about how Reception places were non teaching, who have been employed for two or www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers (Bathurst Gardens) and St Martin’s (Mortimer Road). A offered in 2016 is available online at more years, or who will meet a skills shortage. map of the parish boundary is available on our website or www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers In Year Applications the school office. 6. Proximity to the school (for children who do not fall within Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team In Year Applications criteria 1-5 distance will be measured in a straight line from at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions E1. Children with religious reference forms from St Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team the front door of the child’s permanent address (including Marks or St Martins. at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions A supplementary information form is required and flats) to the school reception, [using the Local Authority’s E2. Children with religious reference forms from other should be returned direct to the school. A supplementary information form is not required. computerised measuring system], with those living nearest Anglican, Christian denominations and other world to the school being accorded the highest priority. The faiths. method used by the LA will be adopted when measuring Admissions Criteria E3. Children whose parents/careers have chosen this home to school distance and when selecting between A. Looked-after children and children who were previously church school for the type of education that it provides applicants with equal priority and those living in flats. looked after, but ceased to be so because, immediately after and accept the Christian aims and values of Princess being looked after, they became subject to an adoption, Frederica. Tie Breaker child arrangements or special guardianship order.” If two or more students have equal priority under criteria F. Children who do not live in the parish boundary of B. Children of staff members who have been employed 1-5, the criterion of proximity to the school will apply with St Marks (Bathurst Gardens) and St Martin’s (Mortimer at the school for two or more years at the time of those living nearest to the school (in a straight line from Road). A map of the parish boundary is available on our application or have been recruited to fill a vacancy for the front door of the child’s permanent address to the website or the school office. which there is a demonstrable skill shortage school reception) being accorded the highest priority. F1. Children with religious reference forms from St C. Children enrolled in our nursery class will be offered a Marks or St Martins. Twins, Triplets and other children of place in our reception class should they apply for it like all multiple births other applicants. New CAF and SIF application forms must F2. Children with religious reference forms from other be submitted. The above does not disadvantage new Anglican, Christian denominations and other world In the event that the school has one place to offer and parents wishing their children to join our reception class faiths. the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets or as we have one nursery class and two reception classes. F3. Children whose parents/careers have chosen this other children of multiple births, the policy of the school church school for the type of education that it provides is not to separate them even if this means that the school D. Children who already have siblings in the school. and accept the Christian values of Princess Frederica. will temporarily go over the published Admissions Number. (Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, or the child G. All other applicants. View the complete admission arrangements online at of the parent/carer’s partner where the child for whom the www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements school place is sought is living in the same family unit at
46 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 47 Tie Breaker Sinai Jewish Primary School Children’s applications for criteria D1, D2, E1, E2, F1 and F2 will be ranked according to number of points awarded www.sinaischool.com DfE number: 304 3601 on the religious reference form, starting with the highest number of points. When deciding between applicants Admissions Criteria who, ostensibly, have equal entitlement under the above Head teacher: Mr Robert Leach criteria, the governors will have regard to: 1. Children who are looked after by a local authority, Shakespeare Drive, Kenton HA3 9UD or a child who was previously looked after, with a Distance: will be measured by the shortest walking route Tel: 020 8204 1550 completed and valid Certificate of Religious Practice from the front door of the child’s home address (including Email: [email protected] (CRP). flats) to the main entrance of the school, using the local Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Emma Angel authority’s computerised measuring system with those 2. Children currently attending Sinai’s Nursery who are in living closer to the school receiving the higher priority. Voluntary Aided Age range: 3 to 11 receipt of early years‟ pupil premium, with a completed and valid CRP. Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 657 Twins, Triplets and other children of 3. Siblings of pupils attending the School on the date of Number of Reception places for 2017: 90 multiple births admission, with a completed and valid CRP. Number of on-time applications As a rule the school will not admit more than 30 children received for September 2016 admissions: 237 Siblings include brothers, sisters, half-siblings, foster to a class. However, in the event that the school has one siblings, step-siblings, adopted siblings and other place to offer and the next child is one of twins, triplets or Physical accessibility: Low/Medium children living permanently in the same home. other children of multiple births, the governing body will in Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC 4. Siblings of former pupils of the School, with a the first instance consider admitting all the children if the After school club (ASC): completed and valid CRP. school’s resources at the time can accommodate it. Should that not be possible, the governing body will randomly How places were offered for 2016: 5. Other children who have a completed and valid CRP. select the child to offer the place to. Parents/carers will Information about how Reception places were 6. Other children who are looked after by a local authority, have the right to choose the other, or another child, have offered in 2016 is available online at or other children who were previously looked after by a the place instead of the child initially randomly selected. www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers local authority. View the complete admission arrangements online at In Year Applications 7. Any other children. www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements Apply to Sinai Jewish Primary School directly after 1 September 2017 Tie Breaker
A supplementary information form is required and In the event of there being more applicants than places should be returned direct to the school. available within criteria 1-7 above, priority will be given to children living nearest the School. Distance will be measured from the main entrance of the home address to the main gate of the School site using Brent Council’s computerised mapping system. In cases where more than one applicant lives equidistant from the School, and places cannot be offered to all these children, the available place will be determined by random allocation supervised by a person independent of the School.
