exclusion from after school activities and trips

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My ds has an extra curricular activity at the weekend that he is so excited about and looking forward to, it is the most exciting thing about school ever in his eyes.

Anyway he had a bad day today refusing to do some work and his teacher has said if children misbehave they wiil not be able to come to the activity at the weekend.

Can school do this? Can they exclude a child who misbehaves if that misbehavoiur is due to his sn?

Ds has adhd and being assessed for asd, he was expected to do some creative writing unsupported and was unable to think of anything (his imaginative play/skills are very poor) so go frustrated and screwed his paper up, then got stressed and defensive and refused to talk. He was still upset at the end of the day.

It will be devestating if he is not allowed to go.

No, but you need to get the inclusion team to back you up.
\if they say he can't go, ask for a written account of the events leading up to the threat, like an incident report. Tell them politely that you are going to seek advice from the LEA as to he legalities of them excluding a child as a consequence of behaviour linked directly to his sn. Also ask for a copy of their risk assessment for the activity to ensure his needs are catered for and possible problems anticipated.

thanks goblinchild, can i ask if every school has an inclusion team, i am new to this and have not heard of it. I have inclusion support (portage)for my four year old but that stops when they are in school, ds is 7 in juniors so is that a different team?

Every LEA has an inclusion team, the school should have a SENCO working on inclusion for all children with sn. You can ring and ask for advice, or the school can use them if they need support.
Teacher could have been making a random threat/warning, but responding firmly will let them know taht you take inclusion seriously and so should they.

Have looked on our la website so understand better now. I will speak to senco first thing. I don't know if it was a random threat as it was made to me after school, ds still unable to talk about it other than to say he didn't know what to write.

I am really starting to feel this teacher just doesn't understand or doesn't want to understand.

Inclusion team can help with supporting the teacher too.

Hi,

Under the Disabiliy Discrimination Act 1995, schools have a legal duty not to discriminate against disabled pupils by excluding them from school because of behaviour related to their disability.

Discrimination occurs where a person treats a disabled pupil less favourably than pupils for a reason which relates to their disability, without justification or fails to take reasonable steps to ensure that disabled pupils are not placed at a substantial disadvantage compared to their peers.

Call ACE for more advice.

However, in the interest of your future working relation it might be better to have a talk with the teacher and clarify the situation. Like GC said, it might be an random threat.

You might want to write some notes after the meeting and depending on how it goes, send her a copy to see if she agrees with your version of the event (just in case you need to take it further).

I would've thought it was a random threat designed to make kids think about the consequences of the behaviour.

I imagine that with an extra curricular activity happening at the weekend then the kids are probably full of it already and teacher needs them to be as calm as possible, for their sanity's sake.

There's little chance they can pull anyone from the trip, esp if parents have paid.