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AIBU?

to think that reception aged children should be able to earn back their Golden Time?

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Classof2032 · 27/11/2015 18:56

DD had no Golden Time at all today. She had to sit in the classroom with her head on the desk while all of the other children played :( Surely it's just cruel to punish children like that. Once she had had a talking to it was just proving a point.

Her misdemeanour was yesterday anyway. She said she tried really, really hard today but it was no good.

I am sure that all of the recent educational theories advise against GT and treating children like this.

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sharonthewaspandthewineywall · 28/11/2015 19:28

To summarise the last gadzillion threads- OP's DD- never wrong. OP's DD's teacher- always wrong. Is that about the gist of it?

hiccupgirl · 28/11/2015 19:56

Your DD hit another child in her class. That is not ok whatever her reason was.

She can't sit out in the corridor on her own, children need to be supervised by an adult in lessons.

Golden time is usually 30 mins - I'm surprised she lost it all but that would show that what she did was a serious incident and needed a serious consequence. I very much doubt she was told to put her down on the desk for the whole time.

But I'm sure you can it to your long list of problems with the school.

Enjolrass · 28/11/2015 20:03

To summarise the last gadzillion threads- OP's DD- never wrong. OP's DD's teacher- always wrong. Is that about the gist of it?

yep

LibrariesGaveUsP0wer · 28/11/2015 20:13

Oh god. It's you again!

Cop on to yourself OP. Your threads are all about how someone else is at fault. This one is utterly minimising violence.

katemiddletonsothermum · 28/11/2015 20:24

OP, have you thought about private schooling?

Golden Time only lasts for 30 mins at DS's school so that's only half the time that your DD needs to spend with her head on the desk.

LittleBearPad · 29/11/2015 09:37

Also, the head on the desk thing, is this the same way we used to rest after lunch in reception in the 60s? Head on arms on the table? It wasn't a punishment, it was great

I know! So comfy.

OP your DD hit another child. This is the issue you need to deal with.

clam · 29/11/2015 14:02

I've yet to meet a 4 year old (or indeed any child much older) who would accurately be able to tell how long an hour was.

I call bullshit.

SuffolkNWhat · 29/11/2015 14:04

According to my Y1 DD (6 yo) break time is an hour (its actually 15 minutes) so I'll be surprised if a child 2 years younger can tell an hour from a few minutes.

ilovesooty · 29/11/2015 14:12

I agree with the two previous posters but the OP is so hostile to the school she'll believe whatever her daughter says.

Enjolrass · 29/11/2015 14:15

I agree with the two previous posters but the OP is so hostile to the school she'll believe whatever her daughter says.

And add her own bits

Sirzy · 29/11/2015 14:21

I don't think it's bullshit in the sense of being completely made up. More a mum who is willing to take the word of a 4 year old as gospel without bothering to try to find out what has happened. Add to that the clear dislike of the school anyway and you get a massive mountain out f molehill situation.

Pipbin · 29/11/2015 14:33

She prefers silence for her work, so she gets extremely distracted when it's noisy.

What work? I teach reception (for the record Dissapointed, it's exactly like you say schools in Wales work, even though I'm in England). I ask children to 'do work' with me or a TA for about ten minutes three times a day. All their 'work' is supervised as the point isn't the output but the way they arrived at the result. Often the work is playing a game, a craft activity and occasionally a worksheet. None of the children could complete the work I set independently at this point in the year. So I don't know how you think her having a desk and working in silence is going to work. I think the reason the school won't do it is because it simply won't work. Sitting on her own in a silent corridor sounds much worse than the punishment she claims she had.
Have you spoken to the school about this punishment? Have you verified that this is what happened?

Do you think it's ok for her to hit another child because she found them annoying?

DisappointedOne · 29/11/2015 14:45

I teach reception (for the record Dissapointed, it's exactly like you say schools in Wales work, even though I'm in England).

Sounds like you might be in a minority!

Sirzy · 29/11/2015 14:52

How pipbin describes it is how is was in Ds reception class last year, and how it has been in the reception classes I have worked in.

lazymoz · 29/11/2015 14:56

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Pipbin · 29/11/2015 16:16

What are you basing your opinion on though Dissapointed? I often get told that my reception class is too formal (I also have 3 10 to 15 minute sessions of direct teaching each day).

LemonRedwood · 29/11/2015 16:23

Disappointed You sound like you have very little understanding of Early Years settings in England. I've been teaching for nearly 15 years and what Pipbin describes is every reception class I've ever come across. "Work" may involve sitting at a desk sometimes, but I get the impression you are imagining 4-year-olds sitting at a desk staring at a blackboard. It wasn't even like that when I was a child in reception nearly 35 years ago.

I am finding myself looking forward to next Friday to see what imagined issue the OP will have with the school this week. I wonder what part she got in the nativity?

BoneyBackJefferson · 29/11/2015 16:28

I suspect that if the children's positions were reversed and the boy didn't lose his GT then she would be up in arms about that as well.

steff13 · 29/11/2015 16:30

What on earth is golden time?

DisappointedOne · 29/11/2015 16:32

What are you basing your opinion on though Dissapointed? I often get told that my reception class is too formal (I also have 3 10 to 15 minute sessions of direct teaching each day).

Posts on this site. The fact that it seems common for children of 4/5/6 to get half an hour of free play per week......... Anecdotal evidence, yes, but it's here in this thread!

SuffolkNWhat · 29/11/2015 16:32

Oh blimey the nativity!

I teach in my DDs school so am v pleased DD hasn't got a main part because you can bet that the others would claim it's because of me and not the fact she does stage school every weekend.

LibrariesGaveUsP0wer · 29/11/2015 16:36

The half hour of golden time is totally free play though Disappointed. No one in the class is doing anything but playing. No one is being guided to be, maybe, outside playing because they rarely choose that. It's not that there isn't a whole load of other free play, just that this the time in the week that the whole class is doing it at once.

It also provides continuity into year one, where there is a lot more 'formal' learning, but still golden time.

You're interpreting what people are saying completely out of context.

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Pipbin · 29/11/2015 16:41

Posts on this site. The fact that it seems common for children of 4/5/6 to get half an hour of free play per week......... Anecdotal evidence, yes, but it's here in this thread!

Excluding the op, who I don't think had a complete grasp of reality, no one on this thread has mentioned Golden Time in reception. They have talked about it, but not in terms of reception teaching.

DisappointedOne · 29/11/2015 16:43

It also provides continuity into year one, where there is a lot more 'formal' learning, but still golden time.

Well, that's pretty different to Wales then.

LibrariesGaveUsP0wer · 29/11/2015 17:05

In what way?

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