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!!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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?

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.

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.

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!!!