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This 'class soft toy' thing - does it happen everywhere?

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choosyfloosy · 31/01/2007 21:40

I've seen a few threads about these. There are a lot of things I dread about ds's education but the thought of this class teddy thing is just hateful. Am I just a joyless old trollop?

ds has just launched off into preschool and already I am boiling with fears and panic (and exhaustion, and lack of baths as the boiler has decided not to heat water atm). do I really have to help ds with a bloomin diary? for a TEDDY?

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Aloha · 31/01/2007 21:42

Not at my ds's school....thank God.

Mistymoo · 31/01/2007 21:43

Not at my ds's school but yes it happens at both the Nursery and P1 at the school I work in.

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choosyfloosy · 31/01/2007 21:45

Good, it's not universal. But how does it get introduced? Do you think a pre-emptive strike might be useful, i.e. talk to the reception teacher?

[reality check]

I really would sound like a crazed loon, wouldn't I.

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harpsichordcarrier · 31/01/2007 21:46

I have spotted it at preschool but I don't thik I understand the finer details
there's a diary??

ComeOVeneer · 31/01/2007 21:47

We have his and her's penguins to entertain every weekend with diary (and "if possible" a photograph).

harpsichordcarrier · 31/01/2007 21:48

oh, I see, you take it out for visits

NotQuiteCockney · 31/01/2007 21:48

DS1's new school does it, his old school didn't. We got it for a weekend once. It was fine. We didn't have to do a diary, we just had to take pictures of him in interesting places.

Someone else had to take the bloody thing on holiday with them. It could always be worse.

hoxtonchick · 31/01/2007 21:48

we had it at nursery. hasn't been seen in reception yet......

Kaz33 · 31/01/2007 21:48

My son's class has three teddies - aaaargh.

The child who had him over christmas did 4 pages with photos and everything, mostly the text was written by mum.

We just had him for 2 days and we had to invent something for DS1 to write about - so took him out in the dark. Then I made DS1 write two sentences about it. That is enough as far as I am concerned.

nikkie · 31/01/2007 21:49

We don't have one at school but we do for Rainbows.Dd2 came home with a badge yesterday from Drama and she keeps it for a week

marthamoo · 31/01/2007 21:49

Take it home and get your child to puke on it. Write about it in the diary.

Funnily enough...we never got the teddy again

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choosyfloosy · 31/01/2007 21:50

Allegedly some class teddies come with a diary - the 'lucky winner' or whatever it is takes this teddy home and has to write a diary for its week. I've seen at least one thread where the diary was becoming a focus for competition, and the teddy was in a different fancy dress every day or something.

[moans] no no no NO

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eviletc · 31/01/2007 21:50

we have 2! one for the class and one for the school. taking it on holiday etc is purely voluntary though.

my dcs will not be volunteering. it would be gauranteed to be lost/chewed/puked on/wee'd on/pooed on.

Greensleeves · 31/01/2007 21:50

Oh yes. At ds1's preschool it's dolls . Some of the parents have stuck family fucking photographs - with the doll - in the diary!!

We call it "dollycam". I'm always tempted to tell the truth:

"Today I went to XXX's house. XXX's mummy swore very quietly at me and shoved my legs round my neck before shoving me into a dark nappy bag. I then lay face down under the kitchen table for four hours, with my skirt hoiked up round my ears, while XXX and his family went out. Something was spilt on me and scrubbed off with a scourer, it may well have been jam. XXX's little brother ate some of my hair. Then I spent the night in a carrier bag on the back of the pushchair."

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choosyfloosy · 31/01/2007 21:51

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swedishmum · 31/01/2007 21:51

I once took the class Barnaby Bear to the Miro museum in Barcelona. Bought him a mini sombrero, and emailed headteacher with pics of him in Las Ramblas and upside down by an empty cava bottle. As she didn't know he's headed to Barcelona she was a little perplexed. But the responsibility was worse than looking after kids.

swedishmum · 31/01/2007 21:52

I didn't volunteer btw - dd nominated me.

NotQuiteCockney · 31/01/2007 21:54

Some MNers have had their bear "hibernate" for the weekend.

Ours went to Dubai, I think it was. Somewhere in the Middle East. For half term. I would be sniffy about the competitiveness, but really I just feel sorry for them, having to drag the bloody bear on holiday with them.

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choosyfloosy · 31/01/2007 21:55

Oh God

am not reassured

i lose stuff constantly

can see ds heartbroken face 'what will i tell Ms Smith mummy'

ok that's it if they introduce a class teddy it's Home Ed for me

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Waswondering · 31/01/2007 21:55

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hatwoman · 31/01/2007 21:56

we have one - I had no idea others did. drives me mad. you always get some prat who writes at length about what an amazing (wholesome, educational) day Ben the Bear had. He usually helps make organic salmon fish cakes for tea or some such shite. and then they take photos to prove it. makes me want to puke. I do sometimes make organic salmon fish cakes (though have never found Ben particularly helpful) but I don't see the need to document it in Ben's diary for all the lesser mortals to read. I let dd scrawl a single "sentence" across the page and draw a picture. I usually persuade her to lie because "Ben spent all night on the floor in the hallway and never even got to take his coat off" is possibly too much the other end of the spectrum. Personally I could happily lose Ben down the barrel of the washing machine.

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choosyfloosy · 31/01/2007 21:58

look, could some feature journalist do a searing expose of this creeping mould on the nation's education?

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Gameboy · 31/01/2007 22:14

It's all these guys fault....The Geographical Association

Part of the curriculum I'm afraid - teaches about travel and geography!

Hulababy · 31/01/2007 22:25

They have one is PP2 (Y1 age) in DD's school. I am dreading it!

Califrau · 31/01/2007 22:27

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