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Tution offered at school - Y5 -

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CeciC · 29/03/2011 08:13

Today my DD1, Y5, come home with a letter from school offering tution for Maths. It is funded by the LEA, so no costs to us, and it is 10 hours of 1-1 tuition with a qualified teacher. My DD1 is happy to do it and we don't have a problem either, but my question is to any primary teachers out there, would you offered this tuition to struggling students or pupils in any level?
In theory, DD1 words, she is in the 2nd top group in maths, so she is not strugling and she likes maths anyway.And we had parents evening 2 weeks ago, and no mention of any problems in maths. In my personal opinion, I think she would benefit more with 1-1 literacy tuition as I think she is struggling a little bit there.
In the letter, is mention that this funding is offered to 10 students.
I will ask the teacher this afternoon, when I pick up from school, as just wanted to know other views.

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TheVisitor · 29/03/2011 08:31

My daughter had this recently in Year 7 and she benefited enormously. She went up a whole level in maths.

alegre · 29/03/2011 09:57

I've done some 1:1 and I can only say that, from my experience, teachers don't necessarily choose the weakest pupils. It may be that, although she isn't struggling with maths, the teacher feels that she perhaps has more potential. Sometimes the teacher chooses a pupil who has only just missed a level by a few questions. Has your daughter done some tests recently?

What I've sometimes found is that, although the basic concepts of addition, subraction, multiplication, division are sound, a child has difficulty applying this knowledge in other areas. For example, maybe there's an issue with interpreting word problems and knowing which operation to use.

From what you say, it doesn't sound like your daughter has any problems with maths, so it would seem that the school just want to move her on that little bit further in her understanding. You should be a partner in this so you can ask what it is that needs reinforcement. If 1:1 is done as it's meant to be done, the teacher will have made some assessment and will have identified areas that need to reviewed in order to consolidate your daughter's knowledge.

lovecheese · 29/03/2011 10:09

Hi ceciC, my DD also in yr5 did 1:1 maths tuition last term. She is very much in the middle ability-wise for maths, however her KS1 sats score indicated that she should be doing better than she was - hence the offer of extra help to appease OFSTED! For her it wasn't the best thing as unfortunately the teacher doing it was someone who DD didn't particularly like, but that is just a personality clash. I would say go for it, it is good that she has been chosen, and please instill in her that it is not because she is struggling, but simply to bump her up a bit as she obviously has the potential.

IndigoBell · 29/03/2011 10:41

Tuition is normally offered to kids who aren't predicted to make 2 levels of progress between Y2 and Y6.

So if she was a 3 in Y2 they need to make sure she gets a 5 in Y6....

So she can be weaker in literacy - therefore she's not targeted to be a level 5, and they're happy with her being a level 4....

The school doesn't get to decide any of this. The money has been given to them for a specific reason, and they can only use it for that reason.

mustdash · 29/03/2011 10:46

As Indigo says, that's how it was in our school too. A good opportunity for your DD though, and not necessarily something to worry about.

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CeciC · 29/03/2011 11:49

Thank you for all the replies.
My DD is very willing to do the tuition, and I don't have any issues either. I am happy to hear that not just low achievers get it.
I know they did some maths test before the half term, and she was trying to tell me her score, but it was very confusing (for me and her) what they real score was. But she said that some questions she didn't asnwer correctly.
The letter said that after signing for the tuition ( I can't belived that any one would not take the oportunity, but refusing the tuition is an option)a list of objectives will be sent to me.
I can't remember her levels at KS1, but I don't think it was level 3, I think it was more 2a.
Once again thank you very much for the replies. Hopefully DD will take full advantage of the help offered to her. And I will ask the teacher if there is anything we can do at home to help to make the most of the tuition

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