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At the end of every school year at Intack they used to have a party for each class, now with the end of term fast approaching i noticed that we hadnt had any letters about the food we should be sending in for the usual party.
I rang school in a very curious mood this morning and i asked the secretary, she said they had no plans to have any parties this year, and i asked 'well what about the year 6's who are leaving?' she said nothing at all had been mentioned about it, at this point i wasnt happy, she said she's ask the deputy head about it and get back to me


now to me an end of term party kind of puts a closier to the school year, and a total closier to the kids who are leaving for secondary school, since this new headmistress has taken over at intack several people have taken their kids out of school because of her flippant attitude towards the kids.

its not as if the parties are costing the school any money, all the parents provide the food and drinks

are your kids having an end of term party?

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my 3 year old is havin an ugly bug ball

not sure its quite the same but hey ho lol

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Ty's school has partys for all sorts of reasons but i dont think they are having an end of year do.... they already had their year 6 assembly .

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My son is in yr6 and is having a leavers party but its only for yr6, its not going to be much of a party as there is only 8 kids in yr6 but the school puts on the food and they are off for a fun night out on monday with the school, but my other 2 are having parties and 1 of them is a beach party, i hope the weather holds

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year 6 assembly is on Thursday, i'll be glad to get to the end of this week you know, and get him out of that horrid school

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does Reece finish on friday??

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yeah, then he has a week of summer school at Rhyddings

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My daughter has had a fun filled few weeks...........since they finished there sats they have been rewarded by school for all the hard work they put into the sats.

They have put on a play for us, had a school trip, had sports day at Hyndburn sports centre, had a trip to an ICT centre and more.

They are having a Year 6 leavers assembly on Thursday, and a year 6 leavers mass on Friday. They are also having a party after the assembly on Thursday.

As most of the children started at the school in the nursery, (7 years ago now eeeekkk), then the nursery door was the first door that most of them walked through, so on Friday Year 6 will be leaving school through the nursery door as well. So that means that the first and last door they ever walked through will be the same door.

I'm going to have a lump in my throat!! Though I've had to promise my daughter that I won't cry!!

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ah thats lovely :D

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at junior school we used to have toy day where you could take yor fav toy into school and just play all day for the last day of year

at secondary school we used to have school discos which have mysteriously turned into things called proms which i find absolutely pathetic and yet another un needed peice of culture from the yanks

we also had rag day where you paid 50p to go to school in your normal clothes and this as far as i know still happens

instead of proms why not have a day trip to the job center so people can actualy say they have been to one :D

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Im sorry i dont agree with that. I think most people call them proms just for short. think everyone enjoyed gettinWhen i had my valedictory (prom) it wasnt pathetic at all. And i g all nicely dressed and seeing each other all as a year for one last time. Everyone makes the effort to look great for this one time and its a great occasion. Things have moved on from your time and things always will but theres still a disco :D Proms just a shortend word that everyone seems to use. Theres many other names for it. Including valedictory and leavers ball etc. I dont think its un needed at all. Everyone looks forward to it and makes the effort especially the girls! :]

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No party at our school that I am aware of.

Year 6 have performed The Wizard of Oz for parents and staff.....and very good it was too in case you are reading this, Sam. :D

There also be a leaver's assembly on Friday for year 6 and their parents.

It must be a very emotional time for all.

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Leaver's assembly at Peel Park a year ago reduced me to tears !:eek:
They had a party after that and made a day of it.
Doesn't seem a year ago......:rolleyes:

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Our year 6 went bowling together last tuesday evening. Leavers assembley on friday...tissues ready!! then after that a few of us from school are going out for a meal to celebrate SATs/reports/end of an era/beginning of a new chapter.

