Statements and Reviews
I had 2 reviews of statement today. I went along, armed with my detailed knowledge of the child. For the first time in a long time in a statement review meeting, aside from the fact that there were more people than chairs, those views were listened to.
Not only that, in the first of the two, the parents thanked us for the support we had given their child, and the allowances that were made, and the fact that we cared about that child. They liked that he had paint on him when he came home - it meant he'd been allowed to paint. They liked that it wasn't just him that used the sand in my room - every child does in my numeracy and literacy set. They liked that he wasn't shut away in some SEN room, allegedly in mainstream education but actually isolated and doing work that has little to do with what he needs and everything to do with what boxes the teacher needs ticking.
I was nervous - I have taken the decision to take him away from the established targets for his year group and instate him onto a Foundation Stage Profile. I did this because every week I can write something that he achieved that week. I'm not listing his failiures day after day. Instead of putting blue lines through his page because he hasn't made all of his verbs agree, I can green line his page and tick that he has made relevant marks on the page, that he has joined in with a class activity and so on.
Every one, but especially him, is a winner.
And my favourite bit of today? His daddy, telling us that part of the reason that he has made so much progress is because we care. How great is that?
Not only that, in the first of the two, the parents thanked us for the support we had given their child, and the allowances that were made, and the fact that we cared about that child. They liked that he had paint on him when he came home - it meant he'd been allowed to paint. They liked that it wasn't just him that used the sand in my room - every child does in my numeracy and literacy set. They liked that he wasn't shut away in some SEN room, allegedly in mainstream education but actually isolated and doing work that has little to do with what he needs and everything to do with what boxes the teacher needs ticking.
I was nervous - I have taken the decision to take him away from the established targets for his year group and instate him onto a Foundation Stage Profile. I did this because every week I can write something that he achieved that week. I'm not listing his failiures day after day. Instead of putting blue lines through his page because he hasn't made all of his verbs agree, I can green line his page and tick that he has made relevant marks on the page, that he has joined in with a class activity and so on.
Every one, but especially him, is a winner.
And my favourite bit of today? His daddy, telling us that part of the reason that he has made so much progress is because we care. How great is that?
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