Sixth Form Open Evening (External Students) will be held on Thursday, 16th October 2014. From 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
At 5:30 p.m. & 6:00 p.m. brief talks will be given by the Headmaster and Head of Sixth Form. No booking is needed.
Entry is through the Kent Assessment Procedure.
Oversubscription Criteria
Before applying the oversubscription criteria, eligible boys with a Statement of Special Educational Need or an Education, Health and Care Plan which names the school will be admitted. As a result of this the published admissions number will be reduced accordingly. If the number of preferences for the school is more than the
number of places available, places will be allocated to eligible boys in the following priority order-
1. Academic Ability
This will be measured by ranked aggregate scores on the Kent PESE tests (the highest score being given the highest rank).
2. Distance
Where scores are the same students will be further ranked by distance from home to school.
3. Random Selection
A random selection will be applied should two or more applicants have the same score on the PESE test and the same distance from home to school.
Right of Appeal
Parents have a statutory right of appeal, should an application be refused; details are available from the Clerk to the Governors of The Judd School, (c/o The Judd School, Brook Street, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 2PN; clerk.gov@
judd.kent.sch.uk).
Supplementary Form Required: No
Waiting lists will be maintained up to 31 January 2016 and will be ranked according to the above oversubscription criteria.
www.judd.kent.sch.uk
Age Range: 11-18 Day Pupils
Specialisms: Music with English, Science and Maths
Published Admission No:125* LA No: 886 DFE No:4622
*The Judd school will offer an additional 30 Year 7 places for September 2015
Number of Applications for Yr 7 entry September 2014: 550 Number of places offered 3 March 2014: 155
Expected number on roll: 1050
during Year 11 are conditional on students fulfilling the above criteria.
There are also subject specific criteria, details of which may be found in the sixth form prospectus.
Gaining a place in the sixth form does not guarantee that a particular course/subject may be followed.
Over-subscription Criteria
In the event of over-subscription, priority will be given to (in order):
1. Internal Applicants 2. External Applicants
Ranked on predicted GCSE grades from their current school.
• GCSEs already certificated will be counted.
• The number of A* grades will be the first measure, then A grades and so on.
• The Judd School will be the sole arbiter of measures of equivalence when students have sat examinations other than GCSE.
3. Distance
Where predicted grades are the same students will be further ranked by distance from home to School.
4. Random Selection
A random selection will be applied should two or more applicants have the same predicted grades and the same distance from home to school.
Following results (August 2014) where learners have achieved better results than their predicted grades they will be considered based on the grades achieved and ranked accordingly for any places that become available as a result of other learners failing to meet the required entry levels.
Right of Appeal
Parents have a statutory right of appeal, should an application be refused; details are available from the Clerk to the Governors of The Judd School, (c/o The Judd
Further information about exceptions to this rule can be found in the transport section of this book. For further information please see the Kent.gov website: www.kent.
gov.uk/education-and-children/schools/school-transport
To access general information about the school, including annual school achievement and attainment tables, recent school inspection reports and
uniform policy, please contact the school or visit the school’s website.
Open Sessions
Thursday 9th October Open Morning 9.30am-midday Thursday 23rd October Open Morning 9.30am-midday Thursday 23rd October Open Evening 5.30-8.30pm Entry is through the Kent Assessment Procedure.
Oversubscription Criteria
Before applying the oversubscription criteria, eligible girls with a Statement of Special Educational Need or an Education, Health and Care Plan which names the school will be admitted. As a result of this the published admissions number will be reduced accordingly. If the number of preferences for the school is more than the number of places available, places will be allocated to eligible girls in the following priority order-
1. In accordance with the School Admissions Code of Practice, looked after and previously looked after children who nominate Tonbridge Grammar School on the preference SCAF form and who have been awarded a selective assessment in the age eleven tests, will be given priority over all other applicants.
2. Girls with a selective assessment resident in any of the following three local council areas for Council Tax purposes - Tonbridge & Malling Borough, Tunbridge Wells Borough and Sevenoaks District – will be considered according to the following:
2.1 a girl’s ability as indicated by her combined score in the age eleven assessment.
2.2 in the case of the above not determining a place, then proximity to the School will determine the place.
3. Girls with a selective assessment resident outside of these areas can be
considered for 35 Governor places according to the following:
3.1 a girl’s ability as indicated by her combined score in the age eleven assessment.
3.2 in the case of the above not determining a place, then proximity to the School will determine the place.
If there are insufficient candidates in category 3 by the published date that the Local Authority sends offer letters to parents on behalf of all admissions authorities then surplus places will be offered to those in categories 2.1 and 2.2. More than 35 Governor places will be offered only if there are insufficient applicants in categories 2.1 and 2.2 by the published date.
Notes:
1 Children in Local Authority Care - a child under the age of 18 years for whom the local authority provides accommodation by agreement with their parents/
carers (Section 22 of the Children Act 1989) or who is the subject of a care order under Part IV of the Act. This applies equally to children who immediately after being looked after by the local authority became subject to an adoption, residence or special guardianship order. (As defined by Section 46 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 or Section 8 or 14A of the Children Act 1989).
