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  1. Had a quick search and found this www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/Timeoffandholidays/DG_184563. Click on the section on holiday entitlement:- the basics. The example it gives is for someone who works part time for 4 days a week and the holiday entitlement is given as 22.4 days as a minimum entitlement and this can include bank holidays. If you've had a full week off (which would be 4 working days), 2 odd days and 8 bank holidays then that's only 14 days. Have a look at your employment contract and see what that says regarding holidays, then take a print out of that web page and see what your boss says. Hope that helps Lucy Hope the link works
  2. The meeting will include the headteacher so it must be for the educational needs. Paed said she would arrange an appointment for us shortly after this meeting so I'm guessing we'll hear more about the diagnosis then. Thanks for clearing that up for me Justine
  3. Thank you for your replies everyone. I have spent ages wondering why the headteacher told me the wrong information and just couldn't think why she had done it...but after reading Justine1 and baddads comments I totally agree with you both. Looking at it from that point of view I suppose the headteacher was in a bit of an awkward position as to what to answer. She wasn't actually in school today so I haven't spoken to her about the meeting yet but I will do that as soon as I can. Ds has told me a few more bits about what happened in the numeracy class in which he was assessed. Apparently they had to work in pairs and this is something he really struggles with as he can't understand that people have different ideas to him. They tried to get him to work with a partner but he refused. He said he told his teacher that he had counted 25 children in the class, divided it by 2 which left 12 pairs and 1 left over which was him so he didn't have to do it!!!! When I mentioned about putting his hand up to answer the questions in maths classes, I should have said he will put his hand up and shout the answer out at the same time. This is in comparison to other subjects where the teacher says he won't interact much but sits there with a vacant expression. I suppose all i can do is wait until 26th when we see the ed psych and see what she says. After our last visit to the paediatrician she wrote and advised that she believed his problems were likely to be ADHD and/or Aspergers related so I'm hoping that soon someone will decide what the problem is so some support can be put in place for him. Nearly forgot...what actually happens at a multi-agency meeting?
  4. Hello, I've got a few questions about Educational Psychologists (and headteachers) that I'm hoping someone might have the answer to?!! A bit of background first, ds is 7 and year 3 (on school action, no statement) we were referred by our paediatrician to a private psychiatrist earlier this year as she thought it might help speed up the diagnosis process (she said SALT, Ed Psych take forever in our area). Psychiatrist diagnosed Aspergers and ADHD. Headteacher/senco has told us in no uncertain terms this diagnosis isn't worth the paper it's written on. We are still plodding down the nhs route (after 1 and a half years of getting nowhere). Anyway, a year and a half after the paed requests an assessment the Ed Psych finally saw him yesterday!! However, I doubt very much she will get a true picture of his behaviour from what she saw yesterday and I'm worried how much this will affect her report. Last week ds was not at school (we were abroad as hubbie has been offered a relocation opportunity and they had organised a familiarisation visit for us to look round schools, houses etc). When we got back on Friday headteacher had sent a parental request form regarding the ED Psych for me to sign. Thought this was odd as she could have asked me on Monday morning as she's always in the playground. Went in on Monday and gave her the form and asked if an appointment had been made yet. She said "everything is up in the air at the moment. It could be today it could be sometime soon, we really don't know. We'll let you know when she's been". i thought this was odd so I got home and rang the Ed Psychs office and was told she'd ring back. Later on Ed Psych rang and told me she had seen him first thing that morning . She advised she had arranged it all with headteacher personally last Wednesday and that the headteacher was all prepared with paperwork etc for her arrival at school. She was lost for words when I told her of the conversation I'd had minutes before her arrival. Anyway, she told me she had seen him in a numeracy class, which headteacher often takes and knows very well that he loves this subject and loves being the first to put his hand up and work out sums (his mental arithmetic is amazing). I also know that having been away from school for a week he will always have a couple of good days until he gets back into the swing of things. Ed Psych saw him in playground too and typically he played with a group of kids (first time in a VERY long time) he usually plays on his own. Ed Psych will be coming to our house in a few weeks to discuss things but do they pay more attention to their own observations and school opinion than what we have to say? I'm really worried as I guess their report plays a big part in the diagnosis process.DS also said that Ed Psych did lots of memory games with him (remembering numbers etc). Now his memory is brilliant it's the comprehension and social side that's the problem so I'm