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Private school holidays - what do your children do with all that time

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Luna9 · 09/04/2018 10:51

DD is starting at an independent school in September, year 7. I only work part time but planning on increasing hours a bit; what do you do during the school holidays? What do your children do? We do have quite a few holidays overseas but no way I can cover 18 weeks holidays. Youngest one will still be in the state sector in primary for 4 more years.

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OCSockOrphanage · 13/04/2018 20:59

DS was taught basic gardening skills, and earned pocket money (lots of it) doing garden tasks for all the older people locally who can no longer manage or want to do such things themselves. He mows, strims, weeks and chops wood basically. And when available is much in demand!

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Luna9 · 10/04/2018 09:03

Thank you. 18 weeks is indeed a long time; it puts me off more than the fees; but not point of complaining as not other options and decision is made. We can probably cover 9 weeks between holidays and sending her to grandparents abroad. The other 9 weeks will be a combination of holidays camps, trips, home and friends.

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AthenaAshton · 09/04/2018 23:47

Watch crap on YouTube. Play crap on X Box. Post crap on Snapchat and Instagram. Get bored. Argue with one another. Try to argue with me. Fall out with friends online. Make a mess everywhere. The holidays feel very, very long. We can't do anything that requires spending money, as it all goes on school fees...

Ladydepp · 09/04/2018 23:43

You’ll only have to worry about it for a year or 2 and then she’ll be happy home on her own or hanging out with friends.

Allthebestnamesareused · 09/04/2018 14:00

Often the school trips are i the holidays rather than in termtime

sanam2010 · 09/04/2018 13:43

lots to do - mine usually do multiactivity camps (supercamps etc), sports camps (tennis / netball / swimming etc) or science / programming camps or also any sort of drama / music activities (sylvia young theatre school, italia conti...). They all cost money of course, so hopefully you earn more than the camps cost!

GiantIcicle · 09/04/2018 11:30

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RedAndGreenPlaid · 09/04/2018 10:59

Usually there are holiday clubs run by the schools, though these are often for the younger age groups, rather than secondary.
We use a combination of working from home, school holiday clubs, activity camps (such as Ultimate Activity, Supercamps, Kings Camp etc), annual leave. We don't have grandparents to send them to, though many of their classmates either visit GPs for several weeks, or have their GPs stay at their home to watch them during the day.
If they're strong in sports or music then there are also associated residential camps for these that help too.

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