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[chickencam]

Is anyone else out there waiting nervously for the post?

 

We waited until 11.50am for our post this morning, but fortunately it brought good news. My YD has secured a place at the same all girl grammar school that older sister attends.

 

She really wanted to go there and was feeling the pressure because both of her older siblings are at grammar school. She passed the exam and we got the results for that at the beginning of December. This did not secure her place however and we were told that there were 238 eligible girls for 120 places, so it has still been a nervous wait.

 

I really hope that the post also brings good news to everyone else who is waiting for news today.

[Slim]

Did not know it was coming We are lucky we have kids at the same school!

[bluekarin]

I am waiting too, but Mr Postie came and didn't deliver the letter I actually feel sick waiting. We are all so desperate for him to get into his first choice, but with 400+ applicants for 130 places it doesn't look good. Hope the letter comes tomorrow

 

The worst part is knowing his teachers have known for a week where he's going and since Xmas if he was one of the border kids.

[TAJ]

Is anyone else out there waiting nervously for the post?

 

We waited until 11.50am for our post this morning, but fortunately it brought good news. My YD has secured a place at the same all girl grammar school that older sister attends.

 

She really wanted to go there and was feeling the pressure because both of her older siblings are at grammar school. She passed the exam and we got the results for that at the beginning of December. This did not secure her place however and we were told that there were 238 eligible girls for 120 places, so it has still been a nervous wait.

 

I really hope that the post also brings good news to everyone else who is waiting for news today.

 

Well done - as you know my 15 yr old is at the same school, that wait for months is just so worrying, but pleased it has worked out well.

 

Tracy

[Lewis]

Glad she got in

 

Good luck everyone else

[Willow]

My wait was over at 1/2 past midnight this morning when I was able to see the offer on-line - my YS got a place at the same grammar school as his elder brother and we are so relieved I keep logging into the system to check it's for real Most of his friends parents seem to have filled out the paper form so they won't hear until tomorrow

 

We don't have any grammars in our LEA and there are only two (one boys, one girls) in the next LEA so competition is intense. He was so desperate to go to a very academic (non sporty) school and it is also the same place as his brother the wait has been awful and unlike first time around I had no plan B that I would have been happy with for him (we have an excellent local secondary but unfortunately the junior school has never managed to stop the bullying so on top of wanting to go to the grammar he did not not go to the same place as the kids that bully him).

 

I feel for everyone who doesn't get a place at their school of choice

[Egluntyne]

Good luck all.

[Happy chickens!]

Good luck to all on tenterhooks. I hope you get the news you want, but if not, I found this site a fountain of knowledge and support on appeals - and despite the name, it helps all types of appeal: http://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/forum/11plus/index.php

[Yorkshire Pudding]

Our offer is guaranteed to have been posted today, so tomorrow is the earliest I will know for DS1. Fortunately our (his!) first choice is also our nearest high school. No selection here, so no exams to put him through - proximity is the main thing.

 

 

 

Fingers crossed for everyone else who is waiting.

 

 

 

 

My sister tells me a boy's grammar near her held admissions exams on 3 consecutive Saturdays, and they had to call in the police for crowd control purposes - to control the parents, that is. I despair.

[bluekarin]

Well, the waiting is finally over. The postie has just been and my lovely, wonderful DS has got into ours and his first choice school; the local boys grammar school! We are absolutely over the moon

I am still shaking and will probably read the letter several more times today

[Chucky Mama]

Well, the waiting is finally over. The postie has just been and my lovely, wonderful DS has got into ours and his first choice school; the local boys grammar school! We are absolutely over the moon

I am still shaking and will probably read the letter several more times today

 

Congratulations

[chickencam]

Congratulations

 

I spent most of yesterday shaking and re-reading the letter.

 

I am so glad that my nerves don't have to go through this again.

 

That's terrible about the crowd control at exam time, it can be a bit of a free for all.

[bluekarin]

Congratulations

 

I spent most of yesterday shaking and re-reading the letter.