hoping she's aware of that. Headteacher has filled out reports of her own observations of him and given them to Ed Psych. This also worries me as headteacher thinks he's "just a manipulative little boy who has clearly never been shown any boundaries". I spoke to her about 3 or 4 weeks ago and she said everything was "fine". I expressed concern that he was still telling me he played on his own at break time and was told "he's fine". I rephrased the question and again was told "he's fine" Asked his teacher the same question the following week and was told he rarely plays with anyone else and she thinks it's because he lacks the social skills to do so. What am I supposed to do when his teachers say one thing yet the person with overall responsibility for the school and special needs doesn't want to acknowledge it? The paed has requested (in August) that headteacher contact her and arrange a suitable appointment for a multi-agency meeting which I guess is where they decide on the diagnosis(????) SALT will be assessing him mid-November so logically this could be arranged for the end of November. However, headteacher refuses to have the meeting till after the annual review of his IEP in February I'm sick of this woman putting a spanner in the works all the time. She wouldn't spend 5 minutes filling out forms for the psychiatrist for 2 months until the psychiatrist rang her and somehow talked her into it and so delayed things there. I haven't seen headteacher since yesterday morning but when I do I'll ask her why she gave me the wrong info. I'm also going to ask for the meeting to be sorted out. If she refuses again can I complain and who to? Don't want to go down this route as I believe it's in everyone's interest to get along and do the best for ds..... Thanks for reading and sorry to rant!!! didn't realise I'd written that much!! Lucy
  5. Had to laugh when my husbands response was...."you'll do anything to get out of cleaning them!!"
  6. Well, as of this morning looks like I'm going to be replacing the glass in my patio doors. I've been telling the kids all summer not to mess about with the gravel in the pots on the patio. When I came to mow the lawn today I didn't spot the scattered gravel on the lawn next to the patio and the lawnmower picked it up and threw it straight at my patio doors and shattered them both
  7. lucyemma

    Can anyone help?

    Hi Tally, I'd be happy to have a look at it for you. I'm studying astrophysics at university and I've had plenty of experience of writing 3000 word essays for that!! Lucy
  8. Talk about Autism is a new campaign by autism charity TreeHouse, supported by TalkTalk. The campaign aims to increase public understanding of autism, so that children and young people with autism and their families do not have to feel isolated, excluded or judged. http://talkathon.talkaboutautism.org.uk/?ref=nf For each person that registers Talktalk will give the autism charity TreeHouse £1. Hope I've posted the link ok Lucy
  9. Well today, that's an easy one....worst decision was to try and be a good employee and read the "accident awareness" posters that my company have decided to plaster all over the workplace. Unfortunately the ones I was reading were posted on the wall going all the way up the stairs (brilliant idea huh !!). I duly tripped up the stairs and was sprawled out everywhere. Picked myself up (in one piece!) and thanked my lucky stars no one else was around. Had to laugh at the irony of it all and carried on my way. When I got to reception I saw a whole bunch of security guards in hysterics. A few wise cracks later and they had seen the whole episode on the security cameras. I don't think I'll hear the end of this.....my poor pride has taken a bit of a battering today!!!!
  10. Had a search and couldn't find anything already named. Did find this though http://www.countrygardenroses.co.uk/name_your_own_rose.php Hope it helps!! Lucy
  11. Just wanted to share this....I'm feeling so proud of ds (6) after a visit to the supermarket yesterday. He hates going but decided he would go if he could take his purse with him as he'd saved up quite a bit of change. He was upset that he couldn't find anything he wanted and so I decided it was time we paid and left. At the till opposite us was a kid from his old school who he didn't get on with. The kid had a new toy in his hands and was showing off and pulling faces at ds. The boys father didn't say a word and my son was getting quite distressed and kept saying "mummy get him to stop" (he hates people staring at him). Just as we were about to leave the till ds stopped me and takes his purse out and puts a load of coins into the charity tin that they have at the side of the till. The cashier and the people who were behind us were all singing his praises and this other family clearly overheard. We've had people say so many negative things about ds in the last few months that it was great to hear people saying how kind he was. It was an absolutely fantastic moment!!!
  12. Thanks for your replies everyone....it's certainly given me some ideas to use when school restarts. Fingers crossed the headteacher is prepared to actually listen to me...not to optimistic on that one.
  13. Hi, just wondering but is there a chance that maybe the guy with AS asked the director to do this? It could be the case, if he gets anxious about people approaching him then at least it will make it clear to the other workers what the problem is rather then the poor guy getting a reputation for being odd etc. Just a thought.
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