New girl in DD's class going straight from year 1 into year 3.

[suwoo]

DD's class had their visit up to year 3 yesterday (combined infants and juniors). There was a girl who is going straight from year 1 up to year 3.

I thought from reading on here that that is not very common these days.

She must be exceptionally bright mustn't she?

But isn't skipping year 2 and going straight into juniors a really big thing social skills wise?

It is rare to do this in state education now. I know of one primary age child who has done it currently and another who did it a few years ago, but then missed most of a year in secondary through illness & rejoined her correct year there (the older child was very bright, but also needed to be seperated from another child in a single class per year school, I don't know how bright or how the other skip came about). These both happened in spite of our LEA being very against it.

I do know that missing the top year of a school is often the way a skip is done as it stops all the childs peers noticing so much & asking questions & maybe teasing - easier to transition into a new peer group without the old ones being around.

Hello suwoo, have you met the year-skipper yet?