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Harris Invictus Academy Croydon opened in September 2014 following a unique collaboration between the Harris Federation and the Invictus parent group to provide new, high quality, school places for children and their families in the local community. Just like our sister Harris Academies in Croydon – all three of which are highly oversubscribed and judged as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted – we combine the traditional values of strong discipline, smart uniform and good manners with the best of modern teaching and technology. We share an executive principal with Harris Academy Purley which was judged as ‘Outstanding’ within just two and a half years of opening. This has given the academy a model of excellence to follow, leading to success for our students from day one.

We welcome students of all abilities

The Harris Invictus pledge to every student. Our students will receive:

• Subject specialist teaching and pastoral care; • An all-round education with a particular focus on

Enterprise skills;

• One-to-one or small group support, where this is needed; • University coaching, including access to Oxbridge

mentoring, from age-14 so that they make good decisions early on about their continuing education.

Our curriculum

As a new academy, we have hand-picked a growing team of dedicated teachers.

The curriculum is broad and balanced with an aim that we turn out knowledgeable and well-educated young men and women at the end of our sixth form.

Our core offer will lead to good GCSE passes in English, Maths, Science, History or Geography and at least one modern foreign language. Our other subjects will include Art, Design Technology, Religious Education, Drama, ICT, PE and Dance, PSHE/Citizenship and Music.

With a specialism in Enterprise, we offer every student opportunities to acquire and practise the skills associated with running a successful business. The theme of ‘being enterprising’ is encouraged in a wide range of learning activities including curriculum lessons, after-school clubs, learning days and educational visits.

Extracurricular activities

Our broad range of extracurricular activities include Art, Drama, Debating and a range of other cultural and learning opportunities.

Students who want to will be able to participate in additional sporting and outdoor activities. We also arrange theatre and museum visits, as well as offering opportunities for our students to collaborate and compete with students from other Harris academies in sports, enterprise and creative activities.

Supplementary Information Form (SIF)

Applicants are required to complete a SIF, ONLY if there are any special requirements for the test.

Bus Routes: 60, 64, 109, 198, 250, 289.

The academy is also only a few minutes’ walk from West Croydon rail and bus stations. Entrance to the school on Lennard Road.

*Harris Invictus Academy Croydon is reviewing how many pupils it can accommodate in September 2016, as the school will remain on a temporary site until September 2017. Subject to approval by the Schools Adjudicator the published admission number may be reduced to 120 for September 2016. More detail is available on the School website

2. ADMISSION POLICIES HARRIS INVICTUS A CADEM Y CR O YDON Test arrangements

All Year 7 applicants take a non-verbal reasoning test, which is standardised against the national distribution of ability. Students are then placed in rank order and allocated to one of nine bands.

As a new academy, the operational year groups are shown in the table below:

2016 2017 2018 Year 7 180 180 180 Year 8 180 180 180 Year 9 180 180 180 Year 10 180 180 Year 11 180 Admissions criteria

Other than children with a statement of special educational needs and looked-after/previously looked-after children, those who apply via the CAF and then do not turn up for the test will be considered for a place after all those children who have sat the test.

Where fewer applications than the published admission number for the relevant year groups are received, the academy will offer places to all those who have applied. When the academy is oversubscribed, after the admission of pupils with a statement of special educational needs where the academy is named in the statement (who will be tested to determine which band they are in but this will not affect their admission), the following criteria will be applied to the children placed within each ability band to determine which children will be offered a place in that band, in priority order.

The number of places in each band is determined to approximate the national distribution of ability.

a) Children who are looked-after or former looked-after children.

b) Admission of pupils on the basis of distance lived, using straight line measurement from four nodal points to the centre of the child’s home (see school website for nodal point information) with 25% of the places in each band allocated on distance from each nodal point. The candidates living closest to their nearest nodal point will be given priority for the places available to that nodal point.

