Do you meet your Y6 child in the playground after school?

[Fivemoreminutes1]

Exactly that please.

no. my son walked home by himself from year 5. no one in year 6 had parents picking them up unless they had younger siblings.

No my YR4 DC walks to school carpark.

Yes from YR5 normal to walk home. YR4 children can leave classroom by themselves.

My Y6 DS walks to and from school by himself. I leave 45 minutes earlier than him in the morning and we get home at about the same time.

Mine walks home.

Majority of yr5&6 leave school themselves. Some find parent elsewhere. Some just go home.

No, he walks to and from school himself.

Yes.

No, they walked home.

I did. Only about a third of the class walked home by themselves.

Ds1 - I did but only because I was collecting younger sibling.

Ds2 - made his own way home from Easter of yr 4 (after I overrode objections from the school).

Yes I did do and will do when my other dc get to that age. I was bullied in school and was terrorised walked home by them so for that reason alone I will continue to pick them up.

I did but I had a younger child at the school so it would have been pretty rude to ignore him.

No, mine walks home with friends. I’m there anyway collecting younger dc but have been told in no uncertain terms not to wait for her. The parents who drive wait in their cars along the road.

Y6 is middle school here, they all walk or bus home by themselves. Only the very rural kids get lifts. The feeder first schools encourage children to walk home alone from Y5 in preparation.

Yes but only because I'm collecting DD from the same school.

No they walk home by themselves since starting y6 even though I'm collecting Y1 DS 10 mins after they finish. Normally see them along the way.

Mine stated walking home from half way through year 5

Yes. It's a 20 minute walk home involving 2 main roads with no pedestrian crossings so I'm not happy for her to to do it on her own yet. Plus none of her friends come this way so it really would be on her own.

Yes

At the moment all junior school parents are encouraged (but not insisted) to leave and meet children at the school gates.

No DD walks home with her friends. She used to be super clingy but is growing in independence which I am encouraging. She’ll be making her own way to secondary next year so needs to get used to it.