Has anyone got one who went on to do well?
I parent my 5 year old grandson. He is in Y1 and will be 6 at the end of July making him practically the youngest in the year. I've always parented him and whilst he has some issues understanding his background with his mum whom he sees often, I don't feel he has major emotional issues. His behaviour is fine at school if a little wriggly on the carpet. He is in a class with ALOT of girls, many of whom are Autumn born and so almost a year older than him.
From being a tiny baby, he was always ahead on the development charts - saying his first word at 8 months (recorded and on FB so I know the exact date), combining words at 13 months and conversational by 20 months. At this time children's services were involved and we had a lot of health visitor contact and she mentioned how well he was doing in all her reports so not just me being a doting granny. Nursery also picked up on his advanced development and moved him to the toddler room and then the preschool room early. His final nursery assessments just before he went to a school based nursery class put him as being a year ahead in speech and language and the maths strands. At the end of his nursery year he was similarly exceeding expectations in speech and language and maths. He was also reading CVC words from the middle of his nursery year
I thought school would be a breeze but it has not been. He has struggled with writing which has shaped the schools view of him. It has been a constant struggle to get them to have high expectations of him. School have him on orange book band books which is average I guess for a Y1 child at this time of the year (he reads turquoise at home) but for a late summer born boy who is still only 5, this must be better than average. He is never given access to the more challenging maths work he is capable of because he is slow and never gets that far. I can see him loosing interest and the effort of keeping up is hard for him.
Yes I do have high hopes for him and am a teacher myself but I do not push him. I insist he reads everyday and I read to him and most days we do a few mental maths questions which he loves. He is a sporty kid and loves his trampoline, hoverboard and bike. Is mad into minecraft at the moment.
I guess I'm just wanting some reassurance from parents of late summer born boys that it does eventually come good and they can and do reach their early potential.