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Mine fight 24/7. It really is quite awful some of the things they say to each other. They are very different personalities. Son - very outgoing, confident, loud, will talk to anyone, very self sufficient and driven. He always found school to be "easy" and never had any problems. If he is in a room with 50 other kids he always seems to be the one that people remember. :eek:

Daughter - always very well behaved and eager to please, had issues for years about going anywhere without one of us or a grandparent ie birthday parties and the like. Cried going to nursery from September through to Christmas. She also struggled with reading for quite some time. Thankfully she has overcome the reading issues and the separation issues and is now mysteriously near the top of her class and merrily attends parties.

Other daughter who is 2.5 is showing signs of being very much like son. She actually bosses the 7 year old.

I have always dreamed the dream of them all going to the same school but I realise now that it isn't always feasible.

ni-mum

vido wrote: »

not yet, but not for the want of trying!
should find out at Scouts tonight

Any word on Wellington's cut off score?

JosieJoBelfast

Morning All

Some of your school equipment lists are frightening me!! We have just got what you can and can't wear, where to buy it and the Canterbury sports kid can be bought from the school - didn't get anything about atlas, bibles etc etc... (unless I am missing something)

Yesterday I had so many emails and texts from friends and families of P6 kids who are wanting to know about cut off points (lowest scores admitted). I know that this will be in the Transfer booklets for next year - but they were wanting to know what they need to aim for. I am sure you all have too...we could nearly compile a list ourselves as we will have such a circle of friends/family and from the posts on this forum......maybe one lunchtime at work I will attempt to do this.

Anyway off to write a work related letter to Mrs Ruane - maybe I should stick a personal letter from me and my daughter too.......tee hee!!:p:p

facingthefuture

kingston_2730 wrote: »

Didn't realise your daughter was seven exspend. Shall we keep this thread going until then? :rotfl:Most people I know don't have as much as a 4 year gap between their children. Nice to know I'm not the only one. Do your two get on? Wish I could say mine did! It will be interesting to see if academic selection will be in place in 4 years time. Our daughter would be much more academic than her brother was at her age but then that can change as they progress. I would hate for them to go to different schools but I guess thats a challenge a lot of people have to deal with.

Hi I have a 7 year old daughter too, she is courteous, bright and always top of her class. Though if SF get their way she will be at some knife ridden comprehensive chewing gum and being cheeky. No, I don't say they are all like that - I know they aren't. Many are wonderful, BUT thats not CR's aim is it? She wants society to sink to the lowest common denominator. England has a tried, tested and failed comprehensive system....which is why so many struggle financially to send their children private.

Indeed we may end up going the same way, with each parent having to put their child in for entrance exams for maybe 5 or 6 schools paying £500 a time deposit then schools such as Kingston Grammar you have to pay over 4k *
fees alone....mad, but it's what SF are forcing on us.


Hopefully our p6 boy will get in to a good school, discipline and respect being as important and the education to me in many ways.Then maybe if CR manages to legally abolish entrance exams by 2012 then maybe sibling criteria will get her in.

The woman is abhorrent. Do you ever see how pompous she is in interviews? "I" is her favourite word and it litters every sentence.
What parties support selection? Can they DO anything to save our children?

*From September 2009 these are £4625 per term in the Main School

neveranymoney

Oh, JosieJo, wouldn't you love to? Thanks for the tip about the book, Kingston, fortunately it will be quite some time before I go through this again, my other child is only 4, he's starting P.1 as the daughter starts first year - thats gonna be a busy week in this house! In some ways a big gap is easier, the older child is able to understand that small children are more time intensive and it is a source of great joy that she gets to do things/stay up late with out him!

neveranymoney

Well said Facingthefuture, what sort of set up is it when the majority of parents want to keep the tried and tested eleven plus system, yet have no say in the matter? Many years ago I lived in London and there was a tongue in cheek article in The Times I think, about holidaying in a war zone and it was about Northern Ireland (yip, thats how the rest of the world views us) and one of the points was that Northern Irish people are some of the most highly educated in the UK! This is because of the excellent grammar system we have in place, you could scream at the mess that will be made if that madam gets her way.

vido

ni-mum wrote: »

Any word on Wellington's cut off score?

