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Knole Academy Admissions Information Booklet

Knole Academy Admissions Information Booklet for Year 7 entry in September 2024

If you have any questions regarding Admissions, please email Admissions@knoleacademy.org.

Knole Academy is an all ability school with 120 grammar stream places which are offered to students who have passed, or who have just failed to pass the Kent selection test. Please see below for further information. In addition, Knole Academy is a specialist Expressive Arts College and as a result is able to select 10% of students based on their aptitude in one of the four expressive arts disciplines of dance, drama, music or visual arts.  For further details on ‘aptitude' please contact our Admissions Secretary for information.

Admissions+ 

Once your child has been offered a place at Knole Academy, all new parents will receive a login and password for our new online admissions system, Admissions+. Parents will need to access this to complete their child's contact and welfare information prior to their starting date. Please click on the link below:
Admissions+

Expressive Arts Test

  • Expressive Arts Exam – Please note this is only for Year 6 into Year 7 transition.  Applications are now closed for 2024 entry. 

Knole Academy is an expressive arts school and 10% of the places (24) will be offered to students who show particular aptitude for performing arts and/or the visual arts. 

Parents applying for their child/ren to sit the expressive art online test are expected to name Knole Academy as one of their school preferences on the SCAF. If parents do not have a strong preference for Knole Academy we would ask them not to apply for a place in order to allow the places to be allocated to students who intend to attend the academy if successful. The tests are intended to identify aptitude not ability.

If 10% of the places are not filled on artistic aptitude they will become available to other applicants using the oversubscription criteria. 

After the closing date the work produced will be ranked and moderated by specialist teachers from the academy from the relevant subjects. The ranked list, to be used for selection by aptitude in expressive arts, is returned to the local authority to enable them to allocate places at the same time as other school places are allocated. 

Our Admissions Policy has been determined by the Governing Body and can be found below.  

Admissions Policy 2025

Admissions Policy 2024

Admissions Policy 2023

Admissions FAQs

In Year Casual Applications

For in year casual applications, you will need to complete and return to us the appropriate form which can be downloaded below.  Completed applications should be sent directly to Knole Academy for the attention of the admissions secretary using the email address admissions@knoleacademy.org.  If the academy does not have space in a year group you will be sent a letter informing you that the academy has no places for your child.  You will then have an option to go on the academy's waiting list and/or appeal.  Names are kept on the waiting list for the remainder of the academic year, at the end of which all names are removed.  Should you wish your child to remain on the waiting list for the next academic year, it is your responsibility to submit another IYCAF. 


Kent County Council's Admissions Criteria for 2023/2024In Year Admissions Form


Appeals

Appeal Dates & Information 

PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY.

If you have not been offered a place at Knole Academy, the law entitles you to appeal against that decision to an Independent Appeal Panel. This panel is completely independent of the school and the Local Authority. All appeals will be heard online which has the advantage that your appeal can be heard from your home or place of work.

 

If you wish to appeal, please use this link to complete your appeal online. Please do NOT use ANY other appeal form or send your form to your local authority. It is suggested that you download the explanatory booklet about appeals which you should read before you complete the appeal form. Booklet Link  

 

You should include any evidence or supporting material with your appeal form and you MUST give the grounds for your appeal at the time you lodge your appeal form. Your appeal form will not be accepted unless you state the grounds for your appeal. You may appeal for more than one school, but on different forms.

 

Any letters or reports that you wish the panel to see should be uploaded at this time.  You are asked to bear in mind that if you later send additional information, the closing date is 5 working days before the STAGE 1 hearing.  All appointed panels have agreed NOT to take any late letters or reports after the 5 working day deadline.  This will be strictly enforced.  For secondary/primary transfer appeals, the hearing will take place at least TWO months after the refusal letter.  This gives you plenty of time to get your evidence together if you act early and take account of school holidays.

 

Please note that the online form will ask you to download two utility bills dated in the last THREE months.  If you do not have access to a scanner, please take two photographs with a mobile phone and upload the photographic files.

 

Full details about the hearing will be sent to you with your invitation to the hearing.

 

If you wish to contact the clerk – email :  clerk@educationappeals.com

 

The timetable for ‘in-year’ appeals is as follows:

Last day for lodging appeal forms

for a place in year 7 to start in September 2024

4pm on Tuesday 2 April 2024 to guarantee that your appeal will be heard

in the first tranche of appeals.  Appeals lodged later may not be heard

until the second tranche which could be in September 2024.   

You MUST state the reasons for your appeal and supply

any documentary evidence at this stage.

The stage 1 part of the hearing

(with other parents present) will take place on

The stage 1 part of the hearing (with other parents present) will take place on 

23 May 2024 by 18:00

Part 2, the individual private hearings will take place on 3 June – 6 June 2024 (depending on the number of appeals)

Invitation letter giving details about your hearing

will be sent by the Clerk to the Independent Appeal Panel

At least 10 school days before the stage 1 hearing.
Any additional  supporting evidence

Closing date is 24 May 2024. You are advised that additional paperwork

received on the day of the appeal hearing will not be taken into account.

Please provide the Clerk with FIVE copies of any new additional evidence BY POST ONLY.

All such evidence to be submitted in A4 format and NOT bound, but may be stapled

on the top left hand corner. 

Paperwork submitted with your appeal form does not need to include 5 copies.  T

hese must be sent to EdAp, Sopers House, Sopers Road, Cuffley, Herts, EN6 4RY.

 

Timetable for appeals for mid-term applications is as follows:

Last day for lodging appeal forms following a refusal for a place an ‘in year’ or ‘mid-term’. You must lodge the appeal form within 20 school days upon receipt of your letter of refusal.  You MUST state the reasons for your appeal and supply documentary evidence at this stage. Appeals are held within 30 school days of receipt of the appeal form.

 

Timetable for appeals for the 6th form is as follows:

Last day for Lodging appeals

4pm on Thursday 29 August 2024 to guarantee that your appeal will be heard within the first weeks of September. You MUST state the reasons for your appeal on the online form and supply any documentary evidence at this stage e.g. a copy of your result sheet.

 

Please note the timetable is very short to enable those appellants who win appeals to start as early into the school year as possible. 

 

Click here for the 6th form appeal form
Appeal date The date will be during the month of September 2024.

 

In addition, it is suggested that you:

Dowload and carefully read the Appeals Guide

You should include any evidence or supporting material with your appeal form and you MUST give the grounds for your appeal at the time you lodge your appeal form.  Your appeal form will not be accepted unless you state the grounds for your appeal.  You may appeal for more than one school.

For more advice on how to lodge an appeal

NEW APPEAL LEAFLET 

http://www.educationappeals.com/appealinfo/

NEW APPEAL POST 16 APPLICATION FORM

www.rebrand.ly/my6formappeal

Knole Partnerships

Kent Oaks Consortium

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Knole Sports Partnership

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Knole Enterprises

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