Reception and junior Admission guide 2016 Contents Brent Council’s reception and junior admission guide 2016 Important information for parents and carers ............................................................................................................ 3 Timetable for applying .............................................................................................................................................. 8 Additional offer rounds ............................................................................................................................................. 9 Primary coordination ............................................................................................................................................... 10 Appeals .................................................................................................................................................................. 11 Your questions answered ........................................................................................................................................ 12 Community primary schools in Brent– admissions arrangements .............................................................................. 17 How places were allocated at Brent Community Primary Schools ............................................................................ 22 Community primary schools – contact details .......................................................................................................... 26 Ark Academy .......................................................................................................................................................... 33 Ark Franklin Primary Academy ................................................................................................................................. 39 Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School ........................................................................................................44 Christ Church CofE Primary School ..........................................................................................................................46 Convent of Jesus and Mary RC Infant School ........................................................................................................... 49 Floreat Alperton Primary School .............................................................................................................................. 53 Furness Primary School ............................................................................................................................................ 56 Gladstone Park Primary School ................................................................................................................................ 59 Islamia School ......................................................................................................................................................... 62 John Keble CofE Primary School .............................................................................................................................. 65 Kilburn Grange School ............................................................................................................................................ 68 Malorees Junior School ........................................................................................................................................... 71 North West London Jewish Day School ................................................................................................................... 73 Oakington Manor Primary School ............................................................................................................................ 76 Our Lady of Grace Catholic Infant School ............................................................................................................... 79 Our Lady of Grace Catholic Junior School ................................................................................................................ 82 Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School ........................................................................................................... 85 Preston Manor School ............................................................................................................................................. 89 Princess Frederica CE VA Primary School .................................................................................................................. 92 Sinai Jewish Primary School ..................................................................................................................................... 95 St Andrew & St Francis CofE Primary School ............................................................................................................ 99 St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Infant School .............................................................................................................. 102 St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Junior School .............................................................................................................. 106 St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School ............................................................................................................110 St Margaret Clitherow Primary School ....................................................................................................................113 St Mary Magdalen’s Catholic Junior School.............................................................................................................116 St Mary’s CofE Primary School ............................................................................................................................... 120 St Mary’s Catholic Primary School ......................................................................................................................... 123 St Robert Southwell RC Primary School ................................................................................................................. 126 Sudbury Primary School ........................................................................................................................................ 130 The Kilburn Park School Foundation ...................................................................................................................... 133 Wembley High Technology College ....................................................................................................................... 135 Special Educational Needs ..................................................................................................................................... 137 Other school information ...................................................................................................................................... 140 Useful contacts ..................................................................................................................................................... 142 2 BRENT RECEPTION AND JUNIOR ADMISSION GUIDE 2016 Important information for parents and carers There is considerable pressure and competition for primary school places in Brent and it is important to think about this when making your application. You should always put down the school you want the Priority is now given to children living within the most as your first preference. This does not guarantee catchment area over siblings as follows: Siblings living that you will be offered a place at the school, it depends within the catchment area are offered first, followed by on how many other parents apply. all others living within the catchment area, followed by siblings living outside the catchment area. If a school has more places available than applications received, then every child who applies will be offered Families who have a sibling connection at a specific school a place. However, most primary schools in Brent are but who live outside the catchment area of that school heavily oversubscribed which means they get many more will have lower priority than all other applicants living applications than they have places. If this is the case, within the catchment area. (see pages 17-19 for details) schools will use their oversubscription criteria to decide Home to School Distance which applicants have priority for the available places. The method used to measure home to school distance has Children will be ranked in a list depending on how closely changed to straight line distance (see page 20 for details) they meet the criteria. Some children will have higher Measurements from previous years will have been priority than others; the further down the list you are, the calculated using the shortest walking distance method. This less likely you are of being offered a place at the school. means that it will not be possible to use cut off distances from previous years to gauge the likelihood of being Oversubscription criteria can include: offered a place this year. n How far you live from the school and your catchment All through schools area. Ark Academy and Preston Manor School are All Through n Whether you already have other siblings at the school. schools which educate children aged between four and 18. Applications are being taken for Reception places in both n If you follow a particular faith. schools. Ark Academy and Preston Manor School will both n Any medical or social needs your child may have. admit 60