School reports

It is November as we published this now (sneakily back-dating it to keep it in sequence). We are sorry that it is so late in arriving online, but we were holding it back thinking that we would be much quicker in posting about the nursery changes that took Finn away from the one that we have the report from here. In fact, it took three/four months to write!
Because this report is now so old, we back-date it to put it in its right place, so that it can be read in the right way if anyone ever reads through this sequentially...

First, the nursery report.
The achievement rating thing is for an older age, so Finn's apparent low rating is supposedly to be expected for this age... Which makes it rather pointless.
Note the spelling of "Fin" throughout, which couldn't but irritate us somewhat.
Miss Maddie appears in the final image in the report here - she was Finn's favourite, and we liked her too:

Then there is the "Learning Journal" book. This is rather more fun, but it perhaps shows the difference between this nursery and his former one, as it seems rather half-hearted in places. What is not shown here are the loose bits of art work which they hadn't bothered to paste in, some of which weren't actually Finn's at all but belonged to some other child.
The final picture is one we rather like - of Finn and his friend Gabor really enjoying something on the computer. (We don't know, but we rather suspect that Finn spent a lot of time on the computer there, as he became very good at his computer skills very quickly, and we doubt that they monitored or limited any particular child's time on the thing):

We were really impressed by the planets picture that Finn did here. We were also really impressed that they learnt about it there. We were just, therefore, rather frustrated that no one told us that that was what they were doing. We stumbled across the picture by chance some days later at the nursery and asked Finn about it and we then had a great few days talking off and on about the planets. It was great to be able to engage him in something and to link up between home and nursery, drawing pictures of planets or demonstrating them at the dinner table with apples and melons. It was also very good to get some sort of feed-back from him about anything he did during his days there, which was impossible to get out of him otherwise - he just didn't want to) speak about it. But this was almost the only time it ever happened, as we never found out what they did there, and Finn certainly wasn't going to tell us!

Besides the book, there were these two rather nice things... a nice bit of art, and Finn having fun with numbers (which the nursery were amazed he could read... which rather annoyed us as he'd been reading all his numbers and letters for months, and we'd even told them that!)

It looks like he's having a lot of fun here, which he did have at times, but he went to there only with a fight each morning. So it isn't as glorious as the pictures might make out...