We have recently moved to a new part of UK. Son has been offered a choice of place of one of two schools to start asap. DS is very shy and anxious and easily loses it at physical or emotional stresses, even ones that are very minor. He has only been to nursery before and went to a small and extremely nurturing nursery where he was happy (though it took a full year for me to be able to drop him off without him being distressed) and made friends.
The local school is large with a large barren playground. I had a chat with the head teacher about DS and she mentioned that a smaller school may suit him better. We have visited the one smaller school near-ish us which has a place and it is nice and I think he would settle better, but it is two villages away. So if he went there he wouldn't have any school friends nearby to play with.
I really don't know what to do. Send him a large school which may completely overwhelm him but where he may be able to make local friends (assuming he is not so overwhelmed that he fails to make friends) or a smaller school where his schoolmates will live near each other but not him?
Any thoughts on what I should do? I am very concerned about his ability to cope with school at all tbh, and am finding this decision paralysing. I have to decide today really..
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Should I send shy anxious son to large local primary school or smaller school further away?
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aronbeer · 15/01/2018 12:01
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