School deferral

[Fucktheapp]

Saw a post about this earlier and it got me thinking; if a child starts school (so starts Reception/FS2) in the September after they are 5, do they continue throughout their school life in a year group lower than their peers (by age)?

Or do they miss a year later on to put them back on the right track?

I’m thinking about when they are in senior school and they hit 16 whilst in Year 10 rather than Year 11 or are 19 before they finish a Sixth Form.

I realise it not just one size fits all, and it’s a benefit to many children.

But I’m really curious. I tried to Google it, but I don’t think I’m getting the phrasing right to get an answer.

I think the idea is that they should be able to stay with the cohort that they started primary school with, but there might be some difficulties in practice.

I wish we'd been able to defer DS, but it wasn't an automatic right at the time.

It is normally, from my experience, only approved for summer born children do they are only the older age for a very short time.

Yes they continue with that cohort.

But it’s misleading to say they are not with their peers. My deferred DS ‘s friend in his class is 4 weeks younger than him (summer birthday and September birthday). Is the child 4 weeks younger than him less of a peer than a child 11 months older would have been if I’d sent him a year earlier?

Whilst parents have an absolute right to defer entry until the term after age 5 they do not, not in our lea anyway, have an absolute right to then start in reception if their cohort has moved to yr 1.