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

same here, don't think I'll be getting much sleep tonight my cats not well either, I am uber stressed!!

Nothing has came in the post for DS1 today.
None of the other DCs at DSs school had heard either, so another long wait tomorrow for me I think

teameric, yes I'm pretty sure the letters arrived on D-Day - I remember mums being at the school gates at home time, grasping the letters to show their dc's...

Im in London but didn't apply online so will I find out by post tomorrow? I'm so anxious as getting into a half decent school round here is getting harder year by year

London MNers - post here if you find out tonight!!!!!

Agree with summer111, two years ago people were able to see the results in the early evening before D-Day.

2boys2 I was in the exactly the same position and didnt get a suitable school we appealed using the statement process if the CRISP has been done and h has an IEP you stand lot more chance this can be started now before the appeal sits

For those who live in London and applied online - check eadmissions again this evening. A couple of years ago we were able to get dd's school info, the evening before the 'official' posting. It enabled us to get a good nights sleep and spared us the 7am panic. Fingers crossed for all our dc's...

Got my Email this morning at 6 minutes past 11

DD2 got into her first choice (not catchment), just as well really as I only put one school on the application form!

Good luck to those of you still waiting and good luck to anyone who is going to appeal.

Does anyone know when Hampshire reveal all?!! Haven't heard anythng today so am assuming letters were posted today and we fnd out tomorrow?!!!

cc just realised that the letter is from the Head of DD's school, on the back of the LEA advert for the "School Preference Adviser" who is onhand to support if you are unhappy with your child's offer.

That gives me lots of hope

RoseWater - we are going through the statement process at the moment for ADHD and aspergers. Interesting to know we could get a school of our choice abit more likely.

Will be name changing too after this thread!

well i am definately going to appeal!

The school ds has been allocated to is a very bad one that they've rebadged to try and make better... Boys who've bullied him for years are going there - There is no way on earth ds is going there!

It annoys me, why ask for three and then totally ignore personal statement and send to school explicity named as being out of question to go to!

Yup, 'sense' was the rogue word in that question.

Surely if they want to encourage people to apply online they should give you the advantage of at least knowing the day before the snail mail people.

I just have a horror vision of trying to log on blearily at 7am tomorrow morning along with umpteen thousand other parents, and watching the website crash. Which is what happened last year, by all accounts, and the year before that...

[valium]

BigTilly - Did the letter mention emails? I know the online results are published tomorrow but what's the sense in not sending out the emails today?
Sorry, just realised I used the word "sense". How silly of me.

Frogs - Tomorrow??!! I can't wait until tomorrow. I have had 1st March ingrained on my brain for so many months, I can't change it now. Don't they realise what they're doing to me?

[Beathes and attempts to calm down ]
Dammn, somehow though that we would get an email this afternoon when they post all the snail mail letters.

cc, on the e-admissions site it says 7am, but DD just brought a letter home from LEA saying 8.30 on their website

People keep texting me, asking how DD got on - thanks to the bbc news!

DD insisted on looking on both of the websites when she came in, just in case!

Aaarghh still waiting for my 'late afternoon' email here, do you think that means '5.30 once we've all gone home'??

Congrats to all those who've had good news and commiserations to the not so good news

Won't be till tomorrow, I think, creditcrunched.

[nailbiting]

Fluffy! I just saw your boy got offered a place. Congrats!

Has anyone in London who applied online received their email yet?

Hi, we got ours by e-mail, but I didn't realise and only just downloaded them. We knew dd had failed the entrance exam for her first choice, but she's got into her second which we are absolutely delighted about. She is chuffed to b....

The first choice was "one of the best grammars" in the country and very pressured (and had ridiculously expensive school trips to boot!). By the time we got the result she'd changed her mind about going there. I had thought how lovely it would be to turn a place down there (can't happen to them often, can it?).

Second choice should have been first choice really. They had 17 places for artistically talented kids, and though I had no idea whether dd was particularly good/talented I thought it worth a go. It's a much nicer school for a start. Over the border though, and "they'm strange over there" apparently!

I think we might see how much a decent easle is and give her a permanent art corner somewhere.

These people are really good if you need to appeal.

Advisory Centre for Education

No connection with them on my part - just found them really useful when we had our appeal (which we won).

Nice bit of advertising there mercytt.

Hi all, i sympathise with your situation. last year my son was not offered any of the schools that we wanted. we ended up going through the appeal process and after a bit of a nightmare we lost our first appeal.

A friend of mine then recomended that we get some professional advice and he gave us the number of a company who helped us with our second appeal. This time we did it properly and won the appeal, thanks mainly to the help and assistance provided by Matt Richards of School Appeals services.

i have just checked Matts website - www.schoolappeals.com - and he has lots of free advice and tips on his site. hope this helps and best of luck