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new Year 7s

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bruffin · 05/08/2009 23:29

Anyone else have homework for their new school?

DD has a science project to do and also a long book list for which she has to chose 2 to read and write about.

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katiestar · 04/09/2009 19:01

DS2 started today and apart from me having to change over his blazer buttons to school ones (bad mummy alert!) and him nearly getting the wrong bus home , all went well!

DS2 is a complete scatterbrains and so I am expecting to get re-aquainted with the staff at the bus office whom we knew so got to know so well when DS1 started !

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bruffin · 04/09/2009 16:13

DD never liked using the toilet at primary and was always desperate to go when she got home, but then she was less than 10 minutes walk round the corner. I had a word with her yesterday because I can't see how she will manage without going when she will her school day will be nearly 2 hours longer with travel.

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Steamroller · 04/09/2009 14:41

Anyone else's child scared to go to the toilet at their new school? Reason: it's full of scary big teenage girls

cuppateaplease · 04/09/2009 10:03

what a mare of a morning bruffin! hope the train cancellation was one off and not to be a common problem!

DS can catch a bus to school, although the school bus wasn't running this morning, but at the moment he still wants to be taken by car. Not sure how long that will last!

serenity · 04/09/2009 10:01

DS1 has his first day today. DS2 and DD started back yesterday so I made him and DH do a 'dry run' of the bus journey. Luckily as it turned out, as we discovered he has to get the 8am bus to get there on time (they missed it!) So, this morning went smoothly, they got there in plenty of time, and there's 2 other yr7's who get his bus too Going to meet him at 1.30 as it's only a half day today.

He's got this phone basically because I got it free from work I've promised him that if he takes care of it and doesn't do anything stupid with the credit I'll get him something swisher, but atm it let's him stay in contact during the journey which is all he needs.

singersgirl · 04/09/2009 09:54

I think I'm more nervous too. DS1 started yesterday and seems happy enough so far. But there are lots of new things, like subject teachers and homework diaries. He's supposed to be going by himself on the bus but so far I'm driving him!

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bruffin · 04/09/2009 09:45

Aaaaaaaaagh what a morning!

All the trains were cancelled

DD leaves earlier than DS as she walks and he cycles to the station. DD rang to say next 2 trains had been cancelled. I looked it up on the internet and then they announced it on radio. Decided DH would take them by car and DD to come home, it then got a bit mad with phone calls flying backward and forward, ending with a plaintive DD
saying Dad had missed her and had gone passed her in the car and that her hairband has broken and she needed it for PE.

Thankfully they actually got to school on time.

She had a good first day though and thankfully the school looks like it's dropped it's policy of doing 2 languages in the first year

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cuppateaplease · 04/09/2009 09:32

hi singersgirl - how are the nerves!! I think i've been more tense the past week than Ds has

singersgirl · 04/09/2009 09:06

Can I join? DS1 has just started Y7 too.

cuppateaplease · 04/09/2009 08:57

Sounds like first days weren't too traumatic! DS went today, moaning about having to tuck his shirt in and why does he have to wear a tie and that his blazer is too big...... think he was a bit nervous as he's gone from a small village school to a large school where he knows very few other children.

He won't be impressed if he gets homework!

Thanks, babysamrocks, looks like we'll be taking a trip to the carphonewarehouse soon! (obviously won't be getting the pink one!)

Schoolsec · 03/09/2009 22:36

Eldest son did Year 7 last year and suggested that youngest son just copy his! This is the downside of having a 20 month age gap. Have had very long conversation about expectations, great opportunities etc..!

cherryblossoms · 03/09/2009 22:32

Ooh! Homework on first day ouch!

No homework here, thank goodness. I think it would have been looked at with bewilderment.

Schoolsec · 03/09/2009 22:23

Hep!! New Year 7 son has taken 3 hours to do very simple homework (interspersed with wandering around, swinging on chair etc.). He is not daft by any stretch - I am so frustrated!!

cherryblossoms · 03/09/2009 21:41

Hello everyone - signing in for support ....

Today-starter here, too. Ds cheery (oh, may it last); me weepy and tense.

Anyway, it's been accomplished. tomorrow, as Scarlett says, is another day. time for a drink now, I feel.

Babysamrocks · 03/09/2009 16:57

Hiya everyone my ds1 starts secondary school on Monday. Think we've got everything we should have except football boots, and i'm going to get them once we know when football starts!! Ds is looking forward to going even though he only knows a couple of other children.

