Trying to make the decision of whether to move my children from their current school to the school closest to my house. I am a newly single mother, and my children (who will be going into reception and year 2 in Sept) currently go to a school 15mins drive away in a different community to the one we live in. I am finding I have less time to work due to being 1hr a day commuting, and I have found the past year very lonely as a single parent without the local school friendships and connections. I would really like to move them and the local school has space for both of them. However, my children are happy and settled where they are. I worry about them having more change and also how long it takes them to make friends as they are quite shy and my eldest has learning difficulties. But long term I know it’s going to get worse with their friends being in the different community to them as they will see them less and I will be driving them everywhere rather than them walking to see their friends, and on into secondary school etc. The local school is bigger but it has great facilities for learning difficulties.