He is generally very happy, but has noticed the following things worthy of a mention at home:
"Mum, they all have World Records of SPEED DRESSING!" He is in awe at how fast his classmates tie their shoelaces, button up their shirts and do their ties. He says, "There is this kid, he literally gets out of his blazer and trousers in ONE move, and JUMPS into his pe trousers and manage to pull them up along with his socks!" (I guess this must be the gang that has moved up from prep and knows the drill.... )
Nobody says a word in class. Everybody works. All the time.
"We line up by the classroom. We hang our blazers on the back of our seat, we stand behind our seat not saying a word until teacher tells us we can sit down. Otherwise there is Saturday detention"
Oh dear. 
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My sons first impression after his first few days of Secondary (Feel free to add yours!)
QuintessentialOldDear · 06/09/2013 09:20
at nearly getting detention QuintessentialShadows but glad to hear that the friendships are going well.
I have been amazed by my DS's first fortnight in Yr7! The school seems to be amazing at helping them settle in and he is loving it. They have vertical tutor groups (20 pupils) and there's only 2 children (girls!) in his that he knows from primary school, but there's also 1 prefect per group who takes full responsibility for the yr7s' orientation in the first few days. I think that has been key to a smooth transition.
He has made friends with a boy who has persuaded him to go to homework club with him after school, because they can use the school colour printers to do their art homework! When i tried to get him to go to this club he said no because "only geeks go" 
I am glad to say that my early years of 5 mum-and-baby or toddler groups per week has finally paid off; I know most of the mums of the children he is meeting (there are about 6 small primary feeder schools), and in fact, lots of the teachers, who returned to work once their DCs started primary. So I can chat with lots of people at school meetings, and DS knows he won't be able to get away with anything His science teacher used to be our neighbour and his English teacher is a good friend of mine. There are definite benefits to small country schools!
Bit of a wobble from DD yesterday over music lessons 
She's scared she'll forget to go to her lessons, keeps forgetting the code for the instrument store and is worrying over the music group she'd been so keen to join prior to starting the school but is now having second thoughts about
I will be treading carefully tonight!
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Ï should not laugh but see the poetic irony in that.
Ds has only his geography homework left. He has to plot a route on public transport direct from school to another town.
Is it time to show him the London Journey planner, or the AA website? (Not that this would have helped your dd, Lancelottie)
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My DD1 is loving her new school. She came home a bit tearful on the first day due to information overload, but this week has been fab.
Probably the most surprising thing is that she is enjoying PE (it was her least favourite lesson at primary school and she was always last in the class running race at sports day). She was thrilled yesterday to be one of only 3 year 7s chosen to help at the open evening in a couple of weeks. Unbelievably she has been chosen to demonstrate PE in the gym - hope they haven't got her muddled up with someone else...!
I nearly got her int big trouble yesterday when I couldn't find my phone so used the "find my iPhone app" to locate if. Unfortunately I chose my old phone by mistake and DD1's bag started beeping alarmingly in the middle of RE 
. I won't be doing that again.
My DS has a residential trip Oct 2-4 already! It is meant to be good for team building
The new year 7s have been doing Bikeability level 2. It's all go here.
That's really sad, chicaguapa. Fortunately, fingers crossed, all going well here.
Dd seems very excited by everything, which is great because she was not looking forward to it AT ALL over the summer and was worrying about leaving friends, new teachers etc.
The only black spot to date is that her group is doing textiles not woodwork in Technology and they have spent two lessons sowing along straight lines on bits of paper with the machine unthreaded. So fairly minor!
Great excitement when she was waiting for others to be shown how to log in at IT and found GamesMaker and Scratch in the applications folder on her computer, though I did warn her this would probably not feature in lessons
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DD says her school is boring. She has spent the first lessons going through rules and discussing 'what is geography?'. She spent over 1 hour drawing a shoe, spelt 70 words in a spelling test in double English and had a maths test. She's so disappointed as I think she was ready for the extra stimulation from secondary school and maybe we had built it up for her.
But DH said that's what Y7's like. School's are measured on KS4 not KS3 so most of Y7 is spent treading water. To me it's a crying shame that any enthusiasm is ignored and then they're expected to turn it back on again in Y9. 
And this is a successful school with a waiting list as long as War & Peace.
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