My DS is in reception. He is very happy at school - which is the most important thing.
However, they don't seem to have much of a plan in place for him. Not G&T (not sure who labels them - are they tested or do schools decide?) but the school have told me that he is reading beyond the level of any of the other children there (they go up to Y3).
He had ORT books for a while to make sure he was understanding what he was reading but does seem to - reads with emotion when reading aloud, understands punctuation, can predict what might happen next, talk about how characters feel etc...
So now they just let him pick books he likes from the library and seem to have stopped monitoring his reading altogether. They never seem to listen to him read and aren't checking what books he is reading as he keeps coming home with some of his favourites again and again. When the rest of his class work in reading groups - he reads alone.
If he were only a little ahead this would be fine, but they are saying he reads better than the Y3s so we could be facing another 3 years of this - it worries me that he is being left to his own devices so much.
Also the more they just leave him to read (he tends to pick non-fiction, mainly science and history) the more the gap between him and the class is widening in terms of general knowledge too as he remembers everything he reads.
He is also good at maths but not extraordinary so, and the school deal with this better since the range of ability across the class seems to be wider so they all have slightly different work anyway. His writing is fairly scruffy but his spelling and punctuation is apparently also ahead of what they expect in YR.
They have a teacher and TA for 20 children so I appreciate they can't teach each child individually but would also like to find a way for DS to be involved with the work the others are doing but at his own level.
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wandymum · 15/05/2013 12:13
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