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Warwick has been asking me for ages to write a new blog and although i do take a long time to do most things, i have been putting it off and didn’t really know why.
There is so much to tell you about Henry and my head is full of thoughts about him and the other wonderful children i am lucky enough to work with now who are teaching me so much, probably more than i teach them!
For those who know me finding words is not normally a problem i have to deal with!!!! How to cut them down or shut m Read More > 
Henry’s great auntie Christine Ashton has arranged a 50’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Fundraiser Party to raise some funds for Henry’s continued education under the Son-Rise program. Along with Henry’s great uncle Mark & 2nd cousin Ellie they have managed to get some fantastic raffle prizes together for the night – thank you so much for all the effort we really appreciate it!
The brilliant Raffle Prizes – well done and thanks everyone who donated:
pamper k Read More >
Is having real difficulties getting to sleep and then staying asleep.
We’re trying lots of different things to help but so far he still thinks ‘he can’t do it’ and especially ‘can’t do it his own’ and that he ‘can’t think of good things’. It’s probably no wonder he can’t switch off with everything going on for him. He is working really hard at school especially on his reading and making great progress and is muc Read More >
Hi Penny & Warwick,
Just had to send you a quick email to describe some of the special moments that l’ve had the pleasure of sharing with Henry this morning at school that show how brilliantly he is doing.
The first was during literacy where they had to put up their hand to describe different ways that we use our hands, illustrated in a book they had just read. Henry put his hand up straight away with his own idea but by the time the teacher chose him the child before had used his idea Read More >
Henry’s achievements in the past 3 weeks have been countless and include;
making lots of new friends – children and staff. They all think that he is wonderful, which we already know!
for the majority of time he looks like he is enjoying himself
he has started to work independently, without prompting, using cues form the other children if necessary. This tends to be during the phonics- read,write, inc session from 9-9.30am
becoming more confident to take part in group discussions and Read More >
Hi everyone,
Penny has done an amazing report in preparation for our annual LEA meeting tomorrow and I thought it would be nice to share Henry’s astounding progress with you all…
Nursery
Henry started at Holland House Day Nursery at the end of March 2011 and attends on a Monday and Friday morning from 9-11.20am
Henry has settled into nursery really well and does not have any additional support and treated the same as any of the other children
Henry has made a ‘best friend’ c Read More >
I’ve been meaning to write this blog for a while now as I still can’t believe how amazing Henry has been in the last few weeks.
I’ll start with our amazing family trip to the circus. My dad does the signage for The Great British Circus and managed to get us ringside seats. We tried to take Henry a few years ago and I ended up sitting in the car for 2 hours as it was all too much for him with the noise and being so close to the animals.
This time around was a whole different st Read More >
Helping Henry would like to thank everyone at HMP Parc for the sponsored footie match between staff and inmates which is being held this afternoon and has raised over a thousand pounds. Special thanks go to Henry’s uncle for coming up with the idea and collecting sponsorship and to Jason Bekker for making it happen, a big thank you also to Stephen McPhail for providing a signed Cardiff City shirt & Ryan Jones & Michael Bishop for the Welsh rugby shirt which are to be raffle Read More >
Last Thursday and Friday we were lucky enough to have a really special visitor.
We have had monthly telephone consultations with Carolina since august 2008, just before we were about to start our full-time programme in the September. I remember Warwick saying ‘what are you going to ask her?’ on our first consultation as we had been running a part-time programme since February 2011 in his bedroom but the playroom wasn’t quite finished and we hadn’t started with any volun Read More >
Henry went across to the main school hall today to see the animal man with about 8-10 other nursery children. I didn’t ask how many other children were there but Henry said there were lots. Apparantly he was great and got up and stroked a meerkat, there’s a lovely photo of him doing that. He didn’t want to stroked the snakes, but i think he may get that from me!!
They were late coming back to nursery and the dinner time children were queuing up at the door and when they Read More > 
