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Strathearn School Transfer 2013 Information for P6 parents

Key Issues

1. Strathearn – Transfer 2013 2. The AQE Common Entrance Assessment 3. The Assessment Process 4. Transfer Applications 2013 5. Strathearn Admissions Criteria 6. Key Dates and Information

• 1. Strathearn – Transfer 2013
• Common Approach

34 grammar schools using the AQE Common Entrance Assessment for example

BRA Bloomfield Collegiate Down High Glenlola Collegiate Grosvenor GS Hunterhouse Methodist College Regent House Sullivan Upper Victoria College Wellington Bangor Grammar Campbell RBAI

• 1. Strathearn – Transfer 2013
• Common Approach
• 34 grammar schools using the AQE

Common Entrance Assessment

• Similar admission criteria for

Strathearn Bloomfield Collegiate Sullivan Upper

• Result of the Assessment - 1st Criterion

If you want your daughter to have a chance to enter Strathearn she must sit the Assessment

• 2. AQE Common Entrance Assessment
• AQE - company formed to produce a

test based on current NI curriculum

• The company (not the schools) will
• administer application process
• set 3 papers – 1 hour each
• mark the assessments
• give out the results

• 3. Assessment Process
• 3 papers – 1 hour each
• Pupils sit any 2 or all 3 papers
• Sit in a grammar school

10.00 – 11.00am Saturday morning

• 10 November 2012
• 24 November 2012
• 1 December 2012
• Note – GL tests Sat 17 November

• 3. Assessment Process

Format of CEA

• 8 mathematics items
• Poem 1 with 7 comprehension items
• 8 mathematics items
• Basic English skills passage
• 8 mathematics items
• Poem 2 with 7 comprehension items
• 8 mathematics items.
• Prose passage with 7 comprehension

items.

• 3. Assessment Process
• CEA takes account of Revised KS2

Curriculum for English and mathematics (no science)

• Previous Transfer Test questions are

suitable for practice (exclude science)

• Practice paper and answers are

available on the AQE website (www.aqe.org.uk)

• 3. Assessment Process
• The Assessments
• Held in each participating Grammar
• Register with AQE for preferred centre -

centre allocated by AQE

• Preferred centre likely to be most

convenient – independent of school to which pupil may wish to transfer

• Familiarisation afternoon – details after

registration – Strathearn Monday 5 Nov.

• 3. Assessment Process
• The Assessments in Strathearn
• Held in classrooms
• Invigilation team from Strathearn
• Familiarisation afternoon for pupils

(Monday 5 November)

• to see rooms
• meet invigilators
• be briefed on conduct of assessment

• 3. Assessment Process
• Marking
• Each paper marked twice by different

markers

• Then checked by a third marker
• Will take place in two centres in presence
• f chief examiners
• Opportunity to apply for a remark

• 3. Assessment Process
• Results
• Best of 2 out of 3 results
• Age adjusted
• Given as a standardised score

(therefore the average score is 100)

• Saturday 2 February 2013 to parents and

participating grammar schools

• Opportunity to apply for a remark

• 3. Assessment Process
• Registering to sit the AQE CEA
• From Thursday 10 May 2012, application

forms available from AQE website and from participating schools

• Forms also sent to Primary Schools
• Completed forms returned to AQE no

later than Friday 14 September 2012

• Fee £42.00 although free if entitled to

FSM

• 3. Assessment Process
• Registration Form asks you to
• Nominate your preference of 3 test

centres (no bearing on Transfer)

• Identify any special access arrangements
• Submit 3 passport photographs
• If applicable, provide evidence of

entitlement to Free School Meals

• 4. Transfer Applications 2013

Based on current process

• Interview with Primary Principal February

2013

• Complete a Transfer form nominating

schools in order of preference

• Forms submitted by primary schools to ELB
• Schools receive first preference forms etc.
• Parents informed of allocated school by end
• f May 2013

• 5. Strathearn Admissions - current

The Process (110 places)

• First 115 applicants placed in rank
• rder of AQE score
• Top 100 applicants allocated a place
• The remaining 15 applicants then

considered for the final 10 places

• Other criteria will be applied to these

15 applicants to allocate the remaining 10 places

• 5. Strathearn Admissions - current

Criteria for remaining 10 places

i. Girls at Strathearn Preparatory Dept. ii. Girls with a sister at the school iii. Girls – eldest eligible girl iv. Girls entitled to FSM v. Girls with sister a past pupil vi. Girls with brothers at Campbell or RBAI, or a with parent who is an employee, or with a parent who was a former pupil

• vii. AQE score
• viii. Distance

• 6. Key Dates and Information
• 10 May - AQE forms available
• 14 Sept. last date for AQE registration
• 5 Nov. Familiarisation afternoon
• 10, 24 Nov. 1 Dec. Assessment dates
• December 2012 - January 2013, visit schools
• 2 Feb. 2013 publication of results
• Feb. – March complete Transfer forms
• End May 2013 - notification of allocated

school

• 6. Key Dates and Information

What should I do as a parent?

If you wish your child to be considered by any of the AQE schools – 1. Register with AQE 2. Support him/her with their school work (English and mathematics) 3. Bring him/her to allocated test centre 4. Visit schools Dec – Jan and consider admissions criteria 5. Complete Transfer form at Primary School

• 6. Key Dates and Information

Website Addresses

• www.aqe.org.uk
• www.strathearn.org.uk
• www.bloomfieldcollegiate.org.uk
• www.sullivanupper.co.uk