Before I storm in and complain, do ALL primary school teachers ...

[Spidermama]

... play music in the classroom when the kids are working?

My dd has complained of having to listen to crap music (eg - Heartbeat, why do you miss when my baby kisses me etc) when she's trying to get on with her literacy worksheets.

My ds then said his teacher also puts on music. (Different teacher, different school).

Also my ds who's 7 told me today his class didn't get their French lesson because instead they watched the end of A Bugs Life.

WTF?

Mozart that is.
Is it?

You just might be a tad under stress

Yes!

Although, if you are having a REALLY bad day, pretend I said "no" .

I use a variety of music in the classroom - this can be for example Oriental music when we were learning about the school day in Japan (literacy recount) or medieval music when we did a castles topic in History. Also Classic FM's music to study to for independent working time, and to regulate noise levels. Not to mention different songs to get changed for PE/tidy up etc. I never had one complaint, and only ever had positive response from the children.

If, however, it's disturbing your child working (I'm sorry, I don't know how old she is) then maybe she, or you, could mention this to the teacher and some kind of compromise could be reached (reduction in music used etc).

The Bugs' Life thing I'm not sure about, but maybe they're going to do something related to it in the rest of the lessons? I have used Shrek in Y1 Literacy when doing quest story writing - it can be a good way of harnessing the imagination.

Decent instrumental music is different, I wouldn't object to that. But some teacher's personal taste in god-awful pop or easy listening - ffs. It's a professional setting, they're not working from home. And I'm not impressed by the "you have until the end of this song" trick either. Lazy practice IMHO.

No I would mention it if it is a barrier to concentration.
I really don't think they should have anything with words playing during working time.

Spud I like the idea of flight of bumblebee for tidying. That's different.

I'm talking about inane pop. Heartbeat, Mika and the like. All well and good when one is cooking or driving (I listen to it myself sometimes) but not when you're doing literacy work.

Training for year six sats Greensleeves. They only have 45 minutes to finish their writing in.The music finishing is a good nonverbal cue that their time is nearly up.

it was Anne Savan and she did the work in Aberdare in Welsh Wales

Went on to do a PHd following it up in Bristol IIRC

I find playing Mozart in the car magically calms my DSs', but I don't think DS1 would be able to concentrate with music playing. He even finds it disturbing in shops. The reason I chose him not to send him to a nursery we looked at was because they had background music playing, and I knew he wouldn't be comfortable with it.

I thought it was aimesd at me Hatrick!!!

PMSL@ "quality threshold"

Thanks for the link Pixie, but I don't think they're talking about the general background low quality oral litter that I'm talking about.

For example when they quote "Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents." --Ludwig van Beethove, I don't think they're talking about, 'Heartbeat. Why do you miss when my baby kisses me? Boo boo do boo boo, boo boo de boo boo'.

I think storming is in oder Spidermama, clearly children should not be subjected to heartbeat tunes.

I think a small dose of metalica myself

Good god that would mess your head right up!! Heartbeat!
Bloody hell. It will turn their brains to jam!
The teacher will be puttng on 'Anyone can fall in love...' to the eastenders theme tune by Anita Dobson next.

DS's school varies with the music, the ones who do play it (classsical) have always seemed (I sometimes do the snack drink run) to have by far the calmest classrooms and I thinks its wonderful.

Not sure about heartbeat though-

Or Crazy Frog....

It wasn't aimed at any particular poster hatrick, I'm not trying to pick a fight. I'm just expressing my personal opinion on the practice itself.

(and completely off topic but in defence of Mika not all the album is inane btw, although the released ones are- there's a song called In Any Other World which makes me cry every time (makes me think of the time DS1 was DX)).

rubbish interjection over!