need some advice please: son turns 5 in feb 2012 should he be in school now?

shellsuit

loracan1 wrote: »

See, I find that utterly bizarre, can remember someone telling me that my son being born in August was a good thing because he'd be at school instead of childcare, I'd not a clue what she was on about.

Putting their names down before they can walk? What is all that about...mine both got signed up May/June before they started...very much last minute. And I'd walk over hell and high water before I'd get advice from my useless clump of a health visitor.

Then you were lucky there were places for them.

It's only because I already have 2 children who went to this particular nursery/infant/junior school, that I knew I wanted the little man to go there too.

The earlier their names are down, the more likely they are to get a place.

I'd be gutted if I left it too late, there wasn't a place and my son had to go to one of the other local nurserys/schools.

rachbc

tiamai_d wrote: »

So because you and others manage it, everyone should do so?

Yes - if you have kids it's your responsibilty to ensure they are educated - by finding out when they are due to start school or by taking the decision to home educate. Its not an optional extra like choosing if you want to them to go to 'stupid clubs' as you put it. You can't blame lack of information, not listening to 'gossip' or working for the parents failing to sort it - you have a duty as a parent to be proactive and find out yourself. The OP here has 2 other kids and enough interenet savvy to post the question here - surely they would therefore have the ability to check the LEA website too.

onlyroz

dangers wrote: »

Onlyroz - you get the forms from the LEA who get your child's information from the funding forms that are filled in for pre-school.

My kids went to a private nursery, and not a pre-school. So I guess either the nursery got them into "the system", or it was the health-visitor service.

onlyroz

loracan1 wrote: »

Putting their names down before they can walk? What is all that about...mine both got signed up May/June before they started...very much last minute. And I'd walk over hell and high water before I'd get advice from my useless clump of a health visitor.

You were EXTREMELY lucky to get a place then - because in our LEA the application deadline is January for a September intake.

maryjane01

Curlywurli wrote: »

I always teach left and right by getting people to put their hands up, palms facing away from them. The hand that makes a capital L is your left hand. (Slightly off topic I know :cool: )

That is how I still do it Curlywurli, no pretending to write for me :rotfl:

(for the record, 33 years old, bachelors degree, not a masters!)

But I do have to pretend to eat to lay a table and get the knife and fork on the right side.

Also, reciting numbers at a young age is very different to understanding actual counting.

maryjane01

tarajayne wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

You have no idea......

:cool:

I think you will find these parents have actually read books while they are pregnant about 'elimination communication' :rotfl:

andrealm

onlyroz wrote: »

You were EXTREMELY lucky to get a place then - because in our LEA the application deadline is January for a September intake.

Same here, you can't put names down early, but if you missed the January deadline, you'd be very limited on where you could get a place.
You couldn't just stroll along to your school of choice in May or June and expect to get a place.

tarajayne

maryjane01 wrote: »

I think you will find these parents have actually read books while they are pregnant about 'elimination communication' :rotfl:

Ooo, do tell? Only I was told by a certain person on here you could potty train from birth. Apparently you spend hours holding them over a potty and then they learn. I got into trouble for saying :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: and that I had a life!

3onitsway

tarajayne wrote: »

Ooo, do tell? Only I was told by a certain person on here you could potty train from birth. Apparently you spend hours holding them over a potty and then they learn. I got into trouble for saying :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: and that I had a life!

:rotfl::rotfl: My Nana had all of hers out of nappies before 9 months old, no doubt her house stank of pee! :rotfl::rotfl:


As for schools, in the olden days when DD1 started, 6/7 years ago, I had to approach the schools after her 2nd birthday and put her name down. I'm 99% sure nobody told me this, I just knew.

It's all changed now for DD2 starting in 2014. We now have to apply to the council, with a choice of 3 schools, they then allocate you a place, hopefully at your first choice, but possibly not. Again nobody has told me this, I just know.

maryjane01

Apparently millions of parents in many cultures across the world do this (I think mostly in countries where they cannnot afford nappies).

It is really easy to learn a baby's routine, it all gets a bit warm and damp in the sling :rotfl:

(I carried my baby in a sling most of the time btw, but he did wear a nappy...still does at just gone 2...should I be applying now for now for a special needs statement so he has it before school starts? :rotfl:(no offence intended to anyone who has a child that genuinely has special needs))