This is a genuine question and is not a boasting my stealth thread.
Please don't reply if you believe it to be such.
Have namechanged btw.
Dd is in preschool.
I had a word with her preschool practitioners last week about transition issues and spoke to them a little bit about my fears for her. She is the only one from her preschool to go to her primary school and she has a few 'issues' with initiating friendships.
They said that yes, it is an issue, but because dd isn't upset at all by a lack of close friendships they aren't concerned. They said that it is in fact dd's choice not to play with others and that she can play perfectly nicely when she chooses to.
The conversation then got on to dd's 'ability'.
Each of the practitioners (3) said that she's a very bright little girl and that she'll cope well with primary in fact, she'll be "top of the class".
Now, I'm very about this as although I know she's quite canny, I wouldn't have said that she's particularly bright, or certainly not "top of the class" bright.
She doesn't know all her letters, she can't recognise all her numbers, she can't count beyond 10 etc.
OTOH she has got extensive language skills, quite a logical brain and the memory of an elephant!
So, my question is this - in the absence of knowing the 'academics', how can they be so sure that she's "a very clever little girl".
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Practitioners - how can you tell if a child is 'clever'
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noagenda · 13/06/2011 00:26
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