Admissions Policy and Determined Admissions Arrangements 2025-2026

CONTENTS

1. AIMS   

2. ADMISSIONS CRITERIA FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2025/26  

2.1 Section 1 - General Principles   

2.2 Section 2 – Oversubscription Admissions Criteria   

2.3 Section 3 - Notes for Guidance of Parents   

2.4 Section 4 – Musical Aptitude Test (for full details see school website)   

2.5 Section 5 – In Year Admissions    

2.6 Section 6 - Children Seeking Admission Outside their Chronological Year Group   

2.7 Section 7 – Fraudulant Applications

2.8 Section 8 – Late Applications    

2.9 Section 9 - Appeals Procedure    

2.10 Section 10 - Sixth Form Admissions   

3. Appendix 1 - KEY DATES FOR PARENTS, CARERS AND STUDENTS FOR ENTRY SEPTEMBER 2025    

4. Appendix 2 - Secondary Transfer Supplementary Information Form for MUSICAL APTITUDE Applicants ONLY    

1. AIMS

This policy aims to set out the admission criteria for the academic year 2025/26. The admissions criteria are reviewed on an annual basis in the Autumn Term by the School Board Admissions Committee.

2. ADMISSIONS CRITERIA FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2025/26

2.1 Section 1 - General Principles

The School Board offers places each September to 210 pupils. Parents/Carers wishing to apply for a place based on musical aptitude need to complete Chancellor's Supplementary Information Form (which can be completed online, or downloaded from the school website and returned to the school by post or email) as well as completing the Common Application Form available from the Local Authority at www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/admissions. Applications must be made on HCC secondary transfer form (online or paper) and sent directly to the Local Authority. All the necessary information and Application Form can be found on the HCC website, and the closing date for Applications is 31st October 2024.

In accordance with section 324 of the Education Act 1996, the School Board will admit a child with an Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) that names Chancellor’s School.

2.2 Section 2 – Oversubscription Admissions Criteria

Where applications for admission exceed the number of places available, the following criteria will be applied, in the order of priority set out below, to decide which students to admit. It is important that parents of students from schools not nominated under criterion 5 realise that criteria 1 to 4 and 6 apply to everyone, irrespective of the primary school attended, whether in County or out of County. 

1. Children looked after and children who were previously looked after, including those who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England, and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted, or became subject to a Child Arrangements Order or special guardianship order. (see note a).

2. Children with a sibling attending the School at the time of admission (see note b).

3. Children of staff at the school (including children of partners, and step children) where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, or the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.  In addition, the child must live at the same permanent address as the member of staff (see note c).  

4. Students with a proven aptitude in Music. The Musical Aptitude Tests, for those children who wish to be considered for a place based on musical ability, will take place in June of the preceding academic year. (see note d).

5. Children attending the following primary schools: (see note e)

Brookmans Park	11%	Hatfield Free School	4%	Ponsbourne St. Mary's	4%
Countess Anne	2%	Ladbrooke	6%	Pope Paul	3%
Cuffley	14%	Little Heath	6%	St. Giles, S. Mymms	3%
Cranborne	14%	Northaw	3%	St. Mary's, N. Mymms	5%
De Havilland	5%	Oakmere	6%	St. Philip Howard	2%
Essendon	4%	Oak View	4%	Wroxham	4%

6. Any remaining places will be allocated by proximity to the School using the home-school measurement system used by Hertfordshire County Council as outlined in the County’s admission arrangements and application literature.

Distances are measured using a computerised mapping system to two decimal places. The measurement is taken from the AddressBase Premium address point of your child’s house to the address point of the school. AddressBase Premium data is a nationally recognised method of identifying the location of schools and individual residences. 

LATE APPLICATIONS

All applications received after the national deadline, will be treated as late applicants.  They will be considered in keeping with the ‘Late Applications’ arrangements set out in Hertfordshire’s applications literature as part of the Co-ordinated Admissions arrangements.

Applicants are much less likely to get their preferred school if they apply late.

A late application made online cannot be altered online. Email the Admissions Team if you need to alter your late application.

Applications received after the deadline are not dealt with until all on time applications have been considered.

If there are exceptional reasons for applying late, include the reasons and evidence when you apply. A panel will decide whether your application will be treated as late or on time.

Thursday 31 October 2024 – the deadline for applying on time.

Monday 2 December 2024– last date to submit a written explanation of why your application was late for your application to be agreed as on time.

