2011 primary school application - problem!

[Pickle]

Thank goodness for diligent school staff...

I received our confirmation letter from Southwark earlier this week showing our school choices for 2011, which were shown correctly as per my application. My son already attends the nursery of our first choice school.

Earlier today I had a phonecall from the school, who were cross checking their current nursery pupils against the list of reception applicants received from Southwark Council, and apparently we are not on the list! How on earth this has happened I don't know. I have to take my confirmation letter to the school office on Monday to prove that I have in fact applied.

I phoned the number on the confirmation letter, but of course the person on the other end of the phone can't actually do anything other than "raise a tag". I have sent a strongly worded email to the admissions email address.

What worries me is, in the current environment where applying for schools is a stressful enough process, how many other people have been affected by this?

I will keep you posted with any response I get from Southwark, but it might be worth anyone who is applying for reception places to check with your chosen school that you are on their list!

[Fuschia]

How scary, especially as if you didnt get offered a place in error, they couldnt easily fix it, they can't go over number