Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Sorry, I meant bish, as in throw away.

I still haven't got photo bucket on this iPad. . I will email you a picture though.

Thank you

Ah - so are theses cotton bud's legacy? What a nice (and chirpy) surprise!

SingleSue

zagubov wrote: »

DS has some science exams but mostly will be taking GCSE exams in a year's time. Unlike DD, he doesn't show any propensity towards science at all. He struggles to memorise things, and is both alarmed and trying to supress his alarm. We have no idea how to improve this.

I have no advice to give because I am having the same problem with youngest! His are also science exams, only two of them but you would think the world is ending by how stressed he is...goodness knows how he is going to cope next year when he will have the lion share of the exams, like middle son has this year.

His problems are more being able to cope in an exam hall rather than being able to remember...he can remember when he is calm but as soon as there is noise and people, it goes right out of the window, he gets stressy and usually ends up underneath the desk or going into meltdown.

He now has permission to use a laptop (due to fine motor skills and Irlens) which is of course in a smaller room but even this didn't work in his mock exams, the noise of people pressing the keys or sniffing had the same impact as being in a room full of people writing and making noise...he failed his mocks alarmingly.

The latest idea is for him to sit his exams on the laptop in a room on his own (obviously with someone there to adjudicate)....youngest doesn't want to even think about exams as it stresses him out so much, so has so far refused to talk about the new idea.

Generali

Yup too much on here for me. Sorry if I missed anything.

I got chatting to one of the girls from corporate comms and I accidentally promised to ride to Brisbane from Sydney and get sponsored for it.

Damn.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Thank you

Ah - so are theses cotton bud's legacy? What a nice (and chirpy) surprise!

Yes, goodness knows what they will grow up to look like. The silky (bud) x silky bantams (jojo) should be normalise looking....I don't know what a silky x millefleur will look like though....and there look to be a few of them. Three are brown and some of the yellows have darker patches, so are possible millefleurs crosses too. Silkies are fluffy...like powder puffs, millefleurs have normal feathers.

tomterm8

When I was in GCSE because of my dyslexia, they let me do my exams on my own with a laptop. It does take a long time to arrange, but IIRC you can apply with multiple options ahead of schedule & choose which one is best.

Maybe you should also ask school if you can do a couple of 'mock' run throughs so it is familiar.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Wow..... lots of ickle pretties.

I really will ask dh to help me to get my photo bucket on this macputer. It's so easy and I have so many nice things I could share ATM.....

lostinrates

Nikkster, its coming from a different email address. Hotmail makes me want to break this macputer ATM.

Hate, hate, hate new hotmail/outlook. It's latest trick is just freezing mid email. I send a distinctly brief email to viva last night because it froze but looked like a finished thing from a pithier person than this one!

silvercar

zagubov wrote: »

DS has some science exams but mostly will be taking GCSE exams in a year's time. Unlike DD, he doesn't show any propensity towards science at all. He struggles to memorise things, and is both alarmed and trying to supress his alarm. We have no idea how to improve this.

Point out all the kids he knows who did gcse last year, that passed. We did this when DS2 was convinced he would be the one and only that would flunk. Seeing that everyone he knew in previous years gave some reassurance that he could do it.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

I accidentally promised to ride to Brisbane from Sydney and get sponsored for it.

Damn.

You see.... that's where you and I differ.

I'd NEVER have that accident.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Nikkster, its coming from a different email address. Hotmail makes me want to break this macputer ATM.

Hate, hate, hate new hotmail/outlook. It's latest trick is just freezing mid email. I send a distinctly brief email to viva last night because it froze but looked like a finished thing from a pithier person than this one!

Thanks lir
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