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8 Westminster: Your choice for secondary school // Apply online at www.westminster.gov.uk/admissions In addition to these, schools offer a variety of other subjects, details of which can be found in each individual school prospectus. Eight of the nine Westminster schools and Academies have sixth forms, and pupils can stay beyond Year 11 into Years 12 and 13. The exception to this is St George’s RC School, which does not have a sixth form, but pupils from St George’s can continue their studies at sixth form college, further education college, or the sixth form of another school through the sixth form partnership. The sixth form at Westminster Academy will begin in September 2007. All Westminster schools are comprehensive schools, which means they admit children of all levels of ability. Three of our schools offer a small number of places each year to pupils with an aptitude in a specialist subject: • Grey Coat Hospital – up to 15 places for modern foreign languages • St Marylebone – up to 12 places for performing arts • Pimlico – up to 21 places on the special music scheme. All schools offer courses leading to General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations in all the main subjects. As well as GCSE, schools offer a range of vocational qualifications known as General National Vocational Qualifications (GNVQs). Pupils are tested in English, Mathematics and Science at the end of Key Stage 3 (Year 9). During Year 9, decisions are made about a range of core and optional subjects leading to GCSE or related vocational qualifications (GNVQ). Pupils will be entered for public examinations provided they have completed the course work. Should a school decide that a pupil should not be entered for a subject they have studied, parents will be consulted before this decision is made. The examination results for all the schools in each area are published centrally by the government. These are called Secondary School Performance Tables and you can obtain a free copy of the performance tables for Westminster (or any other area) by contacting the Department for Children, Schools & Families (DCSF) on 0800 242322. Details are also available on the DCSF website at www.dfes.gov.uk/performancetables. .
Westminster: Your choice for secondary school // Apply online at www.westminster.gov.uk/admissions 9 Pan-London Co-ordinated Admissions System Every year around 70,000 pupils living in London transfer to secondary school, many crossing borough boundaries to do so. From 2005, all 33 London boroughs, together with councils bordering the capital, signed up to a new system to co-ordinate admissions to their secondary schools. The new co-ordinated admissions system is fairer, with more parents being offered one of their preferred schools earlier, and fewer getting no initial offer at all than in previous years. It is also easier for parents to manage, reducing anxiety for them and their children. How the system works Under the Pan-London Co-ordinated Admissions System, all parents must list the schools that they want to apply for on one form (the Common Application Form), ranking them in order of preference. (This is important as only one offer will be made and this will be from the highest ranked school able to make an offer). This form (either paper or online) is then returned to the Local Authority (LA) in which the child lives. All the LAs taking part in the Pan-London Co-ordinated Admissions System will then use a computerised system to pass on details of applications for schools in other areas and to co-ordinate the offer of places to make sure that nobody gets offered more than one school place. The decision on whether a place can be offered will continue to be made by the admission authority for each school listed. Where a school is over subscribed, its published admission criteria will be used to decide the order in which applicants will be offered places. Unless specifically required to do so by the published admissions criteria of the school, LAs will not pass on details of where the school was ranked, and no school will be told about other schools a parent has applied for. «Year 11 pupil, St Marylebone Where a child is eligible to be offered more than one school, the LA will hold the offer for the highest preference on the parent’s form and release all other lower preference offers. These places can then be offered to other applicants. Potential offers are then exchanged between LAs until they are in a position to make the single best offer to parents using all available places. All offers will be made on the same day – 3rd March 2008.
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