First Day of School

Uniforms in school...brilliant.  The kids are loving them, but I am sure, not as much as Anders and I are, no arguments before they walk out the door!

Braden is in Year 8 at Benowa State High School.  He takes all the core subjects including Maths (yes it is with an “s” here, English, Study of Society and Enviroment, Sciene, Health, P.E. as well as Drama, Japanese and Business Information Technology.  They don’t take every class every day, which is nice for Braden as he has days to do his homework instead of one night.  He has made some friends there, one in particular that he has already been with on an excursion to the movies. He wears the uniform you see in this picture every day except Wednesdays when he wears his Sports uniform which is a white shirt with Black shorts and sneakers.

Avery is in year 3 at Ashmore State Primary School.  After the first week of educating the class about Peanut Butter & Jelly and the fact that all Americansdo not have Cowboy accents, she has fit in extremely well.  No surprise that she has already been to her first sleep over and planning the next one.  She likes her teacher and is now over the fact that she had to relearn how to spell COLOUR.  This is her sports uniform, she wears it on Tuesdays.  There are four different houses, like in Harry Potter, she and Greyson are in Cotlew and their symbol is a Kangaroo and they wear Blue on their sports days.

Greyson is in Prep which is like Kindergarten in the states.  His teacher is wonderful  He is loving all his new friends and activities.  Last Friday his class was visited by PIRATES and they all got to dress as pirates and saw a whole pirate show.  He is wearing the daily uniform, his sports day is Wednesdays.  They wear their hats to stay out of the sun.

All their teachers are great.  Braden has already earned Merits for effort and attitude, Avery has been Student of the Week for behavior and Greyson was worker of the week and was the line leader, took stuff to different offices and was the example to the class on how to be in and out of the classroom.

We are very proud.