Whole class detention for year 1

[MinnieMountain]

DS told me that his whole class is being kept in for 2 lunchtimes next week for being silly. Part of his class was kept in this week for mucking around.

Isn't it a bit harsh to keep 5/6yos in like this? It sounds like the silly behaviour has been getting worse but surely there are better ways of dealing with it?

It isn't your job to question the day to day running of the school.

You can question it as a parent. Was my son misbehaving and if not should he have been punished to the teacher?

You need to separate your Parent Head from your Governor Head.

I really wish I hadn't posted on here now. I mention something whilst worried and sleep deprived, try to explain myself and all I get is people having a go at me.

I'm perfectly capable of separating the two roles thank you very much.

DH and I have had a proper chat and agreed that whilst it wasn't ideal, I'm not going to say anything as it won't achieve anything.

Am now going to flounce as I suspect the responses I'm going to get to this [blows raspberry]

Okaaaay.
How mature.

In my training year. I kept my mixed reception and year one class in for 75% of their lunchtime playtime.
They had lunch first, and I sorted out with the MTA’s that the go in 5 minutes early to start right at lunch on the dot.
When they came back, I made it clear that this wasn’t a punishment, but that I was sad that we weren’t working very well as a team, and it was really really important that we fixed so we could keep having fun and learning together.
Whilst we were inside we talked about behaviour, and if people could pick out anything naughty they had done, personally only or anything they were finding hard.
We then talked about our ground rules very briefly. Re-wrote them on the smart board like we had done on my first day. And talked about what they would like to happen. What they enjoyed, if there was anything they would like to change about the classroom. And what we needed to do to work well as a team.
I then sent them out for ten minutes to have a run for the last bit of playtime. Re jigged the classroom a little. (Blankets on the floor around the carpet so everyone had more room to stretch and be comfy).
I binned off the afternoon literacy session as I could prove that coming up with the rules and having the group discussion met some of our literacy targets (and the teaching standards for me!)
We came in from lunch, and had a short circle time, where every child had to pay themselves and the person to their left a compliment. And then we had an extended period of continuous provision (free learning through play type activities of the students choice) with outdoor and indoor play. We then tidied up , had afternoon snack as a carpet picnic, did book bags and coats and had a ceebebies story for the last 15 minutes.

The class teacher, the head and my university mentor all praised my technique, with the head calling it one of the finest bits or eyfs/ks1 behaviour management and student led learning she had ever seen.

Check out what the teacher is actually doing, this class missed out on conventional playtime, but we did a structured activity and had an afternoon full of play.

I highly doubt your teacher is going to put them in for lines or silence at 6!

Dont agre with whole class punishments. In my opinion its lazy teaching, unless literally every single pupil in the class has been misbehaving.

As a school governor, your should not be discussing anything about your school or individuals (even without names attached) that is raised at meetings, either on this or any other forum. Utterly unprofessional. Those meetings and discussions are confidential, and it is core to being a governor that you understand that.

Disclaimer: I am a school governor.