Sorry for the this but i'm blooming fuming!!! Year 6 SATS!!!

[littlelegsmum]

Ok, so after fighting the school and endless meetings and phone conversations where DH & I have been told DD does NOT need any help and support in class, where we've been told DD does NOT have an SEN, where 'apparently' DD is understanding everything given to her and regularly helps other children in English & Maths . . I have found out that she's going to be given a reader?!?! DD is 'apparently' doing age appropriate work, without difficulty or any help needed . . You may ask why i'm making a fuss that she will be given a helper but there is a HUGE discrepancy in what they have been telling us for months and what i've just been told on the phone!!!

Can I request they do not provide her with one? Can I complain to someone about this?

I want a true reflection of DD's abilities/work etc and was under the impression this had to be a daily thing, not just a 'making the school look better' mark.

There were 3 classrooms.

All had about 10 adults and all were one to one readers.

The bulk of Y6 were in the hall.

There is what is called a nurture group generally in the week for the Y6 who struggle with numeracy and literacy but they do not have one to one readers. It would be impossible.

All the lower school and upper school TA's were used.

Feenie is right in her comments, must be normal classroom practice for child to have a reader for the whole paper... Do your Y6 class normally have 10 adults to read to them Collision?

I am a HT and it makes me really cross when most of us keep very strictly within the rules and strive to make all of the process less stressful for the children, and others don't, or hype it up to such an abnormal and exhausting week for the children. Grrr.

Sounds like an appropriate use of readers then - you were in a separate room, away from the rest of the cohort. They don't have to have one to one readers normally, but be used to receiving that kind of help on a daily basis. The form used states that it has to be normal classroom practice to have reading help - that doesn't have to mean daily one to one reading help in Maths.

Do all the children who had readers get help to read Maths questions in a normal classroom situation? If they don't, that's the bit that falls down and can be malpractice.

It does sound like an unusually large number of children who have to have reading help in Maths on a daily basis.

Collision does say that it's impossible for them to have that level of support normally, so I'd judge that to not be 'normal classroom practice' and therefore not assign 1-1 readers. All children stil can put their hand up and ask for help with any unfamiliar words (to be read to them).