Any IMS Primary parents here?

[flo]

I am a Montessori fan. DD was in a Montessori preschool for 3 years until she had to start full day Year 1 at an IS. My son (4.5 yo) is still in Montessori and will transfer to IMS in Sept since I plan to let him continue in IMS Primary.

DD just got admitted to IMS primary, and I am struggling to decide if I should let her stay in her present school or move to IMS. Her present school is loving and caring. We also like it very much. Her teacher feels that she is ADD/ADHD and I got her assessed by a psychologist. The psychologist thinks that her case is inconclusive at this point and things will become more obvious when she is closer to 7 (she just turned 6). DD is forgetful, often daydreams in class, etc.

I understand the morning work cycle in IMS primary. So I am afraid that by leaving time management to her, her daydreaming will be out of control and not much work will get done. Even now, when it's time to do her work in her school and all the kids are working on it, she will look at other kids' work, talk or just drift away until the teacher constantly reminds her that time's up - then she will scribble something at the very last few minutes (and of not very good quality).

Since we need to decide within a week, any thoughts will be appreciated.

 

[somebodyfamous]

sorry I don't check these forums often enough, so I presume you have made your decision. The only suggestion I was going to make, is to discuss this with both your child's present school AND with the lovely people at IMS. Good luck with whatever you did decide, I'm sure you have made the right decision.

 

[ychia76]

hi Flo,

My daughter will be 5 in Sept 2012. She is diagnosed with ADHD in March 2012.

She had mild language delay and we just had her latest assessment at Watchdog Early Education Centre and she is now up to par with her language after a year of speech therapy 30 minutes session a week. She also goes to occupational therapy 45 minutes session a week for her fine motor skills, sensory issues that would cause her to fidget a lot and attention/focusing.

My son has speech delay and now I believe he has auditory processing delay and dyslexia which mimic ADD/ADHD in symptoms or maybe crossover or masking.

There are just too many factors and cross over symptoms or masking of the actual underlining symptoms too.
Yvonne