Hi, well, a bit of a roller coaster here! Friday I was asking about pre-school and am now considering deferring ds's place in big school.
Please engage with me by message if you want more details about me but really I want to pick your brains experienced adopters, please.
I found a fab leaflet this leaflet called 'Let's learn together, from adoption UK. It is huge and helpful (from what I can see) BUT not really something I can take to the head or the future teacher!
So I need to ask...
- What kind of things did you say when talking to school about your child starting (if they joined your family by adoption)?
- Did you have any conversations about deferring a place or about starting mornings only etc?
- How did you get the message across succinctly that children who joined the family by adoption will have different needs etc?
- Was there a (smaller/briefer/less imposing) leaflet you gave to school?
No offence at all to non-adopters or newbie's like me, please do chip in your two-peneth (as I have done on MILLIONS of occasions).
If you are an experienced adopter I would especially like to hear your experiences about how things went and how it worked out.
So far have emailed head (twice) about pre-school and got no email back, just verbal message passed on . Spoke to pre-school teacher and now feel it is too early (DS only been with us about a month).
So I now need to stop being on the train tracks and just plodding along with what everyone else does (what I would have done with non-adopted DD) and start to think about ds and what he needs!!
Thanks for reading, I know it is long!
And it's all about ME and my son (love saying that) and not a reflection on anyone else who did anything else differently! Thanks