Well, we know of a girl who got in with 94, but the boy from Scouts didn't with 92. Looks like he is for secondary. However if his parents had have put Grosvenor down as one of their choices he may well have got in there!!
I remember the Principal from Grosvenor advising parents to put down the school that they want regardless of marks. Looks like he knew what he was talking about!

Belfast_Mum_2

JosieJoBelfast wrote: »

Morning All

Some of your school equipment lists are frightening me!! We have just got what you can and can't wear, where to buy it and the Canterbury sports kid can be bought from the school - didn't get anything about atlas, bibles etc etc... (unless I am missing something)

Yesterday I had so many emails and texts from friends and families of P6 kids who are wanting to know about cut off points (lowest scores admitted). I know that this will be in the Transfer booklets for next year - but they were wanting to know what they need to aim for. I am sure you all have too...we could nearly compile a list ourselves as we will have such a circle of friends/family and from the posts on this forum......maybe one lunchtime at work I will attempt to do this.

Anyway off to write a work related letter to Mrs Ruane - maybe I should stick a personal letter from me and my daughter too.......tee hee!!:p:p

JosieJo, I think the cut off for Methody was in the band 100-104. Some kids have got a place within this band and others not. Haven't heard of anyone getting in with a lower score. Don't worry about books/atlas for Methody as you don't need to buy them.

Belfast_Mum_2

Press release from ministers office -

Education Minister sends best wishes to children

The Education Minister has offered her best wishes to all children who find out today which post-primary school they will transfer to in September 2010.

The Minister, Caitr!ona Ruane said: "I want to offer my best wishes to all those children, and their parents, who have been informed today about their post-primary school place. The move from the primary school into the post-primary is a big step for children and I hope they look forward to September with anticipation and excitement.

"If this is a typical year, then approximately 9 out of 10 children will get into their first choice school. I am of course delighted for these children, but I am also sorry for those children who have been disappointed.

"I am very sympathetic to those parents who feel that their child has been rejected on the basis of breakaway tests. No parent should have to tolerate their child being rejected in this manner and no child should suffer such a rejection. I will continue to do all within my powers to bring to an end a transfer process that does this to children and parents.

"Grammar schools should not be testing children at 10 or 11 years old to gain access to an education to which they are entitled. It is socially unjust and educationally unsound to select children by a test.

"The policy of the Department of Education is for a non-selective system. That is not going to change. The new transfer procedures are in place and they will remain in place. We have moved on and will continue to move."

mount_merrion

Belfast_Mum wrote: »

Press release from ministers office -

Education Minister sends best wishes to children

The Education Minister has offered her best wishes to all children who find out today which post-primary school they will transfer to in September 2010.

The Minister, Caitr!ona Ruane said: "I want to offer my best wishes to all those children, and their parents, who have been informed today about their post-primary school place. The move from the primary school into the post-primary is a big step for children and I hope they look forward to September with anticipation and excitement.

"If this is a typical year, then approximately 9 out of 10 children will get into their first choice school. I am of course delighted for these children, but I am also sorry for those children who have been disappointed.

"I am very sympathetic to those parents who feel that their child has been rejected on the basis of breakaway tests. No parent should have to tolerate their child being rejected in this manner and no child should suffer such a rejection. I will continue to do all within my powers to bring to an end a transfer process that does this to children and parents.

"Grammar schools should not be testing children at 10 or 11 years old to gain access to an education to which they are entitled. It is socially unjust and educationally unsound to select children by a test.

"The policy of the Department of Education is for a non-selective system. That is not going to change. The new transfer procedures are in place and they will remain in place. We have moved on and will continue to move."

I really dont understand how testing is socially unjust:(

Wealthy families buying all expensive properties near good schools to guarantee places , as happens in England is surely more socially unjust and will happen here if Ruane gets her way.

Ruanes free school meals priority for places is also unjust. As it discriminates against low to middle class working families children. ( I got free school meals as a child by the way ) Im all for low income families getting help but by the same token working families should not be pushed down the queue.

Northern Irelands education system always acheived good results down the years whereas the comprehensive system has failed so why adopt it?