Why when I go to the effort of telling 'Student Services' about my 'difficult family situation' do they tell none of my DD' teachers?

[Katymac]

I mean I specifically told them - so they could keep an eye on her

She needs a bit of support - but if anything happens no-one will know why

It defeats me

I would have told DC's form tutor rather than student services. I know ds's form tutor does round robins and has passed on information about to ds's health to his other teachers.

That is what I tried to do but I got put through to SS as they deal with pastoral matters

I saw the form tutor at the parent teacher meeting (10 days ago) & told him too

I spoke to a maths teacher last night who is setting her extra work & he is making sure it goes round everyone

Ime nothing gets passed around a school unless you issue the form tutor with written instructions. After 3 years in the same school, dd was still coming up against teachers who hadn't been told she is disabled (doesn't show on the outside) and tried to tell her off for not doing PE.

Really - I will have to write then

Poor DD was sat there throwing up saying I've got to go to school or I'll be in trouble

This bugs me too. My DD(13)has fybromyalgia that can affect her concentration.

When she was first diagnosed I had a meeting with the head of pastoral care at her very small school (so not the excuse of a large comprehensive)giving her some literature on the condition and she promised to circulate the information to the all the teachers in a staff meeting.

She has suffered a bit of a relapse in the last few weeks. She came home in tears yesterday as she had been in trouble with her maths teacher for not concentrating. DD had evidently been in a bit of a fog, not understood the work and asked for some extra help during the lesson which the teacher refused to do saying she should have listened the first time. (Also note there are only 13 children in her maths set so it's not as if the teacher had a class of 32 to deal with!)

The teacher kept her behind after the lesson to talk to her about it and when DD said she was having difficulty staying focussed as her fybro had flared up, the teacher was very sniffy and said she knew nothing about any "condition", and that if that were true her parents would have written to inform the school... Which of course we had...

Well apparently the Maths teacher will have a quiet word with the relevant teachers - so something might get sorted

I don't know if this will help you but I have just discovered that you can have a CAF report done and this will highlight formally any additional needs your child has and hopefully the school will then take you seriously.

Thanks Loveandlight only just noticed this - have a look here

We have a facility at DC's school called E school where we can log in and look at DC's records of attendance and progress reports etc. I just noticed last week there is button to email all dc's teachers at once.

Bruffin - that sounds really useful, I like that idea

I know Cat64, I am trained on CAF, & currently participating in the process for a family

I must admit our school is brilliant at getting back to us by email, I think they have just won sort of award for communication, one of only 10 schools in the country that have it.