nervous about school admission day

[Gingerspice]

We got email at 6am and we got first choice

 

[sunshine114]

We still don't know! In our local authority if you applied online you could log in to see today otherwise a letter would be posted today. We couldn't apply online because of statementing for sen, so we did a paper copy.
We will reject any offer which isn't our fist choice, but now they are just about ready to write his statement we should get our first choice anyway, as long as the local authority agree mainstream is the best place for him.

 

[jenniferannex]

Eeeee been trying to get on my councils website for 50 minutes it's sooo busy I just can't get on to look!

 

[jenniferannex]

Yayyyy we got our first choice

 

[discoclare]

There has to be a c#ck up with our place. We got into a school that only takes 30 kids a year...last year they had 51 applicants!

We didnt put it as a choice!

51 applicants isn't a huge amount for 30 places. Not all those applicants will get a place as 51 is the number who had it for any preference, so some of those may have put it 2nd or 3rd but received their 1st or 2nd choice for example, therefore never received an offer for that school.

 

[discoclare]

I am in London and we didn't find out until 5pm so it was an anxious day!

We got our third choice which I am pleased-ish about. Though in my mind I had already imagined DD at second choice school (our community catchment area primary), which is down our street! Interested to know where we are on the waiting list for that one! DD's best friend got his sixth choice (they live in same catchment area as us and put catchment area school 1st), his mum isn't thrilled but is pleased she at least got one of her choices as she had convinced herself she woulsn't get any of them.

 

[Beckettshades]

It's amazing how different areas are, we only get 3 choices on the form. X

 

[alicecooper]

We had the option of 3 choices but I only picked 1 (the school that my eldest two are currently at). Got the email today at 9am - accepted. Phew!

 

[Raggydoll]

We could list up to four schools, but only chose three. I'm really happy we got our first choice.

 

[louandivy]

We got.first choice, soooo happy as it's an outstanding school with only one class per year.and it's a 5 minute walk away!

 

[RachA]

We got our first choice - now just got to decide if we are going to go with it lol. We will accept the place but it's looking likely that E will have a Statement by Sept so we will then get the choice of what school to name on that statement and it can be any that we want anywhere in our LO. I think it's likely that we'll go with our first choice school anyway as DS goes there already.

 

[RachA]

We still don't know! In our local authority if you applied online you could log in to see today otherwise a letter would be posted today. We couldn't apply online because of statementing for sen, so we did a paper copy.
We will reject any offer which isn't our fist choice, but now they are just about ready to write his statement we should get our first choice anyway, as long as the local authority agree mainstream is the best place for him.

Could you not do it online anyway? We are awaiting a statement for E but still applied online. Once the statementing process gets to a certain point we have to state the school we want and even though we'll of accept our first choice school we can still change our minds and put a different school on the statement.

 

[sunshine114]

We still don't know! In our local authority if you applied online you could log in to see today otherwise a letter would be posted today. We couldn't apply online because of statementing for sen, so we did a paper copy.
We will reject any offer which isn't our fist choice, but now they are just about ready to write his statement we should get our first choice anyway, as long as the local authority agree mainstream is the best place for him.

Could you not do it online anyway? We are awaiting a statement for E but still applied online. Once the statementing process gets to a certain point we have to state the school we want and even though we'll of accept our first choice school we can still change our minds and put a different school on the statement.

No, there was a delay with the initial ed psych, who in out local authority does the request for stat assessment. She was going to see him and start the ball rolling one week after the closing date, so we couldn't tick the box that said stat assess in progress! So we were advised to write a paper covering letter to explain all that, basically so they knew we would be getting a statement so hopefully to not make more work for themselves they would just give us first choice.

We've stated our school now and it was our first choice on the form, but there's still the chance the local authority will want to send him to a specialist speech and language unit, which we don't want

 

[aimee-lou]

So pleased that so many are getting their first choice.

I was so worried as there are supposed to be a shortage of spaces in our town (there's 4 reception classes, with 240 spaces in total) but I'm yet to hear of anyone not getting their first choice this year - that includes one girl who applied to a school in a totally different town, a church school with a 30 entry!!

So sorry to those who have got further work to do. I hope you get your appeals sorted and it works out. I'll be looking out for updates. x

 

[sparkle_1979]

If anyone like us didn't get their school and need some info on what yo put in an appeal that may help, my uncles a governor for the school board and sent me an informative email xx

 

[sparkle_1979]

And happy for all you that did xx