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To celebrate back to school

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Feellikedancingyeah · 26/08/2020 17:31

Really looking forward to next Thursday. To be able to take my mum out for lunch and chat, to visit my dad's grave, to see a friend for a coffee and catch up and get my hair cut after 7 months. We love next to a school and have made a good luck happy sign for our window for the primary school children. DS will be starting Y10 and has suffered with school refusal so will be even more happy if he makes it back to see his friends

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stayathomer · 26/08/2020 17:44

Yadnbu. Next Tuesday am going to take a picture of them all heading off as per usual and have their fave dinner in the evening. While they are out I'll do something nice, I dont know what. It's a scary time but I'm sure theyll be happy coming home and I'll be happy both to see them and to have had the break!

CarrieBlue · 26/08/2020 17:44

Why couldn’t you do those things before?

formerbabe · 26/08/2020 17:45

I can't fucking wait to clean my house without them under my feet and asking for constant snacks!

Findahouse21 · 26/08/2020 17:46

Nope, definitely not unreasonable. I'm looking forward to watching some tat TV that I couldn't when dd was at home and also spending 1-1 time with dd(8months) before the end of mat leave. It also signals the start of autumn which I bloody love!! Hate the summer

itsgettingweird · 26/08/2020 17:47

@formerbabe

I can't fucking wait to clean my house without them under my feet and asking for constant snacks!
Or 'uncleaning it' behind you Grin
BlackberrySky · 26/08/2020 17:47

I can't wait and neither can my children. It's the first time they have been keen to go back after the summer holidays!

formerbabe · 26/08/2020 17:48

Exactly! @itsgettingweird

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Feellikedancingyeah · 26/08/2020 17:51

@CarrieBlue because he is 14 and is not interested in doing those things and I want to chat to my friends without him being there. He certainly would not sit in a hairdressers with me. Can't leave him at home as he has some SEN and god knows what would happen. Also DS is WFH so can't do with the constant interruptions.

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formerbabe · 26/08/2020 17:53

Enjoy op...its been a loooonnnggg six months Grin

CazM2012 · 26/08/2020 17:55

I’m already booked in for breakfast 30 minutes after drop off Grin might as well make the most of it while I can! Enjoy your plans OP!

ShipshapeShore · 26/08/2020 17:57

Mine went back today. They were a bit nervous after so long but they have had a great day and can't wait to go back tomorrow! I spent the day sharpening pencils and making classroom displays (TA) which I actually enjoyed. I'm looking forward to getting our class in tomorrow Smile.

Thefab3 · 26/08/2020 18:09

I’m going to go for a long run and then my dh and I for a frothy coffee somewhere. But I’ll believe it when I see it as going by 2020 one of mine will prob come down with a temp the morning they are back....
Enjoy op Brew

SomewhereEast · 26/08/2020 18:11

Oh you are definitely not being unreasonable. I love the DCs and all, but yes...

My plans are to have breakfast out with DH after breakfast and begin deep cleaning the house after six months of chaos Grin. Wild I know...

Thefab3 · 26/08/2020 18:12

Also yes, yes to the deep cleaning!!!

OrangeGinLemonFanta · 26/08/2020 18:14

I have to wait until the 17th when preschool is open as well and I CAN'T WAIT!! I am so unbelievably excited at the thought of a few hours peace. Like a poster above I think I might actually clean the shit out of my house without it being un-cleaned in my wake for the first time since March. Then lie on the sofa and watch a film with exploding and swearing. If one of my beloved children gets a cough on the 16th I'll weep.

Crinklesmile · 26/08/2020 18:16

So excited. Loud loud music, deep cleaning, and a big breakfast.
Then just sitting in some blessed silence for a while.
YADNBU

itsgettingweird · 26/08/2020 18:20

I get this. I'd be the same.

I'm not a teacher.

But can parents just be aware that whilst your planning all these well deserved trips out that PHE has told teachers that basically they should be avoiding these things in their own time to stop spread in schools.

As well as blaming spread in schools on teachers.

So if there is cases in your school please be nice and don't blame teachers as they won't be the ones out and about daily in all sorts of places.

Boulshired · 26/08/2020 18:23

I am still waiting for a start day, DS2 is in a special school, they are saying short staffed and need to employ a 1:1 and social services telling them they have had 6 month to sort this out and Local authority panicking about him needing residential. When it happens I am doing nothing that involves leaving my sofa for the first 5 days of school.

Thefab3 · 26/08/2020 18:34

@itsgettingweird , in my country there has been no schooling for 6 months , there were two programs which we were recommended to use. I have met teachers from our school over the summer walking into cafes etc. and during the actual lockdown running etc during their working hours. This is the truth and situation in our school, obviously not the same for everyone and not the teachers fault as it wasn’t their choice.
But totally disingenuous to act as though parents are wrong for going for a coffee etc once their children are in school etc. Of course there’ll be cases in schools and highly likely to come from households , it won’t stop people from living, teachers included.

itsgettingweird · 26/08/2020 19:02

[quote Thefab3]@itsgettingweird , in my country there has been no schooling for 6 months , there were two programs which we were recommended to use. I have met teachers from our school over the summer walking into cafes etc. and during the actual lockdown running etc during their working hours. This is the truth and situation in our school, obviously not the same for everyone and not the teachers fault as it wasn’t their choice.
But totally disingenuous to act as though parents are wrong for going for a coffee etc once their children are in school etc. Of course there’ll be cases in schools and highly likely to come from households , it won’t stop people from living, teachers included.[/quote]
Please show me exactly where I said it was wrong Hmm what I actually said is please be sympathetic if there are outbreaks in schools and closures and don't follow government lead they've set of blaming teachers. Because they've already said it's teachers doing the things that parents will be doing that will be the cause.

Good idea to read before you moan at someone for something they didn't say Wink

Thefab3 · 26/08/2020 19:04

Also I have friends abroad in schools that have been back since May. There of course have been cases of coronavirus in schools but I have yet to hear of parents blaming teachers.
Do you have kids @itsgettingweird because you really “get it” ?

middleager · 26/08/2020 19:08

I'd be more excited if I didn't work.

New rules, complex pickups at two different schools in different directions and the fact I work in education, means it's going to be more stressful trying to juggle everything and possibly having to drop my hours etc or DH leaving work completely!

HPandTheNeverEndingBedtime · 26/08/2020 19:09

DD managed to get back to school for mornings back in June the smile on her face as she came out on that first day couldn't have been wider. When your children go back they are going to be so happy.

Nogoodusername · 26/08/2020 19:11

I can’t wait to work in peace (my office hasn’t reopened yet)

Nogoodusername · 26/08/2020 19:12

(Work from home in peace that is - uninterrupted calls, interrupted work - who knew that I would see that as bliss before 2020?!)

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