Appeal Notification letter full of mistakes!
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 4:44 pm
We appealed to a GS and lost. At the appeal we stated our case for both non qualification and oversubscription. DS passed the exam but ranking not high enough to gain place.
We showed mitigating circumstances as after the exam had very high temperature and viral infection and was subsequently off school for a week - backed up by doctors note and confirmation from school.
DS's head teacher wrote letter stating that his NFER scores were 98th percentile for maths and 99th percentile for English and has always been one of the top in his class.
Science teacher wrote letter stating he is top in class in Science and English teacher wrote letter stating incredibly high achievement in English working well above his age.
The GS is a science and sports specialist school.
We stated that DD has always wanted to be vet and gave supporting evidence linked to experience working with animals & animal rescue in spare time. The GS has links to VET colleges. We argued that this was the only school that offers this.
The GS is the only school that offers the competitive sport that he does as is national champion in.
The panel asked no relevant questions at the end - we were shocked.
Letter arrived informing us we were unsuccessful spelling his name wrong 3 times! Stated that they recognised he was unwell in second exam - he was unwell for first exam! It said DS wants to be a vet so tries hard at science - we never said this, we showed consistently top of his class in science and won award for it. It then recognised the sport that only they offer which DS is national champion.
Reasons for rejection: DS good at science and sport but all schools offer this. DS was ill on day of test and did not perform to best of her ability but tests are based on performance on the day. DS is bright and enthusiastic but so are all appellants. Therefore unsuccessful.
Can anyone advise - it really doesnt look like they've taken our points into consideration.
We showed mitigating circumstances as after the exam had very high temperature and viral infection and was subsequently off school for a week - backed up by doctors note and confirmation from school.
DS's head teacher wrote letter stating that his NFER scores were 98th percentile for maths and 99th percentile for English and has always been one of the top in his class.
Science teacher wrote letter stating he is top in class in Science and English teacher wrote letter stating incredibly high achievement in English working well above his age.
The GS is a science and sports specialist school.
We stated that DD has always wanted to be vet and gave supporting evidence linked to experience working with animals & animal rescue in spare time. The GS has links to VET colleges. We argued that this was the only school that offers this.
The GS is the only school that offers the competitive sport that he does as is national champion in.
The panel asked no relevant questions at the end - we were shocked.
Letter arrived informing us we were unsuccessful spelling his name wrong 3 times! Stated that they recognised he was unwell in second exam - he was unwell for first exam! It said DS wants to be a vet so tries hard at science - we never said this, we showed consistently top of his class in science and won award for it. It then recognised the sport that only they offer which DS is national champion.
Reasons for rejection: DS good at science and sport but all schools offer this. DS was ill on day of test and did not perform to best of her ability but tests are based on performance on the day. DS is bright and enthusiastic but so are all appellants. Therefore unsuccessful.
Can anyone advise - it really doesnt look like they've taken our points into consideration.