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Hi LondonMix, That was final distance after movement on the waiting list. On intake you are right. Last year our intake was 120 and we were oversubscribed. This year our intake will also be 120 because we are still in our temporary accommodation, but our final intended capacity is 240. LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Simon- was that distance first round offers or > final distance after movement on the waiting list? > Also, last year wsa their a full class intake? > For some reason I thought that until the school > was built, the number of forms being accepted was > below the final intended capacity but I might be > totally off base with that. > > Thanks, > > LM

For anyone interested in applying to Charter ED this year, you may find it useful to know that last year the furthest offer we made based on distance was 1.3km from the end of Jarvis Road. This excludes offers made based on other criteria such as Looked After Children. It is very hard to predict what it will be this year, so please do not be put off if you are a bit further away. As Renata says in the original post, initial offers are likely to be further out than last year but we are likely to not go as far down the waiting list, because we were not on the CAF last year. --- Simon Tucker Chair of Governors The Charter School East Dulwich

loveED86 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi littlek1cker > > I submitted application online Friday when website > became live, nothing popped up to make me assume > application was not successfully received, should > I have received confirmation by now? > Thanks Hi loveED86, Please be patient, it's still less than two working days since you submitted your application. Leave it till next week and if you still haven't heard anything you can e-mail [email protected] or PM me.

The Charter School East Dulwich now has a website and is on twitter. We will be posting regular updates on our progress, admissions, our temporary and permanent sites and lots more. Please follow @chartereast on Twitter and help us grow our followers and check the website at www.chartereastdulwich.org.uk.

Hi confusedbyitall and loveED86, When you submitted your application online you should have received confirmation on the website that your application was submitted successfully. If you got this confirmation, then we've safely received your application. You will also receive an e-mail confirmation but this isn't automated so it may take a few days to come through. The open day at the hospital site is now full. We are restricted in numbers by the space and NHS requirements (the site is still occupied by the NHS). We still have spaces for all the weekday open events where we have much greater capacity so if at all possible, I recommend that you book onto one of those. Although the Saturday event takes place on the hospital site, it will not involve a tour of the site and we will only be using one room in the hospital building. We will be giving exactly the same presentation as at the other Open Days so you won't miss anything at all. We will be organising opportunities for prospective parents and students to visit the site at a later date once we have better access but that will be after the deadline for submitting applications.

Jessie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can I just say a big THANK YOU for hosting an open > day on a weekend? Takes a lot of pressure off when > you work full time. You're welcome Jessie! I look forward to meeting you at one of the Saturday sessions.

Some of the parents who attended the secondary transfer meeting for Year 6 students at Heber have let us know that the Southwark representative gave out incorrect information about how to apply to The Charter School East Dulwich. There may have been some confusion between the two Charter Schools. I just wanted to confirm that the message at the top of this thread sets out the accurate information. You need to apply directly to the new school and if your child meets the admissions criteria you will be able to hold two offers - one from Southwark for one of the schools for whom they handle the admissions process and one from the new school. We have spoken to Southwark and all their secondary transfer team should now be providing parents with the correct information. Sorry for any confusion and thanks to the parents who had the correct information to hand in the Heber meeting!

Hi confusedbyitall, Yes, our open days are different from those for The Charter School in North Dulwich. We're not quite ready to announce the temporary site or how many students it will accommodate but hope to make an announcement fairly shortly. confusedbyitall Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks for this, are your open days for the new > school ED different to the open days at charter > 1? > > Do you have a site yet for the temp buildings and > how many places?

Hi all, Here is some information about open days and how to apply for a place at The Charter School East Dulwich to start in Year 7 in September 2016. The process is a bit different from other local schools because this will be our first year of opening. All this information will also be on our website and will be explained at the open days. How to Apply Applications for Year 7 places at the Charter School East Dulwich beginning in September 2016 can be made in addition to the six options available to parents and carers through the Southwark (or any other local authority) eAdmissions process. Please share with parents & carers that they should not select The Charter School East Dulwich as one of the six choices on their Southwark eAdmissions application. Applications must be made directly to the school by Friday 30th October 2015. There are two ways to apply. Parents and carers can either complete an on-line application available on the new website when it is launched next week at www.chartereastdulwich.org.uk. Alternatively, they can complete a print application downloaded from the website, or available by contacting the school on [email protected] or collected from The Charter School on Red Post Hill. Completed paper applications to be posted to: The Admissions Team The Charter School East Dulwich c/o The Charter School Red Post Hill London SE24 9HJ Tel: 020 7346 6600 Receipt of application will be acknowledged. Notification of places will sent out ahead of National Secondary Offer Day 1st March 2016. If both applications are successful the child will receive two offers, one from The Charter School East Dulwich and one from Southwark Council. Parents and carers will need to notify us and Southwark as to which offer they accept. It is essential parents and carers additionally apply for other secondary schools through their local authority application process to ensure their child has a school place for September 2016. Open Days To support the applications process we will be hosting four Open Day / Evening events over three dates in September and October, where we will be able to answer your questions and provide an insight to what life at the school will be like. Two evening events will be held at The Charter School on Red Post Hill. Dates: Thursday 17th September 2015 Thursday 1st October 2015 Time: 6.30pm ? 8.30pm Venue: Main School Hall, The Charter School, Red Post Hill, London SE24 9JH There will also be two daytime events held at the proposed site of the new permanent school at Dulwich Community Hospital. Date: Saturday 26th September 2015 Times: 10am ? 12pm or 1pm ? 3pm Venue: The Old Chapel, Top Floor, Dulwich Hospital, East Dulwich Grove, London SE22 8PT To help us manage numbers, we ask that parents please register for attendance at their preferred event. Registration will be open from next week and we will forward the links to register very shortly to our subscriber list and make them available on the website launching soon. Please note space and therefore numbers are very limited at the Dulwich Hospital venue. We look forward to meeting parents, carers and pupils at the events.

