My dd age 9 took part in a Last Choir Standing event last night. The school has been rehearsing for the whole term, and the event was a competition between all the year groups in KS2. Each group sang four songs. The school had taken the whole of KS2 to the hotel where the event was held for the entire day....all in all it was billed to the children as quite a big event for them.
Fast forward to the judging and announcing of the results. The layout was all a bit American Idol, and each group got feedback from it's nominated judge,and then places were announced whilst all the children were on stage. My dd's year got no direct feedback or tips specific to them from their judge, he insisted on commenting on all the year groups as a whole. Then he announced the placement....in third, blah with so many points, only one point ahead in second... and a long way ahead in first place... Y6. My dd's year went from thinking that they might be the winners, to realising that they had come in last, and at no point got their points score, or the round of applause that the others got as the results were called. They handled it quite well, but a good number of them were crying on stage, they are only 8 / 9.
It just felt like a very shoddy ending to what had been a lovely event. The Principal was the Y4 judge, and I'm planning to email a complaint about the reporting of the results....but just want to check I'm not being pfb about it all. I don't especially care where her group came, just wish they had kept the 'did we win' sense of anticipation to between those placed second and first, not last and first.
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hermitcrab · 02/06/2011 04:53
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