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decision on 1st March? Anyone want to sit and sweat it out with me?

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MsIngaFewmarbles · 17/02/2013 17:27

Urgh I am starting to feel queasy. I just want to know now. PFB (dd1) doesn't care which school she gets into and dh is being irritatingly pragmatic.

Is anyone else twitching nervously?

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auntpetunia · 01/03/2013 08:26

DD got into 1st choice, and her phone hasn't stopped since 7 am with her friends texting to see who is going where.

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MsIngaFewmarbles · 01/03/2013 08:03

An hour to go here. Refreshing emails like a loon anyway.

Congratulations to you all so far!

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JugglingFromHereToThere · 01/03/2013 07:53

I think 1999 might have been a low birth year too with lots of people holding out for a "millenium baby" I ended up having one each side of the millenium.
Still enjoying Child of Our Time though - (DS seems to be catching them all up quickly now)

kernowal · 01/03/2013 07:48

DD should be eternally grateful that we didn't join the rush for a millenium baby. She's got into her 1st choice with all of her friends. We're ridiculously out of catchment and they're usually full to the brim, so thank goodness for low birth years!

JugglingFromHereToThere · 01/03/2013 07:40

Yay ! DS going to his sister's school. Nice to have it in writing (on website)
Had a quiet, slightly bleary eyed, high 5 when we looked first thing this morning Smile

InMySpareTime · 01/03/2013 07:35

DS got first choice, I checked online.

LadyIsabellaWrotham · 01/03/2013 07:28

Marking my place though it's academic now for us (DD will relinquish her hard-won private place over her dead body). Good luck everybody, and congrats to those who've heard good news already.

aristocat · 01/03/2013 07:22

My DS has also got our first choice school Grin

Didn't get our email until 6 this morning. Good luck if you are still waiting!

VoldemortsNipple · 01/03/2013 06:56

Ds2 got first choice :) looks like the email came through at 12.46am. I've marked it unread so he can open it when he wakes up.

I hope he is pleased. He will likely be starting school knowing nobody, but I know within a week he will have loads of friends.

mankyscotslass · 01/03/2013 06:52

I think the snail mail stuff only gets sent out today, second class too! Sad

Congratualtions to everyone that got the school they wanted!

JillJ72 · 01/03/2013 06:48

Well done to everyone so far! The website still shows nothing, but after reading your threads I have just checked my emails..... And I am trying not to squeal because DS has got the school he wanted!!! Especially chuffed as it's out of catchment and he had to sit an aptitude test (and got in their top 20 after 2 weeks of mad cramming at home).

Wooooooooohooooooooo!!!!!!

Good luck to everyone still waiting!

sausagesandwich34 · 01/03/2013 06:41

Dd got her first choice which softens the blow of the bursary appeal being rejected for her real first choice

MissMogwi · 01/03/2013 06:19

Not just you, our page has crashed too.

Will the letter arrive today do you think? Or is it sent out today? DD1 will hound me until she knows!

mankyscotslass · 01/03/2013 04:44

Their systems have crashed. No emails and the webpage is broken. Will have to wait for snail mail. I don't even know if it's just us or every one!

NotMostPeople · 01/03/2013 02:21

Yay DD2 got her first choice, just have to go through this all again next year. Then GCSE results, university applications, job offers, argh.

EllenJaneisstillnotmyname · 01/03/2013 01:26

DS3 has got his first choice! So relieved, it wasn't a sure thing at all. So now he'll go to the same school as his brothers. Grin (no sibling policy)

northender · 01/03/2013 00:55

Ds got 1st choice but his big worry is his best friend who lives much further away. Have texted his mum to say the offers are out but we were told "the evening of...." so it seems no-one else has bothered.

Fingers crossed for everyone.

LackaDAISYcal · 01/03/2013 00:49

Just idly checked my email (not really expecting anything till later in the day) and my DS got our first choice Grin

Just woke DH up to tell him and he was less than impressed Hmm

Suziesweets · 01/03/2013 00:47

Have u looked yet??!

Suziesweets · 01/03/2013 00:45

So lucky!!! I still have to wait 17 hours!

HolidayArmadillo · 01/03/2013 00:38

I should probably just go to sleep then and stop obsessively refreshing my emails I guess.

TheDetective · 01/03/2013 00:38

1st choice here too! Shame DS1 is fast asleep and doesn't know yet!

Suziesweets · 01/03/2013 00:36

Hertfordshire say 6pm onwards but might take HOURS depending on the network!?!

Suziesweets · 01/03/2013 00:36

Hertfordshire say 6pm onwards but might take HOURS depending on the network!?!

HolidayArmadillo · 01/03/2013 00:17

Clews???? Clues!!!