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

[HobKnob]

I'm biting my nails off here!

We find out this evening. No time given but I think it'll be about 6pm. I've only put 1 choice down as anywhere else isn't a possibility. DS1 is already at the school however there's no sibling criteria unless they're baptised which my DC aren't. DS1 has asd and full 1-1 so moving him isn't an option. I can't be in 2 places at once so just got to keep everything crossed that DD gets in. It's an undersubscribed school so should be okay but I won't be happy until I see the offer. Good luck to everyone still waiting.

Thanks Tiggy and Ensign.

Tiggy - thanks for the info on the waiting list. It ties in with what I thought. I'm waiting to see if I get a letter in the post today - the website says that, if you apply online and get your first choice you don't get a hard copy letter. Annoyingly, it doesn't say what happens if you don't get your first choice and implies you get a reason, so I'm going to wait out the mad phone lines and see if I get a letter which adds anything. Then I'll start phoning and emailing to find out what's gone on. Am hoping against hope that they stuffed up our distances. It seems so unfair that every bloody year for the last five she'd have got in (no data further back) with a bit to spare and this year she hasn't.

I keep looking at DD1 and nearly bursting into tears. We are new to town and most children she knows from pre-school will go to a school across town near her pre-school. The only local ones she knows are almost certain to get into our first choice - the live right on the doorstep.

Amandapayne, I'm in Hampshire and our email said that if you don't get your choice, you get a letter telling you why and what distance the last place offered was.

Yes waiting but have until Friday to stress out even more... We find out by post though, apparently we get a letter at the same time the school get theirs. Can't find out online (unless I've misunderstood).

Is there anyone in Devon that can correct me??

We got our first choice for DC1 yayyy!! Not sure what to do next though. It doesn't give me an option for accepting the offer on the website, or in the e-mail. I guess they will send the offer by post too?

Sorry for those who didn't get their preferred choices Hope you have some luck in the waiting lists.

Offered second choice, where DD was bullied. Will go on waiting list.

First choice offered. Very relieved.

Sorry to hear it's not been good news for all.

So pleased for everyone who's got good news and commiserations to those who didn't - I've got a gut feeling I'm going to be in the latter group, so may be joining you for some wailing and gnashing of teeth on Friday!

So frustrating that there's no clarity about when and how the information comes through. My confirmation email says that the info will be emailed on 19th - no time given - but the website says you can log on to check - again no time given so I'm assuming it will be the same as last year when my friend was able to check at 12.01.

If it's alphabetical, we're in the first few letters, so hopefully first or second batch.

I've just logged onto Admissions website - we got our first choice. Very pleased. Accepted it straight away :) :)

I emailed the admissions office. Apparantly the website will spring to life at 5pm today.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh.

By the way - do they ususally do distances from school as walking routes, roads or crow flies?

It varies from area to area Lovethesea but should be on the admissions policy of the school - possibly underneath the main criteria.

Found it, crow flies apparantly. Using post office post code points on an OS map.

Come on 5pm.

Crow flies for us too - it works in our favour as we are in a village with mainly fields between us and town with preferred school. If they measured it by road, we'd be a whole lot further away.

Ooh. If it's post office code points we get about a hundred yards closer. We are a tiny post code!

[cheers for extra hundred yards of hope]

Got first choice. And breathe. Can't quite believe it

Best of luck to everyone else x

Still waiting here.
Should be on website this evening so not sure what time. I feel sick with nerves and im not hopeful :(

I have now plotted our crow flies distance to the school post code marker.

This does nothing to help the outcome at all but makes me feel like I am doing something useful.

And I know they are putting the info online at 5pm when they go home so they don't have to deal with a million phonecalls straight afterwards.

Our website says we should have been informed - I haven't heard anything. Getting stressed now.

I think I've name changed sine I posted earlier on this thread, but we got the school we wanted. They e-mailed us this morning.

The next 36 hours could not go fast enough. DD1's current headteacher seems to know somehow that she has an in-year offer (who would have told her? the LA or the potential new headteacher?) and is expecting her to leave which makes things awkward when we haven't been able to make a decision yet.

If the first three schools all fall through for DD2, which isn't outside the realms of possibility, then DD1 will be staying at her current school and DD2 will be joining her as her current school is fourth and last preference.

Big commiserations to those of you who got bad news. I wish you lots of luck with moving up the waiting list and appeals if they're warranted.