Would you find this wierd? (odd teacher)

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DD is currently learning about the origins of Bonfire night, Guy Falkes etc.

So the teacher had them act out 'that night'. DD got the part of the person who received the tip off and the teacher told her to go out of the classroom and down the coridoor at a specific point.

She did this and apparantly, as she wandered down the coridoor, the store room door opened and the teacher grabbed her and dragged her inside!!

She said he had a cloak over his head and he whispered about the plot and then pushed her back out into the coridoor again.

I know it was probably just the case of an over-enthusiastic teacher but does anyone else find this a bit OTT?

But I wouldn't like to be dragged into a cupboard by someone with a cloak over his head pretending to be someone else - role acting, it would freak me out, I find that kind of thing OTT and odd! So we agree to disagree.

In my day (yes I'm and old fart) teachers stood at the front of the class, if they moved in your direction you were in trouble. We all knew where we stood and who was in trouble. Things were much easier, than this jolly way of having teachers hiding in cupboards covered up, pretending to not be a teacher! It's bloody daft.

I think it sounds a great way of helping to bring things to life in an exciting way.

The cupboard is the only potentially worrying thing here - hiding around a corner would have been better: but that is because we live in a suspicious age and teachers can be very vulnerable. This is confirmed by some of the reactions on this thread: some people are very good at jumping to the worst conclusion without taking any others into consideration.

If the door was open (unclear), his back is covered, just in case anybody had concerns about it.

It sounds like your dd, after her inital shock, thought it was quite effective and funny.

I think bringing a lesson to life is great - but I dont think this is an appropriate way to do so

Also why are they learning about Guy Fawkes now?

Weird!

i am a teacher and i find it very strange that a teacher would put himself in this position and teachers are often reminded not to do this kind of thing.

we are always being told not to even touch a child, this is in every school i've ever worked in.

of course you do when you know the kids etc, like a come along dear kind of way.

i think you are right to be slightly concerned

I don't geddit. I don't get the lesson.

Your dd left the classroom where a techer in role play whispered the plot to her. So how did all teh other children in teh class know what had happened so that they could also follow the story?

It doesn't make sense. The whole class has to know, surely, not just one lone child in a corridor.

Good point. What's the point of doing this and being 'in role' unless it was part of something the group were seeing?

yes, slow. It all sounds rather unbelievable

pointydog, a voice of reason. I was starting to think the world was slightly mad.

Can I just add, that poor teacher. He sounds great, if maybe a little enthusiastic in these stupidly paranoid times. Poor guy, doing his best to liven up a history lesson for your kid and you come and moan about him on the internet. Jeez no wonder teachers get pissed off.

Hrumph.

Actually this thread really narks me off. I totally agree with londonone. OP you are lucky enough to have a male teacher in Primary School for you dd, which is pretty rare, he sounds enthusiastic and creative, your daughter is fine, and had a good lesson. Give the poor guy a break.

How did the teacher get from the class room to the cupboard down the corridor?

Where were the other children at them time?

Why are they learning about the origins of Bonfire night in March?

BTW, to me it all sounds inocent, if a bit mad.

I think this is pretty odd behaviour. The teacher is, at best, naive for putting himself in this position.

learning about bonfiore night in March is ludicrous

Is it an international school? Sound slike the sort of thing they might do in an international school, bomfire night in march

I think you need to ask why they were studying bonfire night in March.

It is not ludicrous to be learning about Bonfire Night in March. Assuming, that is, that they were learning about the Gunpowder Plot as part of a history topic there is no rule that says you only have to teach it at the beginning of November.

I have taught lessons dressed as a monk, a nun and a judge. Would not grab a child am also secondary.

Infact today I was doing a quiz with my year 7s and had a black veil for queen victoria, a ruffle for elizabeth I, a ginger beard for henry VII and wig for charles II.

Ther is no "rule" saying they cant't learn about the last super in RE a week before Christmas. It's just not usual.

Because it's wrong.

Oh god, TSP, I wish I was one of your pupils.

I am just an attention seeker!

OK, maybe I'm Anal...but it is not right to dress as Father Christmas in March.

No, no.....and Joseph Burns agrees with me.

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I am really concerned today- I had to collect my dc from school slightly late,
on arriving at school I saw my teenage son helping a lady pick up some things tht she had dropped - imagine my concern when amongst these things were several items of disguise including wigs veils and false beards- do you think this lady (who happens to be the R.E teacher) has unusual habits outside of school?

Go straight to the governors, I would.