A little further along toward school

We are a little further along in our journey toward the Batsman commencing primary school next year. It is a big learning leap for all of us as we wrap our minds around the transition and all that comes with it.
We had our school meeting to finalise our application for support funding and it makes me sad to say this was one of the hardest days I have encountered in my life as a parent. While I was very well prepared intellectually for the content of the meeting and what it is designed to do, my mummy’s heart was much less ready. The clinical and somewhat negative nature of that meeting is something I am still coming to terms with. I know it is "how the system works", I know. But there is something very wrong with a system that makes a mama feel so sad. Perhaps how I feel is best summed up by my unrequited urge to put an enormous photo of our boy in the middle of the meeting table and say “This. This is the little boy you are talking about. Our boy”. You know, a photo like this one.

On a way more positive note, our school transition sessions have begun and the Batsman is taking to them so very well. Our primary school has offered a 90 minute session each week in Term 4 for the children to attend and become more accustomed to the school environment. For two weeks now, the Batsman has stayed at school for the whole session, without me, has managed himself admirably and had a great time. Hand dryers in the bathrooms (from a sensory perspective) are our major stumbling block so far. The willingness of the school to really think through what will work in transition is amazing and I hope it is the sign of more great things ahead.

I also don’t mind telling you that I predict the Batsman will do MUCH better at this transition to school stuff than his Mummy.