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Hello, my daughter (year 12) is available on Wednesdays and Fridays for school pick ups (or from 4.30 Mon, Tues &Thurs) She is very sensible, lovely , caring, patient and fun, she can help with homework, make dinner/snacks, play games etc. She has experience looking after children with SEN and has lots of babysitting experience for local families (references available). Please do get in touch if she can help with your school pick up needs.

Hi, we need to replace one of the fixed windows in our front casement bay window. Ideally reuse double glazed window pane. Please message me on here

We had two young lads (probably 13/14) knock on the door yesterday to ask if we wanted the car cleaned. My knee jerk reaction to anyone asking for stuff at the door is 'No', but having a teen myself and knowing how difficult it is to earn pocket money I said yes. They were super polite, very thorough and did a great job (they brought all their own cleaning stuff, I just supplied the hose and water), £10 they were charging - I gave them £15 as they did such a great job and its important to encourage kids who are prepared to get off their backsides to earn a few quid. If they knock your door (I'm on Dovedale road), do give them a chance - and if either of their parents are on here, if the lads want a regular car washing gig, pop round in a couple of weeks. All the best

very good point. ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder (also referred to as ASC - Autistic Spectrum Condition) PDA - Pathological Demand Avoidance (a particular type of Autism) SPD - Sensory Processing Disorder (very very common for Autistics but can be diagnosed without an ASD diagnosis) ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (also common comorbid diagnosis with ASD but also stand alone) AD - Anxiety Disorder (very common comorbid diagnosis with all of the above!) Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All those initials will mean not much to many > people, and normalising such conditions is made > harder when there is this impenetrability.

But putting children with diverse SEN needs in mainstream schools is a good idea? It is not uncommon for ND children (and adults) to have diverse specialist needs, ASD/PDA/SPD/ADHD not an uncommon cocktail that requires specialist setting for most. alice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Could someone list the special schools that are in > southwark? Putting children with diverse sen needs > together is not a good idea.

Legalalien's list is pretty up to date, all of those schools provide for children with severe to moderate learning disabilities and aren't suitable settings for children with specialist needs who have learning difficulties (primarily because of mainstream setting) but don't have learning disabilities. Charter does have specialist provision for ASD but it is still mainstream. The LA themselves admit that there is a lack of provision in primary in particular for 'high functioning' ASD. (BTW I hate the term high functioning - it implies low need which couldn't be further from the truth) alice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks legal alien. I?m not sure we need more > schools but we certainly need more housing.

Wouldn't it be fabulous if the school could become a specialist school for children with specific additional needs, e.g ASD, PDA, SPD, ADHD etc - something very very lacking in Southwark (whose documented preference is to shove everyone, whether it meets need or not, into mainstream).

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Can someone help me understand; Ukraine had the 3rd largest number of nuclear weapons in the world. They signed the NPNWS and disarmed on the promise that UK, US, France would support them militarily. Are sanctions really sufficient? Now I'm not advocating nuclear war but I'd be questioning why we gave up our deterent only to be supported by sanctions....

Sounds like a decent gig for a college student

we installed a dropped ceiling in a victorian conversion and filled with sound proofing insulation - it helped a bit until the upstairs flat stripped out all their carpets to bare wooden floorboards. We eventually moved when it seriously started affected our mental health. Would it be possible to sound proof under your floorboards?

Dovedale Road is doing advent windows!

"Secondly I?m trying to be compassionate we are all human beings.In fact all of us - in my opinion are on the OCD & Autism spectrum, it?s just a matter of where. > Hope that clears that up" Oh f*ck off with your "we're all a little bit on the spectrum" Troll or not this is a seriously ignorant, belittling bullsh*t comment that completely undermines how difficult it is being actually autistic in a world full of a*seholes like this. Admin - please take this down.