Thursday 30 January 2025 – applications received after this date will not be offered a school place until April 2025.

2.3 Section 3 - Notes for Guidance of Parents 

Note a

Places are allocated to children in public care according to Chapter 7, Section 2 of the School Admissions (Admissions Arrangements and Co-ordination of Admission Arrangements) Regulations 2012. These children will be prioritised under Criterion 1.  

Highest priority will also be given to children who were previously looked after, including those looked after outside England, but ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a Child Arrangements Order1 or Special Guardianship Order2 

A “child looked after” is a child who is:

    a. in the care of the local authority, or 

    b. being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of its social service functions (section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at the time of making an application to the school. 

All children adopted from care who are of compulsory school age are eligible for admission under Criterion 1.

Children in the process of applying for adoption are classified by law as children looked after providing there is a Placement Order, and the application would be prioritised under Criterion 1.

Children who were not “looked after” immediately before being adopted, or made the subject of a Child Arrangements Order1 or Special Guardianship Order2 will not be prioritised under this criterion. 

1. ^{Child Arrangements Order - Under the provisions of the Children and Families Act 2014, which amended Section 8 of the Children Act 1989, residence orders have now replaced child arrangements orders which settle the arrangements to be made as to the person with whom the child is to live.}
2. ^{Special Guardianship Order - Under 14A of The Children Act 1989, an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian or guardians.}

Children previously looked after abroad and subsequently adopted will be prioritised under Criterion 1 if the child’s previously looked after status and adoption is confirmed by Hertfordshire’s “Virtual School”. 

The child’s previously looked after status will be decided in accordance with the definition outlined in The Children & Social Work Act 2017:

    i. to have been in state care in a place outside England and Wales because he or she would not otherwise have been cared for adequately, and

    ii. to have ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.

A child is in “state care” if he or she is in the care of, or accommodated by:

    a. a public authority, 

    b. a religious organisation, or 

    c. any other organisation the sole or main purpose of which is to benefit society. 

Note b

For the purpose of these arrangements "sibling" means:

• A child having at least one parent (or parent by legal adoption) in common with the applicant, or 

• A child related to the applicant as a step-sibling by the inter-marriage or civil partnership of one of each of their parents prior to the date of admission of the applicant.

• A child looked after or previously looked after and, in every case, living permanently* in a placement within the home as part of the family household from Monday to Friday at the time of application.

*A sibling link will not be recognised for children living temporarily in the same house, for example a child who usually lives with one parent but has temporarily moved, or a looked after child in a respite placement or very short term or bridging foster placement.

In all cases, the applicant must be living permanently in the same house as the other sibling for the majority of the school week. The sibling’s address will be verified by the school. Siblings in Years 7-12 inclusive, during academic year 2024-25, will be assumed to be attending the school at the time of admission, unless there is clear evidence to the contrary.

All multiple birth siblings will be admitted, provided that at least one of the siblings gains a place at the school under any other criteria. Such additional places will be ranked as a sibling admission and taken from any criteria with available places.  

If all multiple birth siblings qualify for a place, under any criteria, then they will each be offered a place in their own right. If only one sibling gains a place (under any criteria) the other sibling(s) will automatically be allocated a place under criterion 2: Sibling. These places will be taken from any criteria with available places. In the event that this is the last place available, the school will go over PAN to accommodate the multiple births. During CI rounds when places are released due to higher preference allocations, a new place will not be offered until the school is 1 below PAN. 

Note c

The definition of children of staff at the school includes children of partners, and step children where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, or the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.  In addition, the child must live at the same permanent address as the member of staff.  

Staff are defined as those employees on payroll who are full time, part time, teaching, leadership and/or associate staff.

Note d

Ten percent of the PAN (21 places) will be allocated on the basis of both a written musical aptitude test and a performance musical aptitude test. Please see additional notes on musical aptitude test (Section 4).

Parents will be notified of the results of these tests before the Local Authority closing date for the return of Common Application Forms (CAFs). If, on receiving these results, parents decide they wish to apply to the school, they must list it as one of their preferences on their home Local Authority CAF. Parents should be aware that the results of the test do not guarantee a place at the school.

A reserve list will operate in strict merit order, from which subsequent offers will be made, should there be any withdrawal. In the event of a tie for the final place(s), priority will be given to those students living in closest proximity to the school, using the home-school measurement system used by Hertfordshire County Council.