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I know its not primary school, but my eldest has just left secondary and they had a leavers do at mitton fold and he went in his tuxedo in a green camper van :D They also had a leavers mass (catholic school) and at the end of it they had loads of photos on the big screen of their time through secondary school... He's just got the DVD of the mass and leavers ball and we had a good laugh at all the pics, its amazing how much they have grown up since year 7 to now :p

Oh yeah and he went on a 5 day trip to barcelona after his exams had finished and he had officially left school

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When I left Paddock House School, nearly 50 years ago (Dear God!!!! :eek:) it was just a case of "Bye, everybody. Keep in touch" (and who did?) and a lecture from the headmistress. Now, my friend's granddaughter has just left High School with a stretch limo to the prom and a very expensive dress.

Our Laura goes to the same primary school her mum, my younger daughter, went to. When Nik was there, over 20 years ago, there was nothing much to mark the end of the school year. Now, 2 head-teachers later, I have been, this evening, to the 2nd night of the Juniors' musical play - all about conservation and recycling, global warming etc., - the message was hammered home :D, and it was brilliant (Laura had a speaking part as an apple, imported from California, on a shelf in M & S). Tomorrow is the end-of-year party and she's taking a load of crisps and her strapless "prom" dress, from BHS, to change into.

I think it's great. :)

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There were no parties when I left Accrington High school, and I didn't keep in contact with school friends, mainly because they went into the 6th form and I didn't.

I was amazed that, years later, one of the 'girls' had taken the trouble and tracked down 90% of the girls in our year. We had a reunion on the 50th anniversary of our starting year, and we have had one every five years since - the next one booked for September this year.

Every time, numbers have decreased - some had died, some lived too far away or were too ill to travel, so this time I expect there to be less than a dozen attending. Some 'girls' travelled from remote parts of Uk staying locally overnight.

I hope to make it because it will probably be the last.

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I loved my leavers do when i left High School!
We all got dressed up and went to The Dunkenhalgh.
We all had a lovely meal and a disco and it was a great way to say goodbye and thanks to the teachers.
I think it would be sad if pupils missed out on something like this.

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We had a leaving do when we left St Christopher's in 1994.

We went to Mytton Fold at Langho......isn't it lovely for photos? :D

Of course, it wasn't like it is today. We just had a bath, washed our hair, put our glad rags on and our mums dropped us off and picked us up.

These days girls are having prom dresses that are like wedding dresses, spending all day in a salon primping and preening......spray tans, false nails, elaborate hair do etc.

They get picked up in a stretch limo like Madonna......all a bit much in my opinion.

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Does anyone view this as another money grab .... a simple, and not really all that important rite of passage that now requires expensive clothing, cards, gifts and stretch limos .... and in certain parts of our country, particularly in smaller towns and villages, the almost inevitable alcohol fueled accidents.

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Thats a rather cynical view!
Like i said we all had a great time,it wasn't compulsory so you didn't have to fork out if you didn't want to.
And yes a few idiots will always spoil it for the rest but i still believe it to be a good thing.

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Cynicism ... maybe .... it comes with age:dancedog:

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I'm all for a leaving do but I think they take things too far these days.

Recently in the Telegraph there have been photos of 4 and 5 year olds complete with mortar boards and scrolls 'graduating' from nursery to primary school.

What next? :confused:

Photos from the maternity ward of new born babies with mortar boards on in place of wooly hats with scrolls tucked into their blankets showing their 'graduation' from the womb? :rolleyes:

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My grandaughter is moving to Hollins this time and we went to Woodnook this morning for the leavers treat. They did a lovely little play then there was an award ceremony with a buffet afterwards. Really enjoyed it and some of the teachers were qutie emotional

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Leaving dos?...When I were a lad, the only "leaving do" I had was to be called into Ralph Bailey's office to be told "mark my words, you'll come to a sticky end" and pitched out into a cold, uncaring world.

Kids today don't know they're born!

