Admissions

In addition to this, Tudor Grange Academy Worcester also requires potential applicants to complete a Fair Banding form.  As part of our admissions criteria and to be considered for admission to the Academy, all applicants must have sat a Fair Banding test. This also applies to the siblings already attending the school.  The closing date for receipt of the Fair Banding form by the Academy is 31 October.  The Fair Banding form is also available at local Primary Schools, Reception at Tudor Grange and can be downloaded from the link at the top of this page.

Tests will be held as follows:

Perdiswell Primary                                  Tuesday, 5^th November

Northwick Manor Junior School           Wednesday, 6^th November

Carnforth Primary School                       Thursday, 7^th November

Claines CE Primary School                     Friday, 8^th November

Lyppard Grange Primary School            Friday, 8^th November

George’s C of E Primary School              Friday, 8^th November

Oasis Academy                                           Monday, 11^th November

St Barnabas CE VC Primary School       Tuesday, 12^th November

Cranham Primary School                          Wednesday, 13^th November

Hollymount Primary School                      Thursday, 14^th November

Out of area Schools                                      Thursday, 14^th November

The test is a multiple choice style test based on non‐verbal reasoning. The test takes about an hour which includes 30 minutes of testing, plus explanations. The test is a not a pass or fail test. Scores are used to place students in bands and are not used beyond the banding process or for setting upon entry to the Academy.  Looked After Children and those with a Statement of Special Educational Needs or an EHCP do not need to sit the test to be allocated a place at Tudor Grange Academy.

Fairbanding testing comprises of a Non-Verbal Reasoning online test (NVR).

The test is aimed at students aged 10 and 11 years.

Non-verbal reasoning tests the ability to recognise similarities, analogies and patterns in unfamiliar designs. These reasoning processes are widely accepted as being fundamental to students’ ability to understand and assimilate new information and ideas. They enable students to make sense of new information and relate it to what they already know.

There are no reading requirements and no pictorial material used, questions are based on designs which are equally accessible to all students. Students have the full use of headphones and work at their own pace.

Example

The test is taken in a computer room in a user friendly environment and there will be a number of experienced staff present. The test is introduced to the students who are told that the test is ‘to find out how you tend to learn, what you do when you are faced with new ideas or concepts’.  All students are issued with a set of headphones and they will hear instructions through these as they work through the test at their own pace.

There are six practise questions at the beginning which are untimed and the main test lasts for 25 minutes.  Answers are multiple-choice.

Test results are not communicated to parents or students. They are used to place the child in a band for the purpose of determining places if the school is oversubscribed.  Once the student is placed in a band, the tests scores are discarded and rank ordering is determined by the criteria as outlined in our admissions policy.

Please contact Mrs V A Iles (Vailes@worcs.tgacademy.org.uk) to apply for a place.