This document outlines Ben's Pupil Passport which provides important information about him to help teachers support him. It notes that Ben struggles with math and answering questions in front of the class. He enjoys reading, drawing characters from books, playing drums, and film/cinema. The passport recommends teachers communicate with Ben one-on-one, avoid direct questions, and provide multiple choice answers. It also suggests allowing Ben time for drawing and reading as incentives and using a whiteboard in math to help him remember numbers. The passport notes that stress can cause Ben to remove himself from lessons or shut down, so allowing him time away to read helps calm him down.

1. Ben’s Pupil Passport
By Kayleigh Mannion, Bronwyn Lynn, Marie-Claire Lottin, Nicole
Levesley, Clare McMartin and Shauna Wise

3. Important information about me
• I struggle with maths and
struggle to carry out
mathematical operations. I
sometimes need time outs to
calm my anxiety.
• I do not like answering
questions in front of the whole
class.
• I can get very shy in social
situations.

4. Things that I am interested in and people who
are important to me
• I am interested in reading
and always have my head
in a book.
• I like drawing characters
from the books I read in
my sketch book.
• I have 4 siblings and my
parents who are important
to me.
• I am learning to play the
drums and am interested
in films and cinema.

5. Things I am good at
• I am good at:
• Sketching,
• Playing the drums,
• Making animations
using plasticine
models,
• Reading.

6. Things I find difficult
• Engaging in certain
lessons.
• Answering questions in
front of the whole class.
• Mathematical concepts.
• Handling my anxiety and
frustration effectively.

7. How I communicate
• I am a quiet, shy boy so
therefore I am not keen on
verbal communication
especially when I am in front
of the whole class.
• One of the ways which I
communicate is through art.
This could be in the form of
drawing characters from a
book or designing my own.
• I can also communicate
through craft and design
which I enjoys.

8. How I need you to communicate with me to
help me understand
• When communicating with me
teachers should speak to me
on a one to one level so that I
feels comfortable to respond
to them.
• Furthermore, as I try to avoid
answering questions it may be
better for my teachers to avoid
asking me direct questions
that I may struggle to respond
to.
• Instead teachers could give me
a choice of answers to choose
from.

9. Things that help me to work well
• Allowing me allotted time
throughout the day to
draw, sketch and read my
book will be an incentive to
work well during lessons as
I enjoy doing these things.
• During math’s, providing
me with a small
whiteboard and pen will
help me to remember
numbers and calculations
as I usually forget them.

10. Things that make it difficult for me to work
well
• I don’t enjoy everyone
looking at me, particularly
when I’m asked a question in
front of the rest of my class.
Because of this, it makes me
not want to look at the
teacher during the lesson.
• During math’s lessons, I find
it difficult to remember
numbers in my head. Because
I cannot remember the
numbers, this makes me
angry.

11. When I’m stressed I…
• I feel very overwhelmed and
want to remove myself from
the lesson.
• I'll shut my eyes and shake
my head if you ask me a
question in front of the class,
especially during maths as I
struggle because I can't hold
the numbers in my head.

12. If I’m stressed it helps if I can…
• If I'm stressed it helps if I
can leave the classroom
for a little while to go and
read a book and calm
down.
• I get very upset during
maths because I don't
understand place value
and because of this I get
frustrated and don't want
to talk to anyone.

13. How you can help me
• You can help me by talking to
me about the cinema when I
start to get stressed as this
calms me down. I also like to
draw the book characters I'm
reading about so it might
help to keep me calm during
lessons if I can draw while
you're teaching. Also please
don't pick on me for an
answer because I don't like
answering questions in front
of the class.