Year 7 Summer Term !

Oh magenta we should have been going to London for a long weekend when they break up in May but when we come to book the train tickets we decided against it. I am sure last year they cost us under £100, well this year they are asking for £200 + , like you we too had loads of things planned. However, we are now going to County Durham (about an hour and 30 mins drive away) and will visit various places (the hotel also has a pool and spa facilities).

I wish DS did not have any homework as he is coping with an ear infection at the moment

Personally I'm rather glad DD hasn't been overwhelmed with homework for Easter. She's worked really hard all term and a bit of chill out time is well deserved.

Is it only 6 weeks to half term in May? Yay! DD and I are off to London for a few days then we've been plotting all the stuff we want to do Science Musuem, Imperial war musuem, V&A, Ghost walk, Shopping, the Zoo and just maybe I'd love to take her to Hampton Court as I loved going there as a child. Plus I found a site that appears to do some great guided tours not just of the sites but on a whole range of stuff. I love wandering round London but often wish I was wandering round with someone who knew the histroy of the place IYSWM we plan to go on one of their ghost walks and if thats any good will do a couple of others that have taken our fancy.

my DD1 also in yr 7. She has only had some English homework, an argument for and against home schooling!

DD1 only has a couple of pieces of homework fortunately - one of which is to build a weather mobile and it is a competition. She has had all last week to start it and decides to start it today when her dad has gone out and is the only one who can tell her which bits of wood out of his stash she can use. Typical! After a strop about this she has calmed down, apologised and helped me peg the washing out so all is well again .

I can't believe that yr7 is getting near the end either. Where on earth did it go?

I know magentadreamer. And the next half term is a really short one - just 5 weeks!

I can't believe that there is only one more term and yr7 is all over!

DD didn't have much homework either so what bits she had she did while resting her knee. Swelling has gone down but if she walks too long on it it twinges but hopefully it's on the road to a full recovery.

DD has NO homework at all over Easter. She's had hardly any for the last couple of weeks of term. DD2 and 3 get more than her.
But she is voluntarily doing an hour's violin practice a day.

DS has got quite a bit of homework to do -

IT - has to build a website
Geog
Tech - embroidery stitches, has been given some threads and bits of material
History

I have told him it all needs to be done by today - at the moment he is strumming away on his guitar

Roison - don't let him do too much otherwise all the other kids will want to be in his "gang" if they think they can get away with doing less.

I know!
ds1's school is only 11-16, so it will soon be over.

He has a 'project' homework to do for Citizenship. They have to do a presentation on Human Rights. But instead of his usual groupings with his mates he's been put with two girls, who he doesn't know very well and doesn't get on with. He says they spent the planning lesson choosing Disney Princess backgrounds - different ones for each slide. And that they didn't allocate what each of them needed to do over the hols!

He's quite stressed about it, as he always puts maximum effort into homeworks. But after doing stacks of the work for a couple of other projects with his mates, he's (rightly) reluctant to do the lion's share of the work again for the benefit of two girls he doesn't even like!

I've told him to go in on Monday morning with a proposal for them, to say he will do section 2 and 3 (or whatever) and for them to split the rest between themselves. (Citizenship is on Wednesday.)

Hey! Hooray - roll on summer.