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Welcome to Fortismere School, a high achieving and dynamic mixed Foundation school, highly regarded by the local Muswell Hill community that it serves. We have a strong focus on outstanding attainment and progress for all of our students as well as diverse cultural enrichment. Fortismere has featured as one of the Top 20 comprehensives in the country in a Times newspaper article and is heavily over-subscribed in all years.
Fortismere wins hearts and minds through adding value to its students and staff, playing a key role in its wider community and leading innovative practice that impacts nationally and internationally. All staff from both teaching and non-teaching teams share this vision and are committed to contributing to a dynamic environment which results in significant and measurable year on year improvement in all key stages. Fortismere has an active mind, a finger on the pulse and a big heart.
Helen Anthony
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Appeals 2013
If you have not been offered a place at Fortismere Foundation School, the law entitles you to appeal against the decision to an Independent Appeal Panel. This panel is completely independent of the school and the Local Authority. The appeals are held at the school.
If you wish to appeal, telephone 020 8365 4466 or email admissions@fortismere.org.uk and a form will be sent to you. You should include any evidence or supporting material with your appeal form and you MUST give the grounds for your appeal at the time you lodge your appeal form. Your appeal form will not be accepted unless you state the grounds for your appeal. You may appeal for more than one school.
The timetable for appeals is as follows:-
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Last day for lodging appeal forms for a place in year 7 to start in September 2013 |
4 pm on Tuesday 30 April 2013. You MUST state the reasons for your appeal and supply any documentary evidence at this stage. |
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Appeals will take place on |
Stage 1 (grouped hearing with all parents present). Monday 1st July 2013 at 6 pm at the school. Stage 2 (private individual hearings). Tuesday 2 July and Wednesday 3 July 2013. |
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Invitation letter giving details about your hearing will be sent by the Clerk to the Independent Appeal Panel |
At least 10 school days before the hearing |
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Any additional or supporting evidence |
Monday 24 June 2013. You are advised that additional paperwork received on the day of the appeal hearing is unlikely be taken into account. |
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Letter from the Clerk informing you of the decision of the independent appeal panel |
By Wednesday 10 July 2013 |
