Random thoughts and observations
The twins had their primary school sports yesterday. Along with the traditional sprint and hurdles (over tiny jumps) they “competed” in a range of novelty events including an egg-and-spoon race (with a golf ball instead of an egg), sack race, goal kicking and minkey (hockey). It brought back memory fragments of my school sports at [...]
The Federal Government’s controversial My School website was launched today. After an initial hiccup, when the site was down this morning, I managed to access it around 10am. The My School website has been developed by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). The website provides detailed information about all the schools in Australia. [...]
James and Margaret (age six next week) will be changing schools in 2010. We’re not unhappy with their current school (Suttontown), just with a decision of the principal regarding their class for next year. South Australia is unique, in our experience, for allowing children to start school during the year. In Victoria and Western Australia, [...]
A letter arrived from the high school today. It was dated August 10, so it should have arrived earlier, but we don’t check the box more than twice a week and they had the wrong number in the address. Parents don’t like letters from schools. Normally it’s a bill, or there’s a prospect someone may [...]
