Through no choice of my own, my DD attends a school a few miles away. We moved house when she was going into Year 1, so we had to select the best school that had a place for her.
It's a fairly good school and we are all very happy with it. But I live right on the doorstep of a very similar school, which was full up when we moved. I can't help feeling like it would have been easier to break into a new community if my DD was attending that very local school.
Whilst I now know enough mums at DD's school - one year later - to have a chat to, I feel detatched from that school and community due to it's location. I live in a very large urban area so there are probably a dozen schools within a 2 mile radius of our house, so that means catchment areas are relatively small and close-knit. The school DD is at is in an area where people have grown up and remained - it's not an incomer-type area at all. I am somewhat an oddity!
DD is far too senstivie to consider moving her to a different school and I certainly would not consider it just to please me (though I do dislike having to travel by car every day)! But I wonder if I feel this way because we don't live close to the school or whether this is still a by-product of starting at a school in Year 1 instead of the beginning of Reception.
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I feel quite detatched from my DD's primary school because it is not our catchment school and we have to drive in everyday. Is it normal to feel this way?
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CanvasBags · 05/10/2009 14:34
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05/10/2009 17:27
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