I wonder if you can help me deciphering all this?
Concerns have been raised at school about how to support my son into the next year at school. (He is coming to the end of his first year at school.) I have had a meeting with the teacher and assistant head. He is very sensitive and it hasn't got better over his first year at school. He is emotionally behind his peers and doesn't socialise in the same way (but is popular!)
Apparently he is very imaginative at drama, organising kids into scenarios with ability beyond his years. He is good at maths and model building. I have no idea by how much. He likes to explain the different meanings of words in class he comes across which has attracted attention from staff. His memory is excellent. I have begun to notice his questioning of adults in situations that interest him...the space museum about planets, the beekeeper at a bee exhibition we were at, an exhibition about blood cells...
He's probably just a bright little boy. He was an early recogniser/reader of numbers and simple words and signs. But now shows no amazing aptitude for reading or writing. He was an early talker.
Should I mention anything to the teacher about my suspicions that maybe he is showing some signs of being differently able in some areas? Mind you what would she do differently?! She might roll her eyes!
(you will notice I am choosing my language carefully!)
I wouldn't have been exploring this but for being called for the meeting at school and the concerns raised by his extreme behaviour at a recent event.
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Bibbit · 05/06/2011 23:41
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