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Secondary Admission Information September 2020 Secondary Admission Information September 2020 Information for parents applying for a school place Apply online at thurrock.gov.uk/admissions Information for parents applying for a secondary school place Apply online at thurrock.gov.uk/admissions Foreword Starting secondary school is a very important Thurrock secondary schools offer a range of time in a child’s life and here in Thurrock specialisms and each will have something to Council we appreciate what a worrying time this offer your child. Our schools achieve well at is for parents. We are determined to make this GCSE in comparison to national standards and as straightforward and worry free as we can. are amongst the most improved schools in the The information that follows is designed to help country. you make informed decisions when you come to make an application for a secondary school I wish your child an enjoyable and fruitful time place. at secondary school and every success for the future. 3 Our online application facility has proved to be very popular and almost 9 out of 10 Please go online at applications are now made this way. The thurrock.gov.uk/admissions and advantages are that it is immediate, you will get follow the instructions on screen. automatic confirmation your application has been received and it will remove any risk of an application being delayed or lost in the post. Roger Harris Apply online and you will, from 12.30am on Interim Director of Children’s Services 2 March 2020, be able to check online which school place has been allocated. This is nearly two days earlier than offers in response to paper applications are likely to arrive. Information for parents applying for a secondary school place Apply online at thurrock.gov.uk/admissions Who is this chances of being offered one You will get an automatic of your preferred schools you confirmation that your brochure for? must get your application in application has been received. If you have a child who was on time. Once you have submitted your born between 1 September application online, if you make 2008 and 31 August 2009, you What happens if I any changes e.g. change must apply for a secondary miss the closing preference order, you must school place for September re-submit the application. 2020. date? Applications received after If you change your email Here we describe how to the closing date will be address you must notify the transfer your child from a considered after those that are Admissions Team by emailing primary to a mainstream received on time and after the school.admissions@ secondary school and set first round of offers have been thurrock.gov.uk out for you what you need to made. do in order to maximise your chance of obtaining a school How do I apply? place that you want. Last year Thurrock Council co-ordinated The easiest way to apply is the admissions to Thurrock online. Go to thurrock.gov. secondary schools and 71% uk/admissions and follow the of parents who applied on instructions on screen. If you time had their first preference do not have internet access 4 met in the initial round of at home you can still apply offers. online at your local library or at the council offices in Grays. When do I need to Once you have a ‘My Account’ apply? you will be able to complete You must get your application an application, review, amend to us by 31 October 2019. and submit it online. In order to maximise your Which schools wish to apply for, but it is for secondary schools are should I apply to? guidance only and there is included on the individual no guarantee that last year’s school pages. The number In Thurrock there are different outcomes will be repeated. of preferences that you can types of secondary schools. You should start by gathering make on your application is There are nine academy as much information about limited and so we recommend schools, one of which each school as possible. you include in your list of includes a studio school, one Information is available from a preferences schools for which voluntary aided school and number of sources: you are most likely to be one free school. They are all successful. comprehensive, which means • The school descriptions in they cater for children of all this document You should also try to get levels of ability and all except • School prospectuses along to one of the briefings one are mixed. Some have by Thurrock Council designed • School websites specialist status and some to help you through the offer places based on aptitude • Open evenings application process. These will for specific subjects or • Ofsted reports (available include sessions where you curriculum areas. Brief details from the school or online at will be able to put questions are given in the second half of www.ofsted.gov.uk to our admissions staff about this booklet. You can get more • Council presentations (see how the process works. information from the schools below for details) themselves. The two briefing sessions for Our advice is that you should parents will be on: The law gives you the right not base your decisions solely 5 to state a preference for the on the past examination Tuesday 10 September 2019 schools that you want your results of a school or what at Thurrock Adult Education child to attend, rather than other people say about it. We College, Richmond Road, to be given your choice. recommend that all families Grays, RM17 6DN This is because there will make up their own minds and First session begins at be times when there are that the child is involved in the 1.30pm – 3.00pm, second more applications than decision about where to apply. session begins at 4.00pm places. When there are Consider taking your child to – 5.30pm and the third more applications for a the open evenings/days to see session begins at 6.30pm – school than places available, what he or she thinks about 8.00pm. oversubscription criteria (often different schools. called admission criteria) are used to determine priority for When thinking about which admission. As many schools schools to apply for, it is are oversubscribed it is very important that you take important that you consider into account each school’s as many schools as possible oversubscription criteria. when you are thinking about These describe how offers which schools to apply for. of places are determined Within the booklet there and who gets priority when is information about what a school is oversubscribed. happened in the 2019 round Details of the oversubscription which may be helpful to you criteria for all Thurrock in deciding which schools you Information for parents applying for a secondary school place Apply online at thurrock.gov.uk/admissions How do I complete whom the child spends the dispute between two parents, the application? majority of the time and who these applications will be receives Child Benefit for the placed on hold and will not be We recommend you apply child, if this is paid. You will be processed until such time that: online at thurrock.gov.uk/ required to provide proof of admissions address. We will require you • written agreement is Each local authority has its to provide your council tax provided from both own application form whether reference number which can parents stating which it is electronic or a paper be cross referenced with the application to take forward copy. You must complete address you give. for processing; or the application for the local If you move after completing authority in which you live, the application or change • a court order is obtained regardless of which schools your email address, you confirming which parents’ you are applying for. If you are must inform us so that application carries a Thurrock resident and want correspondence continues precedence or the court to apply for schools outside to reach you. A change of decides which parent can Thurrock you must do so on address may affect your offer make decisions about the Thurrock application. of a place at the school of school preferences. your choice. As a starting It is important that the point, applications will Failure to reach an agreement application is fully and only be discussed with the about which application accurately completed as, person/people named on the to take forward can affect if there are omissions or application. whether or not your child is 6 inaccuracies, your application considered for a place at the may be adversely affected. Parent/carer details schools you want, especially if The person applying on behalf they are not in Thurrock. Child’s address of the child will normally be We normally process the person with parental Please ensure that only one applications on the basis of responsibility for the child as application is submitted by the child’s home address at defined by the Children Act 31 October 2020. If multiple the time of application and 1989 and amended by the applications are received at offer. Adoption and Children Act any stage in the process you 2002. risk your child being without a The home address is the school place. address where the child is a Shared parental permanent resident, or where responsibility Children in public care the child is ordinarily resident. Where more than one adult Children in public care and all This is usually the address shares parental responsibility children previously looked after of the parent, or carer with and they live at different will automatically be given first parental responsibility.
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