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Walsall LA
David Mc Nulty
Chief Education Officer, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council, Civic Centre, Darwall Street, Walsall, West Midlands, WS1 1DQ
Telephone: 01922 650000
Fax: 01922 722322
Email: mcnultyd@walsall.gov.uk
Website: www.walsall.gov.uk
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Transfers to Secondary Schools in September 2012
As your child was born between 1 September 2000 and 31 August 2001 he or she is due to transfer to a secondary school in September 2012.
Walsall participates in an Inter-Local Authority (LA) Co-ordinated Admission Scheme along with a number of local authorities in the Midlands, including Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Staffordshire and Wolverhampton.
The scheme allows you to express preferences for up to five secondary schools, rank them in order of preference and give reasons for your preferences, if appropriate (e.g., medical or social). The Walsall preference form allows you to apply for a place at any secondary school in or outside the borough, with some exceptions.
The following web pages tell you how to apply for a place for your child at secondary school. It also explains what happens if a Walsall school has more applications than there are places available. The admission criteria for every Walsall school are detailed in the school information pages within this booklet. If you intend to name a school outside Walsall, it is important that you obtain a copy of the maintaining local authority’s ‘Information for Parents’ booklet/leaflet, or visit the local authority’s website, which will detail the admission criteria for the school you would like your child/ren to attend. Please take the opportunity to find out as much as you can about the relevant schools before you express your preferences – The School Admissions team is here to help you.
- If you live in Walsall, please return the completed Preference Form to your child’s present Walsall Primary School by 31 October 2011.
- If you live in Walsall and your child attends a primary school outside Walsall, or a private school in Walsall, please return the form to the School Admissions team, Education Development Centre, Pelsall Lane, Rushall, Walsall, WS4 1NG.
- If you live outside Walsall, you should complete a Preference form from your home local authority and return it as stated on the form.
Download our current admissions booklet
Download Supplementary Information Forms for the following schools
- Aldridge School - A Science College Music Scholarship Form (PDF 52KB)
- Blue Coat CE Performing Arts Specialist College (PDF 56KB)
- Shelfield Entry by Sporting Ability Application Form (PDF 41KB)
- St Francis of Assisi Catholic Technology College (PDF 49KB)
- St Thomas More Catholic - Business and Enterprise College (PDF 38KB)
Registration forms for the following schools are available on the school website
Online applications
You can apply for a school place using our online secondary school application form - available from 1 September 2011.
Queen Mary's Grammar School
ADMISSION ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE SCHOOLYEAR 2010 - 2011
Queen Mary's Grammar School is a selective state school which provides free education for pupils from the ages of 11 to 18. Only boys are admitted to Years 7 to 11, but both girls and boys may enter the Sixth Form. It is a VoluntaryAidedSchool and so the Governors, not the Local Authority, are responsible for the admission arrangements. There is no charge or cost related to the admission of a child to the school.
The School has no defined catchment area. All parents living both within and beyond the Borough of Walsall may apply to have their sons admitted to Years 7 to 11 and their daughters and sons admitted to Year 12 of the School.
For those who apply by the deadline, admission to Year 7 is determined by the performance of candidates in an entrance examination and the availability of places. Admission of applicants to Year 7 who apply too late to sit the entrance examination tests and those who apply to enter other Years is determined by attainment in academic tests administered by the School or, for admission to Year 12, performance in GCSE or equivalent examinations, and is dependent upon vacancies existing in the relevant Year group. This 'Preference Form' must be obtained from and returned to the Local Authority in whose area applicants live.
The parents of children resident in Walsall and attending a Walsall primary school will receive a Walsall 'Preference Form' via their primary school.
The parents of children not resident in Walsall must obtain a Preference Form from their home LA.
All applicants for admissions to Queen Mary's Grammar School must name the School on their home LA Preference Form: if Queen Mary' Grammar School is not named on the home LA Preference Form the application will not be accepted.
Parents who wish to apply to Queen Mary's Grammar School will need to fill in a second form in order to register for the entrance tests at the School. It is not a legal requirement, but if parents do not complete this form, the School will not be able to make appropriate arrangements for their son to take the entrance tests.
The Registration Form should be obtained from and returned to the School at the following address:
Admissions Office, Queen Mary's Grammar School, Sutton Road, Walsall, WS1 2PG.
The deadline for the receipt of the School's Registration Form by the School will be the same as the closing date published by the home LA for the receipt of their Preference / Common Application Form.
Admission Criteria
The admission number for entry to Year 7 in 2010 is 96 pupils.
Places in Year 7 of the School from the first day of the Autumn Term 2010 will be awarded on the basis of the results of tests including:
- Verbal Reasoning
- Non Verbal Reasoning
- Maths
- English
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Raw scores will be standardised to take account of differences in ages. An order of merit will be drawn up, based on the aggregate standardised marks in both tests.
If more than one candidate obtains the last qualifying score then priority will be given to any such candidate(s) who are in Public Care. If none of the candidates obtaining the last qualifying score is in Public Care then aggregate positions in the two papers will be taken into account and the candidate(s) with the lowest aggregate position will be offered the place(s).
Places will be offered to candidates with reference to their rank order in the Entrance Examination until the published admissions number is reached.
Queen Mary's High School
Entry to Year 7 is by examination which takes place in Autumn 2011 for admission to the school in September 2012.
ENTRANCE EXAMINATION
because of potential industrial action the entrance exam has been moved to
Thursday 1st December 2011
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OPEN MORNINGS
Wednesday 21st September 2011
Thursday 22nd September 2011
11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
The format for the morning will be a tour of the school which will
start at 11 a.m. ending with the Head Teacher's talk at 11:45 a.m.
OPEN AFTERNOON
Tuesday 13th September 2011
2 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
The format for the afternoon will be a tour of the school which will
start at 2 p.m. ending with the Head Teacher's talk at 2:45 p.m.
OPEN EVENING
Thursday 15th September 2011
7 - 9 p.m.
All parents and their daughters are invited to one of these.
SCHOOL PROSPECTUS
Copies of the Prospectus will be available at the Open Evening or from the school between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. from September 2011.
Registration forms will be available from July 2011
