Ds (11 years)was having help with his spelling last year. He was seeing the special needs teacher for about an hour once a week. This year he hasn't been going to see her. Ds told me yesterday that I needed to go and see the special needs teacher as she wanted to see me. I went at 3.30pm today. She said that nothing was wrong, she just needed to let me know that ds was being placed on the special needs register as this was required by the funding body. She asked me to sign a form saying that I'd been informed of this and said that I'd be given a letter to confirm this tomorrow. I asked what his problem was and she said that it was spelling. She showed me a test result of tests that he'd done back in Sept that showed he'd scored badly in spelling and in maths. I hadn't known anything of this test btw or the result (ie that he'd scored badly) until today. We had an open evening very recently and this wasn't mentioned at the evening. She went on to say that he wouldn't be coming to see her this school year as he was leaving (to go to secondary school). He'd be tested at the secondary school in July and if he showed that he needed help, he'd be given help, possibly by allowing him more time in the tests. I asked what the problem had been identified as and she said the fact that he's bi-lingual and him being a boy. He doesn't mix up his languages at home, I'm fluent in one and dh is fluent in both and he speaks both pretty well.
I'm sorry if this is badly written, but I'm a bit upset at all this. I think I'm a very hands on parent, as is dh, and we aren't strangers to the school, so they know us and surely know that we care and want the best for our children, so why weren't we informed? Why don't they plan to give him extra help this year? It seems that all they want from him is to have his name on a form so that they can get the funding to keep the sn teacher's post. Sorry, I'm about to go out, but I'll be back later. If anyone has any words of advice, I'd be very grateful. Sorry, I've changed my name as I don't want the school identified. I'll see dh when he comes home from work later and I think we'll make an appointment to see the teacher again, but I would like advice from anyone whose child has a problem with spelling (or dyslexia or discalclia (sp) or any experience at all in this field).
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Ds has a problem with spelling and I don't know how to help him
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IvortheEngine · 02/02/2005 16:42
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