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Well, the name tapes are all ironed in, the shirts are pressed, the packed lunch made and the poor , nervous child is in the bath ! She has poured virtually a full bottle of "relaxing" bath goo in and I don't think she will sleep well tonight!
I can't remember being nervous before starting secondary school but I guess I must have been. On the plus side she is a good foot taller than I was and not still wearing a vest !:o
I don't know who feels worse; me or her !
Seems like only yesterday when she put on her first Peel Park uniform.:eek:

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Got twice the excitement in this house because 2 of them are starting 'big' school. It's been building for a few days now, the fact they are both female means tempers get a bit frayed :rolleyes:

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She will be okay, you will probably spend all day tomorrow worrying for nothing. Wish her luck from me and tell her just to enjoy it:D

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ive got all this to come next year :( Reece turns 11 on september 11th so he just missed out, i reckon i'll be a bit worried when he goes off to 'big school' next year

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Mine's pretty much on her own ; the only one from Peel Park going to her new school ! Sure she will be fine once she settles in.

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Thats my biggest worry ( yep the cotton wool is still wrapped around her :) ) My daughter didn't go to junior school over here and is like me, quiet until she feels comfortable with people. Hopefully by the end of the week she will have met some new friends.

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Well I have to wait till next year dispite my daughter being eleven. The school year up hear runs 1st March to 28th Feb so being born on the 2nd of March means she will hit secondary school at 12 though most of her pals many of them very nervy and in some cases jealous have gone up. Mind you they have been back 2 weeks and all seems well at the moment.

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My little petal started primary school today:). She's only just turned 4 and looked so tiny in her little uniform. She was so excited about going, she ran in this morning, was bursting with news when she came home and is just as excited about going back tomorrow. It is lovely to share all this with her. I would like to wish good luck to everyone whose child is starting primary/secondary school this week and I hope all goes well for them.:D

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Yes I will second that and all you mum's and dad's stop worrying, it will all be okay:D

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that was like me,i was the only one from peelpark who went to rhyddings and i made friends on the first day that im still friends with now,she will be fine dont worry yourself

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aw bless,my little girl had just turned 4 when she started last year and she was the youngest in the school and the only girl to start,i have been telling her that when she goes back that she has to be a big girl and show all the new kids around,i think they look too small when they first start and you can see the confusion in their little eyes wondering whats going on

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my last one of four started moorhead today, i think im starting to feel old

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Reece was actually 5 when he started primary school, he didnt start till the 14th of september (back in 2001) and his birthday was just three days before...he is now the oldest child in the school



he started school 3 days after the 9/11 disaster which was on his 5th birthday

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Hope she has a good day today Lindsay, my daughter goes back tomorrow but doesn't want too, she's only 5 and hates school already.

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She looked more than a little concerned this morning; am glad I went with her as I don't reckon she would have got off the bus otherwise !:rolleyes:

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How did she get on? Hope everything went ok and that she enjoyed her first day:D

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I will re-phrase that, how did all the new kids get on at their first day? Hope they all survived it:D

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She's fine ! Sat waiting for me in reception like a lost lamb, thankfully the headteacher had spotted her sat there and me stood at the gate and put 2 and 2 together !
She has had a good day, likes her form teacher and has managed to find her way around quite well.
Now she is sat studying her timetable and map of the school.
And despite her dad telling me not to mollycoddle her and pick her up , guess who turned up at the school gates just as we left ? !!!:rolleyes:

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Glad to hear alll went well Lindsay. She'll be a lot less nervous tomorrow now won't she.:D

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Oh yes; she will be fine now I think. Kids are so much more adaptable than us old gits !

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Sounds like you were both worried about her, well at least the worst is over, things will soon settle down:)

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If i had known who you were I would have said hello, I was waiting at the gates too because the bus was late/didn't turn up this morning so I ended up taking my daughter and picking her up. My daughter is easy to spot, she is always last out of the school door :rolleyes:

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My 3 year old Jamie-Lee starts at nursery tomorrow, she is well excited keeps saying "me big girl me go school" bless her.

She's well excited. Glad to hear everybody elses got off to good start though.

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Lets hope she,s fine that when they grow up fast,and me,and you feel old,lol.

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We haven't heard any more about the children who started at new schools/nurseries how are they all settling in?

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Well she's been there a week and we have more paintings than we can shake a stick at, had a boyfriend after her first morning at nursery and dumped him by the Friday.

She enjoys it no end and didn't know what to do with herself at the weekend.

Thanks for asking.

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Just realised that was my 300th post (only seems right it was about Jamie-Lee as she has posted a couple.)

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Glad to hear she has settled, I found leaving my two at nursery really hard it just seems to hit you that they are becoming independent.

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Debbie found it really hard leaving her, and when she picked her up she was certain mummy ahd waited in the playground for her all morning. :)

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Bless they are so sweet at that age, pity they have to grow up:eek:

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Mine had a couple of rough days at the end of last week and didn't want to go back on monday but seems a lot better today !

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Don't mess about find out what is bothering her and get onto the school if it is other kids hassling her. My grand-daughter started last year and she settled really well, having said that a lot of her friends went as well.

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I thought Maddie might have been a bit unsettled this year because she'd had the same teacher for the last two years but she was fine. She's in Juniors now and the first day she came back buzzing with the fact that she'd be learning French from now on.

Zack's fine but I can't say that he's a big fan of school.

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That's boys for you!!:) Girls are just more independent:D

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I know what the matter was and it's hopefully now sorted. The difficult bit about a school that size is if someone was bothering her she doesn't know their names and they all look alike !
It seems to be ok now; she has done some German and French lessons and seems to be settling in.

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I hope that is the end of it . Yes everything will look so different to your daughter and as you say the fact that the other kids are not known to you must seem very daunting.