My Appeal letter - Help??
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 5:41 pm
Hi,
I have just finished writing my 'letter of support" to go with my DS's appeal to our local Grammar School. I showed this to a colleague & friend of mine (at the school where I work) as he has kindly offered to give me his comments/thoughts on anything I should change. (He is the Deputy Headteacher at our school, in charge of the appeals process. He attends all appeals hearings for my school.)
Basically, he has had a look at the letter this morning and said that my letter is very well written - putting forward my arguments well and that he would not recommend any changes to the letter. This is good news! However, he has said to me that it would be better if I could link my Academic Evidence in some way to my Extenuating Circumstances evidence?
So...I'm wondering if anyone can help me to work out how to do this? He said that I need to show that they are linked together - and that I am not just creating a list of reasons why DS would like to go to this school! I do understand this - and he is right. How then, do I link the evidence from Primary headteacher and great academic evidence of level 5 work - to the problem that DS had a 'distracting ailment' on the day of the exam? (Not sick enouh to postpone the exam date though!) What do you think?
I have just finished writing my 'letter of support" to go with my DS's appeal to our local Grammar School. I showed this to a colleague & friend of mine (at the school where I work) as he has kindly offered to give me his comments/thoughts on anything I should change. (He is the Deputy Headteacher at our school, in charge of the appeals process. He attends all appeals hearings for my school.)
Basically, he has had a look at the letter this morning and said that my letter is very well written - putting forward my arguments well and that he would not recommend any changes to the letter. This is good news! However, he has said to me that it would be better if I could link my Academic Evidence in some way to my Extenuating Circumstances evidence?
So...I'm wondering if anyone can help me to work out how to do this? He said that I need to show that they are linked together - and that I am not just creating a list of reasons why DS would like to go to this school! I do understand this - and he is right. How then, do I link the evidence from Primary headteacher and great academic evidence of level 5 work - to the problem that DS had a 'distracting ailment' on the day of the exam? (Not sick enouh to postpone the exam date though!) What do you think?