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Barnet LA
Miss Gillian Palmer
Education Service, London Borough of Barnet
Building 4, North London Business Park
Oakleigh Road South, London, N11 1NP
Telephone: 020 8359 2000
Fax: 020 8359 3057
Email: gillian.palmer@barnet.gov.uk
Website: www.barnet.gov.uk
If your child was born between 1 September 1999 and 31 August 2000 you will need to make an application for the 2011/2012 academic year using a Common Application Form (CAF) supplied by your local authority.
From 1 September 2010 you can apply online (eAdmissions external link).
If your child attends a Barnet primary school and you are a Barnet resident, you will receive an application pack automatically through the primary school in early September.
If your child is attending an independent school or a school outside the borough and you would like to apply for a place at a maintained school, please contact the Admissions Team to request a pack.
The closing date is 31 October 2010.
You will be posted the result on 1 March 2010.
If your child has a statement of special educational needs (SEN), you will be given a different form to complete. Any queries you have about your child’s application should be addressed to your SEN caseworker.
Making your application – important points to remember
You can list a maximum of six schools in the order you prefer them, there is no advantage in listing only one school. You are strongly advised to include at least one local community school as one of your preferences to ensure that your child secures a school place for 2011/12.
If all the preferences you make are unrealistic you are unlikely to secure a place at any of the named schools.
You will be told why you have received an offer or a refusal, and where relevant, parents can stay on waiting lists and appeal against the decisions not to offer places.
Once you have been offered a place at a school of your preference your child will not normally be considered for alternative lower ranked schools and you would not be expected to appeal for a place at these schools.
After 31 March 2011, the council will retain waiting lists for the oversubscribed community schools and accept further applications for community schools with vacancies. The council will make further offers from the waiting lists as and when places become available. After 31 March 2011, oversubscribed voluntary aided, foundation schools and the academies, if relevant, will hold their own waiting lists (you should contact each school directly to be added to the waiting list). The academies and any voluntary aided and foundation schools with vacancies will accept further applications. Individual schools will make further offers as and when places become available.
Please remember that only a small number of places are expected to become available to offer after 1 March 2011 at schools that are full. This is because few children will receive more than one offer on that date.
If you are a Barnet resident whose child has not been offered a place at one of your preferred schools and you do not wish to accept a place at a Barnet school that has vacancies, you will become responsible for securing suitable education for your child.
If you are not a Barnet resident you must apply for a school place on the Common Application Form provided by the borough in which you live. Check neighbouring borough admissions for further information.
Supplementary application forms must be submitted online by:
Noon on Monday 31st October 2011Assessment Procedures – Entrance Tests
The first entrance test will take place at the School on FRIDAY, 2nd DECEMBER 2011. All applicants sit the first test. Details of the time of the test will be confirmed in writing approximately one week before the date of the test. We are very aware that young boys can be nervous on occasions such as these, and we will endeavour to put all the candidates at their ease.
After the test is completed and marked, all applicants will be placed in rank order of test scores. The first 500 candidates on the list will be invited to sit the second test. In addition to this, those whose score is the same as that candidate who is ranked at position 500 will also be invited to sit the second test. We will write to you in December to inform you of one of the following:
1. We would like your son to return for a second test. Please be aware that an invitation to the second test is not a guarantee of a place at Queen Elizabeth’s.
2. Your son’s scores do not place him in the top 500 candidates and we are unable to continue to process your application.
The second entrance test will be take place at the School on MONDAY 9th JANUARY 2012.
When the second tests have been completed and marked, we will compile a list in rank order on the basis of performance in the first and second tests. This list will be returned to the Local Authority so that places can be offered within the scheme for coordinated admissions. If your son has taken this second test, you will receive a letter at the beginning of March to inform you of one of the following:
1. Your son has been offered a place.
2. We cannot offer your son a place at that time but his name has been placed on a waiting list. (Please see the admissions criteria above for information on waiting lists).
First entrance examination:
Friday 2nd December 2011
Second entrance examination:
Monday 9th January 2012
Music auditions:
By arrangement in January 2012
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St Michael’s Catholic Grammar School was founded by the Sisters of the Poor Child Jesus to provide education for children of Catholic families. The school is conducted by its governing body as part of the Catholic Church in accordance with its trust deed and instrument of government, and seeks at all times to be a witness to Jesus Christ.
As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the Catholic character of the school’s education is fully supported by all families in the school. All applicants and candidates are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved and positive support for the aims and ethos of the school.
The number of intended admissions to Year 7 is 96 at age 11. Applicants should have had their eleventh birthday in the academic year (1st September – 31st August) immediately preceding entry. Only girls who have ability suited to the curriculum of the school and whose parents or guardians desire for them a Catholic education will be admitted to the school.
ADMISSIONS PROCEDURE AND CRITERIA
Within living memory, St Michael’s has always been oversubscribed with candidates who fulfil Criterion 1.
