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Latest post on 17 May 2014 - 10:34

Hi Ladies, So I will try and keep this question short, although I am never known for telling a short story! I have about a gazzilion questions but I will start with the time honoured ones for you all! yep considering a move to Ab Dhabs by years end and have two chicken's still in tow. One will be year 6 the other year 8. Have previously had 7 yrs in Dubai before returning home to Australia. So will be swinging from British curriculum to Oz back to British IB? In fantasy land.... and money was not the issue, or finding places in schools, where would be your first choices to live/school be?. I very much look forward to hearing your thoughts and appreciate your time. Best, Mable. hahaha when i first started to read it i thought you were bringing in real chickens etc.... it doesnt matter how much money you have its virtually impossible to get sch places, there are a few new schs opening this year which has helped but because of that they usually dont go far into senior years at all... so thats not going to help your year groups.... i would talk to the registrar of all schools and just see what is available, once you can a place for one child usually the siblings will move up a waiting list... one sch may have a place for the year 8 but not the other and another school may be the opposite so imo i would call up all of them to see..... repton was a new sch opening last year, not sure what year group they are up to now, bcad was a new sch 4 years or so ago, this year they are start to enroll sixth form, but i suspect they will be all full and very hit and miss so nobody would be able to tell you that any school will have places, you would need to ask them directly. you may find that you will have kids in different schools.... places sometimes become available at the very beg of term, because peopel who had confirmed places just dont turn up etc etc for many reasons.

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