Primary school allocation countdown- Thursday 16th April...

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Is anyone else dying to find out which school they have been allocated?

This is for my PFB which makes it extra difficult for me :(

I can't talk about it in real life as it starts off as a nice casual conversation ending with some delusions of grandeur PFB nonsense

Thanks tiggy :)

Logged in at 11.55pm, could see application but no offer posted. Logged back in at 12.05 to get error code and couldn't log in, about 12.30 managed to log in and we got our first choice

Congratulations Brie A very happy Easter in your household :)

May this be the beginning of many first choices to be offered to all of us!

Well done Brie! I am also in Monmouthshire, was a stressful 20 minutes with various error codes, but we also got the place we wanted. Stress over.....until next year!

I have found it more stressful with ds2 application then I did with ds1 or dd's.
With ds1 I had put our catchement school as 2nd choice so knew if we didn't get our first choice we had a perfectly acceptable likely to get in alternative. With dd there was only about 8 siblings and siblings get priority so didn't worry.
There were 24 siblings this time so would only have taken a few other prority children to push some siblings fr the list! Plus having children at different schools would hve been a nightmare!

Chocchip88 Congratulations to you too

We had rumours of 21 siblings so I was very nervous. Next year we will be a sibling and in catchment so we should be ok.
Just heard from a few friends who haven't got in their first choice (the school we got).

For everyone else who didn't find out today... 15 days left

I couldn't sleep last night, and I was thinking this is just the beginning of this emotional roller coaster. I'll be crying when I have to buy his teeny uniform, I'll be crying when I was to get his SCHOOL bag ready, and OMG I am going to be THE WORST parent on the first day of school :(

That's great brie &choc

really thrilled for you both!!

oh yes the uniform shopping. I'm not sure ill be able to do tat of we don't get where we need

Congratulations on getting your first choices :)

Incidentally - How do you find out how many siblings there are?

Purely by attending the Playschool affliated without the school, having older child at the school and knowing other families. It was just a guesstimate until it became a real worry and school went through the classes and asked everyone the birth date of any younger siblings!!!

There's no way to find out catchment numbers is there.thats gonna be my issue. Most the siblings will be catchment anyway.

although there are a couple of siblings dd will be "fighting" with fir a place

And what would happen if someone went with the appeal advice of "stagger being late"

I'm assuming a child regularly missing up to an hour of school every day and being left In playgrounds after hours would have no bearing on waiting list positions?

Oh Giles I'm crossing my fingers and toes for you!!! :(

Childcare and commuting to school has no bearing, they couldn't care less, I think th only things to win an appeal is to prove they handle the application incorrectly or didn't apply the over subscription criteria properly

I'm more concerned about the consequences. paying for childcare isn't an option as we can't afford it. I don't want SS involved because I can't get my kids to school.

It shouldn't be this hard to get to a good school. The worst school we have just wasn't an option.

There's no way we can afford this.

trouble is NONE of the uniforms match in anyway so I won't be able to buy anything without having to buy it twice should dd get a place at short notice.

I'm debating deferring a term anyway but if she's miles down the list it hardly seems worth it as she will have to go there regardless.

It is a tricky situation because the school in really really don't want, might be a better fit for reception (no way she can stay any longer though as teaching is pretty poor) but that's only because the other school we put down is really academic and Dds a bit dozy

neither however are really suitable for her and will be impossible to get her to on time I just put the academic one down as it was to fill the list as by that point I'm fucked anyway

I didn't put the failing school became the LEA seems to throw everyone in there anyway and seemed pointless to encourage it

If it were me and I had to travel miles with two kids in different places I would just have them be late every day. Surely SS don't get heavily involved for something like that? It may be a threat but they have far more urgent things to attend to.

I live in an area where there has been an increased birthrate and they created more entry classes in a few of the schools near me to accommodate the boom. The (much better) catchment next door had 40 children too many applying for the best school so they are building another school. Funny how the better off area get a new school but we in the 'bad' area have to put our kids into schools that are already bursting at the seams :(

I really envy people who live in good areas because at least they have choice.

round here they just keep building houses and not schools. what stared off as not really being an issue or a worry has now due to recent developments become a huge cause for concern.

I also have no idea how to prove if I missed out I fairly. I believe this happened last time but no way of proving it.

In short I have the kids most likely to be overlooked