On Saturday mornings, Emily now goes to Kindergym that basically involves her going mad on all the gymnastics equipment - there is a bit of structure to it as this week she learned the motorbike pose - knees bent and arms out in front - so that when they land, they are meant to take this position.



One good thing about the class is that it proves that we are definitely not getting a trampoline for the back garden - Emily had three goes on the class trampoline and fell off twice!

After Adam's first day at school, Emily also had her first day at pre-school (although, confusingly it is called kindergarten here). We were very lucky to get Emily into the kindy as it is actually directly behind our house which means two things: 1. it is only about a 250m walk for Colin and Emily and 2. We don't have anyone peering over our back fence after 5 in the afternoon.

Emily is very ready for going back to a bit more structure to her week as she barely even gave Colin a backward glance before she was joining in.

Adam started his first day of Year One on Monday  - I think his school looks like a child's drawing of what a school should look like!



The school has about 350 pupils and there are three Year One classes - with Adam in Mrs Bendooli's Year One/Two composite class with about 25 other children - of which, two are also new this year so Adam is not the only one that didn't do Prep (aka Kindergarten) at the school.

As the school is bigger, they do have a small canteen that operates twice a week, an art teacher, PE teacher, basically a few more resources that tiny Orange Grove couldn't quite manage.