London secondary school transfer

Lunar_Eclipse

Nicki wrote: »

DS has just been watching Newsround, which said as I thought that letters had been received today country-wide telling kids which schools they had been offered.

Hope our letter comes in tomorrow.

Well, the Surrey County Council website clearly states that they are posting letters tomorrow. No-one here has received theirs so I think the website information is accurate.

Online applicants could get their results by 5pm today. I had a text reminder to check online around 6pm, with an e-mail stating our outcome around the same time.

You mentioned the registration for appeals deadline being around 22nd March, so no need to panic; that's ages away! Good luck.

gairlochgal

SE London here - our decision was promised for 5pm and the email popped into my inbox at 5:08pm - pretty good!

Buttercup2305

Wolverhampton and I was notified on the website just after midnight, but my daughter got her third choice so not too happy

City_Girl_2

I have a very happy niece, letter received today confirming school she wanted...... we are in Manchester.

I have to wait until the 15th April to find out if my boys get in the Primary School of our choice..... I hate waiting:(

Good Luck

CITY

Spendless

nicki, Have you checked your council's webiste? I've just looked at mine and they have this on it

Thousands of parents, guardians and carers in xxxxx are today (Tuesday 1 March) finding out from the Council which secondary school place has been offered to their child following outcomes of the 2011/12 school admissions process.

The news comes on ‘National Offer Day’ and shows the Council has maintained its good track record from last year with 99.14 per cent of children being offered a place at one of their three preferred schools. 96 per cent have received a place at their first choice of school.

Out of nearly three thousand applications just 25 children did not receive one of their preferred schools; however all of these children have been offered a pace at their local school. Those who have been refused places have been offered the right to an independent appeal.

So, if you were in my area, and hadn't received your letter, you'd know that there was only 25 pupils who hadn't got into any of their choices. (wouldn't stop you whittling whether you were 1 of them though-I admit!).

Nicki

Good thinking, but just checked it and nothing on there at all about school allocation. Looks like it hasn't been updated for a while to be honest. Guess I need to be more patient!

TediousPhoenix

I'm not in London, but we got our notification this evening for DS1.

But the school we got was not the school we wanted. DS1 is really unhappy as the journey to school will be horrible.

I've been desperately looking online for more information about appealing. I half considered for a moment getting a legal representative, but we haven't got the money for that so I took the plunge and bought a guide online. Going to read it all tomorrow. I'm just all over the place at the moment. The guide's not exactly MSE, but at least it was far cheaper than moving house. Just have to wait and see if it works. If it doesn't I just don't know what to do. But I suppose it will be just 'get on' with the school we do have.

Going to put DS1 on the waiting list tomorrow for the school we wanted but appeal any way in case that doesn't work.

We've got a lot of work to do in the next few days. Been dreading it.

(If it helps anyone who is unfortunately in the same situation as us, I got the guide from http://schoolappeals.net)

fannyadams

in Milk'n'Beans here:

have to lwe og into council's wesbite to get the answer - no confirmatory email as yet. confirmatory letters due in tomorrow's snail mail delivery (around 2.30pm), so will know for certain when I get in from work.

nearly crashed the council's website trying to find out this morning....

PLUS was nearly late for school by the time I got on it and found out DS#1 is going to our second choice school - *happy dance* (had to put snowball in hades chance school first due to 'politics')

good luck to all waiting to hear.

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happymother

Im in Northants and it said online for us that letters would be posted out today. I never got an email but I was able to check online this morn and saw that my DD got her 1st choice.

Good job really as I only made the one choice xx

Nicki

BBC news website says a third of London kids won't get their first choice. Telegraph has figures for some of the London Boroughs and mine is a little better than that, but not a lot. Really hope we get one of our top three choices, as I'd not be happy if we got the fourth or fifth choice which we only nominated at all as they were better than the other possibilities we might get lumbered with if didn't get one of the top three.

So stressful! Wish they could concoct a system where all parents could find out simultaneously the outcome, like a website you could log onto or publishing it in the local paper like they used to do with university exam results. Being at the mercy of RM is torture, particularly as we often don't get our delivery until late afternoon.