need advise desperatly.

[misdee]

dd1 has been offered place after half term of a great school which is a lot closer to home, and i want her to go. peter says it will be another 'heartache' fordd1 to switch schools when she is already asettled at the old one. in a way i agree with him, but this is the school i originally wanted her to go to when we moved her last year. she hasnt been at her current school a year yet, and i think she should be able to switch easily. am i being selfish in thinking of moving her for an easy life? the new school is next to dd2 nursery which she starts at next year, current school is in the opposite direction.

So dd2 will get in because of catchment, not because of sister? That's easier then. Why did dd1 go to the other school then, if it is not your local one?

we moved here aftewr places for schools were sorted. we called round the schools for a palce but they just didnt have space for recpetion year. she had been allocated a place at a really good infant school in our old town, but the drive each morning would've been awful even tho its only about 6miles up the rd if that.

oh there is another school in the catchment area, and they had spaces, but its a bad school.

6 miles at rush hours does sound a bind (but then I live in London!)

Your dd1 will almost certainly cope with a move at this age. If it takes some strain off you she will pick up on the way you are feeling and if it's easier for you in the morning it will make for a more straight forward relaxed start to her school day.

hi misdee im glad you got peter to agree. im sure your dd will be ok in the new school. my 6 year old dd has just started at a new school & her sister in reception, which is currently a 40 minute drive away from where we live & despite this both girls have settled in wonderfully at the new school. tbh its a bit of a nightmare for me at the moment, but it should only be for another month or so thankfully.
let us know how your dd gets on at the new school?