We only just found out we're moving to Cambridge in September, so the school thing is as terrifying as you'd expect. My two kids will be going into Years 1 and 3 in September. They're sad and anxious about the move.
We won't have time to sell our house here and want to get to know the area before we buy but we definitely know where we're renting - off the Huntingdon Road, not too far from the centre. I think we'll be in the catchment of Mayfield and it's geographically the closest and I do like to walk to school, although that isn't a dealbreaker.
The thing is that we are also probably thinking about buying in Girton in a year or two. And I'm already moving my kids once, and I don't want to do it immediately again. So I don't know whether to apply to Girton Glebe and hope that I'll be walkably close to that in two years, or whether to apply to Mayfield and live for now and if they like it, it's only a short drive from Girton. We haven't had chance to visit either school and don't know anything about them beyond the Ofsted reports.
A little inside info would really appreciated. The things I'm interested in in schools, I guess, are a bit of grass to play on, nice kids (duh), stuff going on, like our school now seems to have lots of special days that the kids get involved in.
Thank you for anything, no matter how small or irrelevant, that may help me work out what to do.