Allocation Day Emails
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Hi all
I thought Gloucestershire parents may be interested in the telephone conversation I had with the admissions office earlier today. I was trying to ascertain when I would receive the allocation e-mail as I had signed up online for this. The lady said that the letters will be leaving the department on 3rd March first class and that the emails will be sent from 12.01am (very early hours of 4th March). She explained that obviously there were a LOT of emails to send and it will just depend where you are on the list as to when you would receive the email.
This information is contrary to what I was led to believe in that we would receive the email on 3rd March...so another day of waiting ahead of us all!
I thought Gloucestershire parents may be interested in the telephone conversation I had with the admissions office earlier today. I was trying to ascertain when I would receive the allocation e-mail as I had signed up online for this. The lady said that the letters will be leaving the department on 3rd March first class and that the emails will be sent from 12.01am (very early hours of 4th March). She explained that obviously there were a LOT of emails to send and it will just depend where you are on the list as to when you would receive the email.
This information is contrary to what I was led to believe in that we would receive the email on 3rd March...so another day of waiting ahead of us all!
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Wouldn't the world be a great place if all the parents gave so much of themselves to their children,it really strikes me when i read all the posts on this forum just how much we all care about our kids,no-one could say that 11plus forum parents don't invest time and love on their kids.Until found this forum I thought I was unusual, I just didn't realize that others' are just so unselfish.I think that is so brilliant that you would take a day off to wait for the allocation letters.I am already "off" or I'd do the same,have to be the 4th now!
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Burneth wrote:That's slightly different from my information - are we assuming everybody will have an email by 0.01am on the 4th? If so, it'll be a late night for me!
IT hat on: it will take time for their database to generate individual emails and send them. It's not just a case of sending one email cc'd to lots of people. Could take a couple of hours (I don't know what systems Glos CC use).
Some systems could pre-generate them and put despatch on hold until 00:01 but even then there's no absolute guarentee that it would all work.
Don't keep staring at your screens for so long that you go cross-eyed, folks!
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I notice a slight change to the information given to us in the admissions booklet-from the GCC website
My child sat the grammar test. When will I find out what the score was?
You will need to contact the grammar school where your child sat the test to request this information (or the School Admissions Team if this was High School for Girls or Sir Thomas Rich's). Scores will not be provided automatically in the interests of minimising pastoral and expectation issues for children when they start at the school. Scores will only be provided in writing to the parent/carer of the child.
Previously we were told that we would get the scores with the allocations letters!
My child sat the grammar test. When will I find out what the score was?
You will need to contact the grammar school where your child sat the test to request this information (or the School Admissions Team if this was High School for Girls or Sir Thomas Rich's). Scores will not be provided automatically in the interests of minimising pastoral and expectation issues for children when they start at the school. Scores will only be provided in writing to the parent/carer of the child.
Previously we were told that we would get the scores with the allocations letters!