E-mail: [email protected] www.tgs.kent.sch.uk
Specialisms: Mathematics and Computing, Modern Foreign Languages
Published Admission No: 150 LA No: 886 DFE No: 5443 Number of Applications for Yr 7 entry September 2014: 619 Number of places offered 3 March 2014: 173
Expected number on roll: 1076
the child’s home to a point defined as within the school as specified by Ordnance Survey. The same address point on the school site is used for everybody.
3. Home - a pupil’s home address is considered to be a residential property that is the child’s only or main residence and not an address at which your child might sometimes sleep due to your own domestic or special arrangements. The address must be the pupil’s home address as submitted to the Local Authority in accordance with the Co-ordinated Scheme and which is either owned by the children’s parent, parents or guardian, OR leased to or rented by the child’s parent, parents or guardian under a lease or written rental agreement. If you live separately from your partner but share responsibility for your child, and the child lives at two different addresses during the week, we will regard the home address as the one at which the child sleeps for the majority of weekdays.
4. Distance in relation to a block of flats – A block of flats has a single address point reference, so applicants living in the same block will be regarded as living the same distance away from the school. In the unlikely event that two or more children live in the same block and in all other ways have equal eligibility for the last available place at the school, the names will be issued a number and drawn randomly to decide which child should be given the place.
Supplementary Form Required: No Waiting lists will be maintained up to January 2016 and will be ranked according to the above oversubscription criteria.
Sixth Form Admissions arrangements – Tonbridge Grammar School offers an International Baccalaureate curriculum in the Sixth Form.
Candidates for entry to the Sixth Form may be in Year 11 at Tonbridge Grammar School or students (female or male) following GCSE courses at other schools.
A minimum of 40 places will be offered annually to external candidates. First priority will be given to ‘Looked
circumstances the School will consider applications from prospective students at other times. Every applicant will be invited to a guidance meeting to review their course choice selection, prior to an offer of a place being made.
This meeting is purely advisory for the student and will not form part of decisions regarding offers.
Conditional offers will be determined by receipt of confirmation of predicted GCSE grades from the current school, and Tonbridge Grammar School’s ability to accommodate subject choice combinations.
All candidates should be capable of studying a full post 16 academic programme of study offered by Tonbridge Grammar School and have demonstrated their aptitude for their chosen subjects by achieving the required GCSE grade for each subject. Confirmation of places will be dependent upon achievement of the grades advised at the time of offer.
The minimum requirement for entry to the Sixth Form is at least three subjects at GCSE Grade A or above and a further three subjects at GCSE Grade B or above. All candidates should have GCSE Grade B or above (or their equivalent) in English and Mathematics and at least one Science.
Candidates are expected to achieve at least a Grade A in the subjects they wish to study at IB Higher and at least a B grade for subjects they wish to study at IB Standard. Full details of the specific grade requirements for individual subjects are published annually in the School’s Sixth Form Prospectus which can be downloaded from the website.
www.tgs.kent.sch.uk
Candidates wishing to take up a new subject in the Sixth Form are expected to meet the minimum GCSE requirements for that subject as published annually in the school’s prospectus.
All Sixth Form courses last for two years and applicants are expected to commit themselves in good faith to remaining for the full duration of the course.
wishes to study as well as supporting evidence provided by the student’s current teacher(s) confirming that she/he is capable of benefiting from the School’s 16+
programme.
Where an appropriate programme can be offered following take up by existing offer holders, students not holding an offer based on their predicted grades who subsequently go on to achieve the required grades on GCSE results day will be re-considered.
Parents have a statutory right of appeal, and details are available from the School.
Following the admission of internal students transferring from TGS Year 11, all remaining places will be allocated to learners who have met the entry requirement for their particular course of study.’ Where there are more learners seeking places than the number of places available, the oversubscription criteria above will be applied to eligible students.
After a place has been offered the school reserves the right to withdraw the place in the following circumstances:
• when a parent has failed to respond to an offer within a reasonable time; or
•..when a parent has failed to notify the school of important changes to the application information; or
• the admission authority offered the place on the basis of a fraudulent or intentionally misleading application from a parent.
Transport
Please note, schools no longer have a designated area from which transport will be provided. In most instances KCC will only fund transport to the nearest school where this school is more than 3 miles from the child’s home.
Further information about exceptions to this rule can be found in the transport section of this book. For further information please see the Kent.gov website: www.kent.
gov.uk/education-and-children/schools/school-transport
To access general information about the school, including annual school achievement and attainment tables, recent school inspection reports and
uniform policy, please contact the school or visit the school’s website.
Open Sessions
:Open Evening: Thursday 9th October 2014, 5.30pm – 8.30pm. Headteacher speaks at 6.00pm, 6.45pm and 7.25pm.
Open Mornings: Friday 17th October and Tuesday 21st October 2014, 9.30am – 11.30am. Headteacher speaks at 10.30am.
Sixth Form Open Evening: Tuesday 14 October 2014, 6.00pm – 8.00pm. Headteacher speaks at 6.15pm and 7.00pm.
Entry is through the Kent Assessment Procedure.
