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Offers Day 1st March 2012

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gazzalw · 06/01/2012 18:44

Anyone else feeling like we do about the impending Offers Day?

Not at all a foregone conclusion that DS will get into any of first five choices (all selective, two 11+ passes, one 11+ result due this coming week) so rather up in the air.... Sixth choice is okayish but DS has talked it down to the point that he is now desperately hoping it's not his one and only choice! Otherwise DS is being quite mature about considering that he could end up at any of the schools and is already thinking about which friends from primary school he is likely to stay in touch with etc.....

It all feels a bit as if life is on hold till 1st March.....

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MoreCrackThanHarlem · 29/02/2012 19:10

I'm in Leeds. Website is non specific about times for offer emails, so suspect will not sleep til it arrives.

Hoping dd will get first preference academy- ofsted outstanding, 78% 5 a-c GCSE.
Alternative is 'satisfactory' local school, 56% a-c.

Stressed.
Anyone else in Yorkshire?

madgirl · 29/02/2012 19:15

any wandsworth mums out there with a ds/dd in year 7? can you remember what time you got the email with the ok to log into the pan-london e-admissions site?

tiredemma · 29/02/2012 19:17

Birmingham here- think we find out after midnight.

tres nervous.

halfrom · 29/02/2012 19:20

Hi, just thought I'd post to the people waiting to hear of places in state schools. My experience with ds1 was the offer of the school to be avoided. I told him I would appeal but he insisted on going to look. The school gained a super head and for the time he was there it was brilliant. Small classes as under subscribed for obvious reasons, every child was treated as an individual. He gained 10 GCSE's all grade C. He reached his full potential as not the brightest spark. DS2, far brighter, best school in the area, got B's should have got at least 4A's, very over subscibed and he was just a number. Didn't send him to same school as ds1 as he would have gone the wrong way with bad crowd as easily lead. I say it's down to the child in the end, their ability to learn, reach potential, and the friends they choose. So if you don't get your choice at least visit the other school, I no longer go by reputation alone.

BoobyBrown · 29/02/2012 19:20

Hi, also in Enfield here.

Have one of the best, to some of the worst schools right here.

Am in bit of a black spot regards secondary school, as the nearest by distance is actually in next borough, and not a good school.

The next 2 nearest schools are 'failing turned Academy' schools, one is improving and we like it, but has very bad past reputation. The other one is awful, awful.

We tried for Latymer, which is very near to us. DS really wanted to give it a shot, but he was just short of making it to second round so it wasn't to be.

The school he really wants though, is my old school. He has friends there already who enjoy it. We won't get in on distance, but we have a fair to middling chance of getting a foundation place.

It's the best of a bad bunch that we have a realistic chance of getting into.

So I shall have my fingers x for everybody.

Am starting to feel so anxious for DS. I know he will be ok no matter where he goes, I think he believes that himself also, but I want the school for him that he wants for himself IYKWIM.

mooze14 · 29/02/2012 19:32

hi Bobby brown,

we tried latymer as well , ( so competetive!!) and also queen elizabeth barnet .

i think the 6 that i did i would be ok with my child going to any off them and defo agree with the post of ( its down to the child)..

this site has now calmed my nerves and what will be will be , ( still feel sick) and have decided that even if i get 4th choice school i could still end up with 1st by the end of july .. never say never!! good luck every one and the very best for all the 11+ waiters

mooze14 · 29/02/2012 19:44

when does ( the evening of the 1st march BEGIN) ..??

BoobyBrown · 29/02/2012 19:53

Ha, was just wondering that myself mooze, 'in the evening' gaaaah.

Couldn't they have been a bit more specific?

When in the evening, when?

BoobyBrown · 29/02/2012 19:54

I'll be checking from about 5 onwards.

mooze14 · 29/02/2012 19:57

when do people with letters recieve?.. (post on the friday?)

ill check on from 5 as well then booby ..

do you mind me asking what schools you may be wanting , never know our children may end up at the same one lol..

and indeed just hoping that your awful awful ones wasnt my first choice lol

naffedoff · 29/02/2012 20:01

We're in Leeds as well, MoreCrack.
DS is in Year 7 now - when the offers were sent out last year by email, they were staggered. We didn't get ours until the afternoon, but others had theirs during the morning. Don't wait up after midnight though - or I fear you'll be very tired tomorrow!

justmumof1 · 29/02/2012 20:03

Madgirl - Your post rang so close to my own thoughts!

