Alleyns 11+ for Sept 2023 entry

No luck for us either..I guess they over-offered and were able to fill all spaces in one go?

Morning, just wondering if anyone was offered a place from the waiting list or do you think the school didn’t make any waiting list offers this year?

Sadly we did not get a place - I wonder if there was any movement on waiting list…

They did email all undecided offer holders at the end of last week asking them to at least give an indication, so that chimes with the view above about too many offer holders being undecided. We’ve only decided this evening post state school offers and I suspect many others will be in the same position. We will be emailing them first thing tomorrow and I suspect many others will do likewise.

Do you know whether anyone on the waitlist has received an offer?

We received an email.saying there is no change. They said too many people have not responded on the offers. Has anyone heard any different? Start to think nothing will change by the end of the week.

Hopefully things will start to move now that state offers are out. Good luck to everyone waiting.

Has anyone heard? It seems little movement in the waitlist…

I don’t think you can ‘insist’ if they’ve refused and trying to do so will probably do more harm than good….

No news yet on the waiting list, I was wondering whether to give tgem a call on Thursday morning and insist that they share information on the place of my DD on the waiting list?

@ghislaine most heads who leave are leaving for another job and they usually start new positions in September. For head teachers these decisions are typically announced well in advance so the school has time to recruit a new head teacher. I’m sure there are exceptions , particularly if someone isn’t going to a new role or needs to resign for personal reasons though.

However, if the head had resigned, the governing body wouldn’t keep it a secret and the plans for how to manage the transition would be announced to the parents. None of that had happened so again I think you can ignore this ‘rumour’

Has anyone on waitlist heard yet? Thanks 🙏

Of course it would be possible - I looked into the history of Christian Hicks' departure from Charter ND. He resigned from the trust on 31 Aug and the school community were notified the first week of school in Sept.

Yes it would impact our decision too and tht is why I asked..hopefully it is just a rumour..

I'm a current parent and I haven't heard that. There is of course an extraordinary amount of movement at the moment amongst private school heads but she certainly wouldn't be leaving for this September as that wouldn't be possible at this point in the year. I wouldn't believe this @Jujubegreenwich and @Lanast

Where does this Jane Lunnon leaving rumour come from as that would impact our decision to be honest?

Many ask you (it's on the form)

Others may ask the candidate at interview

It's not a trick question - they know people are applying to several schools. It helps them decide how many offers to make. And it's in your interests that they do not under or over offer by any great extent.

There are offer holder events this week. We have an offer that we are highly likely to accept, but it seemed sensible to attend the taster day just to be 100% sure before signing on the dotted line. Others I have spoken to are doing the same. I expect the school will know more next week as hopefully most people will have made their decisions one way or another by tomorrow. I hope for your sake that people won't hold onto offers that they are not going to take until 3rd March as it must be horrible being in limbo. Good luck

Do they not ask the applicants? In two of my son’s three interviews he was asked where else he was applying.

900?!

There are so so many good state secondaries in the area. Absolute madness.

How could they possibly know how many schools each candidate had applied for though? We applied for three and two of the schools will have known about each other as the exam dates clashed, but they will have no clue whether we applied anywhere else.

My DD is also on the waiting list and it is really unnerving that there is no information which place jn the waiting list we are on, how long the list is etc. so that parents can have an idea of the likelihood of any chance even if there is movement..I also heard a rumor that Jane Lunnon (the current head) was about to move on, has anyone heard anything about that, especially parents of current students?

No they don't share thar level of detail.

They will be sharing things like "we've had 850 applications, and over 90% are trying for 5 or more schools" or "we has 950 applicants of which 55% were boys, and 85% of them are trying for 5 or more, and 95% of the girls were for 5 or more"
So they can try to work out how many actual potentiial pupils are behind the volume of applications.

They won't be sharing anything about selection for scholarships (all specific to the individual school, and number available is pretty much the same every year, so won't provide useful information that benefits either school or candidates)

AFAIK nothing is shared about individual candidates.

And they cannot share about other offers, because they won't know them

(They might share info on the total number of offers they have made, and how quickly responses are coming in. Just to help the numbers game. They won't be saying which candidates are choosing what)

It's very much in candidates' interests that schools get their numbers on target at this point!

I would have thought they were not allowed to share information about specific candidates. Surely permission would have to be given by parents to comply with GDPR?

not sure contacting the registrar repeatedly to let them know how keen you are will change your place on the waiting list. If you've already let them know you're keen then just keep your fingers crossed?