I also meant to add that my shy middle child was the only child to go to the primary school he went to from his kinder group and he did really well there despite that. I think this was because other kids in our street were already in attendance and they used to look out for him. He has had to make further adjustments since we moved and has done very well once again... infact I suspect he is learning to deal with his shyness because of these learning curves. A similar thing happened to me when i was a child... i was basically shy until my parents separated and my mother moved us around the country! I had to learn to adjust to new schools whether i liked it or not. Sometimes wonder how i would be different had I stayed at the same school within my comfort zone... probably grown up shy... which isn't a bad thing BTW... but I feel like i have more choices in life now that i can cope with meeting new people more easily.