Is anyone else so ready for the end of year 6?

Elfie23 · 2025-06-22T10:40:39+00:00

As above really. DD is in a 1 class per year school and has been with these kids for 7 years now - she’s never really had a ‘bestie’ and kind of been one of a couple of girls who tended to float between the two groups of girls. We’ve had all the usual fallouts etc but feel like yr6 the arguments and bitching has really gone up a notch. While I’m under no illusion that secondary will be a bed of roses I’m so ready for DD to start a new school (she’s one of only 2 children going to this school) make some new friends who have similar interests to her (rather than having to make friends with this set group of kids as they’re the only ones in her year) and be able to have a bit of a reset. We had a sleepover this weekend for her bday and she had 3 friends over. They all had places to be in the morning so we agreed lights off by midnight and settle down. By 1am DD gave up and got in her bed as they were poking her and annoying her and by 2:00am I had to go in and literally shout over the noise they were making and told them to shut up. (9 hours of one shouting instead of talking and the others shouting over her) I was done. I will not miss some of these kids! 🙈😬 Anyone else feel the same or I am just a miserable burnt out grump?

RareMaker · 22/06/2025 11:42

Year 7 is worse. :(

Motherearthisbusy · 22/06/2025 11:44

Kids (especially girls) def come to the end of the road of little school by this time of year 6.

Senior school will def be good to reset. However be prepared for another 3 years of chopping and changing friends and just general bullshit. By year 10 it seems to settle down. The good thing is you don’t have to get involved with any of the parents and my god what a relief that is.

CherryVanillaPie · 22/06/2025 11:46

Yes I remember feeling relieved when dd1 left. There was a pecking order in her primary class and some of the kids and their parents were unkind.
She has finished secondary now but she had a much better experience. Found a lovely group of chilled/drama free friends at secondary and the mean kids didn't bother them as they were too busy having dramas with each other.

ProfessorRizz · 22/06/2025 11:55

Sometimes it takes a little while for children to find their tribe at secondary; I really only met some good friends after a jumble up of form groups in Y9. I think I was a bit unlucky.

I’m in charge of transition at my current school and we try to get a balance of sex/prior attainment/schools, it’s generally much better than my prehistoric school days.

kinkytoes · 22/06/2025 11:56

Yes and she's only in Y4 😂

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Elfie23 · 22/06/2025 13:17

Motherearthisbusy · 22/06/2025 11:44

Kids (especially girls) def come to the end of the road of little school by this time of year 6.

Senior school will def be good to reset. However be prepared for another 3 years of chopping and changing friends and just general bullshit. By year 10 it seems to settle down. The good thing is you don’t have to get involved with any of the parents and my god what a relief that is.

Haha I bet! I think I’m done with some of the parents as much as the kids!
Not claiming mine is an angel but the ‘my little princess’ routine is getting a bit dull now 🙈

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ItsCalledAConversation · 22/06/2025 13:21

I had this exact feeling OP, and my DD had the same experience (not poking/annoying, just not clicking with any of the girls in her year). She’s taken to high school like a duck to water (not all been smooth sailing but better than primary), has found friends who she has more in common with, and is much more stimulated and has much more fun. Oh and the uniform actually fits!!

MalcolmTuckersBollockingface · 22/06/2025 13:54

I was feeling like this long before year 6, as was my daughter. Horrid year group of unpleasant girls and equally unpleasant mums. She was really unlucky. My daughter didn't end up going to senior school but she's getting on great with girls her own age and slightly older who she has met through various activities

Finteq · 22/06/2025 14:00

Luckily mine found a best friend in her primary school.

Hope she can do the same in high school.
Just 1 good friend is enough.

She's going to a different school to most of the people in her current school. So a little apprehensive about that.

