With the first week of his secondary education just about over, eleven-year-old son seems to be settling in well. The mile long walk to school resulted in his arriving home ten minutes or so after I myself got in from picking up nine-year-old daughter on the first two days. As I opened the door he fell in gasping for air and moaning that he was 'exhausted...need a drink...' The last two days however, he has been sitting on the wall waiting when we arrived back in a cheery mood and announced that he thinks the walk 'is doing me good'.
The lessons themselves have drawn a mixed bunch of reviews. He liked Science, as the clearly savvy teacher had picked as a first topic Forensic Detection, extremely interesting for the kids seeing as half of them are probably watching CSI regularly. He wasn't keen on Religious Studies, mentioning that the teacher had gone around the class one by one and it turned out that no one in the room believes in God. And I read his first effort in his English book 'About Me', which describes his home life. He mentions my divorce in the first sentence and goes on to say that he has two extra parents, one for his mum and one for his dad, and lots of extra siblings, four from Dad and two from Mum. Two of these six siblings are nine-year-old daughter, who has apparently been counted twice as she shares the same parents as him! All very confusing.
The only negative I've heard so far is that he 'doesn't get the maths' and when I questioned him further he said 'you have a sum and then they add in a letter n and I don't understand it!' Lovely fiance pointed out that it is called algebra, and I experienced a horror flashback to my own maths class, where my brain (clearly inherited by eleven-year-old son) struggled to grasp the concept. I comforted son with the statement that he won't be the first kid that has trouble with that, and neither will he be the last!
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It sounds as though it's going great! It's lovely to have found a blogger who has a child the same age as me - I'm going to spend the rest of my time on here comparing notes! I hope they don't ask the God question to my son's class - I've sent him to a church school!
ReplyDeleteLOL! Son's primary school was a church school and he told me once that he'd told his teacher he doesn't believe in God (where he gets this from I have no idea as religion just isn't really a topic in our house) and when I asked him what his teacher said he replied 'he told me to act like you do!'
ReplyDeleteKnow what you mean, I like your blog very much as I feel like I've been there or am going there with all your posts!