how do booster children cope at a grammer?
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how do booster children cope at a grammer?
I am very curious as to how children that have needed booster lessons to reach a level 5 cope at a grammer school.
I know children due to start in september that have passed the 11+,however at the end of year 5 were reaching only a 4c,and in some cases a 3a.Needless to say they are in booster classes and hope to scrape a level5.
Will these children struggle?
I know children due to start in september that have passed the 11+,however at the end of year 5 were reaching only a 4c,and in some cases a 3a.Needless to say they are in booster classes and hope to scrape a level5.
Will these children struggle?
In my experience as a GS teacher we get the KS2 marks as well as the levels so we can see who has just scraped a level 5.
The 'strugglers' usually only have level 4 even after 'boosting' - they often have Year 10 or Year 12 mentors to support them - in my opinion it's not much fun being at the bottom of a GS -
The 'strugglers' usually only have level 4 even after 'boosting' - they often have Year 10 or Year 12 mentors to support them - in my opinion it's not much fun being at the bottom of a GS -
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Guest 55 - do many 444 children actually pass the 11+? My impression from the Bexley and Kent tests is that they are heavily weighted towards maths and I'd be surprised if anyone passed who wasn't capable of getting a level 5 in maths at the end of year 6. Having said that, I have heard that, at my sons' school, lots of the boys are good at maths and science, but not so hot on English.
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Guest 55 - that's really interesting. Is there only one paper then in Bucks or more than one VR paper? It intrigues me the way different selective areas administer such different tests. Here in Bexley we've always had maths, english, vr and nvr, but from this september we are changing to just maths and vr. This is, I understand, to reduce the marking workload so that parents can be told before they submit their CAF in October whether or not their children have passed the 11+.
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