being read with at school

[molk]

my ds is in reception and loving it. i am totally happy with the school and think he is learning loads as well as having a great time. the children are supposed to be read with once a week, but usually it is more like every other week. however i change ds books with him if this happens so he normally has 4 books a week (2 at a time). we read every night and he is doing well on ORT level 3. do you think it matters that they don't do it more often at scool. i do get a bit disapointed when it is his reading day and it has not been done. or is it just as good that we do it regularly at home?

I could have written your post myself !! My ds reads once a week, but quite frequently it doesn't happen, or is pushed back, it probably works out as once every 10 days. He reads to a TA, he's only read to his teacher twice since September, and she just writes "well read", or "excellent reading", no constructive comments or anything. Ds reads a book a night at home with me, and is a good reader (in Reception too). He can change his books whenever he nees to so I'm pleased about that. I am confident that he's making progress with me at home, but wonder if they are just waiting for others in the class to catch up (the large majority read to the teacher, only the top and bottom groups read to TAs).

Other than that he's loving school, and they do so many things outside of the three Rs that I'm not overly concerned, it's just that ds likes to please, so reading at school to his TA motivates him to read at home because he wants to get better.

No help at all, but I'd be interested to see what others say.