Jesy's Little Girls (Little Mix Adoption Story)

Chapter 32 - New Teachers: Part One

Jesy's POV

It is nearing the end of the seven week school break and the girls are getting ready to start back again, Olivia in Year 3 and Eloise in Year 1. I was personally really nervous about the girls starting again, I couldn't cope if it was as difficult as getting Ellie in after the accident and they would have brand new teachers. Their previous teachers had been so good with them, helping them get through the year and understanding the unusualness of our situation, letting me know if anything happened, they had grown to know and get used to the way the girls acted and how they behaved when they were having a bad day. The new teachers wouldn't know any of this, I knew that would probably have heard about the girls and the car accident but I was still worried, not wanting to have to 'start again' because the teachers didn't have the same knowledge of my girls as their previous ones did. I obviously knew that having a new teacher every year was something that had to happen, and was exciting as well as nervous for the children but because it was the first time the girls had made the swap with me and since everything had happened, I needed a way to get the information and my worries to the teacher without her thinking I was an overprotective parent! 

The girls and I had attended a 'meet the teacher' evening before school finished, Olivia was absolutely fine, her class was staying the same, her friends were there and she was excited to be finally moving to the 'upper phase' block of classrooms. Eloise was a different story, she was nervous, clingy and uninterested. I knew that the teacher probably understood some about Eloise but she didn't know the full story. 

Me: "I just don't know what to do?" I told Leigh, Perrie and Jade one day. 

Perrie: "I don't know what to to suggest, Jess. I mean, the teacher will learn about the girls, just like the others did," 

Me: "I know, but I don't want to have to start over. I don't want the girls to be worrying and their teacher to not know," 

Jade: "Could you like ask to meet with the teacher?" 

Me: "Well, yeah, but they don't have a lot of time and neither do I, not to explain everything!" 

Leigh: "Jess, why don't you write a letter?! You can write it all down, explain it all, they can keep it and refer back if they need too," 

Me: "Leigh, you're a genius! I'll put it all in a letter!" 

So I did I wrote two letters that I then sent into the school for the two teachers, outlining and explaining everything that I needed them to know about the girls 'triggers' and behaviour, worries and anxieties. 

Dear Mrs. Jensen, 

While I know that you are incredibly busy in the weeks leading up to the new school year, I needed you to know a few things. My little girl, Eloise will be in your class in September. You may know some of this information already, but I wanted to make sure. Eloise, her elder sister Olivia and our parents were in a car accident in February of this year, I wasn't there but I do know it was horrific. I'll spare you the details, but in short our parents were killed and Eloise was injured. Her and Olivia were sent to the hospital and then to a foster home were they were without answers, comfort and a familiar face for just under two days until I could be contacted. 

When I did get to them they were traumatised. They didn't sleep or eat for weeks and when I did eventually get Eloise back in school (after three weeks of coming in with her for a few hours a day) she was silent. She didn't talk for over two months and is still incredibly quiet. I need you to know that if she doesn't answer her name in the register and refuses to answer if you call on her, it is not her being rude and she really does probably know the answer but she won't say so. She will eventually do it, she will gain the courage to speak up and answer, even if it is so quiet you can barely hear her.