Looking for support and advice.
My 6 year old in year 1 is having major behavioural problems in school. This has been an underlying issue since preschool but has reached crisis point recently. From being quite settled at school over lockdown - perhaps due to the smaller class size - things have deteriorated over the past month. He is hyperactive, noisy, often won’t follow instructions and disruptive. He has damaged items in class and on some occasions been rough with other children - there was one bite incident in reception, nothing specific since.
Academically he is very bright and despite lockdown and his behavioural problems, his reading and maths ability is beyond his age.
We have started the process with paediatrics and he is going to be assessed for ADHD / autism spectrum. He doesn’t seem to fall neatly into either category but the more time goes on the more I feel there is an underlying issue / perhaps and element of both.
At home he isn’t easy but his main difficulty is school.
School have provided 1:1 teaching assistant and are going to go down the EHCP route. Unfortunately this has led to him now being virtually isolated with his teaching assistant and all but excluded from school life. We have been asked to take him in directly rather than queue. Most of his time is spent in a small room with the TA. He is missing most break times and even take his lunch in the room with the TA. They just comment he is too excited / it is too much for him. He loves to play and misses his friends and the classroom.
From our point of view we would much rather he is supported in the class and socialising and we are really worried about the effect this isolation is having on him. He has been quite accepting of the situation but increasingly complaining he wants things to return to normal at school.
School are increasingly citing the safety of him / staff and other pupils if we question, and we don’t know where to turn.
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Midgeymoo12 · 04/05/2021 23:16
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