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Find advice on the best extra curricular activities in secondary schools and primary schools here.

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Find advice on the best extra curricular activities in secondary schools and primary schools here.

Extra-curricular activities

Come & join me in general chat all you patents of performers - be it dancers, actors, singers or musicians

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Picturesinthefirelight · 29/08/2013 13:07

There are quite a few if us onhere though I know done if you from NAPM & Balletcoforum too

Here we can have a general chit chat about what our children are up to so we don't clog up the threads on specific topics

So Sparkly, Katy, Cory & loads more. Come chat!

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DowntonTrout · 08/09/2013 23:10

Well we are all packed up and ready for the train to London.

Don't know whether I'm more nervous or DD. I can't believe I will be leaving my little girl there and coming home without her.

saintlyjimjams · 09/09/2013 07:33

Good luck Downton :) she will love it!

I'm spending a portion of today trying to sort ds2's licence & hoping the council will be really nice & turn it around quickly for us.

RussiansOnTheSpree · 09/09/2013 07:43

saintly I've got to sort the info for DD2's licence (for the panto) today too. DCC?

Picturesinthefirelight · 09/09/2013 12:54

Sorry had very busy weekend not had much time to post but been reading what everyone is up to

I'd just like to say I am so, so happy that my little square peg of a daughter seems to have found her square hole in school instead of being squeezed into a round one at her last school!

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saintlyjimjams · 09/09/2013 14:40

No it's for studio work russians. But the production company want to start really soon so I am hoping the council will be helpful.

Quick question about earnings. I have just phoned the tax office to find out about declaring ds2's earnings. They will be below the tax threshold this year, but still a decent amount and if it was me earning it I would be declaring it to avoid any trouble. They told me they didn't know what I had to do so I had to write in. Does anyone know?

saintlyjimjams · 09/09/2013 14:44

Oh russians are we near each other? I think we might be. I live in a city though with its own council. :)

saintlyjimjams · 09/09/2013 15:17

Ah they are being helpful. I do like the people who work in our licencing department, they always seem to go out of their way to be helpful.

Unlike HMRC!!!!

RussiansOnTheSpree · 09/09/2013 15:20

Saintly I live in a city. With its own council. But it's not a unitary authority thanks to Eric Pickles. So the county council controls a lot of stuff. And runs it all for the posh folk in the villages. :( I did kind of think we were in the same geographical county.....

Picturesinthefirelight · 09/09/2013 15:27

From an employers point of view if we have anyone earning under the level and we don't operate a PAYE scheme (because everyone else is self employed) we just have to keep an internal note as long as they sent earning elsewhere.

I'm almost certain you don't have to fill in a tax return but make sure you account for any income from savings interest & monetary gifts (I think £100 per month is allowed)

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saintlyjimjams · 09/09/2013 15:42

Oh I think I'm in the other big city, which is more chav than posh (but I love it ). But went to school many years ago in your city. Is the panto in the NT? (Do they do panto there?)

I think he does pictures because savings etc are taxed at source, whereas this isn't. I know when I was earning the amount he is self employed I filled in a self assessment and they just confirmed each year I owed nothing. Aaagh I'm confused. I don't even know whether he was self employed or employed for the tour dates (it wasn't much so I didn't bother finding out). This latest job is more and I think self-employed. But he doesn't have a NI number so it's all very confusing!

RussiansOnTheSpree · 09/09/2013 15:45

Saintly The panto is at the corn exchange. The musical she is in at half term is at the NT though.

saintlyjimjams · 09/09/2013 15:47

I have seen a lot of musicals at the NT over the years :) Loved it when I was a kid!

RussiansOnTheSpree · 09/09/2013 15:51

She was in Beauty and the Beast there a couple of years ago. She was chip.

saintlyjimjams · 09/09/2013 16:34

:)

Picturesinthefirelight · 11/09/2013 09:25

Dds new form tutor has just contacted us. Dd has told her she is getting loads of nasty phone calls & text messages from children at her previous school :(

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DowntonTrout · 11/09/2013 09:54

Oh dear. Has your DD not mentioned it to you? It will be jealousy and a bit of "she thinks she's special/different/better than us".

Will she show you the texts do you think? You can judge what you feel is appropriate action from them.

If you know these children could you speak to their parents? Your DD may not want you to do that though.

Can you swap phones for a few days and answer/ reply to all the numbers that this is now your phone and say you will report any further messages?

Or look at a new number or new sim for your DD and make sure she only gives this number to her new schoolmates?

We found out, very quickly, who were real friends and who weren't when DD left her old school. This may knock her confidence at a time when she is finding her feet. I can promise that by Christmas she will have a whole new circle of friends and probably the bullies will have moved on too. It's hard though when she's away from the local school because there are still holidays and weekends when you want her to have local friends.

Picturesinthefirelight · 11/09/2013 10:01

No she hasn't mentioned it to us dh thinks her phone might be in his car (she's not allowed it in school itself) so he's going to check & also ask her.

I know she gave her number to her best friendcwhobus a lovely girl & it won't be her so well have to see who these messages are from.

Ds is still at the junior part of the school.

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saintlyjimjams · 11/09/2013 10:22

How horrible, but it does sound like jealousy. I guess no response, or a response form a parent will lead to them drying up. Or maybe a quick chat to the old school once you know who it is?

DowntonTrout · 11/09/2013 10:24

It breaks your heart doesn't it?

Hopefully, if you can get to the bottom of these meassges, and who they are from, you can deal with it. Kids can be really cruel.

DD had her first night away last night. She IS allowed to keep her phone and was texting me at 10.45 last night saying she couldn't sleep. I can only reassure her and hope she settles down soon but I found it very hard.

Picturesinthefirelight · 11/09/2013 10:24

Yes, going to try & find out who it is first then decide what if any action to take.

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Picturesinthefirelight · 11/09/2013 10:26

The boarders at dds school can have their phones in the boarding house but have to hand them in 15 mins before bedtime.

Just been messaging the mum if a boarder & she said they are settling & sleeping better this week than last week.

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DowntonTrout · 11/09/2013 21:48

Did you find out about the messages?

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Picturesinthefirelight · 11/09/2013 22:35

We don't know who they are from but we have their numbers (two of them)

Deciding what to to.

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cory · 12/09/2013 07:10

Oh your poor dd, Pictures, that's nasty. Does sound like jealousy, doesn't it?

Picturesinthefirelight · 12/09/2013 11:36

Narrowing down the list if suspects (we know who it isn't from dds contacts & a few mums I know checking their dds phones)

I emailed her old school & they want to speak to me.

She's been told via anonymous text to F off and die.

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