Parent consultation Year 1

[H34th]

Hi,

So I'm going to have my first ever face to face parent consultation. I had a couple of zoom ones for dc last year at a different school when he was in reception.

Dc is now year 1 and I would love to hear what people discuss with the teacher at this stage.

I imagine she'll do most of the talking. Saying that she was off for a lot of first half term due to personal and family (young kids) illnesses. My dc is very quiet and I can imagine him being a bit lost in the middle of confident kids and trouble causing kids.

He is also having different subjects now with different teachers, and his phonics group is led by a different year TA. My meeting is only with his teacher.

I would like to know everything about his day - his socialising at the playground ( again, I think this would be more of a q for the lunch supervisor rather than his teacher?), and all aspects of his attitude to learning and his developing skills. But this is too broad for a ten min chat?

It will be nice to hear from other parents as to what sorts of questions do they ask.

You may need to lower your expectations a bit here.

Schools will differ, obviously, but for our parents evenings we have a specific set of information that we have to give parents regarding their progress, attainment and next steps. After giving that information and a quick bit of info about their behaviour in class there isn't time for much more.

I can't speak for every other teacher, but as a former teacher if you said to me "I want to know everything about his day" I would use that as a starting point to try and give you a mini-rundown in the time permitted. It's hard sometimes to know how much detail to give to parents.

@Pinkflipflop85 @WhatAboutGiraffes

Thank you both!

We cannot contact our teacher via email etc so if need to speak to her we either need to wait for the parent consultation or speak to her at the door.
I haven't had any specific things to discuss at the door, but there's always parents there (often the same ones!). I have no idea what they could be asking. Lol.
As a parent I can talk about my child all day but realise the time constraints.

It's worth prioritising what you're most concerned about. For us, it was the social side we always wanted to ask about - DD only really played with one close friend, but we wanted to check that she was able to work well with others in the classroom. They were always able to reassure us about this, although the male teacher hadn't really taken in that she only played with one person until we pointed it out. It was good to know that there were no problems in her interactions with others - it's just that she and her friend happened to be interested in different things to the other girls.

Teacher should cover the academic stuff as standard. A blow by blow of his day is probably a waste of valuable time so I’d definitely aim to prioritise. So maybe ask how he is socially, what he enjoys most at school and if there’s anything he needs to work on like confidence.

Ours is next week and my only genuine concern is that he is happy there (I do feel like he is but that reassurance would be nice). I assume I would no by know if there were any major concerns so I just want to know whether there are any areas he would benefit from support at home and what we can do to help.