Admission to Year 7 September 2027

Anyone wishing to name CCHS on their Common Application Form (CAF) must register to sit the Entrance Test at CCHS.   For a student to sit the Entrance Test, an online registration form via the school website must be completed.

Registration opens at 9am on Wednesday 1^st April 2026

The date for CCHS Open Day is scheduled to take place on Thursday 30th April from 4pm until 7pm, there is no need to book an appointment.

Registration closes at 4pm on Wednesday 3^rd June 2026.  Late registrations will not be accepted.

The CCHS Entrance Test is scheduled to take place on Thursday 3^rd September 2026.

ABOUT THE FSCE ENTRANCE TEST FOR YEAR 7 ENTRY

 At CCHS, we are committed to providing a fair and rigorous selection process for prospective students. As part of this commitment, we have adopted the Future Stories Community Enterprise Ltd (FSCE) Test as our Year 7 Entrance Test.

HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE FSCE ENTRANCE TEST

 We suggest you print the Familiarisation Guide and read it through carefully. The FSCE Test does not require specialist tutoring, and no specific preparation is necessary. No teacher, tutor or parent will have knowledge of the test that others lack. Instead, we encourage children to:

• Work well at primary school, with maximum attendance and engagement in all areas of school life.
• Develop strong reading habits by reading widely and deeply.
• Practise the fluency of their maths and problem-solving skills through real life day to day examples.
• Engage in imaginative and critical thinking discussions around the dinner table.
• Focus on calmness and confidence rather than pressure and stress.
• Trust that they already have the knowledge required to access the questions.

GUIDANCE FOR PARENTS

We are against any preparations that disrupts a child’s usual schooling or creates unnecessary anxiety. Surveys have shown that the word most commonly used by current children who received tutoring was ‘stressful’ – we desperately want to avoid this.

We also know that lots of tutors are expensive, of unreliable quality and over-teach unnecessary content.  Their claims about ‘exam success rates’ are often baseless too.

WHAT IS THE TEST LIKE?

 It tests application and knowledge and skills from KS2 subjects taught up to and including the Year 5 programme of study.

Subjects tested may include any of the following – please refer to the relevant page in the Familiarisation Guide for Parents for more information on the subject.

If you have any queries regarding admission to our school, please email admissions@cchs.co.uk.