Anyone else excited about their childs move to Secondary school ?

[Sleepydog]

This may sound daft - I am really excited for my DS about his transfer to secondary school - he had a great induction day despite not many from his primary school going on to this school.

He seems really enthused about it all and I am really pleased he feels this way and genuinely excited for him about this new stage in his life - but no doubt will be out of my mind with worry in his first day and him then being a small fish in a big pond .

He has been to a fantastic primary school but I now see that he is ready to move on although I will feel sad about the end of an era.

Oh don't be deflated Sleepydog. All will be fine-just different.

Sorry, didn't mean to deflate you!

I was VERY excited when DD started, it felt like such a big step and it was all new. Also her school is soooo different (in a masssively better way!) to my antiquated 50's stylie girls grammar in the 70's, I was a bit jealous - wishing I was going there

My son is really excited about High school - they go after 7 years of primary here so roughly the equivalent of your year 8 but the entry dates to school are different so not an exact comparison. he has had problems with bullying at primary so is going to a different High school from the rest of his class, just him and his best friend and we are all looking forward to it. his last day at primary was very emotional.......and we have it all to do again next year with No2 son!!

Dd is sooooo excited - its her transfer day today and she insisted on walking to the Secondary by herself. It is only 7 minutes up the road from us.

I had to follow her in the car a few minutes later, very secret squirrel, to make sure she was ok.

Thank goodness I did as she went in the wrong entrance of a choice of three. I got out the car pretending I was on the way to the shops and got her to the correct entrance.

Dd was completely unperturbed and at the end of the day was moaning that she had to go back to primary on Monday.

I'm fed up with the three tier system, it's all the stress of getting them settled each time after you've got them into the flipping school in the first place. DD's off to upper school for her induction day this week. Then I have to do it all over again with DS and middle school next year.

Had a very upset friend on the phone earlier with a hysterical DD about her new class (different upper school to DD) and am feeling quite stressed about everything whilst trying to have an air of calm around DD. I just feel we've one all this adjustment stuff once and we're starting all over again.

My son has just got to the end of Yr7 and it's been fantastic!