Recently realised that the Open evenings just starting up are actually for my younger DDs age group... Yr5 going into Yr6.
With DD1 we ended up only applying for one school... the Catchment school (as in we live in the priority admissions zone). DD1 is happy there. The very recent Ofsted came back as Good and the Progress 8 scores and raw results are both quite positive as well. We have no reason to doubt this school. We are as certain as we can be that she will get a place (no Sibling priority, all children in catchment treated equally).
Do people tend to go to Open Evenings again for second child if they've already made their mind up? We are taking her to see the Catchment school simply because we never did with DD1 as it was Online. But O did wonder if we should see a few others as well...