I'm a mess about my PFB leaving primary school

[Crunchymum]

I didn't think I'd find it this emotional? I'm a bloody mess.

I'm under strict instructions not to embarrass him at any of his leaver's events but every time I think about it, I'm almost in tears.

What's this all about?

We're not even leaving the school as I have two more DC there (I'll be there for another 5 years!!!)

Anyone else? Urgh. Need to sort myself out.

This thread is from last year!!!

PFB is just finishing Year 7.

Interestingly a severe noro outbreak at the school last year meant they had to close a day early / cancel leavers disco / kids didn’t get their yearbooks etc. DC1 didn't succumb but both the other children and myself caught it and we missed the first 2 days of our family holiday. As I was posting this thread in July 2024, people were dropping left, right and centre. By the Friday evening 50 kids and 12 staff were taken out and PHE had to be involved. By the Monday they closed the school

At least it distracted me 😮

(Actually it gave me some serious perspective but was a rather extreme way to calm me down!)

Sunglasses help 😘

Dd didn't even have one in 2020 as school started online learning from home from March and never went back. No sats, no yr 6 play, online transition day to yr 7. They didn't have long in yr7 (in masks and in 1 classroom all the time) before vack to working at home again. So a very strange end to yr6 and start to yr7. A distant memory now, gcses are done and had a yr 11 prom this year though they aren't leaving school yet.

This!

Just wait till they go to uni

Me too OP.

I only have the one and am just taken by surprise how quickly primary school has gone by.

I will be a blubbering mess at the leavers mass!

Mum was in floods of tears as Dad drove them off after moving me in to hall of residence on my first day of university.

Again the day she helped me move into my first home a few years after he died.

It's part of life, and we feel it.

This is mumsnet. People can be very blunt on here and honest with their opinions. 😬Your son has years of school ahead of him, but moving up to secondary is one of those significant moments. Try to hold it together for him at any leaving event and cry at home before it starts. You're feeling proud and sad that he will be leaving those young years behind and the teens are looming. Be happy and put on a big smile at the leaver's event for your son and not be the mum crying hysterically. Edit: I dodn't see this was from 2024 until looking back. Ignore all that in my post.