What would you do?

[Fruitgums]

Hello all,

Please help as I am so confused and haven't got anyone to talk this through with. Basically I need to decide on a nursery school for my son and I'm not sure which one to choose - he got accepted at my two preffered schools. My situation is that the area that I am living in has a good nursery and infant school (let's call it B) but the junior is not as good. I was hoping to rent in an area which is just 2 miles away so that my DS can attend the nursery, infant and junior school (let's call it A) as it's outstanding and have excellent results.

However I will not be financially able to rent in this better area until next summer which means that I cannot realistically expect for DS to gain an infant place at my preferred school (deadline for application is October 2010).

Both of these schools A and B are all based on one site. My options are:

1. Send him to Nursery school B & its attached infant school but transfer him to a Junior School A.

1. Send him to Nursery school A and hope and pray that he will get into its infant school.

I'm confident that he will get into Junior School A as we will move closer to the school next summer.

1. Send him to Nursery School A and infant school B and then to Junior School A.

Can you see why I am so confused?

As far as I can see these are the options that I have. But please if you have any other ideas do let me know.

If it was me, I would go for nursery B and infant B and then see how you feel when it comes to junior school. (so option 1, i think)

I'd send him to nursery B and infant B (especially as you say you are unlikely to get into infant A anyway).

Then I'd wait and see how you feel when he gets to Year 2. 3 years is a long time and the junior schools may well have changed a lot by then. Plus you may find you feel definitely about the school once you have more inside knowledge anyway.

Thanks for your replies. I think that this is what I will probably do.