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I work in a UK primary school. It would have to be very exceptional circumstances for a school to allow a child to go back a year. It all has to do with funding, and no local authority would be willing to finance an extra year of education. I've only ever heard of them doing this once (mainstream) and that was with a EAL (English as an additional language) student who also had additional needs. TBH I'm sure she will have no problems catching up. I work in both reception & yr1 and the emphasis is on play with just two 45min sessions on Eng & Math in Yr1. With your obvious support she'll be fine. X

Wow, how exciting, what wonderful news :biggrin:

Ok, cool. Kurt will be going into yr 6 in 2015.

I think we may do that then. We've been looking at St Stephens too. Having read another thread re: children & lifestyle I think we will be choosing private over state. One of the reasons as u mentioned is so Kurt will get some continuity over the years. Just have to hope Zoe gets an offer for Uni of Qld now :biggrin:.

Wow, thanks for the heads up re: year 7 changes! I had no idea that was going to happen!! I will definitely look into Lords. So many decisions to make, feels like my head will explode soon. Really hope it works out for us. We've done so much research on jobs, locations, uni etc... Do you know if we are able to apply for more than one private school?

Just had had a look at the web site. Looks lovely and I liked their emphasis on outdoor learning. The fees are very affordable too. There are so many things to consider, it's only now that it's really sinking in that's the years of planning are about to be realised. Glad to hear Genesis is well regarded, it does look nice. We loved the Coomera/Helensvale areas when we visited. How do you like living there?

Thanks for the info :biggrin:. My kids will be 18yrs & 10yrs when we come over in August. I really like the look of Coomera Rivers State School. I'm still not sure if we'll be sending our 10yr old son privately. I just don't fancy the idea of him being in a religious school. We're Christians but not practising ones. I will check out the link for Lords though, so thank you. I belong to the Coomera Community page on FB, really good for all sorts of information. We're looking at renting and then buying on the Genesis Estate. Do you know much about it? Very excited, not long to go :biggrin: .

That's fab. We're going to be renting in Coomera. After a lot of research I've already pinpointed this area as a sound investment!

Yep really weird. Lasted for a full 15min and we lost our fence!

I have mates but only two real friends. One I have known since I was 3, and the other who I have been friends with since secondary school. I'm 46 now so that's well over 7 yrs lol. I even worked with one up until christmas and we're still best friends and so are our children.

Same for us. We did the 175 by ourselves. Was a bit time consuming but saved us a lot of money. DIAC website & This site made it possible. We knew it would be straight forward in our circumstances though.

We have a collie. You'll always need to be on your toes though because they will always try to outwit you. Not a breed for the faint hearted :biggrin:.

Gritty, husky voices for me too. Definitely Seattle. Kurt Cobain & Eddie Vedders voices certainly get me all twitchy :wink:

2013 Cygnets, Robin in the garden and the Mandarin Ducks in Richmond Park.

Beautiful 'Bloody Nose Beetle' taken in Dorset. New Forest wild ponies

Love this thread These pictures were taken in my garden. We have hundreds of parakeets in the area. Love watching our honey bees too, which unfortunately becoming a rarer sight.

The swans on our village pond have just become parents to three gorgeous signets. They only took up residence last year after our other pair were killed by an out of control dog we've all been watching them for months, building the nest and caring for the eggs. Such a beautiful sight on the way to work in the mornings.