Life is not measured ....

Start of a new school year

A poem about school, typed up by Louise.

Back To School

It was the last week of the holidays,
I was felling rather glum,
I could hardly wait for School to start,
Neither could Mum!

Now we been back a week,
I could do with a breather,
I can hardly wait for the holidays
The teacher can’t either!

Work, Work, Work


After the long Christmas / summer holidays, Louise and Daniel returned to school at the beginning of February. They both moved up a class so Louise is now in the top part of the school and Daniel has Mrs Rossie as his teacher (Louise’s teacher last year and a friend of ours outside school).

Louise was nervous about the change of class but soon settled in. Mrs Caddick is her teacher and is very gentle natured and maths focussed, with the result that Louise has been coming home with interesting logic puzzles to solve and increasingly challenging homework. This week it was stats – I might have done a technical degree but I am realising how little I remember – the kids turn to dad for the difficult stuff and fixing things!!

As with our old school in England, the classes have mixed year groups. Louise is 7 but a lot of her friends are 9 and an innocent conversation about boyfriends with a friend last week, made it dawn on me that those tricky conversations are not too far away!

Daniel was thrilled to move up a class with most of his friends. Liza Rossie is a fantastic teacher and seems to be able to get the best out of children. Daniel has had o chop and change a bit in his short school life so it great for him to be settled. It is noticeable how motivated he is, we now have two children that don’t like to go to sleep because they are too busy reading. At the start of term, Daniel made a book about himself – his goals for this year were all skateboarding related (I didn’t understand any of them!) and it is very funny to hear him and his mates discuss technical terms.

On the whole this term has been hot and sunny and for the first half of term, the kids spent every afternoon at school up at the outdoor pool just next to the school (an amazing setting, overlooking the harbour). It culminated in a swim sports day a couple of weeks ago – Louise and Daniel both came third in all the individual stroke races that they swum, Daniel took part in a pyjama race and Louise entered the open cup race which involved swimming a length of each stroke (including butterfly). It was a great morning, very competitive as well as very supportive. That evening we also had a picnic and family fun night up at the grassy with teachers, parents and kids. We had sack races, tossed the gum boot, threw water bombs between parents and children and finished with a boys vs girls tug of war (which the girls won of course – check out the determined look from the mums!)

Term 1 Photos

We are only two weeks away from the Easter break, the clocks went back here this weekend so it could be all downhill from this point on!

posted by Sharon, Ben, Louise and Daniel @ 11:22 pm