Siblings in 2 different schools - advice please

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So this has happened to our family. We are currently going to keep our eldest at their school and our youngest will be going to a different school.
Does anyone have experience of this and if you decided to move your eldest, did it work out? Was it a positive experience?
Or did you keep them in separate schools and has that worked out for you?

Anyone please?

Is that because youngest didn't get in?
What year groups?
What distance /travel time between the schools?
How are drop off and pick up going to work?
Is youngest on the waiting list for oldest's school (or vice versa?)

What are you worried about?

It has to work we've no choice unless we move our eldest. Yes youngest didn't get in.
Eldest is going into year 3.
They are over capacity for reception and youngest is number 6 on the list so not much hope of getting in as 2 people would have to leave first before even looking at the list.

Our children are at different schools. Ds1 was at village primary but things went downhill and he was often board, there was a safeguarding incident and we were not convinced the school was doing a 'good enough' job. We moved him to the indy which is 1 hour away where we planned for him to go at 11 and instead he was there at 7. We drive him for 15 min and then he takes a school minibus.
His brother aged 6 is still at the village primary. The HT left last summer, the new one lasted 2 terms and we have another new one coming in Sept . However he is making good progress and we consider him too young for a 1 hour journey to school so we hoperate to keep him there for another year or two.
Bus for DS1 leaves at 740am and gets back at 450pm.

Mine are this next year - but it's an infant/junior school split situation and they're not on the same site. Schools do work closely staggering school times - so one starts/ends earlier than the other and the staff know I've got one of the kids who struggles to be organised on time at the end of the day so will give her a bit of a head start so I can get between locations on time.

Our school is quite obliging even if it's not the linked school - couple of families where one sibling didn't make it into the linked schools have them in different places and arrangements are made for early drop offs informally or leeway on collecting etc.

We have the same situation. Unfortunately we can't move our eldest as he has ASD along with various other challenges and doesn't adapt at all well to change in routine etc. Our youngest is fine in her school but logistically it's a nightmare tbh. I have to pick up my eldest every day other a large meltdown ensues and so the youngest gets picked up by whoever I can persuade to get her that day! If I thought that my eldest could cope with moving I would have put them in the same school but obviously every family is different. I hope you find a solution which works for you and good luck!

@JamesJaames that must be really difficult for you. My eldest probably could cope with the move but he is going into year 3 now and doesn't want to move as he is settled and has a good friendship group

Mine have been in two separate schools for several years now. (We have separate infants and junior schools here.) In September, I will have 3 kids at 3 different schools. I am not one of life's natural organisers so my biggest piece of advice is buy a diary, carry it with you everywhere, and keep it updated! It's the organisation of who needs what on which days, plus remembering multiple different parents evenings, assembly's, concerts etc.

I had this but not because he didn't get in - it wasn't working out for DC3 so we moved him to a new school. DC2 was settled and happy so we didn't move her. The school run worked fine (timings and locations were ok to combine) but I did find that it was harder to keep on top of things - especially as I also had an older child at secondary. So three school newsletters, summer fetes, different inset days etc. DC3 is really happy at his school so it was worth it.