Teachers- would you take your child to school?

[pugsandseals]

I am a visiting teacher & need to work a couple of days next week, but DD(age 8) who goes to private school has already finished for the summer. How do you think schools will react if I do? With the current obsession with CRB's & signing in etc. I am a little worried she may not be welcomed! Personally I have no problem as I know she will happily sit in the corner & read/ds & leave me to teach, but I still worry if it will be seen as a professional thing to do.

Any advice?

It depends a lot on how long you have been there and how well you get on with the Head. As a supply teacher I would think it unprofessional to ask. There are lots of university students who can't get holiday work-can't you pay one of them? (One who already has a CRB)

I am taking my two dc into school with me this Friday as their school is shut for an INSET day. My HT was more fine about it.

piscesmoon is right. There's a world of difference between an established member of staff taking in a child, and a visiting supply teacher.

As a supply teacher I would take the view that I shouldn't have taken the work if I wasn't free. You can just turn it down. I had a phone call at 7.30am today asking if I could teach today, but I couldn't. If I knew that my DC was on holiday by a certain date I would turn down the work or get childcare. I put things like that on the calendar so that I leave them free of work.

I wouldn't take my child into a school I was visiting. I would (and have done) take my child into school if I was teaching my own class and the Headteacher and any adults I was working with were happy for me to do so. I've done this once on a teaching day; I had a particularly challenging Y6 class in a rough school that found it hard to get supply teachers. DH (also a teacher) usually looked after our DD one day a week but was away on an overseas conference (international qualification teaching, not just a jolly), we don't have family locally and most of our friends are teachers too so we couldn't use them either. The nursery that DD usually attends were often able to take her if I had to be away (it was adjacent to my school) but on this occasion they couldn't.

We had tried everything before I spoke to the Head and asked her advice. She was very quick to suggest that I bring DD (aged nearly 3) to school for the day as it would be easier for everyone if I was in to teach them. I wouldn't do it at the moment as I provide PPA cover so although I'm a permanent member of staff I don't have my own class so it's not quite the same.

I think that it boils down to the fact that if you get caught with a sudden emergency you could ask, but if you have known the holiday dates for at least a year you have had plenty of time to get childcare organised.

I can't believe how extreme these views are! I am only talking about popping in for a couple of hours to give a few small group lessons - I really don't want to disrupt DD with a new childcare facility/strange place for the odd couple of hours, I just need to make some time up.

Nice to hear some of you in charge of whole classes have done it though, gives me more confidence in asking. Head has said it's fine BTW!!!

Glad it has worked out. I don't think that I was extreme-I would just have felt very awkward about it and so wouldn't have asked.