How have everyone’s teens got on back at school?

[annie987]

My DS has taken it all in his stride. My DD seems absolutely shattered. There’s been some jostling of friendships being re established but ok on the whole I think.
Work wise they seem to have kept up ok and haven’t found it too much of a jump.
How about everyone else?

I'm not sure. She's going through some stuff at the moment and was very tearful all yesterday evening but I am not sure it's connected, because the same has been happening fairly regularly. I'm hoping being around people regularly, seeing the outside and having a walk on weekdays will help her manage her mood swings. It would help if they could actually sit and eat at school instead of being chucked outside in the cold because she won't eat a meal at school now so has lunch at 3.30.

Mine are exhausted. They look like they do the week before Christmas.

I think all the testing, the chopping and changing, all of it just getting on their nerves tbh. They were OK learning at home, they are OK learning in school.

Obviously socially it is OK.

Absolutely knackered but really happy. Ds15 came home buzzing about his lessons for the first time in months - he hated remote learning and is a very social beast.

Shattered but happy, very happy!

Chimoia, mine is the same. She will not eat in school since going back after the first lockdown. It's too much fuss and time to navigate the dining hall and they were stuck eating outside. It took the horrible weather closing in and complaints from parents before they considered trying to find a way for the kids to not have to eat standing up in the cold and wet.

Fine, got an email today, there's already confirmed cases in the school 🙄

My teens school was closed in early December but they seem as though lockdown never happened. Having to get up for remote learning means that they were in a good routine perhaps? Maybe they will sleep in on Saturday?

Eldest is happy, think he's missed his friends. Youngest would have happily stayed at home and done live lessons forever but she's not really keen on leaving her bedroom at the best of times.

Both are very tired and DD is complaining about backache. I'm not sure if it's carrying around her school bag for the first time in months or actually being vertical and walking or something else so will have to keep an eye on her.

Happy to be back overall. Some little new COVID regs annoyances to iron out - eg. on the first day he came home with red sore eyes and he told me that he didn't wear his glasses all day because he had a mask on and his glasses would steam up and he couldnt see so he took them off. He only wears glasses for book and computor work, so he's never worn a mask with glasses before and the potential issus hadn't occured to us. Also, lunch outside is annoying and cold. And he is already getting some mask-acne. But despite this, pleased to be back.

Really well! He struggled on this lockdown and is so happy to be back to relative normality. Was a bit grim getting him out of his pit the first couple of days, but fine by Thursday.

He loved it, even up and ready early without any nagging, for the 2.5 days he was there before he was sent home to isolate for 10 days.

My daughter at a new sixth form where she knows no one. She’s been mainly remote except for Oct Nov early dec last year. They’ve worn masks the whole time and not had any cafes open or library or clubs. So she’s not met anyone. Back for the first time today snd tonight she’s really sad. Been crying and it’s hard because I don’t know how to help her :0(

They’re ok. They’re already annoyed at having to deal with the interruptions from badly behaved kids, they loved that when doing online learning this wasn’t an issue. I thought they would find wearing masks all day very hard but they’ve found it ok. They’re also not eating much at school, as they don’t want to eat standing up outside as other posters have said so they have a late lunch when they get home. Being as they eat breakfast at 7.30am and then don’t eat lunch til 4pm ish, they seem very tired when they get home and are definitely in need of food. I’d like the school to be able to offer some way of them eating inside and sitting down.
They’ve actually improved academically in lockdown.

Mine has been excluded today for the third time. No mental health service will see children face to face at the moment unless they are in hospital which she was in January when she took an overdose.

It's pretty crap to be honest!

DD14 very tired and obsessing about appearance but so much happier and perkier - there will be a massive readjustment going on for students of all ages right now - who knows how it will eventually play out - they’ve lost 6 months of conventional schooling - a big shout out to the staff - it must be a bloody nightmare for them helping kids navigate it all.

My year 11 DD was sent home on Tuesday to isolate for 10 days after a positive case on the school lateral flow tests. She’s now doing her mock exams online from home. It’s all a bit of a mess tbh. I thought the mass testing would keep them in school....they didn’t even make it to a week!

They’ve been ok. Both had a few friendship dramas and dd1 is a bit stressed with the constant testing they’re having to inform teacher assessments for GCSEs.

Dd1 seems happier now that they’ve confirmed they will have a prom. Fingers crossed they manage to stay in school until the summer!