Next week is the last week of primary school for most of our year 6 children. I've said before that I'll miss the girls (a mixture of the angelic, the daft, and the rather odd), but the boys will be helped out of the door. Thinking about this, though, I see I've let the baddies influence my view of all the boys. We actually have three horrors (well, two and half, as one is okay some of the time). We used to have four, but one left because we wouldn't let him do all of the horrible things he really liked doing.
So, I'm letting two and half boys overshadow the others who are actually Not Too Bad. There is one boy in particular that we will all miss because he talks so much. He's well behaved, polite and funny, but wow, can he talk.... We missed him when the 6s went on their residential trip Up North. We had moments of silence in the classroom; it was quite unnerving. Then we have the boy who can be a beast on the football pitch, but who cries at anything. He cried when someone read out a sad story they'd written. We had an assembly when the Boss Lady tried out a type of 'pictorial prayer' of people hugging and holding hands - it made me tearful, so I turned to check on the children, and this boy was in floods and being patted on the shoulder by the Chatterbox. He cried when a girl left to go to another school a few months ago - and he didn't even like her.
Then we have the bromances. This year's crop of year 6 boys are not ashamed to show the lurve. The Chatterbox is involved in at least two bromances and has to be told to let go of people and get on with his work. They hang round each other's shoulders and have group hugs. It's actually rather nice.
Of course, the two and a half horrible boys have to get involved, and have sneered comments like, 'Are you gay or something?' before sniggering and high-fiving each other. The Chatterbox did sort that one out though, by replying, 'No, I've just got friends. Trying being nice to people and you might get some yourself.' Love him.
Does the hero of this piece have a distinct lack of variety when it comes to initials ? And does the 'half' boy share initials with the thinner of the recently departed not-quite-identical twins ?
ReplyDeleteIf so, I agree with your character analysis of both, although I still wouldn't imagine I'll miss any of them.
Yes to the first. No to the second. The one you're thinking of has proved, during this last year, that he no longer has a pleasant side to him at all, and was the main cause of our ex-Angry Young Man's tantrums. I was actually thinking of the one who recently had a bit of a spotty problem, and who is starting to show a much more considerate side to himself.
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