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Does he manage to concentrate at primary school? If he does then I wouldn't assume that he will struggle to concentrate at high school based on finding it hard in the 11+; a large exam like that is enough to stop anybody from concentrating.Haze wrote: But, I suppose, if he has trouble concentrating, he might have struggled at GS. I just hope the local comp has teachers strong enough to stop him from drifting.
From what people at work and at school have said to me a lot of children didn't finish the VR paper so your DS is not alone.
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Dear HazeHaze wrote:I have always said that. We were never sure whether the GS was the right thing for our DS, so we told ourselves, and told him, so long as he does his best, no matter what happens no-one will be angry becuase the outcome will be the right one.
I'm just frustrated that he's flunked it by lack of concentration, not lack of ability.
But, I suppose, if he has trouble concentrating, he might have struggled at GS. I just hope the local comp has teachers strong enough to stop him from drifting.
At least you've got a local comp! Local comprehensive - Luxury! We live just near NHGS and have no other local school for our daughter, as the other local religious schools prioritise admitting Christians (which we're not), and the Ridings was closed down, without sufficient alternative places being provided elsewhere. Now that Calderdale council have decided to actively promote religious discrimination in education by closing our local comp and only allowing Christians to be locally educated,
we were desparate for our daughter to make it into NHGS.
So we are also worried our daughter may have blown it through bad exam technique (wasted loads of times on a couple of Maths questions she couldn't do and only did 26/40 Maths questions). If she doesn't get in she is likely to be travelling from North Halifax to Todmorden, as Tod is the only school in Calderdale with any spare places, as we are not numbered amongst the Redeemed Elect whom the Church of England permits to attend Holy Trinity.
She missed the last two blocks in the VR (12 questions), but it sounds like her written essay was probably good, so that might make up for the dodgy maths paper. Still her elder sister got in two years ago, and I thought she'd probably not quite made it either, so nil desperandum.
Meanwhile we're going to forget about it and enjoy the run up to Christmas.
Regards
mgr
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