Our youngest who is an end of August baby so always youngest in year, is very bright. Her primary head said she had never met a child so bright in her years of teaching. She is now year 8 and almost without fail gets 100% in any test across all subjects bar IT/Music?PE etc
She came home yesterday saying her German teaching had told her she was level 9 already and had got full marks in a mock GCSE. All her teachers are hassling her to chose them as an option for GCSE(even the DT teacher)
My question is what we do. I know we need to speak to school about how they make the next 3 years meaningful for her but I am not sure, with a class of 30 to manage, why she would ever be a priority when there are kids needing lots of support. Would we be letting her down to leave her cruising along.
We both work fulltime, only have one car and are not earning private school wages. School is a short walk from our house and all 3 kids are currently there. 2 older kids have not been privately educated and oldest would definitely have benefitted from that. She is currently stuggling to get through GCSEs and we are praying for passes, definitely not looking at 9's, except in languages.
I am very confused and conflicted as to right way to go.
Any suggestions please
Out of interest she is quite a complex child and would describe herself as having social anxiety. She is awaiting paediatric ENT appmt as has misophonia and cannot bear the sound of others eating breathing sniffing etc. So her school results are despite having to work with both hands over her ears(does not want to draw attention with headphones)