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Nervous about Secondary School allocations out this week!

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PinotLover · 23/02/2021 09:25

Just another to thing to stress about but it's for my PFB so never been through it before. We find out on the 1st March, am being a silly stress head on here rather than in real life. Any one else? We are in the same postcode as the school we prefer, so it's a big deal if it goes wrong!

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KitHenry · 01/03/2021 00:25

Just looked at their GCSE results for last year (2020) it was their best year ever with 31% of pupils getting 5 or above in English and Maths. The top achieving pupil at the school got 4 grade 8’s and 4 grade 7’s 😭
I wish we had the 11+ here, my child’s teacher told me he is one of the most able pupils he’s ever taught and thinks he is gifted. Not saying that boast just to say why I’m so unhappy to be allocated the worst school in the county.

nevernotstruggling · 01/03/2021 00:25

@Ironfloor269 Plymouth with the 11+

Ironfloor269 · 01/03/2021 00:22

Congratulations to those who got the schools they wanted. @KitHenry I'm sorry, I hope you are able to join the waiting list for a higher preference school.

@BunsyGirl and @nevernotstruggling, please may I know which counties you are in? My DD got 3rd choice outstanding comprehensive school. Our 1st and 2nd choices were both grammar. 1st choice was a super selective.

BunsyGirl · 01/03/2021 00:18

@nevernotstruggling really tempted to do the same with my DS but DH says no!!!

KitHenry · 01/03/2021 00:15

I’ve no idea what to do. I’m so depressed. They don’t even have an option for separate sciences at GCSE

BunsyGirl · 01/03/2021 00:13

We got first choice grammar. So happy! Still won’t be able to sleep though!

nevernotstruggling · 01/03/2021 00:13

We can see our offer. Dd1 1st choice grammar. I woke her up to tell her

FairfaxHigh · 01/03/2021 00:11

Oh no @KitHenry- cross posted. Sorry it's not better news. Do you think you might have a chance on the waiting list?

Fingers crossed tge waiting list comes through for you @Rosesformama. Surely you must be near (if not the) top.

How frustrating @EasterBonnet. I had to click view offer too but yours might be different.

Hope you aren't waiting long @Longdistance

Bati · 01/03/2021 00:08

@louisejxxx fantastic news 😊
I have just checked - not updated yet, so the wait continues x

bex12345 · 01/03/2021 00:07

@EasterBonnet

Great news! I have just checked ours and it says place offered but not where the place is!
Same here!
FairfaxHigh · 01/03/2021 00:06

Fantastic @louisejxxx

We got our 2nd choice, which was the one DS really wanted and I'm very happy with too. So relieved. Hope everything goes well for everyone else too.

Rosesformama · 01/03/2021 00:06

Hi
DD hasn't got first choice, but her friend 200 yards away has - it's 200 yards south and about 10 metres East, and school is East of us both.

I guess she must be near top of wait list. Anyone know approximately how much movement there is in city schools? Not London but I do know of 3 or 4 in her year who are going private (and I assume have applied for state places which they will then turn down?)

No sleep for me!

KitHenry · 01/03/2021 00:05

Well ours have come through. I’m in tears we got none of our preferences and have been given a place at a awful school where only about 40 have to go to each year and had just 2% of children get 5 GCSEs.

Longdistance · 01/03/2021 00:05

I hope we get to know soon. The private ‘back up’ school was had is closing down later this year 😔

EasterBonnet · 01/03/2021 00:05

Great news!
I have just checked ours and it says place offered but not where the place is!

louisejxxx · 01/03/2021 00:03

Just checked out of chance completely not expecting to have updated at exactly midnight....ds in at 1st choice grammar school!

twilightcafe · 28/02/2021 23:48

Wishing you all the best of luck.

FairfaxHigh · 28/02/2021 23:31

I'm definitely in the staying up camp too (just hope they haven't changed the time that they update it here!)

Starting to irrationally stress about our 3rd choice too. Out of the two realistic possibilities left, we had sound reasons for choosing it over the other and it was more of a 'banker' too as virtually guaranteed to get in. Lots of families seem to have picked the other one as 3rd choice though which is making me doubt myself. Nothing I can do about it now of course and really hoping for 1st or 2nd anyway. Brain won't shut up though. Need to find myself something constructive to do for next half hour or so I think.

nevernotstruggling · 28/02/2021 23:18

I've been told by other parents it's an email after midnight here. I'll be surprised if dd1 doesn't get 1st choice grammar but I'm still a bit anxious

Bati · 28/02/2021 23:11

I am staying up too. I should be able to see at 12.30am.
If it's not the school dd wants it will give me time before she finds out x

KitHenry · 28/02/2021 22:57

Usually find out on the parent portal just after midnight here. I’m staying up - don’t think I could sleep even if I wanted to.

Dartsplayer · 28/02/2021 22:24

@mrscee

Me too, my twins are year 6 and the school they both want is the next street along so it's probably guaranteed but I'm still worried.
I've got twins waiting to find out tomorrow too. They already have a sibling in the school so should be ok but until its in writing I will still be nervous
OnlyBejoking · 28/02/2021 22:23

I think where I am they load them online and send out the emails during the early hours. People stay up to check here. I can't bear the thought of the stress at bedtime if it isn't the result we want so I'm off to bed.

AlwaysLatte · 28/02/2021 22:20

I think typically they tend to send the emails out later to avoid the awkwardness at the school gates of some having got their results and some not. Gives people a chance to learn the results and process them overnight. So it's usually after 4pm, but I might be completely wrong about the reason!

Cattitudes · 28/02/2021 22:14

Although 99.9% sure ds will get first choice, still apprehensive in case of clerical error and whether his friends will join him. He will be fine without friends going, but more calming those first few days to see a familiar face, think the secondary usually try to put them with one other friend.

Hope you all get a school your child ends up enjoying and thriving in. The first child to go up always feels a bit scary, but mine have thrived at secondary.