Secondary school place allocation - 1 March

Yes.

The town my dad lives in the RC has a number of 'feeder' schools, all RC of course. One of the feeder schools is in another town 7-8 miles away that doesn't have an RC secondary.

Thank you - really appreciate that. We've been given a second choice that is OK but I'm now panicking that I should have put down as a second choice a school that more of DS' friends are going to. Argh

I think it's possible to email the council and ask to be put on waiting lists for schools not applied for or further down the preference list

Got our offer, none of our choices nor catchment. School offered is slightly further but not any worse really than catchment and potentially better as it has a bus. I am waiting for my Y6 to wake to see how he feels. 90% of his year will be in his first choice school so I'm expecting disappointment sadly. If I want to put him on the wait list for another school does anyone know how I do that?

We have friends about to turn a grammar place down in favour of a private school. It does happen. People also relocate. Keep the faith.

We're in exactly the same position. Sending you some very positive vibes. Off to phone the grammar later this morning to see if I can get an idea about waiting list. We have quite a unique circumstance which means that DS should be top of the waiting list or very near the top but does anyone turn down a place at a grammar school - I'm thinking not

Got a waitlist for grammar so going to not such a good school for now. It was a e mail and the portal isn't showing an offer so must take time to update. My son had 3 yeses for his application so a shock and not looking forward to telling him so struggling to get back to sleep 😭 Good luck everyone.

2nd choice here. Son is going to be very upset in the morning ☹️

Ds4 has an ehcp so we found out during half term. We asked for our catchment school and the senco said that they could accommodate him but they needed more funding. L.A. have us the school we wanted but not the extra money. Kind of wishing we had asked for the lovely SEN school and then the LA might have been willing to compromise by giving us the catchment school with the extra money.

Checked the portal at midnight, took an age to get in but we got first choice.
And that pretty much means child no 2 is in next year.
Feeling very relieved

I’ve stayed up and no email, rural wales, I only put one school and out of the catchment.

Quite complicated, parents have parental rights of DS1 also (MH post partum hospital stay).
The school is closer to them but also a smaller school with better needs for his circumstances- he too struggles socially/emotionally.
School in our catchment is literally 10x the size & a very bad rep. We live in a “rough” area.

Im also in and out of hospital a lot so whilst there is buses from parents to the school we’ve picked, there isn’t one coming to the town I live in.

Basically it’s complicated and really need this choice but it’s a long shot.

Ours went on the portal at exactly midnight. Got our 1st choice- knew very likely due to sibling, but still had The Fear that I'd messed up the application somehow!

Good luck everyone.

Email arrived, got 1st choice, relieved.

Now I have to contact the school to organise starting in September. Seems so far away, but it'll be here in the blink of an eye. 😁

Same here no email yet but the online portal showed the offered place. Thankfully we got our first choice.

I haven't got an email - but went to portal at 12.04 and it said we got 1st choice (which I wasn't really expecting) - good luck to everyone!

We only have three options! I would be happy with any of the three tbh.

And no portal, we have to wait for an email.

I did this too. I'm either going to be thrilled or kicking myself but too late now! Good luck!

That is what we will be doing. I live on the doorstep of the school that I even didn't apply to. But thank God here in London we have catchments and a wide choice of options

If you check their FB page they say that the 2nd March comment is a mistake and it'll be tomorrow by 9am

This was in active - so not waiting this year but just wanted to say good luck everyone - I remember the night before well.

DD is yr8 now. She showed me the headteacher video this evening for the new starters that was filmed today to send tomorrow.

Fwiw - Dd had a friend who got 1 school on offer day, went to a 2nd for a transition day, and started at a 3rd in Sept and is doing brilliantly - tomorrow might only be the start of the journey.

Oh god, I am so nervous

That's interesting @LilySLE - I suppose I had assumed it was the same everywhere. Four doesn't seem many.

Worrying about the baby boom thing now. It's definitely the case in our area, but I thought last academic year was the peak. I hope we at least get our banker.

I have logged into the portal about 5 times today despite knowing it will probably be tomorrow evening.

Absolutely dreading it. Primary school allocation was awful for us, the LA email
system failed and we had to phone them. We got 3rd choice, so stressful waiting and not able to get through to them and then finding out he was 1 of 2 kids from the nursery class who didn't get a place. It did work out ok in the end.

So nervous. I just want things to go right for my DS for a change.

Spent yesterday panicking that I'd forgotten to apply or that I'd misunderstood the form and done it wrong. I've also put a school on there that I've changed my mind about, I really don't want him to go there.

I also don't know what time the email should come through. So I want to wait up until midnight but not convinced there would be any point.