order of schools on scaf form
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:24 pm
Hi, this is my first posting but have been coming on the site for a long time. Not posted before cos most of the questions I would have asked had already been asked by someone else and answered with very good advice.
First of all congrats to all those with children who got the results that they wanted and commiserations to those who didn't - I was crying when reading the postings.
I do now have a question which appears no one else has asked and I need some advice (you may think that the answer is obvious)...
We live in Kent and my DS took both the Bexley and the Kent tests this year. He passed the Bexley test but failed the Kent test. He is devestated as all of his mates passed the kent test and all want to go to Wilmington. He always said that going to a school with none of his mates wouldn't be a problem but now the choice has been taken away from him, it obviously is a problem.
We are over the moon that he has passed the bexley test but our problem is distance, if last year is anything to go by we'll be ok but the year before it was only 3.2 miles - no chance!.
As he is so upset about not passing the kent test we want to go down the appeal route in March. The Head has advised us to appeal the Kent test and will support us but we are unsure of how to complete the scaf form. Was going to put Beths 1st then Wilmington 2nd but someone has said to me that if we are lucky enough to get Beths then it won't go to the 2nd choice, we won't get the refusal letter and therefore we won't have the opportunity to appeal for Wilmington.
I know it states in the booklets that the order of preference doesn't make a difference and therefore if we put Wilmington first we would get a letter of refusal and then it would go to Beths but am still worried about this. Any advice would be greatful, have changed the preference order twice now but haven't submitted the scaf yet.
HELP!
Mints
think I had anything to add to any of the forums and a lot of
First of all congrats to all those with children who got the results that they wanted and commiserations to those who didn't - I was crying when reading the postings.
I do now have a question which appears no one else has asked and I need some advice (you may think that the answer is obvious)...
We live in Kent and my DS took both the Bexley and the Kent tests this year. He passed the Bexley test but failed the Kent test. He is devestated as all of his mates passed the kent test and all want to go to Wilmington. He always said that going to a school with none of his mates wouldn't be a problem but now the choice has been taken away from him, it obviously is a problem.
We are over the moon that he has passed the bexley test but our problem is distance, if last year is anything to go by we'll be ok but the year before it was only 3.2 miles - no chance!.
As he is so upset about not passing the kent test we want to go down the appeal route in March. The Head has advised us to appeal the Kent test and will support us but we are unsure of how to complete the scaf form. Was going to put Beths 1st then Wilmington 2nd but someone has said to me that if we are lucky enough to get Beths then it won't go to the 2nd choice, we won't get the refusal letter and therefore we won't have the opportunity to appeal for Wilmington.
I know it states in the booklets that the order of preference doesn't make a difference and therefore if we put Wilmington first we would get a letter of refusal and then it would go to Beths but am still worried about this. Any advice would be greatful, have changed the preference order twice now but haven't submitted the scaf yet.
HELP!
Mints
think I had anything to add to any of the forums and a lot of