Note e

In the case of oversubscription under criterion 5, the number of places assigned to each listed school will be by fixed percentages to the remaining available places (210 minus the sum of the places allocated to SEN and criteria 1-4). The percentages have been set with regard to the size of the school and the historical acceptances from the individual school. The number of places allocated to each individual feeder school is calculated by applying the fixed percentage for that school to the total number of places available to allocate to Criterion 5, then rounding up or down to the nearest whole number (eg 11% of 80 places = 8.80 places, which is rounded up to 9 places, 3% of 80 places = 2.4 places, which is rounded down to 2 whole places).

Within each listed school's application, proximity to Chancellor's using the home- school measurement system used by Hertfordshire County Council from each applicant's registered home address to Chancellor's, will be used to decide priority. Any remaining applicants not allocated a place under criterion 5 can remain on the continuing interest (CI) list, ranked in order of distance (those living closest being given highest priority). 

Hertfordshire County Council’s ‘straight line’ distance measurement system is used for all home to school distance measurements. Distances are measured using a computerised mapping system to two decimal places. The measurement is taken from the AddressBase Premium address point of your child’s house to the address point of the school. AddressBase Premium data is a nationally recognised method of identifying the location of schools and individual residences. 

Where the number of applicants from the named school is less than the allocation, the excess places will be distributed according to criterion 6.

Note f

Since the number of places to be allocated under criteria 5 and 6 cannot be predetermined, we would expect parents wherever possible to seek to qualify under prior criteria to give them the best possible chance of a place.

Note g

Random allocation will be used as a tie-break to decide who has the highest priority for admission if the distance between two children’s homes and the school is the same. In the event where two different addresses are the same distance from a school, in the case of a block of flats for example, the lower door number will be deemed nearest as logically this will be closest to the ground and therefore closer. If there are two identical addresses of separate applicants, the tiebreak will be random allocation. Every child entered onto the HCC admissions database has an individual random number assigned between 1 and 1 million, against each preference school. When there is a need for a final tie break the random number is used to allocate the place, with the lowest number given priority.

Note h

Home address is defined as the child’s current permanent address at the time of application

• “At the time of application” means the closing date for applications
• “Permanent” means that the child has lived at that address for at least a year

Where a family has not lived at an address for a year, they must be able to demonstrate that they own the property or have a tenancy agreement for a minimum of 12 months* and the child must be resident in the property at the time of application.

The application can only be processed using one address. If a child lives at more than one address (for example due to a separation) the address used will be the one where the child lives for the majority of the time. If a child lives at two addresses equally, parents/carers should make a single joint application naming one address.

If the child's living arrangements change after you apply and they now spend the majority of the school week living at a different address, you must provide evidence of the new permanent address.

We may ask for proof of your address at any time. If, following an initial investigation and/or any investigation by with the Shared Anti-Fraud Service, the county council concludes that a fraudulent address has been used, correspondence confirming this decision will be sent to the applicant. We will explain the decision-making process and the action that will be taken with the application. We will also confirm which address will be used as the child’s permanent home address for admission allocation purposes.

If we receive more than one application with different address details and parents don't agree, parents/carers should provide court documentation to evidence the address that should be used for admission allocation purposes. If two applications are received, with different addresses, neither will be processed until the address issue is reconciled. 

If two different applications are received for the same child from the same address but contain different preferences, parents/carers will be invited to submit a joint application or provide court documentation to evidence the preferences that should be used for the admission

process. Until the preference issue is reconciled neither application will be processed. 

For the transfer application rounds, if the initial differing applications (one or both) were received “on-time”, an amended joint application will also be considered “on-time” if received before the “late deadline”. If the amended joint application is received after the late date, it will be treated as “late”. The late deadlines for the 2025/26 transfer application process is 2 December 2024. If this date changes, amendments will be published on the HCC admissions web pages at the start of the 2025/26 application process in September 2024.

^{* If, because of the nature of the agreement, it is not possible to provide a 12 month tenancy agreement, alternative proof of address will be requested and verified as necessary with the Shared Anti-Fraud Service.}

Note i

Children who have been unsuccessful in gaining a place for admission to Year 7 will be placed on our Continuing Interest (CI) List from which any vacancies will be filled in accordance with our published Admission Criteria for that admission round. A child’s place on the list can change as other children join or leave it. The closing date for the CI list will be published on the HCC website. On the last day of the summer term, the CI lists will close and all children who are on the CI lists will be removed, as explained in the Local Authority’s published documentation.  If you would like your child to be considered for any places that become available at the school after this time, parents will need to make an In Year application.  In Year applications should be made to Hertfordshire County Council, www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/admissions

