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48 <strong>Westminster</strong>: Your choice for secondary school // Apply online at www.westminster.gov.uk/admissions Linking home to school The school is committed to working closely with parents in order to support the student’s education. Parents receive a full profile and a summary report during the course of a year and all parents are invited to attend a parents’ evening once a year, when they are able to speak to their daughter’s teachers. All Year 7 parents are invited to a parents’ evening before their daughter starts at St Marylebone. This evening takes place in the summer term and provides an opportunity for new parents to meet with their daughter’s form tutors and with other key members of staff. The school has a very active Parent-Teacher Association which meets once a half-term. During the past year, the parents have been actively raising funds for the School Building Project and have organised a series of very successful events including an Auction and a Michaelmas Fair. St Marylebone School Sports and Arts Development After nearly three years of building, the new subterranean gym and dance complex, and the new music and arts block, are ready for use. The buildings designed by architect Philip Gumuchdjian, and built by Mansel have impressed everyone who has had the chance to look around. The sports hall has an east wall made by huge glass shutters that rise up to open up that entire side and allow the building to be flooded with light. It’s built nine metres below the old playground surface. Directly alongside the sports hall to the south are two dance studios, one on top of the other with a balcony overlooking the sports hall below. Above ground, two new music teaching rooms form the ground floor of the three storey building; a music practice room suite sits on the floor above, and finally two brand new art studios with floor to ceiling north facing windows on the top floor. The south east corner of the site houses the new lift shaft, clock tower, changing rooms, showers and toilets. The finishing interior touches are being made now and the playground with, a proper sports surface, is being laid. Once this is complete, some lessons can begin inside. Year 7 admissions policy The St Marylebone Church of England School is a voluntary aided school and the governing body decides the order in which places at the school are to be offered. General We plan to admit 120 girls each year. To be considered for a place, you must complete the Common Application Form for the Local Authority where you live. Also, if you wish your daughter to be considered under any of our priority categories, you must also complete the school’s Supplementary Information Form (SIF). If you do not complete the SIF, your application will still be considered but not for any priority place. You must apply before the closing date specified. Late applications or those not made in accordance with the applications procedure will not be considered by the admissions committee until all applications made in time have been dealt with and any appeals have been heard. You are strongly encouraged to visit the school on an open day before making an application. This visit does not form part of the admissions process, but we encourage this so that you have enough knowledge of the school to feel confident in your choice.
<strong>Westminster</strong>: Your choice for secondary school // Apply online at www.westminster.gov.uk/admissions 49 Order of making offers We anticipate receiving more applicants than we have places available for. Our admissions policy reflects the fact that the school is a Church of England school, but one that welcomes members of all faiths and of no faith. In deciding the order of offers, we apply the following definitions: 1. ‘Looked After Children’ – children looked after by a local authority under the provisions of the Children Act 1989. 2. Statemented children, namely girls with statements of Special Educational Needs. Statemented children obtain a place through the statemented process and should not apply under this procedure. When deciding how many places can be offered to nonstatemented girls, the number of girls with statements either naming the school, or whose local authority has advised the school before the admissions committee makes its admissions decisions that it is proposing to name the school, will be taken into account 3. Performing Arts places. These are offered to applicants whose daughters can demonstrate a specific aptitude for, and commitment to one of the performing arts (dance, drama or music). To assess this, girls who have demonstrated some aptitude will be invited for audition. There is a separate information sheet, setting out how we decide who is to be invited for audition and how we assess aptitude for performing arts. If you wish your daughter to be considered under this category, please request an information sheet from the school. Applicants for performing arts places who are not offered a place under this category will automatically be considered for other places. This will be according to any other category that may apply provided they are assessed under the banding process described below and have completed a Clergy Form or a Religious Commitment Form if relevant. 4. ‘Church of England’ places. To qualify under this category, your daughter must: • live in the diocese of London, and • have attended her place of worship weekly over at least two years before the date of application to the school. You must obtain a completed Clergy Form and send it to us no later than 1st December 2007. 5. ‘Other Faith’ places. To qualify under this category, your daughter must: • live in the diocese of London, and • come from a family, which is a member of any other Christian denomination affiliated to Churches Together in Britain and Ireland or a member of any other major faith, and • where appropriate, have attended her place of worship weekly over at least two years before the date of application to the school. You must obtain a completed Religious Commitment Form and send it to us no later than 1st December 2007. 6. ‘Open’ places. Any girl not falling within any of the previous categories will be considered for a place on an ‘open’ basis. Please note that this group may include members of any and every faith.
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