Third on waiting list for new school Y10

[christinarossetti19]

I know it's 'as long as a piece of string' but any positive stories about having been offered an in-year transfer quickly from being in third place?

Dd has been at home for a week (there's a couple of other threads about this) and she really needs to be in school.

A bullying situation has been poorly managed in her school which was bad enough, but the final straw was her being moved from top sets with her friends to low sets where she knows no-one because she doesn't show up on the Progress 8 data so the school has no interest in her actually learning anything during Y10 and Y11.

Yes, I have asked them if they would reconsider their decision to socially isolate a child who has been bullied who is covering stuff that she learnt at primary.

No, they won't, although they're very keen for her to transfer to another school.

christinarossetti19 - I can’t offer you advice, but I can offer sympathy, what a horrible situation to find yourselves in. And, even if I were to give the school you’re attempting to leave the benefit of doubt, that wouldn’t change that you feel that this is what is happening and for such an appalling, self-serving reason.
Since results and OFSTED reports seem so crucial to this school, I do hope that you are reporting these horribly damaging and cynical actions to OFSTED.
I wish you and your dd every success with your transfer and hope you can leave this sordid situation behind you and flourish elsewhere. Am keeping my fingers crossed for you guys.

Have you appealed for the school you want?

And have you looked at other schools too?

You will need 'local information' to see if there is much of a chance waiting list wise. Some areas will have people coming and going all of the time. In other areas dc are going to the same secondary their parents went to.

I would have thought there is a high chance the first 2 would reject any offer, if they already have a school place.
However, the chances of a place becoming available are also slim, as people would try not to move their kids at this stage.
Fingers crossed someone moves soon, but if not two possibilities I can think of:
Home schooling
Persuading the current (old?) School that a managed move is required

Thanks for your kind message GreenandSpringy.

SavoyCabbage no I haven't appealed. I only submitted the in-year transfer on the first day of this term when dd found out out of the blue that she was the only child moved from her 'core class' of last year (maths, English, science, PSHE, PE, RE, so 3/4 of the timetable) to a class where the only two children she knows are friends with the bully.

She says that she could have coped with the school's inepitude about the bullying if she had friends and allies around her and was actually learning something, but being socially isolated in a class covering adjectives and adding fractions in Y10 just isn't tenable.

Even up until Friday, she did really believe that when push came to shove, the school that she's been in for three years would actually do the right thing by her. She knows how well other children have been supported by the school with bullying, friendship issues, medical problems etc etc and it's painful that there is no kindness coming her way.

Her brother is in Y8 at the school I've applied for, but they don't have a sibling policy. It's historically always undersubscribed (the council confirmed that they have places just before the summer holiday), but I do remember dd's year being a birth rate spike year when she went into reception.

It has quite a lot of 'churn' but as PeonyTime says, people generally don't want to move their child in Y10 (I certainly would prefer not to, I must say.)

Home schooling - yes in the very short term, but absolutely not long term. After lockdown etc, dd needs to be out there in the world interacting with other children and adults.

'Managed move or 'under the table' version of such - this is my hope. Her current school put in writing that they offer our full support with an in-year transfer (bizarre given that dd is a model pupil and has done nothing wrong, but there we go...) so I'm hoping that they have some sway on the LA in their desperation to get rid of her me.