We had our school conference with Ms Hoffman today to discuss Joey's progress.  All very positive.  He now goes into a smaller, slightly younger class for pure reading and writing and is making progress - which we can see for ourselves when he does his homework.
In other classes, he is doing the same work as the other kids in his class, and in some areas is doing really well eg drama where he shows of his natural 'flair'!  Generally, his focus, ability to sit still and general behaviour is good.  He still has some negative tendencies - too impatient at times, tries to insist on doing things his way, over-sensitive.  But, on the whole, a very positive feedback.  Ms Hoffman does not take any crap from Joey, the boundaries are very clear and that really helps.
Also good news about the summer school.  The summer school is 4 weeks of morning school - at the time that Alexander is due to visit.  So that would have restricted travel plans but also we could imagine a very unhappy Joey feeling that he was being punished by being made to go to school whilst Alexander lived the high life.  But whilst Ms Hoffman stressed that Joey is still behind and could not afford to do nothing over the 10 weeks summer break, she said that she would be available to tutor Joey an hour a day over most of the summer.  That gives us more flexibility, will not seem so onerous for Joey and will probably be more effective.  He still ain't going to like it, though.