Please click on the link below to complete the Non-Routine Application Form for 2024-25.

NON ROUTINE APPLICATION FORM

If you wish your child to remain on the prospective list you will need to complete a new application every academic year. Kendrick School is not responsible for ensuring your child is on this list.

You will receive an application acknowledgement within 5 school days. Please check your spam or junk folder if you have not received the acknowledgement after this time.

INVITING CANDIDATES INTO TEST

In line with the Schools Admission Code, we will be testing all applicants on our prospective list (who reside within our designated area) in the summer term, regardless of whether we have any places available.  If a place becomes vacant before the summer term we will invite candidates to test who are on the prospective list, in line with our oversubscription criteria.

• Invite to test will be sent to the email address provided by the parent/carer on the online application form
• Testing must take place at Kendrick School.
• Testing must take place on the day allocated unless there are exceptional circumstances. In some cases no other testing date will be available.
• Testing may take place at any time of the year and the successful candidate must be able to join Kendrick School at the beginning of the next half term at the latest.
• Depending on the number of candidates, in line with our non-routine admission policy, we may only test students in Categories 1, 2 and 3 of the oversubscription criteria (looked after children, students in receipt of pupil premium or service premium, and students whose home address is in Priority Area 1 of the designated area.)

THE TESTS

The admission tests must be taken at Kendrick School. The tests will comprise of all, or some of, the following:

• Cognitive Ability Tests (CATS)
• A Mathematics test
• An English test

The purpose of the tests is not only to determine academic aptitude, but to establish the ability of the applicant in relation to the group of students they would be joining, ie they must show that they are working at a similar level.

For 10 or less candidates the tests would be in Mathematics and English only.

For more than 10 applicants, the tests are carried in out two stages:

Stage 1: CATS
Stage 2: English and Mathematics tests

THE TEST DAY

The test day may be in two stages:

Stage 1: Cognitive Ability Tests (CATS)
Stage 2: English and Mathematics tests

• All invited candidates from Category 3 take part in Stage 1 and the highest scoring candidates will take part in Stage 2.  Category 2 students may be invited to Stage 1 but will always be invited to Stage 2.
• This selection process sets out to identify students who are currently working at the level of Kendrick students.
• If we cannot fill the place with an applicant from categories 1, 2 or 3, we will ask applicants from category 4 and then category 5 to test.
• In all cases, once an offer has been made, documentary evidence will be required to confirm the permanent home address.
• Applicants who qualify under Category 2 or 3 of the oversubscription criteria may be asked to test before other applicants on the prospective list. This is at the discretion of the school.
• Once the invite for testing has been sent out, the prospective list will close for that year group until the testing has taken place.
• When a vacancy arises applicants will be invited to the school to take the tests described above. Applicants will be expected to spend a school day at Kendrick School, arriving by 9.30am and leaving around 3.15pm.   At break times, there will be an opportunity to meet members of the tutor group the successful candidate would be joining.
• The duration of each test is set out below. This list is not necessarily in the order they would be completed on the test day.
  • English: up to 1 hour
  • Mathematics: 1 hour or 1 hour 30 minutes
  • CATs Tests: 1h 30m – 2 hrs. (depending on the number of candidates)
• All the candidates will work in the same room, unless they require special arrangements,  and will always be supervised by invigilators.
• Applicants are expected to bring with them the equipment they would normally need for examinations: pen, pencil, ruler, eraser, mathematical equipment such as calculator, protractor and a compass.  No phones or watches are allowed.

MARKING THE TESTS AND SELECTING THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE(S)

The tests in English and Mathematics are set and marked by members of the respective departments. Candidates are given a score or rank and the staff also judge their performance against the students currently in the year group, with one of the following recommendations:

“Work is at a level within the range of Kendrick students”  

or

“Work is below the level of Kendrick students.”

The candidates are ranked accordingly and the candidate(s) with the best scores and recommendations will be offered the place(s). The school will not offer a place to the top candidate unless she can demonstrate that she is working at a level within the range of students in that year group.

In line with our admission policy, if a Category 1 or 2 candidate achieved the qualifying score in both subjects - Mathematics and English- they would be offered the place above the candidates in Category 3 regardless of the Category 3 candidate’s score.

All candidates will be notified of the outcome of the tests within 2 weeks.

MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES (MFL)

Students at Kendrick School study French or German in Year 7, and French and German in Years 8 and 9. All students are required to study either French or German (or can choose both) at GCSE unless there are exceptional circumstances.  The successful candidate may be asked to undertake a MFL oral assessment when joining the school to ascertain the candidate’s ability languages. 

ACCESS ARRANGEMENTS

If any special arrangements are required for an applicant to take the tests for admission, they must be requested when the invitation to attend the test day is accepted.  Written details of what is required and supporting information recommending the arrangements as appropriate to need must be submitted. It would be expected that there would be a history and evidence of need, with similar arrangements in place at the applicant’s current school. Kendrick School may contact the applicant’s school to verify and confirm existing arrangements.