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Admission and appeals
Find out how you join one of our academies.
Primary and secondary
Applications to mainstream primary and secondary academies
If you wish to apply for a place for your child at one of the trust’s mainstream primary and secondary academies, please visit the Telford and Wrekin Council school’s admissions portal where you can follow the process to apply.
If you have any difficulty with apply for an academy place on the Telford and Wrekin Council website, please contact the support team by emailing admissions@telford.gov.uk for further guidance. Please note, that to complete and admissions application you will be to ensure you have or create a ‘My Telford’ account.
Determined admissions arrangements
If there are more applications received than places for our academies, then the following oversubscription criteria apply, which are slightly different for each academy:
specialist
Application to our specialist academies
Queensway School
Queensway is a specialist academy and has a different admission procedure, which require a child to have an education, health, and care plan (EHCP). Places are allocated by the trust in partnership with Telford and Wrekin Council thorough a placements panel for special schools in the borough. If you wish your child to consider for a place, then discuss this with the SENCo in your child’s school or contact the special educational needs and disabilities team at Telford and Wrekin Council.
For further information on Telford and Wrekin Council’s local SEND offer – click here
Severndale School
Severdale is a specialist academy and has a different admission procedure, which require a child to have an education, health, and care plan (EHCP). Places are allocated by the trust in partnership with Shropshire Council thorough a placements panel for special schools in the borough. If you wish your child to consider for a place, then discuss this with the SENCo in your child’s school or contact the special educational needs and disabilities team at Shropshire Council.
For further information on Shropshire Council’s local SEND offer – click here
Kickstart Academy
Kickstart is a specialist academy for key stage 4 secondary referrals. Applications cannot take place to Kickstart, as place referrals take place through the fair access process, due to behaviour concerns or at being at risk of permanent exclusion or those that are permanently excluded from school.
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Admission appeals for mainstream academies
When a year group is full, and the academy is not able to offer a place, parents can either request to be put on the waiting list, or they have the right to appeal.
The waiting list uses our oversubscription criteria, which can b found in the academy’s admissions policy and in the determined admissions document – click here.
If you wish to appeal for a place in one of our academies, you will need to complete our appeals form. The administrator in charge of admissions and appeals will work with the admissions team at the local authority and keep you informed of the progress and timescales for appeals. Appeals are head within 30 working days of submission of the appeals form.
