New teacher in year 6

tiff

Thats what I thought sexymouse, I have faith in the school's choice of teacher as the standard of teachers in general is very good in my opinion.

Thanks for your replies, glad I didnt get a bashing for NOT having a problem lol, but sometimes there is maybe an issue you havent thought of.

RoseFairy

ooops i thought i better post- somehow whilereading your post i might have accidently pressed an icon - as a message popped up saying 'spam reported', sorry i didn't mean to click this but i have those mousepad on the keyboard where hovering above anything gets clicked. hope this doesn't create any problems.

on the change of teachers - at first i did worry too - as my yr4's classs has split and will be merged with the split half of another y4 - when they move onto y5. but i think a change is good - to learn to adjust and make new friends. maybe to quieted the current crowd down and a new year is nice with a fresh start and environment. things change and i think it's good if children get used to this from a young age.

mishkanorman

I posted this time last year regarding a change to my sons school, they were splitting the year 1 children and mixing them with the reception/year 2 children, the younger ones would go with reception elder with year 2, however my DS1 was struggling so even though he is one of the oldest he went with the reception children. For me personally it hasnt worked well, he now has only got friends from the year below him and now the school is riverting back to straight year groups he is being placed with children who he has been separated from for the last year. I would have liked a little less disruption for him so he could settle better.

Having said all that, whilst it caused me some stress, its life and such things have to be dealt with as best you can, no point making a fuss and hassle about it. I wouldnt dream of petitions and all that, there was talk of it at our school but really whats the point ?

balletshoes

tiff wrote: »

My daughter is in year 5 at school, there is her class and another that is split with some year 5's and year 6 children together.

Next term, my daughter is the only girl moving over to the other class, along with a few boys. The new class will have a teacher that is new to the school.

A few parents have had meetings with the head today over this. Some are worried about the fact its a teacher new to the school (in year 6) and some dont see why now after all these years the year group is being split again.

I'm finding it hard to worry about anything lol, my daughter is fine about moving classes and said it was a chance to have a new teacher and make new friends (she knows the children already obviously but has never been in the same class as them)

Would it worry you? (sorry if this seems like a non problem, I just need another point of view)

No, it wouldn't worry me at all. I wasn't worried the first time my daughter went into a split year, I wasn't worried about my daughter having a new-to-the-school teacher last year, and I'm not worried about her going into a split-year this coming year (all years 5 and years 6 will be in split classes at her school). New-to-the-school teacher has to start somewhere, don't they?

thatgirlsam

in my experience new teachers, wether they are newly qualified or new to the school are brilliant

they want to make a good impression and are really motivated and enthusiastic

best teacher my dd ever had was newly qualified

bylromarha

Seriously? parents have met the head over this???

A) SATS DO NOT MATTER!!!!!!!!! The government have very strongly said SATS will go ahead 2010/11 but the teachers may kick off about it again.
New teachers are employed as they have fresh ideas to bring. They are qualified. They know what they are doing. Would these parents prefer the class is taught by no-one?

Honestly, what a non event! OP- you're normal, the rest are odd!!!!

karren

lexuslass wrote: »

when my daughter was in her old school, some of the parents caused uproar because they had year 3's and 4's in the same class...petitions were flying about and everything! I didn't get involved in any of that but there was one parent who was really smug because her daughter had made the purely year 4 class and she made me feel like cr*p!! I had my own appointment with the head - I wondered if she was picked because she wasn't doing so well but that wasn't the case!

She left that school (only because we moved house some 5 miles away)to a much smaller one and has been with mixed years the whole time she has been there..it hasn't done her any harm!

don't worry! If your daughter is fine with it, then she is happy!!

xx

That happend to mine this year, i didnt fuss as whats the point, but when the letter to say what classes the children were in, the mother next to me in the yard, went hu I knoew it would all come out in the wash! her daughter has gone up with the year 4's and she is adamant its on ability, its not, with the new curriculm its all about the child as an individual. But at the end of the day they are 7!!!
Parental ego's are awful! Last year they had a newly qualified teacher and she was superb, new ideas. gfresh skills enthusiastic and cant fault it, they will inject new ideas and a breath of fresh air, Im sure that it will all work out.

pigpen

If your daughter is fine with it then there is no issue!!!!!

Savvy_Sue

tiff wrote: »

Sue, re moving to Secondary, my friend mentioned above has twins and will be insisting they stay together in class at Secondary and did not like the suggestion that she might not have any say over it, maybe its a control thing!

:rotfl: Sounds like a control thing - and I'm not above exerting my own, where appropriate! I did ask the secondary school DS1 started at if he could be moved when I found that he would be separated from his only friend at primary school, especially as they ASKED children who they'd like to be with, and both he and his friend said they wanted to be together.

So I was cross when I found out that he had originally been put with this friend, but another mother had gone in and asked for my son's friend to be put with her son, even though neither child had asked for this - or at least my son's friend hadn't! So they would accommodate her, for some reason, but not me, because they'd already jigged things about! :mad:

However, I think my son did well out that, in the long run, but it was a very anxious time for me as he doesn't make friends easily.

When we moved, the new secondary school put children into a horizontal tutor group for year 7, and then moved them into vertical groups. And they had this bizarre idea that siblings should always go into the same tutor group, unless you had a particular reason for requesting not. Which I did: I suffered from being known as my little sister's sibling (yes, really, she gained an astonishing reputation within a very short space of time!) and I'd already had comments about DS3 not being like his brothers - well why would he be? DS1 is quite an independent and solitary child, and I knew he wouldn't want to be 'lumbered' with his younger brothers, and they were perfectly capable of functioning without being 'looked out for'.

I've made sure that all the parents I know whose children are there know that this is an option ... I suppose there are some children who benefit from this, but on the whole I think they're better separated. Apart from anything else, it multiplies the chances of you receiving any letters sent to the whole school by 'satchel post'! :rotfl:

LJM

my daughter's school (primary) has just been given the go ahead to host years 5 and 6 as the iow have just changed to the 2 tier system, my lo is the first year to stay on as year 5 and her class has been split so she is in a class with year 4/5, also my youngest class is being split between year 1and 2. now to begin with i wasnt happy about it but after reading up and talking to staff i have since come to understand that although the classes will be mixed they are all still in the same keystage groups and on different work topics so they wont be repeating topics they have already done. yet you get some idiot parents that make me cross i dont know if they are just plain stupid or it is their normal way to say stupid things. for example one parent said to me that her child was far too intelligent to be in a mixed class and another said is it because some of the children are a bit slow that they are in a mixed class. now i dont know about any of you but people like that make me cross. sorry if ive hijacked