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?

i'd be rocking up at 8.54
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this cannot be compulsory. don't feel obliged to take part.

From nursery age I always thought quick drop off, kiss/cuddle, then go leg it was the way to go and was positively encouraged as hanging around causes extra clingyness?

I'm not a morning person. Having the wakey whatever dance to 'look forward to' five mornings a week. Yeah that'll have me leaping out of my bed. And the OP has been doing this for a term - you need a medal/ more robust boundaries !

Omg this reminds me of my DDs old school.

They had this set up in reception. The nursery and reception classes were in the same room so you potentially had 45 children, their parents and siblings all in the classroom for 10 minutes each morning. The noisy and chaos was horrendous. Sometimes you couldn't get through the door because of all the prams parked there.

From an ASD point of view it was a NIGHTMARE, DD started her school day every morning completely frazzled.

It sounds hellish.

At my dd's school we have the line up and wave them off set up. In fact they encourage you go just drop and go before they line up. I've never even seen inside her classroom!

If I told my y4 DD that from now on instead of dropping her at the school gate I'd be going not just into the playground with her, but into her classroom then taking part in a group dance she'd be mortified .

Thankfully at her school parents are only allowed in the classroom for the first term of reception, and only allowed into the playground in the mornings for the second term of reception. After that it's drop off at the playground or school gate only.

This "settling into the classroom" stuff doesn't happen in Scotland, at all from what I've seen.

Our school allowed parents in on the first day of P1 to get some photos of child at their desk. You were ushered out after 5 minutes. On day 2, parents had to stand behind a low fence while children lined up in the playground and went in with their teachers. Any adult who is not on the staff entering school MUST go through the office and be signed in for security reasons. I'm not a paranoid "paedophile around every corner" parent either but - Dunblane. It happens.

Wakey shakey also sounds like HELL ON EARTH, does the clearly crazy Head take part in these sessions too?

Yanbu, and as others have said this raises serious questions re safeguarding & ofsted

From that age I. The USA they would be on the bus.

Free school bus would collect them from the end of there street

This is daft. I like the idea of parents being welcome and involved, but they must see that many, many parents just won't have time to do this.
Just say no. What can they do about it? (I wonder just how the class teachers feel about it- bet they're just loving tens of parents cluttering up their classrooms and dancing around in the mornings...)

Why can't you just drop them off at 8:55?

This must be extra hellish for the social phobics 😬

Ofsted cares more about people being late. I would drop your kids off late everyday as the stress of the new morning routine is giving social phobia/migraines/depression. And tell them you will happily explain that to the Ofsted department. Or just stop joining in. All the parents are waiting for is that one parent who rebels and they will all do it.

Wake up and Shake up
What will they think of next?

As a disabled parent I would find that bloody impossible. Following my guide dog down a narrow, crowded, noisy school corridor (with all the dog-phobic children squealing) is an experience I don't want to undertake if I can possibly avoid it. If I need to see a teacher, I pop in while the DC are lined up in the playground. Wake up Shake up would be even worse. My dog would probably love it though.

Much better to have a clear school/home division at the entrance to the building.

I have three children all currently at the same school so I would not be physically able to do this.
Ridiculous

Further to my previous comment, I'm an ex primary school teacher and I can't see that this is of any benefit to the children. Parent communication is a good thing but so is a clear break between mum time and teacher time.

As a recently ex teacher, I'd have to say that would drive me mad to have so many people milling around in my classroom before school and can't create a nice calming atmosphere to start learning in. As a parent of a preschooler, due to start school in September, I'd find this horrific, especially if I was either co-ordinating with nursery run for the baby or having them with me. Sounds like the head is trying to make their mark but in a totally misguided way.

This is brilliant! I am so, SO glad my school doesn't do this, but the mental image is still making me chuckle. Love the idea of the tambourine at the end - does a member of staff race round the school shaking a tambourine at each classroom doorway, or does each class teacher whip out a concealed tambourine at precisely 8.55?

I am also giggling away at the "shame insurance" typo. That sounds like the sort of insurance policy I need (though not as much as the poor parents at OP's school)

Yy to lots of previous posters - it's a safeguarding nightmare! I'm the safeguarding governor at my kids' school and I would challenge this instantly on those grounds.

Just say no. No!

OMG no way, screw that, what a load of bollocks. tell the head to shove it & leave

By 8.50/55 my DD3 has been awake for near enough two hours, breakfasted in front of CBeebies, put her uniform on, cleaned her teeth, got her coat on and walked half a km up the hill to the school gate. If she isn't awake by then, she never fucking will be, never mind any wakey shakey twat-fuckery.

I think it's a brilliant idea. I have to do wake up shake up 3 times a week ( work in early years) don't see why I should be the only one to suffer it

No. I wouldn't be doing that.