How to select a school?

[hedgehog]

WE have just got our visa and will be on our way asap ( house to sell) My wife has the kids on a waiting list of a private school, but if all the people infront on the list take the places then we will have to probably use a state school.
So if we move to south Perth( for example ) do you automatclly go to the nearest school with a place? can you pick and choose?
Exactly what is the procedure for getting kids into a school?
We have twin girls aged 6 and 3 months (26/09/2000)
thanks for your time

[ohippychick]

Originally Posted by hedgehog

WE have just got our visa and will be on our way asap ( house to sell) My wife has the kids on a waiting list of a private school, but if all the people infront on the list take the places then we will have to probably use a state school.
So if we move to south Perth( for example ) do you automatclly go to the nearest school with a place? can you pick and choose?
Exactly what is the procedure for getting kids into a school?
We have twin girls aged 6 and 3 months (26/09/2000)
thanks for your time

we just went along to the local primary and enrolled them and they started immediately. The state primary schools here, in my opinion, are very good

[ali]

We have our children enrolled at the local primary to start on 31st Jan - we arrive on the 7th. It did depend on catchment area for this particular school though but I guess they would take a little further away if they had places. The school also feeds into a good High School (rated in the top 5 in WA).

We emailed the school(s) in the area we'll be renting in initially

We have no worries about using the state system which we've heard is very good - the principle has gone out of his way to be helpful, even getting my eldest a pen-pal who will be in the same year.

Ali