So Jordan has just finished school for the last time. The school is closing, well technically it's 'federating' and then 'merging' with another school, but to all intensive purposes it's closing - many of the pupils and staff are leaving, and while everyone has been celebrating the good the school has done, there's a distinct bad taste left in everyone's mouth after the way Wolverhampton City Council have dealt with matter and treated not only pupils and parents, but also their employees - the staff. The last few days have been very emotional for a lot of people, what with all the end of year events now being end of..forever events. We went to see the production of 'Joseph and the amazing technicolour dreamcoat' which was really good, and a lot of fun - the following night was the leavers disco (normally only for the top year who are going to secondary school - but this year open to all), where a few of the parents sipped the vodka and coke they'd snuck in while the kids ran riot ;-) Overall the last week has been really good fun, if a little sad - Steph has been pretty upset, but I think she'll be ok...it's just going to take some time for it all to sink in after having fought to stop this happening for so long. Jordan has been on edge today, so I'm fully expecting tears before bed time - or shortly after! Looking to the future, we've been able to secure Jord a place at another school (of our choice) which is *almost* as near as Danesmore, and having met the head teacher we're hopeful he'll settle in there relatively quickly after the summer holiday, our first impression was a good one. He seems quite happy to be going to a new school (even though "Danesmore is the best school in the world ever"), we were worried he'd be distraught about leaving, but ironically the one good thing to come out of the prolonged process that was the closure/merger debacle is that he's had a long time to get used to the idea that he may have to change school - so hopefully it's affected him less because of this. So now the '6 weeks' holiday begins - Jord is away for the first 3, then he's back here and we're planning a big BBQ for all his friends, and maybe even a teacher or two! I think in a week or two the tears over the school will subside and people will be looking back with smiles, and to the future... [tags]Danesmore Park,Wolverhampton,Education,School Closure,Wolverhampton City Council[/tags]