No new glasses
Now, it may not seem important to you that I have new glasses, or rather that I need them and they are not here. I went in on Wednesday for the appointment, the sunglasses are here, the ordinary glasses are not. I am as short sighted as the proverbial bat, (but with excellent hearing "I heard what you whispered Matthew and if you whisper anything like that again we shall be discussing it!") and having had the long and comprehensive eyetest, I apparently require new glasses. I made my choices, and here is where it does make the link between my world and the school world.
Not only have I chosen ones that are similar to that which I had before, I asked for them to be rushed in because I needed to go back to school wearing them. In a previous school, the child I had then who was ASD became unconsolable one day, for no reason that we could trace, until he stopped crying long enough to flap at my face to push my glasses firmly back onto my face because I had taken them off to clean them and changed my face.
Hence the plan to have new ones available for today, to go back after a week away with new ones, and hope to get away with it that way.
'Twas not to be.
Aside from that, I have planned for my IEP children but not for my class per se, because the Revised Framework splits the Literacy topics into phases. Now we spent 2 days on D&T at the end of last half term, so does this mean that I have to move straight to phase 3 (teaching phase 3 without required background knowledge, and a weeks holiday in between) do I teach the end of phase 2 (in which case they'll lose two days at the end of the topic) or do I trust my professional judgement and make it through to the end of the topic as best as my charges can manage?
What a silly idea the third one was. After all, I am teaching the niceties of non-fiction non-chronological report writing to children who struggle to read and write a sentence. Of course I should follow the government plan.
Argh! As they say.
Anyway, I had better get on. I have no idea how some of my children will be after a weeks holiday, some will have been with estranged parents ect which really upsets them, the ASD children will have had a change in routine, which will have upset them for a variety of reasons, and I know at least 2 of mine are on holiday. In term time. Grrr.
Laters.
Not only have I chosen ones that are similar to that which I had before, I asked for them to be rushed in because I needed to go back to school wearing them. In a previous school, the child I had then who was ASD became unconsolable one day, for no reason that we could trace, until he stopped crying long enough to flap at my face to push my glasses firmly back onto my face because I had taken them off to clean them and changed my face.
Hence the plan to have new ones available for today, to go back after a week away with new ones, and hope to get away with it that way.
'Twas not to be.
Aside from that, I have planned for my IEP children but not for my class per se, because the Revised Framework splits the Literacy topics into phases. Now we spent 2 days on D&T at the end of last half term, so does this mean that I have to move straight to phase 3 (teaching phase 3 without required background knowledge, and a weeks holiday in between) do I teach the end of phase 2 (in which case they'll lose two days at the end of the topic) or do I trust my professional judgement and make it through to the end of the topic as best as my charges can manage?
What a silly idea the third one was. After all, I am teaching the niceties of non-fiction non-chronological report writing to children who struggle to read and write a sentence. Of course I should follow the government plan.
Argh! As they say.
Anyway, I had better get on. I have no idea how some of my children will be after a weeks holiday, some will have been with estranged parents ect which really upsets them, the ASD children will have had a change in routine, which will have upset them for a variety of reasons, and I know at least 2 of mine are on holiday. In term time. Grrr.
Laters.
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