To think ofsted means nowt and year 1s should recognise numbers to 20?

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DS3 is in yr 1 at an outstanding school. It's a job share in a mixed ages class yr1/2 with an NQT doing Monday-weds and another teacher doing Thursday/Friday. It's been a fairly disastrous year and the whole cohort seem behind. DS can't recognise any numbers past 10 consistently. I'm going to do a whole lot more with him but there's no SEN and none of the class seem to be any better. Most kids have been on the same reading books since last spring and haven't moved up. A significant number have moved down. The Thursday/Friday teacher is moving into another classroom so we will have cover teachers until Feb half term. Do we bite the bullet and pay for private? We could just about swing it. His older brothers did state until secondary and did fine but this school seems chaotic.

Most children do well in state school

Most children do OK in state school.

Over double the amount of children do ‘well’ in private schools (if ‘well’ is defined by over a grade 7 at GCSE) than their state school counterparts.

I wonder if the 30 or so out of every 100 who didn’t achieve that just had disinterested parents.

@shruggingitoff I'd have loved to have sent him to a Montessori school but there aren't any near us.

Choices for private are a prep that feeds most of the top private senior schools including the one his elder brothers attend or a very posh country prep that isn't pushy but is full of parents we wouldn't exactly fit in with. Country prep goes to 13 which is appealing but the behaviour of the kids is not!