Desperate for term to end!

[MadameSzyszkoBohusz]

Feel like we’re crawling through the last couple of weeks, and I really wish English schools finished at the same time as Scottish ones - by the time we break up you’ve missed the best of the summer!

We’ve got a few days on the south coast booked as soon as term ends, and I just want to be there NOW!

@MadameSzyszkoBohusz yep, me too! So ready to be done & doing nothing much for 6 weeks instead of rushing around to stick to timetable & not having time to actually do the things I need to do!

I feel your pain. DS has managed to get chicken pox with only 8 days of school left as well. We've got 10 days in Spain in a fortnight and it cannot come soon enough.

Oh no, how’s he doing? DS is a July baby and we had to cancel his birthday party a couple of years ago as he came down with it the day before. He was devastated!

Absolutely. I had a bit of an emotional meltdown to DH the other day saying I was done and wanted to deregister DS (5yo) from school and just reregister him in September (under subscribed school, so in theory I could haha) because we are all just so over school - as are the teachers and other staff, I don't blame them in the slightest but the learning has all but come to a halt honestly (not that DS would be particularly receptive atm!). SO DONE NOW.

We don't even have a holiday booked this year as DH is exceptionally busy at work, but I'm getting more and more tempted to take the boys away somewhere on my own.

He's absolutely fine if I'm honest apart from new spots appearing every time I look at him. I don't think he's that devastated about missing some school, they've clearly started winding down for the summer so hasn't missed out on new reading books/phonics/writing (he's in Reception) so far.

I've got friends who had to cancel birthday parties and holidays because DC have caught CP, and in one instance passed it onto their Dad who hadn't had it as a child.

Good he’s not too poorly, they don’t seem to suffer too badly as kids. DH had shingles a few years ago and was really unwell for weeks.

DS is about to finish y6, and I’ll be so glad to see the back of his primary school. It was a lovely school when he and his older sister first started, but then they had a change of Head, and I don’t rate the current one at all. She’s a joyless old curmudgeon. Looking forward to him joining DD at secondary, as it’s a fantastic school that really prioritises the students’ well-being. Which isn’t to say I don’t think he’ll find the transition hard, bless him - only one of his mates is going to the same one, and he’ll miss his little gang.

Are you a teacher?

Im clinging on to my last precious week

I’m not, but I have huge sympathy for teachers - as you’re not only exhausted too, but trying to manage dozens of knackered, bored, done-with-school kids!

We're in Canada and kids started summer holidays at the end of June. My son in particular was so done by then.

Normally i would 100% agree with you but Dd is finishing year 6 and we say goodbye to the fantastic little village primary for the last time (youngest). These last 2 weeks are the last contact we'll have after years of being with them (4 DCs).

'Big school' is literally huge - a school coach ride away to the town and i know from experience that once she goes there she'll get so much more grown up ...

Waaaaah 😫.

(sorry - that turned out to be a bit intense)