Year 7 Spring Term ....

[MaryAnnSingleton]

our thread, part two - all ready for the new term !! ds goes back on Tuesday...

PA day with no books/lessons sounds fantastic

I hope you get a convenient appointment for the form tutor meeting. At my school it is required for pupils to attend the form tutor consultation session, and it's used to set targets and so on.

At ds1's school pupils were encouraged to attend at parents' evening (and almost all did). It was a very different feel to the primary parents' evening (which pupils didn't attend), and is part - I feel - of students starting to take more responsibility themselves for the learning.

I hope he comes around to the idea of attending willingly!

Thanks roisin.

ds1 still has missing from last term a performing arts T-shirt (which we have replaced) a school jumper/sweatshirt (which we haven't).

I keep badgering him every day to go and check it out at lost property, but I'm not sure he really has properly yet. He said he went to the Lost Property desk today, but there was no-one there

Oh no roisin, that's not good is it?

Thankfully, ds has managed to keep hold of everything (for the moment anyway).

Yr7 have had a performing arts day today so he did not have to take any books in. Whatever they were doing before lunch made them late into the canteen. He said there was not any sandwiches left and he did not like any of the hot food . He said he had a pack of shortbread biscuits, cheese and biscuits and a drink .

ds1 has been quite moody and grumpy all weekend so far. He made a huge fuss about doing one small homework, and keeps flying off the handle at the smallest thing.

I've had a chat with him: I'm worried about you, is there something concerning you? did something happen at school? but he's insisting nothing's the matter.

Maybe it's just adapting back into school routines and accepting that he doesn't have so much free time during termtime?

Well, ds is moody and grumpy quite a lot of the time now (unless talking about music and laptops), I put it down to him being more tired and doing proper work at school - we try and chat to him making sure everything is ok - he will not chat back!

It does not help though that ds2 goes in to his room on a morning and wakes him up - we have warned him that he has not to do that tomorrow!

I wonder if it's their age ? ds is fine most of the time, but given to bouts of crossness and answering back

My mum (who you understand was not very tolerant at the time when my brother and I were that age of cheekiness/crossness etc) just keeps saying to me "boys will be boys and it's his age yada yada yada".

She seems to think it is perfectly acceptable.

MIL says things like that, as if it's an excuse

Last term he was generally quite pleasant most of the time, so I hope he reverts back to the model soon.

DD is only grumpy first thing in a morning -she's like me and not a morning person!

They have started doing the reproductive system in Science DD thinks it's all perfectly revolting but has been reading up about it in the Human Body book she got for Xmas. She now wants an anatomy book on animals etc as she's decided she wants to be a vet when she grows up.

Discovered by looking in ds' singing book that he is to have writtten a song about Christmas for his singing lesson today - after a bit of huffing last night he set to writing a piece which he then made me film so he could remember how it goes- played it again this morning to remind him ! He does quite enjoy making up songs anyway so at least we didn't get into a fury about having to do something last minute

Well, DS discovered yesterday that his rugby boots were still where he left them before christmas (I knew they were there!) in his bootbag in a corner of the kitchen.

I have been determined not to clean them and so have just turned a blind eye.

I gently reminded him yesterday that he had rugby today and he looked at me questionningly and asked where his boots were!

Guess who had to get his backside in gear and get them cleaned! I could hear him muttering to himself going eurgghh, oohhh, yuk!

My mother of course cannot believe that I left them to "rot" as she puts it!

MAS - I wish I could be as chilled as you. It would have been me in fury about it being forgotten had it being DS. In fact he was still doing some science homework last night at 9.00pm and I ended up getting cross with him. DH says I need to relax more - you don't say!

at the rugby boot cleaning !!
dh always does ds' boots - I ignore them - maybe we should get ds to do his own ?

DH has done them every time apart from this one! Actually, DS did quite a good job, so I think DH has relinquished all responsibility for them now

Aarrgghh! I don't think we've even looked at football boots. He took them to school on Friday, but didn't need them as they were indoors.

[Roisin tiptoes apprehensively towards his bootbag.]

lol

Phew! They stunk
He's got a couple of homeworks tonight, so I cleaned his boots for him.

As some of you know he was been part of the boys choir last term, went along to all rehearsals and did quite a lot of concerts (5 or 6) plus a recording day. Mostly he seemed to really enjoy them.

But he's come back today saying that most of his friends have quit and there aren't many trebles left.

I'm trying to gently encourage him to persevere with it as it's a great opportunity and I think he enjoys it really. I don't want to push too hard or pressurize him, but if I'm honest I do really want him to continue. I enjoyed singing at school, and he has a fantastic dynamic choir leader, so it is a really superb chance.

You are a good mum roisin

I hope he carries on, but you know what they are like with peer pressure etc etc. Fingers crossed for you.

oh yes, fingers crossed from me too - as you may remember,ds had a wobble about his singing in the choir last term but he seems to have got over it now.

hope you're ok roisin,having read the doctor thread just now xxx

Thanks. I'm fine.

Sometimes Dr's can be blundering idiots.

I too hope you are ok.

ok, I despair of ds sometimes...
he has lent £1 to the nice boy who paid him back last time after borrowing some money, but silly thing lent it before he'd bought his own lunch and now owes canteen 35p - gah !