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Schooling for summer born children
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couponqueen123 wrote: »im confused (dnt take much
) but my dds both started half day of school at 3 and went full time at four (one dd is going full time september coming aged 4 she will be , they were both born may n june
do many peoples kids start full time at four? or just in wales?
they stopped the staggered intake in my daughter's primary school 9 or 10 years ago (she was in the first class to do so in the school) - all children in the year started full time reception in September (we are in England). They were all 4 when they started, some very nearly 5, some just turned 4.0 -
balletshoes wrote: »they stopped the staggered intake in my daughter's primary school 9 or 10 years ago (she was in the first class to do so in the school) - all children in the year started full time reception in September (we are in England). They were all 4 when they started, some very nearly 5, some just turned 4.
This is common practice in this area as well. Before this children started in the term they were 5 so 3 intakes a year or in many schools just September and Easter. To try and give all children the best part of a year in Reception this 'earlier admissions' was started but the law was never changed so it's not compulsory AFAIK to send them until they are actually five. Some schools stagger the September entry so younger pupils start part time. The trouble is that in oversubscribed schools there may not be a place available the following year. I do understand that many parents feel 4 year olds are young to be starting school but few refuse the early places and many children are in nursery (often full time) before this. Some parents complain that their child has to start Reception part-time as they want the childcare.But she isnt expected to catch up. By the time they reach end of KS2 it will have evened out. Its more parental competition, that they feel the need to push their child beyond their age, that is where the problem lays.
Schools have had these entry requirements since before i was born, so 40+ yrs that i know of. Most children seem to have coped and not been disadvantaged, or feel they were missing out/being left behind.
Just accept children develop at different speeds. Some are ready for school at 4, some are never ready
Unfortunately it's more than just parental competition. There is huge pressure on schools from Ofsted and LA inspectors to get children to a certain level by the age of 7.0 -
This is what I would like for my summer born LO and what I understood from the article, but it is not what some of the posters on here (e.g. Lukieboy) have said. So I'm confused.
It's what happens in Scotland.
It certainly something you should ask your LA as according to that article it is possible.
The whole issue of oversubscribed schools is a bit of red herring imo. There's not suddenly going to be an extra 50 kids wanting into one school year. It'd be a fluid thing - for every 1 or 2 who want into the class of 2014 there will be 1 or 2 wanting to wait for 2015.
The English school system baffles me - despite working in it for years and having two children in an English school! The idea of choice might seem great, but the system is so much easier in Scotland. When your child is due to start school the catchment school must accept them. You can put in placing requests elsewhere, but there is always a place. That puts the onus on the councils to keep on top of catchments and the likes because they have that obligation.0 -
DD is 6, she was born August. She started school just free her 4th birthday, she has struggled socially at school however academically she must be the exception to the rule as she has always been top group for everything.
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