Is it too soon for a September 2017 reception support thread?

[BellaGoth]

Anybody about to embark on school applications and want to chat? I don't know about anyone else but I think I'll need a place to get advice / support over the next year!

DS will be 4 in January and I think will be very ready for school come September. Our catchment school is single form entry and very over-subscribed but we live quite close so fingers crossed we'll get in!

First school tours next week, quite looking forward to it!

Lovely. Thank you

Halfcarrot I think your dreams sums up all of our anxieties excellently! Good luck

Has anyone in West Sussex heard yet? I've tried the portal which just says the application round is closed and I've hit refresh about a hundred times on my emails already!

Apparently the e-mails come between 10am and 4pm here in Brighton so a little waiting to go yet. The anticipation meant a very broken night sleep!
So pleased to read about many of you getting your preferences though!

Does anyone know when East Sussex emails come through? The website just says by 5pm.

Congratulations to everyone pleased with their choice and for everyone still waiting. I'm waiting either for 11am or 2pm. Much later than with the other DC, then I could log in much earlier...

My whole day will be planned around wifi/4G!

Last time I was waiting West Sussex emails came out between 9 and 12. Not sure if it'll be later this time due to bank holidays.

I am pulling my hair out here waiting for an email I'm in cambridgeshire here and have no idea when we will receive an email the website juat says on the 18th of April arghhhh.

Thank you Grace.

Looking at uniform. Crikey it all adds up!

Our school do a really drawn out start, I think the children don't go full time until October!

Fortunately I'm on maternity leave at the moment, and although I'll be back at work in September I'll be able to cover the phased start with the annual leave I've been able to accrue.

Goodness knows how I'll manage it when DD starts in a few years!

Just received an email and we got our first choice the relief is immense.

Second choice here and very happy. Would have loved first choice but it was a long shot!

Bella, legally they can't do that. A school round here had that policy and they had to change it when a parent complained to the LA. Legally, a child is entitled to a full-time primary place from the beginning of the Autumn term if they have turned 4 by 31st August. Most schools will have a short settling in period but this isn't legally enforceable and half a term is excessive unless a child is struggling and parents and school have made a special arrangement.

Phew.

Got our second choice, which to be honest was pushing our look anyway.

We applied to three popular over subscribed schools because they had good SN provision (no ehcp though so was chancing it) ignoring the poor undersubscribed school we are literally next door to.

Can I just ask, how do you find out where on the waiting list you have been placed?

Sorry, I meant for our first choice.

It says we are on the waiting list but I wanted to find out where.

Just got our email and got first choice - phew!

East Sussex

Just waiting for DH to update me (being sent to his e-mail) - hoping it's our first choice as we live so close by.

Shameful
Round here waiting list positions are not know for about 3 weeks- because they need people to accept or decline positions first.

Ah ok thank you Frazzled2207

Grace I had idly pondered that point when I first found out. I might make a phone call when we're officially told the starting arrangements.

2nd choice for us but on reflection probably the better one.

Happy for everyone who got what they wanted. I not only didn't get any choice but they've allocated my son a school that my older children went to that I fell out with badly and had to pull them out of for safety reasons. I don't know what to do I can't think straight

Oh No.

Might be worth starting a thread asking for advice. There are some really clued up posters on here.