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Primary education

Join our Primary Education forum to discuss starting school and helping your child get the most out of it.

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Anyone anxiously waiting for admissions letter tomorrow?

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littleducks · 18/03/2010 19:50

I applied online so should receive an email, at midnight? at 9am? at some other random point......5.55pm?

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smokinaces · 18/03/2010 19:54

God, you're lucky finding out tomorrow. We find out at 4pm Monday. A last weekend of being stressed out before I find out - I am dreading it!!!

RatherBeOnThePiste · 18/03/2010 20:17

Where we are the letters are out on Friday 26th March

MrsHappy · 18/03/2010 20:23

We don't find out until May! Not that it makes much difference - if DD gets offered a place at ANY local school I may keel over from shock.
If you applied online can you log on at 12:01 and find out the result?

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littleducks · 19/03/2010 07:21

no email yet

online application thing crashing

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DastardlyandSmugly · 19/03/2010 07:25

We've had one and haven't got in anywhere. Am fucking disgusted.

smokinaces · 19/03/2010 07:47

oh no Dastardly, thats awful. where have you been given?

mehdismummy · 19/03/2010 07:58

we live in essex and dont find out till the 1st, we live in the same street as the school so ds had better get in

Botbot · 19/03/2010 09:14

I've just found out DD got a place in a school in our neighbouring borough (we live more or less on the border so have applied to the two boroughs). Don't find out about our own borough (so our real first choice) for another month, but it's nice to know that we have a backup in place.

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littleducks · 19/03/2010 09:23

Ok so dd was not awarded a place at any of my prefered schools

She has been given a place at a school 2 miles away, which was in special measures a few years ago and has since been given a new head and has now been awarded a staisfactory ofsted

Am waiting for letter for info about appeals/waiting lists etc. DD can stay in nursery for another year as she is a May birthday but i think it will be very stressful

Am feeling very guilty that i didnt manage to do anything to get her a place at one of the very good schools

Luckily it is primary so dd is oblivious to it all, must be much worse at secondary when its the talk of the playground

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MrsHappy · 19/03/2010 09:32

But Littleducks, what could you have done?

A decent free primary education should be a given. The fact that it isn't with the amount of tax we all pay is shameful.

It will be interesting to see how many children in our borough get no place at all and, importantly, what the council does about it. Not a lot, I bet.

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littleducks · 19/03/2010 09:58

Right now, I'm regretting:

not pretending to sperate from my husband and renting a bedsit in a better catchment,

waiting until I was much older to have kids and so have enough £££ to send them private,

living in this borough etc.

I know its not rational but I am hugely dispoointed and stressed out

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smee · 19/03/2010 11:07

littleducks, poor you. Two miles is a long way to go and that's far from good, but go and see the school again. If it's got a new head it may have improved massively. Some schools that are in special measures turn out to be the most desirable ones in a very short space of time.

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littleducks · 19/03/2010 11:14

I havent been to see it at all, so do plan to. I am completely thrown by the allocation, there as loads of closer schools, and i was expecting that if i didnt get my preference to get a much closer but not very good school.

Its two miles, which isnt too bad but there is a very steep hill so i dont know if we would walk it. Though two miles is the limit to be awarded free school transport....maybe if i applied for that (dont think we'd use it i do have a car and prob would walk occassionally) they would try to find us a closer school rather than pay transport cost?

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smee · 19/03/2010 11:48

Even if you accept the place, I think I'm right in saying you can still be on the waiting lists for the other schools you wanted. Things seem very fluid with primary. Good luck though. Hope you end up happy!

maidenheadmum · 19/03/2010 13:01

Heard this morning by email, we've been allocated the worst school in the county! Socially and educationally-my son will be mincemeat. Will appeal but there's probably a lot of us, so seriously considering home schooling. Does anyone know if you can apply to get into school at a later date, I'm thinking home school for a while then try to get in later in the year.

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littleducks · 19/03/2010 13:09

where were you given?

perhaps same as my dd?

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maidenheadmum · 19/03/2010 13:55

ellington in maidenhead

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littleducks · 19/03/2010 13:59

we got larchfield.....so prob only thing worse than yours!

am literally on doorstep to ellington though, so really dont understand why you got that and i didnt, it was the school i was expecting to be placed in if i didnt get into where i wanted

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DastardlyandSmugly · 19/03/2010 17:59

We haven't been offered anything. We've applied for four of the five closest schools to our home (including our closest) and have been offered nothing. It's an absolute disgrace. Am furious and really upset. We're going to appeal but not sure if that will do anything.

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littleducks · 19/03/2010 18:57

Thats awful, dastardly.....i don't think that can happend here, are you between several boroughs or something?

Good luck with the appeal

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smokinaces · 19/03/2010 19:49

How can you be offered nothing? Surely they have an obligation to school your child somewhere?

I'm so sorry so many people didnt get a school on their list. Its making me really nervous for Monday too, as if we dont get any of our 3 schools we will be given one of 3 IMO awful schools (all our closest) and I dont know what I would do.

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littleducks · 19/03/2010 19:56

I'm reading up on appeals info......it doesnt look like fun

In fact i have spent quite large amounts of today crying and want cancel any merriment planned for my birthday tomorrow.....dh thinks i have gone mad

I dont think homeschooling would work to well, had a big disagreement with dd about where your heart is, apparently I'm wrong, her preschool teacher knows better and its under your throat

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maidenheadmum · 19/03/2010 19:59

Littleducks we live very near ellington too, it's our catchment school, but we applied for cookham rise which normally has places, but this year was a 'boom' year, so been told unlikely to get in even on appeal. So we may homeschool for a bit and stay on waiting list.

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littleducks · 19/03/2010 20:08

MM it appears we were in the unlucky 4.9% according to this

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