Have we got a starting Secondary School Support thread?

Thanks all.
Not it doesn't have to be at his school. It was given last period and had to be in on Tuesday so that would be unfair.

Any suggestions of how to word it are welcome...I'm crap at this stuff . So any phrases I can steal from here ....

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I have to go to work shortly . I'm going to talk to dd tomorrow and get her to tell me exactly what happened and get it sent over the weekend. So far I only have a couple of names...

Us it the done thing to name names? I don't wanna make things worse but these boys are ruining it all for her.

Giles. Sorry that's happened. I'd send an email today if i were you.

Surely he is supposed to ask the year 7s in his school? As a kind of maths/social homework mixed together? Ill join in anyway
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Mini bus provided by school

Witchend, happy to help.

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2. School bus, same as Frayed it's a dedicated service run by a local company that goes into the school grounds.

A good day here today, already in a onesie on her laptop and looking forward to the homework weekend!

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Not good today she's been forced to work with the boys again and they have been shoving her around . I'm.going to have to try and get down there next week .i dont send her to school to be assaulted and having a penis does not mean the onus is on her to ignore it and expect it because that's what's boys do

I'll join in for the sake of helping homework

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2. Car (but only because I'm literally driving past the gate on my way to work at the right time. Seems stupid to make him get the train which takes 30 mins longer)

Witchend

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2. bus (dedicated school bus not public transport in case that is relevant)

Witchend:

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Thank you! He has just smiled and agreed maybe it isn't as impossible as he thought.
He just needs 15 people. I said 14 and he could count himself but apparently I was being ridiculous!

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(She could walk the 2 stops that she travels on the bus but it's free so she saves herself for the 25 mins uphill she has after it

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2. Bus for 2 mins then walk for 25 mins

Witchend:

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HTH!

I'm hoping that some of you will be happy to help ds in his homework. He's got (he tells me) the most unreasonable homework ever (until Monday anyway)

He needs to ask at least 15 people in year 7 two questions and do a graph for it. Apparently this is ridiculously hard.

So if anyone can answer (happy to take pm if you don't want to put it on here)

1. How many siblings do they have? (half siblings count as a sibling)
2. How do they get to school?

Thanks!

I find there's a lot of inconsistency on how detentions are given out at the dc's school. Some give them the first time a homework is forgotten, some say to bring it in the next morning. Some give one the first time equipment is forgotten, some the second or third time

permanent would it help if a friends could meet her at the gate and sit with her somewhere before the day begins?

Sorry to everyone else having stress. It's so ridiculous that they get so hung up on bits of uniform. As if anyone failed at anything big in life because they didn't have their tie on!

pizzaandcoke hope your daughter settles in well. One of my DD's friends was offered a place at nearer school the day before term started. They had to rush around buying all the new uniform so that he was ready for it.

Joining the thread a bit late!
But stressing none the less we are on week 2 and have changed schools!!! We got offered a place from the waiting list of our preferred school on monday and while i didn't expect my daughter to accept she did very happily! She started today.
I feel like ive lost 20lbs this week 😅 but she seems happy!

It's such a shame, isn't it, that good behaviour management isn't shared from special schools out to mainstream. In DD1's SS, if she gets angry/frustrated in class, it is seen as a positive behaviour for her to leave the class for a period of time, calm down, and then return quietly to the class and resume her work. As long as she doesn't wander too far from her classroom, doesn't spend too long outside, and returns calmly, it is seen as self-regulation and is not punished.

I understand that numbers are larger at mainstream schools, but not every child needs to be able to do that. For children with those needs though, wouldn't it be better for them to know that they could step outside, cool down, then return when they are ready to resume their lesson? Why keep them boiling away with no escape hatch? What does that achieve?

Sorry for getting my penguins and my portakabins mixed up!

It’s tricky penguin as the school put loads of extra support in place - 1:1 support, scribing etc but he doesn’t want it and some of these are a direct result of him eg refusing to let someone write his homework down for him. As others with ASD kids will know, it’s all about how he gets on with the teacher and he does not like the teacher who has given him 2 detentions this week and fear the feeling is mutual.

Sorry for the stress people have been having.
Dd's school have suddenly got very detention happy this week with year 7. I think they hold off a bit the first couple of weeks. No tie for girls in dc school although they did at primary and we had several.
Dd got a bit tearful this evening saying she was worried about getting a detention as sometimes she can't help laughing in class when other people are messing about. I said to look down at her work and think of something else/something sad. I said I'll understand if she gets a detention for accidentally forgetting something but not if it's for being rude/disrespectful or disruptive.
Her class sound naughtier than dd1's. Dd1 had an extremely strict form tutor but it paid off as they've always been a calm class.

Mine had that at the old school Strawberry, first year he had it he spent in the corridor on a desk they got for him and he got quite isolated but next 2 years he just used it occasionally and it worked. I am not sure if new school are doing this, I think for occasional use its good but when they live in the corridor or use it to opt out its not. I prefer a desk too so he is working at either location in theory. Mine isn't being given detentions which works for him as he refused school one day when he was scared he would get one. Mine responds but to kind, patient but firm.

Penguinsetpandas no, ADHD. He's had detention tonight where he got some homework and I go a phone call, I've been emailing as well. They're worried that the staff have actually been too soft on him - I don't understand his comments that he's felt angry in class and he has been given a pass by the SENCO to go to stand in the corridor. So he's spent the day mostly out of class in corridors on his own!? That's so sad.