Were you one of the oldest or youngest in your class at school?

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I was born in May so towards being one of the youngest.

31st of August here so I turned 16 after I got my GCSE results, 17 after AS results and 18 after A level results. Luckily I did well at school or it might have put a dampener on any celebrations.

I guess I must have been one of the youngest, but this never occurred to me at the time.
I had no notion of it until many years later, quite grown up, hearing it mentioned on radio 4 as an issue, esp with infant school re child development.
but how would you know, at the time. I had no idea when anyone else's birthday was. this never crossed my mind ever at school.
do you think it might affect you more if you have an awareness of it at the time, esp if among the younger in class.

I was one of the oldest and have an MA. My sister was one of the youngest and left school with very few qualifications, none c or above, and is a cleaner.

I’m the very end of August so I was the youngest. Socially I felt a little out of it in primary school, but my school managed this by moving us around so us younger ones were placed with the older ones from the year below. Academically I was always pretty good.

I think I really noticed the difference when I went to uni at just 18. I really think I would have benefited from a gap year or three.

I have no idea. August birthday but now am my 50s so no clue as to intake dates that long ago

I was always youngest as have 31st August birthday.

Strangely DD is usually oldest as very early September birthday though she had late Aug due date

My birthday didn't put a dampener on A levels results celebrations as I am of the generation where ID checks were unknown and we all went out drinking regularly from age 16

Im in Scotland, and my birthday is March. I was third oldest in primary school, probably about fifth or sixth once I got to secondary.

I was the youngest end of August.

I always felt I didn’t fit in May of been better in the lower year.

I was the youngest - there was an 18 months difference from the oldest in my class. I was a year younger than everyone else. And I was usually the cleverest (which was why I started school a year early).

I was always the oldest in my primary school class. There was another girl whose birthday was the same day as mine, and she said we were "joint oldest" but I insisted that no, I was the oldest, as I was born in the morning and she was in the afternoon .. this was a HUGE bone of contention .. our mums ended up having to bring our hospital bands in ha ha.

I was the youngest in both my primary school year and secondary school year. It never held me back. I was always in top class academically. Being held back a year wasnt a thing in the late eighties

November but one of the youngest as there were about 20 or so birthdays before mine. Must have been bad weather February and March that year....

mackerella As far as I’m aware, state schools do not move kids up or down a year group any more. Independents can do as they like, of course.

Always the oldest. It all evened out in the end, but at the beginning of primary school, being an only child and an early reader as well I really couldn't fathom other children out or why they were being so silly.

I was one of the eldest as are my children. I consider it a benefit.

One of the oldest (November) and I was fairly bored. My school wasn't big on pushing kids to achieve at the best of times and I found it very easy to just coast.

However I do think being older in the year is better from a social perspective. This isn't something I really appreciated until having my own kids.

Youngest but academically one of the brightest. I used to have to go into the year above classes for some lessons and spelling/maths sheets and things. Year 6 or whatever we called it then was very boring as there was nothing else available.

I was the youngest throughout school until I got to university where there was at least one accelerated student (she was 16). I never felt disadvantaged and was always in the top 5 in the year.

Oldest, usually THE oldest, as my birthday is 1st September:

Was one of the youngest, but didn't feel it affected me negatively in anyway.

I was one of the youngest with a birthday at the end of July. It didn’t make a difference, I was in the top set for all subjects.

I was/am middle ground!

December so one of the youngest (Scotland). The only issue was leaving school after 6th year and going straight to uni at 17, not old enough to go to pubs and a lot of my contemporaries were quite a bit older. Wish I'd taken a gap year and matured a bit.

I left after 5th year and went to uni at 16. Didn't stop me getting into the pub! That was a fair few years ago though (Graduated in 1994!)