Help with school...

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Hi everyone, my son is 6 years old and can read better than most teenagers I know. He is great with numbers and computers, basically anything with buttons.
At the beginning of the school year I mentioned to 4 different teachers that I thought my son may be gifted (I researched after my family implied my son may have ADHD or Autism, he may have but it doesn't seem to fit) I heard nothing from them and at the end of the year I ended up in a meeting with the Head Mistress after some trouble with another child in my sons class. I explained about what I'd researched and told her I told 4 different teachers, and the message never got back to the Head. She said leave it with her.
Whats my next step?? What do I need to do? Is there anything I need to educate myself on? Please any advice is great.
Thank you in advance, and I hope you're all keeping well in this strange time xXx

What would you like them to do differently, OP?

What are you expecting them to do? You think he is exceptionally bright or gifted. You have told them. I'm not sure what you are expecting to happen.

If you're on Facebook search for the group "parenting High potential"

Did you have a parents evening or end of year report? Do you feel that your DS is finding his schoolwork interesting or is he bored?

Obviously it's been an unusual year, but normally you can expect differentiated work if you feel he's finding it too easy.

However, bear in mind the school won't have many resources to deal with a gifted child so you may need to take it upon yourself to make sure he's being stretched. Eg reading books with him and discussing them, taking him to museums etc. This website is good for maths problems:
nrich.maths.org/

I am asking for advice from people who have been through this with school. What are the next steps? What should I be asking them to do?
Thank you to the last two commenters (sorry i don't know how to tag names)
I will look up the Facebook group. And thank you for the advice about reading with him and taking him to museums. And I'll take a look at the maths website.
I do honestly think he's gifted, I can't explain how much he amazes me with the things he can master, and read. He remembers things word for word, I mean conversationally. I don't know, I was genuinely asking for advice, didn't want to seem stupid or however my post may have been taken xXx

I am asking for advice from people who have been through this with school. What are the next steps? What should I be asking them to do?

Not much, tbh. It depends on your school to an extent, but the new national curriculum doesn't allow us to teach content outside of that which is prescribed for the yeargroup, so all we can do is try to set tasks that further deepen their understanding of the current year's learning, with the aim of mastering it. The school might set trips etc up for the more able kids, but then whether he fits that category or not will be decided by the teachers. I had to have an uncomfortable conversation with a parent last year who felt her son's reading was exceptional- it truly wasn't, but she didn't have much to compare it to. She was judging it based on the words he could decode and the memory of the text, but realistically it's the comprehension that's the real indicator. Obviously, I can't say whether your son is gifted or just more able, but rest assured the teachers will spot it if he is. You could ask them what they'd recommend you work on with him. Museums and other trips out are always an excellent idea though, regardless of ability.

Introduce him to lots of different puzzles. Jigsaws obviously, and tangrams (when I was little we had Multipuzzle, don't know whether you can still get that, but it's basically tangrams).

Get some simple origami sets. Oh, and paper aeroplanes. Someone gave us a box of printed papers to make into paper aeroplanes of varying complexity.

Mastermind, the game with coloured pegs - I have No Idea whether that's still around. Ooh yes, it is.

From the Bright Minds catalogue, among other places: Rush Hour is great fun, and a similar one called Tipover. They say from age 8 but I think there's a junior version too. I loved Tantrix which says it's for 6-plus (the name is because it's got knots in it, nothing dodgy ). I haven't tried the new laser mirror puzzle, though I did the online thing I think it's based on 20 years ago and found it enjoyably challenging.

As he's confident with reading, wordsearches. Crosswords if you think his vocabulary's up to it. As he gets older you can introduce cryptic crosswords - I was solving the anagram ones in my parents' crossword at the age of 11. There are puzzle books galore on the supermarket magazine racks. Junior Sudoku maybe?

Oh, teach him rhymes. Lots of verse. Allan Ahlberg, Julia Donaldson, Edward Lear, nursery rhymes, Lewis Carroll. Don't be afraid of longer poems (up the airy mountain, down the rushy glen). See if he can remember them (the shorter ones first, obviously, and don't push it).

And of course there's always chess. Can't remember when I started to learn but I was still at primary school when my 3-years-younger sister started to seriously challenge me...

Do you have access to a piano or similar? If he likes pushing buttons he might enjoy the idea of making tunes. An electronic version will do a lot of the hard work for him

and just to add, a lot of children who can decode really well for their age struggle with comprehension; so talk about what he reads and use questions like "why do you think they did that?" or "how do you think they felt?" or "what do you think might happen next?"

Everyone thinks their child is gifted and talented. The school may need more from you than he's got a good memory and can read well.

I didn't mean Bright Minds, I meant the Happy Puzzle Company (we've used both)

School have been great for us (state). She's 5, rising 6 but free reading and they give her between year 2-4 maths in her classroom setting. They use Nrich a lot with her and another local University has run courses for teachers on gifted children so they use their resources too.
They spoke a lot about comprehension when she first started but once they knew she understood, they just went with her.
We did let them make their own assessment. If you've mentioned it to school on 4 separate occasions and they haven't picked up on it, I'd be wondering whether I was seeing something different to them. Her reports throughout the year have been an evolving realisation. If they haven't mentioned strong academic potential on his reports, again I'd be asking what they are seeing at school compared with what I see at home.