[senco-forum] Posters of famous dyslexics

will try the BDA.
thx

On 04/09/06, Sharon Fawcitt <sfawcitt at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> > >>
> >
> >
>
>