I was after a bit of advice from some of the teachers on here really. I haven't had my 6 year old's report yet but I am pretty certain we won't be looking at a string of 1As and 2+s that a huge number of children on here seem to achieve. My DD has however been making steady progress this year.
She is fairly bright but struggles with sitting still and concentration (mild ADHD is a possibility) but this is getting better and she is getting extra support for this. Her reception year was very difficult academically as she was extremely reluctant to read or write. ie. at times a complete refusal to pick up a pencil or read a single word. I stuck with reading with her every night even if sometimes she would only read one word on each page and I did the rest. I figured a handful of words read by her was better than none!
This year she has mostly enjoyed doing a little but of reading each night and is enjoying doing Reading Eggs on the laptop. She also loves having her own notebooks and pencils and writes lots of lists and sentences about things she has done. It is quite hard to read her writing though as although it's neat she misses out letters in words and gets letters back to front quite a lot. She started year 1 still on pink books but has this year progressed through red and is now managing yellow level well.
I know she is behind where she should be but compared to last year I am pleased with her progress. Reading about all these children with 40/40 on the phonics test, high levels and on gold with purple spots on for reading levels has made me more worried though. Is it possible for a child to struggle and have a slow start to catch up OK or is it likely she will carry on being behind? I personally feel she is about 1 year behind her peers in terms of most things ie. emotionally, behaviour etc as well as learning. I've always hoped this will even out and she will catch up as she gets older. Is that realistic though or am I wearing rose tinted glasses?