Year 7 Spring Term ....

[MaryAnnSingleton]

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

yay polgara !! fantastic

Well it's just what she needs after being ill all last week and still suffering really this week. However, I don't feel well enough for a celebration tea tonight so think we will arrange something for friday or weekend!

ah poor you..

Well done your DD!

Hey! Well done Polgara's dd: that's fab

Thanks all! She was very chuffed when I told her, kept grinning for ages. Ah well she says maybe my teacher isn't that bad after all

DD came home from school yesterday telling me that in some classes 3/4 of the kids were off due to the bad weather - we got more snow at rush hour yesterday and it was chaos on the roads. DD didn't think it was fair she only lives a 5 min walk away!

DD has had a couple of run in's with a group of girls who according to DD are obsessed with their hair,nails and designer bags. One of them last week came to school sporting a peirced nose - done for vanity not cultural reasons. DD last night with great glee informed me that said girl had spent the PE lesson with a plaster over it so as not to catch it during PE. The bad Mum in me did ask DD if she'd laughed MUCH. DD grinned and said she'd tried her best not too. DD's Best friend who has been picked on by this girl to the point her Mum has been into school about it apparently asked if plasters were the latest in thing and can you buy them at Claires Accessories. I know it's not right to laugh or tease someone and have told DD if the plaster is on the nose again today she isn't to laugh but it's rather apt that someone who is so appearance obsessed at 11 and has picked on others for their appearance is suddenly in that boat.

What is the world coming to - nose piercing at 11?

How is your DD coping with the run-ins magenta, is she managing to brush them off?

Lol at plasters being the latest fashion accessory!

Well am waiting to find out how dd1's excursion to the dreaded office to check for her pe bottoms has gone. Gave her a pep talk last night and she was going to give it a go today. Sheesh life's hard at 11 isn't it .

Polgara - I certainly agree that life is soooooo hard for 11 year olds!

DS came home a while back having left his whole pe bag somewhere on the Friday and on the Monday he had to go look for it and I said to him you must go to the office if you cannot find it in the last place you had it and a look of horror came across his face. Luckily for him, some kind soul had hung it on a peg in the changing room so he found it straight away.

I can echo that !

DS has just brought one of his friends back (who lives in our village) - they have paired up for an RE project and have to build a shelter.

They are using lego, so I can see me having to drive them in on the day that it is needed, I have visions of it flying every where on the school bus or being dropped as they get off or some kind person in the bus queue thinking it would be funny to "unshelter" the shelter!

Polagra did your DD survive the visit to the office? [quivers with fear emoicon]

DD had her end of half term Maths test on Friday which apparently didn't go to well as it was sprung on them - previously she's done some work on the mymaths site which her school are subscribers to. Plus she handed in her Maths project on Archimedies which was 100 words short of the 800 words which got her into a bit of a lather in the end I told her she'd worked hard and it was no point trying to pad it out. Tomorrow she has her half term test in Science plus she has to hand in her Reproduction System project which stands at a rather amazing 1004 words - she is so proud of that she emailed it to my Mum so Mum could read it as well! And she has a Geog test. So this evening she's going to read the chapter on cells in her Human Body book plus revise the Weather for Geog. I honestly don't remember it being so hard when I was a first year all those years ago.

Yes ds1 has had quite a lot of tests since September. He's had two Maths tests just last week and missed one because of his Science trip, so will have to re-do that one at some point next week too.

DS1 had a science test last week, am sure he said he did ok.

Blimey magenta, that's a lot of stuff your DD had to get through.

At DS's school (at this stage) they don't state how many words they have to do, but I know that DS could give more content to his homework, which I think he finds difficult to do. He has comments on his pieces like "great work, but needs more content/explaining". I am sure it will come in time to him.

The Science project didn't actually have a set amount DD just as she put it "typed and typed and typed" They've done the reproductive system this term so obviously that helped plus.The Maths thing was harder as it was done from scratch.

Now it's snowing again but I'm hoping it stops soon so DD will be able to go to school tomorrow. I'm on a course for 3 days and really need to go as I'm applying for a job that states this course is desirable, so if there are a load of other applicants it could be used to weed people out if they haven't done the course! Argh!

We finally got rid of the dregs of ice yesterday that were left over from the beginning of last weeks horrible snow, but tonight it has started again and is coming down thick and fast and laying

The boys are desperate for it to stay this way so they can have a day off, I am keeping my fingers crossed that the schools will not close.

Here's hoping you get to your course. If you lived near me, I would have looked after her for.

The "dregs" here are ice skating rinks for pavements and side roads. In my back garden I'd just nicely got a path to the bin which is now covered in snow! Thats a lovely thing to say Bellavita if the worse comes to the worse then I can always do the course another time - it's bleep bleep boring hence me putting it off for years and looking at the essentials on the application form I have them all.

Thankfully it doesn't appear to be any worse on the roads then it was yesterday. DD was hoping for a day off!

I started another thread last night about starting GSCE's in Yr9 - DD confirms that she had been told about it agggggggggges back. So this time next year Dd aged 12 and 7 months will be chosing her GCSE options and taking at least two at the end of year 9!!

for DD going to school and you doing your course

for GCSE options (DS will be 12 and 8 months) if it happens at the same time.

The long-awaited netball match is this evening! DD is goalie. Fingers crossed please, ladies!

good luck LGP's dd !

Hope it went ok!

How did they get on LGP?

They won both matches (there were two other schools there). DD is very relieved. Being goalie is a great responsibility!