New Exercises

We now have a few exercises with the ball and lots of eye tracking ones. They are harder, but Harry is enjoying them and seems to be coping very well.

Back from Holiday

We just got back today and managed the exercises well on holiday. Harry is still struggling with balancing exercises (standing on a cushion on one leg, he still finds hard), but he has tried to the best of his ability. I think the assessment next week will show more restructuring as he has seemed "out of tune" recently.

Parents Evening

Just got back from the Parents evening. At the end of last term, it was agreed that Harry would try Maths within the classroom this year, but he is finding the fast pace hard, although he understands the basics. I have agreed Harry will return to Maths support after half-term, which I am happy with. I have talked to him, and although he doesn't like the small group learning, agrees that he is finding it hard to keep up. His teacher explained it isn't "set in stone" and if it doesn't work out, he can return to the class.

General comments on his IEP are that he has matured over the last term, appears happy, has lots of friends and is generally more confident. He is reading well, his handwriting has improved a little, but he needs help with spelling and punctuation and to proof-read his work. She mentioned he is very good at his times tables (mentals??!!) and that he has lots of ideas, and is keen to write them down - "lots of ideas" - wow!

A good start to Year 6 ....

School

Harry has settled into Year 6 well and seems happy. His literacy support hasn't been available due to staff sickness, but I have just been told that he will get a lot of 1-1 help with another LSA and she will support Harry mainly in the class. He also has small group spelling help and the mental exercises are definitely helping in this area.

Update

The mental tasks are going well, although we have had quite a few "melt-downs" with some hard exercises - Harry's favourite: standing on a cushion with one leg, passing the bean bag whilst reciting spellings or time-tables - NOT! I can't do it either.

Harry is also much quicker to "fly off the handle" over very little generally and I have noticed the exercises are much harder than the last lot. We are going away for half-term and usually manage with the bean bags and poster, but this time, all the remaining triangle exercises are with either the ball or wobble board, so will take the wobble board this time.

I can see there is probably a lot more restructuring going on, so look forward to our next assessment to see how he is doing. Next assessment is 1st November.