I would so love to meet up soon, but can't make 27th (PTA chilli evening). Hopefully things will be calmer in July once all the Y6 end of primary stuff is done for dd and the endless sports days, concerts, etc are finished.
Speaking of concerts, dd has a difficult situation - she is the singer for the Y6 rock band and is trying to learn a tricky song which has been suggested by the keyboard player, who is quite forceful. DD is not at all forceful and is struggling with this song (it's sung by a man with a wide range, and they won't transpose, so she has to sing an octave higher). Yesterday two of the girls told dd she wasn't good enough 
and that they thought some girl from Y5 (who they know from a sports camp we couldn't afford to send dd on) should sing instead. I'm not sure where the peri teacher who helps the band was during all this, but apparently he has allowed this new singer to rehearse with them a bit this term. Am I wrong to be 
& ? I almost never stamp my foot about my child being sidelined or left out (it happens a lot as we are not assertive round here, apart from ds2 who fights every battle until the death) but this is the last straw. She loves the band, she sang Rolling in the Deep at the Xmas concert and was brilliant (if I do say so myself) and then suddenly, instead of a lovely summer doing bog all except singing with her friends and rehearsing her play, she is embroiled in all this and is now convinced she can't sing. Which she can. And added to this, the sports camp which she begged to go on and even offered to pay for out of her pocket money seems to have spawned some new alliances among her friends and also as she didn't go, she has been dropped from the rounders team as the hugely unimaginative games teachers clearly think that anyone whose parents don't shell out £500 for 4 days doesn't take sport seriously. She has had such a brilliant time at this school, and loved every minute, and suddenly the last 4 weeks have been spoiled. I am massively fed up and ranty (as you may have noticed).