Can my dc go to a dif school for a short 'trial' period

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We are considerimg moving back home to the city we came from originally. Dc are 7,5 and 3.

We are so undecided about this and one of the massive considerations has to be school. My dc attend a tiny ral school, they share the same class and there are only 35 kid total in whole school.

I wondered about taking a long holiday let over the summer but perhaps also the last few weeks before break up. In this time i thought perhaps my dc could attend a primary school.

I know that our friends who live abroad have put their dc back in our school when they holiday here. Just for a few weeks and it seems a straight forward process. But other than here ave never known this to happen.

Does anyone have thoughts on how sensible this would be. It was just to see how the dc adapted to a much bigger school, to let them see how dif it would be.

But it would it be a good test of them adapting? Is it the same school you would try to transfer them to long term? It seems like too short a spell for adapting & so much depends on the individual school & how they manage newcomers.

It's a bit of a mad idea, I think. Because kids don't like change and given the choice will generally choose the status quo. it takes a while to settle into a new school - my dd's teacher said half a term to settle, and a whole term to really feel at home. You need to make the decision that is right for your family as a whole, and then move the eldest's school if necessary rather than see what your eldest thinks about a possible new school and relocate the family if s/he is okay with it.

In any case, I am sure that you would have to transfer from your current school and register with the new one; you couldn't just join on a temporary basis.

It is not possible to do this. Once you leave a school the registration transfers to the new school, there is no mechanism for a trial run

I think you are over thinking this.

99% of kids go to a bigger school and are absolutely fine.

Is there any reason what you think your kids wouldn't be fine?

They are likely to worry about it if you make it a big deal. Move if you want to move and tell them all the great things about their new school that they might love.

There are 458 children at my dd's primary school. She moved from A school with 72 children. So i told her that at her new school she would have a proper library and an art room all the other things that you get in a bigger school.