We've just started thinking seriously about moving sometime in the next year to 18 months and I'm trying to get my head around the school system and how it would work. Do children start, basically, 6 months earlier than in the UK? Or 6 months later?
We have 3 children, aged 11 (Dec birthday), 9 (June birthday) and 2 (May birthday) and I'm wondering what years they'd go into if we were to arrive in Jan '18.
In particular, the middle child, who was born on 30th June (which I understand is the cut-off for the school year?) - would she be going to senior school in Jan '18? And would it be possible to postpone this so she'd start senior school in Jan '19, or is such a postponement not possible? (she's not due to start senior school until Sept '18 in the UK and is dyslexic so is a little behind anyway - around 12-15 months at last assessment)
And when would the baby be due to start school? Google suggested that he'd be going to Kindergarden in '18, pre-school (is this equal to reception?) in '19 and year 1 (second year at primary?) in '20?
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crantock · 29/04/2017 22:19
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