ED (7 years old) likes it but occasionally feels like she is missing out because she has to go to school when her sister (nearly 4) doesn't (or has to do homework when her sister doesn't).

Once YD is in reception (next year) I think they will both be happy for a few years before, as you say, it becomes 'boring'.

Is it maybe the timie of year? I feel a bit apathetic about most things in Winter lol. What's he like getting up out of a nice warm bed?

I guess school can become a bit of a chore for a lot of kids by about 11, lets face it they'v had around 6 years of it already and know they are only about 1/2 way there!
Hopefully his interest will pick up again soon. Will Alex be changing schools this year or does it go right up to 16?
ursh x

I think and I'm guessing that A is in yr6 or there abouts. A friend of mines daughter had a similar problem around this time. I think they are becoming big fish in a little pond and have seen and done most things with the school. The teaching can sometimes be all ramped up for the SATs as well so maybie not quite as interesting as it has been.

DD loves school, MS hates it but likes the routine of going
YS loves nursery and ES seems to be enjoying college

Phoebe cried real tears and was genuinely sad when school was closed because of the snow. Despite all the issues she's had with the school, and her behaviour problems, she adores the place and races in every morning. We saw her teacher in a shop yesterday, P was delighted to see her and jabbered away for ages about what she was doing, before I could drag her away and let poor Mrs T finish her shopping!

i do think older children go through a phase where everything is "boring", but i wonder if maybe Alex in particular finds school boring because they have low expectations of him? He's exceptional at maths, IIRC, so I assume they provide suitably challenging work for him, but is it the same with all the other subjects?

My youngest two totally love school so as one of them is suddenly not too keen to get up and go in the morning i'm a little concerned as to why. Think its a mix of lots of things, time of year, dark cold mornings, things going on at home with her older sister, maths homework getting harder as they push them ready for their year 6 SATS in a few months time, think she would prefer to just be at home with me in the warm plus a couple of friends are getting a little nasty (hormones kicking in I think) and its all so like the end of the world when your 11.

Had to work really hard in the car this morning chatting happily like a mad woman as she looked like she was going to cry any minute, managed to get her there though and had no calls so she must be ok once she gets there.

Son didn't want to go today (year 11) as he had cross country!

es loves school but is not keen on getting out of his warm bed in the morning to go to it lol

we had this discusiion at toms review day yesterday,i already knew he diddnt like school,he finds it hard getting up in the morning and its a long day for him,when i told the teacher he diddnt like school she asked why,he said because he found it boring!

My kids hate getting up on a morning, but tolerate school, lol. I think dd likes it - we had a problem in he past when she didn't like the teacher that covered the PPA time and strangely she seemed to be 'ill' on this morning every week! She got away with it one day, but not after that!

Ds would say he doesn't like school, - he does struggle socially and with some of the work, but staff say he seems happy enough when he is there.

My OD loved school until she started studying for her GCSEs, great time to change eh!