Hello, hope you don’t mind me posting in the Staff Room. Just wanted to see what your views are on DD parents evening. We’ve a lot going on at home at the moment and I already feel guilty for not having the extra time with dd.
She’s in YR in a really good prep. We moved her during summer as her indie wasn’t very good academically, we loved the school ethos and the teachers but the classes were mixed year groups and very high SN. I knew there was a chance she might be behind a little.
She had some exams before term and she came out a little above average and tbh I was over the moon with that. Her form tutor says she’s doing great. Lots of time to progress. I asked her where she was placed in the class so I could gauge where she needed to be and she said in the middle. I was still really happy with that.
Dd has different teachers for different levels so has a zoom meeting with two of her teachers on zoom today.
One of the teachers in the subject I thought dd was actually doing well at told me she’s actually having extra lessons at library time. Which I wasn’t aware off.
The other teacher said she needed to practice her number bonds and timetables
Which I agree with. But both of them seemed to be looking at me really sympathetically to the point I ended up over explaining why I wasn’t doing extra with her and making myself look like an idiot.
Was it me?
Or were they trying to tell me something different?
The new prep is different kettle of fish to our old indie, they were both aware of the school.
Do I need a 