Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Well, we sort of had homework in the sixties when I was in Primary School. They just didn't call it homework. It might be to go and find something for the 'Nature Table', to read a book, or do sums.
Rant about your childrens school here!
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Jonti
what the dormouse said
Just had a look at our homework assignment. Looks quite fun and imaginative, and I'm impressed by the way art and science are used together. But back to the spirit of the thread 
The spelling list looks dismaying, as ever. I'd much rather the child was enjoying reading and expressing herself in writing than learning how to spell words from a list. This drudgery is not encouraging her to write, and threatens her enjoyment of reading.
If the homework's not done, the child will be detained after school to do it, and everyone will know why.
The spelling list looks dismaying, as ever. I'd much rather the child was enjoying reading and expressing herself in writing than learning how to spell words from a list. This drudgery is not encouraging her to write, and threatens her enjoyment of reading.
If the homework's not done, the child will be detained after school to do it, and everyone will know why.
_angel_
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What every night at primary school?
All we did was learn for a spelling test and our times tables. I don't recall it taking anywhere near an hour!
q_w_e_r_t_y
You see an investment scam and I see divinity
What every night at primary school?
All we did was learn for a spelling test and our times tables. I don't recall it taking anywhere near an hour!
Maybe I'm over-estimating - usually 10-15 sums; 4 words to write out 3 times and 10 pages of a book to read. Sometimes an additional task like throwing a bean bag, or a game to play.
It is a big chunk out of the evening tho.
Warning - major rant coming up!
A bit of background first. My neighbours child has just started at the middle school my eldest son goes to. On Wednesday, she and my youngest have swimming lessons at the baths down the road from the school so my neighbour said to C to go into the library at school and then come out at 3.30 and wait by the gate for her.
I get to swimming to see my neighbour frantic because C wasn't where she was supposed to be. My neighbour (B) had been to the school and they said she wasn't in the building.
So, we go back to the school and stand while the receptionist rings the library. None of the other staff look at all bothered by the fact that we'd lost a child. The receptionist informs us that C is not in the library.
Meanwhile, the staff at the swimming baths ring the community police. Half an hour later there is B in tears and hysterical, my eldest boy watching the little ones swimming and me calling another neighbour to come and get the kids so I can stay with B. B has now gone back up to the school, I'm called to the phone at the swimming pool to speak to the police just as I get a call from B to say they had found C.
She was in the school library all along but evidently, the librarian couldn't be bothered to get off her bum and have a proper look.
The police said that they would be having a word with the school.
I need a drink.
A bit of background first. My neighbours child has just started at the middle school my eldest son goes to. On Wednesday, she and my youngest have swimming lessons at the baths down the road from the school so my neighbour said to C to go into the library at school and then come out at 3.30 and wait by the gate for her.
I get to swimming to see my neighbour frantic because C wasn't where she was supposed to be. My neighbour (B) had been to the school and they said she wasn't in the building.
So, we go back to the school and stand while the receptionist rings the library. None of the other staff look at all bothered by the fact that we'd lost a child. The receptionist informs us that C is not in the library.
Meanwhile, the staff at the swimming baths ring the community police. Half an hour later there is B in tears and hysterical, my eldest boy watching the little ones swimming and me calling another neighbour to come and get the kids so I can stay with B. B has now gone back up to the school, I'm called to the phone at the swimming pool to speak to the police just as I get a call from B to say they had found C.
She was in the school library all along but evidently, the librarian couldn't be bothered to get off her bum and have a proper look.
The police said that they would be having a word with the school.
I need a drink.
spring-peeper
Well-Known Member
Exact same thing happened to me and my son last year. They phoned me, gave him an ice pack and told him to sit at the office.
The hospital is a bit further away, though. Two blocks south, then 3 blocks west.
Back in the day, four or five years ago, the headmaster would just bundle the kid into his car and go to the hospital. Now, for the sake of insurance.....
LilMissHissyFit
Disturbed in a pink bra
I know a lad who had a door shut in his face, it caught him on the forehead causing a 2inch gash.
The school sent him to the hospital on the bus, on his own ( high school)
On the grounds that "he was a big boy and to expect him to use the bus and transport himself was reasonable"
His mother was rightly spitting fire when he arrived home, complete with stitches and she hadnt even been contacted
