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

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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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northender · 01/03/2013 00:55

Ds got 1st choice but his big worry is his best friend who lives much further away. Have texted his mum to say the offers are out but we were told "the evening of...." so it seems no-one else has bothered.

Fingers crossed for everyone.

EllenJaneisstillnotmyname · 01/03/2013 01:26

DS3 has got his first choice! So relieved, it wasn't a sure thing at all. So now he'll go to the same school as his brothers. Grin (no sibling policy)

NotMostPeople · 01/03/2013 02:21

Yay DD2 got her first choice, just have to go through this all again next year. Then GCSE results, university applications, job offers, argh.

mankyscotslass · 01/03/2013 04:44

Their systems have crashed. No emails and the webpage is broken. Will have to wait for snail mail. I don't even know if it's just us or every one!

MissMogwi · 01/03/2013 06:19

Not just you, our page has crashed too.

Will the letter arrive today do you think? Or is it sent out today? DD1 will hound me until she knows!

sausagesandwich34 · 01/03/2013 06:41

Dd got her first choice which softens the blow of the bursary appeal being rejected for her real first choice

JillJ72 · 01/03/2013 06:48

Well done to everyone so far! The website still shows nothing, but after reading your threads I have just checked my emails..... And I am trying not to squeal because DS has got the school he wanted!!! Especially chuffed as it's out of catchment and he had to sit an aptitude test (and got in their top 20 after 2 weeks of mad cramming at home).

Wooooooooohooooooooo!!!!!!

Good luck to everyone still waiting!

mankyscotslass · 01/03/2013 06:52

I think the snail mail stuff only gets sent out today, second class too! Sad

Congratualtions to everyone that got the school they wanted!

VoldemortsNipple · 01/03/2013 06:56

Ds2 got first choice :) looks like the email came through at 12.46am. I've marked it unread so he can open it when he wakes up.

I hope he is pleased. He will likely be starting school knowing nobody, but I know within a week he will have loads of friends.

aristocat · 01/03/2013 07:22

My DS has also got our first choice school Grin

Didn't get our email until 6 this morning. Good luck if you are still waiting!

LadyIsabellaWrotham · 01/03/2013 07:28

Marking my place though it's academic now for us (DD will relinquish her hard-won private place over her dead body). Good luck everybody, and congrats to those who've heard good news already.

InMySpareTime · 01/03/2013 07:35

DS got first choice, I checked online.

JugglingFromHereToThere · 01/03/2013 07:40

Yay ! DS going to his sister's school. Nice to have it in writing (on website)
Had a quiet, slightly bleary eyed, high 5 when we looked first thing this morning Smile

kernowal · 01/03/2013 07:48

DD should be eternally grateful that we didn't join the rush for a millenium baby. She's got into her 1st choice with all of her friends. We're ridiculously out of catchment and they're usually full to the brim, so thank goodness for low birth years!

JugglingFromHereToThere · 01/03/2013 07:53

I think 1999 might have been a low birth year too with lots of people holding out for a "millenium baby" I ended up having one each side of the millenium.
Still enjoying Child of Our Time though - (DS seems to be catching them all up quickly now)

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MsIngaFewmarbles · 01/03/2013 08:03

An hour to go here. Refreshing emails like a loon anyway.

Congratulations to you all so far!

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auntpetunia · 01/03/2013 08:26

DD got into 1st choice, and her phone hasn't stopped since 7 am with her friends texting to see who is going where.

wordassociationfootball · 01/03/2013 08:55

Not til 5 here. Just taken my hand off my mouse from hearing all your good news and my palm was running with sweat!

Having slept apallingly for the last ten days, (mostly hormones, some school stress) used a hypnotherapy cd last night and slept ridiculously well Confused Grin Soothed by all this talk of this being a low birth year.

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MsIngaFewmarbles · 01/03/2013 08:59

DD got 2nd choice which is an excellent school but she is upset as she really wanted the girls school or failing that our 3rd choice as all her friends are going there. We're pretty happy but she isn't :(

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JugglingFromHereToThere · 01/03/2013 09:09

Ah, that can be hard when many friends going to another school. But with DD we found that starting secondary is a great time to make lots of new friends as so many in the same boat not knowing many. And she's kept in touch with lots of her friends from primary who went to other schools or even moved to a new city much more than I thought she would. When you're a teenager you don't have to have all your friends at the same school (unlike at primary where that's often more the case) HTH Inga - glad you are pretty happy with outcome, sorry it wasn't your first choice. Hope it works out really well for DD x

ArbitraryUsername · 01/03/2013 09:43

My LEA hasn't sent out emails yet. They put up the link to accept your offer, but they've put it in the wrong page. It's in the 'applying to primary/first school' page not the 'transferring to' page. Silly billies. The online system isn't working anyway.

I just want to sign on and accept my place before I get all useless and forget.

MissMogwi · 01/03/2013 09:47

Phew it's working now, my DD got her first choice. I'm so relieved!

BurnedTheToastAgain · 01/03/2013 09:48

No news yet. Excruciating!

JugglingFromHereToThere · 01/03/2013 09:51

My friend tried to accept their place (via webpage) but the system didn't seem ready to accept acceptances .... she got some message that they were too late in some way, which of course they found slightly worrying. But am convinced it must be that they haven't updated it from last year yet idiots
For example it's still saying that deadline for applications has passed which they could have got rid of by now surely ?
I'll wait for our email (later today ?) which will hopefully have a request that we accept and details of how to do that.

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MsIngaFewmarbles · 01/03/2013 10:00

Thanks Juggling. I know she'll be ok but she was disappointed this morning and it was hard to watch.

Even though we applied online and got our answer via email we need to respond with the pack that is coming through the post. Weird.

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