Malia - bright spark

It has become more apparent of late that Malia is more than ready to attend school next year (well academically at least).  So many people ask me if she's going to school next year.  The only problem is she misses the cut off by 1 month.

We have tried telling ourselves that it's fine, she needs more social skills anyway but we can't shake the fact that she is bored at daycare with the simple things they are teaching (phonetics and writing single letters).  She may also be bored at prep - who knows.

She has been fluently reading for at least a year, correcting grammar in adults, loving doing puzzles (the put together kind and find a word/spot the difference/scramble word kind), she picked up writing at a rate of knots and can easily spell words and write simple sentences without help.
Everything online says there is no early entry into prep and there are no assessments done as far as I can tell.

We were going to send her to Ashmore Primary (mostly for the walking distance convenience) and that it's supposed to be a pretty good school but there website doesn't say anything about accelerated learning.
We are going to make an appointment with the principal to see if there is anything we can do and what they offer advanced kids.

We are not the "pushy, my child is so much better than yours" kind of parents,  but the amount of people who say to us that it's crazy shes not going to school next year is a lot.  And all of her friends (not that it's a deciding factor) are going next year and she seems to be much further ahead of all those kids with what she can do.

It's a pickle I wish we didn't have to face but we will see what the principle says and go from there.