5 year olds made to miss playtime

[catkinq]

My son's reception class were made to all miss playtime today becasue of the bad behaviour of a minority of repeatedly badly behaved children. Only a few were being naughty and the teacher admitted that my son, and most of the others, were doing exactly what they were tld but said that she was using "peer pressure" to make teh bad ones be good. She also sid that teh good children had to act as "role models" for the bad ones (there were about 3) and that they all had to be kept in so that teh bad ones could see the role models. I checked that teh good kids were not encouraging the naughty ones by laughing or anythign and she said that they were not and repeated that they were being completely good but just went on abou tpeer pressure again. Is this usual for a reception class? They are only 5 years old?

This is a bit harsh, at 5 they wouldn't understand what she was trying to do. They will all think it's because of them, even the good ones. Playtime is for them to run around and burn off energy.

I'd be really pissed off at this.

Stupid idea and very unfair.

It's for the teacher to deal with the badly behaved children, not the the well-behaved children.
Surely it would make a better point if the well-behaved children were out playing.

I agree with avenanap in that playtime is for them to run around and burn off a bit of energy. Perhaps the ones misbehaving might be better behaved after a good run round.

I would call it very unfair - and not likely to work anyway at that age.

Unfair and sends the wrong message to the well-behaved kids. Never works ime.

well, the teacher would have had to deal with a load of hyper and resentful kids who hadn;t had any exercise...

v bad idea, esp at five. Has she any idea about children? I'd complain heartily.

(also mention the minimum levels of exercise for 5 yr olds - at least 1 hour running around a day)

Exactly the same happened at dd's school yesterday because of 3 boys in the class - I was going to question it but other things occured. While I think it's wrong dd understood exactly why it was as did one of the boys I took home (who was involved), he said next time someone asked him to fight he wouldn't.

Agree it shouldn't penalise the whole class

don't think the whole class should be penalized.

But don't think there's anything wrong with making naughty children miss playtime.

Apparently an incident occurred in the year 1 class of our school recently when a boy shouted "stupid bitch" across the classroom . Nobody knew who it was and nobody confessed, so the year 1 teacher kept all the boys in after school (with the parents' knowledge) until the guilty party fessed up, which he did, after considerable pressure from his peers who were all eager to go home!

In what way are quiet well-behaved children able to exert "peer pressure" on the rowdy ones?

And what makes it the children's responsibility to deal with behaviour which the teacher is unable to cope with?

And do schools even know that collective punishments were outlawed by the Geneva convention?

Playtime is not a reward it is part of the school's curriculum. It is not earned by good behaviour - it is a healthy and important part of the school day. Regardless of behaviour children should get it just the same, like maths or geography...

Shave off two or three minutes of playtime if the teacher can't think of a more creative way of controlling the class but the whole of playtime? For FIVE year olds? [hmmm]

Agree heartily with EffieePerine.

Reception children should be provided with continual access to the outdoors and shouldn't be having playtimes as such.

"Effective practice

• Ensure that children have opportunities to be outside on a daily basis all year round.

• Help children to understand how to behave outdoors and inside by talking about personal safety, risks and the safety of others.

• Where possible link the indoor and outdoor environments so that children can move freely between them."

taken from the EYFS curriculum