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CHATSMORE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL GORING STREET WORTHING WEST SUSSEX BN12 5AF Tel: 01903 241368 www.chathigh.co.uk Contact the Admissions team for queries Number on roll: 620 Age Range: 11-16
ADMISSIONS POLICY AND PROCEDURES FOR ADMISSION IN 2015-16 The school is a voluntary aided Catholic secondary 11-16 co-educational day school. The school was founded by and is part of the Catholic Church. The school is conducted as a Catholic School in accordance with the canon law and teachings of the Catholic Church and in accordance with the Trust Deed of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton. The school has designated Specialist Arts College status (English, Art and Drama). Having consulted with the Diocese, the Local Authority, other admission authorities and other relevant groups, the governors intend to admit into Year 7, in September 2015, up to 124 pupils without reference to ability or aptitude. The governors will accept applications for entry to Year 7 in September 2015 on behalf of children born between 1 September 2003 and 31 August 2004. This policy describes how applications should be made and how parents should make an application for a place at Chatsmore Catholic High School and also outlines priority criteria which will be used in the event of the governors receiving more applications than there are places available. The Governors aim to offer a Catholic education. The mission of Chatsmore Catholic High School is to help every individual to achieve the best they can through giving witness to the way of life inspired by Christ and taught by His Church. The Governors ask all parents applying for a place at Chatsmore Catholic High School to respect this ethos and its importance to the school community. Nevertheless, the school fully respects the beliefs of parents and children from all denominations and faith backgrounds. Students at Chatsmore are taught respect and tolerance for others and there is provision in the religious education programme for learning about different faiths. Chatsmore Catholic High School was established to serve the Catholic community in the Worthing Deanery. Our deanery schools are: English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, St Catherine’s Catholic Primary School, St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, St. Peter’s Catholic Primary School, St Wilfrid’s Catholic Primary School,
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Goring Littlehampton Worthing Shoreham Angmering
Procedure for Making Applications How to Apply for a place in Year 7 in 2015 The governing body of Chatsmore Catholic High School is responsible for determining the admission arrangements of the school, including the priority of admissions to the school when the school is oversubscribed. When the application deadline has closed, the Local Authority (LA) provides to the school a list of all applicants who have applied to the school. The school will then rank the applications in strict accordance with its published admission arrangements and provide the LA with the ranked list. The LA is responsible for coordinating the allocation of places in its area, offering individual places to parents on behalf of the school governors on the common offer date of 2nd March 2015. To apply for a place at Chatsmore, you should complete and return the following two forms: 1. The Common Application Form (CAF) All applications for places must be made on the Common Application Form which is available from the Local Authority (where the parent lives). For a valid application, the CAF must be either completed online, or in the paper form and returned to West Sussex admission team, by 31 October 2014. The CAF should be completed online wherever possible. West Sussex’s CAF is available at: https://eadmissions.westsussex.gov.uk. The West Sussex admissions team can be contacted at: Admissions Office, Centenary House, Durrington Lane, Worthing, West Sussex, BN13 2QB Tel: 03330 142903 Fax: 01903 839214 e-mail: [email protected] 2. The school’s Supplementary Information Form (SIF). This is available from the school and the school website and allows the governors to put all applicants in order of priority for admission in line with the published admission policy. Please note that while completion of the SIF is not mandatory, if a completed SIF is not received, the governing body will only be able to consider the application based on information provided to the Local Authority on the CAF. To put this in practical terms, if a completed SIF is not received, it is likely that governors will only be able to rank the application within the last i.e. ‘Any other children’ criterion. The fully completed SIF must be returned to the school office by 31 October 2014. You are advised to keep copies of the forms for your records, whether completed online/ on paper Late applications If your forms are received after the deadlines specified above, they will be treated as a late application. Late applications are processed in the same way as those received on time but your application will be considered after all the applications received on time. This could mean that there may not be a place available at this School. If all places have been filled, parents will be offered the opportunity of placing their child’s name on the waiting list. This does not prevent parents from exercising their right to appeal against the decision not to offer a place. Waiting List If there are more applications than places then they will be placed on the waiting list in accordance with the priorities in this policy. If a place becomes available during the year, the waiting list will be operated using the same admission oversubscription as listed in this policy. Places are not offered on the basis of length of time on the waiting list. The position on the waiting list may change if someone moves into the area into a higher category, or closer to the school in the same category.
