Offers day: 3rd March 2025

[LaBee]

We will all know tomorrow. Just starting this thread for us to kill time. I wasn't fretting over it until this weekend!

Not sure what time our council (wokingham) releases the results -some councils are bang at midnight and others are at 5pm!

We’ve been told our council will release at 10am but other years it has been earlier. Really hoping the portal updates before 8.30 so he knows before school starts. I’ll be an emotional wreck this time tomorrow!

London doesn’t update until 5pm I’ve been told. It’s going to be a long day!

Anyone knows the release time for Kent?

Before 830am will be ideal!
Hoping it is positive news for us all!

Aaaargh! 5pm is so late in the day! I assume all the allocations were probably done by end of January. So why not make it as early as possible on offers day?

I actually don't know what time ours is?
I hope wokingham do it at midnight so we wake up to the news

Aaaargh! 5pm is so late in the day! I assume all the allocations were probably done by end of January. So why not make it as early as possible on offers day?

London and Surrey are dealt with together. That's a lot of emails going out at once and it is less pressure on systems to do it over the evening (anyone on London and Surrey should log in after 5pm if they want to see the result ASAP as the emails will trickle out and won't arrive on the dot of 5).

And it's also a lot of parents phoning to ask where is my email, how do I go on waiting lists etc. In some cases people are unbelievably rude to Admissions staff at both councils and schools - they may be disappointed but no one deserves to be spoken to at work like that. Dropping the results after the working day means on Tuesday morning everyone had their results and has slept on it.

Ours should be midnight tonight 🤞

Yup, this seems right when looking at the past emails we have received...it is always around 5:15-5:30pm by the time we get an email regarding schools. (I have 3 kids (one in secondary) and they do the same timings for primary schools.

Lucky. Some people I have heard getting midnight. But in London it is not until 5pm!

Good luck everyone!

I am in the Greater Manchester area. When we did primary, in my town, I think the emails came in the morning, so hopefully it will be the same.

We are also holding an offer at a private school - I realise we are exceptionally lucky to be able to have that option but was hoping we will get the state choice we want.

I swear I've aged about 10 years applying for secondary school!

Wokingham releases offers on the portal at midnight and follows up with an email early the following morning

Thank you! Great to know that!
So less than 11 hours to go!

I’m a bit embarrassed by how anxious I am! Feel a bit daft. But just want it to be over with now.

I feel anxious too. I think because it’s getting so close to when we find out!

We could log on to the portal for Birmingham and find out yesterday (1st March). Official email due to be sent tomorrow from midnight I think. Sadly we didn't get any of our first 3 (realistic and closest!) choices :(

Oh bad luck ☹️ commiserations. How is your fourth choice looking, and do you hold out much hope of WL movement?

Thank you. 4th choice isn’t the end of the world but logistics will be more difficult and my child will prb be the only one from their school to go there :( It’s an improving school so hoping it’s got more to lose/prove and keeps going in the right direction. Keeping an eye on W-Lists but not holding out too much hope. Fingers crossed for everyone finding out tomorrow 🤞

We got offered our 6th choice of secondary school, Warwickshire LA uploaded the info at midnight just an hour ago. Does anyone know what the AQS for Warwickshire grammar schools was for each school, in the end? So sad we didn’t get offered a place at grammar.

We got 1st choice, so relieved!

Still waiting in Leeds. Our primary ones came around 2am but nothing yet!

Still waiting in West Sussex.

Fingers crossed it’s soon!

All of London? That's a long time.
Is it released on eadmissions at 5pm?

Power of Mumsnet - out in Leeds came through at 6.30 just after I posted. Got our preferred choice - was fairly certain we would but still a relief to know! Hope everyone else gets theirs soon.

Jealous you've heard already! Think we have a long day to wait until 4pm here 😩