Today my husband and I have been invited to the school by the SENCO for a review of his PSP. The headteacher, ed psych and family support officer are also going to be there. He is currently on half days due to his behaviour and going home at the start of lunchtime. Basically they have put him on the PSP as the next step is to permanently exclude him and no one wants that to happen. I have started two threads earlier this year about him being temporarily excluded for hitting staff.
DS has particularly struggled since being in year 1. He has been on the PSP since two weeks before half term ended. The original plan was that he would be finishing school at 12 for two weeks then increasing it by an hour every two weeks until he was back full time. They did try increasing it by an hour but he got worse and they switched it back to finishing at 12. His problem is that he doesn't like being told what he has to do and will refuse to do it. For example yesterday when I took him to school he was drawing on the whiteboard and the teacher told him not to and took the pens off him. This resulted in him having a major tantrum and having to be carried out of the classroom by the teacher and TA. When he has a tantrum he hits and kicks and throws equipment. He gets himself really worked up. The other children can also set him off.
The ed psych has seen him twice, once in January and more recently in October. The second report didn't say much different to the first - suggested ear defenders (he won't wear), a visual timetable, (he already had and doesn't seem to make much difference) and a few other things I can't remember off the top of my head. Currently his timetable is circle time when they can get him to sit with everyone else, a numeracy activity, free choice then break time (which he spends in the library) then phonics and literacy time and then free choice and home time. It is usually during the transition time between activities that he kicks off. Last week I had to talk to the HT most of the times that I picked him up. The week before I had to go in to try to calm him down several times. When he gets really angry he uses his thumb (up or down) to tell people know how he feels about things. He has no statement or diagnosis of anything. I just don't know where to go next with it.