Last week was horrible, all Tom did was cry. The teacher was brilliant though, just ignoring him and making him do bits and pieces. It was quite comical in a way - she told him that he sounded worse that her cat, and that it would be his fault if he swallowed water with his mouth being open so much etc etc! Basically she doesn't take any nonsense and certainly doesn't allow for crying or tantrums. It took Tom about 20 minutes to stop crying but he got there in the end and actually finished off by saying he enjoyed himself!
This week he promised not to cry and he was true to his word. He got in the pool and did everything he was told. In this class they wear arm bands. He started off with them fully inflated. She then deflated them and in the end took them off. She then told Tom to swim across the pool. This he did. At last! We knew he could do this as he had done it at the Ingleton pool in the summer. At the end of the lesson, she called Tom back and gave him a 10 meter certificate and badge. Wow! I wasn't expecting that! Let's hope she can now teach him to do some bits that he can't currently do (ie swim on his back and swim longer than 10m).
We then went back to Settle for Tom's swimming lesson on Wednesday (we had paid up until Christmas so he's doing two lessons a week at the moment). He was back to using a woggle and messing around not doing anything again - argggggggggggggh. Let's hope the Casterton lessons sort him out.
On another note, I would like to record just how well Tom is doing at school at the moment. His reading is going really really well. He doesn't struggle with any of his reading books at the moment, he brings them home and reads most of them word perfect first time. This is reflected in his reading diary too, the only comments he gets are 'excellent', 'great reading' etc etc. His writing is also getting better and better, it is smaller and better formed and he thinks out how to spell words much better than before. His maths is also coming along well. Most of all though, he LOVES his new teacher. She has made such an impression on him, he now can't wait to go into his classroom to see her and speak to her. He thinks she's the best teacher in the world. I don't know what she has done, but she has certainly worked her magic with him. He is very very keen learn and impress. Long may it continue. He goes into his classroom animated every day wanting to tell her his latest news. He wouldn't even say hello to Mrs Pickard!!!!! Once again, it just goes to show what a difference a good teacher can make.
Oh and on Thursday he came home with a certificate of merit for 'Wonderful money work in the sweet shop', wow!
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