2.4 Section 4 – Musical Aptitude Test (for full details see school website)

1. The Musical Aptitude Test (MAT) dates are in the Summer term prior to the year of application (ie in the Summer of Year 5).  In the Autumn term (of Year 6), there will be an additional test date for MAT late applicants only (see below for more information). Anyone wishing to apply under this criterion must complete and return the Supplementary Information Form, https://www.chancellors.herts.sch.uk/26/musical-aptitude-only-supplementary-information-form ( copy in Appendix 2), to the School by the relevant deadline shown in Appendix 1. This form must be completed for all applicants including online applications. The September date is our final deadline. A MAT late applicant would be someone who was registered for the summer tests, but, for unavoidable reasons was unable to sit the test in the Summer of Year 5. As an example, an unavoidable reason would include: a religious holiday or pre-arranged school trip that clashed with the test date, illness on the test date, backed up by a doctor's note, or the bereavement of a close family member at the time of the summer tests.

2. After the tests have been completed and following the publication of the results, anyone wishing to continue with their application for a place on the basis of musical aptitude must submit the Common Application Form available from the Local Authority and select Chancellor's School as one of the preferences. This must be done by the national deadline date of 31 October 2024.

3. The musical aptitude test is in two parts. All students who apply under this criterion will be invited to sit a written aptitude test and to complete a 5 minute performance. 

Written test

The test does not require any formal knowledge of musical theory. The written test is taken with other children, and is approximately 15 minutes in duration. The test is based entirely on aural responses and comprises 60 questions covering Pitch, Melody, Texture and Rhythm.

Performance test

Each child is allocated a 5 minute slot for an instrumental or vocal performance. There is a totally free choice of piece(s), enabling all candidates of all cultures an equal chance to succeed. 

Full details of the musical aptitude tests can be found on the school website.

4. Both the written and performance aptitude test will take place at Chancellor’s School.  Exact timings for the test will be sent via email before the exam. If the school are unable to accommodate all applicants on that date, a further date will be arranged.

5. There are no practice papers for the Music Test.

2.5 Section 5 – In Year Admissions

The School's in year admission arrangements will work within the remit of Hertfordshire's agreed scheme of in year coordination. The School board remains responsible for the allocation of all places in accordance with the schools’ published admission rules but all applications for, and allocations to, the school must be made via a pupil's home authority. Parents can make an online in year application via the Hertfordshire County Council website www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/admissions or contact the Customer Service Centre on 0300 123 4043 for a paper application form.  Parents should return the application form directly to the County Council.

Please be aware the school is heavily oversubscribed and very rarely has vacancies.

The School Board will comply with the locally agreed Fair Access Protocol to admit a vulnerable child who is hard to place, outside the normal round of admissions and in excess of our published admission numbers.  FAP children will be admitted above those on the schools continuing interest (CI) list.

Continued Interest (CI) lists are maintained for entry into Year 7 – 11.  Any vacancies will be filled in accordance with the following oversubscription criteria:

1. Children looked after and children who were previously looked after, including those who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England
2. Sibling 
3. Children of Staff 
4. Proximity

After places have been offered, the school’s continuing interest list will be maintained by Hertfordshire County Council. A child’s position on the CI list will be determined by the admission criteria outlined above and a child’s place on the list can change as other children join or leave it. The County Council, on behalf of the school, will contact parents/carers if a vacancy becomes available and it can be offered to a child. Continuing interest lists will be maintained for every year group until the summer term (date to be confirmed). To retain a CI application after this time, parents must make an In Year application. 

The county council will write to you with the outcome of your application and, if you have been unsuccessful, will include registration details to enable you to login and appeal online at www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/schoolappeals.   

2.6 Section 6 - Children Seeking Admission Outside their Chronological Year Group

Students will be admitted to the school in Year 7 at the age of 11 irrespective of physical or academic ability or age 12 if they are summer born children where a family chose to delay their entry to Reception by an academic year. It is the school’s policy for children to be educated within their correct chronological year group as far as possible, with the curriculum differentiated as necessary to meet the needs of individual children. This is in line with DfE guidance which states that “in general, children should be educated in their normal age group”.

 For children other than summer born to delay entry, if parents/carers believe their child(ren) should be educated in a different year group they must, at the time of application, submit supporting evidence from relevant professionals working with the child and family stating why the child must be placed outside their normal age appropriate cohort. DfE guidance makes clear that “it is reasonable for admission authorities to expect parents to provide them with information in support of their request – since without it they are unlikely to be able to make a decision on the basis of the circumstances of the case”.

