Hi I’m looking for advice from anyone who has moved their child’s school when in juniors and whether it was the right decision or if they ended up regretting it. I have a child in year 4 who is not at all settled at school. He was moved up a year from reception age and never mixed with the other children in the new class. Him and his best friend very much rely on each other at school. However over the last two years, his anxiety has been getting worse, he is upset most evenings with worries about school the next day and isn’t sleeping. He has developed tics, which we believe is largely triggered by his anxiety. We made the school aware of the tics 3 months ago and were told we would get a call off the SEN to arrange a meeting to discuss this and the anxiety but at this point we still haven’t had a call, despite chasing this up with his class teacher. Luckily we have an appointment with CAMHS this week regarding the tics but are still no further forward with even having a meeting to discuss him and his anxiety with the school. We are considering whether this school is the best place to support him given his anxiety is largely surrounding school and whether a move to another school would be best. ( Unfortunately we already don’t have much faith in this school
due to their failure to provide the proper support to my older child who had learning difficulties but he has now moved on to comp. )
My child has another 2 years at this school before he goes to comp and I don’t want his anxiety etc to worsen which will then make that move to comp harder. Any advice/experienced appreciated, thanks 😊