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

pigpen

Person_one wrote: »

I've got no kids, never go near nurseries, never met a health visitor and I know. Its pretty common knowledge.

If you do have a child, you'd think you'd vaguely remember that you started school sometime around 4ish and, I don't know, find out?

Exactly... so unless you are a bit dim you know you need to do something they dont just get a place at a school.. it isnt hard.. the info is all online as well.. basic common sense is all that is needed

I dont do playroups or hvs or doctors or anything but my oldest had his name down for school a 2.5 because if education is important to you then you want to look around and apply for a decent school.

There is no excuse.. none at all.

clearingout

skintchick wrote: »

Don't all decent parents do this with their children earlier than this? My DD is just 2 but she knows her colours, can count to 20, and up to 100 in tens, and sing songs. I'm currently teaching her left and right. If they can;t do all that at 4 surely they are disadvantaged or have special needs?

Hmmmm.....I am 40, got 10 O Levels, 4 A levels, a 2:1 degree and a Masters degree.....and I STILL struggle with my left and right. If anyone asks me directions or if anyone tells me which way I should be turning, I literally have to stop and think about which hand I write with so I know I'm following things correctly. I have also been known to quietly pretend to write just to confirm!!!!

I think my mother would have something to say about me having been disadvantaged and if I have special needs, there are an awful lot of people behind me who are even more special!!!!

Ravenlady_2

Left and Right confuzzle me sometimes.

I have a degree too ( not a masters though) but if asked to spell something I have to write it down because I cant say how to spell something over 5 letters, I cant do my daughters maths homework because its all backwards to me, they've over complicated it. The chunking method used just makes no sense to me.

thatgirlsam

skintchick wrote: »

I was born January 1975 and I started school aged 4. I think it might have varied depending on where you lived, as we moved from Warwickshire to Worcestershire, and my new school had to make a special decision to allow me to go there aged 4 (I'd already started school in my old home) as everyone there started age 5.



Don't all decent parents do this with their children earlier than this? My DD is just 2 but she knows her colours, can count to 20, and up to 100 in tens, and sing songs. I'm currently teaching her left and right. If they can;t do all that at 4 surely they are disadvantaged or have special needs?

Yes sorry but that is such a horrible generalisation

My son at 4 wouldn't have known his left from right and probably couldn't have counted to twenty yet - he didn't smile till he was 10 weeks and was still in nappies on his 3rd birthday

He is now 6 and doing really well at school, hitting all his targets etc - But you would have thought he had special needs had you met him aged 4??

My dd on the other hand could read a book aged 4 and was dry day and night at 20 months - She is 11 now and doing every well at school too

All kids are different so please do not judge them at such a young age

flutterby_lil

Sammy 85 that is just to settle them all in, ours does that but they are all classed as september intakes, it is just a different start date so 20odd children are not all upset at the same time wanting mummy and teachers attention!

dangers

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.

bigmomma051204

Don't all decent parents do this with their children earlier than this? My DD is just 2 but she knows her colours, can count to 20, and up to 100 in tens, and sing songs. I'm currently teaching her left and right. If they can;t do all that at 4 surely they are disadvantaged or have special needs?[/QUOTE]

Not particularly impressed by you implying that if a 4year old cannot count to 20 and up to 100 in 10s they must have special needs... developmentally that is just not correct information AT ALL and would scare alot of parents (who are all VERY decent i am sure!)

That is a ridiculous statement.. sorry if you disagree but you are plain and simply wrong! :eek:

Why would you feel the need to "teach" a 2 year old anything... surely she should be playing and enjoying the time she has before getting shoved into early academia and the school system........

(oh and for the record, most teachers will agree with me that they would rather a 4 year old starting school could get themselves dressed and go to the toilet unaided rather that count to 20 and write an essay! )

penguin83

Your local council website *should* have all the info you need on it. I am not sure whether you fall under Manchester City Council but here is their info

http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/705/school_admissions/1122/other_information

If this isn't your council just google the relevant council school admission procedure and you should find what you need. xx

cambermam

I think after over 12,000 posts we've established that skintchick is one of those mothers.

You know, the ones who have a baby and suddenly know everything there is to know about all aspects of parenting.

rachbc

tiamai_d wrote: »

So yeah, it is easy to miss. Unless you are off at every little stupid club going and the local gossip chain includes you. Or heaven forbid, you work or WORSE, you think that children should be children and you're not spending their younger years prepping for school and ramming education down their throats.

Don't go to any clubs, do work - yet knew to fill in form - as did the other 45 families at my dd's school, and the 60 at at the other one we looked at and all the other 100s of 1000s of kids who start school every year....