I was hoping someone could help easy my mind about a few things that have been bothering me about Evan starting school next year.
Firstly, he is a bright kid. Well of course I think so but I really think he is. I think he is pretty normal when it comes to things like counting etc, you know the normal things one would think of if you said some one was smart. But Evan is smart in ways that amaze me sometimes. Like pulling things apart & putting it back together again. I have do doubt he could pull apart the vcr & put it back together & it would still work. He figures things out, there is no fooling him. If he has the slightest doubt that something isn't right then he will think about it then out of blue tell me why what I said wont work. Even his teachers at preschool have commented on the things he comes out with ( for his age that is) like telling the teacher she needed to put oil on the padlock to get it to open or sitting down with a pile of random keys & working with it till he found the right one for the lock.
The thing is, he isn't the slightest bit interested in arts & crafts. He will draw a picture but its not of a person or a car or the typical kid thing to draw, it will be a layout or a plan for how something might work.
Like he has a note book that he has random doddles in but if you ask him what they are he says they are things like the table at preschool and the book shelf, the mat, etc. He said he drew them to help remind him of preschool.
Yet if he does a painting at preschool its just a blob. I think its just because he knows if I slap some paint on here then they will stop bugging him to paint a picture for mum.
Now the main thing that worries me when I think about him going to school is that he isn't going to be interested in sitting down with what they are doing. We have been going along to a play group held at the school he may be going too (if we don't move) & from what I have seen in the kindergarden class every thing seems to have a art/craft focus. Evan is going to be bored out of his mind with that. I worry he will become disruptive simply because he isn't interested in what they are doing KWIM.
I hoping someone could tell me that his teacher/school will see that he isn't naughty but bored & make an effort to work with him rather then make him fit in.

The other thing I wanted to know was, is there a website where you can look at the schools reputation. Like what kind of marks the students get. Just so I can see if this school or that school is better ifykwim. I don't really know anyone who can really recomend the schools in my area so thought if I could see a offical type thing of the standard the school puts out then I could get a feel.

Thanks for any replies.