Does your (teachers) or your DC's school have a Rainbow Room and if so can someone explain the concept to me, because I don't quite get it....

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It sounds completely bonkers.

Is it a primary or secondary school?

yep crazee school idea

sounds bizarre surely children will be anughty to get in there

is called a 'nuture room'
the idea behind it is that it creates a family atmosphere that improves children's social skills so that they will have more confidence to learn.

I think it's a load of bollocks.

As if 1 hour a day is going have any effects either way. Plus they are missing out on work. And the children who behave think that the children that don't are being rewarded.

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Is the current thinking with SENCo training these days.
All schools are also getting ELSAs - emotional literacy support assistants

so the 6 year olds can discuss why they poked people with a pencil or talked on the carpet

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doesn't sound as if they have presented it correctly to the other kids

although it may be good for the kids who 'need it'

It is really really difficult when there is a child with behavioural problems in a class because the other children are too little to understand why s/he is being treated differently.

what a crock of shite!

unbloodybelievable

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There's another mumsnet thread today about children with SN and how some of them really need a space at school to chill out and get away from their classroom. I think even small children can understand that some children find it harder to be in a group or be quiet or calm.

My dds (7 and 6) don't have special needs but they know a lot of children on autistic or adhd spectrums, both in school and outside of it, and they can appreciate that these children need to be left alone sometimes or given their own space.

the school my kiddies used to attend also had a 'nuture room', which was there for the children who had behavioural issues!!!

I found that the worst behaved kiddies in the school, and also the child who bullied DD1, went there almost every day, to receive a massage to relax them into behaving better..(no idea on that concept), and then toast and a drink to ensure that they started the day on a good breakfast to help them concentrate....and that was after they had already been to breakfast club too!

the school was very much into 'touchy feely' nurturing with these children, and then at the end of each term took them all on a trip out too (the beach in the summer, a theme park in the spring term, and to the cinema once in the winter term)......while all the children who KNEW how to behave had to stay in school working.

A group of us other mums decided one year to revolt against the school, and about 20 of us pulled out our children for a day of fun to reward them for putting up with the 'bad kids' at school for the rest of the year.......and we all put in in letters to the head too to make sure of maximum impact.

the head called us all in to try and sort out the 'problem' we all had with her 'ideas', and we went and told her why we felt we needed too.

she seemed to be utterely dumbfounded that we could be so alien to her thought processes.........so most of us then decided to pull out our children and go to a school with a better phylosophy(sp?).

turned out she was later forced asked to resign and another head put in her place!

Fennal.......the school my children go to now have a 'sunflower' room. it is set up for the children who are on the autistic spectrum but are able to go into mainstream, and also for those they think are dyslexic or are dyslexic, and also one boy goes who lost his mum to cnacer. It is a quiet room for them to go when they feel that it is all getting too much for them to handle in the classroom.

I think it a wonderful place, and also a wonderful idea, used with the right reasons for the right children to benefit from it.

now, if all school had this, for these kids who do need a place to escape, then maybe more schools could be more inclusive of children who want to be in the mainstream with their siblings or friends, yet cannot always cope for the entire day.

The Sunflower room sounds good.

I agree maybe a treat room that's also a chill -out room plus a punishment room is trying to do too much.

unfortunately an overly PC attitude by schools in using these rooms for all sorts of purposes seems to breed a lot of parental resentment judging by the posts here. It IS good practice to have a quiet space/safe space for kids with SN. E.g. in one school I visited there was sensory room type equipment in the Sencos room.

I agree that the chocolate fountain is daft = would have thought that some of the children with behaviour issues could be affected by chocolate/sugar rushes

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and giraffes have no vocal cords so they don't make a noise.....

although I'm sure I heard one grunting at Chester Zoo....... think I need another cup of tea

These sort of ideas had the p*ss well and truly taken out of them in "Addams Family Values" ... (as the comfort cabin)
Wednesday was put in there for being brunette!
She later burned it down. A good idea.

The way this school operates it is useless and just driving divisions into the classroom. If I was good at maths and got to do more maths while the out of control child who hit me gets school paid for chocolate??!!!!
I'd riot at the school gate for a refund on my council tax personally.
What IS the point?

PMSL at burning it down.....had forgotten that film!!!!

I really do think that someone at some point had a very good idea for it all, and tried to put it to good use.

then the nutty brigade moved in on it all and it has all gone tits up in many schools, which is a huge shame for those children who have a geniune need for a calm room/space to go a calm down.

It is not, and should never have been used for, pupils to go and have chocolate or treats, regardless of whether they have SN, ASD, dyslexia, just generaly in need of some TLC.