We are very happy with the level of care and concern shown by staff at the school and by their commitment to ensuring that X is as involved with school life as he wants to be.
We are concerned about the apparent lack of individual and appropriate differentiation and would like to see examples of differentiated work at the review. X is becoming stressed at home because he does not understand his work. This is of great importance as he is now in his GCSE years and we would like to understand how this need is going to be met.
It is our view that differentiation is not simply the provision of a TA but is the rewriting of work into a format that X is able to understand and it is this that we have not seen evidence of.
A specific example of this is Computing. X demonstrates little or no understanding of the work that is being assigned to him and there appears to be no specific work programme that has been designed for him.
We would like to see more work done within the school about understanding autism and also work done with X on developing friendships.
We feel confident in the school’s desire and ability to meet all of X’s needs and just need to work together to plan how that is going to continue to happen.