Moving schools - should I tell DS?

[StickyNote]

We moved to the UK from abroad in Dec and DS started in Reception in January. We've since moved house into a different catchment area and for various reasons have decided to move him to the catchment area school. I decided not to tell him until the Summer hols because I thought he had enough on his plate with the move but have been thinking that maybe he should be able to say goodbye to his old school at the end of term. Would be very grateful for anyone else's experiences or opinions.

I would prepare him but possibly not make a big deal about it. Can you find out if any other children or teachers are going elsewhere as talking about it in that context might help. Perhaps the class could do some sort of keepsake (handprints or whatever) and say farewell.

Also could he visit his new school if only to orientate himself as presumably most of the kids will have spent a full year there already. Point out any advantages (more local friends, nicer uniform etc).

At ds'school there is always a large turnover and he is very much in limbo at the moment as school has broken up, many friends leave for just the summer and he knows some who won't return but some, who he thought would, may not. Next year it might be him...

StickyNote,
We moved house in December, though not that far away from where we lived before.
It takes half an hour there, and then half an hour back again. (obviously!) So this is taking two hours out of my day, everyday. I just can't cope with this anymore.
So we are seriously thinking of moving DS to a school which is 5mins away from where we are now. I told DS and he is very upset, as i said he could stay at this school when we moved.
I would tell Your Ds if i were you, he might be more upset if he doesn't get a chance to say goodbye.
Is there anyway that he could keep in touch with his 'best' friends? This seems to be helping our DS.

Thanks for this - I think I was moving in the direction of telling him. Where we lived before was a very transitory place and nothing really fazed DS in terms of comings or goings so hopefully it'll be the same with this (fingers crossed)