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

Spendless

Thanks for the info Katyag. How long are the sessions and did they repeat the same stuff? It wouldn't have been for me 2.5 years of half days, especially not with the youngest and 3 trips to school each day to get the eldest too. I'd had enough after 6 months -lol.:D

maypole

MsChazzer wrote: »

My mum did that with me, I was nearly 6 (November birthday) when I started school, there was no way I was socially and emotionally ready for it the year before. I learned to read and write before I started school so sometimes got a bit bored but I ended up skipping a year a couple of years later. Of course this was in the mid 80s and in Scotland so probably not much use to OP, just wanted to say I turned out ok having been kept back a year!

I find your situation agreeable, I think 4 is too young an age to be in formal education, they are still so young. Nursery at that age is a good idea I think though, to get them used to going to school when the time comes.

Spendless

maypole wrote: »

I find your situation agreeable, I think 4 is too young an age to be in formal education, they are still so young. Nursery at that age is a good idea I think though, to get them used to going to school when the time comes.

Reception isn't 'formal learning' though. It's a lot of learning thru play and toys to play with in the classroom. Yr 1 is formal learning.

maypole

Spendless wrote: »

Reception isn't 'formal learning' though. It's a lot of learning thru play and toys to play with in the classroom. Yr 1 is formal learning.

It's just the thought of them having to go full time to school at an early age, I feel they are too young. I know they need to mix with other children to get used to socialising though.

Katyag

Spendless wrote: »

Thanks for the info Katyag. How long are the sessions and did they repeat the same stuff? It wouldn't have been for me 2.5 years of half days, especially not with the youngest and 3 trips to school each day to get the eldest too. I'd had enough after 6 months -lol.:D

It was 2.5 hrs a day for the first year and a bit and for his extra pre school year he was in all day from 9am til 3pm. School trips may be a bit boring but they have to be done.

Carmina_Piranha_3

maypole wrote: »

It's just the thought of them having to go full time to school at an early age, I feel they are too young. I know they need to mix with other children to get used to socialising though.

me too - i would be happy to send him to school part time at just turned 4, but not full time.

lindseykim13

madsmum wrote: »

As far as I am aware a child does not legally have to start school until they are five. My daughter however is starting at four because the parents had the choice to start before their children were five.

HTH

MM

Why do people keep throwing up the word legally and school!

Legally your child has to have some sort of education by age 5 which doesn't mean they have to go to school.
Options are 1.school 2.private school 3.Home education 4.Flexi School (part home ed and part time school) 5. wait until she is 5 and decide then

lindseykim13

maypole wrote: »

It's just the thought of them having to go full time to school at an early age, I feel they are too young. I know they need to mix with other children to get used to socialising though.

you can do that at a park or with friends

Spendless

Katyag wrote: »

It was 2.5 hrs a day for the first year and a bit and for his extra pre school year he was in all day from 9am til 3pm. School trips may be a bit boring but they have to be done.

Where did you find the advantage in deferring him for a year as that's more or less the same times as they do here in f-time school? Infant school here starts 8.55 to 3.30. When my youngest was in nursery I was dropping both kids off at 9ish, picking up at 11.30ish youngest and back again at 3.30 for the eldest, that's what I wouldn't have wanted for 2.5 years.

Katyag

Spendless wrote: »

Where did you find the advantage in deferring him for a year as that's more or less the same times as they do here in f-time school? Infant school here starts 8.55 to 3.30. When my youngest was in nursery I was dropping both kids off at 9ish, picking up at 11.30ish youngest and back again at 3.30 for the eldest, that's what I wouldn't have wanted for 2.5 years.

Huge advantage in many ways, he was going thru speech therapy and the therapist, HV, and nursery staff all agreed that he just wasnt ready. His attention span wasnt right yet, his speech wasnt right yet, his whole attitude wasnt right yet. Not only would he have struggled but it was felt he could have hindered the other children in his class too. He has no learning difficulties just wasnt ready for school yet.

His last 6 months at nursery saw a huge improvement and he was more than ready for school when it came time to start. Yes the times were the same as school so he got used to being in all day but it was differnt set up, doing different things. Didnt have the demands that primary 1 may have.

Seeing him now, just started primary 2 i believe it was completely the right thing. I have also spoken to other people who have defered their kids and say it makes a difference at the older end of schooling too by as the time he comes to exams he will be slightly older (so hopefully) slightly more mature.