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Post by mudlark on Sept 7, 2015 21:40:03 GMT
Peewit in avoidant style just went into his new class and his new teacher with no fuss.,,but didn't feel quite right.
Lapwing the anxious ambivalent one had to be peeled off me.. I had to walk out with a sinking heart
On return home. Peewit put himself in a moses basket and regressed to being a baby. Lapwing tried to pick an argument... they were both glad to be home, and just angry with me for leaving them at school..
Horrible...I wish I could just keep them at home
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Post by moo on Sept 8, 2015 5:19:30 GMT
Hugs mudlark xxxxx
School is the demon here too
Hope things improve xxx
Xx moo xx
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Post by bop on Sept 8, 2015 6:38:16 GMT
We're now nearly a month in and both seem to be doing OK....DD has settled well into High School and only has one blip.....DS enjoying school better having now chosen options.....although DS had had 4 migraines having had none all summer....but we've also had rubbish from DD1 to deal with....
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Post by pingu on Sept 8, 2015 8:42:51 GMT
Here in Scotland we have been back since mid August so i feel we have been back long enough for a reasonable assessment comment ! Ds1 fine as ever. Enjoying a cookery course and philosophy! Still plodding away at upgrading his English and maths but seems to be making headway - he takes it in better when his girlfriend (a grade A student) expains things ! He has applied for a driving licence and girlfriends dad is goimg to give him lessons , so general alert to all drivers ( only joking , he is better at parking than dH ) Ds2 started secondary but its a 3-18 school so not new as he went there last year. So far he seems settled and happy at school and enjoying new subjects and clubs.What a difference to last year. We are stll waiting for the crash but he does seem to be showing a more mature atitude. One thing that really helps is that his maths teacher this year doest give them homework provided they have finished the work he sets in class It means no more massive upsets at home when he thinks that he cant manage to do the maths homework and wont let me remind him of what he knows He is managing to organise his other homework better than i expected . No major upsets or illness yet. long may it continue.his birthday yesterday may have helped. A ps3 and milked it being his birthday , both here and at schoool, for all its worth! Teacher had kept class back 5 mins at end of day because some people were talking when they shouldnt have been. He apparently wasnt talking so asked teacer if he could go as it was his birthday - and teacher agreed!!
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Post by sooz on Sept 8, 2015 10:02:39 GMT
Snooz is doing great, loves his new teacher, looking forward to going back.....very calm!
All such a long way from a few years ago.....
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Post by pluto on Sept 8, 2015 12:11:05 GMT
I pressume fine..... he can wear trousers for 2 days now without a stale pie smell. Not sure what he's actually learning...... in school.
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Post by elderberry on Sept 8, 2015 13:25:06 GMT
Despite everyone's fears, DD has now got into the taxi and headed off to school without complaint twice, and hasn't yet called me from school during the two nights she's spent there this term so far. I'm feeling a little left-out and lonely, but I made myself an enormous to-do list and did three things off it yesterday evening. The relief of not having to enforce homework is almost indescribable. Even though I'd much rather she were doing homework and letting me help her.
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Post by dinky on Sept 8, 2015 20:54:15 GMT
Same as other years here - not very well as he hasn't morphed into a hardworking, easy to teach, model pupil over the holidays which is what school seem to expect every year! Hey ho and onwards?
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Post by flossie on Sept 9, 2015 5:40:48 GMT
Early days I know but so far not so good.... Appears 'fine' at school, anything but fine before and after school, at bedtime, during the night... Can only hope things get better'!
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Post by caledonia on Sept 9, 2015 7:22:34 GMT
DD managed her first day at her new school without a fuss. Day 2 was a bit challenging and today she has a migraine (I know when she has one and when she is faking) and so she is in bed asleep.
DS is mumping about school and said he couldn't go today if DD was not going but I have not yet had a call saying he did not make it so I am assuming he got there!
The same old then..........
Cale x
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Post by topcat on Sept 9, 2015 7:24:26 GMT
The jury's out here too - no problem going but having to peel them off the ceiling before bedtime. Brains was not at all himself on the way home yesterday and the 'play fighting' has started again with his 'best friend'/trauma bond brother replacement...
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Post by kizim on Sept 9, 2015 7:56:23 GMT
Whizz is settling in well here in Vietnam....almost too well! She is in a very International class and has both twins and triplets in her class of 15. She appears to have formed a very strong bond with the French Canadian twins and a Brazillian girl...they are inseperable outside school and at weekends. She is almost too confident - socially but I can see she is struggling with academic English...and she has already not completed 2 homeworks. One of them MINE! Strange to be teaching her. I can see her hesitancy, her lack of confidence and her short concentration span! Her mood has improved and we are able to say Yes to most of her requests which makes for a much happier homelife - just need to guide her back into school being for study as well as a social life It is the IB programme here and I really like the way the education is very much student centred but also gives them the responsibility for making their own choices and decisions. Unbelievably - for me - we have been back at school almost a month and I have only once had to slightly raise my voice! Long may it continue!
