Currently i'm working with the year 1's which i really enjoy, this is my 2nd yr there. Before i was in reception and before that Y2.

Hi me a nursery nurse in yr1 to!!

Do you enjoy year1?

I think i enjoy yr1 better than early years now

I work in reception and what makes me really cross is when the teachers say they have been at school since September they should be better behaved/sit still / not run in school/take turns/ etc.

There are at least 5 out of my tutor group who are August babies, so they
were 4 when they started. I dont care what the teachers say they are babies. I bet if it was their child they would think differently.

totally agree with that tich

I have two reception children in my nurture group, they are still at the toddler stage, eg biting and tantrums

even when children are older they still might not be at the approriate stage of development

fortunatly we have hada big push on behaviour and self esteem so alot more of our staff members are more aware and treat children stage appropriate rather than age appropriate

I completely agree with the summer babies way of thinking. I have worked with children who really need to be in the year below because of their age related development, but because of the regulations and the lack of flexibilty they have to flounder in an enviroment that they just don't get

It makes me very as I have always worked with SEN and some of them would not have that label if they had been allowed to have catch up time. The amount of times I went to a teacher to say "x has just done y" to have them look at me as if I was mad because the achievement wasn't "year" appropriate.

I now work for a speech and language unit and find that main stream schools still have far to high expectations of children regardless of their abilities.

That's my rant over off for a glass of red wine now.

Happy New Year all ( believe it or not I am actually looking forward to going back to work tommorrow)

I had children at both ends of that scale

number one daughter (dyslexic and reality challenged) was one of the youngest in her year and struggled a lot until she reached KS3

number two daughter arrived 13 months later and was 2nd eldest in her class, she's very bright and became very very bored.

although there is only 13 months between them there is two academic years differnece, if i'd had my way they would have both been in the year in between

fortunalty they are now both doing very well but i did worry when they were in primary

I have in the past fought for my youngest step daughter (who had the luck to be born 31st Aug!!) against her dad .

He has very high expectations for his children (which in itself is not a bad thing) but it took him a while to understand the age gap/intellectual development idea, luckily he does now.

I too have one born in sept and one in july, the difference in ks1 was really obvious but my youngest (who was born july) is now in year 3 and he is now starting to level off. Allthough emotionally he is still quite behind the older ones.

Just been told I am working 3 mornings a week in Nursery, can anybody give me any advice before I start on Thursday. I've not worjked in Nursery for 5 years then it was when my children were there.

We are in a foundation unit and have a mix up zone with both nursery and reception. As I work with reception I struggle with the nursery children. They are very argumentative, used to parents doing things for them, and cant share. Apart from that they are lovely! The nursery come to us next year so we tend to sort out which ones we want and which ones we dont!

What do you mean sort them out?

sounds like the ones that got to tich's class and the rest....do they choose you too? or is there only one intake?

Veggie. I felt very smug, keeping my legs crossed so that eldest child was born 1st September........until I had 2nd child at end of August! I now have children 2 years apart in age, but only 1 year apart at school. Wouldn't be so bad, but school has mixed year groups, so every other year they are in the same class group!! Couldn't have planned it worse if I tried!!!!