My feed
Premium

Please
or
to access all these features

Join our Primary Education forum to discuss starting school and helping your child get the most out of it.

Primary education

Is anyone else waiting to hear what primary school their child has got into?

688 replies

HobKnob · 05/04/2013 09:11

I'm biting my nails off here!

OP posts:
Report
DorisIsWaiting · 05/04/2013 09:18

Also waitig with baited breath. We are slightly out of catchment but with 2 siblings in the school. BUT it's a big intake locally so I have all my fingers and toes crossed.

I went online to find out when we find out and it's the 19th here.

Report
Whojamaflip · 05/04/2013 09:23

we don't find out until 9th April here

Report
HobKnob · 05/04/2013 09:24

It's today for us and I want to know NOW!!! Chances are we'll have got into my 1st choice but we're also out of catchment.

OP posts:
Report
HobKnob · 05/04/2013 09:25

Just googled and it's after 4pm. Long day ahead...

OP posts:
Report
yellowhousewithareddoor · 05/04/2013 09:32

16th April here. I had thought it was the same everywhere!

Report
PiHigh · 05/04/2013 09:33

We find out on the 16th. Am expecting DD2 will get in our first choice (sibling at the school and we're really close to it as well)

Report
aufaniae · 05/04/2013 09:40

19th April here. I woke up thinking about this, this morning!

Report
lougle · 05/04/2013 09:44

I thought 16th April was national offers day.

Report
Periwinkle007 · 05/04/2013 09:55

16th here too online or wait for post a few days later.

last year they did it on a friday after everywhere else in the country and said after 4:30pm. the system didn't work though so noone found out. at least the 16th means they will be in the office the next day if there is a problem and can sort it out rather than a weekend.

Report
EnsignRo · 05/04/2013 10:13

16th for me too, and I can work myself up into a total frenzy thinking about it. Catchment school is not on our list of 3, and would quite honestly be my worst nightmare. Logically I know we'd be massively unlucky to end up placed there and not get any of our choices, but until I see that email.....

I have literally been worrying about this for 2 years Sad

Report
FireOverBabylon · 05/04/2013 10:25

17th April here, then we start prearing in earnest. Poor DS will be less than 4.1 when he starts as we start on 29th August here, and he's an early August birthday Sad

It just seems much too young to be teaching him to unfasten buttons on a school shirt.

Report
Fillyjonk75 · 05/04/2013 17:44

Supposed to be 4pm today here, still waiting.

Report
TravelinColour · 05/04/2013 18:38

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Pancakeflipper · 05/04/2013 18:40

19th for us. And bugger just realised we have to be away for a family funeral so won't find out until the evening.

Report
FuckThisShit · 05/04/2013 18:41

Yep, 17th here I think. Or 16th.

Report
MurderOfProse · 05/04/2013 19:05

I was SURE it was the 6th (online from the 5th) but I went to double check yesterday and it was the 17th. Why would I have made up the 6th as a date? I guess they must have moved it. Another 12 days to wait..

Report
Lovethesea · 05/04/2013 20:21

16th here and desperate to know. DD loves her friends at school nursery, really settled, we are in the village catchment area BUT high birth rate year, had to go on the waiting list to get a nursery place and they keep building houses nearer to the school than us Sad

If she doesn't get in I fear we will lose touch with people I have spent 2 years getting to know, she will be left out of friendships in the other school in the next village as people won't travel to hang out with us. She will be out of the loop for local friends. That I will struggle with my PT job as no local childminder picks up from the neighbouring village school and DS is in the year below DD.

Really see implications for all of us and when we moved here everyone said no problem with school places as in catchment, but no one noticed the high birth rate year and more people have moved in who start this Sept too and live closer.

Report
HobKnob · 05/04/2013 20:34

Finally got my email when I got home from bloody work and she's got into our first choice. What a relief!

Good luck to all those still waiting!

OP posts:
Report
Lozario · 05/04/2013 20:59

17th here (south London). Good luck everyone. Our LEA says an email is sent out at 5pm on the day but apparently it's also online - does anyone know what time of day it goes online? Presumably the same time as the email, or earlier?

Report
BikeRunSki · 05/04/2013 21:04

16th here too, oldest child.
1st choice is massively convinient and Outstanding, but 2nd choice is not hugely inconvinient and I really liked it. 3rd choice wouldn't bother me either. I realise that this is a very lucky and unusual situation to be in.

Report
tethersend · 05/04/2013 21:15

17th here I think (east London).

Shitting it a bit now- newly introduced catchment areas, bulge classes and an incomprehensible tie break criteria in our borough mean nobody has any idea whether they will get in or not [confusing]

Report
Lozario · 05/04/2013 21:15

We're just hoping for any of our 6 choices! I have been drinking a lot and sleeping very little. Also first child and we live in an area where adults seem to be vastly outnumbered by 4yr olds and couldn't afford to move. Have that awful waiting-for-exam-results feeling!

Report

Don’t want to miss threads like this?

Weekly

Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!

Log in to update your newsletter preferences.

You've subscribed!

Lozario · 05/04/2013 21:17

tethersend - tie breaker?? Thats a new one on me. As if it wasn't confusing enough!

Report
tethersend · 05/04/2013 21:18

Confused even.

I'm more stressed than I thought Grin

Report
tethersend · 05/04/2013 21:22

It sounds a bit gameshow, doesn't it? Grin

Usual tie breaker in the event of oversubscription is distance; ours is now 'nearest alternative school'. Don't ask.

Report
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.