South Lincolnshire Primary schools

[welliesandpyjamas]

Hi - tried this in Local but no traffic there!

We'll be moving to the Boston area in the summer (probably living somewhere outside town, village or rural-ish if possible) and was wondering if anyone had any tips about the availability of primary school places?? We're moving from somewhere which is very oversubscribed and we're hoping it won't be as bad in South Lincs!

Are there villages/towns that are worse than others? We'll be looking for a year 5 place and a nursery place. I called Lincs council but they don't keep a list of available places, we'd have to apply for up to three schools once we have an address. Trouble is, we'd rather not choose a nice place to live and then find out there are no school places nearby! Catch 22!

If anyone has any suggestions or thoughts, I'd really appreciate it! Also, we'd need to place ourselves within an acceptable distance of a secondary school.

TIA

Sorry my fault for not reading the posts properly and just skimm reading.

Just realsied that that are 3 other children in our school who live in Donington but travel 7 miles each way to our school, but not entitled to transport as their choice.

Just to update, we had a lovely trip and loved driving around and getting to know the area. We made up quite a convoy, as my MIL, her brother, and his wife decided to join us too. They were almost as excited as us about it all!

We found a house! Keeping fingers crossed, tapping wood, etc etc it all goes smoothly.

And we found a lovely, lovely school, in Pinchbeck, around the corner from the house, and again keeping fingers crossed etc etc that a place will be available in September.

Happy sigh :)

Thanks to all the help on the thread, it's been brilliant! I'm glad I started it and got such fab responses.

primary places are not out in most areas, have you check if there are any?

Hi sunnyday
We decided to start with an area to live in (based on being in reasonable family-friendly distance from DH's new job) and find the nearest school. We've done both and found that the school was extra special so we just have to hope there'll be a space available nearer the move. I have heard, on this thread and while there, that people do end up travelling large distances for spaces but am hopeful we won't have to as imo it's so much nicer to go to a school in your own community, and be able to walk/cycle to school. That's the first choice, obviously. Will just hope it works out.