My DD has done 2 years at private prep school. She was never a huge fan of it. In the first year she didn’t want to go in but I brushed it off as it’s a hard transition for most kids. In the second year of nursery it got better, and she actually asked to go a few times but recently cried and didn’t want to go in again.
Their practices seem a bit dubious to me. In nursery one they put ‘naughty’ kids on a chair. They have to sit in front of the whole class with a sign that says something along the lines of them having been naughty. In the first few weeks of attending she started saying ‘do this or that ...I said’ in a really harsh tone of voice. There was also an expectation of them standing quietly in assembly for something like 15-20 mins.
In the second year of nursery if they’ve done something wrong they take 10 mins of their outdoor playtime. Recently however she was playing with her toys and all of sudden said ‘bunny is not playing well. Go sit by the door’. She went and put him by the door, when I questioned it, I was told it’s ‘good that she is using her imagination’.
On one occasion she told me and my husband to be quiet or we’l be out, and when one of us said something she pointed to the door saying ‘out!’. Just to add we don’t stand for his kind of behaviour but she obviously picked it up from her preschool as we don’t go to any clubs etc. We also constantly hear ‘be quiet’.
She near enough knew her alphabet when she started her second year of nursery, then after half a year I asked how she is doing and was told she still doesn’t know all of it! I was shocked, not least because I wasn’t told anything and we finished learning it with her within a month. Now I notice she started writing a few letters and she reads 3 letter words but again I did practice reading with her.
Saying that they get decent results although they do give lots of homework, and the teacher is always nice to her in front of me. Kids seem to be happy there 🙄. She got used to the children in her class, and I wonder if their reception class onwards would be better but at the same time I’m thinking if it’s worth us paying for that kind of school.
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Would you keep your child at this type of private primary school?
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Mums21 · 22/05/2019 09:08
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