budleigh

After somehow managing to get our wires crossed when speaking with the new school, it turns out that although the kids places for next year are safe they have no space for my 8 year old son for the 6 weeks left in this school year once we arrive

There is another school approx 1 mile away with places but it is a brand new school and I can't find any details/stats/reviews or anything about it other than the address and school website.

Are options now seem to be:

Put 6 year old in kindergarten in the more local and preferred school
Put 8 year old in Grade 2 of new school

Put 6 year old in kindergarten in local school
Put 8 year old in new school until new school year then switch to more the local school

Put both children in new school

Home school 8 year old for 6 weeks and start him in local school in new school year.

or something else????

Feel awful that already we are compromising the kids a bit in the move
I want them to settle and make friends quickly, like everyone does I suppose.

Any advice would be great

ChocolateBabz

Extra 6 weeks holiday and you are the best mum in the world - .

OK maybe don't let the kids see this post....

Rete

You're talking 6 weeks here, not 6 months. And those 6 weeks are end of the school year with little work being done anyway. Send the 8 year old to the new school and the 6 year old to the school they will be continuing to attend in the next school year. If having them attend the same school is important to you then transfer the 8 yo to the originally planned school. Surprised that you have a choice.

MsElui

i agree with Rete. The 8 year old wont do much actual work in the last 6 weeks but it will give him an earlier taster of how it will all work and give him a chance to try stuff out and not have to wait until september. id send him to the alternative school and find out the earliest date you can register for the new school in sept and make sure you get him registered as close to day 1 as possible.

naomi

Since it's only 6 weeks, and it isn't the school he'll be going to in September, I probably wouldn't worry too much about it. What I would recommend is signing them for some summer camps this summer so they can start meeting other kids in the area. School tends to start wrapping up in those final weeks. Best regards, Naomi.

chartreuse

In some ways, this could be a good thing for the 8 year old. He can make his mistakes fitting in to a new environment at the other school, then come to the local school in Sept with the lessons of that experience learned, yet without it following him. Bargain!