I've found it a little hard to adjust to Charles being away from home but he has now returned home on the 16th December from Portsmouth University for Christmas. I am one happy mom. On the 19th of December he returned back to John Willmott School to receive three achievement awards. In 2018 I will be continuing my blog and will also be involved in a autism coffee morning at John Willmott School to help other parents. Merry Christmas to you all. :) A view from the back of his flat in Portsmouth, wow :)
Chapter nine Becoming a Prefect 25 th July 2014 One evening after school Charles rang me all excited and told me he had just been accepted to be a prefect at school. I didn’t even know he had applied for the position! It involved helping out after school, showing parents round for new intakes and helping with charity events at the school. I was delighted. He then went on to talk about the next term in September when the school was going to be taking students out of school for PE to our local leisure centre to play games of their choice. Once the lesson had finished pupils would be making their own way home. That bit worried me a little as he wasn’t used to the roads yet and as the journey was over a mile away I would have to make sure he would be safe. I didn’t comment about it at that point as he was excited. I just said, ‘That’s fantastic, son, come to the car and we can talk all about your news.’ He swung open the car door, threw his bag on the back seat and continued, ‘