Just after some advice from teachers if I may?
DS1 has just gone into Y2. He's a relatively good reader...no idea of what level he's on as they seem to do it differently in his school but he's reading chapter books like Horrid Henry, Mr Majeika, Enid Blyton (Wishing Chair etc). He reads in what I would call a different way and always has done...he simply can't sound words out at all. He seems to see words as whole units and can't see the separate bits in them so if he comes across a word he doesn't know he will guess at it in context of the story and I'll correct him if wrong. Probably completely the wrong way of doing it but it seems to be working. In Y1 he was in the second from top set...his teacher told me that she kept him there deliberately because although he could have coped academically with the stuff the top set were doing she didn't want to push him.
It's become apparent this week that his new teacher has now sorted the literacy and numeracy sets out and he's in the top set for both...well at least he's with all the children who were in the top set last year so Im assuming he is! The thing is (and Im aware that this is going to sound awful) I really don't want him to be. He is a complete stress head and I know that he's going to spend all his time worrying that he can't do the work...he came home in tears yesterday because he thought he only had to do 1 thing and it turned out he had to do 2 things! There are some mega bright children in his class and quite honestly there is no way he could keep up with them. Don't get me wrong I know this is an important year and I want him to work hard but at the same time he's 6 years old and shouldn't be getting worried cause he can't work as quick or as well as some of the others.
Would I be completely daft to mention it to his new teacher before the groups have all got settled?