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!

We are also waiting to hear about DS's place, should get an email about 5ish on Wednesday I think. We live less than 0.2 miles away from the school we would like and DD is already at that school so we are assuming that all will be well but not counting chickens.

Went through this 2 years ago when we applied for a place for DD and man, it was stressful. We didn't get our first choice (but did get our second) and I was devastated at the time. BUT the school that was our first choice at the time has just been put into special measures and the school that DD did get was awarded Ofsted outstanding in her second term there.

Just to show how quickly things can change, it's not all dependent on this one day! It's such an emotional time though. Parents round here are already getting stressy about secondary schools which I just cannot begin to get my head around yet.

16th for me.
Really worried this time dc1 and 2 go to our 1st choice but out of catchment, last sept some siblings never got a place.
2nd choice isnt to bad dc2 would happily move but dc1 who is in the jrs really doesn't want to move school.
Roll on Tuesday .

Oh Murder, how unhelpful! Hope they can sort something out on the phone for you.

Just checked ours, ds3 got second choice which is current school he goes to. Happy with that, knew I was pushing it with the first choice.

Good luck everyone else.

We got first choice but it was sibling priority and dd is already there so I wasn't too worried. How did you get on choceyes? Glad you are happy LegoAcupuncture.

Good luck everyone else.

Just checked and we're still waiting.

But they have my daughters name spelled incorrectly. Someone has obviously decided I'm too stupid to get her name right on the application and has helpfully changed it to the more common spelling.

Helpful huh? Oh well I'll sort it with the school later.

So not all areas go up at one minute past midnight on the relevant date?im not sure I can cope with an extra few hours after the deadline. I might have exploded messily by then!

elfycat that's unbelievable.

Deep breaths kungfupannda. You'll be fine, come what may.

[explodes messily and prematurely]

Yuk. That sounded faintly sexual. You know what I meant!

It's offers day in my LEA. DS2 got our first choice.

I get ya, kungfu. I'm tremendously nervous. We get emails at 2pm on Tuesday, but apparently, last year they were on the website earlier than that.
DS1 is in the preschool and thinks he is going to reception, it's oversubscribed and we are about 0.6 miles away, which is quite a distance, and just on the parish boundary.

Hurray Arbitrary!

I just rang the council and they'll let me have another few days to make my decision over DC1's in year place due to the somewhat unfortunate timing of the offer for DC2. So that's a relief - they are human there after all. Cannot wait until Thursday when we'll know for sure what is going on though!

argh! I could've sworn it was the 15th and I was half expecting an e-mail this morning, but went on the website and they said it was the 16th. I had it in my head that it was the 16th if you applied by post, but would be informed on the 15th by e-mail if applying online...hhhmm
Anyway will have to wait till tomorrow now.
TheOneWithTheHair - that's great news

Oh choc how frustrating! Oh well only one day to go.

Murder thank goodness, that must be a weight off!

Panda hahaha that made me laugh!

Our email comes at 5pm on wednes. That's gonna be a long day!

Glad people are getting good news through. We must be one of the latest dates to hear.

Ours isn't until Thursday. I have two very popular schools down for 1st and 2nd and the local, very unpopular one for 3rd.

Not all that worried: DD is an August baby so she doesn't have to start school until Y1.

Our website is down for maintenance ... has been for at least a week since I went to check I could log in ok. Now I don't know if it'll be running for tomorrow, or if I get an email too anyway, or if I need to wait for a postal letter instead if they can't fix it.

Aaaagh. Am eating chocolate by the ton and trying not to count the hours. I am jealous of all those with older siblings and nearer houses who haven't had a moment of worry about their place, it simply hasn't occured to them that this year is so high a birth rate year that the village school is not big enough for all the village kids anymore.

MurderofProse thank heavens for common sense!

I just rang the council to ask what time the emails would be sent out and the woman I spoke to said when secondary schools were announced she got hers at 12.25 am and they would start sending them from midnight but they would be staggered throughout the day. Advice was: if nothing's arrived by midday, check the spam folder and also call them.

So I'll be staying up tonight and obsessively hitting refresh after midnight tonight. Anyone else?

I wonder why that was?!

We had a talk from an admissions person at one of the open days and she was really laying on the "Don't forget to apply!" She said that every year parents didn't remember to apply, or didn't think they needed to because they lived so close etc.

They said late afternoon tomorrow ... but if that website doesn't stop displaying the maintenance notice I'll be calling in time to know before office hours close!!

It's weird that there's a coordinated national offers day for secondaries, but the primary allocations get announced at different times in different places. It would be better to have a single date so everyone can have their angst end at the same time.

Coming in 2014, ArbitraryUsername