What do I do??

i think you need to find out if those are the only incidences or if it is a common thing. If he is doing it all the time then it could be a problem. I would go to the meeting find out what the school has to say and then approach it from there. Also do you know when his teacher will be back, or is he going to change teachers anyway at the start of next year? It may be something that you just keep an eye on for the next couple of months until school is over.

Sounds more like normal childhood imagination than behavioural problems to me.
I'd say the teacher was the one with the problems!

I don't have older kids, but am from a teaching family and doesn't sound like behavioural issues to me!

My Mum used to teach new entrants, one kid came to school and told everyone during news that his Dad was in hospital with a broken leg. Dad was the BOT chairperson so the teachers did a whip around for some flowers. When Mum turned up at their house Dad was having his lunch right as rain! Mum still laughs about it.

Sometimes they just want to have exciting news.

I always get told that one of my news stories at that age was telling everyone mum was pregnant when she wasn't. She was getting congratulated and didn't know why.

Its completely normal

Ummmm That is completely normal for a 5 year old! You should have heard the porky my 6 year old told my Mum last weekend!!

Also the only home work we get is a reader every night & also a list of spelling words each week. There is a new initiative out that kids don't have homework especially at this age so they have time to be kids at home.

Some kids are stopped from going to the toilet as they can make a habit of just going all the time. It does disrupt the class & it starts a run of kids going to the toilet.

I'm actually a bit astounded that they consider those behavioural problems...when you go in for a meeting ask if they encourage an imagination & independant thinking in their children. What on earth do they call bullying then??

if thats behavioural issues then I've got big problems... in B's sample book that he brings home at the start of each term, he had designed a new flag, and stuck a kangagroo on it... his reasoning was that he was half new zealand and half australian... noone in either of his families came from australia, except his dads brother who moved over there a couple of years ago!

Is this teacher new to teaching, fresh out of teachers college, and doesnt have much understanding of how rampant a childs imagination can be? B's first teacher was like that and she was ALWAYS sending him to principals office for silly little things, luckily this years teacher is a bit older and more relaxed, and knows when hes just 'being a boy' and when enough is enough. He has definitely improved with this one, his schoolwork has caught up and surpassed expectations, and he still has his wild imagination! We encourage it by giving him a book, pencils and crayons etc and letting him go for gold

i would go to the meeting with an open mind - i'm assuming you havent been already - and just see what has to be said...    let them lay it all on the table. when they have finished ask them what their solutions are if they havent supplied any then tell them you want them in writing and once you have processed the situation you will make another meeting to discuss it further... and if you can do all this without cracking up laughing at how ridiculous it all is then you deserve a medal...!!!!

if this the only problems they are bringing to your attention then maybe you might want to look at another school. One that understands children perhaps!

ooh ooh even better go to the meeting and halfway through say "can we hurry this up? Im supposed to be catching a flight to London tonight, Im having lunch with the queen tomorrow , she hates when im late,silly oldLiz "

just take kelly with you, it sounds like she will sort them out!

but seriously i agree with Bizzy and Hopes, go in open minded and let them lay it all on the table. then go from there

Im a primary school teacher and until I left I taught a class of year 0-2s, mainly 5 year olds. We did news every day and I would say 90 per cent of the news that the kids gave me was not true. They would say things like that last night they went to the beach, the pool, the park, then had dinner then went back to the beach again (in the middle of winter). Or they would say they went to Australia in the weekend, etc etc I knew that most of the time they weren't telling the truth but the most important part of telling the news was getting the oral language practice, practice in talking to eachother and presenting their news to the class and gaining confidence, so I didn't shut them down on it unless it was really outrageous. But I would never in a million years have reported that kind of behaviour to a DP or considered it to be a problem at all. That's what 5 year olds do!!! I am really shocked that the DP even thinks its a behavioural problem. If the teacher has issues with it then she needs to deal with it with him by encouraging him to tell the real news as you said.

I would definitely be questioning why this is such a problem when you have the meeting with her. It's not a problem, it's a 5 year old thing and it's on the teacher to handle it in any case. Find this so unusual and not fair on you or your boy.

Re the homework I just wanted to say though that I didn't give my kids homework, only reading books, reason being because I felt until they had reading and writing secure, there wasn't a lot of point in extra homework and reading skils really are the most important thing at that age. Different teachers have different approaches in that regard but I found the readers only worked best for me. I did teach in a low decile school where the parents didn't often help with homework so that did come in to it, but generallyI wouldn't worry too much about that.

Re the toilet thing Im quite sure that the principal would not like that it's a health risk and highly unusual at that age because quite frankly you don't want to end up with a puddle, and most teachers of 5 year olds have learnt this the hard way at some time or another.

The only way to get issues resolved is to try and raise them with the teacher or DP. I really do hope they take them on board.

Don't worry, there is nothing wrong with your boy, he's just got a great imagination :)