[senco-forum] Brain Gym

Exercise and attention from adult who thinks particular set of exercises are
the magic key must improve posture, attitude and especially self esteem  (
the attention would certainly help me be more receptive to learning how to
spell restaurant - tho the lecture I went to at nasen london some years ago
about brain gym left me wondering at the naivety of my surrounding
participants who seemed to be totally believers)
However  ( as with Dore programme) exercise is not the key unless
accompanied by real teaching as in structured, cumulative, multisensory
phonological programme- (recent research is that bad kids behave better
after pe successes -ie following a similar vein.)
Too much exercise however  - ie knackered is not conducive to learning try
teaching weakest year 7's straight after pe ! ( obviously also brian's
problem!)
Yes I do make kids sit up even get up and walk round stretch etc if they
appear to be falling asleep so I'm not a total heathen but am very vary of
any magical solution     barbara ht 

-----Original Message-----
From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of brian hepburn
Sent: 01 November 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 
14+ 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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