Moving house

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So our children go to a nice school in our village, but we are moving out of the village in a few weeks to a nearby village. OH and I had said we'd keep kids at same school and travel (only 5 mins in car), but now suddenly he wants us to move them. We have friends working at the school in the village we are moving too and they don't rate it. Hubby said kids will grow up knowing no one and it will be rubbish for them if we don't move them. How has this worked with anyone else... ?

How old are the children? Are the two villages in the same senior school catchment or different?

We have been in a similar situation, we moved last year when they were in yr 1 and yr 5. We kept them both at the old school for this year, which is about a 10 minute drive away (still the same LEA) The eldest is starting secondary and we are moving the youngest to the local school for the start of year 3. In terms of secondary - ds is pretty much going alone as none of his classmates/friends got into the school he is going to, as it happens had we not moved he still would have had a place as we would have got sibling priority. However I can see a positive in the smallest having an established group of friends who will all go to secondary together.

As for friends locally - at the moment, obviously no friends are local, but we are the only young family (well the children, not us) in the road and I think in the houses nearby, so not a ready pool of friends over the road or anything.

There are pros and cons to both - is is always 5mins drive or can that double/triple in traffic - and 5 minute drive to a school is relatively small.