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Is this right please, our girl just turned 4 and they say she as to start school ?

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  • Gingham_Ribbon
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    I would personally want to put her in reception next year. She's going to be the oldest in her year instead of the youngest, that's all.
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  • Unfortunately Gingham you are not allowed to do that. My youngest was born about 11 hours earlier than I would have liked and as a result she had to go to school at the grand age of 4 years and 4 days. (However she had been at preschool since she was 2). I asked if it would be possible to keep her back a year and was told that if I did she would just go straight into year 1 (where she is going in a week). I personally feel that my daughters developement has suffered as a result of not being able to keep her back. DD1 was an older starter and top of her class, DD2 was the very youngest and bottom of her class. She has still not reached the same level of reading as her classmates. Socially she is fine and I believe her maths is as good if not better than some but it still remains that I would have preferred for her to go into reception year now rather than then.
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  • Gingham_Ribbon
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    I didn't know that was the case. That's so wrong. :( In that case, I simply don't know what to advise the OP. I do think that unless the child is homeschooled carefully (with lots of interaction with other children) going straight into year 1 without formal schooling could be a problem.

    Obviously, I'm not against homeschooling as I've been hs my oldest after taking him out of preschool some months ago, but I do think the OP needs proper advice from someone like education otherwise and her local authority to ensure her daughter gets the right care.
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  • winnie81
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    Mine started school a couple of weeks after turning 4. I wanted them to benefit from the play and gentle approach offering in reception class rather than joining year 1 as there first taste of school :)
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  • mspig
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    My five year old was four last year(2007) and his intake was the intake before he turned five which was January this year, so not all schools only have one intake, ours has three, Sept, jan and after the easter holiday(depending on when it falls).
  • robpw2
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    hazelbunny wrote: »
    Legally it is the term after their 5th birthaday. So if your childs birthday is from mid april on, it will be NEXT sept,from january to april it will be April next year.
    usually iif your birthday falls before septemeber you go to school after just turning 5 im august and i was just five when i started school
    and all those born after start a year later or in jan if they do second intake


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  • onlyroz
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    My boy will be 5 in May 2010. As far as I can tell, the arrangement is for him to start the reception class part-time in January 2010, and go full time after Easter. The reception class covers the Early Years curriculum, which is what he is already working on at his current nursery. Then, in September 2010 he will move into year 1, where he starts the National Curriculum.

    I think it's true that the reception class is optional - but I'd think it a good idea to get your child enrolled in it as soon as poss, at least part-time - so that they get a good start with their education.

    I believe that I have to put in the application form in for a primary school place sometime between November this year and February next year. So I too am surprised that this has come as a surprise. Were you sent an application form? Did your health visitor ever discuss schooling with you?
  • you aren't sent an application form here, not for school or nursery. you only find out about it by word of mouth, which is a bit tricky with the deadline for school being december, so you need to talk about it and make decisions when they have barely started nursery.

    i spoke to a few mums who had no idea that there was a march deadline for applying for nursery either, and one of them was refused a place at the local nursery because her application was a day late.

    your daughter is a year older than my boy, so yes this is the date when she would be expected to start reception year in school but she doesn't HAVE to. It would help her to go somewhere though. My eldest (another summer birthday) went to nursery when he turned 4, same age as your daughter. the nursery and the school agreed between them that he would spend one or two terms in nursery then go to school for the last part of the reception year. School doesn't have to make an agreement like this though, and if the nursery is not linked to the school it might be difficult.

    your health visitor might be able to help you through this and explain your options. you don't HAVE to send your daughter anywhere but in a year's time she might find it very difficult to start school in year 1, having missed all of reception.
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  • I was talking to a mum whose girl is in the same gymnastics class as my son last week, and her girl is not starting nursery, she's staying in playgroup. this mum even had a 5 year old daughter who only attends school 3 days a week. the mum homeschools on the other 2 days but says she doesn't really have to do anything - whether that's because the girl was in reception year i don't know, because if she was in year 1 i'm sure the parents would have to do SOMETHING on the 2 days a week the girl isn't in school.

    the difference between me and that mum is that she lives in a village and her children will always get a place at their local school no matter when she applies, because the school isn't full. my children would not get a nursery place unless they started as soon as they turned 3 years old, and if they didn't start school as soon as they turned 4 they wouldn't get a place at the local school, i'd have to find somewhere miles away which wasn't so full.
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  • Spendless
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    robpw2 wrote: »
    usually iif your birthday falls before septemeber you go to school after just turning 5 im august and i was just five when i started school
    and all those born after start a year later or in jan if they do second intake
    Sorry I'm confused:confused: My daughter was born March 2003 she went to reception in Sept 2007 so aged 4 and 5 months. We only have a Sept intake here.
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