School Admissions - In Year process and 11+ registration
We'd like to bring your attention to a few things Admissions related.
Firstly, for our Primary Schools, please can you remind parents of Y5 children that now is the time to register for the 11+ exam. For children due to start secondary school in September 2023, the exams will take place this September. They can register by following this link to WCC website, and please highlight the deadline of 30th June 2022 along with the facility to request special testing arrangements for those with additional needs. Finally, we have moved to a new 11+ exam provider with effect from September 2022.
GL Assessment will now provide the 11+ test papers, and their familiarisation material can be found here.
Warwickshire CC administers in year applications for the vast majority of Warwickshire schools. We have a process that we have worked with for a long time, which we recognise is now not the most efficient way of moving in-year applications through to a school place offer in a timely way. This is not where we want to be, so Admission colleagues have been considering how in-year applications can be administered more effectively.
We are working on a new process which we will share with you before the end of term, that we hope will enable us to move to a more automated way of processing applications from September 2022 onwards. In the meantime, one of the delays is caused by a lack of accurate information on school place availability on a year by year school by school basis. With this in mind, we very much hope you can support us in making some tweaks to our current in year process, to get is in a strong position by the end of Summer term, up to date with all in year applications.
We'd be grateful if you could complete the questionnaires below every Friday afternoon, once your systems have been updated with leavers and starters. The forms ask for vacancy and capacity information and should take a few minutes to complete.
The information will feed into an Excel Spreadsheet that will give Admissions a comprehensive picture of availability across the county. Having this information from your every Friday will enable us to update our systems first thing on a Monday, ready to allocates places on a week by week basis.
We think this will save us all time and mean children are securing an in year place well within the 10 school days aspiration set out in the Admissions Code.
We will provide more updates on In-year processing in Head's up over coming weeks. If you have any queries, please contact admissions@warwickshire.gov.uk