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The school is also committed to taking its fair share of pupils who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admissions round, the governing body is empowered to give absolute priority to a child whose admission is requested under any local protocol that has been agreed between the Diocese, local authority and governing body for the current school year. The governing body has this power even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number. These children must take precedence over any children already on the waiting list. The waiting is reviewed termly. In-year admissions Applications for In-Year admissions are made to the school. The school will inform the Local Authority. If a place is available and there is no waiting list then the governing body will admit the child and will write to you with the governors’ decision. If more applications are received than there are places available, then applications will be ranked by the governing body in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. If a place cannot be offered at this time then you may ask us for the reasons and you will be informed of your right of appeal. You will then be offered the opportunity of being placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be maintained by the governing body in the order of the oversubscription criteria, and not in the order in which the applications are received. When a place becomes available the governing body will rank the applicants and offer a place to the applicant at the top of the list. Appeals If your application is turned down you have the right to appeal to an independent appeal panel. You should act quickly to register your appeal. Parents have at least 20 days in which to submit their appeal after receiving the decision as to whether they have a place. Appeals must be made in writing and set out the reasons on which the appeal is made. Appeals should be made to the Admissions Appeal Clerk at the school address. Visiting the School We want parents to make an informed choice about secondary school and we encourage parents to visit Chatsmore Catholic High School in order to find out more about how we work and the education we offer. Parents are welcome to arrange a visit by contacting Mrs Karen Godfrey, Office and Admissions Manager. However, such visits are not obligatory and do not form part of the process of deciding which children are to be offered a place at the school. Giving us the wrong information If our decision to allocate a place at this school is based on false or incorrect information (for example, the use of an address that is not the child’s normal residence) the governing body reserves the right to withdraw any offer of a place even if the child has already started school.
Oversubscription Criteria Where the number of applications for admission exceeds 124, and after the admission of pupils with Statements of Special Educational Needs where the school is named on the Statement, the governors will offer places using the following criteria in the order stated: 1. “Looked after, or previously looked after” Catholic children. Evidence of baptism will be required (see note a). and b).). 2. Baptised Catholic children who are enrolled at the time of application in one of the named Catholic deanery primary schools (English Martyrs’ School, Goring, St Mary’s School Worthing, St Catherine’s School, Littlehampton, St. Peter’s School, Shoreham, St Wilfrid’s School Angmering). Evidence of baptism will be required (see note b).).
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3. Baptised Catholic children who are not enrolled at the time of application in one of the named Catholic deanery primary schools. Evidence of baptism will be required (see note b).). 4. Children who are under instruction in the Catholic faith. Evidence that such instruction is in progress provided by the priest responsible for the instruction programme will be required. A letter of confirmation from the priest should be attached to the School Supplementary Information Form (see note b).) 5. Other “Looked after, or previously looked after” children (see note a).). 6. Other children who will have a sibling attending the school in the School in September 2014 (see note c).). 7. Other children who are enrolled at the time of application in one of the named Catholic deanery primary schools. 8. Children of other Christian denominations whose parents attend a church which belongs to a “Churches Together” organisation and where the Priest, Vicar, Minister or recognised Pastor has signed the Priests section on the Supplementary Information Form. 9. Any other children. Priority within the Oversubscription Criteria (Tiebreakers): The governors will apply the following order of priorities within any of the above criteria when applications exceed the number of places available and it is necessary to decide between applications through a priority ranking: i.
