School Meeting Reflection

Assessment one.

1.

This report shall focus on a meeting that I attended this year to consider the transition and progress of a child within their education setting. I shall explore the structure and description of the meeting and who attended and look at a range of factors that influenced the outcome of the meeting, and what played a role in the communication of the parties involved. In addition I will be summarizing the partnership and looking at the organizational background the meeting and those who were in attendance.

The meeting I attended takes place for each pupil in the school on a twice yearly , in addition to discussing the child 's educational progress the goal of the meeting was to discuss the transition of the pupil from primary

There was a collaboration of different agencies which include Headteacher, teacher, Enhanced sla, speech and Occupational therapists, health visitors, residential care workers, socail worker, out reach key worker, parent of the pupil, clinical physiologist and the school nurse. As you can imagine having a meeting with all these professionals was daunting and I work with them on a daily basis so I cannot begin to imagine how the pupils parent must have been feeling. The meeting takes place with the headteacher leading the meeting and inviting each agency to state their preferences and to detail a short report on the pupils progress. Each agency representative introduced themselves to the group detailing what their involvement is with the pupil, some appeared more approachable than others and again I did feel for the parent as the introduction was a way to removing any barriers between each attendee however it appeared the child 's parent had little or no idea who the

As I stated above everyone within the partnership needs to be heard and not be overwhelmed by others knowledge or lack of knowledge at times, what makes working in partnership is work is the fact that we are all working within a framework that wants the best outcome and takes into account the key factors that make this happen. In the pupils meeting the common objective was to make a clear route for success for the pupil, although at times communication was not coherent to all of those in attendance once pointed out the people involved make a conscious effort to correct the situation. The working partenership involving so may different agencies can be challenging, even down to the scheduling of the meeting, with somay people involved it is important to have clear leadership and a structure to the matters raised.I hope in time things will change and the family of pupils involved in these meetings are given there part in the partnership as they and the pupil are the most importants partners that are