Parents of Year 6 leavers. How are you feeling?

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My dd leaves primary school today.

It only seems like yesterday that she was holding on to my coat, not wanting me to leave her on her first day in reception. Now she's as tall as me!

Will be a sad day today as her best friend is moving away during the summer. They will try and stay in contact but it won't be the same.

Dd will cry, I will cry.

How are you all feeling about it?

I was absolutely ecstatic to finally leave 😁

I'm still feeling emotional about it now.

I keep picturing dd as she walked through the school gates the last time. She looked so happy and grown up. I know come September she will be nervous again and look so small against all the older children.

I was sobbing in the assembly as they shown pictures of the children from pre school up until year6. It was so lovely.

As she left she gave her friend a big hug and they both burst into tears. The realisation finally hit them both that this is it. They won't see each other like they have done the past 7 years.

I can't quite believe I'll never walk her to school there again. Its been our routine since she was 2 1/2 years old!

I don't understand how people can be in bits about leaving primary, but then I've had lots of changes so me and the kids take charge in our strides.

My daughter doesn't break up until Tuesday. Emotional already 😭

It was bittersweet for me. My last child left primary on Friday, thus ending our 12 year association with our lovely community focused school. But he was ready, he'd outgrown it. I will miss knowing the parents and teachers, but I won't miss all the PTA event stuff and the lunchbox police!

My third dc left juniors on Friday and I was shocked at hos upset I was. I was almost bailing at the assembly. They played some emotionally tortuous song about growing up and had a picture of a empty swing that reminded me of death.

But ds wasn't upset. I need to remember that constantly. It's the kids childhood and they are happy. I struggle with not having little kids anymore but it's nature and as it's sussposed to be

Eldest left on Friday. I was expecting to feel fairly relaxed about it - but actually I felt incredibly fucking angry - they put a slideshow on of photos of their time right the way through school (and for kids like DD who joined later, the parents were asked to provide things like World Book Day photos which the staff slotted in throughout so it wasn't an obvious gap)... and there's this huge chasm in it where the school closures took so much away and it was just there, screamingly obvious as they all swapped from little chubby young-kid faces, to pre-teens without anything inbetween due to that missing time.

Think it's kind of tougher on her in that they don't have one specific school they tend to move onto so the whole tiny little cohort (there's only 15 of them in the year group) is going to be very fragmented - but they've all been superglued to their phones chatting since then anyway.

I'm more anxious about next year to be honest - the youngest will be leaving... but considering that her track record so far is of not getting to do leavers stuff for nursery because she was hospitalised with severe pneumonia, not getting to leave her infants school because of the lockdowns... I'm kind of expecting the apocalypse and I'll just be relieved if she ever actually MAKES it to a leavers' celebration.