If your dc had just started YR1 would you..

[PinkChick]

take them on a holiday for a week about 4-5 weeks after they started?

do you think it would cause them problems, settling in/keeping up?

[Ellbell]

LOL cheeset... perhaps NAB3 is like me and would rather gnaw off her own head than go to Disney sodding World... ever!

I wouldn't take my dds out of school unless for some really exceptional reason (e.g. family wedding abroad). I agree that holidays can be (though they are not by definition) educational. I figure that's a good reason to take them out of school time... to extend (not replace) what my dds learn in school.

[HonoriaGlossop]

well said Ellbell!

[cheeset]

Yes Disney maybe not the best example to tempt you out of sch in term time, lets think.......

Ok, what about Trip to the National History Museum; your mum has agreed to take them there as she's won a family ticket but only in term time, they don't get to see their nan much as she lives abroad and it would mean the world to her[

or a trip to the Nutcracket Ballet, kids would love it and very cultural all magical and sparkly n stuff. Only thing is its in term time(they had the best seats on that day and the cast have agreed to meet with you backstage)

well?

[ladymuck]

But now you're talking about day trips (and the Nat History Museum is free).

[cheeset]

alright! well the trip down to the N.H.M. would be on a vintage steam engine and a visit to Buck Pal thrown in and the Tower of London and a nights stay at the savoy!

Come on there must be summut to tep you away from school!!

[cheeset]

Tep? tempt!

[NAB3]

No, I don't think there is any need to take your child out of school to go on holiday.

I would say no.

[cheeset]

Pinkchick, see the trouble youv'e caused! where are you?{grin}

Right, i'm gonna do some bloomin housework and cook up a veritable feast for the family, before the kids get back from -school- Alton Towers with their uncle Jim!

Only joking!

I know it's no laughin matter!

[PinkChick]

Hiyacheeset, not hiding, just got poorly minde today, shes asleep now just in time for school runa dn heavens have opend!

Bozza, if the teacher had said that to me and showed concern for dd's education i WOULD NOT take her out of school, honestly, its only because the teacher has told me dd is doing so well and stressesd that dd wouldnt have prob if she was off that i am feeling better.
Plus the teacher actually suggested i take some books from school so dd can read/work through them while away.

[madness]

Ok, I'm trying to persuade dh to take dd (not ds ) on holidays during the 2 weeks of easter holidays, so she isn't going to miss a week of school. But I don't think it is a problem if she does miss out a week.
But then I don't see (primary) school much as a place to "learn", more a place to have fun/socialise (not mutually exclusive).
Also, at least ds never had a problem adjusting going back to school/missing friends..
I suppose I often missed out in school to visit family abroad and I never did mind.

[PinkChick]

i do think it does depend on the individual child as well, one of mindees is off sick at minute from school and me, i know when she comes back to both, she will find it hard and will want her mum.
Shes older than dd and a confident child but things like this 'would' effect her

[cheeset]

Hi, back now.

Had to do some house wife stuff, starting to feel really guilty about being on mn all day-its addictive! Is it only me who thinks this?

Im just about to start helping dd do some numeracy work, from last week when we were away.

I think life is all about balance, you do what's best PinkChick, mum knows best or why else was that phrase coined?

[PinkChick]

i know ..spoke to another mum who im friends witha t school and asked what she thought, she has also spoken to teachers and asked about taking her ds away in may(the week before school hols) and they said same to her, but that she shouldnt go round quoting her

just to show how well dd IS doing so far, shes just got new book from reception, second one since shes been there, basic stuff called Go, go, go..then each page shows and animal and speech bubble say "I..." then what the animal is doing...so we sit down to look through and dd starts reading out the letters, putting them together ( "I...j..u..m..p..I Jump", we got through the full book and i said i was so very proud of her after shed only read book in school today that was very quick learning...she told me she hadnt read the book today, the teacher had chosen them and put them in their bookbags before home time!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO proud

[cheeset]

Well done to her! bless her

Taking time off sch isn't a thing a do often, my kids are hardly EVER off sch.

If they feel ill in the morn, I always send them(unless they are sick of course) and say to them see how you feel and I always check by phone to see if they have settled and ask the teacher to look out or call if they need picking up.

This yr, because of financial constraints and my husbands work, we have had no quality time as a family together or any fun/adventure and thats why we went away last week, not just a frivilous holiday.

We had a marvellous time and the kids had fun and learned loads from the places we visited

[PinkChick]

i bet they did chick, you dont have to convince me! and this isnt something we'd be doing here there and everywhere, we were planning a week in june with friends but because of the schools mess up with hols, dd wouldnt be off that week as she usually is, so its one or the other, we wouldnt do it twice and year after we will just have to save extra hard and go in sch hols

[PinkChick]

i asked teacher at home time today for holiday form as it seems there are a few who have already booked without speaking to school, teacher asked receptionist who made a joke about ee, you cant be going on holiday if i cant(did she mean cos shed be working??), she IS lovely tho so no malice taken..grabbed form with both hands and ran as fast as i could past the baying parents