Educating Yorkshire

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Coming soon, so hopefully will be in next few weeks

Yes young people are really open. We hear all kinds.

5/56 ?!

And being kept up. I suspect because she’s a well behaved child.

They said she was a model student so yes

Surely if she got 5/56, she’s going to struggle in top set. Model student aside, and needs to go down to get the support she needs.

I thought that too...

But then he said it was a real GCSE paper they did and the result didn't worry him as they weren't at the level yet...

I've watched a few episodes as DC1 likes it (and thinks its part fiction).
I find it so depressing. Twelve year olds with the reading age of five. Kids who have been completely let down who go on to disrupt other kids who may be trying to learn. I am shocked by the behavioural issues.
Watching kids disrupt the classroom so much is awful. How can the school allow itself to be filmed? Is it for money because its a disadvantaged area? I can't imagine the number of kids who have been pulled from the school once the issues are brought to people's living rooms.

In my kids school, some were dropped off at 8am and picked up at 6pm. Without fail, these kids were the worst behaved.
I've always believed a 'home from home' childminder has to be a better alternative to wrap around care in a school.

Having gone into lot of the local schools in this district I think most parents would be surprised about the level of disruption in every school. This is actually one of the good ones. It has an amazing ASD provision on site.

This is alarming. Is this the case nationally then?!

i don’t know the school except from the TV programme but as a teacher, I would say the behaviour is completely standard. On the good side, to be honest. Plus, it seems to be a school where the SLT are very supportive and involved. I would happily work there.

Is it a district known for poor behaviour then?

I really think most parents would be amazed if they spent a day in a secondary school. It’s nothing like what it was when we were younger. This really is representative of every senior school I’ve been in.

@Itstwelveoclocksomewhere have you been inside a secondary school recently? Honestly, this is completely normal.

its so much the normal now.

people just don’t realise !

That is worrying.

DC1 is in secondary school and while it isn't as strict as secondary school was when I was a teen, it is still strict. Full uniform inspections, hair tied up, no make up, an expectation to behave, hold the doors open for others, speak quietly.......
the main difference is the kids aren't afraid to speak to the teachers and to ask for more help when they need it. When I was at school, we were too afraid to speak up.

Is it a state or a private school?

Agree!!!!!!

The behaviour isn’t too dissimilar from the bottom sets when I was at school. But then they had the angry rugby player and the girl who got 5 marks in (set1?) science so maybe it’s not a very academic school. It’s concerning to me how many of the children can’t control their emotions at all even by GCSE time.

I don't know whether it's an academic school or not but they're going to feature the children who make the best tele anyway aren't they

Which won't necessarily be the most academic ones

My dc go/went to a different school in the same Multi Academy Trust. Nothing is that surprising or different about Thornhill on EY, apart from the girls’ make up and earrings. DD (Y9) was part horrified/part envious of that. Not allowed at her school.

Obvs Channel 4 are going to focus on the kids/stories that make good TV. The ethics of that is another story.

l was so chuffed for Scott when he got his Welsh rugby place.

I hope the rugby place is the making of Scott. I suppose we could look up the team and see if he's still in it!

The girl who got 5/56 might be kept up because if she struggled with anxiety, it could be that she didn't even attempt most of the questions on the test because of panic or leaving the room or something? But if they know she is actually capable, then a lower set wouldn't suit her. I don't know. But I have seen that happen.

Obvs Channel 4 are going to focus on the kids/stories that make good TV. The ethics of that is another story.

I have a concern about this as well.
I know their parents will have signed consent but I wonder how much this will impact the kids themselves.
I get the impression there is more than an element of ‘being on tv’.

I remember watching a few different BBC series where they followed kids growing up. The producers were very considerate with the families involved and I can’t remember the kids ever being shown in a negative light but there were still kids who dropped out once they reached the age of signing their own consent forms. Another programme (which I think was called Seven Up) interviewed adults in middle age who said on reflection the programme wasn’t a positive thing in their lives.

This is what schools are like.

They are exhausted. One poor kid I supported Had to walk to an after school nursery place. Picked up by staff. Got up at 5. 30 am

I loved seven up.
though it was sad in places