William Perkin CofE High School

William Perkin Church of England High School has an agreed admission number of 200 students for entry into Year 7. The school will accordingly admit 200 students in the relevant age group each year if sufficient applications are received. All applicants will be admitted if 200 or fewer apply.

These arrangements and the criteria listed below are reviewed annually by the governing body, and should not be regarded as binding for future years.

Applications for the 20 Language Scholarship places should be made by completing the Language Scholarship application form which can be found on the school website. All applicants, including those of no faith, wishing to apply for a place at the school must fill in their home local authority’s Common Application Form. When applying on behalf of a Looked After Child or Previously Looked After Child (see definitions below), applicants must ensure they indicate this clearly on the Common Application Form.

William Perkin Year 7 September Admissions Arrangement
The admissions arrangements for entry into Year 7 in September includes 20 Specialist Language Scholarship Places.

The online application form for Specialist Language.Parent(s) who have applied for a Language Place must also fill in their home local authority's Common Application Form.

This Assessment Day will be held at William Perkin Church of England High School after school on Tuesday 3rd October .This is the ONLY assessment session and late applications will NOT be accepted.

Arrangements for applications for the remaining places will be made solely in accordance with the Local Authority’s co-ordinated admission arrangements and should be made on the Home Local Authority Common Application Form.

The Academy Trust will use Ealing Council’s timetable for applications each year, which fits in with the timetable for the co-ordination of admission arrangements within London. The application deadline is 31st October . Further information on applying for a High School place can be found on Ealing Council's

Deadlines & Key Dates

• Friday 29th September by 12.00 noon: Specialist Language Application Deadline(Application will be live in September)
• Tuesday 3rd October : Specialist Language assessment day after 4:00pm at William Perkin School CofE High School
• Friday 13th October (after 4.00pm): Specialist Language assessment results communicated to parents & carers
• 31st October: Common application form (CAF) to be submitted to your Local Authority, listing William Perkin as a preferred school choice,

Unsuccessful applicants have a statutory right to appeal for a place at the Academy. See details in Appeals tab. Appeals will be heard by a panel which is independent of the Academy and the Governors.

Admissions to Year 7

Where the number of applications for admission is greater than the published admission number, applications will be considered against the criteria below. After admitting pupils with statements of Special Educational Needs or an Education, Health and Care Plan, where the Academy is named, the criteria will be applied in the following order:

Oversubscription Criteria

• Looked after children and children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to adoption, a child arrangements order, or special guardianship order, including children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted. See Note 1.
• 20 places for children showing an aptitude for language. Places will be allocated in order of ranked assessment score. See Language Scholarship Admissions Criteria set out below.
• Children with a sibling already on-roll at the Academy who will be on-roll when the child is admitted. See Note 2.
• Children attending The Edward Betham Church of England Primary School for whom William Perkin Church of England High School is the nearest maintained high school or academy. See Note 3.
• Children attending Horsenden Primary School for whom William Perkin Church of England High School is the nearest maintained high school or academy See Note 3.
• Children for whom William Perkin Church of England High School is the nearest maintained high school or academy. See Note 3.
• Other children, with priority given to those living closest to the school. See Note 3

Tie-break
In the event of oversubscription in any of the above criteria, priority will be given to those living nearest to the academy measured in a straight line from a point in the property of the child’s home address (including flats) to the main entrance of the school, using the Local Authority’s computerised measuring system. In the rare event that applicants’ distance measurements are exactly the same, in blocks of flats for instance, the place will be allocated randomly.

NOTES:

• Governors will ask for written evidence from the responsible agencies. A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989). Previously looked after children are children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order immediately following having been looked after. Adopted children are those who were adopted under the Adoption Act 1976 (see section 12 adoption orders) and children who were adopted under the Adoption and Children’s Act 2002 (see section 46 adoption orders). Child arrangements orders are defined in s.8 of the Children Act 1989, as amended by s.12 of the Children and Families Act 2014. Child arrangements orders replace residence orders and any residence order in force prior to 22 April is deemed to be a child arrangements order. A special guardianship order is defined by s. 14A of the Children Act 1989 as an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or special guardians). A child is regarded as having been in state care in a place outside of England if they were accommodated by a public authority, a religious organisation or any other provider of care whose sole purpose is to benefit society.
• Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, or the child of the parent/carer’s partner where the child for whom the school place is sought is living in the same family unit at the same address as that sibling.
• Distance is measured in a straight line from a point in the property of the child’s home address (including flats) to the main entrance of the school. Distance is calculated using the Local Authority’s computerised measuring system which is an integral part of the admissions software produced by Servelec Synergy. It uses Ordnance Survey data and is accurate to one metre. In the rare event that applicants’ distance measurements are exactly the same the place will be allocated randomly.

Sixth Form Admissions

William Perkin Church of England High School opened its Sixth Form in September . Although the majority of William Perkin students enrol into the Sixth Form, we are also able to invite applications from external students to join the Sixth Form. William Perkin has a thriving Sixth Form and we offer a wide range of A-Level courses.

Before completing your form, please ensure that you have the following information to hand:

• Applicant details and contact information
• Parent(s)/carer(s) details and contact information
• Current school
• Previous and current courses of study (including grades already achieved and predicted grades for current courses of study)
• Sixth Form course choices (please review the Course Guide included in this Open Evening pack or available on our website)

Upon completion of the electronic application form, you will receive an automated receipt via email . You will also be able to save your application as a PDF and print - we strongly encourage you to do both. If for any reason you do not receive a confirmation email, are experiencing technical difficulties or you wish amend your course selections, please email admissions@williamperkin.org.uk with your application ID number, full name and date of birth. If you submit more than one application, we will accept your most recent submission as your active application.