Its 2018....countdown to 1st March secondary school allocations!

Gileswithachainsaw - voice of bitter experience?

I agree with ignoring the voices of doom. One friend who has a dc already at our preferred school mentioned that applications are "up" this year. NOT what I needed to hear! She's a lovely woman though and I really don't think it was done out of malice but I still hated her a little bit.

The voice of doom inside my own head though - that's the one I find really hard to switch off.

Oh don't talk.

That's where you find out people lied and that's where you find out that despite living ten miles away they got in when your neighbour didn't.

A million things that seem really unfair come out and unless you want to be seriously angry for weeks keep your head down

Makes a whole mockery of the system if it is true. I don’t trust anyone in these situations, especially what 10 & 11 year olds repeat! I expect every child has gone home this evening and shared the information with family members......I think will avoid the school gates for the next 24 hours, thankfully it’s bloody freezing and I can drive by and drop off in the morning. I’m pretty sure the data will have ‘changed’ by 2moro evening

I do sometimes wonder if people just like to play a bit. Like crush your hopes just a teeny bit. No one should be telling anyone anything.

If they did then that makes them u trustworthy surely and the info dodgy by default?

I don’t know, the parent is a councillor.....maybe it is accurate. I hope my child will come out of school (whichever it will end up being) with a better grip of grammer than I have though .

Oh god all this "extra Info" people seem to know makes it so much worse doesn't it.

How do they know this stuff.

The waiting is unbearable. My child came home today and told me that someone in the class whose parent works at the council have said that only 10 places (for the sort after school in the area) have been allocated to their school There are approx 14 siblings applying for this school, not to mention the ones without siblings. Part of me is livid that this breach of information has been shared, the other part of me believes this is a load of bollocks and surely no one would be that stupid to have discussed such confidential information with their child. Roll on 2moro at midnight when I can log in to see what we have got. I wasn’t that stressed until tonight .

I cannot take the wait . 2 more sleeps for me find out at 5pm 😓

Aargh! I can’t take the wait!! Everyone knows except me!

Hello everyone, I am trying to stay sane waiting for Thursday. DD did well in her 11+ but she is my eldest & so researching and reassuring myself frantically. She couldn’t care less, (but very much wants her 1st choice school). Good luck everyone.

Herts have said the allocation emails will be going out in the afternoon of 1st March which feels unnecessarily harsh. JUST TELL US ALREADY

Good luck everyone

Just read on 11plusforum that one SW Herts school has put it's 2018 data on it's website already!

One more sleep for us I think but I cant really tell from the council website. Will they tell us under what criteria a place has been allocated?

Oh, Bees - fingers crossed for you, hopefully you can log on at 00.01, breathe a sigh of relief and have a wonderful night's sleep. AFTER updating us all on here, of course!

I'm assuming Kent won't post until the afternoon as that's what happened with the 11+ results. But it won't stop me obsessively checking from midnight...

Ours posts at midnight, apparently, and the emails arrive in the wee small hours. So one sleep for us. I will be staying up. Eek.

TWO MORE SLEEPS! Unless your council is kind enough to post results at midnight, in which case, it's only one! Can't bear the waiting now, just want to know, even if it's not what I am hoping for.

Another anxious waiter here. We are in Essex but our first choice is just across the border in Herts. Hoping DS will get a place OK as DD is already there.

Not sure what time allocation will be available to view on the website. With DD 4 yeas ago I logged in at midnight and found out then, this time website is a bit vague.

Hi, just on her to put a little supportive message for all but in particular anyone who has to wait a little longer than 1st March for their news. We had to wait for the result to arrive in the post as my son is an out of year placement (Aug birthday and could be in the year above the one he's actually in). The extra 2 days felt like a very long time.

Thanks tiggytape for clarifying WL situation upthread, you obviously know a lot about it.

Can I join too? West London here, literally on my mind every waking minute DD is my first to go up. Anyone else wondering how on earth it's already time for them to leave Primary School?!

North London enfield

Exactly teen I keep reminding myself that all 6 schools are pretty brilliant so it really doesn't matter . . . DS seems to have forgotten about it for now but will remember later this week for sure . . Also, 1st March not necessarily end of story. Here if you don't get first choice you are automatically on waiting list for higher choices and given dense population, number of schools and so on - not to mention private school parents waiting on Grammar School/scholarship places whatever - I would expect quite a lot of WL movement over spring and summer.

Joining in as another Hertfordshire one! I'm SW Herts and DS1 did well enough in the consortium test that he should get a place at #1 choice but you never know! According to the website of one of the secondaries, the email goes about 4pm. I was going to leave work early to pick him up from school and tell him the news (and have a nosey at everyone else too tbh!) but probably won't be out by then. Come on Thursday!

Indeed - I'm always careful to stress that our less-than-ideal catchment school "is not really suited to DD" when discussing it. It is good for children into sports though, so I sometimes mention that. Many of their extra curricular sports teachers go or went there so I'm always careful!

That said, we're one of the few not in catchment for our #3 school, which is pretty decent. So most will be going to #3 anyway - I doubt many, if any, will be at our catchment school.