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!

Just got it and we got in our first choice. I hope all those that now have to go on waiting lists have quick and positive answers.

Still no email... but according to the website, DS2 got his 1st choice :)

First choice here as well.

Finally got the email! They must send them late in the day to save them immediately being flooded with calls from irate parents!

Phew it's arrived and we're into our first and only choice of school

Is it possible to see what choice got from website? Where do we go on website? Really want to know now (tomorrow we find out).

Admissions website and email both say ds2 has got a place at our first and only preference. Phew, one less thing to worry about. Now just need to wait for the decision about ds1 transfer to junior school place.
Good luck all those still waiting.

www.admissionsonline.norfolk.gov.uk/Enrol/default.aspx

then log in at the top left

First choice here :)

Amusingly my LA seems to email me every day to say it's not until the 17th. I wonder if it's because I've been logging on "just in case" to have a peek most days?

Hurray Lovethesea! Great news! Hurray for the other good newses too!

Lovethesea - glad to see you got your first choice, so my experience won't count now, but yes, we were No1 on the waiting list and luckily someone left over the summer so DS started in September in Year 1.....

Thanks panic - might help someone else anyway. Can't believe it still, really did count numbers and even the teachers had gone from 'Oh no problem' to 'well we don't know who is going to get places'.

Murder, mine does that too - are you in Herts?! At least it says clearly that the emails will come out before online, and that there will be instructions to accept / next steps in the email.

LexyMa - Yep, am in Herts! We can't accuse them of not being clear, that's for sure. Although every time I get another one of those emails from them my heart leaps!

Found out this morning that dgs got into first choice school-the one where he is in the nursery class and his brother is in Yr1.It was a big cohort this year and as they live across the county line it wasn't a forgone conclusion.We are all very happy about it-except dgs who didn't know there was anything going on at all.
He was digging in the garden looking for The Earth [not earth] when the email arrived.I am sure you are all relieved to know that he found it safe and well in the back garden [several reddish stones].

Anyone know when Camden (London) posts?

There is a national offer day next year, this year they're all different, though the London boroughs and those surrounding tend to coordinate anyway.

First choice here :)

I'm in Herts too, and am finding their near daily emails saying nothing new really annoying!

I don't get it - why, in England, is there all this stressing over which school your child goes to.

Here (in Scotland) children go to their nearest local school.

Seems rather a simple idea, so why is is such a palaver in England?

Probably because of higher population density. I want my nearest school, unfortunately, despite it being the biggest primary school in Europe and living less than a mile away we might not get it if there are 180 kids closer than us.

Because the population density is generally much greater? When you say there is no faff in Scotland, does that include the big cities? How do they deal with big fluctuations in intake numbers that could result from all children getting their closest school?

By the way, I wanted my nearest local school. 0.6 of a mile. Didn't get it. 60 children were either siblings or closer.

It's the same in cities as far as I'm aware - it's just something you never hear about up here whereas it seems to be quite an obsession south of the border.

I remember talking to a woman who was in such a state about which school her child would get into and was prepared to go to court about it. I found the whole thing bizzare.