#primary school

[incognitopolls]

Line leader was a classroom responsibility where one child stood at the front of the line when walking down hallways and led the rest of the class. Many classrooms gave this privilege on a rotational schedule, though some had other non-changing bases like alphabetical order of names. This responsibility made anon super, super anxious as a kid, so please tag why you liked/disliked!

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#polls #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #tumblr users #questions #polls about school #submitted dec 9 #elementary school #primary school #kids #childhood #school

[reasonsforhope]

"Parents of tweens will likely be aware of the daily battle over when to give their child a smartphone. They are probably forced into discussing it over breakfast, on the school run, at bedtime – after all, no kid wants to be left out if their friends all have one.

Which is why a town in Ireland came together to devise a solution.

Parents and teachers in Greystones, County Wicklow, launched a town-wide ‘no-smartphone code’ in May, when headteachers from the town’s eight primary schools wrote to parents asking them to sign up to the ban. By coming together en masse, the thinking went, parents could do away with the peer pressure around smartphone ownership.

Now, ministers in the Irish cabinet have approved new guidelines on the banning of smartphones in school, which were brought by education minister Norma Foley on 7 November. The proposals would help parents to collectively implement smartphone bans, with government support. Ministers are also considering outlawing the sale of smartphones to all children of primary school age.

“We can already see smartphones creeping into our primary schools,” explained Rachel Harper, headteacher at St. Patrick’s school, which led on the initiative. “Parents, even at the junior end, were already getting worried about what age their kids were going to be asking for smartphones.”

Parental concerns around the dangers of smartphones are justified, according to the latest scientific research. In 2020, a systematic review of academic studies investigating smartphones, social media use and youth mental health found that, in the last 10 years, mental distress and treatment for mental health conditions had risen in parallel with the use of smartphones by children and adolescents...

There’s also a desire, said Christina Capatina, a Greystones parent whose daughters are aged 11 and nine, to prioritise face-to-face interactions over digital ones for as long as possible. “Childhood is getting shorter,” she said. “It’s really important for them to be in a place where they can be happy and enjoy being out, just being children.”

Parents in Greystones are now empowered to hold off giving their kids access to the devices until the age of 12, when they transition to secondary school in Ireland.

Eight months since the ban came in, what has its impact been? “It has completely solved the problem,” said Capatina. “Instead of having long conversations about it, this is so simple.”

The code is voluntary, so some parents have chosen not to take part, but enough have signed up to create a sense of phoneless-ness being the norm. While some in the media have argued that the code demonises technology, Harper refutes this: “We’re not against technology. We’re not against phones. We’re just simply asking them to wait till secondary school.” [Again, that's age 12 in Ireland.]

She said the launch of their no-smartphone code led to school principals all over the world getting in touch with messages of support, an indication it seems of how universal parents’ fears over childhood smartphone use are.

And with ministers now working on guidelines for communities that wish to follow in Greystones’ footsteps, Harper is proud of all she and fellow parents have achieved. “It’s nice to be an ambassador in a positive way,” she said.

-via Positive.News, November 17, 2023

#smartphone #parenting #primary school #technology #big tech #mental health #teen mental health #ireland #peer pressure #protecting children #good news #hope

[lackadaisycal-art]

Some classroom cue cards I've made for one of my uni courses

#art #illustration #character design #tefl #classroom #teaching #teacher #student teacher #teaching material #classroom management #primary school #young students

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I got trapped in my primary school gym by some feral/zombified garden gnomes.

#dream #text #November 19th 2023 #primary school #school #gym #school gym #zombie #zombie tw #zombies tw #garden gnome #gnome #queueueueueueueueueueueueueue

[miss-shirley]

24.02.23 - Day 52/103

Can't believe there's so little of my break left yet still so much left to do 🥲 I did get a good chunk further today though which means I can at least relax a tiny bit on the last weekend off (still need to study for the exam tho). Comfort mug and nice scented candle were excellent supplies.

did some laundry

finished summarising all the Sachunterricht seminars

planned most of the lessons for next week and prepared some of the materials

took a walk to school to tidy up my corners of the classroom and check out the supply room for my upcoming unit on air

copied some worksheets while I was there

got some loose-leaf tea to make my own mixture since I seem to be coming down with a cold 😢

#100 days of productivity #day 52/103 #teaching #primary school #studying #studyblr #miss-shirley gets organised

[obsessedbyneon]

Primary school 'De Dapper', Amsterdam. Designed by Jelles

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#scan #primary school #architecture #school design #jaren 80 #de dapper #dapperbuurt #amsterdam #dutch 80s

[arc-hus]

Allenmoos Pavilion II School Renovation, Zurich - Roger Boltshauser

#Roger Boltshauser #architecture #design #building #modern architecture #interiors #minimal #concrete #contemporary architecture #school #primary school #classroom #brick #brick building #glass block #switzerland #swiss design #cool architecture #clerestory windows #european architecture

[academicelephant]

Universities and such count as schools too!

#polls #school #primary school #elementary school #middle school #junior high school #high school #university #education #studyblr

[henk-heijmans]

Primary school in Hinterthurgau, Switzerland, 1935s - by Hans Baumgartner (1911 - 1996), Swiss

#Hans Baumgartner #Switzerland #Hinterthurgau #primary school

[perplexingluciddreams]

When I was in school, other kids my age used to come up to me and say stuff like "Ezra, high five!" or "Ezra, say 'dolphin'!" (or something else random). And I got spoken too like a young child a lot, or spoken to in a high pitched tone like how people speak to animals. Often they would just give me some sort of command, then walk off laughing with their friends after I did it.

