Booster homework:SATS

Brighton_belle

Nothing useful to add OP but I am truly shocked at the lack of care towards your son shown by the school:mad:.
Nothing, absolutely nothing is worth getting any 11 year old this stressed

securityguy

Egypt191 wrote: »

interesting one this..DS was told that if he was off Sick, or for any other reason for the SAT's, his teacher would come to our home and make him take the test here!!!! But I'm also aware that you can't pull a child out of SAT's, otherwise I would. I couldn't care less what grade he gets, as long as he's happy, and he's not at the moment.

You can, de facto. If the child is absent on the day of the test, they can take it at some point in the ensuing five days, provided that they have not had contact with children who have taken the test, or access to the Internet. You'd have to sign for that, which obviously you wouldn't. So just keep him at home that day, and sweetly say that he spend the evening on the Internet and playing with his friends. There's nothing they can do. It might destroy your relationship with the school, but it appears they're going out of their way to do this themselves anyway.

365days

Tell the school if they don't back off he will be 'ill' on the days of the Maths SAT.

I am a mum to an aspie and also work part time in Y6. How dare they put a kid through such stress. Makes me mad.


Ask for a copy of the anti - bullying policy and ask if it includes bullying by staff as well as by children. Also ask for the email of the chair of governors, when you mention the above as you would like to now conduct all communication with the head via email and will be copying in the chair of governors.

Thank god I neither teach nor my son attended a school like that.

Poor kid

bestpud

pigpen wrote: »

If he is finding it so distressing the last thing he should be subject to is MORE homework!!

I'd be marching into the school, demanding a meeting with the head and telling them to place their homework and their inadequacies up any orifice they choose because from now on he will NOT be doing any homework and if they don't like it they should make sure they are teaching better throughout the year so they don't have to force 11 year olds to cram for these tests which have no bearing in their future education at all. They are to make sure the teachers are teaching properly and effectively not the childrens abilities.

They tried this tactic with 2 of mine and I tore strips of the class teacher and the head.. totally out of order.

The rubbish they spout about they use the results at high school is rubbish.. When they start at high school they do CATs tests which assess where the children are at in an informal manner and they are banded according to ability based on these results the SATs are just a farce.

Bin the homework, give him a hug and tell him you don't care if he gets all level 1's because he is wonderful just being him and fling him out to play and be a child. They grow up too quick as it is without all this pressure to cover school targets!

You are on my wavelength! :rotfl:

I used to do the softly, softly approach but it just prolonged the problem, so now I tell them how it will be!

bestpud

Are you able to home educate for the last weeks of this year, Egypt?

You are well within your rights to do so and most secondaries will still allow your son to attend induction days.

Further, you would be able to contact the teachers/SENCO yourself and won't have to undo a load of rubbish passed on by his primary school!

It's not for everyone but it's an option.

bestpud

securityguy wrote: »

You can, de facto. If the child is absent on the day of the test, they can take it at some point in the ensuing five days, provided that they have not had contact with children who have taken the test, or access to the Internet. You'd have to sign for that, which obviously you wouldn't. So just keep him at home that day, and sweetly say that he spend the evening on the Internet and playing with his friends. There's nothing they can do. It might destroy your relationship with the school, but it appears they're going out of their way to do this themselves anyway.

That seems another good solution!

Egypt191

pigpen wrote: »

If he is finding it so distressing the last thing he should be subject to is MORE homework!!

I'd be marching into the school, demanding a meeting with the head and telling them to place their homework and their inadequacies up any orifice they choose because from now on he will NOT be doing any homework and if they don't like it they should make sure they are teaching better throughout the year so they don't have to force 11 year olds to cram for these tests which have no bearing in their future education at all. They are to make sure the teachers are teaching properly and effectively not the childrens abilities.

They tried this tactic with 2 of mine and I tore strips of the class teacher and the head.. totally out of order.

The rubbish they spout about they use the results at high school is rubbish.. When they start at high school they do CATs tests which assess where the children are at in an informal manner and they are banded according to ability based on these results the SATs are just a farce.

Bin the homework, give him a hug and tell him you don't care if he gets all level 1's because he is wonderful just being him and fling him out to play and be a child. They grow up too quick as it is without all this pressure to cover school targets!

Been there, done that. The homework issue (taking away the boosters) has been ongoing for 2 years. Since he's had this same teacher. They made sure that this teacher remained with him as it's the only male teacher in the school, but he doesn't understand autism at all. I've written formal letters, been in the school etc, they even called in a psychologist who told them to back off. They haven't. The last thing before the boosters was that they tried to exclude him for 2 days for something they did to him. I refused to allow them to because luckily I knew his rights, so they didn't have a leg to stand on. The school is awful.

365days

And here is a lesson to not take league tables as the be all and end all of choosing/judging a school.

Great SATs results but all the kids are nervous wrecks....:mad:

Egypt191

securityguy wrote: »

You can, de facto. If the child is absent on the day of the test, they can take it at some point in the ensuing five days, provided that they have not had contact with children who have taken the test, or access to the Internet. You'd have to sign for that, which obviously you wouldn't. So just keep him at home that day, and sweetly say that he spend the evening on the Internet and playing with his friends. There's nothing they can do. It might destroy your relationship with the school, but it appears they're going out of their way to do this themselves anyway.

Thank you:D This is the first time I have laughed in a week! I know what I'll be doing now then.....
There's no relationship with the school to destroy, the headteacher leaves in July, a new one starts, my youngest is only there for one more year. I'd home school, but I'm homeschooling my eldest until his new school starts in Sept, and I think I'd let both of them down if I was educating them both.:(

pigpen

Egypt191 wrote: »

Been there, done that. The homework issue (taking away the boosters) has been ongoing for 2 years. Since he's had this same teacher. They made sure that this teacher remained with him as it's the only male teacher in the school, but he doesn't understand autism at all. I've written formal letters, been in the school etc, they even called in a psychologist who told them to back off. They haven't. The last thing before the boosters was that they tried to exclude him for 2 days for something they did to him. I refused to allow them to because luckily I knew his rights, so they didn't have a leg to stand on. The school is awful.

If this has been an issue for 2 years I'd have removed him about 18 months ago.. I've just moved my 2 (yrs 3 and 5) because the school is unsupportive of their problems and the educations sucks.

Have you had the NAS or the disability rights people raining in their heads? Contacted Ofsted in their failing to educate a child with sen?

We've had some right issues over the years.

Homeschooled asd children tend to thrive.. I'd go for it.