Long Time No Post

Well it's been ages since my last post and so much has happened that I thought it was about time I got a wiggle on and brought this blog up to date!

Since the summer holidays my boy settled back to lunch club every day and after the first couple of weeks managed to do a lesson with other kids in the class. This was to be weekly. A couple of weeks more and he asked to add another lesson to his timetable. Making good progress and gradually becoming more confident in class by contributing to the lesson with his own comments. As he felt more able he then read aloud in class when asked. I am so pleased with his progress. It has been slow but that is how he needs to take it.

After the Autumn half term he again agreed to add another lesson. Then we hit a bit of a wall. He has found the two maths lessons on his timetable a bit of a struggle and it took us a while to work out why. Before we could get to the bottom of it he was rather poorly, which took a week for him to get over. He went back into school on the Monday only to be off the rest of the week as the school closed due to a very heavy snowfall which increased as the week passed. Great fun for the kids! It did have a very adverse effect on my boy though as we lost the consistant routine that he really needs. He struggled to get back into the swing of things the following week and did refuse on odd days but when it came to the finak week before the Christmas holidays he did manage every day!

Overall fantastic progress has been made this year, especially considering that in January we could barely mention school without him getting very distressed. Now he goes in most days for lunch club and has added in three lessons each week within a small group of children. And all this within a large mainstream school.

I am one very proud mum and so incredibly grateful to the patience and hard work of the school SENCo and staff of the supportive education department. Without their hard work and gentle encouragement my boy would never of had the confidence to make this progress. He has even admitted that he does trust them to want to help him with his best interests at heart. He also trusts them to do the right thing for him. This from a child (Ok teenager, because he turned 13 this year) who up until now trusted no one within education after his previous experiences. All in all a good year!