A much happier bunny

I hoicked lots of sticks and toilet roll middles up to school today so that they are safe and for future use in our puppet project. So more of that in the coming days hopefully.  I was taking them up to show the Head as she and I finally got to sit and have a discussion. We covered both the positives, what we hope to do this term Year 2 Puppet show, Year One Walking in the Jungle and Year 0 The Snowman. We also discussed the negatives including discipline.  , and I am going to try and implement as much of the disciplinary system as possible with the year 0 children. It is often very hard to remember that they have only been in school a couple of months.  They all seem to have picked up writing say very easily but we were doing how old are you today and as a result I realised that they are mostly 6 years old rather than 5 which is what I had assumed.  Which makes sense really of how they are so quick sometimes and how good they are at things like their cutting skills.   I got the year 0 teacher to explain to the children that they must behave properly when she goes out of the room.  They seemed to be listening, I had the boy who had been the worse offender sitting on my lap to reassure him that although they were being told off I was still very fond of him. Apparently his parents are going through a divorce at present, which may explain some of his challenging behaviour.  Many of our children have complicated circumstances partly because many parents have to work away, so although if is a fee paying school, it is not for the wealthy or even comfortable, the families are having to go to great lengths sometimes to find the money Anyway today hopefully they will have felt it was well spent as despite both the year one and the year zero teacher being out for some of the class, the kids mostly behaved and most seem to have learned a lot.