Are children back at school all over the country? I went back today and was really glad to be back in harness, I hate school holidays, far too long.

Little new children starting tomorrow and I have them, bet there'll be tears and my knee will be occupied all morning!

My mum dumped me at the gate and went. How did you all get on when you started?

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They are back here, you can tell by the amount of traffic on the roads

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I bet the weather will improve this week, it usually does!

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A lot seemed to be back last week luckily.

Been repaing playground equiptment all over the country last week there wasnt any kids about at any of them

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Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?

My first day at school was in September 1944. A Victorian infants' school.

I can only remember being introduced to the boys' urinal. There was a window, perhaps 6 feet off the floor and we all tried to hit it.

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I should be dead; I've cheated the Grim Reaper yet again by surviving my third heart attack in June.

I wet my navy blue knickers when I first went to school. I still remember the embarrassment to this day.

Our teacher was a very scarey battleaxe type and my Mum was a gentle, caring type so I had a real shock to the system, lol.

My girl's been back for the last 3 weeks. Never did understand why Scotland and England were not the same for holiday dates.

My friends who emigrated to New Zealand really rate the schooling out there, and they dont have a summer break like us, they split the year into four terms and have a two week break at the end of each.

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"Where would we be without rules?
France! And where would we be with too many rules? Germany!"

They have been back since Monday up here.

I got dumped at the gate, but I am not backward in coming forward so took to it like a duck to water!

My Littles had there first day at "big School" last tuesday they seemed to love it more than playschool

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My girl started four weeks ago.

No problems. Went straight into class.

I have been surprised by the amount of homework she gets. After 1 week she got homework

She needs to colour in 4 pictures which begin with a certain letter, which she has to say the letter and picture.
She also has a picture book which she tells us the story whilst we read the attached book.
She also has six cards with different pictures which she has to match to a letter.



Is this not to much for a five year old who started school 4 weeks ago.

I've been busy setting up the role play area today, a Post Office. Very difficult to be creative with so little. I'm in the first class, reception and year one children. We only had one sobbing child but the young starters are in this afternoon when I'm not in. We don't give them homework, they occasionally have to bring in baby pictures, pets or cereal boxes but that's it.

My first school was a Victorian one with entrances for girls and boys. I remember smelly outside toilets with no roof and the nit nurse coming round.

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We need nit nurses back again these days imo.

Neither me or my eldest 2 ever had nits at school and I put that largely down to all the checking that got done years ago. They never got a chance to spread.

My youngest caught them off her pal a couple of months ago and apparently they are rife in her class but the school policy now is not to check, not to inform and not to send home or keep child off.

So nits are spreading like wildfire. Where's the sense?

So true! We've had head lice at our school, they send letters out telling them how to get rid of the beasties. They're worse than cockroaches as far as their survival instinct. Yuck!

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