reception home visit

[greenwich1]

hi I'm new here and hope to find some answers.
my brother is leaving the country for a year and asked me to move into his two bedhouses during his absences knowing that i need extra bedroom for my ds 4 as i own a 1 bed flat. Found a trusted friend willing to rent my flat for a year to help gather deposit for 2 bed house after my brother return.
now my problem is that i found out that the school would do a home visit before september and i will be living in my brother house at that time and not the address register to apply for school. the friend is only renting my flat but everything will still be in my name.
where the school would want to visit the child? own house or they can come to my brother house? need to know this before making decisions .

thanks

The actual person visiting would probably prefer the nearest address for convenience sake. Someone who knows more than me will come along soon to let you know if this arrangement could be problematic in anyway.

thanks rosebuds05, i'm starting to worry a bit. but this solution would really help financially

I suppose it depends on how far away your brothers house is. If it's only a few miles away you could easily explain that you are moving back by the start of term, or even just go back to your old flat for the visit. If it's a long way away, then it's unlikely that the teachers will visit at all. Tell them you are on holiday for a month or something.

It's quite common for reception teachers to visit the new kids at home, if that is what you were wondering too. They did it with all 3 of my DC's even though they were already familiar with them.

yes my brother house is far, take me 15 min by train. so i think visit is out. i called the school to find out about my ds place and that when they told me that before september they will do a home visit

In my experience the pre-reception visit isn't to check on your address, it is to make sure you are happy about all the arrangements for starting school (and I'm sure to have a little look and see if your house looks chaotic etc..) I don't think the school would worry about the address unless they are heavily oversubscribed and have had a lot of people using false addresses. But in your cases you were at your own address when you applied, wher you live I September doesn't matter anyway.

Ah right, in which case then, wait till you get the appointment and arrange a couple of hours at your flat, which I assume your friend will be OK with, or say you are away.

Your DS will probably get the chance to visit the school anyway before he starts in September. You'd be able to have a chat with the teachers then, just in case you have any concerns or need to mention any special needs your son might have.

i probably sure that my friend would allow us to use the flat but i don't think it will look like a child house. maybe must bring some toys and clothes to scatter around.
and i will definitely need to talk to the school as ds got really strong speech delay for his age.

thank you for your ideas. will wait for the appoitment letter and decide what to do after.

If it will be financially beneficial for you to move to your brother's for a year it may make sense to apply for a school place near that address. Assuming you are, as your name suggests, in Greenwich, then a 15 minute train journey is going to be unusual for a Reception child (and is unlikely to be much fun at the start of the day or at the end, with an exhausted child). The majority of Greenwich primary schools are very oversubscribed so, unless your son has been given a place on the grounds that the particular school will be the only one able to meet his speech and language needs, there is a risk that the council will consider your temporary address to mean the school place may be withdrawn. It seems to vary, borough by borough but Greenwich's admissions booklet says:
Change of address
You must notify us of any change of address no later than four weeks from the date of your move and provide the relevant proof. A notice of a planned move for the future is not acceptable. If you move to a new address without telling us, and secure an offer of a school place based on your old address, which you
otherwise would not have been offered, we shall deem this as misleading information and the offer of a school place may be withdrawn.

The best way of finding out how the LA will view your possible move is to talk to them about it so you can decide whether the particular school place is going to be more important than the opportunity to save a deposit.

Greenwich is where i work and study but live in lambeth. now ds goes to day nursery and we used the train everyday for the journey. but the school he's got offered a place is in lambeth.
i think that my ds is used to the journey since he were small, and like train.
I have two months to make up my minds and if nothing became clear. i will decline my brother offer with big regrets