Aidan Andrew McEwan Wansbrough - Aidan's Gallery

Aidan is four years and eleven months old and has finally, after a long wait, had his new grommets inserted. He was a very brave boy and coped with the operation extremely well. There was a noticable difference almost immediately and Aidan is much happier, calmer and pain-free. We're all very glad!

Aidan is beginning to enjoy gardening, most specifically he is enjoying helping Grandpa with his vegetable planting - he helped to build a wigwam and plant some beans to grow up around it... He also enjoys helping Daddy plant out new plants and is very good at watering the pots.

Aidan has been being very helpful at home recently - firstly noticing mess, and secondly tidying up without being asked. It's good to see him become a bit more aware of the world around him and how other people may be feeling (for example, he tidied up because he realised that I was feeling very tired on a couple of occasions).

Aidan visited his Primary One classroom and met his Primary One teacher at the end of May. He seemed to enjoy seeing round the classroom - the Smart board instead of a blackboard (where a computer screen was projected onto a special lightboard, allowing both what was on the computer to be seen by everyone, and the board could also be written on with special pens by the children), the different games and puzzles set out around the room, and most especially the dry-wipe boards for practising writing.

Aidan hasn't shown a great deal of interest in writing until very recently, but these dry-wipe boards fascinated him and he spent a long time attempting (for the first time to our knowledge) to write the alphabet - there was a written copy of the alphabet for him to copy. He did really well, and got as far as "p" before time ran out and he had to relinquish the board to someone else.

We had a chat with his nursery teacher recently too, and she commented that when he is drawing pictures or creating models, he is actually focussing on drawing/modelling "real things" such as circuit diagrams and museums, rather than just drawing pictures of himself. She also said that mathematically he is well ahead of the other children - something we have long suspected might be the case. We do recognise though that while he is doing well in these areas, there are other areas where he needs to work - several of the other children who will be in his P1 class are streets ahead of him in terms of writing ability - I saw some very neatly written complete alphabets! But we're very proud of him nonetheless.

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