Dame Alice Owen’s School Headteacher: Dr Alan Davison
Dugdale Hill Lane, Potters Bar, EN6 2DU
Tel: 01707 643441 Fax: 01707 645011
admin@damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk www.damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk Type: Academy (co-educational) Number on Roll: 1462
Published Admission Number: 200 School Code: 9195407
Open Event details
Thursday 16 July, 2.00 - 5.00pm. 30 September, 1 & 2 October, tours of school at 9.30am only.
Application form
Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or on the Hertfordshire paper application form AND complete the Supplementary Information Form (if applying for entrance examination or musical aptitude test) available from the school or the above website.
What happened in previous years
2014 2015 Number of places available 200 200 Total number of applications 909 784 Total number of places offered 227 200 Places offered under each rule
2014 2015 SEN/CLA 9 9 22 Closest 22 22 Siblings 119 77 Musical aptitude 10 10 Academic ability 65 65 Children of staff 2 3
Children in priority area, Nearest to
school 0 9
Any other child 0 0
Multiple birth 0 5
Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 requires the school to admit a child with a Statement of Special Education Needs or an Education Health and Care Plan that names the school.
Summary of Admissions Rules
1. Looked after children. A looked after child is a child who is in the care of the local authority or provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of its social service functions. Priority under this criterion will also be given to a formerly looked after child who has ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a child
arrangements order or special guardianship order. Children who were not “looked after” immediately before being adopted, or made the subject of a child arrangements order or special guardianship order will not be considered under this rule.
2. The 22 children whose permanent home address is closest to the school.
3. Children who have a sibling attending the school at the time of application, excluding siblings who first entered the school in the Sixth Form (Y12 and Y13). All multiple birth siblings will be admitted, provided that at least one of the siblings gains a place at the School under any other criterion. Such additional places will be counted as sibling admissions.
Places will be allocated under oversubscription criteria 4 & 5 only to children who have their permanent home address within one of the Local Priority Areas for the School or are educated within the London Borough of Islington.
4. Children demonstrating musical aptitude as
determined by the Governors’ Assessment Procedure (not more than 10 places).The Governors’ Assessment Procedure consists of a musical aptitude test. A limited number of children will be invited back for an individual test.
5. Up to 65 children selected by academic ability having taken the Governors’ Entrance Examination. Of these we will admit: As many children from the Islington priority area as when added to the number from that area already admitted under criteria 1 to 4, will ensure that at least 20 children are admitted from Islington. As many children from the non- Islington Local Priority Areas as, when added to the number from Islington already admitted under the paragraph above, will total not more than 65 children. Subject to these Admission Arrangements, places will be offered in merit order with priority to those children
obtaining the highest total score from all three papers.
6. Children of Staff. A member of staff is defined as a person who has a permanent contract of employment with the Governing Body of the School at the time of application, and qualifies in the following
circumstances; (a) the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, or (b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
7. Children whose permanent home address is closest to the school within the Local Priority Areas.
8. Any other child.
If a tie-break is needed between children who are equally qualified within any particular priority criterion, the place will be offered to the child whose permanent home address is closest to the school. If there are two identical distance measurements for different addresses of separate applicants, the tie break will be random. Local Priority Areas - The Local Priority Areas referred to above consist of the following parishes, towns, London Post Code sectors and Borough.
Parishes and towns within Hertfordshire Aldenham, Essendon, Northaw and Cuffley, Bayford, Hatfield, Potters Bar, Brickendon Liberty, Little Berkhamsted, Ridge, Colney Heath, London Colney, Shenley, Elstree and
Borehamwood, North Mymms, Welwyn Garden City. London postcodes within the London Boroughs of Barnet and Enfield
EN2 sectors 7, 8 N11 sectors 1, 3 N12 all sectors N13 sectors 4, 5 N14 all sectors N20 all sectors N21 all sectors EN4 all sectors EN5 all sectors
Within Islington- Children who have their permanent home address in the London Borough of Islington or are being educated in that Borough.
Queries about the outcome of applications to
this school and how the admissions rules were applied should be addressed to the school direct.
Mount Grace School Headteacher: Peter Baker
Church Road, Potters Bar, EN6 1EZ
Tel: 01707 655512 Fax: 01707 621298
admin@mountgrace.herts.sch.uk www.mountgrace.herts.sch.uk Type: Academy (co-educational) Number on Roll: 878
Published Admission Number: 174 School Code: 9195411
Open Event details
Wednesday 16 September, 5.00 – 8.00pm. Headteacher to speak at 6.00 & 7.00pm. Open mornings by
appointment only Tuesday 22 and 29 September, Thursday 24 September & 1 October 9.00 - 10.30am. Please contact the school on 01707 655512 for an appointment.
Application form
Apply online at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions or on the Hertfordshire paper application form AND complete the Supplementary Information Form (if applying for Aptitude for Modern Foreign Languages test) available from the school or the above website.
What happened in previous years
2014 2015 Number of places available 174 174 Total number of applications 303 272 Total number of places offered 145 126 Mount Grace School was able to offer places to all children who applied in 2014 and 2015.
Section 324 of the Education Act 1996 requires the school to admit a child with a Statement of Special Education Needs. Schools must also admit a child with an Education Health and Care Plan that names the school.
Summary of Admissions Rules
1. Children in public care. If you are applying on behalf of a child in public care or a child previously looked after, please send a supporting professional letter
from the child’s social worker and/or the child’s advisory teacher to the school. If you apply online, please ensure that the letter includes the child’s full name, date of birth and Unique Application Code (UAC).
2. Children for whom it can be demonstrated that they have a particular medical or social need to go to the school. A panel from the Governors’ School
Admissions’ Committee will determine whether the evidence provided is sufficiently compelling to meet the requirements for this rule. If you think your child has a particular medical or social need to go to Mount Grace School, you must provide supporting evidence from a doctor, psychologist or other professional involved with your child. The supporting evidence must relate specifically to Mount Grace School under Rule 2 and must clearly demonstrate why it is the only school that can meet your child’s needs.
3. Children who have a sibling at the school at the time of application, unless the sibling is in Year 13. Note: A sibling means the sister, brother, half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, or child of the parent/carer or partner, and in every case living in the same house from Monday to Friday.
4. Children living nearest to the school. The school uses home school measurements provided by
Hertfordshire County Council which measures the distance between the child’s address point and the school’s address point.
5. Aptitude in Modern Foreign Languages, MFL The remaining 10% of places (17 places) will be allocated for children who show an aptitude for MFL on the basis of an assessment carried out by the school. Priority will be given to those with the highest score in this test. In the event of a tie-break being required under this criterion, places will be allocated using criteria 4. (Home-school distance using the home-school measurement system used by Hertfordshire County Council as outlined in the County’s admission arrangements and application literature). In the event that applications for places under this criterion are less than 10% of the total (17), any remaining places will be added to the places available under criteria 1, 2, 3 and 4 (in that order until all the places have been allocated).
If you are applying online and applying under Rule 2, please send your supporting evidence, which should include your child’s name, date of birth and Unique Application Code (UAC), to the school. We give medical priority to children who have an exceptional illness or disability which means that they can only go to Mount Grace School. We give social priority to children whose education would be seriously affected if they did not go to Mount Grace School.
Queries about the outcome of applications to this school and how the admission rules were applied should be addressed to the school direct.