My dc's are at a small, local school - only 15 children per year. DD is in Yr 1 and recenlty got a little unsettled as her best friend moved away and she does not really gel with the others in her class - they are either robust boys who want little to do woth girls, or really girly girls who love pink and fairies. There have been a couple of incidents recently which are very unusual for dd which IME shows she is not entirely happy.
My ds is very happy where he is; he will be moving up to Yr 1 in Sept but after that we don't know what group he will be in as they are moving to mixed classes (due to falling rolls), and, as the youngest, he may be left down on the Yr 1 / Yr 2 group without most of his friends who are actually the oldest in the year and will go up to a full Yr 2 group.
I can see two options - leave them where they are for the next year and move them then, or move them now - to a bigger school a bit further away (but on the way to work). There are other, niggling little things about the school, which when added to this means I do want to move them at some point soon. Moving dd now would be a good time for her as she is unsettled anyway, but then moving for Yr 3 would also be good as children do tend to change at 7. Ds is very happy and settled now and could really do with consolidating that.
My thought is that moving now would mean they are then settled for the next 5 years at least.
Moving dd now and ds next year is not really an option as i cannot be in two places at once and they want to stay together.
I cannot see a way out of this and keep going around in circles as to what to do!!!