Hi savage, We have not yet exchanged on the land. We are being reassured that this will happen imminently, but it is very frustrating that NHS Property Services are moving so slowly and we are doing everything we can to accelerate things. (Thanks to Helen Hayes MP for her support with this.) We know exactly how much land we are getting and the boundaries to that land and have done for several months. If you attended any of our consultation events, the land we are getting is as we showed on the map at those events - the whole site except for roughly the southern most two thirds of the cleared land to the east of the hospital buildings. We are not yet able to announce the temporary site but we have finished our initial feasibility study on temporary site options and are in discussions to get agreement to use our preferred external site as well as looking at the possibility of using the hospital site itself. I'm hoping we'll be able to announce in the near future. Simon

hoonaloona Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone actually know if we'll be able to > apply to Charter ED in October for admission in > 2016/17? Or is it all on hold? Will there be any > 'open days' as such? > Thanks Hi hoonaloona, We are still planning to opening in September 2016. Our new website will be up in early September with all the details about how to apply and when our open days will be. You will need to apply directly to the school for entry in 2016. This is the standard procedure in the first year of all new free schools. We have designed our admissions process to closely mirror the Southwark one so it should not involve too much extra hassle and it has the advantage for parents that they will still be able to apply for up to six schools through Southwark and then hold one offer through Southwark and, if their child meets the admissions criteria, an offer from Charter School East Dulwich as well. The school website will be chartereastdulwich.org.uk and our e-mail address is [email protected]. I hope this is helpful. Simon Tucker Charter School East Dulwich Working Group

I just wanted to respond, on behalf of the working party, to the disquiet some people on this thread have expressed regarding our provision for students with special educational needs. Our admissions policy provides for the admission of children with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP - previously called a statement of special educational need) before any of our oversubscription criteria are applied. The Charter School East Dulwich is committed to providing tailored support to allow all students to flourish; this will include dedicated specialist support for students with special educational needs (including those without an EHCP). The Charter School Educational Trust has always been committed to running inclusive schools. Our ethos statement makes clear: ?We believe that all young people have the potential to achieve in school and succeed in life, whatever their starting point or personal circumstances. We will be working up the detail of how we will bring that ethos to life as we develop our full curriculum and pastoral support plans. Support for students with special needs will be integrated into these plans and covered in a specific SEND policy. Simon Tucker The Charter School East Dulwich Working Party

colabottle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Simon, > > Have you been able to get the figure on distance > yet? Thanks. I have now heard back from the admissions team at The Charter School: Here are the figures for this year and last year for first offers based on distance, ie not including offers made based on other criteria, such as Looked After Children and siblings. Bear in mind that these distances are based on safe walking distance, which is the current policy of The Charter School, unlike the proposal for the new school which is to measure distance in a straight line (as the crow flies). This means it is difficult to plot the effective catchment area for the current school based on these figures, but it will certainly be much smaller than if these distances were 'as the crow flies' measurements. 2015: 1121m 2014: 1554m I've been asked to provide the following explanation: The distance moves annually according to: how many 11 year olds were born in that cohort; of those, where do they live; of those, who applies to TCS. These figures cannot be predicted year on year; families make their decisions based on a range of criteria according to which schools they list as preferences on the Common Application Form.

Our final public consultation event is tonight at Heber School 7-9pm. You also have until 26th June to let us know your views via our online survey or by writing to us. We are keen to hear from as many people as possible.

Hi all, The rationale for prioritising siblings over children with an exceptional medical, psychological or social need is as follows. We want The Charter School East Dulwich to be a community school that all our students can walk to, and that siblings can attend together. To emphasize this point we put siblings above exceptional medical, psychological, and social need. This will not mean that students with these exceptional needs are disadvantaged, as there will always be enough places after children with an Education Health and Care Plan, Looked After Children and siblings for them. The rationale for choosing Jarvis Road as the nodal point is that it is at the most Easterly point on our site and so minimises the overlap with the current Charter School intake whilst remaining on our site. Bear in mind that most of the Eastern boundary of the hospital site will belong to the new Community Health Centre, not us. Jarvis Road also has the advantage of being a place that parents can easily understand and find on a map, as opposed to a point that could only be described by Ordinance Survey coordinates. We will look at the feedback we receive from the community as part of the public consultation in relation to both these points and any/all other points raised, and depending on what the feedback is, we will consider whether we need to change our proposals. I hope that is helpful. Simon Tucker