Twins, Triplets and other children of multiple births Twins and children from multiple births will be admitted when one of the siblings is the 90th child and, as a result, the School’s PAN will be increased. View the complete admission arrangements online at www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements
48 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 49 St Andrew & St Francis CofE Primary School St Joseph’s RC Infant School
www.standrewandstfrancis.org DfE number: 304 2029 www.sjinf.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 304 3509
6. Other looked after children and children who have Head teacher: Mr Troy Sharpe Admissions Criteria Head teacher: Mrs Amanda Whelan been adopted (or made subject to child arrangements 1. Looked-After Children and Previously Looked-After Belton Road, Willesden, London NW2 5PE Waverley Avenue, Wembley HA9 6TA orders or special guardianship orders) immediately Children. Tel: 020 8459 1636 Tel: 020 8903 6032 following having been looked after. Email: [email protected] 2. Children whom the Local Academy Committee agree Email: [email protected] 7. Catechumens { resident in the parishes of St Joseph’s have a particular social or medical need. A letter from Wembley and St Erconwald’s and have evidence Admissions enquiries to: Miss Fiona Maclean a professional e.g. doctor, consultant or social worker Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Jennie Gorman of attendance at mass and active participation in must accompany the request showing how only this Academy Age range: 3 to 11 Voluntary Aided Age range: 4 to 7 a baptismal course supported by a parish priest} school can meet the child’s needs. and members of an Eastern Christian church whose Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 437 Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 210 3. Children who have a sibling in the school at the time of application is supported by their religious leader and a Number of Reception places for 2017: 60 Number of Reception places for 2017: 70 admission. Sibling is defined as brother or sister, half- baptismal certificate. Number of on-time applications Number of on-time applications brother or half-sister, stepbrother or stepsister or foster received for September 2016 admissions: 88 received for September 2016 admissions: 176 8. Applications from children from other Christian churches child living with the same parent/carer at the same and whose application is supported by a minister of religion. Physical accessibility: Medium address at the time of admission. Physical accessibility: Medium 9. Applications from children from other Christian churches. Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC 4. Church Places - After the first 3 criteria have been decided, Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC 10. Any other children. After school club (ASC): 50% of the remaining places will be offered in the following After school club (ASC): order to children who, with their parent/s or guardian/s: How places were offered for 2016: How places were offered for 2016: Tie Breaker 4.1 regularly worship at St Andrew’s Church, High Information about how Reception places were Information about how Reception places were Road Willesden, NW10 2SJ Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any offered in 2016 is available online at offered in 2016 is available online at of the sub-categories listed above would still lead to www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers 4.2 regularly worship at another Christian church and www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers oversubscription, the places up to the admission number live within the Deanery of Brent. will be offered to those living nearest to the school. In Year Applications In Year Applications Apply to St Andrew & St Francis CofE Primary School 5. Open Places - The remaining 50% will be offered to Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team A. The attendance of a brother or sister, including step directly after 1 September 2017 children who live nearest the school and live within the at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions children, adopted children, half siblings or those living Deanery of Brent. permanently in the household, at Saint Joseph’s Catholic A supplementary information form is required and A supplementary information form is required and 6. Any remaining places will be offered to children who live Infant School at the time of admission. should be returned direct to the school. should be returned direct to the school. nearest the school and allocated in order of proximity of their B. The attendance of a brother or sister, including step home to the front door of the school using the Geographical children, adopted children half siblings or those living Information System in use by the Local Authority at the time Admissions Criteria permanently in the household, at St Joseph’s Catholic of application. Where more than one child have the same 1. Catholic looked after children and Catholic children Junior School at the time of admission. distance a decision will be made using random allocation who have been adopted (or made subject to child C. Governors will admit a minimum of 6 places (10%) arrangements orders or special guardianship orders) reserved for applicants from Saint Erconwald’s Parish who Twins, Triplets and other children of immediately following having been looked after. multiple births have a Certificate of Catholic Practice and who do not 2. Baptised Catholic children who are resident in the have a sibling at either school. These will be allocated In the event that the school has one place to offer and parishes of St. Joseph’s Wembley and St. Erconwald’s using distance measure outlined in tie-break above. the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets Wembley whose application is supported by a Certificate or other children of multiple births, the school will offer of Catholic Practice and the child’s baptismal certificate. Twins, Triplets and other children of both twins, all triplets or children of multiple birth a place Other baptised Catholic children, whose application is multiple births even if this means temporarily going over the published 3. supported by a Certificate of Catholic Practice and the admission’s number. Governors will admit twins/triplets/siblings applying for the child’s baptismal certificate.4. Other baptised Catholic same academic year, where one child has been offered a View the complete admission arrangements online at children supported by a Certificate of Catholic Practice. place and the other(s) have not. This will most commonly be www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements 4. Baptised Catholic children {supported by their baptismal admitting a second twin and going over the nursery class limit. certificate} resident in the parishes of St Joseph’s View the complete admission arrangements online at Wembley and St Erconwald’s Wembley. www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements 5. Other Catholic children {supported by their baptismal certificate}.
50 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 51 reserved for applicants from Saint Erconwald’s Parish who St Joseph’s RC Junior School have a Certificate of Catholic Practice and who do not have a sibling at either school. These will be allocated www.sjjnr.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 304 3501 using distance measure outlined in tie-break below.
