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Why did DSs teacher get his reading book level wrong

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ValentinCrimble · 08/10/2010 22:46

DS has just begun year 2 in his small independant school...10 in the class. they read the Ginn reading 360 books and though he is fine he is a bit bored by the stories and they push him a bit because he probably could do better...his level is as expected though so they are not at all worried and neither am I.

He was just coming to the end of level 4 last week and today he came out with a new book...I saw it was a different colour and asked his teacher who was next to me...Oh has he moved on to a new level? "Yes" she said..."now he's on level 4"

I said "Hasn't he just done level 4?" As I know he has completed it all...and she said "No" quite clearly.

Ilooked at his parent to teacher book on the way home which is a book where teacher and parent write feedback to one another on the DCs reading..and she had written clearly "Try level 4"

But when I got home, the new book is level 5! As I knew it should be! Is his teacher losing her marbles or is this kind of mistake usual? It seems odd that she told me verbally and had already written it down in his book!

She is new and very keen...so...am I worrying or is this kind of thing normal? I find it irritating as not sure now how DS is doing...and please don't advise me to stop stressing about levels...they stick to the levels in order in his school and I have been told that he needs to pull his weight a bit more about reading...he is very capapble when it comes to reading things other than what he has been given at school!

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cory · 08/10/2010 22:51

Is it normal...errr....for a human being....at the end of a long day...to make a simple mistake?..

Nah, never heard of it. There has got to be something underlying this.

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ValentinCrimble · 08/10/2010 22:55

Lol Cory....how DARE this teacher not be perfect! I knew it!

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Feenie · 08/10/2010 22:56

Erm...he has moved from 4 to 5 and you are worried about......?

She made a mistake, but he is still reading the right level, so...

BuckBuckMcFate · 08/10/2010 22:58

Sorry ValentinCrimble but hahahahahahahahaha

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ValentinCrimble · 08/10/2010 22:59

BUt it seems....funny to make the same mistake twice...especially when moving a child to another level....he must have written in the book earlier in the day and even when I challenged her she stuck to her guns...I would have checked if I were her...she was right next to me and I was holding the book.

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ValentinCrimble · 08/10/2010 23:01

oh I know Buck....I know...I am an obssesive freak...I really can't help it. Don't laugh at the afflicted!

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cory · 08/10/2010 23:02

When I first started teaching (university level) I used to have to start every class retracting the silly things I had said last time- and I was considered unusually good at my subject. But teaching is a profession that offers unlimited opportunities for making a fool of oneself.

Feenie · 08/10/2010 23:02

True, but I don't think it's worth making anything of it, tbh
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ValentinCrimble · 08/10/2010 23:05

I just don't want the teacher mistakenly telling the head teacher that DS is on the wrong level...he is on a bursary and needs to do well. Tiny school and head teacher akes a vested interest in all the kids.

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BuckBuckMcFate · 08/10/2010 23:06

I can't help it ValentinCrimble

You have really made me chuckle and I've been a right misery all evening so thank you!

Feenie · 08/10/2010 23:09

Bring it up on Monday the, if it's bothering you - mention the comment in the book and ask if it's right because she said something different on Friday? Expect she will smile and apologise.

BuckBuckMcFate · 08/10/2010 23:10

The headmaster will see his book record and know exactly what level he is on.

Please don't stress about this

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ValentinCrimble · 08/10/2010 23:10

You ought to see me on parents evening then. You'd be rolling in the aisles.

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ValentinCrimble · 08/10/2010 23:11

Yes. True. (breathes into paper bag)

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NickOfTime · 08/10/2010 23:11

just cross it out and write '5' and put a smiley face.

if the book is recorded by title in his reading record, then i'm sure the ht won't throw him out of the school for only being on 4...

i'm pretty sure he'd check the official records before showing him the door.

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ValentinCrimble · 08/10/2010 23:15

Not recorded by title in my copy...

(crumples paper bag up and hyperventilates)

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BuckBuckMcFate · 08/10/2010 23:17

You do sound like a lovely Mum VC and it's obvious you are really interested in his development.

These things happen, DS2, also Yr2, had the same book sent home a week after reading it first time. I just wrote 'already read' and a smiley face in the book. Mistakes do happen

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ValentinCrimble · 08/10/2010 23:18

Ok Ok....will chill out. Been told. That's why I come here...sensible folk!

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emptyshell · 08/10/2010 23:19

You'd freak out if you ever saw me fill in a reading diary then - I quite regularly put the wrong date, wrong year (until at least May I'm generally a year out), completely wrong book or god-knows what in!

You're usually hearing readers while trying to do a million other things, older kids knock at the door with messages just as you've heard a reader and before you write in their diary, there's a set-to over who's looked at who funny, someone's lost a pencil... anything can completely distract you and lose your chain of thought!

If the title of the book's written down in there it won't flipping well matter - it'll be pick the next one in the series/something in the same colour box when it comes to book change time anyway - I never know off the top of my head what stage is what - I know so-and-so's on the blue books which are below the green books or whatever, would always have to double check the stage numbers - especially if asked at the classroom door on a Friday evening since my brain knocks off and goes to bed about 3.15pm!

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ValentinCrimble · 08/10/2010 23:22

Lol emptyshell...I'm notoriously OCD about many things. Will try not to inflict it on DC's teacher on Friday's. The rest of the week though..well then her ass is mine!

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BuckBuckMcFate · 08/10/2010 23:29

NickOfTime · 09/10/2010 04:43

once i read with a (hugely struggling) yr 2 and she kept saying 'i can't do it' at the first page of the book. i was very bright and breezy, very up, very 'of course you can! let's do it together!' whilst directing other children away etc.

having finally mastered the front page, we turned over and found....

... the bit the kids were supposed to read. in big type.

but, you know what, she had read it. i was mortified, but thought i'd better 'fess up. i laughed and said to her 'oh my goodness! guess what you just did?!'

her confidence after that was astounding, and within the next few weeks she totally flew. not condoning being utterly off the ball, you understand, but it was just one of those things. could have been awful, but fortunately wasn't. i always check the second pages in early scheme books now, to make sure i'm not supposed to read them myself.

savoycabbage · 09/10/2010 05:30

I can barely remember the names of my own children sometimes. 'You There' and 'That Other One'.

oxocube · 09/10/2010 05:34

I frequently call kids the wrong name, forget to give out important letters and then spend my evening emailing parents, and generally doing a million and one stupid things - the parents must think I'm rubbish sometimes, esp as lots of them seem super-organised .

Teachers are human, we make mistakes esp on a Friday afternoon

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ValentinCrimble · 09/10/2010 08:12

Nickoftime

Hmm...sounds like good one. My DS is a bt like that...lots of wailing about it being "toooo haaaard" when I know he could read it if it were about rocks and minerals or volcanoes! Last night I gave him one of those collectors magazines with a lump of crytal on the front and he sat there thrilled and trying his hardest to read it....must find some books on subjects he likes!

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