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The North London Independent Girls' Schools Consortium information

Agreed Code of Practice for Entry at Year 7 for September 2010

INFORMATION FOR PARENTS

For the purpose of Year 7 Entry procedures the following London Independent Girls’ Schools have formed a Consortium. Within this Consortium, certain schools have grouped together (Group 1 and Group 2) to ease the administration by having their entrance examinations on the same day. Schools in the same group set common papers using the same mark scheme and the papers of the two groups are of a similar academic standard.

Group 1:
Francis Holland (Regents Park), Francis Holland (Sloane Square), Heathfield School, Notting Hill & Ealing High School, Queen’s College, St Helen’s School, South Hampstead High School, St Albans High School, The Royal School Hampstead.
Entrance Test for Group 1 Schools: Friday 15 January 2010

Group 2:
Channing School, City of London School for Girls, More House, North London Collegiate School, Northwood College, Queen’s Gate School, The Godolphin and Latymer School, St James Senior Girls’ School.
Entrance Test for Group 2 Schools: Friday 8 January 2010

Not in the Group:
Haberdashers’ Aske’s Girls’ School, Elstree
Entrance Test: Wednesday 13 January 2010
St Paul’s Girls’ School
Entrance Test: Tuesday 12 January 2010

1) Applications: Please contact each school for which you wish your daughter to be considered requesting an Application Form and any other relevant information. NB. You must complete a separate application form for all schools to which you apply, whether they are in the same group or not.

The individual schools to which you have applied will then process your application and send you any necessary information. You are strongly advised to attend Open Days at all the schools for which you have applied and you should ring each school early in the Summer or Autumn Term for the dates and times of Open Days.

On your application form you will be asked to state at which school you wish your daughter to take the entrance tests. She will be given equal consideration by all the Schools in the groups to which she has applied. Please note that she may only sit tests at ONE school in each group.

2) School reference: A reference will be requested from the Head of the candidate’s school prior to the entrance test.

3) Specific Learning Difficulties: Arrangements to use a laptop computer or have extra time in the examinations will be made for any candidate for whom a report from an Educational Psychologist or a recommendation from the Head and Special Needs Co-ordinator of the candidate’s current school has been received.

4) Sample Questions: Sample question information for the consortium schools is available from school websites or the registrars of each school.

5) Interviews: The Consortium schools make their own arrangements for interviews.

6) Results of Tests: These will be made available to all the other schools in the Consortium. The other schools to which your daughter has applied will then consider whether or not to offer a place on the basis of the tests, interview and school reference.

7) Offers: Offers will be sent out to parents by all schools in the Consortium on Wednesday 24 February 2010. Some of these may be for a place on a waiting list. Information about position on the waiting list is not given. All girls on the waiting list are considered to have qualified for entry should a vacancy arise.

8) Acceptances: Acceptances must be received by the school at which you wish to confirm a place by NOON on Friday 5 March 2010. If no reply has been received to an offer of a place by that date it will be assumed that you do not wish to accept and the place will be re-offered.

You may not give written acceptance of a place to more than one school.

If you have any problems or queries at any stage in the procedures, the Registrars of the schools in the North London Independent Girls’ Schools’ Consortium will be pleased to help you.

May 2009


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