So Matt went into the school on Wednesday as part of his Governor role to do a Health & Safety check of the Early Years and KS1 areas. He was able to sneak a peek at Tom in his class without him noticing. Apparently the whole class was sat listening and looking at the teacher, apart from one. Guess who?! He had to be told to stop looking behind and to concentrate!
The next morning, Matt managed to speak to Mrs Pickard and asked her what she thought of Tom's ability to concentrate. Seems she thinks it is a bit of a problem. Apparently she always makes him sit at the front of the class when they are on the carpet - if he is at the back he takes nothing away from the lesson! Mrs Tennant (the Teaching Assistant) is going to do some intensive sessions with a small group of the worse offenders when it comes to listening and concentrating next term - setting them tasks that take a lot of concentration to complete to see if that helps. Mrs Pickard also asked us to arrange a hearing test for him as she says that quite often he doesn't seem to hear anything. I personally think it is down to lack of concentration than lack of hearing. The problem is (I think) that he is fine 1:1 but as soon as there is a group he seems to have trouble concentrating / focusing and gets completely lost when trying to work out what's going on. Not sure what we can do about that, because when he is with us it is always 1:1.
Oh hum. Anyhow, Matt went on to have Christmas dinner after his inspection and thoroughly enjoyed it. Tom was sent out to get him as he was sitting on Tom's table. Apparently every one was very excited to have an adult on their table and he had a great time chatting with the children - came home buzzing, said it was the best £2.76 dinner he's ever had!
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