Sekolah anak-anak di Sheffield

On 3 August 2016, I browsed through Sheffield City Council punya website. Nak find info about school admission. Dah pernah baca berjuta kali last time, tapi tak initiate the process for admission yet. So, bila dah sign je tenancy agreement hari tu, walaupun belum finalized, I proceed jugak dgn request for details of admission kat website City Council. Tak kira la time tu, proceed je. In case lambat kang, lagi leceh kan? So, on the same day, the emailed back and gave me the form as well. You can choose up to 3 schools and give reasons why you wanna send your kid to that school. The nearest 2 schools from our house adalah sekolah Christian, so I chose all 3 yang relevant sahaja. I ignored sekolah-sekolah Christian tu. Cemane nak tahu? Ala, tgk nama pun dah tahu. Ataupun dia tulis Independent School. Tgk la details kat website dia. Sana, memang semua sekolah ada website sendiri. So, kena la buat extra research before you land on any decision kan?

Alhamdulillah, on 17 August 2016 hari tu dah dapat school allocation for H1. Exactly 2 weeks time. Ni jugak la salah satu benefits bila dah sign tenancy agreement. Senang je.

Tapi, tak dapat la sekolah yang I wanted. And they even choose additional 2 schools yang relevant for me. All 3 tak dapat sebab kelas dah penuh. Sana, dorang particular betul when it comes to teacher: pupil ratio. Same like H1 and H2's current school. For that matter, as a parent, I am really happy. Takde la nanti penuh tak pasal-pasal dalam kelas anak kita kan? And dalam surat tu, dia bgtau sekolah mana yang dia dah consider and alasan untuk reject those schools.

Cuma, challenge nye adalah, sekolah tu agak jauh drpd rumah. About 4km+. Kalau kat KL, 4km tu pejam mata jela. Terlalu dekat tu. Tapi tu cerita ada kete wei....ini cerita nak handle kanak2 tu pepagi semua. Hmm....we shall see la cemane outcome nye.

So, memula tu ingat nak appeal. Tapi, bila fikir balik and tgk website dia...eh, menarik pulak sekolah ni. I like I like. Even better than our 1st choice. So, I take it as Allah SWT dah allocate, be happy and treasure jela. Kalau rasa tak sesuai, appeal later la. Lagi pun, appeal tu dorg hanya akan buat townhall in October. So, nanti jela kot kalau nak appeal pun. Bila dah sampai sana. Or at least lepas the school dah reopen and they would reply my email.

Regardless, syukur Alhamdulillah, Dia permudahkan.

And di antara point yang penting adalah - dapat menepis pemahaman yang bila dah sampai sana baru boleh register sekolah anak. That is so NOT true.

Yang ni pulak contoh for H2. The moment we all decided to go to this uni (actually one of the reasons of selecting this uni in the first place pun), terus we contacted the nursery. We wanted to save a spot for H2. Yela, sebab nanti lagi lambat, lagi la susah nak dpt slot kan? 6 July - we were on waiting list. Then 22 July - diorang dah allocate a slot. Syukur Alhamdulillah. Ni pun salah satu proses yang sangat mudah. Yela, tak perlu go through City Council, but at least if the process has been initiated. So all in all, I would say that tanggapan yang kena pergi sana baru boleh nak settle sekolah anak adalah tidak benar. So long as you have the required documentation and has initiated the process, insyaaAllah, takde issue. We used to work backwards, in terms of timing. So, Alhamdulillah, segalanya ok.