Admissions
Admission to Bridge Academy is via a monthly Secondary Alternative Education Panel. The Panel comprises senior representatives from mainstream Secondary Schools in Milton Keynes. The meeting is chaired by the MK Inclusion Partnership Officer who is also the CEO of Stephenson MK Trust.
Referrals to this Panel are completed on an agreed Information Passport document and these are moderated by the group to ensure consistency. Reintegration from Bridge Academy back into mainstream schools are also moderated at this meeting.
Admission is only for children who are resident in Milton Keynes or who attend a Milton Keynes Secondary School. There are a number of potential routes into this provision:
- Through a referral from a Milton Keynes Secondary School via the monthly Panel. To avoid permanent exclusion, the Partnership follows an agreed emergency placement procedure which has been agreed by secondary schools and the Local Authority. Referrals via this route are also reviewed at the monthly Panel meeting.
- For a child permanently excluded from a Milton Keynes Secondary School. The schools work in partnership to avoid this outcome but a Headteacher retains the right to permanently exclude and if that option is followed then Bridge Academy would be the identified provision from Day 6.
- For a child resident in Milton Keynes who is permanently excluded from a non- Milton Keynes Secondary School.
- For a child of secondary age new to Milton Keynes where their last placement was in a Pupil Referral Unit or where they were permanently excluded from their last mainstream educational placement.