Morning,
My wife wants to appeal. I suppose we should, but part of me would like to move on and see how my daughter gets on at the school where she has been offered a place (Magna) and perhaps apply again for the start of year 8. I know of someone who did the same thing; spent a year at magna and then sat and passed another test for Poole Grammar School. I think it was a maths and english test only.
I’ve read the appeals section of the forum and just don’t think we have any suitable grounds to appeal on, however, my wife thinks this is being negative

Like I said previously, there were no extenuating circumstances and her school reports have always suggested she is of middle ability, however, she only missed out by 2 marks, so this just shows that she is actually quite a capable child, more so than her school reports suggest and she responded really well to the extra work we did together at home (I bought the CGP books and went through them with her as often as we could) and she really enjoyed this; I couldn’t fault her for effort. By the time of the test, she was so quick at the verbal reasoning, much quicker than me, and this was reflected in her score. Her maths score was average, but her English score of 88 really let her down.
Thank you for the advice about the ofsted report. I will have a read of this again today.