Do any of you go in to school to help the teacher in the classroom?

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We were asked for volunteers to go and help with the children.

The teacher has 13 in her class.

i am the only one who has volunteered and was so exhausted I had to have a nap in the afternoon!!

I took them all to the library in groups, I did all the homework sheets and stuck them in books, I sorted out break and did flash cards with them all to see if they knew their letters.

If I hadnt done it then the teacher would have had to do it. I dont know how she fits it all in and there are only 13 of them. How do teachers cope with a class of 28?

adrenaline....and then they leave to get a better job with more money lol! (or like me) have two children and 'forget to go back' lol!

I helped out in a class of 30 yesterday.
Swelled to 60 when we joined another class for PE.
It was fun, there's a lot of time wasted on discipline/management, though. I like it because it makes me forget everything else for a while; like sweeping cobwebs out of your mind. And helps you understand how they are learning.

13, gosh that is a small class. The local school near to me were forced to combine reception and year one when their numbers fell to 20.

Dd is in a class of 20 1 teacher plus teaching assistant. Parents are never asked to help out.

I have taught a group of 15 in an out of school class and it is hard work and I only had them for an hour. Fun though!!!

I remeber helping out in the classroom when dd was in the infants,it was positively knackering.I do think everyone should do it because as a parent you learn so much about you child's day,their classmates,the work they do and above all what a marvellous job teachers do .I wouldn't be a teacher if you paid me a million pounds!!

I go into ds's preschool and give music classes, it is nice to meet all his friends and teachers other than as "ds's mum". I do find it tiring - much more so than an 8 hour day of my normal music teaching, but I think it's because with your normal job you get very good at functional autopilot.

I loved doing it though.

I got to know all the children and suss them out a bit!! And after doing the flash cards with them it made me realise ds has some work to do!

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I do it on a regular basis and I love it

Country dancing was knackering though!!!!!