How normal is it?

[CardyMow]

For a primary school to exclude a reception child (FS) for 'shouting' at a teacher, and he only be excluded for the 2 days there was an Ofsted inspection? He was excluded the afternoon before the inspection (they normally deal with his 'outbursts' by putting him in the 'quiet area' for 10 mins), and allowed back to school, all day, the day after the inspection has finished. I personally see that as a tad fishy, but this particular child's mum (My DS1's step-mum) hasn't clicked that he was only treated differently during the Ofsted inspection. On top of that, our school officially has a no-exclusion policy. Does anyone else find that a little ....odd?

yes, I would query it and ask ofsted about it....

Odd but not unusual

wouldn't you if your neck was on the line though?

NO I would manage it in the same way every time to show the child a consistent approach was being taken to his 'unacceptable behaviours'. If the parents are expected to be consistent at home, why should they not expect the school to also be consistent? And this DC is only currently 4.5 and attending full time school since september FFS, how can you do that to such a young child?? And what's even worse is that I've twigged the reason for the inconsistency, yet his mum hasn't. Should I say something or not. She is after all my DS1's stepmum, and this boy is my DS1's stepbrother. It's not giving my DS1 a very good impression, as even he's pointed out the inconsistency.

that's very off, OP, what WOULD ofsted think!

as an ex-teacher, i find that sad and shocking TBH

i was helping in the classroom when it was our schools ofsted.And one of the behaviour cases kicked off big style.but you know ity wasn't a bad thing because it gave the inspector a chance to see how well the staff coped under pressure (commented on specifically in the report)

This unfortunately does go on. At infant school my son was asked to help sort out books in the library on 1st day of Ofsted inspection. On the second day we were told he was not well (sore eye) and to take him home from school - needless to say we couldn't see anything wrong when we collected him! DS is very outspoken and we think they just wanted him out of the way.He has only now started to tell us what went on there (dragged along corridor by 4 staff,locked in'cupboard'etc.).
The school got an outstanding rating .

I think it does go on. I sympathise entirely with the school. At our recent Ofstead we got 'staff are spending too long dealing with children with challenging behaviour, meaning that the less time is spent with other children'. This was meant as a critisism. We KNEW that already. That's the downside of inclusion.

I think it's up to us as parents to inform Ofsted if we see this going on. It's hardly fair is it!