Admissions
Admissions
Places at Spring Common Academy, are offered using the following information:
The young person has an Education, Health and Care plan, or this process is underway, and this demonstrates a significant delay in attainment and complex learning needs. As a consequence, they require significant modification to the curriculum and personalised learning approaches that cannot be achieved in a mainstream environment.
Paperwork requesting consideration of a placement has to be sent to us through the Statutory Assessment and Resources Team (SAT). We are able to work with different Local Authorities (LAs) even though we are based in Cambridgeshire.
The Code of Practice, 2015 states ‘The … school … should respond within 15 days.’ Spring Common Academy will respond to requests for placements within 15 days, acknowledging receipt of the paperwork and outlining the remainder of the process. If the paperwork outlines additional needs that don’t fit within the area special school remit (please see our Local offer for more details), or there is another reason why the placement wouldn’t be appropriate, then we would say this in the initial response. The remainder of the process is in the form of consideration by the LA where all requests for placement are considered. We would expect to meet the young person before any offer is made.
School Tours are not currently available.
The school will advise that the followings constraints on admissions:
- There isn’t a place available in an appropriate class group or appropriate resources available in the school.
- The young person requires a residential placement.
- The young person has communication/sensory/physical/social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties but does not have significant learning difficulties.
- The young person has other needs outlined in their EHCP that Spring Common Academy cannot accommodate.
Once the academy is named on the EHCP and parents/carers have accepted a place, the academy will contact the parents/carers to arrange for a pre-admission meeting. This is an opportunity to ensure the school has everything in place to meet the child’s needs and make the transition as smooth and positive as possible. Those invited to the meeting include parents/carers, the proposed teacher at Spring Common, and other professionals that are needed in order that we have the right information to commencement placement. If the child is to start in September, they will be invited to any other transition events in the summer term.
If you are unsuccessful with your application to Spring Common Academy, you can appeal to the SAT Team.
The contact details for the SAT Team are:
(Statutory Assessment and Resources Team)
Telephone: 01480 372600
Email: start@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
To visit the Cambridgeshire County Council Admissions information please click on the link below:
Admissions for those aged 16-19
The admissions procedure above also applies to those aged 16-19. Opportunities to view the Academy are invited when the START team submit a request for placement to the school if there are vacancies. There is no priority for applications from pupils enroled at particular schools.
To visit the Cambridgeshire County Council Admissions information please click on the link below:
