need to rant was going to put it AIBU but thought sn was better.........

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why do they have prize giving in a sn school and how can a teacher pick 2 kids out a class of 4 to give the teachers prize to. i mean ffs my dd has worked hard and been good. the other left out boy has worked hard and been good. so how the F* can they do that.
annoyed proud mum.

gosh that is a bit bizarre. No prize giving at ds1's school.

Even in ds2's (ms) school, everyone is given a prize in year 6.

This seems to go against the whole ethos of a SN school. I think prize giving is very divisive particularly at primarly school level.

Recently in my (NT) dd's class they picked 10 kids out of 30 to attend a special seminar for "gifted and talenting" kids. Obviously the kids picked were not genuintely G&T but it certainly caused a massive amount of bad feeling in the class among both the parents and kids. I don't think this was at all helpful. Incidently the seminar was a load of crap anyway so not worth all the nastiness it generated.

You'd think that with a class of 4 they would do the same for all the children.

agree with everyone else, for a class of four, much better to give some little thing to all/

thanks for your replies. i will keep this bumped as I need as many responses as poss as I am thinking of complaining.
I know that they need to lear about not always winning etc. but tbh this is so unfair and the parents get so hurt. I just can't see the point in the whole afair

totally inappropriate. IS there nowhere you can find out the school ethos etc and point out how this would go against it in some way??

We had a sports day on Monday and DD1 came home with a medal and a certificate for achievement. No idea what for, lol, but last year her sports day medal was for crawling through 4 tunnels. Now, knowing as I do that no power on earth will make DD1 crawl through a tunnel, in effect a large team of helpers must have chucked DS1 through 4 tunnels and probably they deserve the medal not her. But I'm quite certain every child comes home from sports day with a medal, that's how it works in an SN school.

On the other hand, there are one or two prizes (bequests really) awarded at leavers' assembly each year which go to a couple of individual pupils only and that's quite a different thing.

I think you need to make that sort of distinction in an SN school - ie everyone achieves something and we are all celebrated, but there are a couple of very special things that (like birthdays) today will only be given to this one person in the whole school. Halfway houses (like this 2 out of 4 thing) don't work.

i have contacted the parent/govenor for some advice.