DS is in year 8 and we received his AM3 report. For maths his behaviour was excellent, his homework good but effort was poor. He has never received poor before in anything so this was a huge shock.
I've spoken to the Head of Department and she said that he needs to ask more questions which I totally get but the main issue is he is no where near his target grade. His target grade is a 9 which his maths teacher has said that ability wise he won't achieve and his currently attainment (a 6) is where he is realistically should be. He did very well in his SATs which is what his target grade is based on but he was having a good day and was given extra time as he is on the SEN register due to his anxiety.
They have said he is a very nervous pupil when it comes to Maths and I think the mark of poor is just going to make this worse. She said he works fine in lessons but his test scores need to be higher but if he hasn't got the natural ability and he's already nervous then how is this possible?
He's really upset and feels like he's useless at maths and I'm just not sure what to do, if anything? It's like he has an impossible task and the 'poor' mark is counterproductive?
Does anyone have any advice please?
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Jirarchi · 08/07/2019 20:05
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