Who else finds out about their dc's secondary school place next week ??

I'm so scared reading these. We get ours on Tuesday....

Thanks Christy, the schools up here are pretty much all the same unless you can pay for an independent school so it wasn't too traumatic for us, I really feel for those with failing schools in their catchment, the wait must be awful.

Glad you got your choice too Totallyfloaty!

Got it today - very relieved as we got first choice.

We got ours today,was not expecting it til Tuesday,was shaking as i opened it with DD2.She got in to her first choice and i was so relieved i burst into tears(have had to fight for all other school places for dd1 and 2 previously)

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We got ours yesterday (Lancashire) via email first thing and then the letter came in the post. We got our first choice, I think most of DS1's friends did.

Tuesday morning's post here. We don't officially have catchments but where oversubscribed (which first choice school always is) they go by closest as the crow flies - and we're reasonably close. Should be OK, but there's always this tiny "what if" nagging doubt. 2nd choice school is pretty ropey.

oh gawd. According to the Guardian, a survey of local authorities shows that 1 in 5 children will not get a place at their chosen school this year.....

I feel properly sick with nerves.

Mind you I'll settle for any of the schools we put down. But in our area, I have heard that if you don't get into the first-choice school, you automatically get given a place at No-Hope High, even if it wasn't one of your choices. Which oddly enough, always has spare places

Think we find out tomorrow - Royal Mail permitting. Says parents to be notified by 1st March. (Lancs)

Don't think I'll sleep tonight.

Have just double checked - I will get an email on Monday.

Good luck to everyone!

Thank goodness - a support thread.

We're waiting too. I'm slightly confused as to when we actually hear - Monday? Tuesday?

We only just moved here and I genuinely don't know if I made the right choices on the form. The area is partially selective, so I'm thinking there is just going to be an element of fate in the allocation.

Bought masses of chocolate cake of various descriptions today. Suspect it may have been allocations-related.

We find out monday by email. 2 Years ago we were waiting to find about DS. We had applied for an out of catchment school under technical ability which was only 18 places. We were told we could go online after 2pm, but I got the email about 12

This year DD should be going under the sibling rule, but I am dreading I have made a mistake.I have already put her date of birth wrong on the school's own form In my defense dd's and ds's birthdays are only a few days apart.
Last year the school lost a few of their own application forms and ds's friends sister had to go to appeal, although the school were really good and she was automatically given a place at appeal.

We do.... "Monday 2rd March - Allocation decision letter will be sent by first
class post to your home address" - so hopefully a letter on Tuesday.
Live in a selective area, DD failed 11+ (not by much but by enough not to get in on appeal). Very nervous as just out of zone for the high school we want and the only school she's guaranteed a place at is not where we or she want. So I can see another appeal coming on. Good luck everyone!

I thought the sibling rule applied in any area. Fortunately it does here - I won't have to go trhough this 4 times!

It's such a shame that the sibling rule doesn't apply for us, feel a bad parent that DS2 may not have the same educational chances as DS1. Never thought it would be a problem when we moved here, once one was in then we would be ok. No such luck

We have a sibling rule that should apply, but am terrified of counting my chickens. Feel sick, but that's probably due to the memories of last time with DS.

oh my goodness i had all this last year, it was awful - i was applying to oversubscribed school on exceptional needs category - but to be honest it wasnt really that exceptional - just a fab school and i teach there - i was in pieces from the moment i applied. My second son "should" be ok this year as he now has sibling and i had church support form but still wont be happy till i get the letter.

good luck everyone, not long now.

Dd3 waiting to hear about getting into dd1's school. It's out of catchment but being a sibling she will get in. I'm slightly nervous incase I've filled in the non-sibling form by mistake and she gets dd2's school by default! She'll kill me!

Monday online from 8am. Ds2 wants to got to the same school as Ds1, but because we live outside the catchment area the sibling rule does not apply. As it is oversubscribed not expecting him to get in, I am ready for the the fight!

Oh it's wretched isn't it mollyroger. I hope you're lucky.

We are so borderline - other years people have got in, but we have been warned that the private school admissions for secondary have dropped so we might be too far out.

Me, we get ours via email on the 3rd.

We are in catchment, but my dd's year has 3 classes in it and they have to take children from outlying villages as well. So I do have my fingers have crossed although it should be ok.

Goodness knows where they would place dd if she didn't get in as all the others schools she could go to are heavily oversubscribed.

I can't check online while at work. And tbh, I'm not sure I dare check before work/school as the result is , sadly, likely to be one of great disappointment to us and our lad. There might be tears....