I currently live in London and have just been through a pretty stressful divorce. As part of the divorce I agreed to sell the family home and to move closer to my Mum (2 and a half hours’ drive away).
Since I have a reception 2019 starter as well as a y2 and the house was on the market but already but not selling I initially applied for my younger child to join my older child’s school here in London.
Since it has been such a stressful time I came to the decision that once I sold I might want to stay with my mum originally, though I knew which town I wanted to end up in (a 25 min drive from Mum’s) therefore I applied from my Mum’s address for a reception place at a faith school in the town I knew I wanted to move to as I thought this would be the school I would be most likely to get both children into (not massively oversubscribed)
Once it got to the end of March and we had accepted an offer on our house as well as I had found a house and had my offer accepted in the town I like I went to visit the main community primary (closest to the new house), which I had previously been told was oversubscribed and actually discovered they probably would be able to accommodate both my children (3 spaces in current y2 and only 58 applications for 60 spaces for reception). I therefore sent a paper in-year transfer form for my older child as well as a paper reception application, which will now count as a ‘late’ application but I think supersedes the earlier electronic one.
Today I received an email to say my younger child had got a place in my older child’s school in London.
I then logged in out of curiosity to see what it said on the council I am moving to and it says my child has been offered a place in the faith school (no mention of the later application)
I think both of those say I need to accept by the end of April.
On the late application paper form it said late applicants would be informed by 31st May
On both paper forms I gave the new address and the expected date of move as May/June but obviously we haven’t exchanged or anything yet. I haven’t as of yet heard anything about the in-year transfer and don’t know when I am likely to.
It all feels like a terrible mess now. All I want is to have both my children at the same school, preferably the main community primary but I wouldn’t be devastated if it was the faith school. I also, importantly want to be able to prepare my children, who have been through quite a lot and have lots more big changes ahead for where they will be going to school once we move.
Can anyone decipher this terrible muddle of a message and give me some advice about what to do next?!