Hi my DSyr 11 is bright IQ score puts him in the top 5% but lazy/reluctant and is also very hindered by dyslexia that slows down his writing but he is an avid reader incredibly articulate with awesome comprehension and an almost photographic memory.
He's always under performed at school partly because school has never supported him. Last term we got really fed up as he was becoming anxious and unhappy wrote a few stroppy letters to the school and now they support him a bit more. Unsurprisingly miraculously his predicted GCSE grades have suddenly jumped from a few C's and mainly D's to 5-6 B's and C's! Hes recently received some GCSE results and course work and all are B's.
He's too late to apply to the school 6th form (you needed B's so he was advised last year not too bother) but is applying to our local 6th form college with a good reputation and a switched learning support dept he has chosen three AS subjects RS (he's already passes the GCSE) English Lit predicted a B but apparently one of the best in the school at it but dyslexia will reduce mark to a B, history predicted a B already has this in coursework. He's also now predicted a B in geog he hates it, a B in maths ditto and a B in additional science he's good at physics but weak in chemistry this is why it will be a B. So none of those are suitable for an AS subject.
We've looked on the 6th form college website and he likes the look of Classical Civ. (he's done it before and was good at it) politics (he's from a family of very political trendy lefties), archaeology which will compliment well with history and RS and apparently will get him out of the classroom which would be good for him or philosophy.
He has no idea what he what to do although loves history and we're (maybe wrongly) not even thinking about an RG university.
Any thoughts on those mentioned?
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Trippingthelightfantastic · 13/03/2013 09:22
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