Anyone in Scotland got a DC starting Primary One next Monday, come and hold hands with me

[sweetkitty]

My PPPPFB DD1 is starting "big" school on Monday

Anyone else?

Am I going to be a blubbing wreck?

By the time DC3 starts high school I will be 49, DH will be 55, DS1 will be 20 and DD will be 18

I am deferring the thought of school dinners until ds goes full time, so I have until the end of August to worry about that.

HNT, have you bought anything yet? I couldn't cope with that, but my dc hate shopping and the shops are so limited here.. Good luck tomorrow!

Paolosgirl, so it doesn't get easier with time? I have been having loads of bad dreams about ds starting, it is horrible, I haven't mentioned it because I don't want to let anyone see how anxious I am. (I was less stressed with dd, in fact I thought it was a privilege for anyone to get to spend time with her, snurk, I had that pfb thing bad lol).

Lindax, my friend was in a public school clothes shop and the woman there was buying over £900 of schoolwear for one child, or or wtf?

I'm sure once my DS settles it'll be OK, Broken, but I'm still terrified. I can remember his first day at primary school like it was yesterday, and helping him into his wee school uniform - and now he's off to the lions den where he'll probably be eaten alive by the horrid, rough boys (which is an over-exaggeration, I know, but still - he's my baby)

Bloody hell - £900??? Which school was it??

No idea, it was a general school shop, that stock all the private schools' uniform, in Edinburgh.

La Crosse sticks are expensive you know...

bought many haggis?

I wonder how many Lacrosse sticks you get for £900?!

Out here in yokel-ville, it's a long way to even get a private school at all!

My mum got most of DD1's uniform.

And it's a good thing, because those logo tops cost a bomb and her shoes and plimmies! Arrgggh. She's got a long, narrow foot that takes a Start-Rite and that's about it.

She's got 3 skirts, 5 trousers, 3 logo sweatshirts, about 6 white tops, loads of white knee socks (Thanks, Mama!), her school shoes, a pair of wellies, trainers, plimmies.

Hope that covers it!

Oh, and her logo bag, PE kit and logo fleecy for when it really starts to get cool.

And hair grips and elastics to match.

Our school recently announced P1-3 will all be getting free school meals this year. They did it as a trial 2 years ago. Not sure if it's just the authority or across the board.

DS will probably have a few school dinners each week, but the girls are strict packed lunches. They generally have fruit for their snack in the mornings. Sweetkitty, I get plastic snack pots from the baby section in the supermaket and give chopped fruit to fussy DD2. It seems to work OK.

clan house or aitken and niven? £900 is a lot. Not sure how they rcked that up for one kid... 2 to 3 hundred I would have thought was more standard for primary anyway.

NOt me, dd starts P2 and ds starts P4 but i can remember last year when dd was starting school and i was a nervous wreck.

Good luck for Monday

I think its across the board? I always wanted dd1 to have school dinners, being a lazy mare busy mum, but she always wanted to go 'packed lunches'.....

Although DD2 starts P1 next DD1 goes into P5 so I'll share this nugget of knowledge with you, start looking for winter boots soon, its Scotland, its cold, its wet and DD1 puts on her boots after the October week and they are removed (normally under protest) after Easter hols.

My sister already got DD1 Uggs.

No danger of cold toes with Uggs.....

and a kag-in-a-bag

metatron, it was a teenager, does it make that much of a difference?

hmm, good point about winter boots.
Seb1, you sound very laid back.

Not sure how they racked up that much, sounds more like 3 kids worth to me!

Agree about shoes/ boots DD always wears boots from Oct to April.

Tip for naming things if you forgot to get name labels or are fed up sewing or have already melted a couple to the iron.... Just use PEN, write it on. Biros will do but it will fade, Sharpie permenent markers are great and I write names on everything from shoes to lunch boxes with them, don't forget to write name on bottle lids as well as the bottle as it the lids that roll off the table and disapear.

Oh and it will be fine .

Got everything now too except gym shorts for dd1. Had to get next to get cycling short thingys cos i couldn't get anything anywhere

£900??? Mind you i couldn't even afford one set of uniform lol.

Ds1 starts college in a couple of weeks too. I am not worried/nervous but just hoping he gels with his fellow students and does well.

Dd1 is a wee bit excited and a big bit scared she tells me God i will be in bits if she cries. Her teacher does seem lovely so fingers crossed!!

£900 ouch I don't think I could spend that, the logo stuff wasn't that expensive, £11 for a cardi, £8 for a polo shirt, even the Pex socks were £5 for 2 pairs so not that bad just hope they last.

I have still to get her a good winter jacket yet, she still fits her two from last year but am passing them to DD2.

Ceolas - I have tonnes of plastic baby food pots already, I didn't know if it was the "done" thing I am sure she will come home and tell me what exactly she needs no doubt.

Baths and early nights here tonight, DD2 back at nursery tomorrow too, I have to go through this all next year again but I will be a veteran by then

Don't think free school dinners for P1-P3 are everywhere until August 2010, although some authorities may start sooner

Wish they were free here, dont like the idea of ds taking money into school yet, even if (as headteacher quotes) it does teach them social skills, handling money, responsibility etc - too young imo

Our logo'd stuff was similarly priced, sweet.

There are 6 primaries in the immediate area, but some have only about 20 students in total.

DD1's class is a composite with P2.

Our primary has an intake of 80 this year It will have 3x P! and a composite P2/1 class. It's normally 60 pupils.

Agal - a friend of mines wee girl is in your ones class, they share a name!

I can't wait to see the back of dd2 but am quaking about dd1. .

Hope ds1 gets on well at college.