Nella wrote:
Stroller wrote:
There’s a big difference between reading books that take your fancy - the world is full of books and reading can be very relaxing - vs trying to cover the curriculum in advance. The latter means the child never lives in the moment and is very likely to find class boring. That’s not a good thing.
Absolutely. I completely agree with Stroller.
+ 1 here. The original question for reading list was from OP about reading list for year 7.
I am not worried about DS's reading skills, as he already reads a lot out of his own interest.
Nella wrote:
Childhood passes so quickly. Let him play- forget trying to hot- house him before he starts secondary school.
I could not agree more! At a primary schooling stage, forcing children to learn curriculum
too much in advance, (when either parents or child have no aptitude or aspirations for it) will do the child no good. At a secondary stage, knowing the syllabus of subjects child is interested in, may help parents to support them in activities which develop and stretch their abilities in that subject (e.g. a child who enjoys Math would also enjoy solving
BMO problems, and nothing wrong with parents supporting that).
But I agree, in the end, it is completely wrong if parents are driving this without the child's interest.
Nella wrote:
Looking at your posts he covered yr 5 curriculum at home in yr 4 and the year 6 curriculum in year 5.
Not quite:
Year 4 Terms 1/2/3: Year 4 syllabus
Summer vacation of Year 4 : cover 11+ specific Year 5 syllabus
Year 5 Term 1: cover 11+ specific Year 6 syllabus.
Year 5 Terms 2/3 : Cover weak areas + paper practice
Year 6 first term: 11+ exams.
This is what the advice has been on this forum anyway: if you are not already at year 5 level at the beginning of year 5 then you will have a tough time with 11+ exams in 12 months' time (as then, you will be covering year 5 and 6 curriculum along with paper practice / mocks in 12 months. That I think is proper "hot-housing" and short-changing the child's 11+ chances).
Nella wrote:
Let him be 10/11 years old.... He’ll never be that age again!
Absolutely! DS is already dabbling with carpentry (making his own (unusable) furniture), making star wars light sabers and zipping through Anthony Horowitz collections
