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  • Agenda item
  • Agenda item

    Update on Admissions Schemes and oversubscription criteria for Community and VC Schools

    Minutes:

    (1)   Mr Bagshaw tabled the proposed coordinated scheme and admission arrangements for primary admissions in 2013/14 and advised the Forum that he was not proposing any significant changes but drew the members attention to the In Year Admissions Proposals.

     

    (2)    Mr Bagshaw referred to the Admission to Primary School Booklets and advised the Forum that less of these would be produced with parents and schools being lead more towards an information sheet and making applications on line. Schools have become more involved in helping parents access the use of a computer and the number of on line applications has increased. Mr Wetherell asked if anything was being done to help those who could not read or for whom English was not the first language. Mr Bagshaw confirmed that there was a  positive move to work closely with MCAS on this point.

     

    (3)   Mr Bagshaw advised the Forum that PAN for the new Voluntary Cof E school in Northgate should be 60 and not 30 as shown. Mr Whiting also referred to the oversubscription criteria for Eastchurch CEP School and the nearness of homes to an equidistant point between the Eastchurch site and the Warden Bay site. Some parents may prefer the Warden Bay site and therefore this aspect of the criteria needed clarifying. Mr Bagshaw agreed that this issue wasn’t a straight forward one.

     

     

    (4)     Mr Whiting also drew attention to the fact that the document refers to the LA  and not County Council but the Glossary of Terms refers to both. Mr Bagshaw felt that it might be better to remove the Glossary of Terms altogether and he would give consideration to doing this.          

     

    (5)    Mr Masters noted the proposed increase in the PANs of Pembury, Claremont and St Matthews primary schools in Tunbridge Wells.

     

    (6)    Mr Bagshaw tabled the proposed coordinated scheme and proposed admission arrangements for secondary admissions in 2013/14 and advised the Forum that he was not proposing any changes to the proposed scheme but would consider removing the Glossary of Terms as with the proposed primary scheme.

     

    (7)     Mr Bagshaw advised the Forum that he proposed the removal the Scheme of Education criteria as discussed in paragraph 35 of the minutes of the meeting dated 12 July 2011. He informed the Forum that he had profiled admissions as if the scheme had not existed and found that there would be little shift overall and that the only community school likely to be affected significantly would be Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys. Consequently Mr Bagshaw had proposed significant bespoke oversubscription criteria for Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys. He considered that the revised arrangements were in keeping with the traditional intake for the school which might otherwise be upset as a result of the wider changes relating to the schemes of education criteria.  In the event that anybody did not consider this to be the case they would have the right to outline this in the consultation and indeed challenge arrangements with the adjudicator should they still disagree with determined arrangements.

     

    (8)     Mr Bagshaw also confirmed that he had proposed bespoke oversubscription criteria for Astor College for the Arts

     

     

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