only heard of this term last week when dd's 5 teacher said she is on the list, and has been since reception? so, please enlighten me!!

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The teahcer was surprised previous teacher hadn't told me.

Why is there a list?

What difference does it make, anyway?

Surely she just needs to be with her contemporaries and do what they do for now?

She is an excellent reader, and speller apparently, I did kno wthis but nice to be told!

thanks

tis a pile of government old shite ime.

nothing but another list the schools have to keep.

sorry to piss on your bonfire but I wouldn't expect anything from it.

There are quite a few thread on it if you do a search.

hmm, will do a search then.

every year we have to rack our brains to find the statutory 15% who are gifted and talented!!

She is probably well above average at literacy. Doesn't mean they will do anything about it though!

Sorry, that sounded a bit pissy, and it wasnt meant to. I am sure you dd is really good at literacy, and her teachers didn;t have to rack their brains to think of her.

But she won't be separated from her class mates or anything, and it will have little bearing on what they do in the classroom (though they are recognising that they need top set more challengeing work for her).

hth

no prob! I am just pleased to see that they have recognised someting that was very apparent, and as I said I just want her to do what her contemporaries do.

I was above average for some time at primary school, but when put in with the brain boxes at secondary school, I floundered and just could not keep up. So I am glad that it's just a recognition thing.

cant help feeling rather proud of her tho, she has had a tough 2 yrs with her dad leaving, and has suffered emotionaly. I am happy to be the one who encourages her and who tries to give her praise.

When I spoke to the teacher I rather felt like giving the ex a big V sign, as if to say 'see' we are fine !!!

Congratulations to your DD, she is obviously a bright little thing. It is even better that given the last 2 years she has had the upheavel of her dad going, well done to her, you are right to be very proud.

Unforunately, being on the list can vary so much from school to school. Some schools just have a list and do nothing with it, other schools will use it to identify those ready for 'enrichment'. It just varies from school to school. I would ask what the school policy is on 'the list'.

Yes that would be an idea, thanks. The only thing teacher said was that dd knows all her key words for yr 1, 2, and 3, and she's not quite sure what to do with her after that lol.

Yet as long as she is improving and progresing in all areas am not bothered about expanding her brain too much, she's a kid all the same iyswim.

Our school introduced it last year after the old head retired, she was against it for years. They took dd1 (then Yr 2) and others from her year group for a special class once a week. I figured it out from quizzing dd and then they told me at the next teacher meeting months later.

They did various interesting activities together, led by the new dynamic assistant head. DD1 liked it and regarded it as one of her Clubs, like French. I don't think it's really necessary for dd, but I've heard it argued that they need their chance to shine, without being made fun of-confidence building as much as brain expansion. I did notice some of the other children who were less confident got a boost from it.

Now dd1 has gone to juniors, I ran into the unpaid MUM (!) who organises the club for them, they apparently do their own assessment, although they did get a list of names from the Infants-but no surnames so they are a bit confused! (I could tell them they don't need surnames, there is only one of those names in the year).