My DS is in Year 6 with SATS after Easter. He's going to a grammar school in September, and qualified for this very, very well, which we're obviously very happy about. He worked hard (not private tutoring, just me and him practising at weekends). He was fairly relaxed and confident in his ability, but after reading various bits on the internet I was not so much so, as whilst he has always been very bright, it just seemed that the 11+ was designed to trip them up and panic them. I should not have worried, as given how well he qualified for a place he probably would have been fine without any preparation beyond explaining how the exam worked. He is very good at maths and non-verbal reasoning, and this showed in the 11+ results. However, whilst his spelling and actual reading ability are very good, his comprehension and writing skills are not. This was identified in year 2 when we moved house and he changed school, and has so far been reflected in his English SATS scores.
My question now is, knowing he is going to a grammar and that he qualified so well, do I push him to improve his English SATS scores? On the one hand I want him to be able to keep up in September, and obviously trying to improve his skills now will help with that. On the other hand, I am a little worried that his high qualifying score will mean that his new teachers will expect too much of him, and that if I leave the SATS issue well alone they be able to see from those scores that he does struggle with this and will adjust their expectations accordingly.
What do you think? My instinct is to lay off the pressure now as it will increase in September anyway, but maybe I'm just being a bit lazy!