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!

Right off to walk a mile to the village school to get DD from nursery.

If we don't get a place there we will never be able to walk to school. The next village's school is down a single track 60mph country road with no pavement.

Have a feeling I am going to be very sad at 5pm today. Trying to keep a grip but it has so many implications for us all, not just DD.

Tomorrow for us (we're in Surrey). I wasn't bothered 2 weeks ago when we put our house on the market as I thought we would definitely be leaving the area, but no offer on the house yet so I am getting nervous now!

Sigh. Just been looking at the journey to our no. 3 school. Hadn't looked that closely before as it's the next closest anyway, so anything else was further. School 1 and 3 are both just over 0.5 of a mile away as the crow flies. But whereas school 1 is almost the same on foot, school 3 is over a mile away by road. So we are looking at about a half hour walk each way. Two hours of my day (and DD2's day) every day.

I just want to sob. Still no post so no idea how close or how far we are from eligibility.

Tomorrow evening for us in oversubscribed Lewisham. Genuinely have no idea which school DD will get as so many families have been moving into the area within the past 6 months, and last year there were local bulge classes whereas this year the bulge classes are both in the neighbouring area which effectively means more children and less places close by.

Trying not to stress and will be happy if we get any of the 6 choices, but as there is a chance we'll not get any and have a hefty commute its difficult not to be panicking!

Wrt to waiting lists, if we moved before September closer to one of the schools (small chance this will happen) does this mean we'd move up the list accordingly?

choceyes Ours doesn't say how you accept either. Are you supposed to ring, email, will there be a reply slip in the letter? Ah well.

My email says:
To accept the place offered please contact the school within ten school days from 16th April, letting them know if you intend to accept the place and withdraw your application from other schools. You are not obliged to withdraw other applications and you can accept a place in the school and pursue applications for other schools, taking into account the waiting list procedure detailed above.

Lovethesea fingers crossed for you

Kungfupannda Our website had the offers from 00.01. My email came through at 00.45. So I would definitely try the website straight after midnight. I was impressed ours didn't crash!

Amanda sorry yours is so disappointing. What about school 2 if that came up?

LittlePickle - in my area yes you would. Works the other way too, I could slide down the waiting list because someone moves in closer to the school than me.

And to think we left our massively oversubscribed London borough partly to avoid this happening to us..... Although our no.3 school is miles nicer than our likely allocated school back in London.

Snazzy - no.2 school is nice, but it's a faith school. Often they only have 2 or 3 places for non-siblings, non-vicar's letter children. So we put it down because otherwise we didn't have four schools for our list, but I don't think it's worth pursuing. It'll be 1 or 3 realistically.

email this morning (Kirklees Council ). First choice! Across the road and Outstanding ! v pleased.

Thanks for that info. Definitely would only be moving because we have sold, but as we haven't even gone on the market yet I'm not holding out for a completed move before September!

We'll just have to keep our fingers crossed that if we are unsuccessful tomorrow that the waiting lists come good. I never thought I'd be the type to be angsty over schools, but its so different when you are facing a 2 hour round trip twice a day and no local friends for your child.

Fucking stupid council. Got letter. Just says '60 children have a stronger claim'. No info. Called the council. Seemed very confused and said that they couldn't release distance information because it was private, and that they didn't have it anyway.

That sounds wrong Amanda - perhaps try again and speak to someone else? Of course the distance information isn't private! You need to know in case they have made a mistake. Must be stressful, I feel for you

My council is famously tetchy with their info. I had to submit a freedom of information request to access previous years effective catchment. I have just emailed and will do another FOI if I need to.

2nd choice for me
Its a good school and improving but dc 1 and 2 go to my 1st choice school. I'd happily move ds but dd is in year 3, she really doesn't want to change schools, I feel gutted for her.
And if I do decide to move them when do I do it?? Now or sept so many decisions.

I'm still waiting, website says that emails will go out 'in the afternoon'. It's bloody afternoon now! Why can't they just give an actual time?

For those who are confused about how to accept, it's normally a case of taking proof of identity for your child (birth cert or passport) and 2 documents which show your name and address (utility bills, bank statements, etc.) to your offered school. They photocopy them, then it's done.

In our LEA you only respond to decline a place. If you want to accept a place you do nothing. Which honestly is ridiculous because its more likely those who don't want the place won't inform the LEA. Lots of schools are oversubscribed with lengthy waiting lists. I really don't feel like this is fair to them. Means usually they wait for the first week of school to see who doesn't turn up before they allocate to waiting list, to children who have had to go through visits etc to another school and have bought uniform etc.

for accepting places - where we are you get a letter through the post with a form you have to sign to accept the place and return.

we got our first choice school this morning - phew

We got 1st choice but it is not a hugely popular school, many people went for the neighbouring outstanding schools. I am still very happy though as just wanted the nearest school so we can walk and numbers have been higher the last couple of years.

We find out tomorrow, gulp. Very nervous that we won't get our first choice (which is the only one I really want).

I applied online (in London) and we have to respond to accept the place. We've already sent in all the documents with the application so I think we just click to say yes please.

But you then have to wait for all of the people who applied by post to receive their offer and respond so it takes quite a while for it all to shake down.

Results were up from midnight.

Come on Norfolk.... We're waiting

Anyone waiting on emails - have you checked your spam folder? I was advised to do this just in case.