Sibs at different schools - with one starting Juniors - who do I drop off first?

[HereBeHubbubs]

Youngest starts infant school 9am

Eldest starts junior school 8.50am.
It's her first day at Juniors tomorrow.

They have to be dropped in the juniors hall so there's going to be a fair bit of milling around and possibly clingy kids. She's already sobbing about it quietly and still isn't asleep at nearly 10pm.

I don't know if I'd get out in time to get youngest back to infant school. I don't want him going in late first day back because that might add to his nerves - he's moving up to Year 1 with a new classroom and teacher.

Who should I drop first?

Schools are on separate sites, about a 4 minute walk from eachother.

Argghhh

I personally would start as I mean to go on. Drop Junior off first. I really have never seen lingering drop off make a reluctant child any happier. Does she have friends going to the school? I would think that she will get very distracted with catching up .

fingers crossed it goes smoothly for you

I would also add...with schools so close you will certainly not be the only one needing to get out to go to the other school

I agree. I'd drop the Junior school pupil too.

Can you look out for her friends , and hope that seeing them again will distract her a bit?

The infant school is closest and we have to pass that to get to the junior school next road up.

But junior achool starts earlier. Although they say someone isn't classed as 'late' until ten past nine.

Infant school however has a gatekeeper with a clipboard and seconds past 9am is marked Late.

no brainer, drop junior at 8:50, kiss and wave and walk off to infants arriving 8:55 and drop infant.

You don't need to wait in juniors, if she is worried hand her over to a teacher.

If you think there is a bigger problem, then is there a friend who can walk dd2 over to infants?

You can't do it the other way because you can't leave infant til teacher appears and so at the earliest your junior will be 9:05, and all her class will have gone in and then she will be the odd one out, which is worse for her.

You need to figure how you are going to do this every day ..A 4 min walk mins you have got 5 mins to get out of school.

Sorry I think you are over thinking this . If you take child at infants first you will make junior child late whether technically marked late or not which I would think would be much worse.

I really can't see what you think the benefit of taking infant child first

No decision - the Junior school starts 10 mins earlier so you can dropp the Junior aged children first

That's enough of a consensus for me. Junior drop first. Thanks all :)

Hope it all goes well this morning

Yes, Junior school drop first was definately the right choice. There was a lot of milling around in the hall with parents waving their new starters off and so on, and my youngest still got to infant achool in plenty of time.

It has made me wonder mind you how people manage with siblings at two different schools that are miles apart, or who like me, don't drive and they have to walk sibs to schools very far apart.

It has made me wonder mind you how people manage with siblings at two different schools that are miles apart, or who like me, don't drive and they have to walk sibs to schools very far apart.

Mine go to school 9 miles apart. I do drive but I still need to rely on (and pay for) breakfast clubs and after school clubs. There isn't anything I can do about the distance because older child goes to a special school and there isn't anything Suitable closer to home.

Infants and juniors here are a mile apart. Loads of parents walk/cycle between the two. Your other option of course (again very popular here) is to pal up with a parent in a similar situation and arrange that one does the infants school drop off and another the juniors. But with only 5 minutes walk between them, that hardly seems work the bother (it's a bit more worth it if you have to take your infants child past the infants school to walk a mile to juniors and then a mile back again!)

wow redsky, that is a bit of a nightmare, there must be loads of parents who have kids in both. I would have 6 years of double drop offs!