It's the 1'st of September already. :searchme: All of the kids are going back to school in the next day or two and before you know it Christmas will be here. Time flys when your having fun eh? :)
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It's the 1'st of September already. :searchme: All of the kids are going back to school in the next day or two and before you know it Christmas will be here. Time flys when your having fun eh? :)
yup September is our favorite month,cos we fly to the USA for a month:D
Kids have been back to school for a week and half here in Holland ..:cool:
Kids in Holland start school in August, well I never knew that!!! :D
:( I cant believe it either, I mean I know England never really had a summer, but since people go away and come back and still class the time as summer. Now its just like the end of summer :(
I mean where has all that time gone, Ive been off since the 27th June!! :eek:
Well I have one more week off. But some of my friends have gone back today
bring on the end of the summer! i've been off since may, and it's been dragging badly! can't wait to get back to uni later this month!!!
My daughter only went back today but the younger kids (4 year olds) were in last week.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoneyBee
The older you get, the faster time goes. Mind you, this summer can't go fast enough. Miserable weather.
Can't believe the summer's been and is now going.. it has been horrible weather for the majority of the time of it and I'm back to school on Wednesday...
I can't wait to go back to Sixth Form on Wednesday. I'm so bored being stuck at home doing nothing. As for summer, I don't think these past few months are worthy enough to even be titled summer :(
I do want to go back to college, but I dont at the same time :S
Back to school tomorroww (:
Want to go back though - going into year 11 now so just wanna get it done and outta the way. Only there now for like 8 months (:
Oooh and exactly 4months till my birthday today! (:
And just to think there is only 6 days till my birthday :D
Did we have a summer when :searchme: The schools up in Edinburgh went back on either 20/21 August depending on the industrial action. Yes it's September and in 11 days times my wee cherub is going to be 10 years old (going on 50). Look on the bright side Autumn means decent telly with the return of SCD and spooks to keep us amused into Christmas. Then we have the return of 24.:cheer: :cheer:
I'm back to school on Friday for lessons, but I have to enrol on Thursday. I'm really looking forward to never having to do any subjects that I don't want to do and there's no uniform, frees and a common room :) And I get to see my friends more than once in a blue moon :D
I guess the novelty will wear off within a week. We don't know who our tutor is or who's in our tutor group yet so we get an hour to get used to that on Friday. I won't get to do all of my subjects on Friday though unless by luck of the draw I miss my free when we have to meet our tutor groups; I don't know why they don't do that on enrolment day to be honest.
Summer finished! I think i must have missed that one. Yeah unfortunatley its back to Uni and back to reality in three weeks and then it will be 2 assignments i'll blink and it';; be christmass. This holiday has gone way to fast especially as i though if i were working it would be really slow.
It is 14 weeks to christmas on thursday! thats a depressing thought. I only know that because we were ordering the christmas trees in our department at work yesterday.
:eek: :eek: :eek: :D :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Katy
my daughter goes back to school today at 11.30! i think its gone really quick this holiday! just think another 18 weeks and it will be christmas :lol: :lol:
i cant believe how fast this whole year has gone, not just summer!
If you can call it summer, I think it was more like spring because of all the rain.
we havnt had 1 day thats been in the 30's
I know, it's gone so fast. I was just saying to my dad's cousin that it only seems like yesterday that it was April. I can't believe it's so close to christmas either, I was in the supermarket with my mum yesterday and the woman at the delicatessen said how many days it was until christmas. My mum didn't much like the reminder :lol:
The holidays have gone so fast my daughter goes back to school on monday..
went to the supermarket today and they have started getting christmas stock out it will soon be here........
When I was a kid I used to love seeing all the christmas stuff out in the shops, it always made me feel happy, Isn't it amazing what things you remember from your childhood?
well kids who started secondary school this week have to stay until their 17 ......poor kids.. but good because their is nothing for them when they leave
I dont even know how thats gonna work? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by sindydoll
They're putting it up for 18 for those a few years younger than that lot. Somehow putting it up to 18 gradually is supposed to minimise the number that rebel against the new law, as loads did when it was first put up to 16, so I read.
