Cikgu baru lagi

OMG tatau ler berapa kali dah cikgu kelas Z bertukar (cikgu kelas, bukan cikgu khas)

Mama lupa pulak apa nama cikgu baru Z, but first impression I think I could trust her. This is the first time in 6/7 months that I feel ok with his teacher. Tu pun cikgu tu cakap dia maybe temporary jer kat kelas Z sebab cikgu kelas Z (Ciara) tgh holiday. Cikgu baru ni transferred from other branch and she used to teach pre-school class. Kalau cikgu preschool normally they already have degree in child edu. That’s why she looks very professional perhaps.

Bukan mcm cikgu2 kelas Z sekarang. Ciara tu ntah la, mama pun x kenal sangat dia. Tetiba jer tgk dia dah ada dalam kelas Z. Ganti Cikgu Kathy ke apa ntah yg dulu nih. cikgu tu dah berhenti lama, then cuma cikgu Emma sensorang jer jadi main cikgu kelas Z, while being helped by other teachers (rotation). As a result kelas Z sejak 2-3 bulan lepas mmg porak peranda. Cikgu Ciara tu pun baru sebulan jer keje rasanya.. Cikgu Ciara ni la yang mama kasik warning last week sebab tak pujuk Z menangis tu.

Sorang lagi cikgu kelas Z nama Emma. Hmm.. what can I say about cikgu Emma.. Dia tu School’s supervisor. Honestly, dari awal lagi mama menyampah dengan dia. Nampak sangat fake. Papa pun dah pernah Nampak kepalsuan dia. Bukan lah dia marah2 Z or what (at least not to my knowledge), tapi dia jenis yg peramah mulut manis depan parents jer, belakang parents siap jeling2. How can u trust a person like that? Pastu kalau pegi amik Z tu, Nampak jer kita, terus la dia main2 bergurau senda dengan Z. Padehal dari jauh mama dok intai, Z main sorang jer sebelum tu, tak dihiraukan pun.. Ni bukan sekali dua. Memang banyak kali sangat dah. Dengan parents lain pun dia buat. Semalam masa mama dok borak dengan cikgu Yvonne, cikgu Emma lalu. Z dari jauh dah sengih2 sambil flapping his hands happily while looking at cikgu emma tu. Z will do that when he is excited to see the person. Tapi cikgu emma buat tatau jer.. senyum balik pun tak, terus blah mcm Z non existed. Ni kali ke dua mama nampak, but first for Yvonne. Yvonne siap panggil si Emma tu lagi, buat she just left. Mmg Nampak muka Yvonne pun berubah. So rude! Macam ler bisi sangat, padehal dia nak keluar breakfast jer.

Yvonne cakap dia nak pindahkan Z ke kelas lain. Toddler 2^nd stage. Dia cakap bebudak kelas tu besar n matang sikit. And their teacher are better. Dia pun tak suka kelas sekarang nih. Dah apply, hopefully Z will start in March. For the moment kena la bertahan dulu.. Harap2 cikgu baru nih stay lama sikit la kat kelas Z.

Pastu mama bagitau Yvonne yg mama akan keje part time jer lepas nih, so boleh la focus kepada Z’s therapy. Mama harap sangat Z will get 5 days support when he start preschool in Sept. And I hope it will still be Yvonne. Then dia senyum and say, don’t tell Mairead I told you this.. I think Z already being approved for 5 days support in September and highly likely it will be me! Whaaat! YEAY!!! Kalau lah betul, memang mama bersyukur sangat2.. and then she continue, I really want to work with Z. So I have make the proposal to Mairead (Home Teacher / manager for pre schooler in SMH), and they kind of agree with me :) awww.. thank you so much Yvonne. Mama baru jer planning, dia dah 1 step ahead of me. Alhamdulillah, thank you Allah for sending these nice people to me and Z..

* pssst ni rahsia. Better write in Malay. Z kan dah dapat separuh minggu cikgu khas, so sepatutnya dia hanya layak untuk dapat separuh minggu jugak next year. Geran daripada kerajaan adalah 5 hari seminggu cikgu khas untuk setahun, ataupun boleh buat separuh2 selama dua tahun.

