Moving primary school children from Scottish to English system

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We're currently based in Scotland:
DD1 is almost 9 and in P4. She's an April birthday (2007) so one of the oldest in her class.
DD2 is 6 and in P1. She's a late January birthday (2010) & would have been one of the youngest in the class. We decided to hold her back a year, particularly because she has speech problems and is still receiving speech therapy--this is due to hearing problems when she was younger. There are no other educational needs.

I'm looking at the possibility of a job in England, to start September. I'm wondering how they would transfer over into the English system. I'm guessing it would be reasonably simple with DD1 in that she would go into P5.

However, I don't know where DD2 would fit in. P1? or P2? If anyone has advice/experience, I'd be very grateful.

I went to school in Scotland but am now living in Northumberland. My DD8 is at a small village first school. The area we are in has a three tier system, first school (Reception to Y4), middle school to age 13 and then High School.
The school has been great with her SN and have put her in Year 1 which is more appropriate to her educational and emotional development.
She has had extra help with literacy and maths and is doing very well.
We are lucky as her school has an Outstanding rating from Ofsted and the middle and secondary schools which she is likely to go to are Good and Outstanding respectively.
My DS is a primary teacher in Scotland and thinks that my DD is probably better off than she would be in Scotland but I think this is partly down to luck with the school which she attends.

Some posters on this thread are comparing results at GCSE and CfE National 5 incorrectly . A at GCSE is equivalent to A at National 5. So A- C would be the same as A-D in national 5.

You are comparing percentages of A*-C in England with A-B in Scotland , so of course the former will be higher.

No the data is for "equivalent" not A with A

MrZ - well several universities and educational establishements do not consider them to be the same

If the data was comparing A with A then they wouldn't be equivalent but they aren't