Transfer Test AQE 2014-2015

Eastbelfast_mum

Anyone got more news of Grosvenor? Just want more information?

flymetothemoon_2

Heard a boy with 99 and no SC got into Belfast Royal Academy

m-u-m

I was told that if you have oldrer children and finished school that your youngest is classed as a 1st child when applying to grammar/secondary is this true.

motherearth

This could be true m-u-m as one of my daughters friend didn't get a place in Methody with a score of 104 and had had an older brother in the school who had since left.

flymetothemoon_2

m-u-m wrote: »

hi flymetothemoon
there lowest score taken i was band 4 my son just missed it by 1 mark and i had special circumstances so it mustn't have done him any good. so i,m putting in an appeal
do i have to send in all the relevant info for the school he was accepted into or just wait to see the outcome of the appeal
m-u-m
I was told that if you have oldrer children and finished school that your youngest is classed as a 1st child when applying to grammar/secondary is this true.

Hi m-u-m
Glad to hear you are appealing as your son was so close.
On reading AG's admissions criteria in the Transfer 2015 book (which our Primary sent home) it clarifies the 'eldest' child as follows:

'Twins and other multiples who are eldest in the family are treated as joint eldest children. Eldest child to apply to a mainstream school'.

I think the bit in red above does mean that if an older child in the family has already left mainstream schooling (ie post 16yrs or 18yrs old) then your P7 child will be treated as the eldest child and this should help if there is a tie breaker for the last place in the school. Good luck with the appeal. Let us know how it goes. If all else fails you should put your son's name on their waiting list in case a place becomes available. He may well be top of the waiting list.
If he doesn't have a place by Sept and has to go to another school in the meantime, it would be best to try and get a grammar place as that often makes for a quicker move into another grammar in the future whereas if a child is trying to move from a secondary school to a grammar, some grammars require them to sit tests and have an interview etc. but this is not always required for a child who is applying from another grammar school.

Kamand29

flymetothemoon wrote: »

Hi m-u-m
Glad to hear you are appealing as your son was so close.
On reading AG's admissions criteria in the Transfer 2015 book (which our Primary sent home) it clarifies the 'eldest' child as follows:

'Twins and other multiples who are eldest in the family are treated as joint eldest children. Eldest child to apply to a mainstream school'.

I think the bit in red above does mean that if an older child in the family has already left mainstream schooling (ie post 16yrs or 18yrs old) then your P7 child will be treated as the eldest child.

Surely if the older siblings have been through ANY secondary or grammar, even if it was 10 years previously, then the younger child in question is NOT the first in the family to apply to a mainstream school. I always assumed this was for the benefit of younger siblings who had older siblings with a disability which was such that the older sibling had to attend a special school ie not mainstream. This would be the only situation whereby the younger sibling is the first in the family who attended a mainstream school.

A friend of my daughter's didn't get into her first choice grammar. She had an older sibling who attended the local high school about 10 years previously. She was not regarded by schools as the eldest in this situation. She was regarded as a child whose sibling went elsewhere.

If you have any doubts, contact the school for further clarification.

flymetothemoon_2

Admissions Criteria differ from school to school. So anyone wondering about how a school treated their child's application, should read that school's criteria very closely and if still unclear should seek clarification from the school in question.

Mrs_mum

When we were doing the rounds of the schools a few of the headmasters mentioned in their talks that if your child's older sibling was now classed as an adult, 18 or over, or was no longer in education, 16 or over, that they were now classed as the eldest child in the family.

m-u-m

I still don't understand how a cjild who got 8 marks less than another child gets into the school and the other doesn't

inzane_mummy

Well nothing new here on the school front, we are still schooless. I surprisingly calm but don't know how