Week #1, beginning 6th September, 2010 is an "A" week

 

Burchard Crescent, Shenley Church End, Milton Keynes, MK5 6EX
tel: (01908) 505030 fax: (01908) 505279
email: headteacher@denbigh.net

Waiting Lists

Additional Information (pdf):

Please use the links below to read further information that compliments what you can find in this year's Prospectus.

Waiting Lists

Following the allocation of 11+ school places by the LEA on the 2nd March 2010, where the School is unable to offer a child that lives in the defined area a place at Denbigh, the parents will be offered the opportunity to have their child’s name placed on a waiting list.

The waiting list will be ordered strictly according to the School’s admission criteria.

The Local Authority is responsible for maintaining the waiting list for new Year 7 students up until the end of the Autumn term, December 2010.

At the beginning of the Spring term, January 2010, the School will write to everyone on the waiting list to establish if they still wish to remain on the list and to ascertain their eligibility.

Where the number of students in a particular year group falls below 200 students, the person whose name appears first on the Year Group waiting list will be offered a place.

Parents of children who are on the waiting list will be contacted at the start of each new term to establish if they wish to remain on the waiting list.

Parents are welcome to ask what position they currently hold on the list. However, because the School constantly receives applications for admission throughout the year, the waiting list is continually being re-ordered. Parents need to be aware that their position on the list may rise and fall over time and therefore a higher position on the list is not necessarily a good indicator of the likelihood of a place being offered. Length of time on the waiting list will not be a factor in offering a place.

Children who are the subject of a direction by a Local Authority to admit or who are allocated to the School in accordance with the Milton Keynes In-Year Fair Access Protocols, will take precedence over those children on a waiting list.

Additional Notes

  1. Proof of residence will be required for all applicants. The child's home is the permanent address where they live with their legal guardian and where child benefit is addressed. Acceptable proof of residence is a Council Tax bill or a utility bill in the name of the parent and evidence from the Child Benefit office that the child is resident at this address.
  2. In the case of a family who is moving house to live in the reserved area, proof of residence will only be considered once copies of documents confirming the ‘exchange of contracts’ on the new property have been provided. If the move is to a rented property a copy of the rental agreement showing the length of time that the property will be initially rented for will be requested.
  3. If the School discovers that a place has been given to a child based on false, inaccurate or misleading information, it will withdraw the place and may take legal action.
  4. Siblings are defined as children who permanently reside at the same address and for whom the parent / carer also has parental responsibility, whether or not they are blood-related. This does not include blood-related brothers or sisters who live at separate addresses. If there is any doubt, parents may be asked to provide a copy of the award notice for child benefit, to prove parental responsibility and/or their permanent residence.
  5. Applicants, who are seeking a transfer from another school in Years 10 and 11, will be reminded that this is not recommended by the Governors due to the impact on the student’s education, nor can Denbigh School guarantee to offer an equivalent combination of subject choices or exam boards.
  6. In the case of an application from a student who has been permanently excluded from their previous school, Denbigh School will carry out a risk assessment before the application is considered. This may result in a longer timescale for the admissions process than previously stated.
  7. Children who are the subject of a direction by a local authority to admit or who are allocated to the school in accordance with the Milton Keynes In-Year Fair Access Protocols, will take precedence over those children on a waiting list.
  8. Denbigh School will not reconsider an application following refusal during the same academic year, unless there has been a significant material change of circumstances.