Waiting list for reception

[Mummyk13]

my daughter has attended my nursery since she was 3 months old attending all through Covid/lockdown and has made the most amazing bonds with her peers over the passed 3 and half years
I have worked at the nursery for 18 years working hours between 7-5:30 or 7:30-6
there is a primary school 0-4 miles on the door step of the nursery we live 1.8 miles 6 minute drive away
so we made 4 choice’sout of 6 for school application in January none of the schools have wrap around care like the school next to my work so we couldn’t make any other work

we fond out on Tuesday she did not get her 1st choice of school problem now all her friends are going to her 1st choice and she is the only one who hasn’t got her first choice

problem two one of the mums at the nursery was collecting her from me at the nursery to drop her and same collecting after and dropping her to me after school obviously now she can’t as she won’t be going to same school as her friend

I emailed our first option school on Wednesday morning explaining all this and how upset my daughter is and what I could do
the school actually called me they where so nice she said she had to call me as her heart was breaking reading the email and she wanted to put my mind at rest that this is just the first list and it changes a lot in first week she said there are only 15 children on the waiting list and my daughter isn’t at the bottom of it she said she dose not want to give me faulse hope but she said she thinks I’ll def get a place 🤞
she can’t tell me where I am
on the list untill May 1st she said she would call
me back once I can be told

question is what are the chances we will get a call for a space we have appealed but read that you never win reception appeals
but if there was no hope would the school had gone out there way the day after offer day to call me

Oh yes @Superscientist exactly that re the doctors. I was on hold for 30 mins the other day and when I got through she couldn’t hear me bc I was driving. To work.

Imagine if everyone with a four year old in your LA logged on to the same portal at the same time? Thousands of ppl!

@Overthebow out jobs by no means are high paid jobs we work them hours to get by to keep a roof over our and kids heads and food on the table

we don’t want the same for our kids hence why wanting better schools we both went to schools close to us which are what our children are closets to hence why we want better

wrape around child care isn’t offered with in our working hours and we look daily for jobs to work around our children but we can’t make a job appear our children shouldn’t be punished because we are working to provide for them either to assume we choose work over our kids just is not so we work to live what’s the alternative we loose our home for not being able to make our mortgage payments our kids are not feed

@clary our help around this is the parents who we become close with at her nursery they had offered to collect her from me and drop her and same for way back hence why it worked

child minders are full due to the new funding offered out as are nursery play groups

with the rent/moving there not two on it as I know of 3 people who are now moving now they have the place

@Longma yes there letting at least 3 children that I know start early they will not turn 4 untill December Jan no the do the same time at reception as the class they join

I have put this on my appeal they are treated the same as any application if they meet a higher criteria they get offered first

@clary @Popcorn640 is it that I am naïve or that you can’t see passed how privileged you are.

all the reasons as to why people would miss applying in time are valued I never said I was right again that isn’t what my post was right I also never said one parent on net mums could change any thing I posted my opinion I am entitled to have one my opinion is different to your as my life is different to yours

i wonder if you use Nurserys yourself where you drop your child at 7am and collect at 6 them amazing women who look after these children 5 days a week ever wonder who helps them with there’s a critic is teachers get priority why is this so they can get to the school and work my opinion was nursery workers should get the same privilege as a teacher

@Mummyk13 why not report those renters-then-move to the LA then?

We used a childminder not a nursery as we worked tricky hours tbh. I would say you were somewhat optimistic to assume you would be allocated a place at an outstanding school you are not in catchment for, and base your wraparound care on that assumption.

I'm sure the school you have been offered will give your dd a good start in her education, especially with your support and passion about it.

No idea what you mean by teachers getting priority - priority for what? Children of staff is sometimes an admission category I believe (if that's what you mean) but by no means in all schools. None I know of location to me, for example.

By the way, my juggling act to be able to pick my dc up from school was planned for and negotiated when we had our DC. I'm glad we were able to do it as it was important to us but it wasn't about privilege. We both dropped hours and my career took a step back or at least sideways.

What happened in the end?! Did you get a place at your first choice?