just another morning here

Reporting back on the first day.

At home before school everyone was up, ready, breakfasted, sandwiches made, music practices done, all by 8.30am which I thought was pretty good. There is a fair amount of novelty value involved I know, but still. We walked to school with Mollie and her dad.

The girls just joined in with their classmates as if they’d been there forever. Josiah was a bit more wobbly; the class he is in has two teachers and he hadn’t met this one before - and we hadn’t really managed to prepare him properly for it as we hadn’t realised either. So leaving him was hard However, the January intake children are still on staggered times, so we picked him up just after lunchtime - he came out really happy, gave me a huge long hug, and said he’d really enjoyed it. Once home we sat and chatted over his leftover Hula Hoops, I heard tales of a friend called Ross, the letter ‘x’, and some other stuff besides.

Steve went back to pick the girls up and they have both had a great day. I’ve told them that if I ever ask what they’ve done at school and they reply ‘nothing’, I will deregister them the very next day!! So they are being really good about talking about their day, just to humour me, I think

All I can say is that if *I’d* tried to get Anna to do all the things she says she’s done today, it would have been a battle from start to finish. She actually learnt something! Told me all about the River Exe, where it starts and finishes, etc. She has homework already - they have to look at the moon every day for a month and record what they see. I am very pleased for her, I think she will thrive at school. Not that she wasn’t doing fine at home, but I think school will suit her really well.

Abbie’s day was good too, her highlight was a computer session where she played a game with a dragon (not sure what it was called!) where she had to answer maths questions in order to progress. Her teacher had done some reading with her and was pleased, apparently - the reading book hasn’t found it’s way home though She seems very happy as well - when asked what rating she would give her day, out of 10, she said 10

I guess we’ll thrash out some after school routines over the next few weeks, but tonight we just had chatting, a game of draughts, Shoebox Zoo, and tea. Early nights all round, as well, as school seems to be very exhausting - this could be a plus point!

Although in lots of ways I personally am not finding it easy at all, in other ways it is really nice, and once we all get used to it, it will be as good for us as home education has been. I am incredibly proud of them all for embracing a change and throwing themselves into it as well as they have

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