I'm a Year 5 teacher (third year teaching) with a little girl who just cannot cope with Friday afternoons. She's got a complicated diagnosis that boils down to extreme and sudden rages in the classroom. There are several agencies involved and she's receiving lots of support but Friday afternoons are a real flashpoint.
We don't do anything differently but I suppose she is just exhausted after a week of trying to hold it together, and maybe there is a slightly excited 'weekend' air amongst the children.
I really want to do my best for this child. I like her, and she's come a long way from where she was a year ago. I think she needs to be doing something different on a Friday afternoon and my Head is receptive, but what? Does anyone have any ideas? I'm quite inexperienced, and certainly have never experienced a child this troubled.
She has counselling and play therapy during the week. It would be ideal if one of those could move to Friday afternoons, but the professionals involved can't accommodate it.
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GloomyMonday · 22/09/2018 06:29
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