A good week!

Harry has had a very good week. Aside from the "London" event, I also found him sitting nicely in the front room wearing his slippers (he hates them) instead of rolling around on the floor, watching TV upside down. He has got some "easy" ticks for his exercises, and to top the week off, Harry came home tonight with "Star of the Week" for literacy! Wow!

Little Changes

We are talking on the forum the other day about those little changes you barely notice during the course of Dore. This sprung to mind -

We went to London yesterday to the hospital. Usually Harry runs on ahead - hopping, skipping, jumping - you name it. Well yesterday, he held my hand from the train station to the hospital, which is a long walk of 15-20 minutes. We had some lovely conversations. He did the same on the way back too. I mentioned to the Dr that he had been diagnosed with ADHD - she asked if he was taking anything, and I told her briefly about Dore - she got him to walk heel,toe,heel along a line in her office and he did it perfectly. She was very impressed! Funnily enough, we have a new exercise today and he has to do exactly that across a room.

Parents Evening

I was quite disappointed with Parents Evening. I can see Harry has come a long way and made huge gains, particularly with his spellings, reading and maths. He is now beginning to retain information and learn. What we have to do now is catch-up, so I will continue to work hard with him at home.

His current teacher did not know him last year and does not realise the gains he has made.
I actually got out his test results out and compared from Yr 3 - Yr 5. The improvement is amazing.

By the end of Year 6, Harry will be learning on a par with his peers, I'm sure of it!

Plodding on

Harry had Cub Camp last week so 2 days off Dore. He came back so tired (don't think they slept much!) and actually felt ill on Tuesday, so had to have the day off school. He was very positive about doing his exercises though.

He is still struggling with the balancing exercises on the wobble board and standing on one leg - quite a frustrating time, although I have noticed he is improving with mental items, thinking of more than before.

I have Parents Evening next week, so will report back then.