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Transferring from Barnes Primary School
A rite of passage!
A ‘project’ mentality required
 Doing you research is key to success
 Putting in the ‘legwork’ is part of this
 Talk to others who have been through
the process
 Stay calm; beware of scaremongering
and gossip!
 Include your child in the process
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Further thoughts
Don’t make a wasted, unrealistic
choice
 The competition at selective schools
is very strong
 Consider a tutor
 Know your child & what makes
him/her happy
 Consider the journey
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Where did they go in 2010?
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In 2009-10 52 pupils moved on to 20
different schools
20% went to Christs; 20% went to Richmond
Park Academy
60% went elsewhere
Selective schools: Hampton Grammar
School (2), Latymer Upper School (2),
Kingston Grammar (2), Lady Margaret (1)
and Godolphin (1)
16% went to private non-selective schools
Christs
10
20%
Richmond Park Academy
10
20%
Ibstock
3
6%
Harrodian
3
6%
Latymer
2
4%
Hampton
2
4%
Kingston Grammar
2
4%
St James
3
6%
Ashcroft Academy
2
4%
Tolworth Girls
2
4%
The Green School
2
4%
Grey Court
2
4%
Lady Margaret
1
2%
Godolphin
1
2%
Henrietta Barnet
1
2%
Southborough
1
2%
The Moat
1
2%
Fulham Cross
1
2%
The Rudledge School
1
2%
King Alfred
1
2%
Christ’s Hospital
1
2%
Where did they go in 2009?
Ashcroft Technology Academy 1
 Christ’s
9
 Christ’s Hospital
1
 Emmanuel
1
 Godolphin & Latymer
1
 Grey Court
7
 Harrodian
1
 Hurlingham Girls
1
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Ibstock Place
 Latymer
 Putney High
 Shene
 Southborough
 St James’ Boys
 St James’ Girls
 Waldegrave
 Whitton
 Left the area
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2
1
9
1
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1
1
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4
Local state secondary schools
- realistic choices
 Richmond Park
Academy
 Christ’s
 Grey Court
Richmond Park Academy
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Co sponsored by The Academies Enterprise
Trust (AET) and Richmond Local Authority
Significant expertise, including tried and
tested school leadership guidance
Very good connections with partner
organisations brought in by AET
In 2 years time ‘a good school with some
outstanding aspects’ – David Fuller
The school needs the critical mass of local
children to develop into a successful local
community school
www.richmondparkacademy.org
Richmond Park
Academy has two
Specialisms: English
and Business with
ICT and Maths.
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realise the potential of every individual
celebrate the whole child
focus continuously on learning and teaching
maintain a perpetual cycle of monitoring,
evaluation and review
use learning technologies to support,
enhance and extend
promote leadership at all levels
provide bespoke CPD for the whole school
workforce
build partnerships within and across the
school community
share structures, systems and procedures
identify and share innovation and best
practice
Christ’s
Relaunched in 2000
 Small, local school
 Headteacher in post now for four
years – Richard Burke
 Significant improvement in GCSE
results in 2009: up 28% to 80% A* to
C GCSEs (2008: 52%; 2007: 71%)
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Grey Court
Strong Head, Maggie Bailey – 3 years
in post
 Big on ICT; big on sport; extensive
grounds; large classrooms
 Hot on discipline
 Best GCSE results for 15 years in
2009: 71% A* to C GCSEs.
