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

tiggy

Could I possibly pm you the school.

I just want a second opinion in how far to go. I have looked through first choice school and there is nothing to appeal for really. Im toying with appealing for a schopl I haven't even seen once I've looked through prospectus properly and seen.if I can.find something but an opinion on an.ofsted woykd be useful if that would be ok? Would give a sense of urgency and whether appeal is worth hassle

Gemm in case it helps you (or helps others to help you), here are The Latymer School’s published admission procedures for 2018 entry.

You will see what it says about the (up to) 20 places available for Inner Area applicants with “exceptional musical talent” at item 4 of the oversubscription criteria on page 2.

Hope that helps somewhat.

This time last year I was devastated. Ds1 had been allocated a single sex academy we hadn't even considered let alone put as a preference - we made the error of not putting catchment school down as he had been bullied by one of the children from his primary for years only to find out he wasn't going there. We changed preferences and got nowhere so we appealed for catchment school and somehow managed to convince the appeal panel that he should get a place. When we won the appeal he was 3rd on the waiting list and there is still a waiting list with 43 children on it. There is hope even if it doesn't feel like it right now, just make sure you appeal and make the strongest case you possibly can.

This year, we put the catchment school as number 1 preference for dd2 and she was allocated a place straight away. Massive lesson learned from the previous year and a very happy and relieved family!

I mentioned upthread that I knew a few people who only put one school on the preference form. Unfortunately one of these people has the message "X was not given a place at X school" when she logs in to view the offer, it doesn't give her a place at any other school. How does she now go about getting a place somewhere?

Hi he did invited of second round of the test we are also inner area he also got grade 5 Music certificate which is not distinction they haven't invate him for audition is well when I phone school they said his grade 5 pass they just invited who has merit in grade 5

Sorry Gemm - by Latymer Grammar (which everyone calls it round here) I obviously mean The Latymer School. But it’s not clear whether you are saying he was put through to the second round or not, & more generally whether you think a mistake was made of some sort which affected the outcome of his application.

Gemm - the relevance of a top-650 place in Part 1 of the Latymer Grammar assessment process is that that is the cut-off threshold for invitations to sit Part 2 of the assessment (for 192 places this year). Are you saying that your DS was, or was not, invited to sit Part 2 - and if he did sit it, how did he get on when results came out last autumn?

You will be aware the that school made clear in advance that, in determining the top 650 candidates, they would be giving priority to those residing in defined “Inner Area” postcodes as at 12.01.2018.

Thank you tiggytape for your advice

Hi everyone I need advice about appeal basically my son was ranked top 650 The latymer school first round but he couldn't after second round because of outer area candidates ranked higher than I ve emailed school to provide his scores which they have send it to me I don't know if any of you heard about whatdotheyknow site which you can check top 650 candidates scores from first round I checked all the way down to 2389 students scores which my son score wasn't matching any of them i ve emailed school they said to me it's IT glitch if I appeal on this ground would it be successful appeal thank you

Still have no idea on what school we have! Council not responding. The wonderful 1st choice have responded to my enquiry but 18th on waitlist! Pretty much no chance. Second school is even more oversubscribed (as not a church school) so fat chance there. So it’s Indie we go and pay the price.

Anyone in Sutton borough, the council have now got their last admitted distances available: drive.google.com/file/d/11RP224JZ2pzxa2R2xS_Ses0LSPTNGlPH/view

Sefton do it when they do the info for next year's applicants.
You could do an FOI Rewn. It should be in the public domain

Our council never publish the info online.

Lab, do you mean how many got in and under what criteria (and which ones still have vacancies etc.)? I think it varies from council to council as to when they do that. Ours (Staffs) came out the night we got our emails, next door (Telford and Wrekin) haven't published it yet and for all I know may not do so for months.

Thanks mary I'll keep checking

Lab it’s already on at least one London Borough council website but certainly not all yet.

At least two parents in our class had no offer. I really feel for them, it must be so hard. The very best of luck to all coping with waiting lists and uncertainty.

How are you all finding out your council's allocation data? I can find nothing for Sunderland.

To those few who may be slightly disappointed with offers, don’t be, if it makes you feel any better, the email I got from eAdmissions simply says ‘no possible offers’! We don’t even have a single school yet! We will just have to wait for movement across the borough I guess. Stick with it guys, it will all work out.

P.s. To those who got offered preferred choice of school. Congrats and well done! A big, well deserved relief no doubt.

Oh yes we will start thinking hard . . . When you do get an offer from the waiting list, that's actually the only time in the whole process you get presented with a straight-forward choice - do you want this one or that one? But I know you have to be quick about it so need to prepare response in advance.

OMG . . . I've just discovered he's in position 3 on waiting list for School 2 . . . . HELP!