To expect children in year 1 to be able to dress themselves for PE?

[mummysherlock]

...... if NT and able-bodied without parents being expected to stay behind at drop off and help them? After dropping the DC off at school, I have to go straight to work and frankly I don’t really have the time to be faffing around helping/supervising him getting changed when I know he is capable of dressing himself. I have an older DD at the same school and never has it been expected that parents of children in her class help them change, even in yr R they sorted themselves out. (For what it’s worth I think DS’s class did PE in their uniform and just changed into daps last year, I’m not sure why his cohort have been treated like younger children).
Also, surely having the room full of loads of adults whilst the children are in various states of undress is a potential safeguarding issue?
Thoughts?

That’s odd. Surely they should be doing it themselves?!

Reception classes will be learning to get ready for PE. Year 1?! Too right they should be able to do it themselves!!!

I would expect reception kids to do this (excepting those with additional needs).

If it is at the start of the school day can't he just come in in his pe kit? Presumably they have to change back independently?

I wouldn't be able to hang around for this either, I have to get to work.

At my DD's school they just go in their PE kit and stay in it all day. It's not like they are running marathons or doing hot yoga.
I totally see no point in them changing immediately they arrive.

Yes, odd. I worked in yr 1 last year and 99% of children could get changed themselves. They took a little bit of time and some clothes may have been inside out, but they were perfectly able.

No expectation in my son's school that parents will help which is why my son has come home with his t-shirt inside out for the last 2 weeks. He does have ASD though and an inside out t-shirt isn't the end of the world.

I'm a Year 1 teacher and I'm not sure why they're expecting you to stay and help?? My Year ones do it themselves and I help with tricky bits like stiff top buttons.
My own child, also Year 1, came out today, with his shoes on the wrong feet 😂

Daps? Proper West Country.

Yes they should be able to change themselves. Many can’t or won’t but they should and it shouldn’t be up to parents to help.

Seeing as they all emerge from class at pick up wearing their uniforms again, they clearly manage to change themselves with minimal input from the teacher and TA.
Some parents have asked if they can just send them to school in their PE kits at the start of the day, school have said this is not an option as they should be encouraged to practice changing themselves - which most of them I expect can do anyway

If they are changing straight after drop off why on earth don’t they just come in their PE kit, maybe with a bag of uniform to change into later. Could you suggest this OP? Agree expecting parents to come and help is not a good solution for many reasons.

I do appreciate that for some children may need a little bit of help.
At the start of the term parents were told that they could come in and help their children if they so wished. So some parents did stay. This resulted in the children whose parents didn’t stay getting upset/refusing to get changed so now the consensus is that it is easier for all parents to just stay and help.
I think that drop off is manic enough as it is anyway and that really from day 1 it would have been easier for them to get changed after registration when all parents/carers have left as there are less distractions

Cross posted, I see the coming in PE kit has been suggested. School is not being logical though. If the reason they don’t want them coming in PE Kit is so they can practice changing, then why are they getting parents to help?? If parents are helping then the children are not practising changing so they might as well come in PE kit.

At the school where I volunteer, all children from Reception onwards get changed without parental help. I'm sure the teacher/TA provides assistance if necessary.
When my DD was in primary, again no assistance from parents apart from when they were swimming, and 2 - 3 parents used to go and help the whole class with getting changed.