From a Reception class of 45 children, DD is one of about 12 who are going to be put into a year 1 and 2 mixed class next year. I have no worries about her academically but I'm not sure how it's going to work socially. DD struggles at playtime anyway so I'm quite worried about her in a class of older children who she doesn't really know(and she's one of the younger ones in Reception). For one thing, 6 new children going into a well-established class where all the other kids have known each other for 2 years - are they going to feel left out, or even worse, be ostracized? How are they going to make friends, surely the friendships will be set from the previous 2 years? Also, is the difference in Year 1 and 2 children markedly different, socially - will they be talking about stuff and playing games that DD won't understand? I suppose all kids are different though, so there must be some on her level, even if they are a year older? And her handwriting is appalling, although spelling is fab - will she be able to keep up with Year 2 work if her writing is so bad? She can easily make up a story and type it out with some pretty good spelling, but she couldn't hand-write more than a short sentence, and you'd barely be able to read it either (backwards S's, P's the wrong way round, one letter 4 times the size of the previous one etc!) Do they do much writing in Year 2? Her teachers know how bad her writing is, so I suppose I just have to trust that it will be ok for her, or they wouldn't have put her in the class.
I would talk to her teacher about all of this, but I'm not supposed to know about it yet
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Mixing Year 1 and 2 - I'm a bit worried about it.
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Tinkjon · 23/06/2008 13:34
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