[senco-forum] Brain Gym

I think it is 70% of prison inmates - either dyslexic or dyspraxic or both

Madeleine Portwood has the data

best wishes

Sue JW

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From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk on behalf of brian hepburn
Sent: Wed 01/11/2006 21:01
To: chris19251 at blueyonder.co.uk; senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: RE: [senco-forum] Brain Gym

Oh Chris

I leave you for 5 minutes and this is what you come up with. Of course I go
to the gym. I've been a member for quite a few years now. I keep fit to look
slim and gorgeous, not to mention the rugby refereeing I do on Saturdays.
And don't get me started on Redditch. I drove around the ring road for 40
minutes before doing a highly illegal short cut through the bus station,
desperately searching for the rugby club.

Mind you, despite all this rowing, weights and step classes, I don't seem to
have become any better at spelling. I feel fit and healthy, ok apart from
the Waitrose jam roly poly last night, but I still break out in a cold sweat
when I'm faced with writing restar.... resterr.... restarn... cafe. Maybe I
need make sure I practice my Look, cover, write check, or play with my
mnemomics or practice on Wordshark or just make sure I can read well enough
to use the spell checker. I suppose I could do it while bouncing on a
trampet and throwing a bean bag in the air. But from what I remember of your
room Chris, I'd kill 6 other kids, 5 TAs and several teachers if I fell off.

Brain gym! Someone will be telling me next that all prison inmates are
dyslexic (or was it that all dyslexics are prison inmates? my memory's not
what it was).

Did I jump in a bit there? A couple of people have told me that my name had
been mentioned in dispatches recently. Something about wasn't it peaceful on
the forum since I took up my bed and scarpered.

I was thrown out of Oz, or Walsall as it used to be known pre privatisation
nearly 2 years ago. I landed up in the people's republic of Sandwell. I've
been mostly sat quietly behind a desk and, like Winnie the Pooh, Thinking.
I've been Thinking from an LA viewpoint about reviewing and monitoring
specail needs. I traumatised (or bored, or both) a nice group of Fil Came's
students a while ago trying to make them see things from the other side of
the fence. I've barely heard from Fil since.

I got to travel up and down the country visiting kids in independent
residential special schools. I never even knew these places existed in my
sheltered life in Oz. I joined and annoyed a couple of West Midland Regional
Partnership groups. (They used to be called WMR SEN Partnership but changed
their name to try to give me the slip) I've been Thinking increasingly about
14+ transtion lately. If you're in a secondary provision and haven't heard
of Transition Pathways, you should have. Ask me about it if you're
interested, it's a boon.

Anyway, I've done enough Thinking for the time being, so it's time to move
on. I am about to inflict myself on Stoke on Trent. (They had a chance to 
appoint someone sensible, but gave it to me instead)

It's interesting to note that there a lot of names from the past still
contributing to the forum. I hope the world has been good to you all. I read
Biff's article about his assault on govt a while ago, it was good. More
Michael Moore than Borat, but good.

Brain No, I mean

Brian

By the way, of course you're not going to change the way the forum operates.
As that awful 70s song put it, I love you just the way you are.

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