What age did you allow them to walk to school alone?

[missmogwi]

My DD1 is going into yr5 next week.

We live about ten minutes from school with just one road to cross. We live on a main road so she'd have to walk that way for about five mins then cross a side road then 5 mins to school. To be honest I'd be going anyway with DD2 which I have pointed out to her but she wants the independence.

I've said from Yr6 maybe she can but I'm getting the "so and so is allowed" etc.

Silly's one word for him
She was fine, I need to man up I think!

I'm lucky that only one minor road to cross, if school was across a busy town I couldn't let her. My nerves couldn't take it for a start!

DD and I went together for the first week. We've found a much more convenient bus route too.
She now walks to the bus stop on her own, gets on and off the bus and trots to school alone.
Fabulous.

I run an after school club for year 5/6 and would say that 70% of the children walk home alone. We do live in a quiet fairly rural area with good pavements. No supervised crossing point on main road but a toucan crossing.

My oldest DD was in yr 5 when she started walking with a friend, DD2 was year 6 (none of her friends were allowed till then-some are still 'taken' to high school), I still walk my yr5s but will let them year 6 or when feel they can do roads safely (have a dangerous one en route).