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Year 6 leaving - anyone else feeling emotional?

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Kerryblue · 19/07/2012 10:01

My ds is leaving his primary school tomorrow.

I feel so emotional about it! I never thought I would do tbh, he is ready for the challenges of secondary school and he doesn't seem that bothered, but me! Well, I keep feeling myself well up

It doesn't help that he is only one of two boys from his school going to an out of catchment secondary so he'll be leaving lots of his friends, and the whole class seem to have really jelled together this last year.

Anyone else feel the same?

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gazzalw · 20/07/2012 06:25

DS is quite sanguine about the whole thing but I think that's because he's so looking forward to going to grammar school and can't wait to start. I think in September when he is there he will start to miss his friends of 8 1/2 years!

They had their leavers' assembly yesterday and that was emotional for a lot of the children and parents, particularly the ones without younger siblings in the school. For them it is the end of an era - one of the families have had children at the school since 1996 so definitely a long-bond to be broken .

Think DW feels it more than me because she is much more involved and now begins the harder part of actively staying in touch with the families, especially as DS is the only one from his school going to his grammar school!

somerandom · 20/07/2012 06:27

I've been emotional too. My one and only DS leaves today. An emotional week of 'lasts'. Leavers party last night and I was a bit teary when I picked him up and saw all the kids in their finery and reading their year book after. It's been a good Primary School experience and he's been prepared for his move to a secondary that we're really happy with 9 other children from the school.

Just want to get through picking him up tonight without totally embarrassing him ...(and myself). Then we can 'smile because it happened' - (I love that quote... Thanks for reminding me of that quote starballbunny - I shall try to live by that today.)

ripsishere · 20/07/2012 06:53

DDs leavers mass this morning. She started at this school last year and has lived the dream. She adores it and has made some really good firm friends (along with one sworn enemy).
Fortunately she is moving with the majority of her class. Three are off to a different school and one is going to another.
I will cry, silent weepy tears. DH will come with me and laugh.
DD has her last disco tonight, but doesn't finish until Tuesday.
Today is all about fun, her class are going swimming later too.

Dancergirl · 20/07/2012 07:28

OMG.....the last day is HERE

Dd is still asleep....

CheeryCherry · 20/07/2012 07:42

Sooooo scared I am going to make a complete and utter fool of myself at the leavers assembly this afternoon.... My last Dc leaves, end of an era, have been part of the school for 12 years...we're all ready for it but I will miss the routine, my friends, the the dressing up days, social life. I know she is ready for it but when they show all those reception photos....oh no!

jamdonut · 20/07/2012 07:44

It may be unprofessional, but I ALWAYS cry at leaver's assemblies!! I just can't stop myself!! Luckily, a lot of the other staff are the same!
Last year my youngest left year 6 and I was a complete and utter wreck!
You may not realise how attached we become to them all -after all, we spend 6 hours a day with them !
The "worst" part is when they show a montage of them, from infants to the present ,with some music over the top like Tme of Your Life...it is just too much!!!

marge2 · 20/07/2012 09:28

I can;t cope with the last day of the school year at all..and my oldest is only in Y4. Where did this trend to make it so sad come from , I don;t remember this when I left sschool. It was basically a good bye and good luck, and off you go.

Our Head gets the whole school in tears - even the male teachers - at the leavers assembly. Her own youngest child is leaving the school today - it's going to be a sobfest.

I had to go last year as one of my kids got an award and I was asked to attend.

Thank God I have to work and will miss it...but also lack of invitation means no awards for my kids this year! booooooo!

ChickensHaveNoLips · 20/07/2012 09:31

I just want it all to be over now. It's too sad

TobyLerone · 20/07/2012 09:46

I really must be nails. DD went off quite happily this morning, and I cannot bring myself to be sad about it. It's just not a sad thing, IMO.

hennipenni · 20/07/2012 10:01

My youngest DD's last day today, will be emotional for her tonight, I'm just glad that she will be leaving "certain" children behind (bullying issues) , She's going to a out of catchment secondary school which none of her friends are going to and she's understanably worried about the move. To top it all my eldest DD has decided that she may move away for uni next year so we're just starting the process of looking. I WILL be an emotional wreck by the end of both processes.

Xabien · 20/07/2012 10:05

I have just come back from the leavers assembly

I was doing so well and then the head started to cry whilst talking so naturally i did too

My son saw me crying (i had warned him that i would cry) and he fought his tears too

I am still crying now (I am always abit emotional though)

ByTheWay1 · 20/07/2012 10:18

Nope - no tears here - she is ready and wants to go to secondary NOW , she is going with a couple of friends, most are going to a different local school - she will miss them, but hey ho - she is growing up nicely.....

'Tis the start of something great....

snowball3 · 20/07/2012 10:26

Of the eighteen children in the year 6 class that left me yesterday, nine of them were also my children when they were in Reception, I have taught them for five out of their seven years in primary! I cried a lot! They sang "Believe" at the leavers service and there wasn't a dry eye in the house!

hoodoo12345 · 20/07/2012 10:36

Felt for my DD this morning, she was so brave and held it together until she got a hug from the teacher,she crumpled then bless her.
It is a big wrench for her leaving a school she has been to every day since she was 3, it is all she has ever known.

