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Who else finds out about their dc's secondary school place next week ??

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CrackerNut · 26/02/2009 14:16

We find out via email on Monday. Emails will be sent at 00:01 but it will take some time for them to get through a list I suppose.

I am really nervous about it even though we are in catchment and should be ok.

Dd didn't agree with the school I put for 2nd choice though so her reaction will not be good if she doesn't get first choice.

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pigsinmud · 26/02/2009 14:33

We find out next Tuesday at 7am. We're very borderline for our first choice as 2nd choice school is our nearest.

Ds1 is very anxious as most of his friends from school will get their first choice - they live in town whereas we live in nearby village. I'm talking up his second choice big time!!

We only have 2 schools nearby so it was just a question of which order they go!

Will you stay up to find out?! I know I would.

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CrackerNut · 26/02/2009 14:37

I have said I will stay up until 12:15 but if it hasn't arrived by then I will go to bed.

Dd's surname begins with R so if they do it alphabetically it could take a while to get to her.

Technically, our nearest school is one that we put as 4th choice, but the one we put 1st is opposite that.

2nd choice is about a mile away and although i'd prefer first choice, I would also be ok with choice 2. Dd1 however has said that if she doesn't get first choice then she's not going anywhere lol.

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NewTeacher · 26/02/2009 15:53

Its an automated email! Someone doesnt sit there and send them individually!

As long as their network is not down you will receive it within a minute!!!

Good luck hope you get the schools you want.

mollyroger · 26/02/2009 15:57

oh dear god I keep managing to put this to the back of my mind but at random times, I remember, and my stomach turns over. We don't have a hope in hell of getting into any of the schools we chose.

And I'm working that day and the post doesn't arrive til late afternoon so I will get to the playground with everyone knowing except us

pigsinmud · 26/02/2009 16:04

mollyroger - is there a way of checking online? We applied online and can find out online on Tuesday. I think the letters are posted 1st class on Monday so everyone should find out the same day whether you applied online or by post.

Ds1 is talking about it all the time so everyone at school must be ... not that there is much to worry about for most people.

Babysamrocks · 26/02/2009 16:05

We find out by letter on Tuesdy. We have promised ds we will open it all together when he's home from school.

2sugarsandapuppy · 26/02/2009 16:07

Me. 2nd class post sent out on the 2nd. Didn't put down a second choice.

mollyroger · 26/02/2009 16:08

I can't check online while at work. And tbh, I'm not sure I dare check before work/school as the result is , sadly, likely to be one of great disappointment to us and our lad. There might be tears....

Fimbo · 26/02/2009 16:10

Me, we get ours via email on the 3rd.

We are in catchment, but my dd's year has 3 classes in it and they have to take children from outlying villages as well. So I do have my fingers have crossed although it should be ok.

Goodness knows where they would place dd if she didn't get in as all the others schools she could go to are heavily oversubscribed.

pigsinmud · 26/02/2009 16:11

Oh it's wretched isn't it mollyroger. I hope you're lucky.

We are so borderline - other years people have got in, but we have been warned that the private school admissions for secondary have dropped so we might be too far out.

mollyroger · 26/02/2009 16:12

2plus2 · 26/02/2009 16:57

Monday online from 8am. Ds2 wants to got to the same school as Ds1, but because we live outside the catchment area the sibling rule does not apply. As it is oversubscribed not expecting him to get in, I am ready for the the fight!

ellingwoman · 26/02/2009 17:21

Dd3 waiting to hear about getting into dd1's school. It's out of catchment but being a sibling she will get in. I'm slightly nervous incase I've filled in the non-sibling form by mistake and she gets dd2's school by default! She'll kill me!

pooodle · 26/02/2009 17:25

oh my goodness i had all this last year, it was awful - i was applying to oversubscribed school on exceptional needs category - but to be honest it wasnt really that exceptional - just a fab school and i teach there - i was in pieces from the moment i applied. My second son "should" be ok this year as he now has sibling and i had church support form but still wont be happy till i get the letter.

good luck everyone, not long now.

clam · 26/02/2009 17:38

We have a sibling rule that should apply, but am terrified of counting my chickens. Feel sick, but that's probably due to the memories of last time with DS.

2plus2 · 26/02/2009 17:50

It's such a shame that the sibling rule doesn't apply for us, feel a bad parent that DS2 may not have the same educational chances as DS1. Never thought it would be a problem when we moved here, once one was in then we would be ok. No such luck

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CrackerNut · 26/02/2009 17:52

I didn't think that someone sat there and did them manually, but thought that maybe they were sent automatically in batches so to avoid a systems meltdown.

Everyone I mention it to says 'oh you will get in easily', but I know of someone who didn't get in last year and she was within catchment but right on the edge.

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pigsinmud · 26/02/2009 18:07

I thought the sibling rule applied in any area. Fortunately it does here - I won't have to go trhough this 4 times!

lilolilmanchester · 26/02/2009 18:13

We do.... "Monday 2rd March - Allocation decision letter will be sent by first
class post to your home address" - so hopefully a letter on Tuesday.
Live in a selective area, DD failed 11+ (not by much but by enough not to get in on appeal). Very nervous as just out of zone for the high school we want and the only school she's guaranteed a place at is not where we or she want. So I can see another appeal coming on. Good luck everyone!

christywhisty · 26/02/2009 19:02

We find out monday by email. 2 Years ago we were waiting to find about DS. We had applied for an out of catchment school under technical ability which was only 18 places. We were told we could go online after 2pm, but I got the email about 12

This year DD should be going under the sibling rule, but I am dreading I have made a mistake.I have already put her date of birth wrong on the school's own form In my defense dd's and ds's birthdays are only a few days apart.
Last year the school lost a few of their own application forms and ds's friends sister had to go to appeal, although the school were really good and she was automatically given a place at appeal.

cherryblossoms · 26/02/2009 19:13

Thank goodness - a support thread.

We're waiting too. I'm slightly confused as to when we actually hear - Monday? Tuesday?

We only just moved here and I genuinely don't know if I made the right choices on the form. The area is partially selective, so I'm thinking there is just going to be an element of fate in the allocation.

Bought masses of chocolate cake of various descriptions today. Suspect it may have been allocations-related.

Fimbo · 27/02/2009 13:35

Have just double checked - I will get an email on Monday.

Good luck to everyone!

Khara · 27/02/2009 18:54

Think we find out tomorrow - Royal Mail permitting. Says parents to be notified by 1st March. (Lancs)

Don't think I'll sleep tonight.

mollyroger · 28/02/2009 10:13

oh gawd. According to the Guardian, a survey of local authorities shows that 1 in 5 children will not get a place at their chosen school this year.....

I feel properly sick with nerves.

Mind you I'll settle for any of the schools we put down. But in our area, I have heard that if you don't get into the first-choice school, you automatically get given a place at No-Hope High, even if it wasn't one of your choices. Which oddly enough, always has spare places

Hassled · 28/02/2009 10:17

Tuesday morning's post here. We don't officially have catchments but where oversubscribed (which first choice school always is) they go by closest as the crow flies - and we're reasonably close. Should be OK, but there's always this tiny "what if" nagging doubt. 2nd choice school is pretty ropey.

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