4. Other baptised Catholic children supported by a Head teacher: Mrs Amanda Whelan Twins, Triplets and other children of Certificate of Catholic Practice. multiple births Chatsworth Avenue, Wembley HA9 6BE 5. Baptised Catholic children resident in the parishes of Tel: 020 8902 3438 Where the final place is offered to a child who has other St. Joseph’s Wembley and St. Erconwald’s Wembley.6. Email: [email protected] siblings applying for a place in the same school year, these Members of other Christian Churches whose practice siblings will also be admitted. Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Helen Fitzpatrick is supported by a letter from their priest or minister confirming membership of the parish community. View the complete admission arrangements online at Voluntary Aided Age range: 7 to 11 www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements 6. Other baptised Catholic children. Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 280 7. Other looked after children and children who have Number of Reception places for 2017: 70 been adopted (or made subject to child arrangements Number of on-time applications orders or special guardianship orders) immediately received for September 2016 admissions: 121 following having been looked after. Physical accessibility: High 8. Catechumens (resident in the parishes of St Joseph’s Wembley and St Erconwald’s and have evidence of Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC attendance at mass and active participation in a baptismal After school club (ASC): course supported by a parish priest) whose application How places were offered for 2016: is supported by their religious leader and a baptismal Information about how Reception places were certificate. offered in 2016 is available online at 9. Christian children of other denominations who attend www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers Year 2 in St. Joseph’s Catholic Infant School, whose In Year Applications application is supported by a minister of religion. Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team 10. Applications from children from other Christian at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions churches, whose application is supported by a minister of religion. A supplementary information form is required and should be returned direct to the school. 11. Children from other faiths who are currently in Y2 in St Joseph’s Catholic Infant School, Waverley Avenue, Admissions Criteria Wembley. 1. Catholic looked after children and Catholic children 12. Any other children. who zhave been adopted (or made subject to child arrangements orders or special guardianship orders) Tie Breaker immediately following having been looked after. Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any of the sub-categories listed above would still lead to 2. Baptised Catholic children who are resident in the oversubscription, the places up to the admission number parishes of St. Joseph’s Wembley and St. Erconwald’s will be offered to those living nearest to the school as Wembley who are currently in Year 2 in St Joseph’s measured by the Local Authority (LA). Catholic Infant School whose application is supported by a Certificate of Catholic Practice. A. The attendance of a brother or sister, including step children, adopted children, half siblings or those living 3. Baptised Catholic Children who are resident in the permanently in the household, at Saint Joseph’s Catholic parishes of St. Joseph’s Wembley and St. Erconwald’s Junior School at the time of admission. Wembley and whose application is supported by a Certificate of Catholic Practice and baptised Catholic B. The attendance of a brother or sister, including step children who are not resident in the parishes of St children, adopted children half siblings or those living Joseph’s Wembley and St Erconwald’s whose application permanently in the household, at St Joseph’s Catholic is supported by a Certificate of Catholic Practice, who Infant School at the time of admission. attend Year 2 in St Joseph’s Catholic Infant School. C. Governors will admit a minimum of 7 places (10%)
52 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 53 throughout the infant phase or until the number in the St Joseph’s RC Primary School year group reduced to the PAN.
www.stjosephsrc.co.uk DfE number: 304 5203 View the complete admission arrangements online at www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements is supported by a letter from their priest or minister Head teacher: Mrs Dawn Titus confirming membership of the parish community. Goodson Road, London NW10 9LS 7. Members of other Christian Churches. Tel: 020 8965 5651 Email: [email protected] 8. Any other children. Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Patricia Lynch Tie Breaker Voluntary Aided Age range: 3 to 11 In each of the above categories, the presence of a brother or sister, foster or half brother or sister or step brother or Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 540 sister in the school at the time of admission will increase Number of Reception places for 2017: 60 priority within that category. Number of on-time applications received for September 2016 admissions: 205 Where all else is equal, higher priority will be accorded to the child living nearest to the school, the distance being measured Physical accessibility: Medium by a straight line from the front door of child’s house to the main entrance of school. Where there are applicants living in Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC flats at the same address, the distance will include the distance After school club (ASC): from the front door of the flat within the building i.e. the flat How places were offered for 2016: nearest to the main door to the building will have priority. This Information about how Reception places were distance is measured by the Local Authority. offered in 2016 is available online at Within each criterion priority will be given to the applicant www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers who lives closer to the school. This will be judged by the shortest measured walking distance using road networks In Year Applications including public rights of way from the home to the Apply to St Joseph’s RC Primary School directly after 1 main school gate. A public right of way is one which is September 2017 determined by The Countryside Act 1968. If you would A supplementary information form is required and like a copy of the Countryside Act 1968 please contact should be returned direct to the school. the Brent Admissions Service on 020 8937 3110.
Exceptional Need Admissions Criteria The Governing Body will give top priority after the 1. Catholic looked after children and previously looked appropriate category of looked-after children, to an after Catholic children who have been adopted application where compelling evidence is provided at the (or subject to child arrangements orders or special time of application, from an appropriate professional such guardianship orders) immediately following having as a doctor, priest or social worker, of an exceptional social, being looked after. medical, pastoral or other need of the child, which can only 2. Baptised Catholic children with a Certificate of Catholic be met at this school. Practice from the Parish Priest. Twins, Triplets and other children of 3. Children who have been baptised as Catholics or received into the Catholic Church. multiple births 4. Other looked after children and other previously looked Where the admission of twins or all siblings from a after children who have been adopted (or subject to multiple birth would cause the school to rise above its child arrangements orders or special guardianship PAN (Published Admission Number), both twins or all orders) immediately following having been looked after. of the siblings will be admitted. Where the admission of the additional child or children from multiple births 5. Children of Catechumens or members of an Eastern to an infant class would result in the PAN rising above Christian Church. 30 children per teacher, the additional child/children 6. Members of other Christian Churches whose practice would be exceptions to the Infant Class Size legislation
54 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 55 St Margaret Clitherow RC Primary School St Mary Magdalen’s RC Junior School
www.clitherow.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 304 3511 www.marymag.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 304 3505
