Home School Communication

When she first started school, I feel like the biggest impact we noticed, the biggest difference was a bit of a culture shock in how much feedback we got. We went from a nursery situation where at the end of every day we would have a chat with her keyworker who would say how she was doing, how she was… what they'd done that day, what they'd eaten, how they slept. We got a regular update of any concerns and how they were doing and what kind of things they were up to and what they were doing developmentally. And that's changed to in school we just don't get that anymore. We'll occasionally get an online update, and we've had one parents' evening where we've actually been able to talk to the teacher, and otherwise it's been very short conversations with the teacher at the door and that's often very hard very rare to happen as well. So, it's kind of, it's been a big culture shock about how much we can learn about her day.

The school's really good, 'cause they have the… they send updates and pictures to your phone and things. So, it's nice that I can be checking in on him a little bit, to see what he's up to. And yeah, he he doesn't tell me anything about how the day went. I just say: "What did you do?" He says: "I don't know." So, I guess he doesn't eat at lunchtime. And yeah, because he's a summer baby as well, I was quite worried about that, because obviously practically, he's you know, it takes time to do the practical things like figuring out how a zip works and the button and things like that and just going to the toilet himself, it's quite a big thing; that all the others have kind of probably they've got an extra year on him nearly, so it's been quite hard from that sense.