Year 7 Spring Term ....

[MaryAnnSingleton]

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

that's what I'm trying to get ds to say bellavita ! whether he will or not I don't know, but we did talk about it a lot today - hope tutor rings tomorrow,I'll feel I'm doing something more to help then ! am sure we'll get through this

Netball teams not being announced till Monday now as teacher has been off sick or somefink.
She found out to day that she came top in her class science test - the one she forgot to revise for . I told her how proud I was and she said it would have been better if one other person had got a higher mark so then everyone wouldn't have looked at her .

Good luck with the tutor MAS. Your boy sounds lovely. I hope he can bring himself to strike up a conversation with the other boy.

Aww bless her LGP and well done!

Hope the tutor can come up with some ideas MAS. I suppose it the thuoght of this other boy "rejecting" any kind of friendship branch thats stopping your DS from wondering over and saying hi.

hey well done LGP's dd !!
yes, you might be right there magenta - I have sent him off today with the task of talking to this boy,if he can. He is playing in a hockey tournament this afternoon after school (inter tutor group thing) so might be a bit preoccupied by that (am now worrying that he might be hit in face with hockey stick !)

tutor has just rung me back and I feel that I've set the ball rolling a bit more that end. He might get a library pass for breaks - a boy he gets on well with has one and is often there...fingers crossed that it all improves

Dd1 has lost her pe tracksuit bottoms and has had no luck finding them so far. I asked her if there was lost property - don't know she says. Asked my friend whose daughter is at the same school oh tell her to got to XX office she says. DD1 promptly bursts into tears at the prospect of going to XX office! Now I thought she was just being a tad sensitive but on speaking to other people I think it must be manned by trolls with 2 heads. None of the children want to go there - what on earth is going on? Apparently they are 'not very friendly' in there? Why would they not be, what would be the point of it? Would go myself if I could but obviously I can't so she is just going to have to be brave .

Mind you she is currently off with a fluey type thing and is fretting about being off too long! School is a bit funny with them if they are off. Now whilst I think keeping an eye on attendence is good, having 'a word' with children that have obviously been ill and have good records etc is just not right I feel. If they go in ill they just pass it round and more people are off etc. These things are sent to try us aren't they!

MAS - am routing for your DS! Was the tutor aware at all that he was on his own?

Polgara2 - awful isn't it when they think there is a big bad wolf in the office. Is she worried about the work that she is missing?

thank you bellavita -yes,she was..hope this'll all help him.

Fingers crossed it does MAS. Polagra that office sounds erm scarey! At DD school student services who deal with lost property is run by some lovely staff who seem to be briefed on the trials and tribulations facing yr7's. DD thinks they're ever so nice.

DD had a lucky escape -she had to do some art homework which was done and due in yesterday -she forgot it. The Art teacher said if she brought it today she wouldn't have to do a detention. I thought that was rather nice of her. I've pointed out that this would most likely be a one off and DD wasn't to think she could just plead it's at home next time!

Yes she is worrying about the work as well but I think she is more worried about 'being told off' in her mind. She isn't really well enough to go in tomorrow I don't think but we will see how she feels in the morning. Fortunately she has only missed 2 days work so far because they had phse at the start of the week so weren't doing normal lessons.

thanks magenta and that was kind of art teacher
hope your dd is better soon polgara

got to take ds to swimming lesson in a mo, but wondered whether you might look at my thread here and advise,if you have a moment - was going to ask you anyway,but for speed am pasting the link !

Why do some kids have to be so bloody cruel?

I have just asked DS what he would do in your DS's shoes and he said he would try and ignore the other boy but if it carried on would tell his form tutor. I said to him, but would you be worried what your new friend thought of you and he said no, suppose he thinks the new friend has to make his own mind up..

I really feel for you and your DS

oh thank you bellavita and your ds's advice is very good - I'm sure that new friend wouldn't think anything of it -that's what I said to ds Am not too worried as I gather this kind of thing is fairly common (the 'you're gay' insult)

MAS- kids..can be awful. I think the withering remark is hard, but could be pulled off. I like the "do you fancy me?" or the " You're a bit of an expert on the subject I hear.. type remark

Hope he gets a handle on it.

thanks robin - we'll work on it !

Going back to my dim and distant school days I'd suggest the old "takes one to know one" retort. Was this a one off MAS?

actually I suspect it was, one of those throwaway comments..still it stings ds,specially when he was making progress talking to another boy and he worries that his singing in the choir/singing lessons and now his activity week activity which is Indian cooking may be seen as girly...

better not tell my DS that yours is doing Indian cookery - he would be full of

and he also talked about joining the choir - but the fact that he is tone deaf.....

ds will love it ! am sure he won't get any stick for that ! though his friend E told him nobody would choose that option

you're up early bella - everyone here is still in bed - I put the oven on to keep warm and have eaten porridge !

Well, up early because boys are at the hairdressers at 10.00, DH needs me to run the clippers over his head before he gets his shower and my parents are coming later on as DH and I are going out tonight and I have to wipe over the bathroom, pull their bed out and get the sheets on and do a general tidy.

Have just had my 2nd coffee and some toast.

and DH would still be in bed but because I needed him to get up (he is doing the hairdressers run for me) I woke him up with a cup of tea..

Hopefully it was just a (not nice) one off and your DS managed to spark up a friendship with this other boy.