Apply online at Useful websites www.wirral.gov.uk/ and phone numbers ACE (Advisory Centre for Education) schooladmissions Phone: 0300 0115 142 www.ace-ed.org.uk Ofsted www.ofsted.gov.uk Wirral SEND Partnership www.wired.me.uk Wirral Website www.wirral.gov.uk Admissions Portal www.wirral.gov.uk/schooladmissions Adult and Disability Services Parental PO Box 290 Brighton Street Wallasey Preference Form CH27 9FQ Phone: 0151 606 2020 Transfer to Secondary schools Fax: 0151 666 4450 Email: [email protected] in September 2019 Secondary Apply online at www.wirral.gov.uk/ 190DEC18SK schooladmissions We are the Admission Authority for: We will co-ordinate with the other Preferences for schools in other Before completing this form you should read the Information Booklet, Secondary Mosslands School admissions authorities by sending them education authorities Pensby High School details of your application. The governors If you are a Wirral resident you must Education on Wirral, which describes the procedures we follow when pupils transfer will decide the order in which children complete our preference form. If you are from primary to secondary school in Wirral. You should read this very carefully before The following schools are their own should be offered places in accordance resident in another Authority in England completing the preference form. All parents whose child is due to transfer from admission authority: with their admissions criteria. They are not but wish to indicate a preference for a Bebington High Sports College allowed to know the order of preference Wirral school or schools, you must primary to secondary school in September 2019 that is, those children born Birkenhead High School Academy you have put their school and cannot use complete their preference form. between 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2008, must apply by 31 October 2018. Calday Grange Grammar School this when applying their criteria. Hilbre High School Full details of the school admissions No change of preferences will be The Information Booklet and school admission policies are available online at Prenton High School for Girls policies are available online in a accepted unless there are exceptional www.wirral.gov.uk/schooladmissions or call 0151 606 2020 for the booklet to Ridgeway High School supplementary booklet or can be obtained circumstances. South Wirral High School from the individual schools and you are be sent out to you in the post. St Anselm’s College advised to read them carefully before Allocation of secondary school places St John Plessington Catholic College completing this form. On 1 March 2019, if you have applied St Mary’s Catholic College If your child is eligible for a place in more online you will receive an email informing Making an application school, neither does naming the same We may have to share the information The Birkenhead Park School than one school we will offer a place at the you of the school allocated for your child. Wirral’s online admission system can school more than once. you have provided on your parental The Oldershaw Academy school which you listed as the highest If you have applied on a paper form, on be accessed from www.wirral.gov.uk/ It is important that any information you preference form with other departments Upton Hall School (FCJ) preference. If we cannot offer a place at 1 March 2019 we will send out by post schooladmissions. Applying online is wish us to consider must be included in of the Council or government agencies in Weatherhead High School any of the schools you have named as a a letter informing you of the school quick and simple to do. You will receive your application. We may not be able to order to verify the authenticity of pupils’ West Kirby Grammar School preference, we will give your child a place allocated for your child. an automatic email so that you know take into account information which is addresses or income status etc. Wirral Grammar School for Boys at the nearest appropriate school with a If you are unhappy with the school your application has been received by given after we have made decisions about Wirral Council processes personal data Wirral Grammar School for Girls place available. allocated you will be able to appeal against us. On 1 March 2019, online applicants school places. You can be assured that in accordance with the Data Protection Act Woodchurch High School the decision. Further details about the will receive an email with their child’s any information provided is treated as 1998. The information you provide on your appeal procedures are outlined in both allocated school place. The deadline for confidential. preference form will be used by Wirral Local the allocation letter/email and the online applications to be submitted is Authority and the governing bodies of Information Booklet. 31 October 2018. Important information secondary schools as Admission Authorities. about preferences They will apply the information to their You can put up to three schools in the Most school places are allocated on the admissions policies in order to allocate Questions about transfer to Q. If I state a preference for a school Q. What happens if my child is not order of your preference. We would always basis of the home address of each child. school places. Where there is a need to Secondary school in another Authority, is that counted allocated any of the schools I have recommend putting more than one school This must be the child’s permanent home co-ordinate admission arrangements with as one of my preferences? named on the preference form? Q. Where can I look to help me decide? in your preferences in case you are not address, where he or she lives with a neighbouring local authorities, pupil data A. Yes. Although these schools are A. We will allocate a place at the nearest A. You can attend the schools open day/ allocated your first choice. If you have person of parental responsibility as the may also be shared to ensure the efficient managed by another Authority we appropriate school where there is a evenings and obtain a copy of the schools particular reasons for your preference you main carer (as defined by the Children Act allocation of school places. Information co-ordinate preferences for their schools place available. prospectus. You can also visit the Ofsted should include them in the application. 1989). You must not give the address of about your child may also be shared with and you should include them on this form. website (www.ofsted.gov.uk) for school Q. Can I see my child’s 11+ test papers If you want to give a preference for a a business, relative, childminder, friend, Members of Parliament or Councillors if you inspection reports. Q. Can I be guaranteed a place in or the Headteacher’s report that is school outside Wirral, you need to include a temporary address or an address to ask them to act on your behalf. a particular school? considered by the Independent this as one of your preferences. We will which you hope to move. Q. Do secondary schools on Wirral A. No. About 4000 applications are Assessment Board? tell other local authorities about parents’ The home address must not be where Selective assessments have zones or catchment areas? received every year. The pattern of A. No. Test papers and all documentation preferences for schools in their area. parents have taken out a short term let on Parents will be notified of the outcome A. No.There are no catchment areas preference changes from year to year referred to the Board are confidential to If you cannot apply online, you can a property solely to use its address on the of the grammar assessment tests by for secondary schools but if they are and no one can know which schools will the Authority. Under the Data Protection complete the paper preference form application form without any intention of 21 October 2018. If you have requested oversubscribed then the distance be under-subscribed or over-subscribed. Act, Schedule 7, Section 9 parents do not provided, giving up to three schools in taking up permanent residence there. We that your child is assessed for a place at between home and school is one of the have the right to see the test papers. order of preference. You should return the will require evidence that the previous any grammar school, do not complete your factors we use to decide which children Q. Will I get my first preference of The Freedom of Information Act does form to your child’s primary school (if this is property has been sold. preference form/online application until you are eligible for places. secondary school? not override the Data Protection Act in a Wirral school) or by post to Wirral Local We can only process one application for have received the outcome of the test(s). A. Most children are offered one of Q. How do I find out which is my this instance. Authority if your child attends a school each child; therefore it is important that both their preferred schools. However, if more nearest secondary school? outside Wirral. The deadline for paper parties in shared custody arrangements Preferences for schools children want to go to a particular school Q. My child has not reached the A. You can write to or email Mainstream applications to be returned is 31 October are in agreement over the preferred Most children will be allocated a place at than there are places available, some will standard for grammar school and I Admissions team at (secondaryplaces@ 2018.