to explain to the teacher that he has misunderstood

[SleeplessonMN]

DS has told his teacher we are going away to "vaguely interesting place" over half term

DS's teacher has now told DS that apparently "Henry", the class bear, has always wanted to go to "vaguely interesting place" and thus has "suggested" that DS can look after him over half term.

Would I BU to advise the teacher that he must have misunderstood Henry and that actually Henry would rather like to have a nice quiet half term resting in an empty school?

(DS is Year 5 and I hadn't even realised he still had a class bear, isn't there some law restricting them to infant school classes? )

Most vaguely interesting places require complex visas and inoculations, don't they? You can't inoculate a stuffed animal - any fool knows that. Henry will have to holiday in the school office.

Why can't you just say 'no thankyou, we won't be taking the bear with us.'?

You don't decline the class bear - have you gone mad Scribbler??

Quite possibly. I gave up on the class dog because parents got too competitive. Waste of bloody time trying to teach children about narrative writing when a 7 year old comes in with a page of writing including the words 'exquisite', 'resplendent' and 'serendipity'.

I take my hat off to anyone who is brave enough to stand up to the teacher and their own excited DC and say no to the class bear - you are a better woman than I am

we once had the class bear for half term, He was large and we went away with limited baggage.

So we did a quick story line of the bear house sitting for us.
photo of him with frying pan and spatula
photo of him in bath (head over the edge)
photo of him tucked up in bed
photo of him reading a book
photo of him with cat's bowl - looking after the cat

and that was it.

I wondered why we had never had the class stuffed toy (I think it was a dog) when DD was in reception, so I asked her, and she said, "Oh, they wanted it to give it to me one week but I said no". Not sure why she didn't want it, but I'm not complaining!

We have the Class Bear this weekend, cute little fella. He came to a piano lesson & swimming this afternoon then out for dinner and will do various things over the weekend including horse riding on Sunday. YR3 child is loving it and is going to make him a riding safety hat tomorrow

He's having a better time than the last one... he got a trip to Costco & a bath

I don't understand all the hatred of them, I've always loved having them to stay. Some of you are big fat meanines!

steppemum

Ds is in nursery and has had it 3 times! Aged 2 3 and 4 what was the point its just homework for the parents to do. Grrrr!

At least year 5 dc can write it themselves!

3 times in 3 years is ok. We had the bear 3 times since September!

as a bit of parental one up-manship, I took the class toy swinmming with dolphins in the bath he then needed a good wash in the washing machine before being allowed in the rest of the house.

Am Stunned there is a class bear in Year5

We'd more than had enough of it after just Nursery and then Reception - and don't forget some of us had to play along with it for 2 or 3 or 4 children, not just our pfbs.

I would tell the teacher that I consider it a successful holiday if I come back with the same number of children that I left with. The bear would be a long way down my priority list compared to living, breathing family members so the chances of it making it back to school are extremely slim. If I still had the bear foisted on me after that warning I would simply leave it in the boot of the car without a single twinge of guilt.

My DD is in Year 5 and they still have a class toy. She did get it but she gave it to her friend to take home - lol

Ours got torn apart by the puppy. Lots of people thanked us. We did consider pasting a picture of him with his guts hanging out but refrained.

Well, my children missed the class bear, (rubber duck? Do you do phonics?) but I know of a reception teacher who went to France with her holiday and her mother insisted on taking the class bear everywhere. No, she doesn't understand it either.

My DD goes to Girls Brigade. They got a bear.dog thingy. This was when DD went to ballet and tap lessons and she had a green gingham dress for school. The other school had blue gingham.

I made to bear/dog thingy a tutu, a green gingham dress and a blue gingham dress, as well as lovely pjs. I gave them in with the bear/dog thing, in a special bag.

The bear/dog was then photographed at all events in appropriate outfits and we wrote in the book and stuck the photos in.

Other mothers have not thanked me!

We got offered the nursery bear when I picked dd up after my dad's funeral! Thanks but no.

How do you attach photos?

To this thread!

I want to know where you are going at half term?

Oh dear perhaps ted lost his ticket home and has to spend the rest of the year busking to get a new one.

Perhaps he has some unpopular views he aired over there and is now a political prisoner.

Could he have been really gullible and carried a strangers bag through customs?

Perhaps he fell in love with another bear and decided to get a summer job there as a waiter.

Maybe he met someone fabulously rich and ditched you to go jet setting around the world.

Plenty of solutions there to make the teacher regret bringing it up.
At this age what's wrong with just asking your child to write a short piece on where they went and what they did? There's no need to involve a class bear.