Oversubscription Criteria
Before applying the oversubscription criteria, eligible girls with a Statement of Special Educational Need or an Education, Health and Care Plan which names the school will be admitted. As a result of this the published admissions number will be reduced accordingly. If the number of preferences for the school is more than the number of places available, places will be allocated to eligible girls in the following priority order –
1. Children in Local Authority Care - A child under the age of 18 years for whom Kent County Council provides accommodation by agreement with their parents/carers (Section 22 of the Children Act 1989) or who ceased to be so because they were adopted or who is the subject of a care order under Part IV of the Act.
2. Current Family Association – A sister or brother
attending Weald of Kent at the time the child starts. In this context sister or brother means children who live as sister or brother, in the same house including natural sisters and brothers, adopted siblings, stepsisters or brothers and foster sisters and brothers. If siblings from multiple births (twins, triplets, etc) apply for a school and the school would reach its Published Admission Number (PAN) after admitting one of more, but before admitting all of those siblings, a place will be offered to each of the siblings, even if doing so takes the school above its PAN.
3. Health and Special Access Reasons – Medical, health, and special access reasons will be applied in accordance with the school’s legal obligations, in particular those under the Equality Act 2010. Priority will
be given to those children whose mental; or physical impairment means they have a demonstrable and significant need to attend a particular school. Equally this priority will apply to children whose parents’/guardians’, physical or mental health or social needs means there is a demonstrable and significant need for their child to attend a particular school. Such claims will need to be supported by written evidence from a suitably qualified medical or other practitioner who can demonstrate a special connection between these needs and the particular school.
4. Children of Permanent Members of Staff – A child who has passed the 11+ and whose parent is a current and permanent member of staff providing that his/her child lives in the same house as him/her. In this context a child means a natural daughter/son including adopted children and or foster children who live at the same address as the member of staff. A permanent member of staff is defined as a full-time teaching member, a full-time support member whose contract is 37 weeks and above, a part-time teaching member
E-mail: [email protected] www.wealdofkent.kent.sch.uk
Specialisms: Modern Foreign Language and Science
Published Admission No: 175 LA No: 886 DFE No: 4046 Number of Applications for Yr 7 entry September 2014: 687 Number of places offered 3 March 2014: 175
Expected number on roll: 1163
A permanent member of staff can be defined as someone who has been employed directly by Weald of Kent
Grammar School Academy Trust for the last two years at the time of application or someone who was been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
5. Weald of Kent accepts pupils from towns and areas in the order set out below.
Priority will be given to category A) followed by category B) then category C). The distance from the child’s
permanent home to the school site will be used in conjunction with the order of priority given below.
a. Tonbridge Town, the District of Sevenoaks, the Parishes of Ightham, Plaxtol, Shipbourne, Pembury and Kings Hill.
b. All TN Postcodes apart from TN1, TN2 and TN4 (with the exception of the Parish of Pembury).
c. All other areas including TN1, TN2 and TN4.
The rationale for the category order is based on the availability of a grammar school meeting the needs of students living in these areas. Students living in TN1, TN2 and TN4 are served by Tunbridge Wells grammar schools.
The distance is measured between the child’s permanent home address and the school site measured in a
straight line using Ordnance Survey address point data.
Distances are measured from a point defined as within the child’s home to a point defined as within the school, as specified by Ordnance Survey. The same address point on the school site is used for everybody. The school uses measurements provided by the LA. If in the event more than one applicant has the same distance from home to school (as measured by the local authority), then a random selection will be applied.
A pupil’s home address is considered to be a residential property that is the child’s only or main residence and not an address at which your child might sometimes stay or sleep due to your own domestic or special arrangements.
The address must be the pupils home address on the day you completed your application form and which is
unlikely event that two or more children live in the same block and in all other ways have equal eligibility for the last available place at the school, the names will be issued a number and drawn randomly to decide which child should be given the place.
If you live separately from your partner but share responsibility for your child, and the child lives at two different addresses during the week, we will regard the home address as the one at which the child sleeps for the majority of weekdays.
Postcode areas can be viewed at http://www.free-postcode-maps.co.uk and the Parish boundaries of Kings Hill and Pembury can be viewed on http://www.kent.gov.
uk or in the appendices below. Links can also be found under the Admissions Section of the School website at www.wealdgs.org.
Supplementary Form Required: No Waiting lists will be maintained up to January 2016 and will be ranked according to the above oversubscription criteria.
Sixth Form Admissions arrangements
We aim to offer a range of academic qualifications to our sixth form students and some of these require specific minimum grades at GCSE. Our policy is to ensure that students accepted into the sixth form can be placed on appropriate courses where they are likely to succeed. For this reason we ask all applicants to attend a meeting with some of our sixth form staff to discuss the most suitable courses of study. As part of this learning discussion
We aim to offer a range of academic qualifications to our sixth form students and some of these require specific minimum grades at GCSE. Our policy is to ensure that students accepted into the sixth form can be placed on appropriate courses where they are likely to succeed. For this reason we ask all applicants to attend a meeting with some of our sixth form staff to discuss the most suitable courses of study. As part of this learning discussion