So I did go back, I did return to my first primary school very recently. I was a little nervous as I really wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I didn’t want all my old feelings to come flooding back to me, feelings of failure and unhappiness. I was also

Neurodiversity Neurodiversity what does that mean to me, overwhelming failure and pain. Dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD I will never be the same as those children around me, those that thrive, those that spell, those that read and retain will there ever be an end  to my strife, my thinking,  which is

NO MORE So, what about those children, who went down, deep down in the depths of the mobiles cold and green. Placed at the far end of school, those children not heard and not seen. I can only hope they found themselves able to learn some day, to be the

GOT A DEGREE, ME It wasn’t till uni, yes, I made it you see, got a degree and post grad, me! With no thanks to those who taught me so wrong, who just couldn’t see the way, I needed to learn back then in the day. Maybe they just didn’t

GOT A DEGREE, ME It wasn’t till uni, yes, I made it you see, got a degree and post grad, me! With no thanks to those who taught me so wrong, who just couldn’t see the way, I needed to learn back then in the day. Maybe they just didn’t

Shakespeare? To be or not to be? Well surely it’s a NO, a NO to Shakespeare for children as that’s what they are, a child. Let us not expose them to such horrors of murder, cruel revenge and suicide. This is not the way to solve problems, this is not

Another time which illustrated my bad behaviour was when I was taught how to smoke by one of my two friends. It worked as I did smoke for a few years following that first attempt, crouched down behind a length of risen grass on a mound out on the extensive

I often wonder how they would react, my old teachers, to my Batchelor of Education with Honors degree, or my Post Graduate level 7 Certificate, my level 5 specialist teacher for maths, I did not make a pig’s ear of that one did I Mrs Smith? I say this or

Bullies Bullies are cruel, Bullies cause pain, physical or mental I feel are both the same. Stick and stones they say will break my bones but names will never hurt me. I am not so sure about these lines Physical pain can leave a colourful bruise but will fade Mental

How do you spell? Do you spell Birmingham with and e or an i? Well how was I supposed to know? Words and letters just sound the same after a while of trying to decipher which one comes first and what come next it’s really no cause for laughter. For