Key dates for your diary

Y6 Transfer to Secondary School

http://www.kent.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/17930/

Secondary-admissions-booklet-all-areas.PDF

Full Admission Guide

Open Days

S.C.C.Open Evening: Wednesday 30th

September: 6:00pm – 8:30pmHeadteacher’s Presentation at

6:15pm and 7:30pmOpen Mornings:Daily tours from 5th – 16th Oct

Please call to book a place –01795 472449

Highsted Grammar School for Girls Thursday 8th October 4:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Last tour starts at 7.30pm

Borden Grammar for Boys

Open Evening : Tuesday 6th October 6.00 p.m. – 8.15pm

Open Morning: Friday 9th October 10am - 11.30am

Westlands Thursday 1st October 6.00

p.m. – 8.00 p.m. Headteacher’s address

6.30pm and 7.30 pm Open Mornings: 5th – 16th October, 9am –

10am and 11am – 12 noon please phone to book 01795 477475

Fulston Manor Wednesday 7th and

Thursday 8th October 10.00 a.m. – 12.00 noon and 1.00pm – 3.00pm

Bredgar’s preferred time:

Wednesday 7th, 10-12noon

Top Tips Visit as many of the schools as

possible Have questions ready to ask at the

visit Gauge your child’s reaction to

each of the schools There is no first preference any

more. There is not a tactical game to be

played. Look at each school’s admission

oversubscription criteria

Kent Test assessment decisions posted to parents:

14th October

Email sent after 4pmFirst class letter

Headteacher’s Appeals

Appeals will only be made where the children have missed out narrowly by one or two marks

or if a child has significantly

underachieved in the test and the school has plenty of evidence to support their appeal.

SCAF FORMSapplying for a

Secondary School place

SCAF Forms to be completed online by 31st October 2015

www.kent.gov.uk/ola

Kent deadline: 2nd November

It is possible to edit the online form up until the deadline

Paper copy of SCAF is available

Put at least 3 schools on the form (maximum of 4) in rank order or preference

If your child was not entered for or did not pass the Grammar Test but you still feel a Grammar place is the best place for them, put a Grammar School on the form. A Grammar School place won’t be awarded on 1st March but you will have the right to appeal

Supplementary Information Form (SIF)

Westlands and Fulston Manor require you to complete an additional form.

These forms are available from the school’s themselves.

Key Dates:

Offers sent to parents on:

1st March 2016 (via e-mail after 4pm)

2nd March 2016 (via letter first class) Secondary schools will send out welcome

letters to parents. Remember to return paperwork.

17th March: Waiting list requests to schools and deadline for places to be accepted or refused.

Appeals lodged up until 13th April 2016 April to June 2016 Appeals held

WAITING LISTS

Waiting lists have now replaced re-allocation.

Schools will hold waiting lists prioritised in accordance with their subscription criteria.

Grammar schools can only put pupils on the waiting list who have passed the Kent test.