Worrying - any advice thankfully received
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:57 am
Hi all,
We live in Chester , CH4 side.
My daughter passed her 11+ and has her heart absolutely set on grammar school, she has is absolutely over the moon with her 11+ mark, and even though she will know no-one she is on cloud nine about going to either Wirral (her number 1 choice) or WKGS (choice 2) she would be happy with either. (She is a complete “schoolie” no tutor and did all the research on grammar off her own back and informed us in year 5 that she would be taking the 11+, she heard about this from a friend at brownies who had done the same) she loved both schools at the open evenings
BUT! I am really worried she won’t get a place at either due to distance. I can’t settle at all and it feels such a long time until March to find out, she keeps talking about the schools constantly.
We would be willing to move nearer if needed, however would not be in a position to do that until the summer.
A couple of friends with older children have said they had no problems and got places at Calday and WKGS even with the distance. And are telling me not to worry. I don’t know anyone who’s daughter has taken and passed the exam this year, only one other child in my daughters school took the test however unfortunately wasn’t successful.
So basically what I’m asking is... how likely is she to get a place at either? Do children who have passed from Chester ever not get places at either? I have no idea if the pass rate was high this year? And if I appealed would be be likely to get a place? Should I be doing anything now to prepare for an appeal if that’s the outcome? We put our local comp down as our third choice that is undersubscribed and she would definitely get a place at based on distance and sibling but my daughter would be devastated if this is the outcome.
I know it seems silly but I’m really stressing about it already and allocations are so long away? Sorry for the millions of questions
Thanks
We live in Chester , CH4 side.
My daughter passed her 11+ and has her heart absolutely set on grammar school, she has is absolutely over the moon with her 11+ mark, and even though she will know no-one she is on cloud nine about going to either Wirral (her number 1 choice) or WKGS (choice 2) she would be happy with either. (She is a complete “schoolie” no tutor and did all the research on grammar off her own back and informed us in year 5 that she would be taking the 11+, she heard about this from a friend at brownies who had done the same) she loved both schools at the open evenings
BUT! I am really worried she won’t get a place at either due to distance. I can’t settle at all and it feels such a long time until March to find out, she keeps talking about the schools constantly.
We would be willing to move nearer if needed, however would not be in a position to do that until the summer.
A couple of friends with older children have said they had no problems and got places at Calday and WKGS even with the distance. And are telling me not to worry. I don’t know anyone who’s daughter has taken and passed the exam this year, only one other child in my daughters school took the test however unfortunately wasn’t successful.
So basically what I’m asking is... how likely is she to get a place at either? Do children who have passed from Chester ever not get places at either? I have no idea if the pass rate was high this year? And if I appealed would be be likely to get a place? Should I be doing anything now to prepare for an appeal if that’s the outcome? We put our local comp down as our third choice that is undersubscribed and she would definitely get a place at based on distance and sibling but my daughter would be devastated if this is the outcome.
I know it seems silly but I’m really stressing about it already and allocations are so long away? Sorry for the millions of questions
Thanks