Hi, checking in with you as have ds starting this September, joining dd at the village school!
I asked our school secretary today when info on the induction mornings, parents meeting, class teacher meeting was going to come out and she said that they hadn't had the final class list come back from the LA with the acceptances etc (it is a VA school so does it's own admissions but LA do all the running around after parents things) so haven't been able to sort all that out yet but we will be getting letters with all the info and dates on as soon as they get the final list from LA. I am glad that I have done all this before as if things had been this late coming out when dd started I would have worried myself into knots as the summer term is ticking away, only a week left to the final half term!
I am very much more anxious about ds starting then I was with dd (she is 7 tomorrow and in Y2 so will be Y3 when ds starts), even though with a early March birthday ds will be older then dd was on starting school he is so much more immature, dd was ready in every way and had been a while where as ds has only just got the knack of dressing himself and bottom wiping can be very hit and miss! Both ds and dd have speech issues, dd had physical problems that gave her speech problems and had surgery in reception year that helped a great deal, ds is much more severely delayed, he had bilateral glue ear and could hear very little until he was just over 3, his speech is coming on but is very unclear and most things he says are unintelligible, we are still at the stage of 'wow a three word sentence, good job!!', he is moving forward but slowly, when ever he has a cold or bug his hearing dips and he struggles with frustration which can make his behaviour not great with other children. It is a good job I know the reception staff so well and our school is so good, he will be in a class of no more then 25 with 3 members of staff, a teacher, nursery nurse and TA. I know we are lucky to have the set up we do and it will be very good for him because he is desperate to learn, it seems crazy that he can't really talk to show you what he is able to do but he knows all his colours and shapes, can count to over 10 and do simple sums and he can read some basic words and books.
I know he will be fine and he will really enjoy it and thrive but he is my baby, my last child. It will be so strange being the mother of school aged children rather then having a pre-schooler!