Foreign Perspectives

James left Belmont in June and was to be starting in Strandtown next week with John following two years later which was shaping up to be a logistical nightmare for us for the next few years.

We decided a while back that it was going to be better for them both to be in the same school so had looked into a few options over the last four or five months. However, by the time we’d made our final decision the schools were all closed for the summer so we couldn’t do anything about it ’til earlier this week.

Surprisingly, it turned out to be very easy to change schools. We’d expected some major inquisition, loads of forms and lots of “why?, do you really want to do this?” etc. but in fact it turned out to be basically “OK, no problem”.

Funnily enough it’s the school that was originally towards the top of our list of candidates and the school that my Mum (who we think is somewhere in the photo) started in the year it was built.