To wish school would stop labelling my son

[rockybalboa]

With actual sticky labels. With notes on. Last year (Reception) he came home with one saying 'please can I have a water bottle for school'. I sent him back the next day with a new sticky label saying 'please remind me to get my water bottle of my book bag' which is where I had put it on Monday morning as they send the bottles home every Fri for washing. Today he came home with one about needing his PE kit. I am tempted to send him in with a new label tomorrow saying 'he brought his named PE bag containing named PE kit in on the first day of school last week'. We don't get anywhere near the classroom or cloakroom at either drop off or pick up

My DD's reception teacher used to send her home with labels on her and they were great - I loved them. Letters are a nuisance and wasteful, teachers don't often have time to speak to parents individually and emails are time consuming for the teachers - quicker to write a quick note on a sticker. And the children love wearing stickers. Everybody wins.

Also, I'm a very bad parent, and never remember things like Forest School, so it's handy when she comes home wearing a sticker saying FOREST SCHOOL TOMORROW.

I'll be interested to see how it works with DS2 next Sept. He HATES wearing stickers. PE kit still AWOL. I sent the nanny in to muscle her way into the cloakroom to hunt it down.

If he really hates wearing the labels, then buy a cheap homework diary and go in and have a chat with the teacher and ask that any notes be written in it. Instead of complaining, find a solution and work together with teacher.

Do they not have a contact/reading record book? Teachers and parents write notes in there, though it if is urgent I write a separate note.

Yeah they do have a reading record but in YR it was only checked once a week.