Year 2 has been kept in a year 2/3 class ..need advice please

[Geetu]

My year 2 in currently in a year 2/3 class, for the next year (sept) the headteacher has stated that he will not move into the yr3/4 class. He will remain in the yr2/3 class as a year 3 child. I have asked based on what assessment, have they made this decision.
The HT stated that he is not socially ready to move into the other class. My worry is will this be a positive or negative impact on my son.
Is it possible for the teacher to teach a class of 28 children, two different KS groups.

Please advice needed

Thanks.

A lot of children at the juniors (some actually turned out to be the academically high flyers) left that infants with terrible self esteem issues that the juniors had to unpick
Even now 4 years later they need reassurance
Meh. That's on the parents, surely?
At that age you can sell just about anything to a child. They'll also pick up even the tiniest bit of negativity and run with it.
Whiny parents = affected children

I had very similar concerns when ds1 went into Y1. He was in a small school with mixed year groups. Previously the older Y1 children were put into the Y2 class and the younger ones stayed in Class 1 with the new reception year. As my son was a summer birthday I assumed he would stay in Class 1 for Y1.

However,, his year was the first year they split the class by readiness for Class 2 and I was dismayed to find that Ds would be moving to Class 2. Class 1 was very play based, lovely outdoor space etc. Class 2 was more formal. Plus he was almost 2 years younger than the oldest Y2s which is a huge difference at that age.

The school reassured me that ds would be absolutely fine in Class 2, that he would cope well. And they were right. He thrived.

At the end of the day, the school is in the best place to judge how your child is in the school environment. It sounds as though the majority of the class is staying in the Y2/3 class so I can't see that your ds should suffer from self esteem issues.

You need to trust the school's decision.

He will be a y3 child in a y3 class doing y3 work. I don't see the issue.

@CJsGoldfish
Meh. That's on the parents, surely?
At that age you can sell just about anything to a child. They'll also pick up even the tiniest bit of negativity and run with it.
Whiny parents = affected children

NONE of the parents moaned, we all pepped up the kids and kept on the "your doing great" rhetoric.
But kids aren't stupid, if teachers are down on them, not moving them up books (through never listening to them read).

The juniors have spent a long time picking up the kids. Its not just my eldest year group, its been a common running theme from the infants.

So really, that's an issue with that individual infant school, not Y2/3 classes or mixed year groups in general.

I must be really out of the loop with young children because I cannot imagine any scenario where I would be discussing this with my 6/7 yr old child and as for recording the conversation. If you are not happy with mixed year groups why did you pick the school in the first place , so it seems to me that you are only not happy because your child is not ‘top of the class’ .

Mine opened up about how they felt when I asked how they day was, what a teacher said that sort of thing.
I never asked specifically. But if something’s bothering them they will tell you.

As the years have gone by she’s opened up about things that were said or ways that it was reinforced at the infants.

But yes it was an issue with that infants, which is why she wasn’t the only one made to feel like that

My primary school had 6 classes for 7 years so everyone spent two years in one class at some point. I didn't move up a class at this age (what would have been top infants then) along with 7 or 8 other children in my year, it was done purely on age. The rest of the class - 20 or so children - was the year below.

It was great being in the little group of the eldest - we got all sorts of special privileges - well at least the things that you think are special in primary school, bell monitor, washing paint pots, moving the television trolley! I didn't end up in the same class for as most of my year for another two years but no harm done. I ended up on the top table.

I know years later my mum told me she was really annoyed that I was kept back as she thought it should have been based on ability but i had no inkling whatsoever and never gave it a thought at all.

I think a lot depends on how and why they do the composite classes. I was in a composite class with y2 for my y3 and I remember finding it really hard joining y4 when the vast majority had been together, formed friendship groups and maybe the youngest 5-8 had been kept back. I don’t think it did me any favours at the time as a bright but shy child to have been removed from my peer group. In your case, it sounds quite different with only a few moving up so your son would be with the majority of his peer group.