Hi All, I'd really appreciate your help at a very stressful time. Our daughter is in Year 5 in a Hackney state school. We deferred her entrance back in 2017 as we felt it was right for her development, she's born in late August. She started in Reception in 2018.
Hackney had informed us that we would need to reassess how this worked when she came to secondary school but until recently what that meant was applying to secondary schools when she was in year 6 and asking schools to accept her with her cohort. But their guidance has now changed and they're saying we need to apply for schools this year (as in before the end of October) and at the same time ask the schools we apply to if they will let her reapply next year without skipping a year.
I don't really know where to start - I haven't started seriously looking at the school options, I was going to let them get this term out of the way then start some conversations. I was hoping the fact that she's born in August so will always be the "right age" for anything happening within a school year, will make it an easier decision for the schools.
I'm so confused how this is going to work and I can't get a fast or straight answer out of Hackney. Their reasoning seems to be she should apply this year in case none of the schools will let her reapply next year. But then what? How will they offer her a place for 2023 if she hasn't sat her CAT test? Will she just skip year 6?
Does anyone have any experience of any of this? Any insights into which schools might be amenable?
If it makes a different she's currently in the process of getting assessed for ADHD. We won't have the results before we need to apply but should have it before Christmas.