Lawrence's anxiety has increased during this period, and he has been unintentionally hurting people around him.
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Lawrence is hurting adults and children.He is not intentional to do it..
I just think he is not being naughty, he just anxious
During the lunch time, he tried to scratch the assistant teacher using his claws just to want her to stay with him.
He wouldn't come into the classroom, he kept running out of the classroom.
maybe 3 or 4 times a day!
School tried a few things to keep him in the classroom, like basket works. whenever his anxiety level rises, he can go to the basket and fetch a paper to do/draw his favorite number works.
All those things showing that he is not learning, he is a bright boy and with natural intelligent.
But he is not ready to cope what is going on in this environment, he has got too much on his head.
Every time when he walked into the classroom, it's quite colorful, stimulating, those adults/children and movements; things like these are just too stimulating, and he can't cope with so he runs away.
Here comes some of the option that Ms. Gare and I have discussed.
1. 1-on-1 studying, and all the expenses shall be covered on your own.
2. Repeat the Reception Year again (to be decided in late May/early June)
3. Part time study (which has been successfully proved on other kids)
Before the assessment outcome been delivered, we will start from the option 3, and this will start from Mar. 15 2010
Monday 1210pm start
Tuesday 0940am start
Wednesday 0940 am start
Thursday 1020am start
Friday 0840am start
We tried to skip out the classes that causes the anxiety levels up, which are music (Mon/Thur), PE (Mon/Wed), assembly (Fri) and lunch time. Because we don't want him to be anxious and we do want him to start learning.
We really want the parent and the school to work together.
Mark's remarks:
What we observed from Lawrence is that he tends to play and work with kids who is elder than his age or adults. And also, he likes challenges. Thus, we don't quite feel comfortable that he will need to repeat the reception year once again.
However, as my point of view Lawrence actually lack of patience and he tends to back off while facing obstacle.
Student who need to go up to next level needs to assessed by 6 categories, which are PEHE, CLC, Math, KUW, C, P. And we want all these field to be balancedly developed.
His creativity is quite rigid.
He shows that he likes to learn only when he is in the mood of doing it.
He maybe scored highest level of Math and KUW; however he is really low at PEHE and C (creativity), so his curve is not balanced.
He definitely wants to make friends with other kids. As we observed that he is not isolated so far. We have been watching it very carefully and we wouldn't want that to happen.
Try to be positive to Lawrence while applying part time schedule for him. All we want is to help him to get used to this new environment in a least stressed way. And please don't worry about Lawrence at all, we will help him as best as we could.
