Hi,

I taught 8-10 year olds in china last year and I had the same issues in getting them to pay attention. One day I made a competition between the girls and boys, if they were bad they lost a point etc. and they soon did the discipline themselves in order to be the winning team. All I neeed to do was count to 3 and if they weren't quiet by that time their team lost a point. Obviously try and work on the positives as much as possible ie, for the best behaved team give a point etc. be generous but fair with your point giving...they will soon pick you up if you don't maintain the same system for deducting points!