The little yellow book

PLENTY has been reading his 4-year-old niece’s end of term report – and is pleased with her progress. “She really is coming on in leaps and bounds,” the teacher reports in the little yellow book in terms of her literacy, numeracy and communication skills. She also loves joining in reading classes, and loves contributing ideas. Her drawing is pretty good too (for a 4-year-old). She’s off now for the summer holidays, and goes to big school in September. Sis has kept her off now – due to a case of suspected Swine Flu from one of the teachers in part of the bigger school. Suffice to say Sis was fuming about the administration and dis-organisation in telling parents about it quite late. Panic set in, for a time anyway.

Now, let’s look at the government’s end of term report. Firstly, Gordon and co get a low B – that’s generous. Gordon has made little progress this year. He finds it hard to communicate with others, and get his message across, and can be quite difficult to build consensus with. At times, he’s got his adding up wrong. He’s got quite a temper on him, and needs to learn to control his frustrations. On the flip side, when he does eventually realise he has done wrong, he will at least try to put it right – even if he doesn’t ‘really’ want to. No end of term goodies for him, then?

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