how is discpline handled in your Yr2 (or nearish) class?

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One of my children has a real obsession with justice and struggles with whole class punishment as she sees it is unfair and doesn't want to be told off for things that are nothing to do with her. She is very oversensitive about it and I am concerned about how she will cope next year as her class has ALL the naughty children and the bullies (seriously - all of them from the year).

I am meeting with her new teacher later today about her other problems and I will ask how she generally goes about discipline as it is important I can prepare DD for it if it is going to be whole class punishment. otherwise next year will be awful.

What other ways are naughty children handled at this age? I thought whole class punishment had died a death and certainly my mum never used it as a teacher but it seems to still be used in their school. Obviously the next teacher might have other ideas and I am sure she will get the kids behaving better but I need to be prepared for this not to be the case.

Our children spend the entire week in anticipation of golden time on Friday. I think they have a set amount of maybe 10 minutes and you can add to it or lose it based on your daily behaviour. I am not sure how much it motivates naughty kids though. DS cannot imagine worse punishment than no golden time, but then he is quite sensible and those 10-15 minutes of play a week are huge motivation for him.

DS told me that the two naughty children can choose a friend each day to help them behave throughout the day. It certainly worked well when DS mentioned it, as said naughty children had their first golden time ever. DS was quite proud of them. I think the teacher presented as an achievement for the whole class, as they were all helping their friends. He did not mention it again, and I have not heard other parents' horror stories about naughty kids, so I assumed it worked reasonably well, but I may be wrong.

Hope it works well for your DD.

thanks - the new teacher says she doesn't do whole class punishment which is a big relief.

They have golden time and DD has lost it a number of times along with the rest of the class when not all the children have been doing anything wrong and this has been her concern/confusion/cause of serious upset!

that is quite nice about making it a class achievement when the naughty ones behave rather than a class punishment when they don't.