Dd is in Year 10. She is on the autistic spectrum and has had some problems for much of this year with anxiety and erratic school attendance.
They are doing the speaking exam over the next few weeks. Dd has got herself into a state about this, she has written her speech but has said she cannot do the speech. She was in a panic last night and did not go to school today as a result.
Any suggestions I make to her have been shot down. Apparently her teacher said she can do it with fewer people, school have also said it can just be her and the teacher if necessary. I have encouraged her to email her teacher herself to explain how she's feeling but she won't do this. She just puts her head in the sand, but we need to do something fast as she cannot just miss days when she has English until the end of term!
So I'm wondering if it's compulsory and how bad would it be if she didn't do it at all? I know it's graded separately from the written papers.