Repeating a year at primary school-scotland?

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I need some advice. Ds has always struggled at school. He is the second youngest child in his class and started when he was only 4-something I deeply regret.

I have raised the idea of holding him back a year as he is due to start secondary school in 2014. He gets supported learning help twice a week for his reading and literacy problems.

However school basically said no that they dont do the whole holding kids back a year now but I have since learned that a friend has done it with her dd-albeit she is already at secondary.

So I want to know can I infact defer him going to secondary for a year? What if the school say no again-is there something I can do about it?

Thanks in advance for replying.

My friend's DS repeated P6 but had to move schools in order to do so as her first school did not believe in repeating years due to social issues. She moved and blossomed. This was in Edinburgh, it also helped that her secondary school was different from her former classmates.

My friend is on MN so I'll point her in this direction.

Great thanks. I really dont want ds to move schools but it is unlikely he will go the same secondary school as his peers anyway as the feeder secondary is not a good school imo and I have already told school we will be putting in a placement request for another school.

School did mention that they were concerned ds's self esteem would be damaged but we have discussed it with ds and he is very keen.

No direct experience, but a boy in DDs year wanted to do that, and went private, repeating P7 as part of the move. Could you move him to one of the feeders for the secondary you want? It would give him a head start at making new friends before the move up to "big" school.

I know someone who did it, but it was P1, and she had to change schools. I think the consequence of being able to defer P1 is that they're unlikely to allow it further up.

A girl from the class above my son's came and joined them to repeat P7 - she had missed a fair bit of school though.

I'd agree with trying to get him into one of the feeder primaries to repeat the year if poss. But in principle I think repeating a year is a good thing if you feel he is too young. There will be kids in his current class that could be more than a year older than him if they were deferred from the previous year.

Hi, I appreciate this thread is really old but wondered if you managed to get your son yo repeat a year? I want my daughter to - for the same reason as you.