Good luck - 11 transfer Northern Ireland

happymummy24-7

well we filled in the transfer form yesterday and its sitting in my kitchen looking at me as if it knows something i dont lol! Just have to put her score on it and send it off and fate will take care of the rest!
My dd's school said to us that a note with the score range will be included with the result to give you an idea of the old A B C scores-mow most of you will probably already know this but as i am now nearing the end of this pregnancy my brain is mush so i will need it lol....unless the same pig that is flying over steveymp's house also delivers our 140 (im not just so greedy steveymp haha) and we have no questions:rotfl:
On saying that actually i do agree that if dd is borderline i would have to seriously try my best not to influience her to go with the secondary...well i think she would pick it anyway!
my new thoughts on the matter are i really really hope she gets a fab score-for her self confidence and as a reward for working so hard-and chooses to bypass the grammar for the love of the secondary....now that does sound crazy i know but the one thing this whole AQE experience has taught us is all we want for our daughter is the best and all that really means is for her to be happy as life is too precious and childhood too short to let it be anything else.
Come on Saturday :T

facingthefuture

Taken with thanks from the Belfast Telegraph....they did a great job obtaining these,well done for giving us what Catrina Ruane did not want us to have (obtained under freedom of info act)

ni-mum

facingthefuture wrote: »

Taken with thanks from the Belfast Telegraph....they did a great job obtaining these,well done for giving us what Catrina Ruane did not want us to have (obtained under freedom of info act)

Those results are from 2 years ago (2009). This article doesn't give much away for last year http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education/post-primary-selection/revealed-northern-irelands-grammar-school-entrance-test-lottery-14971040.html

facingthefuture

True ni-mum but sadly the Department of Education isn't releasing this info, maybe the Belfast Telegraph will repeat the exercise for 2010.We are in an information vacumn...a headmaster at one of the schools we visited told us that the amount of boys doing the exam had gone up whilst the amount of girls had gone down. It does seem strange.Also the number of children is dropping each year...it must have an impact.
It will be a gamble, I have heard of horror storied where a child who received an A and applied to an excellent grammar school but missed entry by one mark, ended up getting rejected by the 2nd grammar school (which takes A-C) and ended up struggling to get into a secondary school.(The boys secondary schools here are dreadful comparing to the girls).Frankly I thought it was a vindictive thing to penalise the child in that way just for trying to apply for the best school.

Rach39

Although it does say in the prospectus' I've read that they don't penalise you if the school is not your first choice and you're still considered purely on account of your grade - can't quite believe that tho!!

butterflymum

Thanks for trying, facingthefuture. As has been said, those results were the last 11+ ones (ie for those transferring in 2009) and all that is still on the Telegraph site it seems. The Telegraph did publish similar tables around last October for the first year of non 11+ transfer (those children transferring in 2010), giving AQE and PPTC (GL Assessment) test result ranges that were accepted by the various schools............it is those tables that no longer seem to be on the site (which seems rather odd) and which would be of help in giving this year's families an idea, at least, of what might be an acceptable score for each particular school.

Doggies

Hi Everyone, my daughter is taking it all in her stride. She is looking forward to results and excited. I can't even concentrate in work and can think of nothing else!

I was trying to find the results page from last year as well. I emailed the Belfast Telegraph and they ignored my '3' emails. Also emailed AQE and they don't have any copies.

The wine will be flowing tonight to try and calm my nerves and I doubt I'll get any sleep. oooooohhhhh! :-)

Good Luck to everyone
x

Freefromdebt_2

happymummy24-7 wrote: »

well we filled in the transfer form yesterday and its sitting in my kitchen looking at me as if it knows something i dont lol! Just have to put her score on it and send it off and fate will take care of the rest!
My dd's school said to us that a note with the score range will be included with the result to give you an idea of the old A B C scores-mow most of you will probably already know this but as i am now nearing the end of this pregnancy my brain is mush so i will need it lol....unless the same pig that is flying over steveymp's house also delivers our 140 (im not just so greedy steveymp haha) and we have no questions:rotfl:
On saying that actually i do agree that if dd is borderline i would have to seriously try my best not to influience her to go with the secondary...well i think she would pick it anyway!
my new thoughts on the matter are i really really hope she gets a fab score-for her self confidence and as a reward for working so hard-and chooses to bypass the grammar for the love of the secondary....now that does sound crazy i know but the one thing this whole AQE experience has taught us is all we want for our daughter is the best and all that really means is for her to be happy as life is too precious and childhood too short to let it be anything else.
Come on Saturday :T

You got to take your form home !!! I wasnt allowed to (I sound like a child I know) I had my meeting today and wasnt prepared to complete it until we know scores tomorrow so I have to 'have a think about it' and let them know early next week.

Again
You have all worked really hard and deserve the best.
Good Luck for tomorrow for EVERYONE :T:T:T

steveymp

Freefromdebt wrote: »

You got to take your form home !!! I wasnt allowed to (I sound like a child I know) I had my meeting today and wasnt prepared to complete it until we know scores tomorrow so I have to 'have a think about it' and let them know early next week.

Again
You have all worked really hard and deserve the best.
Good Luck for tomorrow for EVERYONE :T:T:T

Our interviews are not until next week:o All children who did not sit tests have had their meeting this week, all who have had tests will get their meeting with headmaster from Monday. Thank God my son attends a primary that sticks two fingers up to the wicked witch of Education:T:T:T

Anybody see any of these about today, I need 1 to deliver my post tomorrow



:rotfl: good luck all, just 1 more alcohol induced sleep to go

Rach39

LOL we all need one of those - my postie seems to save up post for round our way till he has enough to make a trip worthwhile!! Interview on Tues - like Stevey our school sensibly did the non exam sitters this week and the nervous wrecks next week. Have my wine at da ready to get to sleep tonight - see you on this thread later no doubt!!