London junior school, co ed for high functioning autistic and dyspraxic girl

[Bluepiggy]

Looking for year 4 entry for my daughter who is academic, creative and wants kids to be nice to her. Please help!

www.thedominie.co.uk/ ?? No personal experience
Where abouts in London are you. If north consider eger-roth.co.uk/.
Does she need a specialist environment do you think or a nurturing mainstream ?? Ewell Castle. Are you looking for state or private. Does she have an EHCP

Thanks so much!

We are happy to consider state if small classes or private, specialist or nurturing mainstream. She doesn’t have an ehcp - only because an ed pysch put us off from applying but will look into legal advice.

because an ed pysch put us off from applying

Just curious, but - why?

If you consider SE London Hawes Down Primary in West Wickham is worth a look. They have a SEN class but really work on integrating the children into mainstream.

Not sure you get into the SEN without an EHCP but they have a very good team helping advising parents.

DD was in mainstream but is on the ADD spectrum. All her normal class teachers have knowledge to look out for problems and she had several ASD children in lessons like maths or for socialising. Next door is a SEN secondary, Glebe School.

The ed psych is convinced our council will tell us that she is academically able that’s why she’s unable to get the EHCP on those grounds.

Thanks will look into that !

Your Ed psych is wrong. They will 99% refuse to assess but you appeal and 90% of those win. Councils nearly always say no first. The test in law your daughter needs to pass is: does she or may she have SEN. That’s literally it. I’m not saying it’s particularly easy to get one as you need to prove her needs cannot be met with the 6k top up SEN funding but it doesn’t mean she can’t get one.
You write a letter to the council with all your evidence saying you’d like a ehcp assessment- they reply with yes or no in 6 weeks- if yes they do an assessment- if no you appeal and have a paper hearing, submitting the same evidence you did to the council.
If they do the assessment they have 20 weeks from the date they say yes to issue or refuse to issue you a plan. You can also appeal a refusal to issue a plan.

This is brilliant advice. Thank you so much!