Two years ago we decided to change schools as my eldest son was in Y2 and we had to look at junior schools. We had little confidence in his infant school and the junior school did not inspire us either. We chose another school, took the plunge and moved both our children mid year to finish Y2 and YR at the new school.
It took a while to settle in, which I expected. Now both are doing well academically, compared to two years ago, although both need SA support at school.
The youngest is doing well socially at school, which is not surprising since we moved schools 5 terms ago now.
The eldest is not doing so well socially, (although as I said he's getting on well academically). I feel so sad when he talks about other children at school, some are particularly unkind to him and he finds it hard to deal with at times. I just asked him about who he plays with and he was vague about names.
He is a lovely lad, thoughtful, polite and likes a laugh and a joke. At his old school he was quite popular and really had no problems socially, just academically. His current class doesn't have many particularly 'nice' children in it (which the class teacher is sad to admit to me). Although other classes seem quite lovely.
I just feel so rotten for moving him and am finding it hard to balance the improvement in his education against his lack of real friends at school. He has friends out of school, from football, cubs and previous school. I'm having a 'wobble' and would appreciate some advice...