Back to school

Schlafzimmer = bedroom

J says everyone knows that. Well everyone who's been studying German for over 3 years might.

After a last minute finishing of Art homework and discovering he needed his PE kit 5 minutes after he should have left J went back to school this morning. He had a test today to confirm if he can have extra time and use the computer in his GCSEs (ahem he has already done his first GCSE assessment, hadn't they noticed?). Anyway the result was that he's too good at English to get extra time but can use the computer as there was a considerable difference in speed between his typing and writing. He feels frustrated about it as he says the tests didn't address his problem which is difficulty in organising his thoughts. It was interesting that in one of our 'round robin' Christmas letters someone described her daughter as having the same problem, like there's so much going on in her head she can't pick out what to write about, but because she has reading problems as well she's been definitely diagnosed as having dyslexia whereas J's diagnosis is 'difficulties of the dyslexic type'. Anyway we'll just have to pray he's ok without the extra time. For him to use the computer in his exams we're also going to have to get a psychologist's report every 2 years - at £450 a go!

Apart from tidying some papers and with P's help taking down the Christmas decorations I don't feel I've done much at all today. Feel so tired. Throat still sore, being held at bay by gargling with aspirin.