My summer born child doesn't stand a chance in their 4+ assessments!
/What a load of nonsense.
Why wouldn’t they?
Because of their birthday?
Pure and utter nonsense.
We currently have August born children who are truly thriving with their curriculum programmes and making extraordinary progress. I can practically guarantee that our summer born children will have just as much success in their 4+ assessments as their autumn born peers.
If you’re so concerned about your summer born child and their 4+ assessments, start earlier preparing them. Do you know what tends to happen? Parents of summer born children actually tend to start later. Which actually makes no sense.
They say things like this…
‘They will grasp things better when they are older…’
‘I just need to give them more time …’
‘They are too young to know how to do phonics/counting/cutting/insert whatever here…’
Let’s look at each of these and analyse their thinking patterns.
‘They will grasp things better when they are older…’
When your child is ‘older’ they will still be one of the youngest in their cohort. So this sort of login actually makes zero sense. Your child will not ‘grasp things better when they are older’ if they’ve never been exposed to the thing when they were younger. For example, my son is no an expert at holding scissors at the age of 3 and 4 months. Why is that? Is it perhaps because we practised cutting skills since he was 17 months old?
‘I just need to give them more time …’
Sadly for you, if you’ve chosen to send your child to a 4+ assessment, you do not have this illusive ‘more time’. I have ‘more time’ for my son to learn his phonics, you do not. I have more time for my son to identify his numbers to 10 - you do not. I have more time to teach my son to write his name etc etc. You see, if you know what is expected in a 4+ assessment then that is what you have to prepare your child to be able to do regardless of their DOB.
‘They are too young to know how to do phonics/counting/cutting/insert whatever here…’
It’s just not true. We currently are teaching 5 August born children who can blend and write cvc words beautifully,
Your summer born child has as much of a chance as anyone else. Stop using their DOB as an excuse. Use it to empower you to take massive action and prepare your child to be incredibly successful in all of their 4+ assessments.
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