Teacher treating children too young

Thank you 🤗. I would love a whole herd of them but thought it might be pushing my luck 😂.

No it is fine if not great for the teacher to be singing songs to/with Year 3. As a teacher who worked my way ‘up’ from Nursery to Year 6, I have always believed that the best teaching approach is from the bottom up, rather than the top down. So if they are still singing on the carpet or from their desks in Year 6 then consider your child lucky to have such teachers!

I would have expected a university lecturer to have a better grasp of basic spelling and grammar but here we are!

Also incorrect use of moreover.

Do you mark essays for university students?

I see that now @SorcererGaheris. Apologies to @Arseynal.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

I am VERY certain that @Arseynal was being 100% sarcastic in their post.

Just jumping on your post to admire your username. I would love an alpaca for Christmas too (or preferably a few, as they’re herd animals) but sadly it’s not going to happen!

Honestly! You've got too much time on your hands OP to be worrying about this.

Whilst your child might be 'too old', in your opinion, for such delivery in the classroom I can assure you there will be a large number of children that will only respond to that kind of teaching - sounds a good way of encouraging good behaviour and keeping things a bit fun!

Since when is singing and books too young for 8 year olds?! This is the weirdest post.

I was thinking that too, @ILoveVeg. Egregious grammatical error + claim to be University lecturer = Instant embarrassment and vanishing OP.

You’re being mental. The teacher is responsible for behaviour management strategies in their own class, and if they find that singing a song is what works for them then what does it matter to you? It’s not like your issue is that it doesn’t work, you would just prefer they did something else (despite the fact that you’re not a primary school teacher and therefore not trained in behavioural management for primary school aged children).

And a book advent is a lovely idea with no upper age limit.

This is just silly, meddling, over-involved micro managing on your part.

@BusyMum47 , as the survivor of many a crazed run-up to Christmas, I salute you!
It's the best job in the world when it goes well, but it certainly has its moments!
As for the nit-picking, try to remember that you're only hearing from the ones with complaints for now, where the vast majority are perfectly happy, so just get on with their lives. Then, at the end of the year, you get the lovely messages of appreciation, and (occasionally bonkers) presents.
We once had an extremely pro-school mum who was doing so much voluntarily that we encouraged her to sign up as a lunchtime helper, so that she was getting some remuneration, however modest, for her efforts. After a few weeks, she confided to me that it had been an eye-opener!

This post can't be serious!!!

If it is, then there is nothing wrong with how the teacher manages behaviour, tidying up, sitting down etc. if a song works it works.

Teachers get enough bad wrap as it is- leave them so do the job they are qualified for. Doubt you would appreciate a parents of one of your students making a complaint with regards to how you lecture. Ffs

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@BusyMum47 - you're doing a brilliant job! 👍

This!! ⬆️ FFS.

As an exhausted, stressed out Primary School Teacher, thanks for all the supportive messages on here. 💗

Playing GTA, vaping and drinking a can of Monster maybe.

Yep, outrageous that the teacher is using music in the classroom. Literally no children like music or singing or dancing. Playing them a clip from Call of Duty would be much more appropriate for a group seven year olds.

OP I really hope this is a fake post because if not you sound deranged. It’s not like the teacher is making them watch full episodes of Cocomelon.

Let your seven year old be a seven year old, instead of bragging about how “advanced” they are by not liking songs any more.

OP seems to have gone a bit quiet......

How has your meeting with the head gone OP? Or have you gone straight to your local university and initial teacher training hubs to get them to abandon this music nonsense before anyone qualifies?

Playing a song or singing a song that lasts a minute or so after something like lunch where there need to transition from running around to inside or from sitting at a desk to moving to the carpet is very inclusive.

It allows all those who need a fidget break the length of the song to prepare and get settled.

We all need movement breaks and it's a great way of setting the bounties and a time limit without making it negative.

But you'd rather judge the teacher 🤷‍♀️

Everyone has mentioned the support for the teacher and singing in class and rightly so. BUT what I am looking at is the poor child, would hate to know their life at home! Let the kids be kids

My thoughts precisely.

7 and 8! by that age they should be sitting on a hard floor! not on a CARPET! stop mollycoddling them.

You claim to be an academic (university lecturer) and you seem to know bugger-all about good pedagogy or student management.

You are also low on the scale of English usage too. e.g. "I would of thought" [sic] instead of the correct "I would have thought". In several of your posts in this thread you consistently misuse the intransitive form of verbs. Either, English is not your first language or you set yourself very low standards of articulate communication.

Better that you learn to accept that your child's teacher uses songs and musical cues to establish class routines and to focus the children at particular times of the school day.

If you feel that you must intervene, do approach the teacher and ask your questions from an "I need information" POV.

Ask the teacher, "I am a little surprised at some of your classroom methods that I hear about from my child. Is your singing and use of music in line with the needs of some of the student cohort?"

Maybe, also, try, "I have found (at home) that my child is more of a visual/aural/kinaesthetic learner. My spouse and I find direct requests work well with her/him nearly all the time."

And, perhaps, "Do you have any specific advice that we need to know to assist our child glean the most from the curriculum this year. We'd be more than happy to reinforce your guidance."