If we move house and it's just before the end of term...

[mrsflowerpot]

what do we do about moving school?
We're about to relocate - we were originally planning to time it so that we could move over the long summer holiday. However, we've found a house we really really like and are going to offer on it, so it's possible that everything will happen a bit quicker than we were expecting. It would possibly mean moving at the very end of June, so 3 weeks before the end of term.
I just don't know how we would make this work with regard to ds's school - he's in year 1 so still very young, and moving (again) is going to be upsetting for him.
What would we do, move him for the last couple of weeks of term, or let him have a slightly extended summer holiday? Would we get into any trouble if we did the latter?

let him start the new school and you might be able to make some contacts you can meet up with in the holidays.

also he won't spend all summer wondering what the new school will be like, he'll have a better idea.

mine moved this time last year and had 3 weeks in the new school before the Easter holidays, they also went to the Easter school holiday club a bit so they could meet more children.

That's a good point about settling in a bit. It's an area we've lived in before so I will know some of the mums (he won't remember the children I don't suppose), so it would be easy enough to arrange some get togethers over the summer.

I know that DSs school insist that the child start immediately the place is available or they'll offer it to someone else depending on their waiting list so it could depend on the school - you may not have a choice. A boy started in DS1's class just a few weeks before the end of term. I don't think it caused any major problems.

That's true actually, when he went into Reception we had just moved here and we had to accept the place pdq or lose it.

Actually the more I think about it, the thought of having him around and at a loose end for 3 extra weeks when we've just moved house is .

I suppose we just wait and see - I am jumping the gun massively really. I am just feeling so massively guilty about moving him again poor thing.

My 6 and 5 yo have moved house and school twice in the last year. I also feel a bit guilty about it, except we didn't exactly choose for them to move twice. They've been fine, really OK. The second time we gave them a choice - continue with their (2nd) school which was now a tedious car journey away, or switch to the new (3rd) local school. They were very definite they wanted to move to the local one, despite liking school no 2. I've been more traumatised about it than they have... they've settled fine.