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!

No great news here, I'm afraid.

We were not offered ANY of our 4 choices. Instead, we have been allocated the school I mentioned earlier, which is the one and only school in the area with a bad reputation (hence it has plenty of spaces).

Off to see the Head Teacher at our first choice, first thing tomorrow! Good job DD1 is in preschool there tomorrow!

Oh no, how really upsetting. I guess there is the hope people might decline places and she move up the lists and into a place before school actually starts, but not a great situation at all.

Gosh I've read through the thread and this is all very stressful!

Good news for those of you that got your choices but sorry to those of you who haven't.

We don't find out until the 30th but not stressed as dd1 already goes to our village school that we put down as first choice for dd2 (only three choices) and we live the closest to it by some distance out of the kids currently at the nursery, right across the road in fact.

Ah, sorry, Raising, what bad luck.

You said you would appeal if this happened? Hopefully movement on the waiting lists will help you out

I put 6 schools down expecting to get one of the first 3 as they are the closest but we got choice 5!

Out of all 6 schools it is the furthest away so I'm just so surprised. I've not even visited the school as it was just to fill in all the choices so we would get a C of E school. It sounds like a great school in just wondering about the logistics as its 3 miles away in the opposite direction to where I work.

In terms of waiting lists- what examples would free up a place in a school? Apart from someone moving house out of the area and so wanting a different school.......

There will be kids who go private, or whose parents would rather home ed then send child to school they are offered.

Perhaps you could ring and ask how many children on waiting list are usually offered a place? If they're on the list they might get a place over the next few years insteAD of before they start.

Congrats to most and commiserations to Raising and goodtoes - now starts the working out of how to navigate the next phase I guess.

I have 36 hours to go until email expected... but had long and complex dreams last night about having to go to each school and read down a list for DS's name... Some schools put the whole school roll up and you could see groups of 5 with the same surname (just think of the data protection!! mind you anyone who has 5 kids all at primary school has my respect) and then beside the name were colour/animal symbols for what work groups they would be in and which teacher would be their pastoral contact. In this dream he got first choice though, and the Deputy Head for pastoral... bizarre pregnant dreams...!!

If appeals are successful then they free up school places where the children were offered places initially. Don't pin your hopes on it tho, unless you're 1st or 2nd it's highly unlikely you'd get offered a place.

Sorry Raising Fingers crossed for lots of movement on the waiting list. Really pleased for those of you with what you wanted.

2.5 hours to wait here. Not slept much as for the upper school allocations they are usually up a bit before they are supposed to and I was very hopeful the same woukd happen today. But it didn't . As the time gets closer I feel really stressed about him going to DD's old school, memories of the whiteness that happened to her are coming back. Though I know it will be different for him and the Head's going, I just don't want to spend the next 4 years seeing the place.

Anyone waiting to hear from Derby today?

The website hasn't changed since last night. I'm not sure what time their decisions 'go live' iyswim.

First choice here. I was quite anxious because DD1 goes to special school, but DD2 moved school abruptly between the application deadline and the 'change due to exceptional circumstances' deadline.

DD2's old school (which was outstanding, but we couldn't keep her there a moment longer) was listed as first choice for DD3 and we were guaranteed a place, due to sibling link and distance!

So we had lots of ping pong discussions with various people to find out if 'will send my child there my dead body' and change of sibling school attendance counted as 'an exceptional change of circumstance'. Finally the admissions team said 'yes' and changed DD3's preferences, but I never trusted it just in case something went wrong.

Anyway, she was criteria 3 on the list, after LAC and Statemented children, in a two form entry, so pretty much guaranteed a place.

Sort for those who didn't get what they hoped for

I hadn't realised so many places had their results day earlier than ours - we have to wait till Friday. Why isn't there a single day that everyone hears? Still nervously waiting but trying not to as it's relatively unlikely that we'll fail to get one or other of our top 3, but it's really hard to not know.

Re waiting lists, I think I'm right in saying all the schools run them themselves, so I would get on the phone ASAP in the morning.

Still waiting for DD's 'result'. I know other Hampshire parents have had their e-mail so I'm getting impatient that ours hasn't come through yet.

I'm not sure TiWi. When we moved then quickly came back year's ago, the Head couldn't confirm the place hadn't been filled. I thought they were run centrally by Admissions but could be wrong

Good luck to you all.

LEAs hold the waiting lists, so best to phone them (I did so daily ).

Oops, yes you're right it's the lea. Sorry! Not sure where I got that from.

Still waiting here. The e-mail acknowledgement of application says after 7.30 am. I've logged in but can still only see the application, so nothing yet.

I got no sleep last night thinking we'd find out at 7.30. I wonder if they're doing it in batches

We got 1st choice for yr and y3. Relieved.

We got our third choice. When I put it down I thought I'd be happy enough if we got it. But I'm not, I've been in tears twice already. Our email doesn't even tell us how much we missed out by. Every previous year for the last five we would have been within the effective catchement area for our first choice school. It's going to be a tough day.

The schools are all full, so little point appealing unless they have stuffed up the distances. Don't know how good our chances will be on the waiting list either.

Oh god, feel a bit sick.

My website just says mid morning, how unspecific is that? I know it probably means 11ish, but I keep checking anyway......

Good luck to everyone waiting to hear.

Sorry to hear your news Amanda, it's just all so random isn't it? Hopefully you'll be high on the waiting list for your first choice.

It said 9.30 on our website, but I got an email at about 6.45 this morning. Got 1st choice so am well chuffed!