Alright let's start.
What I need you to do today, for this morning period only I want, year six I'm gunna give you some mathletics… So if you get pain at school it's important to remember all the strategies that you've been learning throughout the episodes within this series or through your private practitioner as well.
Those might include some breathing techniques any distraction techniques that you've learnt.
Might include counting numbers or looking around the room at different colours in the rooms.
It can be anything that works for you.
It doesn't have to be anything specific as long as it's something that takes your mind off the pain and helps you to stay in the classroom is the most important thing.
When I was in class and things were getting a bit tough with the pain levels I decided that I'd just try to focus more on the class and on the teacher to see what they were saying because I knew that if I started focusing on the pain I'd miss stuff, what the teacher was saying and it would be really hard to get back into the lesson.
So by focusing on the teacher I was able to leave the pain out of it as best I could.
Well what I do to get rid of my pain at school is I either focus on the work really hard because the work distracts me, especially if it's really hard.
Um… 'cause I have to figure it out and it distracts me from the pain because I'm figuring it out.
And I also um… sometimes I ask Mr Lewis if I can just read for a little and some- most of the time he says yes.
Is it writing- Is writing hurting today? A little.
A little bit? I'll get you the iPad, ok? Alright what I'll get you to do is you can push your slate board back Now you can do this on here… In Bayly's case, being an older student we have a little bit more communication between the teacher and that's slowly increasing as he gets older which is much much easier.
In todays case, he was having trouble with his wrist.
We've been doing a little bit of writing.
Possibly that stemmed from days before where it started to hurt so it's just a matter of taking that pencil out of his hand.
Getting him up, getting the blood circulating.
He handed out some sport cards for me, a few notes.
Then we got him back down onto his um… wedge seat which was much more comfortable for him.
Put the iPad in front of him and he was able to use it from there.
When I'm in class at school and my pain does get really bad I do do imagination walks sometimes and that distracts me for a bit.
And then hopefully the pain will of settled down.
If not, I just do it again or I try another distraction technique and it will eventually, you know become a little better and you'll be a lot more calmer.
If you need to take medications to school it's really important that you check with your school first about their policies.
Whether you're allowed to carry your medicines on you or if you need to go to the office and get your medicines from there.
Its important to keep your medications in a safe place if you are allowed to have them on you and make sure other kids don't get them.
It's also good to time your medications at breaks so you don't have to leave your class as often if if it was needed to take during class time.
The medical practitioner that prescribes your medication may need to provide a note for your schools so your school is aware of what medications that you're on.
Bit more relaxed? Yeah.
Good.