School- preschool friends
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I now am worried that he won’t see any familiar faces when he starts and it’ll make it harder for him to settle in 😭
I’ve had this exact worry! A lot of my sons friends from nursery are going to the same schools but we have one closer to us which is a better school so that’s what I’ve applied for and it took me ages to make that decision because I felt so bad. However, do you remember any of your friends from nursery? Because I don’t. And that’s what’s making me feel less bad about it. It feels so hard now but really the nursery years are just a very very small part of their lives and they’re going to make so many more friends.
Oh wow, this hasn’t factored in our decision making at all! Most of the kids at the pre-school my little boy goes to are going to our local school but we are sending him to a school 20-30 minutes away. They are so young and adaptable I personally don’t think it’s a big factor xx
If it makes you feel any better my daughter is with a childminder and none of them will be going with her to her school :) it really isn’t that deep At that age they don’t tend to make firm best friends and they move on and what not so I wouldn’t stress! Most the kids my eldest was friends with in preschool he didn’t bother with in reception and infants! He’s now in secondary school and other than 1 he doesn’t speak to any of them
As my little boy hates change and we will applying for the school attached to the pre school he goes to. It is also a through school so hopefully if he gets in he wont have to much change. He can keep his same friends all the way through.
I don't think it's important, they are young enough to easily make friends.
All kids are different, but my boy just changed nursery from October, and he had two amazing best friends in the old nursery. They were inseparable and he always talked about them at home, and other parents said the boys talked about my son too. It took him literally 2 days to stop talking about those two friends and making two new friends in the new nursery. So for me, I see that he makes friends super easily, so I will not factor other nursery kids into the school choice at all
It absolutely isn’t important People they are friends with now will change through the year and again when they start school! It isn’t a factor for us :)