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Any teachers got a minute please?

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Homersthreehairs · 04/11/2020 18:30

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 Wine

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Homersthreehairs · 04/11/2020 18:32

Y3!

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Homersthreehairs · 04/11/2020 18:37

Bump!

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CountDuckulasKetchup · 04/11/2020 18:59

I'm secondary so probably not much help, but I'd be wary about interpreting looks over zoom. It's not the same as face to face. I found it really disorientating and God knows what my look was interpreted as. I'd take their comments at face value, but that's probably because I'm always brutally honest at all times. If they had specific concerns they should have said so explicitly, no point second guessing.

Subordinateclause · 04/11/2020 19:01

What do they mean by number bonds? To 100? It's not a phrase often used in reference to the KS2 curriculum.

Homersthreehairs · 04/11/2020 19:55

@Subordinateclause

What do they mean by number bonds? To 100? It's not a phrase often used in reference to the KS2 curriculum.
Yes but up to higher numbers past 100 up to 1000

It’s a term I’m familiar with both schools

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Subordinateclause · 04/11/2020 21:48

Interesting - I have taught Y3 or Y4 for a lot of years and it isn't a term I would use (nor something I'd particularly focus on). Was just checking you weren't talking about number bonds to 20 or something in which case it would be very obvious your daughter wasn't where you'd hope her to be in Y3.

Homersthreehairs · 04/11/2020 22:13

@Subordinateclause

Interesting - I have taught Y3 or Y4 for a lot of years and it isn't a term I would use (nor something I'd particularly focus on). Was just checking you weren't talking about number bonds to 20 or something in which case it would be very obvious your daughter wasn't where you'd hope her to be in Y3.
I bloody would need wine if it was that bad!
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MrsDev1980 · 07/11/2020 07:22

I have taught year 3 for many years and number bonds are certainly something I might mention as they underpin much of the learning in maths in year 3. Using and applying number bonds is key to becoming an efficient mathematician at this age. It doesn't mean she is massively behind just that she could do with some
polish on this area so that her mental maths can be improved which will then increase her efficiency in learning more formal addition and subtraction methods

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