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Post by humanbean on Jan 30, 2018 20:04:13 GMT
Ok, message to Lloyd done.....I think
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deb
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Post by deb on Jan 30, 2018 21:05:07 GMT
hopefully Noid won't have the sign in issues he was getting on TT.... Hi Bean!
I'm missing his music thread
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Post by madara on Jan 31, 2018 8:03:10 GMT
peep
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Post by joono on Jan 31, 2018 8:09:06 GMT
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Post by avatarcat on Jan 31, 2018 8:13:41 GMT
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Post by pepe on Jan 31, 2018 8:29:58 GMT
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Post by pepe on Jan 31, 2018 11:44:36 GMT
Where is my cow? I demand my cow, now! *ahem*   |
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Post by deb on Jan 31, 2018 11:48:18 GMT
YAY Madara!
about time!
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Post by madara on Jan 31, 2018 20:21:39 GMT
i was just confused that's all .. that isn't the worst of it though , the primary school rang yesterday '' umm madara where is little madara ? ''i thought it was tomorrow'' whoops ..
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Post by pepe on Jan 31, 2018 22:14:31 GMT
oh dear lol
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Post by avatarcat on Jan 31, 2018 23:18:28 GMT
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Post by deb on Jan 31, 2018 23:26:02 GMT
LOL Madara.. I did that once, but the other way around... got them dressed, made their lunches, drove them to school.. only to be told by a teacher that I was a day too early  |
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Post by figlet on Feb 1, 2018 0:43:44 GMT
When my eldest was at primary school.. the school closed at 2pm one day (for some lame reason, they sent notices out to parents.. how inconvenient for working parents with childcare arrangements that start after 3pm).
Anyway.. I forgot.. was at home with youngest.. school phoned.. I went down there.. they had the big metal bar gates at the main entry closed.. there were a heap of kids behind the gate all looking forlorn and abandoned (especially my daughter) looking out in hope their Mum/Dad would come.. a few of her friends were there too... I took a couple of her friends to the office (whose Mums I knew) and asked if they could phone their Mums and ask if I could take the kids to my house till they could collect them.. they said Yes, please.. (they had forgotten as well and inconvenient for them to leave work right away).
She's probably forgotten that.. but not the times 'I lost' them ( kids were let out of school 10 minutes early...told staff they didn't know where their Mum was,, a teacher drove them to netball practice after school at another school!) or the time I went to teacher interviews at the school in the evening (took youngest), OH at home supposed to take eldest (he forgot).....eldest phoned the school got the Principal who came and got me...
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Post by avatarcat on Feb 1, 2018 1:12:20 GMT
I once sent my youngest to school with only two slices of bread for lunch. No spread, no filling, just two slices of bread.
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Post by joono on Feb 1, 2018 1:30:56 GMT
It's a wonder we didn't all poison our kids with school lunches. Send them to school with sandwiches in a plastic lunch box left in their bags on a bench outside the classroom on a hot 35 degree summers day. Anything other than a Vegemite sandwich was likely to kill them.
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Post by kayoneuu1 on Feb 1, 2018 2:10:44 GMT
I took my eldest to school in his pjs one morning. He was mucking around and wouldn’t get dressed so I said too bad we’re leaving now ready or not.
I did secretly have his clothes with us in the car and let him change when we got there, but he was pretty frantic all the way there.
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Post by pepe on Feb 1, 2018 2:18:25 GMT
i did similar to my oldest when she was in primary school - she couldn't apologise enough and was ready to go when i was ever after - well until she reached high school, then if she wasn't ready when i was i told her she could walk.
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Post by figlet on Feb 1, 2018 3:21:18 GMT
I did send my eldest to school without any lunch one day (she doesn't remember that either.).. I intended to take her some at lunch time.. then I heard my father was ill and forgot all about it. She told me when she got home a teacher gave her a tub of yoghurt.
The 'I'll take you to school in your pj's'" is a good one.. didn't have to carry that one out.
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Post by joono on Feb 1, 2018 3:37:19 GMT
I ended up buying school lunches from the canteen for the last few years of primary school. I did have some control over whether it was healthy because how they liked it was you write their order on a paper bag and put the money inside it, then they put it in the lunch basket in the classroom.
The lunch duty kids would then deliver the orders to the canteen and then pick up the orders at lunch time and take them back to the classroom. It was a good system and not really expensive. Not like high school.
I loved helping out in the canteen once or twice a week. They had a roster you could put your name down to volunteer and a lot of mothers couldn't be bothered with that but I enjoyed it.
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Post by avatarcat on Feb 1, 2018 5:19:38 GMT
I was the primary school canteen manager for a while.
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Post by joono on Feb 1, 2018 6:47:04 GMT
Did you like it Avacat? A good friend of mine was the canteen manager and the only one that was paid. The rest of us were just occasional volunteers.
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Post by avatarcat on Feb 1, 2018 7:04:48 GMT
I loved it. The kids were great. The parents who volunteered were great. It was a lot of fun and I worked more hours than what I was paid for. I became too ill to work but the teachers begged me to come back because my replacement was a complete nightmare. I had left a canteen with healthy food choices, a working roster of volunteers and emergency volunteers, everything was in order and the canteen ran smoothly. For the first time in over a decade, the canteen made a profit. I had reduced the price of the healthy food and sold more of that than anything else.
The woman who replaced me undid everything. The school was due for closure so I did what I could for the remaining three weeks with the help of a lovely woman. On the day of my return, the teachers all popped by during the day and gave me a lovely bunch of flowers. The kids were all happy to have me back. The parents were happy to have me back. It was the beginning of the end for me.
Edited to make paragraphs.
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Post by joono on Feb 1, 2018 7:22:08 GMT
Ava, that's such a shame that you couldn't carry on. There is a lot more to running a good canteen than a lot of people realise. I would have loved to take over from my friend if she ever decided to leave but yes, you are right. She did put in more hours than she was paid for what with the ordering and stock takes and everything else including getting in really early to be prepared for the day.
I cried when my second one left primary school. I knew I would really miss it because I used to help out in the clothing pool and in the classroom with reading and in the art class cleaning up the mess!
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Post by kayoneuu1 on Feb 1, 2018 7:29:31 GMT
You could still do that sort of stuff joono. My OH volunteers at the local primary at a reading recovery program. He goes one morning a week and really enjoys it.
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Post by joono on Feb 1, 2018 7:53:04 GMT
I think I'd feel like a fish out of water now Kay. It was different in those days with a couple of kids at the school.
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Post by avatarcat on Feb 1, 2018 7:58:29 GMT
The school was closed and a new, smaller school was built to accommodate it and two other schools. The canteen was tendered out and no longer had any parent involvement. I returned to study in preparation of beginning a degree in Psychology. I ended up in a pych hospital instead. And, that was that.
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