January to April 2014.

Apologies again, so busy im not very regular at the blogging lark.

Well Jord has kept up with his GCSE Maths and Psychology and is now and has been doing revision and he sits the Psychology exam June 3rd and 10th.

He is also into Minecraft and enjoys creating his own texture packs on Minecraft.

He has his own You Tube account and records and processes game play and creates grafix for his Mr WelshGeek page.

He has cooked a number of meals for the family and also with his cousin at my parents house.

We had the usual appointments to such as the Opticians, Camhs, Audiology, Podiatry, ENT etc.

Golf is still massive in Jord's life so loads of golfing been played.

We started a memory jar at the start of the year and every time there is something positive we put a little note of it in there and come New Years Eve we will pull them all out and read and look back on the year.

Jord still plays the Sims 3 and designs loads of houses on there.

Jord still volunteers with Valleys Golf at their Inclusive coaching and also their mainstream New to Golf classes. He even planned the Inclusive lessons for a while. He also helped at the Valleys Golf Presentation Afternoon.

He has been on two courses, one was a Tri Golf Activator course and also a Snag Golf course.

He was interviewed last year by Golf Development Wales about Disabled Golf and ISPSHanda shared the video.

He played at Celtic Manor on The Montgomerie course which he loved.

He had a coaching lesson with his coach Craig Thomas.

We had a meeting with The Vale Resort about holding a charity golf day there in 2015, Jay's Autism Awareness Charity Golf Day will be on September 4th 2015.

We also went to the Autism Heroes Launch at The Sennedd and Jord was announced as a finalist in the Outstanding Personal Achievement Award in Sport.

We also found out that Jord is one of three finalists for the Rhondda Cynon Taff Young Sports Person of the year award for 2014.

Jord crossed the bridge to take part in the England Disabled Golf Associations Race to Burhill qualifier at Thornbury Golf Club, he won on the day so qualified for the Burhill Final and also got a handicap drop.

Golf Union of Wales historically used the R & A adjusted rules for disabled golfers for the first time this year for the qualifiers for the Principality Junior Wales Open so Jord was able to take part.

Jord was accepted onto the Future Champions mentoring programme for elite junior sports people which runs thru 2014.

He took part in the Welsh Disabled Golf Associations Race to Wales tour at Wernddu were he placed 2nd.

He has changed his home club to Rhondda Golf Club now and he won the Junior Easter Bowl and also came 3rd in the Merv Minton medal and got a handicap drop.

We also helped at the Autism Expo on the Holly's Ball/Jay's Autism Awareness Charity golf day stand.

Jord stayed over my parents and went with my dad on work to London, delivering and picking up musicians gear and then visited my sister and nephew in Surrey. Jord loved London and all the sights and also how cosmopolitan it was.

Jord was interviewed by the Celtic Manor PR guy about the Principality Junior Wales Open qualifiers and was in the press release which has been used in the South Wales Echo.

Jord collects ball markers and a very kind disabled golfer from Scotland gave him his collection of hundreds of ball markers.

Jord was incredibly lucky to be invited by his coach to be on an ISPSHanda team for the ISPSHanda Sponsors day at Celtic Manor at the 2010 course. He took part in the ISPSHanda golf clinic and then played a round on the 2010 course and then had a meal in the evening. A huge privilege which he really appreciated.

A few days after there was an article about the ISPSHanda golf clinic including an interview he did on the European Tour website.

We have a busy late Spring and Summer ahead starting with Jords first GCSE's at age 14.

Autumn thru to end of December 2013.

Bad blogger alert...badly neglected this blog but in my defence do have an awesome son who is thriving big-time so blog neglect for a good reason :)

Jordan has chosen to study for two GCSE Exams this year (he is only 14). He is studying for WJEC GCSE Linear Maths and AQA GCSE Psychology. He has a tutor class for each subject once a week at Bridgend Home Educators group and then the rest of the work is done at home. They also had a day long Psychology workshop to make sure the children were up to speed. He also did a Mock Math GCSE and got over 80% right, not bad considering he hasn't even done a third of the course work.

Jordan had the usual Audiology, ENT and CAMHS appointments in the mix.

He went to a birthday party at a friends house.

Jord did a bit of cooking including cooking with his cousin at his grandads and also cooking tea for him and his dad and other meals for the family.

He also did a lot of Minecraft and also Sims 3.

We went for a family meal in December with over 20 members of the family there.

The biggest things have been golf....as well as his usual playing and practice Jord continued on the Disabled Golf Associations Race to Wales Tour and played in Forest Hills were he came third. 

He was also chosen to play for Wales against England. 

The big achievement was when he won the Race to Wales 2013, he really struggled though the year with his Autism, Tourettes and Hypermobility affecting him on the course but he battled through them and managed to win the Race to Wales.

He did a Junior Leader Course and since then has been Volunteering with Valleys Golf at their Inclusive Coaching and Mainstream Coaching.

