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decision on 1st March? Anyone want to sit and sweat it out with me?

417 replies

MsIngaFewmarbles · 17/02/2013 17:27

Urgh I am starting to feel queasy. I just want to know now. PFB (dd1) doesn't care which school she gets into and dh is being irritatingly pragmatic.

Is anyone else twitching nervously?

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mumofthemonsters808 · 01/03/2013 14:18

Just logged onto the LEA website and DD got her 1st choice, mixed feelings because it was not the one I wanted for her but she will be thrilled.Very efficent system in Tameside compared to other areas just a pity about the schools.

JugglingFromHereToThere · 01/03/2013 14:23

< nicks a biscuit from Everhopeful and Word Biscuit - Just the one to dunk in my tea Brew ? Thanks Thanks >

wordassociationfootball · 01/03/2013 14:25

Ever thanks for biscuits.

Am all over the place. Have just offered DH a shag Grin

JugglingFromHereToThere · 01/03/2013 14:28

I did think of suggesting that word, what with all that pent up energy and the need to pass the time and a DH doing nothing much downstairs Wink But thought it might be a bit cheeky !

Everhopeful · 01/03/2013 14:28

He's a lucky man Word! No DH with me unfortunately. I may have to go out for a run instead.

Everhopeful · 01/03/2013 14:30

What's cheeky abou thta with DH Juggling? Confused Mind you, it might be a bit too intelligent for me at mo

FiveHoursSleep · 01/03/2013 14:35

Is it just me or has today been the longest day ever?

HolidayArmadillo · 01/03/2013 14:39

Still waiting here, another mum phoned the council and was told that they were having an IT issue. Argh!!

muddyin2013 · 01/03/2013 14:42

Postman has just been.

DD got her first choice. I was shaking I'm usually so laid back
like mad when I opened the envelope.

I hope everyone else has got what they wanted.

HolidayArmadillo · 01/03/2013 14:43

Just been able to log on. Second choice. Gutted.

therontheron · 01/03/2013 14:47

is anyone else using www.eadmissions.org.uk? I just logged in and I can't see where to find out the result. All I can find is the application.

Does it magically appear later or something?

ArbitraryUsername · 01/03/2013 14:54

I just emailed DS1's dad to tell him. He responded that he didn't even know that it wasn't an automatic progression. Good job it wasn't up to him to ensure DS had a school to go to next year!

Now I just have to wait until April to find out which first school DS2 will be starting reception at. Not that it matters much, as all the first schools round here are fine, even the unpopular one (it's unpopularity with the local bugaboo brigade is due to it's relatively disadvantaged catchment rather than anything wrong with the school itself).

JugglingFromHereToThere · 01/03/2013 14:55

I'm sorry Armadillo Sad x

JugglingFromHereToThere · 01/03/2013 14:57

My sister will have to wait til April too I think for a primary place for DNiece.
Fingers crossed for them X

bizzey · 01/03/2013 14:59

My heart is going out to you all still waiting but...fivehourssleep ....if you think today has been a long day ...wait for their 1st day in September !....It a looooooong day waiting for them to get home or meet/stalk them on their way home because they are later than you expected and they are just talking to their new best friends

ArbitraryUsername · 01/03/2013 15:06

Yes, sorry armadillo.

It will all work out in the end anyway. Either you'll get what you really wanted in the second round of allocations/off the waiting list or your second choice school will turn out really well. That sounds like a hideous platitude but it's almost certainly true.

But tonight drink some wine and rail against the inadequacy of a system that pretend to promise choice but really offers no such thing.

slug · 01/03/2013 15:12

therontheron Are you in London? I'm using eadmissions.org but they are saying the results won't be released until this evening

Everhopeful · 01/03/2013 15:17

Is there any other way than eadmissions.org? Taht's all I'm getting too (that and an opportunity to look at my application...Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)

HolidayArmadillo · 01/03/2013 15:39

Yes I'm planning on a few Wine the typically awkward thing is that our second choice school is DD's first choice, although god only knows why.

ArbitraryUsername · 01/03/2013 15:43

Well at least she's happy. That might be the most important thing, actually.

therontheron · 01/03/2013 15:46

slug - no, I am in Surrey.
Does anyone else suspect that they are holding off telling us until the office is closed for the weekend? i.e. give all the disappointed parents a chance to calm down before they speak to anyone?

Myliferocks · 01/03/2013 15:49

The email was in my inbox when I woke up this morning telling me that DD2 has got into her next school. It's an academy upper secondary that we're out of catchment for so we weren't to sure if she would get in although she goes to one of the two feeder schools for it. As she's yr8 if she hadn't have got in she would have had to go to the school in our town in september and be separated from all her friends.
We're a relieved household today.

therontheron · 01/03/2013 15:49

There's an option called "View the outcome of your application" but its just plain text, not a hotlink or anything. I don't think it was there earlier though...! Oh God, this waiting is awful!

ByTheWay1 · 01/03/2013 15:50

logged on to ours at midnight - got first choice.... didn't really expect not to TBH - in catchment, sibling there, low birth year..... pleased anyhow......

therontheron · 01/03/2013 15:51

was 2002 a low birth year?