 

I am so glad that my nerves don't have to go through this again.

 

I have to go through this again next year My YD will be 11 this November so is sitting the 11+ then. I don't think it will be as bad waiting for her results as it has been for ED and DS, and I think she will be happy wherever she goes. The worry for DS was the other choices are either 10 miles away, or if it was the local secondary, basically none of us wanted him to go there

[chickencam]

We are lucky that our local secondary is within walking distance and a pretty good school. It is however very large and we do know of a few children that have just become overwhelmed and have lost their way there. This could well have happened with DS.

 

YD wanted a fresh start, she has struggled in fragmented friendship groups at her primary school, because there are very few girls in her year, and she has little in common with most of them. She has had a good friend for the last year or so who took the grammar test but unfortunately didn't pass. She can be a bit odd at times though and out YD isn't entirely sure that she can trust her.

 

We are very lucky to have access to two good grammar schools within 10 miles and both ED and DS have thrived and very much had the space to become their own people and we hope that the same will happen for YD.

[Cooks]

It cant be that time already can it?? :lol:

[meezers]

Got the letter this morning and am still in shock - youngest son got our 3rd choice NO WAY is he going there.

Our first choice is out of the catchment area ( 11 miles ) but oldest son goes there and got in no problem 3 yrs ago, I never thought we'd have trouble getting youngest in there, I have a car share going with a woman in the village , so we have transport covered and it's the biggest school in the county- I cannot believe they haven't got any places left. The 3rd choice, which we got , is our catchment school - but we are borderline catchment for 4 schools, it is undersubscribed as anyone with an 'academic ' type child does not want their child to go there- it's changed it's name 3 times in the last few years, thinking I suppose, that a new name will make people think of it as a new school, fat chance ! .I get the feeling that so few people have applied for this school , that the authorities have just s"Ooops, word censored!"ed all the borderline applications together and dumped them in this school to make up the numbers.

The woman I car share with was in tears this morning, as she is in the same position, her son is best friends with mine and his older brother also goes to our first choice school, her son has also been given her 3rd choice.

We are going to appeal, and the good news is that both boys are in the top 7 on the waiting list for our first choice, fingers crossed we're lucky or I may just find myself homeschooling youngest

[chickencam]

I don't know how things work in your area, but in ours, you can send a form back requesting a reconsideration before going to sull appeal. A surprising number of children don't take up their offered place for all sorts of reasons, house moves etc. We had to go doen this route with our older two. We had to put our local school down first because it was a first preference first and we couldn't be sure that they would pass for the grammar. When DS was offered out local school but had passed for the grammar we rang to see how many places were available at the grammar and there were only 2 left, but in the end at least 15 children got in on reconsideration into unclaimed places.

 

Good luck with getting your son to the school that he wants.

[Old Speckled Hen]

I'm so very happy for everybody that managed to gain their Grammar place. I know it sounds corny but grammar was the making of me. I was lazy and easily led and would have failed miserably at our local secondary modern. My parents were poor refugees from the Second World War so couldn't have paid for any education. Alas there was not the choice when my daughter was school age but I was able to pay for day school and she went on to Cambridge. The way successive governments have eschewed encouraging talented children is criminal. Well done everybody

[chickencam]

I think that it is real shame that the government aren't prepared to support grammar schools more. If they had their way they would be s"Ooops, word censored!"ped. I think that education is such an individual thing that a one size fits all approach just doesn't work. It would be wrong to go back to grammar and secondary modern, but a more flexible approach to education would help children at both ends of the scale.

 

My DS fits your description exactly OSH, but his school have motivated him and really brought out the best in him, with our help of course

[Yorkshire Pudding]

DS1 has his first choice which is a huge relief, though as I said there is no selection here, so no concern about exams to pass. His closest friends will be going to the same school and he is delighted.

 

Good luck everyone who is appealing.

I hope those who do have to contend with selective systems can get the places they want for their children.