Secondary offers day is almost upon us!

WhenTheDragons.
Every secondary school has kids using and dealing drugs. Every single secondary school. Including private.

Ok, maybe some minute school in a forest somewhere. But teens is when some young people discover recreational drug use. It doesn’t mean yours will join in.

Good luck everyone. Not long since I was in your position waiting. Our LA updates the website at midnight so I stayed up to find out. It was a nerve wracking emotional night and we ended up with first choice.

Keeping fingers crossed for you all.

I'm starting to have concerns about our first choice and kind of hoping we get second. Both are quite far away from us but took children from a large area in previous years.

The 1st choice school had a minus progress 8 score last year and someone told me there is a drug problem there. Still it's better than our nearest school which is awful. It's been required improve for years and no matter how much money they throw at it nothing has changed.

DD2s friends have all applied to different schools. At the moment she doesn't seem bothered but not sure if that will last when it is confirmed!

The whole process has been very stressful!

Do you know what even though I knew it was 1st March I hadn't twigged how close it was!! 😮 Will be happy with either of our choices and accept the school she will get placed in if both the first 2 fall through. She is moving away from most of her class with both our choices so friendship issues not really a consideration. Just whether she is on a bus or walking/cycling to school.

@reluctantbrit this is the same in our borough. Our DD was in one of the many bulge reception classes and last year they had to make over 5 bulge classes in the secondary schools and most catchments were still less than a mile. Our top two catchments were 0.53 miles and over 30 ehcp appeals for the school we’ve just got. To say I’m relieved is an understatement.

Had ours for over a week due to EHCP. We got second choice, moderately happy and may turn out to be better than first because it's a smaller school. Hoping he doesn't hate it!

I was sure it was end of March! Shit!

Ha I've been on the point of starting this thread since 1st Jan but have always managed to talk myself out of it! 

Congrats @malmontar on your DD's place, IIRC all your options were good ones so great that she's got one of the top 2.

On very fringes by distance of our 1st choice here, will be sweating it through spring (and quite possibly most of the summer...) on the waiting list. Friday week is just the starting whistle for us!

I only put one choice down. Already got 2 there and it’s the only secondary in town.

It’s really laid back here about school places - everyone seems to get where they want even if it’s out of catchment 🙂

We put 4 choices. 1 & 2 are grammar schools ds passed exam for but he's not in a guaranteed position.
3 is a good school but out of catchment
4 is our catchment school and is still a good school. (It's well sought after around here even out of catchment)
..so even though we hope for 1 or 2 we should be in a good school whatever the outcome.... But the waiting is killing me.

Good luck, while I was fairly certain we would get our first choice I still felt very nervous and checked the website constantly in the afternoon.

Our borough had to take in 26 bulge classes in the Reception year of the children who get their secondary offer this year. Spaces at secondary will be tight, I feel for 2 friends who hope for a 1st choice but it may be touch and go.

Whatever you do, accept the school offered.
(Though, presumably by the fact you are posting on this board you already know that. )

I just want it to be over, October seems a long time ago. Hoping that ds gets his first choice as despite everything that has been thrown at him, he made it possible. I'm not ready for my pfb to leave primary school and go into the big wide world though!

Trying to get DS into an out of catchment school which is oversubscribed this year, DD is there already but got in fine. Its a free school, when she got in we got a letter of acceptance straight from them in January, nothing this year.

This was me last year!

However even if you don't get first choice don't panic - we got 4th then mid April we got 3rd, a week later we got 2nd (declined as preferred 3rd) The day before term started we got offered 1st (which we declined as just too late!)

FallenSky Don't know, but I am not expecting much sleep the night before.

I’m not worried as DC is in the Year 6 academy which feeds into year 7.

Plus we live opposite the school, so can’t see them sending DC somewhere else.

Good luck to all of you who had to make choices though, hope you get what you want.

That's good news mal, fingers crossed for the rest of us

Never in my life have I felt nerves and anxiety quite like I'm experiencing now. It's come as quite a shock! Our first choice is our closest but massively oversubscribed and the distance criteria from previous years just gives me a headache. So I've really got no idea whether we've got a chance or not.

Hurry up March 1st! Anyone know roughly what time the emails get sent?

There is only one secondary school near us and ds1 already goes there so fairly certain ds2 will get in. It's the actual starting the school in September that I'm nervous about.

I'm feeling nervous. My DD1 has her heart set on a popular school that we're not in catchment for, but there is a chance we'll get in. If not, we should get second choice catchment school which is ok, but I know DD will be disappointed. Keeping fingers crossed.

We had ours on Friday so a little early due to EHCP but got our second choice and really happy with it. Everyone is excited for sept now. Hope you all get what you’re expecting/hoping for.

March 1
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst is my motto too.

I have been trying diversion therapies like going to the gym more often and knitting baby blankets for the local neonatal unit.

When is it?

I'm totally worst case scenario-ing but have that tendency in all areas of life