Hello Again,
Not much happening over the last week or so. School is winding down for the summer break. Jake had his end of year prize giving last week and a Year 5 disco last evening. All the sports and after school activities have ended. We have received Jake's end of year report and SAT's results and .... well .... cause for concern. He is trying really hard but not making the progress he needs to. We are looking at making some big changes next year, we'll do things differently. I will get a new dyslexia report done when I'm back in NZ. The prospect of him going to a special boarding school in England is looking like a possibility but we will do everything to keep him here with us first. I'm just amazed that with all the modern resources and facilities here in Dubai that many dyslexic kids and others with learning difficulties can't get an education here. The shameful stock answer when turning these kids away is that the school does not have "the resources" to cater for kids needing sustained extra help. Its not as if us parents aren't prepared to pay for this. We have already paid and will continue to pay a small fortune, whatever it takes to get our children educated.
Anyway, enough of that for now. We are looking forward to a great Year 6 for Jake, his new teacher is a Kiwi, he had a great sense of humour and the kids love him, I'm told he really gets his students excited about all their subjects and Jake is soooo looking forward to being in his class.
As you can see from the photos Scott had his second race meeting last night. We were expecting it to be at the end of the month. The organiser got the dates mixed up and then we were not on the email list that updated everyone on the correct date so it was lucky that they found out in time. The night was hot and humid (they all are at this time of year!). Its very hard on the competitors, hopefully next year there will be no racing during these hot summer months. The numbers were down so the juniors and seniors were combined again, Scott came 3rd out of 3 in the juniors, he got a nice trophy and Dhs500.00 in prize money. Don't even think that it was not much of a place. It was very tough and he certainly deserved to be on the podium. The clutch caused problems all evening and despite being repaired it was completely stuffed by the last race. Scott was racing well but his speed was a little slow. After a spin in the first race he settled down and had an incident free night. This is a huge improvement on his first race meeting, his times practicing during the week were very good so when the clutch is sorted we're hoping he will be back on the pace. Scott enjoyed himself, he is really cool and focused. Grant was working his butt off all night!
This is the last week of school, we are soooo ready for our holiday. Its to hot to do anything much and just getting in and out of the car is exhausting, most days are mid 40C now. I'm looking forward to taking it easy, the traffic is crazy here and it will be nice to be out of it for a while. Still not sure of our holiday dates, the flights were looking OK for mid July so that's still the plan.
I will post a scrapbook layout this week, plenty in the "in progress" folder, nothing finished yet.
Cheers for now!
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