Description

Name: Mariano

Nationality: Italian

Mariano is a seven year old boy who lives with his parents and his younger brother. His native language is Italian. Lucas is well supported from his family about school. His brother attends Induction too. His father died but he has a step-father who really takes a good care of him. Lucas started the school as from October.

Medical Alerts/Conditions

No

Gross and Fine motor skills

His gross and fine motor skills are age-appropriate.

Academic:

Strengths

Academically, Mariano is highly motivated, caring and good in Maths.

Weakness

Due to his shyness he speaks little. His greatest challenge is learning how to speak English. Sometimes he gives up when he does not know how to express himself.

English:

When he arrived in Malta, he did not know how to utter a word in English. Now, he understands well when the teacher directs him to stand up, line up and so on. He copies well from the whiteboard on the lines displays on the copybook. He can do an exercise by himself when an explanation is done to him and makes an effort to finish his work. However, he finds it difficult to express his ideas. Mariano has excellent recognition of letters and he learnt blending letters in English(3 to 5 letter words ). Thus, he reads simple texts (5 sentence short paragraph). He is able to understand quite well in English since school started.

Mathematics:

Mariano shows interest in learning Maths. Regarding mental and computation can work simple examples. Also regarding problem solving he does make an effort and can understand if he graps the meaning. He is becoming more confident in his ability to complete word problems.

Maltese:

Mariano learnt how to introduce himself, the numbers, colours, classroom objects , the calendar and some other words in Maltese. He shows interest in learning Maltese.

P.E.:

Mariano is agile and he works good in group work.

Hobbies

His hobbies are swimming, playing with his friends or drawing on his mini whiteboard.

Behaviour & Character

Mariano is sociable but quite shy. He shows a positive attitude with classmates in group work and activities, and both takes and gives suggestions and directions effectively.

Online Teaching

Mariano is always active in online learning and he does his utmost with the constant help of his mother.

Attendance

Attend Regularly

General Comments

Overall, Mariano is a lovely and hard worker student. He hands homework in on time. He integrated well into the Maltese lifestyle and our school system.