'Bring your Parents to school Day'

Last week I got to spend the afternoon at school with Ben and it was so cute how excited he was to see me in his class :-) First off it was the afternoon F1 Children's day to have lunch at school to prepare them for full-time school and Ben had decided he wanted a packed lunch....cue Earth Mother fantasies about baking cookies, putting fruit into cute little tupperware, frying some homemade chicken strips and packing it all lovingly the night before. Reality was quite different...I didn't get chance to go shopping for all the ingredients and ended up whizzing round tesco just half an hour before he was due at school. I grabbed chicken from the deli, a multigrain bagel from the bakery, some frommage frais from the chilled section, organic crisps from the baby food aisle and grapes and apples from the fruit and veg aisle. Not bad for a last minute dash. Next dilemma: what to put it all in....well I had remebered to bring this mini cooler bag that I had bought for Nick to take his sandwhiches to work in (he just got laughed at by his colleaugues to my dismay), then I improvised with some bags nicked from the veg aisles, and spoon nicked from the cafe (for his yoghurt). Whew, sorted! He actually ate most of it and when I arrived to join him in class, his little face lit up and he proceeded to take me around various activities from playing in the sand, to painting, to cutting and sticking, to puzzles. On talking to his teacher Miss Pinnegar and the teaching assistant Miss Nott, I was very proud to learn that he is a very confident and attentive, inquisitive boy, who is very creative and can concentrate on tasks for extended periods of time. This was also confirmed by his first school report which I received a few days later. I always knew he is a bright child, but it is very pleasing to have it confirmed by his teachers.


Ben and his teacher Miss Pinnegar


I have been preparing Ben for his new school by telling when I was going to visit them, as well as about the clubs there and describing the playground and so on, and he is so excited by it all, that he doesn't seem to mind that he will be leaving his friends behind - kids are amazingly resilient and I have no worries about him settling in when we do move.

Jasmine hasn't really been at nursery long enough to really have any problems readjusting and anyway, she is a really confident, headstrong girl who knows her own mind - they will both really thrive in the new school.
Here's a few pics of her on her last day at Glebelands pre-school.




Isn't she gorgeous :-)