Youngest last year of primary and I can't wait for school run to end !

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Am I the only one ? So many other mums are upset and sad it's ending!

I can't wait. Sadly another couple of years to go. I'm so over it!

Most aren’t doing it by Year 6 anymore if the child lives withing walking distance. They take themselves or walk with friends.

Why are you not taking them for secondary?

My youngest is Y5 and after Easter holidays will be homewalking. I can't wait. I've done school runs daily to that building since January 2015.

I also work ft from home so it will be nice to move my working hours and lunch break to times that work better for me.

Because secondary age children are able to walk/bus themselves there and back.

I quite like it, this will be the last year of primary after starting with my eldest in 1995 (!) - will still be going to pick up the GC though 😂

Mine finished year 4 and it was great. However DD is starting sixth from in September and school transport isn't provided here at that age so I'm going to have to start all over again!!

My youngest is in Y7 now and I felt the same as you although they mainly walked themselves to school in Y6 unless the weather was bad. Your day feels so much longer when you haven't got to do the school run. Mine all leave the house by 8am- it is lovely!

Only 11 years to go for me 🤣

I agree. I clocked in nearly 20 years' service. I still get some anxiety walking past people on the school run - their pinched tight faces and stiff bodies walking hurriedly down the road.

My poor step dad has been doing school runs since 1988, it’s now 2025. He finishes this summer. I’m half tempted to ask if he’d like to take my children for the next 3 years just to round him up to 40 years service before he “retires”. I’m not sure he’ll find it funny 😂😂.

No way! Not sure if this is a serious question but Mine is taking the bus to secondary ...In fact , I may get her to take the bus for last few months of primary school... I want independent children. And I want my liberty to go to work etc...

My youngest is last year of primary but the school run ended for me last September. It's so much easier and as someone who struggles socially, it's was relief too. Is DD ready for high school? I'm not sure but she's keen and excited to go and has been enjoying the transision days😁

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My days of the school run are over, they filtered out when the youngest was in year 5, he wanted to walk and meet his friends and it went from there. Best time ever!
I wfh and he’s now at senior school, occasionally I will drop him and a friend off if it’s pissing it down but generally he leaves the house at 7:45 and is home by 4. As opposed to me having to leave the house at 8:30 to walk him to school, get back at 9 and then have to leave again at 3:10 and get home for 3:40.

I'll miss it a bit, but have a few years to go.

I do 3 mornings and 2 afternoons plus one more later afternoon one. It's really close though. A 2 minute potter down the road and a bit of a chat with some other people.

Never known any of this playground pettiness and unfriendly clique stuff others seem to have to put up with.

And if that wasn't enough to look forward to .. no more world book day either once they get to secondary

My eldest is P7 and will be getting a bus to secondary after the summer, youngest will be P6 so only got about 18 months left of it.

We live right around the corner from the school and no busy roads to cross so they can and sometimes do walk themselves home. I don’t mind dropping them off so I know they are there and it’s on my way to work anyway but would be happy for them to walk themselves home. They ask to be picked up though so feel like I have to even though it’s less than 200 steps (we actually did count it one day)

One of the reasons why my husband decided to have a vasectomy was because we never wanted to go through the primary school shit ever again

I was so happy when it ended after 10 years.

I cant wait. Although for me its also about the no longer paying for childcare for wraparound and holiday clubs.

My youngest of three is in year six and every time I think that I'll never have to rustle up a costume or a pirate ship made of sticks on a Sunday evening makes me want to do a happy dance. I ditched the school run in September though.

My youngest finished primary last year. I couldn't wait for us to escape. Not the actual school run bit (stopped that summer of Yr4) but the cliques, pettiness and politics. I actually ended up angry at the Leavers Assembly (while keeping a smiling face) listening to how they were a happy family, all valued equally etc.

She is so much happier at Secondary

Why are you not taking them for secondary?
Give over!!! 😆 🤣

We live in town and DD goes to a village school and I work full time so I have to do the drive and drop off for kids club every day - no opportunity for her to walk home unfortunately. She’s already fed up with wraparound and so I am with paying for it but it has to be this way. Next year she’ll be able to walk so I’ll have extra cash, a shorter commute and we can all get up a little bit later. Can’t wait!