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Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait
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They don't break up until next Tuesday. It has been a mix of work and non standard stuff which he DOES find difficult, as well as the not knowing what to expect in a particular lesson. Alongside that, quite a few controlled assessments in English, with a teacher he doesn't like (she doesn't 'get' him and consequently, says he has refused help when she hasn't even offered it to him or turned the help away as she doesn't believe there is anything wrong).
We countered that by going into the school on Tuesday stating exactly the help he wanted/needed for that days CA, so the teacher would have no say in it...the help was provided and he coped so much better with it.
I know it is not the right thing to 'demand' a certain kind of help but to be honest, I was shattered, youngest was shattered too as he had been completely unable to sleep (and ergo, so was I) the night before and after many hours of discussion with him in an attempt to get him to sleep or at least calm down and chill out, it was what he came up with...a minor breakthrough in itself.
As for next term, they have allowed him to have his timetable early so he will know where he is and who he has in advance...and he is happy with the selection of teachers for his subjects, apart from English as they don't yet know the teacher for that...hope it is not the current one!
I disagree. Of course, if the school were doing a good job of supporting him and providing for his needs, then it would be both foolish and counterproductive to demand something different. However, in your current situation where they have let him down so badly and are continuing to do so in at least some respects, then I think demanding the help he needs is exactly the right thing to do. Well done you for doing just that. :T I hope the teacher sees how much difference it makes to his achievement and realises that she has been mistaken about him.
Good news about next term's timetable.
Have they eliminated the need for him to cross site this time?
DS has broken up now. He has been unofficially told that he is in the top set for science next year, which we're pleased about. He's already top set for maths (the only thing they've been in sets for this year), and was hoping for top set science. His other strong subjects are ICT and drama, but they're still taught in tutor groups next year. We don't know about any of his other subjects that are going to be in sets. He seems realistic to me - he says he's hoping for middle sets in most subjects and bottom for languages and English, which I agree with, apart from the English, where I'd prefer him to be middle (2 or 3 out of 4 sets on his block).
His English assessments are all over the place - he does very well indeed in the speaking components, but crashed badly in the writing ones, although his final writing one wasn't so bad because he was allowed to do it on a word processor. I'm hoping he'll get a lot more chances to do things on word processors next year, so I'm planning to make him learn touch typing over the summer to give his eyes the freedom to watch the words appearing on the screen if he hasn't got to look at the keys.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Water back on! Phew!
Lydia, when I was still up that way we had a lot of water disturbances and very brown water sometimes, the water company used to bring us water.
Bad news, I went out for paint (French grey .....though there will be a lir twist) and parent left a door open. Anyone want a puppy? In the theme of labradoodle or coo kapoo name would be sweet if a tragedy has occurred.
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In all earnestness, I think it might have to be a doggy abortion if its the case.. I think its fairly unlikely, but it still should not have been a question arising. 0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Water back on! Phew!
Lydia, when I was still up that way we had a lot of water disturbances and very brown water sometimes, the water company used to bring us water.
Bad news, I went out for paint (French grey .....though there will be a lir twist) and parent left a door open. Anyone want a puppy? In the theme of labradoodle or coo kapoo name would be sweet if a tragedy has occurred..
In all earnestness, I think it might have to be a doggy abortion if its the case.. I think its fairly unlikely, but it still should not have been a question arising.
Glad to hear about the water.
Is it doozerdog who's suspected of getting big dog into trouble? What kind of dog is he? How big is kiwi dog now? I imagine him as still quite small and probably unable to reach big dog?Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
DS has broken up now. He has been unofficially told that he is in the top set for science next year, which we're pleased about. He's already top set for maths (the only thing they've been in sets for this year), and was hoping for top set science. His other strong subjects are ICT and drama, but they're still taught in tutor groups next year. We don't know about any of his other subjects that are going to be in sets. He seems realistic to me - he says he's hoping for middle sets in most subjects and bottom for languages and English, which I agree with, apart from the English, where I'd prefer him to be middle (2 or 3 out of 4 sets on his block).
His English assessments are all over the place - he does very well indeed in the speaking components, but crashed badly in the writing ones, although his final writing one wasn't so bad because he was allowed to do it on a word processor.
Your son's about 13, isn't he? So is he starting GCSE courses this September, or does he have another year of secondary school first?
At my (day) secondary school, after I'd left boarding school, there were no sets for anything in Lower and Middle Fourth (first two years of secondary), and sets for maths and French only in Upper Fourth and for GCSE - those in the top two sets out of 5 for French also did German, and the lower three sets didn't.
It was the same for GCSE years; sets for maths and languages, nothing else. So all other subjects were taught in forms and then time-table-convenient groups, depending on what other subjects you were doing.
OTOH, OH went to a comprehensive in Henley-on-Thames, and they had sets for absolutely everything.
I share DS' pain about writing - I wasn't diagnosed as dyslexic until I was 18, after my sister was diagnosed and it rang a lot of bells for a combination of one of my A level teachers and my mother. So I had a school lifetime of being good orally, and being "lazy" writing things down. I realise that your DS has a lot more difficulties with his dyslexia than mine, but I do understand his frustration to some extent.
Isaac's school has pulled its finger out in relation to his educational psychologist's report - finally. The class teacher seems to have left it gathering dust on a shelf, but then the headmistress found it, and swung into action. He's going to have 3 x half-hourly literacy dyslexia lessons over the summer, and the same once the autumn terms stars. The headmistress, who founded the school in the year OH and I were born because her badly dyslexic son was struggling in a state primary, shares the view that he's severely dyslexic and favours heavy intervention now, before he's put off school altogether....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
..worn shoes? ...
Please, please, please .... do this:
Put them on, take a photo, list them on ebay and SPECIFICALLY use the term: Well Worn Shoes.
They'll go for a fortune. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Trashed-quality-ballet-flats-well-worn-soft-Sammler-10-/270764878299?pt=US_Women_s_Shoes&hash=item3f0ad829db0 -
PN - ewwwww. Yuck. Bleurgh....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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Glad to hear about the water.
Is it doozerdog who's suspected of getting big dog into trouble? What kind of dog is he? How big is kiwi dog now? I imagine him as still quite small and probably unable to reach big dog?
No, kiwi would be the culprit. Doozer dog is nuetered:)
Big dog is really keen to help kiwi reach, though kiwis interest has been unfocused and inept (he has even tried a front leg of hers a few times;)) he is sixteen inches tall.
Doozerdog does happen to be a labradoodle though. 0 -
How do you know they did it? Or are you just forward planning in case because when you returned home the door was open?0
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PasturesNew wrote: »How do you know they did it?
Coz Kiwi dog was sleeping and Doozer Big dog was having a ciggie.
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PasturesNew wrote: »How do you know they did it? Or are you just forward planning in case because when you returned home the door was open?
Forward planning. I don't know they did, I know they will have tried. A lot. When I walk them ATM kiwi has to stay on a lead and big dog stays tantalisingly close and flirty and I have to keep shooing her away from him.
SSS, its kiwi and big dog . Doozer dog is horrified by this den of inequity the doozers have left him in for the weekend. When they said 'dirty weekend' to him, he thought it was gonna be rolling in fox poop and swimming in the lagoon 0
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