argh, DD back at school and im sobbing.

galvanizersbaby

jackomdj wrote: »

DD starts reception on Monday. From day one they are collected from the playground/reception area & we do not get to go in with them!

DD is very excited, but I can imagine it will be a big thing come Monday. The thing I am worried about is how will she cope carying in her book bag, gym bag, packed lunch bag, drink bottle....

Bless her! DD started reception last year and it was similar situ (they line up in the playground - mum's stay with them until the teacher comes then they go in with their class)

Know what you mean about the carrying all the bags - DD and DS will go back tomorrow with book bags hanging off one shoulder, PE kit off the other and lunchbox in hand (drinks bottles go in lunchbags) - they are loaded to the limit on a Monday morning and though DD is tiny she is very capable (I'm sure it will be the same with your DD) - once everyone else is doing it they don't seem to give it a second thought
I've often watched her charging through all loaded up like a little pony and wondered how she wasn't dropping it all!

Good luck for Monday

jackomdj

galvanizersbaby wrote: »

Bless her! DD started reception last year and it was similar situ (they line up in the playground - mum's stay with them until the teacher comes then they go in with their class)

Know what you mean about the carrying all the bags - DD and DS will go back tomorrow with book bags hanging off one shoulder, PE kit off the other and lunchbox in hand (drinks bottles go in lunchbags) - they are loaded to the limit on a Monday morning and though DD is tiny she is very capable (I'm sure it will be the same with your DD) - once everyone else is doing it they don't seem to give it a second thought
I've often watched her charging through all loaded up like a little pony and wondered how she wasn't dropping it all!

Good luck for Monday

Showing my age now, but all she needs is a cabbage...anyone my age will get this, anyone younger will think I am nutty! I said this to a girl in a shop when I was all loaded up once & she just looked at me as if I ahd lost it!

lolababy

My daughter starts back on the seventh and will be in her last year of infants. It does not seem that long ago she was in nursery.
Maybe Im hard nosed but, I found her starting school a happy thing and not in the least upsetting. M y daughter needs the stimulation that only a school can provide and gets really bored at home.
In saying the above my son unlike my daughter found settling into school hard and would cry each time I left him. He did settle eventually but would rather have been at home with me.

Janepig

DD goes back tomorrow, into year 2. She was fine (as was I) when she started nursery, then she (and as a result, I) got upset on her first day in reception, she was a bit bewildered by the new classroom, and then the same in year 1, she said she was frightened she wouldn't know how to find her classroom and promptly ran out of the classroom and chased me on the first morning. Both times though it was just a teeny blip and she was right as rain by the time she came home. This year she's really looking forward to going back to see all her friends and her new classroom so hopefully there'll be no antics. Although I never get upset in front of her, only once she's gone.

However, I have got baby boy starting on Tuesday in the nursery and I'm going to be completely different with him and I will probably be hysterical once I get back to the car. Strange really, why I feel so different about him than DD. Luckily he can't wait so I've got no worries on that score.

Jxx

juby_2002

hi all,

very interesting to read all your input on how schools do things differently.

DD says she had a good day, she likes her new teacher (all the kids cant say her name correctly lol) and was telling me that now she in year 1 she uses the big playground etc. she was quite blunt in telling me `mummy, they dont have many toys in year 1 so we had to sit down and write about our holidays and look at the board, im going to take some of my toys tomorrow`. she was especially upset at there being no home corner or fantasy corner (dressing up, role play etc)

bless her, the struggles of being a child!!

galvanizersbaby

juby_2002 wrote: »

hi all,

very interesting to read all your input on how schools do things differently.

DD says she had a good day, she likes her new teacher (all the kids cant say her name correctly lol) and was telling me that now she in year 1 she uses the big playground etc. she was quite blunt in telling me `mummy, they dont have many toys in year 1 so we had to sit down and write about our holidays and look at the board, im going to take some of my toys tomorrow`. she was especially upset at there being no home corner or fantasy corner (dressing up, role play etc)

bless her, the struggles of being a child!!

Glad she enjoyed her first day - from what I remember with DS it was all pretty different in Year 1 compared to reception class - they were expected to actually do work (which DS hated) - he would much rather have dressed up and played all day.:)

My 2 started back today.
DS in Year 2 and DD in Year 1.
By coincidence DS has the same teacher as he had in reception class and she is really nice.
Anyhow we stood in DS's line waiting for the whistle and then all of a sudden he got stagefright and started sobbing that he didn't want to go in.
In all the chao's DD's class line went in so I was left with DS clinging to me crying and DD not knowing where her classroom was.
Luckily she just got on with it - gave me a kiss and said she'd be ok - see you later and love ya (she always says this) - she is keen to get in to show her class she has lost a tooth in the holiday's (she's the first one in the class so she thinks!)

Had to take DS in to his classroom where there were 5 other children crying (all boys :rolleyes:) and ended up having to get rather stern with him (this is the only tactic that works with DS) - left him playing with some Polygon's so think he will be ok

I may be a hard mother but I've learn't that the longer you stay the worse it gets

galvanizersbaby

Janepig wrote: »

DD goes back tomorrow, into year 2. She was fine (as was I) when she started nursery, then she (and as a result, I) got upset on her first day in reception, she was a bit bewildered by the new classroom, and then the same in year 1, she said she was frightened she wouldn't know how to find her classroom and promptly ran out of the classroom and chased me on the first morning. Both times though it was just a teeny blip and she was right as rain by the time she came home. This year she's really looking forward to going back to see all her friends and her new classroom so hopefully there'll be no antics. Although I never get upset in front of her, only once she's gone.

However, I have got baby boy starting on Tuesday in the nursery and I'm going to be completely different with him and I will probably be hysterical once I get back to the car. Strange really, why I feel so different about him than DD. Luckily he can't wait so I've got no worries on that score.

Jxx

I am similar Janepig even though DS is a year older than DD
Think it's because DD seemed to be born independent and loves to be a big girl and do it herself where DS would much rather have everything done for him! (a common man trait)

Also personalities wise DD is brimming with confidence (sometimes too much so!) where as DS is more of a quiet/ introvert - bit of a worrier like me

Hope all went well today

jackieb

At the school my children went to, the nursery teacher used to go on to be their P1 teacher. The P1 teacher then used to go teach the nursery class, which would be the following years P1 class - so they all got the same teacher for 2 years. It meant that all the nursery pupils got a teacher they knew in P1.

That sounds really confusing - but it makes sense to me.

jackieb

jackomdj wrote: »

Showing my age now, but all she needs is a cabbage...anyone my age will get this, anyone younger will think I am nutty! I said this to a girl in a shop when I was all loaded up once & she just looked at me as if I ahd lost it!

Crackerjack!

juby_2002

aww, your poor son, dd`s fright came on all of a sudden too, she just stood there still and so quiet (not like her at all and i have the grey hairs to prove it). it was wierd because as i was watching her her face was becoming redder and redder by they second and i could sense that she was about to explode into a full waterworks session. she was then saying ```i want catkin (the name of her reception class), i like mr xyz``` then he came and she clung to him.

it was like a scene out of a film, the heroic teacher comes to save the poor innocent child. was lovely to see the bond though.

now she has hardly no toys in class, how on earth will she cope hehe!