Struggling to decide whether or not to delay my son's reception entry for a year. He is August born, and due to start in September 2018 but we're considering starting him at CSA in Sept 2018. As well as being August born, he was slightly premature (September due date) and he has a mild speech delay, currently under SALT.
I've done my research, and my LA do seem to allow delayed reception entry, in on a FB group and a few people on my area have done it recently and it's been fairly straightforward.
Everything tells me delaying him is the right thing to do, I think 4 (and even 5) is too young to start school, he will be at a disadvantage being one of the youngest, it would give him an extra year to catch up with his speech etc.
But...other people's reactions is bothering me. I get lots of "I'm sure he'll cope" "He might be fine" etc, and people refer to it as holding him back, which is a very negative way of looking at it.
We want to make a decision soon as nursery have said they will support whatever choice we make, but if we aren't going to delay him he would be moving up to the pre-school room in the next couple of months, but if we are they will keep him with his younger peers. So we would want to get the ball rolling soon.
If you had a choice, WWYD?