What are your thoughts (people in Scotland especially) on deferring primary school entry for a year?

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Ds's nusery teacher recommended it too, suedonim, but I discovered she recommended it to everybody. Completely unconnected with the fact that it was private and she was the owner

Prettybird, I guess that must be right- I can see that sorting out funding might complicate things.

Lol, Tamum! My experience is of state school nursery teachers, not private ones.

DS2 started up here at 4 and 7 months. We dithered about deferring him, particularly because DH is Danish and feels that his children shouldn't be going at all until they are 7 (!), but eventually he did go.

We eventually decided to send him so that he could stay with the friends he had made at Playgroup. In a small village, he knows everyone who is now in his class and would have been gutted not to have gone to school with all his mates.

It is sometimes worrying when he is invited to a six year-old's party before he has even had his fifth birthday, but these have been his friends for years. Would your son know many people in his class? I think it also helps that DS2 is tall for his age, so he doesn't stand out, iyswim.

When dd was about to start school, the regulation was worded that the child had to start at the first intake after their 5th birthday, but if they were born between beginning of September (or late August, can't remember) and the end of February, they MAY start the previous year instead.

This gives a completely different slant to the whole business. In fact when I was asked by people why we were keeping dd back, I sometimes replied, "We're not - we are just not sending her early!"

That's a good way to put it purplefrog!