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

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MTWTFSS · 12/03/2015 07:49

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 Blush

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MTWTFSS · 26/03/2015 08:31

This morning I shall try and get some spring cleaning done. We shall see.

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Gileswithachainsaw · 26/03/2015 08:38

Good luck Smile

I can't concentrate on anything

fluffymouse · 26/03/2015 09:09

We are also waiting nervously.

I put my local community primary as the first choice. As this is London we may not get it despite living meters away. In fact, last year we wouldn't have got in due to siblings.

I'm not very happy with any of the other choices I've put down, plus all dd's friends will be going to our first choice (or hope to as well!).

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MTWTFSS · 26/03/2015 09:58

In hindsight I should have bought adopted a child that already attended my first choice school :(

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Gileswithachainsaw · 26/03/2015 10:11

It did cross my mind, who would I have to sleep with to get her in BlushGrin

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MTWTFSS · 26/03/2015 10:30

Giles- Do you have good looking MPs in your area? :P

Our labour representative is good looking and single Grin but our conservative/UKIP representatives both look horrid and I doubt I could bring myself to sleep with either one of them.

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Gileswithachainsaw · 26/03/2015 10:36

Sadly not Grin

the alternative is a honey trap I guess

Gileswithachainsaw · 26/03/2015 10:37

That way I'd just need a phone number and a photo. For blackmail purposes Grin

PenguinsandtheTantrumofDoom · 26/03/2015 10:43

Oh, just to say, we didn't get our first choice. We got our third.

Now actually, we were happy with all three, but two years on, oh my goodness I am glad I didn't get the first choice!

I would echo those who say that things normally work out. Smile

Gileswithachainsaw · 26/03/2015 10:44

Well the choices are, first choice or she can't go.

logistically and financially nothing else is possible

PenguinsandtheTantrumofDoom · 26/03/2015 10:46

Giles - Yes, the people with a child already at the school have the worst scenario I think. I suppose I was really talking to those getting an eldest/sole child into a school Smile

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MTWTFSS · 26/03/2015 12:06

Giles I'll be back on a thread similar to this freaking out even more about DS2 in March 2017!

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BrieAndChilli · 26/03/2015 12:07

How wierd that no one else finds out April 1st!!! I actually wet back and checked the council website as well as my paperwork and it all says 1st!!

Gileswithachainsaw · 26/03/2015 12:13

One word of advice. get some hair dye

Almostapril · 26/03/2015 14:09

Brie is is very odd that your LA is seemingly exempt from national allocations day! - but that is indeed what it says.

Almostapril · 26/03/2015 14:10

Giles why are other options so not viable? Near us lots have two schools to contend with - are the options miles in opposite directions?

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MTWTFSS · 26/03/2015 14:38

Giles No need- but then I would have pulled it all out :(

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Gileswithachainsaw · 26/03/2015 14:50

The schopl I need to get o's a few miles away from. catchment school (which i don't really want as it's not a good school at all)

many local schools are also over are also over subscribed and there's a chance that I could end up at different schools anyway they are all close enough that I won't qualify for transport but far enough away on won't make either drop off or pick up without one being left or being late

Almostapril · 26/03/2015 15:01

Oh what a pain. I know people who have been forced to use breakfast club etc for that reason

Gileswithachainsaw · 26/03/2015 15:25

No way I could afford that

cantwaitforsummer · 26/03/2015 16:06

Can I ask a question please ? Dd goes to a nursery attached to a primary school. The school was our third choice on the application. Just been to pick her up from nursery and the teacher asked if she was going to be attending the attached school in reception ? We replied that although we had put it down it wasn't the school we were hoping she would attend. She then said that's OK, its just that her name wasn't down on the list for entry in September. Am I right in thinking that schools already know who has been allocated a place and that she possibly/hopefully may have been allocated our first or second choice ?

Gileswithachainsaw · 26/03/2015 16:24

Could be. or it could be you got no e of your choices at all.

But yes I expect they have the list

Bunnyjo · 26/03/2015 16:45

Giles is correct, I suspect that the school have the list and noted your DD is not on there. Whilst that could mean your DD has a place in your first/second choice school, it could also mean she has a place in none of the schools. Without knowing whether your 3rd choice school was oversubscribed, it is impossible to say either way.

The school should not have discussed this with you in any case, but that's not your fault.