Hi, I am a mum to twin boys who were 4 in June and started school on 01/09. We live in Northern ireland where you must start school in september if you were 4 before 30th June. Boys were a month premature so i really feel they should not be there for another year. Anyway they seem to have settled in weel, at least I thought so. They are enthusiastic about going in and seem to be getting on well. The teacher told my childminder today when she was collecting them that the boys get very tired at about 11am and find it hard to join in after that.They finish at 12.30 and it will be 2pm after halloween i didnt get speaking to her myself but i am in a state about it. They dont go to bed early, one sometimes goes at about 9 but the other one sometimes not until 10.30pm and they are up about 7.30. I know thats too late but i dont seem to be able to get them down. They just dont seem remotely tired at 7 or 8 despite the teacher thinking that they are tired at 11am.At the weekend if they go to bed at the same time they will wake only an hour after they get up during the week I think they are just "tired" because they dont want to focus any more . They spent a year at nursery school where they were there from 12 to 2.30pm. Tiredness was never an issue although the teacher did mention that one of them didnt always finish a task, They have just arrived home now and I asked them if they git tired in school and they said yes, sometimes. I think I'm not so worried if its just tiredness but I am anxious that they are simply not ready for school and dont have the concentration skills/ability that are required.They know their numbers and letters and can write some letters since they went to school so they must be learning something! Anyone else in a similiar situation. they are also getting homework, albeit sorting and sticking pictures , colouring in things that begin with K, B etc and its a struggle to get them to concentrate on something that they dont want to. They seem to want to do their own thing although i can get them to do it in the end.