Year 1!

[WhoseGotMyEyebrows]

I wondered if anyone else's dcs are struggling with the changes that come in y1. My dc is finding the change to playing less and more actual work upsetting.

I went to school in the '70s. There were separate infant and junior schools.

I definitely remember all of the infants' school having play equipment, though it did move more towards 'play when you've finished your work.'

The junior school, so year 3, was when there weren't any toys and lots of times tables on the walls.

Ha! I started a thread this eve about my worries about my ds in Yr 1, didn't see this one .
My ds not settling. I don't have much confidence in his new teacher. He doesn't seem to like her, but when I try and get him to talk about why he says it's because he has to work and gets told off if he does it wrong . He is also a summer baby so prob needs a lot more play than sit down get on with it. I know he's got to get on with it (and me!) but.... I just know it's not right at the moment

40notTrendy Is there perhaps a TA that he likes?

He skipped in this morning coz it was the regular supply teacher. Not sure what that tells me! He hasn't mentioned another adult in the classroom.

They usually have a TA I believe. I found that at nursery my dd wasn't that keen on the teacher so I used to talk to her about the assistant who she really liked. It seemed to help.

Does he really get told off for doing the work wrong? I guess it must feel like that to him anyway.

My DD doesn't seem to have much in the way of confidence in school at the moment and it was worrying me that she didn't want to go in the morning and would start crying. This morning was like a lightbulb moment when I said to her "are you sure it's that you don't want to go to school and not that you just don't want to stop watching cartoons?" The realisation spread across her face! She hadn't realised that was the problem either.

They can tell us they are unhappy and what they think they are unhappy about but then we have to decode it! Can't believe it took me so long!

I think it's probably the less play/more work thing, I hope he's not being told off! I worried before he started that school would 'change' his nature, all those feelings are coming back now. He's such a smiley playful chap I just don't want that knocked out of him.