YEAR 7
Year 7 applications for places at Newlands Girls' School are dealt with by the Local Education Authority (School Admissions, Education and Child Care, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Town Hall, St Ives Road, Maidenhead). Parents of girls already attending Windsor & Maidenhead Primary schools will receive details of the transfer process and admission arrangements through their daughter's school in the September preceding that for which entry to Year 7 is sought. Parents of girls currently attending schools in the private sector or outside the Borough, or those seeking entry to other year groups (in year transfers), should contact the Admissions Department of the LEA at the Town Hall.
LEA Admissions Website: http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/web/ed_admissions_home.htm
LEA Admission Helpline: 01628 683870
Admission to Year 7 is limited to 186 girls. Last year there were 421 preferences for those places. Those admitted included all from categories A-B up to a distance of 2.488 miles from the school. There were 22 appeals for places, 13 were heard and 1 was successful. The outcome of applications for 2010 places is not necessarily an indication of the position for 2011.
ADMISSION CRITERIA
Shortly after the closing date, Admission Staff will consider applications to all of its community schools. When a school is oversubscribed preferences will be put in the order of the admission criteria.
A child who is the subject of a statement or special education need will be admitted to the school named in his or her statement. Remaining places will be allocated in the following decending order:
A. Looked After Children (Request for the allocation of a place to a child who is in the care of the Local Authority or provided with accommodation in that authority in accordance with Section 20 or 37 of The Children Act 1989).
B. Children who live in the 'designated appropriate' area of the school.
C. Children who would have an elder sibling of compulsory school age who would be at the school at the time of admission of the child for whom a place is sought. The term "brothers or sisters" includes a half or step-child permanently living in the same family unit or a foster child permanently living in the same family unit whose place has been arranged by the Social Services Department of a Local Authority. Sibling eligibility will flow from an elder foster child to other childen of the family or from an elder child of the family to a younger foster child. A child is regarded as being of compulsory school age until the end of the school or academic year in which he or she becomes 16 years of age.
D. Children who attend a Primary, First or Middle school that is formally linked with the preferred Secondary, Middle or Upper school.
E. Individual preference for co-educational or single-sex educational reasons where the alternative in the local area is single-sex or co-educational respectively.
F. All other applicants.