When is it best time to move your child to a new schoo, mid term, new school year?

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We are moving to Norway. I have been offered a "fast track" place starting earlier than August, in March already for children who are deemed suitable for early schooling. The reason is that children in Norway start school at 6, so by the time he should start, he will have gone through both reception and year one here. BUT he has to start from scratch in Norway as he is not entirely fluent.

Is it better to wait and let him finnish his school year here and start in August when majority starts? Or, providing we manage to get ourselves sorted and let out our house, should we start early?

I would start early as he can then soak up the lanuage and the routines expected of him and they will also have a beter idea about his scolastic levels.

I'd go for early start I think , would he effectively repeat the academic year with the new intake in August? Or is there a preschool where he could go to in the interim to take on language with no academic pressure.

i'd go for a start early give him a heads up before the majority come back

Norwegian Kindergartens are fantastic - very focused on social skills and outdoor learning. I would see if you can get him a place at one of these (with his peers), as what he needs to do is build up his language skills, and it that would be the better setting to do that IMO.