To think a child born on the 5th august isn’t that young for their school year

My daughter is an August birthday and although she struggled a little bit in the first couple of years she caught up quickly and has actually said to me she'd be furious if I kept her back a year 🙈 she's 15 now and like most kids is desperate to leave school, if I'd have kept her back she'd have another year and would have probably never forgiven me 😂

My DD has a birthday on 7th August . Only her best friend was younger than her with her birthday on the 26th . They were also the brightest in the class .

I was born on the 2nd August and was the youngest in my school year (class of 30).

As a reception teacher, June, July and August are young. 3/4 of the class will be older. The last two weeks of July-end of August are the babies! (Won’t be 5 by the end of the year)

My son is the second youngest in his entire year group (40) at school, and he’s born at the end of May! I’m not sure if the kind of parents who want a highly selective school are very reproductively organized, or whether the school is bad at admitting summer-born children in 7+ and 8+ tests. Either way, YABU. August-born children are very young for their year group.

In NI those born 30 June would be the youngest in their year so August born would be among the oldest.

My son was born on the 30th. I think he was the youngest in his year. Left school at 15 and started work at 15.

Depends on the class surely? Some children would be one of the youngest, some could have quite a few born later in August.

I am the 28th August . Youngest in primary - second youngest in secondary school year group.

Yes, wouldn’t have done dd any good deferring
her. I couldn’t imagine her being in reception now instead of year one, she’s absolutely flying and loves school.

I have a late July born and she was so fiercely independent from such a young age that it was clear there was no point deferring her! As it is she’s just got an academic and sporting scholarship to a selective independent school (she’s in year 6), so we definitely made the right decision. She also plays county level sport in the age group above hers. I honestly can’t imagine her in the year ‘below’, apart from anything else she’s about a foot taller than most of them!

Unless you’re in Scotland YABU

What?!? Except in a very freak year they will be at least one of if not the youngest.

😂😂😂 what the hell.

I guess we are”lucky” with our end of August that there has been no issue.

If she was my first though, I would have probably deferred her.

But she’s she’s the fourth, last, and the most headstrong, and I’m old and tired now, (18 years between my first and last!) so no way was I subjecting myself to another year of her at home 😂

My birthday is mid July and there were around 5 kids younger than me in my school year

My son’s birthday is smack in the middle of July. He is the youngest in his school year at primary and when he went to secondary was the youngest in the year then, so yes I would say 5th August would put them in the “youngest” range.
In my other dcs class, the youngest is an early June baby. So it really depends on who else is in that years cohort.
Going slightly further back my DN year had a child born on 13th August who had been “held back” (I don’t know how or whatever as I only had this info 2nd hand off Dsis) due to their inability to cope with the “correct” school year group. As it happens this child thrived in the year below, whereas they were actively sinking in the year above. DN was great friends with said child, as there was only a couple of weeks between them, rather than (as it was) nearly a whole year for the oldest in the previous year group.

Yes of course it depends on the child, which is why I said there are wide margins. but in general terms August born children are running to catch up with September / October born peers for several school years.

This is my child’s birthday and they are the youngest in their year. One child who would have been younger deferred into the year below and likewise his year contains at least one child who deferred from the year above.

Of course they will! My son is born on 5th August and I know of one classmate whose birthday is after his. Statistically they're highly, highly likely to be one of the youngest few, if not the youngest. What a strange assertion, I genuinely can't imagine what you could possibly be basing it on.
Luckily for my son I knew about the option to request a reception CSA start and did this for him, so he started school at just turned 5 rather than just turned 4. Very glad we did and effectively gave him an extra year of childhood, especially since seeing the insane expectations on small children from the education system.

Mine was born 4th Aug but learned to read far quicker than anyone else in their class when starting school. Did cry being left there for the first 6 months though

Oh yes several in our family 11, 17th, 21st and 31st!!! SIL with child on 31st tried desperately to hold on!

I’m the 24th August and I was the youngest in my year

YABU

Yes of course they’ll be young for their year, maybe one or two others who are younger by a couple of weeks

But yes they will be young for their school year! Well at least here in England

DD is 6th Aug and out of her year group of 84 kids, there is one younger than her apparently.

Neither create any benefit across the cohort

I don't think it's supposed to create any benefit across the cohort is it? It's to create a benefit for an individual child, should they need it.