Help me make it through Y6 leavers' do with some dignity

[Pippidoeswhatshewants]

I am so happy for dd to leave primary - she is looking forward to secondary, raring to go. Yet I am a blubbering wreck!
I just chatted with a friend about the leaving do and started crying. I'm afraid it will be much worse on the night. Please help me with your best strategies so that I retain some dignity!

Aren't pregnancy hormones supposed to have left the system after 10 years?!?

One of the boys did a speech at DS's prize-giving, last week. This boy had had a leg broken while playing rugby, and he mentioned that his mum had cried when she received so many lovely texts from other parents enquiring after him. But he added, "My mum's always crying, though. She's probably crying now!". Which did get a big laugh, but was probably true.

There's no way you can make it through with dignity. Just abandon all hope - it will be a blubfest, but you won't be alone. I got steadily more embarrassing as I went through it with each of the DCs and then really let rip with DC4.

I feel your pain! Try and cry before you go? Never works for me though.

Oh yes Artus - one more step along the road is a killer! And I speak as Mum of an 18 and 21 year old!

"And it's from the old I travel to the new
keep me travelling along with you."

Yes. We will be singing One More Step this week in our school. As we do every year.
But this time it will be my DS I'm waving off. Sob.

I still well up thinking of my year 6 leavers assembly
I was welling up ironing DDs uniform tonight, she doesn't seem to be that bothered.

Omg this thread has made me well up and dd is only in YR .

Impossible. Give in now.

This time last year I wept from the day before DD2 left. I was a snivelling embarrassment to all.

I cant wait..

nor can DD3 and I love the school and teacher she has

After 4 children and 13 years primary school runs I am just SO ready to leave and go on with life.. DD3 is so ready and frankly so am I.

Not sure I will be teary I suspect I will be the one with the huge grin

My DS'a are 18 and 14 now but I still remember their leavers assemblies - crying again now!

Can't wait for DS to leave - needs to go to new school where everyone gets a chance not just favourites.

Both the leavers at my school and at dds school did "when I grow up" from matilda the musical - I blubbed like a baby despite neither teaching the leaving class nor having my own leaving child! but what a song!

Well, reporting back in, dry eyed. It was lovely and a few people cried but they were definitely the minority, they went for humour rather than out and out sentimentality and it was very funny. They've been a lovely bunch, it's a small school so they've all been in class together since Year R and DS has known quite a few since they were babies, definitely the end of an era.

Are your performances mostly singing? DS's will be, like DD's 2 yrs ago.

I can't understand sung lyrics very well, so if I hadn't read the whole script I wouldn't understand what they were singing anyway.
There's one skit that is kind of sweet (about Nativity pLay things gone wrong). Rest reads like a long list of themes that teachers think is funny but parents won't care about.
Well, imho.
7 hrs and counting to get it over with.

No, ours was a play, well, a series of sketches really, all about life in school, a lot of good humoured mickey taking and some very good acting. One or two songs interspersed into it and one slightly more sentimental leaving one at the end (which I'd never heard before).

DD leaves in a week. I have already been a blubbering mess. I have no idea how I will make it through the assembly and she is fully aware I will probably cry, regardless of how lovely it is. She is pfb though and this feels like a monumental step for so many personal reasons for her.

If I'm honest, I'm dreading the assembly, but I think the high school DD is going to will be fantastic, and she is nearly ready for the next transition to adulthood.

That is the way to look at it, I am just so happy that DS got through primary school successfully (he has SNs and every year I expected it to be the year when it all went terribly wrong). I'm very happy with the school he is going to next, so onwards and upwards! I might be worse when DD leaves as that will be the end of primary school for our family.

I keep getting blindsided. Year 6 production? Bit of a lump in the throat. Explaining to rest of governing body that I'd not cried at Year 6 production. Gulp. Not helped but having just walked down the infant corridor and hearing the lovely teachers taking the register - 'Good morning Jack... Good morning Katy ...' Wah.

Leavers' service tomorrow could go either way. I'm going to the pub at lunchtime though, so pick-up could be emotional.

I've succumbed. Invited in to look through their books this afternoon, DS had written a series of diary entries about surviving the Titanic disaster, the tears started. Just a little bit!

I sobbed my way through DS2's leavers performance on Wednesday, in between the laughs. It really was good, different sketches, some funny, some more serious but all showing the talents of the class. We had the customary slide show of pictures from reception to year 6 and then they sang a song arm in arm about their journey together and how they wouldn't change a thing.

I cried again last night helping at the disco and again in the playground today. DS2 is my baby and we have been parents at this primary school for 15 continuous year between DSS, DS1 and DS2, so it really is the end of an era. I'll miss the children, the parents and staff but wont miss the school run -DS2 will be able to walk to school with DS1.

I feel emotionally drained after yesterday. DS1 finished and DS2 who is only a year behind was a bawling mess that his big brother won't be there. Luckily they're only separated for a year and he'll follow on next year. I will miss the school run tho. Primary school is only a mile away from home but secondary school means me dropping DS at the bus stop 25 mins away and then him on the bus for another half an hour!