Academy conversion: 8.30am - 4pm aged 4?

mumps

bylromarha wrote: »

Will have to agree to disagree then. I don't mean letting off steam as running around, more that the expectations are different as it is optional, not compulsory.

Having both tutored 1:1 and small groups for academic work after school and run after school clubs on ICT/Science/Art/Choirs with both KS1 and 2, the expectation is far different to the in class experience. Much more relaxed, much more relationship based than the classroom can ever be due to numbers. Much more a parent working with a group of friends feel than a teacher/pupil in class relationship and all that entails.

After school clubs are a choice - school is not. Pupils and teachers (club leaders) respond to that difference and it reflects on the mental attitude. Not every lesson in class can be fun, but after school clubs have to be, otherwise no one would go.

School can be a choice if parents are prepared to home school.

Janepig

mumps wrote: »

I wasn't thinking about their energy levels but enough hours in the day. For mums without cars, like I was, getting them home from school, quick bite to eat, perhaps change depending on activity and get them there, I wouldn't have had enough time to do it. I hate it when you see kids having to have a snack in the car on the move to an activity, just seems to rushed and where is the fun in that? I suppose if all the local schools had a later finishing time clubs would adjust.

Ah, none of what my two do would be possible without Mams taxi!! But then I would also struggle to get them to school as it's a forty minute walk either way which would be doable in the afternoon if I stayed at home, but isn't possible as I work (school hours). The only activity within walking distance of the house is swimming, everything else is a car journey or it couldn't be done.

Jx