I have a 7 year old DS who is in Y3. He is a very shy, sensitive boy and I have had issues the past couple of years with bullying and DS really not wanting to go to school.
So far this year he had seemed happier and more confident and I was really pleased. However, yday he came home from school upset. They needed to be in pairs for a project so the teacher went around asking 14 children who they wanted to pair with until my DS was the only one left (29 children) and so worked on his own. He was really upset and asked me why he was always the one left on his own.
This seems to me (as a secondary school teacher) to be a terrible way to pair childten up. Whoever was the one left at the end was going to feel rejected and upset, even children more confident than DS, and I worry about the effect of things like this on his still relatively low confidence in school.
I spoke to the teacher this morning and she couldn't see an issue with how she had paired the children up. She said she had asked DS if he wanted to join a pair at the end and he said no. I think that if none of his friends had chose him, he wouldn't feel confident then choosing them when they were all sitting in their pairs looking at him.
I've been sent a message asking me to meet up with both his teachers after school Monday to talk about DS. I don't know if this about yday or just DS generally. Is this a standard way to pair up children in primary school and it's just tough luck on anyone not picked? Should I raise the issue again in the meeting if they don't?
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sola82 · 03/10/2018 12:52
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