Teacher complaining because my Ds failed test

[TAMumof3]

At collection today, Ds teacher comes over to let me know, in front of all parents and with trailing Ds behind, that he'd underperformed this week in optional Y4 SATs test for all subjects and she'd had a strong word with him about his failures.
I know he's been tested over two weeks in Y4 and Y5 tests for all papers, and pointed out to her that giving him double the number of papers was against Dfes guidelines.
Funnily enough she huffed off in bad mood.
So - should teachers be approaching parents about their sons crappy performance in the playground ?
Any thoughts appreciated.

She should have asked to speak to you in private not in front of other parents.

Sorry there are no rules about how many optional papers the school gives your son only for the Y2 National Curriculum (SAT) tests.

Oh so pleased it's not just me, yes Ds was very unhappy, when we got home he said he felt dumb, both when the teacher spoke about him but also during taking the tests, he felt he could remember some of the work being covered in class but couldn't actually get the answers on the papers. He knew whilst trying to answer that he was getting some it right, but just wasn't able to do it. He said he was dreading going to school next week.
I will pop a note to the Head regarding being spoken to in the playground about progress as I don't want to be in that situation again.
Thanks for the note about no limit to tests mrz.

I think that's unacceptable on so many levels. It was wrong for the teacher to speak to you unannounced in the playground about something like this, it was wrong to do it in front of your son, it was wrong to make such a big deal about optional tests and it was wrong to give him so many tests in that time. Yes, I would drop a note to the Head about it.

I agree that's she shouldn't have spoken to you about such an issue in such a public place.
If he was doing year 4 and yr 5 papers, that indicates that he must be quite able, and maybe indicates that she felt he was underperforming due to some reason other than lack of ability, e.g. poor Attitude. So him saying he is dumb is not true and you might want to investigate further why he feels that way. It looks to me as if there's more to this than meets the eye, but it certainly needs a private conversation between you all, away from the playground.

poor kid, no way should she have said anything in front of other people. Did she actually say she'd had a strong word with him about his failures? because that is horrible, a chat about why he wasn't doing as well as expected maybe but strong words? and referring to it as failures? no wonder the poor boys feeling dumb. I would talk to the head about the teachers attitude.

Blimey, utterly disgusting behaviour on the teachers part. Show up their failure to understand that for some reason he doesn't cope well under test conditions!!!

That's awful! How dare anyone make an 8 year old feel pressure about fake exams. I'm a teacher and I'm really careful about how I pressure my 16 year old students! At 8 he should be learning because it's fun and interesting, not to do well on some stupid test that just makes teachers look good!

I dunno, as with every other thread on MN I wish I had been there to see the full context & hear the actual words.

Did the teacher mean that he was arsing around & not even trying?

Does Teach properly assess him as a child who rises to a challenge or responds well to a kick up the bottom?

Did other parents actually overhear or did it look to them like you could have been discussing anything at all?

How do you know so much about Dfes guidelines? I wouldn't have a clue!

ps: oh, and did you choose this school because it gets high SAT results or has high Ofsted grading?