Admissions
The school has two classes in Years 3, 5 and 6, and three classes in Year 4.
Each year group team has a year leader, class teachers and teaching support staff. The classes are managed by the class teacher with support from the teaching support staff. Occasionally within a class there may be a child who has been assessed as having particular learning or physical needs, who will have an additional teaching support assistant allocated to them.
Admissions Criteria
All admissions to Deansbrook Junior School are handled by the London Borough of Barnet and all applications should be made via the local authority's admissions portal. Children are admitted to the Junior School in the September following their 7th birthday and at any time until the July after their 11th birthday.
If the School is oversubscribed after the admission of pupils with a Statement of Special Educational Needs or Education, Health and Care Plan where the School is named in the Statement or Plan, priority for admission will be given to those children who meet the criteriaset out below, in order:
- Children who are ‘looked after’ and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order under the provision of the Children Act 1989
- Siblings at the School (siblings would include half, step, adoptive and foster siblings provided they also live at the same address as the applicant). It will also include siblings offormer students, provided they completed their education at the end of year 6.
- Children attending another AIM Academies Trust school.
- Children who are in receipt of the Pupil Premium or early years premium at date of application.
- Remaining places will be allocated on a geographical basis (the distance from the School). Distance will be measured in a straight line from the address point for the child’shome to the entrance of the Headteacher’s office using the London Borough of Barnet’s computerised geographical information system with those living closest being given priority.
- Students whose parent has been employed at the School for two or more years at the time at which the application is made and children of staff who have been employed to filla post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
- Distance will be used as a tie breaker in each category.
- If two or more children with the same priority for admission live an indistinguishable distance from the School but cannot all be admitted, then the available places will be decided by random allocation using the London Borough of Barnet’s computerised system.
- If the last student to be offered a place within the School’s published admissions Number (PAN) is a multiple birth or the same cohort sibling, any further same cohort sibling will be admitted.
Parents can find out more about admission arrangements through the Barnet Schools Admission Website:
