Wallington County Grammar School

Appeals

On 1st March 2023 (National Offer Day) you will receive a communication from your home Local Authority regarding an offer of a Secondary School place. If you have been unsuccessful in being offered a place at Wallington County Grammar School (WCGS), you have the right of appeal if you had made a valid application by listing Wallington County Grammar School (WCGS) on your Common Application Form (CAF).

 

Lodging an Appeal for a Year 7 Place for 2023 Entry

  • Download these 2 documents by clicking on the following links:

Appeals Information Sheet for Year 7 2023 Entry 

Appeal Against Admission Form for Year 7 2023 Entry

 

  • We ask that your Appeal Against Admission Form and any supporting documentation you wish to provide are returned to the school by 30th March 2023 (midday).
  • Five copies of your Appeal Form and five copies of your supporting documentation must be provided (collated into five separate packs please).  This is to ensure that the Clerk to the Appeals Panel and each of the three Appeals Panel members and the Presenting Officer at the school have a copy of your Appeals Form and any supporting documentation you wish to submit.  Please make every effort to send all documents to support your appeal at the same time.
  • All Transfer to Secondary School Year 7 Appeals will then be heard within 40 school days of the submission deadline stated above.
  • You are given the opportunity to choose to have your appeal heard by a video Zoom link, a phone conference call or if you prefer you can choose to have your appeal considered on the paperwork provided by you and the school to the Panel.
  • If you cannot send all the information and supporting evidence you want to at the time you submit your appeal, it’s important you send it before the deadline.
  • This is because the appeals Clerk needs to send it to the appeals panel and admission authority for them to consider before the hearing. If you submit anything after the deadline, panels can refuse to accept it as they may not have had time to consider it or it may delay your hearing.
  • Please ensure that your supporting documentation is relevant to the grounds on which you are appealing. 
  • Once you have submitted your appeal the Clerk to the Appeals Panel will let you know the time, date, format and either the location of your appeal hearing (if you’re attending in person) or the joining instructions (if you’re attending the appeal remotely). You will be given at least 10 school days’ notice, unless you have said that you do not need this much notice.
  • The Clerk to the Appeals Panel is independent from the school, and he/she will appoint an independent Appeals Panel to hear the formal appeals.
  • The outcome/result of your Appeal Hearing will be communicated to you by the Clerk to the Appeals Panel within 5 school days of your appeal being heard.

  • Decisions made by the Independent Appeals Panel are binding.

  

Mid-Term (or in-year) admission appeals & Sixth Form appeals

Provided a valid application to join Wallington County Grammar School has been unsuccessful (i.e. where testing has normally taken place for a mid-term vacancy and your son was not offered a place at our School, or where students have applied for a place in our Sixth Form and have been unsuccessful) parents/carers, and the student themselves if applying for a place in Sixth Form, have the right of appeal.

Download these 2 documents by clicking on the following links:

Appeals Information Sheet for Sixth Form 2023 Entry

Appeal Against Admission Form for Sixth Form 2023 Entry

 

  • Five copies of your completed Appeal Against Admission Form and five copies of your supporting documentation must be provided (collated into five separate packs please). This is to ensure that the Presenting Officer at the School, the Clerk to the Appeals Panel and each of the three Appeals Panels members have a copy of your Appeals Form and any supporting documentation you wish to submit. 
  • Please make every effort to send all documents to support your appeal at the same time.
  • Any evidence or supporting documentation submitted less than 7 days before an Appeal Hearing may not be considered by the panel.
  • Appellants are entitled to 10 school days notice of the date of appeal, but with the appellant's agreement we will endeavour to hear the appeals sooner as this will be beneficial to the student in the case of a Sixth Form appeal. Appeal hearings are arranged by the Clerk to the Appeals Panel who is independent from the school, and he/she will appoint an independent Appeals Panel to hear the formal appeals.
  • The outcome/result of your Appeal Hearing will be communicated to you by the Clerk to the Appeals Panel within 5 school days of your appeal being heard.

  • Decisions made by the Independent Appeals Panel are binding.

 

 

Please click on the links below to read Department for Education guidance on the appeals process:

Advice for parents and guardians on school admission appeals

Advice for clerks & appeal panels on school admission appeals