Hi everyone
I had a quick question which I wondered if anyone could help with - just for more info really as I will obviously chat to the school.
My DC has ADHD and other SEN including anxiety. Is now in a small school that specialises in DC with EHCP ( but one that the DC there can all access mainstream Ed).
DC is very happy there and happy going to school for the first time ever which is obviously my main priority ( after a pretty awful time at primary). He isn’t however interested in learning at all and will always always do the bare minimum.
At primary he has always been meeting expectations ( GD for maths until last year) apart from writing where he was ‘just below’. He had extra time available as an adjustment in SATs and got 110 in maths and 108 in reading but was below for writing (94).
We’ve just received his first term report and the school don’t have him tracking for any GCSEs bar one, just in track for functional.
What I’m trying to understand I guess is how this correlates with what we’ve been told through primary? In one sense I reached a position a long time ago where I don’t really mind where DC ends up as long as that’s meeting his potential. It just it seems a really big change in expectations/predictions ( to be clear I never thought he would be a high achiever but I guess I did think he would at least take GCSEs and maybe get a C pass in some?). It would be really helpful to understand if this does seem just totally normal.
To be clear Im happy to work with the school whatever - I suppose he’s so hard to read and I’ve been told so many different things over th years about him depending on the teacher. He also has a tendency due to low self confidence to lean into the whole ‘im
useless’ as he likes the attention he gets ( and this is where the new school has already made huge progress and his mental
health is my main priority.)