May 2015. Key Dates for Parents Registration For Kent Test 1st June to 1 st July 2015 Only register your child if you want them to sit the 11+ test Please.

May 2015

Key Dates for Parents

1st June – 1st July 2015

Register your child for 11+ testing if appropriate

Wed 10th Sept 2015 (1st full week of term)

11+ Test Dates (No practice tests)

Saturday 12th

September 2015 Shepway tests at grammar schools

14th October 2015 11+ Test results sent to parents Shepway/Dover test results

2nd November 2015

SCAF (Secondary Common Application Form) Closing Date

1st March 2016 National Offer Day (emails sent after 4pm and letters sent 1st class

post on this day) 18th March 2016 Closing date for Waiting Lists

20th March 2016 Acceptance/Refusals

13th April 2016 Parental Appeals

Registration For Kent Test1st June to 1st July 2015

Only register your child if you want them to sit the 11+ test

Please choose carefullyRegister on line if possibleLA number is 886 and DCSF number is 3718

11+ Tests

Standardised – Age is taken into considerationThe school is not allowed to coach or prepare

children for testsCurrently unaware of the format of the tests

Secondary Common Application Form (SCAF)

sent out in September 2014

All parents of children transferring to secondary school in September 2016 will receive a SCAF. Info will all be online. Go to www.kent.gov.uk.ola

St Augustines School – LA number = 886 DCSF number = 3718Parents are invited to express four preferences in priority order.

Putting down one school only will not improve the chance of getting a place.

Parents are advised to attend secondary school open evenings. www.kent.gov.uk Click on Kent Test 11+ and look under ‘Secondary

School Open Day Information’Parents are encouraged to submit their application online.SCAFs must be returned to primary schools by the closing date – Friday 31st October 2015.

Supplementary Information FormAcademies/VA/Foundation High Schools can require parents

to provide additional information (on a supplementary form) but only where this is necessary to apply their oversubscription criteria (e.g. religious affiliation).

Those schools requiring a supplementary form are clearly identified in the information booklet. The form should be collected from and returned to the secondary school.

No school shall allow a child to undertake any selection test (whether of ability or aptitude) unless the school is named on their SCAF.

Allocating PlacesThe LA will effectively operate an “Equal Preference” scheme

The LA tells secondary schools who has applied for places, not whether they were named first, second, third or fourth and the schools place their applicants in a rank order based on their oversubscription criteria. All applicants must be ranked by the high school, even if the school is very oversubscribed. The school’s own published criteria determine which children can be offered places. For example:

1. LA care 2. Siblings 3. Health and other special reasons 4. Distance from school

The order in which a parent named the schools on the SCAF only matters if more than one of them could offer a place. In that case, the LA looks back at the original order and offers a place at whichever of them the parent named highest on the form.

Determining the offers January 2015

The LA will match ranked lists provided by schools and allocate places.

Where a child is eligible for a place at only one of the nominated schools, that school will be allocated.Where a child is eligible for a place at two or more of the nominated schools, they will be allocated a place at whichever of these is the highest ranked preference on their SCAF.Where a child is not eligible for a place at any nominated school, the child will be allocated a place at the nearest appropriate school with a vacancy.

Offers

The LA sends Kent children offer letters on behalf of all admissions authorities.

Tuesday 1st March 2016Emails and decision letters will be sent to parents by the LA. Letters will include an appeal form and a waiting list form.

17th March 2016

By this date parents must let the school they have been offered know whether or not they are accepting the place.

AppealsHeadteacher referral

Parents have the right to appeal for any school which refuses them a place. Parental Appeals – 13th April 2016

If your child has not passed the 11+ test but you intend to appeal you will need to put a grammar school down on your SCAF.

You can also ask for your child’s name to go on a school’s waiting list (provided, if it is a grammar school, that your child has been assessed suitable for grammar school).

Kent Online School AdmissionsParents will be able to apply for their Year 7 place using the Kent

Online Admissions System

Provided parents register on the website, parents can use a password which lets them log on to:

edit their application at any time until the closing date for applicationsview their application online at any timeview their offer prior to receiving the formal letter from the LA.

Note: Parents who apply online should not submit a paper SCAF as well but please can you let Mrs Knight know that you have applied on line and give us your registration number for reference. Parents will be able to print off confirmation that a successful online application has been made.

• The processes for determining Admissions and for determining Entitlement to Transport Assistance are quite separate.

• Children will not automatically get transport assistance to any school they are offered.

• The Secondary transfer booklet will explain entitlement and will indicate the parishes from which transport assistance is normally provided. This will be a critical piece of information in helping you decide which schools to name on the form.

• It will be less upsetting for parents and their children if transport entitlement is checked before they complete the SCAF.

• If parents have any questions, please contact the Transport Team

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