Choosing a secondary school is one of the most important decisions you make with your child. We welcome visits to the school and it is possible to make individual appointments to see the school on a working day at almost any time of the year. Your visit would normally start at 9.00am and would last for an hour. Please contact the school office, where we will be happy to make you and your child an appointment.
All school admissions are dealt with by your local County Council, for any help with getting a place you should contact them directly.
Lincolnshire County Council – Admissions Team
Website – www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/school-admissions
Telephone – 01522 782030
Find your nearest school – Lincolnshire County Council
Nottinghamshire County Council – Admissions Team
Website – www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/education/school-admissions
Telephone – 0844 980 80 80
Admissions Policy 2023-24 – Please click here for an electronic copy of our Admission Policy 2023-2024
Admissions Policy 2024-2025 – Please click here for an electronic copy pf our Admission Policy 2024-25
Prospectus – If you would like a copy of our prospectus please click here for an electronic copy.
Sixth Form Prospectus – click here to see our Sixth Form Prospectus.
Admission Timetable – including Appeals
1 March – Offer Day – you can collect your offer online or on the day letters are posted out informing parents of which school they have been offered a place at.
28 March, Noon – deadline for the receipt of appeals
SWRA Admission Appeals
How to Appeal
Appeal a school place decision – How to appeal – Lincolnshire County Council
In accordance with the School Admission Appeals Code, the Governing Body (as the admission authority for Sir William Robertson Academy) must set a timetable for organising and hearing admission appeals. The timetable shown above will apply to appeals for admission to Sir William Robertson Academy.
Appeals in respect of late applications will generally be heard within 40 school days of the appeal being received by school. Appeals in respect of in-year applications will be heard within 30 school days of receipt.
Appellants (the person(s) lodging an appeal) will receive a letter notifying them of the date, time and venue of the the appeals panel appointed to hear their appeal at least 10 school days before the hearing.
Appellants and the admission authority must provide the clerk to the appeals panel with any documents they wish to submit to the panel no later than 6 working days before the hearing.
The clerk to the panel will send to the panel, the appellants and the admission authority all the documentary evidence to be considered at the hearing at least 5 working days before the hearing.
The clerk to the panel will send a letter to appellants and the admission authority notifying them of the Panel’s decision and the reasons for the decision within 5 working days of the hearing wherever possible.
Additional information for Sixth Form admission applications:
i) where the offer of a place would have been conditional upon exam results, appeals must be heard within 30 school days of confirmation of those results
ii) where the offer of a place would not have been conditional upon exam results, appeals must be heard within 40 school days of the deadline for lodging appeals
For further information please contact:
The Clerk to the Governors
Sir William Robertson Academy
Main Road
Welbourn
Lincoln
LN5 0PA
or email: clerk@swracademy.org
Further guidance can be found at:
