Is there really any hope?!!!
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:11 pm
Feeling really demotivated at the mo, any advice will be warmly received.
Started preparing DS for super selective Grammar school about end of March. I do wish I had started earlier but for one reason or another it didnt happen. Anyway I felt it was better late than never so Ive just tried to do my best. Didnt really know where to start , no-one in DSs class doing this, couldnt seem to get a tutor recommended, tried a few , not really satisfied but do now have someone who my DS and I like. Ds is in year 5, levels are 4b/4a. Got my own system going, doing predominantly Bond. DS isnt particularly impressed with doing extra work after school, we do about 1 and a half hours a day. He does it , but only just.
I am now beginning to feel, well ive felt a bit like this from the start, that realistically we are not going to make it,at the same time I dont want to give up either! Comparing to those children who do get in im wondering if we r really only touching the surface wrt preparation. I still havent started on practice papers for Maths, the school is Latymers and the papers are tricky to say the least. plan to start this in summer hols by which time i hope to complete maths syllabus. still on bond 10-11non vr DS currently gets between 85-95%, and as for English DSs weakest subject, well getting son to read is like pulling teeth.!
Today met a parent by chance who has got children into latymers and when parent told me what the did with their DS to get in it really has hit me they I might be way off the mark! An assessment paper every morning before school, reading of many CLASSICS, working 9-5 sat and Sun. I know my DS would never do this amount of work and honestly I dont think ive got it in me to make him do that. Is there anyone out there who feels that an averagish achievin child going to an averagish state primary with a mediocre amount of tuition from a mother who is struggling through some of the content at times! and who started pretty late in the day can actually make it!!!
Started preparing DS for super selective Grammar school about end of March. I do wish I had started earlier but for one reason or another it didnt happen. Anyway I felt it was better late than never so Ive just tried to do my best. Didnt really know where to start , no-one in DSs class doing this, couldnt seem to get a tutor recommended, tried a few , not really satisfied but do now have someone who my DS and I like. Ds is in year 5, levels are 4b/4a. Got my own system going, doing predominantly Bond. DS isnt particularly impressed with doing extra work after school, we do about 1 and a half hours a day. He does it , but only just.
I am now beginning to feel, well ive felt a bit like this from the start, that realistically we are not going to make it,at the same time I dont want to give up either! Comparing to those children who do get in im wondering if we r really only touching the surface wrt preparation. I still havent started on practice papers for Maths, the school is Latymers and the papers are tricky to say the least. plan to start this in summer hols by which time i hope to complete maths syllabus. still on bond 10-11non vr DS currently gets between 85-95%, and as for English DSs weakest subject, well getting son to read is like pulling teeth.!
Today met a parent by chance who has got children into latymers and when parent told me what the did with their DS to get in it really has hit me they I might be way off the mark! An assessment paper every morning before school, reading of many CLASSICS, working 9-5 sat and Sun. I know my DS would never do this amount of work and honestly I dont think ive got it in me to make him do that. Is there anyone out there who feels that an averagish achievin child going to an averagish state primary with a mediocre amount of tuition from a mother who is struggling through some of the content at times! and who started pretty late in the day can actually make it!!!