Help and advice for my childs school?

I have two schools to choose from one which has good results in sats and inspection but has terrible facilities building and general learning environment, but all the local kids and kids from street would go to and the other only 5mins drive away but no kids from his immediate surroundings would go to but this school has again good sats results and inspection report but wonderful facitities in comparison to the other school. Also it is bright and stimulation! My decision is which is best for my child, an excellent learning environment or a place to form friendships with children from his street/ estate?Help and advice for my childs school?
my child started school in august and it is mainly kids from round about where we live that go but she has made so many new friends that your kid will too at whatever school they attend and he will also still have kids from your street etc to play with so i wouldn't worry about that. I'd probably go for the school with the best facilities. Kids make friends so easily.Help and advice for my childs school?
Choose the closer school and see if you can donate some of your time to help them clean up. Get a group of parents together who feel the same way you do. Schools are public buildings, who normally do not get enough money from the state. There are many things that can be done to clean up the facilities and make it a cleaner safer place for your child.


Good luck hope you have the time to try it!
He can be friends with kids on the street without going to school with them. Send him to the school that you are more comfortable with.
I had ';School mates'; and ';mates'; from my road. I put my sons in a school a bit away, and they still play with the kids in the street. Kids are like that, they even make friends with kids in the swimming pool!
i would pick the better of the schools they will make new friends and still see the other ones when there at home.


i had a similar problem my kids were in a school but the head teacher changed and the school started going down hill but they had been there for 3 years had all there friends there and they didn't want to change school but at the end of the day you have to chose what is gonna give your kids the best start in life and i moved mine it was the hardest thing i have ever had to do but the best thing i have done as they still see all there friends from there old school and have made loads of friends at there new school and have also come on loads in education .


only one problem now they have so many Friends birthday party lists have become a lot longer
choose the second, don't worry about other kid's do what's best for yours,
kids these days are always making friends so dont worry about that, think about his education. i never worked at school coz i was in the wrong croud.
you only get one chance at getting your childs education right. Go for the school with the best facilities.





Your child will end up with two groups of friends, one from school and the other from your steet. When they go onto secondary school, having such a wide range of friends will help enormously.





This is a very similair situation to ourselves, where we moved to the other side of our village, away from our daughters normal primary school catchment area. She subsequently moved to the secondary school, not only knowing the children from her school but also those from our current estate that she would never normaly have met.
I chose better education. My kids still play with the other kids on our street, but they formed solid friendships with peers more like them. My children are in gifted %26amp; talented curriculums, and are in an environment that I know will constantly allow them to grow.
Go local as the more pupils there is on the roll the more money they will get and they may use that money to tidy up the premises. We all want to give our children the best, but sometimes slumming it can build character in your child. Good luck
If your only concern is about your child not forming friendships with children from his street, then I would definetely go with the school with better learning facilities. Children make friends easily. They spend most of their time in school anyway. The plus-side is also that he/she will have twice as many friends, and his/her social skills will benefit from this!
Whichever school you feel will be the best. Which has the most caring staff, welcoming feel when you walk through the door, bright and interesting displays of childrens' work? When you go to visit which seems to have the happiest children?





SATs results and inspections alone are no good for choosing a school. The school where I work had poor SATs results this year, but then 5 children only started attending our school within 6 months of taking the tests. Their results affected our results but were nothing to do with the quality of teaching at our school.


Inspections only give a snapshot of how the school was performing for a few days when the staff are working under extremely stressful conditions.





If your child is interested in learning, gets support and encouragement from his home environment he/she will probably do well at either school.
I think that you should do what is best for the child educationally. Children always make new friends no matter where they are. Just think of it this way....the child would have two sets of friends. One set from the home area and one set from the new school. He would probably love that.
I'd say choose the school with good facilities and nice learning environment. So that your child will have a good reason to attend school everyday. And surely, they will be making new friends out there. It's more fun to have friends on both side of the fence, right?... stay cool... c';,)
Take him to see both schools and ask him which he would like to go to, after all it is your child that has to go every day. Children are very good at choosing the best situation for themselves if you give them the information that they need.
definatley for the better learning enviroment..as everyone else has said, he will make new friends at school in no time
Send him where his friends are - it is pointless to worry about academic achievement when the child is living in an illiterate household. He will grow up to go on the dole like the rest of his family so he might as well be happy in the meantime.
My little boy has recently started school and Ive sent him to one out of our neighbourhood because its a much better school. I was terribly worried that he wouldn't know anyone and be the outsider. But he has made loads of friends and is very happy, there are always birthday invitations and children running up to play with him when i drop him off in the morning. I would say go with your gut instinct. MOTHER KNOWS BEST!