Waiting for that secondary school letter (1st march?)

Still no news here. Lousy promise breakers.

I live in Herts and got the emails around 1pm even though they say they are sent after 2. If youy were notified by email then you found out before those who chose post.

We are not getting any emails. I did get a text message on Saturday morning teling me I could log on to the website to view the outcome of the application for Junior School. But by then I had already opened that morning's post and seen the letter offering dd a place.

Tomorrow is teh results day for secondary schools here. I will be at work (I work in a Junior School) so logging on will be hard (am in class with children virtually all the time) so will just read the letter when I get home.
Am starting to get nervous about it now though. Even though our nearest school is our first choice and we are slap bang in the catchment area...

Here in Glos, they give the impression that emails are sent out throughout the morning - they warn you that there are a lot and it may take some time to do. Think all counties are differnet though.

I am waiting impatiently but do not know why. DH just been made redundent and who knows where we will be next Septemmber. I really wish I had not worried so much about it. just goes to show there never anything set in stones.

Still it would be nice if DD1 got that out of catchment selective one, just to boost morals up a bit

thinking of you all today and the coming week. Was awake at 5am thinking of it - i dont even have a y6 child

Am wide awake will probably stay up a while.

Me neither!

I waited up too

Going to have one last check then I'm off to bed...

Well my LEA lied - no email at 12.02 for me.

When we were chosing a school for DD, we were told we weren't in any secondary school catchment area. Not that people get their catchment area school anyway!

Harrycaitandtedsmummy - if we log onto the same site that we applied on, it says at the bottom, 'You have chosen to receive your offer by email / letter' depending on what you decided so you might be able to check...

Glitch in the Glos system too - have found out we didn't even get our catchment school !! What is the point of catchments, if you can't get in your alloted school!!!!

Both myself & DH can not remember if we requested the admission letter by email or paper....grrrr!
So we still may have to wait until Tuesday/Wednesday for the response...oh joy!
Good luck to everyone!

You can log in from 7am in the morning on Tuesday in Hackney. Same site you applied on.
I have DS1 and an entire class of year 6s to worry about!

I thought I could log on to the site I did the admission on to get the outcome. Its come round so fast and I keep saying I don't care what the outcome is as long as she gets one of our choices.

I just checked out choices and I didn't realise I had done a certain one second. I was convinced I had done that 5th! Opps, oh well, too late to change it now.

On line you find out at 5.30pm here. The office closes at 5...it seems they post the letters, and send emails all at the same time.

Do you think they take on extra staff to man the phone lines the next day?

So do we find out tomorrow or Tuesday?
I applied for DD online, we are in Hackney. I am hoping she got her first choice as we don't stand any chance of getting any of the others! (all academies)

I am so glad Im not alone in thinking that it sucks that the schools know before we do..
is there any reasonable reason for this ??

we applied online too...........

Oh my life! I've just checked out the CC website, and it says ;

19 February
2010
List of allocations posted to junior, primary and secondary schools Primary/junior schools
check for changes
NB Confidential

So the school DS is at now knows and I don't! It's a good job I only discovered this now, and only have to wait another day or two, or I might have kidnapped the school secretary, and demanded they tell me!

Do you think it would be out of order to say to the head in the morning "Mrs X, the secondary school results are being posted today. Do you think DS might be going to a Catholic school?" with a knowing look?

Am literally stressed to my eyeballs about secondary admissions. My first choice was inspected after the closing date for admissions and only got a resounding satisfactory . Second choice we are on the border for catchment, third choice not in catchment (sighs). The joys of living in London. The schools within the catchment area are absolutely dire. I would rather pay than send my DS there. I reckon that eventually will have to pay as I cant see him being accepted at any of the schools I chose. 2nd March roll on and congratulations to those who have managed to get their first choices

RoseWater - is that likely for you? Fingers crossed!! I have a couple of years to go yet but its nice to have some sort of idea about these matters!!

If you don't get the boys what will you hope for?

I think indeed Lancs is enlightened - they let you know whether the child has 'met the required standard' on the 11+ in october, and at that point whether a place has been allocated or if not what position on the reserve list.

We got the letters in the post yesterday morning from LEA and the school.

So thank you to those who passed on congratulations, we did indeed have a nice weekend with a celebratory pizza

(awaits exodus of families with primary aged kids from London to the NW...)

Kent people - it has been confirmed that the details shown on the 'printer friendly' version are the real deal - see here. For everyone in Kent who has got what they wanted, congratulations!