Please bare with me as this is long & complex.
Last summer we moved house (inner London to the outskirts - 20 minues car journey on a good day - over a hour on a bad day).
DD1 (8) got a place in school near the new house.
DD2 (6) did not :( She is top of the waiting list, but will not get in unless someone leaves or we go to appeal, which we are reluctant to do.
This makes life long, complicated & difficult and DH & I both work in schools and getting two children to two different schools in two different parts of town, then ourselves to work, is a minefield.
Luckily I work near the original school (that DD2 still attends) and can drop her to breakfast club every day, she then goes to afterschool club. These are subsided at the minute (peanuts for breakfast club and ÂŁ3.50 a day for afterschool club). The prices will rise when the government funding ceases in March, but not as drastically as
The new school that DD1 attends has a breakfast club that is ÂŁ5 daily, and afterschool club which is ÂŁ15 a day. This is extortianate over a week and beyond our means right now.
I love the old school as it is small (one form) fab wrap around care, and we know everyone. DD1 has settled well within the new school but we are having a nightmare arranging school runs. We currently manage through a comination of the kindness of another school mum, my mum & her friends help and by paying a childminder 2-3 days a week (we can't really afford one every day).
DD1 goes to a (free) singing club once a week which is a big help - but occassionally they cancel it with no notice until the day - and today we wern't informed at all (should have least have got a text, if not a phone call) . Luckily her friends mum rang me and checked if we wanted her to take her home for us. Thank God she did, as she is the only person we know at the school who could do this for us, and we were both in meetings, an hour away.
We obviously complain about this, but each week is generally stresful arranging childcare for DD1 even though we have both changed our working hours as much as possible to be able to do school runs. Sometimes we have meeting or workshops that do not allow this.
I wondering if it is unreasonable to see if we can move DD1 back to the original school in Sept? She was very happy there, still has lots of friends there, and I would feel so much better knowing that she was safely in afterschool club each day.
DH thinks IABU and it'll work itself out eventually.
I am stressed and tired and reaching the end of my tether with this.
Thanks for reading & sorry its so very long.
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to move DDs school (again) because of lack of after school care?
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HarryDan · 27/01/2011 21:46
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