Warwickshire County Council Secondary Prospectus For 2018-2019 Entry Closing date for Apply online: 2018 entry – 5pm warwickshire.gov.uk/ on 31 October 2017 admissions1 In this booklet. 1. Important Dates For Admissions 4 2. Things To Consider When Applying For A School Place 5 3. How To Apply 6 4. How Offers Are Made 7 5. Other Important Information 8 I) Siblings 8 Ii) Definition Of Home Address 8 Iii) Moving House 8 Iv) Separated Parents 9 V) Supplementary Forms 9 Vi) Education Of Children Outside Of Their Chronological Year Group 10 6. Warwickshire County Council’s Over-Subscription Criteria 12 7. Breakdown Of 2016 Non-Selective Places 14 8. Special Educational Needs And Disability (Send) 18 9. Grammar Schools And The 11+ Test 19 10. Applying For A Place At A Grammar School 21 11. In-Year Applications 22 12. Fair Access Protocol 25 13. School Contact Details 26 14. Warwickshire School Priority Areas 34 15. County Council Admission Arrangements 44 16. Warwickshire Schools Admissions Arrangements 60 17. Warwickshire Home To School Transport Policy 257 2 3 Important dates for admission Things to consider when to a secondary school. applying for a school place. The closing date for applying 08 May 2017 09 September 2017 Warwickshire residents can If you are applying for a on-time for a secondary 11+ test registration opens. Main 11+ test date. list up to six schools on their Warwickshire grammar school place is 5pm on 31 application. We strongly school you must register October 2017. Failure to 08 May 2017 31 October 2017 (5pm) recommend you list more for and sit the 11+ test. You apply on-time will significantly Secondary application Closing date for on-time than one school. Listing only must also list the grammar reduce the chances of your process opens to applications for a one school will not increase school(s) you wish to apply child being offered a place at Warwickshire residents school place. your chances of gaining a for on your application for a your preferred school. Please (online and telephone place at a particular school. school place. note that dates relating to the applications) 29 December 2017 - Final Listing more than one 11+ test are only relevant if date for families moving into school will also not affect You can find an interactive you wish to apply for a place 14 June 2017 - Deadline for the area to have provided your chances of gaining a map on at a grammar school. 11+ registration if parents are proof of address in order place at your first preference requesting special testing for application to be school. Priority areas are warwickshire.gov.uk/ arrangements due to considered as on-time (see an important part of the mapsecondaryschools learning difficulties or a residency requirements). admissions process. physical disability. to confirm which priority area 01 March 2018 - National Living in a priority area does you live in. Do not assume 07 July 2017 Offer Day, emails sent from not guarantee a place at a that the school closest to 11+ Registration deadline, in 08:30am onwards. particular school but it does your address is your priority order to be classed as improve the chances of being area school. We strongly on time. offered a place. You should recommend you list your list schools in your preferred priority area school on your order and put the school you application. would most like your child to attend first. There is no guarantee though that you will be offered the school you list first. If we can offer Important information a place at more than one about this prospectus. school we will offer a place This prospectus is for parents Choosing a school is an websites as they contain at the highest preference and carers with children important decision and information about exam and possible. living in Warwickshire that are there are a number of things inspection results. Talking to due to transfer to secondary we suggest you do before your child about which school school or change school. This applying. You should look at they would like to attend is prospectus gives you the key the websites of any schools also really important. If you information needed to apply you are interested in and are applying for a grammar for a school place. More where possible attend open school place your child will information is available on our evenings. These will give you need to sit the 11+ test. website at: an opportunity to look around the school. You should Make sure you read the warwickshire.gov.uk/ also visit the Ofsted and relevant section of this admissions Department for Education prospectus very carefully. 4 5 How to apply. How offers are made. Recommend you apply online at warwickshire.gov.uk/admissions If you live in Warwickshire the considered until after After 31 October 2017 any If you apply for a school Academies, Voluntary Aided, process is quick, easy and National Offer Day, in line preference changes or that is over-subscribed (has Foundation and Free Schools secure. You can choose to with scheduled reallocation additions will be considered more applicants than there The Academy Trust or receive your offer of a school dates (unless the family as late unless you are moving are places available) your Governing Body of the school place via email and online. is moving into the area – house. If you have difficulty application is allocated an sets the oversubscription To apply online all you need residency requirements must applying online you can call oversubscription criterion. criteria. is an email address and be adhered to – see below for the Admissions Service on your Council Tax Property more information). 01926 414143 or complete Places are then offered in Grammar Schools Reference Number. the common application form criteria order to fill the school. The Academy Trust of If you wish to change the at the end of this prospectus. The criteria used depends each school sets the The deadline for on time schools on your application upon the type of school that oversubcription criteria; these secondary applications is you must request this by you have applied for. only include how well a child 5pm on 31 October 2017. contacting the Admissions did in the 11+ test. Service. The main types of school in Applications received after Warwickshire are as follows: Details of which this date will considered oversubscription criteria is as late and will not be Community Schools and used by each school can be Voluntary Controlled Schools found at The County Council sets the oversubscription criteria. warwickshire.gov.uk/ admissionpolicies Apply online: warwickshire.gov.uk/ admissions 6 7 Other important information. Siblings. Definition of home address. Moving house. If your child is offered a This is where the child Future house moves will be which was named on the Separated parents. Supplementary forms. place at a school there is no normally resides / sleeps only taken in to account if application. Where a house guarantee that your younger when they attend school. they can be confirmed by move has occurred after the Only persons or Some schools require you child(ren) will be offered a Addresses involved in child- 5pm on 29 December 2017. 29 December 2017 extended organisations who have to fill out an additional form place at that school. This is minding arrangements, Independent proof of the deadline and no application Parental Responsibility for to apply for a place. The especially the case if you whether with professional move, such as a tenancy has previously been made to a child should make an school’s admissions criteria live outside the school’s child-minders, friends or agreement that terminates Warwickshire, an application application for a school should indicate whether or priority area. Looked After relatives, are excluded. after the start of the autumn must be made and suitable place. Warwickshire School not you need to complete a Children and those with term 2017 or proof that there proof of the new address Admissions Service will not supplementary form. Special Educational Needs There is also an expectation has been an exchange of should be submitted. In this become involved in disputes are normally offered places that a child will be resident contracts in the purchase of a case, the application will be between parents, or parties, first. In many schools children at the address used to house will be required. There classed as late and will not regarding applications living in the priority area with allocate a place from is an expectation that the be considered in the first for school places. Where siblings at the school are the start of term and will address used will satisfy the round of offers (National Offer individuals or parties with then offered places followed continue to reside at that definition of ‘home address’. Day = 01 March 2018). parental responsibility by other children living in the address. All circumstances Proof of residence at the cannot agree on either the priority area. Only then are surrounding the application address may be required. The application will be home address or the school places offered to children will be taken into account in given consideration in the preferences to name on an with a sibling at the school deciding whether or not this House moves after 31 first reallocation round, application, the Admissions who live outside of the priority requirement has been met. October 2017, but before commencing on 19 March Service will then consider area. In each category Short-term house moves 29 December 2017: Where 2018. Proof of the new the application using the children living closest to the which occur only to secure the home address changes address, such as a full address which is held by school are given the a school place and which after the closing date for copy of the signed tenancy the child’s GP surgery (if highest priority.