To ask about school years gaps between children..?

[Stuckonthebaby]

I have two school years between DCs 1 and 2. We definitely want a DC 3 but can't decide whether to have 2 or 3 school years gap between them. Getting them all on the same timetable quicker (and out the other end quicker ) and being able to go back to work vs having more time at home with DC 3 alone.

Can anyone share their experiences/preferences to help me decide? (Assuming of course that we are fortunate enough for these things to even happen according to our own timetable!)

My DD is friends with sisters, who are both in her year group, but are 11 months apart. The eldest one is Sept birthday.

TBH I tried for Sept birthdays for all of mine so they'd be eldest in the year group. I have April, October and May birthdays so not really that successful!

Mine have just finished Y7, Y11 and the first year of uni.

It wasn't planned that way, and yy to the posters talking about the endless GCSEs and A levels for the next few years.

I had one whole year where they were all in the same place (2007-2008), dd1 in Y6, DD2 in Y3 and DD3 in the preschool onsite at the school. Lovely.

DD1 and 3 are autumn born, Dd2 is august.

Don't overthink it is my advice.

When dd starts reception next Sept (2015), my ds will be starting year 8!
Plans don't always work out as you hope but everything works out fine in the end.
So next week my ds starts secondary school, dd is at preschool and next year we start the whole thing again:)

I have one school year between mine, has worked well so far. Don't know how we will cope when one is GCSE and the other AS levels - bring on the stress....

My sister has 2 (non-twins) in the same year. that was not so good for the kids because they were at a small primary school with only one class per year.

Good thread very interesting to read everyone's experience.

My ds1 & ds2 are not at school yet but are only 15 months apart in age but due to the Scotland cut off dates will be 2 years apart at school which I am glad as I would worry about the competitive issue.

Had my elective section been 1 day earlier for ds2 it would be 1 school year apart which I didn't think of at the time :)

When DD2 started reception, DD1 was just going into Y9.
I think you just work with what you're given, my only small sadness is that I can't use the sibling rule to get DD2 into the school DD1 went to, but we might well move house before then.