scooby doo wrote:
In the last couple of years it has gone through my mind about the possible disadvantage to the summer born children in these exams. I think the numbers passing, born in the summer months, may be lower than those who were born in the winter months. My DD is one of these. Birthday at the end of July and allocated a place, on allocations day, at ColCHSG.
SD
This is the same for us. My DD is end of July and attends Westcliff. I had enquired as to why they didn’t do age standardisation. CSSE said they didn’t have evidence that summer born were disadvantaged.
Our son is September born and the difference was huge between confidence, maturity and score!
I think it makes a massive difference and am glad they are now taking age into consideration.
I wonder about birth order. I feel a second child who is close in age is advantaged by learning from the older one. That is certainly the case in our family.
It will be interesting to see if the summer born intake increases when they start using the standardisation.
If someone has the intake by birth month for CCHS since they started the CEM which is standardised it would be interesting to see.