Help pls - DD finding it very difficult to adjust to Yr1

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My DD coped very well in YrR, and was well above average in reading and writing skills. Her maths was a bit slower, but I was told not to worry. Have just had a PE with her yr 1 teacher and it's as if they're talking about another child. She's having a lot of difficulty adjusting the the independence needed in YrR and apparently partly misses a lot of lessons as she's faffing about getting her things together. She seems to have made no progress this term, and in fact has gone backwards in some areas. Her written work at school is much below what she can do at home, and it's the same with her reading. Not sure about maths. She's lost all confidence and is very much "rabbit stuck in the headlights". I will be going back to talk about what can be done about this, but at the moment apart from giving her a lot of praise and encouragment they're not doing anything specific. An ideas of how I should approach this? She's really beginning to fall behind, and is very unhappy.

Sorry, meant ...independence needed in Yr1.

Bump! Any thoughts / ideas from parents or teachers very gratefully accepted!

My DD is also y1 and in the past few weeks I have noticed differences in her reading and writing as she is just so scared about making mistakes so just doesn't seem to want to even try sometimes.

There is a boy in her class who seems to think he is better than the rest of the kids and my DD says that he often calls her stupid and not clever so have spoken to teacher who said she is on the case as he has been saying similar things to other children too. Teacher says we need to work on my DDs confidence as she is often scared to say or do things which they know she is capable of.

At home DD is a confident bubbly little girl and she has no problems socially but she has just lost her confidence in school and I wish she was just the same girl that she was in reception.

Not sure where you are but here it is last day before half term so going to try and go over letter sounds and words so when she goes back to school she will hopefully be more confident.

Hi Alphabetti. Yes we've broken up, and I'll be doing quite a lot of basic maths as well as writing with her this week, which is her weakest subject I think. Like your DD, I think the problem is confidence - she's alsways comparing herself unfavourably to other children.
I'm planning to try really bigging her up, and it's agreed if she brings in work she's done at home (which is usually better than the school work) her teachers will make a big fuss of it. I don't really know what to do about the lack of organisational skills though!

find out more about what has changed. my dd is really struggling to adjust to y1 too, although she is at a new school as her old school closed so it is difficult socially for her more than work wise. I have had quite a few chats with her, asking her to describe what is different about her new class, what the kids are like, what the work is like. Our old school did learning through play big time. The new school seem to do it just for nursery and reception, so they have really struggled with that change of teaching methodology as well. Find out from the teachers if the strategies they use are significantly different in R and Y1. If these things are recognised, and open, your daughter may feel more settled about y1. My dd seems to have settled a bit just from having talked it through a bit with me. enjoy half term! good luck[hsmile]

how is it going? hope things have moved forward for her.