think that the home school diary idea is a little bit unfair for our kids sometimes.

[2shoes]

in dd's today it said how she didn't want to work this afternoon.
I can only imagine if ds had had one.......
nt kids don't get mummy told every time they are naughty, especially in secondry

Good point! Perhaps the teacher was concerned she might be ailing? Thankfully ds school are good at constructive comments!!

ha ha! too true

I get told all the ins and outs of dd1's day (very detailed home/school book), and they get told all sorts of things about her behviour at home - there is no escape for her

now, when dd2 starts school, it willbe a totally different kettle of fish - I'm going to have to rely on a 4 year old's version of events, aren't I

I don't think her ta really cared lol.
surely dd is allowed to skive.......might put it in the diary

I disagree 2shoes, if ds1 (the NT one) chose to ignore the lesson and not to work he would be kept in at break time on detention and we would have a note home in his link book (all kids have them at his school)
DS2's TA will tell me if he has had a bad sternoon becuase its often a cue to soemthing bothering him.
Either way both are treated equally and if ds2 willfully ignored the teacher I would expect him to eb punished too!
DS2 can't tell me about his experiences at school so I do ahve to ask the TA if I want to know anything where as ds1 and I can have a conversation.

I don't ask to know every detail or expect to be told every detail but I do think it should be used to fill in the gaps thta ds2 can't tell us about or tell me if he has skived!

I think they are a great idea, dd2 is not likely to strike up convosation about her day but if i read her book i can try and talk to her about what she did (sometimes i will get a single word answer), it also helps me to understand why she is in a bad mood (if something has upset her during the day). When she starts school in September i will have to rely on her sister to tell me what she has done during the day . I only write in the book if dd2 has had a bad night, been ill or done something amazing.

Must be harder for a teenager!!

My God, if I could get school to write something in the bloody book, I'd be pleased!

Seriously, they are getting better but it comes in fits and starts.

Agree with debs. At this point I don't even care if it is the lyrics of the TA's favourite song!

Dd (NT) is 14 and her school is always sending me texts. Drives me mad actually! Usually they say things like "Dd worked very well in history today" but today I got a stroppy one because dd didn't have a pen for her maths lesson! Apparently she "only had a calculator and a broken ruler". Never mind that I bought her a brand new pack of pens last week and her bedroom is full of rulers. Teenagers eh?

So I quite like getting ds's book and seeing what he's been up to. I don't think he minds.

No! I love dd2's book, and so does she - they put pictures in it sometimes.

It's almost impossible for her to tell me what has happened in school so the book is essential.

And they tell me when they're running out of nappies, wipes, bolus sets, syringes....

Never ever had one, though would have given anything to get some form of communication in ds's two schools .

At his first, one teacher would occasionally write something on a 3x3" post-it note, folded in half neatly and sealed with sellotape (so ds couldn't open it and read it), which I'd never be able to find because it would get stuck between book pages or something. Then she'd complain that I hadn't seen the note.

I was told I was allowed to write a little note before school to let them know any concerns about ds but that didn't help if something spectacular happened on the way in (which it often did). In the end the teacher banned me from talking to her in the mornings because she had to give her full attention to getting the children indoors .

Seriously don't ever complain that you get too much information from school because a lot of don't/didn't get anything at all.

when ds first started secondary his diary was written in every night this year's has 8 pages filled in and half of that is to do with me letting them about know things going on.

hmmmm, I would thought you would have realised that i wasn't being serious!!

humour bypass today!

There wasnt as much written in ds this tem as last. I think it all depends on the teacher if his "main" teacher was there very helpful and funny things written and i even do mn style smileys back.He broke up on Friday from school 1 more year to go

Sometimes I'm still completely in the dark even when I've read his book because I can't read his teacher's writing. At least the annoying texts are legible.