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Thank you for this insight. Did you have the schools sorted before you moved? and was your 12 year old positive about the move or worried/ negative about it? thanks

Hi, for all those who’ve made the decision to move to Australia with kids - please help! my husband has been offered a good opportunity to relocate to Sydney for 3-4 years to help grow the business over there. Before we had children we toyed with the idea of living / workinG in Sydney but decided at the time we wanted to have children close to family In the UK. We have close family in Sydney (husbands brother) and friends. we have 2 children - 12 and 9. The 12 year old has just started a new (private) school in year 8 after being unhappy in year 7 at the local state school. She is adamant she doesn’t want to move to Australia despite us having been offered a place for her at Kambala from Jan 2024 which is a great school/ opportunity. we currently have no schooL place secured for our son in Sydney (all seem full) so we have been told we’ll have to wait until we have moved to apply to a local state junior school. We have a great life here in the UK and are part of a wonderful supportive Community - the kids have their passions football (soccer) and horse riding. However is this an opportunity / family adventure not to be missed? biggest concerns are transitioning there and back within a relatively short space of time and whether the kids will be able to settle / Be happy and the potential Impact of moving back to the UK and re entering the UK education system - No guarantee of spaces in good schools and our daughter will either have no GCSEs on return making further education difficult or will have to drop down a year to take them. any advice on how kids have settled? Is it worth the initial upheaval and the potential impact on both of their education (lots of school change in small space of time). we are really torn with the decision because of this. Any advice or even help with deciding appreciated! Thanks Claire

My husband has been offered an excellent 3 to 4 year opportunity with his company to move to Australia (Sydney) to grow the business. We are concerned about the potential impact on our daughters education / qualifications in particular. She is about to go into year 8 in the UK ( and would be taking her GCSE’s years 10 and 11). She has been offered a place in Year 7 (Aus equivalent) at Kambala high school. As there is no qualification done now in Australia at Year 10 and HSC or IB isn’t done until years 11 and 12 we would potentially be moving back before she has any qualifications and too late / in between school years for GCSEs. Does anyone have experience of this move and whether further education (NVQs or Alevels) would be impossible without GCSEs or Aus equivalent? To add to this our daughter is also very concerned and anxious about a potential relocation. Any advice hugely appreciated.