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Changing school

Shropshire lass

hi, need some advice, our granddaughter is at mainstream school but the school are failing to meet her needs and she spends most of her time outside the classroom as she can't cope. We want to move her to a special school where her needs can be met but the Headteacher says we have to have an Ed Psych report done and it could take up to a year to move her.

Does anyone know if this is correct , we are going round in circles trying to get info and are waiting for people to ring us back.

many thanks

  • Have had some good advice from parent partnership and our local p a a c , so I spent tonight putting a letter together to our local council statementing office asking them to consider a move to a special school  being added to her statement ( school failed to put it in the review and had posted it off before. I could insist ).

    I hope when. Ed Psych do a report that they back us up.

    Am feeling a bit better about moving her now .

  • We get the same feeling from our school, it is a small village school where everyone knows C , adults and children alike. Her classmates just ignore her behaviour when C is crawling under the desks and wrapping herself up in the curtains.It has now deteriated to the point that C is very rarely in the classroom and just wanders round the building doing her own thing followed around by her T A.

    It has been a hard decision to come to and the guilt I feel about moving her is overwhelming. Her classmates are children she has known since nursery.But after all the whitewash I get from the head ( C has a cousin in the same class and she tells me EVERYTHING that happens ) we feel now is the time to make the move .

    C WILL make new friends and with a bit of luck she might even start to do some learning. At the moment she is working at a year 1 level , nowhere near the year 5 level she should be at. :(

  • The middle school said my son wouldn't cope in mainstream so I had to send him to Special School instead, but it was better for him there, we still had problems but at least the classes were smaller and other pupils didnt turn him into the Class Clown, and the last special school had some great teachers who helped my son to find things he is good at, they've helped him to shine, instead of dismissing him as a loser like what was happening in mainstream

  • Thank you for your help. Whilst the school she is at is a "nice" school , I get the impression that the Head likes her school to run at a nice easy level and GD is making too many waves.It feels like GD is being given enough rope to hang herself, therefore the Head feels justified in moving her . 

    Onwards and upwards :)

  • Thank you for your reply. she has had a statement for 3 years but her mainstream place is completely breaking down and even the school are backing us in moving her.The school we want would be able to take her but it appears to be more form filling.

    I managed to speak to Parent Partnership today and they didn't think we had to have an Ed Psych report done, they were going to check and get back to me.

    Her autism psychiatrist and camhs led nurse are totally behind her moving from mainstream to specialist school..

    we are her grandparents/legal guardians.