Does your child go to your school?

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I’m interested in primary teachers in particular. Has anyone had their child in their school and how was it?

we recently moved a long way from our original primary school and I’m considering moving my year 3 child to the one form primary where I’m slt. I wouldn’t teach my child personally. The head is happy that I would switch year groups when he came to be in my class.

how have other people found this arrangement?

I have done it and it was absolutely fine, despite lots of people telling me it would be awful. As long as your child isn’t the type to come to you every two minutes with issues it will be ok. In my experience they try to pretend they don’t know you!
Sleepovers could be interesting mind you.
But yeah. Fine.

I was that child, would not recommend. It skews dynamics with peers and staff and when you’re very young , different roles and separating from the parent can be confusing. it’s impossible to be an anonymous child in the group.
my mum was reception and my dad was year 6

Some children only make friends to find out personal details, or to suck up. And others avoid for same reasons.

I've taught all 3 of my dc in primary. Dd wasn't keen, found it embarrassing when she got to Y6 but liked that I was on hand if she needed me (ASD). Ds1 and 2 loved it. I taught ds1 as his class teacher during Covid but only PPA cover or supply so not all day everyday. Colleagues taught their own children too and has only been an issue when previous head's child was treated preferentially to others which has now stopped with change of Head. I'd say see how it goes.

My mum taught in my primary school and it was fine. I thought it was quite funny to call her Mrs Woo instead of mum, and I liked that she was involved in my life like that.

I went to the lower school my mum taught at, and it was great. Other than hanging around for what felt like ages for her to finish at the end of the day. (I used to be sent around the school cleaning blackboards etc). Now my daughter is at a secondary where I’m in a student facing role. She loves it, it makes her life much easier. And I love catching glimpses of her !

My friend's mum was our teacher in Y4 and she called her Mum. What was infinitely weirder was me being told to call her by her first name when I went round to their house (we were best friends so it happened a lot).

I will admit there were perks to being the teacher's daughter's best friend, although that's 100% not why we were friends, we were close throughout primary school.

My father was Headmaster at the school my sisters and I attended, and it wasn't great for us. My parents had much closer options but felt it was a demonstration of confidence in the school for us to go there. It was fine in terms of the teachers, who didn't seem to single us out, but the other kids were pretty awful and I had issues with low self confidence and difficulty making friends that still linger many years later. I was bullied but wouldn't tell my parents as I felt I was responsible, and whenever I performed well classmates would say it was a fix. We were miles outside the school catchment and didn't have any kind of out-of-school social life. It's probably different with primary aged children, who are probably nicer to one another but I couldn't recommend it at senior school. To this day I don't have a single school friend with whom I've stayed in touch and wild horses wouldn't drag me to a reunion.

My daughter has attended 4 schools where I have worked. In the most recent one I am SLT. In her class there are 2 other SLT's children and 2 other staff children. The class size has varied between 25 and 85.

She is happy with it but hasn't known any different. I don't feel she is treated differently, everyone knows her but that is also the size of her hair. I love the random meetings we have and she greets me so I assume she is happy with it.