For Oversubscription Criterion 8 above - The strength of evidence of practice of the faith as demonstrated by the level of the child's attendance at services. This evidence must be provided by the parent/carer and be endorsed by the minister/faith leader at the child’s designated place of worship. Applications will be ranked in the order shown on the Supplementary Information Form i.e. firstly those who attend services weekly, then monthly, then quarterly, then those who attend once a year.
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Distance from home (the address at which the child resides) to the school (closest proximity receives highest priority) (see note e)). Evidence of residence may be required.
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Notes (these form part of the admission arrangements): a) ‘Looked after children’ are children who are registered as being in the care of the local authority (LA) as defined by section 22(1) of the Children’s Act 1989 at the time an application for a school is made. ‘Previously looked after children’ means such children who were adopted (or subject to residence orders or special guardianship orders) immediately following having been looked after. It refers to children who have left care through adoption (in accordance with Section 46 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002), a residence order (in accordance with Section 8 of the Children Act 1989) or special guardianship order (in accordance with Section 14A of the Children Act 1989). b) ‘Baptised Catholic’ describes a member whose Church of Baptism is ‘in communion with the See of Rome’. The Catholic Church comprises the Latin Rite (Roman Catholics) and the Eastern or Oriental Rite (composed of Catholic (Uniate) Churches. This will be evidenced by a certificate of Baptism in a Catholic Church or certificate of reception into full communion with the Catholic Church.
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The school will require to see baptismal certificates of children admitted in criteria 1, 2 and 3. A copy should be attached to the School Supplementary Information Form. Failure to attach this could result in your child being placed in a lower category. In the case of children who are “Looked After” or “previously looked after””, asylum seekers or refugees (where there may be no paper evidence of baptism or commitment to another denomination or faith) evidence may be sought from a relevant agency or otherwise. This may be a First Holy Communion Certificate or a letter of support from the local minister stating that the child is eligible to receive sacraments such as Holy Communion, Reconciliation and Confirmation. c) Siblings: For admission to this school, a sibling is defined as a brother or sister (i.e. another child of the same parents, whether living at the same address or not), or a half-brother/ half-sister or a step-brother/ step-sister or an adoptive or foster brother/ sister, living at the same address. A child will be given sibling priority if they have a sibling at the school at the time of the child’s admission. Governors will also take into account any information on siblings that is provided by the Local Authority from the Common Application Form. In the event of children from a multiple birth, (i.e. twins, triplets etc.) or siblings of the same admission year group, applying for places at the school and where only one school place would be available for a twin / triplet, we would accept the other siblings. d) Distance: Distance will be measured in a straight line from the child’s home address to the school from a central point in each building using the Local Authority’s computerised measuring system. e) Address: We require you to state your child’s home address. A child’s home address is considered to be a residential property that is the child’s only/main residence and not an address that is sometimes used due to certain domestic/special arrangements. The address must be the pupil’s home address that applies at the closing date for applications and which is either owned by the child’s parent, parents, or guardian OR leased or rented by the child’s parent, parents or guardian under a lease or written rental agreement. If parents live separately but share responsibility for the child, and the child lives at two different addresses during the week, the ‘home address’ will be regarded as the one at which the child sleeps for the majority of weekday nights. If two addresses are provided, the Local Authority will decide which address should be used as the main residence for the purpose of processing the application as they only accept one current address. Parents/Carers must notify the school about any address changes during the application deadlines to ensure all applications are treated in the same way. A block of flats has a single address point reference, so applicants living in the same block will be regarded as living the same distance away from the school. In the unlikely event that two or more children live in the same block and in all other ways have equal eligibility for the last available place, the names will be issued a number and drawn randomly to decide which child receives the place. Evidence will be required to confirm the address given on the form.
f) Parents/family members: A parent is any person who has parental responsibility for or is the legal guardian of the child.
Number of students that applied and were admitted within each category in September 2013: Category Statements 1 2 3 4 5
Number Applied 0 2 57 14 0 1
Number Admitted 0 2 47 11 0 1
Category 6 7 8 9 TOTAL
Number Applied 18 40 9 62
Number Admitted 17 20 8 12
203
118
Where less numbers were admitted in all the categories the student would have achieved their first choice of school.
