Advice regarding schools needed

[FizzyS]

Ok my sons attend a primary school year one and nursery but I want to move them to one nearer to us which is Manor Beach. I need advice is this a good school? Its just that I dont know anyone in our new area at all and need advice so if anyone reads this and replies all comments will be most welcome!
Thankyou!
Additional information:I just want the kids father to see that a change of school will not harm them, they may miss the school etc but they can always visit their ex school if they do move. At the minute we get up at 7 at the latest to get ready and got to school then after the school run am not home till 9:45. Then i have to leave the house at 2:00 to get the bus to get one from nursery then wait for another half hour for the other to get out form school we get home by 4:30. He says he will be driving to take them and they will not have to do the bus journeys or the walk....but to be honest he needs to see that they spend more time travelling than even at school. He will not even come and look at Manor Beach I have been a few times though to have a look. HELP LITERALLY SERIOUSLY NEED HELP! How do i make him see sense?

Seriously I would delete this thread as you've named the school.

Also, even if by the remotest possibility someone here knows the school, I doubt they're going to announce their kids go there on a public forum.

Check online for the school's OFSTED report and for any comments/feedback from parents.

Ditto Worra.

What is the distance? If you are moving them to their catchment school, and you have the majority of care and do all the school runs, then he could try taking you to court but he'd have a poor leg to stand on. A move like that is acting in their best interests, to reduce the amount of travelling. If he was that concerned he's already be driving them, and how would you cope with friends home for tea?

Don't bother waiting for him to 'see sense', he never will. Just make the application, there's a possibility that you'd not get places straight away, but would go on a waiting list.

Disclaimer: I have no legal training, just going by what my sol told me when looking at changing my dc's school

It looks good to me from the Ofsted.

You could ask for this to be moved to Education. People are always naming schools/asking about schools and no-one bats an eyelid.

How longs the actual school run? It's a bit hard to tell from the posts, as you include time between getting up and actually leaving, plus hanging around time at school (possibly morning and definitely afternoon).

Do I take I that you separated and moved away?

As we do not know the wider curcumstances of your split, it's hard to say what us in the DCs best intersts. But as you must have known the new length of the school run when you moved, I think you YABU to move them because you find you don't like doing it. The need for a bit of stability - via school and friends - especially when their family is going asunder, is important from the child's pov.

I see that it is a lot of travelling for you but how much travelling is it for the DC? Getting up at 7 is hardly a big deal and getting home at 4.30 isn't massively out of the ordinary either.

Does the school you want to move to have spaces (have you checked)?

If getting to the current school is inconvenient you are unlikely to stay in touch with any friends the DC have there I would think - IME at that age the DC drift away from friends very quickly if they don't see them frequently.

Can see the need for stability if you and ex have recently split.
Does the nursery child start Reception in September - because that would be a more natural point for a school move.

"Seriously I would delete this thread as you've named the school"

Seriously??? What a strange forum this is. You can call someone a twat, a cunt etc but you can't openly discuss a named school.

OP - I suggest you post to elevenplusexams.co.uk. Posters there are quite happy to share their experiences with parents who ask about specific schools.