Do you celebrate children moving up a table?

[DoublyTroubly]

Hi

When a primary aged child moves up a table / group, do you celebrate? Especially if they have been working particularly hard?

I’m in 2 minds about this because:

1. I don’t want it to look like failure if they move down a group next time
2. Their hard work has already been celebrated when they bring home stickers / certificates from school

Thanks x

Miaow I feel there should be a happy medium here for both of us!

No. Because moving up a table may be due to someone else performing worse as much as your dc performing better. I do reward my dc for moving up book bands: we have doughnuts for tea.

Sound bonkers tbh

Agree with this.

Miaow it does depend on the child.
Dd1 I used to get such a full report of exactly what activity went on and who did what, I used to get other parents phoning me to ask what happened,
Dd2 I got a different full report. Her's would go: "Joshie bit Samuel because he said Samuel wouldn't share, and then Evie broke Jemima's jigsaw and Timmy didn't want to sit next to Jessie at lunch and..." it sounded like complete bedlam. I think her class was more interesting than dd1's but it was more that was what she reported rather than "In Literacy we practiced our joining words."
Ds I got what he ate for lunch and the football score at lunch time.

Interestingly they changed as they got older. By year 6, dd1's default response to asking how school was "boring". I told by the tone in which she said it whether this was good or bad.
Ds is in year 6 and I get a much more detailed account of his day.

No, we celebrated individual achievements like a merit for a project or a really good parents' evening, but wouldn't have made a big deal out of moving up a table. We tried to downplay the comparing with other children, it's not good for them socially and I think there's too much pressure on primary school children anyway thanks to SATS etc.

Only inwardly!

I'd try to reflect back their own understanding. So if they had been working for a move up and achieved it and were pleased, I'd be happy with them. (Is that what you wanted? Aw well done then, I know you worked really hard. And how are you finding the work on the new table?) If they hadn't noticed I wouldn't notice (even if I did iyswim). Was pleased with DS when he moved /down/ a table recently as he hates writing and would rather have the lower expectations.

If by celebrate you mean something like stopping off at the shop on the way home to let them pick out a pudding and a magazine then definitely. I always try to reward for hard work. But nothing over the top, just some positive reinforcement.