To want to drop and run at school?

[Cuppaand2biscuits]

My dd is 6 years old, in year one. The school got a new head teacher in September who implemented a new morning routine that I just can't get on with.
Old morning routine = Assemble in playgroup, bell gets rung, all children into lines, teacher leads into.classroom. Parents welcome to follow if children requests or they wish to speak with teacher.

New morning routine = Everyone assemble in classroom. Some mornings we have to choose a book and read with our children for 5/10 minutes other days it's 'Wakefield Up Shake Up' where we have to dance along to a bouncy routine! Then the tambourine rings and we kiss goodbye and leave.
Obviously I don't object to the interaction with my child but there's 30 pupils in the class, each with an adult and lots with a younger sibling or 2. It's too many people, it's too hot when we're dressed for the cold. It's a bloody faff!
Anyone else successfully challenged this sort of shit?

That won't work and is unreasonable of the head. I would already be with my own tutor group at school and teach my own lessons. Just ignore it.

Ok I must be the only person who doesn't see the issue with this

Even after everyone has explained to you the various issues with it? Are you trying at all?

I've seen why other people don't like it. I just think it's a few minutes of the day that the children probably enjoy.

Absolutely ridiculous. Don't they want to teach the children independence?
Our school allows you to bring your child to the classroom door (note: not inside the classroom) for the first 2 or 3 weeks in reception. After then you have to hand them over at the reception gate to a teacher who doesn't let a single parent in. From 6 weeks in you can drop them in the drop off zone without even getting out of the car.

If the Head is used to a deprived school then perhaps it's just a way to make sure parents read with their kids for 5 -10 minutes a day and are on time for start of school too.

This sounds utterly insane. Who has the time for this kind of carry on? At our school children can be dropped off in a ten minute window from 8.45 to 8.55. Infant years dropped off at classroom door (leading directly onto playground) apart from Reception whose parents go in with them which is fair enough I think. Juniors dropped off in playground and go directly in themselves. It was changed a while back and is a vast improvement for those of us who have somewhere else to be - previously we had the lining up business.

Just say no, OP. It is a really bonkers amount of kerfuffle for what should be a one minute or less process!

This is bonkers. When my DC'S were at primary school, the arrangements at the beginning of the day were all geared up to keep parents out of the classroom do that the teachers could, er, teach.

As PPS have said, it has safeguarding, security and logistics implications to allow a free for all in the morning. Then you've got the problem of the inevitable child with separation anxiety having to be prised from the parent and further disrupting and delaying the start of the school day. A final thing that would bother me is that this puts many children with working parents at a disadvantage. One of the reasons I moved my DC'S to the independent sector was that their state primary arranged most events and interaction with parents during office hours.

Wouldn't work for me either. I drive up and kick Dd out of the car almost without stopping these days (yr5)!

The school does do various crap for 10 minutes at registration, but it seems to only be the younger years, so I no longer even go in!

Janey50
'You have to dance along to a 'bouncy routine'?! OP I seriously think this teacher has lost the plot.

The teacher won't have decided this. The head may have lost the plot, though.

I'd be very British and embarrassed and would try to discreetly kill myself with the fucking tambourine. I'm not even British.

Bumsex, my kids would have hated it. From a very early age.

I will be having my children in the UK and I have to say, the talk of the school run on here has me dreading it. I didn't live far enough away from school to take the bus (in the US), but the teachers always waited outside and the parents would drive up, open the door to let you out, and continue on their way. It is the same for my nine-year-old niece. Everything I read on here always seems like such a faff.

My 9yr old would despise this - they hate it if I dance, apparently I am embarrassing. Would be quite funny. Don't worry user. Most uk school runs are not like that!

Isn't the presence of parents a security issue too? If the doors are open and anyone can come in, what's preventing a potential thief or other criminal to get into the school with the crowd. Schools have tablets, teachers have mobile phones etc, all waiting for the potential thief to be stolen.

I'm getting really worried about primary,all this stuff where they assume there's a parent available at all times! My son won't have that. I'm a secondary teacher and registration is at 8:50 and DH also works. A lot of local schools have their curriculum information sessions during the day. Why is that? When we have information to give to parents we have evening meetings.

Shame on all you parents that cant be bothered what a reaction drop them and run with attitudes like that why did you bother having kids at all

Charl did you read my comment - my work starts before a school will start. This is true for many parents not every child has a parent at home all the time!

Charl1963 - don't be a plonker. I work to provide money to pay for a house a food. that requires turning up at a place of employment on time and actually being useful so that I get paid. Wakey shakey is not more important than that and tbh - it's not really a choice.

There was no way our school year of 90 could do this and the idea of any parent being allowed in anyway to follow children/speak to staff is ludicrous.

This is nuts - what if you have other children who need to be somewhere else?

How do you even fit 30 children plus their families into a classroom... and then they start jumping around?

Never mind Ofsted, it doesn't sound as though it would comply with H&S.

From the description it also sounds more suitable for pre-schoolers than 6 year olds.

My only conclusion is that something very strange happens in the playground between 8.45 and 8.55 and they are trying to distract you all.

Im another that used to pull up at the drop off area and let my kids out of the car....thank god mine are all at high school now....i could not be bothered with this shit....and yes charl i work too...to keep a roof over all our heads !!!

THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE IN THE TIME YOU CAN LEAVE YOUR CHILDREN.Before wake up shake up it was 8.55 and following introduction of wake up shake up it is still 8.55. If you were a working parent prior to this exciting innovation you used breakast club, that remains the same. There are numerous arguements why this is a bad idea but working parents and needing to be somewhere else is not one of them. And breathe ...

Dd is 10 I was feeling a bit sad at the " last tmes" thread. But reading this I am soooo glad not to have a KS1 child anymore. My routine? Pull into bus stop (5 mins walk to school) at 8:40 dd gets out, turn car around be at my desk by 9:00

Hooray, a new head with ideas to irritate teachers and parents in equal measures. Always fun.

PS "oxygenate the body ready for learning"? I hope there's some peer reviewed research for that, and not just a poorly delivered Inset. ;)

I can't believe you've all been going along with this!
Must have been giving them a good laugh in the staff room.

Charl I bothered having children for the same reasons as most people - love and biology.

I have ASD which means that this sort of thing is fucking excruciatingly hard for me, and would be likely to induce a meltdown if I couldn't leave.

I drop and run most mornings at my DCs school and it works for us, take your judgy comments and insert them into your rectum.