Schools ?

[Truckinmick]

HI Guys, have a problem with schools, going to Melbourne hopefully oct/nov, how do you know what is the best school to send your children to ? have two teenage daughters, aged 16 and 14, have a book on Melbourne schools but just dont know what is the best way to pick them, help please , any help greatly appreciated

Thanks
Michael

[Quoll]

Usual advice from anyone in education is first find where you want to live! There will be lots of factors that influence that - proximity to work, cost of housing, niceness (or not) of neighbourhood etc. You may find the perfect school in Toorak (as an example) but then not be able to afford even a garret to live in even vaguely close to the school.

Then when you have narrowed down your liveable area then have a look at schools. There will be a range of govt and private schools and they will probably be able to offer different things so if your kids are artistic then you would veer towards one which offers more arty stuff whereas if they are sporty you would perhaps head off in a different direction.

Once you have narrowed them down in that way (a bit of over the backfence chat is usually good gen too) then go and visit and see what they feel like. Some schools sell themselves really well on paper or the internet but when you front up to them you just know that there is no way on earth you would send your kids there!

Realistically, the "best" are probably going to be the very high fee paying private schools but you probably wont be wanting to head down that path.

Good luck with it!

[Truckinmick]

Thanks Quoll, sound advice and all pretty straight forward too, goin out now next week and will try to narrow the schools down and have a good look around, the only problem with my fence is that ive only got cows an sheep to talk to lol thanks again

Michael.

[Quoll]

Originally Posted by Truckinmick

Thanks Quoll, sound advice and all pretty straight forward too, goin out now next week and will try to narrow the schools down and have a good look around, the only problem with my fence is that ive only got cows an sheep to talk to lol thanks again

Michael.

LOL dont underestimate those sheep, they do have some good ideas

[ItsJo]

From the moment we thought about emmigrating I made it my mission to email schools as this was going to be our main priority..
We had some really helpful replies and finally narrowed it down to the one they are attending now..We stayed in touch with the school along the way to let them know how our visa was proceeding and once here it was nice as after 18mths it felt like the school knew my kids pretty much already..
Have to say it is the best school my kids have ever been to :)
Jo x

[Truckinmick]

Thanks Jo, all ideas very welcome indeed, just mite start to do that, goin over next week so hope to visit some of them, thanks again

Michael