[senco-forum] Brain Gym

Glad you're back, Brian.  Enjoy Stoke - the place of my birth, although I
left for Wales 40 years ago!

Regards

Jean Dowding

S Wales

 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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