Hysteria1983

Is anyone else sending their boys and girls off to BIG school this week?

My son has started half days until Thursday, when he stays until after lunch. Then he starts a full day on Monday. The same day my daughter starts her three hour morning at nursery!!

I'm excited and nervous, all this time to myself for the first time in over 4 years.

!!!!!

Trout

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Ours started school today!!!

Although after years of nursery, pre-school, nursery pre-school it just seems like more of the same. He was VERY excited though!

Hysteria1983

I bet! I don't think it's much of an issue if they have been to pre-school or nursery. The transition is much easier.

My little man couldn't eat his breakfast yesterday! That's never happened to him before.

urban

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My daughter started year 8 on 31st August.
SHe wasn't able to eat breakfast that day, but thankfully she was only in for half a day acclimatising so to speak.

Big big change for her.
Going for primary school where you're in the same room with the same teacher all day to having to have potentially 9 different teachers in the day all in different classrooms.

alcazar

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One of mine started a new job last week and the other goes back to uni in October.........any good?

Nah, I understand, I still have the pics of my two the day they started secondary school, looking proud but apprehensive in their new uniforms.

Hysteria1983

How do you work that out?

I will have a whole 3 hours to myself everyday on a school day
That is 3 hours more than what I get now during the hours of daylight.

zip106

My youngest started today, no issues, wandered straight into class without looking back.
No more nursery fees!

I can't wait for his first RE lesson...

Hysteria1983

RE, as in Religious Education. Do they do that during the foundation stage?

Clarebabes

Hollie started year 7 in her new school last Thursday. She was up at 6:30am in her uniform by 6:31am, nagging me to hurry up and get out of bed. She was so excited.... I sent her in the wrong colour socks, but they let her off on the first day, phew!

She loves "Global Education" which is RE apparently....

Dingdongler

Mine started today at reception/pre school whatever you call it. He wasn't a happy chappy when I left, crying etc

Leslie

I can still remember my first day, I was not quite 4 I think, and I was terrified!

Les

Hysteria1983

It's pre-school first, then reception which is school.

Sorry to hear he was upset, did he go to pre-school or nursery?

kingofturds

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My son started school yesterday

Hysteria1983

Everyone keeps telling me how much he's going to change, and how he's going to be different child by Christmas.



I'm hoping he will still be the same one to be honest! I'd quite like to keep him.

Clarebabes

Kids grow up, fact! Something you just have to go with otherwise you'll be unhappy for a very long time. Remember, they'll leave you one day....

Hysteria1983

Oh yes I know that, my post wasn't a serious one.

He's grown up fast! But with his sus only 17 months behind him it all just seems to flash before my eyes.

Clarebabes

True, I remember Hollie's first day at primary. My mum cried, I didn't. I had to get to work.....

P.s. I am not as cruel hearted as I seem. Hollie had been going to nursery since she was 6 months, so going to school was nothing much to her. Some of the other kids were crying and hanging onto their mum's legs, begging them not to go. Hollie turned around and said, "are you still here mum? Go away, you're embarassing me!"

Trout

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Every day from birth there is a move towards separation for a normal child - no matter how close a child is. The degree of dependency lessens step by tiny little step.

School is one of the big leaps of course.

It was interesting reading about Sam Cam where their disabled son died. It is much, much harder because with a disabled child the normal process of gradual separation does not happen and the dependency can remain for years. The loss can be a huge blow - they have done well.

Sorry to be a bit heavy but your post made me think of that - be thankful that our kids are out there growing up into little men and women.

Leslie

Ha ha, she is well ahead of the game then!

Les

Jamie

I got pointed a finger go fetch or else was my first day at school never forget that

Googled the school built in 1928 woooooooohoooooo.

Jamo

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Georgina started school today, she is doing half days this week and starts full time next week, she says she loved it (phew!!) and would like to go back tommorow thankfully lol

she walked straight in and sat down as good as gold, I told my mum and she laughed and said on my first day I grabbed onto her leg and screamed and cried! lol

Frosticles

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Mine start back tomorrow as today is an "Inset" day

Lee247

First day at 6th form College for my little lady, yesterday. It was more nerve wracking for me than when she first started school 11 years ago. None of her pals are going to her college so I was chewed to bits for her. She managed ok though, bless her

Will

My Llio started last Thursday, 9 till 3 She did go to lunch club last term from 9 till 1.

fast bloke

Our older eating machine ( erm I mean child) started on 1st September. After years of close contact with the teachers, dropping her off and picking her up, she took off to get the bus last Wednesday. I was a wreck for the entire day. She came home.... conversation goes

Me - How did it go?
Fine
Did you make any friends
Yeah
Do you know their names
Nah
What are your teachers like
Fine
Do you think they are nice?
Yeah
Did you get any homework
Nah

Aaaaarrrggghhh!!!!! - For 7 years she has had notes home, I saw the teacher every day, everything was discussed to the nth degree and I was connected to her education. Suddenly the new education is relegated to fine, yeah and nah

urban

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She's currently gogint through the "Perry" years

I remember when my son went through the "Kevin" years - ******* nightmare
One word answer many times even just a grunt

Terrible age - I just hope girls cope a wee bit better than boys!
So far my daughter isn't and doesn't look like showing signs of Perry syndrome

MMT WRX

My daughter Taran was the same. Started college to do A levels
this week, non of her friends are going either. She was a bag of nerves and felt sick when Maxine dropped her off. She made it though and seems a lot happier now. Except she's got loads of homework already.

Kieran_Burns

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My Mum won't LET me forget my first day at school. I started in the Easter (they did that back then) as I was the youngest in my year.

Apparently I walked out of school at lunch time and walked home (about 2 miles) on my own. My Mum's neighbour phoned her at work to say I was sat outside the back door and shouldn't I be at school?

Mum rushes home and finds me still there patiently sat waiting for her. She asks me what the **** **** **** am I doing at home? Apparently I replied "I wasn't learning anything, so I thought I best come home"

Trout

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So how are all the new kids getting on? Ours who has been excited about this for months now has a dawning reality that he will not be going back to nursery where is was all play, especially as he was getting to be one of the oldest boys!

He is also very tired - he asks to go to bed early and won't wake up in the morning.

Otherwise getting on very well - he is fast forwarding his reading books which is great. And he gets to go swimming which he LOVES!!!!