National Offer Day Waiting Room

I'm in Lancashire and I've been checking through the night, no email yet and online it says they will be available today during working hours. Can't cope with the wait!

For anyone locked out of email, It might be possible to log into the local council website and check.

Schools do find out but shouldn't disclose to children unless the children mention it first. Ds didn't get into his first choice school 5 years ago and it was his bloody 11th birthday and he was beyond gutted. We appealed with tons of medical evidence and still didn't get a place. We eventually moved him to a new school at the end of year 7 as was badly bullied in his allocated school.
New school wasn't doing too well at the time and I would never have chosen it first time round but he had 3 friends there from primary and after the bullying I just realised he needed to be happy more than anything.

School turned itself around and is now top in our borough. Ds has made best friends for life, has had the most amazing 5 years there and will cry his eyes out when he leaves in May as no sixth form and has to move. It has been pastorally wonderful.
He is expected to exceed all targets in his GCSE's this summer and is going to a top sixth form college.

To those who don't get your first choice, please don't despair. The appeal and bullying cost me my mental health and I'm still suffering years later.
What's for you won't go against you.

I’ve got a feeling that the email I used to apply I no longer have access to, it was my old iCloud email and I got locked out of it.

If I ring then will they tell me over the phone? My son is saying they find out today st school but that does t sound right to me.

Waiting here too...thankfully we have an older one at the same school so should get in.

Remember- accept the place you’re offered, even if you don’t want it. Accept- then appeal.

First choice here, but to be fair it was our only choice ( so not really a choice as such) as there are no other schools that are easy to get to from where we live. We were in catchment and the school always takes children from beyond catchment so no real stress about whether dt’s would get in. I’m really sorry for anyone who hasn’t got their choice this morning. Hope you’re successful from the waiting lists.

Yay DS got into grammar. So pleased for him. Good luck to all still waiting.

Still waiting.... Can't seem to get on the LEA website 😯😔 today's gonna be a very long day (with not much sleep last night) if we don't find out until 5pm! Anyone else waiting to hear in Walsall Westmidlands? 🤔

Anyone else in Newcastle know what time we hear ? I've heard nothing yet and have to go to work soon and put my phone in a locker. I need to know!

@pinkprincess1978

Same here, terrible school, none of our choices but I’d pretty much come to terms with it and had been realistic.
Please don’t feel you’ve failed, you’ve tried.

We have friends who moved out of the area to avoid this school but they are unable to sleep at night as are now in so much debt. They owe left right and centre and he is working himself into the ground. That’s no way to live either.

I stayed up until midnight. Ds didn't get his first choice. He got a School that's just gone into special measures.

I'm beyond gutted. I'm not going to tell him this morning as I don't want him going to school upset.

2nd place. Not showing any disappointment to ds as I don't want him to feel negative about the school.
Waiting list but not holding out much hope.

Good luck / congrats / commiserations to everyone!

We only have one school anywhere near us so it wasn't so much a first choice as an only choice. Still was bizarrely nerve wracking to check though! Good luck to anyone still waiting

She has definitely got the school she needs! I feel like a traitor to her for saying that!
I have now told her, her words... 'oh well, better to be in a school I should be in rather than a school I just about got in to'
She is gutted, but she is taking a mature attitude.

Just popping on to wish you all well. A couple of years ago my ds didnt get his first choice and then got in via the waiting list. It was very hard and we were going to appeal. I then ended up helping my friend successfully appeal.
Accept your offer and then appeal etc.

There are loads of brilliant, kind and generous people here that give advice etc. They're really helpful.

There's no option to log on anywhere and check in my area so I'm waiting for an email which will apparently come some time before 5pm. I don't think my nerves can take it!!

3rd place😭. Waiting lists for us

Tuna sounds like she has got the school she needs rather than wants. Upbeat and positive. Hopefully she will have friends going?

Oh no tuna. Don't know which area you're in but can you appeal? Go on a waiting list? I know grammars seem to work differently depending on area.

Email sent at 3.27am- 1st place offered and accepted in Nottinghamshire 😁good luck everyone 🤞

nosleepformetonight I know that the portal for our admissions area has been offline yesterday (and still is this morning). It won’t be back until the results are released, ‘sometime’ today.

My DD got her second choice. First choice was a grammar school!
She will be gutted, I don't know how I al going to tell her.
Honestly, I am relieved. The grammar school is good, but my DD does not need the added pressure to certain stresses she already has. Her dad is severely ill and will possibly pass away in her senior school time.
The school she got is an outstanding school.
How the blinking heck do I tell my hopeful DD that she didn't get into the school she has dreamed about since year 3

I stayed up till midnight - we didn't get any of our choices and got given a terrible school. I'm gutted and feel I've failed my ds with my choices for him.

Anyone know the form with East Sussex?Do I just wait for an email? Website refers to a "synergy account" but no clues as to how to access this?