Apologies in advance if some of my questions are very basic indeed. Please bear with me!
Dh is a brit, I am american, we used to live in Bethnal Green in London where we own a house (now let out). We currently live abroad and have 2 dbs, the oldest of which is nearly 2 years old. We will be returning to London when he is 3.5 and I have just realised that this means I should sign him up now (ie once he turns 2) for a spot in a nursery or EYU attached to any good primary schools in our area to increase his changes of then getting into said primary....The tower hamlets council told me that I need to discuss nursery admission with the schools directly, not them. So far, so good.
My questions are:
- Should I just come out and say that we are not currently residing in our house because we are in fact in Japan, or should I fudge it? I do not want to lie, and we WILL at the time he goes to nursery be in the house, but I am afraid they won't even take his name down for nursery if we don't officially reside in the house right now. (I suppose this might have to come up, however, since we are not exactly available for a school tour or interview!)
- I have looked at exam results and ofsted reports for local schools, but Dh says more important is where kids feed into after the primary. Fair enough, but how do I find that out? Ask the school? Googling this sort of thing - on mumsnet or elsewhere - hasn't really worked unless the school itself has advertised where pupils have then gone on to.
- Have we missed the boat entirely on private primary schools because I did not sign db up anywhere at birth? I suppose I could get on it pronto for #2, who is 4mo...
thanks for any and all advice, and your patience! If there is a "UK Schools for Dummies" guide out there please let me know also.