Am I being fobbed off?

[charlietherednosedpussy]

DD1, year 3 had a new teacher at the start of this term. Lovely and enthusiastic I thought, saying how she was putting all these new fabby ideas in place and things may not get done etc while she was easing them into the new schemes etc.
DD was last listened to read at school on the 10th of this month. That was 20 days ago. She has of course read books at home..however thats not the point...
Asked DDs teacher why she hadnt been listened too and got a big spiel about them now not doing individual reading and them doing it in groups and how it was all going to start on Monday...
HMMMMMMMmmmmmmm heard this at half term.
Is that the new way or am i being fobbed off?

I think this might be it MB year4/5 words
My copy of the Literacy strategy doen't mention any words specific for Year 3. There are the ones for Year 1-2 and then some for year 4-5.

Haven't read all the thread so apologies if I'm repeating.

I understand that individual reading isn't done much in schools these days. They read in groups, with each child taking a turn, so in fact they are heard individually, albeit not for long tracts.

I help out in DS2's class (Y5) listening to certain children read. However, these are children who, for differing reasons, have to be heard on a daily basis, which presumably means they have problems. If your child doesn't have a problem with reading, it's unlikely she will be heard on a daily basis.

thank you grunpalump...my pcs toolbar vanished at the time I was posting and I copy and pasted what I *thought was the link
And I couldnt complain about anyones spelling

My dd didn't read in school to anyone for about 4 years (and I'm not joking). Time seemed to be spent on those with problems. Probably how many children get overlooked. Group reading has many problems imo and is rarely carried out properly. It's fine for those of us who read at home but I'm sure many able kids are missing out. I know how hard fitting in reading can be with 4 kids and a husband working away myself. As a sometime teacher I am appalled at myself for falling short of the mark so often.

Ok...please read my first post. DD has still not done any reading at school. Groupd individual or anything...now what?
Thats the 10th of Nov to now.

Hit the roof.

Really though, go in and talk to the head about this, it isn't on!

Yep this is a new teacher. But we half way throught the year now arent we...sort of including hols. Yep action needed. Word with her tommorow and then to the head....quiver. Noones gaining from me leaving it though are they?

Dd started in reception in September and until Friday had only been heard 1-1 by the TA and mum helper. The first comment from the teacher was in her book on Friday. I find this worrying.

DS1 in Y3 is heard once weekly in a reading group by the teacher, and occasionally he reads his independent reading book to a parent helper - there are parent helpers in most days but the teacher is focusing their attention on the struggling/less able readers. TBH, I don't stress much as DS1 is a very good reader, though I did worry last year.
DS2 in Reception has only been heard read 3 times, but they only started reading after half term and they only do 3 hours a day until Christmas. They say they aim to hear them all once a week from January.