Year 7 Summer Term !

[MargaretMountford]

Here is a brand new thread for the new term !

tsk, ds forgot to bring his DT homework home - it was the only homework he had to remember too...so careless

Oh dear MM, will he have time to get the homework, do it and take it back?

I sort of lost my patience a little bit this morning with DS. He decides at 7.40am that he needs to print off his geography homework that needed to be in today - why on earth this could not have been done yesterday is beyond me. Soooo, I have laid down a new rule, if homework is not printed off when it is done or the night before it is needed, then tough luck.

I forgot to say, on Friday evening, DS waves a pair of pe shorts in my face. Tells me that someone in Yr9 had them who gave them to someone in the same form that knows DS (they live at the farm at the end of our road). God only knows where the rest of it is...

well that's a start bellavita !! hope the rest turns up
ds managed to get the homework done - phew !

DD appears to have had little or no homework for weeks.
She is doing a Maths Challenge on Wednesday - anybody know anything about this? Apparently it is for the top set and they have to do it in the school hall but what it is or why they are doing it she couldn't say.

ds's friend in yr 8 is doing the maths challenge on Thursday - not sure exactly what it is but last year he was top of school !

LGP I think it might be the UKMT Maths challenge DD's school do it on Thursday for Yr7&8 according to the school web site.

My DS is Yr8 and doing the maths challenge on Thursday. He is second set,but one of the top of the class.
You download last years papers

sorry that was meant to say you can download last years papers.

Ah, it must be Thursday then. I had a look at last year's paper from that link, thanks Bruffin. It looks hard! Shall I show it to her, or is that the act of a pushy parent?

Wishing lots of luck to LGP's dd and bruffins ds for the challenge!

How was the maths challenge bruffin?

It just struck me that ds1 hasn't lost anything at school for ages. He did really well first term, and then in the last week before Christmas lost his jumper and a sports T-shirt, then straight after Christmas lost his school coat.

But I don't think he's lost anything at all since early January
Phew!

He took the cautious route! You actually lose marks if get a question wrong after the first 16, so he only answered the ones he was really sure of. He said he really enjoyed it.

When will he find out how he's done Bruffin?

I'm amazed at how little DD has lost since starting High School - I had visions of her coming home on her first day minus everything bar her polo shirt and trousers but so far she's only lost a pencil case and her PE socks. Fingers crossed nothing else goes astray!

DD's Maths teacher has impressed me - they have had their end of year tests last week. On Monday and Tuesday they had the main papers and on Friday the mental maths test. On Friday her teacher gave out the marks for the tests they'd done at the beginning of the week and told them they'd know their level by Tuesday!

Wow that is organised magenta!

With regards to losing things though, I am sure girls are better at looking after stuff.

DS had a bit of an English essay to write last week (this is the first time he has told me how many words he needs to do) - he said between 350 and 1000 - guess which option he took! He did exactly 350 and was soooo pleased with himself that he was not under or over

I shouldn't laugh but thats what DD would do as well Bellavitia.

DD1 doesn't seem to be having much homework still! Not that she's complaining. She has spent all morning on her art homework though (favourite subject) and is feeling pleased with herself, she is hoping for an A so I hope she gets it.

She is thoroughly enjoying her cookery lessons, so far we have been treated to apple crumble and jam buns (twice because she makes them again at home a few days later!).

ds1's loving cookery too. We've had apple crumble and a savoury crumble. Plain scones and 'own recipe' scones.

I'm quite impressed at how much they do planning their own cooking, rather than just strictly following a recipe.

This week he is making soup. They've just been told to bring in 4, 5, or 6 different veg, plus any seasonings they want!

DD1 is enjoying cookery but it isn't as challenging as some of you describe - they follow quite simple recipes and don't stray off-piste as much, so she has done it all at home before anyway.
The maths challenge was HARD she says - the paper certainly looked hard.
I need to check on her homework situation tomorrow - she hasn't been getting much lately, but she has been out with friends or at a sleepover most of the weekend, so she must have SOMETHING to do.

DS loved the cooking too and like LGP's DD, just followed simple recipes.

I mentioned homework to him earlier on (we have been out most of the day) and he said he had a bit - but as yet I don't think he has attempted to do any of it.

I'm in two minds about it.
For his 'own recipe' scone they could throw in anything they wanted, and they made a large round scone. They were in a group of 4 and each person chose a particular season as inspiration for their recipe. Then each student brought home 1/4 of each scone.

Apart from ds1's they were pretty disgusting, to the point of being inedible. One had peanuts in ....?! bleurghhh....!

But I guess they will have learned through the experience, which is the main thing ...?!

DD is currently trying to do her English homework on the Romantic poets and isn't a happy bunny!

DD has done her history homework. They have been doing Magna Carta and the homework was to write some school rules loosely based on it.
Frankly, I'm unimpressed.

At least she's getting some History homework LGP. DD last had some History homework in the first term They have finally got their own teacher for History. As for their Friday English teacher don't get me started on that one, at the last count DD had had 6 different "teachers" but this one appears to be permanent -well she's taught them since the beginning of this term so thats a good sign and has set homework so she might be stopping!

hello all..nothing much schoolwise to report really...had a lovely walk on Sunday with dh and ds who rushed around filming wild flowers (he has a wee Flip video camera and films everything) - he asked us if other people would think he was a bit nerdy to be interested in wild flowers and we assured him not..I love it that he knows about these things,birds etc -I really hope his enthusiasm lasts...

Oh tell my about those video cameras Margaret. I was thinking maybe DD would like one for her birthday. She loves making little films of her friends dancing about and suchlike, but our videocamera is old and has these stupid little tapes that are not compatible with anything. Can you upload the films directly onto the computer?