Well this is an interesting position to be in. Tomorrow Joshua starts at a new school - Limespring School in East Finchley. And when I say new I mean this in all senses of the word for tomorrow the school opens its doors to students for the first time - all three of them! So this is very much a leap into the unknown!
So why is Joshua changing schools? Is there something wrong with his current school, Tetherdown? Actually no there's nothing wrong with Tetherdown and up until a week before Christmas we had no inkling whatsoever that he might be changing schools! But then I noticed a poster advertising Limespring as a school for teaching children with learning differences and there's no doubt that Joshua is different what with his dyslexia and all. So I got in contact with the school only to discover that the lady who's created the school, Denise Drinkwater, used to tutor Joshua in maths. Small world.
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A few intense meetings later and we'd come to the decision that Joshua would take a two-week trial of the school to see how it worked and whether it would meet his needs. Bear in mind that this all took place while we were frantically getting the house prepared for my family visiting at Christmas! Fortunately the head-mistress at Tetherdown, Ms Pittman, was more than happy for Joshua to try this new school and so that has made our life a lot easier. Even so it's been a bit of a journey and one that we hadn't expected to be taking.
Tomorrow then Joshua enters a whole new world with a whole new routine. Given that the school barely exists and has more staff than pupils it'll be interesting to see how he responds to what should be a much calmer and more relaxed environment. For sure with the opportunity for Joshua to enjoy a teacher pupil ratio of 1:3 rather than 1:30 we could hardly refuse the opportunity! Even so we definitely feel under pressure to try and make the right decision (whatever that it is) because so much depends on us being right.
Wish us luck!