Grammar School

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Hello
My 10 year old daughter was a bright girl until December 2015. I never got her tuition but she was very quick and accurate on bond papers.I was very optimistic about her going into grammar school.
But then in December 2015 she diagnosed with Leukaemia. Since then she only attended school for not more then 10 to 15 days. She gone through intensive chemotherapy, high doses of steroids and antibiotics. her wait increased from 39 to 52 kg in 9 months and her concentration level gone down.
She appeared this year in 11+ exam. she was discharged from hospital a week before and admitted again next day of exam. I had filled the medical form but they only offered her seperate seating to avoid infection. She scored 177 which was 23 marks below the last year intake.
Her consultant oncologist said that she had done great as on basis of her condition, she was not expecting her to score 100.
Is it worth to appeal????

It surely can't harm to appeal, and also if that isn't successful look for late entry possibilities - there's always a few places become available in yr 8 or 9 due to one or two deciding GS isnt for them or moving away.

I hope that whatever the outcome your DD finds a school where she can thrive.

"Sorry to be harsh but I would not expect your DDs condition to make that much difference to a candidate of grammar school calibre ."

Well, you don't actually know what condition the OP's DD was in when she took the exam.

And she's missed a lot of schooling - that might not matter for some of the test but would very likely affect the maths if she'd not covered all the ks2 syllabus.

we don't know whether maths was tested