September 2011 primary admissions

[Vik]

Best of luck to everyone hearing today!

Does anyone know what time the emails come out? Is it the same as secondary admissions - 5 o'clock?

[hazelnunhead]

I think so! Can't believe this day has come!

[Moi23]

Apparently they start coming out from 5pm. If you've done it online you can look on eAdmissions from 5 onwards, but they've already warned that the system might overload. Good luck everyone! I'm a bit of a bag of nerves now...

[Vik]

It did crash with the secondary ones so expect nothing less this time! They do send emails at about the same time though.

[mrs.lotte]

I think that you can access allocations online from 5pm.

Despite applying for sibling place, can't quite shake off the horror of 2 years ago (when allocated John Donne) now happily at Goose Green but it wasn't fun waiting for that place.. Hope local authority has got it's act together since then and predicted where bulge classes needed.

I wish everyone waiting to hear the best of luck in securing a local place.

[Pickle]

Good luck all. I didn't think I'd be nervous, but I really am. Could be a long day!

[Fuschia]

please let us know how it turns out

[Mellors]

*drums fingers anxiously*

I am just hoping for any of my 6!

[craigy]

i'm waiting too..........

[sglanzer]

Me too - can't see how the system can fail to crash at 5pm under the weight of anxious parents all over Greater London!

[mrs.lotte]

OK we got our first choice - Goose Green (sibling place though so would have been suprised not to) Good Luck everyone.

[Mellors]

Goose Green for us too (5th choice based on distance).

[craigy]

Goose Green for us too (1st choice by distance and choice)

[Zo?]

Ivydale for us (3rd choice). Does anyone know what happens if you want to hang in there for one of your higher placed choices? Do you then have to decline the place you were originally offered?

[Mellors]

Did anyone NOT get Goose Green?! ;-)

I take it they are having a bulge class then, as its quite a way from us.

[Shankley]

does anybody know how waiting lists work if you want to hold out and see if a place comes up at a later date?

Do they decide the order of the waiting list on the normal school entry criteria (ie 1st Special needs, 2nd siblings etc) or is it first come first served?

Also, to go on a waiting list do you have to decline the offer of a place at your allocated school?

[mrs.lotte]

If you decline your offer then the LA no longer has any responsibility to find you a place so if you want to hold out for one of your higher choices, accept the place, you should automatically go on the waitlist for your chosen school (LA will be able to tell you where you are on that waitlist) and then wait for shakedown (which is where the list becomes clearer when people have accepted or rejected their offer - this is usually where people are holding a private and a state place or places in more than one borough but as this years was cross borough perhaps there will be less movement than previous years)

Wait list places are, I believe, allocated on the usual criteria

Mellors - no idea if GG having bulge - was mooted but not finalised - I'll see what I can find out.

[Hollybush]

I thought one of the councillors had said it would be Goose Green having the bulge. We are going there too by the looks of it, although was 2nd choice for us.

[Shankley]

Ta Mrs.lotte

[Vik]

We've been offered Bessemer Grange, not on our list and a 20min+ walk.

[Zo?]

Thank you, mrs lotte. Anyone else feel not remotely grown-up enough for all this malarkey?

[hazelnunhead]

Ivydale for us ...... first choice ......

[clux]

This was me 2 years ago, and like Mrs Lotte we were offered John Donne!! Got a place at our second choice a few months later, and then a place at our first choice 2 weeks after term started. Just wanted to reassure people that there is a lot of movement on waiting lists so don't give up hope on your first choice! We were originally 7th on our waiting list and managed to get there in the end.

[Pickle]

We got Goodrich, our 1st choice. We do live very close so I guess I shouldn't have worried with hindsight. Good news for us, sorry to those who are disappointed with their outcomes :(

[Vik]

Thanks for that Clux, I'm optimistic that we will get our first choice.