Christian Church. whose application is supported by their Parish Priest. Head teacher: Mrs Ewa McSperrin Head teacher: Mrs Maria Nowicka 8. Any other applicant. 4. Applications for other baptised practising Catholics, Quainton Street, London NW10 0BG Linacre Road, Willesden, London NW2 5BB whose application is supported by their Parish Priest. Tel: 020 8450 3631 Tie Breaker Tel: 020 8459 3159 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 5. Applications for other baptised Catholic children. In categories 6-8, the presence of a sibling, including a 6. Applications for “other looked-after children and Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Mary Haneef step- or half- brother or sister in the school living at Admissions enquiries to: Miss Maria Quinn previously ‘looked after’ children who have been Voluntary Aided Age range: 3 to 11 the same address, at the time of admission, will increase Voluntary Aided Age range: 7 to 11 adopted. (or made subject child arrangements orders or priority within that category.In the case of a tie break special guardianship orders). Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 227 where the offer of places to all the applicants in any Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 360 7. Applications for Catechumens and members of Number of Reception places for 2017: 30 of the sub-categories listed above would still lead to Number of Reception places for 2017: 90 an Eastern Christian Church whose application is Number of on-time applications oversubscription, the places up to the admission number Number of on-time applications supported by their Religious Leader. received for September 2016 admissions: 93 will be offered to those living nearest the School. received for September 2016 admissions: 140 8. Christians of other denominations whose application Physical accessibility: High Within each criterion priority will be given to the applicant Physical accessibility: High is supported by a letter from a minister/religious leader, who lives closer to the school. This will be judged by the Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC showing membership of the faith community. shortest measured walking distance using road networks After school club (ASC): After school club (ASC): including public rights of way from the home to the 9. Children of other faiths, whose application is supported How places were offered for 2016: main school gate. A public right of way is one which is How places were offered for 2016: by a letter from a minister/religious leader, showing Information about how Reception places were determined by The Countryside Act 1968. If you would Information about how Reception places were membership of the faith community. like a copy of the Countryside Act 1968 please contact offered in 2016 is available online at offered in 2016 is available online at 10. Applications from any other applicants. www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers the Brent Admissions Service on 020 8937 3110. www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers Tie Breaker In Year Applications Exceptional Need In Year Applications Apply to St Margaret Clitherow RC Primary School Apply to St Mary Magdalen’s RC Junior School directly Within each oversubscription criterion applicants will be The Governing Body will give top priority, after the directly after 1 September 2017 after 1 September 2017 ranked in the following order: appropriate category of looked-after children, to an A supplementary information form is required and application where compelling evidence is provided at A supplementary information form is required and • 1st priority to children with a sibling on roll, priority should be returned direct to the school. the time of application, from an appropriate professional should be returned direct to the school. will be given to siblings who will continue to be on roll such as a doctor, priest or social worker, of an exceptional on the date of admission. In the case of half or step- social, medical, pastoral or other need of the child, which siblings priority will be given providing they reside at Admissions Criteria can only be met at this school. Admissions Criteria the same address. 1. Catholic ‘looked after’ children and Catholic children 1. Applications for “Catholic looked-after children and • 2nd priority will be given to children transferring from who have been adopted or made subject to child Twins, Triplets and other children of previously ‘looked after’ children, who have been the Convent of Jesus and Mary Infants School. arrangements orders or special guardianship orders, multiple births adopted or made subject to child arrangements orders immediately after having been looked after. or special guardianship orders. • 3rd priority will be given to children of permanent staff Where the final place is offered to a child who has other of St Mary Magdalen’s Catholic Junior School, who 2. A Catholic child with a Certificate of Catholic Practice siblings applying for a place in the same school year, these 2. Applications for baptised Catholic children from have been employed at the school for at least two with a sibling in the school on the date of admission. siblings will also be admitted. practising Catholic families resident in the Parish of St years at the time of application. Mary Magdalen’s, Willesden Green and the Church 3. A Catholic child with a Certificate of Catholic Practice View the complete admission arrangements online at of the Transfiguration, Kensal Rise, Our Lady of Mercy In the case of a tie break where the offer of places to all who are resident in the parish of English Martyrs. www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements Chapel, Walm Lane, whose application is supported by the applicants in any of the sub-categories listed above 4. Other Catholic children with a Certificate of Catholic their Parish Priest. *Please refer to the maps which are would still lead to oversubscription, the places up to the Practice. attached to the School Supplementary Form. admission number will be offered to those living nearest the School. 5. Other Baptised Catholics. 3. Applications for baptised Catholic children from 6. Other ‘looked after’ children and other looked after practising Catholic families resident in these Parishes Distance - St Agnes, Cricklewood; St Mary and St Andrew, children who have been adopted or made subject For the purposes of this policy, the school will adopt Brent Dollis Hill; Shrine of Our Lady, Willesden; Sacred Heart to child arrangements orders or special guardianship Council’s method of measuring distance. The distance Church, Quex Road- whose boundaries meet those of orders, immediately after having been looked after. from home to school will be measured by straight-line, the Parish of St Mary Magdalen’s, Willesden Green, and 7. Children of catechumens and members of an Eastern from a point in the property to a point in the school
56 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 57 St Mary’s CofE Primary School
www.stmarysce.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 304 3308
determined by the grid references for the centre of the by Churches Together in Britain and Ireland or the Head teacher: Ms Susan Lawrence school’s postcode. The measuring system is an integral Evangelical Alliance. part of the admission 8 software produced by Tribal Garnet Road, London NW10 9JA 5. Children whose families are faithful and regular Technology Ltd. It uses Ordnance Survey maps and the Tel: 020 8451 0363 worshippers of other Christian denominations and who LLPG (Local Land Property Gazetteer) and is accurate to 1 Email: [email protected] live within the parish boundaries. metre. If distances are identical, the Governing Body will Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Kelly-Ann Witter draw lots in the presence of an independent witness. 6. Children whose families are faithful and regular worshippers of Christian denomination recognised Voluntary Aided Age range: 3 to 11 Exceptional Need by Churches Together in Britain and Ireland or the Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 314 Evangelical Alliance), and who live outside the Parish The Governing Body will give top priority after the Number of Reception places for 2017: 45 boundaries. appropriate category of looked-after children, to an Number of on-time applications application where compelling evidence is provided at 7. Children whose families are faithful and regular received for September 2016 admissions: 93 the time of application, from an appropriate professional worshippers of other Christian denominations and who such as a doctor, Priest or social worker, of an exceptional Physical accessibility: Medium live outside the parish boundaries. social, medical, pastoral or other need of the child, which 8. Children who live within the Parish boundaries and Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC can only be met at this school. whose parents have chosen this Church school for the After school club (ASC): type of education it offers. Twins, Triplets and other children of How places were offered for 2016: 9. All other applicants. multiple births Information about how Reception places were When the last offer is made to a child of a multiple birth offered in 2016 is available online at Tie Breaker i.e. twin, triplet etc, the remaining child(ren) will also be www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers When deciding between applicants who, have equal offered a place, even though it will mean exceeding the In Year Applications entitlement under the above criteria, the Governors will published admission number. Apply to St Mary’s CofE Primary School directly after 1 have regard to the proximity of the applicant’s home to the View the complete admission arrangements online at September 2017 school, using the shortest measured walking distance using www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements road networks including by public right of way from the A supplementary information form is required and main school gate to the front