Cantstopthenoise · 22/06/2025 20:15

Yes, my daughter is in Year 6 and has been in a friendship group with 2 other girls since Year 2, they have their fall outs and dramas and it's always this one girl that is the ringleader and tells my daughter to gang up on the other girl, WhatsApp has made it a lot worse! Thankfully the "ringleader" is going to a different secondary school to my daughter and her other friend which should change the dynamics between them. There are others in the class that tend to pick on the weaker or less popular ones, my daughter has sussed them out and doesn't have them on WhatsApp. She does get on with most kids and will miss primary when she leaves, I am friends with a lot of the parents in the class and will miss them too.

WhereHasMyPlanetGone · 22/06/2025 20:28

Cantstopthenoise · 22/06/2025 20:15

Yes, my daughter is in Year 6 and has been in a friendship group with 2 other girls since Year 2, they have their fall outs and dramas and it's always this one girl that is the ringleader and tells my daughter to gang up on the other girl, WhatsApp has made it a lot worse! Thankfully the "ringleader" is going to a different secondary school to my daughter and her other friend which should change the dynamics between them. There are others in the class that tend to pick on the weaker or less popular ones, my daughter has sussed them out and doesn't have them on WhatsApp. She does get on with most kids and will miss primary when she leaves, I am friends with a lot of the parents in the class and will miss them too.

This is why my year 6 daughter doesn’t have WhatsApp. Seems like all the drama is on there. She misses it all, thankfully!
Mine is going to a different secondary school to everyone in her class (literally the only child not going to the same secondary) so she’s panicking a bit about missing everyone, but I think it’ll do her a world of good. She has good friends but has always been a bit of an odd one out as she’s not into make up/skin care/Tik Tok dances etc. Hopefully she’ll meet some girls who like to spend their free time reading, writing plays and playing the piano!

Eastendboysandwestendgirls · 22/06/2025 20:32

Me. I'm a teacher and this cohort is one of the meanest, rudest, most badly behaved groups of children I've come across in over 25 years of teaching. July 22nd cannot come soon enough.

RareMaker · 22/06/2025 20:33

WhereHasMyPlanetGone · 22/06/2025 20:28

This is why my year 6 daughter doesn’t have WhatsApp. Seems like all the drama is on there. She misses it all, thankfully!
Mine is going to a different secondary school to everyone in her class (literally the only child not going to the same secondary) so she’s panicking a bit about missing everyone, but I think it’ll do her a world of good. She has good friends but has always been a bit of an odd one out as she’s not into make up/skin care/Tik Tok dances etc. Hopefully she’ll meet some girls who like to spend their free time reading, writing plays and playing the piano!

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The best thing IMO. She will thrive.

Pyjamatimenow · 22/06/2025 20:36

Yes feeling very similar to you @Elfie23. Totally burnt out with it and still got the y6 ‘celebrations’ to get through

Beansandcheesearegood · 22/06/2025 20:37

I think I might be more excited about secondary than my dd is!
Lots of dramas since year4 , same old thing, sane old kids, same old parents!

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Elfie23 · 22/06/2025 21:56

Glad I’m not the only one feeling this way!!

I really feel for the teachers of this class, there are some truly horrid children who were so awful to one teacher she quit at the end of a week, others who have moved classes (DD teacher is deputy head so does 3 days with class and they have another teacher the other 2 days) they’ve got their old yr4 teacher back for the 2 days as she was on maternity leave and doesn’t take any crap but even she was reduced to tears one day.

I think I peaked too early and was done by the end of year 5 so this year has been a real slog.

DD has got a ‘group’ which started back in reception which was basically a group of parents who got on and most the kids played together, the parents are all ‘friends’ although it has slipped over the last couple of years - the bitching and back stabbing that goes on there is ridiculous at times too! Were the adults not the kids fgs 🙈

4 weeks to go! Counting down to July 18th - ain’t enough wine in the world for this sh!t some days 🙈😂

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clareykb · 22/06/2025 22:05

I have twin girls in y6 and omg I can't wait until the end of term... one settles then it's the other one and I just feel we don't have a drama free week!!! Also they love different things so one is excited about the play, one is dreading it but loves sports day which the other one is stressed about and on It goes! Luckily they kids they don't get on with are all going to different secondaries there are 6 others going to the same on as them and they are all nice...bring on the end of July!