To think the distribution of birthdays in my DC's class is quite unusual?

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I caught a glimpse of my child's classroom birthday display on their learning app. In my experience, autumn birthdays are usually most common. I was a touch surprised to see that actually, my child's class have a much higher proportion of summer borns that other seasons (including my DC).

I had a bit of an internal celebration knowing this as surely it'll mean the teaching is geared towards a majority of learners (the younger ones).

Any thoughts?

That year chart is backwards for me, I can't look at it without my head jamming.

How do they allocate the DC to classes - is it random?

Are the august ones all younger or are some of them older ones who have had a delayed start? If it's 13 months of birthdays it looks fairly even each month (considering a "double chance" of being an august birthday)

Wow yes that is a lot of summer borns! Probably is a good thing for your dc yes, as they won’t have the issue where they are much younger than most their class.

This a good point actually, there could just be a lot of children who delayed start, so are actually a year older!

That's a really sweet birthday chart 😃

My DS2's primary class was the same - in fact 2/3 of the year were from April - August! No delayed starts!

I imagine the summer birthdays might be split between year eg some will be older but deferred a year. Maybe there was an unusual increase in deferrals in the year above your DC, and slightly fewer in their year.

August is the most common birthday month.

Is it nursery or school.
Wondering if it was covid conceived so 2020?

Not in the UK it isn't.

DS's has a glut of autumn birthdays, a long lull then a glut of summer term birthdays.

The height range is massive because a lot of the autumns are tall for age and a lot of summers are small for age.

Apparently they're a 50 shades of grey year group. That's co-incidence for us, it's just the way it fell after marriage.

I've not spoken to all parents but the ones with summer borns I have heard from are all 4 still. It's quite uncommon in this area to delay school starts so I'd be surprised if any summer born kids were deferred.

School. My child was conceived well before any mention of covid but was a baby/toddler during the outbreak.

This is the same in my son's Reception class. Very weighted towards summer borns (and not ones who have been deferred from the year before)

This was the same in DS's primary school class - which suited him as he was also a late summer born. I think a third of the class were July/ August.

DD1's primary class was much more weighted towards Autumn birthdays - and interestingly were an overall much more academic class.

DD2 is one of only two Autumn births in her class! There are a real cluster of March and then May children, and a smattering in the summer. Again, much less academic than the autum born class.

Orange is autumn, blue is winter, green for spring and summer is yellow.

It's a one form entry school so they only have one class per year group (no allocations other than age).

This is really interesting. Thank you for sharing 😊

Nice chart!!! Very visual
Not much to do in the cold winter months = more babies in the autumn!

Do you think you should be posting a picture of children at your DCs school on a public website?

I know the images of the children are small - but I am not sure that you should be doing this.

A simple count would have been better

Edited

I can see on zooming in that each face is cut out. So sorry for jumping in

DD1's form was 8 winter born, 3 spring born and 17 summer born when she started.

Apparently the year before had hardly any summer borns.