Hello, DS has had a disastrous transition to Secondary this past year, due to his Autism and severe anxiety.
He has learnt very little this past year due to poor attendance. His attendance is nearly back to normal this term after various support.
He has an EHCP. The school (state school) and psychologist have suggested that he can repeat Y7. Otherwise they are concerned that he will find Y8 too stressful, due to all the gaps in his knowledge and his anxiety issues (missed quite a bit of school in Years 4 and 5 as well, due to severe anxiety).
We think this could be helpful for him, but wonder how it will impact his GCSEs? The school don't seem to know (!), but I would want to know this before making a decision.
Does anyone know - would he then sit his GCSEs at age 17? Is there anything else I should be aware of? Thanks in advance
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Repeating Y7 - will this impact GCSEs?
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BertieToo · 16/05/2019 22:26
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