I know this is controversial. We live within a mile of three excellent primary schools, but have not got into any of them. The school we have got into is really not great- on paper it looks ok, has a good ofsted but has a high number of kids on free school meals, a high level of absence during term time (most kids are from bangladeshi and Pakistani families and a lot of parents take their kids out to visit family outside holidays). Neither of those things matter at all if the school has a good feeling, but it just seems really, really chaotic and I've looked round a couple I times and been to the school fair and I really felt it had a neglected feel in terms of the building, the staff and the atmosphere. It seemed so different from other schools I have seen with similar or better ofsteds and results.
We have used some savings to send our son to private school temporarily in the hope that a place comes up at one of the schools we thought would suit him better, but they are massively over subscribed and I think that because we live in a sort of black hole for primary places we are just never going to get a place. I feel really stressed out about it- we can never afford to send our younger two to a private school and cannot keep sending DS there in the longer term. I also have to drive quite a long way to get there.
Has anyone moved house to get into a school? Did you sell/ rent? I love our home and really don't want to, and i know I sound like a bit of an idiot in this message, but I just want to try and do the very best we can for our children (as we all do, I know!). Please be kind...
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Swishyswashy · 07/09/2013 18:51
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