Foreseer wrote:
Year7 gets 7-9 homeworks a week, roughly one per subject. After school activities? Yes, they do have many. You can find also clubs during lunch hour too, but to join them kids will less time for lunch.
Me and my partner work in comprehensive secondary schools, we both find ks3 syllabus is too easy and boring for bright kids. oh well...this is the system we have... and no way grammar school can change it, so we just hv to accept it.
Anyway, back to the topic. I just wish Reading School bans smartphone during school hours so that students can communicate and play together to establish friendship.
You're not working in the private sector any more then, Foreseer? I know you said you were at the time your boy was applying as I remember being surprised that you didn't get a discount for him to be able to go to the private school you felt was so much better than the GS and the comprehensives. I am sure your wife and you are both able to differentiate the work brilliantly in your classes to ensure that no bright child - or any child for that matter - was bored in lessons in your school. How awful to be a teacher classed as boring, eh?!
With regard to the topic - I cannot believe that NO children in the school communicate with each other, nor that no children have established friendship groups in Y7/8/9 and so on. Possibly your son is struggling to make friends and I am sure this is something that, if you spoke to the pastoral head at the school (via his form tutor), they would be able to assist him with finding boys who may have things in common with him. Generally they are very good at that sort of thing as he won't be the only boy they have come across who has found making friends tricky. Good luck!