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Is it too soon to start a 1st March (secondary school allocation day) support thread?

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teddygirlonce · 03/02/2017 14:37

DD has six good options on her CAF - we will be happy if she gets any of those six but there are no other local schools we would be happy for her to be allocated/offered Shock - and private schooling is not an option.

So just a bit nervous and already counting down the days until we find out which school she's been allocated (if at all).

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dancemom · 28/02/2017 17:16

It's only for England not the whole country!

Scotland don't announce till April 30th!

Trb17 · 28/02/2017 17:13

Ha ha! I might lose as if I get first preference I'll be delayed due to dancing around the living room but you're on atheistmantis Grin

Trb17 · 28/02/2017 17:11

Thanks for the tip tiggytape. If we need to appeal I'll follow your advice.

atheistmantis · 28/02/2017 17:10

trb so, are we having a competition to see who is first to check the offer and accept it? last time I accepted the place before 5 past midnight

SirRaymondClench · 28/02/2017 17:10

Thank you Tiggy let's hope I don't need to appeal but good to know where to come if we do.

Good luck everyone! Hope you all get the place you want! Wine

atheistmantis · 28/02/2017 17:09

It's tomorrow for middle schools to high schools as well, mid April is first/primary to middle/high.

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justgivemethepinot · 28/02/2017 16:52

santas primary/lower schools find out in April. Primary to secondary/ middle to upper schools find out tomorrow.

Trb17 · 28/02/2017 16:50

atheistmantis Grin I only checked once today

SirRaymondClench · 28/02/2017 16:47

Can I ask (as this is the first time I've done this) if DD doesn't get her first choice what do I have to do to appeal it? Will it come up as an option on the Local Council website or do I go directly to through the school itself?

SantasLittleMonkeyButler · 28/02/2017 16:45

Is it tomorrow for the whole of UK? DN is waiting to hear about her high school place (moving up from middle school). Will that be tomorrow? For some reason I thought it was April Confused.

atheistmantis · 28/02/2017 16:45

Trb and iMatter - so did I. I may have checked more than once

Buttercupsandaisies · 28/02/2017 16:37

Actually it says emails sent in the morning - it could be that the online is earlier but if I remember rightly from primary, someone had to activate it (last time it was 5pm) so I'm guessing it's 9am

Buttercupsandaisies · 28/02/2017 16:35

I was going to stay up but Lancashire are saying it only goes live in the morning!

I'm almost 100% guaranteed first choice but it'll still be nice to have it in writing

Trb17 · 28/02/2017 16:35

iMatter ha ha great minds Grin

Trb17 · 28/02/2017 16:34

I'm staying up. Its driving me mad so no point trying to sleep until I know. My day off tomorrow too Smile

iMatter · 28/02/2017 16:33

Hahaha Trb17 - I did exactly the same thing about half an hour ago!

atheistmantis · 28/02/2017 16:31

So who else is staying up until midnight to log and and have a look? It's my day off tomorrow so I'm going to stay up.

Trb17 · 28/02/2017 16:27

Our 1st choice is fully logo'd. Even down to the PE socks! Knowing our DD she'll lose half of it too Shock

Just checked admissions website again.
1). To check login still works but mostly...
2). Desperately hoping they'd accidentally published the results early Grin

No luck!

justgivemethepinot · 28/02/2017 16:25

Ah shit I sound like my mother

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teddygirlonce · 28/02/2017 16:25

Some of the uniforms (the ones that can only be bought from one retailer) are really expensive, with the girls' ones costing more than the boys'!

I recall we spent about £300 on DS's uniform in Year 7 (and then he had to change to senior school uniform in Year 10 too).

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justgivemethepinot · 28/02/2017 16:24

It's all the PE kit gubbins though, blimey, when I was at school it was polo shirt, shorts and optional netball skirt. Now it's a top for this, a hoody for that, different socks for various sports......!!

MrGrumpy01 · 28/02/2017 16:18

Luckily my first choice school has a fairly low key uniform policy. Blazer, tie and jumper are official but it seems most other things are just standard.

Our 3rd choice is fully logo'd. The one school we visited the trousers alone were £15 a pair nearly.

prh47bridge · 28/02/2017 15:59

I have our appeal documents ready already (long story) so at least I can submit them as soon as I get the notification and we can hopefully be one of the first cases heard

Just spotted this comment from JustEatYourDinner 9 days ago.

There is no advantage in getting your appeal in early. No appeals are heard until the deadline for appeals has passed. All appeals for a school are heard by the same panel who will not decide any of the appeals until they've heard all of them. All that matters is that you get your appeal in before the deadline.

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