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Dear god! Tell me it's the 23rd July tomorrow, I'm losing the will to live!!

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MaureenMLove · 13/07/2010 20:09

Anyone else done with it all now? The kids are off the wall! School uniform is starting to slip. Lots of notes claiming shoes are broken/lost/too small and won't be replaced this late in the year.

Anyone's schools doing end of year days out too.

We've got this hairbrained scheme this year, whereby 2 yr groups go out for the day on Tuesday and 2 on Wednesday, followed by suspended timetable on Thursday and Friday. All mufti days!

I am seriously going to lock myself in my office on the last two days! I can't stand mufti days!!

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MaureenMLove · 13/07/2010 20:43

Does it really work too, Janiete? We've supposedly done that for the last 3 years and tbh it hasn't worked!

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juanitad · 13/07/2010 20:37

We started our new timetable at the end of June..........yes, you read correctly! So rather than wait until September to get new classes and new timetables, it's already happened!! So effectively year 7 have become year 8, year 8 have become year 9 and so on! Is very strange, and has completely changed the ethos at school - so there isn't much of a wind-down feeling. Around this time I'd usually be starting to think about more fun activities I could do for the last few lessons, but this year I'm keeping going with proper lessons up to the bitter end!

janeite · 13/07/2010 20:32

We teach right up to the bitter end - no fun, no activities, no mufti days, no DVDs!

I am absolutely desperate for the 23rd now - holidays always used to come as a lovely surprise but now I feel as if I'm counting the days!

janeyjampot · 13/07/2010 20:27

A school around the corner from us has OfSTED in this week!

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MaureenMLove · 13/07/2010 20:26

Oh dear! I must admit, I waved as another 2 were sent offsite today!

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primarymum · 13/07/2010 20:22

My son's school has had more internal exclusions over the last two weeks than the rest of the term altogether, the boys seem to be on the verge of a riot! ( Thankfully my son wasn't one of them, but only because he's on exam leave

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MaureenMLove · 13/07/2010 20:20

It is a nightmare, Hassled!

I am also the Educational Trip Co-ordinator, so I am sick to death of reading, signing and returning trip paperwork. Not to mention the piles of risk assessments and contact detail forms for each trip that leaves!!

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MaureenMLove · 13/07/2010 20:18

Oh, lucky you!

This is so not going to happen again next year! This is supposed to be my wind down time and getting prepared for next term! I've spent 2 days sat at my desk, working out how to cover the 20+ staff members, that are going out on both days and I haven't finished yet!

Next year, my suggestion is, sports day for remaining two years!! It's mad! I can cover most of the lessons, because obviously a large cohort of students will be missing and I'm collapsing classes, but that only works with the 2 yr groups that are out!

Madness!

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Hassled · 13/07/2010 20:16

Well you panicked me - I read the thread title as if it actually was the 23rd July tomorrow and was wondering if there had been some coma scenario I hadn't known about .

DS2 effectively finishes this Friday - next week is for "Activities". It sounds like an administrative nightmare to me but I quite understand why the staff need them all off site for a week!

roisin · 13/07/2010 20:13

ds1's school has collapsed timetable 3 days this week: lots of trips out, plus all sorts of "activities", all mufti. ds1 doesn't see the point and would rather be in lessons , but generally it seems to be very well organised and he had a good time despite himself today.

Ours is pretty much "business as usual", but not much learning going on tbh. But we finish on Thursday: YIPPEE!

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