door of the home. For this should be returned direct to the school. purpose communal access to flats are not classed as front doors. A public right of way is one which is determined Admissions Criteria by The Countryside Act 1968. Where applicants live in the 1. Looked After children (who are defined as children same block of flats, internal walkways will be treated as under the care of the Local Authority), includes public rights of way when calculating distance travelled. previously looked after children who have been adopted, or made subject to a residence order, or Twins, Triplets and other children of special guardianship order immediately following multiple births having been looked after, will be given priority. In the event that the school has one place to offer and 2. Children of families who regularly worship at St. Mary’s the next child is one of twins, triplets or other children Parish Church (Willesden). of multiple births, the governing body will in the first instance consider admitting all the children if the school’s 3. Children who will continue to have a sibling at the resources at the time can accommodate it. Should that school at the time of admission. Sibling refers to brother not be possible, the governing body will randomly select or sister, half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, the child to offer the place to. Parents/Carers will have step brother or sister, or the child of the parent/carer’s the right to chose which child has the place instead of the partner where the child for whom the school place child initially randomly selected. is sought is living in the same family unit at the same address as that sibling. View the complete admission arrangements online at www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements 4. Children whose families are faithful and regular worshippers of Christian denomination recognised
58 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 59 St Mary’s RC Primary School St Robert Southwell RC Primary School
www.marycps.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 304 3602 www.robsouth.org DfE number: 304 3506
6. Members of other Christian Churches whose practice 7. Other ‘looked after’ children and children who have been Head teacher: Mrs Geraldine Quinlan Head teacher: Miss Honor Beck is supported by a letter from their priest or minister adopted or made subject to child arrangements orders. Canterbury Road, Kilburn NW6 5ST confirming membership of the parish community. Slough Lane, Kingsbury NW9 8YD 8. Other children who will have a sibling at the school at the Tel: 020 7624 1830 Tel: 020 8204 6148 7. Members of other Christian Churches. time the child would be admitted onto the school roll. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 8. Any other children. 9. Children of Catechumens and children from other Admissions enquiries to: Ms M McDonagh Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Diane Pettitt Christian Churches whose application is supported by a Tie Breaker Minister of their religion. Voluntary Aided Age range: 4 to 11 Voluntary Aided Age range: 4 to 11 In each of the above categories, the presence of a brother 10. Any other children. Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 323 or sister, foster or half brother or sister or step brother or Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 454 Number of Reception places for 2017: 60 sister in the school at the time of admission will increase Number of Reception places for 2017: 60 Tie Breaker Number of on-time applications priority within that category. Number of on-time applications Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any of received for September 2016 admissions: 57 received for September 2016 admissions: 127 Where all else is equal, higher priority will be accorded to the sub-categories listed above would still lead to over- Physical accessibility: High the child living nearest to the school, the distance being Physical accessibility: Medium subscription, the places, up to the admissions number, will measured by a straight line from the front door of child’s be offered to those living nearest to the school. Breakfast club (BC) or N/A Breakfast club (BC) or BC & ASC house to the main entrance of school. Where there are After school club (ASC): After school club (ASC): The school will adopt the LA’s method of measuring applicants living in flats at the same address, the distance distance between the school gate and the front door of the will include the distance from the front door of the flat How places were offered for 2016: How places were offered for 2016: home address, using a computer to calculate the distance within the building i.e. the flat nearest to the main door Information about how Reception places were Information about how Reception places were in a straight line. Where there are applicants living in flats to the building will have priority. This distance is measured offered in 2016 is available online at offered in 2016 is available online at at the same address, the distance will include the distance by the Local Authority. www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers from the front door of the flat within the building, i.e., the flat nearest the main door of the building will have priority. In Year Applications Exceptional Need In Year Applications Apply to St Mary’s RC Primary School directly after 1 Apply to St Robert Southwell RC Primary School directly The Governing Board will give top priority after the Exceptional Need September 2017 after 1 September 2017 appropriate category of looked-after children, to an The Governing Body will give top priority, within each application where compelling evidence is provided at A supplementary information form is required and A supplementary information form is required and category, to a child who has exceptional social, medical, the time of application, from an appropriate professional should be returned direct to the school. should be returned direct to the school. pastoral or other needs that can only be met at this such as a doctor, priest or social worker, of an exceptional school. You must state this at the time of application on social, medical, pastoral or other need of the child, which the SIF. Along with your application you should submit Admissions Criteria can only be met at this school. Admissions Criteria supporting evidence which sets out the particular reason 1. Catholic looked after children and previously looked 1. Catholic ‘looked after ‘children and Catholic children why St Robert Southwell is the most suitable school and after Catholic children who have been adopted Twins, Triplets and other children of who have been adopted or made subject to child the difficulties that could be caused if your child has to (or subject to child arrangements orders or special arrangements orders or special guardianship orders. multiple births attend another school. Supporting evidence must be in guardianship orders) immediately following having Where the admission of twins or all siblings from a 2. Baptised children of members of staff with a Certificate the form of a report from an appropriate professional, being looked after. multiple birth would cause the school to rise above its of Catholic Practice, where the member of staff has like a doctor, social worker or priest and be submitted 2. Baptised Catholic children from practising Catholic PAN (Published Admission Number), both twins or all been a permanent employee of the school for at least together with your application forms. families, whose practice is supported by a Certificate of of the siblings will be admitted. Where the admission two years at the time of application. Catholic Practice. of the additional child or children from multiple births 3. Baptised Catholic children with a Certificate of Catholic Twins, Triplets and other children of 3. Children who have been baptised as Catholics or to an infant class would result in the PAN rising above Practice who have siblings at the school at the time the multiple births 30 children per teacher, the additional child/children received into the Catholic Church. child would be admitted onto the school roll. Where the final place is offered to a child who has a twin/ would be exceptions to the Infant Class Size legislation Other looked after children and other previously looked Baptised Catholic children with a Certificate of Catholic triplets etc. applying for a place in the same school year, 4. throughout the infant phase or until the number in the 4. after children who have been adopted (or subject to Practice who are resident in the parish of St Sebastian & these siblings will also be admitted, as an exception to the year group reduced to the PAN. child arrangements orders or special guardianship St Pancras. infant class size limit. orders) immediately following having been looked after. View the complete admission arrangements online at Baptised Catholic children with a Certificate of Catholic View the complete admission arrangements online at www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements 5. 5. Children of Catechumens or members of an Eastern Practice, resident in other parishes. www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements Christian Church. 6. Other Baptised Catholic children.
