Primary School Placement
19 March 2009, 05:30 PM
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That Ofsted is worrying but its heading in the right direction at least
You can take some comfort that the LA will be all over that School to get it out of "4"
Plenty of support for the teachers and that usually means weeding out the poor ones
You can take some comfort that the LA will be all over that School to get it out of "4"
Plenty of support for the teachers and that usually means weeding out the poor ones
19 March 2009, 09:08 PM
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the school is an utter turd,
you should see the kids giving the people aggro outside.
mini update i am told 24 people in total put that as first choice
and another one a bit further away 18.
you should see the kids giving the people aggro outside.
mini update i am told 24 people in total put that as first choice
and another one a bit further away 18.
19 March 2009, 09:13 PM
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I live in Liverpool and 2 schools in our area had an Ofsted report which was all 1's - completely ourstanding and our son has just been offered a place, which also guarantees our second son a place.
Good luck with the appeal
Good luck with the appeal
19 March 2009, 10:27 PM
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It's okay for people to say 'it should improve' but in the meantime it is your kid's education that's suffering. Not to mention the company they may be keeping.
I wouldn't want my daughter attending a school like that - I may be sounding snobby, but at the end of the day we all want what's best for our kids - and this doesn't come close.
01 April 2009, 12:21 PM
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well, we have got a place in knutsford, its 14 miles away, and wil mean a bus every day for her but, its better than the one we were offered,
but we are still pressing very hard for the ones thats 1.3 miles away,
the system is mad isnt it
but we are still pressing very hard for the ones thats 1.3 miles away,
the system is mad isnt it
01 April 2009, 03:18 PM
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We got our sons placement by email last night and he got in at our 2nd choice so can't complain, only difference with our first place was the 1st place had its own indoor swimming pool apart from that the ofsted reports were just as good. Was very relieved yesterday to get what we were given and many of his little mates from pre school are going to the same school so best result for him. Both 1st and 2nd choice are massively over subscribed though with 140+ applicants for 30 places at the 1st choice school and over 90 applicants for 28 places at our 2nd choice. Total madness and feel for those at his pre school who have ended up with the not so good schools.
01 April 2009, 03:42 PM
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Good luck!
01 April 2009, 08:23 PM
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Are you on the waiting list? If so, and a long way down , don't get disheartened. A lot of parents don't bother to tell the school if they find a place elsewhere. The school only finds out on the first day of term!
02 April 2009, 10:05 AM
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02 April 2009, 12:16 PM
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Cheers. Having spoken to some of the parents at the pre school since we were a lot more lucky than we realised. Some of the kids who actually live in the village where the school is didn't get in 
A fair few from the pre school didn't get in and lots having to go through the appeal process. We live 2 miles or so from the school so we feel very lucky now. I think it must have something to do with the fact we put his name down at the school 3 years ago saying to the school back then this was where we wanted him to go. I know it's not supposed to make a difference but i've heard the schools get to pick who they want when heavily over subscribed and so being on the list 3 years ago must have helped.
Good luck JM and hope you get the result you want.
A fair few from the pre school didn't get in and lots having to go through the appeal process. We live 2 miles or so from the school so we feel very lucky now. I think it must have something to do with the fact we put his name down at the school 3 years ago saying to the school back then this was where we wanted him to go. I know it's not supposed to make a difference but i've heard the schools get to pick who they want when heavily over subscribed and so being on the list 3 years ago must have helped.Good luck JM and hope you get the result you want.
02 April 2009, 02:38 PM
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24 April 2009, 07:20 AM
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Rising up the waiting list pretty quickly by the looks of things - you'll be home and dry soon hopefully.
15 miles away is a bit much for a kid to go to school isn't it
15 miles away is a bit much for a kid to go to school isn't it
24 April 2009, 08:44 AM
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Hi all,
Ive got all this to come as my son is 3 months old. Im already looking around at my local schools and just wondered when can you apply for places ?? I would like him to go to nursery @ 3 years old then a good primary school, but am not sure when I can start applying.
At the moment Ive accepted that I'll just have to pay for a good school, even if I have to sell my cars / toys etc as his schooling is more important. I plan to have a couple more children and am shocked at how much some school charge, i.e. £6K a term ! that £18K net, over £20K gross !
I tell ya, 5 mins of fun and dirty talk, results in a life of expense and problems :-)
SBK
Ive got all this to come as my son is 3 months old. Im already looking around at my local schools and just wondered when can you apply for places ?? I would like him to go to nursery @ 3 years old then a good primary school, but am not sure when I can start applying.
At the moment Ive accepted that I'll just have to pay for a good school, even if I have to sell my cars / toys etc as his schooling is more important. I plan to have a couple more children and am shocked at how much some school charge, i.e. £6K a term ! that £18K net, over £20K gross !
I tell ya, 5 mins of fun and dirty talk, results in a life of expense and problems :-)
SBK
24 April 2009, 09:28 AM
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Simon you can't officially apply for a primary school place until the application process opens 10/11 months or so before they actually start at the school. I think ours opened before Christmas and had to have applications in before end of Jan. We then had to wait until the middle of March before we found out.
However we had our sons name down at the school we wanted him to go to when he was about 1 so well over 3 years ago. Now whilst it isn't supposed to mean anything we think it helped as the school was massively over subscribed and even children from that village didn't get in but our son did and we live 2 miles away. The schools get to choose who they want and as we had shown interest in the school when he was 1 we are certain this helped his application.
