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dd1 wants to give up violin lessons because...

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emkana · 03/04/2008 23:21

... she misses Friday afternoon "Golden Time" because of them. Her group used to have their lesson after Golden Time finished and she loved it then, but now she feels aggrieved to be missing that time, esp as in the Juniors (she is now Yr 2) there won't be any Golden Time anymore.

What to do? Do I let her give it up? Try and talk the teacher into letting her go into the other group (not fair on the other childrne though)? Tell her not to be silly?

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avenanap · 03/04/2008 23:22

You could try asking the violin teacher if she can have a lesson at a different time.

edam · 03/04/2008 23:23

Tough one. I can see why she feels rotten about it. It's only one term, isn't it? Could you let her off violin for now and see if she wants to start again next school year?

WendyWeber · 03/04/2008 23:23

If she has to miss every week that's not fair; I know in secondary school they do music lessons at different times each week so that no child keeps missing the same lesson.

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emkana · 03/04/2008 23:24

The thing is for the first three of the six terms of the school year it was the other childrne who missed the Golden Time, and now it's her group's turn to make it fair.

But dd really loves Golden Time. [sigh]

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sykes · 03/04/2008 23:25

Tell her not to be silly. My dd misses out on stuff and would have dropped it last year but is hugely enjoying it again. She's now year 3.

Swedes · 03/04/2008 23:27

Get the teacher to move Golden time so that no child is missing. So obvious.

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emkana · 03/04/2008 23:29

Not sure if it's that obvious, violin lessons are Friday pm. Straight after lunch the teacher does reading practice with the class first, then it's Golden Time, then play time, then tidying up. So I'm not sure whether the teacher would be that keen to move those things around.

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wheresthehamster · 03/04/2008 23:29

I never used to get a peep out of mine when they kept missing Maths but when it was PE I was frogmarched into school to ask to have the times changed

The schools are usually quite good at asking the music teachers to rotate pupils times. I'd go in and ask if it would be possible.

wheresthehamster · 03/04/2008 23:33

Ah, I see they already have.

Swedes · 04/04/2008 12:41

Ah I see. Perhaps worth mentioning to her teacher though along the lines of she adbsolutely adores golden time and it is such a shame that she has to miss it for her violinn lesson - is there anything that could be done about the clash?

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emkana · 04/04/2008 13:43

Looks like we're going to go with edam's suggestion.

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nappyaddict · 04/04/2008 13:45

what is golden time?

branflake81 · 04/04/2008 14:51

yes - wtf is golden time?

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emkana · 04/04/2008 20:19

Excellent news - dd has been moved to the other group, together with her friend - not because I asked, but because they are of the same ability. So now she gets golden time and keeps doing the violin! Brilliant!

Golden time = time on Friday when they can play games etc of their own choosing

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nappyaddict · 04/04/2008 20:28

oh like board games and the like?

RustyBear · 04/04/2008 20:34

Glad you've got a good outcome emkana - the problem is that music lessons often can't be moved by much because the music teacher has other schools to go to - and as they are often only 20 minutes, even if they were moved each week, you could easily end up missing the same lesson - just a different bit of it.

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