Anyone else excited about their childs move to Secondary school ?

DS1 has been at Secondary for a year. At first I felt quite detached. No popping into school to have a rummage through lost property, chat to the secretary who knew who you were and who your child was.

They suddenly have a bajillion teachers and you have never met them!

Unless your DC like to tell you anything you won't know a thing, as you don't see the school gate Mums any more.

It's not awful, but it's quite a shock.

Well,if he's fed up with the petty rules at Primary school, he may very well be going to find secondary school an unpleasant shock............

My DS is so fed up with the petty rules in Primary school. The whole year has been a boring waste of time, with SATS drilled into the poor kids. He did have a wobble but is now very excited about moving up to Secondary.

Personally, I cannot wait to be away from the horrible, gossipy mothers at the school gates. I was never in the 'in-crowd' but watched the appalling behaviour from afar.

My ds can't wait. I'm apprehensive!

Our primary have had an excellent strategy for assisting their Y6's towards a joyful, 'can't wait' attitude towards secondary. They've made Y6 one long SATS slog, imposed more and more petty and unfairly enforced rules that always favour 'a younger child' over a Y6, they've ensured that all the rules, awards and privileges are designed with a conscientious Y3 girl in mind, they've made lessons dull and repetitive; now they've more or less abandoned the Y6 DC to 4 weeks of unguided, unfocused 'playtime', post SATS.....

They can't wait for secondary.

I feel the same about my daughter's move to secondary. She had her induction day yesterday and is super excited about starting at secondary now. I sat here worrying yesterday that the induction day would go well for her, thankfully it all went well and she had a great day :)