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National offers day! Anyone else biting their nails?

131 replies

ExitToTheLeft · 28/02/2022 18:49

I'm on tenterhooks and cannot wait until tomorrow to find out what school my dc have got into.
We live in london and the results don't get published until 5pm so it's going to be a long day.

Anybody else waiting and want to join me In my pacing or sit on me so that I don't wear a hole in the carpet?

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ElvenDreamer · 28/02/2022 20:30

@DailyMailHater thank you, that's what I was assuming, merely from the fact that no other times were mentioned...now...do I stay up. Decisions decisions!

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ExitToTheLeft · 28/02/2022 20:33

Oh no @Dy10DY11 I think I'd spontaneously combust if I had to wait that long.

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Dy10DY11 · 28/02/2022 20:45

@ExitToTheLeft

Oh no *@Dy10DY11* I think I'd spontaneously combust if I had to wait that long.
Haha... trying not to! 😬👍
DailyMailHater · 01/03/2022 01:10

We have been given a place at our first choice - I will have a happy child when he wakes up.

Hope others are happy too

ChuckBerrysBoots · 01/03/2022 01:28

DD chose her first choice school, which is further away than our second choice. Most of her class will go to second choice which is within walking distance. She’s been offered her first choice. I don’t know why but it’s made me all anxious and emotional and I am not usually like that at all! I think it’s the thought of her going on a bus and of not being with her close friends. But she was adamant she wanted to put it first. Will see how she feels after a day at school tomorrow with them all talking about where they’ll be going and whether it changes her mind. Second choice isn’t oversubscribed but don’t even know if it would be an option if she changes her mind

HappyAsASandboy · 01/03/2022 01:51

We've been offered a random school that we didn't apply to. It's not so far away, and I think will be fine, but I feel really deflated about spending time looking round six schools and carefully ranking them, to be given a random. We only had an outside chance of our first two choices, but thought we'd get our third choice. If we didn't get the third choice I thought we'd get our undersubscribed catchment school, but seemingly not. Maybe it's not undersubscribed this year.

DailyMailHater · 01/03/2022 02:10

@ChuckBerrysBoots how great that she has the confidence to go where she wants and not just stick with her friends

@HappyAsASandboy will you be able to go and look at the one you have been offered? Do you think others you know will have been offered it to?

HappyAsASandboy · 01/03/2022 02:43

@DailyMailHater I don't think others from their primary will have been offered it. We are rural, and the offered school is in the opposite direction to their primary school.

I am sure we'll be able to go and see the school, and I think it will be ok as schools go. I am just sad that they'll be going to a school with none of their primary friends, and that they won't get school transport I don't think (because I didn't apply to their catchment school), so won't have the whole school-bus thing. That also gives me a headache journey wise as I'll have kids in opposite directions, though I realise that's not the councils fault.

I think I was overly hopeful for the unlikely schools, and am just surprised that the random school has been offered rather than catchment (which I didn't really want anyway, but maybe I would want it over the random one due to friends etc ....).

For my kids, they've just been waiting to find out fir so long, after a few months of looking at schools, weighing up pros and cons, discussing as a family (because they're twins and it would be easiest if they went to the same school) etc etc, and then they get a school that's never been on the cards!

They do know of the school, and I will be nothing but positive tomorrow, but it is a worry.

MumbleCrumbs · 01/03/2022 04:25

Well I'm in a panic already. The last offer day caused a year of misery so I was already anxious about today, but now I've tried to log in to the admissions portal and it keeps saying it can't find my account Confused despite having the email confirming submission in October. Really hoping this isn't going to mess things up. I'd asked them to email the results too. Argh!

ElvenDreamer · 01/03/2022 06:29

Happy here, DD has 1st choice grammar so will be over the moon when she wakes. I barely slept all night lol so I'm very relieved now. Glad you have your 1st choices too @ChuckBerrysBoots and @DailyMailHater. Chuck you may find your daughter feels rather special talking about somewhere different, and good for her knowing her own mind. @HappyAsASandboy I hope things work out, you may find when you look around it gives you a really good feeling and while it probably feels an odd one now, they will always make so many new friends, even if they ended up at the same place as their primary friends. @MumbleCrumbs, stay calm, you've got this! Email will arrive soon and you can always phone council about account? Have you tried searching your old emails to check details?

