Does your bright boy mind working with all girls?

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There's one other boy in DS maths group (he's one of the top 3 in the class for maths), and he's only boy in with 6 or 7 girls for literacy (again, top group in his Yr3 class).
Doesn't seem to mind, but once in Yr2 he had a strop about being forced to work with "a girl" at something... as he gets older, won't he want other clever boys to be part of his literacy/maths groups at school? I can easily imagine DS deciding doing well at school is just something for girls to work out, unless he gets a group male competitive attitude going about learning.

What makes it worse is that the school split Yr3 up into 3 classes this year, by some random non-sensical criteria, in that some of the least able Yr3 children were mixed with Yr4, some of the most able kids mixed with Yr2. I really wish school had just bitten bullet and sorted by ability: put the least able with Yr2, the most able with Yr4 and the rest in the single all Yr3 class.

Anyway, has anyone found their 8-10yo boy didn't like working only with girls? How did you deal with it?

My DS was the same in year 4. Unfortunately he really wasn't very well and we were awaiting for a diagnosis, so not very happy at the time anyway.
He was on a table of all girls, some of whom used to tease him, which didn't help. He is well behaved in class and I think they thought he wouldn't mind. He really didn't like the situation. I did complain and the teacher did move him.

thanks -- DS mentioned spontaneiously last night he doesn't like being the only lad in his literacy group... I don't know if any other boys are working at his level, iyswim. I don't think he's teased by the girls, and thank goodness he has a young male sporty teacher who is a good role model.

I wonder if I could tell him "You'll just have to prove to all those girls that you are just as clever as any of them", or somesuch. Right or wrong thing to say?

ok, school back in session, thus mumsnet out of the death zone if into the weird formatting zone... So, any more thoughts?

Ds1 seems to work better with girls at many subjects. His teacher said that he does sometimes work with boys, but most of the time his literacy and numeracy groups are predominantly girls, and when he has free choice of a partner he will normally choose a girl. I think it's because he has always been a fairly quiet, deep-thinking type (even though he is quite competitive), and that boys tend to be a bit too raucous for him. But his 'blue gene' has switched on in the last 6m or so, and he is becoming as wild and noisy as any boy, so it will bei ntersting to see whether his contentment working with girls changes.