To move dd school during yr 10? (school cant cope with mental health)

[silverflowers]

My dd is going into year 10. She plateaued in year 9 when her mental health got worse and all her grades went down. She is very gifted but couldn't cope with the pressure and is on a camhs waiting list for therapy for anxiety and depression. Her school can't see the link between her poor mental health and her bad grades and are also refusing to let her see their counsellor as they don't know how to help her. dd was also moved to the middle set as her teachers told us that her mental health can't be the reason her grades are going down (bearing in mind my dd has been on the gifted and talented list for years and got 100% in her 11+ (clearly brighter than me and my husband haha)). Her school isn't supporting us and has been known to make her resit tests when she got an A. I don't know what to do with her because she can't cope at this school but I don't know how to move her during her gcse courses (she started them in year 9).

@silverflowers. Thanks for clearing that up, some of us were getting confused with your other post. I'd say again, get on the phone to other schools asap. Many of them will be open for staff before the beginning of term and grammar schools have available places too, due to work abroad etc. Over the last few years I have known of a few pupils who moved into new schools in year 10 and they have thrived. They were super bright too, leaving a grammar in two cases, one moving to a second grammar whilst the other went to a mixed ability. They caught up with the work quickly.

@astronotus thank you and everyone else on this thread, my dd has spoken to a friend who was in the same situation as her last year and moved to the school I'm considering, and she's deciding staying for a term at her current school whilst I talk to the headteacher and if she doesn't sort things out for my dd then she's moving, dd's friend was in the exact same situation with her mental health and everything and said the new school was the best thing she ever did and improved her grades a lot so I'm really hopeful.