Darewehope wrote:
Do they have to read all the evidence?
They read all the evidence in advance of their meeting.
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Given that I would be supplying an email thread, mental health assessment report and a letter from my employer confirming my increase in hours I am concerned that they will just see a STT score of 113 and HT recommendation of 3:1 and move on to the next one.
My guess would be that a decision on the review can be taken quite rapidly if all three panel members are in agreement.
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We are in catchment (3 miles) but apart from that just the usual that it is my son’s favourite.
This won't make your case stand out, I'm afraid.
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If I apply for review I am effectively arguing that part of the review process is not FCO (the way the HT report was dealt with) so if the review in unsuccessful the chance of convincing an appeal panel that it was still not FCO will be harder. Do you think?
FCO can only be considered by an appeal panel
after an unsuccessful review, so it depends how they think the review panel handled the issues raised. It is at this point that you can challenge whether the process was FCO.
At the time of a review you would simply be arguing that there were exceptional circumstances that disadvantaged your son.
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My friends daughter whom attends the same school get a HT recommendation of 2:1 and she got EXS in maths in year 5. Clearly I cannot submit that as part of my case but is the review panel able to see what each HT has scored and what academic evidence this was based on? If not how can they ensure consistency?
They can see all the recommendations for the particular school, and they can see how many of those children qualified. If almost all the 1: recommendations qualified, and the majority of 2: recommendations, it's quite a good indication of how realistic the recommendations were.
Headteachers wouldn't have time to provide a detailed justification for each recommendation they make, and it would be complicated because of the various factors to be taken into account.
In the case of the child who had EXS in maths in year 5, we don't know what else there may have been in her academic profile that led to a 2:1.
Nevertheless, if you find yourself discussing FCO in front of an appeal panel next summer, it would seem perfectly reasonable to draw a comparison with the child who had EXS for Y5 maths (so long as she's not named), and to question the consistency of the review process.