How nervous are you before you go to a parents' evening?

[emkana]

Because I'm very nervous and very excited. My goodness, dd1 is only in reception, but I am really fidgety and can't wait till 5 o'clock. I soooooooo hope the teacher will have some nice things to say about dd1 - especially because I know that academically she is behind many of the other children in the class - apparently 50 % can already read and write (at least to some extent), which dd1 is still far from.

[Feistybird]

flipping heck 50%? my DD is like yours Emkana, still some way off that.

[Twiglett]

not at all - because they're dull and politically correct

at least they were at nursery level and I don't expect any difference now

[emkana]

Just me then.

[Fireworks]

As a teacher I used to get a little anxious - more about how I was to cram hundreds of interviews into tiny little ten minute slots over only three hours..
As a parent I am beginning to understand those parents who came in with a list!I have soo much I want to ask. The list thing always used to amuse me before, one mum even came in with a clipboard and wrote down each of my answers like a job interview .
My DD1 has her first parents evening next week and I can?t wait. Have made a list but will try to leave it at home and be nice to the teacher....

[Issymum]

Only nervous that having been forced to take an afternoon off work (nobody was offered a post-5pm slot), trekked off to the school, plied with a series of platitudes that could apply to just about any reasonably functioning 4 year old, evasively answered as to why on earth they could possibly think that Jolly Phonics and Oxford Reading Tree are compatible at this stage and hustled out after our allotted 10 minutes, I won't refrain from making an inappropriate comment along the lines of "Tell you what - just send me an email next term".

[Issymum]

Apologies to any Reception Year teachers on MNet. There is just something about school that brings out the inappropriate and adolescent 'Rebel Without a Cause' in me!

[sandyballs]

Very. DD's teacher looks about 12 and we had to sit on those little teeny tiny chairs to talk to her. She then suggested I teach DD to count beyond 10 to perhaps 20, so she doesn't really know DD at all as she can count way past that.
Emkana - my DDs are also in reception and are nowhere near reading or writing (apart from writing their name and copying things).