Talk about an anti-climax. I dropped dd at nursery for her last day and went to spend some time and money at a large shopping mall type thing. She was a bit tearful as I left, but was sitting on her keyworkers knee and getting to choose what song they were all going to sing. I’d hoped that she was going to get a lift home from her friend, but when I called the relevant mother later, she said that she was stuck in town and wasn’t risking the drive for the snow. Snow?? Large shopping mall being undercover, I hadn’t realised that the threatened white stuff had arrived. So I hurriedly purchased the thermal underwear (boys, they didn’t have any girly stuff in dd’s size) that I’d found in M&S (figures, I’d looked everywhere else first!) and legged it to the car, stopping only to buy c100 books at the bookshop that they are shutting down (£20, can’t be bad – anyone for sweet valley high? 🙂 ) and of course feed and change dd and dash outside…
so where’s this snow then? I grew up in West Yorkshire, and then in Durham, and I’m used to snow – proper amounts of it. This was barely a dusting, so of course Sheffield ground to a halt. If I hadn’t left when I did, I wouldn’t have made it to dd’s nursery at all – there is a roundabout that they were parking across that was slowly but surely blocking the whole centre of the city.
So the nursery manager wanted to know if I’d found dd another nursery – hello? You were there at the steering committee meeting when I pulled you all up about the leaflets you were handing out, pointing out that home education is legal and we were going to be doing it? As usual got too flustered to say anything like – no! so just said not yet. But I don’t need to worry, as it’s not like she’s never been anywhere and she’ll fit in anywhere and we don’t need to worry about her not knowing her shapes and colours, she’s very bright….
aargh….why does she need to know her shapes and colours? When was the last time someone quizzed you on them? Apart from the hexagonal prism question of course lol How did we all manage when we didn’t get taught them by rote at age 2? Because I know I didn’t get taught them like that!
They also gave me her nursery file. It appears to have been rather hurriedly updated having had no entries since November. There is this marvellous set of tick lists of early learning goals that need to be achieved by age 5 (at least, I think that’s what they are) and it’s interesting to see where they thought dd was. It would appear that they don’t know her desperately well…
anyway, small is yelling…be back to update on today in a little while.
