This isn’t flexi schooling is it?

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Letting the school know that a summer born child will only be doing half days in reception for the first 2 terms then full
days for the last term - this isn’t a request for flexi schooling it is just letting them know as the child will be under csa for the full year so it’s not something we have to ask permission for but just something we need to inform them of ?

@Parker231 I do loads of activities at home with her and there's a lot of school readiness activities at nursery too including maths etc.

Lots of food for thought on this thread.

I'm not going to get into the rights and wrong of deferring and half-days, but it really strikes me that it's August and you've just now "let the school know". Did you not think to have this conversation with them sooner? Ideally you would work as a team with the school, not spring things on them last-minute without seeking their input. I can see there are people on this thread saying "fight for your child", but you shouldn't start from a fighting position - you are setting yourself against the school from the outset. That's not constructive.

We didnt get the place till April then couldn’t get a meeting till June then had another in July where they said they don’t do flexi
schooling after we had mentioned our plans

There has been some good advice and not so good advice on this thread.

Really we would recommend that you delay entry as a summer born child and have you DD start Reception next year when they have just turned 5. The days are planned to include downtime and lessons planned for children to be there all day. Your child will miss out if they are only attending half the day.

Also - deferring to January or April is very unpopular with schools. Already underfunded schools are reluctant hold places for children who aren't attending. They are holding a place that cannot be given to another child but aren't officially on roll. The funding for the year is calculated using the number of children on roll on the first Thursday of October each year - so the school does not receive full funding but then has to find resources for the child when they do start - this is an impact on the school that many people never think of when they are demanding their right to defer entry. They cant just place the chid on roll and mark as absent because absence is recorded and used as a way of measuring the school's success.

@schooladmission - so much to unpick. But you are talking far too generally, and not considering the individual child with your advice. So maybe it’s relevant to most children, but not to the OP’s daughter. The funding aspect and also the measure of the school’s success based on attendance is a whole other subject.

This is correct

Yes.

Op I deferred my summer born until the following year , they are now going into year 7 and it was 100% the right decision. If you don't want to do that you can defer until another point in reception. You can also use your 15/30 funded hours until they start school as long as it coincides with term start dates. So defer till January keep funded nursery hours till end of December, or until Easter ( or July if you defer the whole year)

My daughter’s school offered this to all summer born children as standard. They come go full time when they were ready. Mine decided at October half term she wanted to go all day.

My youngest DD's excellent primary had 90 start at the same time due to a bulge class.
The headteacher told all parents they were prepared for all to start in the first day of term. If parents wanted to do part time, just tell the teacher but strong preference to attend mornings if possible. If any still wanted part time after half term, they would book in a meeting.