1. Parents Information Evening Transfer to Secondary School
2017/18

8. Secondary Admission
Kent resident parents will be able to apply for their child’s school place either online or using a paper form known as the Secondary Common Application Form (SCAF)
SCAF or online application is used as a means of expressing one or more preferences of secondary school.
SCAF invites parents to express up to four preferences and to rank each school in order of preference

9. Secondary Admission
31 October 2017 is the National Closing Date for applications.
Schools to be sent list of children that have applied online
Children with a SSEN or an EHCP do not apply for schools for a place through the main round of admissions

10. Secondary Admission
Entry to grammar schools is restricted to children who have been assessed as suitable through the relevant tests
Receiving a grammar assessment in the Kent Test does not guarantee a grammar school place at offer day as they may be oversubscribed
Registration for the Kent grammar school tests will open on 1 June Parents wishing their children to sit the tests are required to register with the Kent Admissions Team (either online or paper) no later than 3 July 2017

11. Secondary Admission
Kent test will take place in school on Thursday 7 September 2017 (Saturday 9 September for non Kent schools)
By 6 July 2017 schools will receive a list of their pupils that have applied to sit the Kent grammar school tests. Schools have until 14 July to contact parents of children who are interested in grammar school and who have not yet replied
In the following exceptional circumstances arrangements will be made for testing to take place by the end of January 2018:
Illness on one or both test dates, confirmed by a doctor’s certificate
A move into the KCC area

12. Secondary Admission
Assessment decision letters will be sent out by 1st class post on 12 October 2017
Online applications will be sent an after 4pm on 12 October 2017
No right of appeal against the assessment decision but parents/ carers may make an admission appeal to an independent appeal panel if their child is refused admission to any school, including a grammar school after 1 March 2018

13. Secondary Admission
National offer day – 1 March 2018
KCC will send an offer after 4pm to those parents who have applied online
Send decision letters to ALL paper SCAF applicants and, as a minimum, all online applicants that did not receive an offer of their first preference

14. Secondary Admission
By 16 March 2018 parents must inform the school whether they wish to accept or refuse the place offered on offer day
All parents/ carers have the statutory right to appeal against any decision refusing them a school place and must lodge their appeal by 29 March 2018 for it to be considered as on time

15. Procedure for Entrance to Secondary Education 2018 (PESE)
Any Y5 pupil must register for testing by 3 July 2017 to take part in the September tests. This includes children with a SSEN or EHC Plan. Registration opens on 1 June 2017
Pupils will be assessed on the basis of their performance in two nationally- standardised assessment tests

16. English and Maths test in multiple choice format lasting approximately 60 minutes – two separate sections each with introductory practice items, English first
Reasoning test in multiple choice format lasting approximately 60 minutes – one Verbal Reasoning section and five Non-Verbal, separately timed with introductory practice items
Pupils will also be required to complete a writing exercise under test conditions which will take 40 minutes
At least a 20 minute break in between tests
A familiarisation paper is available on the Kent website

17. Non-verbal reasoning tests involve reasoning with abstract figures
Non-verbal reasoning tests involve reasoning with abstract figures. Test questions consist of abstract figures and not words. Administration instructions are read out to the pupils.
Verbal reasoning tests mainly involve reasoning with words, and typically include question types principally concerned with the production of, use of and relationships between words. In some cases, these tests will also include questions that require the manipulation of letters and numbers.