School Admissions

oldrimes

Hopefully things will go well at this new school.

There is some useful information (both for parents and children) at the Kidscape website: https://www.kidscape.org.uk They have a booklet that can be freely downloaded:
http://www.kidscape.org.uk/assets/downloads/ksstopbullying.pdf

I found the booklet and the wholewebsite very useful, also bought a couple of their books. I talked through some of the points with my children, and that led to a wider discussion about what happened, and about actions that they can take when things happened. Very useful resource.

foreveryoung_3

essexhoney
I have spent years battling the schools, having 5 children 21 down to 5, all having a tough time at school, I managed to get cameras up in one school, I have just spent a year during playtimes at my kids last school, and unless the teachers address bullying themselves, it will never stop. They pretend not to see it as they have no time to deal with it. If it is seen it is dealt with, usually wrongly, with the weakest one having to accept an appology, in the playground you have 400 kids and only 5 staff, our children are not protected.
I home ed mine now as I see what its like for certain children especially mine, I wont put them through it any more. If I were to let them go to school to be looked after 6 hours aday thier security from everybody is my main concern. I am holding nothing back from my LEA about my reasons for removing my children from thier controling, conditioning teaching methods, thier moral decline, and statistical performance tables, leaving childrens wholistic educational and emotional needs at home. Do parents know what there children are being taught and where its going, do they realise that they do not encourage research but encourage copying facts (good for who wants to be a millionaire I suppose). Our kids intelligence is being monitored by how many of these facts you can remember, not on how you know these facts to be true. That is mainstream education. My children have enquiring minds, something not encouraged in mainstream schools. There are much more important subjects to be learnt that are crucial to survive and get ahead.
Also there is the beach on hot sunny days, a great place for learning about the enviroment and the different prices of ice cream.
Timing how long it took to bury his sister in the sand.
Would we be able to get the stuff of the beach before the tide came back in if we left it untill the waves were 10 feet away, noting how quickly each wave came closer.
Sorry i have gone on a bit, I just meant to say, BE STRONG you live and breath therefore you have the right to open your mouth and tell it as it is, spell out your concerns, tell them you will be in weekily to see the teacher and check she or he is making sure your son is getting 1st class emotional support and is being listened to no matter how small the complain or question.
You are not the one letting him down the schools are letting our children down, they just need reminding. There are a few excellent teachers about and if your kids are lucky enough to get them, then they can survive, so its down to the teachers to change thier attitudes but its only parents that can do that.
bw