IEP surprise

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Is it unreasonable that we were emailed an independent education plan (IEP) for my son (6 years) out of the blue with no heads up. Even though I'd been making small talk With the SENCO just a few days before. I find it slightly off

Have you or any school staff ever raised any concerns previously?

Only in that he attends small group sessions to help with concentration and attention...

It should have been discussed and shared with you in advance.

We normally discuss it with the parents beforehand so they know it's going to happen, write it alone, discuss and have it agreed with the SENDCo and then parents are invited in to have it shared with them. It's then signed off by all parties and parents leave with a copy.

I've never taught in any school where it would be acceptable to just email one out without the opportunity for discussion or prior warning.

Have you been invited in to discuss it? Was this a way of sharing it with you prior to the meeting?

If you were talking to the SENDCo a few days ago, was it mentioned or discused then that your child.might benefit from additional support? Is this their first IEP?

If he is recieving support which is different to majority of the class, which this group is, then he should be on the SEN register and have an IEP.

I’m currently about the battle my youngest’s school as my child has specific targets as a graduated approach which needs to be done before a referal they’re definitely going to have to do and she does legal therapy but they won’t put her on the sen register. They were the same when my oldest had 4 referal in place

Did the IEP refer to this or was there anything else included?

Is the IEP just formalising the small group support?

@StillAGoth no the target is to encourage him to write without support. Not something which has been specifically discussed

Who emailed the IEP? The class teacher or the SENDCo?

There might have been a miscommunication at their end.

I'd email either the class teacher or SENDCo (whoever sent it), copy the other in and ask for a meeting to discuss it.

That’s not actually a target as such. Is that how it’s worded? I would word it something like
“to legibly write a 5 word sentence once a day using a modelled sentence as a scaffold”
support would be a scaffold plus adult support to model sentence structure and handwriting
it would be achieved when the child has consistently produced a short sentence for a week.