Secondary Choices 2016
Secondary Choices 2016
Applying to schools
Open events
How will we know if it is a good school?
Application timetable
Criteria/completing the form
How to appeal
Questions
Who went to which schools Sept 2016?
74%
20%
1%
4%
(63 children)
(17 children)
(1 child)
(3 children)
1%
(1 child)
Windsor High School & sixth form
The Earls High School
Haybridge High School & sixth form
King Edward VI Five Ways School and
KE handsworth
Home Educated
Applying to schools
Equal preferencing system in Dudley
You DO NOT have a right to choose – you have a
right to express a preference
Who should choose?
You and your child
How will we know if it is a good school?
Read OFSTED report – this will comment on the leadership,
teaching and learning, attainment and progress, pupil
behaviour, home – school partnership, etc
Talk to other parents/pupils – are they happy?
Does it have a good ‘feel’ when you visit on open day? How
are pupils moving around the school? Is the display good –
does it value the pupil’s work?
Website – does it tell you about extra curricular activities –
trips abroad, work experience, events
Visiting the schools – Open evenings/days
Presentation
Tour
Facilities
Children made to feel welcome?
Display
Ask Questions
School at work
Facilities
Atmosphere
Discipline
Children taking responsibility
Application timeline
Application assistance
Schools Admissions Service have trained some of the
staff in all Dudley libraries to help you with your
application or you can phone the Schools Admissions
Service directly to seek assistance.
School Admissions telephone number: 01384
814223
Entry Criteria for: The Earls High School, Windsor High School
and Leasowes High School
1st priority - Looked after children/Statement of Special need or disability
2nd priority - Serious ongoing medical condition
3rd priority - Sibling at same address, still in attendance at school /sixth
form
Any places available, once the above applicants have been admitted, will
be given to those children who live closest to the school – straight line
measurement in metres. (Where parents have shared responsibility for a
child, and the child lives with both parents for part of the school week, then
the home address will be determined as the address where the child lives for
the majority of the school week. Parents will be required to provide
documentary evidence to support the address they wish to be considered for
allocation purposes. At least one item of proof must demonstrate where the
child lives. )
How is distance measured?
• Distance is in metres and is
the last applicaant
admitted on distance
criteria - straight line
measurement from your
house to the main
entrance point of the
school.
The Earls High School
Entry Criteria for Windsor High School
We are no longer a feeder school to Windsor so the same criteria applies
as the other 2 schools.
Windsor High School
Leasowes High School
Entry Criteria for other Academy schools,
Voluntary Aided Schools, Selective Schools
and Schools outside of Dudley
Refer to the individual school’s admission criteria as set
out in the admissions booklet
Non Dudley schools -Details of Local Authority contacts are
found in the admissions booklet
Worcestershire
The Hagley Area comprises the civil parishes
of:
• Belbroughton (Part) - (excluding Dordale
and Fairfield)
• Broome
• Churchill and Blakedown
• Clent
• Hagley
• Romsley
Completing the form
DO make a 2nd, 3rd, 4th… preference
DO mention any special circumstances
Use the information in the guidance –
likelihood of refusal?
On line applications are secure and get a faster
response in March
Lutley
Primary
School
Where
children
who lived
in
Halesowen
but had to
appeal last
2 years
Appeals
• Guidance on appeals can be found on the
Dudley admissions website.
• You will be invited to attend the appeal
hearing.
• You will be given the opportunity to put
across the case for your child gaining a place
at the school.
• The panels decision is final and another
appeal cannot be heard until the next
academic year.
Secondary Choices 2016