Online P1 enrolment: when did your school get in touch?

[LillianLily]

Hi all,

Our council (in Scotland) has introduced online enrolment for P1, so I dutifully went on in December and enrolled my DD5 into the local school. We are in the catchment area and she was baptised so being a Catholic school, it all fits for us.

However its now come to my attention that the majority of the kids who are leaving her nursery ( private) have either been to their schools for a visit or have had a teacher in. We have a group chat and so it was brought up the other day that nearly all her wee friends had heard something from their respective schools. The managers of the nursery were also a bit like, 'oh haven't you heard anything, maybe we should give them a phone for you', when I asked them today. So of course, my panic mode sets in.

My question is, those who have enrolled online, did you do anything else apart from fill in the (very basic) form, ie speak to the school beforehand to prove you live in the catchment etc and how long before someone got in touch to say, yes your DD is actually enrolled at this school, send us her ID/baptism cert etc?

Call the school, they can give you the answers we won't be able to give. If there are local Facebook groups, they might help as well, meeting people in the same situation.

Unless you know people going to that school who have heard, I wouldn't be too stressed. The people going to other schools will also have enrolled on line, so it looks like the system is fine.

Call first thing tomorrow, it send an email tonight. Hope it goes smoothly

Our council do it online, and there is nothing extra you need to do (I think there may be something extra if the child wasn't already getting the 1140 ELC hours, i.e., already on the system). I can't remember when I filled in the form, but I had a confirmation of enrolment before Christmas (not a Catholic school, though, so no question of baptismal certificates). The school sent the calendar of transition events in late March, and the actual events begin mid May.

I'd ring tomorrow and find out.

Hi all,

Thanks for your advice, I bit the bullet and phoned the school this morning and they were like, 'yeah she has a place no need to panic. We will come out next week to the nursery etc etc.' so not sure if me phoning triggered their visits or if they were already planned. Nursery certainly knew nothing about it haha!

That's great - I think all the panic on here about English schools can leave the straightforward-ness of the Scottish system disconcerting. Hope the visit goes well