 The School Board will decide whether the application will be accepted on the basis of the evidence submitted. If such an application is accepted it does not constitute an offer of a place, the application will then be processed by HCC in accordance with the admissions criteria. The Committee will make decisions based upon the circumstances of each case including the view of parents/carers, the Headteacher, the child’s social, academic and emotional development and whether the child has been previously educated out of year group.

 There is no guarantee that an application will be accepted on this basis. The internal management and organisation of the school, including the placement of pupils in classes, is a matter for the Governors, Headteacher and senior leadership.

2.7 Section 7 – Fradulant Applications

The School Board takes their duty to ensure that Chancellor’s admission rules are applied fairly very seriously, and will withdraw places or offers of places if fraudulent, incorrect or misleading information is given.  Chancellor’s works in liaison with Hertfordshire County Council to prevent fraudulent applications.  

Hertfordshire County Council will do as much as possible to prevent applications being made from fraudulent addresses, including referring cases to the Shared Anti-Fraud service for further investigation as necessary. 

Address evidence is frequently requested, monitored and checked and school places will be withdrawn when false information is deliberately provided.  Hertfordshire County Council will take action in the following circumstances: 

• When a child’s application address does not match the address of that child at their current school; 

• When a child lives at a different address to the applicant; 

• When the applicant does not have parental responsibility; 

• When a family move shortly after the closing date of applications when one or more of the following applies: 

  • The family has moved to a property from which their application was less likely to be successful; 

  • The family has returned to an existing property; 

  • The family lived in rented accommodation for a short period of time (anything less than a year) over the application period; 

  • Official/public records show an alternative address at the time of the application 

• When a child starts at the allocated school and their address is different from the address used at the time of application. 

Parents/carers will need to show that they have relinquished residency ties with their previous property and they, and their child(ren) are permanently residing at the address given on the application form.

2.8 Section 8 – Late Applications

All applications received after the national deadline, 31st October 2024, will be treated as late applicants.  They will be considered in keeping with the ‘Late Applications’ arrangements set out in Hertfordshire’s applications literature as part of the Co-ordinated Admissions arrangements.

Applicants are much less likely to get their preferred school if they apply late.

A late application made online cannot be altered online. Email the Admissions Team if you need to alter your late application.

Applications received after the deadline are not dealt with until all on-time applications have been considered.

If there are exceptional reasons for applying late, include the reasons and evidence when you apply. A panel will decide whether your application will be treated as late or on time.  

Thursday 31 October 2024 – the deadline for applying on time.

Monday 2 December 2024– last date to submit a written explanation of why your application was late, for your application to be agreed as on time.

Thursday 30 January 2025 – applications received after this date will not be offered a school place until April 2025.

2.9 Section 9 - Appeals Procedure

For both Year 7 and In Year admissions parents have the right to make a formal appeal against any decision made by, or on behalf of, the Governors not to admit their child to the School. If they wish to do so, parents may submit a written appeal within a specified period of time. Further information about how to appeal will be given when parents are notified that their application has been unsuccessful.  

Parents wishing to appeal who applied through Hertfordshire’s online system should log into their online application and click on the link “register an appeal”.  Out of county residents and paper applicants should call the Customer Service Centre on 0300 123 4043 to request their registration details and log into www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/schoolappeals and click on the link “log into the appeals system”.

2.10 Section 10 - Sixth Form Admissions

Chancellor’s has the capacity for 120 students for entry into Year 12, including a published admission number of 20 for external applicants.  Admission to the sixth form will be for any student who meets the minimum academic standards as set out in the sixth form prospectus https://www.chancellors.herts.sch.uk/31/sixth-form-prospectus

Chancellor’s encourages applications from students currently at Chancellor’s as well as students from other institutions.  All Chancellor’s Year 11 students who apply are eligible for a place in the Sixth Form if they achieve the required entry criteria.  Students in Year 11 at other institutions wishing to enter our Sixth Form will need to fulfil the same entry criteria.

In the event that there are more qualified external applicants than places available, the following oversubscription criteria will apply: 

1. Children looked after and children who were previously looked after, including those who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England. (see Section 3 note a)

2. Tiebreaker: In the event that two or more applicants are equally entitled to a place, then an offer will be made to the applicant living closer to the school at the time of application.

