German dp in the UK or people who moved their dc from Germarn to UK schools, can you give me some advice please?

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Hello,
we live in Germany at the moment and dd has attended school here for 1. and 2. Klasse but I am thinking very seriously about moving to the UK and I am unsure about the schooling there and how it compares.

Could you tell me what you found difficult to accept/things that bother or worry you about UK schools or the education system there generally? My own schooling is in the very distant past and I really only know from experience how schooling has been for dd here so not sure what we would be getting into if we moved her.

It would be a real help if you could be quite upfront and not too diplomatic about it because I really do want to weigh up the good and bad sides and try and find out where dd is most likely to thrive, longer term.

gosh really don't know now after discussing it with dh. I think the fees at taht type of school are necessarily going to narrow down the families able to enrol there so perhaps by virtue of that alone, it would be more elitist a setting than we would like for dd. I do like the pastoral emphasis, certainly compared to what we have encountered, but I think I want a school that is more open to talented dc from all backgrounds.

Will have to continue investigating I think when we get back.