Question for infant school teachers?

[shades1]

have posted on here before, we have parents evening tomorrow just for us, DS1 came home last night with a certificate for having a good day and trying really hard at literacy, over dinner he told me that he, 3 boys from his class and a girl from another class went to the juniors class whilst they were in gym, to do puzzle books and that they're not allowed to talk in there, he didn't seem upset by it, more of a "guess what mum I went to the juniors class today" - I couldn't work out if it was a punishment for him being disruptive or if this is a technique to calm the behaviour down.

One of the boys who went is the one that I worry is distracting him and encouraging his disruptive behaviour.

[BudaBabe]

What year is your DS in?

[shades1]

year 1, he's 5

[kuoni]

Not a primary school teacher, secondary. However, in my DD?s small rural primary school they often mix and match classes depending on activities. For example, when they made biscuits yesterday there was a need for higher adult ratio so a group fot hem went to do art with the next class up and another did PE with the "big children". Perhaps the gym lesson was using particular equipment and they thought it necessary to reduc class size for health and safety? Maybe they are just trying out different child combinations and ideas.
The reasons behind our school doing it is that they learn to socialize and mix with children of different ages, experience different types of schooling and learn to behave in different scenarios etc etc
If you are concerned that it was a disciplinary action, why not just ask the class teacher when you pick him up today?

[kuoni]

Sorry for bad spelling - rushing!
Just think that it might not be a discipline thing and even if it was, good to see that it is balanced with a positive event in the day. So often children can have a brilliant morning and terrible afternoon or vice versa so nice to get the positive feedback. TBH I would have thought the teacher would have mentioned it to you if he had been withdrawn due to bad behaviour - seeing as they are good about positive feedback

[shades1]

the other boys and the little girl were from year 1 too, he went to afterschool yesterday, is there again tonight but I will ask his teacher on Wednesday

[BudaBabe]

Hmm - can't figure it out - you need to ask. Reading it again it seems that you DS was in junior's class while juniors were not there? Assuming they were supervised maybe it was a way og getting them some "quite time" to do puzzles that they needed to concentrate on??

[BudaBabe]

quiET time!!

[shades1]

turned out it was so they could go somewhere quiet to listen to sounds for their reading, nothing dramatic after all