Great news for summer borns...

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www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/08/parents-of-summer-born-children-get-right-to-delay-start-of-school

Friendofsadgirl I'm only speaking from my experience. I have several friends with November children, one with an October one who all got their extra nursery year funded. I know of a child with a 1st September birthday whose parents were advised to send him to school by the nursery and where the headmistress of the school argued against the deferral. He had to wait until after Christmas for the nursery to have a space but was still funded. Clearly it depends on which area you live in.

this would have helped my dd3 so much. She was born end of July. She also has aspergers and severe dyslexia (although we didnt know that exactly when she started school) I even asked the school is she could defer a year. She is emotionally MUCH younger than her peers and would have been so much better a year below. She has just gone into Y7 and is struggling so much bless her.

One of my daughters is now in secondary school and is the youngest in her year, she was born a week before August bank holiday. She is excelling in her school work and is in the top groups in a lot of her subjects. It's done her no harm at all to be in with kids almost a year older than her.

However, I will notice the difference in the next couple of years when my youngest boys start school because there's only 11 months between them anyway but they have the added factor of the older one being a September baby and the younger one being an August baby so they will both be in the same academic year. It seems bonkers now as our 3 year old is getting ready to go to nursery and the 2 year old is just starting to speak coherently! at that age there is a big difference in development and we are considering deferring him.