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ADMISSIONS POLICY AND PROCEDURES FOR ADMISSION IN 2015-16 The school is a voluntary aided Catholic secondary 11-16 co-educational day school. The school was founded by and is part of the Catholic Church. The school is conducted as a Catholic School in accordance with the canon law and teachings of the Catholic Church and in accordance with the Trust Deed of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton. The school has designated Specialist Arts College status (English, Art and Drama). Having consulted with the Diocese, the Local Authority, other admission authorities and other relevant groups, the governors intend to admit into Year 7, in September 2015, up to 124 pupils without reference to ability or aptitude. The governors will accept applications for entry to Year 7 in September 2015 on behalf of children born between 1 September 2003 and 31 August 2004. This policy describes how applications should be made and how parents should make an application for a place at Chatsmore Catholic High School and also outlines priority criteria which will be used in the event of the governors receiving more applications than there are places available. The Governors aim to offer a Catholic education. The mission of Chatsmore Catholic High School is to help every individual to achieve the best they can through giving witness to the way of life inspired by Christ and taught by His Church. The Governors ask all parents applying for a place at Chatsmore Catholic High School to respect this ethos and its importance to the school community. Nevertheless, the school fully respects the beliefs of parents and children from all denominations and faith backgrounds. Students at Chatsmore are taught respect and tolerance for others and there is provision in the religious education programme for learning about different faiths. Chatsmore Catholic High School was established to serve the Catholic community in the Worthing Deanery. Our deanery schools are: English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, St Catherine’s Catholic Primary School, St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, St. Peter’s Catholic Primary School, St Wilfrid’s Catholic Primary School,
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Goring Littlehampton Worthing Shoreham Angmering
Procedure for Making Applications How to Apply for a place in Year 7 in 2015 The governing body of Chatsmore Catholic High School is responsible for determining the admission arrangements of the school, including the priority of admissions to the school when the school is oversubscribed. When the application deadline has closed, the Local Authority (LA) provides to the school a list of all applicants who have applied to the school. The school will then rank the applications in strict accordance with its published admission arrangements and provide the LA with the ranked list. The LA is responsible for coordinating the allocation of places in its area, offering individual places to parents on behalf of the school governors on the common offer date of 2nd March 2015. To apply for a place at Chatsmore, you should complete and return the following two forms: 1. The Common Application Form (CAF) All applications for places must be made on the Common Application Form which is available from the Local Authority (where the parent lives). For a valid application, the CAF must be either completed online, or in the paper form and returned to West Sussex admission team, by 31 October 2014. The CAF should be completed online wherever possible. West Sussex’s CAF is available at: https://eadmissions.westsussex.gov.uk. The West Sussex admissions team can be contacted at: Admissions Office, Centenary House, Durrington Lane, Worthing, West Sussex, BN13 2QB Tel: 03330 142903 Fax: 01903 839214 e-mail: [email protected] 2. The school’s Supplementary Information Form (SIF). This is available from the school and the school website and allows the governors to put all applicants in order of priority for admission in line with the published admission policy. Please note that while completion of the SIF is not mandatory, if a completed SIF is not received, the governing body will only be able to consider the application based on information provided to the Local Authority on the CAF. To put this in practical terms, if a completed SIF is not received, it is likely that governors will only be able to rank the application within the last i.e. ‘Any other children’ criterion. The fully completed SIF must be returned to the school office by 31 October 2014. You are advised to keep copies of the forms for your records, whether completed online/ on paper Late applications If your forms are received after the deadlines specified above, they will be treated as a late application. Late applications are processed in the same way as those received on time but your application will be considered after all the applications received on time. This could mean that there may not be a place available at this School. If all places have been filled, parents will be offered the opportunity of placing their child’s name on the waiting list. This does not prevent parents from exercising their right to appeal against the decision not to offer a place. Waiting List If there are more applications than places then they will be placed on the waiting list in accordance with the priorities in this policy. If a place becomes available during the year, the waiting list will be operated using the same admission oversubscription as listed in this policy. Places are not offered on the basis of length of time on the waiting list. The position on the waiting list may change if someone moves into the area into a higher category, or closer to the school in the same category.
