So worried about DD and school, reassurance?

Seanymph

and if it was mine I just relayed my experience.

A student was put into a wheelchair for six weeks and rather than accomodating that (which they could, easily, they had stairlifts fitted already and everything for another child who attended the school in a wheelchair) their response was to tell her she had to have six weeks off.

This devastated child, who had been put onto wheels then lost the opportunity to got to school.

I wasn't bashing teachers, just explaining my experience, and how quickly the local parenting partnership got the school to accept her back into the building.

But for the record in the week she had off no work was set or sent home. None. Nothing. Not from any one of her teachers.

pulliptears

Pleased to say we have a nice pile of work! Still waiting a few bits from other teachers but she has plenty to be getting on with. I gave her a book to read last night and told her she can write a report on it as well (I did ask and they have finished the book they were reading and written a report on it). So far today she's studied the migration of Mexicans into the USA and done some work on My Maths. She tells me she's done more today already than she usually does in school lol.

Mojisola

pulliptears wrote: »

She tells me she's done more today already than she usually does in school lol.

If she might be interested, introduce her to the Ted lectures - https://www.ted.com/talks

She's sure to find something about subjects she's studying or she could expand her horizons into a range of other subjects.

pulliptears

Mojisola wrote: »

If she might be interested, introduce her to the Ted lectures - https://www.ted.com/talks

She's sure to find something about subjects she's studying or she could expand her horizons into a range of other subjects.

What a fabulous site! Thank you. We will have a look after lunch

Mojisola

pulliptears wrote: »

What a fabulous site! Thank you. We will have a look after lunch

It is brilliant.

My sons were very poorly treated by the LA when they became too ill to go to school. They were eventually given two hours education at home a week.

Finding Ted was a wonderful break-through. They have both become so well rounded and are able to discuss a wide range of subjects. The eldest is now doing a Masters and still finding Ted useful.

SingleSue

My eldest's other school for his 6th form has been brilliant with his constant dislocations, he has a lift pass for the days when things are bad but not bad enough for a wheelchair and they are fine if he needs to use a wheelchair....think I put them in a panic last week though informing them of his latest cardiac problem, urgent message sent out to every single teacher to keep an eye on him and asking if it was safe for him to be at school (eldest won't have it any other way, he wants to be there)

Unfortunately, his main school for 6th form (the one he attended from years 7 upwards - the 6th form is spread over two high schools), does not have a lift and they keep forgetting he has joint problems, so keep giving his provided laptop to another student and taking his specially provided seat to other classrooms/school hall...he has to do lots of chasing up.

For youngest, the school generally sends work home for him when he has been hospitalised after an asthmatic episode and he is not well enough to go to school (he would lose too much education otherwise).

pollypenny

I'm amazed by this problem. The school where I taught always had someone on crutches, DS once, and often someone in a wheelchair.

Sending work home, which will not need teacher input, is not that easy,though

charlieann

dizziblonde wrote: »

Aaah 2 pages before it descended into the usual teacher bashing...

If your referring to my post I was responding from a teachers point of view.
As a teacher you are responsible for educating all pupils on your register. If pupils will be off for a known short term absence then work must be provided, which is the case where I work.
Also I do not condone playing sections of dvd's or doing seasonal activities during the last week of term. Pupils have plenty of time in holidays for that, any time spent in lessons should be educational.

seriousDFW

Finding work to send home is incredibly difficult, as it is difficult to know what the child will be able to do without teacher support. I hate sending work because I don't want to send work that the student can't do, and then panics and feels bad because they can't do it. Equally you don't want to send something too easy because it's pointless. It's hard to send home the same work the class is doing as this adapts according to the learning of the class. Even though we have long and medium term plans, the work we teach can change from lesson to lesson; for example, if students have found something difficult, we'll spend more time on it, if they've found it easier than expected, we'll move on sooner than expected. It's hard to send work home regularly enough, with the mountain of other issues teachers have to deal with with the students who are actually in the building. You also have to assume that children will have no parental support as it's very difficult to know how much time parents can/will give to help students, and what their capabilities are.

I'm not making excuses for lazy schools, just explaining some of the difficulties with sending work home.

seriousDFW

Oh and for the record, there will be NO time-wasting activities in my lessons at all over the next 2 weeks. I agree that if I'm there and the pupils are there, we may as well do something useful and teach/learn what we're supposed to! The holidays are for DVDs etc.

Luckily, there are a various Christmas-themed maths resources out there so we can get the best of both worlds! Kids happy they are doing something Christmas-related, but they are also using maths to complete puzzles etc.