Hi,
My DD is 3 and a bit and is in a small nursery at the moment. We have been considering her situation for some time as her 2 best mates are a year above her and are leaving in Sept to go to Reception. She will then be one of the oldest kids there and i suspect she will be quite sad as one of her friends had already left earlier (moved countries). ANYWAY, we had put her down for a number of private schools for reception -- one of them, also offers places at nursery if you pass some sort of assessment. Anyway, to cut a long story short, she passed this assessment and we have now decided to put her there from Sept. For those that are still following me, well done. My question is, will it be "easy" for me to see if this school is the right one to keep her in (as from nursery she can go to reception till 11/13 if i wanted to )- clearly, i will still visit the other schools we've put her down for in case we feel she should go somewhere else from reception onwards. She will be our first child to go to "big school" and i'm just anxious to pick up any vibes that things are not going well.
The school she is going to has the reputation of being quite academic but i have visited the school and thought it lovely and the boys that showed me around i could take home with me. I think she's bright (let's face it, all of us think our kids are bright) but i don't want to keep her there if it's not the right school for her. just really paranoid i will not see the signs!! (i live in london so school places are very dear so if i miss the decision to change at reception i might not have much of a window). I know it's some way off, but because we've had to pay a deposit in this nursery, it's fresh in my mind!