Getting Ready for Starting School - Ami

So the time has finally come and my middle child Ami has started school. She starts full days soon and I am somewhat a bit sad about it. She is only four but seriously she does look super cute in her school uniform. She has taken to going to school really well and I think it helps that she has good friends in her class. She is ever so proud to go to school and every morning is the first dressed whilst we call her older brother about 600 tines to get dressed.

We recently were sent £50 from Ocean Finance  to help us with getting ready for back to school or as in our case starting school. I know have two children in uniform and boy isn't that pricey so I was very grateful for it. With the money we got some essentials for starting school and some other bits for practicing writing at home or chilling out after a busy day. See below what we got.

School Shoes

They are important for school obviously I was looking forward to taking Ami to buy a pair. Little did I know that it would be so stressful, I thought we could walk into clarks and be out 10 minutes later. Ami has always had wide feet and a high instep sadly Clarkes did not cater for this and as a result her feet her to wide for all the dainty shoes in there. Seriously why dont more girls shoes be made more robust, its funny all the boys shoes have toe guards but not the girls.  We found a pair of shoes that finally fitted after two days of shoe shopping. They have lights they weren't too pricy and they fit, she loves them and wants to wear them all the time.

School Lunch Box

Who doesnt need a unicorn Lunchbox. Seriously I want this for me its so cute although she will get free school dinners as part of the government scheme its good that if she wants a change one day we have one free. The lunch box comes with a strap so is easy for her to carry around.
seriously look its amazing its from Sainsbury's if you want one for work.. Ahem I mean your child for school.

Cool Stationary 

Although its only reception that Ami has started in there is always the need to help her practice her writing at home. Sadly I was pulled into Smiggle and if you haven't been there come with money I was forced to buy all sorts of random bits. We got a little colourful pad and colourful markers to go with it. She also chose a cupcake smelling pencil, a lolly rubber and glow in the dark puzzle. She is over the moon and comes home everyday to her little pad which she locks away from her brothers and writes her name.

So here we are our little round up of goodies from us. Life has changed a lot over the last few weeks and home is somewhat more quieter since. I am so glad she has settled well and is loving every minute although its only early days yet. I am looking forward to many firsts this year and being a blubbering mess at assembly's and school trips.

Disclaimer: Thus is a collaborative post we were gifted £50 from Ocean Finance to buy items for this post. 

I am not the Mum Of a Bully

Today my sister picked up my son to find a Nan at the school gate saying "so thats the one Bullying you!" On hearing this my heart sank. Every part of me wants this not to be the case, but I know there is a chance it is true.

You see no Mum wants there child to be mean, No mum wants there child to be talked about and the one other parents are warned against. It makes me rather sad to hear it. My Son has always been the first to get into trouble, he is loud and confidant and says what he thinks, he has no fear of authority and does not understand the consequences of his actions. I wonder where and how he has turned out sometimes so head strong as I am so shy. I know that this attitude will be great when he is older but now has a few teething years trying to mature.

I make excuses I do not want to be a failing mum. I feel like I have let my son down, maybe I have been too laid back with him. not spend enough time together as a family. I just do not know. Its horrible because this  Nan is a playground regular with a loud voice and it will be all over the playground in no time and then the judgy looks. Not that I mind I do not care what people think but I do care what they think of my son. Its hard so very hard.

I do not know what to do, I made him write a card and say sorry he did not want to he said the boy is mean to him all the time but I said he needed to. We do not behave like that and to try to get him to see we were upset with him. See it was not just this I had two phone calls from the school today too, one about match attacks and stealing cards and another him saying he has been watching 18 films and playing call of duty. So all in all not a great day for him today.

I am not the mum of a bully I refuse to accept that. He is not! He is a good hyper good spirited boy and I wont have viscous rumors spread round. Its not on and quite frankly the Nan should have had a word with me or the teacher rather than shouting it out at him at the school gates. I shall give the school a call to find out what happened and I bet its nothing. I really hope it is. I am a firm believer of getting things sorted out in school, I think as soon as the parents get involved it gets complicated, I want my son to be able to sort things out with out me. Its worse for the other parent and I wish that people would see that. Like when your at soft play and some kid hits yours, I feel sorry for the parent its so embarrassing for them. Not everyone things like this though. Its tough.

So if you have any advice on a 8 year old boy and how I can help, what can make me feel like I am going intthe right track please let me know?

The end of a era - goodbye infant school

It only seems like yesterday that my son Pants put on his huge jumper and shinny shoes and walked through those school gates as I silently sobbed at this new stage in his life, and waited all day for 3 o clock to collect him and find out how it all went. It was weird  not being there not having input and leave alot of his daily life to the influence of other children and teachers. So here we are three years later as he has his last few days at his first school.

Those tears are welling up, leavers assembly approaches and I know i will defiantly cry, there hasn't been an assembly I haven't sobbed at.

 I cry because I am so so proud of my son. 

I proud of where he is at his little life. I know I have tried my best and encouraged him in the best I can muster. 

When he was in reception there was alot of talk about him having behavior problems, meetings with the SEN at the school were stressful, I didn't want that label on my son at such a young age. I knew it was not true. He just wanted to be outside playing, getting mucky, the last thing he thought about was letter formations and learning to read. They enrolled him on a forest school program and he flourished, he made fires, dens and learnt about nature and it was his favorite day of the week. 

See I knew he could do it because when he reached year 1 a year older, a year to kind of know what is expected, now a big brother he excelled. With the help of his new teacher who saw the potential in him she released the bright child that was in there. He was excited about reading and writing, even sitting down and wanting to do things was such a big change. For that I was so pleased. 

Here he is today loving to learn excelling at Maths like his mum at school, making teachers smile with his questions and distractions. He leaves his first school with a love off football and still that love of being outside. He is the big fish at his little school about to be trust into key stage 2 and bigger children.

Him winning at Spots day 

I know he will do so well in life, he has that confidence about him, he has always had it. My mum says he shines he is a special boy. One I love alot and do not tell enough. 

I am in tears as I wrote this post, I just can not believe he is leaving his infant school. Time is rushing by and before I know it he will be at secondary school. Its scary but these children grow up. I just wish time would slow down.

The lost book day battle!

since i found out it was book day today i got my planning head in gear! i was so excited to make a costume for pants to wear to school (the best ones get put in the local paper) so i was thinking about Pants favorite books can he go as a tiger (tiger who came to tea... ok this is actually my favorite as a child!)and owl (owl babies, but then he did this last year) ok how about willy wonka we read that book for a month and i had the purple suit and i was looking forward to making a top hat when i ask Pants... he didnt want any of that and just wanted to dress as batman! oh dear no help needed from me! boo!








 i must read things better before buying the other day i orded a Lego lunchbox from ebay! i thought pants would love it well it came today... its tiny you could fit a few raisins in thats it oh dear lol it cost £6! trust me to not read the description!






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