To change DD's school in year 10

[Bluebellee]

DD has had a really difficult at secondary school due to bullying, during year 7 and year 8 she was bullied by this one girl and her friends, they were extremely racist towards her, this girl was then excluded, the girls friends left her alone and things got better after that. Year 9 was a really good year for her, she found a good friendship group and that's the main she didn't move schools then as she was getting on really well there. However in recent months she's fallen out with one of her friends who's then been encouraging others to tease her and bully her. Her mental health has been really bad and the first thing I want to do is take her away from it and move her to another school but she's worried this is going effect her GCSE's. She's on her way to achieving high grades and changing schools may put her completely behind in some subjects

Deal with the problem, don't find a solution that sidesteps and is likely to compromise your own daughters GCSEs. As PPs have explained, moving schools mid GCSEs is full of more pitfalls than you realise.

You could instead arrange a meeting with school guidance manager (pastoral care) for her year. Put it in writing that she is being bullied again having already been victim of racist bullying in Yr7/8 and that it's affecting her mental health and she doesn't feel safe at school.

Ask for their bullying policy and what immediate protections or resolutions they will put in place?

And If no change in 2 weeks organise a meeting with Head Teacher. Treat this like abuse, which bullying is but from peers, and take it step by step through their anti bullying policy.

I have a year 10 Ds and I have tried to persuade him to move schools for a long time, unfortunately we think it is probably too late now. Ds is being assessed for asd and school has been just awful. They are unsupportive, there is bullying and it's just generally completely crap.

He has refused to move even though he is desperately unhappy, says he can't cope with the change. I'm just hoping that his mental health holds up for the next year.

We do have some support from the health care professionals involved In his assessments and I'm hoping that some advice from them to the school might make them take action and help him.

I guess for your daughter it depends how well she could cope in staying at her present school. The school should really be stepping up to help her if she needs it but I know from personal experience they don't a lot of the time. Maybe contact school again after Easter but if she really wants to move it might be something you have to consider.

It would be very difficult for her to catch up. Realistically she won't move before half term. That's pretty much a year of content to catch up with. I'd work with school to try and keep her there for the next year.

but considering how she's doing at moment surely she's not likely to pull a school's progress down

If her target is a 7 and she gets 4’s because of the move she will pull the progress of a school down massively