Dear god! Tell me it's the 23rd July tomorrow, I'm losing the will to live!!

[MaureenMLove]

Anyone else done with it all now? The kids are off the wall! School uniform is starting to slip. Lots of notes claiming shoes are broken/lost/too small and won't be replaced this late in the year.

Anyone's schools doing end of year days out too.

We've got this hairbrained scheme this year, whereby 2 yr groups go out for the day on Tuesday and 2 on Wednesday, followed by suspended timetable on Thursday and Friday. All mufti days!

I am seriously going to lock myself in my office on the last two days! I can't stand mufti days!!

[roisin]

ds1's school has collapsed timetable 3 days this week: lots of trips out, plus all sorts of "activities", all mufti. ds1 doesn't see the point and would rather be in lessons , but generally it seems to be very well organised and he had a good time despite himself today.

Ours is pretty much "business as usual", but not much learning going on tbh. But we finish on Thursday: YIPPEE!

[Hassled]

Well you panicked me - I read the thread title as if it actually was the 23rd July tomorrow and was wondering if there had been some coma scenario I hadn't known about .

DS2 effectively finishes this Friday - next week is for "Activities". It sounds like an administrative nightmare to me but I quite understand why the staff need them all off site for a week!

[MaureenMLove]

Oh, lucky you!

This is so not going to happen again next year! This is supposed to be my wind down time and getting prepared for next term! I've spent 2 days sat at my desk, working out how to cover the 20+ staff members, that are going out on both days and I haven't finished yet!

Next year, my suggestion is, sports day for remaining two years!! It's mad! I can cover most of the lessons, because obviously a large cohort of students will be missing and I'm collapsing classes, but that only works with the 2 yr groups that are out!

Madness!

[MaureenMLove]

It is a nightmare, Hassled!

I am also the Educational Trip Co-ordinator, so I am sick to death of reading, signing and returning trip paperwork. Not to mention the piles of risk assessments and contact detail forms for each trip that leaves!!

[primarymum]

My son's school has had more internal exclusions over the last two weeks than the rest of the term altogether, the boys seem to be on the verge of a riot! ( Thankfully my son wasn't one of them, but only because he's on exam leave

[MaureenMLove]

Oh dear! I must admit, I waved as another 2 were sent offsite today!

[janeyjampot]

A school around the corner from us has OfSTED in this week!

[janeite]

We teach right up to the bitter end - no fun, no activities, no mufti days, no DVDs!

I am absolutely desperate for the 23rd now - holidays always used to come as a lovely surprise but now I feel as if I'm counting the days!

[juanitad]

We started our new timetable at the end of June..........yes, you read correctly! So rather than wait until September to get new classes and new timetables, it's already happened!! So effectively year 7 have become year 8, year 8 have become year 9 and so on! Is very strange, and has completely changed the ethos at school - so there isn't much of a wind-down feeling. Around this time I'd usually be starting to think about more fun activities I could do for the last few lessons, but this year I'm keeping going with proper lessons up to the bitter end!

[MaureenMLove]

Does it really work too, Janiete? We've supposedly done that for the last 3 years and tbh it hasn't worked!

[janeite]

Yep - we're all too scared to do otherwise!

[MaureenMLove]

Wow! That's brilliant! I wish our timetable was ready! It still isn't completed!

Our yr10's have been allowed to wear Yr11 uniform for the last 4 weeks, so they are kinda ruling the roost, but that's as far as we've got.

Is it a very good school you work at? Our kids have gone without trips and fun for the last 3 years, because prior to that, we were in special measures. This is the first year it's been allowed and only for those students with good attendance and behaviour.

[belledechocolatefluffybunny]

Ds is in year 6 at the moment, there's naff all to do and a new teacher took over his class at half term to cover maternity leave so if he is given something to do then he's already done it. Sports day on Friday though, trip on Monday and leavers thing at some point.

[janeite]

Last Ofsted was good with outstanding features but academic achievement is low, although CVA is v good.

[TheFirstLady]

DD1 started a six night run of her school production on Monday. She is going to be shattered by Saturday, not home until 10pm every night. There are activity days next week but this week is normal lessons. And to cap it all, her sisters break up the day before her - and her last day of term just happens to be her birthday!
I work in the EBD unit of a different secondary, and I think you could fairly describe the atmosphere as a little fraught atm.
Roll on summer, I say!

[seeker]

And when the holidays come they are only 5 weeks long!

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

DS (Y6) is doing cycling proficiency this week, which is at least something definite and different.

[Loshad]

our's is very fraught atm, we have orders to teach up until the last second, but that is disrupted by trips out (for the few), internal reward days (again for the few) and so on. unifrom is going down the pan rapidly and my Y10's in particular are being very hard work. roll on next friday ( not helped by the fact that my own kids have been on holiday for a week already)

[Loshad]

oops apology for random ' - stress (or wine!) clearly getting to me

[webwiz]

My house is horrible at the moment - I've got two very tired and grumpy teenagers who need to finish school tomorrow not in another whole week. I send my sympathy to the teachers having to deal with them.

We have the added complication of DD1 home from university with plenty of energy because she doesn't actually get up in the mornings. Her favorite thing seems to be to wind up whoever gets home from school first and get them shouting as quickly as possible. If we get through the evenings without bloodshed we are doing well.

[mummytime]

DS's school has 2 years out, one on a weeks Outward bounds, another on work experience. Year 11 gone? Year 13 gone. Year 12 starting A2 I guess. The other two years have activities week this week (making films I think). But next week after an Inset it is normal timetable for 3 1/2 days, that seems like total madness to me.
I can't keep up as the others have a chaotic timetable (sports days, assemblies, BBQ, Hikes, Exhibitions, etc).

And I'm in essay crisis mode.

[webwiz]

You have my sympathy mummytime - I'm in essay avoidance mode (hence all my posts on here this morning)I also have about 60 photographs to resize and put on a website - I can do about 5 at a time before I lose the will to live.

[daisymiller]

We also have to teach until the last lesson Thursday - then have assemblies on Friday before sending them off at lunch.

I have never ever been so tired at the end of an academic year. I have been at home today at ill, DH thinks it is just sheer exhaustion.