Good Luck today secondary school starters! and has anyone noticed...

@LM - no, it was drinks and nibbles for us instead ! Did your ds have fun ? Chaos dropping off this morning.

dd forgot her football lacrosse boots which we discovered as we left the school shop and she walked past us. dh has just set off to take them in although I'd have just let her use trainers for today to avoid the fuss and embarrassment. Tried to exchange her swimsuit for a smaller size only to discover it was already the smallest !

my DS starts today and already we are having 'issues'

It looks like its going to be a long haul, oh fun times ahead.

I am waiting to see how 'big' he looks in his uniform

think when I get back a big coffee will be had!

My dd1 also started today. She was incredibly stoic about it. Neither excited nor nervous. I have been feeling a bit 'pondery' about it (as in, where has all the time gone?) but apart from that, I have had no emotion. I didn't walk her there or collect her. I blame the ADs I'm on; they make me so unable to care about much.

DD2 started today.

When DD1 started at her secondary school a couple of years ago, I was warned that it was considered seriously uncool to pick her up and walk to the train or bus with her.

So, I assumed it would be the same for DD2, at her school, but she came home all sad that everyone else was picked up.

( We did do a practise run, yesterday, though.)

My dd started her new school today. She was so nervous but came home happy, she likes her form teacher, has a key to her locker and likes the other girls in her class. So relieved!

I was also happy as other Mums seem lovely and I was asked to go for a coffee.

Dd now looking forward to tomorrow and other dd goes back to school too. The morning is looming!

LIZS you weren't at a barbq on Sunday were you?!

Wish mine didn't! I think they finish at 3pm, 2pm on a Wednesday.

DD has come back all smiles. Laughing about boys messing about on the bus. She's been chatting to some girls she didn't know before and they seem nice. She had "stuff" for lunch and is happy as she's been allocated French not German.

My DS does not start until Thursday but is really nervous but wont talk about it. He is very snappy and stays locked away in his bedroom with his PS3, saying it will be the last chance he EVER has to play it. I am struggling with the dramatics but know that by next week he will be fine. Fingers crossed!!!

So her best friend is what I meant to type...

Dd1 started this morning - we live 5mins from school,somber bf came to call for her and off they went. Unfortunately, the blazer that swamped her when we ordered it in July, fits rather nicely today - glad I've another dd to go up in a few years :D

My PFB was up at ten to six this morning just to make sure he didn't miss his bus. He got himself sorted, and ran out the door without looking back. He does, however, look like Annie Lennox in his blazer. Shoulderpads are in, baby. I have spent the day anxiously ironing and hoping that a bigger kid doesn't flush his head down a toilet. T-75 minutes

Yes, she does. especially as I took her photo with DD1 who is a head taller.

DD1 also, looks much younger in her school uniform trousers, than her holiday tight jeggings or short skirt.

Yesterday the station master wanted to sell her an adult ticket (she's 14, it's just she's taller than me. He was being a bit daft as she didn't even have make up on).

The HT is having a war on short skirts so DD2's is much longer than she'd like and, as I said, DD1 decided to wear her trousers. As her skirt while pretty much the longest in the class is still strictly too short.

Good luck to everyone else starting this week and to all the big siblings like DD1 starting GCSEs etc.

ds 1 started today...I took a picture of him in the playground...he looked very smart...even though his hands were MISSING from the end of his new blazer sleeves !!!!

Going to meet him soon to see if he can remember his route home !!!!

Possibly left a bit tooo early this morning ....arrived at 7.45 ..for a 8.30 start !!!

dd goes tomorrow for an induction day ahead of the rest of the school which starts back on Thursday. She met a few of her classmates at the weekend so is more excited now and spent yesterday trying on various permutations of uniform while I labelled. Haircut booked for later and then pick up last few items.

I will be in here tomorrow my DS starts then....I have to teach him to tie a tie and will be spending most of the next year teaching him how to remember what he needs for the next day, reminding him about homework, dealing with 'issues' that arise... and anything else I have forgotten

Dd started today too.
Hope it all goes well.
Vivalebeaver - sorry to hear your dd was so scared. I hope it all goes well and she has a lovely day

Good luck to all new starters!

My DS started today and me and Dad are sitting here like nervous wrecks! School bus arrived late and didn't do the return ticket as the company said, so it completely threw DS who promptly got off the bus (after giving the driver his money) saying he didn't have enough to get home! It's been sorted but will be much happier when he's home if he remembers to catch the right bus back and hasn't lost his money

Too early for ?

And yes, big blazer on our little lad....from the oldest in the school, to the youngest! Guess everyone is in the same boat

Er that should say remember!!

I rmember when I started Grammar school (all those years ago!!) and I WAS TERRIFIED!! You see them all going in the school gates and it sort of wings you back all those years!!!! My heart goes out to them.............

Have driven my neighbours DS to senior school this morning (about 6 miles away) and Lord does he look tiny - and that's amongst the other year 7's!! He looked immaculate in his suit and tie (yes I did say suit and tie!!) that's what they're wearing!! Grey suits and very nice too!! He says it's fiddly but he'll get used to it - best wishes to all of the newbies at senior school today and to all of the parents I wish you a good day and not too many nerves!!!! I remember it well!! Best wishes to all!!

DD was up at 06:30 and out the house by 07:40! She doesn't have to be there until 08:30 & school is only 20 mins walk
I'm hoping this enthusiasm lasts, she had a lot of worries but spent a week doing activities at the new school over the hols & was much happier after that.
Hope all your DC come home happy!!

DD2 starts tomorrow and I thought that she was fine but we've had a couple of upsets over trivial things recently. Last night she was getting concerned about where her locker would be - fortunately today we can chat to a friend of DD1 who will be in year 8 at the school. Hopefully the first day will go well as she really enjoyed the induction day.
Good luck to everyone (parents too!)

I am normally a bit of a hard nut but this morning he does look just like a little dot.
Good luck everyone.