To expect a child to read with a grown up at least a couple of times in the first term of reception?

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DC is late aug birthday so only just four on starting school. Happy there and enjoying it etc, settled in fine.

They are never heard read by any adult. Teacher has acknowledged this.

Have found out this week some kids are reading with an adult one on one three or four times a week.

I know they have to focus on the ones who need a bit of help but come the fuck on, how does a little 4 year old feel if they never get that little bit of one on one time with a grown up and others get loads? Its not just about the reading - its about that bit of attention, the teacher or TA learning who they are and how they respond. Surely they can fit in my DC once or twice a term if they can find 3 or 4 times a week for other kids. Dc hates never getting picked to go and read. :(

This!!!! my older son excels at maths. In previous school years (older teachers, with older school teaching techniques) , his teacher had set him harder work levels above what he was suppose to be doing. He’s got a new younger teacher and her approach is everyone the same till we all understand (MIL is a teacher and she said they are learning to teach this way.now) and now he’s not doing any work cos he’s bored and he’s looking out the window instead of listening. He can actually explain the work better than her 🙈🙈🙈🙈. I wonder when it became ok to focus on getting the school looking it best rather than each individual child 🤯

I agree.

Unfortunately that ‘the floor’ approach doesn’t tally with the UK exam system. Whilst this is the case, it’s actually the kids in the middle that suffer the most, the brightest and the least bright seem to be picked up well in most educational settings - as they need the most.

Have you spoken to the teacher about this? Doesn’t seem right.

The issue isnt the reading/time/attention. It that 4 is far too bloody young to start school.
Scotland is 5 and even then I feel its too young.

I would chat to the teacher about it and see what she says. There might be a really valid reason for it or could be sonething outwith her control (schools are massively underfunded, understaffed and under resourced sadly) but hopefully it can be resolved.
My school has a reading buddy program where P7 (Yr 6 i think) read to and listen to the P1/2s. You could suggest something like that to school?

I would imagine that the children who are reading with adults in the classroom several times a week are either on pupil premium or have special needs or get some other form of extra funding. In an ideal world those pupils would be reading with an adult as often as they are and the more able children would be reading every couple of weeks but there just isn't the staff, time or money.

If it’s about the attention, surely you just explain to him that some children need some more help and practice with their reading than him

I could have written those exact post.
All children in the classes I read with would have been heard at least once by someone and it would have shown on the list.

I’ll add, I think the aim was at least 3 times each a term. It’s only 10 minutes each time.

Have you perhaps considered that your child's teacher would love to listen to him read, or have a TA listen to him read, but that it just isn't possible because how of underresourced and underfunded schools are, and they have to use the very limited resources they have on some of the other 20+ children in the class who are in even more need of help?

If your teacher is like me, and all of the teachers in my school, they're probably already lying awake at night feeling stressed because of how they can't give all of the children in their class everything they need, and they don't need yet another entitled parent who hasn't a clue about how stretched schools are and doesn't understand that if their child isn't getting all the individual attention they need, it's not because the teacher doesn't care, but because the teacher literally cannot do the job they are expected to do because they are given way too many students in one class and expected to do way too many things.