Cupoftea, we have brought ds this phone www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/mobile-phones/SONY-ERIC-T280I/PPAY It was fairly reasonably priced and ds can still hold his head high in the playground!!!!!!! HTH

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bruffin · 03/09/2009 12:46

How were todays starters?

DH took DD to the station where she met one of her friends. He said he had never seen two children so excited about going to school
I was hoping for a text lunch time, but I couldn't top up her phone this morning.

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cuppateaplease · 02/09/2009 14:03

We've just braved clarks and of the huge choice of three pairs of black shoes available in Ds size - he said that one pair were comfortable- so sorted!
Still need the termly hair trim this afternoon and to finally get the school badge we've been waiting for - it's finally come in today.

Must admit we are using the school bag from last year as it wasn't too shabby. Unfortunately i have no idea of what is considered 'in' and what is not - consequently neither does DS! hopefully it's plain enough not to notice!

Only thing we haven't sorted is a phone. Ds always communicates with his mates on MSN so don't want to spend a fortune on a phone but I guess this really is one area where he needs something reasonable. Does anyone know what the most popular ones are at school?

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bruffin · 02/09/2009 12:35

I'm sure she will be fine 2sugers.

We didn't end up with Clarks. DD has very high arches and all the clarks cut into her foot and we got a flowery hippo courier style bag from Smiths, but suddenly remembered I haven't bought her a sketch pad for art,so will have to get that this afternoon and still got to get their train tickets.
They changed the rules and I can't get their seasons tickets until the afternoon before they need to use them, which is a pain.

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2sugarsandapuppy · 02/09/2009 05:48

And, bruffin, dd1 is DREADING tomorrow. Have just had a butcher's at the school's OFSTED inspection, which I should have done ages ago but didn't - I knew, through my nephew being there, that it was fine. And one of the teachers there is mum to one from dd's class.

Do I sound like I'm trying to persuade myself?

2sugarsandapuppy · 02/09/2009 05:30

bruffin, I know exactly what you mean. I was (kind of) organised enough to get the (sports) uniform before we went on holiday - we got back on Saturday - but this effing 'Outstanding' school has no flipping uniform.

MMC, the girl at the local stockist for the PE kit went to dd's school, and she says they used to take it in a plastic supermarket bag

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bruffin · 01/09/2009 00:34

We just got back from holiday yesterday.
We still have to get DD some shoes, both her bfs have got clarks , so I can now take her safely to clarks without too much argument.

She seems fairly determined to use her Jonas Brother bag for school. I'll give it a few weeks then maybe get her another more suitable bag from surfdome for her birthday.

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marymoocow · 31/08/2009 21:48

Another one here starting on 7/9. Ds seems ok. Have bought the last few bits today including the school bag, which I have been worring about....which one is cool, which one will make him a target for bullying, which one is practical. In the end I left it to him. I can't get the blame then .

bellavita · 26/08/2009 14:15

Good luck to your dd's/ds's!

This was me last year.... all worried and nervous. There really was no need! DS1 has to get a school bus. Would he remember to get all his things off the bus, would he remember his coat, would he remember... would he remember...Don't suppose he has done too badly, someone took his pe kit (all named) and left theirs (no name), DS never though to take thatone and just left it. We replaced everything then he managed to lose a rugby shirt and pe top. He cobbled along with them as I said if he lost anything else then he would have to pay for replacements. He since found a rugby shirt and pe top (unnamed) in the lost property so he brought those home.

The first year of secondary has flown by. I now know that DS1 hates wearing a coat (they all wear hoodies), he will not wear his school jumper as he says it prickles (not the best wool in the world, so I can sort of understand), won't wear his top two buttons on his polo shirt done up, wears his rucksack down past his bottom - actually for Yr8 he has requested a bag that goes across the body.

All in all, he hasn't done too bad. He got a glowing parent/teacher consultation and year end report. We also received a letter from the Head about him (he and two other boys are redesigning the school website), the letter was just so full of good things about him. They are of course talking about a different child to the one that we actually live with

serenity · 20/08/2009 19:32

jumps in

DS1 starts in Yr7 on 4/9 and he's fine, but I'm nervous. We had it all planned - we only lived a short walk from the school, but we had to move unexpectedly, so now he has a bus journey... I'm sure he'll be OK, but we now have to do last minute 'bus training'

PixieOnaLeaf · 15/08/2009 18:21

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