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new Year 7s

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bruffin · 05/08/2009 23:29

Anyone else have homework for their new school?

DD has a science project to do and also a long book list for which she has to chose 2 to read and write about.

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serenity · 08/09/2009 17:04

DS1's making friends too which is a relief. He's getting homework (we were told hour/half as well) but so far it's been decorating and covering his exercise books, and a short piece of writing for music. I'm nervously waiting for the deluge to begin!

MillyR · 08/09/2009 17:09

Ds has had lots of homework already, and it is meant to be 1 and a half hours a night, but hasn't got to that much yet.

cuppateaplease · 09/09/2009 10:40

DS had a little bit of homework - according to his 'homework diary' he should be getting 2 or 3 pieces every night! So far he has done them without a fuss but don't know how long that will continue as i guess they will start to get harder and more involved. Serenity - we've got decorating the RE book - I think we'll have to look up religious symbols as otherwise it will just have crosses on it! And it may be HIS homework to cover books with stickyback plastic but that really ends up as MY homework unless we want them to look a mess

Ds complained that most of the boys played football at breaks - he's just not sporty - but he has been collecting conkers at break times and there are some other boys also conker collecting that hopefully he can get friendly with.

mollyroger · 09/09/2009 13:23

hello, checking in for some hand holding
He doesn't know a single soul at his new school - except for one boy who 'hates' him.

Pyrocanthus · 09/09/2009 13:36

Is this his first day, or is it not going too well so far?

mollyroger · 09/09/2009 13:45

he started on monday (after an induction day on friday) and it is like living with jeckyll and hyde...

Pyrocanthus · 09/09/2009 13:59

Do you think his form teacher would be receptive to a concerned phone call? A friend's son was very upset after his induction day and the tutor was very sympathetic and helpful. I know they can't make friends on the child's behalf, but at my DD's new school the children had to fill in a sort of profile booklet listing their interests and so on - if your DS's school has anything similar, maybe they could use that as a basis for a bit of social engineering and sit him with someone who might have something in common?

Otherwise, sympathy. This is my first day of this new life, and I don't know much about how it works. Somebody more experienced will be along soon.

singersgirl · 09/09/2009 22:05

Well, DS1 has already misunderstood the instructions for covering his French exercise book and had the first attempt thrown in the bin , though he's been surprisingly cheerful and robust about it, misunderstood what he was supposed to learn for Latin homework, and, today, forgotten to bring home his maths questions for homework. He is demanding to go in early tomorrow morning so he can get it done before registration - he assures me it's 'pips' and 20 minutes will be enough. He's also lost his fountain pen (not expensive at all, but still...)

On the other hand, he's chuffed he's made the E rugby team!

Roll on Week 2!

NoahFence · 10/09/2009 10:20

ds has binned his old mates largely it seems and has new ones

thats whats normal I think - they bin primary mates pretty fast

fircone · 10/09/2009 11:27

Every one of ds's books has to be covered in a "creative" manner. I don't have a creative bone in my body and have passed down my ham-fistedness to ds. We had a big fight on Day 2 because he had tried to cover his history book and it was an awful mess. We were tugging this book back and forth and ds ended up storming off to his room. He was out five minutes' later though as he realised that bossy, ineffectual help is better than no help at all!

For RE he has to design a poster. That's going to ruin the weekend. Please, can he have some written work?

mollyroger · 10/09/2009 11:38

where the chuffing norah do I get sticky backed plastic to laminate his excercise book? Only one teacher has aksed this, I anticipated book baking so bought plain wrapping paper.

NoahAmin · 10/09/2009 11:50

RYman

Bogof

fircone · 10/09/2009 11:50

Things have improved since I went to secondary school. One of my first pieces of homework was to embroider a hymn book cover in a design of our choice. This had to be done in one's own time, not in needlework or some such. And we had to provide our own piece of hessiany stuff and all the silks.

Can you just imagine asking a load of 11-year-olds today to embroider? As it was, I had no idea and my hymn book cover was all baggy with strands of thread hanging off. I remember some people had beautiful covers. I think a lot of grannies had been busy!

Pyrocanthus · 10/09/2009 11:59

If that had been my school, fircone, I'd still be in detention now. Weirdly, I think my DD would love it.

mollyroger · 10/09/2009 13:09

it took me a whole school year of needlework lessons to sew the compulsory domestic science apron everyone else had graduated onto soft toys then ra-ra skirts and I was left wrestling metres of crackly stripey stuff decorated with blobs of blood, sweat and tears in the corner of Shame.
Book covering is piece of piss compared to this.

singersgirl · 10/09/2009 18:35

He's found the fountain pen but lost his French vocabulary book. He's forgotten his pencil case, however. He now has to cover his RE book in a collage of religious images from Tinterweb. Groan.

NoahAmin · 10/09/2009 20:24

book covering
class rules
waht a load of ol shit

I freaked my year 8s ou by saying we werent doign chiffing rules and they can use whatever pen makes their writing nice

Quattrocento · 10/09/2009 20:29

I've just completed DD's maths homework (find all the palindromic numbers between 1 and 1000 that are multiples of 7) and am just getting stuck in to English comprehension.

I do feel the burden of homework is a tad unfair on the parents ....

Pyrocanthus · 10/09/2009 20:41

I'm going to need a tutor, Quattrocento.

hatesponge · 10/09/2009 21:02

DS1 has been at new school since last Friday.

Is having fun of sorts, has made friends, football trial after school tomorrow. However has barely done any work all week at school, has had no homework, and says he is bored in most lessons because they are covering stuff he already knows.

Steamroller · 11/09/2009 12:27

Dd has had to cover books, and write out alphabet letters using spanish signs as borders... things a 6 year old could do (no offence meant to 6 year olds . We are giving the school the benefit of the doubt for this week, but if things don't get a bit more demanding next week I think we'll be on to the teaching staff.

DailyMailNameChanger · 11/09/2009 12:34

Dd has been in year 7 for 4 days, she has had 5 pieces of homework and has spent about 3 hours on it so far - all the homework had to be in the day after it was issued!

She has had as much homework as my elder dd who is starting GCSEs this year. Luckily for me dd loves it and pulls her books out the moment she walks in the door but I should imagine some of the other parents are suffering!

Pyrocanthus · 11/09/2009 12:56

I wouldn't panic yet, Steamroller. Your DD's school might deliberately break them in gently. My DD won't get any homework at all until the end of next week, but then apparently it comes thick, fast and regular. Other local secondaries start hurling homework at the year 7s almost immediately.

It's a shame if they're getting bored in school though.

Pielight · 11/09/2009 13:05

I'm finding the whole thing an organizational NIGHTMARE. I was pompous and told him he had to do the homework on the day it was set, even if it was due next week. I told him it would 'serve him well for the rest of his life'. What an arse. I'm already saying, 'okay, fgs leave that, you can do it on Sunday, that's enough homework already'.

Mind you, he made B rugby team yesterday, and was chuffed about that.

it's quite a learning curve though isn't it? I asked him what it was like being at school with all these huge teenagers, he said 'scarily interesting'

Molly - how are you? Have been thinking about you. I bought a roll of sticky back stuff from Smiths. Is 100x here.

Pyrocanthus · 11/09/2009 13:11

My DD had first day at school with all children present yesterday and attended a whole-school assembly. She was deeply shocked by the length (or shortth) of the 6th form girls' skirts. Apparently the 6th formers had to sit on the floor - apparently this wasn't a good idea.

'scarily interesting' - spot on, Son of Pielight.

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