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The school is also committed to taking its fair share of pupils who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admissions round, the governing body is empowered to give absolute priority to a child whose admission is requested under any local protocol that has been agreed between the Diocese, local authority and governing body for the current school year. The governing body has this power even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number. These children must take precedence over any children already on the waiting list. The waiting is reviewed termly. In-year admissions Applications for In-Year admissions are made to the school. The school will inform the Local Authority. If a place is available and there is no waiting list then the governing body will admit the child and will write to you with the governors’ decision. If more applications are received than there are places available, then applications will be ranked by the governing body in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. If a place cannot be offered at this time then you may ask us for the reasons and you will be informed of your right of appeal. You will then be offered the opportunity of being placed on a waiting list. This waiting list will be maintained by the governing body in the order of the oversubscription criteria, and not in the order in which the applications are received. When a place becomes available the governing body will rank the applicants and offer a place to the applicant at the top of the list. Appeals If your application is turned down you have the right to appeal to an independent appeal panel. You should act quickly to register your appeal. Parents have at least 20 days in which to submit their appeal after receiving the decision as to whether they have a place. Appeals must be made in writing and set out the reasons on which the appeal is made. Appeals should be made to the Admissions Appeal Clerk at the school address. Visiting the School We want parents to make an informed choice about secondary school and we encourage parents to visit Chatsmore Catholic High School in order to find out more about how we work and the education we offer. Parents are welcome to arrange a visit by contacting Mrs Karen Godfrey, Office and Admissions Manager. However, such visits are not obligatory and do not form part of the process of deciding which children are to be offered a place at the school. Giving us the wrong information If our decision to allocate a place at this school is based on false or incorrect information (for example, the use of an address that is not the child’s normal residence) the governing body reserves the right to withdraw any offer of a place even if the child has already started school.
Oversubscription Criteria Where the number of applications for admission exceeds 124, and after the admission of pupils with Statements of Special Educational Needs where the school is named on the Statement, the governors will offer places using the following criteria in the order stated: 1. “Looked after, or previously looked after” Catholic children. Evidence of baptism will be required (see note a). and b).). 2. Baptised Catholic children who are enrolled at the time of application in one of the named Catholic deanery primary schools (English Martyrs’ School, Goring, St Mary’s School Worthing, St Catherine’s School, Littlehampton, St. Peter’s School, Shoreham, St Wilfrid’s School Angmering). Evidence of baptism will be required (see note b).).
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3. Baptised Catholic children who are not enrolled at the time of application in one of the named Catholic deanery primary schools. Evidence of baptism will be required (see note b).). 4. Children who are under instruction in the Catholic faith. Evidence that such instruction is in progress provided by the priest responsible for the instruction programme will be required. A letter of confirmation from the priest should be attached to the School Supplementary Information Form (see note b).) 5. Other “Looked after, or previously looked after” children (see note a).). 6. Other children who will have a sibling attending the school in the School in September 2014 (see note c).). 7. Other children who are enrolled at the time of application in one of the named Catholic deanery primary schools. 8. Children of other Christian denominations whose parents attend a church which belongs to a “Churches Together” organisation and where the Priest, Vicar, Minister or recognised Pastor has signed the Priests section on the Supplementary Information Form. 9. Any other children. Priority within the Oversubscription Criteria (Tiebreakers): The governors will apply the following order of priorities within any of the above criteria when applications exceed the number of places available and it is necessary to decide between applications through a priority ranking: i.
For Oversubscription Criterion 8 above - The strength of evidence of practice of the faith as demonstrated by the level of the child's attendance at services. This evidence must be provided by the parent/carer and be endorsed by the minister/faith leader at the child’s designated place of worship. Applications will be ranked in the order shown on the Supplementary Information Form i.e. firstly those who attend services weekly, then monthly, then quarterly, then those who attend once a year.
ii.
