If you think your Y3 child has suffered the most post covid, academically in realation to slightly older / younger siblings

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I say slightly older and younger as I don't mean those doing exams.

I have 3 DC. Y1 (in a toddler room when covid struck) Y3(just started reception) Y6 (was in Y3 but could read etc and was a bit more independent with learning because of that and very clever)

My middle Y3 child also had a disruptive Y2 with multiple teachers and little continuity. They just seem to have really suffered because of the lack of base education Y1 and R.

Now have a tutor once a week but wondering what else to do. Dh and I happy to help but find it difficult to teach say the basisc / foundation of eg) maths as we didn't do bonds and just "know"!

Just looking for anecdotal feedback on this and anything others found helpful / engaging.

Parents evenings are v short and focus on positives. Going to ask for an independent talk with teacher as think child is really struggling

Thanks in advance

My DC1 is in Y2 now, so started school mid-pandemic having missed three months of nursery and then spent a term of Reception at home. Academically he is fine, I actually think he made more progress at home (stressful as it was for us to juggle!) than he would have done at school and he is at greater depth now in Y2.

However, now my DC2 is is Reception I am realising quite how much DC1 missed out on in terms of extra-curricular and social stuff, and “learning to be at school”. DC2 does Forest School every week, has been in a class assembly, gets to play in the main playground with the other infants rather than being corralled in a separate area, doesn’t have a masked-up teacher, has been to a load of class parties…the list goes on. It makes me a bit sad for DC1 to be honest 😢.

DC1 also has classmates who are really struggling with the behaviour expectations in Y2 and a couple are still going over Phonics - I have no idea how they are going to sit their SATs papers in a couple of months if they can’t read properly. I can imagine Y3 are more severely affected as they missed part of Reception and Y1. It must be so hard for the teachers and the children.

My Y3 seems fine, but he only really missed 1 term of reception as he went in as a keyworker child during his Y1 lockdown (dh and I's profession was shutdown completely in lockdown one, but after that we were playing catch up). He has a consistent best friend who has been his pal since nursery and he was also in keyworker school.

His year group are lovely children, but the academic disparity is massive. Ds is basically a free reader while other kids are really struggling. He is also very sporty so I have signed him up to every activity I can to get him socialising.

I do find it a bit depressing reading how Y3 are the absolute worst. These are decent kids and I worry they are already written off.

Mine are adults but a teacher I know told me the same. Well they said year 8 and 9.

Mine missed a full term of year 7 and a full term of year 8. Massive disruption when just staring high school. However it doesn't seem to have affected him long term. Last year he hit 7 8 and 9s in GCSE and well on the way to get A * at A levels.

It’s a ghost thread from 2023 so the years are wrong now!

I thought the ‘kids’ in first year at uni probably had it hardest.

there are lots of massively effected groups and arguing who had it hardest is a waste of time I reckon