Opinions on enrolment age for school

I would get onto it as sooon as possible. He should be starting school at the beginning of the year. He should have school visits at the end of last year to get him used to it.

Thats what i dont get either and yes she does have control issues and no shes not a healthy person at all mentaly, she keeps telling my partners boy that he cant do certain things because of his dad which is sad we have his sister who lives with us as she was only a baby when her mum left so she doesnt know her and jacob her brother knew her and saw her twice but decided beginning of last year that he wanted to live with her so we respected that but i dont think its in his best interests to stay there i think maybe visits when we fly up there but nothing more.
She only wants the custody papers to gloat which is why we have been holding off giving them too her as thats just pathetic.
Her and i have had arguments (not infront of the kids) regarding her behaviour as at one point she abused my partner after talking to there son who we had at the time making a positive experiance a negative one.
She has also got agro at cyfs because they couldnt find any faults with our care of the kids so yes major control issues. Going to talk to my partner tonight get him to ring his lawyer tomorrow.
I have a photo of him not compared to when he lived with us might see if the lawyer is interested in seeing them as there is a big difference. I might see if i can figure out how to post them on here and get your opinions on the photos to me he looks more sad then his normal picture.
Thanks,
Jessica
(You guys have been a major help thanks i dont feel like were being over paranoid now)

Wow, I reckon you need to bring him back with you - a 4 year old wills ay what he thinks will make people happy and it is easy for a parent to fill their head with you want to live with me crap. SO my advice would be that it might just be best for you to have him with you guys, if that will suit the family.

Wo, your ticker must be well out if Andrew is 5 next April! It says he is 3 years, 8 months, 4 weeks - unless you mean April next year I guess.

The one thign to think about is the way the year is done. Most schools have a cut of of either 1st May or June for 'year end'.

That means, with an April birthday, Andrew will be considered to be a year 1, and in the following year will be classed as year 2.

With him starting in July instead, he will have only 2 terms of his first year at school before mving to year 2. Academically that may be fine, but it also may not.

Friendship wise, if he is going into an intake with July kids, but you want him to move to year 2 at the end of the year, you need to make sure he is put into a class with kids from earlier in the year and not with those starting in July, as they are year 0 and will be year 1 the following year - so he may have problems if all his friends are theyear behind him.

You may even want him to be a year 0 and go to year 1, though this will mean that he is always that bit older than the rest of his class through school.

Just something to be aware of if you aren't already.

Thanks miss I have a few things to work out with schooling. Yeah it is next year that he turns 5 not this year (thank god ).

I'm going to go down to the school that he is probably going to go to (unless I can get an out of zone enrolment for the primary school I went to in Palmy) later this year to see what I need to do and what they can do for him starting a little later or even if they think its a good idea to put him into a school in Sydney for 3 months. It all depends on if DH gets into the corp he wants to as well but going by what he letters say he is not at all interested in weapons.

New information came to light these last few weeks so we are definatly getting him back, lawyer is meeting us on thursday to go over everything and sorting out the warrant order?? On top of everything else she has been leaving him to go on swinging escapades and sleeping around again not really caring if her son is around or not. She has him on a adhd diet?? yet has no clinical documentation saying he even has adhd he doesnt even have a docter and has is low lying to him about school saying he will start in the beginning of the term yet telling adults the opposite. I swear people like her shouldnt have kids because they obviously dont know what it means to be a parent.