speed demoness

my youngest daughter was born on the 26th August, and is the youngest in her class. (never held her back)

initially she had problems with her reading... this has stayed with her throughout her primary school years..... she has just taken her KS2 SATs, she had a reader with her... and I'm so proud of her ( as are her teachers) she's come away with 2 level 4's and a level 5 !!!!

jaytc2003

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read the whole post to understand what I meant!

Big a1

I was the youngest in my year having been born on the 30th of Aug. Biggest problem I had was all my friends turned 17 sooner than I did so could start learning to drive quicker

Shark Man

It's a good one this. Throughout primary school, I did notice the trend that the younger children in the year generally did not fair so good in classes and could be more disruptive. There was definetly a split in my primary classes and many that were sepearated into the "thick as pig ****" help classes were born later in the year, barring the odd exception.

However, in later years at primary and throughout secondary school it balances out. If your thick and have no attention span...it doesn't matter how old you are!

lozgti

For someone being incredibly thick....can you tell me what the significant academic dates are??

Our kids were born 9th September last year

wilb

Of course it has!!! Someone who is potentially 11 months 30 days older than someone else is bound to have developed more, remember we are talking about a time in their lives when they change quickly and often. The difference between a 29/30 year old may not be visible but the difference between a 5/6 year old (for example) is! My nephew is 6 months older than the boy next door yet he towers over him, speaks a lot more and also is more intelligent! The extra 6 months of life he has had means he had been able to learn more than the other lad, seems pretty obvious to me!
As you get older then yeah it evens up a bit but differences still can be found. I have a Year 10 tutor group. Lets consider 2 groups of 3 lads at either end of the behaviour spectrum in my group. 3 stand out as being quite mature, they listen to the instructions and get on with their work. The other 3 tend to mess around quite a bit, play up for each other etc. The average age of the sensible 3 are 15 years and 10 months old. The average age of the daft 3 are 15 years and 2 months. 8 months difference in age, a large difference in attitude, behaviour and academic results. Now I am not trying to state that all young children will mess around in class and not achieve the higher grades, but those 2 close groups of lads in my class support what I am saying.
On a whole, the difference between the attitude of the different Year Groups is quite large, compare a Year 7 class to a Year 8 one and the 8's are more focused and capable.
The older students have mentally developed more and are more willing to learn than the younger ones who still tend to prat about.
if you want to disagree then fair enough, I am only commenting on what I experience in daily life after teaching 17 different classes (and over 450 different students) in this last academic year. I feel I have a point.

3times

just to throw all theories out of the window;

my 8 yr old, born in November 7.5 wks early, is top in his year with a reading age of 12.5 years, does maths for 10 yr olds. He is physically small.

my 5 yr old, born late August 13 wks early, is in top 3 in yr all subjects, very creative. She is physically small.

Its all about upbringing, nothing to do with age or size.

We found that sending the kids to play group & nursery asap worked as they start to learn and interact before school.

Scooby Snacks 23

So will my son, b-day 21st September, be the oldest or the youngest?? It's friday, my head hurts and I can't work it out.

Agree it's down to upbringing though - we were recommended to a nursery over a childminder/wife at home for the very reason of interaction etc etc.

Scooby.Newbie

My b'day is right at the end of August as well and I was the youngest in my year (well joint, there were two others with the same b'day) didn't cause me any problems at all. I was a bit smaller than some becuase almost 12 months can make a lot of difference physicaly as the age of 11/12, but there were older that where smaller than me.

Mentally it wasn't a problem, I hated school to be honest but have always been fairly bright and have a good job now. I don't think that it will make too much difference to be honest and speaking from personal opinion, its the type of person that they are that will make the difference not the odd few months that other around may have on him.

500

The Acedemic changeover is usualy (AFAIK) THE 1st sept, where they will be the eldest, any born after 1st of september and 365 days in a non leap year after will be in their year obviously the later after Sept 1st the younger.

I have had a limited upbringing (a few hours a week) with my son who has been a slow learner in all areas, walking, speach, reading etc, and looks like he will continue to do so at his own pace, now 8, and born jan 2nd, where as my ex's daughter, now 2, born 14th August was walking at 8 months, stringing sentances at 2, and having coversations at 2.5. I agree that it all depends on the child and upbringing.

in fact at 2 and a half, this happened.

ex is lost i liverpool, and trying to get her bearings.
boo says..
mummy, i'm going to tell the policeman

tell the policeman what honey

that your driving like a mong!

the ex was speachless



personally I would not hold them back, if they are held back a year, they may be bullied because of that fact alone.

pimmo2000

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My birthday is the 16th sep and my best friend from school 19 Aug.. oldest and youngest.. made no difference at all !

In fact hes one of the brightest idiots I know