Boarding School and Care homes

Chapter one:Year 7

It was the first day of the school term.As I drove up the drive of my new school I felt this weird felling inside of me one I had never felt before (and I have been to many boarding schools) this felling was different a felling that I am meant to stay at this school and not move on to a different one.

Now to give you a bit of a back story my Mum is dead and my dad didn't deal with Mum's death very well so he started drinking and physically abusing me one night he left and never came back.That night I laid in bed with all these questions floating around where did dad go? was the main one and also will he come back? was the other these two questions just kept on coming back into my head. I did finally fall asleep but not until 4:30 the next morning I got up at 7:00 and ready for school and when I opened my front door to leave for school a social worker was standing there she asked me to come with her so I did she took me to the local care home and there they decided going to boarding school would be best for me.

so that's a bit on my background so back to my story so my care worker was driving me up my new school drive when we got to the top and parked my care worker came into the main reception with me to talk to my head of year(that's someone who just looks after your year group)My care worker was telling her my family situation and my medical background then she left me with my head of year who obviously gave me the speech my classroom door is always open if you need to have a little chat kind of thing then after her speech she took me to join the rest of my year group and she called out are names in are form groups and we went and sat in them and we started to get to know everyone in are form group and are form tutor after are section of getting to know everyone we got put into the dorm groups once we were in them we unpacked and got to know everyone I loved my dorm.

(are dorms)

The next day was the first day of lessons it was just an ordinary morning then Lunch came it was the best school lunch ever pizza and pasta yum! after lunch we did some team work in are dorm groups to get to know we could trust them the the evening rolled round and it was movie night half way through the movie my care worker called to ask me how I was settling in.After the movie we went to bed in the middle of the night I woke up after having this dream about the beach on a boat with my mum and dad my dad playing his guitar and my mum singing and me dancing I didn't want it to end and then a wave came over and I woke up and all wet but I was to embarrassed to tell my head of year and I didn't know the people in my dorm that well yet so I just laid there to scared to move.In the morning are head of year walked in and said rise and shine time for school everyone got out of bed and started to make it and get dressed for school I just laid there not moving my head of year came over and said why aren't you getting ready I still just laid there saying nothing she then told everyone to go and get ready in the bathroom so she could have a little chat with me.She started talking to me and I just burst out crying then she pulled back my covers and saw that I was wet and then I explained it all and told her I was sorry she wasn't angry and she got me cleaned up and of course told my care worker and the school nurse she then booked me an appointment with the school councillor for later on that week.After school while eating dinner the school nurse and my head of year called me in to talk to me they said that if I had another accident tonight I would have to wear some night time protection I said ok in a sad voice and then went to bed in the morning I woke up and to my surprise wet so again my head of year helped me change I got ready for school and went on my school day of course in the evening I got put in pull-ups.