What time do your Year 6s go to bed?

[Dancergirl]

Dd's bedtime seems to be drifting later and later. Official lights out is 9pm but it tends to be later than this.

At the moment she doesn't have to be up until 7.45am but I still have to wake her in the morning. From September she'll have to leave the house by 7.40am.

She just seems to be a natural night owl and can't fall asleep too early.

Thanks all. It seems 9.30 is quite common.

I had in my mind I should be encouraging an earlier bedtime as she can't get up in the morning, but if she can't asleep too early there's no point her lying there for ages!

During Year 7 we found it slowly got later. She's in Year 8 now and rarely in bed by 10pm. She doesn't need to put up until 7am but is generally awake between 6.30-6.45am. We don't even get a lie in at weekends at she's up at the same time banging around the house.

My DS (11) has a bedtime of 8:30, same as his sisters was but 9pm lights out if there is something he wants to watch on tv. However, we have a constant battle trying to get him to go to bed at said time. He doesn't understand that his sister (15) goes to bed later because she is older.

My daughter's been heading to bed mostly at 9 ish over half term, a couple of nights later when there was something on worth watching. She's a boarding chorister and for year 6 they are in bed 8:15, lights out 8:30 - except one night is 15 minutes later, and Sunday evening 15 minutes earlier. They don't have to get up mega early although they are in choir practice by 8 am most mornings.

Ds 11 goes to bed at 8.30pm to read with lights out at 9pm during the week. Weekends he can go to bed pretty much when he wants, usually between 9pm - 11pm. He will sleep in till 10am ish on Saturdays but I always wake him up at 8am on Sundays so he will be tired enough to sleep on the Sunday night.

Currently he is up for school at 7am. Come Sept he will not have to get up till at least 8am.

MY yr6 gets packed off upstairs between 7-7.30 and it's lights off by 8.30. Having said that, three nights a week he has sports / scouts so isn't home or in bed until 9.30 so I don't feel too ogre-ish about the other nights! On a Saturday I don't mind him and his yr4 sister being downstairs with us until 8 - 8.30ish. I have to wake him up at 7.00 some mornings though, he definitely needs his sleep!

Those whose kids stay up later - what are they doing? I am quite strict about screen time for the children, no more than 1.5hrs ish of either computer games or telly. So after tea they just tend to wander about, getting under my feet / arguing with each other until it's time for bed!

My dd(11) goes to bed at 9pm and she is up most mornings for school at 7am. If she goes to bed before this, she claims she can't sleep. She has started having a lie in at weekends, which is nice ;)

My 11 yo goes to bed for 9 on a school night and reads for a bit then up for 7. At weekends and holidays it's bed at 10 and up around 8ish

It's a relief to read these replies. My 11 year old Y6 DD1 goes to bed between 8:30 and 9pm and implies that all her friends go to bed later. Knowing her friends, and what I hear they watch on TV, it probably is true. I'm happy to read that there are plenty of other parents who impose a similar or earlier bedtime upon their children.

My DD goes to bed at 8pm if she wants to read a while otherwise it's 9pm but she never falls asleep before 9.30pm she is up at 6am if I'm on an early shift at work. During weekends her bedtime is when she's tired and this is also on holidays too

9.30ish generally but it's very flexible. The alarm on schooldays is set for 7.25 but DD never seems tired, so there's not an issue. After all, it's nearly 10 hours sleep. If she had a 6am wake up for school, I'd be far more fussed but 7.25 is easy so I'm not in the least.

Bedtime officially 8.30, but has drifted towards 9 due to various clubs etc and coming in starving from these, so needs supper. He is always up before me ( not allowed up before 7 but has worked out how to creep) stuffing his face delicately nibbling on a breakfast or two...

Weekends tend to be closer to 9.30.

ds ia y6 and 11. Last year I was quite strict about bedtime, lights out 8:30

But this year it has got later and later. He will lie awake tossing and turning not able to drop off. He is always awake around 7 am and doesn't sleep in at the weekends.
So in the end i have let his bedtime slip. Now it is upstairs at 9 ish and then lights out 9:30.

to the pp who asked what they do, well, no screens after dinner, so he goes outside and kicks a ball around, or goes up and has a mega long shower, or lies on his floor and reads. In fact my biggest problem for several years has been to find the book he is reading and remove it from the room. Otherwise I turn his light off and he just opens the door and reads by the landing light again. It has become a bit of a standing joke in our house, because he hears us coming, switches books, hides book he wants, hands over other book etc etc .

He is in reality rarely asleep before 10:30 whatever time I turn his light out.
He will need to be out of the house at 7:30 in sept!