Sekarang Z dapat 3 hari (pagi) dengan Yvonne, and dia juga dapat 2 petang with Siobhan (maksudnya dia dah gunakan kesemua geran pun), and tahun depan (Sept 14) Z akan dapat lagi 5 hari! Daripada forum yang mama ikuti, memang takde lagi budak lain di Ireland nih yang dapat kelebihan macam Z!

isn’t that amazing??? And they are still people yang bising2 suruh kitorang balik msia dengan alasan akan lebih mudah urusan kami sekeluarga. Macam ler diorang ada anak special. And macam ler diorang akan tolong. Tanya khabar pun tidak, cakap jer lebih. Yes we are struggling, but for the moment I think this is the best decision for Z. Lepas nih tak tau macam mana lagi, and I don’t say that we will spend the rest of our life here. No. Just not now..

Cikgu-cikgi & Pre-School Support Worker

 

Got this letter from Giraffe manager last week. Cikgu Amy dah nak resign. Kelas Z ada 2 cikgu (8 kids altogether). Z bawah Cikgu Katy, but for some reason he likes Cikgu Amy more. Cikgu Katy tu baik and memang nampak sangat la yang dia sukakan budak. Muda lagi, mama rasa baru 20 camtu kot.. Tapi Z memang tak suka dia. Kalau sampai pagi2 tu, cikgu Katy nak ambik, mesti dia tak nak. Siap tolak2 lagi. Muka pun dipalingkan ke arah lain. Kalau dia nampak cikgu Amy kat hujung kelas, cepat2 dia menuju ke arah vikgu Amy instead. Hmmm.. Entahlah.. Ada sedikit keraguan mama pada cikgu Katy nih..

Yang paling mama risaukan tu.. Walaupun cikgu Katy nih baik and good with children, I dont think she is capable to handle the whole class herself. Masa Z mula2 masuk kelas Toddler dulu cikgu Katy sorang2 jer jaga kelas tuh. OMG, kucar kacir n bersepah kelas! Pastu there's few occassion bila mama ambik Z waktu petang, punya la comot anak mama macam tak berjaga jer. And ada sekali tu Z berak pun dia tak tukar nappy. Masa mama pegi ambik tu dari jauh mama dah boleh bau dah, takkan la dia tak perasan kot kan.. Dekat sebulan jugak la kucar kacir time tu until cikgu Amy transferred ke kelas Z (cikgu Amy jaga lagi satu toddler room pada asalnya). And now it will happen again... Memang la diaorang cakap ada new supervisor yg akan look after the room, tapi kalau dah namanya supervisor, takde nya dia nak duduk sepanjang masa kat kelas tu. Dah la Z will be in school 5 days a week now. Lagi la mama stress memikirkan keadaan Z kat skolah nun..

Anyway, we have really good news. The Pre-school Support Worker (PSW) has started today :D. Yvonne namanya. Mama dah jumpa pagi tadi. Alhamdulillah first impression -- I am impressed! She looks like a very nice n professional lady. Even better, she also has an adult son with down syndrome! So she has great experience in raising a child with DS. And her son is actually studying in Trinity College (tempat keja mama la tu) and his class is above my office. How coincidence :).

PSW nih sepatutnya untuk Special Needs kids yang dah start pre-school. Kan haritu berlaku sedikit kekeliruan, ingatkan Z dah start formal preschool this year, rupanya dia belum layak. Tapi sebab diorang dah allocate PSW utk dia, takkan la nak fired orang tu pulak kan. PSW suppose to help the kids during the class. Contohnya kalau nak menulis/melukis, budak2 umo 3-4 tahun yang lain dah boleh pegang pensil sendiri, tapi Z Yvonne la yang akan buat hand in hand and also to ensure that the class run smoothly for Z.

Basically she will be with him ALL THE TIME. One-on-one. Makan minum n main pun dia akan bersama dengan Z. Yang mama terharu sangat tu, dia sepatutnya support jer apa yg cikgu ajar dalam kelas. Tapi in Z’s case, dia belum masuk formal pre-school lagi. Toddler room nih bukan la belajar sangat pun. Tapi Yvonne dah siap bawak materials for early education untuk Z. Dia kata dia akan buatkan bit by bit based on Z’s stage. She also know Lahm Sign Language and will use it with Z0 And she really study handout pasal Z yang cikgu Mairead (Z’s Home Teacher) bagi. She is aware of what he likes and dont like. Dia bawak ball, bubbles and also few flash cards. This week aim is for Z to ‘accept’ her. InsyaAllah mama rasa Z akan ok dengan Yvonne. Lega hati mama.. Walaupun hanya 2/3 hari (half day) jer seminggu, at least mama tahu Z ada somebody that he can trust in school.  

