Punished for making mistakes - reasonable?

[Namechangersanon]

Ds is in year 6, the change in atmosphere has been dramatic, school, which also changed leadership this year, has gone from being a pleasantly supportive environment to a highly pressured punitive environment.

Dcs will lose break for poor performance on their times tables, homework not completed, Homework Diary not signed by parents, not filling in their reading record, forgetting their PE stuff! I'm sure there are others.

Today Ds told me they'd lose their lunchtime if they incorrectly marked their partners spelling test. I know they want to prep them for secondary and they want them to do well in the Sats but am I alone in thinking this is going too far... punishing a child for making a mistake, and if you take a lunchtime from a child for a mistake, what do you do when it's something more deliberate?

Sounds like a recipe for making children hate school (and lose respect for the teachers) at just the age you want the exact opposite.

Nothing more likely to cause a sense if injustice than punishing DCs for tables, spellings and HW. With the best will in the world some primary DCs still find these hard and RL can cause forgotten HW and lost PE kit.

My senior school DDs will do HW at 10pm or in the bus. Primary DCs don't have these get out of trouble tricks.