If you failed to register your child to sit the Grammar School Entrance test sat in September 2021, there is an opportunity for your child to sit a late test. Please see below for important dates:

Tuesday 11^th January 2022    Noon - registration will open. Links will be available on all Grammar School websites on this day. The LINK is now CLOSED. Unfortunately, if you do not register your daughter by the deadline of Friday 14^th January, 12 noon, there is no other opportunity to sit the test. If your daughter has already taken the test please do not register again.

Friday 14^th January 2022         Noon - registration will close. Absolutely no registrations will be accepted after this time.

Saturday 5^th February 2022*  Test Day – venue will be confirmed after all registrations have been collated. Parents will be emailed details of the test day. Please see below for Test Day Protocols which will still be in place.

Tuesday 1^st March                  9.00 a.m. Results from the late test will be sent to parents

*This date may change in line with National Guidelines, which have not yet been received.

Please note you will not receive a place at any Gloucestershire Grammar School on 1^st March following the late test. 

If your child does meet the Qualifying Standard, they will be eligible to request to be put on Grammar School waiting lists, providing you reply to GCC by Tuesday 8^th March 2022.  You must complete the Waiting List Common Application Form for the Grammar Schools you are considering. The form will be available on the Gloucestershire Local Authority Website. 

Children who have not met the qualifying standard (i.e. have not passed the test) are unable to join the waiting list. 

Denmark Road High School: https://www.denmarkroad.org

Marling School: https://www.marling.school

Pate’s Grammar School: https://www.patesgs.org/

Ribston Hall High School: https://www.ribstonhall.gloucs.sch.uk/

Sir Thomas Rich’s School: https://strschool.co.uk/

Stroud High School: https://www.stroudhigh.gloucs.sch.uk/

The Crypt School: https://www.cryptschool.org/

Gloucestershire Grammar School Entrance Test: Saturday 5^th February 2022

To help ensure the efficient running of the Entrance Test, and to enable the correct implementation of government guidance on minimising the transmission of infection during the Entrance Test, the seven Gloucestershire Grammar Schools have agreed the following protocol which ALL families will be expected to abide by.

1. No child, who is unwell (for example, coughing, exhibiting any symptoms of Covid-19 https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/symptoms/ or whose household is self-isolating or have been advised to through track and trace), should attend their Allocated Test Centre – please inform the Allocated Test Centre on the day before the Entrance Test (or earlier) if this is applicable to your child.  A medical test will take place on Monday, 21^st February for those children who, for medical reasons, could not sit the Entrance test on Saturday 5^th February.
2. Parents/carers of a child coughing, or who becomes unwell during the Entrance Test will be contacted and requested to collect their child immediately.
3. Only one family member will be allowed to drop off and collect their child and no additional siblings should accompany the candidate to the Test Centre. This will help avoid large gatherings outside each Test Centre/school. The family member must strictly abide by the relevant Test Centre’s Entrance Test protocol.
4. No family member will be allowed into any of the buildings of the Allocated Test Centre at any time.
5. Hand sanitising units will be available for use in each test room and at entry points in each school.
6. Each candidate must bring with them: a completed ID form (with a photo/image of your child), 2 HB pencils, an eraser, a pencil sharpener, snack, and tissues in a labelled, clear plastic bag.
7. Due to social distancing measures in place, each testing centre’s own protocols may mean that larger venues, such as School Halls, will be used. 
8. Wherever possible, children from the same primary school will sit in the same test room as others from their school.
9. On arrival at their Allocated Test Centre, children will be placed into their test room group forming a test bubble and will be strictly supervised from that point onwards.  They must not communicate with or attempt to be with any other child who is not in their allocated group.
10. It is not possible to accommodate requests for a particular test sitting – timings will be issued via each school’s test day details letter and CANNOT be changed.

Under no circumstances should any child, or family member discuss, or publish the content of the Entrance Test at any time to ensure the security of the Test.  This includes speaking to other children, parents / carers, other family members, their teachers or tutors.  It should be stressed that anything shared may help other candidates and could result in their child not being offered a place.

The Gloucestershire Grammar Schools General Test Day Protocol – November 2021