I have a summer-born son, 6, who is struggling in Year 1. The teachers have started an IEP, he works on a separate table to help him concentrate, and we are getting a referral letter from the school nurse to take to GP, to get him assessed by a paediatrician (sp?!).
Academically (and it's a very academically focussed school), he can do the work well, especially reading and maths. But emotionally and socially, he just seems to be, and act, much more like the Reception children - ie, jiggling around during sports. He is drawn to younger kids.
I was just wondering - should/could I hold him back a year so he repeats Y1 and is then the oldest in his class for the rest of his academic life? I don't know if it's a good idea or completely terrible (please say!), but it might be one way of giving him an advantage, or a chance to find a place where he really fits in with children who are, emotionally at least, his "own age".
I'm so worried he'll be dogged by the same problems (distracted, easily bored, easily teased) for the rest of his school-life, and now seems like the only chance i'll have to do this. I wish I had kept him back a year when starting Reception, so he started when he was 5.3 instead of 4.3, but i didn't realise then the extent of his problems.
What do you think? Thank you.