Question for school people and those whose child goes by preferred names

My youngest (who's 4 month) is called Margot but we call her Peggy for short. She's named after my grandmother Margaret and a long time ago the name Peggy was a formal abbreviation of Margaret (which I love!) I wondered if schools are use to going by preferred names nowadays or am I going to meet a lot of resistance? I'm quite shy and find it hard if I have to explain myself over and over again. As she grows up should I perhaps use both names with her so that she gets use to them both simultaneously or do you think the school will accept such a unique abbreviation?

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School should be fine, when I was at school we had a bunch of kids who didn’t use their legal names. Mostly from Nigerian cultures but that doesn’t matter.

You’re not going to get any resistance! You get to decide what name school call your child by. Documents will be done in her legal name to match birth certificate, but day to day, name she’s known as, anything that’s labelled with her name on for her (coat peg, books, etc) will be the name you choose.

You have to put down their legal name for official docs etc but most of the school forms say preferred name! And when you meet the teachers etc you don’t even have to introduce as legal name just say this is Peggy! My little brother is legally William but has always been Billy, his first day at high school they called him William on the register and he had not a clue who William was 😂😂 it then very quickly got changed to Billy (that was an admin error, my mum was very clear when she did all the forms) he’s 29 so it’s definitely far more accepted now

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