To ask how many children roughly will be younger then my child at school

[Onlytime4000]

I’m due 16th August up likely to be induced around the 4th August would my child be very young in their school year?

You could delay their schooling by a year as they're Summerborn.

Summerborns, especially boys can often struggle. Not always, but being the youngest in the year can be tough academically and socially.

I came on to say the same thing. My DD is mid July, there were a few younger than her. However as above there were 354 days difference between the oldest and youngest. My child was emotionally very young, but a couple who were a little younger did not have this problem. It is all down to the individual child.

There are 4 August born children in my DD’s reception class of 30. One is older as deferred entry.

I was born end July and there was 1 other person younger than me at school so there's no way of saying

In Scotland won't be the youngest but depends where you stay.

It’s very common where I live (england) for children’s I defer. Maybe it’s a regional thing. If your child isn’t ready then that’s an option. In fact it’s so common my DD wishes she had an august birthday so she could be the oldest in the class. I also have a summer-born and if I could do my time again I would defer him- just because of confidence/maturity but academically he’s in year 8 and doing fine so it’s not the end of the world.

one of mine is mid august and they were always the youngest in their class in both primary and secondary school

But they would have missed out on the play based Reception year.

Statistically probably 1/12th of the intake (1 month in 12) will be born in August. Although people generally plan not to get pregnant with summer borns or can delay school starts so I reckon 1/15th of the year? So roughly two August borns in a class. I guess yours and one slightly younger. That's my best guess. Although I've had a teacher say to me that she has had a year of all Dec to Jun birthdays.

Given that the school year starts early September then yes, clearly your child will be one of the youngest.

@CaptainMyCaptain Not if you get an agreed delayed entry to reception.

That's what we're doing for our eldest DS. Due Oct 2019, born Aug 2019. Due to start September 2023 but we've got an agreed delayed entry into reception so he'll get an extra year of nursery before starting reception in September 2024.

6th August is my bday. Throughout all my formal education there was only one other classmate who was younger than me and that was in primary school. Don’t worry too much about it though - I was also top of my class right the way through to uni.

It may well become pre common though when the English nursery system changes.

Certainly there is a huge movement in Scotland to leave them at nursery and let them play

DD was 19th. There was one child younger than her in her year

Totally depends on the school year. My DD is in a class where a little over 1/2 the children are born June-August by a weird coincidence!

My daughter is the 6th August. About 3 or 4 in the year were younger than her. In a year of 60 (if two class entry) you would expect 5 children to have a birthday in each month. Therefore by the time you get to August you'd expect 55 out of 60 to have had their birthdays and the further in to August you get the closer to 60 it will be - or halve those figures for a one year entry. On the plus side both my DDs were summer born and both were academically very good all the way through school.

Im interested in why youre asking, everyone knows that August birthdays are going to be the youngest in the class (assuming you are in England), you can't change your due date and whether your child is ready for school isn't affected by the birthdays of the other children.

I can't work out the voting, it's impossible to say anything other than generalities

My child's birthday is August 31. Absolute youngest. All through to secondary school it was irrelevant - she was one of the brightest and most mature. Struggled in secondary school.

If you can I would definitely hold him/her back a year

or rather. If I knew then, what I know now, I would have held her back a year

Dts we're due 31st October, turned up 29th august, youngest in their year all the way through school unsurprisingly but there were several august babies in their cohort too.

My husbands birthday is 27/8 and was always the youngest. My daughter was 22/7 and was second to youngest.

Mines 8th Aug and has 2 in class younger than her

Son was born on 13th August. He was the youngest in his year throughout primary & secondary school, but was also top of his class (and our health visitor & social services tried to admit him into school a year earlier as he was stupidly advanced for his age).

It never held him back, I think his only annoyance was not having a pint with his mates as they all turned 18 in their last year of VIth form!

The only concession we made with regards to celebrating his birthday was holding sleepovers (his preferred party type) on either the last weekend of the Summer Term or at the first weekend of the Autumn Term. Most of his friends would be away over his actual birthday; for several years we were on holiday over his birthday too!

2/3 of my kids class are summer born. Don't stress about it!

When the time come, please join the FB group Flexible School Admissions for Summer Borns.

i don’t care how ‘ready’ a kid is, no child should be in a school at 3y + 370ish days