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A small post-parents evening preen

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NigellaTheOriginal · 03/07/2008 20:16

DD1 is just lovely. no trouble at all. hard working. will achieve a lot. a pleasure to teach. Has great potential. etc etc etc.
[smug]

or is this what they say to everyone?

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avenanap · 03/07/2008 20:18

They don't!

Well done, it sounds like your ds is lovely. How did you manage it? Please tell. Please!!!!!

Hulababy · 03/07/2008 20:19

How lovely

And when I was teaching - I always told the truth at parent's evening.

QueenMeabhOfConnaught · 03/07/2008 20:20

Well done your dd!!!!

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NigellaTheOriginal · 03/07/2008 20:20

i am perfect parent [preeny] [preeny] [smugness]

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avenanap · 03/07/2008 20:21

Come on. Be nice and share how you did it!!

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NigellaTheOriginal · 03/07/2008 20:24

lord knows. am crap parent really. work full time, palm them off on my mother overnight regularly. give them the wrong lunchboxes. forget birthday parties. can't cook. sit here on MN while they watch friends.
and while DD1 is perfet well adjusted sane child DD" is quite quite mad and a bit rubbish at school (bless her).

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avenanap · 03/07/2008 20:28

Oh, don't say that about yourself!
Your children sound lovely. They learn it all from you. Be proud!!!

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NigellaTheOriginal · 03/07/2008 20:30

i do take them to stately homes fairly often

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MaureenMLove · 03/07/2008 20:34

Oh can I join in!

One of dd's teachers, who was also one of my teachers said, 'my god, you've done bloody well in dd!' Couldn't speak higher of her and told us, that's all we'd hear from all her teachers! Maths is bloody fab. Her grade was as expected at the end of yr 8, she's at the end of yr 7. Sport - she excels at every sport thrown at her and they are putting her foward for borough trials for swimming!

All from the local, wonderful comp school btw!

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NigellaTheOriginal · 03/07/2008 20:39

oh. group preening. and avenap - that is a really nice thing to say - thanks. am now pridely preening

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avenanap · 03/07/2008 20:41

All I get is your son is very bright.

The head thin's he's uncaring and opinionated and would benefit from being sent to a strict boys boarding school. Pile of crap really. I've never met an uncaring child who picks up little kids when they fall over, who covers his mum up when she falls asleep on the sofa, who plays with a smaller child because he's being bullied...... He leaves tomorrow. YEAH!!!

MaureenMLove · 03/07/2008 20:45

In my excitement at being able to preen, I forgot to congratulate you Nigella! sorry!

Its just makes you burst with pride, doesn' it? And you did it all. I'm no alpha mum either, but somewhere along the line, I've clearly done something right and so have you!

Lets grin together and tell everyone we know, until we bore them stupid!

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NigellaTheOriginal · 03/07/2008 20:48

why thank you ladies. avenap your son sounds lovely to do those things. their loss i think.

do you think it would be unwise to call all my mates with DDs in the same year and interrogate check how theirs went?

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MaureenMLove · 03/07/2008 20:51

That's the thing, isn't it? I'm gagging to ring a friend, who was also at parents evening, but I just can't! I'm sure her dd is just as good, but I know she's not as good as dd in maths!

avenanap · 03/07/2008 20:53

Thanks.
It would probably be wise not to mention it to the other mums. I had parents evening last week, ds (age 9) has a reading age of at least 16 (scale only goes to 16) and a maths age of 13yrs 11 months. Parents can get very jealous. It's sad really.

Remotew · 03/07/2008 22:45

I wouldn't mention it to other parents, even if friends. Ring your family and preen away.

I love the fact that its the done thing at secondary to take the DC's to parents evening. After one we joked that our heads were too big to get through the treble doors. [grin).

Seriously, the nicest thing a teacher said at the last one was that he was retiring so wouldn't be able to see how DD gets on next year but if every child was like her he would stay teaching until he dropped.

I was a teachers worst nightmare .

WilfSell · 03/07/2008 22:50

Oh go on, preen.

And can I just add [snigger] that as well as being put on the G&T register this week, when I went in today the head (bad grammar: SHE's a bit too old to be on the G&T register) told me that DS1 is excellent (the best in the class probably: her words) at French! Who knew? Our little mathematician is also a linguist...

JazT · 04/07/2008 08:56

Can I join in the group preen? DD is in Year 5 and her teacher said that the world is her oyster academically and thanked me for giving her my DD to teach! DS's teacher said 'whatever you're doing, keep doing it. He's an absolute joy'. I cried. Twice.

I'm not an alpha mum either...forget parties, work full time, forget to organise play-dates, don't ferry them round to endless activities etc. Is there a pattern emerging?!

Well done to everyone else's DCs-and their Mums

roisin · 04/07/2008 10:55

Congratulations to you and your dd. How's the job going btw?

At our place teachers always complain that they get to see the students/parents they don't need to see, but not the ones they do!

At ds1's new school they have a settling in meeting in December (with form tutor I think). Then in yr7 they get twice yearly reports/progress checks. When these come home they have a parents' evening, but it's "by invitation/request". i.e. There are tick boxes:
School/teacher wants to see you
You (parent) request to see school/teacher

Sounds like a good system to me.

roisin · 04/07/2008 10:56

Sorry, wrong thread. That was meant for Maureenmlove!

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