How are you all feeling this morning? - first day back to school

[olyolie]

I'm feeling sad as I will miss my dc being home with me. I will find lunchtime hard as I will be eating alone for the first time since November ( silly I know).

I am excited for them to be back with their friends and getting some proper learning done.

How are you feeling?

Apprehensive. Like you, it’s been great having the children at home and their online learning has been exceptional but I know they need to get back to some kind of normality now and get back into school life. I just hope that it doesn’t trigger a rise in cases again.

Unprepared. Running around like a madwoman despite having prepared everything last night.

Annoyed that I have to do overtime today (I don’t normally work on Mondays).

Other than that very very happy.

I really had insomnia last night so I must feel nervous even if I didn’t think I did!

Fine. Dd has her school uniform, I signed her up for the wraparound club, ordered school lunches.

Anxious.
DD doesn't want to go and could well still refuse. She's been in the shower though and has her music on now.
Ds will be ok but is nervous himself. He will miss the Xbox most apparently
I'm not in a good place and could really do with this morning going smoothly.

DD is in High School yr11 so today is recorded online school today as students have all been given times to go in to take their first Covid tests. I need to help her colour strip her hair to clear the last of the dye. It'll really hit me tomorrow when she's gone all day. I'll miss her so much... but she needs to get back and getting ready for exams

Was worried DD would be up in night with nerves but she slept through.

Now just getting her out the door on time 🤦‍♀️

Most secondary kids here aren’t actually going back today. Just going in to be tested and coming home again.

I feel unsure. My 8 year old has asd is really struggling to go back so the school have agreed he can take an extra week and then hopefully a phased return. My 7 year old is really looking forward to it and seeing his friends again, and my nearly 3 year old will be starting nursery after Easter at the school so I'm feeling a little empty nest syndrome kicking in I plan to have a lazy day by myself though when they're all out of the house and watch something very sweary and eat loads of shite!

Horrible. I'm back to work in a primary today. No hope of social distancing and have no idea when I'll be vaccinated. Also need to do a LFT in a minute.

Ds is back to sixth form tomorrow. He is autistic, severely anxious and to top it all off he has a hospital appointment in the afternoon.

That being said, it's definitely time for schools to be back.

I'm glad they're going back and I think they need it. But last night I dreamt I was in the school canteen and had no one to sit next to so I must be feeling some anxiety around it. I hate the school run and I have some concerns with how my younger daughters are going to cope as their behaviour has been negatively affected by lockdown. But overall glad they're going back.

I'm delighted mine is going back. I will miss having him at home, but I won't miss constantly having to nag him to get anything done.

It will be nice to see them all tomorrow (I work part-time and not at school today), but I really, really wish that my DH and I had been vaccinated.

A bit uncertain as it feels like a really stupid idea to reopen schools in this way, but then rates in my area are lower than that in Oct/Nov/Dec when mine were in.

I'm pleased all the listening and answering questions properly over the weekend has paid off as my youngest child seems much more positive/calm today.

First day of mass testing. I'm on the team that plans and oversees it and I'm helping out for the morning shift. Slightly nervous about it all running smoothly but we feel well-prepared. By the end of next week it'll all be over.

Weirdly anxious, don't know why but it's like her first day of school!

I'm so happy for one of my DC's because he has really missed school and his friends. He was becoming quite depressed at home and it was a really worrying time. My other DC struggles with school and he isn't looking forward to going back at all. I wish I could take him out and home school for good but DH disagrees

Feeling good! Kids are excited to go back. Today will be a PITA though (staggered start for different year groups, so they can't get the bus and I'll spend half the day ferrying them to and fro).

@BorisandHarriet

Most secondary kids here aren’t actually going back today. Just going in to be tested and coming home again.

DD's whole secondary are in today as the school has run 7 straight days of testing in the last week.

But to answer the question:
Sad. DD, y11, isn't well enough to return.

Delighted they are going back but its not until Friday for DS (y9 and SN) and tomorrrow for DD y10. Though one positive sends pretty much whole year home for 10 days and the chaos starts again. Very depressing for one doing GCSEs and SN one with no support as has no EHCP. But at least they get to see another child for first time since December. Both of them got very depressed this lockdown and SN one refused pretty much all lessons and went mute a lot, before he's only done that in school. Infections are pretty close to zero here and have been for several weeks as we are rural.

Very happy for DS. He's been going as a keyworker child throughout but it will be so much different to have some normality, seeing his friends, and to get back in the Science labs and doing Games again. He's year 10 and back from start of school tomorrow (first tests done last week).

I feel a bit weird - dry glad they’re going back but weird. I think I’d geared myself up for them not going back until may and I feel like I just mentally don’t trust anything any more and they’re all going to be sent home again or something (I don’t really think that though). Is it a kind of cognitive dissonance do we think - a coping mechanism maybe?

Older ones have left (bar dd15 who doesn’t start until tomorrow) then I’m going to drop younger one and go on a run and then tackle the shitshow of a house!

Dry?? I’m!

Really happy and I desperately need some time to myself and some quiet. Home schooling 3 every day has been a real challenge and slog and 2 of them need constant help and I have to fit a. Job around it.
Those who are sad for them going back, do you work also?
It’s only 5 hours school a day anyway? Not enough time to miss them!
Personally I am positively joyful about not having to make them lunch for once and actually being able to eat lunch myself rather than scoffing something down on the go