60 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 61 Sudbury Primary School The Kilburn Park Foundation
www.sudbury.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 304 2076 www.kilburnpark.brent.sch.uk DfE number: 304 5204
Head teacher: Ms Beth Ragheb Admissions Criteria Head teacher: Mr Laurence Keel Admissions Criteria 1. Looked After Children (children in public care) and 1. ‘Looked after children’ or previously ‘looked after Watford Road, Wembley HA0 3EY Malvern Road, Kilburn, London NW6 5RG children who were looked after or ceased to be so children’. Tel: 020 8385 4444 Tel: 020 7624 7603 because they were adopted (or became subject to a Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 2. Siblings (brothers or sisters) of children currently residence order or special guardianship order). attending the school; and will continue to do so on the Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Stella Bowes 2. Children for whom it is essential to be admitted to Admissions enquiries to: Mrs Geraldine Breen date of admission. Sudbury School because of special circumstances to do Academy Age range: 3 to 11 Foundation Age range: 7 to 11 3. The children who transfer from Carlton Vale Infant with significant medical needs, social needs or special School, which is on an adjacent site. Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 930 educational needs. Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 185 Number of Reception places for 2017: 120 Number of Reception places for 2017: 60 4. Children for whom it is essential to be admitted to a 3. Brothers or sisters of a child who already attends Number of on-time applications Number of on-time applications specific school because of special circumstances to do Sudbury Primary School and who will continue to do so received for September 2016 admissions: 324 received for September 2016 admissions: 39 with significant medical needs, social needs or special on the date of admission. educational needs. Physical accessibility: High 4. Children of staff Physical accessibility: Not specified 5. The children whose homes are in closest walking Breakfast club (BC) or ASC 5. Children living in the school’s catchment area Breakfast club (BC) or BC distance to the school After school club (ASC): After school club (ASC): 6. Children living outside the school’s catchment area Tie Breaker How places were offered for 2016: How places were offered for 2016: Information about how Reception places were Tie Breaker Information about how Reception places were Within each criterion those living nearest the school will have priority. The distance from home to school will be offered in 2016 is available online at In the event of over subscription in any of the criteria offered in 2016 is available online at measured by straight-line, from a point in the property to www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers (or sub criteria), places will be allocated according to the www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers a point in the school determined by the grid references proximity of the pupil’s home to the school measured by In Year Applications In Year Applications for the centre of the school’s postcode. The measuring the shortest distance. The distance from home to school Apply online to Brent Council’s School Admissions team Apply to The Kilburn Park Foundation directly after 1 system is an integral part of the admission software, uses will be measured by straight-line, from a point in the at www.brent.gov.uk/inyearadmissions September 2017 Ordnance Survey maps and the LLPG (Local Land Property property to a point in the school determined by the grid Gazetteer) and is accurate to 1 metre. A supplementary information form is not required. references for the centre of the school’s post code. The A supplementary information form is not required. measuring system is an integral part of the admission Twins, Triplets and other children of software produced by Tribal Technology Ltd. It uses Ordnance Survey maps and the LLPG (Local Land Property multiple births Gazetteer) and is accurate to 1 metre. In the event that the school has one place to offer and the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets Twins, Triplets and other children of or other children of multiple births, the policy of the multiple births school is not to separate them even if this means that the school will temporarily go over the published Admissions In the event that the school has one place to offer and Number. the next child on the list is one of twins, triplets or other children of multiple births, the Governing Body will offer View the complete admission arrangements online at places to them all recognising that this will not constitute www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements a new admission number and the school will revert to its published admission number as children leave. View the complete admission arrangements online at www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements
62 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 63 Wembley High Technology College Section 4 – Additional Information
www.whtc.co.uk/primary DfE number: 304 4006 Contact Information
Brent School Admissions Service (SENAS) will discuss this with parents and provide Head teacher: Ms Gill Bal Admissions Criteria n For information and enquiries about school information regarding the most appropriate placements for individual children. 1. Children in public care (looked after children) to include admissions and how to apply. East Lane, Wembley, Middlesex HA0 3NT previously looked after children. Tel: 020 8937 3110 (lines are open 11am to 5pm) Admission arrangements for children without a Tel: 020 829 4600 Email: [email protected] Statement or EHCP 2. Children who have a brother or sister attending www.brent.gov.uk/admissions Email: [email protected] Children who have SEN but do not have a Statement or Wembley High Technology College in the year in which Brent Customer Services EHCP will transfer to primary or junior school through the Admissions enquiries to: Ms Davinder Guron the application is made and will continue to be on roll n Get help and access a computer to make your coordinated admission procedures. The Code of Practice on Academy Age range: 4 to 18 at the date of admission. This does not include students application School Admissions states: “Children with SEN but without in the Sixth Form. Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley HA9 0FJ Statements or Education, Health and Care plans must be Number of pupils at the school in January 2016: 92 treated as fairly as other applicants. Admission authorities 3. Children for whom it is essential to be admitted to Neighbouring local authorities Number of Reception places for 2017: 90 may not refuse to admit a pupil because they consider Wembley High Technology College because of special n Barnet themselves unable to cater for his or her SEN”. Admission Number of on-time applications circumstances to do with significant medical needs, Tel: 020 8359 7651 authorities must consider applications from children who received for September 2016 admissions: 249 social needs or special educational needs. Email: [email protected] have SEN but no Statement or EHCP, on the basis of the www.barnet.gov.uk/schooladmissions school’s published admissions criteria. All mainstream schools Physical accessibility: Not specified 4. Children of Wembley High Technology College staff, n Camden receive funding to provide extra help for children with SEN. teaching and non-teaching, who have been employed Breakfast club (BC) or ASC Tel: 020 7974 1625 Admission arrangements for children who are Email: [email protected] After school club (ASC): for two or more years and who meet a subject shortage undergoing statutory assessment requirement or College need. www.camden.gov.uk/admissions It is vital that you apply for a place in the usual way How places were offered for 2016: n Ealing 5. Proximity to the school (for children who do not fall within through completing the normal Common Application Information about how Reception places were Tel: 020 8825 5522 criteria i – iv) distance will be measured in a straight line Form (CAF). offered in 2016 is available online at Email: [email protected] from the front door of the child’s permanent address www.ealing.gov.uk/admissions Admission arrangements for children with www.brent.gov.uk/2016offers (including flats) to the school reception, [using the Local n Harrow statements or EHCPs In Year Applications Authority’s computerised measuring system], with those Tel: 020 8901 2620 The main admission criteria and application processes do Apply to Wembley High Technology College Primary living nearest to the school being accorded the highest Email: [email protected] not apply to children who have a Statement of Special Educational Needs. The local authority will apply for School directly after 1 September 2017 priority. www.harrow.gov.uk/schooladmissions n Hillingdon places on behalf of all such children. Parents are welcome A supplementary information form is not required. Tie Breaker Tel: 01895 556 644 to visit schools. You should contact schools directly to Email: [email protected] arrange this. Where parents want to express a preference If two or more students have equal priority under criteria www.hillingdon.gov.uk/schooladmissions for a maintained mainstream school, the council must in 1-3, the criterion of proximity to the school will apply with accordance with Schedule 27 of the Education Act 1996, Department for Education those living nearest to the school (in a straight line from name the parent’s preferred choice of school unless: n The government department responsible for schools the front door of the child’s permanent address to the a. The school is unsuitable to the child’s age, ability, and education. aptitude or special educational needs or school reception) being accorded the highest priority. Tel: 0370 000 2288 www.education.gov.uk b. The child’s attendance at the school would be Twins, Triplets and other children of incompatible with the efficient education of other Ofsted pupils or the efficient use of resources. multiple births n Ofsted inspect and report on the standards of schools, If parents are not happy with the school the council In the event that the school has one place to offer and childminders and local authorities. proposes to name in Part 4 of the Statement they the next child on the waiting list is one of twins, triplets or Email: [email protected] www.ofsted.gov.uk should discuss this, in the first instance, with the Special other children of multiple births, the policy of the school Educational Needs Assessment Service (SENAS). Children is not to separate them even if this means that the school Applicants with special with SEN, with or without Statements, are entitled to will temporarily go over the published Admissions Number. the services of Brent Parent Partnership. For further educational needs information you can contact the Brent Parent Partnership View the complete admission arrangements online at Brent Council’s policy is that children with Special Service on 020 8937 3434. Parents may also use the www.brent.gov.uk/admissionarrangements Educational Needs (SEN) or Education, Health and Care free services available from Kids, London SEN Mediation plans (EHCP) should attend their local primary school Service, which can be contacted on 020 7229 0845. For wherever possible. A small number of children who have further information please contact Brent Council’s Special the most complex needs attend a special school or have Educational Needs Assessment Service (SENAS). special provision attached to a mainstream school. The Tel: 020 8937 3229 majority of children with SEN attend their local primary Email: [email protected] school. The Special Educational Needs Assessment
64 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 65 Special schools and specialist Phoenix Arch School Granville Plus Children’s Centre and six miles. Local authorities must also ensure that units/centres in Brent with Head teacher: Ms Jude Towell Head teacher: Ms Lesley Benson transport is provided to the nearest school preferred on Address: Drury Way, Neasden, London, NW10 0NQ Address: Granville Road, Kilburn, London, NW6 5RA the grounds of religion or belief where this is between primary provision Tel: 020 8451 6961 Tel: 020 7604 4620 two and 15 miles away. Special schools in Brent cater for the small number of Fax: 020 8830 1352 Fax: 020 7604 2488 Low income families are those whose children are children who have complex needs that cannot be met Email:[email protected] Email:[email protected] entitled to free school meals or who are in receipt of their at their local primary school. All applications to special Age range: 5-11 Part-time age range: 3–5 maximum level of Working Tax Credit. The council will schools must be made in conjunction with the Special A special school for pupils with social, emotional and This is an additionally resourced provision for children consider all applications submitted. Application forms Educational Needs Assessment Service (SENAS). You behavioural difficulties (SEBD) and additional provision with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD). are available from Brent School Admissions, Brent Civic cannot apply directly to these schools. The information for pupils with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley HA9 0FJ or by telephone provided below is designed to inform parents of the Phoenix Arch seeks to provide a caring, safeguarded 020 8937 3110. provision available in Brent. Specialist outreach services and learning environment which encourages children to discover and develop their talents and skills so that they Where children do not attend a specialist provision, Free school meals/Pupil Premium The Village School can realise their full potential. Brent outreach teams offer a continuum of specialist Head teacher: Ms Kay Charles If your child attends a Brent school and you are in receipt support to pupils and schools which is flexible in Address: