Apply online at: www.croydon.gov.uk/admissions
Harris Invictus Academy Croydon
Address:
The Former Croydon General Hospital,
London Road, Croydon CR0 2TB (Entrance on
Lennard Road)
DfE school number: 306 4002
Executive principal: Mrs Carol-Anne Alcock,
Principal: Mr Edward Evans
/ [email protected]
[0203 371 3002
Y www.harrisinvictus.org.uk
Students: boys and girls (11-16)
Students on roll: 180
Year 7 admission number: 180
Open evening: 18 September 2014, 5.00pm – 8.00pm
Bus Routes: 60, 64, 109, 198, 250, 289.
The academy is also only a few minutes’ walk from West Croydon rail and bus stations.
Entrance to the school on Lennard Road.
A new academy with drive
and ambition
Harris Invictus Academy Croydon opened in September
2014 following a unique collaboration between the Harris
Federation and the Invictus parent group to provide new,
high quality, school places for children and their families in
the local community. Just like our sister Harris Academies
in Croydon – all three of which are highly oversubscribed
and judged as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted – we combine
the traditional values of strong discipline, smart uniform
and good manners with the best of modern teaching and
technology. We share an executive principal with Harris
Academy Purley which was judged as ‘Outstanding’ within
just two and a half years of opening. This has given
the academy a model of excellence to follow, leading to
success for our students from day one.
We welcome students of all abilities
The Harris Invictus pledge to every student.
Our students will receive:
• Subject specialist teaching and pastoral care;
•An all-round education with a particular focus on
Enterprise skills;
•One-to-one or small group support, where this is
needed;
Our curriculum
As a new academy, we have hand-picked a team of
dedicated teachers.
The curriculum is broad and balanced with an aim that we
turn out knowledgeable and well-educated young men and
women at the end of our sixth form.
Our core offer will lead to good GCSE passes in English,
maths, science, history or geography and at least one
modern foreign language. Our other subjects will include
art, design technology, religious education, drama, ICT, PE
and dance, PSHE/citizenship and music.
With a specialism in Enterprise, we will offer every student
opportunities to acquire and practise the skills associated
with running a successful business. The theme of ‘being
enterprising’ will be encouraged in a wide range of learning
activities including curriculum lessons, after-school clubs,
learning days and educational visits.
Extracurricular activities
Our broad range of extracurricular activities will include
art, drama, debating and a range of other cultural and
learning opportunities.
Students who want to, will be able to participate in
additional sporting and outdoor activities pursuits. We will
also arrange theatre and museum visits, as well as offering
opportunities for our students to collaborate and compete
with students from other Harris academies in sports,
enterprise and creative activities.
Supplementary Information Form (SIF)
Applicants are required to complete a SIF, which must be
submitted to the academy to allow for arrangements to be
made for the test and any special requirements.
•University coaching, including access to Oxbridge
mentoring, from age-14 so that they make good
decisions early on about their continuing education.
The closing date for secondary school applications is 31 October 2014
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The academy is located close to West Croydon station on
the former Croydon Hospital site. It is currently housed in
temporary accommodation on the site while the academy’s
permanent building is completed. This building will be
bright and modern, offering a wide range of specialist
learning and teaching spaces including both indoor and
outdoor sports facilities.
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Apply online at: www.croydon.gov.uk/admissions
Test arrangements
All Year 7 applicants take a non-verbal reasoning test,
which is standardised against the national distribution of
ability. Pupils are then placed in rank order and allocated
to one of nine bands.
Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP)
Our school has ELP for children with Speech, Language
and Communication Needs (SLCN). There are 18 places
available within the ELP, which covers the full primary
age range, and these are allocated by Croydon's special
educational needs (SEN) team (please see page 21 in this
prospectus which tells you more about the council's SEN
provision, and the process for children being given a place
within an ELP). The places in the ELP are additional to
those provided in the main school, and do not impact on
the places available in the main school (as determined by
the school's published admission number).
