National Offer Day - 11Plus parents on the edge of their seats!
by The Mock Test Masters team on 02/27/17
National Offer Day, 1st March is the day that
children who sat the 11Plus exams in September last year find out whether they
got into their first choice secondary school. This will be anxious day for 11Plus
parents as they have spent considerable time and money preparing their children
for the 11Plus exams.
Your local authority will begin to send out emails on
Wednesday 1st and letters will follow later in the week.
Unfortunately, as happens each year, it is not possible to
offer every child a
place at a school that they listed as a preference on their
application form. This is because for
each of the schools that are named on these application forms, there could be
more applications than places available, and other applicants may have a higher
priority for a place under each school’s published admission criteria.
So what will the local authority do in this case?
1.
Your local authority has a legal duty to ensure
that a place is
made available for every child in its
borough, whether this is at a school inside or outside the borough.
2.
For many boroughs, your child’s name will
be automatically added to the waiting lists for all the schools that you named
as a preference on your application form. Do check with your local authority.
If your child is allocated a school place, it is important to accept or decline the school offer. There is a deadline by which you must do this in order to free up places for other parents.
Read our next blog on www.mocktestmasters.com to find out what to do if your child does not get into the school of their choice.