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undecided on this, think a party/dance fer leaving aint a bad thing, thing about these fancy proms, may divide kids, ok fer parents who have the dosh, those who are hard up, may be pushed into debt to pay fer the bloody thing, so the kid don't miss out, so therefore ya may get kids who reckon look at them posh sods, n become envious, teenagers are funny animals. so think the Prom idea is a bit of a no-no fer me.

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Agree think some parents will really struggle and feel that they have to find the money somewhere, it is over the top.

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yeh but the society "Thatcher" created won't give a toss.:rolleyes:

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Yep you are probably right;)

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I agree with you mate.

Whats more by making it such a big thing, leaving one school to go to another or maybe University you add stress and worry onto the kids. When I left school you just walked out the door and that was that.

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yep it is just a money grab, like halloween, imported from the yanks, nowt to do wi them though, just the money grabbing, get rich quick artists that latch on to these "NEW" ways.:rolleyes:

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The halloween thing did strike me as a little odd. When I lived over there ... admittedly, it's a long time ago: we still had our milk and coal delivered by horse and wagon .... I can't remember doing too much on halloween, and attending All Saint's, I think I should have noticed.:confused: I remember bonfire night (which has probably been replaced by something safe, that doesn't offend Catholics) ... but halloween, can't really say I remember it as anything special.

But we do have proms, which helps out guys like my friend Donny, who has limos ... and the restaurants etc. It's a big money grab; but what the hell, everyone gets laid and drunk, and, hopefully everyone gets home safe and sound.

On the other hand, it is an important event for the young people, many of whom will be leaving for University in far away places .... (except in England which is too small to have faraway places:D) .... some friedships which have lasted thro' elementary and high school will come to an end, or at least not be as close any more.

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Oh, and if you are tired of importing things from our rambunctious neighbours to the south, may I suggest celebrating Victoria Day on May 24, (not a good one for the anti-royals tho) or Canada Day, July 1 ... bbqs, fireworks, drinking and eating to excess .... only problem is, it is customary to fly the maple leaf, which is something a lot of us do all the year round.;)

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well this is what Reece thought about his last ever day at Intack Primary School

:D

he's the one in white, he couldnt run fast enough :D

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Aww Sam was heartbroken. They walked out of the nursery door, and she had held it together till then. The whole class was hearbroken. Sam got in the car and told me she didn't want to leave.

They have all got a framed scroll with there names on, detailing what has happened on 18th July in years gone by, a dvd of the play they did, they have personal messages wishes them well from all the teachers.

It's the end of an era. But she will enjoy High School I'm sure of that.

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Reece got none of that Gail, they got a medal each yesterday and that was it, i'm so glad he is out of that school.

I was talking to a few of the parents today and the amount of people who are taking their kids out of Intack this year is unbelievable, even one of the governors is taking his youngest son out and putting him in a school in Ossy

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Thats a shame Flashy. Sams school is like an extended family. They really made a fuss of the year 6 that were leaving all this past week. We had a special assembly yesterday for them, as well as a mass today.

Best wishes to Reece at High School. He will notice a big difference as not all schools are that uncaring!

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BLOODY TYPICAL :eek:
Since my 2 have been at Belthorn, each class has had a party.
With Jack being yr 6 they went on a residential trip last week to Lower Mill, then this week they have gone out for a meal with all the staff,and today they had leavers assembly :mad: and of course toy day today !!
I think it depends on the school & their standards :(

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Yeh i cudnt beleive it when S told me !! ( well i can ) Ive nw got to take T to school in the morning in sep as well as bring him home !!

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[quote=forceten;608584]Thats a shame Flashy. Sams school is like an extended family. They really made a fuss of the year 6 that were leaving all this past week. We had a special assembly yesterday for them, as well as a mass today.
All the yr 6 did a performance at the assembly and sang " schools out for summer " lol then they got presented with a dictionary from the head & govener ! then they did the "traditional belthorn paraid round the school being clapped and cheered by staff kids and parents !!
It was VERY EMOTIONAL & TOUCHING
emm's going again........ gone for the tissues lol............. H