is it normal not to have a parents' evening in Foundation??

[MissChief]

surprised and alarmed that there's been nothing at all. getting report "this week" sometime - have asked teacher and she seems neither to know (nor from her attitude -care) when!
They know that we're moving out of the area so this report is important and will be going on to the new school - i therefore want the opport to discuss any issues with the T. She seems most put out that I'm even asking and has been rather off with me. WTF? Is this state education? should i just get used to it? previously had ds in private pre-school so this attitude is quite a shock!

what's foundation, Reception?

DD had her report last week and it is open evening for parents tomorrow night where we can go for an informal chat and meet her Yr 1 teacher.

yes, reception - waht you're describing was what i expected. this is a "good" school supposedly, in ofsted terms, in reputation..generally happy with it tho' ds's teacher is rather a wet blanket so not the ideal match for him and seems rather young to be so disheartened already..

The school I work in have two parents evenings a year for ALL classes. It does seem strange that you are not offered any oppertunity to discuss your childs progress with the teacher.
I certainly met up with my DS's teacher twice during his reception year, as well as getting school report at the end of the year.

Sounds a bit disorganised to me - why don't you phone the school and see if the office staff have a better idea - you could also arrange an appointment with the teacher.

We also have an open afternoon, (had it this afternoon!) where parents are invited into school to look at their childs work & talk to class teacher if needed.

We didn't have parents evenings at pre-school but had one every term in Reception and one written report at the end of the year. At pre-school we were given the opportunity to look at the Record of Achievement before it was sent to the school.

that's waht i thought. so i'm not being overbearing pushy mum, then? will be glad to leave this school!

don't know .. but we're having our third on thursday

one per term in reception

This s the statutory position MissChief

Schools must provide parents with a written account of their child's progress for each of the 13 scales at the end of the foundation stage.
Schools must also give parents an opportunity to discuss the Profile and its results with the practitioner at a parents evening or equivakent during the summer term or as soon as possible after.
Where a parent requests a copy of the practitioner's record of their child, the school must provide it. This can be their own Profile document or the QCA Profile Scales booklet.

Does that mean that if I want to see DS2's actual scores on the FSP I can if I ask? Just wondering, as I don't need to at all. We have a report but that just summarises his achievements in each area, without a score. We didn't see scores for DS1 either (different school).

I received a piece of paper which indicates ds's scores in each area and his total score and some guidance on how to interpret it.. ie with a dose of salt!

In reception we've had parents evening in first term, parents evening in second term and then this term we had a report plus an 'open afternoon' where we could look through the work and we could make an appt to see the teacher if we wanted to (I didn't).

In terms of parents' evenings, we had one the first term, an open morning the second term and then a parents' evening this term followed by a report. We also have an open day this week.

Umm - what scores are you talking about? As far as I am aware the FSP doesn't have scores, but simply areas that have been highlighted as achieved.
Yes, you can see your child's FSP.
FWIW we didn't do an end of year parent conference, but simply handed out a report. (But I would be glad to discuss it with any parent who wanted to!)

We had two parent's evenings this year for both ds (yr2) and dd (reception). I thought that the FSP had disappeared to be honest. We found it completely meaningless for ds two years ago, and were much happier to have some sensible text this year for dd. Still that might be because ds was struggling whereas dd's report seems to be a complete love in!

not worried about whether FSP, just want to have sight of the written record which will go on to his new school and to have evidenced feedback on how he's done this term (his 1st). it's been like pulling teeth, but have finally managed to arrange a "special" 5 min interview with his T on thurs.

jennifersofia.. you don't teach foundation do you...
FSP has a numeric score for each of the six areas, some of which can be broken down in to sub scores for indivdual strands ie shape and sapce, emotional development etc. Those levels are nationally reported to give the Government yet more useless ways of supposedly measuring teachers' performance.

oops meant that nicely and it doesn't read as it should jennifer sofia, just wanted to correct your point. sorry!

I find DS2's paragraph-style report much more useful than I would a list of his scores against the profile points, but I was just curious as to whether I could see them if I wanted to.

As it is (because I am interested in such things) I know what all the points are and frankly know myself whether he has achieved them or not - I am though quite interested in some of the more nebulous areas such as KUW (I mean, a lot of adults find it difficult to respect others' religious/philosophical beliefs, so I think it is asking a bit much of 4 and 5 year olds!)

Thanks for clarifying Robinpud.

When mine were in reception we had written reports every term + parents' evenings (or an afternoon) where we could look over the children's work and speak to the teacher during a 10m appointment.