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Pitchounette · 21/01/2010 11:40

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Pitchounette · 21/01/2010 13:32

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lljkk · 21/01/2010 18:45

I think that DD was similar in Y1.
DD is bright but she's not spectacularly ahead of the rest of her year group (total of 50 or so children). So the school can put DD in small groups of other top ability children and assign them all challenging enough work. DD and another very bright child probably usually produce the best quality work, they are self-motivated enough to do that.

I would guess that in a very small school the school has to get creative in stretching the brightest children; during Y2 DD worked with a mixed group of Y3-Y4s for literacy, for instance.

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Pitchounette · 21/01/2010 20:33

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lljkk · 22/01/2010 13:06

Some words of experience:
I was identified as Highly Gifted at age 7 (lots of things I was excelling at, and a high IQ test).
My (immensely proud) parents moved me from my local (socially deprived area) school to another school (in posh area) with specialist programmes for the Gifted.

And it was pants. The extension work didn't interest me much but much worse, I was badly bullied and only bumbled along academically. I was miserable for years; it took years after I left for me to recover and finally start to excel academically again.

Is your son happy at his current school? Because based on my own personal experience, I would not upset that.

I currently have the problem that DS1 is excelling in spite of hating going to the school -- social issues partly to blame. It's tricky because DD is happy at same school, and I can't see how DS1 would be that different at another primary.