I feel torn about teaching him things that i know he will cover in school because of the increased possibilty of more bordem.
IKWYM - e.g. actually, I didn't teach DS to read: indeed, when he was a baby I read around the issue and decided it was best if he learned when he started school, partly because of the boredom thing. It was one of many lessons in how little control one has as a parent :-) I (honest!) hardly ever start conversations on school-type things with him, but I don't feel I want to refuse to answer questions, and most of what he learns is from books he chooses anyway, these days. That said, I confess I read John Holt's book How Children Learn a while back, and did to some extent recognise his "teacher devil" which inclined him to teach even when he thought it was not a good idea!
Interestingly DS is not that big on science.
It's fascinating - and reassuring - how children are not always interested in the things we think they'll like, isn't it? DS's absolute favourite subject in the last year is biology, something neither my husband or I have ever studied seriously.
DS has been in the school since April. His teacher last year was good they even let him in with the reception kids for maths but decided he couldn't go with Yr1 this year.
Ah, I misread then, sorry. That's a shame, that he got some acceleration and then got it snatched back, at least in practice :-(
there is a brilliant looking private school nearish to us, but there is no way we can afford the fees (plus we have a DD)
You never know, it might be worth talking to them anyway. Practically all independent schools have some kind of bursery scheme, and I've heard it said that they're sometimes underused because so many people don't even approach them.
HS is something i wanted to do before we realised he was bright but i got convinced that it was a bad idea - now i'm not so sure.
If you want to explore the idea with a bigger group of people than are here, I recommend the home-ed list, see
http://www.twobar.com/mailman/listinfo/home-ed- it's not UK based, but it seems to be a friendly and thoughtful group of people (I mostly lurk there - home education would not be our first choice, but neither would I rule out ever doing it)
Btw, if he wants StarWars stuff, I'd go with that, personally :-)
