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4 July 2007

Son Number Two is moving up to High School next year. He spent a day there yesterday, which he thoroughly enjoyed. He was so excited that he couldn’t sleep the night before and even woke when his alarm clock went off and was to be found dressed and ready to go at 8am!

I can’t wait for him to go as it will cut back on my journey time each morning and afternoon. However, he came back clutching letters, that essentially were extracting more money from me! There’s the school trip for the new intake, the uniform and the equipment needed. I need to start now as he needs so much as well as all the other bits and pieces that weren’t required for primary school.

My list today is:

Casio FX85ES Scientific Calculator  Scientific calculator like this Casio FX85ES Scientific Calculator, which my eldest has had for the last 2 years. It must, therefore, be quite sturdy. How it operates is now beyond me as I only vaguely remember using sin, cos and tan! This is going to set me back £11.99

Linex Mathematical Set MS200 Compass, protractor etc, which I believe is known as a mathematical set.

Thankfully these are relatively inexpensive costing about £2 or £3.

Rugby shorts

White trainers

The school blazer, PE top and games top all have the school logo so need to be bought locally. On top of the gear needed for Son Number One’s CCF camp I think I’ll be shopping for the next few months non-stop. Thank goodness there are no family birthdays to distract me (apart from my own that is!).

Written by Jane · Filed Under Reviews 

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