Boy/girl twins - keep together or school separately

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Hi

Is there anyone out there with boy/girls twins that is educating privately and has had to make the decision to send them to a mixed prep or split them up and send them to boy/girl preps?

I'm expecting twins and am looking at schools and the single sex preps seem to have better results but am unkeen to split them up, so am looking for advice/feedback.

I have a friend who sent hers to single sex schools. Everyone seemed to be happy, and in the area it was always likely that they would head to different single sex schools at secondary. In the early years the children were taught quite differently and she always noticed that they were at different stages, but overall they've got into their preferred senior schools etc. The girls seemed to concentrate on writing at the start whereas the boys did more reading and maths.

But to be honest the choice of school will be down as much to the temperament and abilities of your children - and it is early days to suss that yet!

Thanks for the advice :) It's pretty daunting having twins - so much to think about!

And I know it's early but you need to get their names down early and I was wondering whether to put them down for single sex schools as well. Will reassess when their personalities begin to come out but I don't want to lose options at this point :)

Can you get them to two different places for the start of the school day and collect? I'm a mum of twins (now 8) but the early years are pretty tiring, and the kids are tired at the end of a school day and will both want you. I think it would be easier to get them out the house at the same time and collect from school together. Otherwise you are always going to have the issue about which one you pick up.

Good luck with everything. Hope you have a great birth.

IME Single sex schools generally co-ordinate with each other in order to avoid alienating families who have both genders. But obviously worth checking.

Have you heard about "Diamond" schools? Where children are co-educated for early years, educated separately from Yr 3 to Yr 11, and then co-educated again at Sixth Form, but are effectively at the same school, sharing some activities/trips etc?

This one is in Surrey - www.royal.surrey.sch.uk/ but there are a few others around I believe.