Primary 3

This is where my memory is sketchy and I wish I had written this at the time.  t1 continued to do well at school and continued to build good friendships in P3.  He didn't require any formal meetings and was discharged from the Educational Psychology service.  I had an agreement with the head teacher that we would meet in November each year just to have a catch up on how t1 was settling into the new school year.  The school were not obliged to do this but I wanted to make sure that meetings were scheduled.  If t1 was doing well and we didn't meet then he could fall off their radar in terms of offering support when required.    Not all schools are willing to have such an informal set up but I think this is reasonable as a minimum as he has additional support needs and its important to make time to catch up even when things are going well to learn what has helped things go so well.

T1 continued to use his writing slope and knobbly cushion to sit on during lessons.  During this year t1 changed his name in class.   He felt his name was too close in sound to another boy in his class and changed his accordingly.  He wrote this new name on all his school work.  Neither myself or the teacher tried to correct him but hoped it would be a phase, and it was - the phase lasted 2 years.  T1's behaviour was getting more difficult towards the end of P3.  He was blurting out words loudly, chewing his clothes and other objects like paper towels.  He collected staples and would bring a pile home from school every day.  He was writing rude words on his jotters and remarks about how boring the topic at school was.  He had a difficult school trip where he had to be supervised one to one as he was making inappropriate remarks.  He was also tearful on this trip.

It was nearing the end of term and myself and school thought he was just perhaps looking forward to the holidays.  We agreed to see how he was at the start P4 and review things then.

Update

Hi

I thought I should come back to my blog as friends and family intermittently ask about it and encourage me to write some more.  My last post was in January 2012.  I can't quite believe that it was that long ago!  A lot has happened to my little family in that 3 and a half years. We have moved house a few times, I had a long term partner which didn't work out and I met my current partner in late 2013.  He is amazing and for the purposes of this blog I will refer to him as my better half (BH). With my BH comes his Mum and his extended family who are a huge support to us.  We got a rescue dog four weeks ago too!

Many things have happened since 2012 and there are lots of things to write about and reflect upon in other posts.  I will try to go back and write about them in date order.

So, I'm back and will try to hang around this time :-)