Hi guys! Wonder if anyone can give me some advice! I’m a LSA & MSA in a small rural primary school, which I love- apart from at wet play (I’d rather go out in the rain with them, but my colleagues don’t seem to be as keen!).
The head always puts me in the same classroom (yr 3/4) at wet play, where the teacher is super strict about what can and can’t be touched in her classroom- seriously, there are signs up everywhere saying “Miss X’s, DO NOT TOUCH”, and, following my first ever wet play in there, these signs expanded to add “this includes teachers!”.
I got in trouble with her for letting the kids play hangman on the whiteboard, (supervised, and we had erased it all at the end of lunch!) and the kids are quick to tell me if I’m letting them do stuff which Miss X says they’re not allowed to do (such as standing domino’s on their end to make a run instead of “playing properly” with them).
I seriously don’t know what I’m supposed to do- break time is supposed to be for them to let off some steam, but I’m so heavily restricted by this teacher that by the time lunch is over, everyone is bored, upset or angry! (Including me!)
I've even considered bringing my own resources in, but the kids probably still wouldn’t engage with me for fear of breaking Miss X’s rules!
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Wet playtime help!
Taddimum · 29/02/2024 14:35
Taddimum · 05/03/2024 19:44
Not allowed on her IWB either 😂 think I’m going to have to raid the old pe shed and put some sort of box together, was thinking maybe some beanbag games or something (throw them into a hoop/bucket etc) maybe raid a charity shop or Poundland for a few games/crafty bits? So hard as we don’t have any dedicated wet play equipment, the infants are happy with drawing/cutting/sticking/reading whilst songs or stories are on the IWB, and yr 5-6 somehow always get to go on the chromebooks and play games on their IWB… I just feel stuck!
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