Friday 5 August 2016

Education Part 3 (high school and sixth form)

hopefully this post from my education experiences will be slightly longer than the previous two as i should be able to remember more from high school and sixth.
for me this was probable the best school that i had attended in terms of the provisions i required due to dyspraxia.
starting in year 9 i can remember using a word processor (keyboard with a small screen)that was connected to certain infared printers in the school like this

this did not really work for me at the time as i was not the best at typing or a particular fast typer.
then during year 9 i retook all of my SAT's exams again (not really sure why as id did well on most of them in year 8) and for these exams i had a transcribe so i would do the exam myself and at the end a teaching assistant would read through it and re-write the bits that they were unable to read after i told them what it said at first i would stay in the exam hall with the TA but then after a while i would go to my next lesson and the teacher/TA would then do it on their own which proved unsuccessful as they were unable to read my handwriting so i would be taken out of lessons to translate which then eventually led to me having a scribe so i would say the answer and the scribe would then write it down which i have had for every exam since then.
also another good thing about the school was my form (a 20-30min lesson everyday prior to lunchtime) teacher who it think may have been one of the 'specialists' for students with learning difficulties had a family member who was also dyspraxic.
to quickly talk about my GCSE's i mentioned that i had a scribe for all of my exams or handwriting assignments apart from french for some reason however moving on to my option subjects which i had 3 which for me were sports studies, geography and french alongside the compulsory lessons such as english, science, match, ICT and the two subject which had no exams or tests which were PE and ethics and i can remember when it came to choosing my options sports studies was the only subject which i actually wanted to do eventually just because i had to choose to other subjects i ended up choosing to do french (which i only chose because at the time my uncle lived in France) and geography (which i ended up enjoying). almost forgot that near the end of year 10 my english teacher kept me in at the end of the lesson to try and teach me how to write E's which makes up half of my name so if i hadnt been able to write the letter E by the age of 15 there was no way he was going to be able to teach me in 5mins.

when it came to choosing whether to go to sixth form/college either at the school i was already at or at another school or a college i did look into going to the local high schools sixth form (as i went to a school between 30min+1hr away from home) but i (and my mum) quite quickly decided on going to the sixth form at the school i was at due to the support they had provided throughout my time at that school and i ended up doing sports studies and science although i stopped science after the first year as i wasnt enjoying all of it or doing that well and to focus on doing my best at sports studies


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