Appeal - Causing Major distress to child

[Nickw87]

Hi any advice welcome - We are going through the appeals process as our child did not get into our preference school. This school is the only school in the area that can accommodate her passions and needs.

Currently she is very depressed, not eating drinking and refusing to eat- Do I take her to the see the GP ? I don't what this to hinder the appeals

This is has rocked our family and due to the stress placed on our child we are becoming highly anxious as well.

Will she eat her favourite food? Children become malnourished and dehydrated quickly so if she is seriously refusing to drink and eating nothing, you need to have her properly medically evaluated. If she's just got a low appetite, then probably no need for a GP yet.

This is a very extreme response to something she and you must have known was possible.

You need to show that the detriment to the school by taking a pupil over numbers is less than the detriment to your daughter not being offered a place.

Is she simply interested in dance and performing arts, or does she have a real aptitude for it? If she cannot pursue that at the offer school, but could at the preferred school, that would be a reason for appeal.

You are appealing for the school you want, not against the school you’ve been offered, so don’t be critical of it, but the emphasis must be on her ability to extend her expertise via the performing arts offered at the school.

Is this comment necessary? Did you not read the further post that her child is under assessment for autism? What’s not a big deal to me or you can be a massive deal to someone on the spectrum. My daughter with ASD gets in a flap if her PE day is changed at short notice.

If you don’t have any helpful to say why even bother?

OP no idea about appeals but if shes not eating / drinking etc I’d deffo take her to the GP. Also call the currents schools SENCo as they should be able to do some short interventions with her to try calm the anxiety down a bit.