My DS came home from School with a sponsorship form today. It's for a sponsored silence.
He is yr 5 (10yrs), and is in a class with year 6's also.
They are to be silent ALL DAY, apart from break and lunch to raise money for book sets for the class. A total of 5 hours.
I think this is a complete waste of time.
If it had been a sponsored run, bounce, read, times table, skip, dance, swim etc.... then great! Any of these things would have enhanced learning/fitness, and would have been fun for the children.......but a sponsored silence?
My DS says it will be so boring, and I can't disagree.
I think his Teacher has very little in the way of imagination tbh or maybe she wants a quiet day
I don't think a class of children of this age should be missing time from their learning for something like this. I mean, they won't be able to do group work that day, or ask the Teacher questions. It's not right IMO.
Any other sponsored event would take no more than an hour from the School day.
I also feel a bit miffed that the School have reserves in the PTA account of over 12 grand, and the kids are being asked to be quiet all day, and to get their parents to fork out the money for new books.
I must add that we always support our DCs Schools very generously, but I think this is a piss take.
AIBU?