Re: Going to the toilet during lessons
Posted: 09 Nov 2017, 14:05
Interesting thread,
As a supply teacher this is one of my regular dilemmas. The vast majority of children, like to try it on with the supply teacher and push their boundaries. I usually ask the other staff what the classroom policy is. If there is no-one to ask, I will say 'no' as long as possible, because you can bet your daily fee on it, that once one child has gone, then they all want to go and then it just gets ridiculous. If you keep saying no, then you generally mange to weedle out the ones that genuinely need to go.
I think that the younger they are the more sympathetic you have to be and Y2 I would definitely make them wait initially, but let them go on a second ask. The power of suggestion with the young ones drives you crazy sometimes, things like, coughs, sneezes, burps, wanting a drink, wanting to go to the toilet, feeling sick, feeling cold, feeling too hot, poorly tummies, poorly fingers, non-existant wounds, can all move around the room like a Mexican wave!
As a supply teacher this is one of my regular dilemmas. The vast majority of children, like to try it on with the supply teacher and push their boundaries. I usually ask the other staff what the classroom policy is. If there is no-one to ask, I will say 'no' as long as possible, because you can bet your daily fee on it, that once one child has gone, then they all want to go and then it just gets ridiculous. If you keep saying no, then you generally mange to weedle out the ones that genuinely need to go.
I think that the younger they are the more sympathetic you have to be and Y2 I would definitely make them wait initially, but let them go on a second ask. The power of suggestion with the young ones drives you crazy sometimes, things like, coughs, sneezes, burps, wanting a drink, wanting to go to the toilet, feeling sick, feeling cold, feeling too hot, poorly tummies, poorly fingers, non-existant wounds, can all move around the room like a Mexican wave!