Massive advice !

[Jesstryinghard]

Oh my days where do I start ? Will try to cut it down ..

Son now in year 3 have been Often unhappy with the school but not wanted to bring the emotional distress of moving on my son

Pushing since last year for a diagnosis of dyslexia / dyspraxia

IEP was fairly well fulfilled last year

This year, at parents evening, one of the job share teachers sat there and said

'Oh we have to put our hands up -we haven't done that !!!!'

There's been no work on any of his targets for over half a term

His levels are very low and there is very little concern

I am meeting with them tomorrow after school and I just don't even know what to say without losing it

The existing teacher is known around school as lazy and the new teacher is an nqt

I don't know if I give them a chance to fix up or just give up on the school for good and take the plunge and uproot him

Please help !

Perhaps take your concerns to the head- they should know that one of their staff admitted not working on a child's IEP targets. In any decent school this is totally unacceptable.

The head is absolutely useless ! Total buck passer !

Hi Jesstryinghard:

You know what - I think you should just tell the HT what you've said here:

Do I give up on your school and ask the LEA to move my child or are you going to do something?

Now maybe not that boldly - but get to the bottom of this and quickly. What is the school prepared to do for your son.

I don't know whether it's laziness or the expense but schools are incredibly slow sometimes to have a child assessed for a learning disability - however, getting a diagnosis that there is a disability and help to cope with dyslexia, etc... can make a huge difference to learning and the sooner the better.

Our school waited until June Y6 for a pupil to be assessed dyslexic and as the parent said, how would my DC have done on their SATs had they known that coloured sheets stopped letters dancing round? She had been complaining since Y3 that her DC said letters were dancing - a classic symptom of dyslexia.

Something as simple as a coloured transparency seems ridiculously easy - but often very simple things can be done to help - but it takes a diagnosis.