Re: Before I go... school question

July 6, 2001

> The school/nursery start at 3 and I think that is very young,

> so I was wondering if I can ask for him to put on the waiting list

for the following year instead. (He's born 30 August, so if we delay

him he'll only be two days older than whoever is born on the 1

September anyway).

>

> Do you think they'll be positive to this, or just think we're

> desperate to get him in? Isn't there a rule that waiting until you

are a little bit older should be allowed (or is that just if you wait

and then enter at a higher level). Has anyone done this?

>

> I haven't done this but I did consider it. My DS's birthday is 7th

July (tomorrow(!), and only one week to go to the end of his school

year - Private School) When he was in Nursery, I was dismayed to

discover that he had to start Reception at the tender age of 4 years

2 months when most of his 'peers' had another year in Nursery to go.

I could have let him stay in Nursery for a while longer but then he

would have had to join the Reception Class anyway, but later than

everyone else. He would then have missed some of his valuable

Reception Year. He is just about to turn 7, and has only just caught

up, but then he is also Dyslexic which didn't help matters! He is

smallest in his class, but is getting on fine - it all evens itself

out eventually.

Ruth

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