posting this cautiously......
Am bouncing ideas round in my head- so am interested in opinions/things I haven't thought of.
Suddlenly occured to me that d2 is 3 so we ought to start thinking about schools.
So the choice is narrowed down to 3.
- Local State primary. Pros- will almost certainly get in, good reputation. Cons, VERY large- 270 children in infants alone. Old buildings and quite cramped. We rejected it for ds1 as it has such a bad reuptation for SN kids- especially those on the autistic spectrum. That's not really relevant for ds2 but still....
- local church school. Pros Lovely school. Smaller. Probably won't get in- we're about 2 streets out of the catchment area. Con's no gaurantee that ds3 would get in. Also a bit further than school 1 so not sure how we'd co-ordinate pick ups with ds1's taxi.
- Local small private school. Pros. Small- whole sachool smaller than the infants in school 1. They do pre-school, after-school and holiday care. This would give us a lot of flexibility in terms of working round ds1- both for his taxi and would help in the hoidays (say if ds2 went to holday club twice a week or something- would give me time for ds1). DS3 would be able to go as well. Cons. It's private so it cost, although cheap by private school standards.
I'm going to arrnage to go and visit these schools next week. I know people at all schools and all seem pretty happy.