Primary school place allocation chaos has started!

[Fuschia]

James, do you know what % got one of their first two or three choices?

[Cora]

Intrigued, this thread has gone very quiet! Does this mean everyone's happy?!!! Blimey....

[buggie]

From Fuschia's post above I'd check back at about ten past five tonight! Hopefully for lots of happy posts!

[ladywotlunches]

Good luck to everyone tonight/with tomorrow's post...

[prdarling]

I'm feeling very very anxious...been awake since 2am - ludicrous I know

[James Barber]

Hi Fuschia,

Tomorrow I should have the breakdown for East Dulwich.

[toast]

Well at least we have not been making a fuss over nothing. Did not get into our nearest 7, got into our 9th, a promising school coming out of special measures about a mile away. Mad world!

[prdarling]

Victoria please can you PM me. I need your help

Thanks

[tor]

I need someone's help that's for sure.

We live two streets away from Goodrich and have been offered a place at a failing school in Nunhead.

How is this possible??????

[prdarling]

Which one toast?

[prdarling]

Tor - I think you are my neighbour...are you on Ryedale with 2 boys?

[clux]

Just curious, which Nunhead school is failing?

[edmumof5]

I heard today and my daughter got her place we wanted at goodrich :)

[toast]

Prdarling i'll PM you

Tor, would be helpful to know how many meters Goodrich went to, how far do you live?.

Gathered myself together a bit now, this is only the first round and as we live on the borders there will be lot of movement. Just really cant face another month or two of uncertainty. Thank god we only have to go throught this once!

[supergolden88]

I would also like to know which school in Nunhead is failing...

[Trish]

To balance this thread out (but not wanting to gloat) we have secured a place at goodrich and we're obviously delighted. Good luck to everyone who is about to appeal - I hope you get a positive outcome.

[The Nappy Lady]

Really feel for those of you that didn't get first or second choice, but do try not to panic too much yet as going by previous years a lot does sort during the shake down, especially if you are very close to your school of choice.

Such a horrible thing to go through tho.

Molly

p.s. Also curious re the Nunhead failing school????

[prdarling]

Be interested to hear where you live edmumof5 and Trish???

Toast - Tor lives 4 houses closer to Goodrich than I

Liquid dinner for me tonight.......

[barrybrains]

From another discussion on here, it seems to be Bessemer Grange that is failing, although it's probably fine but just a bit of a trek, and annoyingly not really reachable by public transport that easily.

The Nappy Lady Wrote:

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> Really feel for those of you that didn't get first

> or second choice, but do try not to panic too much

> yet as going by previous years a lot does sort

> during the shake down, especially if you are very

> close to your school of choice.

>

> Such a horrible thing to go through tho.

>

> Molly

>

> p.s. Also curious re the Nunhead failing

> school????

[prdarling]

Mind you, EDmumof5 - you must have a sibling place...unless i am totally thick??!

[The Nappy Lady]

Bessemer not in Nunhead, is behind DKH Sainsburys. Also a friends child started there last year and they are really please with it - were worried when allocated but after visiting and meeting the head felt completely different.

Big issue is distance tho - crazy to have a trek/drive to school when you live 2 streets from one that is your first choice.

M

[Fuschia]

Underlying all this is the fact that the government merely expects a place to be offered at a school within statutory walking distance (2 miles for Infants) and if there are spaces at schools within that distance then there is no case for additional school places closer to the locality...

ED by the look of it is absolutely full at the seams with primary children who are now being shipped out to schools on the perimeter. Will be interesting to see the stats and if the demand locally was as expected and places have been found at the schools the LA foresaw...

[toast]

A few of us mums are meeting at the Herne in a few min, all welcome. I'll be the one in the blue skirt drinking a G+T.

[barrybrains]

Hmm, not sure which one in Nunhead then. I think there's a panic that anything outside of East/Dulwich is going to be rubbish, but that's clearly not the case as there are some very good primary schools to be found all over the borough.

The Nappy Lady Wrote:

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> Bessemer not in Nunhead, is behind DKH Sainsburys.

> Also a friends child started there last year and

> they are really please with it - were worried when

> allocated but after visiting and meeting the head

> felt completely different.

>

> Big issue is distance tho - crazy to have a

> trek/drive to school when you live 2 streets from

> one that is your first choice.

>

> M

[prdarling]

Molly this is exactly what sends me over the edge. You can't move round here for cars dropping off at Goodrich and now they expcect me to drive miles away to drop my son off and no doubt in several years time, will expect residents around Bessemer to drive to bloody New Cross. It's a shambles.

Am sure parents there are very happy etc etc, but my local school is less than 5 minutes walk away. It's a joke