We're moving to London, well, now (just found out, it's for work!), coming from Berlin and we are keen (read: desperate) to get our bright-but-with-garden-variety-ADHD 14-year old American boy into a good school in the current year 9, as year 10 is apparently just impossible. As I understand the SEN rules have just been changed this year and his ADHD is not severe enough to go through the LA to get statemented (also that would take 10 weeks). So far we're simply cold-calling schools pulled from the Ofsted reports and asking to speak with Admissions and head of SEN- because there is no funding coming from the LA for extra services should we keep quiet about ds's ADHD? We're afraid that even if we're in the catchment area this will make him an undesirable pupil...
HE's mainstreamed now and doesn't get extra services but he WILL need a lot of pastoral care and they're bound to pick up on it once he's in! We have a week to find a school and an apartment.. I know, right? Madness! We're looking in East Dulwich but are open for other neighborhoods..commuting to Saint James and can't go private. Ideally we need a spot with a cluster of good schools where we sign the lease and hope for the best..
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Keeping quiet about ADHD to get into year 9? Or spilling the beans and asking for services?
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Evaexpat1 · 04/05/2015 19:03
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