• Conduct themselves in an appropriate manner at all times and especially while representing the school. 
• Accept personal responsibility for their actions and any consequences that may arise as a result of them.
• Behave in a courteous, trustworthy and hardworking manner.
• Respect both students’ and the school’s property and take care of the surrounding environment. 
• Report bullying immediately.

September 2008

Open Evening – Thursday 4^th October 2007 from 6.30pm – 9.30pm, the Headteacher speaks at 7pm and 8pm.

Open Day – Wednesday 10^th October 2007 from 9.30am – 12pm and from 2pm – 3pm.

No appointment is necessary.

How to apply for a place at GSGW

Common Application Form (CAF) and booklets have been delivered to primary schools. Parents will also receive 5 leaflets about Choice advisors who will be there to help parents who need extra support through the process.

Parents must fill in their home authority CAF and are invited to express their preferences in priority order.

CAFs must be returned to primary school by the morning of 19th October 2007. The CAF can be returned electronically on line provided parents register on the website.

GSGW requires that a Supplementary Form is also filled out if the school is named on the CAF to enable the school to apply it’s over subscription criteria (see below for the criteria).

Entry will be through the Kent 11+ Scheme.

Testing Procedures

All applicants are invited to sit the Kent PESE test (Kent’s 11+ Scheme). Multiple choice tests are taken in VR, NVR and Mathematics. The English test is a piece of creative writing.

All students who attend a Kent school (primary and independent) must take the test on the same date, if not at their own school then at a designated testing centre – one of the North West Kent Grammar Schools.

All students who attend an out of county school must take the test at a designated testing centre. (See dates below).

There is a Primary Headteacher appeals process before the final decisions are reported to parents on 3rd March 2008.

Places will be allocated by the Admissions Team (on the afternoon of 18th February 2008). The LA will effectively operate an “Equal preference scheme. The order in which a parent named the schools only matters if more than one of them could offer a place. In that case the original priority order is taken.

Waiting lists for those students who pass the 11+ test but who have not been offered a place at their preferred school will be held by the school from 27th March 2008. There will be no automatic re-allocation of places carried out by the Local Education Authority.

Independent Appeals lodged by 25th March 2008 will be heard during March and April 2008.