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End of term meetings for year 7

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Frozenveggista · 08/07/2020 23:28

D.C. is in year 7 at a Harris academy. We had not had a single parents meeting before lockdown. We had a report which consisted of numbered headings and maybe a whole sentence per subject. They have just offered a meeting for year children to discuss the end of year with their form tutor. But no contact with parents, except a report that will be collected when the child alone goes to the meeting. This just seems very odd to me and impersonal. As a year 7 parent of a child who has barely completed half a year of proper schooling it would have been useful to speak to the teachers. Even virtually just the once.

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SJaneS48 · 11/07/2020 12:24

As above. If there is anything you want to ask/discuss I’d get in touch with them. We had a parents evening early in the year and report this term. We also get weekly Year 7 tailored emails. We have email addresses for all the teachers - if you do too and would like some direct feedback Id be tempted to drop them an ‘apologies but would you mind if you have five minutes..’ email

ThisTooShallPassHopefully · 09/07/2020 00:00

My youngest is in year 7, and we too will only get a written report with no meeting at all throughout year 7.

I can see it would be useful for parents but ultimately I think teachers are doing their best and they too have slogged their guts out over the pandemic-alongside coping with whatever is going on in their lives eg loss of relatives, home schooling their own children, their own health issues etc etc.

I think if I had any particular concerns it would be my responsibility to approach the teacher before a meeting. And equally if the teacher had concerns they should have approached me. In this scenario I would rely on the phrase 'no news is good news'. Ideally your school should have been in contact over lockdown anyway...and concerns could have been discussed then.

I wouldn't have felt the same if it was my eldest child, but after years of parents teacher meetings which I appreciate, but also recongise nothing new is said, I'd rather teachers focused on the teaching and their own well being than spending an evening in a roomful of people, defeating the purpose of the lockdown!

Is there something in particular you're worried about op? If there is, it might be worth contacting the school to discuss.