Distance from home (the address at which the child resides) to the school (closest proximity receives highest priority) (see note e)). Evidence of residence may be required.
______________________________________________________________________________
Notes (these form part of the admission arrangements): a) ‘Looked after children’ are children who are registered as being in the care of the local authority (LA) as defined by section 22(1) of the Children’s Act 1989 at the time an application for a school is made. ‘Previously looked after children’ means such children who were adopted (or subject to residence orders or special guardianship orders) immediately following having been looked after. It refers to children who have left care through adoption (in accordance with Section 46 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002), a residence order (in accordance with Section 8 of the Children Act 1989) or special guardianship order (in accordance with Section 14A of the Children Act 1989). b) ‘Baptised Catholic’ describes a member whose Church of Baptism is ‘in communion with the See of Rome’. The Catholic Church comprises the Latin Rite (Roman Catholics) and the Eastern or Oriental Rite (composed of Catholic (Uniate) Churches. This will be evidenced by a certificate of Baptism in a Catholic Church or certificate of reception into full communion with the Catholic Church.
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The school will require to see baptismal certificates of children admitted in criteria 1, 2 and 3. A copy should be attached to the School Supplementary Information Form. Failure to attach this could result in your child being placed in a lower category. In the case of children who are “Looked After” or “previously looked after””, asylum seekers or refugees (where there may be no paper evidence of baptism or commitment to another denomination or faith) evidence may be sought from a relevant agency or otherwise. This may be a First Holy Communion Certificate or a letter of support from the local minister stating that the child is eligible to receive sacraments such as Holy Communion, Reconciliation and Confirmation. c) Siblings: For admission to this school, a sibling is defined as a brother or sister (i.e. another child of the same parents, whether living at the same address or not), or a half-brother/ half-sister or a step-brother/ step-sister or an adoptive or foster brother/ sister, living at the same address. A child will be given sibling priority if they have a sibling at the school at the time of the child’s admission. Governors will also take into account any information on siblings that is provided by the Local Authority from the Common Application Form. In the event of children from a multiple birth, (i.e. twins, triplets etc.) or siblings of the same admission year group, applying for places at the school and where only one school place would be available for a twin / triplet, we would accept the other siblings. d) Distance: Distance will be measured in a straight line from the child’s home address to the school from a central point in each building using the Local Authority’s computerised measuring system. e) Address: We require you to state your child’s home address. A child’s home address is considered to be a residential property that is the child’s only/main residence and not an address that is sometimes used due to certain domestic/special arrangements. The address must be the pupil’s home address that applies at the closing date for applications and which is either owned by the child’s parent, parents, or guardian OR leased or rented by the child’s parent, parents or guardian under a lease or written rental agreement. If parents live separately but share responsibility for the child, and the child lives at two different addresses during the week, the ‘home address’ will be regarded as the one at which the child sleeps for the majority of weekday nights. If two addresses are provided, the Local Authority will decide which address should be used as the main residence for the purpose of processing the application as they only accept one current address. Parents/Carers must notify the school about any address changes during the application deadlines to ensure all applications are treated in the same way. A block of flats has a single address point reference, so applicants living in the same block will be regarded as living the same distance away from the school. In the unlikely event that two or more children live in the same block and in all other ways have equal eligibility for the last available place, the names will be issued a number and drawn randomly to decide which child receives the place. Evidence will be required to confirm the address given on the form.
f) Parents/family members: A parent is any person who has parental responsibility for or is the legal guardian of the child.
Number of students that applied and were admitted within each category in September 2013: Category Statements 1 2 3 4 5
Number Applied 0 2 57 14 0 1
Number Admitted 0 2 47 11 0 1
Category 6 7 8 9 TOTAL
Number Applied 18 40 9 62
Number Admitted 17 20 8 12
203
118
Where less numbers were admitted in all the categories the student would have achieved their first choice of school.
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