Share your memories of your DCs and your own first day of school with F&F – £200 voucher prize draw NOW CLOSED

[MichelleMumsnet]

F&F has asked us to find out what Mumsnetters remember from their DCs first day of school as well as what you remember from your own first day of school.

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"We know that Back to School can be a stressful and emotional time for parents and our aim is to make the transition from holidays to school as easy as possible. We?re really looking forward to hearing your memories and stories about starting school!"

So, what do you remember from your DCs first day of school? Did their excitement turn into a bundle of nerves as you left them at the school gate? If your DC is going off to school for the first time this September, how do you feel about it? Are you thrilled for their next step or nervous about how they will cope with the change? Can you take yourself back to your own first day of school? What do you remember?

Everyone who comments on this thread will be entered into a prize draw to win a £200 F&F e-voucher.

Thanks and good luck,

MNHQ

I remember absolutely nothing about my first day.

I do have memories of the P1 teacher, none of them pleasant. I think I probably blocked the first day from my memory. And school didn't improve any, I hated it right til the end.

DS1's first day was fine. He was happy to go in, we went for a coffee, picked him up a couple of hours later and took him to McDonalds and he had a Fruit Shoot before falling asleep on the living room floor, completely whacked by the experience.

My first day of school I got yelled at by a dinner lady I opened my sandwich and a packet of crisps simultaneously. We were only allowed one thing open at a time. No idea how I was meant to know.

DS spent his first month of school dressed up like a princess in the make believe corner. He loved every minute.

I had just turned 4 and was the youngest in my class. I remember being terrified when my mum left, but my primary 1 teacher was wonderful. During the day there was a huge thunder storm and she got us all onto a big mat in front if her and read a story to us to try and drown out the storm.
Because I was so little she brought me onto her knee. I remember vividly that she was wearing a really fluffy mohair type cardigan and I snuggled right into it and ended up falling asleep!
She was such a lovely teacher and even though my primary days are a very very very long time ago, I have never forgotten her. Sadly she has now passed away though.

DD had a good first day at school, but she hadn't quite grasped the concept that once you had been to "big school" you had to keep going, day after day after that... That news was received with mixed feelings. They had a staggered start so I didn't really have much time to think about how she was getting on, on her first day, as they only did a morning and were home before lunch!

As for myself, I have zero memory of my first day!

My dd started school with a big smile on her face. I cried in the car. When I came to pick her up I noticed her collar looked a little but pink. When she took her jumper off at bedtime, I saw that her entire shirt had been painted by her classmates. There wasn't a scrap of white left. How the teachers hadn't noticed I will never know. Amazingly it came out in the wash and all her friend still remember her rainbow short.

I remember looking at the clock with my mother and working out it was time to leave. The other children in my class were crying, so I joined in, just in case. A bigger girl, almost five, took me under her wing and tried to peruade the teacher I should have the smaller (more advanced) books to read, as I was 'only little'. There was no school uniform, and the one photo of the day shows me in some kind of strange mock-leather waistcoat.
There are many pictures of my sons' first days at school, all trussed up neatly in uniform they hadn't managed to trash, colour in, or chew yet. They were unfazed by the experience, and nobody tried to organise them.

I trapped my finger in the car door on my first day at school. My relationship with the place was rather coloured by that first experience!

Thanks for all your posts, this thread has now closed. Congrats to superbagpuss who has won the prize draw for £200 worth of F&F vouchers! We'll be in touch soon .