Tansie · 20/07/2012 11:08

I confess it actually annoys me when schools do the Emotional Trip thing. I don't get it. The DC don't have to sing 'One more step into the world we go' or any mawkish 'Goodbyee forevah' stylee songs, do they?

OK, OK, I am not a hugely sentimental person and am prone to shout at the TV when once again a gardening show or a 'How we lived in Edwardian times' program is now considered incomplete without someone wringing some tears (I blame Princess Di, myself!); I also concede DS has been at this school since the start of Y4, I also acknowledge that 95% of the DC are going to the same secondary so I guess it may be easier for me- and the fact I haven't built my life around the DC's school helps. DS2 has walked to school with mates, not me, for 2 years now. I only go up there for 'occasions'. I did my 'PTA' active service for 4 years at their previous school!

However, for him, onwards and upwards.

But you lot are making me feel guilty that I'm not all teary!

marge2 · 20/07/2012 11:26

Actually Tansie - I agree. I don't think it helps the Y6s who may be nervous about starting a new school to see us all sobbing. It must make it much more of a big deal, when I know for sure I will be trying to play the 'big transition' down to my DS1 when the time comes. He prob won;t be going to the school that 90% of his clas will be going to as we are not in catchment.

I wish they wouldn't do it to us.

justmumof1 · 20/07/2012 12:50

I am about to go to his Leavers Assembly in a few hours. This week was a week of "last ever...at primary school" DS is looking forward to getting rid of his lunch box etc and pruning his bookcase to make way for his secondary school books......as an only child I will walk into the playground with mixed emotion, seeing all the other children that have grown up alongside my son the last 4 years always makes me emotional...time to move on for all of us....primary education TICK!....on to the next stage of DS's life

Peaksandtroughs · 20/07/2012 13:35

I have been very emotional about my DD leaving as she is my youngest and had her leavers' assembly this morning.

I just wanted to say to people on here who have a child going to an out of catchment or grammar school alone that my DS did this, and while he made new friends he is still good friends with children from primary school who went to the local secondary school. They are now 14 and go camping together, do sleepovers and see each other most weeks.

Bubby64 · 20/07/2012 14:02

Made it through their leavers assembly without a tear!! their whole class is so upbeat and excited about going to High School, it made all us mum's upbeat as well!!

Wordsmith · 20/07/2012 14:59

Leaving primary school is an emotional time. I was a bit weepy when DS1 left last year. And since he's started high school he's a different kid - not my little boy any more . I have another 3 years to go before I go through it all again with DS2.

Northernlurker · 20/07/2012 16:56

I was fine today. Very proud of myself. I still have dd3 in Reception though - will be different when she leaves. Dd2 was very weepy, as were several mums.

I got a bit of perspective though tbh when I was cycling to work after the leavers assembly. I though of Expat - who will never see Aillidh leave primary school. Will never see her do anything again. Against that - you know, if your child is leaving primary school happy and healthy and with their future ahead of them - well it's all good isn't it? Not to say you can't shed a tear or two because it's a big change but it's a time for counting blessings really.

somerandom · 20/07/2012 19:34

Today went way better than expected - I didn't cry at all - DS has a little sniffle which nearly set me off but other than that I felt very calm and just grateful he went to such a lovely school and will be going to the school he wants to. He's arranged to play football with his school friends tomorrow so it all feels very lovely really. Hope everyone's day went well.

jamdonut · 20/07/2012 20:42

Well it ended up a complete sobfest at ours!!
I just can't help it...the minute they started to sing "Proud" I could feel the tears start. Then there comes a sudden realisation from them that this is it..the last time...and they begin to crumple.
Then the younger brothers and sisters start crying.

Then they sing this song that goes

"Oh, growing means never standing still, we've got to keep moving.
But I promise you this, I never will forget the time I've spent with you."

And that just does me in...they sang it for the first time at my son's leaver's assembly last year, so it has those connotations for me!

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Kerryblue · 20/07/2012 22:57

Well that's it, it's over, the last day of term.

DS has just come back from a leavers swimming/bbq party. Had a fab time, has been cool as a cucumber all day. But, got in the car and just broke down sobbing he will miss everyone so much.

Bless them all. We know they will all be OK and are ready for secondary, but it has definitely been an emotional day.

Thanks for all your thoughts, especially the one where the dc still socialise with their primary school friends at the weekends etc. This is what I hope will happen with ds. Time will tell.

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Dancergirl · 20/07/2012 23:04

I was ok till I saw dd coming out her classroom door with her signed jumper and I just thought I will never see her come of primary school again Some of the girls were crying, dd just managed to hold it together. We're feeling v positive though -she's had a great time at primary school and is really excited about her new school, as am I. I'm just really proud of her -it's lovely to see them growing up

Hope everyone else dcs have had a good last day. Enjoy the summer!

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