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Transfer to Secondary School in September 2020

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Chase Bridge 2011-2019

Year 6 destinations 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Total children 604 50 56 56 58 61 85 60 91 87 School total chld percentage s percentages

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Orleans Park 146 24.2% 8.8% 22 35 19 19 20 9 9 5 8 Twickenham School 112 18.5% 8.8% 4 6 11 19 14 36 6 8 8 Others* (inc. selective grammar & Independent) 78 12.9% 11.0% 10 5 10 7 8 12 7 9 10 Waldegrave 32 5.3% 0.0% 5 3 5 3 1 4 6 5 Turing House 39 6.5% 5.5% 9 12 6 7 5 Tiffin Boys 22 3.6% 3.3% 1 2 3 5 2 3 3 3 Isleworth & Syon 20 3.3% 2.2% 5 1 4 1 1 2 2 2 2 St Richard Reynolds 21 3.5% 2.2% N/A N/A 3 3 2 3 5 3 2 The Richmond Upon Thames School 94 15.6% 47.3% 12 39 43 The Heathland 14 2.3% 3.3% 3 1 2 1 1 3 3 Green School for Girls 14 2.3% 1.1% 3 1 2 5 2 1 Tiffin Girls 3 0.5% 0.0% 1 1 1 Gumley House School 5 0.8% 1.1% 2 1 1 1 Green School for Boys 4 0.7% 1.1% 3 1 *Others includes: St. Paul's Girls, Lady Eleanor Hollis, Hampton Grammar, Kingston Grammar, Wallington Grammar, Upton Court Grammar, Slough Grammar, Grey Court, Latymer, Teddington, Gunnersbury, Christ's School

http://www.richmond.gov.uk/secondary_admission.pdf

Admission to Secondary Schools 2020 brochure OUT SOON!

http://www.richmond.gov.uk/school_admissions.htm

Key information

Pan London Co-ordinated Admissions System

• All 33 London boroughs and 5 surrounding

local authorities co-ordinate admissions with the aim of enabling a single offer per child (wherever possible)

• One Common Application Form for all

Richmond residents (Home LA)

• Single offer of a school place is made by the

child’s Home LA

Applying for a place at a secondary school for September 2020

• Apply online: easy, quick, secure, reliable – about

98% of parents applied on line last year; or

• Complete the paper Common Application Form
• List up to 6 preferences for maintained schools
• r academies in or out of the borough
• Submit by the closing date of 31 October 2019

Key dates (provisional)

• mid-September 2019 – start of Richmond

secondary schools’ open evenings

• 31 October 2019 – closing date for applications
• 25 October 2019 – ideally submit before half term
• 1 March 2020 – National Offer Date. Online

applicants receive outcome by email and your LA sends you a letter giving outcome of your application

Collect information about schools

• Likelihood of being offered a place – check the admissions

criteria and pattern of admissions from previous years – any changes that may affect your application?

• Open evenings/Open days
• LA brochures and individual school prospectuses
• Richmond Council’s website – www.richmond.gov.uk
• Performance tables/Ofsted reports

Order of preference

• List the schools you wish to apply to in the order

that you prefer them

• Each school will consider your application against

their admissions criteria only and not the order you place them on your form

• If your child qualifies for more than one school

you will be offered the highest preference you qualify for

Deciding on the order of preference

Example 1

Preference School Qualify for place? Outcome 1st The Tiffin Girls No Waiting list 2nd The Richmond upon Thames School Yes Offered 3rd Twickenham Academy Yes Withdrawn 4th Waldegrave School Yes Withdrawn 5th Grey Court School Yes Withdrawn 6th Orleans Park No Withdrawn

Deciding on the order of preference

Example 2

Preference School Qualify for place? Outcome 1st Grey Court School Yes Offered 2nd Tiffin School Yes Withdrawn 3rd The Richmond upon Thames School No Withdrawn 4th Christ’s School Yes Withdrawn 5th Richmond Park Academy No Withdrawn 6th Twickenham Academy Yes Withdrawn

Order of preference

• If your child qualifies for only one school you will

be offered that school

• If you want a selective school option you need to

consider carefully your order of preference

• Waiting lists – automatically on for higher

preference schools

Supplementary Forms

• Christ’s School requires you to complete a supplementary

form in addition to the common application form if you are applying for a Foundation (Church) place

• St Richard Reynolds Catholic High School requires all

applicants to complete a supplementary form in addition to the common application form.

• Check which schools located in other boroughs that you

apply for require a supplementary form (if any)

• Closing date for all forms is 31 October 2019

Completing the Application

• Admission to Richmond’s Secondary Schools brochure
• Sibling (brother/sister) at time of admission
• ‘Exceptional reasons’ priority and why only one school is

suitable

• ‘Children of staff criterion’
• Up to 6 preferences
• No priority for single sex
• 31 October 2019 – closing date for all forms

Summary

• Visit schools to gather information and make an

informed decision

• Apply online at www.richmond.gov.uk where there

is a link via the school admissions page or direct via www.eadmissions.org.uk

• Submit your application by 31 October 2019
• Submit supplementary forms direct to the schools
• Order of preference in which you place schools is

very important

Being offered a place

• Email will be sent on 1 March 2019 to all those who

apply online

• Letter will be posted on 1 March 2019 if you are not
• ffered a place at your first preference school
• You will have two weeks to reply: by 15 March 2019

(TBC)

• After 25 March, your Home LA will make further offers
• 91% of LBR applicants were made an offer of one of

their preferences on 1 March 2019

Queries and Further Information

• Richmond’s Schools Admissions Team Tel: 020 8547 5569
• Email: richmond.admissions@achievingforchildren.org.uk