Primary School Allocation Day: Thursday 16th April Thread 2- let the positive vibes continue!

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I only want good news for all of you- Do not disappoint me!!! :P

Why is there so much hype??

It's a very different system Blowin Not all schools have catchment areas (they just admit out as far as they can). Those that do generally give preference to catchment children, but you don't know you'll get a space at it.

Oh no Teaching

I'm another waiting for London - we have been told 7pm!

Teaching I am sorry. You should be automatically on the list but I would ring tomorrow to double check and find out your position on the lists. Could a childminder sort your wraparound issues? Our before and after school clubs are £5 an hour so roughly the same price as a childminder if I could find one that does termtime only.

Oh really clucky! Why? I have been banking on 5pm.

Wow, that's a pretty crap system Penguin. I don't think I could tolerate that, tbh. I don't know any parent who has went through all that drama just to get their child a place at a primary school. It seems completely unnecessary and surely the whole system should be due a massive review.

Can I sue the council for the state of my nails after making us wait this long?

Hertfordshire can now log-in to the system to accept offers.

Wow, that's a pretty crap system Penguin. I don't think I could tolerate that, tbh. I don't know any parent who has went through all that drama just to get their child a place at a primary school. It seems completely unnecessary and surely the whole system should be due a massive review.

Well, we don't really get a choice of whether to tolerate it. It just is what it is.

Most of the issues come from the fact that England tends to be far more densly populated than Scotland (I've heard of some almighty scraps for places in Edinburgh too though).

If you give people a 'choice' , you need massive slack in the system, which we don't have. Hence some people end up with choices, others in 'black hole' areas, others only with a realistic chance of a decent school if they find God, etc, etc.

Longest I think it depends on the borough as a friend in the neighbouring borough has been told 5.30pm. I can't stand the wait yet I know I will be too scared to look as well! Our borough has released the allocations but we have applied to a faith school,so I can't even hazard a guess!

Clucky what borough are you? I'm Haringey and it just says 'evening'. Could they be any vague - er!

We are Haringey - anyone else? The website just says "evening" but people this morning seemed to suggest that at 5pm on the dot the London system would be updated and a button would appear. I assumed they have a joint system because more people in London will be applying across boroughs. I have an Islington school on my list

Ah -crossed posts Annie (waves to neighbour!) Wonder if we have any of the same schools on our lists?

Ha! Waves back at longest. I wouldn't be surprised if you are in an area that has a few very popular schools that are hugely oversubscribed despite (one in particular) being pretty big...

Ours just says evening too (surrey). My kids are away at Nana's I might just hit the wine now!

annie - we are not far away at all. That one is on my unrealistic options list - had to find some way of filling up the form!

Two minutes to go if it's 5pm. Come on London and Surrey - hit that button!

Hi Annie and Longest,

Haringey here too... Just hanging around now. Going to put the kettle on for the x-millionth time.

It's there! Barnet

I have an Islington school on my list too, begins with A.... See you at the school gates maybe!

waves @ Annie and Lurker. Waiting for Haringey here too!

nothing there yet...
"The London Borough of Bromley has experienced IT technical problems and is unable to publish reception results online this evening. Offers will be made by letter sent by first class post on the 16 April 2015 . The Council apologises for any inconvenience.

The outcome to your online primary school application will be sent by email during the evening of Thursday 16 April 2015.

We apologise in advance if you are affected by some email providers blocking the delivery of our emails. Parentcomms notifications and texts will not be affected.
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all I get when I log in to eadmissions, and I am not in Bromley at all!

Shit! Is anyone in Bromley - this just popped up on eadmissions..

The London Borough of Bromley has experienced IT technical problems and is unable to publish reception results online this evening. Offers will be made by letter sent by first class post on the 16 April 2015 . The Council apologises for any inconvenience.

x post... Love that theres so many Haringey parents on here!

We didn't get any of our 4 choices and I put our four local schools.