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Clever table ...any views?

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Holsobsessed · 08/11/2015 19:51

Parents evening a few weeks ago. DD (year 4) doing fine, only thing we needed to do at home is to encourage her reading more widely. Maths doing well. During half term DD (who is not a weeper) started to cry and talk about how she felt that at school no one notice her and that even though she wanted harder work the teacher only concentrated on the clever table. Apparently there is a table of four girls who are on the clever table and they are the only girls who get the extended work ( her words). This was the first I had heard about any kind of streaming or clever table and just not sure on whether I should raise this with school or appropriate or how to handle it with DD. It is a private school (GDST), and the fees are high for us. For background DD is a 'good average ability' in previous years assessments. She is quite a resilient girl and as I say not normally a weeper so think there must be something going on..,but not sure how I move on from here.

Feel a bit disappointed in school in other areas and wonder if this is the normal way to manage streaming.....

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susan2080 · 09/11/2015 22:10

how can i find private totur, my child is year4 and need help in litracy

MMmomKK · 09/11/2015 23:48

Hols - it seems that you have a bright daughter there, so something to be happy about.

On "sometimes having problems with basic concepts" vs her being in private school, which should have been more on the ball... Here are my 2p:

Private schools are in no way a guarantee of excellent education. Even schools with great results can have bad teachers here and there.

I addition, the way math is taught these days doesn't always make sense to me. In my daughters work books from primary years - one day they'd be doing addition, next day - measuring, or time.

And without any sort of textbooks to lay out some logical progression of what to cover and when - each teacher in every school around the country seems to be re-inventing the wheel day after day, year after year.

So, no wonder kids end up with some gaps in basic knowledge.

END of RANT...

If I were you - I'd get DD to do a couple of these worksheets by herself, some time during the week, as part of "extra extension homework" her teacher assigned. And, if there is something she finds difficult, then try to do it with her on weekend, or whenever you have time.

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