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Post by sooz on May 10, 2014 14:58:21 GMT
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Post by moo on May 10, 2014 15:10:54 GMT
Will try to read sooz.... But it doesn't surprise me at all...
skweek's year at old school 80% were sept & October birthdays... Any child with a birthday after March were noticeably disadvantaged.... In some cases that can almost be a year after a peer with a sept b'day iykwim.... At that age a year of development ( esp emotional ) is huge.....
xx. moo. Xx
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Post by kstar on May 10, 2014 16:19:20 GMT
When our new year 7s come up every September we can almost always spot the summer born children, especially the boys. I would say the difference only really starts evening out at key stage four.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2014 17:07:11 GMT
Both of mine are summer babies and youngest in class. EDD struggles a little bit,but is average, and YDD is quite clever towards the top of her class so it varies?  ? |
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Post by kstar on May 11, 2014 7:01:53 GMT
Sorry I should have said it's not all of them and girls in particular are more difficult to spot. There's no difference in intelligence, for me it's often more the emotional maturity - often when as head of house I look at how much time I have spent on year 7s falling out, struggling to make friends, not coping with the new environment etc there are a disproportionate number of July/ august born students. It is generally acknowledged that the difference in brain function between boys and girls at that age can be anything between one and four years, so throw in a chronological year as well and the gap between a September born girl and an August born boy can be enormous!
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Post by loadsofbubs on May 11, 2014 7:17:30 GMT
I had this with my eldest, though he's a November birthday, but while living abroad we were in a system that aged January to December so he was among the youngest in his year group. he was, becoz of the system, in a year group ahead of where he'd have been in the uk and was due to start secondary school when he was 10, he was already emotionally immature and was being eaten alive in primary school so I came back to the uk and put him back into year 6 so he started secondary at the normal age for here. intellectually he was fine, in the G&T range even in a selective school, but emotionally much younger. that said I was a summer baby, started straight into the equivalent of year 1, bright enough and did well intellectually, but again I wasn't ready for school, particularly my first very formal infant school back in 1966! I have clear memories of lots of pant wetting becoz I daren't ask to go and becoz I was so frightened of everything. but am getting therapy now!  |
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Post by sooz on May 11, 2014 8:26:34 GMT
But it does look as if you could hold a child back a year before starting them in reception, and not year 1.
I think I would have done this with ds given the choice.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2014 16:31:37 GMT
Me too Sooz, had I known. A year can make such a big difference at that age.
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