Applications for places at Newlands on transfer from primary school are dealt with by the Local Education Authority (Admissions Section, Education Directorate, 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 Seven is sought. Parents of girls currently attending schools in the private sector or outside the Borough, or those seeking entry to other year groups, 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
Admission to Year Seven is limited to 186 girls. Last year there were 484 preferences for those places. Those admitted included all from categories A-E and 15 from Category F. There were 57 appeals for places. The outcome of applications for 2008 places is not necessarily an indication of the position for 2009.
ADMISSION CRITERIA
Shortly after the closing date, Admission Staff will consider applications
to all of its community schools. When a school is oversubscribed
applications will be put in the order of the oversubscription criteria.
Children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs that names a specific school must, by law, be admitted to that school.
After this requirement has been satisfied the following criteria will apply.
They are set out in descending order of priority:
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 have either strong medical or social grounds for admission (e.g. serious social problems in the family, or any chronic medical condition affecting the pupil that only your preferred school can deal with).
D, Children who have older sister(s) at the school, when the applicant would enter the school, i.e. in September 2007 (applies only to attendance in Years 7 to 11 in September 2007). This includes a half, step, adopted or fostered child permanently living in the same family unit at the same address.
E, Children who attend a primary school that is formally linked with the secondary school.
F, Individual preference for co-educational or single-sex educational reasons where the alternative in your local area is single-sex or co-educational respectively.
G, All other applicants.