Your child being nearly 12 months younger than their winter born peers means very little in the 4+ Assessments.

Their final percentage score will be age-adjusted but please don’t think that this will be a huge adjustment. It won’t be.

A lot of parents that I speak to have the belief that because their child is summer born that they will some how be assessed differently in their 4+ Assessments.

They seem to think that the expectation of their summer born child will be different in their 4+ Assessments.

They think that their summer born child will not have to do things to the standard of an autumn/winter born child.

They would be wrong.

When parents start working with myself or my team, they will often tell me something like this…

‘She is summer born so she can’t cut as well as she should.’

‘He is an August baby so his vocabulary/speech isn’t as well developed as his peers.’

‘She is July born and therefore cannot hold her pencil.’

In their minds they are merely stating facts. To me these all sound like justifications.

The harsh reality is that all of these are irrelevant in the 4+ Assessments.

The expectation will be just as high.

Your child WILL need to cut with accuracy and precision.

Your child WILL need to hold their pencil correctly.

Your child WILL be expected to answer questions in detail and have excellent vocabulary.

My child is a July baby. I don’t even take his birthday into consideration when it comes to his learning development. He WILL be able to do everything he ‘should be able to do’ just as well as an autumn/winter born baby in his cohort.

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