to think that teachers should be a bit more bloody creative about Red Nose Day

[radiohelen]

I've been past four schools today and at all of them the kids are wearing their pyjamas to school... doing something funny for money! I think not.
Plus I was talking to a friend who said she'd had to go and buy new pyjamas for the occasion because her sons are all a bit small and while that's fine for at home it's not fine to send them to school in. Extra cost for her and then she had the nightmare of persuading her boy to wear pants under pyjamas... "you don't wear pants AND pyjamas mummy".
It sounds like a nightmare...
What about a gurnathon? A giant jelly contest? Making a funny black and white film. Writing an essay in alphabetti spaghetti. This is just off the top of my admittedly weird head....

The Lamingtons cost just under 40p each to make and we got about 20. We charged 50p at mums and tots, £1 at my other half's work. We raised £16. We are not a rich group.
I only mentioned the cakes because other posters asked what I did. It's not "conspicuous smuggery" at all. What did you do Goblin?

I can't tell you rh, as I said in a previous post.

Took a month to plan, two days for the Stunning Start that included RND and it will impact on our curriculum in human geography, sustainability and Rights and Responsibilities for the next year at least.
Didn't include a cake sake because we have those 6 times a year already and we wanted something new and fresh that would have a greater impact on the children.

"It's a pet hate of mine that people undercharge for their cakes."

Is it really. You actually have that as a pet hate.

Just realised that I've shot myself in the foot there, we were imaginative and creative.
Bugger.

Sounds brilliant. That's the point though isn't it. You've embraced it, brought it into the classroom, been creative, made it last for more than one day, had an impact on your kids, raised money and enjoyed the process.
Other teachers... not so much.
Toddlers like cake - we had an impact too. Plus at home while making them we learned about Australia and other children not having the things we have.

Whoops x-post....

BB, we didn't make a lot of money, a couple of hundred at the most.
The idea was to try and get the children to understand the rational behind RND, to look at the issues involved and to avoid the one-hit wonder that fizzles out. To the point where a lot of children and adults forget which jazzy funday is which and haven't got a clue why they are doing something.

OP, are you David Brent?

Thanks for the accolades, people {grin], pmsl at ambitious vocaulary, Belgianbun, thanks! Goblinchild, you are so funny - snorting at 'conspicuous smuggery', genius.

Also still laughing at you this morning, radiohelen - you know someone is frantically clutching at her metaphorical straws when they say 'If it annoys you or upsets you - go read another thread.' - it's AIBU, you pillock - you asked, and you got!

I shouldn't do stream of consciousness typing really.
The OP irritated me.
One of my particular and oft-repeated grumps is parents or people in general thinking that teachers should take responsibility for all sorts of add-ons to the curriculum, from lunch contents to charity events.
I feel that if someone thinks that an event should be creative then they ought to get off their arse and do something to get involved, instead of complaining that teachers should do it for them.
My DS is doing his GCSEs and I am very grateful that all his school did was have a non-uniform day and raised over £2,000 as a result.
It's very difficult to get effective learning out of someone if the day is a funday raising money, so we decided to go with the flow and make it more meaningful.
Next time, we may just have a cake sale.

Zach - media is full of David Brents. But yes making cakes and singing songs then complaining that others aren't creative enough is a bit rich.

Like "The children in the school Council decided what they wanted to do" - in fact they even choose the 4 charities to support each year.

Teachers should tell them their ideas are't creative enough and change things really shouldn;t they OP.

for the record, your first post whilst a bit misguided and up yourself "ooh I'm mad, me!" was IMVHO a reasonably question but your second post when so many posters disagreed with you (think there might be a reason for that?) was beyond rude and arrogant which is why the thread spiralled into a tit for tat.

Feenie I know I asked for it... I just got fed up with people who made no effort to disabuse me of my opinion moaning and sniping at me. Isn't that the point of AIBU - you have a chat about something, maybe change your mind, maybe not. Debating they used to call it. It's not supposed to descend into mindless name calling because the other person doesn't agree with you.
I'm happy to fight my corner with you any time

Maybe I have a bit more sympathy for teachers this morning? Maybe I'll be first in the queue to help organising when my lo starts school? I'd like to think so (you can remind me later). Do I still stand by my original post? Yes.

DC HT got into a bath and let people poor chocolate syrup and custard on her for an hour yesterday (50p a go). I don't even like the HT much, but full marks for getting into the CR spirit. As for the classroom staff, they are there to TEACH, not fart around being "funny".

bb - I don't think it was meant as competitive creativeness, more getting through to the op there was more going on yesterday than pyjama-wearing.

And Kewcumber two people told me to *&k off straight off the back of my OP. I was not rude at all. Arrogant maybe, but nowhere in my posts was I rude.

No they didn't, so you can stop that right now. And you were extremely rude - you questioned several people's career motives over their choice of clothes on Comic Relief, ffs, as has already been pointed out.

Radiohelen - I can't wait til your 2.5yo starts school. You'll either join the pta with great gusto, realise how school fund-raising needs to be a) simple b) inclusive in order to maximise income and support and be every looking back at this thread OR you'll make yourself very unpopular (although very entertaining for us). I wonder which it will be.

I love it when people have such highly-yanked judgeypants regarding things on which they have no actual hands-on experience and then find out what utter cocks they have made of themselves (witness all the pfb threads)

Although I should add that the posters on the pfb threads take it all in good grace and have the honesty to look back and laugh at themselves, which the op does not as yet.

I am finding this quite amusing now, especially after the 'pet hate' further up.

But, purely out of interest, why do you think teachers should 'embrace' red nose day in particular? As a school we do a great deal for charity, but that is not my responsibility and I don't understand why you think it should be.

Op im not a teacher how ever I am on my dcs pta there is only me and 2 staff members and i help out in school.

This week aswell has having 3 year groups on a residentila for 3 days so 2 memebrs of staff short aswell as having ofsted in for 2 days.

We have managed to hold a cake sale and school disco and then be very unimaginative and have a wear something red to school and pay £1 on friday and we were painting red noses on children for 50p at lunchtime. This unimaginitveness of us raised over £200 from a small village school. Which in my opinion is quite and achivement and guess what all the kids loved it and still learnt aswell.