Year 7 Summer Term !

[MargaretMountford]

Here is a brand new thread for the new term !

DD had a good time at the craft club on Thursday and is all for going back after half term.

Roll on Wednesday when we're off to London. Hope everyone has a good half term holiday.

Morning all to you on this gorgeous sunny day.

DS1 asked for a headache tablet this morning and said he didn't feel well. DH said he did look kinda pale.

He did eat his breakfast after about 5 minutes of sitting there looking at it, but, I think a) he is tired from the weekend, he had a fribnd to sleep on Sat night, late night, up early yesterday, they went swimming and b) he has realised there is a piece of homework he has not done which needs to be in for today oh and c) he has pe either dance or athletics cannot remember which and he does not like doing it.

So bad mother emoticon because I sent him to school.

Hope everyone else is ok and your Monday morning has got off to a good start

aww, hope he is feeling a bit more chipper this afternoon bellavita ...ds went off happily, let's see how he returns !

DS's guitar teacher has rung and asked if we can move tonights lesson to Thursday this week, so this is a plus for DS - at least he can chill out after school.

How was he when he got back from school?

DD practically ran to school this morning carrying her model volcanoe with her, they exploded them in Geography this afternoon.

He was ok thanks, especially as he was not given any homework

DS would have liked the exploding bit!

DD came home yesterday and apparently has managed to get us appointment slots with nearly all the teachers we want to see for parent's evening.
She was moaning about how hot the school was all day - I wish there was some way of modifying the uniform for summer long-sleeved blouses, black trousers and heavy black shoes are a bit of a drag when the temperature is mid-20s.

LGP - really long sleeved blouses? Thought that sort of uniform went out with the dark ages?

Our boys and girls have to wear polo shirts (perhaps not as smart as blouses), but a lot cooler. Although they all do have to wear long black trousers.

They are selling ice lollies at mid-morning break and lunchtime. So DS had enough money after his sandwich to buy one, but this morning he has asked for an extra 45p to get on at mid-morning too.. I have said to him yes it is nice to have something cool, but I cannot fork out extra 45p's for him and if he really wanted a lolly this morning he would have to take his own money (which he has). Tis not really fair on DS2 if I keep giving DS1 extra.

I did notice though when he came home last night that the bridge of his nose was pink from the sun and also across his cheeks, so I have put suncream on his face today - not that he was impressed with me doing it, kept moaning it was going in his eyes!

Bellavita it is worse for the boys who have to have their top buttons done and four stripes of tie showing at all time.
The girls at least have open necked blouses and they do all roll their sleeves up to their elbows.

LGP, at my dd's school they all refuse to take off their jumpers in the summer - because they have to keep their shirts tucked in then and that's not cool .

Good news yesterday - DD1 came home and told me that she her head of house had stopped her in the corrider and told her she was 'one of my little stars'!
DD is thrilled.

I bet she is! It's lovely when their hard work is acknowledged.

How nice is it to be told something like that, I bet she was walking on air all day.

Well done LGP's dd

Am now wondering where she actually is as she told me today she would be straight home after school as her rounders match was cancelled.
I guess it was uncancelled.

Hello all! Long time no see!

ds1 had to do the introduction to his history essay over half term. He did some fantastic writing, but there was almost two sides of it (typewritten - fairly small font and little margins). I told him to check with the teacher whether it was too long, and stuck a post-it on the front saying "too long?"

His teacher read it through today and gave some comments. He asked what this was. When ds1 told him, he replied: No, it's not too long, your mum's wrong, and screwed the post-it up and put it in the bin!

Hellooo roisin - haven't seen you for ages

Well done to your ds, I wish mine would put as much effort in. Was he embarrassed then with your post-it note . I am sure if I had of done something like that, it would have gone in the bin long before reaching school!

Yes, I think he was very embarrassed!
One of the reasons he worked so hard on it was that he didn't have much time. We were away for most of half term, and he wanted to get it finished so that he didn't have to take it on hols with us. On the first weekend we went over to my mum's and on the Saturday morning I gave him a choice of helping us in the garden and so on, or doing his homework on my laptop! (He's allergic to manual labour )

aren't they all! although for some strange reason ds helped me unload the dishwasher tonight whilst telling me that he really needed an x-box360

Not likely my son...

But of course he neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeds an Xbox just like my DD neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeds an iphone!

He would like one of those too magenta! He has a better phone than I do, a fab laptop (I have a dinky netbook) and is hoping for the bmx bikes of all bikes for his birthday a week on Sat.

I neeeeeeeeed a money tree in the back garden

So will he be getting a bike? I was thinking of getting DD a laptop/notebook for her B'day in August so I neeeeed a money tree as well!

Yep, he will get the bike - all £185 of it . Tis a good one though (and one of the cheaper bmx bikes - a lot of them are £300 and £400). A farmer in the village has donated a tiny bit of land to the kids for bmxing and as the older kids have moved on to cars, the younger ones that are growing up have taken over looking after it and remodel the jumps etc, dig more holes. He has a mountain bike at the minute, which is totally no good for what he wants.

We did go to Halfords and they had a sale on, this was after going to the proper bike shop and him seeing the said bike, but I must admit the one he wants looks far superior. I did ask they guy if there was any leeway on price (DH faded into the background at this moment), he did say no, but would throw in a proper bmx helmet. We have looked around on the web for this particular bike and they all come in at the same price.

Does your dd do her homework on the family computer?

I was going to get DD1 one of those Flip camcorders for her birthday next month, but DH has pointed out that we had set a limit of £40 for birthdays this year as we were vv broke for the first three months of the year (DH is self-employed) and even though things have picked up, that is all we spent on DD2. Which is fair.
So I am now clueless again.

Is your dd likely to get any birthday money LGP? Could she put that towards the Flip thing? My dd got a DSi for her birthday but only because we have a large extended family who all gave her money or vouchers so she was able to fund it herself...

We were thinking of suggesting Amazon vouchers to anyone who asked. PIL tend to ask what the children want, ignore any suggestions and give them a Smith's voucher - which is v irritating as our local Smith's is tiny and there are only so many felt-tips a child can buy!
That sounds a bit ungrateful, but DD2's birthday was quite close to Christmas so that was TWO vouchers to find something to buy with, and it taxed our ingenuity slightly.