My child is too young for the 4+/7+/11+ assessments.
/I mean truthfully insert any assessment you want.
Your child is not too young. Your mindset needs some work.
It is what it is. We live in a country where children are placed into year groups according to their age. You know this already. Accept it. Understand it.
Your August born child will be in the same year group as a September born child.
To some of you this is unbelievably unfair. To me it’s just information. It’s just a fact.
And if your child is summer born and you wish for them to attend an assessment to gain entry into your desired school of choice, you’d better clearly understand that you will need to start preparing them earlier than someone who has a September born child will.
It’s obvious no?
But what happens instead?
Summer born children start working with us later than their autumn born peers!
Parents will simply say things like…
‘They were too young to start!’
‘They were just not ready!’
I believe none of it!
Sorry.
My son is July born. I will never let his age be the reason that he is not ready for an assessment should we decide to send him to one in the future.
He will be just as ready - if not more ready than his autumn born peers. Isn’t that a far better mindset to have?
How is that possible? I hear your sceptical minds asking me!
It simply is.
If you ever have the pleasure of meeting my nearly 4 year old, you will comment how ‘advanced’ he is and how ‘ahead’ he is and how you just cannot ‘believe he is summer born!’
Well, believe it!
I just started his Curriculum Programme with him at 18 months of age and not at 3 years of age.
That’s how my son is in the position he is in right now and will continue to be in the future.
I know fully well that this world we live in is a competition. And it’s not a fair one either. It is my duty and my responsibility (and his father too!) to give our son the edge he needs to be in with a chance in this world I will need to eventually throw him into!
Preparing your child for an assessment in the near future?
