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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good luck getting into CofE school. We lived next to the best one but had to go private as lottery/waitlist. Top private but still a lot more$. No regrets.

Also where will you live? Some parts of London aren’t London let’s be honest. [/quote]

We would be paying for private. Sorry this is all new to me- are their private CofE schools? Is it difficult to get into a private primary school?

DH's job would be in the city of London. My dad grew up in Mayfair, not sure we can afford that but we have friends in Hampstead and they seem to like the area. My parents would live separately but would prefer to be near us. [/quote]

I'm no expert but I attended school as a child in England. CoE schools are what we would call public schools. Public schools are religious in the UK. My village school had chapel and we all said the Lord's Prayer. That's just how it was.

Getting places at your local school (aka our American public school) is very difficult and my expat friend ended up having to send her children to school across London, even though there were many local schools including one right in their house. Getting into what we'd call private school is both easier and harder: there isn't the same admissions process we have here, BUT you put your child's name down many years in advance (used to be at birth, don't know if that's still the case). So that could be very challenging too.
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sorry for the typos. My friend's family was an expat family in pharma so they had lots of relo help, etc., but getting school places for the two children was still very difficult and they didn't know which school the kids would go until, I think, the day before school started. They were freaking out because of course the kids need a particular uniform depending on which school they go to, and they couldn't even start shopping. It felt like it might not work out but then ultimately it did, but hugely stressful especially for the kids.[/quote]

Was this for public (in the American use of the term) or private school? This is my nightmare and the only thing keeping us from going. [/quote]

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