Thanks for the welcome everyone - and apologies it was a typo when I said WIAT-IV, I meant WISC-IV as in the title.
She did do both sets of tests - the WIAT-III and WISC-IV, they did the WIAT-III first immediately followed by the WISC-IV
(her scores for the WIAT-III were:-
SUBTESTS RAW STD AGE EQU
Word Reading 103 126 10:00
Reading Comprehension 140** 125 12:00
Pseudoword Decoding 41 118 11:00
Numerical Operations 18 134 08:08
Mathematical Reasoning 44 143 09:04
Spelling 29 126 09:00
** Represents Reading Comprehension weighted raw score. )
I am not that clear on what to take from the WIAT-III scores.
We had her tested because she was having issues at school with getting into mischeif, nothing to hurt anyone but silly things messing about, we always seemed to be being called in. I was also frustrated that one day she was told off for putting her hand up too much.
To make matters worse, she was in the school grade group the year below what she should have been because the school wanted to balance its class numbers, and she was one of the youngest in her year so she was moved back a year. (she was a year 1 child in a reception/kindergarten class)
I felt it was all related to her being bored and frustrated but the school were not prepared to change anything or take any action (other than to say she could help the other children in her class when she had finished her work.)
I was confident in myself that she was bright but felt that I needed a professional opinion to back me up as I felt the school just saw me as a pushy Mum.
However even with this report, the school refused to move her to be with her own age group. I therefore emailed it to the local private schools explaining my problem and asked if any of them could help. One came back straight away with the offer of a supported place to start the next week. It was when I came to tell her that I realised just how unhappy she was - she was absolutely delighted not to have to sit on the carpet and do counting anymore (the new school did not have a carpet in its class rooms). She did not seem bothered about leaving her friends, they were people she played with but not close friends and she is outgoing and was looking forward to meeting new ones.
Her new class only had 11 children in it and was not constrained by SATs etc and she has been much happier. There are also lots more sports lessons and creative activities which helped her channel all that excess energy that was going into acting up and she has not been in trouble since she moved (other than for talking too much!)
We are now at the stage of having to think about Senior school and I am really reluctant to move her back to a state school having had a taste of the private sector, but we would need some kind of financial support to be able to do this.
I am wondering whether it would be a worthwhile investment to get her reassessed if that was to give a higher score and would increase the likelihood of her getting a scholarship to a Senior school.
I am not aware of any programs locally that would apply at this age, I think there is a maths master class for secondary age. We did enrol her in Mensa but I am not sure I know how to make the most of it.
Apologies this has ended up long, I tired to be brief in the first post but I can see more information is needed for you to be able to help me.
In short I just want to make sure I can continue to keep her in school where she is happy and not revert back to the situation we were in at her state school as I believe it was a local education authority policy that she was classed by age.
Gemma