Came back from work today and had a conversation with DH about how we do the whole 'results' thing. Frankly, after all this waiting, I am too scared to open the results myself!!!!!

I am at work until 7pm tomorrow, so have agreed that we would log in once I am back from work and DS in in bed and fast asleep. That way, good news or bad news, we will have time to compose ourselves before we break the news!

Tonight I am resigned to my DS's fate! An early night is in order, on account of the fact that I have been waking up at 2am in the morning the last few night, laying there comtemplating my DS chances (waking DH up as well!)

To all of you who get the results at midnight tonight, good luck. Being in London, the fun and games will begin from 5pm onwards tomorrow.

THE BEST OF BRITISH LUCK! Smile

BoobyBrown · 29/02/2012 20:04

Will put initials only.

He wants BSS.

Have also put WS, KS, BS, AA.

And will now namchange Grin

BoobyBrown · 29/02/2012 20:06

Forgot to say, I am in just about the worst part of Enfield so have very different options this end to say western Enfield. Then my prefs would have been v different.

Blu · 29/02/2012 20:12

Madgirl - I think the whole pan london e admissions goes live at 5pm.

justmumof1 · 29/02/2012 20:13

boobybrown* I grew up in the part of Enfield that you are talking about. In the 80's both my brother and I named schools in western Enfield and got the schools that we wanted. Now it's so much harder! I feel for you and your DS. Sad

Voidka · 29/02/2012 20:13

I am so nervous. DS doesnt care at all but where we are we have 1 good school, two with poor results and I so want him to get in the right one for him (He wants to study maths at Uni)

Stroppy40 · 29/02/2012 20:13

If I knew then what I know now then I wouldn't have put myself through the mill panicking about secondary school allocations last year. Some schools are academically better than others but much of what a child achieves is due to the support they get from their families. Keep positive even if you don't get what you want as you'll already have lost the battle if they think they've already failed by going to what some deem a 'rubbish' school. A number of the children from my daughter's primary who got into the 'outstanding' schools have been moved out due to bullying etc so there's more to a school and education than statistics. My daughter is doing fantasically at the school that one of the mums referred to as 'Waterloo Road' and we couldn't be happier! Good luck but please remember; it's not the end of the world and there's no reason your child can't do well at any school if you're behind them all the way!!

madgirl · 29/02/2012 20:14

aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

mooze14 · 29/02/2012 20:16

lol booby ( i shant stalk)

i did
EG,CC,KM,St M

hhmm live at 5 they say ... sweaty palms ( nice)

mooze14 · 29/02/2012 20:24

is there a good part of enfield lol

BoobyBrown · 29/02/2012 20:29

justmum, thanks. Things have changed beyond all recognition.

Realistically, we won't even get into WS or BS from here although both quite near.

The days of getting into schools further than 2 miles away are long gone here.

mooze, we would have def gone for EG but don't go to feeder primary, don't live near and no sports to get in on, in other words, no chance Grin

maxabella · 29/02/2012 20:32

best best wishes everyone for tomorrow, last year i went through this, my 2 children never got into any of my choice schools ds1 who was 11 and ds2 who is 4 i was randomly selected by a london borough, which i was very distraught and upset,:( i refused the schools they offered me and i appealed for the ds1 secondary school place, through the appeal he got from 68th on the waiting list to being first on the list, and one week later he got offered is first choice school, which i was over the moon about, ds2 who is 4 didnt get into is first choice school which he was already attending at the nursery, but was 4th on the list but i refused the councils allocated school has well, and sent ds2 to a ofstead recognised playgroup for 4 months, i patiently waited this out, january this year 2012 my partner rang up to say my ds2 son will be 5 in may and he has no school offers has yet, 2 days later i had a offer for a church of england school place down the road from me, even though ds2 never got into is first choice school that he previously attended, he has settled in very well at this school it is very small and hold about 200 children from nursery to year 6 so at least he will get 6 months of reception, before he moves to year 1 in september, so in the end it all worked out,
good luck for tomorrow everyone, i will be thinking of you all xxxxxxxxx:)

BoobyBrown · 29/02/2012 20:33

mooze, come on now, I wouldn't mind a nice little house on the Ridgeway, or Gentlemens Row Grin

mooze14 · 29/02/2012 20:33

yeah when we moved here we didnt get a priamry transfer for 18months i homed schools the entire borough was full to the max so i can imagine the secondary school drama and understand how its so hard given that well there just to many people and not enough schools