He took part in Social Golf at The Vale club and got presented again with his Race to Wales cup at the Presentation Night.

He was filmed, photographed and interviewed for Golf Development Wales about Inclusive Coaching, still waiting on it being put on You Tube.

It was Presentation Night in Pontypridd Golf Club and he won 'Outstanding Achievement'.

He started a 4 year plan with Valleys Golf under the Pro's mentoring to get him to were he needs to be at age 18 to do his PGA training.

He saw his coach in England for a coaching session.

He also was ill for about two weeks of December.

Obviously we had Christmas and he had new golf clubs along with other goodies.

2014 looks to be very exciting as he is looking forward to another golf season and also lots more courses and involvement with Valleys Golf and sitting his exams.

Summer Break 2013.

Boy o boy have we been busy, that and my internet playing up has meant the poor blog has been neglected.

Well in the summer break Jordan played at Raglan Park for the DGA Race to Wales he took part in, he didn't have a great day but did get closest to the pin.

Jord won tickets from Nikon golf on twitter so we went up to Scotland and stayed overnight and went to The Open, this was brilliant for him as he got insanely close to his hero Poulter, watched him on the range and putting green and then followed him round.

Jord also got chosen to play for the Pontypridd Junior First team, he partnered Alice.

This Summer Jord had awesome opportunities afforded him by ISPSHanda and The Golf Academy....the first was in my last blog entry where he took part in a Sponsor Day event at Celtic Manor. This summer he was invited to play in the Ladies European Tour Masters Pro Am at The Buckinghamshire, what an amazing opportunity, he warmed up on the putting and chipping greens and on the range alongside the Pro's. He played with two Pro's.....Marianne Skarpnord and Whitney Hillier. After the round food was laid on and he tried blind putting and also met another Pro who is Welsh Lydia Hall.

He also played in the Junior Open at Royal Porthcawl, it was a chance to play an expensive course at a low price, it was an incredibly tough round and he didn't think much of the course lol.

Another Junior Open was Southerndown, he loved this one and the course and played really well and was unlucky to miss out on 1st and 2nd place which were won by kids playing well under their handicaps.

He played in the Wales Disabled Open, the weather was absoloutly horrendous and the round was ridiculously long but he tried his best and he was really pleased and surprised to place 3rd.

Another Junior Open was Whitchurch, he struggled a lot and had a meltdown on the course but did his best and finished the round.

Then he had an amazing opportunity off ISPSHanda and The Golf Academy as a birthday present he was invited to play in The Wales Open at The Celtic Manor. He had gifts of a t shirt and new Footjoy shoes, warmed up alongside the Pros who he usually watches each week on telly, had a brief lesson with ISPSHanda coach Craig Thomas from The Golf Academy then played a round with the Pro JB Kruger. He was very pleased to get a few course pars so holes played under his handicap including on hole 17 which all the Pro's struggled with in the tournament. There was food after where he also met Phillip Price and the 2014 Ryder Cup Captain Paul McGinley.

That weekend on the Friday and Sunday we went to watch the actual Wales Open tournament, on the Friday he followed JB Kruger and got high fives and balls etc off him and his caddy. He also had a lesson with Craig Thomas. On the Sunday he had another lesson to recap what he learnt and we watched the golf for a few hours before heading home to watch the final on telly.

Also in the Summer he decided to study for 2 GCSE's, he chose Maths and Psychology. He is doing well at both but prefers the maths.

This is a taster of his summer, he played other golf and we visited family etc too. Things are a bit more settled now as he does child led unschooling and he asked me for more routine and structure so as per his request we now have a timetable and more structure but more about that on my next blog update.

What we have been up to thru Spring and into Summer.

Wow its so long since ive updated this but you know how it is home-ed/unschooling families sit around doing nothing and have so much time to themselves....not lol.

Since my last update we have done so much. Jord continued sitting on on the GCSE maths classes at BHE until they stopped to sit the exams. He has done a lot on Conquer Maths as he wanted to catch up to be able to do GCSE Maths this year. He done bits of research on shops throughout the years, how rain forms, learnt all about letter writing and how to set up letters, learnt about Coats of Arms, done lots of Minecraft. He also did cake decorating at BHE and created a golf cake. He has also done a lot of golf. He started the Race to Wales Tour with the Disabled Golf association and has played at a number of courses including Peterstone Lakes, Glamorganshire and other courses. He also joined in with some Special Olympics Golf training. He had the amazing opportunity of playing in the ISPSHanda Sponsors Day at Celtic Manor on the 2010 course....it was an amazing day and experience for him. We also went to Golf Live where he got to meet Colin Montgomerie and Simon Holmes and also took part in a trick show and also won a golf club. Since the beginning of June his tourettes has been incredibly bad to the point he has been in pain and exhausted most days due to it but he has plodded on thru it. Its summer now and he has had some incredible experiences so far and more to come but il update with them at the end of August :)