We're moving to Sheffield and have just got through our school place allocated for DS to start reception in Jan.
Everywhere we'd put down seems rather full and he has been given a place at Abbeydale Primary. From a quick scan through anything I can find, it sounds lovely but almost none of the children there speak English when they start.
We don't know anyone in Sheffield at all and I was hoping he'd quickly make plenty of new friends. I'm now a bit worried that the language barrier could make the whole move rather difficult, esp as we've been hyping up the new friends thing to soften leaving his fab school he started here in Sept.
Has anyone else been in this sort of situation? Did it all turn out fine? Am I worrying needlessly?
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slipperthief · 18/11/2010 22:46
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