Due to STBXH leaving us I've had to sell the family home and find somewhere for me and DD pretty quickly. By a stroke of luck though that has all come together quite well and it looks like we'll be moving in third week of September.
My dilemma is that DD starts middle school this autumn. She has been allocated a place already but when we move we'll fall into a different catchment. The new school is walking distance away whereas I will have to drive her to the original one every day (she now falls out of that catchment so there are no school buses and she's too young - 10 - to travel on the public bus on her own).
However the new school is over-subscribed and the LA are being slow at telling me if she can be allocated a place or not.
So assuming I haven't found out by the start of term do I start her at the original school and just wait to find out when she can transfer or do I home educate until the transfer is set?
Under the new circumstances (now a single parent) I'm going to struggle to buy 2 sets of blazers, ties, sports kit for each school in what could be a short space of time. Plus it is a lot of upheaval for her to have to start at 2 different schools.
I just don't know what the right thing is to do for her. We're not having a good time at the moment so I don't want to cause her any more stress if at all possible.