Ds new school phoned me this afternoon, it was his class teacher. (He has a male teacher for the first time) I was talking to him for 45 mins. He seemed really nice.
So anyway he said he’d read his ehcp I said I don’t have a copy and he asked me if I needed time to find it, I said no I don’t have a copy at all, I haven’t been sent one! He said it says It was issued September and amended in January and he had the up to date January one, which i don’t have either copy of.
So I said I don’t know what information you have on ds as I can’t see what’s on your paperwork but his ehcp doesn’t usually go into too much detail anyway, ie it’s a pile of shit! so he give me a run down of what it said and it was fairly accurate but basic.
So he asked me to give him an idea in my terms, so I did.
He said the classes are 10 pupils (not 8!) 6 staff, they are split into 2 groups of 5. 3 staff per 5 children.
He said ds is one of 4 children in the class at the same academic level (he had a copy of ds current academic level from January apparently) there are 3 children that he said are higher functioning than ds and 3 who are working below ds.
He said that from what he’s read about ds from his ehcp and how I’ve described him there are 3 other ds’ in the class. Who on paper look like they are all the same child 
they put things in their mouth, impulsive, no danger awareness. He said they have some children in the class who can be more trusted and don’t need as much support.
He said they don’t have 1-1 as such but still have a high adult to child ratio but someone will always have there eyes on him he said they are good at that. He also said if ds is having a particularly bad day someone will whisk him away to do some calming 1-1 activities to lessen his anxiety.
He asked me to email a picture of ds over, he said I’ve read so much about him so I want to put all this information to a face so he gave me his email and said to email him the picture and I can email at any point with any concerns or questions.
They have put his start date back by a week (no idea!) and I have to take him as planned on a new date and wait in the car for him for 2 weeks, then it’s half term, then first day back after half term I need to book the transport to start for full time.
He told me loads of info.
One thing I said is, ds often hits other kids, is this an issue? As it’s been a major issue for his mainstream school hence why he’s banned from the classroom and I honestly shit you not he burst out laughing! He said ds will come home and say so and so thumped me today and the next day that same child will go home and say ds thumped him etc.
Not sure how i feel about that tbh. Still don’t want my ds getting hit even if he does it to them. I’d rather ds didn’t do it and nobody did it to him. But oh well!
So yes I feel better now they have phoned me, loads to take in x