standardised score of 82, natinoal average 100. class average 106

[cylonbabe]

just once, just once, i would like to recieve a good report from the school
his maths is excellent. score of 100 when the class average is 102. so he's go the brains. why cant he read?
i am soooo tired of reports thtat say not good enough.

What is he good at, cyclonbabe? Support him to read better by all means, but maybe he has other strengths and abilities you could focus on?

Maybe he has not been taught to read properly - it is well known problem with boys.

How old is he? Can you do some high quality phonics with him over the holidyas, you may be surprised and it certainly cannot hurt

he is good at sports. football in particular, so am trying ot concentrate on that. he has recently, well, in the last six months really come on well with his reading, so tbh, i wasnt ecpecting it to be so low. i dont think he is particularlygood at maths at all. so if he is doing better at that, then it shows just how skewed my idea of his reading ability is. i honestly thought he was doing well. i obvioulsy had no idea of just how abysmal his reading was before.
sorr i had to leave straight after starting this thread. yet another trip to a&e with a dc. dd this time cut her chin open yet again. she's fine now.

Does he not want to read or is he enthusiastic but unable to read?

IMO I would find a book that he would love to read on a subject he is interested in, and phonics to help him.

ELC have loads of phonics stuff, the primary school that my ds1 is about to start is very big on this and they are in the top 10% of the state primary schools.

Boys are often better at physical activities and maths is usually a practical activity ie weighing things, volume etc whereas reading is sitting still which boys are never good at [grin}

how old is he?

We don't get figures like this on our reports, so I don't understand. Were there any words to go with the numbers?

he will be six on saturday, so oneof the younger ones in his class, though not the yongest by any means.
the words on the report are all thestandard ones that dont mean anything, other than how well he is doing, and how wonderful he is, unless you know how to read the gradings of the adjectives.
he actually does enjoy sitting down and reading his books, and he has improved sooo much, i thought he was doing quite well. but obviously thats because they are onlygiving him the sen books as the others probably have too many words in them he cant read.
i will definitly be sitting down with him to read some more. but when? however that is a whole nother thread....
be careful of the top 10% rating. my kids go to a very good school. but i think its a good school coz the kids are all taught by their parents and or tutors. i know of children in his class who have been tutored since beginning of reception. and new ones who are now being tutored because the parents dont think they are acheiving high enough. many of the top school shave high ratings for these reasons.

Sounds just like my son. He is good at maths but very poor at reading and writing, he is dyspraxic.

But in the end we all have things that we are good at and things that we are not so good at

I am assuming these are the NFER test results? If so perhaps he was just having a bad day, or, like in my DDs case perhaps didn't quite grasp the concept of special work? (my DD is a lazy laid back so and so who's class average is alot higher than her 89 )

cat, if a school wants to say the child is crap at something, the will say, 'X has some experience at doing Y' the keyi s in the some. not a positive adjective.
he is healthy and happy, and other than the bullying issus, things are in perspective.
but because i dont sit downwith him and teach him for an hour everyday, he isnt learning as much as the others in his class, because they are being taught an hour every day. iyswim.
just once in my life i would like to recieve a report that actually says a child of mine is doing brilliantly in school. it doesnt have to be reading, it could be football. but none of htme excel at anything.
i was very very pleased by ds1's report, 'he is honest,trustworthy and reliable.' but he's still crap at english and maths because i havent made him sit and study for hours on end after school.

god, i sound sorry fo rmyself.

cyclon - are you sure you didn't copy this from one of my posts of about 2 years ago . My DS#1 is 10 and has just started to improve. He really didn't read properly until he was 7, his maths was appalling (I got called in to school twice about his failure to concentrate). The teacher struggled to say something positive about his work - ended up with 'he's very creative' . His reading is now above average (just) and he is in the top set for maths and enjoy science. But still he is lackadaisical about most things - even the things he loves like cricket, he doesn't do as well as he might because he's away with fairies when he's supposed to be fielding! I am relying on the faint hope that one day some subject and some wonderful teacher will get hold of him and inspire him to greatness.

It might be partly a boy thing though. He doesn't seem to tbe the only lad like that thatwe know. My DD (8) is thriving - she seems to be good at everything she does. To the point where I worry that DS#1 will notice the glaring discrepancy between them. But luckily ()he doesn't seem to care.

He's not 6 yet! In lots of countries he wouldn't even be in proper school yet. And if the reports say stuff like "he's not good enough" then I would be up there like a shot, saying "What exactly do you mean? Since when ahve all children been the same? And if you think he's not good enough, thne I suggest you look at your teaching, because he's quite good enough for me, thank you very much. HE'S 5!!!!!!! Yes, there are 5 year olds who can read fluently, but there are a hell of a sight more who can't! In my ds's year 1 class the range of "normal" ability goes from reading proper books independently to ORT level 3. My ds couldn't read at all til February-ish, and has gone very quickly from not reading to reading pretty well, but he's 6.5 - that 6 months makes a big difference. IMHO the problem is with the school's expectations, not with your ds, who sounds lovely. Sorry, rant over!

thnkyou katelyle, cat oi,and everyone else wh oresponded.
i have always been of the opinion that kids should be ablet o be just kids.
however, i think i have now been at this school toooooo long. and i have too many kids. i was and still am upset that my kids dont seem to be showing any measurable success. i'm really just feeling sorry for myself.
ds1 is unlikely to get into a grammar school according to his teachers. he's smart but carless.
ds2 has mad it up to ort stage two, andi'm very proud of how well his reading has come along in the last six months, but when measured agaisnt the rest of the class and nationally, it isnt good enough. so i am sittingn her feeling sorry for myself.
i really should stop the self pity.
i have been blessed with beautiful, happy, healthy chldren. maybe i should start appreciating that.