My year sevens are very special. There's so many pupils in the group who for one reason or another have that bless 'em factor. It's terribly patronising but they just make your heart bleed.
At number five: The girl who constantly puts her hand up to answer questions... but gets half of them wrong. At least she's giving it a go and doesn't seem to get discouraged.
At number four: The boy in the wheelchair. It's an obvious choice really, but it speaks volumes for how nice and normal the boy is that he only appears at number four.
At number three: The boy who has no idea how to relate to other pupils. I think his home life is pretty bad so he struggles to get along with the other pupils. In one lesson on probablity last week he was describing something that was impossible and said it was impossible that he'd ever go out with one particular girl in the class. He genuinely didn't understand why it wasn't okay to say that.
At number two: The boy with extremely poor vision. He has a talking calculator, a special computer magnifier and the thickest glasses you will ever see. Nuff said.
At number one: The girl who got 2% on her SATs test. It's hard to describe how much she struggles with maths. I gave her a test to do to see where her strengths and weaknesses were but she struggled to do any of it. An example was 9 + 5 = 13. The shocking thing is that whilst she appears on the SEN register it's for behaviour. This term can cover a range of different things but I'd say that's the least of her worries. She was handing out worksheets the other day and couldn't even manage it so that everyone got one.
2008-10-06 @ 11:29