Is anyone else waiting to hear what primary school their child has got into?

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I'm biting my nails off here!

Ooh hadn't thought to check spam!
I've been told late afternoon we'll be told but no harm in hacking now, right?!

^checking even

Come on Norfolk.... We're waiting

Exactly!

Biting nails here ... not entirely sure if we get results today online, or tomorrow online. Can't stop myself checking to make sure. Does anyone else know for certain in Westminster?

Apparently all the final 'shakes' take until about end of May to get finalised here in central london, Haplesshousewife. (or so the nursery (hopefully soon to be reception school) told me).

[Gets out pompoms for Norfolk]

Give us an N. N!
Give us an O. O!
Give us an R. R!
Give us a first choice school. FIRST CHOICE SCHOOL!

Any other counties want some cheerleading from Somerset?

Can i just mention how incredibly lucky I am ... DC1 at a brilliant nursery ... but if he doesn't get into reception there, we listed 5 other schools which we would be happy to go to. (smail disclaimer: not sure how we'd be getting on if we weren't CofE tho).

My heart (and nailbiting) goes out to you parents who have true challenges with schools, unlike little old us.

... goes off to continue checking website fruitlessly ...

3 more days till results for DS (East Sussex).

Baby girl now 5 days overdue.

It's all about waiting in this house right now!

Another Norfolker waiting and waiting and refreshing and refreshing and eating too many sweeties....

After the uselessness of the local authority, I spoke direct to our first choice school. We missed out by 0.1 of a mile. Of course, I don't know how many children live in that 0.1 of a mile, but 0.1 of a mile. Around 160m. I can look at the house down our long, straight road that would have got us a place.

I have been in floods of tears and DD1 keeps asking what is wrong. She even made me a card to cheer me up. I can't possibly tell her it's her school, or she'll never want to go there.

It should mean that our odds on the waiting list aren't bad, but it means potentially months of uncertainty. And when I'm trying to settle two kids into a strange new town, the last thing I need is to have everything up in the air when everyone else knows which school they are off to and is chattering about it.

After missing the deadline for our lea (I had some crazy idea since dd was already in it was automatic) I put in a late application and accepted for our only choice school. Lucky since the school has been over subscribed for the last three years but the school gives priority to siblings :)

aufanaie good luck on both counts!!!

Amanda you poor thing, it's such a stress isn't it. But I have been reliably informed by parents of older children that this is just a battle in the war which doesn't actually end until September, so there is still plenty of time for waiting lists to get places. Our first choice usually has at least 100 metres added on to the furthest distance from April - Sept from what the council have told me. Last year it was an extra 125 metres and that was a "tight year" apparently. There's still hope!

This is now unsurprisingly a topic of the day. So stupid that the decisions have not been released nationally on the same day; it causes a lot of confusion. Although I saw up-thread that they are doing that next year.

5pm tomorrow for us.

Norfolk here too .....

Thanks Tiggy. I just want to skip past the not knowing and move to acceptance of whatever we do end up with, IYSWIM. I am crap with uncertainty.

I've been living with this uncertainty since November due to moving house and getting DC1 in a school and sitting on a waiting list wondering if she's going to get into the same school as her sister (reception 2013), and hedging our bets with both applications over four different schools. It has done my head in, make no mistake. I am hoping against hope that tomorrow finally brings a resolution to this because I have not felt settled in this new area until we can be sure they're both at their "forever-until-secondary" schools!

For those of you who didn't get the school you want and are now on waiting lists and hoping for the best, I give you lots of because you're going to need it. Especially each day when the postman comes with no new offer letter. Uncertainty really does add massively to stress levels.

Am tempted to check back through my email and see what time Norfolk got the results out last year for DS1.... #impatientmummy

Amanda, as someone who was in a very similar sounding position - new to a new town having moved out of London, moved house at 30 weeks pg having lost our dream house, but exchanged on our compromise in order to get THE school.....and then getting the 'wrong' one, I can empathise hugely!

My son went to the 'wrong' school for his Reception year while he sat on the waiting list for our first choice - and it was heartbreaking because all of his nursery friends went on to the school we'd wanted. However, he had a fabulous year at the school we hadn't chosen, and when I had to apply for my DD, she got in and he then got in for the September of Year 1 as a sibling priority and slotted back in with some of his old friends without (too) much of a problem. So, hassle your LEA to find out exactly why you missed out (they must tell you), sit on the waiting list and remember there will probably be movement with people going private or accepting other things, so there is hope that you will get in for this year. And even if you start somewhere else and move, they adapt so fast that it will all be ok. .

DO IT AbbyR1973 - please!

We found out today and my daughter got into our local primary school with her brother :)

1358 the email came last year.... they're late!!!

Thanks Panic. I am sure it will be ok .And the third choice school is on the up. It is due an OFSTED. Who knows, it might do really well and become an in demand school again. It used to be good, went through a downhill and upheaval period and then started to come back up. It's the bloody distance that is killing me. We lived in the centre of town because we didn't want our lives to be tied to the car. And now, lo and behold, tied to the car. It was one of my biggest fears about leaving London and it is coming irritatingly true.

Thank you Abby - I think I am going to have to go out for a long walk with the children hoping that on our return we have news.

I bet they'll wait until they have no-one in the office to answer the phone and then will press send!