Priority will be given to children who live nearest to the school measured by using the Hertfordshire Local Authority’s ‘Find your nearest School’ online facility. The measurement is taken from the point of your child’s house to a point of distance which has been agreed by the Governors  on the school site. Should two applicants have the same home to school distance a random allocation will be made and that process will be independently supervised.

If an application is refused, there is a statutory right of appeal. Further details of the appeal procedure will be provided with the letter explaining why the application has been refused. Appeals against non-admissions may be lodged by the parent or the student.

Sixth Form Admission dates, and a link to the online application process, can be found in the sixth form prospectus and on the Chancellor’s website.  https://www.chancellors.herts.sch.uk/56/welcome-1

 

3. Appendix 1 - KEY DATES FOR PARENTS, CARERS AND STUDENTS FOR ENTRY SEPTEMBER 2025

Chancellor’s School is a well-respected, co-educational

Secondary School for 11-18 year olds
 

28 March 2024	SIF Registration opens for Musical Aptitude Test
17 May 2024	SIF Registration closes for Musical Aptitude Test
W/C 3 June 2024	Emails detailing time of Musical Aptitude Test will be sent to all applicants who are considering applying under Criterion 4
W/C 11 June 2024	Musical Aptitude Test (written) for those considering applying under Criterion 4
W/C 17 June 2024	Musical Aptitude Test (performance) for those considering applying under Criterion 4
19 September 2024	CHANCELLOR’S OPEN EVENING FOR PROSPECTIVE PARENTS AND STUDENTS
19 September 2024	Final deadline for MAT LATE applications for musical aptitude test
24 September 2024	Final opportunity for MAT LATE APPLICANTS to sit Musical Aptitude Test, written and performance
W/C 7 October 2024	Results of all Musical Aptitude will be emailed to parents by Chancellor’s School
31 October 2024	Closing date for the Common Application Form (CAF). HCC online applications to be submitted to the LA: www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/admissions Statutory deadline for receipt of paper applications (by post to: HCC, Admissions and Transport Team, County Hall, Pegs Lane, Herts, SG13 8DQ)
3 March 2025	Allocation of Places: letters or emails will be sent out by the Local Education Authority, to all parents who have applied using the CAF

 

4. Appendix 2 - Secondary Transfer Supplementary Information Form for MUSICAL APTITUDE Applicants ONLY

This form can also be completed online here: https://www.chancellors.herts.sch.uk/26/musical-aptitude-only-supplementary-information-form

Secondary Transfer Supplementary Information Form 

for MUSICAL APTITUDE Applicants ONLY 

Please read the following points before completing this form:

• All applicants for secondary transfer under criterion 4, proven musical aptitude, are asked to submit this form to the School by 17 May 2024 by post or email to admin@chancellors.herts.sch.uk 
• This form should ONLY be used for Musical Aptitude applications
• Applicants offered a place based on musical aptitude are expected to participate in 
• extra-curricular activities in music offered by the school
• Please complete all sections of this form
• Please use capital letters and write clearly in black ink

 

CHILD’S SURNAME             ______________________________________________

 

CHILD’S FIRST NAME            ______________________________________________

 

GENDER  (please tick)             M       F         

 

DATE OF BIRTH                 ______ / ______ / _________

 

CURRENT PRIMARY SCHOOL        ______________________________________________

 

NAME OF PARENT/CARER            ______________________________________________

 

RELATIONSHIP TO CHILD              ______________________________________________
 

*CHILD’S PERMANENT HOME ADDRESS   

 

__________________________________________________________________________________

*The home address must be as at 31st October 2024.  No other address will be considered

 

Contact Numbers and Email

 

Daytime       _____________________        Evening       ______________________       

 

Mobile         _____________________        Email           ______________________

 

Address of Parent/Carer if different from above 

 

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

 

Please indicate musical aptitude       Voice:        Instrument:  (e.g., violin)_____________ 

 

Accompanist required:                Yes                   No

 

Please confirm that if your child is offered a place based on musical aptitude, you will support and encourage them to take part in extra-curricular activities in music offered by the school                                                         

Signed:      _____________________     Date:          _______________________      

 

Name (Print)    _____________________      

 

You must also include Chancellor’s as one of your preferences when you submit 

your Common Application Form to your home Local Authority

 

If a paper acknowledgement of your application is required, 

please enclose a stamped addressed envelope

 

 

Admissions Policy and Determined Admissions Arrangements - 2025-2026