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TRANSFER TO
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
IN SEPTEMBER 2011
For children born between
1 September 1999 and 31 August 2000
SEPTEMBER 2011
ENTRY
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Pan-London scheme for local
councils to co-ordinate applications
with each other
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Aim: one offer is made per child
SEPTEMBER 2011
ENTRY
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Apply on HOME council’s form
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Up to 6 ranked preferences for any
state schools – including church or
foundation schools – or academies in
Richmond Borough and/or any other
Council’s area
SEPTEMBER 2011
ENTRY
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Councils exchange preference data
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All preferences will be looked at
‘equally’ in accordance with
admissions criteria
SEPTEMBER 2010
ENTRY
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All potential offers will be sifted
by computer so that…
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… the highest-ranked of those
potential ‘offers’ will actually be
made
SEPTEMBER 2011
ENTRY
One offer per child: means that
parents will only be able to hold
onto one state-school/academy
offer at any point in time
GATHERING
INFORMATION
The admissions brochure
 School prospectuses
 Websites
 Ofsted reports
 Open days / evenings
 School visits
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GATHERING
INFORMATION
Look closely at:
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Schools’ oversubscription criteria to
see what priority your child would have
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Previous year’s admissions patterns –
a guide to how places may be allocated
for 2011
THE APPLICATION
FORM
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Online application:
www.richmond.gov.uk/online_admissions
- Most parents apply online because of the
benefits of so doing
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For those who cannot apply online: paper
form available from primary school (for
Richmond Borough resident children) or
from Admissions Section of home council
THE APPLICATION
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Up to 6 ranked preferences
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Sibling details
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Double-check criteria
THE APPLICATION
Reasons for preferences: medical
or social
 To be with your home council by
national closing-date:
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SUNDAY 31 OCTOBER 2010
Online portal shuts at midnight on
31 October
 If you can, please submit it by
Friday 22 October to allow as much
time for data checking
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LATE APPLICATIONS
Forms received after the closingdate will only be considered after
‘on-times’…
 …unless you have very
exceptional circumstances
 So, if your application is late, you
will limit your chances of gaining a
place at your preferred school(s)
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YOUR
PREFERENCES
Ranked 1 to 6 (you don’t need to use
all 6 if you don’t wish to)
 Be realistic…
 Admissions criteria queries – contact
your home council’s Admissions
Section or the school(s) concerned
 Supplementary form needed?
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NATIONAL OFFER
DAY
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1 March 2011
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Your home council will post your
outcome letter on that date – you
should receive it on 2 March
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Applied online? Log on from 5.00pm
on 1 March to find out the outcome
(N.B. this is only available if you
applied online)
PREFERENCES NOT MET
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Richmond Borough residents: you will
be offered an alternative school place
at a Richmond Borough school on
National Offer Day (subject to there
being vacancies)
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Out-borough residents: your home
council has a responsibility to offer
you an alternative school place
WAITING LISTS
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Not been offered 1st or 2nd (or 3rd,
etc.) preference school: child’s name
will automatically be added to both
(all) schools’ waiting lists
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May also request, in writing, for child
to be added to any other school’s
waiting list
WAITING LISTS
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Are ranked in accordance with the
schools’ oversubscription criteria;
but...
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…late applicants are included
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Therefore: a child’s position on any list
can move DOWN as well as up if a
late applicant has priority than your
child
ADMISSION APPEALS
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Statutory right
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Heard by an independent
panel
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Do not affect waiting list
movement
ADMISSIONS CRITERIA FOR: GREY COURT,
HAMPTON ACADEMY, ORLEANS PARK, RICHMOND
PARK ACADEMY, TEDDINGTON, AND TWICKENHAM
ACADEMY
Public care
 Special circumstances
 Siblings
 ‘Links’
 Distance
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CHRIST’S SCHOOL
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Church of England school
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70 ‘foundation’ places –
supplementary form needed
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50 ‘open’ places
GEOGRAPHICAL
INFORMATION
SYSTEM
Computerized
system based
on Ordnance
Survey maps
 2 views
available
 ‘Bartholomew’
map and…
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GEOGRAPHICAL
INFORMATION SYSTEM
…‘Land line’
map
 House by
street
number
 Shortest
route by
road and
maintained
footpaths
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OUT-BOROUGH
SCHOOLS
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What are the admissions criteria?
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What are the chances of your child
being admitted?
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Is a supplementary form needed?
KEY DATES
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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2010 secondary school open events
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31 OCTOBER 2010 - closing
date for receipt of applications
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1 MARCH 2011 - application
outcome letters posted; log on to
find out the outcome
QUESTIONS...?
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Contact your home council’s
Admissions Section
OTHER COUNCILS
Hammersmith & Fulham:
020 8753 3643/3664
 Hounslow: 020 8583 2000
 Kingston: 020 8547 4610
 Surrey: 08456 009 009
 Wandsworth: 020 8871 7962
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RICHMOND COUNCIL’S
ADMISSIONS SECTION
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Telephone: 020 8891 7514
E-mail: [email protected]
Visit: Civic Centre, York Street,
Twickenham (next to York House)
www.richmond.gov.uk/schools
www.richmond.gov.uk/online_admissions