I am so sick of bloody end of term activities

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Ds has been great for ages and has bee n totally grim for a fortnight now. Every bloody day it's some 'fun' activity. Well it's no fun for me when he's back to screaming, hitting his sister and generally trying to control the universe. Roll on friday

Lol... God primary school is a pia for that! A that spontaneous changing of plans to do something 'fun' at the end of term. It used to do ds's nut in.
Thank gawd for secondary school.

It is so hard for them isn't it. The staff at the school probably thin they are being kind but all that uproar and messed up routine does nothing for many children.

Any chance he could just be sick for the last couple of days or would that make things worse.

yes indeed. DS2 is really struggling right now. One and a half days left.......

We are spending the day with his cousins at centre parks tomorrow which he will love but he had sports day off as well and I am scared of the horrible head teacher. New school in September though so fingers crossed for more structure all round.
They are holding a talent contest there tonight. I have 'forgotten' to mention it to ds as I think that would tip him over the edge

Things that strike fear into my heart: school disco, summer fete, harvest festival, nativity, Christmas fayre, sports day, school trip, but none of those come even close to the trauma caused by.... Non uniform day!

Shopping I am really feeling your pain this week.

Why????? Just why????? Please, just stick to the NC. I'll do the fun stuff.

Maria - exactly what I say. Am doing so much maths catch up at home, if only we could have a little less fun at school so he could be less stressed and learn something.

My first year of teaching I foolishly announced to every class of 11-15 yr olds that we would have a 'fun' quiz on the last lesson of term. Hideous error. Over excited screaming teenagers arguing over every question, making an awful racket. Never again.

God I hear you OP. The end of term in itself is enough to distress DS to the hilt without the actual celebrations it involves, and the time they take away from his rapidly disappearing routines.

heh sorry to be a cow but I am feeling EPIC
sports day was cancelled yesterday due to the rain
AND
he had proper transition stuff done - his whole class had a morning in new classroom with new teacher. She has just been appointed for next yr and after a whole morning of DS is probably now frantically applying for other jobs for September
AND
The world can rejoice - his current teacher has developed special magic eyesight as his report claims that his handwriting is 'usually legible' - after initially feeling outraged by ths, I've decided to treat that comment with the hilarity it deserves.

hear hear

even the lego had to go into time out last night because DS1 was being so controlling and unpleasant every time DS2 even looked at it.

Noticed on school run a sign up saying what I feared was inevitable 'Non-Uniform Day Friday'. Nooooooooooooooooooooooo.

I'm not just a meany pants - non uniform days are so stressful for us. ds2 will just assume he is staying home that day because he is not wearing his uniform and no matter how many times I explain, it doesn't dawn on him until we pull up at the school gates.

ds1 just does not want to wear his normal clothes for school. Uniform is for school, Sonic T shirt (the only t shirt he will wear at the moment) is for home. But he doesn't want to go in his uniform and be teased. Trying to put it out of my mind for the next 36 hours.

Luckily ds school haven't really done much this year (apparently the yr 2 pupils are the worst behaved they have ever had sure that's what both OH's and my own school said back in the day ) but the 2 yrs before they were pretty hectic last 2 weeks, sports days (cancelled this year due to the weather), non-uniform days, discos, parties, concerts (which upset him this year because they changed the ending??) etc etc. It actually made him poorly and he would always miss the last few days...but he has flapped off to school today with his toys (and his uniform on....because they aren't allowed a non-uniform day will see what kind of a mood he is in when he leaves after his unstructured day!

Yep my DS has said he thinks he should just die as he can't go back and do 3yrs of infant school again. All the 'fun' organised stuff and end-of-term hysteria is getting him down, all he wants to do is play with his pipe cleaners.

Two weeks of fun activities has turned an excitable, easily distracted, but eager to please and happy child in to a confused fizzy tasmanian devil with anger issues, who has decided the answer to all requests is 'no I dont want to' or 'I'm just doing this first', followed by a nicely chosen swearword/phrase to tell them where to go.
This is new this week...never sworn at school before...and its not even in extreme circumstances, just being asked to que up for dinner, (food is usually a good motivator for compliance).

End of tether was gone some time ago......

The schedule for summer holds is in place...and I have control over that.....roll on the hols.....