Hi,
My son is 13 (Yr 8) and has recently moved down a whole set from the equivalent of set 3 to 4. As parents my DH and I understand that this can happen when they have a reshuffle. Apparently the overall set level is dictated by their Maths and English attainment.
However: We were asked to come and see the maths teacher at parents’ evening in October. When we got there, the teacher wasn’t there as DS has a supply teacher ‘who doesn’t stay for parents’ evening’. He still has this teacher now. We expressed we were a bit miffed at this and asked if we could get an update. This took weeks of back and forth! And apparently by this time ‘all was fine’.
Similarly, a few weeks ago we were asked to see his English teacher at parents’ evening but when we got there, the teacher we saw had only had him for 2 weeks and couldn’t tell us why we’d been requested to see them. (They usually only request you see them if there’s a problem but you can still go regardless, if that makes sense).
We are obviously frustrated so at the parents’ evening, we sat down with his head of year and explained everything and asked if we could get some feedback on how DS is doing and what we can do to help. She never so much as contacted us back. DH complained and spoke to the Deputy Head the other day who promised to sort something out so we could find out. We’re waiting for call backs again.
You’d think from this that the school was crap, yet with our DD, who left last year and was in top sets, the experience was completely the opposite. And they’ve just got an outstanding Ofsted rating.
All of my son’s teachers say he’s always well behaved and pleasant/happy but he’s so quiet (a theme throughout his whole time at school from nursery to now). It’s obviously how he is.
We feel that because of this, he is just being overlooked and will continue to be left to his own devices so to speak. We also appreciate that teachers don’t have it it easy but we’ve asked repeatedly about what we can do to help and we get nothing specific.
What do we do?!