Hello fellow mumsnetters. We have applied for More House for DS, age 10, but they are concerned that at present he’s in a specialist unit of only 8 kids to 3 adults (one teacher and two SNAs). They say the are worried about that he will need more support than they can give him as he’s been used to such high adult to child ratio.
DS is gentle, kind natured and quite bright. His speech took years to come and this is the main reason he was in a high support specialist unit. But now, he’s finding it very frustrating as expectations are low, and he loves maths and science. He attends some mainstream classes and after school clubs in his favourite topics and gets on OK as long as they are not really noisy (usually well structured, even 20 kids is OK. Unstructured, chaos is what he hates).
I can continue to argue my case with More House. But does anyone have any experience of the school and any opinions?
More House was the only school I saw that seemed to have the great combination of good learning, teaching, high expectations but also small enough classes, therapies on site and a structured ethos. I looked at so many. Definitely not going to live in London. South East preferable but honestly would move to the Isle of Sky if there was the best school there.
DS is quite gentle and could be easily led by more socially aware kids for instance. He is well liked, but partly because he will go along with others.
That is one concern - does More House pick up if a child is being bullied or badly led?
But he could easily adapt to being in a 12 person class, and in mainstream classes does not have a 1-1 SNA as that does not help him.