oh Sarah exactly! If this is how our kids feel... on the school bags front, I asked Matilda if she wanted to go shopping for a new school bag & she started screaming.... in the end it was because she wanted to keep her Dora backpack. I hope it holds out!! Also the lunch bag front, she wants to keep it. I guess everything else is going to be new or different, may as well keep a few old things.

Matilda did some trial days last year, we went to the school for 3 days and then a few other "visits". She was so excited. Now she tells me where her desk is and where she eats lunch etc... she loves the school.