Have your kids broke up yet for the summer ? have you got any plans on keeping them busy you can share with us LOL I like the kids being off but do find it hard to keep them busy.... do you love it or dread it ?

As you know Inca, ours broke up yesterday!  Haven't a clue what to do with them for 6 whole weeks.......they go back to school on September 3rd, so if anybody does have any good ideas on how to keep them occupied I'd love to hear it too........ages 8 - 15!

ours broke up this weekend so we are looking for ideas too. We have a free music festival to take them to next weekend but after that we are still looking for ideas we thought we might look in time out they often have free events pubished in there whats on section

I had mine in swimming lessons, try to rebook them in but they are all full....We have week long things here but they are so expensive (so were the swimming lessons), now mine are bored :(

Savannah breaks up on Tuesday, but now I have her sister coming down to stay next friday for a few weeks, as well, I cannot do much with them at the moment like going to the beach ect, because of the pups, and I also have 2 grandaughter that live next door so it will be lively if nothing else, 4 girls all under 6 and over 4,Life will be a little stressful I think for the next 6 weeks, not to mention 7, 5 week old pups, Oh how I look forward to the holidays!!!!

As I am a teacher I LOVE IT !!!!

Yvonne

Today is the first proper day of the Summer holidays and I now have Sophie (13) , Conor (11) and Stephen (43) at home for 6 weeks :D :D

Conor is attending a 2 week Summer school at the end of August for the national gifted and talented so that will occupy HIM for a while. Sophie will probably be visiting her friend a few times but will be web page designing apart from that.

Stephen I can easily occupy ...I have a LONG list of things that could do with being done around the house he will be pleased to hear :p :p :p :p

well I have one more day of peace (well when max is asleep anyway) before James (9) Jack(8) Lucy(6) and Josh(6) descend on me for six weeks of fun? I am skint (bought a puppy and leak in my purse appeared) so we will be looking for free things to do (do they exist) we have free use of school pool so hoping for some warm days to do that. Have a puppy who now loves his 2, 10 minute walks a day and apart from that I am stuck so just the 3 squillion hours to fill!!!!!!

my son went on the gifted and talented programe last year he had a great time and got a lot out of it ....good luck to him...

i just noticed what you 2 were talking about and am very interested as our school are joining up to the talented and gifted register as from september and have been told my 8yr old is going to be included. What does it involve and is it fun for them? I had no idea he was so clever. Well obviousley we thought he was clever and he is ahead of my 9r old son by quite a way bu we had no idea he could be considered gifted. We are thinking about getting his IQ tested any ideas as to if this would be a good idea?

National Gifted and Talented Homepage

Sophie has been a member for 2 years and Conor was accepted this year. I wouldn't, personally, get an IQ test done ..but it is up to you. I can't see what it acheives so have never bothered with my two :)

I agree with you .... my son isn't a genius by any means just good with I .T. Skills and was chosen because he worked with the younger pupils who had fallen behind ...itwas more his kind nature that got him chosen ..... last year they spend 3 weeks in summer school and then a week on the I.O.W on a team buliding holiday . he had a fab time and came back a better boy ...