Statementing, parent's contribution - help PLEASE!

[nortynamechanger]

As a usually verbose and erudite individual I am struggling to fulfil the request of my DS's SN Nursery to add my contribution to the initial information to be supplied with the statementing process.

They have requested from me

'What I see as DS's main difficulties and how I feel his needs would be best met when he goes to school.'

At the moment he attends 2 sessions at a SN nursery where he is not hat happy or settled and 3 sessions where he is being held back one achademic year in the nursery of a pre-prep school where he can attend until end of yr 2.

He is absolutely flourishing in the tiny class sizes and close attention of staff (he has an 'helper' that I pay for with a little help from the LEA.

What I want is they they approve his funding/statementing to remain in the environment best suited to his needs.

How do I start this coherently?

Could you put that without the funding YOU (nortynamechanger) supply your son would sink in to the background as the funding from the LEA is insufficient and inappropriate in relation to his needs.

Thank you will just add that to my summary.

It's hard isn't it. You want to put across what is important but it is hard to word it.here you are going to need this for afterwards.

OOHH dark choc my fave, thanks nyd x

Could you bullet point what his main problems are - speech and language, attention, socialising, language/literacy development... say something along the lines of you have concern that if they are not addressed you are worried that he will fall further and further behind ... that you feel he needs small group situations to help him develop on a par with his peer group so that he is not left behind....

For statementing it is not always necessary to write out in prose - often the best statements are in bullet points with strategies that are simple

Good luck