1. Year 6 Open Evening: Wednesday 18th September 2019
Noson Agored - Blwyddyn 6 : Dydd Mercher, 18fed o Fedi 2019

2. Key Staff Mr Mark Powell, Headteacher
Mr Scott Britt, Deputy Headteacher
Miss Lauren Sharpe, Assistant Headteacher (KS3)
Mr Jonathan Davies, Assistant Headteacher (KS5 and Admissions)
Mrs Laura Morgan, ALNco Manager
Miss Claire Jefferis, Attendance Officer
Mrs Aileen Dando, Transition Co-ordinator
Mrs Gaynor Blake, Admissions (Office Manager)
Mr Cris Evans, SRB Lead Teacher
Mrs Joyce Slack, Chair of Governors

3. Starting secondary school can be daunting, but there is much to be excited about.

4. Cardiff Common Admissions Process
Applications for Whitchurch use the Cardiff Common Admissions process.
Applications do not need to be sent to the school.
Applications should be completed online.
Paper versions are available but should be sent to Cardiff Local Authority.

5. Why do we use the common application process
It enables us to know which parents are being offered places in other schools as a first choice
This will help us to offer more places in the first round to parents who intend to send their children to Whitchurch High
This will reduce the number of parents who have to go through an appeals process, reducing the anxiety that they have to go through.

6. Step by Step Approach
Log in to the Cardiff LA Admissions Application Form via our school website
Applications Open on Monday 30th September

7. Step by Step Guide
Fill in the online application form. Please ensure that you make Whitchurch High your first choice. You will be allowed to select 5 schools.
The process will look to offer your first choice. It will only move to the second choice if you are not allocated your first choice.
Where you place Whitchurch in the choices does not make a difference to whether we offer you a place. We have to allocate places on the basis of our over-subscription criteria.

8. Whitchurch High Admissions
We remain the admissions authority for the mainstream places at the school.
Once all applications are received, we will inform the LA of the rank order according to the criteria that have always been in place.
Please note: admissions for the Special Resource Base remain the responsibility of the LA. All communication about these places need to be with the LA.

9. The criteria for over-subscription
Children in receipt of a statement of Special Educational Needs (SEN). Where Whitchurch High School is named in a statement
Children who are looked after (CLA’s)(children in public care)
Pupils who are on roll in one of the school’s partner primary schools: Birchgrove Primary; Coryton Primary; Gabalfa Primary; Hawthorn Primary; Llanishen Fach Primary; Rhiwbeina Primary; and Whitchurch Primary School.
Pupils who live within the catchment areas of the above partner primary schools with older brothers/sisters are attending Whitchurch High School at the time of their admission to the school.
Pupils who are not on roll at any of the designated partner primary schools but who live within the catchment areas of the above partner primary schools.
Pupils who live outside the catchment areas of the partner primaries with a sibling attending the school when they join.
Distance.

10. The Deadline
Applications must be received by Monday 25th November 23.59pm.
If you do not send it in by this date, you will not be considered in the first round of applications.
You will then need to apply using a paper application form and send it into the school directly. Forms will be available on the website or from the school offices

11. Notification of Places
s will be issued from the local authority on Monday 2nd March, 2020
You must confirm acceptance of places by Monday 16th March, 2020
Please do not phone the school to check on progress before this date. We will not have any information.

12. Appeals
If you are not successful, even if you are awarded your place choice, you are entitled to Appeal.
Appeal information will be available on request from the following address:
Closing date: MONDAY 23rd APRIL 2020.
Appeals are heard by an Independent Appeals Panel arranged through Cardiff County Council.

13. Overview of Dates Event Date Applications Open
Monday 30th September, 2019
Applications Close
Monday 25th November, 2019
Notification of application results
Monday 2nd March, 2020
Final date for acceptance of offer
Monday 16th March, 2020
Closing date for submitting appeals
Monday 23rd March, 2020
Appeal hearings
TBC by Cardiff County Council

14. Questions or concerns
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the application please contact
Mrs Gaynor Blake in the first instance
Tel:

15. Practical Arrangements
Birchgrove Primary School- Main Block
Coryton Primary School- Library Block (First Floor)
Llanishen Fach- DT Block
Gabalfa Primary School- Library Block (Ground Floor)
Non-Partner Primary Schools- Tower Block

16. Practical Arrangements
Hawthorn Primary School- Tower Block
Rhiwbeina Primary School- Main Block
Whitchurch Primary School- Library Block

17. Practical Arrangements
Birchgrove Primary School- Main Block
Coryton Primary School- Library Block (First Floor)
Llanishen Fach- DT Block
Gabalfa Primary School- Library Block (Ground Floor)
Non-Partner Primary Schools- Tower Block

18. Practical Arrangements
Hawthorn Primary School- Tower Block
Rhiwbeina Primary School- Main Block
Whitchurch Primary School- Library Block