[senco-forum] backyearing/ extra year

Isn't Americanism an Americanisim?

Dreadful.  My dyslexic son aged 7 had to 'repeat a year'  what on earth was
wrong with that terminology?  The latest one I had yesterday from Harcourt
Assessment of all people was 'neurodiversity' eg dyslexia...  what IS going
on?  
Ally

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[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Alex
Hammerstein
Sent: 09 March 2007 11:56
To: 'jenny pryor'; 'Peter Syme'; 'brian hepburn'
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Subject: RE: [senco-forum] backyearing/ extra year

That is AWFUL !!  

I really wonder who actually approved these terms !!

A

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[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of jenny pryor
Sent: 09 March 2007 11:48
To: Peter Syme; brian hepburn
Cc: Peter Syme; senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: RE: [senco-forum] backyearing/ extra year

Much worse I think is the current word used when pupils are placed back in
their correct year: 'recoupled' - sounds like a railway carriage!!

Peter Syme <APAHSyme at compuserve.com> wrote:  I had been wondering where this
awful , previously unknown ( to me, anyway)
word had come from. Don't think I would have done it if it had been called
this a decade ago! We just referred to it as an extra primary year.
Something "extra" sounds so much more beneficial and encouraging than
using the negative, pessimistic sounding 'backyearing.' Horrible term.

Anne syme

Message text written by "brian hepburn"
>Isn't Americanism an Americanisim?

Just a McThought.

Brian

>From: Mmilesep at aol.com
>To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
>Subject: [senco-forum] backyearing
>Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 13:57:41 EST
>
>Is backyearing yet another americanism?
>
>Martin<

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