Hello, I�ve been reading this forum for a little while and I have decided to join in.

I have 2 childern, DS who is 4 and DD who is nearly 2. I am going to put aside my HUGE GT denial just for now. I�ll put a few of DS� milestones and then get to my point/question;

- Could 1:1 count to 3 at 10months.
- Knew alphabet at 18months
- Started to read at about 2yr7months, now his reading age is about7yr6m
- DP jokingly showed him addition in the bath at 2 � and then he just ran with it (DP said I didn�t expect him to understand!!)
- He can do addition, subtraction, multiplication and some division. Understands what negative numbers are. Can skip count in 2�s, 10�s and can do 5�s somewhat.

The thing is that he is at school. We are in the UK and he is in Reception, which is like your K but the kids are a year younger. His school has his reading age as 6 and the books he gets are 2 words per page. He has access to appropriate books at home but he is now telling me that he can�t read. I�ve tried talking to his teacher, but she palmed me off with �he doesn�t read with expression� etc, and then claimed there was a staff meeting and walked me to the class door!!

They have told me that he is at least a year ahead in maths e.g. he went into this year having completed this year�s maths curriculum, and that they would �differentiate for him�. But he tells me that they only do easy maths or occasionally medium maths and he wants to do HARD maths. His passion is maths, I have no idea what to do with him, I feel that he should go at a pace he wants but if he is going to get (further) ahead and then he will be even more bored.

I am beginning to realise that I am possibly going to have to advocate for him every year � which scares me. He got very depressed whilst at his pre-school, because he had to repeat things over and over. Part of me wants to pull him out and homeschool him but another part tells me to wait and see what they are actually doing with him. So far I have noticed that he is memorizing the order the phonics are taught in and some of the math worksheets so he can replicate them at home!

However I know that he is just 4 and has a long time to learn lots of stuff, but I�m worried that he is going to learn very quickly that either; school is easy and there is no point in trying or when he finds something hard he will not know how to work through it because he has never had to. The way the teacher has spoken to me gives me the impression that I�m not going to get any joy there. We have parent-teacher meetings in 2 weeks.
Any ideas or wisdom you can share?