I Forgot to pack 5 year old DD's trainers for PE so she was told to pick up rubbish from the school field instead - am I right to be angry??

[mumtochloe]

I feel this is more akin to a punishment. DD said she had been given a really important exciting job to do instead of PE but to be honest I am angry about the whole thing. Would you be angry too or am I being a bit silly?

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they play cricket

Mine didn't they just faught over what they wanted to do. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh not how I like to spend a Friday afternoon. Or any time of the week TBH.

they ahve a list that goesa roudn the clssrooms int run
if its full ( thactivity) oyu cant do it

Yeh that's the way way we worked it. Sign up on Monday so you knew what you were going to be missing. The grass is always greener became the class motto. In the end I changed it to everyone doing the same activity. Seemed to work a little better with that class. I'm so thankful I'm not involved in that anymore.

At our primary school plimsolls stayed on their coat hooks in a pump bag with their white shorts - supposed to come home evert halfterm for laundry and size check but they stayed all year sometimes but at least they always had them!

Never had golden time though - I still don't understand how that works.

What is golden time???

At my kids' schools the PE kit stays there until half term as well. Before puberty when they don't smell, that's much the easiest.

I think a punishment should always be for a child's behaviour, not for their parent's behaviour. And below about secondary school age, things like homework, PE kit, uniform, lunch etc., are something parents are responsible for, not children, so I wouldn't agree with punishing for that sort of thing. But in this case she wasn't punished, so I wouldn't bother about it. Having said that, what on earth are they doing that they need trainers for not shoes? They run around in their normal shoes in playtime, which usually lasts longer than the average PE lesson.

Golden time is - if they've been good all week - they get time on Friday afternoon to do an activity of their choice (take in a toy, play outside etc.) In ds1's class they have a really complicated points system - you start off with 10 at the start of the week and you get docked points for various things (you also get docked if your table or the whole class is naughty - to get that peer pressure working). I think if you have fewer than 5 points by the end of the week you miss out on Golden Time (you can get points back for good work/behaviour too)

Don't know what they do with the children who get into minus figures Send 'em out washing the teachers' cars, probably.

I'd be livid.

on a friday after nnon they all get 30 minurs of choosing an activity
if hey are nory they los increments of 5 mins

I would be livid too!

NORY?????

los incrementos, surely?

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Good excuse at 9pm Friday I suppose. Will let you off this time

Our school has spare kit (including plimsols) if they forget their PE clothes. Is it that unusual? 3 of 30 children I had to run get clothes for last week, then it turned out 2 of them were in the wrong shoe size (judgingin on how they couldn't evne squeeze into the plimsole of same size)....

Well I would be annoyed if 5yr dd had been made to pick up rubbish because of this (or anything for that matter). It's just not appropriate at that age and it would have been my fault anyway not hers!!!

But she liked picking up the litter. She might not have liked a worksheet in another class. Which would be more of a punishment to her?

Understand what you're saying but what I mean is she shouldn't have any type of punishment at all.

Yes, but she didn't see it as a punishment. SO it wwasn't one. It was an alternative activity because she couldn't do PE.

My ds, also 5, is hugely anti-litter at the moment, to the extent that by the time we arrive at school, dd's pushchair id piled high with it. He would not view this as a punishment. Being made to do a worksheet while everyone else was outside certainly would.

DD (7) and DS#1 (9) are told that if they forget their PE kit or have an incomplete PE kit they will lose priviledges. It is seen as a punishment. Don't have a problem with that. It now means that they make more effort to ensure that they have everything they need instead of leaving it all to me. They need to learnt to get themselves organised. However I think that would be too harsh for a 5 yr old. I would ask why this happened - if your child isn't bothered I would imagine that it wasn't a punishment just an alternative thing to do. Bare feet would have been inappropriate outside I'd think and school shoes might have been impractical, and if it was inside there is always the problem of verrucas in bare feet.

marthamoo! Our school has golden time too! Thought it was just us...

At this time of year, on the school field, I don't see that children can't do PE in bare feet. It's not like they'd be sliding around in mud. Inside, do MNers really think verrucas are a serious problem?