OKish · Tuesday September 11, 2007 by Lily
The college courses are very fast paced. Today went OK , he decided to not take his laptop in.
It is proving really helpful to have the audio books from Listening Books, who have recordings of most of the GCSE texts. When I rang to ask about R’s English books they said if they didn’t have them would I give them the title etc and they would try to get recordings made. They also have the study notes on tape. So R read the first chapter of “I’m the King of the Castle” and we listened to the tape together.
We’ve had to buy just 4 books and I bought study notes to go with them. Fortunately the Shakespeare is Macbeth, definitely not R’s favourite, he can’t understand why anyone would like all that gloom and murder, but we’ve seen it many times which should help.
He still has to get timing of trains sorted out and what free periods he has and can miss for travelling. He doesn’t think there is anyone he feels really comfortable with friendship-wise. I had anticipated a very varied group of students; there are only about 20 year 11s. He’d hoped to be one of the older ones but he isn’t. They are a mix of real year 11s (few), resits (most) and even older than that, all nationalities, very few white English.
He had a really shaky evening having a personal upset with a friendship. Just what we don’t need at this point in time.
