Photo with Santa
A commercial photographer snapped this picture of the twins with Santa at a local shopping centre this week.
Switching schools
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, children start prep at the beginning of the year if they are old enough at a cut-off point, which I think is around April.
The twins were born in December, which means they qualified for a full year of prep (called reception in South Australia) in any state.
In South Australia, children who turn five during the year start school at the beginning of a term, right up to the final term of the year.
As a consequence, there are new children coming into a class all the time. (more…)
Suttontown school concert
Kathleen took charge of the video last night and recorded this performance from the Suttontown Primary School end-of-year concert.
The group comprises Reception/Year One students (aged 5-6).
The twins are pictured towards the right. Maggie is wearing a white shirt and reindeer ears. Jim is next to her in a green shirt and Santa hat.
It’s not the most coordinated effort you will ever see, but Maggie gives some lovely smiles to the camera and Jim shows a few Elvis-type moves with the hips.
School photo
This is the first school photo we received today of Jim and Maggie. Cute!
Maggie’s first sleepover
Maggie went to a friend’s birthday party this afternoon. Jim went as well, because it was mostly school friends from Suttontown who were invited.
Suttontown is a small school, with about 20 children in reception (prep)/year one.
After the party, Maggie was invited to stay for a sleepover. Juliet agreed.
Maggie was so excited. This was her first sleepover! (more…)
School assembly
I went to the weekly school assembly today after we had a tip off that Maggie would be presented with an award.
It turned out to be the “Persistent Percy” award for “persistently having a go at writing her own stories”.
The assembly was cute. With only about 90 children in the school they all got to stand up in front of the group and talk about their projects, dance or read limericks. (more…)
School sports day
The smaller schools around Mount Gambier held their combined sports day today. These schools are in rural areas, or on the fringe of town, and have fewer than 120 students in most cases.
The twins go to Suttontown Primary, which has about 100 students.
All the children paraded down Mount Gambier’s main street before the sports.
Here are the Suttontown kids:
