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Year 6 SATS......DS1 has tonsilitis.....what a trouper he was!

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Ruprekt · 13/05/2013 14:41

Poor ds. Woke up with raging temperature, ear ache, swollen glands, headache.

Gave him calpol and took him in to see the HT.

Everyone was fab and sooooo kind to him.

He did the reading comp at 9.15am and the school receptionist gave him ibuprofen at 10am. At break he went for a snooze and was then given Lucozade and a bag of crisps.

I could have taken him home but he wanted to stay to do the short writing task.

He says it all went well and he is proud of what he did. He is now sleeping on the sofa til we see the nurse at 3pm.

Of all the days to be poorly!!

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/05/2013 15:15

sparkling!

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Ruprekt · 15/05/2013 15:16

Ds says he sat on his own, didnt share a table with anyone and sat nearer the door. This meant easier access to DS for the receptionist to give him medicine.

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piratecat · 15/05/2013 15:21

does that mean my dd has been licking the loos again

Sparklingbrook · 15/05/2013 15:22

I have no idea what goes on in school loos pirate.

DS2 has returned saying the Maths went well, but giving away nothing.

piratecat · 15/05/2013 15:36

dd said her maths had gone well too. she hates maths and has always struggled having had so much time off with various illnesses.

one calculator paper tomorrow.

office just said she mustn't go on the internet if she misses the paper tomorrow. i said the last thing she will be googling is maths papers (ffs)!

Dancergirl · 15/05/2013 15:50

sparkling my oldest dd is in Year 7 so did them last year. They went fine, as far as we were concerned she had a place at our first choice secondary so everything else was immaterial. If she'd been ill, she'd have missed a paper.

Dd2 will do them next year and I will have the same attitude. They are really not so important it's worth compromising your child's health.

Just out of interest, to anyone who sends an ill child into school, would you feel guilty if your child passed on their illness to others in the class? And for what? To say your child achieved a level 5 or whatever....

BooksandaCuppa · 15/05/2013 15:53

I too would be furious if any child came into school fewer than 48 hours after a bout of d & v. Dh is undergoing chemotherapy and has been for a year - if school or a parent had knowingly encouraged a child with that sort of illness to be in school near ds just to do their SATs, I would have gone mad. Tonsilitis - not so bothered. It's much harder to pass on.

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Ruprekt · 15/05/2013 15:59

Ds had a similar virus a few months ago and was unable to move from the sofa. There is no way he could have gone in then and sat the test. He also slept all day.

I would NOT have sent him in with sickness and diarrhoea.

It is highly unlikely he has passed anything on to anyone else.

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lljkk · 15/05/2013 17:27

I'd be happy to give your viral-ridden DS a hug, Ruprekt. :)

If it's any consolation, DD was isolated all day because she had missed the tests and mustn't hear any gossip about them, so she had almost nil chance of passing any bug on while at school. Not that I really think it was a bug (she is prone to puking for other reasons), but just in case.

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Ruprekt · 15/05/2013 19:58

And I would hug your DD too lljkk!!

Haha!!

Tis nearly over.

Phew!

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Sparklingbrook · 15/05/2013 20:26

Has anyone else's DC got the school assessed Science on Friday?

fanoftheinvisibleman · 15/05/2013 21:23

Yep fucking well entitled me, spending all year scraping 300 quid together for a caravan for a week.

I have had plenty of years without holidays too, not that it is a competition.

I'm just bitter that I have lost what turned out to be the final few days of life in one case and christmas a month prior to dying in another with my lovely grandparents due to illnesses over christmas. And listened to parents stood outside the school door days earlier saying that little johnny was ill/puking all night but didn't want to miss out on the party.

I make no apologies for thinking it doesn't matter what impact spreading your childs germs around has as long as your alright jack.

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Ruprekt · 15/05/2013 21:43

Ours did Science paper from 2009 last week Sparkling.

(Whispers.....DH got some piriton for ds!! )

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piratecat · 16/05/2013 09:45

dd has gone in to take the test feeling sick. i am currently waiting outside the school to retrieve her straight after and take the poor sod home. she has been really brave this morning. gah

CecilyP · 16/05/2013 11:20

Came home at 12 and had a full cooked brunch!

Was it really tonsillitis then? I have had tonsillitis once as an adult (caught off the little boy my friend was a nanny to, and, no, he didn't lick my face) and couldn't eat anything for days.

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Ruprekt · 16/05/2013 17:35

Cecily.....no, it was a viral infection in the end. Now covered in a viral rash, poor thing.

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piratecat · 16/05/2013 17:43

dd has had tonsillitis many times, both types and eaten well with whatever type she had when she ate well!

lljkk · 16/05/2013 17:49

I think when DS had tonsillitis his main symptom was bad headache, nothing about his throat seemed wrong at all.

Sparklingbrook · 16/05/2013 17:55

I always know when DSs have tonsilitis (rare) because of the awful breath.

piratecat · 16/05/2013 21:27

yes we have had that one also, a headache and no soreness of throat. Found that out myself, despite numerous trips to gp.

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