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THE PETCHEY ACADEMY
Agreed Admissions Arrangements for 2010/11
 
Process of application
 
Applications for places at The Petchey Academy will be made in accordance with the LEA’s co-ordinated admission arrangements and will be made on the Common Application Form provided and administered by The Learning Trust. The Academy will use the following timetable for applications each year (exact dates within the months may vary from year to year) which, whenever possible, will fit in with the common timetable agreed by The Learning Trust Admissions Forum:
 
a)September - The Academy will publish in its prospectus information about the arrangements for admission, including oversubscription criteria, for the following September (e.g. in September for admission in the following September ). This will include details of open evenings and other opportunities for prospective pupils and their parents to visit the school. The Petchey Academy will also provide information to the LEA for inclusion in the composite prospectus, as required;
 
b) September/October - The Academy will provide opportunities for parents to visit the Academy;
 
c) November - CAF to be completed and returned to The Learning Trust to administer;
 
d) The Learning Trust sends applications to the Academy;
  
e) Learning Trust sends list of pupils to be offered places to The Academy based on distance alone;
 
f) Each applicant to the Academy sits a non verbal and a verbal reasoning test;
 
 
g) February - The Learning Trust applies agreed scheme for own schools, informing other LEA’s of offers to be made to their residents.
 
h) 1st March offers made to parents by The Learning Trust of behalf of The Petchey Academy;
 
i) Contact The Learning Trust if application is unsuccessful on 0208 820 7000
 
Consideration of applications
 
The Petchey Academy will consider all applications for places. Where fewer than 180 applications are received the Academy will offer places to all those who have applied. 
 
A banding system will operate as follows:
 
a) Each applicant to the Academy will be required to take a non-verbal and verbal reasoning test which will place applicants in a rank order. The tests will last for approximately two hours and will be held at a time and venue to be determined in December and January each year;
b) Each applicant will be placed in one of 5 bands based on their performance in the test. As far as possible, each band will contain the same number of applicants so that it represents 20% of the applications. Places will be allocated so that an equivalent number of applicants are admitted from each band.
Note: Children with statements of Special Educational Needs (SEN) will not be required to take the NFER Non-Verbal and Verbal Reasoning Tests, which shall not be a condition of entry to the Academy for pupils with statements of SEN.
 
 
Procedures where The Petchey Academy is oversubscribed
 
Where the number of applications for admission is greater than the Published Admissions Number, applications will be considered against the criteria set out below. After the admission of pupils with statements of Special Educational Needs where The Petchey Academy is named on the statement, the criteria will be applied in the order in which they are set out below for each band: -
 
a)   Children in public care;
 
b)   Admission of pupils on the basis of proximity to the school using straight line measurement from the main entrance of the Academy to the main entrance to the child’s home and in accordance with the banding criteria. In the event that it is not possible to distinguish between applicants on the basis of distance lots will be drawn as a final tie-breaker.
 

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