Child being changed classes mid year

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My child is 13 and in year 9 . A bright DD in high ability sets. Tonight I’ve had an email which not all parents have had saying they will be moved groups due to a new operational timetable or something like that . They are quite unsettled by this because they’re very chatty and shout out therefore aren’t the best at first impressions . They have spent this first term building relationships with teachers and helping them discover that they’re not actually as bad as originally thought . It kills them to find out they’re gonna have to do it all again with different teachers . Do o request she isn’t moved and state these reasons or do I leave it

This seems a very dramatic post. She’s in Year 9, she’s not got important exams and so the only concern is she will have to get to know new teachers. I’m sure she will cope just as she did in September when she began a new school year.

It probs is very dramatic , sorry . It’s just as she was crying her eyes out when she found out d

Ok thank you

Crying her eyes out is not a normal reaction to what is quite a mundane and regular occurrence at secondary (changing groups or changing teachers). What’s really the issue? Crush on the teacher? Is the stress of the diagnostic process manifesting itself as devastation at this minor change? You need a proper conversation about what’s going on in her head.

I don't understand your point either. Secondary classes are re-jigged regularly. Children are moved up and down in maths sets regularly. This is just a tiny bit more dramatic. But it's completely standard and normal.

I would trust the school and assume there was a reason for it. IMO year 9 is an important year because it's the last chance to get the foundations of a subject before they step it up for GCSE. We have quite a weak teacher and the kids love her but I will be changing the timetable after Christmas and taking all her exam classes and top set year 9 off her. It's not unusual to take high ability classes if teachers aren't showing they can handle them especially at this time of the year when they have had 1 half term for the problems to become apparent and 1 half term where the school have tried to intervene and for support to have failed

If she is thought to have adhd, has the medication route been tried / is it on the table?

If its "operational", it's a whole year thing, probably in order to get the right fit between teachers and students. They probably can't keep your DD in same groups as the whole set up will be changing, not just moving teachers or one or two kids between sets.

SEN aside - and it sounds like that might need more dialogue between you and school tbh - it seems disproportionate to be so upset, aged 14 at having to get used to a few new teachers/changes of timetable.