Dd is in y5 in a school in special measures due to very progress and a whole heap of other issues.
At her last parents evening (January) I raised my concern that they were not setting work appropriately for her and she needed challenging. I was told her level was 4c and therefore the work was at the right level. I points out that she rarely gets anything less than full marks and once completed the work either helps others or does little jobs like tidying the classroom. I couldn't do anything about this last year as they had no class teacher and a steam of supply teachers.
Her teacher has been great since then and she is set work separately from the class and given different homework. They are still working at getting to the stage where she can't do the work though and she is currently been given level 6 work and getting it all right so much so the teacher couldn't mark her class work the other day in maths as she had forgotten the answer book. After dd had done the work and given it to be checked the teacher pointed out what she thought was an error in her answer, dd pointed something else out which showed she hadn't made an error and the teacher said she couldn't mark it as no answer with her for that question and dd's answer looked about right.
Obviously they want to support her and are being judged on this (dd's books are looked at by the inspectors for top, middle, bottom type things) but I worry about what they will do with her next year. Lots of support e.g additional staff has been put into place for other children to help them reach their targets and level 5 etc so what is the motivation for them to get dd who is already above this to keep on progressing?
What do other schools do with dc who are at least level 6 in y 5 to continue to support them?
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