My eldest is in Yr 6 and has been revising for SATs tonight as he has been most nights. He loves Maths but has always hated English; reading, writing....he just does what he needs to,bare minimum if he can get away with it, to get it done and onto something better as he would say. I just thought he preferred Maths.
He has amazing vocabulary, like really good, and often tells me he will use a thesaurus to look up a more interesting word for one he considers boring. And he will read about space (Brian Cox) or a Harry Potter book no problem.
Anyway, this evening he is revising and I said why don't you do a bit of English now, to which he found every excuse under the sun not to but said he will tomorrow evening. He then told me that he will get extra time in the English SATs which has really surprised me and I wondered why this is? He said he didn't know (I didn't expect him to know I was trying to gage what the teachers have said to him) and I'm also wondering why school haven't mentioned it? He's always been good at maths; he doesn't exceed at English but aside from the obvious implications of lockdown on his education, from parents evenings etc at school, I didnt think there were any further issues, but now I'm lay here really worried that there are.
Can anyone shed any light? And hopefully reassure me?