It is intended that this guidance will be reviewed on an ongoing basis. In order to assist with this and to inform future thinking on the guidance, we would encourage schools to complete the feedback form below with any suggestions they feel would enhance the re-designation process.
The Specialist Schools Programme is now an established part of the maintained secondary education system.
This Guidance, published in six parts plus annexes replaces the existing separate documents for initial applications, re-designations and high performing specialist school status. This reflects the fact that we are almost at a 100% specialist secondary school system so it was time to bring details of all the requirements into one place. The main expectations of the programme, which all schools must follow as a condition of receiving specialist school funding are set out in Part 1.
Contents List (Word 64 KB)
Part 1: The Specialist Schools Programme (Word 344 KB)
Part 2: A New Re-designation System (Word 96 KB)
Capital Grant - Application form
The revised versions can now be downloaded from the links below. We apologise for any inconvenience whilst revisions were being made to both application form and guidance.
Capital Grant further guidance (Word 98 KB)
Capital Grant application form (Word 57 KB)
Annexes
A: Additional Guidance for Middle Deemed/11 – 14 Secondary Schools (Word 48 KB)
B: Guidance for Specialist Designation of Additional (Brand New) Secondary Schools and New Schools (Including Academies) Resulting from Closures of Schools (Word 68 KB)
C: Additional Guidance for Special Schools (Word 52 KB)
D: Additional Guidance for Combined Specialism Applications (Word 52 KB)
E: The Rural Dimension (Word 48 KB)
F: Community Prompts (Word 60 KB)
G: Assessment Criteria: key areas that will be assessed (Word 36 KB)
H: Re-designation: SEF Guidance for Reporting Progress (Word 54 KB)
I: Changing Specialism (Word 52 KB)
J: Training Schools: Assessment Questionnaire (Word 44 KB)
K: Sources of Guidance and Support (Word 40 KB)
All annexes (A to K) (Word 216 KB)
Application Form (Word 1.1 MB)
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Part 3: First Applications (Word 230 KB)
Part 4: Specialist Schools on Probation (Word 76 KB)
Part 5: High Performing Specialist Schools (Word 320 KB)
Gifted and Talented HPSS option
We are inviting schools with a particular interest and expertise in Gifted and Talented education to identify G&T as a specific focus of their HPSS work. Such schools will form part of a national network of secondary G&T centres of excellence. HPSS with a G&T focus will be required to allocated £10,000 of their HPSS funding to their G&T work.
Download the Gifted and Talented within HPSS 2008 question and answer document (Word 55 KB)
Part 6: Special Educational Needs (SEN)/Inclusion (Word 220 KB)
All sections (Parts 1 to 6) (Word 928 KB)
Initial Specialism Subjects
Arts (Word 50 KB)
Business and Enterprise (Word 43 KB)
Engineering (Word 46 KB)
Humanities (Word 57 KB)
Languages (Word 49 KB)
Mathematics and Computing (Word 45 KB)
Music (Word 56 KB)
Science (Word 39 KB)
Sports (Word 56 KB)
Technology (Word 50 KB)
Applied Learning Specialism (Word 71 KB)
Application Form SEN/Inclusion
We apologise for the delay in publishing this form. If you have already completed all or part of the previous SEN / inclusion form you do not need to complete a new form and can submit the form you are currently using. If want to apply but haven’t yet completed the SEN application form, please use the new form.
Application Form SEN/Inclusion (Word 416 KB)
Enquiries about specialist schools should be emailed to:
specialist.schools@dcsf
.gsi.gov.uk
Enquiries about high performing specialist schools should be emailed to:
high-performing.specialistschools
@dcsf.gsi.gov.uk
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