My son is moving from Yr1 to Yr2, and has just been selected to be in a mixed Yr 1/2 class, for Sept 09.
When he first joined the school he was in a mixed YrR/1 class (10 YrRs / 20 Yr1s), this year he has been in a straight Yr 1 class (30 Yr1s). He has just been selected from a year of 100 to be in a mixed Yr 2/1 class (10 Yr2s / 20 Yr1s) from Sept 09.
So in other words he will have spent all three years of his infants school with predominantly Yr1 piers.
This doesn't feel right to me.
I do not have any strong opinion either way about mixed classes. But to be under the pier influence of the same majority age group/cohort for 3 years (and educational env) does not seem right and is puzzling, considering that there were another 90 children in his year who could have been chosen to be in the mixed class instead of him (50 of his year have NOT been in mixed classes yet).
(We were told verbally when he started that the school does not put children into mixed classes more than once through their 3 infants school years (other parents were told this also). (So there is a 'loss of trust' issue also). (There is no written policy on this).
We asked the (new) HT why specifically our son had been selected from the 100 year 1 pupils for the mixed class and the HT would/could not give us any justification.
(My son is also SEN (for reading)).
Can someone please advise??
The HT is not giving any impression that they are likely back down on this, or move him to a straight year (there are already 30 in each of the non-mixed classes).
(Changing school for us is going to be complex as we have another child about to start his YrR at the same school this Sept).
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Debs123 · 18/07/2009 07:49
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