to speak to school?

[Everyoneafter3]

I suspect I am being unreasonable and I also have a feeling that school will be onto this but just want to gauge opinion.

Dd's played in a concert at school this week. She works very hard and at 9 shows some promise. She made a bit of a slip up in one of her pieces but just got on with the task in hand. Not even worth a mention. She came out and told me some of the y6 children had laughed at her.

A good number of y6 children were told off by the teachers so I imagine there might be Words but I think it's awful, really awful, to laugh at a younger child, especially when I doubt they could play like she plays.

Do I mention it to school? They will leaving soon I know but surely they need to know it's unacceptable?!

No need to mention it. They were told off. It's been done.

Congratulate your dd for carrying on - resilience is a really important skill to learn.

She'll have the last laugh when she can play her instrument beautifully and the Year 6 gigglers can't.

I told her they were the idiots.

It was so heartening to see her and her friends being supportive of one another. I just don't want her confidence dented!

I wouldn't mention it, as it sounds like it was dealt with at the time. Not sure what else you'd hope to achieve tbh

Your DD did great to carry on though, especially at such a young age! Lots of people far older than her get totally flummoxed by a mistake.

Y6s can be proper cocky shits this time of year. Sounds like it's been dealt with appropriately. Wd just check your DD is ok and understands that some y6s go weird this time of year, and why, and then move on.

The children were already told off when they did it, what more do you want the school to do? I ask this genuinely not to be goady, because it seems like the school dealt with it when it happened, so what more do you hope to gain by going into school to make a complaint?

They weren't specifically told off for laughing; the telling off was for other mucking about during the concert. Sorry should have made that clear.

Actually what is like to wave a finger at them and tell them they're horrid.

Our school would be really hot on this. So no I don't think you are unreasonable to mention it. I have to confess to an odd suppressed snigger though when DS and class are playing their glockenspiels.

I know many adults that don't know what goes into learning an instrument so I can well imagine some children not appreciating this too.

And we're talking about a very minor tripping over fingers.

Must confess one sports day we all had a giggle when the boy in dd's class who is phenomenal athlete fell in a race, looked at the parents, threw his hands up in the air... then beat the rest of them by a good 15m. Now that was funny!

If the kids have already been told off, what other outcome do you want to achieve by speaking to the school about it?

No idea! Which is why I posed the question here... I won't complain. I just hope my dd has more sense.

If it's any consolation op, in 3 months they will be the youngest again and for most of them that knocks the cockiness out of them