[senco-forum] Posters of famous dyslexics

You used to be able to get free posters from the BDA I think..Someone on the
forum will know who.

-----Original Message-----
From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Angela Karuga
Mutinda
Sent: 04 September 2006 14:47
To: Eddie Carron
Cc: Sanderson; senco-forum
Subject: Re: [senco-forum] Help

Eddie, Aly,

i love the idea of the posters of famous people! all students, no matter how
old, have a number of famous people they look up too.
And I agree that swapping/sharing rooms and lessons will definitely water
down the association to learning support.
I've started an after school activity which is running the school paper and
let's hope that has some postitve effects.
And like David says, prevention is def the best medicine!
WIll be in the headmaster's office first thing tomorrow morning seeing how
we can implement some of these ideas.
Cheers all!
a.

On 04/09/06, Eddie Carron <eddiecarron at btconnect.com> wrote:
>
> I went into a school which had this same problem. Some children would
> never
> even walk past the 'special needs' room in case somebody thought they were
> going there. This did not apply to the most able pupils but almost
> exclusively to those who were perhaps borderline themselves.
>
> We tackled it this way. I persuaded a Latin teacher to use the 'special
> needs' for two periods each week. Only very high status pupils took Latin
> so
> this solved the problem of the status of the room. This need not have been
> Latin - it could have been any other high status subject. The most
> important
> thing is the particular teacher who will appreciate why you want to do
> this.
>
> The  SENco swapped a teaching period with a Maths teacher so that she was
> no
> longer associated exclusively with special needs pupils.
>
> This probably did not solve the problem completely but it did help
> enormously. I have visited many 'special needs rooms' and can appreciate
> why, in some cases,  some children find them difficult. I have seen too
> many
> things which were reminiscent of Junior and Infant school displays - too
> much coloured sugar paper on the walls etc. Perhaps this is something that
> could also be looked at.
>
> Eddie C.
>
>
>
> Eddie C.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Angela Karuga Mutinda" <angela.mutinda at gmail.com>
> To: "Amanda" <amandavh at btinternet.com>
> Cc: "Sanderson" <sanderson at macunlimited.net>; "senco-forum"
> <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 8:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [senco-forum] Help
>
>
> > Thanks for that Amanda.
> > Finding that that student with street cred will be my challenge of the
> > week
> > now.
> > They're all really good at either music ,sports, drama & art, I'm trying
> > to
> > find ways of using those channels too.
> > a.
> >
> >
> > On 04/09/06, Amanda <amandavh at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>  Hi Angela
> >> Yep - this situation does remain.  Not usually 'nut cases' but more
> often
> >> 'dumbos' or 'losers'.  What you need is someone with real street cred
> who
> >> has some sort of leaning difficulty.  How you find him (and mine was a
> >> him)
> >> is a bit of luck but when you do, celebrate the successes and make the
> >> support visible.
> >> Also you need to make sure that staff aren't unwittingly reinforcing
> the
> >> stereotype.  It's good to be in set 1 for maths and science with
> literacy
> >> support and set 5 for English if you are dyslexic but it won't help if
> >> staff
> >> won't reward knowledge demonstrated through means other than reading
> and
> >> writing.
> >> Give 'your' kids pride - give them privilages if you can.
> >> Amanda
> >> Secondary SENCO
> >> Cornwall
> >> Back to the grindstone today - first job is to clean my office and move
> >> the furniture back in!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> *Angela Karuga Mutinda <angela.mutinda at gmail.com>* wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm having a problem at school at the moment and was wondering if
> anyone
> >> had
> >> some good ideas.
> >> I had a chat with a parent on Friday who said that the Learning Support
> >> students are all seen as nut cases. Apparently everyone who I teach
> must
> >> be
> >> a nutcase.
> >> We have a EAL teacher in school and he doesn't seem to have the same
> >> problem.
> >> I've thought about asking the form tutors to use PSHE to desensitize
> the
> >> students.
> >> I could also have a session with the parents but would I then hav eto
> do
> >> it
> >> for all parents?
> >> In my last school it took ages to erase the stigma!
> >> Angela
> >>
> >>
> >> On 31/08/06, Sanderson wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I am new to this, could anyone give me any help with where I could
> >> > purchase
> >> > WRATS (assessment test) and toe by toe.
> >> > Thanks Sue
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Amanda
> >> Secondary SENCO
> >> Cornwall
> >>
>
>