My dd is currently in Y3. She achieved a 2A in Reading, 2B in writing and 2B in Maths at the end of year 2.
We were satisfied, although perhaps a little surprised by these results. Our expectations were a little higher as DD has been free reader for most of school career and we have always been assured that she is doing really well at school.
However, I recently attended a meeting as a governor where statistics were being looked at (long, boring story). It came to my attention that my daughter was assessed as being able above her peers on entry to reception and remained so at the end of Reception. From that point on, although she has improved year on year, she has been over taken by a number of the class (shock horror!).
Again, this in itself is not a major issue, I know children have plateaus and development spurts. But it has come to our attention that our daughter has an unreasonable fear of failure eg. came out of school in Y1 in floods of tears as she'd only scored 9/10 in spellings. Was recently completing some maths homework on computer and burst into tears at first sight of first question. Having sat down and talked it through she was capable of answering the question but just panicked. She has a very able brother, which may not help, but we've always been really careful to value their efforts and achievements equally.
She has frequently not wanted to go to school - this has been worse sometimes than other times, eg she found Y1 particularly difficult because she found the teacher difficult. She still reverses some numbers as a consequence of good teaching she received before Y1 being undermined. Y2 was better, but she had a few peer related issues. She often complains of stomach ache and this always relates back to anxiety.
On further investigation it appears that she reacts very badly when put under any kind of perceived pressure - hated the actual KS1 SATs papers, hates working on the computer in class as friends constantly want to compare results etc. She says herself that she then rushes and puts in any old answers to deliberately do badly. Based on evidence before us, we now believe that these issues are having an adverse effect on our DDs achievement.
What do we do now? We have parents evening next week but are planning to book a seperate appointment to discuss these issues.
Is it worthwile pursuing any type of assessment? Being average is fine, we just don't want to ignore the issues.
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Fear of failure/perfectionism
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Decisions · 30/10/2010 14:57
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