Set changes in year 7 - ds being moved down

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I’m wondering if anyone works in a secondary school or has been in this situation.

Ds started year 7 in September. He was initially placed in top set. I was told that this was based on SATS results. He scored 106 in all subjects so a strong pass.

He’s just had his first lot of assessments back from school and had parents evening. He’s securing in most subjects but there are a few where he is working towards, however at parents evening his teachers said that this is completely normal at this stage in the year and that he’s doing really well.

However, from next half term he’s being moved down to what I think must be middle set.
This info is wasn’t given at parents evening but there are new timetables given out. So there was no opportunity to discuss it with his teachers. All his teachers said he’s golden and is doing great.

I’m really worried because he’s very happy in the class he’s in. The new class he’s going into has got a reputation for being a bit noisy and boisterous.

The way the school does it is that there is one set for all subjects. So they don’t group them separately for Maths and English. So for example ds is much better at one than the other but there is no difference in the sets.

It’s quite simple.

I know staff who work at the school quite well, I know parents whose children are in the class and I know a lot of the children too.

I have been told that it’s a disruptive class and I believe that to probably be true.

It’s not really a shocking or unheard of thing to happen.

I haven’t got my ‘pants in a twist’, you are very rude indeed and I’m not sure why you have come on here just to have a row when I’ve posted a perfectly reasonable thread.

I’m friends/related to a few staff at the school. If you e got nothing helpful to say then go away.

My kids school only set for set one English and two lower sets and the rest is mixed. My DD is top set English for the first time (year 10) and she got 115 in her sats.

At secondaries in my area they are so strict that disruptive kids end up in a kind of detention room.

It makes me wonder why they put him in the top set in the first place given his SATs scores.

All I was told is that they set the children initially based on SATs and that now they are going in a mix of SATs and assessment results.

A lot of these replies are reassuring, hopefully it’s the right thing for him.