Dear god! Tell me it's the 23rd July tomorrow, I'm losing the will to live!!

[MaureenMLove]

Anyone else done with it all now? The kids are off the wall! School uniform is starting to slip. Lots of notes claiming shoes are broken/lost/too small and won't be replaced this late in the year.

Anyone's schools doing end of year days out too.

We've got this hairbrained scheme this year, whereby 2 yr groups go out for the day on Tuesday and 2 on Wednesday, followed by suspended timetable on Thursday and Friday. All mufti days!

I am seriously going to lock myself in my office on the last two days! I can't stand mufti days!!

[zippy539]

I knew English schools broke up later than Scottish ones but it seems really late this year.

We've already been off for two weeks and I'm praying for the 19th of August when they go back! They're driving me NUTS!!!

[piratecat]

thanks maureen, she's not better but we cope now more than we have done. hope your dd gets better and has a lovely summer break.

[MaureenMLove]

Gosh, poor DD Hope she's on the mend now. I'll be glad to see the back of DD's school year too. She's had terrible attendance for the first time ever. We've had nearly 3 weeks for ingrowing toenail operation, 1 week for tonsilitis and just last week, almost a week off for broken wrist! Next year she starts her GCSE's, so we'll have none of it!

It's usually about the 20 something of July, I think school in England break up.

[piratecat]

dd has been off school with illness since april 30th ish. the very thought of an official holiday is like 'meh' to me in some ways. Yet i also feel i wil be able to relax more, knwing she isn't missing school.

this term has been a bit of a non event, shame really. Is it me or are the breaking up really late this yr?

[MaureenMLove]

I think I may have gone into holiday mode already! I've spent most of the day asleep!

It wasn't even because I had a heavy night last night. I did go to an end of term drink, but I was home by midnight'ish and only had 4 drinks!

Thursday can't come soon enough for me. I'll still be in until Friday, but the last two days are off timetable and activities all day. I have no lessons, so I intend to hide for the majority of the two days! I may pop into Art and make some jewellery and I may pop into Science to blow something up, but that's it!

[janeite]

CowsGoMoo - that's what we're doing too.

And leadership have started sending a whole load of emails of extra paperwork etc they suddenly want doing before the end of term too. Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

[CowsGoMoo]

We are teaching up until period 3 on Friday

period 4 is then an extended tutorial, aggghhhh and then we are throwing them all out before lunch.....

I would say almost every pupil in the school has gone mad, and we should have broken up today. I dread another 5 days of being in the classroom with them when not one of them wishes to a single thing.

we are getting 5 weeks hols too this year... just enough time to to start to relax, then fall ill, this always happens as I start to slow down! and then suddenly its back to to start organising classes, planners, posters, re organising room etc etc so we can start all over again!

[daisymiller]

4 weeks would be enough, actually 2 would be enough to recharge my batteries and be ready to go. We have another week to go.

I have no problem with our holidays and would have no great problem with them being reduced. My issue is with everthing that we have to do during term time. For weeks now I have been working every waking hour during the week and then a full day at the weekend. It is no wonder my husband wants me to quit and I am ill.

[daisymiller]

I will check out Ireland on the TES. As I said I am exhausted to the point of being ill. To be honest I am getting a little tired of a job that reduces me to feeling ill.

[daisymiller]

We also have to teach until the last lesson Thursday - then have assemblies on Friday before sending them off at lunch.

I have never ever been so tired at the end of an academic year. I have been at home today at ill, DH thinks it is just sheer exhaustion.

[webwiz]

You have my sympathy mummytime - I'm in essay avoidance mode (hence all my posts on here this morning)I also have about 60 photographs to resize and put on a website - I can do about 5 at a time before I lose the will to live.

[mummytime]

DS's school has 2 years out, one on a weeks Outward bounds, another on work experience. Year 11 gone? Year 13 gone. Year 12 starting A2 I guess. The other two years have activities week this week (making films I think). But next week after an Inset it is normal timetable for 3 1/2 days, that seems like total madness to me.
I can't keep up as the others have a chaotic timetable (sports days, assemblies, BBQ, Hikes, Exhibitions, etc).

And I'm in essay crisis mode.

[webwiz]

My house is horrible at the moment - I've got two very tired and grumpy teenagers who need to finish school tomorrow not in another whole week. I send my sympathy to the teachers having to deal with them.

We have the added complication of DD1 home from university with plenty of energy because she doesn't actually get up in the mornings. Her favorite thing seems to be to wind up whoever gets home from school first and get them shouting as quickly as possible. If we get through the evenings without bloodshed we are doing well.

[Loshad]

oops apology for random ' - stress (or wine!) clearly getting to me

[Loshad]

our's is very fraught atm, we have orders to teach up until the last second, but that is disrupted by trips out (for the few), internal reward days (again for the few) and so on. unifrom is going down the pan rapidly and my Y10's in particular are being very hard work. roll on next friday ( not helped by the fact that my own kids have been on holiday for a week already)

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

DS (Y6) is doing cycling proficiency this week, which is at least something definite and different.

[seeker]

And when the holidays come they are only 5 weeks long!

[TheFirstLady]

DD1 started a six night run of her school production on Monday. She is going to be shattered by Saturday, not home until 10pm every night. There are activity days next week but this week is normal lessons. And to cap it all, her sisters break up the day before her - and her last day of term just happens to be her birthday!
I work in the EBD unit of a different secondary, and I think you could fairly describe the atmosphere as a little fraught atm.
Roll on summer, I say!

[janeite]

Last Ofsted was good with outstanding features but academic achievement is low, although CVA is v good.

[belledechocolatefluffybunny]

Ds is in year 6 at the moment, there's naff all to do and a new teacher took over his class at half term to cover maternity leave so if he is given something to do then he's already done it. Sports day on Friday though, trip on Monday and leavers thing at some point.

[MaureenMLove]

Wow! That's brilliant! I wish our timetable was ready! It still isn't completed!

Our yr10's have been allowed to wear Yr11 uniform for the last 4 weeks, so they are kinda ruling the roost, but that's as far as we've got.

Is it a very good school you work at? Our kids have gone without trips and fun for the last 3 years, because prior to that, we were in special measures. This is the first year it's been allowed and only for those students with good attendance and behaviour.

[janeite]

Yep - we're all too scared to do otherwise!