To take a job working with year 9s

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For secondary school teachers out there and parents of year 9s.
I'm interested in applying for a job working with year 9s to support teaching staff in the classroom. Some of it will be supporting behaviour management.
By this age, have the kids settled down in their behaviour and are more grown up and mature? Will they be a calm, well developed age group to work with?
I get that year 7 and even year 8 they are still young, but by year 9 has the immature behaviour all stopped? Has all the chattering in class, physical horseplay, silly behaviour and chat back stopped by the time they hey to year 9?
I'm thinking about the behaviour of year 9 boys more specifically, based on the assumption that girls have generally matured in their behaviour at a younger age than boys (stereotype I know)!

Haha, second thread this week about the hell of year 9..
Signed, worried mum of year 8

God no! I have over 20 years’ experience of teaching them.

Forty years ago, a teacher in a rural Western Australia's school said year nine should be single sex.

Year 8, 10, 11, 12 are ok being mixed but year 9’s - nope.

In this house, school mostly went along ok but the friendship ructions were in year 4 and year 9. I drank gin getting through year 9.

I'd say that's the worst year

Absolute hormonal he'll for teens

OMG, I'd say quite a few boys are well into year 12 before they become reasonable human beings. And like it or not, 95% of your time will be spent dealing with the ones who aren't!

14 year old boys are notoriously studious, responsible and calm.

Most Mumsnet post ever.

"So many" start boarding school!? Do they?

(1% of UK kids go to boarding school. So many!)

Don't do it OP!😯

There is a reason that they are known as the "naughty nines"!

Pahahaha peak hormones.
But yes a good job if you can hack it.

No! They can be the worst, along year 8.

I’m not a teacher but have teacher friends and everyone of them says the same thing that Year 9s are the worst by year 11 most of them go and apologise to the teachers that had them when they were in year 9
I know my teacher friends would be screaming at this post telling you not to do it

No. I'm mentoring a Y9 boy at a local school, and one of the things he complains about is how other boys play up in maths.

I think a lot of those who board start at year 9 because that's the age when a lot of the public schools take them from.

I teach year 9. Top sets are a delight, but definitely not mature and lacking in any silliness!

Move your way down the sets, it gets worse and worse.

Mixed ability - even more fun!!

I also say this as the proud owner of a year 9 whose mates spend a lot of time at our house. Not a lot of maturity there and generally total dickish behaviour!

Yr 9 is a strange year for education.
Many pupils know what they want to take at GCSE and stop taking an interest in the subjects that they don't want to take, normally to the detriment of the pupils that do want to take the subjects.
Behaviour problems are high due to this and many parents agree with their DC that they don't have an interest in the subject so they can mess about and not adhere to any sanctions.

I have been a secondary school teacher for over 25 years - year 9 are the year group I would least like to be a head of year for ! Hormones galore !

Year 8s and 9s are the worst year groups in my experience! Sorry...

Year 9 is the worst year group. They’ve found their feet, hormones are raging, doing subjects they dislike before they can drop them at GCSE, and the work doesn’t count for anything.

From an ex-teacher (who left the profession after being assaulted by a year 9 student), run for the fucking hills, OP.

In my experience, Year 9 were hands down the worst year group. Sorry.

By Year 10, many are starting to mature...

Not a teacher, but a mum of a Y9 (and also a Y12, so in my second Y9 stint). Y9’s are twats.

Have you even met teenagers? Year 9s are awful. 😂

I work in a secondary and yr 9s are twats 🤣Well ours are anyway

Gd year 9 are hideous. I’ve had 3 of them. They act like dicks even my supposedly sensible and mature well behaved one who nearly finished me off with his behaviour in subjects he wasn’t interested in. The friendship dramas with the girls is something else. The boys it’s just being total idiots, pulling seats away from friends they fall over, wandering around the classroom and making stupid noises, throwing things at their friends, pulling friends trousers down. These arent lower set kids they are the ones who ended up at top unis and are now on the grad schemes / law school / accountancy route.