Current king Edwards yr 7....advice pls.
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:59 pm
Hi all,
As the time is quickly passing and the test is looming I was after abit of info on how the current yr 7s have got on in their first year.
Ds is having a major wobble about sitting exam, not actually taking the exam but actually worrying about passing, he has gone from a little boy that was desperate to go to ke to a little boy panicking about leaving his friends, not coping with bus journey, hours and hours of homework and having no free time for a social life. To be honest a lot of these are also my worries.
He is still only 9 and I feel awful that he as so many anxieties.
I've tried to explain that the friends you have in yr 5 are not necessarily the friends you will have when you leave secondary school. Our local comp would stream them based on sats results anyway so he would most probably not be in class with his current friends anyway.
It is getting harder to coax him into doing extra practise and I feel like he's not trying anymore. I think he is hoping I say let's forget it and you can go to the local comp, but then the next day he might say " if I get in to ke".....
I know he would be very lucky to get in and if he was offered a place then he deserves to be there but it is so difficult to see him struggling with all of this plus the usual things that a 9 yr old goes through.
I'm hoping some of you may be able to advise me on how difficult / enjoyable the first yr was for your dcs!!!
Thanks in advance
Lottie
As the time is quickly passing and the test is looming I was after abit of info on how the current yr 7s have got on in their first year.
Ds is having a major wobble about sitting exam, not actually taking the exam but actually worrying about passing, he has gone from a little boy that was desperate to go to ke to a little boy panicking about leaving his friends, not coping with bus journey, hours and hours of homework and having no free time for a social life. To be honest a lot of these are also my worries.
He is still only 9 and I feel awful that he as so many anxieties.
I've tried to explain that the friends you have in yr 5 are not necessarily the friends you will have when you leave secondary school. Our local comp would stream them based on sats results anyway so he would most probably not be in class with his current friends anyway.
It is getting harder to coax him into doing extra practise and I feel like he's not trying anymore. I think he is hoping I say let's forget it and you can go to the local comp, but then the next day he might say " if I get in to ke".....
I know he would be very lucky to get in and if he was offered a place then he deserves to be there but it is so difficult to see him struggling with all of this plus the usual things that a 9 yr old goes through.
I'm hoping some of you may be able to advise me on how difficult / enjoyable the first yr was for your dcs!!!
Thanks in advance
Lottie