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My (summer born) son had just finished reception at a school where I had loads of issues with the head/SEN and felt my son and me had been labelled. He wasn't ready to start -I wasn't allowed to defer him- and massively affected his sleeping/ behaviour etc. I always felt unsupported in the meetings and patronised. I also felt they could be quite negative and inflexible. For example my son couldn't cope when reception class moved on to the large playground with all KS1 and so spent lunchtimes on a smaller play area with 2 chosen friends. This made him 'sad'. HOWEVER, despite all this he as very popular, had a lovely group of friends and I got on well with all mums. I made a last minute decision over the summer to move him to a nearby school as they have allowed him to repeat reception and the class size is 20. I felt he wouldn't be labelled there.
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Moved 5 year olds school and regretting it!
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Katiejean76 · 10/09/2015 01:56
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