Not allocated a class for English in Y9??

The only reasons I can come up with are that DD and this boy are working so far below the level of the lowest set in their year that the curriculum is inaccessible to them. I assume that the funding for the TA they used to share has been cut. I also think that the school were kind of relying on the fact that my DD isn't very good at communicating these things to me.

The thing is, I am now homing in on a flippant comment DD made earlier about Geography. She was helping me in the kitchen to make pudding, and she turned around and said "It's not fair, the rest of my Geog class have to make a cake for h/wk, but I've been told I can't as I am in the wrong class, but they don't know what class I am meant to be in".

Does that mean that as DD is unable to access the lessons without a TA, that they school have just been bunging her in whichever class has space, as she's not going to understand properly in ANY class? If that IS the case, I'm going to be even more than I am right now. And I'm not sure if tat is possible without my head exploding!

depends on your definition of big! Big to me, as my Secondary in the Hebrides had 420 pupils. . Biggest in our town, yes.

Has Y7-Y11, 320 in Y7 & Y8 270 in Y9 & Y10, 250 in Y11.

1450 pupils.

BUT what possible reason can a school have for NOT having allocated two children in Y9 an English class? Because I can fail to see ANY good reason.

I thought it was just something like the teacher hadn't been writing DD's homework in her diary (she can't write quick enough, teachers are meant to do that for her, but often at the start of the year that goes a bit funny with new teachers who may not have got the message as it often doesn't get passed on) - thought that's all it was, and that getting DD to remind the teacher that she needs help with that should do it - but when DD told me that she doesn't even HAVE an english teacher to ask, my brain went BOOM!

HOW can a school fail to make any provision for two dc? HOW can they just get 'forgotten' about?? Surely if there are 270 dc in the school year, you make sure that all 270 have been allocated a fucking class??

I knew that she 'didn't have a room to go to', thought that was just a minor issue where they whole CLASS was traipsing round looking for a free room - but the fact is, it's only DD and this other lad that don't have a flipping classroom. I'm STEAMING right now!

There was me, telling DD off for not bringing her English homework home, when it's impossible for her to because she isn't GETTING any because there is no teacher to set her any!!

Problem is - DD is quite enjoying not having to work! And she has said that she will be angry if I contact the school (not that that's going to stop me, but still, I shouldn't be PUT in this position of being the 'bad guy' with DD by putting a stop to her and the lad telling each other jokes instead of LEARNING ENGLISH). GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Hahaha at parent liason officer - I take it you are meaning the Parent Partnership officer? That position has been empty for over 3 fucking years. No-one at LEA or anything to help - North East Essex is left to get on with it, LEA don't give a crap if you need help.

To add - I have epilepsy, so it really would help me to have a Parent Partnership Officer at these meetings, but though every other area in Essex has one, North East Essex hasn't for over 3 years.

I am just , because up until now, the school has always been excellent with DD, and excellent at dealing with her SN. I wonder if The funding for Learning Support has been cut? I don't know if the other dc has a statement or if he is on SA+, DD is on SA+ as she has no behavioural problems, and in Essex it's almost impossible to get a statement without behavioural probs (I know blanket bans are illegal blah blah blah, I've tried to get her statemented 6 times at primary, but the primary refused to back me, and Secondary said she wouldn't get it because she HAS made progress since she has been there).

Head it is then, I will phone in the morning.

I bet it's a funding issue - DD and this lad are working WAY below where even the lowest set are working (DD has just hit NC Lvl 3b in English at the end of Y8), so they used to go to LS for their English, and it was helping (she left primary on Lvl 1b), if they have run out of funding to give the extra help they were giving the dc on SA+ (which is the reason I CHOSE this blinking school) then surely they should have INFORMED THE PARENTS and put DD and this lad in the lowest set class with a TA to help them access the lesson? Or even bloody without a TA??!! So that she at least has a teacher??!!