Year 7 & Post-16 Appeals Process

If you have not been offered a place at Stationers’ Crown Woods Academy, the law entitles you to appeal against that decision to an Independent Appeal Panel.  This panel is completely independent of the school and the Admission Authority.

If you wish to appeal, please complete an Appeal Form or telephone the Academy Admissions Officer on 020 8850 7678.  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:-

Admission Dates

15 March 2023

Deadline for accepting or declining the offer of a Year 7 place made on 01 March 2023

31 March 2023, 9am

Deadline for lodging Appeals against a decision not to offer a Year 7 place at Stationers’ Crown Woods Academy– see timetable below.

Appeals Timetable:

31 March 2023, 9am

Deadline for lodging Appeals against a decision not to offer a Year 7 place at Stationers’ Crown Woods Academy.

7 June 2023, 6pm

Individual Stage 2 hearings commence 13 June 2023

Stage 1 Appeal Hearing for Year 7 entry September 2023.
Venue:  Crown Building, Stationers’ Crown Woods Academy. 

Stage 2 meetings, these individual meetings will be held during the school day.  Appellants will receive at least 10 school days notice of their allocated time.
Venue: Stage 2 individual meetings will be held at Stationers’ Crown Woods Academy.

It is anticipated Stage 2 individual hearings will take two weeks to complete.  Decision letters will not be sent out until after the final hearing.  Letters will be sent within 5 school days of the final hearing wherever possible.

Late applicants

Appeals will be heard within 40 school days of the deadline for lodging appeals where possible, or within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged.

In-Year Appeals

Will be heard within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged.

Post-16 Appeals:

Where the offer of a place would have been conditional on exam results, appeals will be heard within 30 school days of confirmation of those results;