Could someone please check my French on a very important letter to DS's school

[walkthedinosaur]

DS1(7) who has dyspraxia is really struggling with his spelliings at school, I've had meetings with the teacher, I take him to see the specialists they recommend and at the end of the day he works really hard at home and tries so hard but it's just not happening. He really wants to decrease his number of faults and on Friday morning last week he got himself up 30 minutes early so he could work on his spellings to get a better grade. Anyhow in the test he buggered it up completely and on getting the tests back burst into tears. Unfortunately I was at work and it was DH who picked him up from school (DH works in UK and doesn't speak a word of French) but he still understood that the maitresse took the piss out of DS1 for crying. She also wrote a note in his dictee book saying basically DS1 was crap at spelling. She's already told him that he will repeat the year so he has no motivation to work anyhow.

I'm really livid with her reaction particularly as I've had several meetings with her and explained that he has a diagnosis of Dyspraxia, printed out details of Dyspraxia in French for her information etc but it's to no avail. DS has difficulty in blocking out classroom noise and when he was doing his test on Friday the boys behind him were poking him and giggling so he wants to sit by himself. To those ends I've written a note to his teacher, I can't see her because I'm at work and also she won't see me without an appointment and this needs sorting now. I wonder if any kind French speaking people would check my note and correct my French. Please be kind with me I stopped studying French at 16 so over 20 years ago and while I can have a conversation to make my point in writing is quite difficult. Also if you could let me know that I've got the tone correct, ie making a point but not yet being too arsey.

Merci pour votre mot. Je confirme (DS1) fait les devoirs (mots de dictées et lecture) pour entre 30 - 60 minutes par soir et il travail trés dur chez nous.

La raison pour il pleure dans la classe est parce que il est trés décu avec les resultes de dictées, et vendredi derniere il s?est reveille tôt travailler sur les mots parce que il a voulu moins des fautes la semaine derniere.

Vous sourez de votre recherché que les enfants avec dyspraxie ont beacoup des problemes avec mémoire et aussi avec ecriture at nous avons discuté le meme pendant notre rendez vous.

Finalement je pense c?est mieux si (DS1) s?assied seul et pas a coté des autre éleves.

Salutations

Thanks again.

Hi Walkthedinosaur,
There are a few mistakes in the letter. I'll take a look later, if no-one else with better French than me is along in the meantime.
However, just wanted to ask if you had ever requested a Projet Personnalisé de la Scolarisation for your son? It's a bit like a statement in the UK and would force them to accommodate his difficulties more than they seem to be at the moment! Happy to advise if you don't know the procedure for this but must go now as I have to cook supper.
Brio.

bonsoiranna lives in paris,familiar with education system and fluent French.hopefully she be along

Something like this perhaps?

Merci de votre mot de vendredi dernier. Je vous confirme que (DS1) fait ses devoirs (mots de dictées et lecture) pour entre 30 - 60 minutes par soir et qu?il travail trés dur chez nous.

Il pleure dans la classe parce qu?il est très déçu par les resultants de ses dictées. Vendredi dernier il s?est reveille tôt afin de travailler les mots parce qu?il a voulu faire mieux cette fois.

Je me permets de vous rappeler que les enfants avec la dyspraxie ont beaucoup de trouble avec la mémoire et l?écriture. Nous avons abordés ce meme sujet lors de notre dernier rendez-vous

Est-ce qu?il sera possible pour (DS1) de s?asseoire seul à coté des autres éleves afin de mieux se concentrer sur le travail.

Mes très cordials salutations

But hopefully Bonsoir will be along later. Although I live here I tend to do most of my writing in English and German.
However, I would encourage you to approach the school "officially" on this. It could be that they are simply not going to take you seriously unless they have the official documentation that your child has special needs. DD has more severe problems (she has an autism spectrum disorder) but no-one took us seriously until we went through the "correct" channels and got her registered as needing support / "aménagement" in school.

BD thank you so much for your help with the note to school I really, really appreciate it and also for your offer to tell me the procedure to follow to get DS1 the help he requires.

His teacher told me she thought he had a form of autism and I did confess to not having a clue about where to go to get him help, she said leave it with the school, but to be honest they send us from one specialist to the next and we're getting nowhere. In the meantime she shouts at DS constantly at school because he daydreams - he's trying so hard not to and he isn't even aware that he is half the time. He now gets very worried about Fridays and dictee and has thrown up a couple of times on Thursday nights because he's so stressed. I don't know what to do for the best, I have another rdv with an organisation called CPEA in March, more psychologists/assessments etc so fingers crossed they can help.

If you prefer to email me, you can contact me on walkdinosaur @ gmail dot com.

Thanks again for the help with the letter, if anything it will be in paper that he does do his devoirs every night. I doubt it will do anything else but it makes me feel better stating my/DS's case.

Again many, many thanks I really appreciate it.

Well, it makes me cross when kids get blamed for stuff they can't help!
Am a bit busy today but will definitely email you in the next couple of days.

Your DS is in CE1 right now, correct? How was he last year in CP? Was his teacher more sympathetic? Could they help?

How is DS1s French? Do they know your home language is English and explain things in more detail?

I would also point out the other children were distracting him, so add to the penultimate sentence of brioche's suggestion. 'DS1 m'a dit que d'autres élèves l'ont distrait pendant qu'il travaillait' which gives another good reason for DS1 to work to one side.

My ex-charge had quite severe difficulties in school and a very unsympathetic teacher which meant we had to do an awful lot of work at home to restore confidence. If you want any suggestions for strategies for helping DS1 cope CAT me. Unfortunately in France teachers are demi-gods and you will have to be quite careful with the way you approach it. Good luck!

Thanks to you both. In answer to your questions Frakkinaround yes he is in CE1. He was fine in CP and was very happy - he kept up with the class. Within two weeks of being in CE1 his teacher told me he was going to struggle, she's brought in the educational psychologist to deal with him who just provided a list of other psychologists to send him to.

His French is very good, I pay for a French tutor to come every Wednesday to help him with his reading, she tells me if she didn't know he was English she would think he was a Breton child. Sometimes he doesn't understand the instructions from the teacher but because his French is so good she doesn't give him the benefit of the doubt and apparently her response is tant pis when he tells her, so obviously more tears.

She knows we're English I spent an afternoon every week last year in her class trying to improve my own French I quite like her as a person but her first reaction in the class is to shout at a child and I have seen her pull a child over the desk by his shirt which really worries me now that she's giving DS a hard time.

DS has gone from absolutely loving school to asking to be transferred to another school and he has categorically stated that if he has to redouble he wants to go to another school because he can't do another year with her.

I don't have CAT facility but could you email on the address a couple of posts above, I would be grateful. I need all the help I can get.

If you want me to write the letter for you, I'd be happy to do so.
I am a teacher here in France, though not at school level, but I should be able to word it in an appropriate way .
I've e-mailed you...

Have e-mailed you. Am shocked at the teacher's attitude but sadly not surprised. It's good that he's confident in French and doesn't really have the linguistic barrier to contend with but her response when he doesn't understand is unfortunate to say the least.

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Again everyone thank you so much. Pitchounette I sent the letter in earlier today but again thanks for your help I'm really, really grateful.

As of yet I've had no reply or acknowledgement but DS did say he was moved to sit in the corner first thing and he had a much nicer day at school, so if he's happier, I'm happier.

Frakkin sorry I haven't received your email.

Again thank you all very much for your help. I'm going to ask DS's tutor on Wednesday rather than go through his reading with him to help him with his dictee, hopefully it may be easier for him with a native French speaker than with me.

Have also emailed you.
Brio.

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