Starting School

[were_gopher]

Hal was picked up at 8 by the bus. A couple of ladies in the back to look after the kids as well as the driver so he's well looked after. We'll find out how he feels about the whole thing when he gets dropped off at 4. A long day for a 10 year old.

Other good news is he's been awarded disability payments. The kids got a better disposable income that I do (mine being what I can save out of the housekeeping and child allowance) . Most of that will get shuffled into a savings account for when he's older with the rest split between the household account to cover any extras he needs and my savings to help pay for our annual week at Center Park. He doesn't know he's getting cash, he'd blow the lot in Game if he had the choice.

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[oreouk.livejournal.com]

Hurrah - that's all very positive. I look forward to hearing how his first day went :-)

I had a similarly long day at his age when we lived in Eastbourne because we moved house to the edge of town but I stayed at the school near the town centre - I don't recall having problems with it except if I missed the bus!

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

Nearest analogy in my experience is starting Grammar School--a similar long day. Yes, I was a bit older, but not much. (Counts on fingers) My birthday is in late June, so I could even have been younger than Hal. But at least he isn't jumping from top of one school's age-range to the bottom of the age-range of another. And there were other differences of school culture.

And, to be honest, I was rather glad to be away from the teachers at the village school. If he's not been happy, the relief at being somewhere different can counter a lot of new-school fears.