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Year 7 Admissions: September 2010
Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School complies with the Co-ordinated Admission Scheme which is administered by Kent Local Authority. Girls are normally admitted at age 11, when all pupils must have gained a selective place through the Kent PESE and placed Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School on their Kent Secondary Common Application Form, in order to be eligible for admission.
The Published Admissions Number is 140; 14 of these are Governors’ Places, which will be allocated according to criterion 5. The school is usually over-subscribed. If the number of preferences is greater than the number of places available, the following criteria for over-subscription will be applied in priority order:
Applicants at a time later than the normal admissions age should apply direct to Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School and will be tested by the school to obtain evidence of ability to keep pace with the work of this selective school.
The Published Admissions Number and over-subscription criteria apply as above.
Parents have a statutory right of appeal, should an application be refused, by writing to The Clerk to the Governors, Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School, Southfield Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 9UJ (01892 520902).
Sixth Form Admissions for Entry in September 2010
A. Priority will be given to existing pupils transferring from Year 11 who meet the entrance criteria. The PAN for external candidates will be 20 but this figure may be exceeded in the event that this and the number of internal pupils transferring into Year 12 is less than the overall total figure for the year group, which is 160.
B. Open Evening
Pupils will be invited to a Sixth Form Open Evening before the October holiday 2009.
C. Applications
Pupils wishing to apply for entry to the Sixth Form must complete an application form that should be returned to the school by 20th October 2009. The application form will allow applicants to express the AS subjects they wish to take at AS Level. Predicted GCSE grades will be sought from the current schools of all external applicants and all applicants will be invited into TWGGS for an informal tour of the school, where there will be an opportunity to discuss their course choices.
D. Entrance Criteria
Pupils entering the Sixth Form will be expected to have attained an average GCSE point score of at least 276 from their top 6 GCSE subjects (please see table below for GCSE point scores), including a minimum of a C grade in English and Mathematics. All pupils are routinely expected to achieve at least an A grade in the subjects they wish to continue at AS Level (or related subjects, as agreed by the school). In addition, pupils wishing to take Art or Design Technology will be expected to submit a portfolio of artwork and pupils wishing to take Music will be expected to have reached at least Grade 5 in their instrument or voice.
Offers will be made on the basis of predicted performance at GCSE, with the requirement that the above grades are achieved in the final examinations prior to entry to the Sixth Form the pupil’s 4 chosen subjects being accommodated on the timetable, with no group size exceeding its maximum number of pupils
All offers made during Year 11 are conditional on pupils meeting the grade criteria specified and will only become firm offers upon confirmation of actual GCSE results.
E. Over-subscription Criteria
Internal Candidates
All pupils who are currently at TWGGS in Year 11 will have priority, providing they have met the minimum grades required.
External Candidates
In the event of over-subscription, priority will be given to those who fulfil the entrance criteria, in the following order:
Looked after children Girls who will have a sister at the school when they join in September 2010 External applicants who are likely to achieve the highest academic grades based on GCSE predictions from their current school
F. Offers and Appeals
Offer letters will be made before the end of May 2010. Offers will be confirmed once the school has been notified of GCSE results in August 2010.
Parents have a statutory right of appeal, should an application be refused, by writing to The Clerk to the Governors, Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School, Southfield Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 9UJ (01892 520902).
G. Late Applications and Waiting List
Late applications will be considered if places in appropriate subjects are still available after all other applicants have been considered.
A waiting list will be held, ranked according to the over-subscription criteria. GCSE Point Scores:
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Year 7 Admissions: September 2010
Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School complies with the Co-ordinated Admission Scheme which is administered by Kent Local Authority. Girls are normally admitted at age 11, when all pupils must have gained a selective place through the Kent PESE and placed Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School on their Kent Secondary Common Application Form, in order to be eligible for admission.
The Published Admissions Number is 140; 14 of these are Governors’ Places, which will be allocated according to criterion 5. The school is usually over-subscribed. If the number of preferences is greater than the number of places available, the following criteria for over-subscription will be applied in priority order:
- Eligible girls who are designated as “looked after children.” – A child under the age of 18 years for whom the Local Authority provides accommodation by agreement with their parents/carers (Section 20 of the Children Act 1989) or who is subject of a care order under Part IV of the Act.
