Central

Yesterday the girls started the school year at Tom Price Primary, AKA 'Central' as opposed to 'North'. We live in North Tom Price i.e. north of the rail line that bisects the town, and just down the road from North Tom Price Primary School, but decided to enrol the girls in 'Central' because it is so near the hospital and will make drop off and pick up easier for us when we are both working (and the uniforms are better!).

Both opted to sport a "side pony" for day 1.

Esther, the big pre-primary girl, is in Mrs Astbury's class and has immediately settled; she invited a new friend, Hayley, over for a playdate after school today and they had a lovely time. Freya is in Mrs (Frejya!) Lucas's class and she is right at home too. Freya had already bonded with Imogen, whose mum and Nanny both work at the hospital; F and I are both year 3 girls but in different classes, they have arranged meet up in the school rain forest at lunchtime each day! Freya is one of 3 new kids in her class and today the newbies had to miss their music lesson to have their spelling assessed (!). Freya was asked to spell "citizenship", my suspicions are that this was a little tricky even for a junior superbrain like our firstborn!

Esther, very pleased with herself, in her new classroom.

I have already signed up for 'reading' in Freya's class next week and the pre-primary parent roster goes up tomorrow so we'll both add our names to that. So pleased (and relieved) that both girls are happy and making friends at school :)