Schooling for September born kid

iammumtoone

Lucky you. My son is the youngest in his year you can really tell the difference in his behaviour/attitude compared to the rest of the class. When he started in reception, the teachers did make some allowances for this, he is now in year 2 where they seem to forget all about this fact and he is expected to behave/achieve the same as the rest although he is nearly a year younger than some of them and not six and a half yet.

Yes it is going to cost you a bit more in childcare but I would gladly have paid for my son to be allowed to be in the class below him.

Money_maker

bigmomma051204 wrote: »

I feel this must be a wind up?! Surely?! Everyone knows that the cut off is September for children going to school and you have known for the last year - why is it bothering you now? Why on EARTH are you "peeved". If you don't like it, then home school your child for the next 12years Or perhaps just accept that you are not the only person in the World to have a September born child - and perhaps if you have any more, you will know better than to conceive at Christmas!

What a ridiculous and selfish post - "I want my child to go to school for "free childcare", despite the fact that they won't be socially, emotionally or mentally ready for it. But who cares.... I don't want to pay for childcare!"
Perhaps you should campaign Parliament for a complete overhaul of dates when children can enter school. I mean, who cares that it has been this way for donkey's years...... Why not get them to change it to, say, January. And then when your next child is born in January..... uh oh! Oh hang on, ANY month is going to have the same outcome for someone....

:cool:

Spot on, bigmomma.

Now my third and last child is at school, I really miss the extra time we had together before she started school. Would really have loved her at home for an extra year so please, think yourself lucky, OP.

claire16c

movilogo wrote: »

I didn't do my schooling in England (it was Jan-Dec session in my home country) so I didn't know about September start session until last year.

It may be an advantage that she would be more matured compared to August born ones. However, I guess that would be only first/second year or so.

I'm bit peeved that it means one more full year of child care cost. In fact, I was told by many (including people who grew up in England since their childhood) that that's why people plan NOT to have babies born in September!

I find that really hard to believe, especially considering it's only been in recent years that the summer babies were taken in at such a young age.

Before you used to have schools who didn't take rising 5s, so children born in the summer might have gone straight into year 1 whilst someone born in September would have been in school since the previous January in reception. I'm born in November so I started school 9 months ahead of some of my friends.

Like daisieegg says the statistics about summer born children needing extra help carry on well past primary school. It's why they now take children all into school in September instead of starting the term they turn 5 or after 5.

I've also been on the ttc boards on here for 2 years and never ever heard anyone planning a summer baby! But there have been discussions each year about whether to stop trying for a few weeks when it meant an August due date might arise.

You're not having to pay a years more child care cost you're paying what you would have always paid - in fact a whole terms less if the school she goes to was one that years ago didn't take rising 5s. The summer babies are just going to school earlier - and some parents choose to delay this anyway.

danielley

My Mum was born on 1st Sept in the 1950's and was incorrectly put in the year above so she was the youngest in her year.


Come the last year of high school, the mistake was spotted and she had to stay a whole extra year (which she admits she bunked off for most of it)

Caroline_a

My two eldest are nearly 2 years apart, but one is a late summer baby and the other an early autumn, which meant that they were a school year apart. The summer one struggled for probably 60% of her school career, whereas the older 'autumn' one found school easy and sailed through.

However, the OP doesn't care about that. She is only bothered about having to pay for extra childcare. Words fail me...

shop-to-drop

Caroline_a wrote: »

My two eldest are nearly 2 years apart, but one is a late summer baby and the other an early autumn, which meant that they were a school year apart. The summer one struggled for probably 60% of her school career, whereas the older 'autumn' one found school easy and sailed through.

However, the OP doesn't care about that. She is only bothered about having to pay for extra childcare. Words fail me...

I guess the clue was in the use of the word 'kid' in the thread title.

Morglin

Have to be honest, I'm not sure how much difference month of birth makes.

Daughter and I are August births, and didn't struggle, and grandaughter is a September birth and doing fine.

Lin

daisiegg

Morglin wrote: »

Have to be honest, I'm not sure how much difference month of birth makes.

Daughter and I are August births, and didn't struggle, and grandaughter is a September birth and doing fine.

Lin

Of course there will be loads of August babies who do just fine. That does not change the fact that overall, over the whole country, summer born babies do worse. Doesn't mean EVERY summer born child will struggle and EVERY September baby will sail through.

shop-to-drop

Have an August born friend who struggled at O'level had to resit the year and then excelled at A'level. That extra year to mature made all the difference even that late on in school. From what I understand this is no uncommon at all.

Morglin

Perhaps it just depends - we could all read and write basic stuff before school, and once the groundwork is there, I suppose it's easier to keep up.

Lin:)