Considering moving school, WWYD?

[Sunshinebetty]

Hi, this is my first post and I'm so sorry that I am jumping in with a question but I am at my wit send today and could just cry....

We moved to a new area last year, found a nice house in a nice village, sale was going through, rang the village school to arrange for kids to attend to be told they had no spaces and couldn't accept them. Nearest other school is a car drive away but all there was, it's a tiny school

I'd try to move them if you can. There will be a waiting list though, and you might find you get a place for one DC before the other.

There must be activities that go on where he could meet other kids - beavers/cubs (depending on age), football/rugby/cricket etc. I'd ask round, check local notice boards etc and see what is going on.

Hi Sunshinebetty:

First off schools now maintain wait lists - so the first thing you should do is inform the school you would like to place your child on the wait list.

Second - if the present school has only 1 other boy - that friendship can be maintained out of school through play dates or possibly having your child go to an out of school activity (beavers, swimming, etc...) at the same place as the other boy.

I realise as a parent you want him to have a wide circle of friends - but I can assure you (and I'm in a huge city) the friendship thing in primary is complicated. Some parents work, so play dates are tricky to organise, some parents spend lots of time at church groups/ cultural groups so their children's weekends are fully booked, etc... Our solution has been to get our children involved in clubs and that has lead to many of their friendships and given them time with children of a similar age. More importantly, it's meant that they have friends outside of school - which is helpful because as we know (well with girls at least) there are phases where all is lovely and then phases where someone goes on the turn.

HTH

I would put them onto the waiting list, although not sure how it works trying to get two in as places may not come up at the same time