1. Secondary Admissions for September 2017
May 2017
‘In All Things Love’

2. Key Dates for Parents

3. Registration For Kent Test 1st June to 3rd July 2017
Only register your child if you want them to sit the 11+ test
Please choose carefully
Register online if possible
LA number is 886 and DCSF number is 3718
Please inform our school office if you have registered for the Kent/Shepway test.

4. 11+ Tests Standardised – Age is taken into consideration
The school is not allowed to coach or prepare children for tests
Verbal/Non-verbal paper, Maths/English paper, Written exercise (Creative writing)
This year the pass mark was 320 combined, with no individual score less than 106

5. Secondary Common Application Form (SCAF) sent out in September 2014
All parents of children transferring to secondary school in September 2018 will receive a SCAF but info will all be online.
St Augustine’ Catholic School – LA number = DCSF number = 3718
Parents 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.
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 –
31st October 2017.

6. Supplementary Information Form
Academies/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.

7. Allocating Places
The 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. Residence within the same scheme of education.
5. 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.

8. Determining the offers
January 2018
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.

9. Offers Beginning March 2018 End of March 2018
The LA sends Kent children offer letters on behalf of all admissions authorities.
Beginning March 2018
s and decision letters will be sent to parents by the LA. Letters will include an appeal form and a waiting list form.
End of March 2018
By this date parents must let the school they have been offered know whether or not they are accepting the place.

10. Appeals Headteacher referral
Parents have the right to appeal for any school which refuses them a place. Parental Appeals – 29th March 2018
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).

11. Kent Online School Admissions
Parents 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 applications
view their application online at any time
view 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.

12. Home to School Transport
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