Being Informed of ability/progress etc

[IslaValargeone]

Even if no special mention was made at the time, would you expect to be informed at parent's evening or in the end of term report, if your child was being removed from their class a couple of times a week to work with children in a different class?

They have to tell you if they put your child on the SEN register.

But apart from that, they don't have to tell you anything.

At my school they do many diff interventions for all sorts of things, and they don't normally tell the parents. It's a bit annoying. I would rather know. But I guess it's because so many children are on interventions and it's no big deal....

What are the circumstances OP? Is your child at the top or bottom end? My DC's school sounds like yours, Indigo, in that so many children seem to be doing various groups for various reasons, it's no big deal to the children, but I think as a matter of courtesy as much as anything else parent's should be told. Actually, thinking about it further, I could just ask the gossipy parent=helper in DD's class...

I'm really interested in your replies ladies, in that the answer seems to depend on what the circumstances are? lovecheese I also believe that it's as much a matter of courtesy,and I don't want the gossipy helper knowing more about my dc's school day than I do.

The school have to balance 'being good with communication' with 'not panicking parents'.

Some parents will overreact if school tells them they are taking little Johnny out for some extra numeracy / handwriting / motor skills / social skills / phonics / .....

While some parents won't. So I guess I can see why some schools err on the side of not telling parents too much.

But just ask the teacher. I'm sure she'll be happy to tell you. Only thing I've found is that often the TA runs the intervention - and the teacher knows very little about it....

The thing to remember is, if he's not on the SEN register than school don't think there is a problem.

If a volunteer is gossiping then tell the HT/management team, that's Not On

And what everyone else has said

Our school would let you know if your child was being given extra help as part of a group or scheme. They wouldn't mention going to different classes because that is something that a lot of the children do, eg children from two or three year groups learning phonics.

If they needed help as they were struggling then our school would say and I'd be furious about not knowing. If the child was doing a G&T/extension class then they would only say if asked.

Last year DS was getting some extra classes on creative writing. It was just for 6 weeks whilst they had extra resource. I got a letter home about it in the 5th week.