I've already posted this on the primary education section but it was suggested I post here for support from you lovely ladies (and gentlemen!!) 😀
So my son is 6 and Y2. He is summer born and very young and immature for his age. He struggles to concentrate, struggles to follow instructions and needs a very high level of support to complete work. He often messes about because he finds work hard. I have 2 issues with school. 1 is that every couple of months they complain to me about his behaviour, promise strategies but then don't put anything in consistently. I don't think my son is particularly bad behaved but I do think he has additional needs and needs extra support in his learning. School just focus on the bad behaviour. This is the message I received today:
Morning. I have been very concerned about L's behaviour since the holidays and despite punishments and warnings it has not improved. I will have to look at our behaviour policy - I think it is on our website too if you want to look - to see what steps are next as I have tried everything in the classroom that I can think of. If you want to talk I am wavailable at the end of today to call or if you want to meet it would have to be next week. Thank you
How would you respond to this? I just think the tone is terrible and very negative. I think they need to be changing their teaching styles and putting in additional support for him.
So my son is 6 and Y2. He is summer born and very young and immature for his age. He struggles to concentrate, struggles to follow instructions and needs a very high level of support to complete work. He often messes about because he finds work hard. I have 2 issues with school. 1 is that every couple of months they complain to me about his behaviour, promise strategies but then don't put anything in consistently. I don't think my son is particularly bad behaved but I do think he has additional needs and needs extra support in his learning. School just focus on the bad behaviour. This is the message I received today:
Morning. I have been very concerned about L's behaviour since the holidays and despite punishments and warnings it has not improved. I will have to look at our behaviour policy - I think it is on our website too if you want to look - to see what steps are next as I have tried everything in the classroom that I can think of. If you want to talk I am wavailable at the end of today to call or if you want to meet it would have to be next week. Thank you
How would you respond to this? I just think the tone is terrible and very negative. I think they need to be changing their teaching styles and putting in additional support for him.
She has send Home a think sheet that she wants children to complete when they have done something wrong. On the sheet they have to 'think' about their behaviours and make a 'promise' as to how they will respond in future. I think this is wholly inappropriate as how can a 6/7 year old male a promise of this effect and be expected to keep it!! Any thoughts would be highly appreciated as I'm really struggling with what to say to school.