Anyone with a year 7 starting today?

lljkk......I know what you mean ...ds does NOT have French to day ...but I made him check his timetable 3 times before before leaving his French dicionary out of his bag !!!

I think ds was day dreaming last week when he stayed on the bus for too long and missed his stop !I reckon he thought he was on the slightly longer 2nd bus ride already !

I get nervous panicky feelings if I notice a planner or anything else outside DS bookbag for more than 3 seconds.

I had to drive DS to school this morning because he started daydreaming & walked the route to his hold mini-bus pick up point, rather than to the train station (sigh).

Oh, and as for affection, it's either all or nothing at the moment, hugs and kisses, or shouting at me, saying I dont understand!

Same here, Bubby. Its really stressing me out, I am walking in egg shells, I keep asking him if there is something wrong he says no but he is really emotional! Is it just the nerves and pressure finding a release at home?

bubby....so glad things have worked out ok ...what a relief !

Mine has left his homework diary at school !...but luckely remembered what he has to do for tomorrow..hope it gets found in his last class or at PSA....otherwise HE IS PAYING FOR A NEW ONE OUT OF HIS POCKET MONEY !!!!!!....see I can be strict sometimes !!

Hi Mitchdafish Glad they seem to have taken it on board, lets hope he settles a bit better now. Must admit, my 2 are both terrified that anything they do slightly wrong will end up with detention, it seems the worst thing ever to them, trying hard to reassure them that even if this does happen, it will not be the end of the world! On the positive side DS1 got a merit award today for DT, and DS2 got one for PE, very proud of them both!

Glad I have found this thread, was pretty desperate on Monday with DS crying his eyes out, however he went off to school after I promised to talk to his head of house who was fantastic and immediately passed important info about him on to his teachers. Everything is much improved, but I feel on a knife-edge. He has been following another curriculum and also been down a year plus some home ed, new school were asking him to do stuff he had never heard of. Obv no-one read the form I filled in about it.
I tell you, I am exhausted with it all, plus working out what his homelearning actually requires, assuring him he won't get detention if he gets it wrong... (I hope). I need to be prepared to spend a good hour with him on homework each night - just in case.
I am feeling ridiculously cross with the few teachers who seem to make him a bit frightened. He got a late mark on his 2nd day - he was trying to find his tutor group but it was assembly. And I cried with relief when head of house was kind. Well that was a rant. I haven't dared ask about the toilets. ;-) oh, and pasta dish in the canteen place is £1.75.

Oh, and as for affection, it's either all or nothing at the moment, hugs and kisses, or shouting at me, saying I dont understand!
School dinners, £2.10 for a 4 item lunch, meat/ fish etc, 2 sides,(chips/rice/ veg/salad/bread roll) drink or pudding. I give them £3 if they want school dinner, but they have packed lunches most days.
Oh, and DS2 got his locker keys yesterday(£10), then lost them on the way home! I found them on the footpath they use to walk up from the bus stop

Hi All - Bullies sorted, they got 2 weeks detention and had to write an apology to DS2. They are under no illusion it will not be tolerated either in or out of school! Very pleased with that, . Had another little wobble today, bus driver started to leave at home time, and DS1 had not got on, DS2 saw him coming and asked him to wait, but he didn't, so DS2 panicked and shout STOP!! The bus driver got angry and said nobody had ever done that before, and now DS2 thinks he will be in trouble tomorrow. We said "well done for looking out for your brother!"

DS has lost his PE shirt already. :(
So far he as done PE in dress shirt & in a borrowed PE shirt.
I have promised that if I have to replace it, the replacement will have name label sewn obviously on it in at least 3 different places (sewn outside of shirt). He is lucky I don't plan to stencil surname on it in 4 inch high letters. I don't care if he looks like a 6 year old sent to summer camp, I am not pleased about spending a fresh £15 weekly.

dd is taking packed lunches too, it's just too expensive after bus fare to be paying out for lunches too, though we will the occasional one. She wants to buy 'snacks' and when I asked her what sort she said 'pizza' for break time snack?

seeker our school does similar, with cashing points in for stuff like cinema tickets, book tokens etc, and further up the line iPods. Seems quite motivating for them.

Hope all the dcs are getting on well today.

Urk, DS had wrong train money today so I am going to have to pick him up (my fault ). DH on orders to get DS a season ticket tonite. We were just pants at understanding how to get one of them, before.

I've done a deal with my yr8 and yr7 dds, if they make and take a packed lunch, they save half the money a school lunch (£2ish) would cost. They find this quite motivating and they mostly take packed lunches. The long queue at the cafeteria helps too.

They get home early, about 3.15, so if they're hungry it's not really a very long day.

Dd has had school dinners a few times - sent her with £2 a day which is what dd1 has always taken, and she had change! However dd1 now only gets to go in last as she's year 11, so she wants packed lunches, so dd2 has decided she also prefers a pack-up to queueing!

Our school meals are good value - but you wouldn't want to pay our council tax!

DS2 had pasta with meatballs and chips yesterday. I suspect his choices are the norm for lots of the younger boys but they are different from Ds1 who chooses chow mein or veggie lasagne!

I'm going to break up the week and he will take sandwiches for a couple of the days because the school dinners are so expensive. They run it like a cafe, i gave him a fiver yesterday and told him i wanted change. He then bought himself a hot chocolate at school and a chocolate bar on the way home and gave me a bit of change

Wow your school dinners are cheap - can we come to your school please :)

DS is spending about £2.70 a day and he isnt even having a proper meal.

We're giving ds £6 at the beginning of the week to load his Q card with: lunch costs £1.15 ((eg soup, panini, salad, fruit and yoghurt) and he can choose to buy extra (sugar free ) cakes/muffins and other healthy snacks. If he runs out, he has to use his own pocket money mean mum, me

DS forgot his lunch money today. Or rather took it out of his wallet yesterday to count and forgot to put it back. His friend bought him a muffin, which was very sweet of him, but he was in a pretty foul mood when I got back, and we had words about him organising his time sensibly for homework.

He'll learn!

AView..thank you ....It is making more sense now ...Trouble is I have only got the rude ones going around in my head....when i said what you said he (!) "i know I thought it was that "!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why coulnt his teachers have explained it like you did !

Off now to make up some rude ditties !!

Rhyming lines - damn phone.