Kip McGrath

[Akica111]

Dd was assessed and had her first lesson. I was shocked to see her homework. She is an able child at year2, assessment had shown that she works at a level one year ahead of her age group. They have given her work at reception level. Are they intentionally trying to hold her back, just to take more money out of us? It costs me 25GBP to pracrice how much is half of 14 and 390-1.She is way beyond this in her school work. Has anyone had a similar experience?

Why are you sending her to a tutor. She clearly isn't struggling? Are you wanting to hot house her? It seems pretty weird to me sending a year 2 child to Kip McGrath unless they are on the special needs register.

I send my son to Kip McGrath for help with his hand writing. He was only getting 10 minutes one to one at school a week and I felt he needed more help. My son maths and reading is strong, but he really struggles with fine motor skills. My son has a reading age of nine according to Kip McGrath and his maths skills are reasonably good. I would not send him to a tutor if he had average hand writing.

He was assessed by an NHS occupational theraphist as having fine motor skills on the 3rd percentile, which is too high a standard for intervention from an NHS OT. I found that me trying to get my son to practice handwriting was a nightmare.

My son doesn't get homework from Kip McGrath. He is too young. We pay £22 a session and what he gets is 1 hour and 20 minutes of a mixture of activites. He spends most of the time doing hand writing, but does a bit of Maths and spelling because he cannot concentrate on handwriting for the whole session.

You must talk to the kip mcgrath teacher about this. Give them a call and let them know they will be more than willing to change her work.

I'd also query what you hope to achieve from a tutor, if she's already ahead at school . You're just going to be paying money to have her cover things which the school will then cover again in a year or so, for free. If you have a specific aim in mind, like private school entrance examas, then I think you need to be very clear with the tutors what you are wanting to get from the arrangement.

Es, she was offered a scolarship and she has to maintain the standard at that school.We are aiming top girls secondary schools

If she is needing Kip McGrath to maintain an artifically inflated standard then do you really think you are doing her any favours?

It seems a hell of a lot of pressure to put a small child under. If her natural intelligence is not scholarship standard then isn't it more humane to accept it? Even if it means transferring to one of those common state schools.

How long would you keep the tutoring up for? What will you do when she goes to university and then has to learn independently? Will she rebel against the awful pressure you are putting her under when she is a teenager and exams matter? Or will she develop anorexia like so girls do at top private schools?

Akica11 - with Kip mcgrath homework - they start them off simple as not to put the child off and each week they get a little harder. So it is right to start her off with achievable worksheets. It will get more complex over the next couple of months.
They know what they are doing.

Akica11 - my son is starting kip this saturday. agree with what melissa said i'm sure its just getting them used to the way kip works.

My DD is 2wks in and loves it already. She is in Yr.3 and in top streams for all her subjects at school but I want her to be challenged, which I do not feel she is being at school. KM will hopefully do this and I shall assess this when we review things just before summer hols. You need to give it a while to see if there are any changes because only with time will the benefits, or non benefit, become apparent.

p.s DD has always wanted private tutoring, in her mind it is akin to being rewarded!