Anyone here got twins?
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Re: Anyone here got twins?
You need to look at the admissions criteria for the individual school(s) in which you are interested:watbogs wrote:Do you happen to know if Kent CC has a policy of placing OOC twins that pass in the same school, especially if they have similar scores?
https://www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-c ... ria-201819
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Re: Anyone here got twins?
Thanks so much, ToadMum.
Couldn't find the schools I was interested in on either attachments - will contact the Admissions team before I fill in the CAF
Couldn't find the schools I was interested in on either attachments - will contact the Admissions team before I fill in the CAF
Re: Anyone here got twins?
If they aren't own admission authority schools (the ones in the 'individual admission arrangements' document) or one of the named 'community' schools, their admissions criteria will be as per those on p3 of the 'community schools' document, I think.watbogs wrote:Thanks so much, ToadMum.
Couldn't find the schools I was interested in on either attachments - will contact the Admissions team before I fill in the CAF
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Re: Anyone here got twins?
Fab, thanks.ToadMum wrote:If they aren't own admission authority schools (the ones in the 'individual admission arrangements' document) or one of the named 'community' schools, their admissions criteria will be as per those on p3 of the 'community schools' document, I think.watbogs wrote:Thanks so much, ToadMum.
Couldn't find the schools I was interested in on either attachments - will contact the Admissions team before I fill in the CAF
I ended up chatting with the Head at an open morning at our favoured school and she has put my mind at ease re: the twin issue.
Re: Anyone here got twins?
Hi, I’ve got twin girls and they all passed with 357 and 361 respectively. They were always neck and neck in the GL Assessment practice papers. Unsurprisingly, both got the same marks for maths and English. I’m very happy and give GOD all the praise.
Re: Anyone here got twins?
I asked a HT that this week and was told that in her experience they dowatbogs wrote:Do you happen to know if Kent CC has a policy of placing OOC twins that pass in the same school, especially if they have similar scores?
Re: Anyone here got twins?
I'm so pleased for you. After lots of anxiety and sleepless nights, I'm pleased to say that mine did too (and with similar results to yours). Exactly the same marks in Reasoning and English, too. Are yours identical?WAGODSTUS wrote:Hi, I’ve got twin girls and they all passed with 357 and 361 respectively. They were always neck and neck in the GL Assessment practice papers. Unsurprisingly, both got the same marks for maths and English. I’m very happy and give GOD all the praise.
We were neck and neck all the way through practice papers until about May and then one surged ahead (also reflected in CAT scores at school) and I haven't slept since. All came good, but I would caution anyone with twins to think very carefully about entering into this process. Things change!
Re: Anyone here got twins?
Hello,
Thankfully my first daughter is already in the same school I want the twins to attend. When it comes to distance, we’re also very close to the school. As part of the application process they ask whether the child is a twin, triplets etc, so I believe twins will be admitted to the same school. The worst case scenario may be when a school uses a cutoff point and the mark difference between the twins is very big. This is just my thought anyway.
Thankfully my first daughter is already in the same school I want the twins to attend. When it comes to distance, we’re also very close to the school. As part of the application process they ask whether the child is a twin, triplets etc, so I believe twins will be admitted to the same school. The worst case scenario may be when a school uses a cutoff point and the mark difference between the twins is very big. This is just my thought anyway.
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Re: Anyone here got twins?
Great news, Shake and WAG. Well done to your dcs.
My DTs both passed (yay!) but there's quite a gap between their scores. Our local grammar's cut-off last year means one would have got in and the other wouldn't. Just hoping and hoping that cut-off will be lower this year as they are offering twice as many places this year. If one gets a place and the other doesn't then we'll have to appeal but really don't know if we'd have much of a case.
My DTs both passed (yay!) but there's quite a gap between their scores. Our local grammar's cut-off last year means one would have got in and the other wouldn't. Just hoping and hoping that cut-off will be lower this year as they are offering twice as many places this year. If one gets a place and the other doesn't then we'll have to appeal but really don't know if we'd have much of a case.
Re: Anyone here got twins?
For their self esteem etc that's such great news. Phew. Fingers crossedbellabelly wrote:Great news, Shake and WAG. Well done to your dcs.
My DTs both passed (yay!) but there's quite a gap between their scores. Our local grammar's cut-off last year means one would have got in and the other wouldn't. Just hoping and hoping that cut-off will be lower this year as they are offering twice as many places this year. If one gets a place and the other doesn't then we'll have to appeal but really don't know if we'd have much of a case.