Almost every day I feel I've chosen the wrong school for dd (Year R)- anyone else?

[diymadness]

DD is in Year R and loving school life, can't wait to get in there each morning. She is doing OK socially, not brilliant but I think that's just her, nothing to blame the school for at all.

The problem is with me- I have a sicky feeling some mornings when I get back from the school run that I have chosen the wrong school for her. We chose an out of catchment school for her and unexpectedly, she got in. The walk to school is mainly down a busy road, which is worrying, and I hate not seeing a soul until I get 3/4 of the way there, just feel like we shouldn't be going all the way there and don't really belong there. There's no logic behind this I guess- I have some good Mum friends at this school. DD's current school is Ofsted grade 2 and the catchment one which is the one I often wished I'd chosen is grade 3. I've kind of told myself that we WILL move dd at some point but she would not be happy initially and then there's the question of when and if there's a space. DD2 is due to start school in 2011 so definitely want to resolve these feelings before she starts. Has anyone else been in this situation and did you just stick with it or make the (seemingly) massive decision to change schools?

Sorry for zombie thread post but you literally could have been me writing this @diymadness really hoping you still use mumsnet and can tell me what you ended up doing???

Suspect OP is long gone with the age of the post - but I moved mine at the end of reception and it was definitely the right decision to do so - she's just a much better fit in the school we moved to (and it ended up being life-changing for me personally as well as the way the new school welcomes parents in got me back to my pre-children levels of confidence... and I ended up as one of the school governors).

We had some safeguarding concerns with the original school, and a growing sense that they were leaving DD1 to coast as she'd reached the Early Learning Goals and was just left to it pretty much - so it wasn't just not feeling happy with what we'd chosen, and was more than that. Ended up emailing around the local schools to see where spaces were likely to lie - looked around the school we moved to and I cried in the car after seeing it as I realised it was just so much of a better fit for my kids and I wanted them to go there (I'd not even put it down initially as it's quite a well-hidden low profile little place and generally oversubscribed to hell - but there'd been a bit of a demographic shift and another school expanding quite aggressively so numbers had dropped).

Definitely was the right choice in our situation - several professionals involved with my youngest's special needs have also commented that we're in a much better place having her at the new school than we'd have been in with her at our original most local choice.