However we had our sons name down at the school we wanted him to go to when he was about 1 so well over 3 years ago. Now whilst it isn't supposed to mean anything we think it helped as the school was massively over subscribed and even children from that village didn't get in but our son did and we live 2 miles away. The schools get to choose who they want and as we had shown interest in the school when he was 1 we are certain this helped his application.
28 April 2009, 03:29 PM
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upto 8th now,
the councils are frighteneing me though,
left hand right hand.
and as for my own council, jesus, the form they sent me said the school we want was 1.3 miles in a straight line, and 1.1 miles walking there, not really sure how that works, but the level of gormlessness is astounding
the councils are frighteneing me though,
left hand right hand.
and as for my own council, jesus, the form they sent me said the school we want was 1.3 miles in a straight line, and 1.1 miles walking there, not really sure how that works, but the level of gormlessness is astounding
11 May 2009, 12:30 PM
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well,
good old xxx council rang at 5-50 on friday and wanted to alter the appointment, as they cannot get enough panel members.
played bloody hell with them, and they still altered it and brought it a day forward,
just rung now, and said they cant do it tomorrow, and it could be week commencing 18 th may 2009.
we cant leave it to late as we are away,
its a good job they are not doing anything important, like a childs future isnt it.
we were all psyched up over the weekend to do it and all the docs's were put in folders and then they change their minds and alter the date.
cant tell you how pissed off i am but i cant complain too much because sallys future is in their hands.
good old xxx council rang at 5-50 on friday and wanted to alter the appointment, as they cannot get enough panel members.
played bloody hell with them, and they still altered it and brought it a day forward,
just rung now, and said they cant do it tomorrow, and it could be week commencing 18 th may 2009.
we cant leave it to late as we are away,
its a good job they are not doing anything important, like a childs future isnt it.
we were all psyched up over the weekend to do it and all the docs's were put in folders and then they change their minds and alter the date.
cant tell you how pissed off i am but i cant complain too much because sallys future is in their hands.
21 May 2009, 07:06 PM
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well,
sally is 6th on the list,
we had our appel today, they changed the times twice, but we still managed to get there.
as we waited we saw some friends of ours, it was a hard few minutes as neither of us wanted to give away too much information. what a ridiculous state of affairs.
as we chatted a woman came out absolutley in tears, we thought jesus, what do they do in there, we pysched ourselves up only to find 3 lovely old dears in there which caught us a little by surpriuse, the council said their bit we said ours so we will wait and see.
fingers crossed.
i dont think we came across to forceful but managed to get our point across.
sally is 6th on the list,
we had our appel today, they changed the times twice, but we still managed to get there.
as we waited we saw some friends of ours, it was a hard few minutes as neither of us wanted to give away too much information. what a ridiculous state of affairs.
as we chatted a woman came out absolutley in tears, we thought jesus, what do they do in there, we pysched ourselves up only to find 3 lovely old dears in there
which caught us a little by surpriuse, the council said their bit we said ours so we will wait and see.fingers crossed.
i dont think we came across to forceful but managed to get our point across.
21 May 2009, 09:46 PM
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we have just had all this crap aswell lol. my son has all grade 1s and is in the maths class for gifted kids so i thought we would get place easy. the schools we aplied for are out of our area because the one in our area is a total crap hole. we got turned down for the good schools and given the crap hole 
. so we went to the appeals and i thought they went really well but we got turned down because we out out of the area.
but by luck we got a letter offering a place for a very good school that we was on the waiting list for. but while all this was happening i was going to pay for him to go private because if he went to the crap hole and got in with the wrong crowd he would of ended up wasteing his life away.
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. so we went to the appeals and i thought they went really well but we got turned down because we out out of the area.but by luck we got a letter offering a place for a very good school that we was on the waiting list for
. but while all this was happening i was going to pay for him to go private because if he went to the crap hole and got in with the wrong crowd he would of ended up wasteing his life away.adam
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22 May 2009, 08:39 AM
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We were fortunate in that the school we were initially offered had an OFSTED report of all 1's (Oustanding) except one category which I think was attendance, however, the school we wanted him to go to (which we live outside of the catchment area) had an OFSTED report of all Outstandings and they also said it was rated second in the country for maths and english at primary school level. As our son had been attending the nursery in this school for a year we didn't want to uproot him and move him to another school.
That obviously explains why 84 people applied for 35 places - needless to say we were around 12th on the waiting list.
We had our appeal last Wednesday and we were notified on Friday morning that our appeal was upheld successful and our son will be offered a place at our preferred school.
Hats off to my wife as she spent a hell of a lot of time researching and building a case which she thought would be hard for them to refuse - and she was right.
That obviously explains why 84 people applied for 35 places - needless to say we were around 12th on the waiting list.
We had our appeal last Wednesday and we were notified on Friday morning that our appeal was upheld successful and our son will be offered a place at our preferred school.
Hats off to my wife as she spent a hell of a lot of time researching and building a case which she thought would be hard for them to refuse - and she was right.
22 May 2009, 08:42 AM
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I was dissapointed by their reaction, had it all happened the other way around we would have congratulated them with sincerity and moved on.
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17 June 2009, 12:51 PM
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well..............................
we went to the appeal and whilst on holiday, we got loads of text messages of various other parents sayinth they had won. we were bottling it for a few days then the in laws rang and said we had got a letter saying we had won.
our arguements outweighed the council arguements and we won.
its a shame we had to go theu all of it but at least we got the right result
we went to the appeal and whilst on holiday, we got loads of text messages of various other parents sayinth they had won. we were bottling it for a few days then the in laws rang and said we had got a letter saying we had won.
our arguements outweighed the council arguements and we won.
its a shame we had to go theu all of it but at least we got the right result
