Moving to Bollington area

[gretalucia123]

We are coming back to the UK after living in Australia for 10 years. We are researching possible good Primary and Secondary schools in the Macclesfield/Bollington/Prestbury areas. We don't know this area so it's a bit of a mine field to be honest. Our children are 10 and 7. 10 year old will be going to High school September 2016.

We are looking for a small, nurturing and caring primary school that would hopefully feed into a great Secondary school. Any advice?

Looking on the web, my three choices would be Prestbury, Mottram St Andrew and Whirley. Are these all good schools with a nurturing feel to them?

Plus Secondary school. Again we are looking for a more nurturing school rather than just high achieving/academic. The feel of the school is very important to us as our children are quite timid and used to smaller schools.

We will obviously have to rent within the catchment area of the High school so it's important that we make the right choices now. We are coming over to the UK in March to look at the schools. Any advice on areas/schools?

I cannot recommend Pott Shrigley Church School highly enough :) All the best x

I will tweet this out for you, I am in Knutsford, so don't have on the ground local primary school knowledge, but the areas are lovley!

We moved to the area in December from Hungary. It was challenging for the children - 5 yo boy and 3 yo girl - because of the language and the different sociocultural environment, so we looked for the same type of school as probably you are looking for.

We are more than happy with our choice, it is Whirley Primary School in Macclesfield which feeds into Fallibroome Academy mostly, which is pretty much the same standard. Both schools are evaluated highly by Ofsted, but just like in your case, our most important choice driver was the nurturing nature of the community.

We found the teachers, assistants, the director and everyone around the children extremely supportive and everything went smoothly with settling in. Feel free to ask me if you have any further questions.

Thanks but we ended up changing area. We now have secured school spots in Sandbach and are really happy :)

Oooh well done, Sandbach is great too!