16th March 2021 - The incredible Mr. Oakley
This term Kareem is lucky to have the amazing Mr Oakley, his teacher assistant who is succeeding -keep fingers crossed- to persuade Kareem to return to school.
Since last week, it has been a little bit easy to get Kareem ready for school in the morning. He decides from the night before if he would go and if he would have lunch at school. It has been very hard for Kareem to cope with the school changes due to Covid. That was on top of having problems before Covid.
Anyway, now Mr. Oakley managed to get Kareem to start doing some work, which for the family, is a great achievement. He is learning about carnivores and herbivores dinosaurs. Like many children, Hareem loves dinosaurs and can say the names of many of them. He laughs at me because I do not know the different ones and cannot say their names.
kareem walks to school on his own and he seems to take pride of that. It is still a fragile progress and we try to support and praise to get him to re-like his school and his lessons.
Thank you Mr. Oakley.
