[kshy]

Just wondering of there is a FYOS 2012 yet. I have twin boys who are starting school next year and we start our first lot of school visits in 2 weeks os was wondering who else is out there going through the same thing

In some ways I am really excited for them to be starting their school journey but these are my babies....

Kerri

[kshy]

I picked up our enrollment forms last night - made it all a bit more real - they have there first visits next week

I found it really hard to find the right school for DD as our local school that we could walk too had a really bad reputation. Of our local kinda that was next door only 3 kids out of 27 went to and 1 has since left. It then came down to 2 schools, both about the same distance drive, one was over 800 kids and growing and the other was 180 kids and located in a 'country' setting. Aftter doing the visits and meeting witht principle we went with the smaller school as we felt it was the right choice for DD - and we have not been let down. It has about a 20% Special needs and also a high portion of talented/gifted. We did a seachange last year and have now moved back as one of the reasons was I the school down there was so focused on the Naplan (grade 2's were already practicing tests and the teaching was geared towards Naplan and they discouraged SN) that I wanted the same start to school that DD had for DS1 & DS2

For those that are still undecided about schools I would do the open days but I would also request a tour when classes are running as normal or see if there is any sessions that you can attend with your child in the classroom - this is what my boys have next week, we are attending even though we have already made the decision but it gives you a really good chance to speak to the teachers and see work in progress

Cheers

Kerri