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to ask what year group is worst

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dancingdemon · 09/07/2019 20:48

Well not exactly worst but hardest to be a teacher or head of year of. DD2 is in Y9 and her HOY as mentioned to me that Y9 is a tough one especially with the two extremes of the popular, disruptive groups (which DD is sadly in but that’s another thread!) and the quieter, more lonely/easy to fall under the radar pupils (which DD3 is but in a younger year)

Just curious of the pros and cons of each year group generally really

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KindergartenKop · 09/07/2019 21:09

Puberty is getting a bit earlier....so end of y8 and most of y9.

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dancingdemon · 09/07/2019 21:07

@MsAwesomeDragon I hadn’t considered that really, I suppose it does also depend on the cohort of students in each year etc

How does the higher boys:girls ratio affect school life?

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MsAwesomeDragon · 09/07/2019 21:04

Year 9 is normally the tough year. Both sexes have hormones raging, there's not really any focus to the year, and once they've chosen their options they stop working in any subject they've not chosen.

At my school though, this year's year 7 are a tough year group. And they will be all the way to year 11 I assume. There's a much bigger group of disruptive/challenging pupils. There seems to be a lot more kids with difficult home lives in that year group than we normally have as well, so the hoy is constantly dealing with issues.

Our current year 10 is a difficult year as well, because the split of boys and girls is unbalanced. We've got about 3/4 of the year are boys, for no reason other than a disproportionate number of boys being born in our catchment that year, and while it shouldn't make a difference, the truth is it does.

GetUpAgain · 09/07/2019 21:03

@dancingdemon my DS is in the same year, does it show

UniversallyUnchallenged · 09/07/2019 21:01

Year 9 - absolutely

Though they grow into greatness later ... metamorphosis is slow and at times painful 😣

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dancingdemon · 09/07/2019 20:59

@HappySonHappyMum Yes, that happened here too. We found that DD went from one friendship group to the polar opposite group at the end of year 7 and they were very cliquey throughout the end of year 7, year 8 and most of year 9 up to around Easter when massive falling outs happened and they do all hang out together in school and our of school still but it’s not so much a clique anymore which is much healthier.

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gettingfedupagain · 09/07/2019 20:58

Yr 9

Ellisandra · 09/07/2019 20:58

Just going on me personally... Y9 (or 3rd year, in old money) was definitely the one where I was stroppiest!

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dancingdemon · 09/07/2019 20:58

@Greenandcabbagelooking @helenajustina yes I’ve heard that it’s the same thing for year 9 in a lot of schools that’s encouraging to hear that it’s not just DD!

@getupagain That would have been amazing almost a year ago when DD started year 9!

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HappySonHappyMum · 09/07/2019 20:56

Funny you should say that my DD is just coming to the end of Year 9 and a lot of her friendship groups have disintegrated this year. It's been challenging. My DD has got involved with a lot of lunchtime activities this year to avoid the drama that's been going on at lunchtimes!

GetUpAgain · 09/07/2019 20:55

I read this and immediately thought YEAR NINE

Am only a parent not a teacher but I think it's such an inbetween year it feels a bit aimless. DC has started GCSE studies but the exams are so far off they are not really focused.

Imo they should all go on an really long character building expedition for at least a term of Y9. Preferably 2 terms.

HelenaJustina · 09/07/2019 20:55

Year 9 is often pretty foul. They are not young and eager to please any more, hormones are raging. And they haven’t got important exams looming...

Greenandcabbagelooking · 09/07/2019 20:52

In my current school, Yr 8 are the most challenging. Some big personalities, a pile of social issues, and buckets of hormones make for a hard time for the students, and a hard time for the staff.

In most schools, it's Yr 9 that have issues. They starter to get nice again by the middle of Yr 10.

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