F2F A levels

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Advice please

DS needs F2F teaching for A levels and can't cope with school.

Online won't work. Have posted in local EHE Facebook groups.

Would love any advice/suggestions.

Thanks

Tutor?

Does he have an EHCP? ds2 was home tutored for A levels with an agency called NT&AS which was organised by our LA which worked out very well for him. Like your son ds2 could not cope with school (either mainstream or specialist). Amazingly, though he has just finished his first year at university so things can improve.

Thanks. I've just applied for this and been turned down for the assessment but pushing on.

Would you share the agency name. I feel like it will come down to home tutors but I would love for him to have a little group at ours or someone's house or other place.

Sorry. You have put the name of the agency. Thank you

If you want F2F small group tuition, have you checked if there are any tuition centres within travelling distance offering small group A level tuition?

Yes. I'm hoping for any leads on tuition centres. We've got Kip MacGrath, Kumon etc locally but they won't do A levels.

I'm doing internet searches, asking on here, FB and real life. LA are unhelpful.

I've been looking for specialist ASD sixth form /special schools that offer A levels and am struggling to find anything at all.

All suggestions very welcome.

There are tuition centres who offer A levels but you will need to post where you live for anyone to make suggestions.

Same for specialist schools and colleges. Some do offer A levels, but it depends on where you live. They are expensive to self fund though and not all allow self funded pupils. Some offer boarding but that would be incredibly costly to self fund.

When you say you are pushing on after being turned down for an EHCNA, are you appealing the refusal to assess?

Thank you.

Appealing to assess, yes.

We're in Northants. Happy to travel and I would consider moving.

Thanks

Depending on what subjects you need, you could look at Bauhaus Education centre in Northampton. Harborough Tutors in Market Harborough could work if you don’t mind travelling slightly to their centre.

ASD specialist schools offering A levels include Breckenbrough in N. Yorks, More House, Unsted Park, St Dominic’s and Wemms in Surrey, West Kirby on the Wirral, Alderwasley Hall in Derbyshire, Holmewood school in Barnet, Kenwood academy in Sheffield, Boveridge College in Dorset, Cambian Wing College in BCP, Gretton in Cambridgeshire. Some offer a wider range than others. None offer the range you see in mainstream schools, unfortunately. Some don’t offer all A levels every year. Some work in partnership with local schools or colleges. Several are marmite schools and parents either love them or hate them. Not all allow self funders. Not an ASD school although many of their pupils have ASD, but there is also West Heath in Kent if MH is a concern.

Thank you @BrumToTheRescue you are so knowledgeable.

Bauhaus looks like it might be the answer to our prayers.

Thank you for the list. I'll go through it. I had looked at some and ruled out any where you have to go to the local college as he could do that here and it didn't work.

I think when I looked at them before I kind of disregarded them because they didn't have his favourite options and I hoped he would have the same opportunities as my older child. The first school I looked at on your list has four A level options and one is photography. I think I will just need to get into a completely different mindset when looking at these schools.

Thank you again for so much help. Much appreciated.

Yes, specialist schools don’t offer the range of subjects mainstream schools and colleges do, so it depends on what subjects DS wants. And what some (e.g. Unsted Park and Alderwasley Hall) offer varies year to year depending on the cohort, too.

If you get an EHCP and it is inappropriate for the provision to be mad in a school you can look at EOTAS. Or you may have heard it with a C on the end or instead of S for college age pupils or sometimes has an I instead of an A.