new year 2 teacher not making a good impression so far.....

[typoqueen]

so we are on day 3 of the new school year, my dd has a new teacher (she is new to the school) and things are not look good, first day new teacher was in tears by lunch time!!!! the class is so disorganised in the morning, there seems to be no structure at all compared to year 1, there are more sobbing children in this one class than I have ever seen, there are more parents waiting to see the head teacher to complain from this one class over the last 3 days than I had seen all of last year, and for the very first time I will be seeing the head, dd came out crying due to being told she will have no break time tomorrow morning due to daring to go hang her coat up and have a wee after lunch!!!!.....this is after spending most of last year convincing dd that nothing bad will happen to her in the girls toilets (boys went in girls loo and flooded it early last year) and she would hang on till home time, sometimes having little accidents on way home and 3 bladder infections!!!...one unhappy mummy..

Give it a bit longer! It's only day 3!

It doesn't sound great, but re: the going to the loo after lunch... What procedures are in place in school? If she has had all of lunch to go to the toilet then, by year 2, she should be going then. Equally if she left without asking and is supposed to, then I can understand.

In my school, leaving the room without permission, even if only for the toilet, is an instant removal from the next lesson (not English or Maths). Work set and sent into next class. Teachers need to know where their pupils are, and we cannot do that if they take themselves off whenever they want.

I'm very sympathetic about the bladder issues, but to me that is a different problem to the teacher being disorganised and the children generally being upset.

Hopefully the parents are checking the facts with the teacher first before running to the head. Maybe the teacher is stricter than the children are used to or more shouty. 3 days doesn't sound very long to give someone a chance to me.

Day 3?

You seem to know a great deal about what happens in the classroom, how many other parents are seeing the head etc. Teacher on tears? Are you sure?

I think you need to go and see the teacher, not the head, and ask exactly what DD had done. The account given here is so obviously wrong I suspect you may have a partial account.

Is she new as in from another school or as in just qualified?
If she is just qualified or training then it could be her supervision is inadequate, don't blame it all on her.

I too hope facts are checked. Many teachers 'go in hard' at the start of term, children way not like it but it is the best way to get rules set and followed. Maybe she explicitly said no child should get up after lunch time to put their things away and your DD then broke that rule or wasn't listening to the instructions. Missing break time IMO isn't a huge punishment if your DD did very obviously break the rules and very obviously wasn't listening. If the teacher didn't make it clear though then you are right to be concerned.

It is only going to make relations worse and your teacher a lot more nervous and less established if you run to the head. Give her a chance, don't join the big gang of parents being tbh a bit OTT and if you do have concerns go to the teacher herself, surely she deserves that respect as a professional. You don't know exactly what goes on in her classroom unless you are sitting in the corner all day.