OK - the situation is this:
I moved to the area in which I currently live about 10 months ago. We didn't know the area at all, and the primary school closest to our house had no room in its reception class for our youngest child, so we sent the children to the school that the interactive map we had claimed was the next closest.
There is nothing wrong with the school we have chosen - the children have settled in OK, they are learning stuff, they have made friends, etc. So that is all good. There are mild concerns that my daughter is not being sufficiently challenged and that the school is a longer journey away than the map we used indicates (as it gave a "crow flight" mileage, but you have to go all round the houses to actually get there), but again, these aren't major issues.
However, I have since discovered there is an excellent school, which is closer to us and has spaces in my children's year groups. Some of the children my little ones mix with socially (at Breiwnies/Beavers etc) attend that school. Also - critically, it has a free breakfast club and an after-school club that costs only £1. If they went there it would mean I wouldn't be late to uni because I could drop them off earlier, and I wouldn't have to pay £30 a week for after school care (their current school has no after school clubs, no nurserys/clubs do pickups from the school and all the childminders who pick-up from the school have no spaces - so I actually pay one of the other mums to look after them informally).
So really - I think the would be better off academically at the other school, I think it would not harm them greatly socially, and it would be considerably more convenient economically (money is really tight at the moment). BUT - big BUT - I really am reluctant to move them - simply because they have already moved schools. I can't decide what would be the best thing to do....
Any words of wisdom???