How are all the new September Primary intake getting on? Have the tears stopped, are they eating, have they made friends?

[oliveoil]

my previous sad thread

dd1 had eventually stopped crying a week before half term but this week has cried again

am hoping it is a hiccup and temporary due to a break from school and that she will be ok next week

anyone else got any updates?

[Kaz33]

My very happy little boy, has kept old friends, made new friends and has settled in very well.

Teachers assesment was "quietly confident" and "socialises well"

However, he is number 2 and his big brother (yr 2) is still finding it difficult so I am not feeling too smug and feel for all those mums with kids who are still finding their feet.

[SweetFA]

Oh dear OO
We have reverted to half days for Ds. He was patently not coping with the long days, too tired to speak when he came out and getting quite ill with it.
He stays till after lunch and I'm hoping this will make a big difference.
Hope you manage to settle her again.

[Issy]

I'm sorry to hear that OO.

DD2 is fine: bumptious, confident and, according to her, the 'bestest' in class.

She has said recently that she doesn't want to go to school, but when you drop her off in the morning she runs into the hall to join her mates and forgets to say 'goodbye', so I'm not taking it too seriously.

I hate the way they are teaching her to read and don't particularly like her form teacher, but I haven't betrayed my feelings to DD2 who remains sublimely unbothered.

I have no idea why DD2 has found it so easy. Second child perhaps, resilient personality, one of the oldest in the class maybe?

[Marina]

OO, hope she feels more comfortable soon sorry to hear that.
Dd was at nursery there last year and has ds in Yr4, so was thoroughly familiar with the setting. She is an August baby so very young for the year and that is definitely impacting on her socialising within her class (girls are outnumbered and the kingpin girl currently is being steered firmly along a nanny-approved playdate course which excludes dd, and others ).
She is one of those assertive little sprites who is a great pet with older children though, so it's not that she's lonely.
Just over half-term she "got" reading and writing, so we have a lot of staggery names being written and painful letter by letter dictation of words she wishes to write. Current favourites are apple and baby.
We also have the first of the dread Ginns Spirals coming home week by week.
She states she doesn't want to go to school so often we've been a bit concerned about it, but this was news to her class teacher, who is a wonderful woman and had ds before dd so knows our family reasonably well.
We're not smug either Kaz33 - ds is finding his teacher in Yr4 REALLY hard work - I think they all are . So as you say, it's always one week at a time, hey ho.

[puddle]

Olive I am sorry your dd has found it hard. My ds went through a phase of crying when I dropped him off and I know how gut wrenching it is. I think lots of children find it hard going back after the holidays - hopefully she will settle again soon.

My dd has settled well, she is enjoying it. She is one of the oldest in her class and was desperate to get to school. I was slightly worreid that she would cling to her best friend in the lass but she seems to be branching out and making new friends and adores her teacher.

I did help out on a school trip the other day though and she cried when I left. Just one of the reasons I don't help out in class.

[oliveoil]

thanks for the sympathy, I am sure she will be ok it is just awful once again and I thought we had crossed that bridge, hey ho

she is 'getting' reading, or seems to be, all her words are now spoken as she is taught them iyswim. And is now writing her name (but I am the only one that can decipher it)

we have a parents' evening next week so will see what the teacher says

[puddle]

DD also spends lots of time at home drawing and writing notes for her teacher and friends on the class. v sweet.

[Marina]

Oh we get that too puddle
And then she gets very hissy with me when I decide it is best not to actually deliver these overheated and glue-encrusted billets doux (I will love you for ever POLLY)

[oliveoil]

lol

[NAB3littlemonkeys]

Had 3 lots of tears in total. Goe son from the gate, alone. Has more friends than me.
Behaviour has changed though.

[OrmIrian]

DS#2 is fine. Even getting himself dressed now after a fashion. Sloooow to learn anything as yet but we're doing his hw religiousl. Wishing his teacher was a little more child-friendly though. She seems to view the children as a neccessary evil

[Issy]

I forgot to answer the questions:

Have the tears stopped: Yes. But we got only 5 minutes' worth on Day 1.

Are they eating: I like to think so but I tried an H&M skirt on her today size 3-4 and it fell straight off her waist.

Have they made friends: She started with some friends from nursery (she went there one day a week) and two of them have remained in her 'top 4', with two new girls added. Interestingly, as DD2 is Cambodian, her two nursery friends are both Chinese and the only other non-whites in class. Could be a coincidence and connected with the big personalities of those two girls!

Marina: Us too. DD1 took virtually the whole of the first half of term to settle into her new class (Yr 2) and her new teacher is absolutely lovely.

[NAB3littlemonkeys]

Goes in.

[oliveoil]

she still isn't eating her packed lunch

have threatened school dinners after christmas if she doesn't buck up

[NAB3littlemonkeys]

My DD isn't staying for lunch yet but seems quite excited about doing so. Time will tell...

[puddle]

DD eats her lunch. Ds (year 3) is on a final warning now for not eating his (don't think if you crack something in reception it will remain cracked!)

She has made friends but the playdates so far have all been children she knew already.

[ChasingSquirrels]

is it every day? - mine has days when he eats it all, and days when he doesn't eat much. He had school dinner yesterday as they had a bonfire lunch, we had the menu and it had fudge tart and chocolate sauce (or another pudding) and he was very excited about it - at teatime I asked him which one he chose, and he got very sad and said he forgot to get one!

[oliveoil]

she usually eats her apple

and drinks her carton of juice

maybe one bite of sandwich

[ChasingSquirrels]

hum not so good - have you tried a 'bits and pieces' sort of lunch - cut bit of things (veg sticks, sausage roll , pieces of cheese, bits of ham etc) to see if she would pick at it?

[Wilbur]

Dd (Reception) is fine at school, but a moose to end all mooses at home. She is just so tired. Most afternoons she stages some kind of sit in with regard to tea, or bath, or teeth brushing. I'm hoping as she gets a bit older, the days will be easier to handle. She has just got her first reading book to bring home, so she's v pleased with herself and keen to do that which hopefully will make her forget to be Madam Stroppy.

[Wilbur]

Haven't attempted a playdate yet though, except with a couple of little girls who were in her nursery class. After knowing ds1's class names in Reception really well, I am struggling to recognise dd's classmates. She does chat about a few of them though, so hopefully next term we will do more social things.

[Issy]

Packed lunches are not an option at the DDs' school and there is no choice for lunch (it's private = draconian) but perversely this set up seems to encourage the DDs to eat. The food is home made, healthy, run-of-the-mill stuff - toad-in-the-hole, shephards pie, roast pork etc.. Although a new cook has recently introduced such unheard of exotica as curry.

[hotcrossbunny]

Dd is fine I think. Goes happy, comes out happy. No idea how much she eats, but her teacher said we would be told if they didn't eat much...
Not terribly keen on reading but wants to write and sounds out words like no tomorrow.
Was very excited - they had 'big apparatus' in PE today
I'm very pleased she is still part time. She is the fourth youngest in the school and quite often has a nap still.

[morningpaper]

OMG mine has returned home with KNICKERS FULL OF POO

what a wondrous new development

[oliveoil]

oh yes, we have skiddy knickers!

but she gets upset (no surprise there) so I have to whip them off at bathtime so she doesn't see them

in fact, I can't think of anything she doesn't get upset about atm

very tired little poppet