Week Eight Term Three

"Let's see the lucky winners of the eggs."

Camp talk.

 Three of my boys who brought their fathers to the Father's Day Breakfast.

 There were tables of food....

 and coffee.

 There was also a Father's Day Store.

Dodgeball played outside.

Monday, August 29 to September 2^nd

One of the different things this school does is award six packs of eggs laid by the school chickens to lucky winners during Monday morning assemblies.

This week for our grade team planning time and for a period during the week, we were all busy getting organized for camp. We collated all the medical forms for the kids going to camp, completed a camp booklet for each student that tells them their room assignments, room mates and work groups, and we had a meeting with all the attending students to tell them last minute information and to answer any outstanding questions. They are getting very excited.

On Thursday evening the grade 3/4 team went out for our end of term dinner. Don, Libby, Carol, Claire, Ann-Cecil and her husband and I. Shauna and Emily couldn't make it. We went to a Greek restaurant and had a drink and a good meal and lots of school chat.

On Friday after school Crystelle called a singing practice and a group of us went to the usual haunt Treetop Pub. Leora, Anne, Anna, Claire, Anne-Cecil, Caroline, Paul and I had a couple of drinks before heading home after school. Leora was telling me how she befriended Maurene's previous exchange family and became very good friends with them because they had kids that were the same age as her's and attended the same school. They saw a lot of each other and became very good friends.

On Sunday it will be Father's Day here in Australia. Mother's Day is the same date, but for some unexplained reason Father's Day is in September. On Friday morning the school council organized a breakfast for all fathers, before school, that was very well attended. When I went down to check it out it was lined up out the door. Inside there were booths of coffee, croissants, fruit and other snacks. There seemed to be a lot of community spirit in the event.

During the day, the school council had also organized a Father's Day Shop where the students could buy gifts for the father and have them wrapped. It looked like they were purchased at the dollar store and then resold to the students as a fundraiser for the school.

And for sport today, now that the track and field events are finished, we set up some new activities. There was t-ball, basketball and dodgeball. I never liked dodgeball and don't play it at home because of the potential picking on, hurting and cheating that this game inspires. I was interested to see if it went any better at this school and was not surprised that it didn't. Although most students play fairly, there are always a few who try to bend or ignore the rules. Anyway, most of them had fun.

So another interesting week concludes. Two more school day until camp.