pfb -in fact only child - off to secondary on Thursday...

I was in exactly the same position as you this time last year! I spent the entire day on the school website, checking what they were doing!

Wishing all your lo's much luck and fun today. I'm going to work to prepare for our new Yr 7's arrival tomorrow!

My DS has chosen to do Spanish. He is very good at maths but actually hates the subject .

Less than 10 mins to go and the school bus will be pulling into the school gates.

oh god yes the homework - DS1 hates doing homework and I am not sure he appreciates how much he is going to get compared to primary.

Will be thinking about you all too!

Perhaps we should reconvene about 4.30 so we can say our lo's are back home and safe and made it through the 1st day without any mishaps?

I'm just the same - ds1 starts on Thursday too and he's fine, but I'm (secretly) gibbering. It's a big step - and I think I'm projecting a bit, remembering me at secondary school and how scary it was. And yes, I'm fretting about roads, and lunch money, and bigger kids and...just about everything really. Ds2 goes back tomorrow so it will be just ds1 and me - I think I might take him out for lunch, just the two of us. It only seems five minutes since he started in reception...

I'm fretting too maryann.
He can't wait but he seems so little still. And it's such a big place. Mostly dreading the homework TBH

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DS#2 going into Yr1 which I remember as being a bit scary for both of my older ones and they had the loveliest teacher in the world. DS#2's is an unknown quantity.

I have still got DS2 here - primary goes back tomorrow.

But, I am going to fumigate their bedrooms, have already stripped their beds and got the washing machine on.

The whole house really needs a good clean and tidy up which is what I am going to do (would prefer to do it tomorrow when I have no children, but am doing an extra day time shift!)

God, I feel sick already! His bus should be leaving in a couple of mins - I could get the car out and drive past the stop to see if he is ok ......

Only 8 hours to go LOL. I'm gonna do something now to occupy my mind. Got a busy day planned to keep my mind of it.

Hi MAS - DS1 has started secondary school today - he looked soooo grown up in his uniform. I kept asking if he had got this and that (we did pack his bag together) but I was still panicking - he was like yeeeessssss mum go away!

He has gone from a smallish primary school to Yr7 with 9 forms in!

The bus leaves at 8.20 from the village, but he insisted on leaving the house at 7.55 to go the stop (literally 5 mins walk), but then his friend was walking down the street so I am glad he had someone to walk with and he had arranged to meet another friend at the stop - the bus picks up at a couple of stops here and there are two buses so not all of his friends had been allocated the same bus no on their pass.

I am going to be worrying all day although I am sure he will be fine. He had his breakfast at 6.45 and I am thinking to myself that he will be hungry by 10.00am!

I am fretting also about losing dinner money etc or his bus pass (he took packed lunch to primary and if he forgot it, I would just walk down and hand it in).

Good luck for your ds.

Oh Mary I know exactly how you feel. I just saw my dd out of the door for her first day at secondary school and I feel sick.