Futures Rosie

It's been well over a year since I last posted on here which is a new record for me! Truth be told I just haven't felt like it. I think I became a bit disillusioned with the whole thing and I wasn't comfortable with where it might end up if I continued writing whilst not really 'feeling it'. I'd made a promise not to write unless I wanted to/felt t... he need and yet I'd still end up putting pressure on myself to post as the blog became more widely read. Had I carried on with this I think it may have affected its integrity and real purpose. So, there you have it and that's enough of that now onto the the return of Little Budlington :) Well, as you know a year is a very long time in a child's development and Rosie is no exception to this. She has come on leaps and bounds and whilst she's still our same little Rosie she is also so very different to a year ago and different in the most positive of ways. Hitting out and smacking has almost become a thing of the past and she communicates verbally so much better now which I think has played a big factor in this change. There have been big changes also for Rosie at school where she is now in Year 1 with a new teacher and a different 'one-to-one' arrangement. We are eternally grateful for everything the teaching staff have done for her in Reception without their structured approach to working with Rosie I can confidently say that she wouldn't be at the stage she is now. They provided Rosie with an essential base from which she is now steadily building on. We were initially concerned about how she would deal with the change as she was so settled in Reception. She was now faced with the daunting prospect of a new and bigger class, a different classroom with a new teacher and two new one-to-one's (who all do a brilliant job). Thankfully she has (and not for the first time) surprised us by adapting really well we haven't had any kicking and screaming episodes with refusals to go into school, I guess that might come in her teens?! Things have been progressing so well to the ...Read More