DD taken out of class and asked questions

[Shelley08]

hi all
my daughter come out of school today saying she was taken out of class and they were asking her questions like “what’s your favourite colour” “can you throw a ball” “can you catch a ball” and getting her to do reading and writing. She said she doesn’t know why they’re doing this and we’re both confused. Any ideas why this might’ve happened?

It’s sounds like the questions you get on a development check

How old is she?

How old is she? Ask her teacher.

Eye test?

She’s 7, I’ve messaged the teacher we’re awaiting a reply. DD is quite anxious about this.

Maybe her teacher has concerns that she has dyspraxia or something similar. And they just did some routine checks to see if need to refer her and contact you

It's probably something simple like a student teacher doing research.

The teacher has got back to me it was a dyslexia assessment.

Tbh I wouldn’t be that happy about that happening without you being told about it first. Even if only to managed your DD’s anxiety about it

Yeah you definitely should have been told first

They may be screening every student in the year for dyslexia. This would be good practice.

Wow. Have they discussed concerns about her learning with you? They should have, and told you about the assessment. Do you get a report?

Quite standard at that age. They'd do it for the whole class to screen for signs of dyslexia.

What a good school, proactively screening for dyslexia. Not many do. Well done them.

Why would your daughter be anxious about something like this? It’s totally within the realms of what schools do. Reception baseline in reception, EYFSP at end of reception, various other assessments and checks throughout primary, etc etc etc.

My daughter’s primary school used to do a dyslexia check annually from year 3-6. I assume it encompassed dyscalculia and dyspraxia as the language was somewhat vague and the ball throwing sounds like it might be for dyspraxia. We were told about it in advance though.

I’m not sure I even bothered to tell my daughter (who is dyslexic and was diagnosed early in year 3) but she’s never commented on any tests.

Doesn’t sound like the school handled it well though or is she a naturally anxious child?

We’ve always just dressed up this sort of thing as fairly boring routine stuff. With funny stories about people being hit in the head by the ball or fainting at the sight of a needle or whatever. MIL is quite handy as she’s had some bizarre tests since the 1950’s so that raises a laugh. I remember a scoliosis test and being super anxious initially that I’d been called back. Then giving my head a wobble and telling myself that at least I wouldn’t be wondering if my mad as a bat gym teacher had missed something.

My daughter is quite observant so when she saw that no one else was being taken out of class and asked questions, naturally she become a bit anxious. My daughter is a bit of a worrier, and is quite shy, she doesn’t like to have the attention all on her and she said when she came back to class all her friends were asking her questions. This is why she became anxious about it, she typically likes to know if something like this is happening so she can be prepared for it.