Hi
Firstly I promise I am not being PFB but I really feel that my Y1 DD has been put in an ability group too low for her. She is also still on pink level reading.
Now I certainly don't think she is a genius but she is capable of much more than the school feel. For example with her reading I have been doing yellow level with her at home and she can read these books fairly easily as well as answer comprehension questions on them too. I have written this numerous times in her reading records but to no avail - they just say DD is on the right level for her!
With her spellings - she is getting the lower ability spellings and yet she gets all her spellings right every single week in her tests. I certainly feel that she would be able to do the spellings that the higher level group get.
In maths the teachers says she can count up to 30 and yet I know she can count up to 100!
I spoke to the teacher at length about this at parents evening but it was basically a stalemate where she refused to believe me that DD could do these things and says that DD is not showing this ability in school. I just feel very upset and frustrated that DD is being held back and yet I KNOW she can do more. But I can't seem to get the teacher to see this or even give her a chance to do some higher level work.
So what do I do? Should I just keep doing higher level work at home with DD (as I have been doing), should I push it with the teacher or should I take it higher and speak to the head of KS1 about it. I am just at a loss and so worried that DD has effecitvely been "labelled" as low ability and the teacher seems very blinkered as to what she can/can't achieve.
Also if my DD really is not performing at school (and yet she can at home) how on earth can I change this or help her?
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I genuinely think DD has been put in too low a group - how can I get the teacher to see this!
averywoomummy · 01/11/2013 15:04
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