The start of a long road .....

A late night for Boy Wonder meant a late morning.  He took a lot of motivating and eventually got ready for school and had breakfast. We had the pleasure of rain this morning which turned the playground routine on its head.  Boy Wonder ran into his classroom even though we had agreed to take Cat Girl first, sat down and got out his reading book that  I promptly got him to change, explaining to his teacher that his original choice wasn't suitable as it was very dark and disastrous in topic (even for a kid's book!) We spoke about Boy Wonder's anxiety last night and that he may complain of headaches/ tummy ache in the day. His teacher stated that she gets stomach ache and headaches when she is anxious so can understand how he feels.

I dropped Cat Girl into the madness of Reception class where kids were crying and parents were worried. Luckily Cat Girl is used to madness so just went to sit down with her little friend. Good girl! There are clearly benefits to living in a mad house!

Today has been an odd day. Lots of people attempting to gather information for the statutory assessment, arrange meetings and so on.  I have to say that we were a little sceptical of the statutory assessment process given that the tribunal ordered the process rather than the local authority feeling it necessary.  However, everyone is being very thorough in ensuring that all areas are covered. We are therefore hopeful that Boy Wonder's story will finally be told.

This evening was fairly settled. Boy Wonder spent three hours on Sky Landers and we let him. This is a rarity so we relished the quiet time and chatted to Cat Girl about her day where she enlightened us to the delights of school dinners 'we had some sort of meat that might have been chicken and blocks of potato,'  Sounds wonderful!

We are planning a quiet weekend to allow Boy Wonder to try and relax and hopefully go into a new week at school with a more settled tummy and head. Busy time ahead but starting to feel a little hopeful.