To think Mumsnet is mainly south of the border members?

[frankie80]

I've been on Mumsnet for about 8 years and I've seen so few posters who say they are Scottish, and none whatsoever in my area (just outside Glasgow).

I've been on the local group (which is dead). It would be great to meet someone near me as I'm bloody lonely. I tried the meet a mum on the other mums website, that's dead too.

You'd think there were no mums in the west coast of Scotland or maybe they are all part of some super amazing website / group that I've yet to hear of!

Scottish mummies, where are you???

Talking of school i got a row on a thread for saying High School somebody muttered something about americanisms blah blah

Oops sorry Hairy lost a line there somewhere. If your children are young you might want to investigate the differences a bit before school.

Of course you may not have any DC.

Mrs Jay. I'm sure you put them right (just add it up the repeat we all have set up for when someone says that Halloween in an import!

Haha! My dad used to complain when I was starting High School about how I should be calling it Secondary School. Bet he felt daft when he realised my school was actually called suchandsuch High School.

Also, in Scotland 'reception' means a place where you tell a hackit faced wifey you've arrived for your appointment.

Yes, what the eff is reception?! Is it like nursery or primary one?

Thanks, Painted, v helpful.

"Also, in Scotland 'reception' means a place where you tell a hackit faced wifey you've arrived for your appointment."

Or a disco where you get to squash a bride and groom at last orders to Loch Lomond to be fair.

Is Reception just like our preschool nursery ? it doesn't sound like P 1 . Yeah I put them right

Twinkle it seems to be like our second year of nursery (in that it's less structured that P1) but it's full time and they push learning to read. Some poor wee kiddies are going full time at only just 4 yo which sounds hard going to me.

I think it's somewhere in between nursery and P1...like an extra step, but then I'm not exactly sure what an English nursery does in comparison to a Scottish one.

I'm on the east in the Borders :)

I'm in Edinburgh but originally from Perthshire and struggling to overcome my husband's family's bloody Edinburgh cultural imperialism 'but we always do it this way'.

Catchment system is good here, but as a word of warning some parts of Edinburgh are getting very over-crowded. Our school narrowly escaped having the P1 intake capped at less than the number of catchment applications this year.

Babie we must be practically neighbours!

Talking of school i got a row on a thread for saying High School somebody muttered something about americanisms blah blah

We Americans got "high school" from the Scots. The first school to be called high school was the Royal High School in Edinburgh. The first school in the US to be called high school was modeled on it, and the term spread.

In fact, education in the US in the early years was significantly influenced by Scottish practice due in part to the presence of Scottish schoolmasters in colonial times. Significant similarities continue to the present day in addition to the term high school: the emphasis on breadth, going to the nearest school in your catchment, the ability to study more than one course in the first year or so of university, four-year university, etc.

Jackieharris
I'm fb friends with someone on this thread but she doesn't know I'm here which is weird.

Jackie I'm fairly sure at least 3 of my RL friends are on MN. Don't know their mn names, but things they say and do give it away. looks sideways at Jackieharris trying to figure out if we know each other

That's true OOAOML (nice to see you btw, hope all is well) re a few Edinburgh catchments - typical Edinburgh cooncil cock ups and forgetting about small things like birth rates when they start shutting schools! Although I think when they tried that at a previous school they lost when the parents started appealing (vague recollection only!)

bank I live in a state of constant paranoia that someone irl will recognise me on here. My old strategy was continual name changes. But if you do that anytime you say anything even slightly controversial or heaven forbid start a thread you get accused of trolling so I'm trying to stick to one name now.

The odds are I probably do have friends/ acquaintances on here. There are so many mners.

Also, in Scotland 'reception' means a place where you tell a hackit faced wifey you've arrived for your appointment.

Brilliant

Fine thanks Stats hope you are too.

The council really do take the p don't they? I sat through a bizarre meeting about birth rates and trends thinking 'didn't the pressure groups show you the exact same birth rate graphs when you closed the last bunch of schools?' and 'didn't you think the people moving into the new housing might have children?'.

I think they backtracked on ours as the other local schools are even tighter on capacity and they haven't done the phase 2 'rising rolls' (aka putting buildings in all the playgrounds) in the area yet.

Oh please somebody start a thread in site stuff re Mawsnet!
Even BeccaMNHQ said we should.
I'm at work and on the IdiotPhone so can't really do it.
Linkie to this thread please

One has been started! Have a wee look

Ah thanks
I have no idea how to find Topics on my phone
It'll be something to look forward to when I get home.

Found it!
I must be cleverer than I think