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

great Christmas name bellavita !
I despair of my boy - today is freezing yet he refused to wear his new easily fold-uppable coat to school..he is in a polyester blazer- no gloves, no scarf...I stuffed it in his bag anyway, see if I care...

Well done roisin's ds

DS1 going to The Deep next week - aquatic museum, which he is looking forward to.

We have apple cake tonight (hope it arrives in one piece) - it is very, very icy (all compacted) here from yesterday.

In fact (not so lucky for DS) but the other bus did not turn up yesterday as the weather was bad so some of the children here did not go to school.

DS not happy with me that I said if his bus did not come I would drive him in

Well done young Roisin

We are going in tomorrow and I suspect it won't be quite so glowing Love my big lad but school isn't his trump card....

I can imagine you are one proud Mum Roisin. We have DD's tutor meeting tomorrow -still not too sure what we'll chat about for an hour! I did ask DD tonight if there was anything she felt the need to "share" before we met her form tutor but thankfully she said not.

ahh - that's great roisin !

We've just survived parents' evening: phew!
The organisation was good, and everything seemed to run smoothly.
Loads of fab things said from lots of different teachers/subjects about ds1's attitude, effort and achievement, so am now very, very proud mum

yes, I think so - he was going on about everything he saw from the coach (passing through our old stomping grounds in W London !)

did he have a good time MAS?

home safely but no card !

waiting for him to come home now...hope he got me a blue whale card ! btw he is learning a non- Disney song at singing lessons - Mairi's Wedding - very jolly !

at Orm ! yes,ds is a lucky boy to be going there !

at school trips to NHM.

I think I might take a bottle of red actually roisin I have a lot of very scary tattooed mothers to compete with - if I have to turn up in my work clothes sounding posh I can at least make the effort to seem dysfunctional in some way

Oh bad bad naughty orm.... what terrible assumptions to make about your fellow parents..... (but it's true!)

Oh no, Ormirian - what a nightmare. Take a flask of coffee and a good book: you're in for the duration.

Ours starts at 4pm, but we haven't any appointments until 5pm. So I'm hoping that by the time we arrive the rush will be dying down somewhat.

good morning ! December already ! Ds is off to the Natural History Museum tomorrow - have got him a clipboard ! Hope he sees the blue whale as it was my childhood favourite- we used to visit the museums after our dental appointments as our dentist was up in South Kensington. It used to scare me a bit (the whale) being so huge.

Thanks.

'back-to-back' ...ha! 6.05, 6.35, 7.10, 7.35 and 7.55. Carefully encompassing the whole 2 hours .....

Do tell your ds not to make appointments back-to-back, so you have chance to get from one to the other. We didn't do this and we have appts:
5.00
5.20
5.30
5.35
5.40
5.50 [two at 5.50!]

Aarrghhh... Dh and I are both going, so if it is very busy we will split up and divide and conquer that way!

We've got ours on Tuesday. After some advice on here we have decided to see:
The big 5 - i.e. subjects he has 3 or 4 times a week: Maths, English, Science, Humanities and Languages.
Plus any other subjects he has a particular flair for/interest in or anything where there is 'a problem'.

For us this is RE/citizenship and Music (maybe if she's not too busy).

[Fortunately for us the subjects he is most interested in/shows particular talent for are the big 5 anyway. He's not terribly happy in PE, but I don't think there's anything we can do about that tbh.]

Some teachers - like art, IT - have several yr7 classes, and cannot possibly see everybody. ds1 tells me his dance teacher teaches 180 yr7s each week!

HTH

we have ours in Feb,I think Orm...we've already had a meeting (brief) with tutor.
mmm,bellavita - will try to think of festive name..it's not easy,is it..

First and foremost Orm - you should be ashamed - not up to date with the thread indeed - where have you been? You have been missed!

We don't have our parents meeting till about next March/April and I am sure we only see the form tutor who gets all the info from all the other teachers about how well/not so well they have been doing.

Sorry if this has been done already (nt up to date with this thread) but has anyone had parents evening yet? Ours is next Thursday and we're supposed to tell our DC what subjects we want to talk about so they can then make appointments with the relevant bods. We'll get a report on his progress when we arrive at the school. Might be useful to see that before we decide who to see but never mind.

DS was adamant he didn't want me to see his German teacher - so she was first on my list

Loving the name christMAS!

Can you be creative with mine 'cos I can't.

don't be alarmed - I've changed to my festive name !

Thanks. He is very chuffed too: he's a summer baby, so is one of the youngest in the year and in some ways is quite young for his age. This sort of thing is just right up his street, and he's no concept [yet] that some teenagers think it's not cool to work hard.

He's gorgeous at the moment - I don't want him to 'mature' into a stroppy, sulky, grumpy teenager!