Dd has just started yr 5. She was doing very well last term and her teacher assessment put her at 5C for reading, which is a way ahead of where she needs to be at the end of year 4, so I thought all was well.
However, this term she mentioned that she was in a lower group for reading and being given easier work which she was finding frustrating. I didn't think too much of it until yesterday when she brought her spellings home to learn. The first two were "dog" and "dogs", and the hardest one on there was "trolleys". She said she asked the teacher if she could take the more difficult list that another table had been given as she knew all those words already, but he said "no, they'll get harder as the term goes on".
She is understandably feeling quite humiliated and I am just bewildered.
Has anyone experienced anything like this in primary school, or got any ideas on the best approach to take with the teacher?
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PastConditional · 07/10/2015 15:03
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