Hi all,
This is my first post. My DD will be 4 in August and is due to start reception in September. I went to visit my local state school this morning. It recently moved up from "satisfactory" to "good" so I went there feeling quite optimistic. In fact, I left not really knowing what to make of it. I was really shocked by the level of noise in the reception classes. There were 30 children there with two adults who were working with very small groups. The rest of the children were working by themselves in small groups, chatting to each other, hence the absolute din in there. Now I am going to sound very old but, "in my time", we would all sit at tables facing the blackboard and had to be quiet. I remember it quite clearly.
I left the school with a feeling that the reception classes lacked structure and really wondering how children are meant to learn anything in such a noisy environment?
are our children's classes noisy to the point that you would find it difficult to follow a conversation with someone standing relatively close to you? How do our children cope with that?
Thank you in advance.
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Bitlost · 25/03/2013 22:29
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