holding child back a year.

[jeniz]

Hello I have an ago for my grandchildren.
One of them is being assessed for ADHD.Also has attachment disorder.
She has a full statement at school.

Currently myself and teacher think she isn't ready for year 3

Is it possible to hold a child back a year ?

I can only go on the experience my mum had with me (I'm 23 now!) I was born at 23 weeks and had dyspraxia and dyslexia (was diagnosed as having mild Aspergers at 17!) she wanted primary school to hold me back in yr six because she was concerned about my overall development ( I have effectively been six months behind everyone else!) but they would not, something to do with the July/august cut off?!
Things might have changed since then- I hope so! Still, none of the above the things have held me back I'm about to qualify as a nurse
Let me know if you find out - I'd be interested to know! X

Thank you for your reply,will definatly let you know.
She is funtioning at age 4/5 so It would definitely be a help.

Some lea will get this written into there statement. So they then continue there whole school career a year behind . If the school and the educational physiologist agree that this will be in your daughters best interest .
We did this when moving to mainstream primary from special needs , though first couple years in high school , then moved school again due to bullying but had to amend to correct year group due to type of school involved . Otherwise would have gone though whole of education from year four behind a year.

Agree with above comment. You can if you get school support and it is written into statement. We held our son back from starting school, he's a July birthday. It was the best thing we did.

Thank you for that,will definatly look into it.

Hi, we repeated our son (dx ASD) in reception. This worked well for us and we told he would never need to give it back. But to be honest they have have tried every year. We have appealed every year and won though threatening them with solicitors.

We are now though, coming to the point of choosing high schools and want our son who is ms to go into sn. This is where things will now start to get tricky. If we cannot get ms high school to agree to the year he will be totally out of his depth and struggle. We are now looking into sn schools but he will need to go to chronological year (which is okay for us at a sn school) but in order to look now we have to give back the year. Luckily head has said she will keep him in the year he is at.

It's all very confusing and scary to be honest. Would I have done the same again? Yes in a shot because he was no where near ready for the next year. Good luck.

Hi there Jeniz

I just want to let you know that the school our child is in, has just offered to allow our child to repeat this year (year 1) as there is possibly a dysgraphia and dyscalcula difficulty. We've been told that most assessments only start at age seven. So we will wait until autumn. We are hoping that this will be a positive experience.

Have you had any success with the school since you posted your message?
All the best.