Key Date

Stage of Process

Additional Notes

Beginning of May 2012

Sample sheets will be available

• These will be available to purchase from the school office or at the Open Evening.

Thursday 12th July 2012

Urmston Grammar Open Evening
6.00pm – 8.00pm

Opportunity to look around, meet staff and pupils and hear about the admissions process.

By Friday 31st August 2012

Completed application form must be returned to Urmston Grammar by this date. All applications will receive an acknowledgement card when the application has been processed.

At the beginning of May the form is available from the following sources:

• downloaded from the web site and posted;
• available from the school office at Urmston Grammar.
• Available from our Open Evening.

By Friday 31st August 2012

If applicable a completed Special Educational Needs form must be returned to Urmston Grammar by this date.

If you submit a Special Educational Needs form, you will be contacted separately.

By Friday 

14th September 2012

You will receive a pack detailing the specific arrangements for the forthcoming tests – equipment requirements; examination group number; times and instructions for arrival/departure; regulations relating to the sitting of the test papers; Special Considerations Form; clothing requirements; suggested refreshments that could be sent with your child into school.

• Please note that every effort will be made to place together children from the same primary school. (Please notify Urmston Grammar immediately if your child changes primary school) It will not be considered appropriate to make a request for any reason to have this grouping arrangement changed.

Saturday 22nd September 2012

ENTRANCE EXAM DAY

• We need to be informed of any reasons that may affect your child's performance in the examinations.  Complete the Special Circumstances form and hand it in on the day of the test.
• If your child is ill and unable to attend on the testing date, please ensure you contact Urmston Grammar on 0161 748 2875 by 9.00am (answer phone facility).  A Doctor’s Note must then be sent into school by Friday 28th September in order to sit the test at another time.

Thursday 4th October 2012

ENTRANCE EXAM DAY (Medical & Religious)

• You are not permitted to choose this date as an alternative to Saturday 22nd September 2012. It is purely for children who for medical, religious or other extreme circumstances (as notified to Urmston Grammar) were unable to sit the examinations on the main testing date.

By Saturday 20th  October 2012

RESULTS DAY 

Urmston Grammar will conduct automatic reviews of the results of those candidates who score between 334 and 354. (A successful review will be allocated a 355R score) Outcomes of the Entrance Examination will be posted to parents/guardians of all
candidates.

• A successful result in the examination is not a guarantee that a place at Urmston Grammar will be offered.  If more candidates pass than there are places available then the oversubscription criteria will be applied.

31st October 2012

The Common Application Form (CAF) must be returned to the home Local Authority

Week beginning 5th November 2012

Challenges against the exam outcomes will be heard at a "local review", solely by the 'Admissions Review Body' of Urmston Grammar.

Friday 1st March 2013

All candidates will be informed by their home authority which secondary school they have been allocated.

• Information regarding the induction process is sent to parents upon confirmation of the acceptance of the offered place at Urmston Grammar.