‘My child is summer born’ means nothing in the 4+ Assessments

So your child is summer born? And you really want to make sure that I know about it. But it really doesn’t matter to me if your child is July/August born or if your child is November/December born.

I can support any child to be successful In their 4+ Assessment. Their age is irrelevant to me.

When I worked in my first role at a top pre-prep in Hampstead the child who was at the top of my class one year was a little boy who was August born. I’ll never forget him. His mother also didn’t buy into this summer born/autumn born nonsense. He was always the brightest boy in the class ever since I knew him and I knew him from Reception. I worked in several other year groups and several other schools where the children who were scoring the highest marks were my summer born students.

So when I speak to parents and they tell me that they have a summer born child, they tell me this piece of information as though it is highly relevant and it simply is not.

Summer born/autumn born your child will be assessed in the same way. And being grouped with peers of their same age also means very little. Although some of you place great importance on this little nugget of information. 

The percentage being age adjusted is quite important to some of you too and it really is so slight, I wouldn’t waste any time or energy thinking that the age adjustment will make any sort of difference to the success of your child in their 4+ Assessments. It most likely will not.

So if you have a summer born child start earlier rather than later. It makes no sense to start later. Stop putting it off and waiting for the ‘right’ time. There is no ‘right’ time. Just start. Stop putting it off for when your child is older. This literally makes no sense. Your child will still be the youngest in the class no matter how much ‘older’ they are when you start preparing them.

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