As a new academy, the operational year groups are shown
in the table below:
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When the academy is oversubscribed, after the admission
of pupils with a statement of special educational needs
where the academy is named in the statement (who will
be tested to determine which band they are in but this will
not affect their admission), the following criteria will be
applied to the children placed within each ability band to
determine which children will be offered a place in that
band, in priority order. The number of places in each band
is determined to approximate the national distribution of
ability.
a) Children who are looked-after or former looked-after
children.
b) Admission of pupils on the basis of distance lived, using
straight line measurement from four nodal points to
the centre of the child’s home (see school website for
nodal point information) with 25% of the places in each
band allocated on distance from each nodal point. The
candidates living closest to their nearest nodal point will
be given priority for the places available to that nodal
point.
The use of nodal points is to allow priority for places for
children who live in areas where it is difficult to get into a
first choice of school. The nodal points are:
2015
2016
2017
2018
Year 7
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180
180
180
Year 8
180
180
180
180
180
180
180
•The junction of Kensington Avenue and Norbury
Avenue;
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• The junction of Canterbury Road and Mitcham Road;
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
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Admissions criteria
Other than children with a statement of special
educational needs and looked-after/previously lookedafter children, those who apply via the CAF and then do
not turn up for the test, will be considered for a place after
all those children who have sat the test.
Where fewer applications than the published admission
number for the relevant year groups are received, the
academy will offer places to all those who have applied.
•The junction of Edith Road and Selhurst Road (near
Selhurst Station);
• The junction of Queens Road and Windmill Road.
Distance is measured from the child’s home to the the
school in a straight line. Where a child spends part of the
week with different parents/carers the home address will
be the address at which the child spends the majority of
nights in the week.
The closing date for secondary school applications is 31 October 2014
Apply online at: www.croydon.gov.uk/admissions
The distance is measured by using a computerised GIS
and a centre point supplied by the Ordnance Survey which
determines the start point of the measurement from the
home address. Where the child lives in a block of flats
with a communal entrance the centre point used is the
central point of the block of flats and not the individual flat.
Proof of residence or offer of letting from landlord will be
required (council tax bill, utility bill).
These criteria will be applied to candidates as they are
allocated to each band until the correct number in each
band is reached.
If at the end of this process, there are unallocated places in
any band, these will be filled by the applicants next in line
for admission to the bands above or below, using random
allocation if there are more candidates with equal ranking
than places.
If at the end of the allocation process there are spare
places in any nodal point these will be allocated to the
children living nearest to that nodal point (even though not
their closest nodal point) using the same criteria as set out
above.
In-year admissions
As the academy builds to full capacity, not all year groups
will be taught within the academy. In 2015 there will
be no Years 9, 10 or 11. The academy will consider any
applications for other year groups and if the year group
applied for has a place available, admit the child. If more
applications are received than there are places available,
the place will be allocated using the criteria set out above
except that banding will not apply, and the child which lives
closest to any of the four nodal points will be given priority.
Appeals
The academy will offer an appeal to anyone refused
admission. The appeal will be before an independent
appeals panel constituted in accordance with the School
Admission Appeals Code.
Sixth form admissions arrangements
Harris Invictus Academy Croydon will not operate a sixth
form for the academic year 2015/16.
This is a summary. Please see school’s website for the full
policy.
Tiebreaker
If at any stage in this process there are two or more
applicants who are equidistant from the academy or
with equal ranking, but only one place available, random
allocation will be used as a tiebreaker. Random allocation
whenever used will be independently verified.
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Waiting list
The academy will operate a waiting list for Year 7. Where
in any year the academy receives more applications for
places than there are places available, a waiting list will
operate until the end of the first term after the beginning
of the school year. This will be maintained by the academy
and it will be open to any parent to ask for his or her
child’s name to be placed on the waiting list, following an
unsuccessful application. A child’s position on the waiting
list will be determined solely in accordance with the
oversubscription criteria, but not including banding. Where
places become vacant they will be allocated to children on
the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription
criteria, but not including banding.
The closing date for secondary school applications is 31 October 2014
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