choosing between a school of 70 and one of 220 any thoughts?

[daysoftheweek]

We might be moving and if so we would have the choice of a primary school of 70 with mixed classes and one of around 220 which also seems to mix the ages.

we can't look around the schools now but would literally have to arrive look round and decide within a day or 2 so I thought I'd ask you lot

thanks

[sunnydelight]

We moved DS2 from a school with 55 pupils and had the choice of another small school (around 70) or a bigger, 2 form entry one. Although it wasn't just DS2's choice, we were quite surprised when he was adamant that he wanted to go to the bigger school - we thought he would choose the smaller one as that was what he was used to (it was the end of Y1). His reasons were "more people to play with", "more going on" and "better playground equipment". Socially, very small schools can be a real headache.