Good luck to all teachers and students who start back this week after the summer break. Hope everyone is relaxed and refreshed and ready for the challenges and trials of the coming term.

thanks for reminding me...

No problem!!

I have to go back on a FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!! Everyone probably know that by now, but it's so annoying! Why couldn't just give me an extra day off and let me go back next Monday? What's the point in starting a new term on a Friday?

Oh, I totally know your feeling purple dolphin... we had to go in on a Friday last year and it was so annoying! What was the point?? (I suppose they wanted to give us a full week from the next week but still...) I'm starting on the 7th this year.

Everyone has the same number of days in school, so in a way Purple Dolphin, you're lucky because you'll be finished before everyone else or get a longer holiday during the year.

I go back on a tuesday.

My mum said it may be so they get all of the new year 7s and Lower Sixth settled on the first day, and then start properly the week after. Even so, I still think it is a bit pointless. I'll probabbly wake up on Saturday and think that I have to go back to school. Gosh, after tomorrow, I won't be able to wake up on a Monday morning and think, "ooh I can have as long as I want in bed because I don't have to go to school." Aaarrgh!

Your mum's probably right. Some schools bring in the year 7's, 10's and lower 6th early for induction days because they are either starting a new school, a GCSE course or an AS level course.

Our school goes back on the 5th. Except I won't be going Actually I can't decide whether it's a good thing coz I go to uni the week after

my school starts this friday...thursday for year 7. Some of my friends have to go in thursday too, because they have to show the year 7s around but luckily I wasn't asked!

Yup its a new year...not sure about the HAPPY bit though... we go back next wednesday...7th

And just as everyone gets over their holidays and prepares for work mode once again I am preparing for my holiday..
We go away in 3 weeks.

My mum really annoyed me earlier today. I woke up and found her outside sewing all the labels in my new school tie, jumper etc. I'm not going back till Friday, and all she can say is, "Oh hi Lizzie. I'd like you to sort out your school bag and put your padlock and books and stuff in it." Can't I do that on Thursday night? Why does it have to be done on a bank holiday, when I still have 3 more days of holiday left afterwards?!! I've heard of being organised, but not being sorted out 4 days before I go back to school!

Well I go back on Friday (sounds scary!) and I haven't got a clue what to take really. At 6th form you have to provide your own paper and textbooks and things and I really don't know how much stuff I'll be carrying.

I'd think just paper/notebooks, pencil case with all the essentials, a drink if you're not sure about buying one there, same for food, your timetable if you have it (I don't know if you get that before you start or on the 1st day) and anything else the 6th form has recommended you take

Thanks flute_gurl. At the moment I have a folder with paper in to take, 2 History textbooks, a pencil case. I don't know when we get our time table, but thanks for your advice.

no problem! If you havn't been told, you'll probably get it when you arrive

Probably. We'll find out on Friday (induction day).

Did they give yu alist of the textbook that you need? I doubt that you'll need to take all of your textbooks with you on induction day....

Good luck to all starting back this week and to any scottish people hope the term has started well. Mmmm, i wonder when i start back at uni they havent actually told us yet!

I'm going into year 11 on September 7th. The joys of GCSE year *groan*

I still need to get new stationery and stuff like that. I have no idea whether to bring all my year 10 textbooks on the first day because they will be needed in year 11 but I'm not sure if we're expected to have them on the first day back!

I don't know about that one. Maybe take as many as you can put in your bag, and just dump them in your locker if you don't need them. Sounds like a bit of overkill, but at least you're likely to have the books of a few of your subjects.

I think that people going into GCSE years and upwards should be given their timetable on say the last day of the term before. It would make life so much easier, and I know that definitely in my school the timetabled lessons are sorted by the first week in July....

Unfortunately, I don't have a locker... just a huge bag. I don't even know where my form room is yet!



I agree! Our school definitely has the timetable ready so why couldn't they give it out?!

Is it that your school doesn't issue lockers or that you just don't find outy which one you have until you get there? We get all lockers re-issued every year depending on where our form room is and what numbers are like. I found out about my new form room about 2/3 weeks before the end of term. Or is it just that my school tends to be super-organised? Apart from the timetables of course....

Not everyone gets a locker... only those who have them in their form rooms. I don't know where my form room is because I have a new form tutor and was absent the last week of term because I was on a school trip to Barcelona!

Ah. Everyone in our school gets a locker, and they are all in the corridors so that you can go to them whenever you need to and not worry about disturbing lessons. My form tutor is changing this year, and our form room has moved next door. We used to have a computer room, but it was a pain because they always locked it. Now we just have a normal classroom so hopefully it will be unlocked more often from now on.

Yes, I hated it when my form room was locked and I couldn't leave my bag in there at lunch. Science labs are the worst... had one of those in year 7!

We only get science labs if....

1) We are a really naughty form group who screw the room up

or

2) Our form tutor is a science teacher with their own room.

Luckily, I had a music teacher for 3 years (we don't change form tutor every year like some), so we got a nice form room and we had access to the music rooms whenever we wanted during form time. And when it was Christmas and we had some free periods before the big assemblies we went to the biggest music room and put a film up using the music department projector. It was like being in the cinema!

The sixth form get to have lockers but there are only about 50, which isn't enough at all.

I am going into year 11 on friday. I dont know my full timtable yet, bu, at the end of term I was told I would have:
DOuble psychology on monday and a single on tuesday
Double music on Wednesday and a single on thursday.

Upper 6th induction is a half day on the 8th (I don't see why, personally. It's not like I've forgotten how to use the library or the computers). Teaching starts on the 15th. Mwah ha haaaa. Enjoy going back to school early everyone!

How come you go back two weeks after everyone else? I think I'd like a job in your school.

No idea. Maybe it's because it's not a school, it's a 6th form college? I don't know though

Ahh, maybe so. Are you doing anything nice for the next two weeks then?

Other than going out for my birthday, no not really

Edit: Well there's brownie pack holiday, but thats all.

Standing outside schools pointing and laughing?

Now theres an idea....

*goes off plotting*

Have a nice birthday!

I think I'm back on Monday. To be honest, I don't mind - this holiday has been very long and it'll be nice to have something to do, and also in VIth form I'm only doing subjects I really like so it should be easier and more fun than GCSE.

I'm not even sure when i go back and no one seems to know!

Oh dear Beth!

Phone your school!

Its going to be so silly, we go back next Wed but nobodys told us ANYTHING about our timetables, they told us to bring ALL our stuff on the first day...files and pe kit and everything as we dont know which lessons we have...

But surely, it'll only be PE kit, pencil case, lunch and homework planner for people in schools because you get exercise books in your lessons?

Nope...Y11 so files for topics we didnt finish last year...

Oh right. We had exercise books up until the end of year 11!

Lucky you! Gives you less to carry...

Yep, and brought back to earth with a bump at the start of college and hideously heavy bags.

I go back on the Monday for an hour less than the normal school day, but then it's back to how it usually is!

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