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  | Bizzy   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Topic: i dont want to go to school! Posted: 29 October 2008 at 4:40pm
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   thats the cry i keep getting from gabriel.
 and today we had his first school visit.  half an hour into it and he said "can i go in the playground now?"  and when we left he said again he didnt want to go to school.
 Poor wee thing, i really felt  sorry for him knowing that i am sending him off to have all the fun and games taken away...   i wish there was a nicer way of teaching him - bar home schooling cause i dont  have the patience for that!     | 
 
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  | mummy_becks   Senior Member
 
   
 
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   Awww, hopefully once he has been to a few more he will know what he has to do at school. | 
 
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  | .Mel   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 29 October 2008 at 8:31pm | 
 
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   He will no doubt have a few anxious moments, and I'm sure that within a couple of weeks of him starting everything will fall into place nicely.
 What is his teacher like?
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  | Bizzy   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 29 October 2008 at 8:46pm | 
 
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   she was alright but she wont be his teacher.  they have to open a new new entrants class and the teacher who will be running it wont start till the 17th... 
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  | busymum   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 29 October 2008 at 9:30pm | 
 
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   Why don't you give him only a couple of intro days this year and start him off next year? It's not compulsory until 6yrs so he could even do some half days etc.
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  | Bizzy   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 Why don't you give him only a couple of intro days this year and start him off next year? It's not compulsory until 6yrs so he could even do some half days etc.
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 that was my original plan...  however if i start him next year they put him straight into year 1, but if he starts this year it will be year 0, which is more of an introduction to school.  i dont want to handicap him if i can help it   
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  | Maya   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 29 October 2008 at 10:22pm | 
 
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   Hugs! I don't have anything constructive to add coz Maya was sooo ready for school, it was me that wasn't lol! But hopefully he'll settle in as he makes a few wee friends. Are any of the other kindy kids going to be in his class.
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  | Bizzy   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 29 October 2008 at 10:43pm | 
 
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   i dont know - i wont get to meet the teacher or the kids till the 17th.  on the plus it will be a really small class - 5 or 6 kids - and i do know one of the kids is a special needs with cerebal palsy.
he knew a girl in the class today from kindy and i recognised a few other faces in the playground.
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  | busymum   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 Why don't you give him only a couple of intro days this year and start him off next year? It's not compulsory until 6yrs so he could even do some half days etc.
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 that was my original plan...  however if i start him next year they put him straight into year 1, but if he starts this year it will be year 0, which is more of an introduction to school.  i dont want to handicap him if i can help it
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 Oh... that's a bit of a pain, you'd think that he could have a short time of year 0 before year 1 whenever he was enrolled.
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  | .Mel   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   When Nyah started last September she was year 0 and this year she is year 1.  I personally think it was the best thing for her.. it made her alot more confident for this year.  
 
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  | sparkle   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 30 October 2008 at 9:52pm | 
 
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   Why don't you just hold off until the 17th when the new class opens?  That way he won't have to "settle" twice IYGWIM
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