Anyone else waiting for offers day - March 2nd here?

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We have put an out of catchment school as first choice. Second choice is our catchment school. Some years we would get into our first choice, some years we would not. So we are anxiously awaiting the email...

I'm in London and we have to wait until this evening too :(

I keep checking just in case though, it's going to be a long day...

Hooray! Fairfield. Can breath again.

I'm in Bristol and will be doing this next year so watching with interest

Got ours this morning, couldn't log in but have now managed it, dd1 has been offered 1st and 2nd choices, have accepted 1st ( smaller school with better sn provision ).

They are that eager in our area they have confirmed a place at a school for dd and we haven't applied for any schools.
At least we know that her friends will have their first choice if the school offers places to dc who haven't even applied

Cheeky buggars told me they had to make sure she attended secondary school. No they don't

Good luck to those still waiting.

Hi all, London here, it's going to be a long day. I can't settle to anything.

My ds is Sen so we got his offer a few weeks back. I'm probably so ungrateful because he was offered his only choice but I was hoping he was going to be offered somewhere else. Really didn't want a faith school, really dislike the 'uniform', the headteacher comes across as a knob but I suppose I should be relieved the secondary selection is over for a couple of years.

Hoping everyone waiting gets the news they want

DD1 got her first choice (S.Cambs).
Can relax now.

For past two years some London emails/texts have come out after the site has gone live so worth checking ealrier. I logged on early last year 4.30pm and found out result. Couldn't get on via my laptop but did via phone. Email came several hours later.

Shows how poor bristol secondaries are that people are happy to get schools that perform under the national average.

First choice for ds, he'll be so pleased.

Does mean I'll have three at three different grammars but it's absolutely the right place for him.

Still waiting here.

Heels, I don't know Bristol, but you can't know how well schools perform on the basis of raw results.

There are some schools in my borough which get under 50% A - C, but I suspect a significant contributor to their shit results is the fact that middle-class parents have been avoiding them like the plague for years, so they end up with massively more disadvantaged and struggling students than they should do and this affects their results.

WAITING in London! Argh.

Londoners - I've just looked out my original registration for eAdmissions and found the following message in it:

"New for this year is the ParentComms app which is available to download from the Apple AppStore or Google play to a mobile device. You can register theUSO username and password for eAdmissions to receive .... The outcome of your application."

I didn't bother installing it before, but I have now, because I'm curious as to whether the result will appear on there before I get the email. Anyone know?

(I understand they stagger the emails going out, so that everyone doesn't log in at once, but I'll be permanently logged in to this app, so hoping to get it sooner).

Argh, bloody E. Herts says not till after 6pm, so jealous of those who can exhale in relief already!

We've had such a time with this - our local area (unlike the rest of Herts) is 3-tier, not 2-tier, and we unwittingly made the HUGE mistake of letting DS stay at his private primary when we moved here, as he was happy & it seemed silly to uproot him.

Unfortunately, that means that all our closest schools weren't ON the bloody form this year, b/c they're MIDDLE schools, not secondary (the cover years 5-9 instead of 7-12, IYSWIM)... so we had to do a whole separate "in-year" application for our preferred middle school, and of course their Yr. 6 is overfull (4 kids got in on appeal, so 5 need to leave before he'll be offered a place).

This has meant a couple of months of traipsing all over the county to figure out what to put on our secondary form, and TBH I don't think we have a snowball's chance of being offered any of the four we chose. Which means he'll be offered some failing school in Stevenage, and we might end up having to scrape together private tuition for another six years just to get him a decent education (gulp).

WHY oh why does it have to be so bloody complicated??

Who are you referring to heels?

Just got the email. DD got her third choice. Absolutely gutted. We knew the first and second choices (out of town non-academies) were a long shot so put the third choice down as one she'd definitely get into, but at the same time, definitely didn't want (we chose it as the best of 3 very poor in-town schools).

I feel like this idea of 'choice' is nonsense: my choice would be for DD to go to a decent, local, community, non-academy, non-selective school, but that choice is not available to us.

Will put her on the waiting list for other school, but doesn't seem much chance. No point appealing as it's done purely on distance and we're too far away. I'm now faced with telling her after school, and making it appear as if I'm fine with it - I don't want her to feel negative about the place before she even starts.

Anyone else in this situation? Anyone got any experience of waiting lists? The person I spoke to at the county council told me there would be quite a lot of 'churn' over the next few weeks so she could still get a place, but I think I may be clutching at straws...

I downloaded the London app yesterday - so we shall see! Have only checked that about five times this morning. . .

Heels, as someone who is applying for Bristol Secondaries next time I'm VERY up to date with how Bristol secondaries are doing. Not bad actually, so not sure where your referring to?

You and me both then Doris.

I'm not expecting to hear anything 5pm because the local authority admissions team won't be geared up for the rush of phone-calls until tomorrow morning.

I spotted the app last night and added it to my phone, no idea if it's set up properly - did you register your phone number?

Heels99, there are a lot of anxious parents on this thread. Your comments are unhelpful and unnecessary.