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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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IShallWearMidnight · 01/03/2013 17:02

pan london system is now live - good luck everyone!

JugglingFromHereToThere · 01/03/2013 16:59

There's good advice over on another Mumsnet thread in Secondary education "not happy with the school place given" - you might have to work your way through it a bit but it's not too long (sorry I can't do links either Smile)

KCCurls · 01/03/2013 16:52

Anyone who didn't get the school place they were hoping for should check out this interesting article about what to do next and how to appeal that decision.?

prh47bridge · 01/03/2013 16:39

Provided they don't use random allocation they should be able to tell you where your daughter is on the waiting list.

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MsIngaFewmarbles · 01/03/2013 16:37

Just checked the website of our first choice school. All the girls who didn't get a place will automatically be on their waiting list.

Each ability band has it's own waiting list as it has to be an equal mix of all five bands. Do you think they will tell me how far down the list DD is so we know if there is any chance of a place?

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ChippyMinton · 01/03/2013 16:31

wordassociationfootball - they are cracking now though - nervy texts flying around!

kravings · 01/03/2013 16:26

I have such parents at my DC's school, who act as though its the last thing on their mind - they make me feel like I have just escaped from the Looney toons world when I was bouncing around with pent up fustration on the results day last year Angry!

wordassociationfootball · 01/03/2013 16:18

Chippy same at my school with the laid back. Even a couple of 'oh is it todays?'

(feeling a bit calmer now btw anyone that remembers Blush)

therontheron · 01/03/2013 16:17

A low birth year will really help... university places too!

Its good news for younger DC too because they can get sibling places if all goes well today.

kravings · 01/03/2013 16:16

Armadillo - contact the first choice school on Monday, they will be able to advise. The council cannot do any thing for you (well, not where we live Hmm).
Never lose hope - if you are persistent and build up a rapport with the school admissions office you will be guided well.
I hope all goes well for you.

HolidayArmadillo · 01/03/2013 16:08

kravings I will appeal/put her on the list but tbh I have no idea how to!

JugglingFromHereToThere · 01/03/2013 16:04

Yay lljkk, congrats Thanks

JugglingFromHereToThere · 01/03/2013 16:03

Ooh, low birth year might be good for them generally in life ?
I'm going to google and see if I can find a nice graph of stats ...

lljkk · 01/03/2013 16:01

2001-2002 cohort is part of a general birthrate dip year, afaik.
At 3:20pm rumour emerged that we would get emailed at 3:30 and the email duly arrived exactly then. DD very excited to have got her preference.

ByTheWay1 · 01/03/2013 16:00

2002 seems a low birth year over here in the West - our local primary schools have NO full Y6 between them - my DD class is 20 out of 30, the other class 21, the next school along has 23, the other local one has 2 classes of 22 - so I'm guessing a low birth year.....

ChippyMinton · 01/03/2013 15:57

I'm Surrey too therontheron, but Surrey is part of the pan-London system so we are waiting with all the London boroughs Smile

Just collected DS from school, all the parents I spoke to were pretending to be laid back. Apparently the kids were excited in school. DS has just got upset because he wants our 4th choice, which is fine by me but DH is not keen (faith being a factor here). Might be a looonngg night, with a Sad boy.

kravings · 01/03/2013 15:52

Armadillo - you may consider putting her on the waiting list for the first choice school. I know a number of parents who did that and within a few weeks got their places.
There is always a lot of movement on the waiting list in the first few weeks after 1st March.

therontheron · 01/03/2013 15:51

was 2002 a low birth year?

ByTheWay1 · 01/03/2013 15:50

logged on to ours at midnight - got first choice.... didn't really expect not to TBH - in catchment, sibling there, low birth year..... pleased anyhow......

Myliferocks · 01/03/2013 15:49

The email was in my inbox when I woke up this morning telling me that DD2 has got into her next school. It's an academy upper secondary that we're out of catchment for so we weren't to sure if she would get in although she goes to one of the two feeder schools for it. As she's yr8 if she hadn't have got in she would have had to go to the school in our town in september and be separated from all her friends.
We're a relieved household today.

therontheron · 01/03/2013 15:49

There's an option called "View the outcome of your application" but its just plain text, not a hotlink or anything. I don't think it was there earlier though...! Oh God, this waiting is awful!

therontheron · 01/03/2013 15:46

slug - no, I am in Surrey.
Does anyone else suspect that they are holding off telling us until the office is closed for the weekend? i.e. give all the disappointed parents a chance to calm down before they speak to anyone?

ArbitraryUsername · 01/03/2013 15:43

Well at least she's happy. That might be the most important thing, actually.

HolidayArmadillo · 01/03/2013 15:39

Yes I'm planning on a few Wine the typically awkward thing is that our second choice school is DD's first choice, although god only knows why.

Everhopeful · 01/03/2013 15:17

Is there any other way than eadmissions.org? Taht's all I'm getting too (that and an opportunity to look at my application...Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)