The use of nodal points is to allow priority for places for children who live in areas where it is difficult to get into a first choice of school. The nodal points are:

• The junction of Kensington Avenue and Norbury Avenue; • The junction of Canterbury Road and Mitcham Road; • The junction of Edith Road and Selhurst Road (near

Selhurst Station);

• The junction of Queens Road and Windmill Road. Distance is measured from the child’s home to the school in a straight line. Where a child spends part of the week with different parents/carers the home address will be the address at which the child spends the majority of nights in the week.

The distance is measured by using a computerised GIS and a centre point supplied by the Ordnance Survey which determines the start point of the measurement from the home address. Where the child lives in a block of flats with a communal entrance the centre point used is the central point of the block of flats and not the individual flat. Proof of residence or offer of letting from landlord will be required (council tax bill, utility bill).

2. ADMISSION POLICIES2. ADMISSION POLICIES HARRIS INVICTUS A CADEM Y CR O YDON

These criteria will be applied to candidates as they are allocated to each band until the correct number in each band is reached.

If at the end of this process there are unallocated places in any band, these will be filled by the applicants next in line for admission to the bands above or below, using random allocation if there are more candidates with equal ranking than places.

If at the end of the allocation process there are spare places in any nodal point, these will be allocated to the children living nearest to that nodal point (even though not their closest nodal point) using the same criteria as set out above.

Tiebreaker

If at any stage in this process there are two or more applicants who are equidistant from the academy or with equal ranking, but only one place available, random allocation will be used as a tiebreaker. Random allocation whenever used will be independently verified.

Waiting list

The academy will operate a waiting list for Year 7. Where in any year the academy receives more applications for places than there are places available, a waiting list will operate until the end of the first term after the beginning of the school year. This will be maintained by the academy and it will be open to any parent to ask for his or her child’s name to be placed on the waiting list, following an unsuccessful application. A child’s position on the waiting list will be determined solely in accordance with the oversubscription criteria, but not including banding. Where places become vacant they will be allocated to children on the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria, but not including banding.

In-year admissions

As the academy builds to full capacity, not all year groups will be taught within the academy. In 2016 there will be no Years 10 or 11. The academy will consider any applications for other year groups and if the year group applied for has a place available, admit the child. If more applications are received than there are places available, the place will be allocated using the criteria set out above except that banding will not apply, and the child which lives closest to any of the four nodal points will be given priority.

Admission of children outside their normal age group

Parents may request that their child is admitted to a year group outside their normal age range, for instance where the child is gifted or talented or where a child has suffered from particular social or medical issues impacting his or her schooling. All such requests will be considered on their merits and either agreed or refused on that basis. If a request is refused, the child will still be considered for admission to their normal age group.

The process for requesting such an admission is as follows: With the application, parents should request that the child is admitted to another year group (state which one), and the reasons for that request. Parents will submit any evidence in support of their case with the application, for instance from a medical practitioner, headteacher etc. Some of the evidence a parent might submit could include:

• information about the child’s academic, social and emotional development, including their prior learning if recently admitted to the country from abroad;

• where relevant, their medical history and the views of a medical professional;

• whether they have previously been educated out of their normal age group; and

• whether they may naturally have fallen into a lower age group if they had not been born prematurely.

The school will consider each case on its merits, taking into account the individual circumstances of the request and the child’s best interests. We will also ensure the parent is aware of whether the request for admission out of age group has been agreed before final offers are made, and the reason for any refusal.

Requests for admission out of the normal year group will be considered alongside other applications made at the same time. An application from a child who would ‘normally’ be a year 8 child for a year 7 place will be considered alongside applications for year 7.

This applies to all admissions whether made in the normal admissions round through the CAF or in-year admissions. In the case of students joining in-year who have recently entered the country we will counsel parents on when it is in the best interest of the child to make an application for admission outside the normal age group.

Appeals

The academy will offer an appeal to anyone refused admission. The appeal will be before an independent appeals panel constituted in accordance with the School Admission Appeals Code.

Sixth form admissions arrangements

Harris Invictus Academy Croydon will not operate a sixth form for the academic year 2016/17.

This is a summary. Please see the Academy’s website for the full policy.