Unsure whether my DS is getting the best help

[Betti]

My DS is yr1 but is at level 2a for his maths and 2b for literacy and reading. He gets some intervention for maths with some other more able children in his class but he even finds this 'easy' and 'a bit boring'. He's at the local primary school. I'm worried that he will lose interest. What can I do about this? I don't think the school have a G & T policy.

If the school has taught your ds up to 2a in maths at the end of the second term of year 1, then they are teaching well ahead of the curriculum. Do you know why he finds it boring? Generally in maths the school will teach something then ask him to do questions on it. Is it the explanations which he is finding boring because he has got it, then the teacher still goes on to explain it to the others or is it that he does not like doing the work at the end or is it because he is doing work he has learnt previously? I think you need to find out where the problem lies before speaking to the school.

My DS is also year 1, working at level 3b in maths and 3c in English. With maths he is currently working with a year 2 group (it's a yr1/2 class) but he doesn't really enjoy it so his teacher is looking at keeping him in the year 1 group and stretching him from there instead if he doesn't settle soon. They often have to make up their own questions so if everyone else was say working on subtraction in the 20s he would write his own questions in the hundreds, or using negative numbers etc. Of when they did number bonds to 10 he did number bonds to 100. DS doesn't find the maths he is doing hard and I'm sure if he were hot housed he could do more than he is actually doing but as he is progressing well I'm not unduly concerned. He does get to use the school's online maths program which keeps him engaged.