How We Prepare For "Back To School" with 6 Kids

[@albin2232]

You are really the sweetest people 💐

[@RollerbazAndCoasterDad]

As an educator with only one child but who has worked with some big families, and some bigger than yours, I have nothing but admiration for the job folks like you do.

[@Kozette007]

I found your channel by watching the video of importing vehicles from the US to the UK, curious to know what vehicle you drive? New parent of quads. Congrats on the twins🌻

[@archiebald4717]

Amazing!

[@pinkchilldivestmentor]

You two are GREAT PARENTS!

[@MacandBlair]

We are trying 🙂

[@philipebbrell2793]

Have a look at Christs Hopital in Sussex. They have a band, great music tradition and a singing competition. They have their own railway station.

[@MacandBlair]

Thanks for the recommendation. 👍

[@gaelsomerville5163]

You certainly have your hands full! But you will be pleased to know that there is evidence that if kids learn to read music it seems to help them do better in other academic subjects. It seems to make the kids brains more pliable as it were, so that they are better able to cope with things like maths. If it was up to me, all kids would learn music.

[@MacandBlair]

Great point. Thanks

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

Best Not to call it first grade as we don’t have the first great here.

[@josepha8415]

What region in England do you live ?

[@MacandBlair]

Midlands

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

Looking at the countryside and what they said in the past, I would hazard Cambridgeshire. The Norfolk side. It’s certainly not the East Midlands or the West Midlands.

[@twigletz7384]

As someone has already commented, are you using American terminology for the English school system? I'm pretty sure we don't have 'middle school' here (although we did back in the 1980's and 'middle school' was age 8-12 when I began my career as a primary school teacher - it was 'first, middle, secondary back then). Maybe it's a singularity for the area you live in or your children are privately educated so they can use terms that deviate from the norm? Or you could be sending them to an American Base school in the UK? Nevertheless, as a former teacher, I love to hear about 'back-to-school' prep. It takes me back!

[@ynys_mon6928]

Some areas of the UK still have middle schools. The school my kids attended didn’t have uniform, although most schools in the area did.

[@suesmith460]

The middle school system still operates in Windsor. First 4 to 9 then 9 to 13 then secondary school.

[@seeker1432]

They made friends at school and most likerly looking forwood to gabbing away about what they all been doing i guess.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

Forgive me, but I'm a tad confused. I had assumed your children attended regular state school in England. You mentioned the children selecting their clothes for school, moving from elementary to middle school, and the kids' grades. This cannot be a regular British school, where there aren't middle or elementary schools, there are school uniforms, and kids begin at Reception, and advance by year not grade. I've never heard of repeating a year in a British school, either.

[@julia2jules]

I have lived in the UK all my life. My dads job moved us around the country. I went to first, infants, Juniors, primary, middle, high and secondary schools. It is possible for a child to repeat a year, not very common, but it can be arranged. I attended schools without uniform and others with uniform. Every county within England can do things differently; academy schools can also do things differently. Some schools provided every bit of equipment needed, others had to provide everything except A4 paper and the school homework diary. Using descriptors from the USA education system makes sense as that is what they are familiar with.

[@edwardandrew7548]

Some areas of England use the three-tier education system (lower, middle & upper).

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

@@edwardandrew7548 Clearly, I am old and out of touch. In any case I have no grandkids at school in the UK. In my day it was: Infants, Junior, Secondary (grammer or secondary modern). Or, it could be junior prep, prep, and senior for private schools. In my case they were ysgol iau and ysgol gramadeg ywchraf.

[@cece2518]

Great question I wish people wouldn’t answer your question.. the Mac family need to answer. No one repeats a school year in the UK.