I have a quick question, I realise it's a 'first world problem' but these things are important if you are young.
I'm overseas. This is relevant because we are in a country where we have had draconian lock downs for covid and restrictions have been going on until today!
My kid is at intermediate (year 7 and 8) but the teachers are primary trained.
The issue is camp, school does camp at the end of year 8, my kid is one of about 4 who have no place on a camp so have to stay behind with the year 7's. There are a bunch of kids who were away with school when camps were announced and they all got another camp and these handful of kids didn't get places.
Kid is devastated. They have literally done 1 out of school activity (a day trip) in 2 years everything else until the last few weeks has been cancelled, so all the things they might have done didn't happen.
We wrote to school about camp they blamed covid. I have been told that there are places on camp but they have been held back to send some year 7's who the school feels deserve to go on camp, these year 7 kids haven't been told about this yet.
As a teacher what's the magic phrase that will help us?
It sounds weird, it is.
As far as I am aware my kid is fine at school, generally overlooked and not chosen for stuff but otherwise fairly normal.
Thank you.