LollyLol · 01/03/2022 06:40

@MumbleCrumbs don't panic, if you have got that confirmation email, it will be fine!

My dd got her first choice school. It wasn't really in doubt as it is nearby and huge, but I'm pleased for her as she is so excited to go there.

@HappyAsASandboy you are living my fear of The Random School allocation. At least being twins they have each other for some company. Contact the Random School many secondary schoold do amazing things for kids who have not visited or selected the school. You can get a private tour, meet the Y7 pastoral/induction person to explain they are "only's" from their primary. Some schools even send someone to visit kids at their primary school to te them about their new school.Also look out for a FB group of Y7-to-be parents, you will find others in the same position. Maybe you are not the only one allocated the school at random, and you can make some introductions.

MumbleCrumbs · 01/03/2022 06:48

Really hoping so! Still no email.

Newnormal99 · 01/03/2022 06:48

It's so weird - this year is my youngest and so she is sibling and it's completely different experience.

Be positive though - we got 4th school on offers day and before the start of term we were offered all 3 other schools.

I actually stayed with our original 3rd place school (2nd place had a dodgy interim ofsted and 1st place offer came out too late in day for us (if we still were on 4th place I would have taken it though)

It's all worked out.

badlydrawnbear · 01/03/2022 06:52

Other people locally have posted on FB that they got first choice, I don't have an email yet. DD told me last night she isn't going to school until she knows. She also told me she wouldn't be happy whatever the outcome because she doesn't want to go to any new school. I think I am happy with either of the first 2 choices and she is highly likely to get into the second (nearest Catholic school and she is baptised Catholic). I went to the open days in the first couple of weeks after DH died last September, juggling them with meetings with funeral directors etc, so I have no idea how I made any kind of decision. I just want to know before school this morning so I can reassure her as much as possible, especially if others in her class know, and deal with her response and anxieties around it.

Newnormal99 · 01/03/2022 06:52

@ChuckBerrysBoots my dd went to a school with no one else she knew (London suburb so class of 35 were split between about 10 schools)

She was fine - think she wanted the fresh start.

They may run additional taster sessions for those coming with no one else.

Newnormal99 · 01/03/2022 07:00

@HappyAsASandboy there will be a lot of movement before term starts. As I said in another post we got 4th school on offers day and were offered the other 3 before start of term. You should be on waiting list for all the ones on your original list. And even if you get more offers you will stay on list for higher placed ones.

TokyoSushi · 01/03/2022 07:02

We have a portal that you can log into just after midnight, although I did wait until this morning! Fortunately we're pretty much guaranteed our first choice and got in, happy days!

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ExitToTheLeft · 01/03/2022 07:17

Congratulations to everyone who got the school they wanted, hope you have some very happy dc this morning.

Still waiting here it's going to be a long day.

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Namechangeroo1234 · 01/03/2022 07:22

We only get choice of one or home school- so no surprises for us! The school is crap but we'll have to hope for the best and support DC best as possible.

TwoMountains · 01/03/2022 07:24

Still waiting here.

No email yet, and the parent portal link seems to have vanished from the council website, so I can’t log in and check 😬

Dy10DY11 · 01/03/2022 07:30

@TwoMountains whereabouts are you? Worcestershire has a known issue. Not getting ours until tomorrow

AintNobodyHereButUsChickens · 01/03/2022 07:31

Email came at midnight. DD did not get her first choice as it was oversubscribed, she's going to be gutted Sad She did get her second choice though and she did like the school. Not as much as the first one though.

MumbleCrumbs · 01/03/2022 07:32

Got the email! As we expected he got his second choice. Bit sad, but it's probably a better fit for him overall and lots of his friends will be going there. So not great, but not a total disaster.

Associatepeggy · 01/03/2022 07:32

Just got mine now. I was checking the wrong email address and it popped up in my work emails.

Glad to say ds got his first choice. We did expect it. But I expected it with dd and she didn't get it. We had to go through the appeals process which was very difficult. But worth it because we won.

Didn't realise how on edge I was until this morning. Feel like a weight has been lifted.

Doubleraspberry · 01/03/2022 07:40

Anyone know when York hears? The sign in link to the portal is broken but don’t know if it’s cracked under pressure or off until the time comes!