I now understand that they were making fun of me and laughing at me (at the time it was just utter confusion), but I still don't understand what they found funny about that exchange (apart from generally laughing at my mannerisms, movements, sounds, etc.).

Another thing that still confuses me, is when I was spoken to in an "overly nice" tone, the intonation was always similar to how people sound when they comfort a crying child. Why did they do this - what was the purpose?

I sort of understand the purpose of mocking my movements and noises by mimicking me as I walked past, or taking advantage of how gullible and naïve I am. But the other things just never made sense to me.

Can anyone explain this to me?

#autism #autistic #school #primary school #high school #mocking #bullying #stimming #infantilism #infantilization #from the chaos of my mind

[0dattebanya0]

#your favourite subject #poll #pls reblog #maths #art #music #geography #phisics #sports #language #foregin lenguage #biology #chemistry #primary school poll #primary school

[st-paul-dano-cathedral]

#paul dano #danocel #danonator #primary school #british meme #danoverse #danonation #prisoners #detective loki #Prisoners 2013 #alex prisoners #marilyn manson

[just-a-blog-for-polls]

#plz reblog #polls #studyblr #education #school #primary school #middle school #high school #discipline #teachers #emotions #shame #remorse #psychology

[sebvettelsv5]

just saw a tiktok about what people were in the nativity and i was a mother cow and i genuinely think thats made me the person i am today

#womangoopforpm #nativity #primary school #its strangely real #also i was so insecure i cried when they read who i was because i thought they were calling me fat #primary school:birthplace of my insecurities

[alpaca-clouds]

A Better Children's Education

Okay, as I promised, I am going to talk a bit about education today. Both in what goes wrong, as well as how things could actually do right. And I am going to start with the earliest time that we in some way or form start to encounter the education system: Kindergarten and Primary School.

This is probably the hardest to talk about, though, because out of all parts of school this is the part that differs the most around the world. While a lot of Asian countries do a lot of some early education in Kindergarten over here in Germany, there is not a lot of education happening in Kindergarten. (Admittedly I do not know how Kindergarten works in the US.)

Primary School meanwhile has always to create the basis for everything that is going to happen afterwards. Basic math, basic writing and reading, also a lot of general education about your country and culture.

Another big thing that varies in schools around the world is whether or not primary schools already use grading. In Germany the first and second grade in general are not graded, but with few exceptions everything afterwards is.

Which is already the first thing that goes wrong. I am not going to reiterate all the stuff that Zoe Bee has talked about in her video on why grading is a scam. It should just be said: Grading can never be fair, it discourages kids from llearning and it mostly does more harm then good. This is true for everyone, but the harm is bigger, the younger the kids in question are.

The biggest issue, though, is that especially Primary School is basically just training kids already into the school mindset. Sit still for a long while, listen to the teacher, and start already working in a way. (Basically already starting to train them up to be workers.) But this is not in the nature of children - and it also actually not the best, most productive way for children to learn.

See, here is the thing: Basically everything that kids learn in primary school, children would easily learn on their own. Because children are naturally curious and want to learn, if only they are encourages to be curious.

Of course, this is not just something that is going to be fostered in school, but has to be fostered by society and especially the family, which makes it hard to control for. But still, the best way for kids to learn is in small groups, cooperatively and through being given the ability to ask questions - something that school settings usually discourage.

Yes, this needs more adults to take care off the children and teach them, but technically it would be worth it, if it meant fostering the curiousity of children.

Oh, and there is another big issue with primary schools and I think it is something that any marginalized person has run into before: A lot of the general education stuff in primary school gets dumbed down to a point where it ends up outright wrong. This happens partly because people think kids are too dumb for stuff - or for political reasons (examples are for example some patriotic myths in the US, or earliest sex ed often only featuring dya cis hetero stuff).

#anarchism #solarpunk #education #primary school #school #kindergarten #grading is a scam

[luesmainblog]

If you went to baby school in the UK, please give this a quick read!

Heyyyy, hearing some genuinely horrific childhood stories from a close friend of mine, so uh. shot in the dark, if you went to school in the United Kingdom: did you ever participate in a magician trick where the selected children were Vanished, and never came back? and i mean NEVER came back, the parents picked them up after the trick, they left the school immediately after, if you lived next door to them they weren't home anymore. Parents very clearly sticking to the Bit and helping to "vanish" the child. The adults refusing to tell anyone where they went is very much part of the bit. This would have taken place around reception/nursery to year 1/primary. if you were, please hmu! you don't have to ruin the trick, I just need to know how common this is and whether or not any of the vanished kids are okay. apparently the only staff members who were there at the time that she still has contact with are STILL refusing to tell her what happened, and that's. deeply concerning to me??? the specific incident was in Corby, but i'm wondering if it occurred anywhere else.

#united kingdom #UK #primary school #magician tricks #vanishing trick #this sounds so fucking shady and i don't understand why she's the only person who was worried about it #we STILL don't know what happened to these kids. PLEASE reach out if you know anything. #signal boost