Has anyone done HE for primary then school for secondary?

[bronya]

Interested in experiences, esp how the transition went!

No but have put back child into school after he for a while. Initially was built up from half days to full time. Schoolwere welcoming and child wanted to go back. As long as your child can read and write and do sums they will pick up the work and find the level they need as the other children do. That's where my advice falters really as my son had asd so path was no smooth and worked out badly but didn't want to leave u unanswered

Yes! We are only a few weeks in and my ds is at a small school, but up until now it has been fine. He just started on the first day and got on with it.

Thank you! For various reasons, we may need to do this in the future, and just need to check it's possible! I'm an ex primary school teacher so should be able to ensure my DC reach the required standard (and would involve them in a lot of out of school group activities so they were used to working and playing with others).

I home educated ds1 till he was nine and he started school in yr five, he is now in year ten and doing great, it was absolutely fine :)

I was he until 13 and went into year 9, it was a no trouble transition. Eexcept for p.e, I had never played netball before, only footie, tennis etc and my teachers didn't realise until year 11, despite me telling them I didn't know the rules! That was the only negative. Levels wise we (my brother went into year 8 the following year) were put into top sets for setter subjects and were on track with the syllabus. Hope that helps.

Mine were HEd and went to school for secondary - dd1 into y7, dd2 into y9, ds into y7, and dd3 will hopefully be starting y7 next September. It's been fine :)

Secondary is such a big change from primary anyway (different teachers for each subject, etc), that the schooled kids aren't really at any advantage. And it may just be my kids, but I think HEd children are mostly quite independent and used to taking their own initiative, and that actually serves them very well at secondary - my kids have got on very well, and got lots of compliments from teachers about their maturity and self-motivation.

But I did have to teach dd2 the rules of netball, lol!

My DS was HE'd from 8 to 16 then went to college as he seemed to be determined to do his own thing. After 13-14 it got difficult as he was pulling away from the HE groups and focusing on his college. Even though the last years were hellish I'm glad he stuck to his plans and followed them through as he seems a lot more confident in general now.

We are just into the first half term of year 7 after being HE'd.
It seems to be going well and my dc is happy.
I know competition is seen as a dirty word, but she does appear to get quite a lot of motivation from friendly competition with her class mates.
She is also enjoying learning new subjects and doesn't appear to have had any problems settling in, despite her 'quirky' nature.