just another morning here

I feel this deserves a blog post, having had children at Pinhoe school for the past four years. Not quite sure why I get so stupidly emotional at these things, or even why I should feel a bit odd about it being the last one at this school, but I do!

We all traipsed round the corner tonight for Abbie’s Christmas production, which was quite entertaining. The Y5 and Y6 classes had prepared sketches and songs focussed on ‘Christmas around the World’, which were fabulous, as well as including a re-telling of the traditional nativity in French using puppets! Very creative all round, some very funny moments (like when Abbie realised she’d left her words in the classroom and would have to blag it!) and some star performances from various children

Abbie and a couple of friends in her class have been practising music together – she’s on flute, with Thomas on violin and Michael on piano – both fairly good musicians for their age. Their teacher has really encouraged them (have I mentioned before how much I love Abbie’s teacher?!), both to practise and by giving them opportunities to play. Tonight they were playing as everyone came in and went out, as well as accompanying one of the carols.
They did very well

Not sure if Abbie will get round to actually taking the exam but she’s been learning a few of the Grade 2 flute pieces, so Anna has been accompanying … spot the mistake!

I don’t mention Abigail as much with regard to music; she takes a very different approach to the other two. It doesn’t come as easily to her, but she works far harder at it, and I think she enjoys it just as much. She wanted to learn the Grade 2 pieces to make sure she’s at that sort of level before swapping from recorder to flute at orchestra in September.

Abbie does most of her flute stuff at school, and doesn’t even play flute in the orchestra yet, so I rarely have photo opportunities like this! Just stood by (and did a bit of counting in) while she and Riona practiced a couple of duets that they are playing in a school concert next week – very pretty little pieces which sounded great

(Rog, if they do it again after they come back from the park, I’ll video it as well, then you can watch it instead and be spared from the concert )

Too tired to write anything else, click through to flickr to see notes on the main photo!
A very short video is here, too. It was a good afternoon