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Joins Amy and goes to Twirlers - he wasn't very good ;)

and another assignment....sob

As she calls it. She loves her new toy and it's very useful for a quiet half hour ;)

Amy has really struggled with the transition from Reception to Year One. She's not been keen when it comes to sitting at her desk and working independently. She would be told and told and told and then suddenly just when her teacher wouldn't know what else to do, she'd do the work. I wondered if she was bored, if the work was too easy, whether it was too hard, whether she suffered with low concentration span like her Daddy or who knows what. Anyway it all came to a head when she'd refused to work all morning, she was told she wasn't going to be allowed to join in with golden time (free time where they choose what they want to do) but she'd have to do the work she'd refused to do all morning. So what did my darling girl do - she drew on the table! Her teacher sent her to the headteacher. When I picked her up from school and heard what she'd done I was horrified. She's a pretty good girl at home, on the whole and this was a shock to me. I felt really tearful - in fact I told Amy that I was sad enough to cry and that I wanted her to really think about what she'd done. She currently says she wants to be a Doctor when she grows up, so we talked about how much hard work it took to be a doctor.

Over the next few days, I checked in with her teacher often, to check she was doing ok and behaving herself. Just two weeks later and Amy came home with a CIRCLE award and the class teddy to look after for the weekend. Again I could have cried but this time with pride. One child is chosen each week for an award and they can earn it in a variety of ways. Amy was so very proud of herself too and that meant so much to me. I knew she could do it, her teacher knew she could do it, I guess it was just Amy who wasn't so sure!