- Eligible girls who have a sister who will still be attending the school when the applicant joins. In this context sister means girls who live as sisters in the same house, including natural sisters, adopted siblings, stepsisters and foster sisters.
- Eligible girls resident within the same scheme of secondary education as the school, with priority being given to girls living in the following areas/parishes – Bidborough, Brasted, Chevening, Chiddingstone, Cowden, Dunton Green, Edenbridge, Hadlow, Halsted, Hever, Hildenborough, Ightham, Kemsing, Knockholt, Leigh, Otford, Pembury, Penshurst, Plaxtol, Riverhead, Seal, Sevenoaks town, Sevenoaks Weald, Shipbourne, Shoreham, Southborough, Speldhurst, Sundridge, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Westerham.
- Distance from home to school, determined by straight line using Ordnance Survey address point data, with those eligible girls living nearest being accorded highest priority. The school uses measurements provided by the LA and further information on how distances are calculated is available in the Admissions to Secondary School Booklet provided by the LA.
- Governors’ Places (14) to be offered to those girls living in the same scheme of education as defined in criterion 3 who would not otherwise be offered a place, who scored highest in the age 11 Kent test, places determined by combined rank order. In the case of a tie for Governors’ places, criterion 4 would be applied.
Applicants at a time later than the normal admissions age should apply direct to Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School and will be tested by the school to obtain evidence of ability to keep pace with the work of this selective school.
The Published Admissions Number and over-subscription criteria apply as above.
Parents have a statutory right of appeal, should an application be refused, by writing to The Clerk to the Governors, Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School, Southfield Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 9UJ (01892 520902).
Sixth Form Admissions for Entry in September 2010
A. Priority will be given to existing pupils transferring from Year 11 who meet the entrance criteria. The PAN for external candidates will be 20 but this figure may be exceeded in the event that this and the number of internal pupils transferring into Year 12 is less than the overall total figure for the year group, which is 160.
B. Open Evening
Pupils will be invited to a Sixth Form Open Evening before the October holiday 2009.
C. Applications
Pupils wishing to apply for entry to the Sixth Form must complete an application form that should be returned to the school by 20th October 2009. The application form will allow applicants to express the AS subjects they wish to take at AS Level. Predicted GCSE grades will be sought from the current schools of all external applicants and all applicants will be invited into TWGGS for an informal tour of the school, where there will be an opportunity to discuss their course choices.
D. Entrance Criteria
Pupils entering the Sixth Form will be expected to have attained an average GCSE point score of at least 276 from their top 6 GCSE subjects (please see table below for GCSE point scores), including a minimum of a C grade in English and Mathematics. All pupils are routinely expected to achieve at least an A grade in the subjects they wish to continue at AS Level (or related subjects, as agreed by the school). In addition, pupils wishing to take Art or Design Technology will be expected to submit a portfolio of artwork and pupils wishing to take Music will be expected to have reached at least Grade 5 in their instrument or voice.
Offers will be made on the basis of predicted performance at GCSE, with the requirement that the above grades are achieved in the final examinations prior to entry to the Sixth Form the pupil’s 4 chosen subjects being accommodated on the timetable, with no group size exceeding its maximum number of pupils
All offers made during Year 11 are conditional on pupils meeting the grade criteria specified and will only become firm offers upon confirmation of actual GCSE results.
E. Over-subscription Criteria
Internal Candidates
All pupils who are currently at TWGGS in Year 11 will have priority, providing they have met the minimum grades required.
External Candidates
In the event of over-subscription, priority will be given to those who fulfil the entrance criteria, in the following order:
Looked after children Girls who will have a sister at the school when they join in September 2010 External applicants who are likely to achieve the highest academic grades based on GCSE predictions from their current school
F. Offers and Appeals
Offer letters will be made before the end of May 2010. Offers will be confirmed once the school has been notified of GCSE results in August 2010.
Parents have a statutory right of appeal, should an application be refused, by writing to The Clerk to the Governors, Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School, Southfield Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 9UJ (01892 520902).
G. Late Applications and Waiting List
Late applications will be considered if places in appropriate subjects are still available after all other applicants have been considered.
A waiting list will be held, ranked according to the over-subscription criteria. GCSE Point Scores:
| GCSE GRADE | POINTS |
|---|---|
| A* | 58 |
| A | 52 |
| B | 46 |
| C | 40 |
| D | 34 |
| E | 28 |
| F | 22 |
| G | 16 |
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