11 plus support thread 2022

I guess it's quite a good thing because some children may be feeling a bit "off" on the day of the exam, be it illness or nerves and won't perform to the best of their ability.

Just a very minor correction – you can actually appeal whatever your score was in Bucks, although the closer you are to the qualifying score the more likely your appeal is to be successful, generally speaking. Wouldn't want to put a parent off appealing because their DC scored, say, 116.

@Maybetoofarsouth heh.
the TLDR is Bucks has a system you can appeal for a borderline result. that’s all.

@Aethelfleda great news!

Congratulations @Aethelfleda!! even though I don't understand any of your posts about the Bucks review

Ah that's great news @Aethelfleda , fingers crossed for the rest of us now!

Congratulations that's great news.

Less than 2 weeks til we get the school places offer. Even if we're almost certain DD will get the school she wants I just want the offer in black and white.

thanks! It’s been a long road this time, at least we know where we are now. DS very happy and I’m very happy we don’t have to do this again!

Congratulations that's brilliant news

Aw, congratulations! That's fantastic news and must be such a relief .

Congratulations @Aethelfleda

Phew, Review was successful! We really couldn’t tell which way it would go, so this is just great for him. Obviously don’t have the place offer til 1st March but now he’s officially passed he should be okay for one as they have a sibling rule at this particular grammar. Good luck to anyone else waiting for results

Is it today you get the review results? Hoping it's gone ok for you x

The school I am hoping for for my son does an opening evening then too- I missed it last year as just wasn't expecting it to be at that time , so will be good to take DS if all goes well.

DD is so ready to leave primary school now. But she still seems so small to be going to secondary.

She keeps talking about "when I go to Ds school" not if, but when!!

I told DH that if she gets in then we can go to the open evening they usually have June/July time so she can look around again. She loved it last year but I was trying to downplay it and big up other schools too because she hasn't done the test yet. So would be great to look around and know that was where she is going.

September is going to feel very close think once we have the school offers. Feels like a big step towards adulthood to be honest. Have had lovely winter sunshine here so was chance to get out with DS today.

Sooo nearly there! Hope you’re all having a good half term. mine have all got minor sniffles
but we’re trying to crack on and get a bit of a break…

Yes @ElvenDreamer , I know what you mean about just wanting it all done and dusted.
Even though I am quite sure DS would be an ideal fit in the grammar, as his curiosity/personality is very much suited to that sort of approach, I think it would do him a disservice (and psychologically not be fair to either of us) to drag him through the whole appeals shebang if this doesn’t work. I know he’s capable, it’s just a bit excruciating how the system strings it all out. At least Bucks does have the review system: Slough doesn’t (the Slough grammars just don’t care if their intake come from miles away as long as they all get A*s to make the schools look fantastic in league tables, they are v oversubscribed so aren’t at all invested in local appeals)

It's crawling so slowly now, it's killing me! DS informed me the other day that he's prepared to sit on a waiting list if needed, I don't think my nerves can take that, I need this to be over on March 1st!

Fingers crossed for your review @Aethelfleda .

@UsernameOfMine we are just trying very hard to ignore it all now! At least it’s halfterm so we can throw ourselves into fun (distracting) things….

It feels like it is dragging soooooooooooooo much 😖

DD asks everyday if we've found out yet, just in case they've sent the school places out early.

@FebruaryWhining
It’s on the official Bucks CC website!
I didn’t find it, someone else on the elevenplus forum linked to it:

Bucks county council Review results table 2023

What's the website for the aggregate Bucks results please?

Good luck to you @Aethelfleda

two days til the Bucks Review results here!
(which is the big decider for us)

Though apparently someone in Bucks pressed “publish” early on the aggregate results, which I’ve not seen before. Means some of the lower scoring review appeals (where there is only 1 or 2 Reviews for that score) could work out in advance of results if they are through or not.
DS’s score (0.5 points off) had 139 reviews so we are still crossing everything, as it could go either way….

Everyone is being very restrained.... 😁

2 weeks tomorrow. And I'm alway with work so DH will have to deal with it whatever the outcome.

I was doing fine until this morning I was reading a thread about a family moving to London and someone posted stats showing the high birth rate in 2011 and 2012. Typical!

How is everyone else holding up?