Year 7 Spring Term ....

[MaryAnnSingleton]

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

Kids eh? What can you do?

ds1 did go to lost property today and found some staff there to ask about his stuff. They said there is nothing in LP except really old things that have been there ages!

I bought him a new PA T-shirt over the holidays (because that went missing a few weeks before the end of term). The jumper went missing during the last week of term.

So what do you reckon ladies? Should I charge him for the new jumper out of his pocket money? Or should I buy a new one this time and tell him that any future losses will have to be replaced using his money?

Oh MAS, what a darling he is, to think about someone else before himself.

Ds's rugby kit is still sat in the kitchen, although he started to clean his boots before tea - which is a start I suppose, but the pants and rugby shirt are still in the bag.

He is making pasta salad tomorrow in Food Tech and then a smoothie next week, am going to try and talk him round to having some nice greek yoghurt in the smoothie to make it thick, in fact, I will order some for Thursday's shopping and he can try it in a smoothie at home first.

Roisin, everytime I see your name (am presuming it is pronounced Roesheen?), I think of Trial and Retribution and the DCI

Right, off to work!

I would buy him a new one this time on the understanding if he loses it again, then it comes out of his own pocket money.

yes, agree with bellavita about jumper !

I've told him, but he is still being grumpy. He says that it is "inevitable" that things will get lost, that changing after PE is extremely chaotic, that they have a very short time to get changed after PE.

He talks about the PE teacher counting down 20 seconds from when they all get back in the room and that they are all always late for the next lesson - music - and that the music teacher is getting exasperated about it.

He says he often leaves PE with his shorts still on (trousers over the top), shoes not done properly, just feet slipped in; School socks in his bag, not on properly; Tie round his neck, but not done up; shirt not tucked in; jumper over his arm, and everything else stuffed in his bag; then he runs so as not to be late for the next lesson!

He says then he usually is one of the earlier ones to arrive at music lesson and he then sorts himself out there in the music classroom.

Tbh it does not sound unlike what happens at our place: PE teachers really are a law unto themselves!

too here - ds is always worrying abut having trainers with laces as he finds them hard to tue up,especially if being rushed and claims there's very little time to get changed and on to next lesson...

tie up, obviously

ds1 is driving me nuts atm, he's been very grumpy and unco-operative about homework. So I've told him he's on his own this week: I'm going to back off completely and it's up to him whether he does it or not and how well he does it.

He forgot to take his homework in to Science today, so had to re-do it in lunchtime in order to avoid a detention, so school are pretty strict about it.
I hope a week or so of learning the consequences if he doesn't get on with it might make him snap out of it?

I think you've got the right attitude regarding homework Roisin. DD got a detention last term for homework. It was given because she had not done it. DD had done the homework but couldn't find it in the murky depths of her school bag. Now she's become slightly more organised and worksheets etc are put in the file she has. Has your DS thought any more about leaving the choir?

roisin - agree with magenta about the right attitude, one that I would take, but would worry like mad (and probably still go through is bag and planner on the QT)that he was doing it.

Trouble with DS is he takes so long to do his homework, I have suggested to DH that we get a timer for him and set it at 30/45 mins for each piece. DH said no, he thinks he has to learn to manage the homework by himself and it will come

Must say magenta that the state of DS's homework is not the best once it goes in his bag! Doesn't matter how many files we buy for him to use...

I have just realised that it is raining and DS has snook out of the door with only a hoodie on - he walks to his friends house then they walk to the bustop - he is going to get soaked.

Kids eh!

DD has finished her Maths project and now has a science one to do! They're doing the reproduction system. Apparenty they watched a giving birth film. DD was puzzled as to how the umbilical cord came out and disgusted when I told her!

I had a letter in the post today from the school about DD being on the G&T register. Apparantly she is G&T in intellectual ability, music and art . Can't say I'd noticed her music and art being anything special but she will be delighted.

wow ! that's great LadyGlencora - I al;ways read it as Gin and Tonic though - well done dd !

Thanks MAS! Well, I thought she would be delighted. Instead she said rather dolefully - 'but what about drama'!

That's great LadyGlencora: you must be very proud.

Ds1 didn't go to Boys Singers today
But his mate did, and has told him that MrG is organising "an incentive". If they attend all this term, they will be eligible to go on a special trip in the summer
ds1 is very taken with this idea and says he will go back again from next week.

Well done, that teacher! Nothing like an incentive to keep them going! DD has given up choir because it clashes with netball unfortunately.

for roisin's ds and
for LGP's dd

Brilliant!

Nothing like a good incentive!!

magenta - I could not help myself tonight and asked DS if they had covered the reproduction system and he said "if you mean human bodies mum then yes we did it in the first term", he went very red and was reluctant to elaborate further!

Some good news from DD1 today. The boy she sits beside in Maths who has been making her life a misery by constantly annoying her and grabbing her books from her to copy her answers has been moved to a different class. (She claims she had started writing the wrong answers down and then waiting till he had copied them to change them.

That sounds like a great relief for her LGA!

ds1 must really love his German. There was a new German Club starting today.

He didn't take a packed lunch because he was expecting it to start on Friday, and only heard today.

He couldn't go and order a grab-a-bag, because he has PE after break on Tuesday, and has to start lining up at the start of break, because otherwise it takes too long to get into the changing room and he doesn't have time to get ready/space to get sorted and often the 'trouble-makers' are at the end of the line - they mess about and everyone gets in trouble [Don't talk to me about PE staff.. Aargghh!]

So he skipped lunch to go to German club

There was only him turn up, plus German teacher and a German exchange teacher! But ds1 really enjoyed it, he's got extra homework to do for the club next week. He can't wait for next week so he can go again, and is going to try and persuade all his mates to go too.

oh bless him roisin

I have been nagging DD for weeks to put the now 23 win/draw slips they get given for good behaviour/work etc into the box. DD told me last night she really doesn't want to due to the fact if she won the weekly draw she'd have to go up to accept her voucher in the House assembly.I did point out if she wants to get a place on the praise trip at the end of the year - 50 children from each year get to go then she is going to have to put the slips into the box!

Hopefully more will turn up next week Roisin. DD has started Science club which she thinks is fantastic it's open to all years and only a few yr7's go but DD doesn't appear to be put off by that. It's after school so no missed lunches here thankfully.