What have they said? The guidance doesn’t seem at all wooly to me, the senco just needs to fill in the application form to request the phone access, evidence your diabetes, and confirm that you will be supervised 1:1 when you use your phone.My senco is " interpreting" the special considerations differently to me.
JCQ guidelines are woolly regarding mobile phones and diabetes monitors.
He wants him to have it in a box across the other side of room and put his hand up to walk over to check it and not stop clockWhat have they said? The guidance doesn’t seem at all wooly to me, the senco just needs to fill in the application form to request the phone access, evidence your diabetes, and confirm that you will be supervised 1:1 when you use your phone.
He wants him to have it in a box across the other side of room and put his hand up to walk over to check it and not stop clock
The problem he is saying that if an exam invigilator came him . He has his mobile phone on his desk. I've said he can turn his app off. The latest conversations are now that it has to go in a clear box on the desk and he has to put his hand up and wait for an exam invigilator for him to look. Or he can buy some monitor that isn't a phone instead.
Surely it’s not reasonable to want your son to have his mobile phone out on his desk during an exam. Someone could be texting him exam help that he’d see in his notifications. He does need within signal range and somewhere he’ll feel vibrations for alerts but they need to make sure he isn’t cheating too! Thats why they have to watch him 1:1 whenever he uses the phone.The problem he is saying that if an exam invigilator came him . He has his mobile phone on his desk.
I'm rather horrified that SENCO want his phone to be way away from his position - he probably won't need to feel hypo ie won't actually have hypo symptoms, just want a quick glance at his CGM to make sure he's going on OK and not likely to go hypo in the next however long - ie reassurance - because he's now used to having that reassurance - so to whip that away from him during important exams seems harsh to say the least.
I can tell you as a T1 senior high school teacher and senior examiner with an exam board that it is normal that a T1 candidate who gets readings from a sensor on their phone, in exams, should have their own invigilator either in the exam hall or in a smaller room, who sits with the candidate’s phone very near by. To do otherwise could potentially risk the exam performance of the candidate. So special considerations MUST be made.Hi there,
Does anyone have any JCQ guidelines around CGM and mobile phones.
My senco is " interpreting" the special considerations differently to me.
JCQ guidelines are woolly regarding mobile phones and diabetes monitors.
Hope you can help.