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Child year 9 moved classes

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FamilyPerson234 · 08/01/2019 20:19

My dd aged 14 has been moved class along with a few other students ( around 12) due to organisational reasons . They are in the same sets just a different band ( her school have a band 1 and two ) . The bands set core subjects . If you’re in band 1 you can not be in lessons with band 2. My child has been move bands and she’s said she feels as if though she’s becoming more distracted and talking more in her new class than her old and isn’t learning much. I’m aware many other parents have emailed to ask to change back. She can be known as a chatty child although told that they know she means well ? For example ( an example which her HoY told me ) explaining something to someone Althoigh can go off task easily and is rather easily distracted. She’s also been quiet upset with the move and annoyed I’m not sure whether it’s because of friends or because she thought she might get less distracted and is becoming more. As she’s been moved into w class with people she is mostly Friends with and with people who she spoke to in her old lessons , I think she will be better in her old ones . Should I email her HoY to request it?

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TeenTimesTwo · 08/01/2019 20:40

So the two bands are like parallel halves of the year?

And she has been moved across, presumably either to balance abilities in each half, or to balance class sizes, e.g. because a bunch of pupils left who happened to all be in the same half?

And she has been moved across with friends (presumably because pupils don't like moving to a half where they don't really know anyone, so they have taken care to move a group of friends together)?

All sounds fine so far, in as much as probably no one would really have wanted to move, but someone has to.

So now there is the question of chattiness. Is she using 'I'm being more distracted as an excuse because she didn't want to move, or conversely she is being more chatty because she think sit might be a way to move back?
If it is 'just' being distracted, could she just ask to be moved seating to be away from friends and maybe sit in the front row? Would that lessen the distraction?

TeenTimesTwo · 08/01/2019 20:42

When was she moved, at the start of this term? So that is 2 days or a week in only? Or some time last term?

FamilyPerson234 · 08/01/2019 21:58

Something to do with balencing genders I think. Not necessarily moved with friends I think it may have been coincidence as another girls best mates are in her old class still and has been moved on her own. Honestly I’m not sure if it’s an excuse . I know many of the kids are making excuses such as being anxious or angry ( 2 excuses lads used despite them being fine , I know as I’m close I wht there mother’s and the boys admitted to Lieing ) . Teachers hav told her she is easily distracted and she was chatty in her old class because sh ralks to everyone . The think I’m worried is that if she is upset and distracted she won’t be learning or have any mental effort to do the work . She was moved last Thursday ( first day back )

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FamilyPerson234 · 08/01/2019 21:59

There was no really good reason to change peopl lessons as I and many other parents agree they were fine as they were and that 15 boys and 13 girls wasn’t really an issue

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TeenTimesTwo · 08/01/2019 22:09

^^name change fail.

At y9 she really is old enough to know not to disrupt the class by chatting though, unless there is some SEN like ADHD coming into play.

You could ask to have her moved back, but they may well say no as they will have moved her for a reason.

It is only 4 days in. Tell her to buck her ideas up and stop chatting, it is really inconsiderate low level disruption. (Parent of a y9 who finds school hard enough without people talking when she is trying to concentrate, so may be less sympathetic.)

FamilyPerson234 · 09/01/2019 20:37

Apologies about the name , I changed it as I didn’t want it going together with my other posts. Would you recommend I try and email in or leave it ?

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RedSkyLastNight · 09/01/2019 21:49

I wonder if "balancing the genders" was a polite fiction and actually this is just a shuffle as the previous classes weren't working out for whatever reason.

If your DD was easily distracted and chatty in her old class, this might actually be why she was one of the ones chosen to move. Can you/she see this move as a positive fresh start?

My DC's school frequently moves DC so this would be an entire non-event for them.

FamilyPerson234 · 09/01/2019 22:15

Understandable but she’s getting in more trouble in her new classes and more distracted and daydreamy which is causing her to not be productive at all

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