Four days after moving into our new house the kids started school! The girls are attending Coatsville Primary School here in East Bentleigh. Here is their web page if you really want to have a look around Australian schools: http://www.coatesps.vic.edu.au Coatsville is 6 blocks from our house...about 10 minutes walking distance (with three kids) and really big compared to our infant school (60 kids total and now there are 700 kids total). The uniform shop was all sold out of summer dresses so my kids had to go to school in their sports uniform for the first two weeks until more dresses came in.
Miss Mary has Maria Ross for Year 1 (First Grade)
Olivia was given Allison Dowset for Year 3-Miss Douset, sing to her class :-)
Olivia-- She always goes prepared to school...Mary will never take a jumper!
Olivia-- She always goes prepared to school...Mary will never take a jumper!
Thomas was tricky. He was enrolled in preschool for two days a week up in Sydney. We were on the wait list for one year to get a spot at our favorite preschool. After moving to Melbourne our chances of getting into a preschool were slim to none. Stan put himself in charge of finding one. He found one 20 minutes away in Brighton. It is about triple the cost of his other preschool, and they had one spot left. I thought, 'so it is either this posh preschool or none at all....' I was ok with none at all because I could hang out with Thomas and walk the kids to school. Stan felt pretty strongly the other way, so we gave it a try. All in all, Thomas was really ready for preschool which I didn't realize until I saw him there. He loves it and so I am now adjusting to a lot of time by myself!
Here is Thomas at his first day of preschool in his school uniform.
2 comments:
thomas is the man
Preschool already? Thomas you are growing up much too fast! You three, Olivia, Mary, and Thomas all are as cute as can be, and school is sooooooo much fun! Wish we could walk you all to school.
Love you!
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