I would be delighted to take you on a tour of the school and talk through the exciting opportunities we can offer your child. Please contact us and we can arrange for a suitable time for you to visit. Click here to view our prospectus. Paper copies may be produced by arrangement and must be collected in person from the main office. Lateness Students will have to report to the school office their reason for lateness and this will be recorded.
Any student who is late more than 10 times in a 12 week period will result in the parents receiving a fine from the Local Authority. Students will not be allowed off-site without this.
The student should keep the note on them, so they can show their teacher in order to leave the lesson. We are unable to collect students from class, they must make their own way to reception to sign out. School Closures We will notify parents of school closures as soon as possible by text message and by posting an alert on the website.
There is also a County Council website dedicated to informing parents about school closures. They must NOT be used during the school day without express permission from a member of staff and will be confiscated if they are. Parking Parents should not drive onto the school car park, this is for the use of staff only.
Dropping off in a morning, parents should use the marked parking bays on Rowley Avenue and students should stay on the footpath. School Dinners We run a cashless payment system which means school dinners must be paid for in advance on ParentPay and students should register for biometric readings. You can check balances online and top up from anywhere at any time, you can even monitor what your child buys for lunch.
The Board of Directors is the admissions authority and has responsibility for admissions to this school. The Board of Directors has set its admission number at pupils to be admitted to Year 7 in the school year which begins in September. See Note 1 below. Where there are more applications for places than the number of places available, places will be offered according to the following order of priority. If there is oversubscription within a category, the Board of Directors will give priority firstly to children who will have a brother or sister see Note 4 below attending Blessed William Howard at the time of admission and then secondly to children living closest to the school determined by the shortest distance see Note 6 below.
A link to this map is also available on the school website on the Admissions page. This will reduce the number of places available to applicants. This is not an oversubscription criteria. In all categories, for a child to be considered as Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or Reception into the Church will be required. For a definition of a Baptised Catholic, see the Appendix.
Those who face difficulties in producing written evidence of Catholic Baptism or Reception into the Church should contact their Parish Priest. Parents making an application for a Catholic child should also complete a Supplementary Information Form SIF which should be returned directly to the school. Distances are measured by the Local Authority on behalf of the school.
In a very small number of cases, where the school is oversubscribed, it may not be possible to decide between the applications of those pupils who are the final qualifiers for a place when applying the published admission criteria. For example, this may occur when children in the same year group live at the same address, or if the distance between the home and the school is exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. Evidence of ownership or rental agreement may be required, plus proof of permanent residence at the property concerned.
Where parents have shared responsibility for a child, and the child lives with both parents for part of the week, then the main residence will be determined as the address where the child lives for the majority of the week. Parents may be requested to supply documentary evidence to satisfy the Board of Directors that the child lives at the address put forward by the parents.
Parents have the right to request, but not insist, that their child be considered for admission to a class outside of their normal age group. This could be the case, for example, if a child is gifted and talented, has experienced problems such as ill health, or is already being educated in a class outside of their normal age group at their current Primary school.
Parents who wish for their child to be considered for admission to a class outside of their normal age group must make an application for the normal age group in the first instance.
Parents must then submit a formal request to the Board of Directors for the child to be considered for a different age group class instead. This request should be in the form of a written letter of application outlining the reasons why they wish for their child to be considered to be admitted into a class outside of their normal age group and enclosing any supportive evidence and documentation that they wish to be taken into account as part of that request. If the request is refused, the original application for the normal age group class will progress through the Local Authority co-ordinated admissions scheme, be considered by the Board of Directors and the parents advised of the outcome.
If the request is agreed and the year group for which the parents have requested a place is a current year group in the school, then the application will be considered by the Board of Directors and the parents advised of the outcome.
If the request is agreed and the year group for which the parents have requested a place is for a future year group, i. Year 7 in September, then the original application is withdrawn and the parents must submit a fresh application for Year 7 when applications open in the autumn term.
Please note that parents only have the right to re-apply for a place. Where the Board of Directors agrees to consider an application for Year 7 the following year, that application is considered alongside all other applications received and parents will be advised of the outcome of that application on national offer day.
No place is reserved or held for the child in advance. If parents are considering submitting an application for their child to be admitted into a class outside of their normal age group, it is strongly recommended that they also read the DFE guidance which can be found on the government website. Parents who wish to appeal against the decision of the Board of Directors to refuse their child a place in the school should make that appeal request in writing to the Chair of the Board of Directors at the school address.
Appeals will be heard by an independent panel. Please note that parents do not have the right to appeal if their request for their children to be admitted to a class outside of their normal year group has been refused, but the Board of Directors have offered a place in the normal age group instead.
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