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

Been trying to keep myself busy today to take my mind off the stressful wait.
I was even dreaming about it last night! I dreamt that I opened the email and the school we had been allocated was listed as a code and i didn't know which school the code represented so went into full panic

Thankfully DS1 is at a party today so won't be thinking about it at all..

Where I am you could recieve the results by email, if your child hadn't taken the 11+. As DS took the 11+ I have to wait for the post the next day (or the day after if postie is slow ahhhh!). It's like being pg and waiting for the birth.

hi there
i have just seen where my DS1 is going and he has got his first choice. Friend told me to log on and then go to printer friendly version and the details were there! I am in Kent.

2boys we're local and probably like you lots of our Year 6 are hoping to get into the Boys school.

Good luck for tomorrow

me too - will hear tomorrow if oldest son has got into local grammar...

Still waiting here...

I have however received the letter telling us dd has a place at the local Junior School. But that was no great surprise as it is our nearest school and the Infant School she is currently at is a feeder for the Juniors.
But still - phew, no need to worry about her place. One down, one to go...

Joins thread to share the pain of waiting! Had put it all to the back of my mind since October but NOW I WANT TO KNOW.....

Have you tried to see if you can sneak a peek on the admissions online thing?
I have decided I am pleased she hasn't got our 2nd choice - grammar school 19miles away because maybe that woul dhave gone against her when appealing for the one just 9 miles away - at least this way if an appeal fails, she'll go to school with most of her pals.
The local academy is pretty amazing, performing arts, and she is on the g&t for dance already so she would do well there. It's just she's that quiet studious type.
Ho hum!

Titty, we are in London too, and all the schools we have applied for are very oversubscribed too, and the rest are sink schools.....

hi, just wondering if any of you live in Northampton and which schools you have applied to or dread getting? (secondary or primary)

We've applied for 4 very oversubscribed schools for dd for a secondary place.

Last year 6 children in year six didn't get a single offer of a place.

If she doesn't get a place I'll bung her on a waiting list and home school her. Poor kid, she's terrified of the thought of being at home with me nagging her all day, instead of at school giggling with her mates.

The sad thing is that three of the schools on our list are just standard comps with very average results GCSE ....... Yet still horribly over subscribed because all the other schools around here are hugely unpopular sink schools....

We are awaiting the decision on out DS's application to High school. It's been the most traumatic 4 months of my life...!! The school we have applied for is a faith school with excellent results, we have visted it twice and feels 'right'. The worrying factor is over there has been 2,000 applications for just 218 places.

There are two excellent faith schools within our area with which our DS has a fair chance(He achieved full points for both)

The third choice is a sports college which my son prefered (the majority of his friends will be attending), is just not in the same league as the faith schools.

Fingers crossed Monday that will be get the decision we want...

Well admission, it's a system error, so it's whoever provided the system NOT the LA thats disclosed it - you know?
Either way, we got what we expected and one of my friends is over the moon early about hers!

I had notification yesterday (27th), I'm in Leicestershire.

As there is supposed to be a universal time of declaring the places offered (1st March), I suspect that Kent and any other LA that has disclosed admission places early is going to have some explaining to do!

Oh I'm definitely going to stay up tomorrow night then - just in case

I'm still wondering what I'll do with the information at 12:01am, but at least I'll know!!

LOL - IO just came to tell people abount the Kent glitch - we just found out dd's place - we got what we expected - 3rd choice - but we couldn't have got 1st & 2nd anyway as they arwe grammar and she missed by the 1 point - appeals beckon.
But it must be correct in that case - GO CHECK!

Not.

Hey ginger have been told we'll receive an email at 12.01am.

I shall be playing it cool and checking when I wake up in the morning.

0Oooh, chaostrulyreigns - have you been told that you can find out at one minute past midnight? Is that by email or by logging onto the admissions system?
We have been told that we can log onto the admissions system on 1st March to check our allocation but have not been given a time.

May have to stay up til midnight to check just in case...

I am starting to sound a bit manic

I am starting to feel a bit manic!

I will not be home till 5pm- so no one will know till then.

Just join thread with anticipation.

DD1 gets her results one minute past midnight on 1st March. Everyone who asked for letters instead of emails will have to wait another 2-3 days. Don't know how they can stand the extra wait!

Am very clenchy at the moment.

Oh don't say that Tilly - I've already told my boss I won't be in till I know. Don't want to be really late for work! (Or dd for school for that matter).

creditcrunched - that is because letters posted on Monday won't arrive until Tuesday. That way everyone gets their result on the same day. Makes sense, non?

For anyone in Kent who applied online - apparently there is a glitch in the system which is letting people know the results early (see this thread on the 11+ website). Log on and then go to 'printer friendly' version and it will tell you your allocation.