My DS is in year 5 in a popular local independent school. He is in the top set in his year. We are generally layback and trust the school doing their job providing good education to my child. I am not educated in this country, thus not familiar with he UK system. We are getting increasingly unhappy with school. When trying to discuss future schools, his teacher push everything to the headmaster, while the headmaster just recommend purely based on what he sees on the assessment results (he did not do very well in the last assessment) without any consideration of the child character, strong and weak point, school suitability and so on. He does not appear to know much about DS. The recommended schools are either the local comprehensives and some mid range indies. I was expecting better considering DS in the top set in all subjects. I was wondering if there is anything wrong with DS study, as in every parent meeting I was told DS is top student. I went back to his form tutor asking what his current position in his year, how well he is doing with his work. The answer I got from the form tutor was she was not familiar with the details of each subjects and I should ask each of his subject tutor. So I have a form tutor don't know the overall performance of my DS, a headmaster not bothered about his future.
DS is very good at math. I let him try the UKMT math challenge at the beginning of year 5 at home, he is one mark away from a Silver. I asked his math teacher if I can enter him into the math challenge, but been told it is only for year 7plus. I know a lot of schools allow entry from year 3!
Ok after all these rant, should I consider move him to a different school at year 6? He is generally happy in the school. Considering this year is examination year for him, there are too many things to consider. Any advice?