Grove Park, London NW9 0JY of one of the following benefits or NASS support, you are Kingsbury Green Primary School nature and tailored to meet individual needs. Pupils Tel: 020 8204 5396 eligible to apply for free school meals for your children: Hearing Impaired Unit who access these services have a medical diagnosis of Fax: 020 8905 0971 either significant hearing impairment, visual impairment n Income Support (IS) or Income Based Job Seekers Email: [email protected] Head teacher: Ms Laura Wynne or autistic spectrum disorder and may also have a Allowance (IBJSA) Website: www.tvs.brent.sch.uk Teacher in Charge: Anita Tahmasebbi Statement of SEN or an Education Health and Care Plan. Age range: 2-19 Address: Old Kenton Lane, London NW9 9ND n An income-related employment and support allowance Tel: 020 8204 6423 Brent Deaf and Hearing Impairment Service (BDHIS) n Support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum A special school for nursery, primary, secondary and Email: [email protected] Head of Service: Ms Emma Dudley Act 1999 post-16 students, with complex physical and medical Age range: 3-11 Team Leader: Mrs Milly Mastrianni needs and a range of communication, learning and Tel: 020 8937 5107 n Guaranteed element of State Pension Credit This is an additionally resourced provision for children sensory needs. Brent Visual Impairment Service (BVIS) with hearing impairment. n Child Tax Credit (provided you are not also entitled to Team Leader: Mr Paul Fielding Woodfield School Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of Tel: 020 8937 3312 Head teacher: Ms Desi Lodge-Patch Oakington Manor Additionally Resourced Provision no more than £16,190.00) Brent Outreach Autism Team (BOAT) Address: Glenwood Avenue, London NW9 7LY Head teacher: Mrs Sylvie Libson n Team Leader: Ms Clare Henshaw Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for four weeks after Tel: 020 8205 1977 Teacher in Charge: Mrs S Nuttall Tel:020 837 4659 you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit Fax: 020 8205 5877 Address: Oakington Manor Drive, Wembley, n Universal Credit. Email: [email protected] Middlesex HA9 6NF Website: www.woodfield.brent.sch.uk Tel: 020 8902 2871 Home to school travel Children who receive a qualifying benefit in their own right Fax: 020 8903 6139 are also allowed to receive free school meals. Children Age range: 11-19 In London, travel is free on buses for children up to 18 Email: [email protected] under the compulsory school age who are in full-time A special school for pupils aged from 11-19 with moderate years of age. Where it is possible for a child to travel Website: http://www.oakmanor.brent.sch.uk/ education may also be entitled to receive free school learning difficulties, social and communication disorders and to school free of charge the council would expect Age range: 3-11 meals. autism. Ten of the above 100 places are for pupils diagnosed that option to be taken. However, where a journey is with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who are taught by This is an additionally resourced provision for children considered too long (more than an hour by bus) or too When you apply you must provide your national insurance specialist teachers in a specialist base. with speech and language impairment and children with complicated (more than two changes) to be undertaken (NI) or NASS number and DOB in order for us to check Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD). by bus the council will provide assistance with tube or your eligibility with the Department of Education, Eligibility Manor Special School train fares for low income families in the circumstances Check Service (DfE ECS). Head teacher: Mrs Jayne Jardine Fawood Children’s Centre as follows: Application forms are available from Brent School Chamberlayne Road, Kensal Rise, London, NW10 3NT Head teacher: Jackie Marsh (Acting headteacher) n For children of primary age, transport will only be Admissions Service on 020 8937 3110 or visit: Brent Civic Tel: 020 8968 3160 Teacher in Charge: Joan Blake provided to the nearest suitable school, but for those Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley HA9 0FJ. Fax: 020 8968 3075 Address: 35 Fawood Avenue, Harlesden, London, NW10 8DX from low income families aged 8-11, local authorities Email: [email protected] Tel: 020 8965 9334 You can also apply for free school meals online at must ensure that free transport is provided for children Website: www.manorschoolbrent.co.uk/ Fax: 020 8453 6549 www.brent.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals. living more than two miles from the school. Age range: 4-11 Email: [email protected] n For children of secondary age, local authorities must A special school offering provision for pupils with Part-time age range: 4-13 ensure that those from low income families have moderate/severe learning difficulties, social and This is an additionally resourced provision for children free transport to any one of the three nearest suitable communication disorders and autism. with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD). schools where the distance travelled is between two
66 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 APPLYING FOR A RECEPTION AND JUNIOR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 67 Private fostering n If a child is living for more than 28 days with someone outside their family, this is known as a private fostering arrangement.
n There is a duty on parents and carers entering into private fostering arrangements to notify the council. This is in order to safeguard and protect the child’s welfare as well as ensuring that the child, carer and parent are receiving appropriate support and help.
n If you know or suspect that a child is being cared for by someone outside their family, please call the Placement Assessment and Recruitment Team (PART) on 020 8937 2749 to make a referral.
Data Protection Information parents provide when applying for a school place will be used for registered purposes under the Data Protection Act 1998 and will be entered on a secure computerised database. The information is protected by the Data Protection Act 1998, which ensures the information can only be used for defined purposes and can only be passed to specific people. The defined purposes are: n Administering the admissions process as set out in the Admissions Guidance 2017 online booklet relevant to your application.
n Preventing fraud or criminal offence or to ensure the safety of any child.
n To ensure the council fulfils its statutory obligation to provide every child within the area with a suitable school place. The people who may receive the information are: n The current school (if any).
n The school to which the pupil is to be admitted.
n Other admission authorities so as to ensure that parents have provided consistent information and do not hold on to more than one offer of a place.
n Any organisation legitimately investigating allegations of fraud, criminal offences or child protection.
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