Year 7 Summer Term !

I bet she is! It's lovely when their hard work is acknowledged.

Good news yesterday - DD1 came home and told me that she her head of house had stopped her in the corrider and told her she was 'one of my little stars'!
DD is thrilled.

LGP, at my dd's school they all refuse to take off their jumpers in the summer - because they have to keep their shirts tucked in then and that's not cool .

Bellavita it is worse for the boys who have to have their top buttons done and four stripes of tie showing at all time.
The girls at least have open necked blouses and they do all roll their sleeves up to their elbows.

LGP - really long sleeved blouses? Thought that sort of uniform went out with the dark ages?

Our boys and girls have to wear polo shirts (perhaps not as smart as blouses), but a lot cooler. Although they all do have to wear long black trousers.

They are selling ice lollies at mid-morning break and lunchtime. So DS had enough money after his sandwich to buy one, but this morning he has asked for an extra 45p to get on at mid-morning too.. I have said to him yes it is nice to have something cool, but I cannot fork out extra 45p's for him and if he really wanted a lolly this morning he would have to take his own money (which he has). Tis not really fair on DS2 if I keep giving DS1 extra.

I did notice though when he came home last night that the bridge of his nose was pink from the sun and also across his cheeks, so I have put suncream on his face today - not that he was impressed with me doing it, kept moaning it was going in his eyes!

DD came home yesterday and apparently has managed to get us appointment slots with nearly all the teachers we want to see for parent's evening.
She was moaning about how hot the school was all day - I wish there was some way of modifying the uniform for summer long-sleeved blouses, black trousers and heavy black shoes are a bit of a drag when the temperature is mid-20s.

He was ok thanks, especially as he was not given any homework

DS would have liked the exploding bit!

How was he when he got back from school?

DD practically ran to school this morning carrying her model volcanoe with her, they exploded them in Geography this afternoon.

DS's guitar teacher has rung and asked if we can move tonights lesson to Thursday this week, so this is a plus for DS - at least he can chill out after school.

Morning all to you on this gorgeous sunny day.

DS1 asked for a headache tablet this morning and said he didn't feel well. DH said he did look kinda pale.

He did eat his breakfast after about 5 minutes of sitting there looking at it, but, I think a) he is tired from the weekend, he had a fribnd to sleep on Sat night, late night, up early yesterday, they went swimming and b) he has realised there is a piece of homework he has not done which needs to be in for today oh and c) he has pe either dance or athletics cannot remember which and he does not like doing it.

So bad mother emoticon because I sent him to school.

Hope everyone else is ok and your Monday morning has got off to a good start

DD had a good time at the craft club on Thursday and is all for going back after half term.

Roll on Wednesday when we're off to London. Hope everyone has a good half term holiday.

at jamming sessions!

I hope your DS feels better soon too roisin.

I can imagine the jamming sessions with 3 wanna be rock stars and a budding classical guitarist! I'm sure they'll find a way of catering for all tastes.

Hope your DS is feeling better soon Roisin and I can't believe that it'll soon the end of Yr7 and they'll all be sooooooooo grown up and Yr8's!

I can't believe it's almost summer half term already.

ds1 didn't go to school today. He wasn't really well yesteday, but went in as he wants 100% attendance

Today he put his uniform on but looked really grim and I managed to persuade him to stay home for the day. He looks a bit brighter now, so I hope he'll be OK for tomorrow.

Aww that was awfully kind of of the teacher magenta. Glad you had a good parents evening.

Yep, the audition went well and it looks like he will be doing the lessons in a group rather than a 1 to 1. There are two other boys that already play the guitar like ds and one other who doesn't play yet but also wants to learn something other than rock (which is what the rest of them are interested in) so am not sure how that is going to work. Am assuming I will get a letter from the school regarding a start date..

How did your DS's "audition" go Bellavitia?

We had DD's parents evening tonight - which wasn't the scrummage I'd feared thankfully. We managed to see all of DD's teachers bar her MFL and Geog teacher. I can really understand why DD loves Science, Maths, ICT and DT the teachers she has for those subjects came across as being really fun but firm IYSWIM and enthusiastic about their subjects. DD's DT teacher is fab, DD is fairly shy and I suspected the reason she didn't go to a couple of after schools clubs was because her friends didn't go. On Thursday her DT teacher has suggested that DD meets her in her room and she'll walk down to the craft club with her so she won't have to go in by herself! I thought that was really lovely.

Just had another note home asking for a further £10 for another school trip (all the trips now seem to be at once!) gah!

DS has an "audition" on Monday at 9.00 to see if he is able to have guitar lessons at school. One of his friends had an "audition" yesterday for the piano, so I have asked him to ask the friend if they gave him a piece to play to see how much of the piano he knew or if they asked him to play something of his own choice, just so that DS can be prepared.

Gosh that's unlucky Polgara - hope they are at least in different forms!

DD's school seem to have managed to put lots of girls with the same first names in the same forms, surely it would have made sense to divide them between the 6 forms....

We had parents evening a few weeks ago and although they gave out appointments no-one stuck to them so it was a question of seeing which teacher had no/the shortest queue and trying to get around to as many as possible.

Polagra that sounds a right nightmare, at least the other girl isn't a right tear away!

DD has started writing again last night she spent 2 hours on the lap top typing out the first chapter of her book - an adventure story set in London about a schoolgirl who so far seems to be in and out of trouble at school - I'm hoping no personal experience has been used!! It's lovely to see her actually writing stuff because she wants to and enjoys it. I of course am encouraging this in the hopes I will be able to retire and live off her royalties

I thought DS being in the same form as 4 other boys with his first name was bad enough Polgara! Perhaps they could number the girls?

Oh don't get me started on marking! The amount of dd1's books that are very rarely marked makes me very cross. How on earth are they supposed to know if they are getting things right if they don't mark it. AND they mark themeselves or the person next to them a lot which is better than nothing I suppose but still doesn't show the teacher how they are doing! There.... rant over!!!

Am also annoyed at dd1's school because amazingly there are two people with her (full) name (how unlucky is that) in Yr 7 and I have always been concerned about things getting mixed up. She came home to say that they had had a celebration assembly and yet again the progress certificates given out had no clue on them as to which of the 2 girls they were for. So dd1 went and got them all and they sorted it out between themselves later who they were for . If they get this mixed up what else may they do so with and it just should be better organised so I will have to speak to her Head of Year I think but am not really sure how to do this yet.

Lol@ your Dd telling you off for daring to talk to a teacher! My DD would probbly do the same!

LOL at singing the register Magenta! That would make DD cringe! DD's music teacher is actually the only one I have met because he was sitting near us at a concert last month and came over to introduce himself much to DD's embarrassment. She actually told me off for talking to him!
It's great the other teachers have slotted you in.

You may well ask foofi! I am hoping some teacher will turn up on this thread and tell us that it is a brilliant learning strategy -I am not so sure.