Personal Stories
- Parents
We feared homework
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Hello my name is Liz and my son, Alfie has dyslexia. Alfie and I were always best buddies. We did all the things mums and children do, nothing special but everything very precious at the same time. He couldn’t wait to start school, and I was excited for him too. He seemed to settle into school life well but at the first parents’ evening his reception class teacher mentioned that he was struggling with letter blends and wasn’t very organised. At the time I put it down to it being early days, I knew he was a clever bright boy. I had no idea that these were the first clues that he was dyslexic.
Percy Jackson author, Rick Riordan, speaks about his son Haley's learning challenges.
Thursday, 8 April 2010
When my son, Haley, was nine years old, he was having a terrible time in school. He would cry when the teacher asked him to read. He would even crawl under the table and hide to avoid doing his homework.
First News Editor Nicky Cox MBE
Friday, 22 January 2010
A message from First News editor Nicky Cox MBE about why she think the My Way! campaign is so important