School starting age in Poland

My partner and I are having a discussion about school starting ages. She believes the starting age in Poland is 7yrs old although there was a move to 6 years old but this has been recinded. Is this correct?

I am personally interested in peoples opinions on school starting age and the benefits of starting early or the negative effects of the same.

I believe it to be 6 :)

children start "zerowka" at 6. It is still considered play time and is optional- meaning if your private preschool has "zerowka" you can send your child there and they still can start 1st class. 1st class would be the north american equivalent to grade 2.

benefits? depends on your thought process. In zerowka and 1st class the kids don't learn to read- they learn pre reading and writings skills. I am not the kind of parent who needs to brag that my child read at 4 years old. doesn't make a difference to me--I also remember seeing a special on Norwegian schools and how children that learned later- meaning 6,7 or 8 years old had better reading habits than those that learned younger.

most important to me is that my kids learn to read well, enjoy it and maintain the habits for a lifetime- bragging that my child read at age 3 or 4 means nothing.

I have two girls that have gone to zerowka- I have one in 6th class and one in 1st class (grade 7 and 2 in Canada) we are happy with everything- I do have an interest as to why writing in cursev is learned first then printing- this doesn't make sense to me....but overall we are happy with how they are learning.

I couldn't agree more with this.


I guess it is so they get into the habit and not the habit of printing.

I think we are the opposite way around to you as we have one 5 year old in reception and a 7 year old in Year 3 in England. No problem for the younger one but a very steep hill to climb for the older one.

Is the percentage of children going to Zerowka high or low?