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Post by gilreth on Sept 9, 2015 13:30:48 GMT
Early days here but Sqk has managed 3 full days (after 2 mornings) at Reception with no reported issues. Ok had a call while in a meeting today (4th full day) but only to tell me he had bumped his head at break (huge sigh of relief). He has been a bit more clingy when I have picked him up at childminders - yesterday we spent 20 mins just cuddling and then tickling on the sofa. But so far no major meltdowns and according to DH seems eager to go to childminders in a morning.
Actually it has gone much better than I thought it might but I do say that I have an easy child in adoption terms.
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Post by lankelly on Sept 9, 2015 13:46:22 GMT
Came home to empty house....three in education of sorts...fabulous to be able to drink hot tea. But man the before and after... 5 year old going in to school new class alone but can't be in bed for two mins alone.. 9 year old wants me with him but hates me...hates school, medication, is going to stop it all. 3 year old very happy to be at preschool just beaming.! Evenings are just deep breaths!
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Post by fruitcake on Sept 9, 2015 14:13:57 GMT
Dd attending school for the first time after several years of home education. So far (four days in) she loves everything about it. My main frustration is that they still haven't got the school intranet going so I am totally dependent on her for messages and information. Apparently there is to be a work experience thingy on two evenings per week (or is it one?) for ? number of weeks all about careers with erm children? people? can't remember and it is going to be until 7 o'clock or something like that don't really know ...
Home education is wonderfully comforting for the Mum who likes to be in control and know what's what so this is something of a culture shock. In other words she is fine and I am a nervous wreck!
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Post by chotimonkey on Sept 9, 2015 15:48:02 GMT
2 smallest going into nursery on alternate days, miss howler Is needing coaxing in on her own, she's used to being with her big sister most of the time and is v concerned she might be missing out, she's also just started a couple of full days so is tired. George is a little superstar.
Squirrel doesn't start for another week and is glowing from all this one to one time, how she'll be when she starts primary for the first time is anyone's guess, she likes school environments but died t enjoy change... We shall see...
I am looking forward to Friday 12-30-3 when I will be child free!
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Post by milly on Sept 9, 2015 19:18:19 GMT
Bit early to say for dd1. She had a bad end of last term and eight weeks off school in total so was anxious re going back, but she has been worse in the past. An Ehc plan was granted over the summer so we went in for a meeting to discuss the support she'll get before term started. Dd joined us and even contributed her own views. She seems happy enough at home but hasn't yet attended every lesson each day. One missed as she became overwhelmed by the GCSE talks about having to work hard! Others due to upsets involving other pupils. A bit of what we are used to basically but she does seem to be bouncing back better, being positive about her new teachers and has rekindled some friendships that went wrong last term. And is promising to attend all lessons tomorrow! Fingers crossed......
Dd2 has been pretty much ok, made less fuss about having a new class teacher than she did last year, well none, in fact! She has been finding it hard to get to sleep in the evenings since we came back from our holiday over two weeks ago but this is gradually improving (I assume it is related to school anxiety - and perhaps also the fact we will soon be putting in her application for secondary school)
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Post by serrakunda on Sept 10, 2015 16:38:24 GMT
Well Simba is fine but I'm finding it all very stressful
I've already had to repair his year planner, today he has come home with the year Pianner wet end his new Spanish dictionary ruined because his brand new water bottle developed a crack all my itself (!) and leaked in his bag
He is travelling on his own, today he stayed for a club. He was supposed to phone me why he came out, he didn't, I had no idea where he was for an hour. Took two hours to do a tiny bit of geogpraphy homework,
Have to go over everything he needs to remember umpeen times to drill it into him
its going to be a hard slog
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Post by milly on Sept 10, 2015 18:00:02 GMT
My sympathies, Serrakunda. Yesterday, my dd in year 10, forgot to take her bus pass, her phone and her sanitary towels to school - and yes, I did remind her and so, probably did DH. She just says yes, she's got it all! She has lost countless PE kits - they always turn up after weeks, just when I have decided to buy a new one! Homework, leaky pens etc get all mixed up in the bottom of her bag. The days she forgets her phone are the days she doesn't come home for ages. She hardly ever does her homework without me getting her started and will lie about it not being needed to be in yet or that the work she has in her bag isn't her homework, just left over from the lesson so she doesn't need to do it etc etc. I thought it would get easier but I am not sure anything much has changed since the beginning of year 7. I am sure you will have more success than me!!!
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