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Do children miss a lot of class education when they are pulled out to do special catch up work?

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SweetSkull · 04/11/2013 21:00

I don't know exactly how to write this down. My dd (6) always were slow at literacy and now from Y2 she has been pulled out of class to do some catch up work one by one or in small groups. I had just done a CAF for dyslexia with SENCO and probably this will happen more often (I think).
But will she be missing out on what the other children are learning in class when she is catching up out of class?

I know there isn't probably other way to fit extra support for children like her and I am not complaining, just trying to understand how school works.

TIA

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Biscuitsneeded · 05/11/2013 18:11

My son goes to extra literacy in year 4 because he didn't make sufficient progress in Y3. I was all for it until he told me he is missing 2 out of 4 maths lessons to do this! I mentioned my concerns to the teacher and she agreed it wasn't ideal but said the help was only available at those times. I asked her to monitor his maths in case it was being affected, but so far he is still doing well. My son is an able boy with Level 4s at the end of Year 3 for maths and reading, but a 3c in writing , hence the intervention. However, the other boys (they are of course all boys, depressingly) who are having literacy interventions with him find all aspects of learning quite difficult. I do wonder how it can be helping them to miss half of their maths lessons, but I don't know their parents well enough to say anything and I don't want to sound like I am saying "Well of course it's OK for MY boy, who is good at maths, but not for yours..."

Hulababy · 05/11/2013 18:12

We would never do interventions in play times or lunch times. Our children really do need the time to let put excess energy.

mrz · 05/11/2013 20:28

No ShellyF it lots of primary schools.

kilmuir · 05/11/2013 21:12

My dd had an hour of one to one maths , once a week when she was in year 6. It was after school so we had to agree

ShellyF · 05/11/2013 22:54

Maybe in your area mrz.Not looking to argue with you.Everyone arranges things differentlyand in ways which suit their own schools.
In our school children never miss their regular Numeracy and Literacy sessions.The support they have is in addition to their entitlement within class.Support is provided by TAs and teachers according to need.We use pupil premium money towards funding some of the support.
Timings vary week to week to ensure children are not always missing out on certain areas.
This is not what I expect all schools should do as we are all different.:-)

BackforGood · 05/11/2013 23:04

What Xoch said on P1 and a great post from Hula on this page. Also good post from ShellyF

mrz · 06/11/2013 06:47

ShellyF that's exactly what happens in my school and many others but it isn't what parents on MN report and it isn't what teachers on TES primary post either.

mrz · 06/11/2013 06:55

ShellyF that's exactly what happens in my school and many others but it isn't what parents on MN report and it isn't what teachers on TES primary post either. If you read the comments from parents on this thread you will see children are missing important lessons to be sent off with a TA to work outside the class either for interventions or differentiated work.

sharpesttool · 06/11/2013 07:22

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ShellyF · 06/11/2013 18:11

I did read the posts and sympathise but think the problems are down to poor management.I would expect complaints from parents if the children were missing out.

lljkk · 06/11/2013 20:07

Dd was pulled out of ICT to do violin or latin (not like OP at all!) but yes she did suffer a bit, still her weakest subject.

Mirage · 07/11/2013 13:31

Yes,DD2 [8] had some catch up maths lessons,which meant that she missed music and french with the rest of the class.She wasn't bothered about missing french but enjoyed music.Wink

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