1.Catholic girls :
who are baptised and have made their First Holy Communion in the Catholic Church and
whose parents provide a written reference from the applicant’s parish priest stating that one or both parents are practising Catholics who attend Mass on Sundays with the child.
Each year the Governing Body will admit to the test all girls (eligible by age) who fulfil this criterion.
All applicants selected in accordance with Criterion 1 will be required to take written tests in Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning, English and Mathematics.
All applicants selected in accordance with Criterion 1 will be required to take written tests in:
Verbal Reasoning
Non-Verbal Reasoning
English
Mathematics
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Following the tests all applicants will be ranked in order starting with the highest score. Applicants must reach a minimum standard in each written paper. Places will be allocated strictly in accordance with score but in allocating places between two or more girls who have an equal ranking, the Governing Body will give preference for those remaining places, in priority order, to:
· Catholic girls who are looked after under the provisions of the Children Act 1989;
· Catholic girls who are anticipated to have a sister or sisters at the school at the time of admission;
A waiting list is maintained until 31st December. Candidates are ranked on it in accordance with score.
2. St Michael’s, historically, has always been oversubscribed with candidates who meet Criterion 1. In the unlikely event that the number of such applicants falls below 150 in any one year, the Governing body will invite other applicants to the test. In inviting to the test girls other than those fulfilling Criterion 1 above, the Governors will give priority as follows:
Such other numbers of female applicants (eligible by age) as may be needed to bring the total numbers of girls to be tested to 150. In the event of over-subscription within this criterion, the Governing Body will give priority in accordance with the following criteria listed in order of importance:
b. other Catholic girls;
c. non-Catholic girls who are looked after under the provisions of the Children Act 1989;
d. girls from families practising in other Christian denominations (supported by a minister’s reference);
e. distance from the applicant’s front door (including flats) to the School’s front door, as measured in a straight line by the London Borough of Barnet’s measuring tool.
To apply for a place at this school, you should complete and return two separate forms in order to make a valid application. You are strongly advised to complete the School’s Supplementary Information Form attached to this policy, and return it to St Michael’s School. You must also complete a Common Application Form from the LEA where you live and return it to the School Admissions section of the same LEA. Both these forms must be received by Closing Date.
If there are any special circumstances likely to affect a child’s performance in the test, parents should contact the Admissions Secretary.
Admission is by selection through entrance tests. Girls are offered places on the results of the entrance tests.
The first entrance tests are multiple choice verbal and non verbal reasoning, held in 4 sessions over 2 days on either Tuesday 15th November or Wednesday 16th November 2011.
Your daughter will be invited to attend one session and this cannot be changed under any circumstances. The tests will take place at The Henrietta Barnett School and girls cannot sit them anywhere else. A supplementary date of Tuesday 22nd November 2011 will be available for girls who, due to illness, were unable to attend the first entrance tests. A doctor’s certificate will be required to confirm that illness was the reason for non-attendance at the first entrance tests.
According to the results of the tests, candidates are placed in rank order. The second tests will be held on Wednesday 4th January 2012. All girls ranked up to and including 500 are invited back for the second tests in English and Mathematics and candidates are expected to show competence in skills appropriate to KS2 and to be able to apply these skills creatively.
The first 93 places are offered in the first instance by the Local Authority on the basis of ranking by entrance exam and stated preferences. After 93 places, the waiting list applies solely on ranking regardless of preference.
Registrations and Applications
A Common Application Form from the Local Authority in which you live must be filled in and returned to them.
The Henrietta Barnett School Supplementary Information Form for girls born between 1st September 2000 and 31st August 2001 and/or in Year 6 should be completed and returned to the School by 4.00 pm on Friday 21st October 2011 (please ensure adequate postage)
Failure to fill in the supplementary form will mean that a candidate is not able to take the school’s entrance examination which will affect where the applicant is placed within the rankings.
It is therefore important that you apply to both the School and your Local Authority.
In order for the Governing Body to consider your application, you should complete the Common Application Form which is available from your Local Authority. In order to be entered for our examination you must complete our Supplementary Information Form which is available from the School.
Consideration will be given initially to those Common Application Forms and Supplementary Information Forms received by the published deadline. Only then will the Governing Body consider applications received after the deadline.
It is the responsibility of parents to check that their forms have been received in time by both their LA and the School. If you have not received your acknowledgement postcard from the School by the closing date, or did not use an acknowledgement card please contact the School to confirm your application has been received.
Your daughter may only take the entrance tests for admission to Year 7 once.
Please remember to send the following items with your Supplementary Information Form:
If you require acknowledgement of your Supplementary Information Form, please include a stamped, addressed postcard that we will return on receipt of your form.
Details of the entrance tests will be sent out by Wednesday 9th November 2011 and information regarding Year 7 entry, ie closing date, offers, etc is regularly updated on the telephone system - Option 2.
Please do not contact the School Office unless you have not received your invitation letter by Friday 11th November 2011.
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