Anyone with a year 7 starting today?

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I feel like a cat on hot bricks- can't wait for 3.30!

My pfb started today!

I was awake from 3.00am to 5.30am thinking about it all.

Oooh- this has made a "thread of the day" slot!

DD loved her first day yesterday and came home with french homework which i didnt have to nag her to do, i bet that won't last!
She seemed so grown up already chatting none stop about various teachers , lab partners etc.
I hope today, her first "proper"day is going as well...

We were awake at the crack of dawn to ensure DS had enough time to get himself ready before his 7.15 am off time . He needed a lot of coaxing and had to be reminded to take his locker key from under his pillow (WTF??) to put in his blazer..... meanwhile younger DD was left to her own devices....Hmmmm.

Walked him to the bus-stop and he was a bit quiet - focussing on his first bus trip on his own methinks - but thinking that by the end of the week it will be second nature - hopefully!

It's the organisational elements which are going to be difficult for him to adapt to methinks....especially with school being away away....

First day at Upper School today, need to leave to pick her up soon as they finish at 2.40.

Spag Bol in slow cooker, DH primed to deal with DS who isn't back until tomorrow , packed lunches etc done. Pick up will incorporate chocolate run. I am practising radiating calm from my every pore, whatever has happened we're going to have a calm night. Well, that's the plan !

Mine went in ok and was full of her day when we picked her up. Parking at the school though was hillarious!!

She was very excited to go today!!

Hope everyone elses went well

I'm fairly chilled about it, looking forward to hearing all about it at 3.30pm or whenever she trundles through the door. The school feels right for her, she was bored last year so is well ready to move on. She said she was too excited to be nervous this morning (she got up at 5.50am!) and four friends came round to our house so they all walked together.

Mine started today and I have been recieving regular updates via text despite the fact that phones are supposed to be in lockers. Was told about progress on the bus and when she got there. Then another at lunch "Eating lunch now, bought a drink for a pound. Yummy Scrummy". Then most recently "Exhaustingly hot in corridors and not allowed to take our blazers off" !!!

Suspect next one will be from teacher "Have confiscated phone" .

My PFB started today too. He got up and dressed at 6.30 am! I think he has generally been looking forward to today but looked a little nervous as he left. We are lucky in that school is a 10 minue walk from our house so I haven't had to worry much about him getting himself there. I took lots of photos of him in his uniform standing in exactly the same spot in the garden as when he started reception 7 years ago - I am going to compare them later . Not long now until home time .

MY DS started today - rest of school went in later in the morning , so the whole school will be coming out together in approx 10 mins !

He was all smiles this morning and looking very smart in blazer etc - interesting to see what state he comes home in - as long as he doesn't screw his blazer up in his bag as it is too hot !

Well it's all good here... enjoyed today much more as it was busier, but lugged full games kit around all day and turned out not to need it!

RE homework is ask a young person, and old person and a person your age what 'religion' means to them.

Geography is think of a subject you don't think is to do with geography and tell her it next week. Presumably so the teacher can say 'aaaah my poor fool, but do you not see that everything is geography and geography is in all things?'

English is bring in a newspaper article. Then they'll know who to put in what English set next year .

DD started yesterday and had a lovely day.She didn't know anyone else going to the school and seemed to have made some friends. Today though she said they were trying to avoid her at breaktime but she got sat next to them in geography again and talked to them.I am a bit worried because she is very quiet and seems to be a natural target for bullying.I hope she will be ok

Well DS is going into year 7 tomorrow but in a prep school where he already did year six and will also do year 8. But last year was a nightmare so I am just hoping this year will be better.

We moved to UK from Hungary last summer and he really struggled with the change and the new school. Hated it all.

Quite a bit changes for them from last year though. They are in houses and tutor groups rather than forms. He is not keen on his tutor already.

Tutor phoned today to introduce herself and say she knows he struggled last year and did I want to meet her tomorrow. Have said no for now. Think he just needs to get on with it. She also wanted to tell me that he will be buddying a new boy. Hopefully that will help DS feel more settled. Less of the 'new boy'.

Ds has now been in S1 (=Y7) for a whole 3 weeks and still seems to be enjoying it. He's growing up and maturing in front of our eyes.

No tantrums about homework (took a few days before he started getting any) - just gets on with it. Found him upstairs last week revising off his own bat for his Maths test the following day. He did well in it (even through he remembered the following morning that he had got one wrong - but thanks to our constant nagging had shown his working so it didn't have too much of an effect, so a lesson learned there ) and yesterday they were put into their Maths sets. He's in the top one, which is where he wanted to make sure he would end up as he loves maths.

They still have to set for English (the only 2 subjects they set in S1) and he's disappointed he might not continue with his current English teacher as "he is the best teacher ever "

He seems to be enjoying all his other subjects too.

Can't ask for much more than that! :)

My girls started yesterday and love it, came home buzzing. Still love it today even though the rest of the school were also there. Hope it continues.

They came home saying they love High School! They also love not being in the same class as each other. DS1 had no homework from his classes, DS2 had RE homework, "why do you study RE in School?" which he actually sat and did this evening!!

Meant to say, the biggest thing for DS1 was that he has been accepted for who he is, and not overshadowed by his more dominant twin, he LOVED that!

My eldest had her first day today and loved it!! Did German, RE, Music and "cutting up bits of wood" - D&T. No homework other than to write their timetable into their planners.

Trying to codebreak setting myself too - It says set 1 for Maths and English on his timetable but for everything else where there's supposed to be a 'general ability streaming' he's in 'I' when apparently the other streams are named 'L' 'O' and 'N'? It spells LION?!!!

That was supposed to read streamed by ability for all the other subjects together except Maths and English which are re-setted. I just wondered why they're trying to disguise top, middle, bottom streams when the subject sets are clear?!

My eldest loved her first day, was a bit miffed at 'missing morning lessons for assembly' but really enjoyed the lessons she did do. Her homework (due next week) was for drama - write a poem in the style of Roger McGough. Right up her street.

No setting yet, they are doing CATs next week and will set after half term.

"English is bring in a newspaper article. Then they'll know who to put in what English set next year ."

What, as in "Sun" "Mail" "Telegraph", and a special isolation set for the children of Guardian readers?

Could always bring in local free newspaper. Local community news etc

How did ds get on, seeker?

Something like that, seeker! Trying to convince her to take in the thing about the author doing the fake amazon reviews in G2 today....

How was DS?