Sorry that i haven't gotten back earlier.
School caters for ASD,speech and deaf/HOH.
DD 17 is studying 21st century science A by OCR.
Her science class is a mixture of students taking entry level's and just my daughter and two lads taking GCSE. One of those lads is in year 13 and doing higher GCSE.
This teacher started at school in Jan of 2014 and he swopped all the students from the GCSE course to an entry level course stating that he had tested them and found gaps in their learning.
He has since then not opened up a GCSE book at all. In October last year he decided to give them all a GCSE paper with no warning. My daughter and the higher level student were the only one's that scored 38/60. The next highest was 16.
I put a complaint in last year and got the feeling that he didn't care about GCSE and if my daughter managed to pass it then it would be seen as a 'bonus'. And a load of other tosh via the phone.
Similar stuff via an email. This teacher is so up his own backside, he must of been a politician in his former life.
I bought my daughter a few science text books including the one that she was originally working from before he took over.
And when it is science lessons, my daughter is 'self studying' making mind maps from her books.
Occasionally he gives her past papers and i will get back to that later on.
Both my husband and I had a meeting with him, the head teacher and the exam officer before easter break.
And i got a bit angry, i pulled out a copy of the entry book that he use in class and i pulled out my daughter's gcse book and i asked him if he has used any gcse books with the class at all.
He had to go and sprout on about his years of working with OCR and that the 'entry' level is the bases of what GCSE is built on blah blah blah.
So i cut him short, and said that to get a qualification at grade C, she is going to need to learn the stuff out of this book and pointed at the gcse.
I asked him if hes done any GCSE with them and he goes and mention the 'case study' and i told him that he can't help them with that as they have to do it by themselves and then he mentions that he gave her a gcse past paper.
He then goes and says that after half term, the three students will be working with a LSA called Luke. Which of course didn't happen as that day we had the meeting was 'Lukes' last day.
Oh i asked the head why my daughter gcse's were postpone a year and she couldn't answer it. She even looked at the other two and asked them to respond and of course they couldn't as they both weren't employed at the school at that time.
My daughter is fuming and she is frustrated beyond belief. I have now informed Ofsted as they were in last week. The school is on special measures.
Oh the past papers he has been given out are 141/142/143
He gave my daughter another 141 to do this weekend saying to her that, that's the paper she will be doing next Tuesday.
Which i thought was weird as i had an email saying that the paper she would be sitting was 161 and the other two were 171 and 181.
So i looked at OCR website to only find out that the 141 set which are mixed papers were discontinued after the summer of 2013.
Thankfully touch wood my daughter first paper is biology and she is pretty good at that. And i have emailed her math's teacher (who was also the teacher that was doing science before IT took over.) And he said that he would help.
Oh one of those mixed papers that she did, she scored 70% and he had the nerve to ask how come she did so well in that?
I'm pulling her out of that school anyway, and she's got a conditional offer of a place at mainstream college to do sport.
Got her draft ECHP through yesterday and i'm going through that and that's another thing. Her annual review was on the 24th of FEB. It took until the 5th of May for me to get the followup papers from the school. The LEA got an email version in late April when they should of recieved them by the 10th of March.
My daughter's special needs are PDD-NOS, speech and lang and tourettes.
She's also taking maths foundation GCSE paper and has got 88% in the last two mocks. Her math teacher is fantastic and is able to teach entry, gcse etc.
Doing ICT and that teacher is lazy when it comes to doing paperwork in regards to special access support for exams.
Art and this teacher adores my daughter, to the point that she transported my daughter sculpture to the Mall galleries twice.
English, well it's the science teacher and yes i have also had issues with English as he has been concentrating on cambridge progression and not GCSE.
Oh by the way he's also the head of pathways 3, So senior management.
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