I thought this year might be good - gt teacher, an unofficial/accidental cluster of gifted kids in a year 3/4 class with streaming in maths.
8 weeks in. Streaming abolished and replaced by "extension classes". These are by teacher recommendation and only 4 kids from each class can attend. Today the other two gifted kids in the class went to the first science one along with a friend of my sons who is neither gifted or particularly high achieving. I really hope he enjoyed it and I don't begrudge him going but how does such a system work "better than streaming" for my child. Unfortunately he doesn't shine much as he is weak at writing and never allowed to work above level in maths - they have been doing statistics all term as well which is the most language oriented part of maths.
Thanks for listening.
