To think a child born on the 5th august isn’t that young for their school year

[Penny779]

As there are still three weeks left of the academic year so still could be many children much younher

I am August born too, am also bright and sailed through everything I've done.
Not sure why age month could be relevant to aptitude?

Born on 8th and was the youngest in my class.

What a stupid thing to say.

My child is born on the 8th. There are 3 children younger than him.

This isn’t real is it.

Also, deferral for summer borns is becoming more common around where we are, which means that the April, May children often end up being amongst the youngest in their year groups.

My DS is late July and in a two form intake school so statistically there would have only been about five children younger than him. I only knew of two but obviously I didn’t know every child’s birthday! And as a PP said if you’re lucky enough to conceive when you want, a lot of couples will avoid August birthdays.

There was a noticeable difference between my son in reception and the ones who has September birthdays. He was quite immature though. On reflection it wouldn’t have harmed him to have started a year later at CSA. The two younger than him DC, as far as I am aware had no issues at all.

An average class will have (say) 26 children in, 25-30 anyway, I'm going to use 26 for convenience. So on average one child born every two weeks, even assuming an even spread. In reality there are more September/October/November birthdays (Christmas, New Year, Valentine's Day conceptions) and some people with children very late in August defer their children.

So on average you would expect a child born in early August to be approximately the second youngest in their class.

Mine was the youngest. I got them reading before starting school so they would not be behind. She did struggle a bit socially but it evened out with lots of playdates. She never caught up in sporting actitivies. If I could do it all again I would have had a September baby.

Absolutely! It's not an even distribution each month due to various factors, but many women try to actively avoid late summer birthdays when trying to conceive.

I was one of them, but due to fertility issues ended up trying for longer than planned and DD2 has a June birthday. She's the third youngest in her year and I noticed a huge difference in school readiness between her and DD1 (born in the winter.)

They would still be 10-11 months younger than a large chunk of kids, seeing as end of September is the busiest time on maternity wards in the UK.

One of my children has an April birthday and in a class of 30 there are only a handful of children who are younger.

We have a DC with a July birthday and there was only one child younger than her in her year at primary. There’s a few at secondary but she can name them so it is very much only a handful.

DC1 is autumn born and has a big group of friends ALL of whom have birthdays between Sept-Christmas. Either they attract each other or autumn birthdays are more common!

My DS is born 29th August (was premature) and was always the youngest in his year until 6th form and a student started with a birth date of 30th Aug. Mine has always been in the top of his year academically and has just started a top uni after achieving 4 x A* - he was more than ready to start school at just turned 4 - only difference was he was frequently in the first term found asleep in the reception reading corner ;)

Our son is a June baby, in his first primary school he was the youngest in his class.

My DS birthday is in the first week of July and his primary teachers said for his year he was one of the youngest.
Depends on the class.

3 weeks left, 49 weeks over - there's a fair chance in a small school that no one will be younger. Especially as Mumsnet always recommends deferring if you are born from June onwards.

Of course they're young for their year.
My Dd was born on the 28th of August, but luckily we live in Scotland.

The most popular birth months I think are September and October. But statistically of course august would be one of the youngest.

Early august you might get a few being in those next four weeks but obviously the majority will be born in the other 11 months.

Of course they are 😄

My oldest was born on the 5th August and was always the youngest in every year. The reception teacher commented on the lack of maturity so I reminded her of that fact. There were children who were 5 not long after starting reception so the difference in age was quite pronounced.

Only in the UK.

In Ireland they’d be around the middle of the cohort as the oldest kids are January born with the youngest being born in December.

DD1 was born at 9.25pm on 31 Aug. She was in a gifted program in school and has a first class maths degree now, but as a 3yo the gap in maturity was obvious. She was, naturally, the youngest in her year group.

Ha ha brilliant!! 😄

Ds1 has a very early August birthday, and was one of the youngest in his year right up until til we moved from England to Scotland, when he was 15, at which point we moved him back a year. We did this because otherwise he would have had to catch up more than half of the first year of Standard grades (the Scottish equivalent of GCSEs), and moving him back meant he got the full curriculum.

I will be honest and say it really benefited him - he moved from being one of the youngest to one of the oldest in the year, and it made a huge difference in terms of his maturity.

It feels like you're trying to support an argument that someone you know is wrong. So who's your target, and why do you care?

Given the majority of the chilcren will have been born in the 11 months preceding August [ie during Sep-July], even if those children’s birthdays are evenly distributed across the year it still means that 27/28 children out of a class of 30 will be older? So, yes, an August born child will absolutely be one of the youngest in his year group.

It feels like you're trying to support an argument that someone you know is wrong. So who's your target, and why do you care?