twins born in different school years

[thewalrus]

Does anyone know what actually happens if you have twins born on 31 August and 1 September in terms of school years? Google only offers outraged media speculation that a set of twins born in 2008 might be separated, but no update as to what actually happened in that case or any other. I'm asking on behalf of my son, who is a twin born in early September, and was wondering if he might have got into the year above his sister if he'd been born a few days earlier.

*as different to the Irish system- that should read.

This has just reminded me there was a set of twins in my city who were born 87 days apart 😂😂 although we are in Ireland so it wouldn’t matter for schooling.

I know a pair of twins who were apparently born either side of midnight on the cut-off date. (according to their father who was in the delivery room)

The registrar apparently just fudged the times a bit so they were both officially born on the same day.

I don't know how true that is though tbh

@Sunlov
Because we were promised that we would remain as part of the EU and that it would be economic to leave it EU

But then I voted for independence so I’m probably not the person to ask.

"There have been cases of twins being allocated places at different schools. I remember reading about a case where one twin got a place at the local village school and the other was allocated to a school 10 miles away. There were only 30 places at local school and twins were no 30 and 31 on the list !"

That doesn't happen any more. The Admissions Code was updated a few years ago, and if one of multiples is 30th child, the rest of the twins/triplets are admitted as excepted pupils.

In our county it used to be extremely difficult to get a child deferred into YR. They have eased up in recent years. They also have special rules about twins to guarantee them places in the same school. I think it would be fairly straightforward to defer the older one to start YR with their twin the following year. Getting the younger one into the year above might be more problematic.