Y1- I hate school

[Robindrama]

Why do you hate school? It's boring.
Now in Year 1, ds.
Achieved reception expectations, feedback: bright and able. Started school as a confident boy, enthusiastic. No social problems.
First signs of being bored end of reception.
Oct parents evening no issues raised by the teachers.
March parents evening, written report:

• attitude issues: does not want to follow instructions- he says he knows it
• has not gasped that school is about following instructons/ completing tasks
• a risk of not achieving y1 expectations
• attitude to learning poor so outcome does not reflect potential.

End of year prediction:

• reading : exceeds y1 ( he is a boy with lots of interests and reads a lot at home)
• spelling: will not meet expectations
• maths: will achieve, great mental maths but does not follow instructions
• phonics- unlikely to pass.

How worried would you be? He constantly asks us lots of different questions, his general knowledge is amazing ( teachers confirmed that) but school? Big no.

If he has good memory, hang up a phonics sounds poster where he can see regularly might work? He will memorise all the sounds quite easily.

I really don't have a clue when my ds started using phonics rather than memory. He can still read most of the words instantly. But I see him segmenting words sometimes, especially when he is trying to spell difficult words.

Yes I know guessing doesn't work which is how I've picked it up.

It could be he's lazy and doesn't want to use phonics. He has also made comments about phonics being for young children (he has a sister in reception).

That's why I'm going to focus on this over easter to work out if he's being lazy or finds it hard to turn phonics into words. We read a lot of books so his vocabulary is very wide - we don't guess many words anymore.

Phonics definitely isn't for younger children even though some schools seem to promote the idea.

If he doesn't like the word "phonics", you can use "decoding" instead!
Boys might like it since it sounds more like solving puzzle or something, and cool thing to do?