Anyone else's DD/DS a bit :( about leaving primary school this week?

[MummyPenguin]

My DD is. Poor thing, I think she's really trying to hold her emotions in at the moment. She does keep saying that she doesn't want to leave. She's really quite about it at the moment and has been quiet and a bit moody. She doesn't want to talk about it much. I just keep giving her cuddles and reassuring her that it will all be okay in the end. She's loved her primary though. She's been there since she was 4 and is 11 now. I never had that experience myself, as I moved schools a couple of times, so when I eventually left primary, it wasn't the school I'd been at the whole time. It must seem like a real wrench for her.

DS is can't wait, but I think that is a boy thing and he can't wait to start secondary so he can play with bunson burners

When we were at the new parents eveing the other night one girl had to be taken out sobbing her heart out, it obviously hit her then that she would be moving on

I can relate to that, I had DD in floods of tears in the uniform shop on saturday when we went to buy her new uniform!

Ahh bless her. I remember being like that when I left primary school. For a few months beforehand I kept thinking, that's the last xmas here, the last sports day etc etc. It's a big thing at that age.

I don't know about dd, but I'm in pieces! Its going to be a long week.

Poor little penguin.

My eldest isn't due to do this till next year and I'm not sure how he'll feel. Hoping he'll be looking forward to it but not sure. He's a shy little soul really and if things turn our as we expect he'll be virtually the only one going to the secondary school we favour. Which won't help.

BTW How do you feel mummyp? I'm ready to sob at the drop of a hat but that's mainly over DS#2 (my baaaabbby

I feel quite emotional too. Whenever I start to tell anyone about how DD's feeling, I start welling up! On Wednesday there is a leavers Mass at school, and I have been warned to take tissues!!

DS1 occasionally makes comments about how he's dreading leaving the primary school. The other day he said if he had one wish in the world it would be that the school built a secondary department too, so that he'd never have to leave

.. and he's only in yr5 so he's got a whole year yet to brood about it

My DS leaves on Monday next week. Lots going on this week to keep them busy with leaving concert and barbecues etc. I am more emotional then him at the moment but think it will hit him when Monday comes.

My DD said that too, Roisin, about the primary in an ideal world having an attached secondary school. We'd still have sent her to the grammar school though