Polgara_Glos wrote:
Similar, I've asked them not to ask anyone nor tell anyone unless they ask them directly. Then go with something like 'I don't know exactly, mum and dad said they are proud and we will get schools confirmed in March' which would work if it's not good news as they only have the one night to process it.
That is such wise advice! After all, the majority of children that do get a place at one of the grammar schools (and even at their first-choice school) will not be in PAN, since there is so much sharing of results.
Tomorrow will give us clarity about whether our children qualified for any of the schools, or none, but it will not mean they have been allocated a place!
No-one who is outside PAN will have certainty of a place until March, though many children outside PAN will get places at one of the schools (with Pates being the only exception - I suspect it will still have only a very small number of places left for children outside top-150, as in previous years).
After tomorrow, qualify or otherwise, the majority of us will be in the same place we would have been in other years, when the CAF was completed once the results are known.
We will mostly still have no certainty over the school in which they will actually get allocated a place, or even whether or not it will be a grammar school.
Every year (except the one where Crypt really messed up!), more children qualify for every school than finally get offered a place in March, and there is no reason to expect this year will be different. We cannot even be certain that patterns from previous years of how low down the raking individual schools had to go to fill their places will be replicated this year.
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