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Pre-school choice please help!

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littleraysofsunshine · 15/09/2014 13:03

My girl will be 4 at the end of OCT. Been in her now pre-school since jan and does seem to enjoy herself. Only we have now been given a place at the first choice we had for her.. Worth the change for only a year? As she'll go to primary school next sept.

The reason we also wanted her to change was so she had more of a chance of getting into a local village school but it's a 'chance' - not definite.

We're not keen on the school part of her preschool she goes to at the moment and just not sure what to do.

She may have to change hours from every morning to two days and a morning if we do change her over..

She has made friends where she is, her main teacher is a complete snooty cow so that annoys me, the other teachers seem nice. Also in they don't seem to keep you informed for what they do? Learn?

My head is all over...

If it helps to make sense. We also were meant to move to a house where the local village is but that fell through last week. So it could've all been so simple but now it's anything but.

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KatyN · 15/09/2014 14:21

I would be surprised if attendance at the preschool would help with entrance to the school. It definitely doesn't make any difference to our local school.

Lucylouby · 15/09/2014 14:29

Have you read the admissions policy for they school you want her to attend to check if attending the preschool will help them get in. It's not normally in the criteria for primary admissions where they went to preschool. The preschool may tell you it helps, but if the school haven't confirmed this, I wouldn't take it as gospel.
Personally, I wouldnt want my dc going to preschool for 2 full days. I've found it is to much for her to be there for a full day, she is only little, so unless you have no choice but for her to be there all day (eg working) that may influence your descion.
If you don't like the teacher, that is quite a bit factor to where she should be. Children will generally make friends wherever you put them, they are very adaptable.

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littleraysofsunshine · 15/09/2014 21:24

I asked to change the hours from two days to every morning..they're getting back to me.

On one hand I'm just trying to think of the best route to get the primary school choice, and the preschool that we were thinking of moving her to is lovely it just has different dynamics to what she's at now (the one now is based as foundation in a school so more formal, where as the other is more play group based? I think...)

But then she has never had any issues, she doesn't really say much about her morning but she's never unhappy about anything or anyone, so on one hand I'm thinking "why fix something that's not broken"

Then I'm just trying to think what's best.

At the beginning of the year when I applied For the preschool, I was really looking forward to her changing over as it was our first choice. Now she has settled into this one I just don't know if it's worth changing her when it's only going to be for a year.

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littleraysofsunshine · 16/09/2014 16:25

The village one has offered me the four mornings I wanted... Yet dd seemed happy with her friend this morning... Ahhh

She's going there for. Two morning trial on third but ill have to white lie to her current preschool and say she won't be in as were away as I don't want them getting funny yet...

But then I feel like an irresponsible parent by not telling them especially if we do move her with not a lot of warning?

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littleraysofsunshine · 16/09/2014 16:30

The village one has offered me the four mornings I wanted... Yet dd seemed happy with her friend this morning... Ahhh

She's going there for. Two morning trial on third but ill have to white lie to her current preschool and say she won't be in as were away as I don't want them getting funny yet...

But then I feel like an irresponsible parent by not telling them especially if we do move her with not a lot of warning?

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RugBugs · 16/09/2014 16:46

DD has just moved from a day-care nursery to a pre-school attached to our local infants.
Same as your DD she's had two terms in her previous setting but our preferred setting only provided three terms so if we wanted to use all five terms of funding we had to find another setting iyswim?
If you reasonably expect that your DD will be offered a place at the village school then I really wouldn't hesitate to move her. Just think of her making the move a year earlier.

Doodledot · 17/09/2014 13:27

It is highly likely that preschool will have zero bearing on admissions.

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littleraysofsunshine · 18/09/2014 21:44

She had a good trial today. I'm just sad about changes.. If we got that house in the village all of this would've been a no brainer but... I'm having sleepless nights over it! What if I've interrupted her? She wouldn't have known any different.

The ages are different too and the dynamics. I just feel bad as she has enjoyed the past 9 months at the other one. We just don't really want her going to that primary school next year..

And I know there's no sway or guarantee that putting her into the new one would help get her into the village one we had planned...

God I don't know what to do

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Doodledot · 18/09/2014 22:05

What are your odds of getting in the village school from where you are?

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