Shall I write an alternative diary for the school bear?

[Molehillmountain]

He's with us for the week and I am hugely tempted to take him to greggs and buy him sausage rolls and fruit shoots, given the wholesome experiences recorded in his diary so far!!!

Try to include some very long words in the write up or something equally tricky to read out, so YOU DON"T GET IT AGAIN ...

Before I had children our group of hillwalking nutters took a load of children along with us, one of whom had the class bear - it went to the pub, it went rock climbing (and yes, we did put it in a climbing harness and hoiked it halfway up a cliff then took a photo) and it went caving (not a show cave, proper mucky potholing).

It also did an educational trip to Eyam and learned a lot about the plague, though it didn't catch anything...

what's happened to the MN bear blog? - it says it's been updated, but I can't see it

Greggs sausage rolls and Fruit Shoots isn't really that wild. But only if it doesn't inconvenience you.....or if your own DC doesn't start wanting some unhealthy food/drinks also....!

Pah - just stick the same picture in 5 times (for each day of the week) of School Bear in front of TV watching Jeremy Vile with a box of doughnuts ...

We had the school bear over Christmas and he burst a seam... so we took loads of photos of: empty food packets from Xmas food and said the bear had eaten too much, we put a surgeon's mask on grandad, used a syringe/needle to put the bear to sleep, then stitched him up. We found it really funny! Not sure if we used the pictures in the diary in the end cos after that we saw Charles Dance at Paddington Station, so he agreed to a photo with DD and the bear. Plus the bear met Paddington! I think we had more fun with the bear than DD did!

We took the school rabbit (a teddy bear version) to the farmers market, and took photos of it with some 'countryside friends' on the butchers stall. My son thought it was hilarious. I hate those diaries with a passion but the kids LOVE them. I think it is a very thinly disguised way for the teachers to have a snoop. Sadly we always seem to be early in the class so don't even get the fun of reading about all the super educational activities the class bear has done with other families...

i agree the bear is a pain in the arse. we have had the rabbit to stay for the weekend, for the fourth time since september! i got a little sick of having to write bullshit diaries for the bear, so this weekend the diary was a little sarcastic, and bear had started to wonder why he kept having to return the mad house, where he was subjected to a disinfectiong bath...i swear the reason he comes to us is that we are the only people who clean him. he was lucky he was allowed in the house the state he was in and by the end of the weekend my son was also calling him the tramp rabbit. and as for pictures ours comes home with its own camera!

You're lucky if you get our school bear at all. School policy is: the bear isn't allowed to miss a single day of school, so he can go away for weekends (34 possibles), school hols (only 6) or single overnight trips as long as he is back the next day. With 30 children in a class, the chances are you won't get the bear at all and certainly not to go on your vacation. We only got him over Xmas cos DD badgered the school several weekends and was told he was already engaged! The idea is to get kids writing and enjoying it, the reality is that unless they have done something exciting with the bear then they couldn't give two monkeys about writing the diary! Ours doesn't come with a camera so if you don't have a camera or the facilities to print your pictures you're a bit stuffed!

Ds had a class dog who while visiting him went to another classmate's party and landed on the cake. He also got squashed when the boys played football.

Our class bear (I work in a Y1 class) only goes home at weekends. It goes home with the star of the week, which is a different child each week.

But children don't take it home at school holidays - the class teacher, me or the other TA does.

Hopefully every child will get one weekend each.

I had it over Christmas so it got a Christmas present and enjoyed Christmas lunch with a glass or two of fizz :) We didn't do much other than that I have to admit, not a holiday we get up to lots of adventurous stuff.

After going to a party on friday night bear "hung over" at Xs place on saturday.

I mock but gently, did read somting very much like that in a "bear diary" back in reschool days. The same preschool that let DS take bear for a week when we moved house so DS could "show "bear his new house.

There's nothing to say that your stories need to be starkly truthful. For starters, if the bear isn't even a real person and is just a pretend person, then his adventures can be pretend too. And for a bear, exploring your garden or local park is actually quite a big deal already - it's as exciting as going to Paris! Stick some litter on the ground, and a croissant on a plate, and will indeed be Paris.

Ah how sad (not) our bear has returned whence she came. DP went a bit mad with photos so we had two pages of them!

He's gone! All's right with the world! Bye bye bear

This is hilarious! We had one bear diary that came back from school with pictures of the bear training with the Chelsea football team as one of the parents was a physio!! How dull did we look having a picnic in our own garden, and oh yes, washing the bear!