Brompton Academy Additional Information

ANTI-BULLYING Bullying can be neither condoned nor overlooked. Parents, carers and Trustees are all active participants along with the Academy in the maintenance of a harmonious environment. Everyone has the right to work and move around the Academy, feeling safe in an atmosphere of mutual respect. Students are encouraged to report any incidents of bullying or discrimination and we will aim to give them the skills and confidence to do this. A range of procedures relating to both victim and offender have been developed. The Academy promotes mediation as a way forward to resolving issues between students. Anyone can report bullying by speaking to any member of staff or the Pastoral Team. ADMISSIONS The Academy is an all ability school admitting students from the highest ability (based on the national ability profile) to those with learning difficulties. The Academy admits 220 students per annum into Year 7. Students must reach the age of 11 during the year 1st September to 31st August immediately preceding entry to the Academy.

Medway Children’s Services, via Primary Headteachers, distribute relevant information and forms to parents and carers of Year 5 students in June. These forms should be returned to the Primary School Headteacher. 220 places are allocated by a Fair Banding test which includes 20 places for entry into the Eliot Centre for those students who have Education Health and Care Plans and meet the criteria for entry into the Eliot Centre. Parents/carers seeking a place at the Academy must register their child for the test at the end of Year 5 in order for them to sit the test at the beginning of Year 6, which normally is in early September, the year preceding entry. The test is a non-verbal reasoning test and it is used to determine what ability band the student would be placed in should he/she gain a place at the Academy. In order to take the full range of ability into the Academy the places available are distributed as follows: If there are more applicants for a band than the number of places available then the places for that band will be allocated by the criteria below.

1. Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) students and those children in public care (CIC). 2. Current family association (i.e. elder brother or sister attending Brompton Academy at the time of application who will still be attending when the applicant child is admitted). In this context, brother or sister means: • A natural brother or sister (including adopted siblings) • Stepbrother or sister • Foster brother or sister • Those who live as brother or sister in the same house. 3. Children of staff at Brompton Academy (where the member of staff has been employed for one year or more at the time at which the application for admission to the Academy is made and/or where the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage). 4. Nearness of children’s home. 5. Random selection within bands. In the unlikely event that two or more children in all other ways have equal eligibility for the last available place at the Academy, the names will be allocated a number and drawn randomly to decide which child should be given the place. For example: Following the procedure for the Fair Banding test, if 50 students score enough marks to be considered for entry in to the top 10% ability band then the criteria would have to be applied as only 22 places are available (see grid on the left.). The 50 students eligible for the top ability

Band 1 10% highest students band ability

Band 2

Band 3 40% average ability students

Band 4

Band 5 10% lowest ability students

Total 100% overall

% of places

20%

20%

No of student places in

22

44

88

44

22

220

band

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