Ben's Blog

Unfortunately, Ben didn’t get in to the Activate team as a lad who left last Summer wanted to rejoin, so they gave the place to him. Not really impressed with that but we will look around at other teams now.

Ben had parents evening before the Easter holidays started and we saw his Maths and English teacher, Mr Stein. He said he was very happy with Ben and that he is doing well and in his last Maths test he got 39 / 50 which is apparently very good as they hadn’t even learnt some of the questions in it. This is opposite to what Ben says though so at least we know direct from the teacher! He said that Ben is still making little mistakes as he is rushing his work and not checking through properly, but he is happy with his progress this year. The one thing he said that he needs to do is read more, which is what we are trying to get Ben to do. It is a struggle though as Ben used to love reading but is finding the books from the library quite tedious and so tends to give up too early into the book. 

On Wednesday, Ben had a dentist check up. It went very well and the dentist was happy with his teeth but did say he will need a brace and 4 teeth out due to the lack of space in his mouth. However, they now wait until they are about 12 years old to do this as usually by then, all the adult teeth are through so they can see the exact space in the mouth. Should be interesting over the next couple of years then!

This week, Ben reached enough merits for another Headteachers Merit Certificate. I have lost count how many this is now but must be his 4th or 5th! It shows how well he is doing so long may it continue! We went to see him get it on Wednesday during assembly.

On a Monday evening, Ben is now training with the Activate Under 10’s team at GOALS. We spotted them advertising for new players of their new 9 a side team that starts playing in September so Kelly contacted them and Ben was invited along.

He did very well during the training as it was PROPER training, ie. ball skills, fitness skills and tactics, and didn’t look any worse than most of them! He was very nervous though, and it was a very cold evening so he was wrapped up as much as he could. The coach kept an eye on him throughout and seemed quite pleased with Ben but did comment about his nervousness at the end. He said that they have enough players for now but Ben can still come along as he actually may be good enough to join now. So Ben will be going along for the next few weeks and we will see how it goes.