Good luck - 11 transfer Northern Ireland

YNWA-J96

Thanks Doggies I hope your wee one is ok, don't you just hate it when they are sick. She has people she knows at the school and my eldest goes there so like you sat when it sinks she will be fine, i hope. The thing is is annoyed about is friends with slightly lower scores got into the schools she didn't, criteria must have applied, so that hurt. But heyho will fill her weekend with hugs and support and hope for the best. Good luck getting through the next few hours I would have been on the wine by now if I had longer to wait..lol
xx

Doggies

Aww she'll be ok. I've just woke madam up and had a chat with her preparing her to not get the school and not to be crying etc when she got result. That has calmed her down a bit. But I know there'll be tears if she is disappointed. Ive heard of a Wallace with 101, def must have got in with criteria. Your right, makes it that little harder to accept. I've my ironing done, house cleaned. Going to shower and change. Trying to keep busy. The wine will be opened later. About an hr to go now.

RikM

I'd thought my son was oblivious to the whole process, until I found him standing at the front door watching the postman this morning...
The NEEB letter and the one from his new school arrived at the same time (his first choice).
Now there's the forms and payments etc. to do (passport photos, copy of birth certificate, agreement to this, acceptance of that...). Uniform to buy. Discussions of the school rules/policies to have with him. Induction evening. PE kit evening... <sigh>

facingthefuture

We got second choice despite the headmaster of the first choice saying he would definitely get in (5 times in front of a group of people). He is disappointed. Personally I really liked our second choice. I am annoyed with the useless primary school.

RikM - well done to your son.

facingthefuture

Anyone know the cut off for Lumen Christi?

Doggies

Well done Rik!! Brilliant news.

Facingtgefuture, at least he got his second choice, well done!! They'll all be fine wherever they go. Can't complain at all about our Primary. What sort of a twit was that headmaster to be saying he'd def get in. Nobody knows or can say that! Idiot

YNWA-J96

such a stressful time for all concerned, and those who had to listen to me for the last few months lol, I need paracetamol and tea now. Just noticed on Belfast Telegraph website that most children got into their first choice this year, well done to them!!xx

steveymp

facingthefuture wrote: »

Anyone know the cut off for Lumen Christi?

Usually VERY high, Lumen can pick and choose, I know of families last year that got rejected with high scores and got told their extra ciricular activities where not to a high enough standard ? My nephew got rejected 2 years ago, but he went on to thrive at another Grammar School and couldn't be happier:T

My little bundle of joy got accepted to Foyle and Londonderry College today :T I really wanted to send him to Oakgrove, but he had his heart set on Foyle, so all's well that ends well.

Good luck to all that are waiting still.

butterflymum

Just back from meeting with headmaster, both himself and his teacher where equally surprised at my sons score as we where:o

DS had heart set on certain Grammar school and it broke his heart when I explained it was pointless trying to get there now with his score. Headmaster and Teacher talked us around today and 1st pref school is now the Grammar:eek:

Pleased for you both that your son got his choice and hopefully his expectations will be met and he will excel there. Aren't you glad folks here and the head and teacher all suggested you go for it! Guess the pig did fly after all :T.

butterflymum

It seems so unfair that we can congratulate some but have to commiserate with others, but it is the nature of the beast that both types of message will share space on the thread today and in many ways, lovely that the joys and disappointments can be equally shared amongst an understanding group of likeminded folks. Either way, the sentiments, I feel, will be genuine, as none of us could be 100% certain of which way the cut-offs would fall.

One certainty, though, was that there would be two sides to the coin. Whatever way it landed today, please pass on to your child theses few words of advice that whichever side it fell on for them, at the end of the day it is how they use that coin that counts. May each of them invest it wisely and strive hard to gain maximum return from it in the years to come. Life will always be about differences. It is how we make the best, not the worst, of those differences that really matters.

So, congratulations or commiserations, whichever may apply, but either way, may your child invest their coin wisely, work hard and achieve whatever they are capable of at whatever level of ability is right for them, regardless of where they go.