dual years, siblings in same class ..anyone have experience of this

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My two children are nearly two years apart in age (DS september birthday and DD August birthday)but only one school year apart. Our local catchment teachers year 1/2, 3/4, 5/6 in dual year groups (14 for each year group)

I don't feel comfortable with them being in the same class....would much prefer them in classes with their own year group and their own space!

Anyone got any experience or advice about this please? Thanks

In our mixed age school, I teach siblings who are almost exactly the same as yours in terms of age, the eldest girl is in year 6 and the younger boy in year 5, my colleague has a boy in yr 4 and his sister in year 3, yet we have two completely different situations The two in my class are very close, they like to work together, are often seen playing together and generally act as brother and sister, Yet in my colleagues class the two are never seen together, hardly talk to each other during the day and you would be hard pushed to say which two were related! Most siblings I have taught in the same class soon find their own way of dealing with it. I aim to ensure they never have the same homework nor are they in the same literacy/numeracy groups ( quite tricky as they are VERY similar in terms of ability)The only problem I have is when we have letters to go home for each family, I have to ensure they take it in turns to take the single letter, otherwise the eldest would normally take them!

In the class I am in there are 2 sets of brothers it doesn't seem to bother them, they tend to be seperate and don't tend to play together.