Hi all,
Looking for some advice or perspective please — we’re really torn about what’s best for our DS5.
Our DS started P1 at a fairly small Catholic school in August. We chose it mainly for faith reasons, but also because it has smaller class sizes and (from what we’d heard and seen) slightly higher educational standards compared to the local non-denominational school.
However, he’s now in his second term and while he enjoys the learning side and for the most part is happy at the school, he’s been struggling socially with his classmates. He has said a few times that he doesn’t like his school because most of his nursery friends (and all of his closest ones) went to the non-denominational primary school. It seems while he gets along with his classmates, he hasn’t found his ‘person’ and he’s mentioned feeling lonely at times. He’s an incredibly sociable boy with lot’s of friends and now we’re starting to wonder if we’ve made the wrong call, as we’re concerned this will impact on his learning and overall happiness.
We’re now debating whether to move him to the other school where all his close friends are, or whether that would just cause more disruption in the long run. He’s still only 5, and part of me thinks he could find his feet where he is if we give it more time — but it’s hard seeing him unhappy and lonely.
Has anyone been through something similar? Would you move schools at this stage or wait it out a bit longer?