MasyaAllah.. Besar sungguh pertolongan yang Allah bagi untuk Z di ketika kita amat memerlukan.. 

Feeling blessed, Alhamdulillah.. :)

Update dari Mairead :)

 

PreSchool (& Summer is here)

Z supposed to start pre-school in September. Mairead dah arranged SNA (Pembantu khas untuk Z ketika dalam kelas) and Giraffe has been informed. He will go for half week preschool for 2 years. Pre school kat Giraffe jugak. Habis sekolah, masuk balik toddler room. That's the plan.

But everybody forgot that he was born in August 2010! So umur Z baru 3 tahun 3 minggu on 1st Sept!

To be eligible for free preschool scheme, a child must be aged between 3yrs 2 months and 4 years something. Mama tak tahu pulak kena umo 3 thn 2 bulan!! Mama ingatkan 3 tahun on the dot. Baru semalam mama baca betul2, terus call Mairead. Mairead pun terus menggelabah. Call sana sini nak tanya if anything we can make to be exempted from the conditions. Unfortunately no.

So we (mama & Mairead) decided to go ahead with the preschool since SNA pun dah ada kan.. Cuma kena bayar sendiri la. Problem is I dont know if the school will accept Z now. I am not sure how much different we have to pay and paling tension, mama baru jer berangan nak cuti tanpa gaji lagi. Kalau dah kena bayo preschool tu satu hal la, masalahnya mama tak tahu lah sekolah Z nak terima ke tak kalau mama nak hantar Z preschool saje - no daycare. Rugi la diorang kot sebab daycare yang make profit. Pre school shouldnt be that costly walaupun private sebab 3 jam jer sehari. And in Z case 2/3 hari jer seminggu. Giraffe Z nih ada 1 kelas jer untuk preschool, mesti diorang nak utamakan kids yang stay full time kat situ. Kalau under Govt scheme, nak tak nak diorang kena juga ambik Z. Now?..

Plan asal nak register jer Z for preschool dulu. Kalau mama nak ambik career break pun, maybe nov/dec baru boleh start kot. once Z place dah secure, kita blah la yer.. (chewah, confident jer mama nak cuti tanpa gaji ni.. papa tengah pening kepala x habis2 lagi.. hahahahah). Tapi what if the school tak nak terima Z sebab he is not under government scheme? Payah. Abistu SNA tu nak buat apa? takkan la nak tunggu Z kat toddler class sekarang..Kalau mama benti keje, memang tak mampu ler nak bayar toddler class, kena ambik paling kurang 2 full days per week, thats 600 euro (they dont accept half day) costly plus apa mama nak buat kat rumah kalau Z seharian di sekolah.. Kena carik sekolah lain la pulak yang accept preschool only. Ada jer, mostly montessory la untuk kids before 3 yrs. x de la mahal pun.. cuma masalah nak biasakan Z dengan new environment jer la pulak..sayang la nak tinggalkan Giraffe sebab Z dah biasa kat situ.. hmmm..

Anyway, summer has kick in. Actully we got 1 week of sunshine early June, then cuaca kembali kepada asal - sejuk dan mandom. But this weekend cuaca kembali menyinar :D Hopefully it will stay this way for few more days.. I really miss the sunshine..

Actually, I really miss Malaysia.. Nak balikkkk Malaysia!!! Nak bercuti.. am so stress and not really in the mood of doing any work at the moment.. Monday blues jer kot.. sigh.. sedih tengok Z tercebik2 kat sekolah pagi tadi. Classmate dia sorang nama Pooja (Indian girl), suka nk buli Z. Mama dah perasan lama dah. tatau ler sebab dia nak get my attention ke apa, sebab tiap kali mama hantar Z, mesti dia nk datang manja2 dengan mama (Mama ada rupa mak dia kot). Tapi yang tak tahan tu, mesti nak tepuk2 kepala Z la, tujal2 hidung Z la. Tadi dia g curah pasir kat badan Z. Tension jer Z, terus cebik2. Budak2, tak kan la mama nak ambik hati sangat kan.. tapi kalau dah tiap2 hari.. grrr!

(Jalan2 sekitar rumah jer.. papa was oncall on Sunday)