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

It is young for the school year. My early Oct born DD had a friend who was born mid August. A lot can happen in 10 months, by the time her friend was born DD had already started walking. Schools do take summer born birthdays into consideration for various things, as far as I’m aware.

YABU

My DS is 11th August. He was 2nd youngest in his class all through primary and 3rd youngest in secondary

Lol
June, July and August babies are all very young.
My son is born in January, his cousin is born on the 6th of August, I would argue they are very similar in their development at the moment.
My nephew starts reception in September, hopefully he will be ready by then but if my son had to start at barely 4, that would be so depressing.
I know some kids are ready early but I'm so glad my son will be 4 years and 8 months when he starts school next year.

Not all of the UK. It's different in Scotland. A child born in August would be right in the middle of age ranges.

‘Many’ children ‘much’ younger? Try perhaps a couple of children 3 weeks younger.

My child's birthday is end of June and there are only 2 children younger than him in the school year (next youngest child's birthday is beginning of July, youngest is beginning of August).

They are the youngest they could be for their school year. Some pupils will be almost a year older.

It feels like you're trying to support an argument that someone you know is wrong. So who's your target, and why do you care?

Given the majority of the chilcren will have been born in the 11 months preceding August [ie during Sep-July], even if those children’s birthdays are evenly distributed across the year it still means that 27/28 children out of a class of 30 will be older? So, yes, an August born child will absolutely be one of the youngest in his year group.

It feels like you're trying to support an argument that someone you know is wrong. So who's your target, and why do you care?

Ds1 has a very early August birthday, and was one of the youngest in his year right up until til we moved from England to Scotland, when he was 15, at which point we moved him back a year. We did this because otherwise he would have had to catch up more than half of the first year of Standard grades (the Scottish equivalent of GCSEs), and moving him back meant he got the full curriculum.

I will be honest and say it really benefited him - he moved from being one of the youngest to one of the oldest in the year, and it made a huge difference in terms of his maturity.

Ha ha brilliant!! 😄

DD1 was born at 9.25pm on 31 Aug. She was in a gifted program in school and has a first class maths degree now, but as a 3yo the gap in maturity was obvious. She was, naturally, the youngest in her year group.

Only in the UK.

In Ireland they’d be around the middle of the cohort as the oldest kids are January born with the youngest being born in December.

My oldest was born on the 5th August and was always the youngest in every year. The reception teacher commented on the lack of maturity so I reminded her of that fact. There were children who were 5 not long after starting reception so the difference in age was quite pronounced.

Of course they are 😄

The most popular birth months I think are September and October. But statistically of course august would be one of the youngest.

Early august you might get a few being in those next four weeks but obviously the majority will be born in the other 11 months.

Of course they're young for their year.
My Dd was born on the 28th of August, but luckily we live in Scotland.

3 weeks left, 49 weeks over - there's a fair chance in a small school that no one will be younger. Especially as Mumsnet always recommends deferring if you are born from June onwards.

My DS birthday is in the first week of July and his primary teachers said for his year he was one of the youngest.
Depends on the class.

Our son is a June baby, in his first primary school he was the youngest in his class.

My DS is born 29th August (was premature) and was always the youngest in his year until 6th form and a student started with a birth date of 30th Aug. Mine has always been in the top of his year academically and has just started a top uni after achieving 4 x A* - he was more than ready to start school at just turned 4 - only difference was he was frequently in the first term found asleep in the reception reading corner ;)

We have a DC with a July birthday and there was only one child younger than her in her year at primary. There’s a few at secondary but she can name them so it is very much only a handful.

DC1 is autumn born and has a big group of friends ALL of whom have birthdays between Sept-Christmas. Either they attract each other or autumn birthdays are more common!

They would still be 10-11 months younger than a large chunk of kids, seeing as end of September is the busiest time on maternity wards in the UK.

One of my children has an April birthday and in a class of 30 there are only a handful of children who are younger.