Academic appeals partially selective
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 11:28 am
My daughter sat the academic papers in September for SW Herts and subsequently for Bucks. Our target school is St. Clement Danes.
She has Asperger's and was given extra time in her exam as well a smaller room. The problem is that she got to a question she struggled with early on and stayed with it for a long time which meant that she had to rush and guess some answers. This was her first exam and she is perfectionist, she was very nervous and forgot to move on. When she came out of the exam she said to me immediately, "I didn't do very well as I got stuck on one question".
She has since sat the Bucks 11+ and said that she think she did well. Her experience with the SW Herts exam helped her.
She has an excellent academic history in primary school, a ready age of 14 when she was in Year 4, she is in the top sets for maths and English, she is on the higher achieving pupil programme, talented writers group, and her reports are consistently grade her work as Greater Depth. Her maths and English in her y5 reports were 120+, I am told they do not score over this level at the school. I am confident in providing evidence from school on her academic ability however my questions are - as it's only a partially selective school am I able to appeal based on her academic ability for an academic place? Do I have any grounds for appeal? I am moving into WD3 area but not close enough for a distance place.
She does not have an ECHP
She has Asperger's and was given extra time in her exam as well a smaller room. The problem is that she got to a question she struggled with early on and stayed with it for a long time which meant that she had to rush and guess some answers. This was her first exam and she is perfectionist, she was very nervous and forgot to move on. When she came out of the exam she said to me immediately, "I didn't do very well as I got stuck on one question".
She has since sat the Bucks 11+ and said that she think she did well. Her experience with the SW Herts exam helped her.
She has an excellent academic history in primary school, a ready age of 14 when she was in Year 4, she is in the top sets for maths and English, she is on the higher achieving pupil programme, talented writers group, and her reports are consistently grade her work as Greater Depth. Her maths and English in her y5 reports were 120+, I am told they do not score over this level at the school. I am confident in providing evidence from school on her academic ability however my questions are - as it's only a partially selective school am I able to appeal based on her academic ability for an academic place? Do I have any grounds for appeal? I am moving into WD3 area but not close enough for a distance place.
She does not have an ECHP