So the background is that I have a 9 year old DD currently at the end of Y4. We moved house last year and she moved schools as a result. At the end of Y3 she was a level 3a/4c across all 3 subjects and was on the Gifted and Talented register. Her previous school had excellent provision for children who needed more challenging work - special reading and literacy groups taught separately in a group of 6 etc. The new school is half the size, has no G&T register and seems to be struggling to provide suitable work.
She was put into a mixed Y4/5 class and because the children are seated to together by ability she was put with mainly Y5 children and consequently has friendship groups are all Y5. She has progressed 2 levels this year (compared to 3 last year) and has come top in every subject (top out of both Y4 and Y5). In the recent optional SATs she completed both the Y5 and Y6 reading tests.
It seems that she has already covered al the Y5 work ( according to her teacher) so now I am wondering what happens next?
DD has already asked me ( unprompted) if she can just skip Y5 and go straight into Y6. She is getting bored academically and she is also concerned that when all her friends go to secondary school she will be left behind in Y6.
So any suggestions as to what I should do ? I have read several interesting threads about jumping a year written by both parents and "jumpers". Many of the concerns seem to centre around being able to integrate socially but as my daughter has already settled in with friends from the year above this worries me less. She is emotionally and physically mature for her age.
However it seems that the state sector is not geared up for this kind of move and she may have to repeat Y6 which rather defeats the object.
At suggestions on how to approach this.
The school has just failed Ofsted and has been put in Special Measures. One of the reasons for failure was that children were failing to progress sufficiently. This doesn't apply to my DD but clearly all resources are now being targeted at this aspect. When I enquired about additional resources for more gifted children I was pretty much laughed out of school.
Thanks in advance.
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