Wednesday was parent's evening, and the first time both Matt and I were feeling vaguely human. Phew! We headed to the school for our 10 minutes with Mrs Clements. It was a very pleasant 10 minutes. Don't think she had a bad word to say about him. His Maths, she said, is really good, as we knew, but she was at pains to point out that he isn't good at just one aspect but all aspects, meaning he has really good understanding. Very good to hear.
She knows he doesn't like to write and said it's not through lack of ability but because he doesn't want to do it and because he doesn't want to do it he gets distracted. I personally think she was being very generous about this as when we looked through his literacy book were we found lots of comments: "Tom, where is the rest of the work"? "Tom is this all you have done in the time you were given?", "Tom where is the rest of your writing for this task?" etc etc. Hummm, I would have given him less than a 4 for effort!!!!
She said his reading is going really well too. She has no worries about him at all and thinks he'll go far. How lovely. We asked about his social skills (we are always worried about his social skills with him being an only child) but she told us we really need not to worry, he is fine. He is confident, answers questions in class etc etc, mixes with everyone very easily. He doesn't have a special friend, but doesn't need one because there aren't any cliques in the class, meaning everyone mixes with everyone very easily.
Anyway, it was very pleasant, we came home feeling very happy.
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