Abbie - the kids can go to college when they've done there GCSE's if they like, they just have to stay in some form of education until they are 17. Some/all might not even do GCSE's; there's a new type of diploma going in.
well i think it wil do the kids good to stay longer at school
i think in a way it will be good, but i think it will only work if every area brings in different courses/qualifications people can do, i dont think it will work if some areas force the kids to do gcses and then alevels etc
It was all much simplier when I was at school.
tbh i dont really think it was simpler when i was at school (which i know wasnt that long ago!) with just being allowed to do gcses etc. i think if it is organised properly and everyone gets the choice of doing gcses/diplomas etc and can choose what sort of qualifications they can do then itll be better than when i was at school cos you will have more of a choice and do exactly the sort of things you want to do
Yeah I don't think the less able kids should be forced to do GCSE's. If they don't get 5C's then it doesn't help them cos everyone says they need a C in this and a C in that, and they then have to take really low courses in college to get onto ones that they really want to do.
Forcing them to do A Levels definitely won't work. You need 40% to pass one and the work is obviously harder at GCSE so they're hardly going to pass if they don't pass GCSE because you don't even need 40% to pass a GCSE. You probably do in higher so if it's not thought that they could pass that then they won't pass an A Level.
Okay... makes more sense, but I still dont really get itQuote:
Originally Posted by Kim
I think it should be mandatory that all kids across the whole of the UK should stay in full-time education until they are 18. I work at a further education college and it horrifies me the amount of young people just out of school and don't even have basic reading and writing skills. How can a young person in today's society leave education after 11 years and not be able to read or write. It they raised the age for leaving school to 18 it would give the less academic students an extra chance of learning basic skills.
i agree with you that so many kids now dont know how to read and write properly. my mum works at a junior school and one of the kids shes working with this year is in yr6 (so 10/11yrs old) and i couldnt even manage to copy off of the board when she met him yesterday! although, keeping kids in education til theyre 18 isnt going to help them unless they are properly taught the basics. i think the reason so many kids cant read and write properly is cos lessons move on so fast, teachers have to teach all this more difficult stuff to the kids, even if they cant read or count up to 10 cos thats what the government say they have to do. it doesnt help the kids cos if they cant read how are they meant to do a comprehension passage, or if they cant count how are they meant to work out the area of a shape?Quote:
Originally Posted by Chloe O'brien
Another factor for poor educational skills could be the amount of foreign born pupils, they might just not understand properly and be too shy to ask for help. One thing that could be a downer on school leaving age being raised to 18 is that some families find it financially difficult, they might need another wage packet to pay their bills and can't afford another year or two paying for uniforms and school books etc.
but im guessing students would still be given ema for the last 2yrs of school? or would that be scrapped if schooling was compulsory?Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
It would probably be scrapped i would imagine...but even then not everyone is entitled to itQuote:
Originally Posted by di marcobut im guessing students would still be given ema for the last 2yrs of school? or would that be scrapped if schooling was compulsory?Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
Is EMA enough though? Don't get it over here, no idea how much it is.
£30 a week is the max, but it is based on how much parents earn...least i believe you get is £10 a weekQuote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
i know not everyones entitled to it but you also still get family allowance if youre in education. which i know isnt as much as if you were working full time but its not like the kids are gonna be forced to spend an extra 2yrs at school yet have all money coming in for them stopped i wouldnt have thoughtQuote:
Originally Posted by Xx-Vicky-xXIt would probably be scrapped i would imagine...but even then not everyone is entitled to itQuote:
Originally Posted by di marcobut im guessing students would still be given ema for the last 2yrs of school? or would that be scrapped if schooling was compulsory?Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita